Model Paper III English Literature

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Paper III

. This genre-defying Shakespearean play is based on a popular prose romance written by one of the University Wits. The plot of the abandoned royal baby echoes Ovids Metamorphoses. Identify the play.

(a)As You Like It (b) Twelfth Night (c) The Winters Tale (d) Troilus and Cressida

. Who of the following appears as the Chorus in Shakespeares Pericles?(a) John of Gaunt (b) John Gower (c) Geoffrey Chaucer (d) Walter Ralegh

. Which play by Ben Jonson led him to be summoned before the Privy Council to answer charges of popery and treason?(a) Sejanus, His Fall (b) The Alchemist (c) The Poetaster (d) Everyman Out of His Humour

. Which of the following is not a feature of Cavalier poetry?(a) It was courtly (b) It employed a mocking and cynical tone (c) It employed the Carpe Diem theme (d) Courage and va

were its important themes

. The 17th century poet who cultivated an obscure and harsh style of verse called strong lines is ____.(a) John Donne (b) John Denham (c) John Cleveland (d) Abraham Cowley

. This book was written by a British philosopher on the social contract and the origins of creation of an ideal state, which hcalled Commonwealth. Published in 1651, this book was mistaken by some Royalists as an argument in favour ofCromwells Kingship. The sub-title of this book is The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and

Civil. Which is this book?

(a) Leviathan (b) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (c) Essay on the Law of Nature (d) The Social Contract

. In Gullivers Travels who are the unfortunate beings who are immortal, but not forever young that Lemuel meets atLuggnagg?

(a) Blefuscudians (b) Struldbrugs (c) Yahoos (d) The Low-Heels

. Which of the following novels is sub-titled The History of a Young Lady?(a) Pamela (b) Clarissa (c) Shirley (d)Agnes Grey

. Which of the following is not correctly matched?(a) Winston Smith Aldous Huxley (b) Jake Donaghue Iris Murdoch (c) Edwin Clayhanger Arnold Bennett (d) Jack

Merridew William Golding

0.Which of the following novels is set in Tabasco in Mexico?(a) Brave New World (b) Chrome Yellow (c) The Man of Property (d) The Power and the Glory

1.Given below are lines from John Donnes poem The Canonization.Well build in sonnets pretty rooms;

As well a well-wrought urn becomes

The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,

And by these hymns all shall approve

Us canonizd for love

What does the verb become means?

(a) Even an urn will be destroyed by time (b) Even the most beautiful things in this world have come out of ashes

(c) A well-wrought urn is best suited to contain the greatest ashes (d) Even a beautiful urn will contain only ashes

2.Who of the following has written Boston poems?(a) T.S. Eliot (b) W.H. Auden (c) Elizabeth Jennings (d) Ted Hughes

3. In which of these novels is a woman caught and tried for child murder?(a)Adam Bede (b) Far from the Madding Crowd (c) Villette (d) The Old Curiosity Shop

4. In which Book ofParadise Lostdoes Adam refer to his own sin as a felix culpa or happy fault?


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(a) Book IV (b) Book IX (c) Book XI (d) Book XII

5. InA Tale of Two Cities who of the following is a villainous character, an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, whoseeks personal revenge against the Evremonde family?

(a) Mr. Lorry (b) Madame Defarge (c) John Barsad (d) Dr. Manette

6.Which of the following works was inspired by Boileaus Le Lutrin and Tassonis Secchia Repita?(a) Everyman in His Humour (b) Comus (c) Mac Flecknoe (d) The Battle of the Books

7.Which major novelist has also written plays, non-fiction and critical works including Studies in Classic American Literaturewell as travel books such as Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places, and Morning in Mexico?

(a) D.H. Lawrence (b) James Joyce (c) Lawrence Durrell (d) Aldous Huxley

8.Which of the following novels is about a novelist working on a fictional novel titled Free Women?(a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (b) Under the Net (c) Bring Up the Bodies (d) The Golden Notebook

9.The novel Every Day is Mothers Dayand its sequel Vacant Possessions are by ________.(a) Jhumpa Lahiri (b) Bapsi Sidhwa (c) Hilary Mantel (d) Joyce Carol Oates

0.Charles Strickland, modeled on the artist Paul Gauguin, is a character in ________.(a) The Razors Edge (b) The Moon and Six Pence (c) Cakes and Ale (d) The Painted Veil

1.What is the sub-title of the Booker Prize winning novel Possession?(a) A Romance (b) A Tragicomedy (c) A Historical Farce (d) A Satire

2.Which is Robert Brownings dramatic poem representing a silk-winder and his wanderings in Italy?(a) The Ring and the Book (b) Sordello (c) Paraselsus (d) Pippa Passes

3.Who of the following wrote the famous novel The Room at the Top, inspired by his experiences at the Bingley Little Thea(a) Kingsley Amis (b) John Braine (c) Arnold Wesker (d) Edward Bond

4.Which historical figure is the central character in Bernard Shaws play, The Man of Destiny?(a) Hitler (b) Napoleon (c) Tsar Nicholas (d) Louis XIV

5.Oscar Wildes play Salome was originally written in ________.(a) Italian (b) French (c) Spanish (d) None of these

6.Which of the following critics criticized Paradise Lostfor lacking in human interest?(a) Dr. Johnson (b) George Saintsbury (c) William Hazlitt (d) F.R. Leavis

7.About which of the following writers are the following statements true?(i) They believed that contemporary society and politics are oppressive.

(ii) They wanted to establish an egalitarian society on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the US.

(iii) This plan did not work out.

(a) Emerson and Thoreau (b) Marx and Engels (c) Hawthorne and Melville (d) Southey and Coleridge

8.What did Wordsworth define as the state of being conscious of myself, / And of some other being?(a) Sub-consciousness (b) Double consciousness (c) Two-consciousnesses (d) Empathy

9.Who of the following wrote about a water spidera cinque-spotted shadow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunnbottom of the brookas a complex philosophical and Christian symbol?(a) Southey (b) Coleridge (c) Blake (d) Yeats

0.Which of the following critics held the view that a poet should handle sound subject matter with high seriousness?(a) Matthew Arnold (b) I.A. Richards (c) T.S. Eliot (d) Ezra Pound

1.This 1938 book established a genre of unconventional theatre in France which endorsed violent, austere, physicaltechniques to shatter the false reality that lies like a shroud over our perceptions. This theatre sought to disturb the

spectators profoundly, free their unconscious repressions and oblige men to view themselves as they really are. Which

this book?

(a) The Theatre and Its Double (b) The Theatre of the Absurd (c) The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (d) Theatre of t

Oppressed


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(a) iv, iii, i, ii (b) iii, iv, i, ii (c) iii, ii, i, iv (d) ii, iii, i, iv

7.Which of the following poets attempted a Biryanization of English in his poetry?(a) Agha Shahid Ali (b) Adil Jussawalla (c) Saleem Peeradina (d) Tabish Khair

8.Who of the following has written a play about Kalidasa and his beloved, Mallika?(a) Mohan Rakesh (b) Badal Sircar (c) Girish Karnad (d) Asif Currimbhoy

9.Which of the following poems is sub-titled A Legend and a Symbol?(a) Tilottama (b) Our Casuarina Tree (c) Savitri (d) Gitanjali

0.Match these regional authors with the languages in which they write in:(i) Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1) Gujarati

(ii) Pannalal Patel (2) Urdu

(iii) Satinath Bhaduri (3) Oriya

(iv) Krishan Chander (4) Bengali

(a) 2, 4, 1, 3 (b) 3, 1, 4, 2 (c) 3, 4, 2, 1 (d) 4, 2, 1, 3

1.The Hungry generation was a group of writers in the ________ language.(a) Gujarati and Rajasthani (b) Gujarati (c) Oriya and Bengali (d) Bengali

2.At the beginning of Karnads play Hayavadana, who is described as the destroyer of incompleteness?(a) Shiva (b) Indra (c) Ganesha (d) Vishnu

3.Which of the following novels can be characterized as a memory novel?(a) The Shadow Lines (b) Such a Long Journey (c) The Calcutta Chromosome (d) Fury

4.Which of the following American plays is set in Harry Hopes saloon and hotel?(a) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (b) The Childrens Hour (c) The Iceman Cometh (d) The Crucible

5.Norman Mailers The Naked and the Deadis set against the __________.(a) I World War (b) II World War (c) Cold War (d) Vietnam War

6. In which of the following novels does the protagonist write undelivered long letters to friends, philosophers and even toGod?

(a) Henderson the Rain King (b) Humboldts Gift (c) Herzog (d) The Dangling Man7.Who wrote the novel The Red Badge of Courage set against the American Civil War?

(a) Stephen Crane (b) Theodore Dreiser (c) Jack London (d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. In which of the following novels is Quentin Compson the narrator?(a)Absalom, Absalom! (b)As I Lay Dying (c) Light in August (d)A Rose for Emily

9.Mary Tyrone, a drug-addict who lives in memories of her past, is the protagonist of a semi-autobiographical play by_______.

(a) Arthur Miller (b) Eugene ONeill (c) Tennessee Williams (d) Lillian Hellman

0.Which character in Moby Dickinfluences Ahab with his prophesies?(a) Starbuck (b) Queequeg (c) Tashtego (d) Fedallah

1.This novel forms part of the Dantesque Trilogy of Toni Morrison, and is set during the Reconstruction era in 1873. ThisFemale Gothic novel explores the psychological and historical legacy of slavery. Sethe and Denver are important

characters. Identify this novel.

(a) Tar Baby (b)Jazz (c) Beloved (d) Song of Solomon

2.Lambert Strether, an American who travels from America to Paris, and changes from an American to a European view ofthings, is a character in Henry Jamess ________.

(a) The Golden Bowl (b) The Portrait of a Lady (c) The Wings of the Dove (d) The Ambassadors

3.The Cairo Trilogyis written by _________.(a) Leila Aboulela (b) Naguib Mahfouz (c) Hanif Kureishi (d) Khaled Hosseini


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4.The essay Where Angels Fear to Tread, which offers a scathing attack of colonialist criticism of African literature, waswritten by _________.

(a) Ngugi wa Thiongo (b) Chinua Achebe (c) Wole Soyinka (d) Breyten Breytenbach

5.This poet from Mexico was an ambassador to India, a post he resigned in protest against the massacre of hundreds ofMexican students in 1968. The labyrinth of Solitude, his best-known work, is a book-length essay. He won the Nobel Pri

1990. Identify this writer.

(a) Octavio Paz (b) Pablo Neruda (c) Carlos Fuentes (d) Miguel Angel Asturias

6.The novel Oscar and Lucinda is set in the 19th century and is a postmodern pastiche of the Victorian novel. Identify theauthor.(a) Peter Carey (b) Margaret Atwood (c) Michael Ondaatje (d) Yann Martel

7.George Bowering is a poet, critic and novelist from __________.(a) New Zealand (b) Australia (c) Canada (d) South Africa

8.The Artist of Disappearance is a 2011 book by _________.(a) Shashi Deshpande (b) Kiran Desai (c) Anita Desai (d) Anita Nair

9.About which of the following topics is the narrator inZorba the Greekwriting a book?(a) agriculture (b) industry (c) classicism (d) Buddhism

0.The businessman Lopakhin is a character in __________.(a)Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment (c) Cancer Ward (d) The Cherry Orchard

1.Luigi Pirandellos Six Characters in Search of an Authorbegins with _________.(a) a riot (b) a rehearsal (c) a stage performance (d) a street fight

2.Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing. Tquotation from Dryden is an example for the figure of speech __________.

(a) Metaphor (b) Analepsis (c) Antonomasia (d) Hyperbole

3.Byrons Don Juan is written in _________ metre.(a) ottava rima (b) terza rima (c) heroic stanza (d) heroic couplet

4.When rhyme occurs only in the last syllable of lines, it is called _______ rhyme.(a) masculine (b) feminine (c) regular (d) accented

5.Rime royal consists of seven lines, usually in ____________(a) iambic pentameter (b) iambic hexameter (c) dactylic pentameter (d) Irregular metre


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