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Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
1. In the following cluster of poems by
Shelley, which one has the voyage
motif ?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor
Answer:(D)
2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence,
Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet
(#108)
(A) brings no resolution
(B) ends in joy
(C) brings a definite resolution
(D) promises another sonnet
sequence
Answer:(A)
3. Who among the following English
writers opposed the Licensing Act of
1643 ?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
Answer:(A)
4. Who claimed : “I have not published
a single paper that is not written in a
spirit of benevolence and with a love
of mankind” ?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison
Answer:(D)
5. A protagonist writes a letter of
confession, but it gets lost under the
carpet only to be found on the
wedding day. Who is the protagonist ?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess
Answer:(D)
6. In an age of pressurized happiness,
we sometimes grow insensitive to
subtle joys. The italicised words are
an example of
(A) a transferred epithet
(B) a simile
(C) a metaphor
(D) a hyperbaton
Answer:(A)
7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock,
Hale is murdered with the help of
‘brighton rock’ which is
(A) a kind of sugar-candy
(B) a form of grenade
(C) a baton
(D) a kind of rock
Answer:(A)
8. Which poet among this group does
not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’
group of poets ?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Alun Lewis
(C) Cecil Day Lewis
(D) Louis Macneice
Answer:(B)
9. In Lord of the Flies which character
comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is
actually the evil inside the boys
themselves and it is that which is
breaking things up ?
(A) Jack
(B) Simon
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph
Answer:(B)
10. Which text exemplifies the anti-
Victorian feeling prevalent in the
early twentieth century ?
Code :
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to
the code is
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer:(B)
11. What event allowed mainstream
British theatre companies to
commission and perform work that
was politically, socially and sexually
controversial without fear of
censorship ?
(A) The abolition of the Lord
Chamberlain’s office in 1968.
(B) The illegal performance of
works by Howard Brenton and
Edward Bond.
(C) The collapse of liberal
humanist consensus in the late
1960s.
(D) A combined appeal to the
Queen by a group of London
dramatists.
Answer:(A)
12. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of
marriage shows that she
(A) is a strong person with keen
awareness of her own rights.
(B) tends to say one thing and do
the opposite.
(C) cares only for pleasure, not for
right and wrong.
(D) trusts thought too much instead
of feeling.
Answer:(A)
13. Which of the following characters is
killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
in conformity with an African tribal
custom ?
(A) Okonkwo
(B) Obierika
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye
Answer:(C)
14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do
it.” The repetition of a phrase is
(A) Antiphrasis
(B) Diacope
(C) Aposiopesis
(D) Enumeratio
Answer:(B)
15. Find the poet who is the odd one in
the group :
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Robert Lowell
(C) Sylvia Plath
(D) Anne Sexton
Answer:(A)
16. Which one of the following
characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest
is associated with the Earth ?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Ariel
(C) Caliban
(D) Prospero
Answer:(C)
17. In the Advancement of Learning
Bacon attempted a preliminary
survey of the entire field of learning,
by analyzing the principal obstacles
to its advancement. Identify from
among the following choices the
one that he did not mention as an
obstacle :
(A) Rhetoric
(B) Medieval scholasticism
(C) Inductive method
(D) Pseudo sciences
Answer:(C)
18. Who among this group of young
male characters in Jane Austen’s
novels is not sent to the University
for education ?
(A) Tom Bertram
(B) John Thorpe
(C) James Morland
(D) Henry Tilney
Answer:(D)
19. Charles Dickens caricatured
utilitarian thinking with telling
directness in his portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind
(C) Philip Pirrip
(D) Harold Skimpole
Answer:(B)
20. Which one of the following
playwrights will not be covered
under the category / term ‘Theatre of
the Absurd’ ?
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
Answer:(B)
21. The following are two lists of lines
from poems and their titles. Match
them :
List – I List – II
(Lines from (Titles of poems)
poems)
I. “The squat pen 1. “Church Going
rests as snug as
a gun.”
II. “A serious 2. “Hawk-Roosting"
house on serious
earth it is.”
III. “Time held me 3. “Digging”
green and
dying.”
IV. “I hold creation 4. “Fern Hill”
in my foot.”
Which is the correct combination
according to the above code ?
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer:(D)
22. _________ is the use of words whose
pronunciation imitates the sound the
word describes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Oxymoron
(D) Enthymeme
Answer:(B)
23. Arrange the following books in the
order in which they appeared. Use
the code given below :
I. The Dictionary of the English
Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
Which is the correct combination
according to the above code ?
Code :
(A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) IV, III, II, I
(D) II, III, I, IV
Answer:(A)
24. Arrange the following forms in the
order in which they appeared. Use
the code given below :
I. commedia dell’arte
II. confessional poetry
III. agitprop
IV. picaresque novel
The correct combination is :
Code :
(A) IV, I, II, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, IV, I, III
(D) I, III, IV, II
Answer:(B)
25. Which of the following poems deals
with neighbourly relations ?
(A) “Birches”
(B) “Home Burial”
(C) “Mending Wall”
(D) “Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening”
Answer:(C)
26. The following are two lists of writers
and their works. Match them :
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Katherine 1. Barungin
Susannah
Prichard
II. Colin 2. My Place
Johnson
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat
Falling
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination
according to the above code ?
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 4 3 2
Answer:(B)
27. How does John Stuart Mill define
‘happiness’ ?
(A) Doing what one wants to do
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of
pain
(D) Virtuous activity
Answer:(C)
28. “Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime …
But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
Andrew Marvell in these lines
emphasizes the theme of
(A) love
(B) love and transience
(C) love and political passion
(D) love and flattery
Answer:(B)
29. The following are two lists of
dramatists and their plays. Match
them :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
I. George 1. The Country Wife
Etheredge
II. William 2. The Man of Mode
Wycherley
III. John 3. The Double Dealer
Vanbrugh
IV. William 4. The Provok’d
Congreve Wife
The correct combination is :
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
Answer:(D)
30. The following are two lists of writers
and their works. Match them :
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Uma 1. Drums of My Flesh
Parameswaran
II. Bharati 2. Trishanku
Mukherjee
III. Michael 3. Jasmine
Ondaatje
IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil’s Ghost
Which is the correct combination
according to the above code ?
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer:(C)
31. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise
Lost is entitled
(A) All for Love
(B) The State of Innocence
(C) Annus Mirabilis
(D) Religio Medici
Answer:(B)
32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
Millet’s Sexual Politics and
Germaine Greer’s The Female
Eunuch were published in
(A) 1969
(B) 1968
(C) 1970
(D) 1967
Answer:(C)
33. Who defined poetry as ‘the best
words in the best order’ ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Answer:(B)
34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
“Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
(A) Britain’s pre-eminence as a
global power will depend on
mastery of foreign languages.
(B) Abandon the introspection of
the Romantics and turn to the
higher moral purpose found in
Goethe.
(C) Even a foreign author is better
than a home-grown scoundrel.
(D) Leave England and emigrate to
Germany
Answer:(B)
35. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents
two conflicting discourses present in
his own culture. Identify the two
discourses from the following :
(A) Modernism and anti-
colonialism
(B) Modernism and structuralism
(C) Anti-colonialism and
Eurocentricism
(D) Material culturalism and
tribalism
Answer:(C)
36. Who among the following poets
defined free verse as playing tennis
without a net ?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) William Carlos Williams
Answer:(A)
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the
following plays except
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Jew of Malta
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II
Answer:(C)
38. According to Barthes, a text which
draws attention to its artifice, to the
ways in which it is structured, is
called
(A) writerly text
(B) aesthetic text
(C) readerly text
(D) formal text
Answer:(A)
39. Which of the following descriptions
is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape
of the Lock ?
(A) A mock heroic poem
(B) Written in heroic couplets
(C) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
(D) Produced in two versions,
consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
Answer:(C)
40. From the following list, choose the
work which is not written by E.M.
Forster :
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) Maurice
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) The Longest Journey
Answer:(C)
41. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to
make the Bible available to
(A) the ecclesiastics
(B) the elite class
(C) the courtiers
(D) the common men
Answer:(D)
42. Literary works such as Charles
Dickens’s David Copperfield,
Samuel Butler’s The Way of All
Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man provide
examples of which following
novelistic form ?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
(B) Epistolary novel
(C) Bildugsroman
(D) Historical novel
Answer:(C)
43. “I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed !”
expresses a pathetic cry of a
wounded heart from “Ode to the
West Wind” by Shelley. The poem
consists of
(A) fourteen line terza rima stanzas
(B) four-lined stanza characterized
by swift action
(C) a particular rhyme scheme in a
villanelle
(D) an unstressed syllable followed
by a stressed one
Answer:(A)
44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse
figure is
(A) Thea
(B) Moneta
(C) Lamia
(D) Calliope
Answer:(B)
45. What literary work best captures a
sense of the political turmoil
particularly regarding the issue of
religion just after the Restoration ?
(A) Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
(B) Butler’s Hudibras
(C) Pope’s Dunciad
(D) Dryden’s Absalom and
Achitophel
Answer:(D)
46. Who among the Victorian authors
has described himself/herself as an
agnostic ?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy
Answer:(C)
47. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The
Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) Aime Cesaire
(B) Ania Loomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
Answer:(C)
48. Who among the following theorists
formulated the concept of the utile
dulci, profit combined with delight ?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
Answer:(C)
49. Out of the four humours of the body,
the Jacobeans thought of themselves
as specially prone to
(A) choler
(B) blood
(C) phlegm
(D) melancholy
Answer:(D)
50. Who among the following Romantic
poets ended his life, lauded and
respected as ‘The Sage of Highgate’ ?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer:(B)