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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 statements is
not true of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina ?
It is concerned with
(A) the jumbled trivia of day-to-day
life.
(B) the belief in social progress and
scientific advancement.
(C) insistent quest for meaning.
(D) the reaction of immediate
family members to someone’s
terminal illness.
Answer:(D)
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda’s
guardian sylph is unable to prevent
the Baron’s fatal mischief because
(A) he discovers an earthly lover
lurking in Belinda’s heart.
(B) he is disturbed by Clarissa’s
speech.
(C) the view is blocked by the
imposing figure of Sir Plume.
(D) he is yet to return from a visit
to the Cave of Spleen.
Answer:(A)
3. ‘Ah ! I’ll never, never meet such a
man again.
You ought to have heard him recite
poetry …
Oh, he enlarged my mind.”
In Heart of Darkness these words
about Kurtz are spoken by
(A) the manager
(B) the intended
(C) the first-class agent
(D) the Russian
Answer:(D)
4. Arrange the following ELT methods
and approaches in the order in which
they appear. Use the codes given
below :
Code :
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language
Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I, III, IV, III (B) III, I, IV, II
(C) III, II, I, IV (D) I, III, II, IV
Answer:(B)
5. Which of the following statements is
not applicable to Derrida’s rejection
of the notion of the ‘Metaphysics of
Presence’ ?
(A) The desire for immediate
access to meaning privileges
presence over absence.
(B) All presences are necessarily
metaphysical and, therefore,
are to be rejected.
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text
is created through the play of
‘difference’ and ‘differance’.
(D) Metaphysics involves installing
hierarchies and orders of
subordination in the various
dualisms that it encounters.
Answer:(B)
6. Read the following and its code :
“a prince’s court
Is like a common fountain, whence
should flow
Pure silver drops in general: but if’t
chance
Some curs’d example poison’t near
the head
Death and disease through the whole
land spread.”
Code :
I. It is the description of the
French Court at the beginning
of The Duchess of Malfi.
II. It is about the English court.
Such was Webster’s England,
but to avoid censorship
Webster gives his play a
foreign location.
III. It is about the Italian court.
IV. The court is located in Malfi.
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer:(B)
7. Literary works by post-modern
British writers such as Angela Carter,
Salman Rushdie and Jeanette
Winterson generally tend to share
which of the following
characteristics ?
(A) The use of fragmented
narrative structures with
multiple shifts in
consciousness, chronology and
location.
(B) An emphasis on the rich
universality of life in cultures
and countries all over the
world.
(C) A sense of sentimental
nostalgia for nineteenth and
early twentieth century life,
typically expressed in rueful,
melancholic tones.
(D) The use of brief, economic
literary forms and a spare,
astringent literary style.
Answer:(A)
8. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Some post-colonial
writers maintain that being
‘unhomed’ is not the same as
being ‘homeless’.
Reason (R) : Because the migrants
are not at home in themselves :
their cultural identity crisis has
made them psychological
refugees.
In the context of the above
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Code :
(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)
9. Which of the following statements
are not true about Margaret
Laurence’s Novel, The Stone Angel ?
Code :
I. The novel is set in a fictional
small town in Manitoba called
Manawaka.
II. The novel was written when
she was away from Canada.
III. The novel is narrated
retrospectively by Hagar
Shipley.
IV. The novel is least known of her
works.
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct
Answer:(C)
.
10. Which of the following statements is
not true of many contemporary
African writers ?
(A) They convey a melancholy
tone of longing for traditional
religious rituals.
(B) They celebrate unambiguously
the benefits of Western
education.
(C) They bemoan the loss of values
and indict aspirations of
wealth.
(D) They assess the social impact
of systems and institutions of
colonial rule.
Answer:(B)
11. The ‘Angel in the House’ became a
common label for the Victorian ideal
of respectable middle-class
femininity. The phrase originated
with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore
Answer:(D)
12. Which of the following literary types
is associated with the poetry of
Charles Baudelaire ?
(A) Flaneur
(B) Poete Maudit
(C) Encomium
(D) Honnete Homme
Answer:(A)
13. In A Farewell to Arms the main
image clusters are associated with
Code :
I. rain II. beasts
III. insects IV. river
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer:(D)
14. Which of the following poets
describes his “mistress” as
“No, she is not Anglo-Indian.
She is Indian English, the language
that I use.”
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(B) Keki Daruwalla
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) R. Parthasarathy
Answer:(B)
15. All of the following are
characteristics of Renaissance
humanism except
(A) sanctity of the Latin texts of
Scriptures.
(B) rejection of Christian principles.
(C) belief that ancient Latin and
Greek writers were inferior to
later authors.
(D) primary causative agent of the
Reformation.
Answer:(C)
16. ‘Stand up, young woman … and tell
me what sort of a
barbarous people your country folk
are, where child-murder is become
so commonplace as to require the
restraint of laws like yours.’
The queen in Scott’s The Heart of
Midlothian is referring to a strange
Scottish law according to which if a
woman
(A) gives birth to a child and the
child is missing, she is
considered guilty of infanticide.
(B) secretly gives birth to a child
and the child is missing and she
has not confided to anyone
about her pregnancy, she is
considered guilty of
infanticide.
(C) gives birth to a child and the
child is missing and she has not
confided to anyone about her
pregnancy, she is considered
guilty of infanticide.
(D) gives birth to a child and kills
the child and she is guilty of
infanticide.
Answer:(B)
17. Which of the following statements is
not applicable to the definition of
New Historicism ?
New historicist critics
(A) remind us that it is treacherous
to reconstruct the past as it
really was – rather than as we
have been conditioned by our
own place and time to believe
the way it was.
(B) are less likely to see history as
linear and progressive, as
something developing toward
the present.
(C) tend to view history as
literature’s background.
(D) are unlikely to suggest that a
literary text has a single or
easily identifiable historical
context.
Answer:(C)
18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen
portrays an ‘excess of sensibility’ in
(A) Marianne (B) Margaret
(C) Elinor (D) Lucy
19. Ben Jonson disliked
Code :
I. fantastic comedy
II. wide-ranging chronicle-history
and stupendous tragedy
III. the comedies of Terence and
Plautus
IV. the ability of satire to expose
human vices and follies
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Answer:(A)
20. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : In the 1950s and 60s
Baldwin and Ellison returned
to universal themes and
focused on innovations in
literary forms.
Reason (R) : In the 1930s and 40s
African and American
Literature was mostly
preoccupied with protest.
In the context of the above
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Code :
(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:(D)
21. In coining the term ‘Ecriture
feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a
mode of textual production, not
necessarily written by women. Who
among the following male writers is
used by her as an example ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
Answer:(A)
22. Of the following characters in
Jacobean plays, choose the one who
is not a villainous character :
(A) De Flores (The Changeling)
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam)
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New
Way to Pay Old Debts)
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi)
Answer:(C)
23. Resistance to slavery created a
literature of the abolitionist
movement in the last quarter of the
eighteenth century in Britain. Such
literature included books written by
former slaves. Two such writings are
Code :
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The right combination according to
the code is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer:(X)
24. Hippolyte Taine published his four-
volume History of English Literature
in 1864 based on the following
categories except one. Which one ?
(A) Race
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu
Answer:(B)
25. The two ‘mother-figures’ in
Dickens’s Great Expectations are
Code :
I. Estella II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to
the code is :
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer:(A)
26. Judith Wright’s works reveal the
following features except one. Which
one ?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian
environment
(B) Concern for the relationship
between the settlers, indigenous
Australians and the bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner
existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious
and political issues
Answer:(D)
27. Arrange the following books in the
order in which they appeared :
Code :
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical
Polity
III. Le Morte D’Arthur
IV. Utopia
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I, IV, III, II (B) III, IV, I, II
(C) III, IV, II, I (D) III, I, IV, II
Answer:(C)
28. Which of the two novels of Anita
Desai were shortlisted for the Booker
Prize ?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance
and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting,
Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig
Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the
Mountain
Answer:(B)
29. Edward Said points to two forms of
orientalism. They are
(A) real and fake
(B) voluntary and involuntary
(C) subjective and objective
(D) latent and manifest
Answer:(D)
30. Which of the plays in its Preface was
described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a
play of old sorrow, written in tears
and blood’ ?
(A) Desire under the Elms
(B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra
Answer:(C)
31. “With all the eagerness to know the
truths of life, she retained very
childlike ideas about marriage … the
really delightful marriage must be
that when your husband was a sort of
a father, and could even teach you
Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the
protagonist in one of George Eliot’s
novels. Who is she ?
(A) Romola (B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie (D) Dorothea
Answer:(D)
32. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The term “Standard
English” is misleading.
Reason (R) : There are many
linguistic communities that do
have a genuine standard variety,
a fixed and invariant form of the
language that is used for certain
kinds of communication.
In the context of the above
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Code :
(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:(B)
33. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The Waste Land ends
in a flurry of random allusions.
Reason (R) : The ending of the
poem reflects the poet’s
divided life between America
and England and a life given
over to primitivism.
In the context of the above
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:(C)
34. Which of the following novels acted
as an influence on Salman Rushdie in
forging a new narrative style in
English ?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All About H
Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
Answer:(B)
35. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of
Udolpho is a novel about
(A) a father and a daughter setting
out on a journey.
(B) the kidnapping of Emily by
Montoni and her visit to
Venice.
(C) Emily’s adventures in the
castle of Udolpho, the outcome
of the adventures, her escape
and her final union with
Valencourt.
(D) the adventures of Montoni and
his men in Udolpho
Answer:(C)
36. In Marxist criticism the term
‘interpellation’ defines
(A) the ways in which the
ideological structure in social
formation is constructed out of
material practices.
(B) the ways in which the
ideological structure in social
formation is constructed out of
discursive practices.
(C) the ways in which the subjects
of an ideology are placed in
false positions of knowledge
regarding themselves.
(D) the ways in which the subjects of
an ideology resist false positions
of knowledge regarding others.
Answer:(C)
37. According to Longinus, the sublime
has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great
poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual
rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of
language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
Answer:(B)
38. In a trickster tale
Code :
I. an anthropomorphized animal
often serves as the protagonist
II. the ending is ambiguous
III. the hero can be a shape shifter,
a cheat or a liar
IV. humans act as a mouth piece
for the gods
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer:(C)
39. The best source for historical
evidence of individual words in
English is
(A) The American Heritage
Dictionary
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s
Dictionary
Answer:(C)
40. Which of the following statements on
the ending of Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis” is correct ?
The death of Gregor Samsa is
marked by
(A) violent convulsions.
(B) a slow ebbing away of life
hardly perceptible.
(C) the miraculous appearance of a
priest to administer the last
rites.
(D) the intense mourning of the
cleaner who discovers the body.
Answer:(B)
41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its
informing principle that archetypes
are present in all literature and
provide the basis of its
interconnectedness. Practitioners
include
Code :
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Answer:(A)
42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”,
Donne says to death: “Those whom
thou think’st thou dost over-throw /
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst
thou kill me.” What does he mean ?
(A) Death is very strong.
(B) Death is not death, because
after death we wake up to live
eternally.
(C) One must face death
courageously and defiantly.
(D) Death is not as strong as he
thinks he is.
Answer:(D)
43. In which of the following plays of
Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the
symbol of appearance and reality,
becomes the setting of the play ?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think,
You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an
Author
Answer:(D)
44. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other is labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Many modern
British writers infused their
works with an extreme sense of
uncertainty, disillusionment
and despair.
Reason (R) : The writers were
responding to the devastation
of war and feeling
disconnected from the
traditions of the past.
In the context of the above
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Codes :
(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)
45. Which among the following
statements is not correct ?
Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play
about
(A) the condition of women in post-
Second World War Bengal.
(B) the political and religious
conditions of the time.
(C) sexual passion.
(D) lack of communication
between men and women.
Answer:(B)
46. The various symbols used in Girish
Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with
Code :
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer:(A)
47. “Collocations” refer to
(A) the combination of words in a phrase
(B) the act of positioning words
(C) grouping of words in a sentence
(D) combination of natural words
Answer:(C)
48. Of the following statements, which
one is not true of Congreve’s The
Way of the World ?
(A) The Way of the World was
staged in 1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in
Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
Answer:(D)
49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s
Look Back in Anger displays
Code :
I. Rebelliousness II. Nostalgia
III. Restlessness IV. Mendacity
The right combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Answer:(B)
50. The following are two lists of works
and their themes. Match them correctly :
Code :
List – I List – II
(Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of 1. Suicide
Midlothian, Tess of the
D’urbervilles
II. The End of the Affair, 2. Greed
The Golden Bowl
III. The Heart of the 3. Infanticide
Matter, Lord Jim
IV. Heart of Darkness, 4. Adultery
Nostromo
The correct combination according to
the code is :
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer:(A)
51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings
in the bloody napkin dyed in
Orlando’s blood, why does Rosalind
faint ? Which of the following is not
the correct answer ?
(A) Many will swoon when they
look at blood.
(B) She faints because of her real
concern and anxiety for Orlando.
(C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(D) She is counterfeiting as she
herself later claims.
Answer:(D)
52. Which is the correct statement about
Euripides’s Medea ? In Euripides’s
Medea the chorus consists of
(A) fifteen Corinthian women who
are Medea’s next door neighbours
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders
(C) Fifteen Spartan women
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
Answer:(A)
53. Which of the following is not an
award received by Mahasweta Devi ?
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(B) Jnanpith Award
(C) Padmashri
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
Answer:(D)
54. The Statute of Pleadings makes
English the official language of the
English Parliament in
(A) 1755 (B) 1362
(C) 1611 (D) 1879
Answer:(B)
55. The following are two lists of
statements and the poets / critics who
made them. Match them correctly :
List – I List – II
(Statements on (Poets / critics)
imagination)
I. One power 1. Shelley
alone makes a
poet – The
Imagination,
The Divine
Vision
II. … what the 2. Coleridge
imagination
seizes on beauty
must be the truth
III. The great 3. Blake
instrument of
moral good is
the imagination
IV. Works of 4. Keats
imagination
should be
written in a very
plain language
The right combination according to
the code is :
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer:(B)
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the
morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The
Coral Island involving adventures of
three boys marooned on South
Pacific Island. Two names are
repeated in Golding’s tale. They are
Code :
I. Ralph II. Roger
III. Jack IV. Simon
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer:(D)
57. The following are two lists of
characters and the works in which we
find them. Match them correctly
according to the code :
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
II. Raghu 2. Midnight’s Children
III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer:(C)
58. In spite of being constant in his
relationship with Sophia, Tom is
involved in relationships with three
other ladies in the three parts of Tom
Jones. Here is a list of these women.
Find the odd one :
(A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
(D) Lady Bellaston
Answer:(C)
59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted
with the headlines : ‘A book the
police should ban; loathsome study
of sex depravity; misleading youth to
unspeakable disaster.’ Its opening
chapter was originally suppressed.
Name the novel :
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The White Peacock
Answer:(C)
60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
the key ideas are best described as
the following except one. Which one ?
(A) Movement versus stasis
(B) Disappointing love versus
eternal bliss
(C) Scars of history versus
consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
Answer:(C)
61. These critics transcend the subjective
point of view. They bow to other
forms of objective authority: the
authority of the past and the authority
of the social consensus. They adopt
the scientific attitude without the
science.
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics
(B) The Romantic Critics
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics
(D) The Symbolist Critics
Answer:(A)
62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which
character has two pages of
unpunctuated speech ?
(A) Estragon (B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky (D) Pozzo
Answer:(C)
63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay,
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema” is an instance of the
feminist appropriation of
psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective
unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the
fragmented body
Answer:(C)
64. Which of the following novelists
does not belong to the “Campus
Novelists” Group ?
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
Answer:(C)
65. Which of the following statements is
not true of The Stranger by Camus ?
(A) The title character is Meursault,
an Algerian who kills an Arab
man.
(B) The story, divided into two
parts, gives Meursault’s first
person narrative before and
after the murder respectively.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the
locale it depicts.
(D) The theme and outlook of the
novel are cited as exemplars of
existentialism.
Answer:(C)
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic
celebration of
Code :
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
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:(C)
67. Which of the following statements is
not a correct description of Pope’s
The Dunciad ?
(A) The Dunciad is an attack on
bad writers and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary
on the civilization of the time.
(C) It is about the coronation of
Theobald.
(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald
only.
Answer:(D)
68. Which of the following statements
cannot be subsumed under the
“Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis ?
(A) Each language presents us with
its own categorization of the
universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social
reality.
(C) One adjusts to reality
essentially without the use of
language.
(D) A language and the society that
uses it interlock.
Answer:(C)
69. Which philosophers does Dante
encounter in Limbo, the first circle of
hell ?
Code :
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato
The correct combination according to
the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer:(B)
70. Which of the following best
describes the role of revision in the
writing process ?
(A) Revision is discrete phase of
the writing process that should
occur after the initial drafting
phase.
(B) Substantive revisions should be
finalized during the second-
draft phase of the writing
process.
(C) Revision is a recursive activity
that may occur at any phase of
the writing process.
(D) Substantive revision should
occur primarily during the
editing phase of the writing
process.
Answer:(C)
71. Who among the following eighteenth
century English poets committed
suicide after years of living close to
starvation as a struggling poet ?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
Answer:(B)
72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ …
it’s what I want. It’s what you want.’
But the horses didn’t want it – they
swerved apart; the earth didn’t want
it.”
At the end of A Passage to India
Forster suggests that
(A) if Fielding and Aziz want, they
can be friends.
(B) probably if the Indians and the
English want, they can still be
friends.
(C) though Fielding and Aziz want,
the horses and the earth of
India do not want the English
and the Indians to be friends,
not yet.
(D) the East is East and the West is
West and the twain shall never
meet.
Answer:(C)
73. An extremely simplified form of a
language used as a contact language
among speakers of different
languages is a
(A) dialect (B) creole
(C) pidgin (D) register
Answer:(C)
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic
and novelist, took sides in the literary
squabbles of the 1860s against
Swinburne and the Rossettis. He
wrote a review which introduced the
term :
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
Answer:(B)
75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls
asleep on
(A) the Mendip hills
(B) the Purbeck hills
(C) the Malvern hills
(D) the Cheviot hills
Answer:(C)