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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. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties
a text may open up, Derrida makes use
of the term :
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement
Answer:(A)
2. Who, among the following English
playwrights, scripted the film
Shakespeare in Love ?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard
Answer:(D)
3. Arrange the following in the
chronological order :
1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s
Vindication of the
Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4
Answer:(A)
4. Which of the following employs a
narrative structure in which the main
action is relayed at second hand
through an enclosing frame story ?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness
Answer:(D)
5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was
heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory
and Edward Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his
contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward
Irving and John Ervine
(D) Oscar Wilde and his
contemporaries
Answer:(A)
6. Which poem by Chaucer was written
on the death of Blanche, Wife of John
of Gaunt ?
(A) Troilus and Criseyde
(B) The House of Fame
(C) The Book of Duchess
(D) The Legend of Good Women
Answer:(C)
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is
the other title of
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) Lamentable Tragedy
Answer:(A)
8. Who of the following poets is
Australian ?
(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott
Answer:(B)
9. “He found it [English] brick and left it
marble”, remarked one great writer on
another. Who were they ?
(A) Milton on Shakespeare
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare
Answer:(C)
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel
Laureate ?
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill
Answer:(C)
11. List – I List – II
I. “Because I
could not stop
for death…” a. Robert Frost
II. “O Captain ! b. William Carlos Williams
My Captain!”
III. “Two roads c. Emily
diverged in a Dickinson
wood….”
IV. “So much depends d. Walt Whitman
/upon”
The correctly matched series would be :
(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
Answer:(D)
12. The predominant tone and thrust of
Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
are
(A) comic
(B) solemn
(C) hortatory
(D) irony
Answer:(D)
13. I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty Second Street,
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade.
So begins Auden’s “September 1,
1939”. What is the meaning of the
word in italics ?
(A) bench
(B) night club
(C) house
(D) park
Answer:(B)
14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project
Answer:(D)
15. In which of the following works does
Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(A) The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World
Answer:(A)
16. Which of the following statements about
Christopher Marlowe are true ?
I. Edward II was written in the last
year of Marlowe’s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor
Faustus to be Marlowe’s best
play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a
close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than
Shakespeare.
(A) I and II are true.
(B) II and III are true.
(C) II and IV are true.
(D) III and IV are true.
Answer:(A)
17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying
cry for
(A) the Aesthetes
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School
Answer:(A)
18. Confessions of an English Opium
Eater is a literary work by
(A) S. T. Coleridge
(B) P. B. Shelley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron
Answer:(C)
19. Which of the following statements about
The Canterbury Tales is true ?
(A) “The General Prologue’ is
appended to The Canterbury
Tales.
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales
in this work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained
unfinished at the time of its
author’s death.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir
Gawain and The Franklin are
characters and tale-tellers in this
work.
Answer:(C)
20. Who, among the following, was a
Catholic novelist, an Intelligence
Officer, a film critic and set his
fictions in far-away places wrecked by
political conflicts ?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene
Answer:(D)
21. List – I List – II
1. Good sense is I. Brooks, “The Formalist
the body of Critic”
poetic genius
2. Poetry is the II. Sidney, Defence/ An
breath and a Apology for Poetry
finer spirit of
all knowledge.
3. Literary III. Wordsworth, Preface
criticism is a to Lyrical Ballads
description
and evaluation
of its object
4. Nature never IV. Coleridge, Biographia
set forth the Literaria
earth in as rich
a tapestry as
diverse poets
have done
1 2 3 4
(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III
Answer:(A)
22. In which of the following travel books
does Mark Twain give an account of
his visit to India ?
(A) A Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
Answer:(D)
23. William Blake’s famous poems such
as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and
“The Tyger” appear in
(A) Songs of Innocence
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell
(D) Vision of the Daughters of
Albion
Answer:(B)
24. Who among the following English
artists illustrated the novels of Dickens
and Scott ?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial
Answer:(C)
25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(B) The Land of Homosapiens
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(D) The Newfound Land
Answer:(A)
26. Madam Merle is a character in
(A) The Great Gatsby
(B) The Portrait of a Lady
(C) The Jungle
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Answer:(B)
27. In which of the following scenes of
The Waste Land do we have a
departure from Standard English ?
(A) The typist scene
(B) The pub scene
(C) The hyacinth garden scene
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene
Answer:(B)
28. The words “If it were done when tis
done, then twere well / It were done
quickly…” are uttered by
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
Answer:(D)
29. John Dryden’s Absalom and
Achotophel a
(A) religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy
Answer:(B)
30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is
associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare
Answer:(C)
31. Examine the following statements and
identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year
1936.
(B) He was born in India but
schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police
constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book
and Barrack Room Ballads.
Answer:(C)
32. What is the correct combination of the
following ?
I. Balachandra
Rajan a. The Tamarind Tree
II. R. K. b. The Coffer Dams
Narayan
III. Kamala c. The Dark Dancer
Markandaya
IV. Romen d. The Dark Room
Basu
(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
Answer:(X)
33. Name the poet who chooses his
successor and the successor-poet
whom Dryden satirises in his famous
poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles
Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas
Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
Answer:(C)
34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far
behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West
Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter
Answer:(A)
35. The following passages are the very
first lines of well-known works. Match
the lines and the works :
I. Let us go then, you and I…..
II. Call me Ishmael…..
III. When shall we three meet again ?
IV. He disappeared in the dead of
winter
V. I wish either….begot me …..
a. Moby Dick
b. Macbeth
c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy
e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a
Answer:(A)
36. Which of the following is not a
revenge tragedy ?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc
Answer:(C)
37. What is a neologism ?
(A) A word with roots in a native
language
(B) A word whose meaning changes
with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in
a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words
and phrases
Answer:(C)
38. Which of the following is not true of
Edward Said’s Orientalism ?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept
of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of
Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept
of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of
hegemony
Answer:(C)
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified
poetry into 4 periods. They are :
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass
(D) gold, platinum, silver and
diamond
Answer:(C)
40. Which among the following novels has
more than one ending ?
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange
Answer:(C)
41. “You have seen how a man was made
a slave; you shall see how a slave was
made a man” is an example of
(A) Bathos
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Anti-climax
Answer:(C)
42. Which of the following statements is
NOT correct ?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a
stanzaic form in some of his
major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The
Legend of Good Women.
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when
the court poetry of his day was
written in Anglo-Norman and
Latin.
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named
the Governor
Answer:(D)
43. Material feminism studies inequality
in terms of
(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy
Answer:(C)
44. Who among the following is not an
Irish writer ?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray
Answer:(D)
45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys
begins after
(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution
Answer:(A)
46. In a poem, a line may either be end-
stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on
Answer:(D)
47. Which of the following poets
wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and
Mine” ?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
Answer:(D)
48. Match the following :
I. James Joyce 1. Peter
Ackroyd
II. T. S. Eliot 2. James
Boswell
III. Life of 3. Samuel
Johnson Johnson
IV. Lives of 4. Richard
Poets Ellman
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
Answer:(B)
49. “The pen is mightier than the sword”
is an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy
Answer:(D)
50. An epilogue is
(A) prefixed to a text which it
introduces.
(B) suffixed to a text which it sums
up or extends.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that
formally begins a book.
(D) a piece of writing or speech that
bears no relation to the text at
hand.
Answer:(B)