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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.
June 30 2014
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted
Petrarch and Petrarchanism to
English sounds and metres, Survey’s
verse tends to look back beyond
Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse
Answer:(*)
2. Here are some characteristics of
Morality Plays :
1. They are dramatized allegories
of the life of man.
2. They depict man’s temptation
and sinning, his quest for
salvation and his confrontation
with Death.
3. Though the hero represents
Mankind, the other characters
are by no means
personifications, of virtues,
vices and death.
4. A character known as the Vice
often plays the role of the hero,
a predecessor of the Villain-
hero in Elizabethan drama.
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.
Answer:(A)
3. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there
are the allegorized moral and
religious virtues with their
counterparts in the vices. Identify the
correctly matched set :
(A) Una – Truth
Guyon – Temperance
Duessa – Deceit
Orgoglio – Pride
(B) Una – Pride
Guyon – Deceit
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Una – Deceit
Guyon – Pride
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(D) Una – Temperance
Guyon – Truth
Duessa – Pride
Orgoglio – Deceit
Answer:(A)
4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the
board
Now trips a lady, a now struts a
lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) Absalom and Achitrphel
Answer:(C)
5. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Every Man in His Humour
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Antonio’s Revenge
The Changeling
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Every Man in his Humour
The Changeling
Antonia’s Revenge
(C) The Changeling
Antonio’s Revenge
Every Man in His Humour
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(D) Antonio’s Revenge
Every Man in His Humour
The Changeling
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Answer:(A)
6. Though Coleridge refers to “Motive-
hunting of a motiveless malignity”, the
“human villain” Iago is far from
“motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of
military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of
cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with
Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination
according to the code :
(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:(A)
7. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the
chorus proposes that the theme should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to
the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) III and IV are correct
Answer:(C)
8. The centre of his plays is a proud
character on Marlowe’s model, with a
bold licence in speech and action, full of
elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling
after phrase, as he asserts himself in the
French Court. Dryden unjustly described
his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed
up in gigantic words”. Who is this
Jacobean playwright ?
(A) John Fletcher
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman
(D) John Marston
Answer:(C)
9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes
that Adam was overcome with
“______” and so ate the forbidden
fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”
Answer:(A)
10. In which poem of Donne’s is the
lover’s face reflected in the eyes of
his beloved ?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization”
(C) “The Apparition”
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding
Mourning”
Answer:(A)
11. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Thomas 1. The Provok’d
Otway Husband
ii. William 2. The Recruiting
Wycherley Officer
iii. Colley 3. The Country Wife
Cibber
iv. George 4. The Orphan, or
Farquhar the unhappy marriage
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 2
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 3 1 2 4
Answer:(A)
12. “Thou wast no born for death
immortal Bird.”
In what sense is the Bird “immortal”
as compared to mortal man ?
I. Here man as an individual is
unfairly compared to a bird as a
species.
II. The word “Bird” stands for the
nightingale’s song.
III. When considered as a species
man is equally “immortal” as
the “Bird”.
IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal”
because songs of birds have
given pleasure to man through
the ages.
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) Only I and III are correct
(B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
(D) Only I and IV are incorrect
Answer:(C)
13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” is a poem in
_________
(A) 8 parts (B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts (D) 6 parts
Answer:(C)
14. Scott is known for the creation of
mad, irrational witch-like women
characters. From the following list
pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
Answer:(C)
15. Joseph Addison called him “The
Miracle of the present age” and
Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for
the monument erected in his
memory. Who is he ?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren
Answer:(B)
16. The play was first performed in
1773. The author asked a friend “Did
it make you laugh ?” and getting the
answer “Exceedingly” said then that
was all he required. He used for plot
a reputed experience of his own as a
schoolboy when he lost his way and
asked to be directed to an inn but was
shown the gateway to the local
squire’s house. Which play is this ?
(A) Sheridan’s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan’s The School for
Scandal
(C) Goldsmith’s She Stoops to
Conquer
(D) Goldsmith’s The Good Natured
Man
Answer:(C)
17. What is Johnson’s opinion regarding
the “Violation” of the three unities in
the plays of Shakespeare ?
I. Shakespeare should have
followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the
important Unity of Action
satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered
because they did not follow the
Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise
from false assumptions.
The correct combination according to
the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct
Answer:(B)
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays
Answer:(A)
19. “No man is truly great, who is great only
in his lifetime. The test of greatness is
the page of history. Nothing can be said
to be great that has a distinct limit, or
that borders on something evidently
greater than itself. Besides, what is short-
lived and pampered into mere notoriety,
is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.”
This passage describing the quality of
greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by
William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by
Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by
John Dryden
Answer:(B)
20. In Blake’s “The Human Abstract”,
the fragmented world of Experience
is symbolized in the image of the
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(C) Raven
(D) Fruit of Deceit
Answer:(D)
21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : While referring to
Charlotte Bronte’s claim that
she has excluded public interest
from her novels Graham
Greene writes : ‘Public interest
in her day was surely more
separate from public life…
with us, however consciously
unconcerned we are, it obtrudes
through the cracks of our
stories terribly persistent like
grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the
“thirties was bristling with
recurring economic and political
crisis like the Great Depression,
Wall Street Crash,
Unemployment, rise of Hitler
and Mussolini, series of
murders, invasions and tensions;
writers could not remain
unaffected.
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)
22. Match the titles of the books with
their authors :
List – I List – II
i. Psychology 1. John Strachey
and Art Today
ii. Revolution in 2. W.H. Auden
Writing
iii. The Coming 3. C. Day Lewis
Struggle for
Power
iv. Arrow in the 4. Arthur Koestler
Blue
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
Answer:(C)
23. George Meredith’s first novel was
banned by Mudie’s Circulating
Library for its supposed moral
offence.
Identify the novel :
(A) The Egoist
(B) Evan Harrington
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Answer:(*)
24. Match the titles of the following poems
by Tennyson with their opening lines
according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Titles of poems) (Opening Lines)
i. “Tithonus” 1. “‘Courage’ he said, and pointed
towards the land. The mounting
wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
ii. “The Lotos- 2. “The woods decay, the woods decay
Eaters and fall The vapours weep, their burthen to the
ground.”
iii. ‘Ulysses’ 3. “On either side the river lie Long fields
of barley and of rye.”
iv. ‘The Lady of 4. “It little profists that an idle king,
Shalott’ By this still hearth, among these barren
crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete
and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race.”
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 4 3 1
Answer:(A)
25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett
Browning’s Sonnets called “From
Sonnets from the Portuguese” ?
(A) She wrote the whole in
Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated
from the Portuguese.
(C) She presented it under the guise
of a translation from the
Portuguese language.
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a
Portuguese
Answer:(C)
26. Yeast’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is
about
(A) Irish Culture
(B) The art and culture of
Byzantium in general
(C) Irish revolutionaries
(D) Regenerating the art and
culture that existed in
Byzantium
Answer:(D)
27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand
And the stars in her hair were
______.”
(Rossetti’s “The Blessed
Damozel”)
(A) 7 and 3 (B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4 (D) 4 and 6
Answer:(B)
28. Which of the following arrangements
is in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) Adam Bede – Wuthering
Heights – North and South –
Villette
(B) Wuthering Heights – Villete –
North and South – Adam Bede
(C) Villettee – North and South –
Wuthering Heights – Adam
Bede
(D) North and South – Wuthering
Heights – Adam Bede – Villette
Answer:(B)
29. In which of the following novels by
canrod do the Gould couple and
Decoud appear as characters with
Costaguana as the setting ?
(A) Victory
(B) Under Western Eyes
(C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
Answer:(C)
30. Match the following plays with their
authors according to the code given
below :
List – I List – II
(Plays) (Authors)
i. Heartbreak 1. John
House Galsworthy
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht
iii. In the Jungle of 3. T.S. Eliot
Cities
iv. The Family 4. George
Reunion Bernard Shaw
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3
Answer:(D)
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition
organized by Roger Fry, the
paintings of three painters were
displayed. Identify the painters :
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell,
Clive Bell
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse
Answer:(B)
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus,
commit suicide by hanging herself ?
(A) Theseus hated her
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus
rejected her love
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry
her
(D) She was lonely and depressed
Answer:(B)
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural
Ulster figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice
Answer:(C)
34. Match the pairs of authors and their
works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Alexander 1. Remembrance of
Dumas Things Past
ii. Honore de 2. Madame Bovary
Balzac
iii. Gustav 3. The Human
Flaubert Comedy
iv. Marcel 4. The Count of
Proust Monte Christo
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer:(A)
35. Which of the following statements
best applies to Anna Karenina ?
1. Among her most prominent
qualities are her passionate
spirit and determination to live
life on her own terms.
2. She accepts the exile to which
she has been condemned.
3. She is a victim of Russian
patriarchal system.
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her
family and children.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
Answer:(D)
36. Match the pairs of authors and their
works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Vladimir 1. Germinal
Nabokov
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault’s
Pendulum
iii. Umberto 3. If on a Winter’s
Eco Night a Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 4 1 3
Answer:(B)
37. Which among the following plays by
Aristophanes is an attack on
‘modern’ education and morals as
imparted and taught by the radical
intellectuals known as The Sophists ?
(A) Clouds (B) Wasps
(C) Acharnians (D) Knights
Answer:(A)
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf
does a painter in the act of painting
actually figure as a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
(D) To the Lighthouse
Answer:(D)
39. Religious controversies in England
particularly during the 15th century
led to the promotion of
(A) English prose
(B) The British Empire
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement
Answer:(A)
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable
word from the list below :
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than
often suggests the _________ of love
(A) Fragility (B) Madness
(C) Completeness (D) Security
Answer:(A)
41. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Arnold 1. Jumpers
Wesker
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler Saw
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room
iv. Tom 4. Roots
Stoppard
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer:(C)
42. Modern English emerged from the
(A) South Midland dialect
(B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language
(D) Northumbrian dialect
Answer:(B)
43. Most culinary terms in English are
derived from
(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
(C) Native sources
(D) Arabic cooking
Answer:(B)
44. “Blended learning” is a mode of
instruction/learning in which
(A) the learner’s mother tongue and
the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through
the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes
are integrated
(D) learning of a language is
mediated by humanistic
approaches
Answer:(C)
45. ‘Risk-taking’ is one of the traits of a
good
(A) language learner
(B) language teacher
(C) teacher of grammar rules
(D) printer of books and authors
Answer:(A)
46. A teaching method advocated by Dr.
Georgia Lozanav which is based on
the principle of ‘joy and easiness’ is
called
(A) Suggesto paedia
(B) Total physical response
(C) The Direct Method
(D) The audio-lingual method
Answer:(A)
47. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The
Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys :
1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human
Existence
3. The Futility of all Human
Endeavour
4. The concept of Existentialism
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
Answer:(B)
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert
Osmond marries Isabel Archer
because
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of
Isabel’s property.
2. He loved her
3. Though he did not like her
moral ideas about many things
in life, he had hoped to win her
over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas
were quite deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct
Answer:(*)
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct
descriptions of U.R.
Ananthamurthy’s Samskara.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with
the progressive ideas of the
times.
3. The novel is set in Malgudi
4. The novel is a satire on the
representatives of a decadent
Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone
for his sin.
(A) 4 and 5 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
Answer:(A)
50. Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death
of a Salesman compares Biff and
Happy to the mythic characters /
figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules
Answer:(B)
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a
poem.
Read the poem carefully and pick
out the most appropriate answers.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants, your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the
healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave :
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said :
my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect
called metaphor.
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier,
flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking
of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say : those mountains have a
meaning but further than that I could not
say.
To do something very common, in my own
way.
Adrienne Rich
51. How does the poet suggest that the
lover has not left ?
(A) The words “a last attempt”
indicate that she is trying her
best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave”
suggest that the speaker has not
left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip
‘forever’ which means she will
never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the
healing of her wounds perhaps
indicating that she may be able
to leave sometime in future.
Answer:(B)
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s
poem plan to leave ?
I. Because her love has not been
returned.
II. Because of the pain she has
suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized
her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has
been located, the bleeding
continues.
The right combination according to
the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) I, II and III are correct
(D) I and III are correct
Answer:(C)
53. What does Rich imply when she says
“The grammar turned and attacked
me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to
hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not
the source of pain but
something else.
(D) The pain she has herself
inflicted through language.
Answer:(A,D)
54. How would you compare Rich’s
poem and Donne’s poem with the
same title ?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne’s
poem
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne’s
poem
(C) Rich’s poem is a scathing
attack on Donne’s poem.
(D) Rich is defining Donne’s
concept of love
Answer:(A)
55. What is the theme of the poem ?
Identify the false statement in the list
below :
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually
saying goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to
leave though one might want to.
(C) about the pain suffered in
relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like
Donne’s where the speaker
dominates the addressee.
Answer:(D)
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his
play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann’s
Transposed Heads ?
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription
of the original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
(C) It deals with domestic strife.
(D) It deals with ancient times.
Answer:(A)
57. The collected poems of A.K.
Ramanujan has been divided into
four sections. Arrange them in their
chronological order :
(A) The striders – The Relations –
Second Sight – the Black Hen
(B) The Relations – The Striders –
The Black Hen – Second Sight
(C) Second Sight – The Relations –
The Black Hen – Striders
(D) The Black Hen – Second Sight
– The Striders – The Relations
Answer:(A)
58. In one of her novels, Margaret
Atwood demonstrated the potentially
‘Cannibalistic’ nature of human
relationships. Identify the novel :
(A) Surfacing
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
(D) The Edible Woman
Answer:(D)
59. Match the characters with the novels
of Amitav Ghosh in which they
appear according to the code given
below :
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Novels)
i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta Chromosome
iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1
Answer:(A)
60. Which of the following is not a play
by Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet
(C) That Other History
(D) Agra Bazar
Answer:(D)
61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi
Deshpande’s That Long Silence ?
(A) Mohan (B) Jaya
(C) Rati (D) Kamat
Answer:(B)
62. In Derek Walcott’s Dream on
Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision
of freedom for his people is
(A) through money
(B) through violence
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the
mind
Answer:(D)
63. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : To give a text an
author is to impose a limit on
that text, to furnish it with a
final signified, to close the
writing.
Reason (R) : A text is made up
of multiple meanings drawn
from many sources, and this
multiplicity is focused on the
reader.
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:(B)
64. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the
project of colonialism as
characterized by what Foucault
had called ‘epistemic violence’,
the imposition of a given set of
beliefs over another.
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests
that participation in the
political process – access to
citizenship, becoming a voter –
will help to mobilize the
subaltern on “the long road to
hegemony.”
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:(B)
65. Match the following authors with
their works from the given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Buch 1. Burger’s Daughteri
Emecheta
ii. Ama Ata 2. Joy of Motherhood
Aidoo
iii. Nadine 3. Devil on the Cross
Gordimer
iv. Nqugi Wa 4. Our Sister Killjoy
Thiongo
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 4 3 2 1
Answer:(B)
66. Match the following authors with
their plays from the lists given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Plays)
i. Langston 1. Dutchman
Hughes
ii. Lorraine 2. Clara’s Ole Man
Hansberry
iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don’t You want
to be Free
iv. Amiri 4. Raisin in the Sun
Baraka
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer:(A)
67. Identify the critics and their
respective works :
(A) Horace – Ars Poetica
Aristotle – Poetics
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Ben Jonson – Discoveries
Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic
Poesy
(B) Horace – Poetics
Aristotle – Ars Poetica
Quintillian – On the sublime
Longinus – Discoveries
Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic
Poesy
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(C) Horace – On the sublime
Aristotle – Poetics
Quintillian – Discoveries
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria
Ben Jonson – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy
Sidney – Ars Poetica
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica
Aristotle – Poetics
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Longinus – On the Sublime
Ben Jonson – An Apology for
Poetry
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic
Poesy
Dryden – Discoveries
Answer:(A)
68. Which of the following is not true of
Imagist poetry ?
(A) The poet spreads his language
across the page as though
language were sensation, to
reproduce the mental effect of
‘image’.
(B) The image is itself an
instrument of vision, or lens, as
well as an expression of
imagination
(C) The imagist like a scientist
learns from history and uses it,
and like a scientist does not
deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist
focuses vision through image
as against the symbol which
resorts to reduction to
simplicity.
Answer:(C)
69. Who among the following is not a
myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye
Answer:(B)
70. According to Northrop Frye there are
four main narrative genres associated
with the seasonal cycle of spring,
summer, autumn and winter. They
are comedy, ________, tragedy and
irony (satire). Which is the second
one ?
(A) Romance (B) Epic
(C) Fiction (D) Novel
Answer:(A)
Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the
following passage :
Read the passage carefully and select the
most appropriate option.
The town belonging to the colonized
people, or at least the native town, the
negro village, the medina, the reservation,
is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
evil repute. They are born there, it matters
little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native
town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native
town is a crouching village, town on its
knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The
look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man
is an envious man. And this the settler
knows very well… It is true, for there is
no native who does not dream atleast once
a day of setting himself up in the settler’s
place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of
The Earth)
71. To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village
is
1. the worst face of apartheid
2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical
degradation
4. a special village with its own
amenities.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct
(B) 1 and 2 are correct
(C) only 3 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
Answer:(A)
72. Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry
town ?
1. it did not have agricultural
farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in
poverty
4. they were denied their
fundamental rights by the
Whites.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
Answer:(B)
73. What does the term ‘crouching
village’ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of
the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the
people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct
Answer:(C)
74. Why does the native look at the
settler’s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of
desperation
2. he has no other option in his
life
3. he wants to occupy a position
of power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer
instead of the colonized.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct
Answer:(B)
75. What is the settler’s attitude towards
the blacks ?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks
to be harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of
the blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment
because he knows that his
position is never safe.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct
Answer:(C)