ENGLISH NET JULY 2016 PAPER II with Answers

ENGLISH Paper – II (10.07.2016) 

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

1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?  
(1) Durham  (2) Glasgow (3) Cambridge (4) Oxford
  
2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?  
(1) John Marston (2) Thomas Middleton (3) John Fletcher (4) Thomas Heywood  

3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”  
(1) Mirabell (2) Witwoud  (3) Millamant (4) Mincing  

4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in  
(1) Christianity (2) Hinduism (3) Buddhism (4) Judaism 

5. By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?  
(1) Grildrig (2) Glumdalclitch (3) Splacknuck (4) Mannikin 

6. Who among the following was born in India ?  
(1) Paul Scott (2) Lawrence Durrell  (3) E.M. Forster (4) V.S. Naipaul

7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers ? 
 (1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert. 
 (2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way. 
 (3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners. 
 (4) That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.
  
8. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism ? 
 (1) Roman Jakobson 
 (2) Georges Poulet 
 (3) Boris Eichenbaum 
 (4) Victor Shklovsky 

9. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ? 
 (1) Barkis 
 (2) Micawber 
 (3) Uriah Heep 
 (4) Miss Havisham

10. What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ? 
 (1) Pequod (2) Rachel  (3) Hagar (4) Sphinx 

11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance. 
 (1) Oriental (2) French  (3) Gothic (4) Popular

12. Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings ? 
 I. Charles Dickens 
 II. Elizabeth Gaskell 
 III. Emily Bronte 
 IV. Oscar Wilde  

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

13. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake” ?  
(1) Aestheticism (2) Didacticism (3) Realism (4) Neo-realism  

14. The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of   
(1) Oxymoron (2) Antithesis  (3) Paradox (4) Metonomy  

15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness ? 
(1) Marlow (2) Director of Companies  (3) Kurtz (4) An unnamed narrator  

16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of   
(1) The Conscious Lovers 
(2) The Good Natur’d Man 
(3) She Stoops to Conquer 
(4) The Rivals  

17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :  
(1) The Living and the Dead 
(2) The Tree of Man 
(3) Happy Valley 
(4) The Aunt’s Story 

18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise ?  
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him. 
(2) To spy on Edmund. 
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan. 
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.  

19. What is a feminine rhyme ? 
 (1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed. 
 (2) A rhyme on two syllables.  
 (3) A rhyme on three syllables. 
 (4) A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.  

20. Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry : 
 I. French Without Tears 
 II. The Lady’s Not for Burning 
 III. Venus Observed 
 IV. The Deep Blue Sea 

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

21. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S. Eliot, the term “Traditional” usually means 
 (1) something positive 
 (2) something negative 
 (3) something historical 
 (4) something old 

22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet ?  
(1) George Herbert (2) John Donne (3) Robert Herrick (4) Andrew Marvell  

23. Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’s work ?  
(1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question 
(2) The Transcendence of the Ego 
(3) Of Grammatology 
(4) The Work of Mourning 

24. In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side ? 
(1) Adam (2) Eve  (3) Raphael (4) God  

25. A.S. Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on 
 I. Alfred Tennyson 
 II. Robert Browning 
 III. Christina Rossetti 
 IV. William Morris 

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

26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by 
 (1) Bernard Shaw (2) W.B. Yeats  (3) J.M. Synge  (4) John Osborne 

27. John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as   
(1) a dactyl (2) an oxymoron  (3) enjambment (4) zeugma  

28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s   
(1) Doctor Faustus (2) The Jew of Malta (3) Tamburlaine, the Great (4) Edward II  

29. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully ? 
 (1) Time 
 (2) Place 
 (3) Action 
 (4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important  

30. Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet” ?  
(1) John Clare (2) George Crabbe  (3) Robert Burns (4) Walter Scott  

31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war ?  
(1) The Grass is Singing 
(2) The Golden Notebook 
(3) The Four-Gated City 
(4) A Proper Marriage

32. Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain : 
 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,  
 The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea, 
 The plowman homeward plods his weary way,  And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

 (1) Iambic Hexameter 
 (2) Trochaic Pentameter 
 (3) Iambic Pentameter 
 (4) Terza Rima  

33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London ? 
 I. The Slave Girl 
 II. The Joys of Motherhood 
 III. Second Class Citizen 
 IV. In the Ditch 

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

34. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in the River of Death ?  
(1) Hopeful  (2) Helpful  (3) Faithful (4) Cheerful  

35. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a  
(1) religious allegory 
(2) fairy tale 
(3) long poem 
(4) Utopian novel 

36. In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians ?  
(1) Music  (2) Public lectures  (3) Conversation (4) Dicing and cards
  
37. Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position ?  
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.  
(2) Power operates through discourse.  
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.  
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.  

38. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place ?  
(1) 1851 (2) 1857  (3) 1861 (4) 1871  

39. When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of   
(1) Alliteration (2) Allegory  (3) Assonance  (4) Antithesis 

40. Match the work with author : 

I. “The Excursion”           A. S.T. Coleridge 
II. “Christabel”                 B. P.B. Shelley 
III. Milton                         C. William Wordsworth 
IV. Queen Mab                 D. William Blake 


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

41. Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” ?  
(1) “Far from the madding crowd” 
(2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown” 
(3) “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen” 
(4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”  

42. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of  
(1) youth against old age 
(2) old age against youth 
(3) power against knowledge 
(4) knowledge against power 

43. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates ?  (1) Nobility, church and commoners 
 (2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry 
 (3) Royalists, republicans and peasants 
 (4) Country, city and commons
  
44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave ?  
(1) Sula (2) Tar Baby  (3) Song of Solomon  (4) Beloved  

45. Who among the following translated Homer ?  
(1) Thomas Gray 
(2) Samuel Johnson 
(3) Oliver Goldsmith 
(4) Alexander Pope 

46. Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a   
(1) Picaresque novel 
(2) Epistolary novel 
(3) Diary novel 
(4) Coming-of-age novel  

47. When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted ? 
 (1) 1924 (2) 1945  (3) 1936 (4) 1962 

48. Who among the following is not an imagist ?  
(1) Ezra Pound (2) W.B. Yeats  (3) Amy Lowell (4) T.E. Hulme  

49. Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as   
(1) Celia (2) Julia  (3) Anne (4) Melanie  

50. Match the novelists with their work :  

I. William Golding                   A. Grimus 
II. Salman Rushdie                  B. Hawksmoor 
III. Graham Swift                     C. Darkness Visible 
IV. Peter Ackroyd                     D. Waterland 

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