ENGLISH Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy
five (75) objective type questions of two
(2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1.
In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal
imagery
includes
(a) the fox
and the vulture
(b) the fly
and the cockroach
(c) the fly,
the crow and the raven
(d) the fox,
the vulture and the goat
(A) (a) and
(b) are correct.
(B) only (d)
is correct.
(C) (b) and
(d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.
Ø
The main characters in the play are: Volpone
– Fox, Voltore – Vulture, Mosca – Gad fly, the parasite, Corbaccio – Crow,
Corvino- the raven , celia corvino’s wife, Nano-the dwarf, Androgyno – the
hermaphrodite, Castrone –eunuch.
2.
Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.
(A) a
discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an anti essentialist view
of place.
(C) an
existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
(D) an
orientalist description of his favourite homelands.
3.
Identify the incorrect statement below :
(a) BASIC was
an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to about
1940.
(b) Expanded,
BASIC read : Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC
English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While
keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were
far too complicated and technical to understand.
(A) (a) &
(b) (B) (b) & (d)
(C) (a) &
(c) (D) (c) & (d)
4.
Items in a published book appear in the following order :
(A) Index,
Copyright Page, Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright
Page, Bibliography, Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index, Footnotes
5.
Match the following :
(I)
James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, (a) Metaphysical poets
William Cowper, George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew
Marvell, (b)
Transitional Poets
Abraham Cowley, John Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried
Sassoon, (c) War Poets
Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H.
Davies, Walter de la Mare, (d)
Georgians
John
Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (d) (a)
(c) (b)
(B) (d) (b)
(d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c)
(d) (b)
6.
The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of
famous works.
Identify the correctly matched group.
(I) Pale Fire (a)
ThomasHardy
(II) The Sound
and the Fury (b)
Somerset Maugham
(III)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (c)
William Faulkner
(IV) Under the
Greenwood Tree (d)
Tom Stoppard
(V) Of Cakes
and Ale (e)
Vladimir Nabokov
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d)
(c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e)
(b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d)
(b) (e) (a)
7.
Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain
“stage
directions” in
drama.
(A) Stage
directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
(B) The place,
time of action, design of the set and at times characters’
actions or
tone of voice are indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often italicized in the text
of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
(D) Stage
directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached to
a line of dialogue.
8.
The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated
with :
(a) Friedrich
Schiller
(b) Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann
Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel
Kant
(A) (a) &
(b) (B) (c) & (d)
(C) (b) & (c) (D) (a) & (d)
9.
Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig
trilogy.
The other two
novels are :
(A) The
Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat
and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk
and The Rat
10.
The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant
and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother
in this Jane Austen novel ?
(A) Mrs.
Morland
(B) Lady
Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs.
Dashwood
Ø Mrs.
Bennet in Pride and prejudice
11.
When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful
Hippocrene”,
Hippocrene is
:
(A) the fountain
of the horse
(B) a spring
sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount
Helicon produced from a blow of Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)
12.
Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William
Wordsworth
is/are not
true ?
(a) The
Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this
poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem
runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural
scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like
“Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting”
etc. are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d)
are true.
(B) (a) is not
true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c)
is true.
13.
Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells
a lie to the Intended about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word he pronounced
was – your name”.
Reason
(R) : Marlow tells this lie because he is secretly
in love with the Intended and tells her what she wants to hear.
(A) Both (A)
and (R) are true ; (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.
14.
Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by :
(a)
composition
(b) dictation
(c) cloze
tests
(d) listening
exercises
(e) précis
writing
(A) (c) and
(e)
(B) (a), (c)
and (e)
(C) (b), (c)
and (d)
(D) (b) and (d)
15.
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and
Coriolanus
are based on
_______.
(A)
Holinshed’s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales
and legends
(C) Older
Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch’s Lives
16.
The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species
exists in a
hierarchy of
status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the
Renaissance.
In this hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the
animal kinds and the angels. This world view is known as :
(A) Humanism
(B) The
Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
(D) Calvinism
17.
In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not
symbolize :
(A) permanence
at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C)
celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D)
celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
18.
“Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading
Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him ? It
is very hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians
he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’
motif to
sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest
in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than
most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is
neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose
incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E.
M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is
Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T.
S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.
19.
In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
(A) shy (B) timid
(C) voluptuous
(D) sensuous
20.
From the following list, identify “backformation”: Sulk, bulk,
stoke, poke, swindle, bundle.
(A) Sulk,
bulk, stoke, poke
(B) Stoke,
poke, swindle, bundle
(C) Sulk,
stoke, bundle
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle
Ø Back-formation
is the process of forming a new word by extracting actual or supposed affixes
from another word; shortened words created from longer words.
21.
“It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural
texts, showing
how all three
intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What
does it in
this statement stand for ?
(A) Marxism
(B)
Structuralism
(C) Formalism
(D) New Historicism
22.
For, though, I’ve no idea. What this accoutred frowsty ____ is
worth,
It pleases me
to stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank)
(A) bar (B) barn
(C) attic (D)
alcove
Ø See
Philip Larkin, ‘Church going’.
23.
Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear
Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
Ø Chaman Nahal’s Azadi is one of the Gandhi Quartets novels. Chaman Nahal is an outstanding novelist in
the 1970’s. He has written eight novels.
Other novels in the quartets are The
Crown and the Loin cloth, The triumph
of Tricolor, and the Salt of life.
Tamas is a novel by Bisham Sahni. Clear
Light of Day is a novel by Anita Desai. That
Long Silence is Shashi Despande’s novel depicting the unavoidable silence of
an Indian woman.
24.
Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House
for Mr. Biswas ?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara
Ø Ralph Singh is the narrator in V.S.
Naipol’s The Mimic Men. He has changed his name to Ralph Singh from
the original Ranjith Kripal Singh.
25.
In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the
first time by :
(A) Matthew
Gregory Lewis
(B) John
Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker
26.
Why is “Universal grammar” so called ?
(A) It is a
set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized
by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles
assumed to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
(C) It is a
set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
(D) It is a
set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known as
“grammar”.
27.
Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below :
(A)
Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(B) Tess of
the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor
of Casterbridge, A Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
Ø The
true title is Felix Holt, the Radical
28.
Match List – I with List – II.
List – I List
– II
(I) David
Malouf (a)
The Solid Mandala
(II) Patrick
White (b)
Wild Cat Falling
(III) Peter
Carey (c)
Remembering Babylon
(IV) Colin
Johnson (d)
True History of the Kelly Gang
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c)
(b) (d)
(B) (c) (a)
(d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d)
(b) (a)
29.
The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families
are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific
cause of the unhappiness in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with :
(A) a kitchen
– maid
(B) an English
governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a
socialite
30.
This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with
wit
and to temper
wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and
libraries,
schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables
and coffee
houses”. It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical
under reference is :
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The
Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London
Magazine
31.
Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience
of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time.
Reason
(R) : John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness,
could really feel for the misery of common man. In the context of the two
statements, which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R)
does not explain (A).
(C) (A) is
true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false
but (R) is true.
32.
Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism :
(a) Purports
to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age.
(b) Claims no
originality in the thought that governs this work.
(c) is a prose
essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing !”
(d) Appeared
in 1701.
(A) (c) and
(d) are incorrect.
(B) (a) and
(b) are incorrect.
(C) (a) to (d)
are correct.
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct.
33.
What is register ?
(A) The way in
which a language registers in the minds of its users.
(B) The way
users of a language register the nuances of that language.
(C) A variety of language used in social situations or
one specially designed for the subject it deals with.
(D) A variety
of language used in non-professional or informal situations by professionals.
34.
Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of
the
English Stage
(1698) attacked ______.
(A) the
practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
(B) the
bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
(C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration
Theatre.
(D)
irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth
century.
35.
One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden’s
An Essay
on Dramatic
Poesy is______.
(A) European
and non-European perceptions of reality.
(B) English
and non-English perceptions of reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and
English theatre.
(D) the
relative merits of French and English poetry.
36.
Identify the correctly matched pair :
(A) Amitav Ghosh
– All About H. Halterr
(B) AnitaDesai
– Inheritance of Loss
(C) Shashi Deshpande
– A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
Ø The correct pair: All about H Hatterr – G.V.Desani,
A bend in the Ganges – Manohar Malgonkar, Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai.
37.
Match the following correctly :
(I) Langue / Parole (a) Noam Chomsky
(II)
Competence / Performance (b) C. S.
Pierce
(III) Ieonic /
Indexical (c) Ferdinand
de Saussure
(IV) Readerly
/ Writerly (d) Roland Barthes
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (b)
(a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c)
(d) (b)
(D) (b) (c)
(a) (d)
38.
1. Joy Kogawa (a)
Bloody Rites
2. M. G. Vasanjee (b)
Obasan
3. Sky Lee (c)
The Gunny Sack
4. Arnold Itwaru (d)
Disappearing Moon Café
1
2 3 4
(A) (d) (a)
(b) (c)
(B) (a) (d)
(c) (b)
(C) (b) (c) d)
(a)
(D) (a) (b)
(c) (d)
39.
Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign ?
(A) Disneyland
is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post modern world.
(B) Disneyland
captures ‘essences’ and ‘non-essences’ of Reality more convincingly than other cultural
venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously
announces its own fictiveness that it would seem to imply some counter
balancing reality.
(D) Disneyland
is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the post modern visual game of
handy-dandy.
40.
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti ?
(A) D. G.
Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at
King’s college.
(B) Rossetti
formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and
Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a poet in
her right.
(D) Rossetti’s
“Blessed Damozel” displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.
Ø DG Rossetti’s wife was Elizabeth
Eleanor Siddal(Lizzie Siddal). Chistina
Georgina was his sister known as Christina Rossetti.
41.
Goethe’s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens in :
(A) heaven (B)
hell
(C) forest (D) Faust’s study
42.
“Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or
genius, or a nestful of brats
Gives their
days this bullet and automatic purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines what
does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does the poet speak of ?
I. Human
beings and their intelligence
II. The
thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
III. The
efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
IV. All the
above
(A) Only III
is correct.
(B) Only IV is
correct.
(C) I and II
are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
43.
Find the odd (wo)man out :
Belladonna – Eugenides
– The Typist –
Marie – Madame
Sosostris – the ruinbibber
– Tiresias –
the Youngman Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame
Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber
44.
Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of
______.
(A) a
detective’s exploits in Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s
adventures in a Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an Indian
shrine.
(D) illegal
mining of diamonds in eastern U.P. during British rule.
45.
Identify the correctly matched group :
(I) “Because I
could not stop for death… (a)
Walt Whitman
(II) “O
Captain ! My Captain!” (b)
William Carlos Williams
(III) “Two
roads diverged in a wood…” (c)
Emily Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends
upon…” (d)
Robert Frost
(I)
(II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (c) (a)
(d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
46.
“Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of
midnight – work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a
globe and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In
the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection
in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
(C) a social
tie
(D) a rich
patron
47.
Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem”
by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) “How the
English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The
Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye
Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”
48.
Match the correct pair :
(I) George
Eliot 1.
Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2.
Mary Anne Evans
(III) Emily
Bronte 3.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(IV) Mark
Twain 4. H.
H. Munro
(I)
(II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3
1 4
(B) 2 4 1
3
(C) 1 3
4 2
(D) 3 2
1 4
49.
In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.
(A) fraud (B) usury
(C) sloth (D)
gluttony
50.
I-A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students
is detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary Judgement (1929).
Richards was astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock
responses”
(B) the very
astute remarks made by his students
(C) the
non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention
(D) the
success of his experiment
51.
Based on the following description, identify the text in reference
: This is a play in which no one comes, no one goes, nothing happens. In its
opening scene a man struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally
written in French, later translated into English. It was first performed in
1953.
(A) Look Back
in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
(C) The Zoo
Story
(D) The
Birthday Party
52.
One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify.
(A) The
Pardoner’s Tale
(B) The Parson’s Tale
(C) The Monk’s
Tale
(D) The
Knight’s Tale
53.
In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge
identifies the following :
(a) it
dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative
and associative power.
(c) it plays
with fixities and definites.
(d) it has
shaping and modifying power. The correct combination reads :
(A) (a) and
(b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination.
(B) (a) and
(c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for imagination.
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for
imagination.
(D) (c) and
(d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for imagination.
54.
Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from :
(a) Saussure’s
signs
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s
dialogism
(d) Derrida’s difference
(A) (a) and
(d) (B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and
(d) (D) (a) and (b)
55.
Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through
characters like :
(a) Norton (b) Bledsoe
(c) Rhinehart
(d) all of the above
(A) (a) and
(b) (B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (b) and
(c) (D) (a) and (c)
56.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
(A) He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft
and plantations.
(B) He was an
eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under William Chawming.
(C) In essays
like “Nature”, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things in new
ways.
(D) His famous
“American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society
at Cambridge in 1837.
57.
“Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf ? What is the significance of ‘exorcism’ in the context of the play ?
(A) The
casting out of evil spirits
(B)
Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing
life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusionmaking
58.
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an
important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A) Toni
Morrison
(B) Zora Neale
Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks
59.
Identify the mismatched pair in the following where characters in Golding’s
Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph -
rationality
(B) Piggy -
pragmatism
(C) Jack - pity
(D) Simon –
innocence
Ø Jack, the antagonist in the novel,
represent cruelty, savagery and lust for power.
60.
A Subaltern perspective is one where
(A)
Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language of
command in an
uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be voiceless,
written out of the historical record and ignored because their activities do
not count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
(C) You don’t
know what your ‘story’ is, how to deal with a ‘story’ and therefore you are forced
to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
(D) You begin
to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves,
how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.
61.
(a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday.
(b)
Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system
(c) It is a
distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes
nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is
correct.
(B) (b) is
correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
(D) (c) and
(d) are correct.
62.
In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in
English, we read :
“A woman
writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur ?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(B) Kate
Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude
Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary
Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.
63.
Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and
translations.
(I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The
Ramayana
(II)
Manmathanath Dutt (b) The
Bhagavad Gita
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of Shiva
(IV) Romesh Chandra
Dutt (d) The Mahabharata
(I)
(II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d)
(b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)
64.
Assertion (A) : In The Power and the Glory, Greene shows how
the Whisky Priest transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving
towards martyrdom.
Reason
(R) : Transcendence in Greene’s novels is generally
an outcome of love for humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in
the Priest’s character.
(A) (A) is
true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the
correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
65.
Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect ?
(a) John
Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was
a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden
wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was
appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is
incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and
(c) are incorrect.
Ø Aurangazeb is the play by Dryden
66.
“Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art; both
require a constant intricate shifting and catching of balance; neither can be
questioned much in process; and few perform either really well. For either a
new terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks
and some form of rapid transportsome
easy theory or
overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job of Work”)
(a) Blackmur
compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be “arts” of a similar
kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur
admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and good walkers.
(c) Critics
prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as Walkers would
look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur
does not quite give us the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some form of
rapid transport” in order to press his comparison.
(A) (a) and
(d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d)
is correct.
(D) only (b)
is correct.
67.
The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is
represented by William Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .
(A) Urizen (B) Albion
(C) Geryon (D)
Satan
68.
Identify the correctly matched group :
(A) Third
Space – Wolfgang Iser
Hybridity –
Edward Soja
Reception aesthetics
– Ferdinand de Saussure
Langue – Homi
Bhabha
(B) Third
Space – Ernst Bloch
Hybridity –
Edward Said
Reception aesthetics
– Eve K. Sedgwick
Langue – G. S.
Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja
Hybridity – Homi Bhabha
Reception aesthetics – Wolfgang Iser
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third
Space – G. S. Frazer
Hybridity –
Eve K. Sedgwick
Reception aesthetics
– Edward Soja
Langue –
Edward Said
69.
Which of the following can be best described as : (i) the first
statement of
Bernard Shaw’s
idea of Life Force; (ii) a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit
of her mate;
and (iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is both
unconventional and hilarious ?
(A) The
Devil’s Disciple
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and
the Man
70.
Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below :
(A) “The
contact zone” is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with
each other.
(B) In
Postcolonial societies “contact” suggests the historical moment when settler
and
indigenous
cultures first met.
(C) The idea
of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt’s
Imperial Eyes
: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was largely
instrumental in spearheading nationalist movements across the world.
71.
Name the novel in which
I. the
protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
II. Tayo
returns from World War II, thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his violent
actions of war time.
III. Tayo
seeks consolation and counsel from old Betonie.
IV. The
protagonist realizes the importance of harmonizing humanity and the universe.
(A) Beloved
(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy
Miller
(D) Enter,
Conversing
Ø
The native American writer Leslie Marmon
Silko is the author of the novel Ceremony
72.
One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three
Days”
(B) “By the
Fireside”
(C) “One Way
of Love”
(D) “One Word More”
73.
Match List-I with List-II according to the codes given below :
List – I List
– II
I. Tennessee Williams 1. Emperor Jones
II. Eugene
O’Neill 2.
A Streetcar Named Desire
III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the
Fall
IV. Arthur
Miller 4.
A Raisin in the Sun
I
II III IV
(A) 3 1
4 2
(B) 1 3
2 4
(C) 4 2
3 1
(D) 2 1 4
3
74.
Match the correct pair :
I. Theatre of Cruelty 1. Safdar Hashmi
II. Theatre of
the Oppressed 2. Georg Kaiser
III.
Expressionist Theatre 3.
Jerzy Grotowsky
IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto
Boal
I
II III IV
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ø Choice not clear. Jerzy Grotowsky, the
Polish writer is the founder of the influential ‘Laboratory Theatre’. He propounded ‘Poor Theatre’, which eliminates
all non essentials. Costumes, stage settings,
lights, sound effects, make ups and even strictly defined playing arena. French
playwright Antonin Artaud is the founder of the Theatre of Cruelty. Augusto Boal
is the founder of the Theatre of the
Oppressed. German writer Georg Kaiser, popularly known as Morder Kaiser, is
associated with Expressionist Theatre.
Agitprop, a term derived from agitation and propaganda is a movement of
Russian origin. Developed in the 1920’s,
the highly politicized and leftist Agitprop theatre spread from Europe to
America. Brecht’s plays were often
categorized as Agitprop. Badal Sircar
and Safdar Hashmi were counted as exponents of Agitprop.
75.
Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre
(a) turns the
spectator into an observer
(b) wears down
the spectator’s capacity for action
(c) relies on
argument
(d) presents
man as a process
(A) (a) and
(d) are correct; (b) and (c) are incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
(C) (b) and
(d) are correct; (a) and (c) are incorrect.
(D) (a), (b)
and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.