ENGLISH NET DECEMBER 2015 PAPER III With Answers

ENGLISH  PAPER III 

Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory. 

1. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the word "Bowdlerize". What does it mean ?
(1) the expurgation of indelicate language
(2) the modernization of archaic vocabulary
(3) the insertion of bawdy songs
(4) the expansion of female characters

2. First follow________and your judgement frame. By her just________,which is still the same.
Supply the appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
(1)wit, law
(2) reason, rule
(3) nature, standard
(4) sense, criterion


3. Preparation of vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was carried out by_________
(1) Otto Jespersen
(2) Noam Chomsky
(3) N.S. Prabhu
(4) Michael West

4. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use "Empire" rather than imperialism. According to them :
(1)There is only one empire and we had better recognize it. Hence the Empire with E upper case.
(2There may be many empires but only one is patently visible and operational. That is denoted by Empire with E upper case.
(3)The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence we ought to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case.
(4)The culturally dominant global empire is the only one that really matters. We signify that Empire with E upper case.

5. Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs "of adolescence" ?
(1) F.R. Leavis
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) I.A. Richards

6. Two among the following critical journals became strongly associated with New Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review 
(b) Southern Review 
(c) Kenyon Review 
(d) Hudson Review 

The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)

7. Match the columns :
(a) Robert Burton                      (i)Urn Burial
(b) Richard Hooker                   (ii)The Unfortunate Traveller
(c) Thomas Browne                  (iii)The Anatomy of Melancholy
(d) Thomas Nashe                    (iv)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politic

       (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)
(1) (iii)   (i)    (ii)  (iv)
(2) (iv)   (ii)   (i)   (iii)
(3) (iii)  (iv)   (i)   (ii)
(4) (i)    (iii)  (iv)  (ii)

8. Which of the following characters in The White Devil describes the glory of great men as : "Glories, like glow worms a far off shine bright / But looked to near have neither heat nor light".
(1) Vittoria
(2) Lodovico
(3) Flamineo
(4) Cornelia

9. In which of Philip Larkin's poem does he refer to "long uneven lines" of men waiting to be enlisted for the war ?
("Never such innocence again" concludes the poem)
(1) "Mr. Bleaney"
(2) "Mc MXIV"
(3) "Ambulances"
(4) "Sad Steps"

10. In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa one morning found himself changed in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa was 

(1) to look at his image in the mirror 

(2) to remember what happened the day before
(3) to communicate with anyone
(4) to brush his teeth

11. Identify the individual who is a nihilist from the following : 

(1) Pechorin in A Hero of Our Times  

(2) Bazarov in Fathers and Sons
(3)Levin in Anna Karenina
(4)Oblomov in Oblomov 

12. Which of these works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of a Superfluous Man ?
(1) The Diary of a Superfluous Man 
(2) A Hero of our Own Times 
(3) Eugene Onegin
(4) Dead Souls 

13. What is Gilgamesh ?     

(a)a Babylonian epic poem
(b)a series of gnomic verses
(c)a classical play
(d)the story of a harsh ruler

(1)(a) and (b) 

(2) (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b)

14. American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of________  published in ________

(1) Merriam Webster, 1903
(2) H.L. Mencken, 1930
(3) Noah Webster, 1828
(4) Benjamin Franklin, 1768

15. Which of the following texts of Amitav Ghosh is based on the refugee occupation of an island in the Sundarvans ? 

(1)Sea of Poppies  

(2) The Hungry Tide
(3) River of Smoke
(4) The Glass Palace

16. Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as "A Child's Story" ?
(1) "Bells and Pomegranates"
(2) "Pauline"
(3) "Fifine at the Fair"
(4) "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"

17. Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966 :
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) Allen Tate
(4) Robert Penn Warren

18. "The Gilded Age" refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades of the twentieth century.
Who among the following American writers is credited with the coining of the term ?
(1) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Mark Twain
(3) William Dean Howells
(4) Theodore Dreiser

19. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that.
(1) Signalled the end of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Feudalism.
(2) Signalled the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
(3) Covered the fall of peasantry and the rise of bureaucracy in England.
(4) Suggest the period of Queen Anne's reign.

20. Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute__________of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power, Before the________  beak could let her drop.
Yeats, "Leda and the Swan".
Choose the right words for the blanks :
(1) beast, shiny 

(2) force, animal

(3) blood, indifferent
(4) thrust, irate

21. Match the following :

     


      (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)
(1) (iv)  (i)   (ii)  (iii)
(2) (ii)  (iii)  (iv)  (i)
(3) (iv) (iii)   (i)   (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv)   (i)   (ii)

22. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me ?
Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph ?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) Frankenstein
(3) Don Juan 
(4) Jude the Obscure 

23. A literary researcher now faced with choosing between a print text and its digital counterpart chooses the latter mostly to : 

(1)facilitate the consultation of an exhaustive bibliography  

(2) avoid the expense of buying books
(3)look for specific words and phrases and lines
(4)enhance his/her understanding of textual variants, if any, between the two media

24. Which of the following statements on Hudibras are true ?
(a) It is a novel written by Matthew Prior.
(b) It is a satirical poem published in 3 parts.
(c) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler.
(d) Hudibras discusses complex issues of justice, politics and religion.

(1) (c) and (d) are true
(2) (a) and (d) are true
(3) (b) and (c) are true
(4) (a) and (b) are true

25. The formalist critic _________  mocked the character - based criticism of________by posing a famous question, "How many children had Lady Macbeth" ? 

(1)F.R. Leavis, E.K. Chambers  

(2)Cleanth Brooks, F.L. Lucas
(3)Monroe Beardsley, Kenneth Burke
(4) L.C. Knights, A.C. Bradley

26. Which of the following pair of words does not have two different vowel glides ?
(1) care, pure
(2) write, freight
(3) caught, court
(4) eight, ate

27. Assertion (A) : Arts will often work obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their best 'criticism of life' simply by being; they may best state by not stating.

Reason (R) : It follows, if even only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an important social function. [...] Arts can give greater depth to a society's sense of itself. [...] A country without great art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but would be a sorry society.

(1) Reason (R) is perfectly aligned with Assertion (A) 
(2) Assertion (A) is unrelated to Reason (R)
(3) Assertion (A) hardly reflects Reason (R)'s elaboration
(4) Reason (R), in fact, contradicts Assertion (A)

28. Which of the following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme ? 

(1) friend - friendship

(2) courage - courageous
(3) rely - reliable
(4) climate - climactic

29. Which of these statements is incorrect about presentism and its basic premises ?
(1) Hugh Grady is its principal proponent.
(2) Our knowledge of works from the past is conditioned by and dependent upon the ideologies of the present.
(3) Presentism does not contextualize cultural production in the same way or make use of the theorists that New Historicism does. 

(4) Historicism itself necessarily produces an implicit allegory of the present in its configuration of the past.

30. "Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief", was Samuel Johnson's criticism of a famous poem. Which poem was it ?
(1) P.B. Shelley's "Adonais"
(2) Philip Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella"
(3) Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard"
(4) John Miltion's "Lycidas"

31. The story is grounded in the forbidden nature of Aschenbach's Obsession with a young boy; its author ultimately links the obsession with death, disease and esthetic disintegration.
The author of the story is :
(1) Goethe
(2) Mann
(3) Borges
4) Proust

32. Which of the following novels of Joseph Conrad is set in Malay ? 

(1) Nigger of the Narcissus 

(2) Lord Jim 
(3) Nostromo 
(4) Heart of Darkness 

33. Nuruddin Farah's Maps tells the story of ________
(1) Abida
(2) Abu 

(3) Askar
(4) Andy

34. One of the most quoted statements on poetry by John Keats is reproduced with blanks below. Complete the statement with correct words.
"If Poetry__________ as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it_________at all".
(1) does not come; had better not come
(2) comes not; might come not
(3) come not; had better not come
(4) come not; did not come

35. Manohar Malgonkar was a hunter, a lieutenant colonel in the British army, and a tea-planter. He also wrote a memorable novel about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially Peshwa Baji Rao II. What is that novel ?
(1) A Distant Drum 
(2) A Combat of Shadows 
(3) A Bend in the Ganges 
(4) The Devil's Wind 

36. Who wrote the screenplay for the film version of John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman ? 

(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Tom Stoppard
(3) David Mamet
(4) Caryl Phillips

37. "How all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters".
What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do they violate ?
(1) mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action
(2) mixed tragedies; unity of action
(3) multi-plot drama; unity of time
(4) mingled yarn; unity of place

38. There is a large number of religious poems in Old English Poetry. One of the finest is the Dream of the Rood. The words 'the Rood' in the title means :
(1) the Cross
(2) the Christian
(3) the Infidel
(4) the Cardinal

39. Identify from among the following, the one incorrect statement on M. Anantanarayanan's Silver Pilgrimage (1961) :
(1) M. Anantanarayanan modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque novels in English.
(2) The Silver Pilgrimage is M. Anantanarayanan's only foray into fiction.
(3) This novel is mainly an account of the adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan prince of the sixteenth century.
(4) Among the literary texts quoted by the novel are lines from Shakespeare, Donne and Rilke and classical Tamil poets.

40. Listed below are the titles of some influential books by Frank Kermode. Identify which one of the titles that does NOT belong to the set.
(1) The Sense of an Ending 
(2) Not Entitled - A Memoir 
(3) The Genesis of Secrecy 
(4) The Great Code : The Bible and Literature 

41. Identify the one erroneous statement on Neoclassicism listed below :
(1) Lodovico Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso greatly influenced English writers like Milton and Dryden.
(2) Neoclassicism took its final form during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715).
(3) Boilean's L'Art poetique influenced Pope's Essay on Criticism.
(4) The English relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this dialogue is effected in Addison's An Essay on Dramatic Poesy.

42. In his Poems of Love and War, a collection of classic Indian poems in English translation, A.K. Ramanujan sought to revive an ancient _________ poetic tradition. Choose the right word.
(1) Tamil
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Kannada
(4) Pali

43. Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they appear in Emerson's "Self-Reliance" :
(a) To be great is to be misunderstood.
(b) Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
(c) If it so bad then to be misunderstood!
(d) It is a right fool's word.
(e) Misunderstood!

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

44. X ... Do you know it is nearly seven ?
Y (irritably) Oh! it always is nearly seven.
X well, I'm hungry.
Y I never knew you when you weren't ...
X What shall we do after dinner ? Go to a theatre ?
Y Oh no! I loathe listening.
X Well, let us go to the club ?
Y Oh no! I hate talking.
X Well, we might trot round to the Empire at ten ?
Y Oh no! I can't bear looking at things. It is so silly.
X Well, what shall we do ?
Y Nothing!
X It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
Identify the speakers in this dialogue :
(1) Aston (X) to Mick (Y) The Caretaker 
(2) Algernon (X) to Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest 
(3) Lucky (X) to Pozzo (Y) Waiting for Godot 
(4) Man (X) to the Woman (Y) The Waste Land 

45. Which of these Greek plays was a source for The Winter's Tale ?
(1) Iphigeneia at Aulis 
(2) Alcestis 
(3) Medea
(4) Iphigeneia at Tauris 

46. Sweet is the lore which nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things :
We murder to dissect. 

                                    - Wordsworth
Which of the following best summarises the speaker's position ?
(1) Nature is incomplete without a human witness to attest to its beauty.
(2) Human endeavours will succeed only if the laws of nature are taken into account.
(3) Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) The flaws inherent in human nature are also evident in the natural world.

47. (a) Jean Baudrillard tells us that postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra artificially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity.
(d) It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term "simulacra".
Which of the above statements are true ?
(1) (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)

48. Which of the following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition ?
(1) Listening - Reading - Speaking - Writing
(2) Writing - Reading - Listening - Speaking
(3) Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
(4) Reading - Listening - Speaking - Writing

49. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the poems of Derek Walcott ?
(1) His poem "Goats and Monkeys" has an epigraph from Shakespeare's Othello 
(2) In "The Sadhu of Couva" Walcott refers to Diwali, Hanuman and the Ramayana
(3) Walcott has written a poem entitled "Jean Rhys"
(4) In "A Far Cry From Africa" Walcott depicts his divided loyalties in the context of the Changuna Uprising

50. In Shakespeare's time who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
(1) the playwright(s)
(2) the patron of the acting company
(3) the printer
(4) the acting company

51. Which of the following sentences uses more than three cohesive devices ? 

(1)At that time a person could drive for miles without seeing a house.
(2)All of them could recite the poem yesterday.
(3)You can use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.
(4) As soon as Mohan entered the stadium the crowd cheered.

52. Match the columns :
                   Indian Text                                                        English Translator
(a) The love of Kamarupa and Kamalata                            (i) William Jones
(b) Ramayana                                                                      (ii) Nathaniel Halhed
(c) Upanishads                                                                    (iii) W. Franklin
(d) Abhijnan Sakuntalam                                                    (iv) T.H. Griffith

       (a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

53. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the New Bolt Report, "The Teaching of English in England" ? 

(1)It was commissioned in 1919.
(2)It urged the teaching of the national literature.
(3)It proposed the teaching of English Literature at the university level.
(4)It aimed at uniting divided classes after the war.

54. This revenge tragedy opens with the long soliloquy of the protagonist carrying the skull of his poisoned fiance' and swearing vengeance for the old Duke who has committed the vicious act. Identify the play.
(1) The Spanish Tragedy 
(2) The Revenger's Tragedy 
(3) The Duchess of Malfi 
(4) The Changeling 

55. What did Anthony Trollope seek to criticize through the character Mr. Slope ?
(1) Methodism
(2) Low Churchmen
(3) High Church doctrine
(4) Anglicanism

56. "To refer to symbols as 'Lacanian symbols', to dub self-doubt as 'Lacanian self-doubt', and to call reflections in a mirror 'Lacanian reflections' is not to read the mind from a perspective informed by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to Barthes' hermeneutic code and Foucault's analysis of sexual discourse constitute an interpretation necessarily different from that of traditional humanist criticism".
The author of the passage is objecting to critics who__________
(1) try to force a parallel between recent critical approaches and traditional humanist criticism.
(2) decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories without employing the methodology.
(3) attempt to reduce the study of literature to a hunt for coded messages and symbols.
(4) stubbornly maintain a traditional notion of the role of criticism while refusing to acknowledge new theoretical developments.

57. Peter Ackroyd's first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens text.
(1) Great Expectations 
(2) Little Dorrit 
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop 

58. Which of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen deals with the perils that await the emancipated woman in a society which is not ready to accept her ? 

(1) A Doll's House   

(2) An Enemy of the People 
(3) Hedda Gabler
(4) Pillars of Society 

59. "Yet it is the masculine values that prevail", observed a famous writer "Speaking cruelly", she continued, "football and sport are 'important', the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial'."
Name the author and the text.
(1) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 
(2) Audre Lorde "Age, Race, Class..."
(3) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own 
(4) Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie 

60. According to coleridge, the "secondary imagination" "dissolves, diffuses,___________, in order to recreate...".
Choose the right word for the blank.
(1) disintegrates
(2) dissipates
(3) displaces
(4) dissociates

61. Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher commenced the publication of a series of modern Indian novels in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty novels of repute from almost all Indian languages. Identify the publisher.
(1) Asia Publishing House
(2) Macmillan India
(3) Jaico
(4) Arnold Heinemann

62. William Dunbar's Lament for the makers is about :
(1) kings
(2) priests
(3) poets
(4) peasants

63. Who among the following protagonists of Thomas Hardy feels his lot as akin to Job's ?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy

64. Edward Brathwaite's poem "Calypso" assumes that you are familiar with _________

(1)the business of Calypso during the Middle Passage  

(2)the West Indian music in syncopated African rhythm
(3)the folk ways and mores of Trinidadian merchants
(4) the operatic performance of Banjos

65. Which of the modern plays by a British playwright actually puts Shakespeare as character on stage ?
(1) Edward Bond's Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter's Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan's Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton's Loot 

66. A famous challenge to the Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic considerations came from Edmund Burke. His work was titled : 

(1)An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the sublime and the Beautiful 

(2)Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful 
(3)An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime 
(4)Philosophical Enquiry into Our Original Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime 

67. Match the following :
           List-A                                                                  List-B
(a) The Grammar - Translation Method          (i) comprehensible input
(b) The Direct Method                                    (ii) strategic use of mother tongue
(c) Total Physical Response                           (iii) shuns mother tongue
(d) The Natural Approach                              (iv) oral input

      (a)  (b)  (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

68. Which of these works by Indian writers does NOT have the Naxalite Movement as a background ?
(1) Mother of 1084 
(2) The Lives of Others 
(3) The Shadow Lines 
(4) The Lowland 

69. "So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And music shall untune the sky"
These are the closing lines of a famous poem.
Identify the poem.
(1) Il penseroso
(2) "Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
(3) "The Good - Morrow"
(4) "Song : The Year's at the Spring"

70. This eighteenth-century English poem imitates spenser in stanza form and in allegorical narrative : passers - by are lured by an enchanter with promises of ease, luxury, and aesthetic delight, then consigned to a dungeon where they languish in apathy and impotence until the Knight of Arts and Industry dissolves the spell. Identify the poem.
(1) The Vanity of Human Wishes 
(2) The Seasons 
(3) The Castle of Indolence 
(4) The Task 

71. Which of the following statements on the Hogarth press is FALSE ?
(1) The Hogarth press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf
(2) Its location was their home, called Hogarth House
(3) The press was solely devoted to publishing international classics in translation
(4) The press published translations of Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rilke, Svevo and others

Read the below passage and answer questions 72 to 75 that follow :

                        THE ANTIGUA THAT I knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua you, a tourist, would see now. That Antigua no longer exists. That Antigua no longer exists partly for the usual reason, the passing of time, and partly because the bad-minded people who used to rule over it, the English, no longer do so. (But the English have become such a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with themselves now that they no longer have one quarter of the earth's human population bowing and scraping before them. They don't seem to know that this empire business was all wrong and they should, at least, be wearing sackcloth and ashes in token penance of the wrongs committed, the irrevocableness of their bad deeds, for no natural disaster imaginable could equal the harm they did. Actual death might have been better. And so all this fuss over empire - what went wrong here, what went wrong there - always makes me quite crazy, for I can say to them what went wrong : they should never have left their home, their precious England, a place they loved so much, a place they had to leave but could never forget. And so everywhere they went they turned it into England; and everybody they met they turned English. But no place could ever really be England, and nobody who did not look exactly like them would ever be English, so you can imagine the destruction of people and land that came from that. The English hate each other and they hate England, and the reason they are so miserable now is that they have no place else to go and nobody else to feel better than.) 

72. To whom is the passage directly addressed ?
(1) readers
(2) non-antiguans
(3) tourists
(4) the English

73. The English feel extremely miserable because :
(1) Their political supremacy is over
(2) They do not have anyone else to feel superior to
(3) They have been reduced to a state of non-entity
(4) They have no lands to colonise

74. Do the British realize that colonizing countries was a bad practice, according to the narrator ?
(1) Yes; they do
(2) No; they don't
(3) The narrator is rather unsure they do
(4) The narrator is rather unsure they don't

75. Which of the following best describes the content of the extract ?
(1) The speaker fervently desires better understanding between the English and the colonized people in post colonial times
(2) The speaker is interested in nostalgic tours of emigre antiguans to their childhood home
(3) The speaker whose childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change currently evident in the pungent irony
(4) The speaker is making a case for the penance of the English, the erstwhile rulers of Antigua. 

ENGLISH NET DECEMBER 2015 PAPER II with Answers

ENGLISH PAPER II 

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.

1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience ?
(1) John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Isaac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot

2. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance ?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin

3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels ?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin

4. A poet once referred to an old man as "A tattered coat upon a stick". That is an example of__________
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor

5. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy ?
(1) Lycidas
(2) In Memoriam 
(3) Thyrsis 
(4) Adonais

6. In Beckett's Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self-professed intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots

7. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier ?
(1) George Puttenham
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh
(4) Thomas Wyatt

NB: No option is correct/The question is wrong

8. Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension. The novels are :
(a) A Fringe of Leaves 
(b) The Tree of Man 
(c) Voss 
(d) The Aunty's Story 

The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d)

9. In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the 'Carnivalesque' ?
(1)"Discourse in the novel"
(2)Dialogic Imagination 
(3)Rabelais and his world 
(4)"Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel"

10. Match the columns :
        (Author)                                   (Text)
(a) Sebastian Faulks                (i) Amsterdam 
(b) Peter Ackroyd                    (ii) Changing Places
(c) Ian McEwan                       (iii) Hawksmoor 
(d) David Lodge                       (iv) Birdsong 

Codes :
      (a)   (b)    (c)    (d)
(1) (i)    (ii)   (iii)   (iv)
(2) (ii)   (iii)   (i)    (iv)
(3) (iv)  (iii)   (i)     (ii)
(4) (iii)  (iv)   (ii)    (i)

11. In New Criticism, the key term 'tension' is associated with
(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate

12. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded ?
(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters

13. Who among the war Poets gained notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of "wilful defiance of the military authority" which captured attention in the House of Commons, and. was forcibly admitted to the war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being court-martialled ?
(1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegfried Sassoon
(3) Wilfred Owen
(4) Isaac Rosenberg

14. If you cannot understand an argument and remark, "It's Greek to me", you are quoting________
(1) John Milton
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) John Donne

15. Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile ?
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel 
(2) Marmion
(3) Ivanhoe 
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border 

16. Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka ?
(1) Home and Exile
(2) Kongi's Harvest
(3) The interpreters
(4) The Swamp Dwellers

17. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says : " Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue". Which of the following forms of poesy offers a foil that helps us perceive the beauty- of virtue ?
(1) Pastorals
(2) Parody
(3) Comedy
(4) Tragedy

18. John Dryden described a major English poet as "a rough diamond, and must first he polished ere he shines ....." Identify him :
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) John Gower
(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Herrick

19.In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson's definition of the nation as "an imagined political community" :
"Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional method -an underlying stance and approach - that a novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways".
Name the critic and the reference
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and the city 
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture

20. "Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny". The above lines are characterized by :
(1) circumlocution
(2) antithesis 
(3) anticlimax
(4) bathos

21. In his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from "This saving counsel, 'keep your piece nine years— - which enjoins on writer's patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose "counsel" is Pope referring to ?
(1) Longinus's in On the Sublime
(2) Horace's in Ars Poetica
(3) Quintilian's Institutio Oratorio
(4) Aristotle's Poetics

22. An English architect and stage-designer - Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to design masques - contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death - the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate scene-changes on the English stage.
Identify this artist/designer.
(1) Henry Irving
(2) Inigo Jones 
(3) Henry Arthur Jones
(4) William Inge

23.__________may be defined as any departure from the rules of pronunciation or diction, for the sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.
(1) Poetic license 
(2) Poetic justice
(3) Poetic deviance
(4) Poetic diction

24. That Humanities and the sciences were in fact "two cultures" was suggested by________
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on poetry
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on poetry
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture

25. Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk :
(1)is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
(2)cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
(3)courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
(4)spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty

26. Divided into three sections this ground-breaking work published in 1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.
(1) Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God
(2) James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain 
(3) Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
(4) Richard Wright's Native Son

27. Chartism, a political movement that took its name from the People's Charter had six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist :      

(a)universal manhood sufferage
(b)equal electoral districts
(c)comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(d)vote by secret ballot
(e)payment of MPs
(f)no property qualifications for MPs
(g)Annual parliaments

Codes : 

(1) (e) 

(2) (g)
(3) (c)
(4) (d)

28. These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye...
                         ("Tintern Abbey Lines")
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits these lines ? 

(1) Apostrophe
(2) Litotes 

(3) Hyperbole
(4) Catachresis

NB: No option is correct/ The question is wrong

29. The 'monster' in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of :
(1) Clerval
(2) Justine
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein

30. Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land ? 

(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear 

(3) Coriolanus
(4) The Tempest

31. Identify the group below which is known as the "Sons of Ben".
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel Butler
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph 
(4) William Holman Hunt, John E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, William Morris

32. Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it ? 

(1) Edward II 

(2) The Jew of Malta 
(3) Doctor Faustus 
(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage 

33. "When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness".
Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus. 

(1) Samuel Beckett  

(2) Harold Pinter 
(3) Luigi Pirandello
(4) Joe Orton

34. The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither__________ nor__________ but the number of syllables in a line. 

(1) number, numbers
(2) sounds, silences

(3) stress, quantity 

(4) gists, piths

35. In Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, which painter does Andrea del Sarto compare himself to ? What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison ? 

(1)Fra Lippo Lippi - humour
(2)Raphael - Soul 
(3)Leonardo da Vinci - Verisimilitude
(4)Botticelli - liveliness

36. In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism ? 

(1) "Thalaba" 

(2) The Curse of Kehama 
(3) "Pitying the wolves"
(4) Country Horrors ! 

37. The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English :
"I kept on creeping just the same, but 1 looked at him over my shoulder. 'I've got out at last', said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the papers, so you can't put me back !
       " Now why should that man have fainted ? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time !" 

(1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
(2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P.Gilman) 
(3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plalth)
(4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ? (Joyce C. Oates)

38. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-American writer which was later published as :
(1) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 
(3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 

39. Samuel Johnson's "Dissertation upon Poetry" is part of which of his following works ?
(1) the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas 
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Rambler essays

40. A new series called "New Accents" was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was
(1) Deconstruction : Theory and Practice
(2) Formalism and Marxism
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics 
(4) Making and Difference : Feminist Literary criticism 

41. "Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... The language, too, of these men has been adopted... because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived". Which of the following groups of the author's poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800) contradict this statement in the "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", as pointed out by S.T. Coleridge ?
(1) "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality", Prelude.
(2) The Tasks, Seasons. 
(3) "Michael", "Ruth", "The Brothers". 
(4) "Elegy Written in a country churchyard", "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands".

42. A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short book on what the novel is (and why it matters) remarked, "Oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story". Identify the novelist :

(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce
(3) E.M. Forster 
(4) D.H. Lawrence

43. What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book V) ? 

(1) Michael
(2) Abdiel 

(3) Uriel
(4) Gabriel

44. Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in English literature ? (1) The Cockney School
(2) The Fireside School 
(3) The Lake School
(4) The Satanic School

45. The idea of "new ethnicities" in post-war Britain was advanced by_________
(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart Hall 
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi

46. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse begins in a piece of dialogue :
             "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow", said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with lark", she added.
              Present among the listeners of her remark is_________
(1) her father
(2) her nephew
(3) her son 
(4) her driver

47. Match the phrase with character :
(a) "motiveless malignity"          (i) Macbeth
(b) "Reason in Madness"            (ii) Hamlet
(c) "Supp'd full of horrors"         (iii) Lear
(d) "To be, or not to be"              (iv) Iago 

Codes 

     (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)
(1) (i)   (iii)  (ii)  (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii)   (iii)  (i)
(3) (iv) (iii)   (i)   (ii)
(4) (iii)  (i)   (ii)   (iv)

48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator's presentation of his life and opinions is _________
(1) linear
(2) digressive 
(3) chronological
(4) rounded

49. The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning "When I consider how my light is spent..." ends with _________
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who only stand and wait 
(3) And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son !
(4) And bless him for the sake of him that's gone

50. Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she was also outside it, watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills. "1 am not -" speech was more difficult than vision. "I am not quite sure".
The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela's cave experience. Who is questioning Adela ?
(1) Mrs. Moore
(2) Mr. McBryde 
(3) Fielding
(4) Ronney Heaslop 

ENGLISH NET JULY 2016 PAPER III with Answers

ENGLISH Paper – III (10.07.2016) 

Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.  

1. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this ?  
“Which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? Or, having it, is satisfied ?” 
(1) The History of Henry Esmond 
(2) Vanity Fair  
(3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon  
(4) Pendennis 

2. Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, alongwith Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people ?  
(1) To visit his father who left him long ago.  
(2) To find out new sources of minting money. 
(3) Because of an epidemic of plague.  
(4) To make a pilgrimage.  

3. By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of “Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling attention to the gritty and direct realism ?  
(1) Martin Harrison 
(2) Stan Smith  
(3) David Sylvester 
(4) Philip Callow  

4. Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman ?  
(1) Kindred  (2) Strength   (3) Christian  (4) Discretion  

5. Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English ?  
(1) Charles Wilkins 
(2) Nathaniel Halhead  
(3) William Jones 
(4) Barbara Stoler Miller  

6. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which  
(1) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.  
(2) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.  
(3) the mind acquires images by its associative power.  
(4) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power. 

7. Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language ?  
(1) Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words.  
(2) They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.  
(3) They find speech difficult because they are horses.  
(4) They prefer action to words.  

8. Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems.  
(1) Native Companions 
(2) The Wandering Islands  
(3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream 
(4) The Cave and the Spring  

9. Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching ?  
(1) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.  
(2) Learners’ first language plays an important role in learning.  
(3) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
(4) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.  

10. The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s _________.  
(1) The Man-Eater of Malgudi  
(2) The Financial Expert  
(3) The English Teacher  
(4) The World of Nagaraj  

11. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two languages :  
I. Celtic  
II. Latin  
III. French  
IV. Old Norse  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II 
(2) II and III  
(3) II and IV 
(4) III and IV  


12. Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.   
(1) King James Version – Tyndale –Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible  
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian Standard Bible  
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Version  
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James Version – Tyndale 

13. The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is  
(1) No (2) The  (3) Morning !  (4) Jaysus  

14. Assertion (A) : In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.  
     Reason (R) : We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire, or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we bring to it. 

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).  
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).  
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.  
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.  

15. One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse. This is best described as   

(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.  
(2) the selective language powerful people use.  
(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely constrain certain others.  
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance. 

16. The narrators of Oroonoko are   
I. a woman  
II. Oroonoko  
III. a purported eyewitness of the events described  
IV. Trefy  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and IV    (2) I and III     (3) II and III    (4) II and IV  

17. Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : “The life of a normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty ?”  
(1) Nora in A Doll’s House  
(2) Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People  
(3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm  
(4) Oswald in Ghosts  


18. In literary studies structuralism promotes  
(1) new interpretations of literary works.  
(2) the view that literature is one signifying practice among others.  
(3) a systematic account of literary archetypes.   
(4) unstable structures of systems of signification. 

19. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent ?  
(1) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron  
(2) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron  
(3) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin  
(4) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin 

20. What is practical criticism ?  
(1) The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political meaning.  
(2) A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant.  
(3) The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information.  
(4) The study of ambiguity.  

21. Which of the following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs of feminist literary criticism ?  
(1) Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by the canon.  
(2) Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the construction of gender.  
(3) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified.  
(4) Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’.  

22. Which work by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who Disappeared ?  
(1) The Castle    (2) “Metamorphosis”     (3) “In the Penal Colony”    (4) Amerika 

23. Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story ?  
(1) Rudyard Kipling, “Revisiting the Jungle”  
(2) Joseph Conrad, “Shadows of the Dark Trees”  
(3) Charles Dickens, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”  
(4) Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones’s Journey into the Wild”
  

24. At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social, political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements best describes that shift ?  
(1) England shifted from an aristocratic Catholic monarchy to a parliamentary democracy.  
(2) England shifted from an atheistic oligarchy to a deistic squirearchy.  
(3) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.  
(4) England shifted from a parliamentary democracy to an aristocratic Catholic tyranny. 

25. The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on  
(1) Fluency    (2) Accuracy     (3) Appropriateness    (4) Listening Skill 

26. “[They] then heaved out,/ away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.” This line describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is typical of the poem’s form and Old English poetic technique because   
I. it features alliteration  
II. it rhymes  
III. it features onomotopoeia  
IV. it has four strong stresses  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II 
(2) II and III  
(3) I and IV 
(4) II and IV  

27. Identify the poet, translator, publisher and essayist who founded a press in the 1950s called Writers’ Workshop and provided a publishing outlet for Indians writing in English.  
(1) P. Lal 
(2) A.K. Mehrotra  
(3) Vinay Dharwadkar 
(4) A.K. Ramanujan  

28. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The Thorn” ?   
(1) The Prisoner of Chillon 
(2) Don Juan  
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 
(4) The Vision of Judgement  

29. Which of the following theoretical movements claimed that “the device is the only hero of literature” ?   
(1) Russian formalism 
(2) New Criticism  
(3) Phenomenology 
(4) Deconstruction  


30. In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also called “phrase regimens” denotes :  
I. the multiplicity of communities of meaning.  
II. the breakdown of communities of meaning.  
III. the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are produced.  
IV. the singular system in which meanings are dispersed and displaced.  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and IV    (2) I and III     (3) II and IV    (4) II and III 

31. What part of Canada is Alice Munro most famous for depicting ?  
(1) Vancouver    (2) Montreal      (3) Ontario    (4) Quebec  

32. In John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera what is Peachum’s occupation ?  
I. Pimp  
II. Lawyer  
III. Fencer of stolen goods, and master of a gang of thieves 
IV. Impeader of less powerful criminals   

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) III & IV    (2) II & III     (3) I & IV    (4) II & IV  

33. In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at the age of ______.  
(1) 37    (2) 15     (3) 24    (4) 61
  
34. In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit of aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for their own sake and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s fellowmen ?  
(1) “The Princess” 
(2) “The Lady of Shalott”  
(3) “The Palace of Art” 
(4) “Tithonus”  

35. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author deliberately blurs the boarder lines between the world of the theatre and the world of ‘real life’ by carefully chiselled dialogues like :  
“Don’t you feel the ground beneath your feet as you reflect that this ‘you’ which you feel today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to seem a mere illusion to you tomorrow ?” Who is the speaker ? Who is it addressed to ?  
(1) Stepdaughter to Father 
(2) Father to Stage Manager  
(3) Stage Manager to Director 
(4) Mother to Director  


36. In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory’s son, W.B. Yeats mentions an Irish writer who had found his inspiration “In a most desolate stony place” that he came “Towards nightfall upon a race/ passionate and simple like his heart.” Who is the writer ?  
(1) J.M. Barrie 
(2) J.M. Synge  
(3) Isaac Bickerstaffe 
(4) Thomas More

37. Jacques Derrida’s work received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who below was a critic of Derrida ?  
(1) John Searle 
(2) Jean-Francois Lyotard  
(3) Emmanuel Levinas 
(4) Paul de Man  

38. Who among the following bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet, George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996 ?  
(1) Daljit Nagra    (2) Vikram Seth     (3) Amitava Kumar    (4) Arundhati Roy  

39. Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and oppression of Indian women ?  
I. Where Shall We Go This Summer ?  
II. The Zigzag Way  
III. Cry, the Peacock  
IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II    
(2) I and III  
(3) II and III 
(4) III and IV  

40. From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who received appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts :  
I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene  
II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh  
III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster  
IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II 
(2) II and IV  
(3) I and III 
(4) III and IV  


41. Match the character with the work : 
I. Count Fosco                           A. Villette 
II. Margaret                               B. Adam Bede 
III. Lucy Snowe                         C. The Woman in White 
IV. Maggie Tulliver                   D. North or South  

Codes :   
       I    II    III    IV  
(1) C     D    A      B   
(2) D    C    A      B  
(3) C    A    D      B  
(4) C    A    B      D 

NB: No option is correct/ The question is wrong

42. This poet was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944. His posthumously published collection of poems Ha ! Ha ! Among the Trumpets is divided into three sections.

The first section describes a tense, waiting England and the second the voyage to the East. In the third section he uncomfortably comes to terms with the alien contours, the harsh light and the dry wastes of India as evident in poems like “The Maratta Ghats”, “Indian Day” and “Observation Post : Forward Area”. Who is the poet ?   
(1) Keith Douglas 
(2) Sidney Keyes  
(3) David Gascoyne 
(4) Alun Lewis  

43. As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow” (Book XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation ?  
(1) They are comforted by their love for one another.  
(2) They are comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind.  
(3) They are comforted by God, who travels before them in the form of a pillar of fire.  
(4) They are comforted by the angel, who holds each of them by the hand.  

44. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase “he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature” ?   
(1) Ben Jonson 
(2) Ovid  
(3) William Shakespeare 
(4) Geoffrey Chaucer  

45. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,  
(1) Anne Bradstreet 
(2) Robert Lowell  
(3) Walt Whitman 
(4) Sylvia Plath  

46. In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they ?  
I. Britomart  
II. Cynthia  
III. Belphoebe  
IV. The Faerie Queene  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) III and IV 
(2) I and IV  
(3) I and III 
(4) II and III  


47. Who among the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and literature in India ?  
(1) Nuruddin Farah    (2) Ben Okri     (3) Helon Habila    (4) Benjamin Kwakye 

48. In particular William Blake was influenced by the religious writings of   
I. Martin Luther  
II. Jacob Boehme  
III. Emanuel Swedenborg  
IV. Confucious   

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and IV    (2) I and II     (3) II and III    (4) III and IV 

49. Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the English language to create a sense of national identity and retain political control over independent countries ?  
(1) Alfred the Great  
(2) Edward the Elder  
(3) King Arthur  
(4) Ethelbert of Kent  

50. In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. What is the final rule ?   
(1) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.  
(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.  
(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.  
(4) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.  

51. In his Defence of Poesy what is the “best and most accomplished kind of poetry” in Sidney’s estimation ?  
(1) Heroical, or epic poetry 
(2) Lyric poetry  
(3) Pastoral poetry 
(4) Elegiac poetry  


52. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment : “The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty” ?  
(1) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads  
(2) William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”  
(3) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry ?    
(4) Keats in one of his letters to his brother 

53. In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot ? 
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell  
(2) John Webster and John Donne  
(3) Seneca and Homer  
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
  
54. Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to   
(1) Structural Approach   
(2) Comprehensive Approach  
(3) Translation and Grammar Method   
(4) Functional Approach 

55. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the _______ within the _________ that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.   
(1) individual, tradition 
(2) specific, generic  
(3) semiotic, symbolic 
(4) particular, general  

56. In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words. Who/what are they addressed to ?  
“I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted psychology is a double-edged weapon.”  
(1) Svidrigailov to the pistol with which he shoots himself  
(2) Katherine Ivanovna to Marmeladov  
(3) Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov  
(4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he finds in the prison cell in Siberia 

57. What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English ?  
(1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts  
(2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons  
(3) The Saxons, Danes and Angles  
(4) The Jutes, Angles and Saxons  


58. Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar ?  
(1) “Yeshwant Rao” 
(2) “Chaitanya”  
(3) “The Priest” 
(4) “An Old Man” 

59. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best described as   
(1) making the audience feel that they do not belong.  
(2) distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.  
(3) scripting unnatural behaviour on stage.  
(4) a rejection of capitalism or the market.  

60. Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to _________.  
(1) Swahili    (2) Yoruba     (3) Xhosa    (4) Gikuyu  

61. Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism ?  
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace  
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden  
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus  
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey, Quintilian, Longinus  

62. Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a self-elegy, anticipating the poet’s death ?  
(1) “The Old Fools” 
(2) “Aubade”  
(3) “Ambulances” 
(4) “Faith Healing”  

63. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by Christian on his progress ?  
(1) The Slough of Despond 
(2) Vanity Fair  
(3) The River of Death 
(4) The Swamp of Despair  

64. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The Four Quartets.  
(1) Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker – Little Gidding  
(2) Burnt Norton – Little Gidding –The Dry Salvages – East Coker  
(3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding  
(4) Little Gidding – Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker  


65. Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens ?  
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.  
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.  
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.  
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture. 

66. Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was   
(1) Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language  
(2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language  
(3) Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical  
(4) Thomas Blount’s Glossographia  

67. Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed in Thomas More’s Utopia ?  
I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday  
II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More  
III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More  
IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and III 
(2) II and IV  
(3) II and III 
(4) I and II  

68. In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we can see space itself becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive unattached state.” Which is the novel ?  
(1) Doctor Faustus  
(2) Death in Venice  
(3) The Confessions of Felix Krull  
(4) The Magic Mountain  


69. Match the lines with the titles of the poems : 
I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil                                                 A. “Thrushes” 
II. My manners are tearing off heads / The allotment of death       B. “The Jaguar” 
III. More coiled steel than living                                                             C. “Relic” 
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail                                                                 D. “Hawk Roosting”  

Codes :   
      I     II     III    IV  
(1) A    D      A      C   
(2) B    D     A      C  
(3) C    D     B      A  
(4) D    B     C      A 

70. Which one of Joseph Conrad’s novels expresses the contrast between the solidarity of shipboard life and the profound underlying loneliness of existence thus : “loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting…. that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond” ?  
(1) The Heart of Darkness 
(2) The Nigger of the Narcissus  
(3) Lord Jim 
(4) Nostromo  

NB: No option is correct/ The question is wrong

71. John Dryden’s two philosophico-religious poems are   
I. Absalom and Achitophel  
II. A Layman’s Faith  
III. Annus Mirabilis  
IV. The Hind and the Panther  

 The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II 
(2) III and I  
(3) II and III 
(4) II and IV  

 Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75 :     
           

Stray Cats  

They are not exactly homeless.  

They are dissidents who have lost their faith  

in furnished interiors, morning walks,  

the cake and the cutlery.  

When you have nine lives to live
you learn to take things in your stride.  
You learn to stretch your body  
at full length and yawn at domestic  
fictions. And for this reason   

you figure in horror films  
in the mandatory moment  
between the flash of lightning  
and the appearance of the ghost.  
The light is darkish blue and you see  
yourself in the iris of the burning   
eye. The horror is in the seeing.  
What you see is altered by the act  
of seeing. The mystery does not stop  
there. The seer is in turn altered  
by what he sees. Having known this,  
stray cats jump from roof to roof. 
They monitor the world from treetops  
and hold their weekly meetings  
in the graveyard, like wandering mendicants. 

 And when they walk out of the mirror  
of the sun and cross the crowded road  
in a flash, for a shining moment,  
they lurk in the light like a giant shadow   
of doubt. Ill-omens to those who cannot  
see beyond what they see.    

72. The poem constructs its account of stray cats by way of a contrast with  
(1) wild cats    (2) ominous cats     (3) domestic cats    (4) mysterious cats  

73. In the overall context, what do “furnished interiors, morning walks,/ the cake and the cutlery” represent ?  
(1) Ordinary life  
(2) “Domestic fictions”  
(3) “A giant shadow of doubt”  
(4) Creaturely comforts  

74. The last two lines suggest that cats crossing the crowded road  
(1) is an unexceptionable superstition.  
(2) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be.  
(3) is an example of human obsession.  
(4) is indicative of the homelessness of stray cats.  


75. From among the following select two words that help accentuate the enigmatic character of stray cats :  
I. Doubt  
II. Mandatory 
III. Faith  
IV. Mystery  

The right combination according to the code is   
(1) I and II    (2) I and IV     (3) II and IV    (4) III and IV