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PAPER – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
1. Which of the following book by V.S.
Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean
Revisited ?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
Answer:(C)
2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) the ability to put oneself across
comfortably in speech and/or
writing.
(B) the ability to command
language rather than language
commanding the user.
(C) glibness
(D) accuracy
Answer:(A)
3. Which of the following statements on
Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE ?
(A) This term applies to
descriptions that are not true
but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally
understood as human traits
being applied or attributed to
non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was
used with disapproval because
nature cannot be equated with
the human in respect of
emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used
by Alexander Pope in his
Pastorals (1709).
Answer:(D)
4. Identify the correctly matched group :
List – I List – II
i. ‘L’ Allegro and 1. Pastoral elegy
‘Il Pensoro so’
ii. ‘Lycidas’ 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet
iv. ‘On His 4. Prose tract
Blindness’
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion poems in octo-
syllabic couplets
Codes :
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3
Answer:(B)
5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood –
The University Wits – The Rhymers’
Club – The Transitional Poets – The
Scottish Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence
would be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians -The University Wits
-The Transitional Poets-The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
– The Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The
University Wits – The Scottish
Chaucerians – The Transitional
Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood – The Rhymers’
Club – The Transitional Poets,
The Scottish Chaucerians –
The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The
Scottish Chaucerians – The
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,
The Transitional Poets – The
Rhymers’ Club.
Answer:(A)
6. ‘Aucitya’ refers to :
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer:(C)
7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial
two men accompany Joseph K to a
part of the city to eventually execute
him. The place is
(A) a Public Park
(B) a Church
(C) a Quarry
(D) an Abandoned Factory
Answer:(C)
8. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Character) (Work)
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer:(D)
9. This renowned German poet was born
in Prague and died of Leukemia. When
young he met Tolstoy and was
influenced by him. The titles of his last
two works contain the words “sonnets”
and “elegies”.
He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von
Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke
Answer:(D)
10. Which of the following plays gained
notoriety for its caricature of the
philosopher Socrates ?
(A) The Birds (B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds (D) The Frogs
Answer:(C)
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady :
I. to get her money and achieve
his ambition in life.
II. to achieve his political goal as
an extremist and a nihilist
III. to prove his superiority over
other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
Answer:(B)
12. In his preface to The Order of
Things, Foucault mentions being
influenced by a Latin American
writer and his work.
Choose the correct answer :
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude
of Latin
America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese
Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the
Marvelous in America”
Answer:(B)
13. Here is a list of Partition novels
which have ‘violence on the
woman’s body’ as a significant
theme. Pick the odd one out :
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
Answer:(C)
14. Match the translators in List – I with
the English translations of Indian
Literature texts in List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List – II
i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a
Maid Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
iv. A.K. 4. Saga of Dharmapuri
Ramanujan
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer:(C)
15. In his poem “A Morning Walk”
Nissim Ezekiel talks about a
‘Barbaric City sick with slums /
Deprived of seasons, blessed with
rains / Its hawkers, beggars, iron-
lunged / Processions led by frantic
drums.’ Identify the city :
(A) Calcutta (B) Banares
(C) Bombay (D) Agra
Answer:(C)
16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards
links four kinds of meanings in most
human utterances to four aspects.
These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance,
Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion,
Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
Answer:(A)
17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters
Sir Leoline’s castle on her way to
Christabel’s chamber there are
several ill omens which warn the
reader about Geraldine. Pick out the
phrase which does not serve as an
omen :
(A) the ‘angry moan’ of the ailing
mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘a tongue of light, a fit of
flame’
Answer:(C)
18. The word resurrect is
(A) an abbreviation
(B) a spurious verb
(C) a back-formation
(D) a disguised compound
Answer:(C)
19. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List – II
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones 2. Bildu-ngsroman
iii. The 3. Gothic
Sorrows of
Young
Werther
iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer:(B)
20. Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought-
Fox’ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. About the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing
poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the
poet’s brain like the Fox
emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate
combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer:(D)
21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it
is the imitation of an action that is
complete and whole, and of a certain
magnitude….having a beginning, a
middle, and an end’.
What is ‘it’ ?
(A) tragedy (B) epic
(C) poetry (D) farce
Answer:(A)
22. According to Matthew Arnold,
‘touchstones’ help us test truth and
seriousness that constitute the best
poetry. What are the ‘touchstones’ ?
(A) The purple passages of lyric
poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of
the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and
vigour
Answer:(C)
23. ‘An extremely simplified form of
language used for oral, verbal contact
among a community whose members
speak different languages but do not
share a common language in order to
fulfill the essential needs of
communication.’
Which of the following is best
described by this definition ?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
Answer:(B)
24. What do the prosodic features of a
language tell us ?
(A) The speaker’s native language
and its cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional
state, social class, educational
background, geographical
provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence
or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the
resources of the language
spoken by him/her and their
deployment.
Answer:(B)
25. What novel answers to the following
descriptions ?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a
British writer. The work incorporates
many genres such as letters, diaries
and poetry as also third-person
narratives. The plot here involves
two time-periods – contemporary and
Victorian. The work is subtitled A
Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
Answer:(B)
26. The following words and phrases,
‘peace makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the fat
of the land’, ‘a labour of love’, ‘the
eleventh hour’ and ‘the shadow of
death’ were made current by
(A) the British Greek scholars like
Roger Ascham
(B) the fifteenth century British
prelates
(C) the Puritan tractarians
(D) the sixteen-century translators
of the Bible
Answer:(D)
27. Who among the following writers
asserted ‘Commonwealth Literature’
does not exist ?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
Answer:(B)
28. Identify the one in correct
chronological sequence :
(A) The Norman Conquest – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer –
William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer –
William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare – The
Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William
Tyndall’s New Testament – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The
Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Norman
Conquest – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of
William Shakespeare
Answer:(A)
29. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A
Vindication of the Rights of
Woman – Lyrical Ballads by
Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s
Reflections on the Revolution in
France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical
Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads
by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman. (D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads
with ‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman.
Answer:(B)
30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’ ?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
Answer:(C)
31. This periodical was started in 1709
with a motive ‘to expose the false
arts of life, to pull the disguise of
cunning, vanity and affectation, and
to recommend a general simplicity in
our dress, our discourse and our
behaviour.’ The founder of the
periodical wrote under the
pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff.
The periodical described above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
Answer:(A)
32. Arrange the following in the order in
which the details of a research article /
essay appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the
essay, the title of the journal,
volume & issue numbers, year
of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page
numbers, the title of the
journal, volume and issue
numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the title
of the essay, page numbers,
volume and issue numbers,
year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the title
of the journal, volume & issue
numbers, the year of
publication, page numbers
Answer:(D)
33. From the following indicate the work
which is not a Dystopia :
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny – We
Zamyatin
(D) Evelyn – Brideshed Revisited
Waugh
Answer:(D)
34. ‘Unless wariness be used, as good
almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable
creature, God’s image, but he who
destroys a good book, kills reason itself,
kills the image of God as it were in the
eye. Many a man lives a burden to the
earth; but a good book is the precious
life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from ?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal
Transposed
Answer:(A)
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of
character and the understanding of
realism of writers like Arnold
Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G.
Wells. Her famous essay is called
‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown’. Who
is Mrs. Brown ?
(A) The name Woolf gives a
woman whom she happens to
meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s
household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who
happens to be a writer.
Answer:(A)
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent
images in A Passage to India. Pick
the odd one out :
(A) Wasp (B) Stone
(C) Thunder (D) Echo
Answer:(C)
37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all
and some,
For here’s a tun of midnight-work to
come,
Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
home.
Round as a globe, and liquor’d ev’ry
chink
Goodly and great he rails behind his
link’.
In the above extract from Absalom
and Achitophel Og is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
Answer:(C)
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression
‘a bright book of life’ to describe
(A) the novel
(B) the dramatic monologue
(C) the Bible
(D) the short lyric
Answer:(A)
39. Identify the correctly matched group :
List – I List – II
i. Where Angles 1. Malay
Fear to Tread
ii. A Portrait of the 2. Russia
Artist as a
Young Man
iii. The Plumed 3. Italy
Serpent
iv. An Outcast of 4. Mexico
the Islands
v. Under Western 5. Dublin
Eyes
Codes :
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
Answer:(B)
40. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Chaucer describes
‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus :
‘She was so charitable and so
pitous, She wolde wepe, if that
she sawe a mous caught in a
trappe’
Reason (R) : On her ‘broche of
gold full shene’ was written
Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer:(B)
41. Identify the correct statements on
Langue and Parole below :
1. Langue is the abstract language
system, the grammar of a
language.
2. Parole is the language actually
produced by its user following
langue.
3. Langue is the language actually
produced by its users following
parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language
system, the grammar of a
system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
Answer:(B)
42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which
among the following characters has
‘a face like a frog’ ?
(A) Nazneen (B) Chanu
(C) Hasina (D) Karim
Answer:(B)
43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the
frowning night,
Check’ring the eastern clouds with
streaks of light;
And flecked darkness like a drunkard
reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s
burning wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)
The speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a
Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
Answer:(C)
44. ‘How noble in reason ! how infinite
in faculty !
in form and moving how express and
admirable ! In action how like an
angel !
in apprehension how like a God !’
What does Hamlet marvel at in this
passage ?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
Answer:(C)
45. Said identifies Orientalism as :
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on an
ontological and
epistemological distinction
made between the Orient and
the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than one
of human production
In the light of the statement above :
(A) II and III are correct, I and IV
are wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV
are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV
is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III
are wrong.
Answer:(C)
46. Identify the period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver
Cromwell and his Commonwealth
shut down all English theatres on
religious and moral grounds :
(A) 1640-1660 (B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659 (D) 1640-1659
Answer:(A)
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly
than rest, men. I mean she upright,
honest, speak her mind…”
What light does the quotation throw
on Shug Avery ?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in
asserting her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
Answer:(D)
48. 1. A content word is not a
function word.
2. A content word has lesser
meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no
function.
4. A content word bears lexical
meaning whereas a function
word just about means
functionally.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct
Answer:(A)
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the
history of American language and
literature. Identify the reason from
the following :
(A) Mark Twain’s The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn was
published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary
Messenger gained wide
circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was
adjudged the nation’s greatest
writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An
American Dictionary of the
English Language in that year.
Answer:(D)
50. What alternative title to her
Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give ?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
Answer:(C)
51. Which of the following statements on
George Lamming’s In the Castle of
My Skin [1953] is not true ?
(A) On one level this is a coming-of-age
story
(B) It is an elegiac account of a
village’s growth into awareness
in the late colonial period.
(C) Its themes parody The
Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s
first novel
Answer:(C)
52. We are likely to misunderstand an
Emily Dickinson poem if we take her
famous dashes to be …
(A) quite specific and unambiguous
(B) ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) suggestive of both forward and
backward movements in terms
of sense
(D) suggestive of links but
equivocally
Answer:(A)
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Seasons
of Migration to the North will
undoubtedly notice its parallels with
the story/stories of :
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer:(D)
54. Which statement is not true of
Benedict Anderson’s Imagined
Communities ?
(A) It is a prosaic response to the
myth of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson
advances the view that nations
are not natural entities but
narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson’s view, modern
nationalism was basically a
consequence of the convergence
of capitalism, the new print
technology and the fixity that
resulted from print extending to
‘Vernacular’ languages.
Answer:(A)
55. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth everyday.’
These lines from Twelfth Night
occur in the novel :
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
Answer:(A)
56. What is a mock-heroic poem ?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) mocks at heroic pretensions in
poets and critics
(B) mocks heroism, an exaggerated
virtue in all epics
(C) uses a heroic style to deride
airs and affectations
(D) uses a mocking style to deride
heroes and hero-worship
Answer:(C)
57. Which of the following statements is
not true of Laurence Sterne’s
Tristram Shandy ?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the
theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
Answer:(A)
58. In drama, an aside is addressed…
(A) to an audience by an actor; the
words so spoken are not meant
to be heard by other actors on
the stage.
(B) to other actors on the stage; the
words so spoken are not meant
to be heard by the audience.
(C) by the playwright to the
audience.
(D) by the protagonist to his/her
antagonist
Answer:(A)
59. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Novels) (Last Lines)
i. The Mayor 1. ‘He walked towards the
of faintly humming, glowing town,
Casterbridge quickly.’
ii. Sons and 2. ‘In their death, they were not
Lovers divided.’
iii. The Great Gatsby 3. ‘Happiness was but the
occasional episode in a
general drama of pain.’
iv. The Mill on 4. ‘So we beat on,
the Floss boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly
into the past.’
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer:(D)
60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is
a statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer:(B)
61. Here is a list of women abandoned
by their lovers in Hardy’s novels.
Pick the odd one out :
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene
Answer:(D)
62. What is the following a description of ?
‘a loose sally of the mind; an
irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary
Answer:(A)
63. From the following indicate the critic
who is not a New Critic :
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer:(D)
64. From the following list, pick out a
woman character who does not
belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels :
(A) Ila (B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali (D) Piyali
Answer:(B)
65. Pick the odd man out of the following
members of the subaltern group :
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) Dipesh Chakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar
Answer:(D)
66. Statement (S) : “Our birth is but a
sleep and forgetting.”
Interpretation (I) : The human soul
never tires in the course of life,
it never dies. Therefore, the
human life is a long sleep and
ephemeral events are better
forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not
correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view, the (I)
does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears
no relationship to (I).
Answer:(B)
67. ‘The parish of rich women, physical
decay, /
Yourself…’
What do these make of W.B. Yeats
in W.H. Auden’s view ?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
Answer:(D)
68. Who among Charles Dickens’s
characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’ ?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas
Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
Answer:(D)
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
I. the works of native people
living in a land that has been
taken over by non-natives.
II. the works of black people in
the United States.
III. the literature of the
marginalized.
IV. refers to the works of non-
heterosexuals
Of the above :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct
Answer:(B)
70. Assertion (A) : In The Duchess of
Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole
group of mad men on the
Duchess and they dance and
sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R) : His desire was to
provide a strange entertainment
to drive the Duchess mad.
In the context of the two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer:(B)
71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of
Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable
contribution to the study of African-
American literature ?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected
African-American novelists
and poets
(B) It offers a theory of African-
American criticism that draws
upon rhetorical and signifying
practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African
American films and dramatic
arts that signify Black ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory
of autobiographical narratives
involving Black lives and
cultural traditions.
Answer:(B)
72. This influential critic
I. wrote influential commentaries
on such poets as Shelley, Blake
and Yeats.
II. published such titles as The
Anxiety of Influence, A Map of
Misreading, Poetry and Repression
and The Western Canon.
III. asserted that most literary
criticism is but slightly
disguised religion and
IV. is, arguably, the most widely
known and contrarian among
his American peers in the
English Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
Answer:(C)
73. According to the Italian Marxist
theorist Antonio Gramsci :
(A) hegemony is synonymous with
domination
(B) hegemony involves a degree of
consent on the part of subject
people.
(C) hegemony involves a degree of
coercion on the part of a
dominant political entity.
(D) hegemony is synonymous with
subjugation
Answer:(B)
74. Match the following :
i. George Peele, 1. The Rhymers’
Robert Greene, Club / The Decadents
Thomas Lodge, of the 1890’s
Thomas Kyd
ii. William Congreve, 2. The Pre-Raphaelite
William Wycherley Brotherhood
George Eltherege,
George Farquhar
iii. John Everett 3. The University Wits
Millais, James
Collinson, Ford
Madox Brown,
Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
iv. Ernest Dowson, 4. The Restoration
Lionel Johnson, Playwrights
W.B. Yeats
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
Answer:(D)
75. Combine the statements correctly :
According to Homi Bhabha
________
1. mimicry is not mere copying or
emulating the colonizer’s
culture, behaviour and
manners.
2. but it is further aimed at
perfection and excess.
3. mimicry is mere copying the
colonizer’s culture, behaviour
and manners…
4. but is informed by both
mockery and a certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4 (B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4 (D) 3 and 2
Answer:(A)