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📓Quiz #13
1⃣ Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
2⃣ Which among the following statements is not correct?
Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) the condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) the political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) sexual passion.
(D) lack of communication between men and women.
3⃣The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with Code :
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
4⃣ In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech ?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
5⃣ Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
6⃣ An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) dialect (B) creole
(C) pidgin (D) register
7⃣ Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in
English ?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All About H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
8⃣ The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore
9⃣ Which of the following novels is NOTa Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
🔟 According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except :
(A) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) a harking back to the past
(C) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) the suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions
1⃣ Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
2⃣ Which among the following statements is not correct?
Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) the condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) the political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) sexual passion.
(D) lack of communication between men and women.
3⃣The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with Code :
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
4⃣ In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech ?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
5⃣ Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
6⃣ An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) dialect (B) creole
(C) pidgin (D) register
7⃣ Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in
English ?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All About H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
8⃣ The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore
9⃣ Which of the following novels is NOTa Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
🔟 According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except :
(A) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) a harking back to the past
(C) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) the suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions
💢Paper 2- January 2017
*1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the
finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.*
(1) Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
Answer: 1
*2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with
the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?*
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
Answer: 3
*3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy
are the two fundamental structures of language ?*
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Answer: 3
*4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?*
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
*5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian
Bildungsroman ?*
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Answer: 3
*6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :*
(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: 3
*7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s*
(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage
Answer: 1
*8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s
womb ?*
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
Answer: 2
*9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the
final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by*
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Answer: 2
*10. Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :*
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III
Answer: 3
*1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the
finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.*
(1) Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
Answer: 1
*2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with
the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?*
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
Answer: 3
*3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy
are the two fundamental structures of language ?*
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Answer: 3
*4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?*
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
*5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian
Bildungsroman ?*
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Answer: 3
*6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :*
(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: 3
*7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s*
(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage
Answer: 1
*8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s
womb ?*
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
Answer: 2
*9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the
final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by*
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Answer: 2
*10. Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :*
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III
Answer: 3
NTA UGC NET - English
📓Quiz #13 1⃣ Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ? (A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody (B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting (C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way (D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain…
Answers
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. D
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. D
💢Paper 2 January
*11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the
Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?*
(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4) An Imaginary Life
Answer: 4
*12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney
commend as good examples of English Poesy ?*
I. The Mirror of Magistrates
II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Makers
IV. Ballad of Scottish King
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and III
Answer: 3
*13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?*
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 1
*14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a
collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures” ?*
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
Answer: 2
*15. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse
Jane of when he visits Lowood School ?*
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: 3
*16. William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest
chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in
its entirety ?*
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
(2) “My mother is a fish.”
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Answer: 2
*17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular
history of a remarkable woman, …………..*
(1) St. Agnes
(2) St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
Answer: 2
*18. “O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !”
The above description is an example of*
(1) Paronomasia
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Answer: 2
*19. The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are
rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by*
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
Answer: 3
*20. ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.*
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
Answer: 3
*11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the
Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?*
(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4) An Imaginary Life
Answer: 4
*12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney
commend as good examples of English Poesy ?*
I. The Mirror of Magistrates
II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Makers
IV. Ballad of Scottish King
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and III
Answer: 3
*13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?*
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 1
*14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a
collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures” ?*
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
Answer: 2
*15. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse
Jane of when he visits Lowood School ?*
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: 3
*16. William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest
chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in
its entirety ?*
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
(2) “My mother is a fish.”
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Answer: 2
*17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular
history of a remarkable woman, …………..*
(1) St. Agnes
(2) St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
Answer: 2
*18. “O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !”
The above description is an example of*
(1) Paronomasia
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Answer: 2
*19. The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are
rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by*
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
Answer: 3
*20. ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.*
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
Answer: 3
💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017
*1. Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?*
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon
Answer: 1
*2. “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’
meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space
in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of
culture.”*
*Which of the following best expresses the position stated above?*
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural
validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the
face of opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is
linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
Answer: 4
*3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s*
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant
Answer: 2
*4. Match the periodical with the founder/s :*
List – I
A. The Egoist
B. The English Review
C. Blast
D. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse
List – II
I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
II. Harriet Monroe
III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
IV. Ford Madox Ford
Codes :
A B C D
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV
Answer: 3
*5. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”?*
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
Answer: 2
*6. “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by*
(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck
Answer: 3
*7. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the
oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he
visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received
from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century
abolitionist literature.
Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.*
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins
Answer: 2
*8. In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does
Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?*
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”
Answer: 2
*9. In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go
every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?*
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
Answer: 4
*10. Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English
translation :*
I. Astride the Wheel
II. Going Home
III. A Purple Sea
IV. In a Forest, A Deer
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and II
(2) I and II
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 4
*1. Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?*
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon
Answer: 1
*2. “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’
meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space
in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of
culture.”*
*Which of the following best expresses the position stated above?*
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural
validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the
face of opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is
linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
Answer: 4
*3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s*
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant
Answer: 2
*4. Match the periodical with the founder/s :*
List – I
A. The Egoist
B. The English Review
C. Blast
D. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse
List – II
I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
II. Harriet Monroe
III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
IV. Ford Madox Ford
Codes :
A B C D
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV
Answer: 3
*5. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”?*
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
Answer: 2
*6. “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by*
(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck
Answer: 3
*7. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the
oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he
visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received
from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century
abolitionist literature.
Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.*
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins
Answer: 2
*8. In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does
Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?*
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”
Answer: 2
*9. In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go
every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?*
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
Answer: 4
*10. Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English
translation :*
I. Astride the Wheel
II. Going Home
III. A Purple Sea
IV. In a Forest, A Deer
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and II
(2) I and II
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 4
💢Paper 2 January
*21. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading
upwards and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None
can usurp this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world /
Are misery, and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess ?*
(1) Urania
(2) Moneta
(3) Melete
(4) Mneme
Answer: 2
*22. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The
three parts are named the following EXCEPT :*
(1) The Sky
(2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
(4) The Lighthouse
Answer: 1
*23. Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig
Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the
mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about
navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?*
(1) The Tree of Man
(2) Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Answer: 2
*24. Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s
Lord of the Flies ?*
(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy
(3) Peter
(4) Jack
Answer: 3
*25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which
included*
I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
III. Gerald Manley Hopkins
IV. John Millais
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 2
*26. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer ?*
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & II
(2) I & III
(3) I & IV
(4) III & IV
Answer: 3
*27. Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in*
(1) the real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents
(2) an elementary letter-writing manual
(3) the general plight of English women
(4) the suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values
Answer: 2
*28. The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled*
(1) A Satire against Sedition
(2) A Satire against Tyranny
(3) A Satire against Greed
(4) A Satire against Apostasy
Answer: 1
*29. “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of*
(1) assonance
(2) alliteration
(3) apostrophe
(4) enjambment
Answer: 2
*30. What is a trochee ?*
(1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses
(2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first
syllable
(3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical
Answer: 2
*21. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading
upwards and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None
can usurp this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world /
Are misery, and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess ?*
(1) Urania
(2) Moneta
(3) Melete
(4) Mneme
Answer: 2
*22. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The
three parts are named the following EXCEPT :*
(1) The Sky
(2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
(4) The Lighthouse
Answer: 1
*23. Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig
Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the
mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about
navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?*
(1) The Tree of Man
(2) Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Answer: 2
*24. Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s
Lord of the Flies ?*
(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy
(3) Peter
(4) Jack
Answer: 3
*25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which
included*
I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
III. Gerald Manley Hopkins
IV. John Millais
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 2
*26. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer ?*
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & II
(2) I & III
(3) I & IV
(4) III & IV
Answer: 3
*27. Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in*
(1) the real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents
(2) an elementary letter-writing manual
(3) the general plight of English women
(4) the suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values
Answer: 2
*28. The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled*
(1) A Satire against Sedition
(2) A Satire against Tyranny
(3) A Satire against Greed
(4) A Satire against Apostasy
Answer: 1
*29. “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of*
(1) assonance
(2) alliteration
(3) apostrophe
(4) enjambment
Answer: 2
*30. What is a trochee ?*
(1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses
(2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first
syllable
(3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical
Answer: 2
💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017
*21. In his poem “Australia” A.D. Hope says that*
I. Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”.
II. “Her five cities are like five dry rivers.”
III. The poet turns to her “to find/The Arabian desert of the human
mind/Hoping if still from deserts prophets come.”
IV. “She is the first of lands, the warmest.”
Codes :
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
Answer: 1
*22. Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English,
was formulated by*
I. I.A. Richards
II. Alastair Fowler
III. William Empson
IV. C.K. Ogden
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 3
*23. “Britons will never be slaves !” – felt proud Britons in the
eighteenth century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about
owning slaves and profiting from them. Who among the following British
authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems?*
I. Hannah More
II. Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
*24. Match the Novelist with the work :*
List – I
A. Anita Desai
B. Nayantara Sahgal
C. Arun Joshi
D. Kamala Markandaya
List – II
I. Rich Like Us
II. The Nowhere Man
III. In Custody
IV. The Last Labyrinth
Codes :
A B C D
(1) III II IV I
(2) III I IV II
(3) II I IV III
(4) III IV I II
Answer: 2
*25. Identify the right chronological sequence :*
(1) The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2) The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(4) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American Pastoral – Beloved
Answer: 3
*26. In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use
the term “ideology” in The German Ideology?
(1) Something that m*ystifies the actual material conditions of society,
a sort of false consciousness.
(2) The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoise
society.
(3) The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic
relations of the society.
(4) The fundamental class consciousness of the proletariat which leads
to their awakening.
Answer: 1
*27. The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man
of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking
sides. Identify the novel.*
(1) Disgrace
(2) Age of Iron
(3) Waiting for the Barbarians
(4) Life and Times of Michael K.
Answer: 4
*28. Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai
as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?*
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
Answer: 2
*29. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two
characters are examples of deep Christian goodness?*
I. the Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and IV
Answer: 3
*30. Identify Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I :*
(1) “Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad?”
(2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
(3) “Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad?”
(4) “Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad?”
Answer: 2
*21. In his poem “Australia” A.D. Hope says that*
I. Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”.
II. “Her five cities are like five dry rivers.”
III. The poet turns to her “to find/The Arabian desert of the human
mind/Hoping if still from deserts prophets come.”
IV. “She is the first of lands, the warmest.”
Codes :
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
Answer: 1
*22. Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English,
was formulated by*
I. I.A. Richards
II. Alastair Fowler
III. William Empson
IV. C.K. Ogden
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 3
*23. “Britons will never be slaves !” – felt proud Britons in the
eighteenth century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about
owning slaves and profiting from them. Who among the following British
authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems?*
I. Hannah More
II. Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
*24. Match the Novelist with the work :*
List – I
A. Anita Desai
B. Nayantara Sahgal
C. Arun Joshi
D. Kamala Markandaya
List – II
I. Rich Like Us
II. The Nowhere Man
III. In Custody
IV. The Last Labyrinth
Codes :
A B C D
(1) III II IV I
(2) III I IV II
(3) II I IV III
(4) III IV I II
Answer: 2
*25. Identify the right chronological sequence :*
(1) The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2) The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(4) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American Pastoral – Beloved
Answer: 3
*26. In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use
the term “ideology” in The German Ideology?
(1) Something that m*ystifies the actual material conditions of society,
a sort of false consciousness.
(2) The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoise
society.
(3) The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic
relations of the society.
(4) The fundamental class consciousness of the proletariat which leads
to their awakening.
Answer: 1
*27. The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man
of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking
sides. Identify the novel.*
(1) Disgrace
(2) Age of Iron
(3) Waiting for the Barbarians
(4) Life and Times of Michael K.
Answer: 4
*28. Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai
as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?*
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
Answer: 2
*29. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two
characters are examples of deep Christian goodness?*
I. the Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and IV
Answer: 3
*30. Identify Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I :*
(1) “Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad?”
(2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
(3) “Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad?”
(4) “Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad?”
Answer: 2
💢Paper 2 January
*31. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms*
I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue
III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 3
*32. ………….. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.*
(1) First person
(2) Self-conscious
(3) Third person
(4) Participant
Answer: 2
*33. Who among the following modern writers is associated with the
quote, “Only connect” ?*
(1) D.H. Lawrence
(2) Virginia Woolf
(3) James Joyce
(4) E.M. Forster
Answer: 4
*34. Which of the following images does not figure in Auden’s “Musee des
Beaux Arts” ?*
(1) a boy falling out of the sky
(2) children … skating on a pond at the edge of wood
(3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) the dogs go on with their doggy life
Answer: 3
*35. Feste is a clown in*
(1) Twelfth Night
(2) As You Like It
(3) The Taming of the Shrew
(4) Much Ado About Nothing
Answer: 1
*36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play ?*
(1) Enter a Free Man
(2) The Real Inspector Hound
(3) Jumpers
(4) Night and Day
Answer: 2
*37. Which of the following is not true of free verse ?*
(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines.
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter
(4) A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses
Answer: 3
*38. James Thomson’s long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all
his life, began in the first instance as a poem entitled*
(1) Spring
(2) Summer
(3) Winter
(4) Autumn
Answer: 3
*39. Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared
posthumously. They are known as*
(1) Mutability cantos
(2) Friendship cantos
(3) Justice cantos
(4) Courtesy cantos
Answer: 1
*40. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from*
(1) repeating mistakes
(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism
(4) historicism
Answer: 4
*31. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms*
I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue
III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 3
*32. ………….. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.*
(1) First person
(2) Self-conscious
(3) Third person
(4) Participant
Answer: 2
*33. Who among the following modern writers is associated with the
quote, “Only connect” ?*
(1) D.H. Lawrence
(2) Virginia Woolf
(3) James Joyce
(4) E.M. Forster
Answer: 4
*34. Which of the following images does not figure in Auden’s “Musee des
Beaux Arts” ?*
(1) a boy falling out of the sky
(2) children … skating on a pond at the edge of wood
(3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) the dogs go on with their doggy life
Answer: 3
*35. Feste is a clown in*
(1) Twelfth Night
(2) As You Like It
(3) The Taming of the Shrew
(4) Much Ado About Nothing
Answer: 1
*36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play ?*
(1) Enter a Free Man
(2) The Real Inspector Hound
(3) Jumpers
(4) Night and Day
Answer: 2
*37. Which of the following is not true of free verse ?*
(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines.
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter
(4) A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses
Answer: 3
*38. James Thomson’s long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all
his life, began in the first instance as a poem entitled*
(1) Spring
(2) Summer
(3) Winter
(4) Autumn
Answer: 3
*39. Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared
posthumously. They are known as*
(1) Mutability cantos
(2) Friendship cantos
(3) Justice cantos
(4) Courtesy cantos
Answer: 1
*40. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from*
(1) repeating mistakes
(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism
(4) historicism
Answer: 4
💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017
*31. Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary
Robinson and Felicia Hemans are*
(1) first wave feminists
(2) women poets of the Romantic period
(3) Victorian writers of popular fiction
(4) nineteenth century stage artists
Answer: 2
*32. Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections – Golden
Apples of the Sun – after the last line of a W.B. Yeats poem. Which poem?*
(1) “The Death of Cuchulain”
(2) “The Peacock”
(3) “The Hour Before Dawn”
(4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
Answer: 4
*33. Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War
presents a character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing
Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up
to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time?*
(1) After Magritte
(2) Dirty Linen
(3) Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties
Answer: 4
*34. “Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness…”
In these lines from “Ulysses”, what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?*
(1) He shows heroic qualities.
(2) He is patient and selfless.
(3) He is very much like his father.
(4) He may be too tender-hearted to be king.
Answer: 2
*35. In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT*
(1) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.
(2) names encapsulate traits.
(3) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
(4) the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.
Answer: 3
*36. What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s
play Six Characters in Search of an Author?*
(1) He drowns in the fountain.
(2) He is shot dead by the Father.
(3) He leaves the stage alone.
(4) He commits suicide.
Answer: 4
*37. Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a
major character in Vanity Fair?*
(1) ambitious
(2) energetic
(3) wellborn
(4) scheming
Answer: 3
*38. Which character in Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, first
suggests the selling of the orchard?*
(1) Trofimov
(2) Yephikodov
(3) Lopakhin
(4) Varya
Answer: 3
*39. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the
following 18th century English periodicals :*
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2) Spectator – Tatler – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(3) Rambler – Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s Magazine
Answer: 1
*40. Who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian
writing?*
(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) Michael Ondaatjee
(4) Joy Kogawa
Answer: 2
*31. Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary
Robinson and Felicia Hemans are*
(1) first wave feminists
(2) women poets of the Romantic period
(3) Victorian writers of popular fiction
(4) nineteenth century stage artists
Answer: 2
*32. Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections – Golden
Apples of the Sun – after the last line of a W.B. Yeats poem. Which poem?*
(1) “The Death of Cuchulain”
(2) “The Peacock”
(3) “The Hour Before Dawn”
(4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
Answer: 4
*33. Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War
presents a character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing
Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up
to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time?*
(1) After Magritte
(2) Dirty Linen
(3) Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties
Answer: 4
*34. “Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness…”
In these lines from “Ulysses”, what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?*
(1) He shows heroic qualities.
(2) He is patient and selfless.
(3) He is very much like his father.
(4) He may be too tender-hearted to be king.
Answer: 2
*35. In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT*
(1) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.
(2) names encapsulate traits.
(3) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
(4) the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.
Answer: 3
*36. What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s
play Six Characters in Search of an Author?*
(1) He drowns in the fountain.
(2) He is shot dead by the Father.
(3) He leaves the stage alone.
(4) He commits suicide.
Answer: 4
*37. Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a
major character in Vanity Fair?*
(1) ambitious
(2) energetic
(3) wellborn
(4) scheming
Answer: 3
*38. Which character in Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, first
suggests the selling of the orchard?*
(1) Trofimov
(2) Yephikodov
(3) Lopakhin
(4) Varya
Answer: 3
*39. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the
following 18th century English periodicals :*
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2) Spectator – Tatler – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(3) Rambler – Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s Magazine
Answer: 1
*40. Who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian
writing?*
(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) Michael Ondaatjee
(4) Joy Kogawa
Answer: 2
💢 Paper 2 January
*41. What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The
Home Coming ?*
(1) boxer
(2) butcher
(3) pimp
(4) cab driver
Answer: 3
*42. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero :
an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?*
(1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(3) Don Juan
(4) The Vision of Judgement
Answer: 3
*43. In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of*
(1) William Morris
(2) William Holman Hunt
(3) D.G. Rossetti
(4) James Collinson
Answer: 3
*44. In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction
which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title ?*
(1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(2) Beauty in Distress
(3) Virtue Rewarded
(4) Love in Excess
Answer: 1
*45. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy
of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites
the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is
equivalent to*
(1) the language of the poet
(2) the mind of the poet
(3) the soul of the poet
(4) the life of the poet
Answer: 2
*46. Match the character with the work :*
A. Pip
B. Causaubon
C. Becky Sharp
D. Heathcliff
I. Middlemarch
II. Great Expectations
III. Wuthering Heights
IV. Vanity Fair
The right combination according to the code is :
I II III IV
(1) B C D A
(2) D A C B
(3) B A D C
(4) C B A D
Answer: 3
*47. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following
except*
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Answer: 4
*48. Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?*
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1
*49. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?*
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3
*50. Match the author with the work :*
Author
A. John Locke
B. William Dampier
C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
Work
I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
II. Two Treatises on Government
III. A Short View of Tragedy
IV. Voyages
A B C D
(1) II I IV III
(2) III IV I II
(3) II IV I III
(4) IV III II I
Answer: 3
*41. What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The
Home Coming ?*
(1) boxer
(2) butcher
(3) pimp
(4) cab driver
Answer: 3
*42. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero :
an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?*
(1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(3) Don Juan
(4) The Vision of Judgement
Answer: 3
*43. In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of*
(1) William Morris
(2) William Holman Hunt
(3) D.G. Rossetti
(4) James Collinson
Answer: 3
*44. In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction
which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title ?*
(1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(2) Beauty in Distress
(3) Virtue Rewarded
(4) Love in Excess
Answer: 1
*45. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy
of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites
the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is
equivalent to*
(1) the language of the poet
(2) the mind of the poet
(3) the soul of the poet
(4) the life of the poet
Answer: 2
*46. Match the character with the work :*
A. Pip
B. Causaubon
C. Becky Sharp
D. Heathcliff
I. Middlemarch
II. Great Expectations
III. Wuthering Heights
IV. Vanity Fair
The right combination according to the code is :
I II III IV
(1) B C D A
(2) D A C B
(3) B A D C
(4) C B A D
Answer: 3
*47. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following
except*
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Answer: 4
*48. Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?*
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1
*49. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?*
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3
*50. Match the author with the work :*
Author
A. John Locke
B. William Dampier
C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
Work
I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
II. Two Treatises on Government
III. A Short View of Tragedy
IV. Voyages
A B C D
(1) II I IV III
(2) III IV I II
(3) II IV I III
(4) IV III II I
Answer: 3
💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017
*41. Identify the gynocritics in the following list :*
I. Alice Jardine
II. Elaine Showalter
III. Sandra Gilbert
IV. Kate Millett
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
*42. Identify the character who is not part of the group of three
protagonists in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana :*
(1) Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3) Kapila
(4) Devadatta
Answer: 2
*43. Aurobindo Ghosh, author of ‘Savitri’, taught for some time at
Baroda College after his return from England in 1893. Which subject did
he teach?*
(1) English
(2) French
(3) Sanskrit
(4) Bengali
Answer: 1, 2
*44. Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an*
(1) complaint
(2) stichomythia
(3) epyllion
(4) pasturelle
Answer: 3
*45. Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language
family?*
(1) English
(2) German
(3) Scandinavian
(4) Finnish
Answer: 4
*46. What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of
achieving the sublime?*
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) dignified and elevated word arrangement
Answer: 2
*47. Who among the following is not a beat writer?*
(1) Jack Kerouac
(2) Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4) William Burroughs
Answer: 3
*48. This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night
and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.*
(1) Masque of Blankness
(2) The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4) The Gypsies Metamorphed
Answer: 3
*49. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their*
(1) conversational intimacy
(2) intellectual tenor
(3) astringent satire
(4) urban topography
Answer: 1
*50. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the
alternative title Things as They Are?*
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
Answer: 4
*41. Identify the gynocritics in the following list :*
I. Alice Jardine
II. Elaine Showalter
III. Sandra Gilbert
IV. Kate Millett
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
*42. Identify the character who is not part of the group of three
protagonists in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana :*
(1) Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3) Kapila
(4) Devadatta
Answer: 2
*43. Aurobindo Ghosh, author of ‘Savitri’, taught for some time at
Baroda College after his return from England in 1893. Which subject did
he teach?*
(1) English
(2) French
(3) Sanskrit
(4) Bengali
Answer: 1, 2
*44. Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an*
(1) complaint
(2) stichomythia
(3) epyllion
(4) pasturelle
Answer: 3
*45. Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language
family?*
(1) English
(2) German
(3) Scandinavian
(4) Finnish
Answer: 4
*46. What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of
achieving the sublime?*
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) dignified and elevated word arrangement
Answer: 2
*47. Who among the following is not a beat writer?*
(1) Jack Kerouac
(2) Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4) William Burroughs
Answer: 3
*48. This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night
and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.*
(1) Masque of Blankness
(2) The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4) The Gypsies Metamorphed
Answer: 3
*49. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their*
(1) conversational intimacy
(2) intellectual tenor
(3) astringent satire
(4) urban topography
Answer: 1
*50. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the
alternative title Things as They Are?*
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
Answer: 4
Which name is talked of in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri?
Gogol – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
Ashima – 2
👍👍 18%
Gargi – 1
👍 9%
Rimjhim
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Gogol – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%
Ashima – 2
👍👍 18%
Gargi – 1
👍 9%
Rimjhim
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Which of the following play has four friends sitting and drinking in front of a burning corpse?
Pagal Ghora – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Sakharam Binder – 1
👍 13%
The Fire and the Rain – 1
👍 13%
Dance Like a Man
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Pagal Ghora – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
Sakharam Binder – 1
👍 13%
The Fire and the Rain – 1
👍 13%
Dance Like a Man
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far. Poll closed.
V.S.Naipaul's "An Area of Darkness" was replied to in "Naipaul's India and Mine" by which of the following poet?
Eunice De Souza – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
Nissim Ezekiel – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
A.K. Ramanujan
▫️ 0%
Arun Kolatkar
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Eunice De Souza – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
Nissim Ezekiel – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%
A.K. Ramanujan
▫️ 0%
Arun Kolatkar
▫️ 0%
👥 8 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Which of the following novel has not been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
The Village By the Sea – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
In Custody – 1
👍 14%
Clear Light of Day – 1
👍 14%
Fasting, Feasting
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far. Poll closed.
The Village By the Sea – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71%
In Custody – 1
👍 14%
Clear Light of Day – 1
👍 14%
Fasting, Feasting
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by
Attia Hosain – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 86%
Shashi Deshpande – 1
👍 14%
Rashid Jahan
▫️ 0%
Qurratulain Hyder
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far. Poll closed.
Attia Hosain – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 86%
Shashi Deshpande – 1
👍 14%
Rashid Jahan
▫️ 0%
Qurratulain Hyder
▫️ 0%
👥 7 people voted so far. Poll closed.
💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017
*51. In “My Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the
Duchess’s isdemeanours, according to the Duke?*
(1) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.
(2) She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour.
(3) She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her
behaviour.
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of
their source.
Answer: 3
*52. In his essay “From Work to Text” Roland Barthes says the following
about the text :*
I. The text is singular.
II. The text can be held in the hand.
III. The text is held in language.
IV. The text is a methodological field.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) III and II
Answer: 3
*53. Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a
Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT*
(1) his preoccupation with his roots
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the
labour of his ancestors
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen
Answer: 2
*54. Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work
into English. Match the writer with his source language :*
List – I
A. O.V. Vijayan
B. Vilas Sarang
C. Krishna Baldev Vaid
D. Girish Karnad
List – II
I. Kannada
II. Malayalam
III. Marathi
IV. Hindi
Codes :
A B C D
(1) II IV III I
(2) I III IV II
(3) II III IV I
(4) II III I IV
Answer: 3
*55. In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness
to Raphael. What is this flaw?*
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his superiority to Eve
(3) overconfidence in his free will
(4) passion for Eve
Answer: 4
*56. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early
English texts :*
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The Nightingale – Utopia – Morte
d’Arthur
(2) Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur – The Owl and the
Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur
– Utopia
(4) The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur – Troilus and Criseyde
– Uttopia
Answer: 3
*57. In Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of
Thebes, was murdered*
(1) at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2) at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi
(3) at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) at the crossroads on his way to Delphi
Answer: 4
*58. The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a
Traveller by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers
and titles. Which of the following are the titles of the chapters in the
novel?*
I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace
III. In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV. What Story there Awaits its End?
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 1
*59. The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It
had a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too
indelicate for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a
writer who was a socialist and open homosexual. Identify the writer.*
(1) Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3) W.H. Auden
(4) E.F. Benson
Answer: 2
*60. Who among the following has elaborated on the “Indianisation” of
English?*
(1) L.M. Khubchandani
(2) B. Kumaravadivelu
(3) B.B. Kachru
(4) Rajendra Singh
Answer: 3
*51. In “My Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the
Duchess’s isdemeanours, according to the Duke?*
(1) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.
(2) She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour.
(3) She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her
behaviour.
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of
their source.
Answer: 3
*52. In his essay “From Work to Text” Roland Barthes says the following
about the text :*
I. The text is singular.
II. The text can be held in the hand.
III. The text is held in language.
IV. The text is a methodological field.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) III and II
Answer: 3
*53. Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a
Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT*
(1) his preoccupation with his roots
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the
labour of his ancestors
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen
Answer: 2
*54. Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work
into English. Match the writer with his source language :*
List – I
A. O.V. Vijayan
B. Vilas Sarang
C. Krishna Baldev Vaid
D. Girish Karnad
List – II
I. Kannada
II. Malayalam
III. Marathi
IV. Hindi
Codes :
A B C D
(1) II IV III I
(2) I III IV II
(3) II III IV I
(4) II III I IV
Answer: 3
*55. In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness
to Raphael. What is this flaw?*
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his superiority to Eve
(3) overconfidence in his free will
(4) passion for Eve
Answer: 4
*56. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early
English texts :*
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The Nightingale – Utopia – Morte
d’Arthur
(2) Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur – The Owl and the
Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur
– Utopia
(4) The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur – Troilus and Criseyde
– Uttopia
Answer: 3
*57. In Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of
Thebes, was murdered*
(1) at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2) at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi
(3) at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) at the crossroads on his way to Delphi
Answer: 4
*58. The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a
Traveller by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers
and titles. Which of the following are the titles of the chapters in the
novel?*
I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace
III. In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV. What Story there Awaits its End?
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 1
*59. The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It
had a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too
indelicate for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a
writer who was a socialist and open homosexual. Identify the writer.*
(1) Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3) W.H. Auden
(4) E.F. Benson
Answer: 2
*60. Who among the following has elaborated on the “Indianisation” of
English?*
(1) L.M. Khubchandani
(2) B. Kumaravadivelu
(3) B.B. Kachru
(4) Rajendra Singh
Answer: 3