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Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty
(50) objective type questions, each question
carrying two(2) marks. Attempt all
the questions.
1.
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is
written by
(A) William
Wordsworth
(B) Robert
Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas
Gray
2.
Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms is
divided into
(A) two books
(B) three
books
(C) four books
(D) five books
3.
“Panopticism” is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by
(A) Roman
Jakobson
(B) Jacques
Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques
Derrida
4.
The lines, “She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:/
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five”,
are an example of
(A) blank
verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse
5.
Who, among the following women writers, famously imagined the
plight of
Shakespeare’s sister ?
(A) George
Eliot
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) Irish
Murdoch
(D) Frances
Burney
Ø A room of ones own
6.
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose
the right response.
Assertion
(A) : Dickens’s novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’.
Reason
(R) : They are called so, because Dickens
adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation.
(B) Both (A)
and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is
true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.
Ø
Newgate Novels(1830’s-1840’s) glorified the lives of the
criminals. Dickens’ Oliver Twist is classified
as Newgate novel by some critics.It gets its name from Newgate Calendar, a biography of criminals.
7.
Who among the following writers does not belong to the group, the University
Wits ?
(A) John Lyly
(B) Thomas
Nashe
(C) George
Peele
(D) Thomas Kyd
8.
Which of the following characters of Webster’s The
White Devil utters the
memorable
words :
Oft gay and
honour’d robes those tortures try :
We think cag’d
birds sing, when indeed they cry.
(A) Vittoria
Corombona
(B) Bracciano
(C) The
Cardinal
(D) Flamineo
9.
“All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life” – this
statement is attributed to
(A) Thomas
Carlyle
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) J.S. Mill
(D) John
Ruskin
10.
Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist ?
(A) J.D. Salinger
(B) Henry Greene
(C) William
Faulkner
(D) Philip
Roth
Ø Henry
Green is the psudonym of the British author Henry Vincent Yorke, author of ‘Nothing’ and ‘Loving’
11.
Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features
?
(A) Doctor
Faustus
(B) Edward
II
(C) Hero
and Leander
(D) Tamburlaine
12.
Sir Fopling is a character in
(A)
Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreve’s
The Way of theWorld
(C) Etherege’s The Man of Mode
(D) Davenant’s
The Platonick Lovers
13.
Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is
the
very thing to
work on” ?
(A) Clara
Reeve
(B) Maria
Edgeworth
(C) Frances
Burney
(D) Jane Austen
14.
Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
(A) When
Rain Clouds Gather
(B) The
Mimic Men
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The
Interpreters
15.
A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable
is called
(A) Trochee
(B) Iambic
(C) Spondee
(D) Terza Rima
16.
What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of
Bath in
The
Canterbury Tales ?
(A) Meekness
(B) Defiance
(C) Chastity
(D) Experience
17.
Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication.
Answer the
question with
the help of the Code given below :
(i) The
Dunciad
(ii) The
Rape of the Lock
(iii) An
Essay on Man
(iv) An
Essay on Criticism
Code
:
(A) (ii),
(iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(D) (ii), (i),
(iv), (iii)
18.
Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas
Marner
(C) Daniel
Deronda
(D) Adam Bede
19.
The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel
by a citizen of
(A) the United
Kingdom
(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic of
Ireland
(C) the United
Kingdom or the British Commonwealth
(D) the United
Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
20.
A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of
(A) 11 lines (B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines
21.
The Unfortunate Traveller has
been authored by
(A) Robert
Greene
(B) Thomas
Deloney
(C) Thomas Nashe
(D) Thomas
Lodge
22.
Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean
tragedy ?
(A) George Villiers
(B) John
Marston
(C) John
Webster
(D) Thomas
Middleton
23.
The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward
Said
(B) Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz
Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha
24.
Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation
in contemporary fiction ?
(A) Thomas
Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller
(B) Henry
Fielding’s Tom Jones
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D) Samuel
Richardson’s Pamela
25.
The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with
(A) D. H.
Lawrence
(B) James
Joyce
(C) E. M. Forster
(D) Virginia
Woolf
26.
Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) The
Stone Angel
(B) No
Fixed Address
(C) The
Edible Woman
(D) Half breed
Ø Half
breed(1973) is the first novel of Maria Campbell, No fixed Address, An Amorous Journey is the novel of Aritha Van Herk, The Stone Angel - Margarette Lawrence
27.
The expression “murderous innocence” is an example of
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Zeugma
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Pun
28.
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the
right response
Assertion
(A) : Othello killed Desdemona.
Reason
(R) : Because Desdemona committed infidelity.
(A) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A)
and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.
29.
The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of
(A) Religion
(B) Tradition
(C) Reason
(D) Sentiments
30.
Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?
(A) Lycidas
(B) L’Allegro
(C) Camus
(D) Paradise
Lost
31.
Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?
(A) Endymion
(B) The
Fall of Hyperion
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) Lamia
32.
Match the following authors with their respective works with the
help
of the code
given below :
List
– I List
– II
I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The
Vanity of Human Wishes
II. John Gay 2.
The Vicar of Wakefield
III. Samuel Johnson 3.
She Stoops to Conquer
IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The
Beggar’s Opera
Code
:
I
II III IV
(A) 1 4
3 2
(B) 2 4
1 3
(C) 3 2
4 1
(D) 4 3
2 1
Ø Wrong
code: Goldsmith – She stoops.., The Vicar, Gay – Beggaar’s Opera, Johnson –
vanity of human wishes
33.
The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by
(A) S.T.
Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William
Wordsworth
(D) William
Hazlitt
Ø Term
coined by John Keats to describe (what he saw as) Wordsworth's
self-aggrandising style.
34.
Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order.
Answer the question with the help of the code :
(i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel
Deronda
(iii) Felix
Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
Code
:
(A) (i),
(iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) (ii), (i),
(iii), (iv)
(C) (iv),
(iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
Middlemarch1874,
Daniel Deronda1863, Felix Holt, the Radical1866, Romola1876
35.
Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable
sense
of humour and
comedy ?
(A) D.H.
Lawrence
(B) P.G.
Wodehouse
(C) Thomas
Hardy
(D) John Galsworthy
36.
Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel ?
(A) Doris
Lessing’s The Four-Gated City
(B) L.P.
Hartley’s Facial Justice
(C) Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S.
Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas
37.
Identify the author of the following lines :
Let
sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other,
worlds on worlds have shown
Let us possess
one world, each hath one, and is one.
(A)
Shakespeare
(B) George
Herbert
(C) John Donne
(D) Henry
Vaughan
·
Read the poem ‘Good morrow’
38.
In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published
a series of
essays on “The
Pleasures of Imagination,” written by
(A) Richard
Steele
(B) John
Dennis
(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison
39.
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose
the
right
response.
Assertion
(A) : Gulliver’s Travels earned
Jonathan Swift the bad
name of being
a misanthrope.
Reason
(R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to the image
of man.
(A) Both (A)
and (R) are true, and
(R) is the
correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the
correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true,
but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.
40.
Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great
Tradition’,
enunciated by
F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph
Conrad
(B) James Joyce
(C) Jane
Austen
(D) George
Eliot
41.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is an
(A)
African-American writer
(B) American-Jewish writer
(C)
American-Indian writer
(D)
American-Asian writer
42.
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts
(B) five Acts
(C) four Acts (D) two Acts
43.
James Joyce’s Exiles is
a
(A) Short Story
(B) Poem
(C) Play (D) Novel
44.
“It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen"
– is the opening sentence of
(A) Ulysses
(B) Nostromo
(C) Chrome
Yellow
(D) Nineteen Eighty-Four
45.
The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
is
(A) Man
As He Is Not
(B) Man
As He Is
(C) Things As They Are
(D) The
Pupil of Nature
46.
Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical
feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Monica
Wittig
(C) Simone de
Beauvoir
(D) Luce
Irigaray
47.
“On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson
Knight
(B) A. C.
Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) F. R.
Leavis
48.
The expression, “dreaming house” is an example of
(A) Zeugma
(B) Transferred epithet
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe
49.
The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by
(A) William
Empson
(B) W. K.
Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) F. R.
Leavis
50.
Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with
(A)
Post-modernism
(B) New
Historicism
(C) Reader
Response Theory
(D) Russian Formalism
