ENGLISH
PAPER – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
1. In which of the following novels
Harikatha is strategically used as a
medium of ‘consciousness raising’ ?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura
Answer:(D)
2. Identify the text in the following list
which offers a fictionalized survey of
English Literature from Elizabethan
times to 1928 :
(A) E.M. Forster, The Eternal
Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All
That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
Answer:(B)
3. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List – II
i. John 1. London Labour
Ruskin and the London Poor
ii. Henry 2. The Golden Bough
Mayhew
iii. Sir Charles 3. Unto The Last
Lyell
iv. Sir James 4. The Principles of Geology
George
Frazer
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer:(D)
4. Which of the following poems DOES
NOT begin in the first person pronoun ?
(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’
Answer:(C)
5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert
Burton proposes the following two
principal kinds :
I. Love II. Death
III. Spiritual IV. Religious
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer:(C)
6. Listed below are some English
journals widely read by professionals :
Screen, Critical Quarterly, Review of
English, Wasafiri.
One of the above founded by C.B.
Cox, and now being edited by Colin
MacCabe, carries not only critical
and scholarly essays in English
Studies but reviews film, culture,
language and contemporary political
issues. Identify the journal :
(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
Answer:(C)
7. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between
Soul and Body”, who/which of the
following has the last word ?
(A) Body (B) God
(C) Soul (D) Satan
Answer:(A)
8. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the
speaker’s anger grows and becomes
________.
(A) a cherry (B) an apple
(C) an orange (D) a rose
Answer:(B)
9. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : For deconstructive
critics how human beings read
and interpret signs they receive
will determine their modes of
knowing and being, whether
those signs come in the form of
literary texts or bank
statements.
Reason (R) : The fact of the matter
is that human beings use signs
to function in the world and are
always likely to do so.
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 and
(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:(A)
10. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one
day in the life of
(A) a divorce lawyer
(B) an ageing pianist
(C) a London neurosurgeon
(D) a famous poet
Answer:(C)
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry,
is the same as ________. It is poetry
that is not written according to
traditional fixed patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G =
E poetry
(D) Free verse
Answer:(X)
12. The author of the book observes “I
have attempted, through the medium
of biography, to present some
Victorian visions to the modern eye”.
The four main characters in this book
are Cardinal Manning, Florence
Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General
Gordon. Who is this author ?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
Answer:(C)
13. In his attack delivered on the theatre
in A Short View of the Immorality
and Profaneness of the English
Stage, Jeremy Collier specially
arraigned ______ and _______.
(A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
(B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
(C) Wycherley and Farquhar
(D) Congreve and Etherege
Answer:(A)
14. I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism
(1929) inaugurated a new phase in
the history of English critical
thought. What was this book’s
subtitle ?
(A) Studies in Poetry
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement
(C) Essays and Studies
(D) A Theoretical Guide
Answer:(B)
15. Which of the following arrangements
is in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) The Castle of Otranto –
Melmoth the Wanderer – The
Monk – The Mysteries of
Udolpho
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The
Mysteries of Udolpho – The
Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho –
The Castle of Otranto – The
Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The
Castle of Otranto – The
Mysteries of Udolpho – The
Monk
Answer:(B)
16. Select from among the following
plays, the one that best suits the
description below :
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its
author to write it.
II. The play had communalism as
its theme.
III. This play was banned from the
Deccan Herald Theatre
Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue.
IV. The play, however, was
produced by Playpen in
Bangalore on July 1993.
The play is _______.
(A) Dance Like a Man
(B) Where There’s a Will
(C) Final Solutions
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth
Answer:(C)
17. I have known three generations of
John Smiths. The type breeds true.
John Smith II and III went to the
same school, university and learned
profession as John Smith I. Yet John
Smith I wrote pseudo-Swinburne;
John Smith II wrote pseudo-Brooke;
and John Smith III is now writing
pseudo-Eliot. But unless John Smith
can write John Smith, however
unfashionable the result, why does he
bother to write at all ? Surely one
Swinburne; one Brooke, and one
Eliot are enough in any age ?
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his
Public”)
1. Graves is critical of blind
adulation and imitation of
successful poets.
2. Graves is critical of blind
conformity to standards set by
Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot
represent the movements :
Decadence, the Georgian, and
Modernist respectively.
4. The poets in question are
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
Stopford Brooke, and Thomas
Stearns Eliot.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 3 is incorrect.
Answer:(B)
18. During the colonial era, the British
used to call the Indian Languages
vernaculars. We do not use this word
for our bhashas because :
I. we consider English to be
equally vernacular.
II. verna is, literally a home-born
slave.
III. not all Indian languages are
languages of the Indo-european
family, and therefore not all
vernacular.
IV. the natives of India were never
slaves.
(A) IV (B) II and IV
(C) III (D) I and III
Answer:(B)
19. More’s Utopia displays strong
influence of
I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato’s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci’s account of
the travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to
the code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer:(B)
20. By ‘language transfer’ is meant
(A) Knowledge generated in the
development of a learner on
account of other domains of
knowledge.
(B) The carryover of rules of the
mother tongue syntax,
phonology, or semantic system
to the Second language in
question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the
Second language syntax,
phonology, or semantic system
to the mother tongue in
question.
(D) The vocabulary and sentence-
structure transferred
haphazardly during Second
language acquisition from any
other language accessed by the
learner
Answer:(B)
21. Which of the following descriptions
is NOT true of Peter Carey’s The
True History of the Kelly Gang ?
(A) It is an epistolary novel.
(B) It has such characters as Edward
Kelly, his mother, and his wife.
(C) It is also about the Bush and
the frontier.
(D) The novel is dedicated to
Edward Kelly’s father.
Answer:(D)
22. Identify the poem that opens with the
lines :
I walk through the long schoolroom
questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to
sing …
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren”
(B) “Among School Children”
(C) “A Man Young and Old”
(D) “The Man Young, and Old”
Answer:(B)
23. Which of the following statements is
NOT true of Foucault’s position in
History of Sexuality ?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced
through and as discourse.
(B) The proliferation of modern
discourses of sexuality is more
striking than their suppression.
(C) To write historically about
sexuality involves increasingly
direct, immediate knowledge or
understanding of an
unchanging sexual essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately
entangled with the historically
distinctive contexts and
structures now called
‘knowledge’.
Answer:(C)
24. The following is an exchange
between two characters, husband and
wife, in a famous play. The lines
appear at the very end of an
emotionally-charged sequence of the
last scene :
“… I’ve stopped believing in
miracles.”
“But I’ll believe. Tell me !
Transform ourselves to the point that
….?”
“That our living together could be a
true marriage.”
(She goes out down the hall.)
Which play ? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy,
Linda
Answer:(C)
25. The following statements relate to
the early history of the English
language. Identify the set that gives
INCORRECT statements :
1. English has borrowed words
such as sky, give, law, and leg
from Norse.
2. English has also borrowed
some pronouns like they, their,
them from Norse.
3. In grammar, Modern English is
much more highly inflected
than Old English.
4. After the Norman Conquest,
French became the language of
the court, the language of
nobility and polite society, and
literature.
5. Following the Norman
Conquest, French virtually
replaced English as the
language of the people.
6. Among the French words that
came into English are : study,
logic, grammar, noun, etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
(D) 2, 4
Answer:(B)
26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a
language, or how a language is
actually spoken/written, especially
one that differs from its prescribed
grammar, is called
(A) Utterance
(B) Use
(C) Usage
(D) Deviation
Answer:(C)
27. Jamaica Kincaid’s narrative A Small
Place
(A) is all about learning Farsi and
meeting young people in
modern Iran.
(B) is an essay that discusses the
politics of tourism and other
neo-colonial modes of foreign
intervention.
(C) is a collection of tiny narratives
about gender relations and
includes stories concerning the
Sumerian goddess Inanna.
(D) a novella that looks
unblinkingly at marital
ceremonies and maternity in
Antigua.
Answer:(B)
28. Identify the correctly-matched poets
and their works from the following :
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in
Darkness, Kamala Das – The
Sirens, R. Parthasarthy –
Rough Passage, A.K.
Ramanujan – The Striders
(B) Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders,
Kamala Das – Rough Passage,
R. Parthasarthy – Hymns in
Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan –
The Sirens
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens,
Kamala Das – Hymns in
Darkness, R. Parthasarthy –
The Striders, A.K. Ramanujan
– Rough Passage
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough
Passage, Kamala Das – The
Striders, R. Parthasarthy – The
Striders, A.K. Ramanujan –
Hymns in Darkness
Answer:(A)
29. William Wordsworth had a deep
influence on Thomas Hardy.
According to Hardy a particular
poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best
cure for despair’. Which is that poem ?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
Answer:(D)
30. In Henry James’s Ambassadors,
there is a character who never
appears in the novel. We get to know
about this significant person,
however, from the other characters.
Who is this character ?
(A) Maria Gostrey
(B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock
Answer:(C)
31. Why are Scott’s novels called
“Waverley Novels” ?
(A) His novels are all set in
Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a
significant role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of
that name) is a model hero for
the protagonists of Scott’s
novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing
career in his 43rd year with the
novel, Waverley.
Answer:(D)
32. Which of these descriptions/
statements best suits the idea of the
‘Renaissance Man’ ?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys
enormous power in
Renaissance courts and
aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure : a
knight, courtier, musician, poet,
scholar and statesman.
III. One who ploughs a lonely
furrow and keeps away from
politicking and scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip
Sydney best suits the ideal of
the Renaissance Man.
(A) I (B) IV
(C) I & III (D) II & IV
Answer:(D)
33. Maxim Gorky, the great Russian
writer of fiction and drama, was in
real life a man called ______.
(A) Goliardic Kreshkov
(B) Ronsardo Felixikov
(C) Malthias Serpieri
(D) Aleksei Peshkov
Answer:(D)
34. After the prediction of the oracle that
he was destined to kill his father,
Oedipus could have avoided patricide
I. had he not determined in horror
never to return to the only
parents he knew.
II. had he been a man of unusual
self-control.
III. had he remembered the
prediction and had he been
more cautious having
recognized that possibly after
all Polybos was not his father.
IV. had he never struck any man
who was older than himself
saying at the moment of
provocation ‘This insolent man
is grey-haired; let him have the
road’.
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
Answer:(D)
35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by
Nadine Gordimer.
(A) The Conservationist
(B) The House of Gun
(C) The Lying Days
(D) Burger’s Daughter
Answer:(B)
36. The Duchess of Malfi married her
steward, Antonio. For the
Elizabethan audience her marriage
was a triple offence. Which of the
following is NOT one ?
(A) She was a widow marrying a
second time.
(B) She married on her own outside
the Church.
(C) She married beneath her status
in disregard of ‘degree’.
(D) She married against the wishes
of her brothers who almost
acted like her guardians.
Answer:(D)
37. Who among the following has
written the essay, “The Indian
Jugglers” ?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock
Answer:(B)
38. How would you best describe George
Meredith’s Modern Love (1862) ?
(A) A ballad
(B) A lyric travelogue
(C) A verse romance
(D) A sonnet sequence
Answer:(D)
39. The play was written in 1881 when
its author was in Italy. This is
considered to be his most remarkable
intellectual effort. The softening of
the brain as a result of a disease
inherited from his father is the
subject. Which is the play ?
(A) An Enemy of the People
(B) Ghosts
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Six Characters in Search of an
Author
Answer:(B)
40. In many ways, grammatical
categories remain mysterious. What
does it mean to speak a language that
in every sentence requires you to
locate yourself in time, or specify
your source of knowledge, or the
shape of what you are talking about ?
We still don’t know. But putting the
question like this suggests a clear and
limited way of interpreting the idea
that different languages represent
different worlds.
Which of the following statements on
this passage interprets it most
accurately ?
(A) The passage reflects the
unreliability of grammatical
categories of a language
generally.
(B) The passage concedes that the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cannot
be discounted entirely.
(C) The passage upholds the
reliability of grammatical
categories of a language
generally.
(D) The passage suggests that the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is
largely discredited today.
Answer:(B)
41. Tolstoy’s War and Peace carries a
lengthy discussion of determinism
and free will in ________.
(A) its prologue
(B) an exchange between Pierre
and Natasha
(C) an exchange between Nikolai
Rostof and Princess Bezukhoi
(D) its epilogue
Answer:(D)
42. Which from among the following is
NOT true of Nagmandala ?
(A) It does not have multiple
narratives.
(B) It is open-ended.
(C) It combines conventional and
subversive modes.
(D) Story is personified in the play.
Answer:(A)
43. Arrange the following literary
journals chronologically :
(A) The London Magazine
The Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
The Saturday Review
The Tatler
(B) The Tatler
The Saturday Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
The Quarterly Review
The London Magazine
(C) The Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
The Tatler
The Saturday Review
The London Magazine
(D) The Tatler
The London Magazine
The Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
The Saturday Review
Answer:(X)
44. Pick out the two relevant and correct
descriptions of Caryl Churchill’s
Serious Money (1987) :
1. This play proposes the foundation
of a monastery for the education
of British gentlewomen.
2. This narrative deals with children
who are sick of their “enforced
idleness.”
3. This play is subtitled “City
Comedy.”
4. In this play, the state of the British
economy is symbolized by a
takeover bid by an international
cartel.
5. This narrative details the
adventures of an Anglo-Indian
orphan.
6. Money is the only criterion for
success for the players in this
play’s share-market.
(A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
(D) 5 and 6 are correct.
Answer:(C)
45. Identify from among the following
FALSE statements :
1. Eric Arthur Blair became the
famous British novelist,
George Orwell.
2. Orwell was conversant in
Hindustani and fond of Indian
food.
3. Young Eric Blair lived in
Myanmar’s trading town,
Katha.
4. This town gave him the model
for the fictional district of
Kyauktada in Burmese Days.
5. Orwell was born on June 25,
1903 in Motihari, Bihar.
6. The Orwell Commemorative
Committee in Motihari has
been demanding a restoration
of Orwell’s birthplace as a
heritage site.
7. Orwell never returned to his
birth place.
8. The British journalist Ian Jack
was mainly responsible for our
knowledge of Orwell’s
antecedents relating to Katha
and Motihari.
(A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
(B) 7 and 8 are false.
(C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
(D) All statements above are true.
Answer:(D)
46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of
the common reader from Dr.
Johnson. To which particular work of
Johnson’s does she remain indebted ?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent
English Poets; the essay on
Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most Eminent
English Poets; the essay on
Gray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
(D) The Patriot
Answer:(B)
47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to
be awarded the Booker Prize twice.
He won the prize for
(A) Life and Times of Michael K.
and Disgrace
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace
Answer:(A)
48. After the Norman Conquest England
became a three-language nation for at
least two centuries. The three
languages were
(A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek
Answer:(C)
49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : In Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf ? George and
Martha’s blue and green-eyed
son is a myth.
Reason (R) : He is a creation of the
couple’s imagination originating
from their sense of sterility and
vacuum in life.
In the light of (A) and (R), which 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:(A)
50. In the word rapidly, ‘ly’ is an
adverbial suffix indicating manner
while rapid is a ______, ly is a ____.
(A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme
Answer:(C)
Question Nos. 51 to 55 are based on
a poem. Read the poem carefully and
pick out the most appropriate
answers.
It’s Your Own Fault
Of course you can play with them.
There’s no harm in them.
They are only words.
Words alone are certain good, said
someone.
And someone also said
Unlike sticks and stones
Words will never break your bones.
(That is called rhyme. A rhyme
is nice to play with too from time to
time.)
What ? They’ve turned nasty ?
They’ve clawed you and bitten you ?
Dear me, there’s blood all over the place.
And broken bones.
They were perfectly tame when I left them.
Something they ate might have
disagreed with them.
You mean you fed them on meaning ?
No wonder then.
– D.J. Enright
51. The poet’s remark on ‘rhyme’ is
_____.
(A) put in parenthesis
(B) put in parentheses
(C) framed rhetorically
(D) put in apposition
Answer:(A)
52. The poem is cast in the form of a
______.
(A) romantic lyric
(B) verse epistle
(C) dramatic monologue
(D) dialogue
Answer:(C)
53. What is the “fault” to which the
speaker refers here ?
(A) Playing with words
(B) Using only words
(C) Taking words too seriously
(D) Reading meanings into words
Answer:(D)
54. What tone is most appropriate for
reading this poem ?
(A) Evasive
(B) Plaintive
(C) Ironic
(D) Sarcastic
Answer:(C)
55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
(A) No wonder that the words here
begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find
the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find
you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still
mean and are tame.
Answer:(B)
56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______
did not last long.”
Dr. Johnson had this to say about one
of the eighteenth century novels.
Identify it from the following list :
(A) Tom Jones
(B) The Female Quixote
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) Clarissa
Answer:(C)
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by
William Wordsworth :
(A) “London, 1802”
(B) “The world is too much with
us…”
(C) “Friend ! I know not which
way…”
(D) “Nuns fret not at their
convent’s narrow room…”
Answer:(D)
58. Who among the following women
writers has written Novel on Yellow
Paper ?
(A) Elizabeth Smither
(B) Stevie Smith
(C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta
Answer:(B)
59. In most people, the first language /
dialect acquired is ‘mother tongue’.
Among the commonly used terms for
mother tongue, one of the following
is avoided. Identify the one term
NOT applied to mother tongue :
(A) First language
(B) Prime language
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language
Answer:(B)
60. Identify the group of critical concepts
that parenthetically aligns them with
their respective theorists :
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean
Baudrillard), Habitus (Pierre
Bourdieu), Flaneur (Walter
Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C.
Spivak), Simulacrum /
Simulacra (Antonio Gramsci),
The Subaltern (Mikhael
Bakhtin), Metahistory (Walter
Benjamin), Aura (Julia
Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael
Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
Gramsci)
(B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu),
Flaneur (Walter Benjamin),
Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean
Baudrillard), The Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak)
Metahistory (Hayden White),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin),
Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
(C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva),
Flaneur (Walter Benjamin),
Chora (Pierre Bourdieu),
Simulacrum / Simulacra
(Hayden White), The Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Jean Baudrillard),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin),
Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
(D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu),
Flaneur (Antonio Gramsci),
Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean
Baudrillard), The Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Hayden White),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin),
Hegemony (Walter Benjamin)
Answer:(B)
61. What was the mandate of the
Stationer’s Company incorporated in
London in 1557 ?
(A) To oversee the affairs of the
Royal Registry.
(B) To oversee authors’ and
printers’, or printer-publishers’
rights.
(C) To oversee authors’ and
printers’ or printer-publishers’
use of stationery.
(D) To oversee the quality of
stationery harnessed by the
Royal Registry.
Answer:(B)
62. One of the following was described
by its author as “a poem including
history.” Identify the poem.
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
(B) William Carlos Williams,
Paterson
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of
Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, The Cantos
Answer:(D)
63. Arrange the following groups of
English writers in chronological
order :
(A) The Metaphysical poets
The High Modernists
Transitional poets
The Georgians
The Aesthetes
The University Wits
(B) The University Wits
The Metaphysical poets
Transitional poets
The Aesthetes
The Georgians
The High Modernists
(C) The High Modernists
The Georgians
The Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Metaphysical poets
The University Wits
(D) The University Wits
The Metaphysical poets
The Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Georgians
The High Modernists
Answer:(X)
64. Which Bible is the earliest English
version printed with verse divisions ?
(A) Tyndale’s Translation
(B) The Geneva Bible
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version
(D) King James Version
Answer:(B)
65. E.M. Forster’s Passage to India
begins with a description of the city
of Chandrapore. It has an old Indian
part and a new part consisting of the
British civil station. Which of the
following descriptions of the city is
not found in the text ?
(A) The streets are mean, the
temples ineffective.
(B) It is a city of gardens.
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce
washed by a noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not
sensibly planned and not
modern.
Answer:(D)
66. In which of the following books
would you find the following
arguments / observations ?
Escapist fiction lacks serious
fiction’s apocalyptic experience of
finality. The two versions of literary
experience are qualitatively different;
every novel fits one category or the
other, not both. Serious fiction,
however, compels our attention by
representing improvements (the
“world of potency”) as being
achieved (a “world of act”) and by
showing narrative movement
“through time to an end, an end, we
must sense even if we cannot know
it.”
(A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(B) The Sense of an Ending :
Studies in the Theory of Fiction
(C) Beyond the Apocalypse
(D) The Rhetoric of Fiction
Answer:(B)
67. Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun
Weddings”
I. describes a long train journey
II. establishes a ‘we’ voice of
collective outlook
III. traces the disfigurement of a
sunny landscape on an
advertising poster
IV. gives an account of a drug
pusher
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer:(B)
68. Match the last lines of the poems
with their correct titles :
List – I List – II
(Last lines of poems) (Titles of poems)
I. And we are here as 1. “Death, be not
proud…”
on a darkling plain
Swept with confused
alarms of struggle
and flight,
Where ignorant
armies clash by
night.
II. Thus, though we 2. “The Great Lover”
cannot make our
sun
Stand still, yet we
will make him run.
III. One short sleep past, 3. “Dover Beach”
we wake eternally,
And death shall be no
more; death, thou
shalt die.
IV. This one last gift I 4. “To His Coy
give : that after men Mistress”
Shall know, and later
lovers, far-removed,
Praise you, “All these
were lovely;” say,
“He loved.”
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer:(A)
69. The Oxford Companions are handy
reference volumes for teachers and
students of English. Identify the one
volume that has NOT yet appeared in
this series :
(A) The Oxford Companion to
Twentieth-Century Literature
in English
(B) The Oxford Companion to
Canadian Literature
(C) The Oxford Companion to
American Literature
(D) The Oxford Companion to
Indian Literature in English
Answer:(D)
70. While writing or printing, scholarly
use prefers titles in italics. Which of
the following is the correct way of
writing/printing ?
(A) Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two
Cities
(B) Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two
Cities
(C) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of
Two Cities
(D) Charles Dicken’s A Tale of
Two Cities
Answer:(C)
Questions from 71 to 75 are based on
the following passage. Read the
passage carefully and select the most
appropriate option :
Somewhere, on the edge of
consciousness, there is what I call a
mythical norm, which each one of us
within our hearts knows “that is not
me”. In America, this norm is usually
defined as white, thin, male, young,
heterosexual, Christian, and financially
secure. It is with this mythical norm
that the trappings of power reside
within the society. Those of us who
stand outside that power often identify
one way in which we are different, and
we assume that to be the primary cause
of all oppression, forgetting other
distortions around difference, some of
which we ourselves may be practising.
By and large within the women’s
movement today, white women focus
upon their oppression as women and
ignore differences of race, sexual
preference, class, and age. There is a
pretense to a homogeneity of
experience covered by the word
sisterhood that does not in fact exist.
(Audre Lorde)
71. A mythical norm is endemic to
societies :
1. where racial myths are
prevalent and widely respected
and perpetuated through
utterances that establish ‘we’
and ‘they’ groups.
2. where the superiority of one’s
own culture and nation no
longer emphasized openly or
straightforwardly.
3. where ‘difference’ has been a
preoccupation in the
representation of people who
are racially, ethnically, and in
terms of gender and sexual
preference different from an
assumed majority.
4. that believe that the norm is
part of their right to defend the
ways of life enjoyed by a
dominant group, their traditions
and customs against outsiders –
not because these outsiders are
inferior, but because they
belong to other cultures.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 2 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.
Answer:(B)
72. How does the author mark her
difference from other writers on
similar issues and underscore her
radical style typographically ?
1. By her use of parataxis
2. By italicizing ‘mythical norm’
and ‘sisterhood’
3. By using lowercase for proper
and common nouns
4. By using phrases like ‘Those of
us who stand outside…’
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.
(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.
Answer:(X)
73. That there are levels and grades of
powerlessness in societies
entertaining ‘a mythical norm’ is
indicated
1. by the overall tone and tenor of
the passage.
2. by the suggestion that ‘a
mythical norm’ is responsible
for the unequal distribution of
power among people.
3. by referring to ‘other
distortions around difference’.
4. by referring to white women
who narrow down oppression
directed only at white women.
(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.
Answer:(C)
74. Why is the author dismissive about
‘sisterhood’ ?
1. Because it is italicised.
2. Because it does not exist in
principle.
3. Because it assumes that all
‘sisters’ are alike.
4. Because it assumes that all
‘sisters’ are unique.
(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct
Answer:(A)
75. Does the author absolve all women
from the ‘distortions around
difference’ ?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
4. Yes, in a qualified manner
though.
(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
(C) 3 is correct
(D) 4 is correct
Answer:(B)