ENGLISH PAPER II
1. The renaissance started in
1) Italy
2) France
3) England
4) Germany
2. The line ‘The paths of glory lead but to the grave’
occurs in
1)
Shakespeare
2)
Herbert
3) Pope
4) Gray
(Read Elegy written in the
country church yard)
3. By ‘character’ Aristotle means
1) Personages in drama
2) Cause
of action
3) Combination
of incidents in drama
4) Particular nature of drama
4. ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ in Chaucer’s The Prologue means
1)
Love conquers nothing
2) Love conquers all
3) Love is blind
4) Love is fatal
5. The sonnet form was introduced in England by
1) Shakespeare
2) Philip Sidney
3) Wyatt
4) John Skelton
6. Which one of the following novels of Dickens is based
on his own life?
1) Nicholas Nickleby
2) Great Expectations
3) Hard Times
4) David Copperfield
7. Dryden in ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ rejects ‘tragi-comedy’
because
1) It is an innovative form
2) It violates the unity of tone
3) It is a poor imitation of
French drama
4) It was practiced only by the
Ancients
8. What is the sub-title of The Prelude?
1) An autobiography
2) A preface to my life
3) Growth of a poet’s mind
4) A poet’s story
9. The line ‘Love is not Time’s fool’ occurs in a sonnet
by
1) John Keats
2) Philip Sidney
3) John Donne
4) William Shakespeare
10. The Renaissance
is written by
1) Walter Pater
2) Mathew Arnold
3) IA Richards
4) George Saintsbury
11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says
1) The good is always encouraged
2) The good is not particularly
encouraged nor evil disapproved
3) The evil is often triumphant
4) There is no moral purpose
12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title of
1. Clarissa Harlowe
2) She Stoops to Conquer
3) Joseph Andrews
4) The Way of the World
13. The Romantic Age in England is distinguished for its
1) Verse drama
2) Political prose
3) Horror novels
4) Lyrical poetry
14. Who among the following was not a member of the ‘pre-Raphaelite
Brother hood’?
1) Oscar Wilde
2) William Holman Hunt
3) John Everett Millais
4) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
15. Eliot’s ‘Objective correlative’ signifies the writer’s
ability to
1) relatively delineate his
objectives
2) relate different objects
3) correlate objects and events
4) objectify the desired states of mind
16. Which one of the following is a Cavalier poet?
1) Herbert
2) Donne
3) Herrick
4) Marvell
Cavalier poets
are the band of poets in 17th Century who supported Charles I. They are Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard
Lovelace, John Suckling, and Robert Herrick. Though Herrick was not a court poet,
his style makes him a Cavalier poet.
17. Adonais is
an elegy written on the death of
1) W.B Yeats
2) John Keats
3) P.B Shelly
4) Wordsworth
18. Which one of the following is not a Lake Poet?
1) Wordsworth
2) Coleridge
3) Southey
4) Shelley
19. ‘Negative Capability’ is
1) The ability to overcome
unpleasant experience
2) A passive subordination to
experience
3) A subjective response to
experience
4) depersonalized empathy with experience
20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart Mill, is
necessary for the
1) cultivation of the genius
2) success of democracy
3) intellectual enrichment of the society
4) evolution of State
21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing” is taken
from
1) Alexander Pope
2) John Dryden
3) William Shakespeare
4) Jonathan Swift
22. Apologia Pro
Vista Sua by Newman is
1) an attack on Catholicism
2) denunciation of Protestantism
3) a defence of the author’s stand
4) a defence of religious values
·
Apologia is
written in reaction to Charles Kingsley’s criticism of Newman.
23. Who is the author of ‘Journal of the Plague Year’?
1) Richard Steele
2) Daniel Defoe
3) Joseph Addison
4) Samuel Pepys
24. The Chartist Movement sought
1) Recognition of chartered
trading companies
2) Political rights for women
3) Protection of the political
rights of the middle class
4) Extension of the political rights to the working class
Chartism was the first mass working
class movement for the political rights from 1838 – 48 in England. It got its name from the people’s charter in
1838.
25. Confessions of
an English Opium Eater is written by
1) William Hazlitt
2) S.T Coleridge
3) Charles Lamb
4) De Quincey
26. The dictum ‘only connect’ is central to the writings
of
1) Aldous Huxley
2) Virginia Woolf
3) E.M Forster
4) D.H Lawrence
27. The criterion of Leavis’s Great Tradition is
1) moral purpose
2) sublime subject matter
3) reader-response
4) truth to life
28. Free trade signifies
1) trade without government
control
2) trade with only government
control
3) freedom to trade in all commodities
4) freedom to export anything
29. In ‘Culture and Anarchy’, Mathew Arnold recommends
1) adoption of Hellenism
2) adoption of Hebraism
3) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism
4) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism
30. Lamia is a
poem by
1) Rossetti
2) Shelley
3) Keats
4) Spenser
31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on the deserted
Island?
1) 12 years and 9 days
2) 28 years and 2 months
2) 28 years and 2 months
3) 16 years
4) 21 years and 2 months
Crusoe's unfortunate journey was on 1659 September 30. He returned to England on 1686 Dec. 19. Total period is 27 years two months and 19 days
Crusoe's unfortunate journey was on 1659 September 30. He returned to England on 1686 Dec. 19. Total period is 27 years two months and 19 days
32. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?
1) 1851
2) 1857
3) 1861
4) 1871
33. Yeats’ Leda and
the Swan drawn upon
1) An oriental myth
2) East European myth
3) Celtic myth
4) A Greek myth
Leda and the Swan is a Greek myth in which Zeus, in the
form of a swan, seduces Leda
34. The source of E.M Forster’s title Where Angels Fear to Tread is
1) Pope
2) Dryden
3) Milton
4) Donne
Pope’s An Essay On Criticism – ‘Fools rush in where angels
fear to tread’
35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre cannot hold”
occur in
1) Byzantium
2) Gerontion
3) Second Coming
4) Sailing to Byzantium
36. The ‘Movement’ is a literary phenomenon in the
1) Thirties
2) Forties
3) Fifties
4) Sixties
37. John Donne ‘affects the metaphysics’. This remark was
made by
1) Samuel Johnson
2) Allen Tate
3) T.S Eliot
4) John Dryden
38. “The Lunatic, the love and
the poet are of imagination all compact”. These lines occur in
1) Twelfth
Night
2) A Midsummer Night’s dream
3) As You Like
It
4) The Tempest
In Act V, Theseus remarks “The
Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination all compact”.
39.
Alexander’s Feast is
1) A mock epic by Alexander Pope
2) A play by Dryden
3) A play by Marlow
4) an Ode by Dryden
40. Who
said this:” Life is not a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope”?
1) Dorothy Richardson
2) James Joyce
3) Henry James
4) Virginia Woolf
“Life is not a series of gig lamps
symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope
surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” – Modern Fiction
41. In which book of Gulliver’s Travels does
Balnibarbi find a mention?
1) “Laputa”
2) “Lilliput”
3) “Houyhnhnms”
4) “Borbdingnag”
42. The phrase ‘Sweetness and Light’ was
first used by
1) Dr. Johnson
2) Keats
3) Mathew Arnold
4) Swift
(in The Battle of the Books)
43. Carlyle’s
Sartor Resartus is
1) an autobiography
2) a fictional narrative
3) a biography
4) a fictional
biography
44. Hopkins’s
Curtal Sonnet consists of
1) 14 lines
2) 101/2lines
3) 131/2 lines
4) 12 1/2lines
45. God is
referred to as the ‘president of Immortals” in
1) The Paradise Lost
2) Tess
3) Ulysses
4) The White Devil
46. Osborne’s
Look Back in Anger was first staged
in
1) 1956
2) 1957
3) 1958
4) 1960
47. Maurya
is a character in
1) She Stoops to Conquer
2) Volpone
3) Riders to the Sea
4) The Golden Gate
48. Which
of the following is a poet as well as a painter?
1) Tennyson
2) Keats
3) Shelley
4) Rossetti
49. Which
English poet referred to Oxford as “that sweet city with her dreaming spires”?
1) Robert Graves
2) Matthew Arnold
3) W. H Auden
4) Alexander Pope
In Thyrsis of Arnold. Parts of
this poem appear in ‘Oxford Elegy’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
50. “Cover
her face, mine eyes dazzle; She died young” – this was said by
1) Hamlet about Ophelia
2) Othello about Desdemona
3) Lear about Cordelia
4) Ferdinand about
the Duchess of Malfi.
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