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Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Identify the work below that does
not belong to the literature of the
eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer:(A)
2. Which, among the following, is a
place through which John Bunyan’s
Christian does NOT pass ?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
Answer:(B)
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign
is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900
Answer:(B)
4. Which of the following statements
about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT
true ?
(A) It carried only one ballad
proper, which was Coleridge’s
The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and
other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which
Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.
Answer:(D)
5. One of the following texts was
published earlier than 1955. Identify
the text:
(A) William Golding, The
Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, The Less
Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected
Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for
Godot
Answer:(D)
6. Who among the poets in England
during the 1930s had left–leaning
tendencies ?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,
Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice,
Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies,
Edward Marsh
Answer:(C)
7. Match the following :
1. The Sage of 5. Emily Dickinson
Concord
2. The Nun of 6. R.W. Emerson
Amherst
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
Answer:(A)
8. Name the theorist who divided poets
into “strong” and “weak” and
popularized the practice of
misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
Answer:(B)
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope
repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) the sun
(B) the moon
(C) the north star
(D) the rose
Answer:(A)
10. Which of the following awards is not
given to Indian–English writers ?
(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize
Answer:(X)
11. Identify the correct statement below :
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while
Ralph Roister Doister and
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are
tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while
Ralph Roister Doister and
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are
comedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.
Answer:(B)
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes
its title to
(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of
Venice
(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Answer:(D)
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters
in England in
(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660
Answer:(A)
14. Who of the following was not a
contemporary of Wordsworth and
Coleridge ?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
Answer:(D)
15. Which of the following statements
about Waiting for Godot is NOT
true ?
1. It carries a subtitle: “a
tragicomedy in two acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a
tragicomedy in two scenes”.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a
tragicomedy in two parts”.
4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 1
Answer:(X)
16. The Bloomsbury Group included
British intellectuals, critics, writers
and artists. Who among the
following belonged to the
Bloomsbury Group ?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton
Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive
Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James,
Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
Answer:(A)
17. Who, among the following is
credited with the making of the first
authoritative Dictionary of the
English Language ?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer:(B)
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic
Poesy (1668), who opens the
discussion on behalf of the ancients ?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
Answer:(B)
19. The term invective refers to
(A) the abusive writing or speech
in which there is harsh
denunciation of some person or
thing.
(B) an insulting writing attack upon
a real person, in verse or prose,
usually involving caricature
and ridicule.
(C) a written or spoken text in
which an apparently
straightforward statement or
event is undermined in its
context so as to give it a very
different significance.
(D) the chanting or reciting of
words deemed to have magical
power.
Answer:(A)
20. Which of the following novels
depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi
immigrants in East London ?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
Answer:(D)
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial
year for two important writers in
England. Identify the correct phrase
below :
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden
who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started
publishing verse–drama, for
Hardy whose Wessex Poems
were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and
Graham Greene, each for
publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel
Prize and Orwell who
published his Animal Farm.
Answer:(A)
22. The Enlightenment was characterized
by
(A) accelerated industrial
production and general well–
being of the public.
(B) a belief in the universal
authority of reason and
emphasis on scientific
experimentation.
(C) the Protestant work ethic and
compliance with Christian
values of life.
(D) an undue faith in predestination
and neglect of free will.
Answer:(B)
23. Which Shakespearean play contains
the line: “...there is a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow” ?
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth
Answer:(B)
24. Match the following pairs of books
and authors :
Books Authors
I. Condition of i. John Ruskin
the Working
Class in
England
II. London ii. Henry Mayhew
Labour and
the London
Poor
III. Past and iii. Thomas Carlyle
Present
IV. The Unto iv. Friedrich Engels
This Last
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
(C) ii iv i ii
(D) iii ii iv iv
Answer:(B)
25. In which of the following texts do
Aston, Davies and Mick appear as
characters ?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of
Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton
Rock
Answer:(B)
26. What is common to the following
writers ? Identify the correct
description below :
William Congreve
George Etherege
William Wycherley
Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration
playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of
Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited
Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in
the same age
Answer:(A)
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you
find the characters Anne Elliott,
Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and
Captain Wentworth ?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey
Answer:(C)
28. In which of his essays does Homi
Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of
English in colonial India ?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Answer:(A)
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence
in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and
Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s
Mirror
Answer:(B)
30. Which is the correct sequence of the
novels of V.S.Naipaul ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel
Street–The Suffrage of Elvira –
A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic
Masseur – A House for
Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of
Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira –
Miguel Street – The Mystic
Masseur – A House for
Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The
Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel
Street – A House for
Mr, Biswas.
Answer:(D)
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His
Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Answer:(A)
32. Which of the following author–
theme is correctly matched ?
(A) The Battle of Tribute to “The rude forefathers
the Books of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of Quarrel between ancient and
the Lock modern authors.
(C) Gray’s Accumulation of wealth and the
“Elegy” consequent loss of human lives
and values.
(D) The Quarrel between two
Deserted families caused by Lord Petre.
Village
Answer:(X)
33. Which among the following titles set
a course for academic literary
feminism ?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
Answer:(C)
34. In which play do we see a reworking
of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India
as a camaeo ?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
Answer:(C)
35. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) do not carry a dedication.
(B) are dedicated to James I of
England.
(C) are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) are dedicated to an unknown
“Mr. W.H.”
Answer:(D)
36. Which of the following poems uses
terza rima ?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a
Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the
West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The
Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Answer:(B)
37. When one says that “someone is no
more” or that “someone has breathed
his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) euphism
(B) euphony
(C) understatement
(D) euphemism
Answer:(D)
38. Which of the following are
“companion poems” ?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and
Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The
Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark,
Hark! the Lark”
Answer:(B)
39. What does the term episteme signify ?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
Answer:(A)
40. Which of the following is a better
definition of an image in literary
writing ?
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture
Answer:(B)
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime
example of ‘negative capability’ ?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Answer:(C)
42. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two
Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times, it
was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times, it
was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times, it
was the saddest of times.
Answer:(A)
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
Answer:(C)
44. Which of the following is the correct
chronological sequence ?
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted
Village – The Blessed Damozel
– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A
Poison Tree – Ozymandias –
The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A
Poison Tree – The Deserted
Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The
Blessed Damozel –
Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
Answer:(B)
45. The term homology means a of music
correspondence between two or more
structures. Who of the following
developed a theory of relations
between literary works and social
classes in terms of homologies ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Answer:(X)
46. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A) the Frontier has outlived its
ideological utility in American
civilization.
(B) the Frontier has posed a
challenge to the American
creative imagination.
(C) the Frontier has been the one
great determinant of American
civilization
(D) the Frontier has been the one
great deterrent to American
progress.
Answer:(C)
47. Which statement(s) below on the
Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate ?
I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but
alliterative
II. a stanza of four lines in iambic
pentameter
III. an eight–line stanza in iambic
pentameter followed by a ninth
in six iambic feet
IV. an eight–line stanza with six
iambic feet followed by a ninth
in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II (B) II
(C) III (D) IV
Answer:(C)
48. Match the following texts with their
respective themes :
I. Areopagitica i. Fashion,courtship, seduction
(Milton)
.II. Leviathan ii. The liberty for unlicensed
(Hobbes) Printing
III. Alexander’s iii. Absolute sovereignty
Feast
(Dryden)
IV. The Way of iv. The power of music
the World
(Congreve)
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer:(B)
49. The preliminary version of James
Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen
Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Answer:(A)
50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of
themes, stylistic elements or
subjects borrowed from other
works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody
because not all parody is
pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a
‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an
elevated style, especially in its
use of figurative language.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct
(D) only (iv) is correct.
Answer:(A)