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Directions—This paper contains fifty (50)objective type questions, each question carryingtwo (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text

may open up, Derrida makes use of theterm—(A) aporia (B) difference(C) erasure (D) supplement

2. Who, among the following English play-wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare inLove ?(A) Harold Pinter(B) Alan Bennett(C) Caryl Churchill(D) Tom Stoppard

3. Arrange the following in the chronologicalorder—

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of theRights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient EnglishPoetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2 (B) 3, 2, 1, 4

(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 (D) 2, 1, 3, 4

4. Which of the following employs a narrativestructure in which the main action is relayedat second hand through an enclosing framestory ?

(A) Sons and Lovers(B) Ulysses(C) The Power and the Glory(D) Heart of Darkness

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heraldedby such figures as—

(A) W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and EdwardMartyn

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and JohnErvine

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on thedeath of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(C) The Book of Duchess

(D) The Legend of Good Women

7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is theother title of—

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(C) Damon and Pythias

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

8. Who of the following poets is Australian ?

(A) Austin Clarke (B) Judith Wright

(C) Edwin Muir (D) Derek Walcott

9. “He found it [English] brick and left it mar-ble”, remarked one great writer on another.Who were they ?

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(C) Johnson on Dryden

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

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10. Who, among the following, is a NobelLaureate ?

(A) Tony Morrison (B) Seamus Heaney

(C) Ted Hughes (D) Geoffrey Hill

11. List-I

(a) “Because I could not stop for death…”

(b) “O Captain ! My Captain !”

(c) “Two roads diverged in a wood…”

(d) “So much depends/upon”

List-II

1. Robert Frost

2. William Carlos Williams

3. Emily Dickinson

4. Walt Whitman

The correctly matched series would be—

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 1 2 3 4

(C) 2 1 4 3

(D) 3 4 1 2

12. The predominant tone and thrust of JonathanSwift’s “A Modest Proposal” are—

(A) comic (B) solemn

(C) hortatory (D) irony

13. I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”.What is the meaning of the word in italics ?

(A) bench (B) night club

(C) house (D) park

14. C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards were reputedin the 1930s for introducing—

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(C) Standard English Project

(D) Basic English Project

15. In which of the following works does Mrs.Malaprop appear ?

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho

(D) The Way of the World

16. Which of the following statements aboutChristopher Marlowe are true ?

I. Edward II was written in the last year ofMarlowe’s life.

II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus tobe Marlowe’s best play.

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a closesecond.

IV. Marlowe was less educated thanShakespeare.

(A) I and II are true

(B) II and III are true

(C) II and IV are true

(D) III and IV are true

17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cryfor—(A) the Aesthetes(B) the Symbolists(C) the Imagists(D) the Art Noveau School

18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is aliterary work by—

(A) S.T. Coleridge(B) P.B. Shelley(C) Thomas De Quincey(D) Lord Byron

19. Which of the following statements about TheCanterbury Tales is true ?

(A) “The General Prologue” is appended toThe Canterbury Tales

(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in thiswork

(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfini-shed at the time of its author’s death

(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawainand The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work

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20. Who, among the following, was a Catholicnovelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film criticand set his fictions in far-away places wreckedby political conflicts ?

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(C) William Golding

(D) Graham Greene

21. List-I(a) Good sense is the body of poetic genius.

(b) Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of allknowledge.

(c) Literary criticism is a description andevaluation of its object.

(d) Nature never set forth the earth in as richa tapestry as diverse poets have done.

List-II

1. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”

2. Sidney, Defence/An Apology for Poetry

3. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

4. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 3 1 2

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 3 2 1 4

(D) 4 2 1 3

22. In which of the following travel books doesMark Twain give an account of his visit toIndia ?

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(C) The Innocents Abroad

(D) Following the Equator

23. William Blake’s famous poems such as“London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger”appear in—

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

24. Who among the following English artistsillustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott ?

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(C) George Cruishank

(D) John Tennial

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to—

(A) The Land to the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(C) The Land of the Hurricanes

(D) The Newfound Land

26. Madam Merle is a character in—

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(C) The Jungle

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

27. In which of the following scenes of TheWaste Land do we have a departure fromStandard English ?

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(C) The hyacinth garden scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

28. The words “If it were done when tis done,then twere well / It were done quickly…” areuttered by—

(A) Hamlet (B) Lear

(C) Othello (D) Macbeth

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a—

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy

30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ isassociated with the early plays of—

(A) Arnold Wesker(B) John Arden(C) Harold Pinter(D) David Hare

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31. Examine the following statements and iden-tify one of them which is not true—

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936

(B) He was born in India but schooled inEngland

(C) He returned to India as a police constablein Burma

(D) He is the author of Jungle Book andBarrack Room Ballads

32. What is the correct combination of thefollowing ?

List-I

(a) Balachandra Rajan

(b) R.K. Narayan

(c) Kamala Markandaya

(d) Romen Basu

List-II

1. The Tamarind Tree

2. The Coffer Dams

3. The Dark Dancer

4. The Dark Room

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 4 2 1

(B) 4 1 2 3

(C) 3 1 4 2

(D) 4 3 1 2

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor andthe successor-poet whom Dryden satirises inhis famous poem—

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

34. “If ………… comes, can …………… be farbehind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”).

(A) winter, spring (B) autumn, summer

(C) wind, rains (D) spring, winter

35. The following passages are the very first linesof well-known works. Match the lines and theworks—

List-I

(a) Let us go then, you and I ……

(b) Call me Ishmael……

(c) When shall we three meet again ?

(d) He disappeared in the dead of winter

(e) I wish either …… begot me ……

List-II

1. Moby Dick

2. Macbeth

3. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

4. Tristram Shandy

5. “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

(A) 3 1 2 5 4

(B) 5 2 1 3 4

(C) 2 1 4 5 3

(D) 2 5 4 3 1

36. Which of the following is not a revengetragedy ?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Volpone

(D) Gorboduc

37. What is a neologism ?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

(B) A word whose meaning changes withevery renewed used

(C) A word newly coined or used in a newsense

(D) An obsession with new words andphrases

38. Which of the following is not true of EdwardSaid’s Orientalism ?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of dis-cursive formulation

(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolo-nial theory

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(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of write-rly text

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hege-mony

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4periods. They are—

(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(C) iron, gold, silver and brass

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

40. Which among the following novels has morethan one ending ?

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman

(D) The Clockwork Orange

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave;you shall see how a slave was made a man” isan example of—

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Anti-climax

42. Which of the following statements is notcorrect ?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaicform in some of his major poems

(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend ofGood Women

(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the courtpoetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named theGovernor

43. Material feminism studies inequality in termsof—

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(C) both class and gender

(D) only patriarchy

44. Who among the following is not an Irishwriter ?(A) Oscar Wilde(B) Oliver Goldsmith(C) Edmund Burke(D) Thomas Gray

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel of Pepysbegin after—

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Reformation

(D) The French Revolution

46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stoppedor—(A) rhymed(B) broken(C) accented(D) run-on

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay“Naipaul’s India and Mine” ?

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(C) A.K. Ramanujam

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

48. Match the following—

List-I

(a) James Joyce

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Life of Johnson

(d) Lives of Poets

List-II

1. Peter Ackroyd

2. James Boswell

3. Samuel Johnson

4. Richard Ellman

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 4 1 2

(B) 4 1 2 3

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 2 3 1 4

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49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is anexample of—(A) simile (B) image(C) conceit (D) metonymy

50. An epilogue is—

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or

extends(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally

begins a book(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no

relation to the text at hand

Answers with Explanations1. (A) Aporia denotes in philosophy a philoso-

phical puzzle or state of puzzlement and inrhetorica rhetorically useful expression ofdoubt.

2. (D) Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-bornBritish playwright, knighted in 1997. He haswritten prolifically for TV, radio, film andstage, finding prominence with plays such asArcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every GoodBoy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, TheReal Thing and Rosencrantz and GuildensternAre Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays forBrazil The Russia house and Shakespeare inLove, and has received one Academy Awardand four Tony Awards.

3. (A)

4. (D) Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novelby Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as aframe narrative, about Charles Marlow’s lifeas an ivory transporter down the Congo Riverin Central Africa.

5. (A) 6. (C) 7. (A)

8. (B) Judith Arundell Wright was anAustralian poet, environmentalist and cam-paigner for Aboriginal land rights.

9. (C)10. (*) ● Toni Morrison

—Nobel Prize in 1993.● Seamus Justin Heaney

—Nobel Prize in Literature 1995● Edward James ‘Ted’ Hughes

—Poet Laureate in 1984● Sir Geoffrey William Hill

—Eric Gregory Award in 1961.

11. (D) 12. (D) 13. (B)

14. (D) Basic English is an English-basedcontrolled language created by linguist andphilosopher Charles Kay Ogden as aninternational auxiliary language and as an aidfor teaching English as a second language.Basic English is, in essence, a simplifiedsubset of regular English. It was presented inOgden's book Basic English : A GeneralIntroduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).Ogden’s associate I. A. Richards promoted itsuse in schools in China. More recently, it hasinfluenced the creation of Voice of America’sSpecial English for news broadcasting andSimplified English, another English-basedcontrolled language designed to writetechnical manuals.

15. (A) The Rivals is a comedy of manners playby Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts. Itwas first performed at Covent Garden Theatreon January 17, 1775. The play is now consi-dered to be one of Sheridan’s masterpieces,and the term malapropism was coined inreference to one of the characters in the play.

16. (A) Christopher Marlowe was an Englishdramatist, poet and translator of theElizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremostElizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatlyinfluenced William Shakespeare, who wasborn in the same year as Marlowe and whorose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethanplaywright after Marlowe's mysterious earlydeath. Marlowe's plays are known for the useof blank verse, and their overreachingprotagonists.

17. (A) 18. (C)

19. (C) The Canterbury Tales is a collection ofover 20 stories written in Middle English byGeoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14thcentury, during the time of the HundredYears' War. The tales are presented as part ofa story-telling contest by a group of pilgrimsas they travel together on a journey fromSouthwark to the shrine of Saint ThomasBecket at Canterbury Cathedral.

20. (B) Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was anEnglish writer of novels, biographies andtravel books; and also was a prolific journalistand reviewer.

21. (A)

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22. (D) Following the Equator is a non-fictiontravelogue published by American authorMark Twain in 1897.

23. (B) Songs of Innocence and of Experience isan illustrated collection of poems by WilliamBlake. It appeared in two phases. A few firstcopies were printed and illuminated byWilliam Blake himself in 1789; five yearslater he bound these poems with a set of newpoems in a volume titled Songs of Innocenceand of Experience Showing the Two ContraryStates of the Human Soul.

24. (C) George Cruikshank was a Britishcaricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the‘modern Hogarth’ during his life. His bookillustrations for his friend Charles Dickens,and many other authors, reached an inter-national audience.

25. (A) 26. (B) 27. (B)28. (D) Macbeth is a tragedy written by William

Shakespeare and is considered one of hisdarkest and most powerful works. Set inScotland, the play dramatizes the corrosivepsychological and political effects producedwhen evil is chosen as a way to fulfil theambition for power.

29. (B) 30. (C) 31. (C) 32. (A) 33. (C)34. (A) 35. (A) 36. (C) 37. (C)38. (C) Orientalism is a term used by art

historians and literary and cultural studiesscholars for the imitation or depiction ofaspects of Middle Eastern and East Asiancultures (Eastern cultures) by writers,designers and artists from the West.Since thepublication of Edward said’s Orientalism in1978, much academic discourse has begun touse the term ‘Orientalism’ to refer to ageneral patronizing Western attitude towards

Middle Eastern, Asian and North Africansocieties.

39. (C) Thomas Love Peacock was an Englishnovelist, poet and official of the East IndiaCompany. He was a close friend of PercyBysshe Shelley and they influenced eachother’s work. Peacock wrote satirical novels,each with the same basic setting — charactersat a table discussing and criticising thephilosophical opinions of the day. In his essay‘The Four Ages of Poetry’ he classifiedpoetry in four periods.

40. (C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a1969 postmodern historical fiction novel byJohn Fowles. It was his third published novel,after The Collector (1963) and The Magus(1965). The novel explores the fraughtrelationship of gentleman and amateurnaturalist, Charles Smithson, and the formergoverness and independent woman, SarahWoodruff, with whom he falls in love. Thenovel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorianliterature, both following and critiquing manyof the conventions of period novels.

41. (C) In rhetoric, chiasmus is the figure ofspeech in which two or more clauses arerelated to each other through a reversal ofstructures in order to make a larger point; thatis, the clauses display inverted parallelism.Chiasmus was particularly popular both inGreek and in Latin literature, where it wasused to articulate the balance of order withinthe text. As a popular example, many longand complex chiasmi have been found inShakespeare and the Greek and Hebrew textsof the Bible.

42. (D) 43. (C) 44. (D) 45. (A) 46. (D)

47. (D) 48. (B) 49. (D) 50. (B)

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1. In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imageryincludes—

(i) The fox and the vulture.

(ii) The fly and the cockroach.

(iii) The fly, the crow and the raven.

(iv) The fox, the vulture and the goat.

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct

(B) Only (iv) is correct

(C) (ii) and (iv) are correct

(D) (i) and (iii) are correct

2. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Imaginary Homelands’is—

(A) A discussion of imperialist assumptions

(B) An essay that propounds an anti-essen-tialist view of place

(C) An existential lament on triumphantcolonialism

(D) An orientalist description of his favouritehomelands

3. Identify the incorrect statement below—

(i) BASIC was an experiment initiated byC. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from1926 to about 1940.

(ii) Expanded, BASIC read : BroadlyAscertained Scientific InternationalCourse.

(iii) BASIC English was an attempt to reducethe number of essential words to 850.

(iv) While keeping to normal constructions,BASIC failed as an experiment becauseits documents were far too complicatedand technical to understand.

(A) (i) and (ii) (B) (ii) and (iv)

(C) (i) and (iii) (D) (iii) and (iv)

4. Items in a published book appear in thefollowing order—(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography,

Footnotes

(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index,Footnotes

(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliogra-phy, Index

(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index,Footnotes

5. Match the following—

(a) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith,William Cowper, George Crabbe.

(b) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan,Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley,John Donne.

(c) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, SiegfriedSassoon, Edmund Blunden, RobertGraves.

(d) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, JohnDrinkwater, Rupert Brooke.

1. Metaphysical poets

2. Transitional Poets

3. War Poets

4. Georgians

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 1 3 2(B) 4 2 4 1(C) 2 1 3 4(D) 1 3 4 2

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6. The following phrases from Shakespeare havebecome the titles of famous works. Identifythe correctly matched group.

(a) Pale Fire

(b) The Sound and the Fury

(c) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

(d) Under the Greenwood Tree

(e) Of Cakes and Ale

1. Thomas Hardy

2. Somerset Maugham

3. William Faulkner

4. Tom Stoppard

5. Vladimir Nabokov

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

(A) 5 4 3 1 2

(B) 3 5 2 3 1

(C) 5 3 4 1 2

(D) 3 4 2 5 1

7. Identify the statement that is Not True amongthose that explain ‘stage directions’ in drama.

(A) Stage directions inform readers how tostage, perform or imagine the play

(B) The place, time of action, design of theset and at times characters’ actions ortone of voice are indicated by stagedirections

(C) Stage directions are often italicized inthe text of a play in order to be spokenaloud

(D) Stage directions may appear at thebeginning of a play, before a scene orattached to a line of dialogue

8. The emergence of the concept of ‘Worldliterature’ is associated with—

(i) Friedrich Schiller

(ii) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(iii) Johann Goltfried Herder

(iv) Immanuel Kant

(A) (i) and (ii) (B) (iii) and (iv)

(C) (ii) and (iii) (D) (i) and (iv)

9. Gunter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogyknown as the Danzig Trilogy. The other twonovels 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 familycan afford a servant and her daughters havenothing to do with the kitchen. Who is theproud mother in this Jane Austen novel ?

(A) Mrs. Morland

(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh

(C) Mrs. Bennet

(D) Mrs. Dashwood

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 ofPegasus

(D) Both (A) and (B)

12. Which of the following statements on ThePrelude by William Wordsworth is/are nottrue ?

(i) The Prelude was published posthumously.

(ii) In this poem, Wordsworth records hisdevelopment as a poet.

(iii) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucialstages the poet celebrates the sublimenatural scenery in developing his spiri-tual, moral and imaginative nature.

(iv) Poems like ‘Michael’, ‘The Old Cum-berland Beggar’, ‘She dwelt among theuntrodden ways’, ‘Nutting’ etc. are thehighlights of this volume.

(A) (i) to (iv) are true

(B) (i) is not true

(C) (iv) is not true

(D) Only (iii) is true

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13. Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Dark-ness, Marlowe tells a lie to the Intended aboutKurtz when he tells her “The last word hepronounced was—your name”.

Reason (R) : Marlowe tells this lie becausehe is secretly in love with the Intended andtells her what she wants to hear.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is thecorrect explanation

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is notthe 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—

(i) Composition

(ii) Dictation

(iii) Cloze tests

(iv) Listening exercises

(v) Precis writing

(A) (iii) and (v)

(B) (i), (iii) and (iv)

(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv)

(D) (ii) and (iv)

15. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus arebased 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 ofstatus, from God to the lowest creature, wasprevalent in the Renaissance. In this hierar-chical continuum, man occupies the middleposition between the animal kinds and theangels.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 thelighthouse 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 thenineties or now, reading Barrack-RoomBallads and feeling that here was a writerwho 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 itremains true that he has far more interest inthe common soldier, far more anxiety that heshall get a fairer deal than most of the‘liberals’ of his day and our own. He sees thatthe soldier is neglected, meanly underpaidand hypocritically despised by the peoplewhose 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 ‘back-formation’—

Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle, bundle.

(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle(D) Bulk, poke, bundle

21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how allthree intercirculate, share in, and mutuallyconstitute each other.” What does it in thisstatement stand for ?

(A) Marxism (B) Structuralism(C) Formalism (D) New Historicism

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22. For, though, I’ve no idea.

What this accoutred frowsty ……… is worth,

It pleases me to stand in silence here. (Fill inthe blank).(A) Bar (B) Barn(C) Attic (D) Alcove

23. Which of the following novels is Not aPartition novel ?

(A) Azadi

(B) Tamas

(C) Clear Light of the Day

(D) That Long Silence

24. Of the following characters, which one doesnot belong to A House for Mr. Biswas ?

(A) Raghu (B) Ralph Singh

(C) Dehuti (D) Tara

25. In English literature, the trope of the vampirewas 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 principlesuniversally followed and easily recog-nized by people

(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principlesassumed to be fundamental to all naturallanguages

(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical prin-ciples assumed to be fundamental to allnatural languages

(D) It is a set of universally respected practi-ces that have come, in time, to be knownas ‘grammar’

27. Identify the novel with the wrong subtitlelisted below—

(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life

(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman

(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man ofCharacter

(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist

28. Match List-I with List-II—

List-I(a) David Malouf

(b) Patrick White

(c) Peter Carey

(d) Colin Johnson

List-II1. The Solid Mandala

2. Wild Cat Falling

3. Remembering Babylon

4. True History of the Kelly Gang

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 3 2 4

(B) 3 1 4 2

(C) 2 3 1 4

(D) 3 4 2 1

29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s AnnaKarenina, “Happy families are all alike, everyunhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The specific cause of the unhappiness inOblonsky’s house was the husband’s affairwith—(A) A kitchen-maid(B) An English governess(C) A French governess

(D) A socialite

30. This periodical had the avowed intention “toenliven morality with wit and to temper witwith morality … to bring philosophy out ofthe closets and libraries, schools and colleges,to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tablesand 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 JohnClare is about the experience of an ordinaryhuman being and became quite popularduring that time.

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