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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. In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal
imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.
Answer:(D)
2. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary
Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist
assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an anti-
essentialist view of place.
(C) an existential lament on
triumphant colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his
favourite homelands.
Answer:(B)
3. Identify the incorrect statement below :
(a) BASIC was an experiment
initiated by C. K. Ogden and
I. A. Richards from 1926 to
about 1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read : Broadly
Ascertained Scientific
International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt
to reduce the number of essential
words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal
constructions, BASIC failed as
an experiment because its
documents were far too
complicated and technical to
understand.
(A) (a) & (b) (B) (b) & (d)
(C) (a) & (c) (D) (c) & (d)
Answer:(B)
4. Items in a published book appear in the
following order :
(A) Index, Copyright Page,
Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography,
Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes,
Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page,
Index, Footnotes
Answer:(C)
5. Match the following : (a) Meta-physical Poets
(I) James Thomson,
Oliver Goldsmith,
William Cowper,
George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, (b) Transitional Poets
Henry Vaughan,
Andrew Marvell,
Abraham Cowley,
John Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, (c) War Poets
Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Edmund Blunden,
Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H. Davies, (d) Georgians
Walter de la Mare,
John Drinkwater,
Rupert Brooke
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)
Answer:(C)
6. The following phrases from
Shakespeare have become the titles of
famous works. Identify the correctly
matched group.
(I) Pale Fire (a) Thomas
Hardy
(II) The Sound and (b) Somerset
the Fury Maugham
(III) Rosencrantz and (c) William Faulkner
Guildenstern are
Dead
(IV) Under the (d) Tom Stoppard
Greenwood Tree
(V) Of Cakes and (e) Vladimir Nabokov
Ale
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)
Answer:(C)
7. Identify the statement that is NOT
TRUE among those that explain “stage
directions” in drama.
(A) Stage directions inform readers
how to stage, perform or imagine
the play.
(B) The place, time of action, design
of the set and at times characters’
actions or tone of voice are
indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often
italicized in the text of a play in
order to be spoken aloud.
(D) Stage directions may appear at
the beginning of a play, before a
scene or attached to a line of
dialogue.
Answer:(C)
8. The emergence of the concept of
“World literature” is associated with :
(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant
(A) (a) & (b) (B) (c) & (d)
(C) (b) & (c) (D) (a) & (d)
Answer:(C)
9. Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a
trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are :
(A) The Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
Answer:(C)
10. The hostess proudly announces that the
family can afford a servant and her
daughters have nothing to do with the
kitchen. Who is the proud mother in
this Jane Austen novel ?
(A) Mrs. Morland
(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs. Dashwood
Answer:(C)
11. When Keats writes about the “beaker
full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”,
Hippocrene is :
(A) the fountain of the horse
(B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a
blow of Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)
Answer:(D)
12. Which of the following statements on
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
is/are not true ?
(a) The Prelude was published
posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth
records his development as a
poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at
crucial stages the poet celebrates
the sublime natural scenery in
developing his spiritual, moral
and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old
Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt
among the untrodden ways”,
“Nutting” etc. are the highlights
of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.
Answer:(C)
13. Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of
Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to
the Intended about Kurtz when
he tells her “The last word he
pronounced was – your name”.
Reason (R) : Marlow tells this lie
because he is secretly in love
with the Intended and tells her
what she wants to hear.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is
the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(B)
14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by :
(a) composition
(b) dictation
(c) cloze tests
(d) listening exercises
(e) précis writing
(A) (c) and (e)
(B) (a), (c) and (e)
(C) (b), (c) and (d)
(D) (b) and (d)
Answer:(D)
15. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus
are based on _______.
(A) Holinshed’s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales and legends
(C) Older Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch’s Lives
Answer:(D)
16. The basic concept that creation was
ordered, that every species exists in a
hierarchy of status, from God to the
lowest creature, was prevalent in the
Renaissance. In this hierarchical
continuum, man occupies the middle
position between the animal kinds and
the angels.
This world view is known as :
(A) Humanism
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
(D) Calvinism
Answer:(C)
17. In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
the lighthouse does not symbolize :
(A) permanence at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C) celebration of life in the heart of
death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart
of chaos.
Answer:(B)
18. “Can one imagine any private soldier,
in the nineties or now, reading
Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that
here was a writer who spoke for him ?
It is very hard to do so. [….] When he
is writing not of British but of “loyal”
Indians he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’
motif to sometimes disgusting lengths.
Yet it remains true that he has far more
interest in the common soldier, far
more anxiety that he shall get a fair
deal, than most of the “liberals” of his
day and our own. He sees that the
soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid
and hypocritically despised by the
people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India,
Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on
E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard
Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on
Rudyard Kipling
Answer:(D)
19. In the well-known poem “ To his coy
mistress”, the word coy means
(A) shy (B) timid
(C) voluptuous (D) sensuous
Answer:(A)
20. From the following list, identify “back
formation”:
Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle, bundle.
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle
Answer:(X)
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary,
non-literary and cultural texts, showing
how all three intercirculate, share in, and
mutually constitute each other.” What
does it in this statement stand for ?
(A) Marxism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism
(D) New Historicism
Answer:(D)
22. For, though, I’ve no idea.
What this accoutred frowsty ____ is worth,
It pleases me to stand in silence here.
(Fill in the blank)
(A) bar (B) barn
(C) attic (D) alcove
Answer:(B)
23. Which of the following novels is NOT
a Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
Answer:(D)
24. Of the following characters, which one
does not belong to A House for Mr.
Biswas ?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara
Answer:(B)
25. In English literature, the trope of the
vampire was used for the first time by :
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) John Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker
Answer:(C)
26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called ?
(A) It is a set of basic grammatical
principles universally followed
and easily recognized by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical
principles assumed to be
fundamental to all natural
languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced
grammatical principles assumed
to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected
practices that have come, in time,
to be known as “grammar”.
Answer:(B)
27. Identify the novel with the wrong
subtitle listed below :
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of
Provincial Life
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A
Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A
Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
Answer:(D)
28. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I List – II
(I) David Malouf (a) The Solid Mandala
(II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering Babylon
(IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of the Kelly Gang
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
Answer:(B)
29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s
Anna Karenina, “Happy families are
all alike, every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.”
The specific cause of the unhappiness
in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s
affair with :
(A) a kitchen – maid
(B) an English governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite
Answer:(C)
30. This periodical had the avowed
intention “to enliven morality with wit
and to temper wit with morality… to
bring philosophy out of the closets and
libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell
in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables
and coffee houses”. It also promoted
family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical under reference is :
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London Magazine
Answer:(B)
31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by
John Clare is about the
experience of an ordinary human
being and became quite popular
during that time.
Reason (R) : John Clare, having
suffered bouts of madness, could
really feel for the misery of
common man.
In the context of the two statements,
which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
explains (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) does not explain (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer:(B)
32. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in
Criticism :
(a) Purports to define “wit” and
“nature” as they apply to the
literature of his age.
(b) Claims no originality in the
thought that governs this work.
(c) is a prose essay that gives us
such quotes as “A little learning
is a dangerous thing !”
(d) Appeared in 1701.
(A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
(B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct.
Answer:(X)
33. What is register ?
(A) The way in which a language
registers in the minds of its users.
(B) The way users of a language
register the nuances of that
language.
(C) A variety of language used in
social situations or one specially
designed for the subject it deals
with.
(D) A variety of language used in
non-professional or informal
situations by professionals.
Answer:(C)
34. Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the
English Stage (1698) attacked ______.
(A) the practice of mixing tragic and
comic themes in Shakespeare’s
plays.
(B) the bawdiness of “low”
characters in Shakespeare’s
plays.
(C) the coarseness and ugliness of
Restoration Theatre.
(D) irreligious themes and irreverent
attitudes in the plays of the
seventeenth century.
Answer:(C)
35. One of the most important themes the
speakers debate in Dryden’s An Essay
on Dramatic Poesy is______.
(A) European and non-European
perceptions of reality.
(B) English and non-English
perceptions of reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and
English theatre.
(D) the relative merits of French and
English poetry.
Answer:(C)
36. Identify the correctly matched pair :
(A) Amitav – All About H. Halterr
Ghosh
(B) Anita – Inheritance of Loss
Desai
(C) Shashi – A Bend in the Ganges
Deshpande
(D) Salman – The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie
Answer:(D)
37. Match the following correctly :
(I) Langue / (a) Noam Chomsky
Parole
(II) Competence / (b) C. S. Pierce
Performance
(III) Ieonic / (c) Ferdinand de
Indexical Saussure
(IV) Readerly / (d) Roland Barthes
Writerly
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d)
Answer:(B)
38. 1. Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites
2. M. G. (b) ObasanVasanjee
3. Sky Lee (c) The GunnySack
4. Arnold (d) Disappearing
Itwaru Moon Café
1 2 3 4
(A) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)
Answer:(C)
39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt
Disneyland as his own sign ?
(A) Disneyland is by far the most
eminently noticeable cultural
sign in the post modern world.
(B) Disneyland captures ‘essences’
and ‘non-essences’ of Reality
more convincingly than other
cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so
obviously announces its own
fictiveness that it would seem to
imply some counter balancing
reality.
(D) Disneyland is both ‘appearance’
and ‘reality’ in the post modern
visual game of handy-dandy.
Answer:(C)
40. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti ?
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner,
the son of an Italian refugee who
taught Italian at King’s college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre-
Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina
who was a poet in her right.
(D) Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel”
displays his remarkable gifts as a
poet and painter.
Answer:(C)
41. Goethe’s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens in :
(A) heaven (B) hell
(C) forest (D) Faust’s study
Answer:(D)
42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a
trained
Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats
Gives their days this bullet and
automatic purpose….”
(Thrushes)
In the above lines what does ‘their’
refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does
the poet speak of ?
I. Human beings and their
intelligence
II. The thrushes and their
concentration in achieving what
they set out for
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in
getting at their prey
IV. All the above
(A) Only III is correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer:(D)
43.Find the odd (wo)man out :
Belladonna- Engenides-The Typist-Marie
-Madame Sosostris-the ruin-bibber -Tiresias-
the Youngman
Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber
Answer:(D)
44. Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone
(1868) tells the story of ______.
(A) a detective’s exploits in
Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s adventures in a
Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond
stolen from an Indian shrine.
(D) illegal mining of diamonds in
eastern U.P. during British rule.
Answer:(C)
45. Identify the correctly matched group :
(I) “Because I (a) Walt Whitman
could not stop
for death…
(II) “O Captain ! (b) William Carlos Williams
My Captain!”
(III) “Two roads (c) Emily Dickinson
diverged in a
wood…”
(IV) “So much (d) Robert Frost
depends
upon…”
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
Answer:(B)
46. “Nowstop your noses, readers, all and some,
For here’s a tun of midnight– work tocome,
Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home.
Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry chink,
Goodly and great he rails behind his link”.
In the above passage from Absalom
and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a
lighted torch
(C) a social tie
(D) a rich patron
Answer:(B)
47. Which among the following is NOT a
typical “Indian English Poem” by
Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa
T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”
Answer:(A)
48. Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer:(B)
49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster
Geryon represents ______.
(A) fraud (B) usury
(C) sloth (D) gluttony
Answer:(A)
50. I-A. Richards’s famous experiment
with poems and his Cambridge
students is detailed in Practical
Criticism : A Study of Literary
Judgement (1929). Richards was
astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’
“stock responses”
(B) the very astute remarks made by
his students
(C) the non-availability of poems,
worthy of class-room attention
(D) the success of his experiment
Answer:(A)
51. Based on the following description,
identify the text in reference :
This is a play in which no one comes, no
one goes, nothing happens. In its opening
scene a man struggles hard to remove
his boot. The play was originally
written in French, later translated into
English. It was first performed in 1953.
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
(C) The Zoo Story
(D) The Birthday Party
Answer:(B)
52. One of the following Canterbury Tales
is in prose, identify.
(A) The Pardoner’s Tale
(B) The Parson’s Tale
(C) The Monk’s Tale
(D) The Knight’s Tale
Answer:(B)
53. In his distinction between imagination and
fancy, Coleridge identifies the following :
(a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates,
in order to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative
power.
(c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(d) it has shaping and modifying power.
The correct combination reads :
(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d)
for imagination.
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d)
for imagination.
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d)
for imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b)
for imagination.
Answer:(C)
54. Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’
derives from :
(a) Saussure’s signs
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s dialogism
(d) Derrida’s difference
(A) (a) and (d) (B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d) (D) (a) and (b)
Answer:(B)
55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths
about white purity through characters like :
(a) Norton (b) Bledsoe
(c) Rhinehart (d) all of the above
(A) (a) and (b) (B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (b) and (c) (D) (a) and (c)
Answer:(A)
56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE
of Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
(A) He wrote essays on New England
scenery, woodcraft and plantations.
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator,
a member of the Unitarian
Church under William Chawming.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he
elaborates on the importance of
seeing familiar things in new ways.
(D) His famous “American Scholar”
was delivered as an address
before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at Cambridge in 1837.
Answer:(A)
57. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of
who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
What is the significance of ‘exorcism’
in the context of the play ?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving
marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusion-making
Answer:(D)
58. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is
to lavender”. This is an important
statement defining the womanist
perspective advanced by
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks
Answer:(C)
59. Identify the mismatched pair in the
following where characters in
Golding’s Lord of the Flies fit the
allegorized pattern of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph - rationality
(B) Piggy - pragmatism
(C) Jack - pity
(D) Simon - innocence
Answer:(C)
60. A Subaltern perspective is one where
(A) Power-structures define and
determine your command of
language and language of
command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed
could be voiceless, written out of
the historical record and ignored
because their activities do not
count for “Cultural” or
“Structured”.
(C) You don’t know what your ‘story’
is, how to deal with a ‘story’ and
therefore you are forced to put
stereotyped situations in it to
please your listeners.
(D) You begin to see how we live,
how we have been living, how
we have been led to imagine
ourselves, how our language has
trapped as well as liberated us.
Answer:(B)
61. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe
to M.A.K. Halliday.
(b) Interlanguage develops an
autonomous and self-contained
grammatical system
(c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s
progress in the study of a second
language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the
learner’s native or target / second
language.
(A) (d) is correct.
(B) (b) is correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
(D) (c) and (d) are correct.
Answer:(C)
62. In a classic statement that inaugurated
Feminist thought in English, we read :
“A woman writing thinks back through
her mothers”. Where does this occur ?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of
One’s Own
(B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women
Write.
Answer:(A)
63. Identify the correctly matched pair of
translators and translations.
(I) A. K. (a) The Ramayana
Ramanujan
(II) Manmathanath (b) The Bhagavad
Dutt Gita
(III) Mohini (c) Speaking of Shiva
Chatterjee
(IV) Romesh (d) The Mahabharata
Chandra Dutt
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)
Answer:(A)
64. Assertion (A) : In The Power and the
Glory, Greene shows how the
Whisky Priest transcends his
weakness for drink and his
human fears, moving towards
martyrdom.
Reason (R) : Transcendence in
Greene’s novels is generally an
outcome of love for humanity,
but pride is also an essential
ingredient in the Priest’s
character.
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct explanation
for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
is the correct explanation for (A).
Answer:(C)
65. Which of the following statements on
John Dryden is incorrect ?
(a) John Milton and John Dryden
were contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while
Milton fiercely opposed
monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the
Mughal Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet
Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.
Answer:(C)
66. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty
nearly universal art; both require a
constant intricate shifting and catching
of balance; neither can be questioned
much in process; and few perform
either really well. For either a new
terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and
in our day most men prefer paved
walks and some form of rapid transport-
some easy theory or overmastering
dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A Critic’s
Job of Work”)
(a) Blackmur compares walking
with criticism because he
considers both to be “arts” of a
similar kind that call for attention
to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some
people do however manage to be
good critics and good walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested
approaches for much the same
reason as Walkers would look for
paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the
equivalents of “Some paved walks
and some form of rapid transport” in
order to press his comparison.
(A) (a) and (d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d) is correct.
(D) only (b) is correct.
Answer:(B)
67. The world dominated by cold and
hypocritical materialists is represented
by William Blake in the mythological
figure of __________ .
(A) Urizen (B) Albion
(C) Geryon (D) Satan
Answer:(A)
68. Identify the correctly matched group :
(A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser
Hybridity – Edward Soja
Reception – Ferdinand de Saussure
aesthetics
Langue – Homi Bhabha
(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch
Hybridity – Edward Said
Reception – Eve K. Sedgwick
aesthetics
Langue – G. S. Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja
Hybridity – Homi Bhabha
Reception – Wolfgang Iser
aesthetics
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer
Hybridity – Eve K. Sedgwick
Reception
aesthetics – Edward Soja
Langue – Edward Said
Answer:(C)
69. Which of the following can be best
described as : (i) the first statement of
Bernard Shaw’s idea of Life Force; (ii)
a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit
of her mate; and (iii) a play whose
third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is
both unconventional and hilarious ?
(A) The Devil’s Disciple
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man
Answer:(B)
70. Identify the untrue statement on the
CONTACT ZONE below :
(A) “The contact zone” is a space
where disparate cultures meet,
clash and grapple with each
other.
(B) In Postcolonial societies
“contact” suggests the historical
moment when settler and
indigenous cultures first met.
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone
was first proposed and defined
by Mary Louise Pratt’s
Imperial Eyes : Travel Writing
and Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact
Zone was largely instrumental in
spearheading nationalist
movements across the world.
Answer:(D)
71. Name the novel in which
I. the protagonist is a war veteran
called Tayo.
II. Tayo returns from World War II,
thoroughly disillusioned and
haunted by his violent actions of
war time.
III. Tayo seeks consolation and
counsel from old Betonie.
IV. The protagonist realizes the
importance of harmonizing
humanity and the universe.
(A) Beloved
(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) Enter, Conversing
Answer:(B)
72. One of the following poems in Men
and Women is addressed to Elizabeth
Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify
it.
(A) “In Three Days”
(B) “By the Fireside”
(C) “One Way of Love”
(D) “One Word More”
Answer:(D)
73. Match List-I with List-II according to
the codes given below :
List – I List – II
I. Tennessee 1. Emperor Jones
Williams
II. Eugene O’Neill 2. A Streetcar
Named Desire
III. Lorraine 3. After the Fall
Hansberry
IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
Answer:(D)
74. Match the correct pair :
I. Theatre of 1. Safdar Hashmi
Cruelty
II. Theatre of the 2. Georg Kaiser
Oppressed
III. Expressionist 3. Jerzy Grotowsky
Theatre
IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto Bal
I II III IV
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer:(X)
75. Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre
(a) turns the spectator into an
observer
(b) wears down the spectator’s
capacity for action
(c) relies on argument
(d) presents man as a process
(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c)
are incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is
wrong.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c)
are incorrect.
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is
incorrect.
Answer:(B)