🔅🔰🔅 Paper 2 December 2014


21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a
hand grenade ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
Answer: B

22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin
Answer: C

23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Answer: B

24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
Answer: C

25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of
social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
Answer: B

26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The
Legend of Good Women ?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
Answer: D

27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
Answer: C

28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry
Answer: A

29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
Answer: B

30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave
Answer: A

Q.1 The character, Bosola from The Duchess of Malfi compares himself to which Greek
mythological figure?
👉A) Tantalus
B) Cronus
C) Dioskouroi
D) Epimetheus

Q.2 At the beginning of the play in Volpone, Volpone pretends to be on his deathbed to dupe
three men. Who of the following is NOT that man?
A) Voltore
B) Corbaccio
👉C) Mosca
D) Corvino

Q.3 Who schemes to bring Vittoria and Brachiano together in the hopes of advancing his career
in the play The White Devil?
A) Lodovico
👉B) Flamineo
C) Giovanni
D) Camillo

Q.4 Who eventually marries Dame Pliant in the play The Alchemist?
A) Face
B) Subtle
👉C) Lovewit
D) Drugger

Q.5 A Tale of a Tub is a play by _________.
A) John Webster
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Cyril Tourneur
👉D) Ben Jonson

Q.6 “The Puppet show” in the play Bartholomew Fair is a burlesque of ________.
A) Hero and Leander
B) Damon and Pythias
👉C) Both A & B
D) Only A

Q.7 The play The Lady’s Not for Burning is set in the_______________
A) Modern Age
B) Renaissance Age
👉C) Middle Age
D) during world war II

Q.8 In 1733, Lewis Theobald rewrote and directed an adaptation of a Jacobean play and entitled
it The Fatal Secret. Which play was this?
A) The White Devil
B) Every Man Out of His Humour
👉C) The Duchess of Malfi
D) Eastward Ho

Q.9 In 1912, she accused H. G. Wells of being “the Old Maid among novelists” in a provocative review of his novel Marriage. Who was this critic?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
👉B) Rebecca West
C) Willa Cather
D) Gabriela Mistral

Quiz#17

1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
👉a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
👉b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
👉d. Nonsense

4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient
Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
👉b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow
and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
👉b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
👉d. First World War

8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
👉a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin

9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling
truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
👉c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer

10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
👉c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings

*QUIZ* #18

1. The novel The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is set in?
👉(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany

2. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
👉(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid

3. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
👉(D) T. S. Eliot

4. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
👉(D) B. Disraeli

5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
👉(D) D. G. Rossetti

6. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
👉(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan

7. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
👉(D) John Ruskin

8. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
👉(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes

9. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
👉(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love

10. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
👉(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge

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Quiz #19

1. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
👉(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch

2. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is an example of
(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
👉(C) prolepsis
(D) pun

3. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
👉(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud

4. Plato censured poetry because he believed it
(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
👉(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.

5. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam
(B) “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”
(C) “Crossing the Bar”
👉(D) “Tithonus”

6. Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay.
(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
👉(B) “Hamlet and His Problems”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) “Dante”

7. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
👉(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998

8. “Heteroglossia” refers to
(A) the multiple readings of a text.
👉(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.

9. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
👉(D) Jonathan Swift

10. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,
(A) Richard Flecknoe
👉(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior

In question 8 Clara stands for women's rights as she is a suffragette and not Mrs Morel.

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Quiz #21

1. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a. Quartet
👉b. Limerick
c. Sextet
d. Palindrome

2. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
a) symbolism
b) simile
c) metonymy
👉d) kenning
e) appositive expression

3. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
👉(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw

4. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
👉(D) Addison and Steele

5. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good
John, fatigued I said” :
👉(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles”
(D) “Rape of the Lock”

6. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is
one’s own” appears in :
(A) Ice-Candy Man
(B) The Guide
(C) Nagamandala
👉(D) Kanthapura

7. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Nadine Gordiner
👉(C) Buchi Emcheta
(D) Doris Lessing

8. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
👉(A) Margaret Laurence
(B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin
(D) Peter Carey

9. The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite
I AM” appears in :
(A) Lyrical Ballads
👉(B) Biographia Literaria
(C) “In Defense of Poetry”
(D) Letters of Keats

10. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
👉(D) Gibbon

Quiz #22

Indian English Literature

1. Find the odd one out
A. A Tiger for Malgudi
✅B. Malgudi Days
C. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
D. The Dark Room
Explanation : All the others are novels while this is a collection of short stories.

2. Arrange in chronological sequence.
A. Coolie
B. Untouchable
C. The Sword and the Sickle
D. Two Leaves and Bud
✅: B,A,D,C

3. Achakka is the narrator of
A. On the Ganga Ghat
B. The Serpent and the Rope
✅C. Kanthapura
D. The English Teacher

4. Timothy Penpoem was the pseudonym of
A. Toru Dutt
B. Sri Aurobindo
✅C. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
D. R. C. Dutt

5. Which of these writer's work did Premchand not translate
A. John Galsworthy
B. George Eliot
C. Anatole France
✅D. E. M. Foster

6. Which of these women authors compared suppression of women's rights to loss of country's freedom?
A. Toru Dutt
✅B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Attia Hosain
D. Rashid Jahan

7. The East is Blue is a non-fictional work by
A. V. S. Naipaul
✅B. Salman Rushdie
C. Nissim Ezekiel
D. Girish Karnad

8. Journey to Ithaca(1995) is a book by
A. Chaman Nahal
✅B. Anita Desai
C. Shashi Deshpande
D. Kamala Markandeya

9. Which of these plays was banned in India?
A. Tara
B. Hayavadana
✅C. Sakharam Binder
D. Dance Like a Man

10. Writers Workshop was founded in
A. 1964
B. 1932
✅C. 1958
D. 1972

Philip Larkin, 1922–85, English poet. He graduated from St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1943; M.A., 1947) and was for many years librarian at the Univ. of Hull. With an eye for the ordinary and a diction that is profoundly lucid and determinedly plain, Larkin wrote poetry of diminution that quietly exposes the weakness and pretensions of English life. His wit was subtle, delicate, and deadly. Among his volumes of poetry are The North Ship(1946), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974). Larkin also edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973). In addition, he published two novels, Jill(1940) and A Girl in Winter (1947); and two collections of critical pieces, All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961–1968 (1970) and Required Writing (1983). With the onset of deafness in the 1970s Larkin ceased writing poetry and jazz criticism. Despite a slim body of mature work, Larkin has a secure reputation as one of the finest and most original poets of his era.