💢📓 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

💢 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

💢📓 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

💢📓 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

Gogol

Pagal Ghora

Nissim Ezekiel

The Village by The Sea

Attia Hosain

✔✔ Paper 2 August 2016

*21. In More’s Utopia what religion is practised by the Utopians?*
(1) Belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and planetary worship
(2) Islam
(3) Judaism
(4) Buddhism
Answer: 1

*22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert
after reading which great work?*
(1) Cervantes’s Don Quixote
(2) Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) Euclid’s Elements
(4) Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Answer: 1

*23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s*
(1) Bleak House
(2) Great Expectations
(3) David Copperfield
(4) Hard Times
Answer: 1

*24. Which Keat’s poem was originally intended to be part of a
collection of verse-tales based on stories by Boccaccio?*
(1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) Lamia
(3) Isabella
(4) Hyperion
Answer: 3

*25. Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin?*
(1) The Congo
(2) The Thames
(3) Belgium
(4) The Atlantic
Answer: 2

*26. In Gullivers Travels which of the following ideas is not a product
of the Academy of Lagado?*
(1) A random sentence-generating machine.
(2) A proposal to end speech altogether, by carrying around sacks of the
things that words signify.
(3) A project for truncating words and shortening sentences by leaving
out verbs.
(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.
Answer: 4

*27. Which of the following stories is NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne?*
(1) “The Minister’s Black Veil”
(2) “Young Goodman Brown”
(3) “The Purloined Letter”
(4) “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Answer: 3

*28. What attributes of Shakespeare’s characterization does Johnson
admire in his preface to Shakespeare?*
(1) The way his characters represent particular times and places.
(2) The way his characters exhibit quirks representative of their humours or
professions.
(3) The way his characters portray the general passions and principles
of human
nature.
(4) The way his characters portray real individuals.
Answer: 3

*29. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the
following EXCEPT*
(1) Medicine
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology
(4) Criminology
Answer: 2

*30. “All Arabia breathes from yonder box.” This line from The Rape of
the Lock is an example of*
(1) periphrasis
(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy
(4) chiasmus
Answer: 3

✔✔ Paper 2 August 2016

*31. Who among the following addresses the reader in a substantial
Preface to Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy?*
(1) Zelotopia
(2) Democritus Junior
(3) Democritus
(4) Solitudo
Answer: 2

*32. Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line, “the paths of
glory lead but to the grave”?*
(1) Those who seek glory often die in its pursuit.
(2) Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
(3) The pursuit of glory is futile.
(4) The pursuit of glory is dangerous.
Answer: 2

*33. Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?*
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair
(4) Great Expectations
Answer: 1

*34. What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of
“The General Prologue”?*
(1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
(3) Third person
(4) Free indirect discourse
Answer: 1

*35. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in
Cornhill Magazine. Identify the author.*
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
(2) Charlotte Bronte
(3) Emily Bronte
(4) George Eliot
Answer: 2

*36. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great
Tradition is*
(1) moral purpose
(2) sublime subject matter
(3) reader-response
(4) truth to life
Answer: 1

*37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole
wife-to-be?*
(1) Bertha
(2) Martha
(3) Jane
(4) Barbara
Answer: 1

*38. Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste land?*
(1) Ring-a-roses
(2) London Bridge is Falling Down
(3) Humpty Dumpty
(4) Jack and Jill
Answer: 2

*39. Purple Hisbiscus is a work by*
(1) Cyprian Ekwensi
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(3) Seffi Atta
(4) Chukwuemeka Ike
Answer: 2

*40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born in?*
(1) France
(2) South Africa
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium
Answer: 3

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1️⃣ A Tale of a Tub was written by?
A. Swift
B. Jonson
C. Both
✅D. Obviously both since this option is there is the question.

2️⃣ Love in a Tub was written by?
A. Wycherley
B. Vanbrugh
✅C. Etherege
D. Farquhar

3️⃣ Astraea Redux was written by_____ on the return of Charles II?
A. Ben Jonson
✅B. Dryden
C. Milton
D. Earl of Rochester

4️⃣ Who ascended the throne of England after the War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1713)?
A. William of Orange
B. William of Mango
C. Mary
✅D. Anne

5️⃣ Who wrote the first treatise on the freedom of the press?
✅A. Milton
B. Rousseau
C. Pope
D. Addison and Steele

6️⃣ In Religio Laici (1682) was Dryden's defense of the Church of England, what does Religio Laici mean?
A. Religion of Church
✅B. A Layman's Faith
C. The Faith of the Pope
D. Religion of Faith

7️⃣ Which of them is not my John Bunyan
A. Grace Abounding
B. The Holy War
C. Pilgrims Progress
✅D. The Adventures of Roderick Random

8️⃣ A Sentimental Journey through...
A. England and France
✅B. France and Italy
C. France and Germany
D. Rome and Italy

9️⃣ Barrack Room Ballads is by
A. Wilfred Owen
B. George Orwell
✅C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Siegfried Sassoon

🔟 Who among them was called the 'marvelous boy'?
A. Keats
✅B. Chatterton
C. Middleton
D. Robert Bridges

This four line poem by Hughes is hauntingly beautiful 🖤

✔✔ Paper 2 August 2016

*41. Which of the following plays is NOT part of the so-called Arnold
Wesker Trilogy?*
(1) I’m Talking about Jerusalem
(2) Chips with Everything
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley
Answer: 2

*42. Identify the play from among the following in which a spendthrift
young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors :*
(1) The Taming of the Shrew
(2) The School for Scandal
(3) The Strife
(4) The Philanderer
Answer: 2

*43. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?*
(1) Just So Stories
(2) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(3) The Secret Garden
(4) Rewards and Faeries
Answer: 3

*44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse’s reward for slaying the Dragon?*
(1) The Dragon’s treasure hoard
(2) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of a righteous quest
(3) Eternal salvation
(4) Una’s hand in marriage and her parents’ kingdom
Answer: 4

*45. Which of the following novels has the death of General Muhammad Zia
ul-Haq, the former President of Pakistan, at its centre?*
(1) The Kite Runner
(2) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
(3) Shame
(4) Kartography
Answer: 2

*46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to*
(1) E.L. Woodward
(2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
(3) Michael Brock
(4) W.E. Houghton
Answer: 2

*47. One of the following collections initiated confessional poetry in
America, a new mode in which the poet bared his/her most tormenting
personal problems with great honesty and intensity.*
(1) Live or Die
(2) Words for the Wind
(3) Life Studies
(4) Ariel
Answer: 3

*48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a …………… by …………….*
(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe
(3) poem, William Blake
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne
Answer: 3

*49. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost,
Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. He states that he is in
particular need of aid because he has what he considers to be a
disability. What is it?*
(1) Lameness
(2) Deafness
(3) Prolixity
(4) Blindness
Answer: 4

*50. Match the poets with the collection :*
List – I
I. Philip Larkin
II. Geoffrey Hill
III. Ted Hughes
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II
A. Lupercal
B. Door into the Dark
C. The Less Deceived
D. For the Unfallen
I II III IV
(1) C D B A
(2) C B D A
(3) C D A B
(4) D C B A
Answer: 3