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
✔✔ 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
*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
*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
🇶🇺🇮🇿 14
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
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
✔✔ 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
*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
✔📓 Paper 3- August 2016
*1. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?*
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy
Answer: 2
*2. Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its
conclusion?*
(1) Angel
(2) Knowledge
(3) Doctor
(4) Good Deeds
Answer: 3
*3. Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the
following remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the
categories of tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’
and ‘comedy’, and views of life as tragicomedy.”*
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann
Answer: 4
*4. The Restoration period’s most characteristic drama, the “comedy of
manners”, was gradually replaced by “sentimental drama” in response to
shifts in the audience’s taste. Which of the following statements best
represents the difference between these two types of comedy?*
(1) Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental
comedies provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults.
(2) Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental
comedies were not.
(3) Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies
were not.
(4) Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental
comedies were written in blank verse.
Answer: 1
*5. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself
reads*
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back
Answer: 4
*6. Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf’s novel ……………*
(1) Mrs. Dalloway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) The Waves
(4) Orlando
Answer: 4
*7. Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as
“the fascination of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on
order.” Which of his works was he referring to?*
(1) Buddenbrooks
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Magic Mountain
(4) Doctor Faustus
Answer: 2
*8. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from
the central tale of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions
taken in company with Oroonoko.
What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?*
(1) To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam
(2) To enliven the dullness of the central narrative
(3) To give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity
(4) To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to
the events described
Answer: 3
*9. In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru’s
autobiography under the title*
(1) Toward Freedom
(2) In Search of Freedom
(3) Toward Independence
(4) In Search of Independence
Answer: 1
*10. “In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth
and liberty, – / Deserting
these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?*
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats
Answer: 2
*1. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?*
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy
Answer: 2
*2. Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its
conclusion?*
(1) Angel
(2) Knowledge
(3) Doctor
(4) Good Deeds
Answer: 3
*3. Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the
following remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the
categories of tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’
and ‘comedy’, and views of life as tragicomedy.”*
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann
Answer: 4
*4. The Restoration period’s most characteristic drama, the “comedy of
manners”, was gradually replaced by “sentimental drama” in response to
shifts in the audience’s taste. Which of the following statements best
represents the difference between these two types of comedy?*
(1) Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental
comedies provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults.
(2) Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental
comedies were not.
(3) Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies
were not.
(4) Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental
comedies were written in blank verse.
Answer: 1
*5. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself
reads*
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back
Answer: 4
*6. Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf’s novel ……………*
(1) Mrs. Dalloway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) The Waves
(4) Orlando
Answer: 4
*7. Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as
“the fascination of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on
order.” Which of his works was he referring to?*
(1) Buddenbrooks
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Magic Mountain
(4) Doctor Faustus
Answer: 2
*8. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from
the central tale of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions
taken in company with Oroonoko.
What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?*
(1) To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam
(2) To enliven the dullness of the central narrative
(3) To give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity
(4) To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to
the events described
Answer: 3
*9. In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru’s
autobiography under the title*
(1) Toward Freedom
(2) In Search of Freedom
(3) Toward Independence
(4) In Search of Independence
Answer: 1
*10. “In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth
and liberty, – / Deserting
these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?*
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats
Answer: 2