PAPER-II
ENGLISH
Paper–II 2 D–30–12
1. Identify the work
below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of
Learning
(B)
Gulliver’s Travels
(C)
The Spectator
(D)
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
v
The
Advancement of Learning is by Francis Bacon published in 1605. (Title: Of the
Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human)
2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John
Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass?
(A)
The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C)
The Valley of Humiliation
(D)
Vanity Fair
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
(A)
1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C)
1830–1901
(D)
1837–1900
4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ?
(A)
It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(B)
It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C)
It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955.
Identify the text:
(A)
William Golding, The Inheritors
(B)
Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
(C)
William Empson, Collected Poems
(D)
Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
Ø (Sir William Empson's
Collected Poems first appeared in 1949. Its
revised edition in 1955. ref: Britanica) Samuel Becket's Waiting for Godot,
written in 1948 was published in English by Faber in 1956. It was first staged
in 1953. first published in 1952.
6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had
left–leaning tendencies?
(A)
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B)
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil
Day Lewis
(D)
J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
7. Match the following :
1.
The Sage of Concord 5.
Emily Dickinson
2.
The Nun of Amherst 6.
R.W. Emerson
3.
Mark Twain 7.
T.S. Eliot
4.
Old Possum 8.
Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B)
1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C)
1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D)
1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak”
and popularized the practice of
Misreading:
(A)
Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C)
Geoffrey Hartman
(D)
Stanley Fish
Ø
See The
Anxiety of Influence
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) the sun
(B)
the moon
(C)
the north star
(D)
the rose
10. Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English
writers?
(A)
The Booker Prize
(B)
The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C)
The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize
Ø
Gyanpeeth, instituted in 1961, is
awarded to Indian writers in any of the official languages of India.
Ø Whitbread
Literary Award started in 1971 is given to writers based in UK and Ireland.
From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when Costa
Coffee took over ownership from Whitbread . Now it is The Costa Book Awards.
11. Identify the correct statement below :
(A)
Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph
Roister Doister and Gammer
Gurton’s Needle are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are comedies.
(C)
All of them are problem plays.
(D)
All of them are farces.
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity
Fair owes its title to
(A)
Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
(B)
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
(C)
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in
(A) 1642
(B)
1640
(C)
1659
(D)
1660
14. Who of the following was not
a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge
?
(A)
Robert Southey
(B)
Sir Walter Scott
(C)
William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
Ø Algernon
Charles Swinburne was born on April 5, 1837
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true ?
1.
It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
2.
It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
3.
It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
4.
It does not carry a subtitle.
(A)
4 (B) 2
(C)
3 (D) 1
Ø The English version of Waiting for Godot has a subtitle ' A
tragi- comedy in two acts'
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals,
critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury
Group ?
I.
John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II.
E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III.
Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV.
Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B)
I
(C)
II and III
(D)
IV
Ø
Bloomsbury Group is an informal
group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in the Bloomsbury area
of central London. Virginia woolf was
the prominent figure in the group. The group members are: Virginia Woolf, E. M.
Forster, Giles Lytton Strachey, Clive
Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry,
Duncan Grant, Desmond MacCarthy, Vanessa Stephen Bell, Leonard Woolf, Mary MacCarthy, Thoby Stephen, Adrian Stephen, Dora Carrington , Arthur Waley, David Garnett
and Saxon Sydney-Turner.
17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the
first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ?
(A)
Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C)
Edmund Burke
(D)
Horace Walpole
18. In Dryden’s Essay
of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ?
(A)
Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C)
Eugenius
(D)
Neander
19. The term invective
refers to
(A) the abusive writing or speech in
which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B)
an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually
involving caricature and ridicule.
(C)
a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event
is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D)
the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the
Bangladeshi immigrants in East London?
(A)
How far can you go
(B)
The White Teeth
(C)
An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
Ø Brick Lane(2003) is the
debut novel of Monica Ali. How far Can
you Go(1980), which tells the story of the lives of British Catholics, is a novel by David Lodge, which was renamed
'Souls and Bodies'. The White Teeth(2000) , which tells the story of two war
time friends -Bangladesi Samad and English Archie Jones, is by the British
author Zadie Smith. An Equal Music
(1999) is by Vikram Seth.
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important
writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below :
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who
left England for the U. S.
(B)
For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published.
(C)
For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D)
For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A)
accelerated industrial production and general well– being of the public.
(B) a belief in the universal authority
of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(C)
the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D)
an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: “...there is a
special providence in the fall of a sparrow” ?
(A)
King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C)
Coriolanus
(D)
Macbeth
Ø See Hamlet Act V Sc
II
24. Match the following pairs of books and authors :
Books Authors
I.
Condition of the Working Class
in England i. John Ruskin
II.
London Labour and the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew
III.
Past and Present iii. Thomas Carlyle
IV.
The Unto This Last iv.
Friedrich Engels
Codes :
I II III
IV
(A)
iv i
ii iii
(B) iv
ii iii i
(C)
ii iv
i ii
(D)
iii ii
iv iv
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear
as characters?
(A)
Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C)
Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D)
Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
26. What is common to the following writers? Identify the
correct description below :
William
Congreve
George
Etherege
William
Wycherley
Thomas
Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B)
All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C)
All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D)
All of them wrote tragedies in the same age
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne
Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth ?
(A)
Emma
(B)
Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D)
Northanger Abbey
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the
‘discovery’ of English in colonial India ?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B)
“Mimicry”
(C)
Nation and Narration
(D)
“The Commitment to Theory”
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A)
Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C)
Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D)
Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
(Sydney's Astrophel and Stella was published
in 1591. Spenser's Amoretti dates back to 1594/95)
30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul
?
(A)
The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
Suffrage of Elvira –A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B)
Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur
– A House for Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C)
The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel
Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur
– The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr, Biswas.
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B)
Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C)
The Book Named the Governour
(D)
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
32. Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched?
(A)
The Battle of the Books Tribute
to “The rude forefathers
of the hamlet”.
(B)
The Rape of the Lock Quarrel
between ancient and
modern authors.
(C)
Gray’s “Elegy” Accumulation of wealth
and the consequent loss of human lives and values.
(D)
The Deserted Village Quarrel between two
families caused by Lord Petre.
Ø
The Battle of the Books - quarrel
between ancient and modern authors, The Rape of the Lock - quarrel between two
families caused by Lord Petre, Gray's elegy is a tribute to the rude
forefathers of the hamlet.
33. Which among the following titles set a course for academic
literary feminism?
(A)
Nostromo
(B)
From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of
One’s Own
(D)
A Dance to the Music of Time
34. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a cameo?
(A)
The Birthday Party
(B)
A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D)
Amadeus
Indian Ink is a
play by Tom Stoppard
35. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A)
do not carry a dedication.
(B)
are dedicated to James I of England.
(C)
are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) are dedicated to an unknown “Mr.
W.H.”
36. Which of the following poems uses terza rima ?
(A)
John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West
Wind”
(C)
William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D)
Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
37. When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has
breathed his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A)
Euphuism
(B)
Euphony
(C)
Understatement
(D) Euphemism
38. Which of the following are “companion poems” ?
(A)
“Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C)
“The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D)
“Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! the Lark”
39. What does the term episteme
signify ?
(A) Knowledge
(B)
Archive
(C)
Theology
(D)
Scholarship
It is the body of ideas
that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular
time
40. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ?
(A)
A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C)
A refraction
(D)
A reflected picture
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative
capability’?
(A)
John Milton
(B)
William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D)
P.B. Shelley
42. Charles Dickens’s A
Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times.
(B)
It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times.
(C)
It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times.
(D)
It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published
posthumously by
(A)
Edwin Muir
(B)
Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D)
Coventry Patmore
44. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence
?
(A)
A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison
Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C)
The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D)
The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
45. The term homology
means a correspondence between two or
more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between
literary works and social classes in terms of homologies ?
(A)
Raymond Williams (B) Christopher
Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann (D)
Antonio Gramsci
46. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A)
the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B)
the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) the Frontier has been the one great
determinant of American civilization.
(D)
the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.
47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are
accurate ?
I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III.
an eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic
feet
IV.
an eight–line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic
pentameter
(A)
I and II (B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
48. Match the following texts with their respective themes :
I.
Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II.
Leviathan (Hobbes) ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing
III.
Alexander’s Feast (Dryden) iii. Absolute sovereignty
IV.
The Way of the World (Congreve) iv.
The power of music
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii
iv i
(C) iii iv i
ii
(D) iv iii i
ii
49. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called
(A)
Stephen Hero
(B)
Bloom’s Blunder
(C)
A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D)
The Dead
50. (i) A pastiche
is a mixture of themes, stylistic
elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii)
It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple
passage’.
(iv)
A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative
language.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B)
only (i) is correct.
(C)
(iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D)
only (iv) is correct.
