English Literature NET: February 2017

Sunday, 19 February 2017

ENGLISH NET JUNE 2014 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. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?

(A) Syntactic

(B) Semantic

(D) None of the above

2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :

List – I List – II

i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.

iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable

iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 1 3 4

(B) 3 2 1 4

(D) 3 1 2 4

3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in _______ than in medieval works of literature and art.

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Shakespeare

(D) Edmund Spenser

4. “Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.”

This statement is an example of

(A) Irony

(B) Paradox

(D) Euphemism

5. A Spenserian stanza has

(A) four iambic pentameters

(B) six iambic pentameters

(D) ten iambic pentameters

6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I(Critic) List – II(Theory)

i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity

ii. William Empson 2. Paradox

iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypalpatterns in poetry

iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 3 2 1 4

(D) 2 3 4 1

7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s

(A) impersonality

(B) absence

(D) creativity

8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)

i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble

ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet

iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality

iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading

Which is the correct combination according to the code :

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 3 1 2 4

(B) 3 1 4 2

(D) 4 3 1 2

9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) F.R. Leavis

(D) Allen Tate

10. Derrida’s American disciples were

(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller

(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan

(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups :

(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope

(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus

(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,Thames

12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years.Than with your weapons.”

The above lines are addresses by Othello to

(A) Roderigo and officers

(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers

(D) Montano and Cassio

13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place ?

(A) Westminster, a room in the palace

(B) A room in Berkeley Castle

(D) Within the Abbey of Neath

14. Identify the correctly matched set :

(A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579,Tottels Miscellany – 1557, Astrophel and Stella – 1591, The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585

(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559, Tottels Miscellany – 1579, Astrophel and Stella – 1585, The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591

(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585, Tottels Miscellany – 1591, Astrophel and Stella – 1579, The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557

(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579, Tottels Miscellany – 1591, Astrophel and Stella – about

1585, The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557

15. Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)

i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees

iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures

iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 3 1 4

(B) 4 3 2 1

(D) 4 2 1 3

16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use;

And persons, such as comedy would choose,

When she would show an image of the time,

and sport with human follies, not with crime.”

In the above lines Jonson

I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.

II. Initiates the use of realism.

III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important

IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.

Find out the correct combination according to the code :

(A) I, II and III are correct

(B) I, II and IV are correct

(D) II, III and IV are correct

17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,

We’ll build in ________ pretty roomes.”

(A) lyrics

(B) epics

(D) stanzas

18. “That glory never shall his wrath ormight extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I)

What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?

(A) The courage never to submit or yield

(B) To reign in Hell

(D) To spread evil

19. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental.The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel ?

(A) Gulliver’s Travels

(B) The Castle of Otranto

(D) A Tender Husband

20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters.

Who is the novelist ?

(A) Daniel Defoe

(B) Samuel Richardson

(D) Tobias Smollett

21. “Where ignorance is Bliss

Tis folly to be wise.”

Who wrote the following lines ?

(A) Pope

(B) Gray

(D) Southey

22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay ?

(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy

(B) Essay on Man

(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the World ?

(A) Millamant

(B) Lady Wishfort

(D) Mrs. Fainall

24. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked : live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of.”

Who speaks these words and to whom ?

(A) Lamb to Bridget

(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy

(D) Lamb to Dorothy

25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until ________.

(A) 1815

(B) 1820

(D) 1850

26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress

With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”

The above lines are quoted from

(A) ‘Adonais’

(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’

(D) ‘Endymion’

27. “Love seeketh only self to please,

To bind another to its delight.”

This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s

(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’

(B) ‘The Sick Rose’

(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’

28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ?

(A) Mary Wollstonecraft

(B) William Godwin

(D) Elizabeth Inchbald

29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel :

(A) It should be sentimental

(B) It should be objective

(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form

30. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters)

i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore

ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom

iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich

iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 3 1 2 4

(B) 2 1 4 3

(D) 1 3 2 4

31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922 ?

(A) Ulysses

(B) Jacob’s room

(D) A Passage to India

32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still

Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed

By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”

Who is the author of the above lines ?

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) T.S. Eliot

(D) D.H. Lawrence

33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire

And fastened to a dying animal.”

The above lines are taken from

(A) “Felix Randal”

(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”

(D) “The Second Coming”

34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet ?

(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes

(B) David Gascoyne

(D) C. Day Lewis

35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe.

This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel

(A) The End of the Affair

(B) The Heart of the Matter

(D) Our Man in Havana

36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is

(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy

(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy

37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?

(A) Eugene O’Neill

(B) Sean O’Casey

(D) J.B. Priestly

38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels.

(A) Realism

(B) Naturalism

(D) Expressionism

39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet ?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) Ezra Pound

(D) Marianne Moore

40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.

(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.

(B) Amiri Baraka

(D) Bell Hooks

41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Authors) List – II (Books)

i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe

ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters

iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea

iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 4 2 3 1

(B) 4 1 2 3

(D) 1 3 4 2

42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical island nation of

(A) Sri Lanka

(B) Fiji

(D) Amnesia

43. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?

(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin

(B) Himani Banerjee

(D) Meena Alexander

44. Which of the following is true ?

(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books

(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese

(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”

45. “The old order changeth yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many way.”

In which of the following poems do these lines appear ?

(A) ‘Locksley Hall’

(B) ‘Two Voices

(D) ‘Ulysses’

46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful.

Which was this novel ?

(A) Adam Bede

(B) Felix Holt

(D) Romola

47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering ?

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) Jude the Obscure

(D) Hard Times

48. From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out :

(A) Bathsheba Everdene

(B) Eustacia Vye

(D) Lucetta

49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte

And this figure he added eek therto,

That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”

In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :

1. who loved money

2. who criticized the corrupt clergy

3. who practiced what he preached

4. who was a poor but honest clerk

Find the correct combination according to the code :

(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct

(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct

(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

50. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Plays) List – II (Characters)

i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo

ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell

iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona

iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 4 3 1 2

(B) 2 1 3 4

(D) 4 3 2 1

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

ENGLISH NET DECEMBER 2014 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. This work was a satire in Ottava rima, attacking George III and Robert Southey.
Identify the poem :
(A) Dunciad
(B) The Vision of Judgment
(C) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(D) Alastor

2. Here’s a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Silver Blaze:
‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention ?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
What was Sherlock Holmes’ response ?
(A) ‘Nothing ? Nothing at all ?
Rather unbelievable.’
(B) ‘That was the curious incident.’
(C) ‘Anything else, at all ?’
(D) ‘That sounds rather curious, don’t you think ?’

3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells,
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.”
These lines are from Wilfred Owen’s :
(A) “Strange Meeting”
(B) “Futility”
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est”

4. In Aphra Behn’s Oronooko, how does the titular character die ?
(A) He disembowels himself.
(B) He is whipped to death.
(C) He is hanged in the public square.
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.

5. The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present-tense account of a woman with a death-wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder.
Identify the novel.
(A) Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat
(B) Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
(C) Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence
(D) Angela Carter’s The Passion of the New Eve

6. The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is _______.
(A) St. James’ Library
(B) King’s Library
(C) Sir William’s Library
(D) Christ Church Library

7. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus
(A) in conversation with a priest
(B) in consultation with a general
(C) giving audience to an ambassador
(D) in consultation with a minister

8. Who among Shakespeare’s contemporaries did not write tragedies ?
(A) Thomas Kyd
(B) John Lyly
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Ben Jonson

9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of ________.
(A) Ahmed
(B) Nadira
(C) Amir
(D) Amourrah

10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous Minute of 1835, finds a mention in Salman Rushdie’s
(A) Midnight’s Children
(B) Shame
(C) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(D) Fury

11. The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s:
(A) Ion
(B) Republic Book III
(C) Republic Book X
(D) Phaedrus

12. ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by
(A) Ernest Hemingway
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Seymour Hersh
(D) Marshal McLuhan

13. Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging” forms a part of his celebrated collection called
(A) North
(B) Death of a Naturalist
(C) Field Work
(D) Door into the Dark

14. The first major report on The Teaching of English in England was published in 1921. It is known as ________, named after the Chair, Board of Education, _______.
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt
(B) the Wood’s Despatch; Charles Wood, Lord Halifax
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George Landow

15. Who first developed the notion of ‘competence’ in language studies ?
(A) Dell Hymes
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik
(D) Henry Sweet

16. The fruit was eaten.
The fruit is ripening.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct ?
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the present and the past.
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the present, the past and the future.
(3) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in past participle.
(4) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in the perfect tense.
(5) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in present participle.
(6) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in the continuous tense.

(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct.
(B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.
(C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.

17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain English merchant a patent to manufacture copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of composing a series of letters in response, better known as The Drapier’s Letters. Who was the merchant ?
(A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(B) William Bickerstaff
(C) William Wood
(D) William Sacheverell

18. “While the world moves
In appentency on its metalled way
Of time past and time future”
These lines are from :
(A) “Little Gidding”
(B) “Dry Salvages”
(C) “Burnt Norton”
(D) “East Coker”

19. The following is the stage-description of an opening scene of a famous modern play :
A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory, left. A door to a passage, right.
Identify the play :
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Travesties
(C) The Dumb Waiter
(D) Look Back in Anger

20. ‘Homonyms’ are words that _______
(A) are pronounced differently but have the same meaning.
(B) refer to both the male and female of the human species.
(C) are spelt similarly but have different meanings.
(D) refer to people who live in houses with similar structures.

21. Match the columns :
Shakespearean Actors Period
I. David Garrick 1. The 19th century
II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century
III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration
IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th century

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

22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida is all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist, “someone who uses ‘the means at hand’.”
Who does Levi-Strauss contrast bricoleur with in terms of method and approach ?
(A) The Botanist
(B) The Anthropologist
(C) The Engineer
(D) The Semiotician

23. Heinrich Böll has something to say, and not of course merely something about the Germans. He says it several times. A common weakness of writers with something to say is their inability to understand that saying it four times is not necessarily four times as effective as saying it once. But to have something to say – how rare this is !
– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”.
From a reading of the above, the reader can deduce :
I. Enright mildly disapproves of Heinrich Böll’s saying not merely something about Germans.
II. Enright is disappointed that Heinrich Böll has practically nothing to say about people other than Germans.
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll shares a weakness with writers who prefer saying something four times to saying it once.
IV. Enright does not believe that saying something four times will necessarily make the same effective.

The right combination, according to the code, is
(A) I and II
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and IV

24. Michel Foucault’s earlier “archaeological” study is found in
(A) Power/Knowledge
(B) Social Theory and Transgression
(C) The Birth of the Clinic
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

25. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one of the finest examples of
(A) science fiction
(B) picaresque novel
(C) coming-of-age novel
(D) crime thriller

26. Match the following correctly :
List – I List – II
I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram
II. Raja Rao 2. The Cat and Shakespeare
III. Prem Chand 3. Coolie
IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala

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

27. From which of Sheridan’s plays the following extract is taken ?
Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent and a great deal of industry.
Snake : True, Madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge she has been the cause of six matches being broken off and three sons disinherited, of four forced elopements ….
Lady Sneerwell : She certainly has talents but her manner is gross.
(A) The Rivals
(B) The School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick’s Day
(D) The Critic

28. Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir in “The Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Second Sex ?
(A) Montherlant
(B) Lawrence
(C) Stendhal
(D) Kafka

29. In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells about his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness. Identify the text :
(A) Other Colors
(B) The Silent House
(C) The Black Book
(D) The White Castle

30. Two of the following plays won the Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in English :
I. Princes
II. Where There’s a Will
III. Larins Sahib
IV. Doongaji House

The right combination according to the code is :
(A) III and IV
(B) I and III
(C) II and III
(D) I and IV

31. Who among the following is NOT an Australian writer ?
(A) Morris West
(B) Patrick White
(C) Thomas Keneally
(D) Bill Pearson

32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works to narrate chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he gave this persona is _______.
(A) Lal Singh
(B) Krishan Chander
(C) Puran Singh
(D) Rahul Singh

33. What a mockery this.
Of history, the past and that to come !
Now do I feel how all men are deceived,
Reading of nations and their, in faith,
Faith given to vanity and emptiness …
The prelude
The above extract is from
(A) Book 9 Residence in France
(B) Book 7 Residence in London
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
(D) Book 4 Summer Vacations

34. While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of England.
(A) Campbell’s
(B) Trevelyan’s
(C) Sander’s
(D) Carter’s

35. Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in
(A) English
(B) Irish
(C) French
(D) Italian

NB:All answers are correct

36. In More’s Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday’s second name in Greek means
(A) Dispenser of Justice
(B) Dispenser of Nonsense
(C) Dispenser of Grace
(D) Dispenser of Mercy

37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you
however much I pander to your name”
These lines from Geoffrey Hill’s “Lachrimae” address
(A) Christ
(B) The Devil
(C) The poet’s beloved
(D) The poet’s enemy

38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks is
(A) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Richard Wright
(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.)

39. Match the following :
Poet Bird
I. John Keats 1. Hawk
II. P.B. Shelley 2. Falcon
III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark
IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale

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

40. Who of the following has written the novel The Return ?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) K. S. Maniam
(D) Pankaj Mishra

41. Who among the following is a well-known Neo-Aristotelian critic ?
(A) R.P. Blackmur
(B) John Crowe Ranson
(C) R.S. Crane
(D) Lionel Trilling

42. Assertion (A) : The act of reading a text is both determinate and indeterminate.
Reason (R) : Since our reading includes both a sense of the unity of the narrative held in place at the end and the different wishes and guesses made along the way.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the true explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the true explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

43. Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has been translated into English by
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) By the playwright himself
(C) G.S. Amur
(D) A.K. Ramanujan

44. Edward Said’s well-known book Orientalism was published in
(A) 1978
(B) 1968
(C) 2008
(D) 1988

45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare : And What He Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by
(A) John Milton
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) John Suckling

46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by
(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Agha Shahid Ali
(C) Saleem Peeradina
(D) Nissim Ezekiel

47. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery – a confidence trick.” The statement has been made by
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) Anthony Powell
(C) John Fowles
(D) George Orwell

48. Here is a list of American words and word-makers. Match the following :
I. H.L. Mencken 1. Babbit
II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man
III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt
IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism

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

NB: All options are correct

49. Which of the following in Jacques Derrida’s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” ?
(A) More body, hence more writing. ……. Helene Cixous.
(B) We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. ……… Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
(C) But unlike philosophical reflection, …. the reflections we are dealing with here concern rays whose only source is hypothetical … Claude Levi-Strauss
(D) If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter the whole history of the world would have been different.……… Blaise Pascal.

50. In Mann’s Death in Venice, death of the protagonist occurs
(A) in a bar
(B) in a beach
(C) in a church
(D) on the highway

51. Two among the following poets wrote the “Village” poems that address the perennial theme of rural poverty :
I. Oliver Goldsmith
II. William Collins
III. Samuel Johnson
IV. George Gabbe

The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and III
(B) II and III
(C) I and IV
(D) I and II

NB: All options are correct

52. In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ‘gyres’ ?
(A) “A Vision”
(B) “The Secret Rose”
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya”
(D) “The Celtic Twilight”

53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on ______.
(A) English folklore
(B) English legends
(C) Biblical stories
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths

54. When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one script into another, it is called ________.
(A) Translation
(B) Transliteration
(C) Transcreation
(D) Transformation

55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are tame.

NB: All options are correct

56. The term “womanism” was first used by
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
(D) Alice Walker

57. Two among the following critics have dealt with the reproduction of motherhood in feminist theory :
I. Nancy Chodorow
II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
IV. Carol Gilligan

The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II
(B) II and IV
(C) I and IV
(D) III and IV

58. Flowers is a short play written by
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Asif Currimbhoy
(C) Girish Karnad
(D) Paoli Sengupta

59. Match the columns :
Character Novel
I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair
II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters
III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park
IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House

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

60. “The Books You Needn’t Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category of Books Read Before Being Written …”
The above extract is taken from
(A) Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
(C) Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
(D) Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”

61. Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are aligned by readers. Match them appropriately :
List – I List – II
I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe 2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

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

62. Identify the right chronological sequence :
(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – The City Madam
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A Game of Chess – The City Madam
(D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess – The City Madam

63. ‘Nasal tone’ in speech is a distinguishing feature of _______.
(A) British English
(B) Scottish English
(C) Australian English
(D) American English

64. Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Nadine Gordimer

65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in ______ volumes.
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6

66. The first novel written by Graham Greene is
(A) Stamboul Train
(B) England Made Me
(C) The Heart of the Matter
(D) The Man Within

67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper class’ ?
(A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun’s Priest
(B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk

68. Plagiarism is a well-known word and concept in academic circles. The word plagiarius in Latin, however, meant
(A) a trickster, a cheat
(B) a quack, a swindler
(C) a loafer, a lout
(D) a torturer, a plunderer

NB: All options are correct

69. What superstition around the Eve of St. Agnes is crucial to an understanding John Keat’s famous poem ?
(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her future husband.
(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would marry her lover.
(C) If a married woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would be reunited with her husband.
(D) If a woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her future lover.

70. Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle :
(A) Ralph
(B) Tim
(C) George
(D) Squire

71. Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other Poems and the journal, The Germ are associated with ________.
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Higher Criticism
(C) the Cavalier Poets
(D) the Pre-Romantics

Read the following poem and answer questions (72 to 75 ) :

A Bird came down the Walk –

He did not know I saw –

He bit an Angleworm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw,

And then he drank a Dew

From a convenient Grass –

And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass –

He glanced with rapid eyes

That hurried all around –

They looked like frightened Beads, I thought –

He stirred his Velvet Head

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb

And he unrolled his feathers

And rowed him softer home –

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too silver for a seam –

Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon

Leap, plashless as they swim.

72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of “transferred epithet” ?
(A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass is transferred from the bird to the poet who finds grass convenient of access.
(B) Yes, it is. The grass is not “convenient”, but is transferred from the bird who finds the grass convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
(D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict sense.

73. Which of the following is NOT an example of kinetic imagery ?
(A) “unrolled his feathers”
(B) “hopped sidewise”
(C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”

74. The poem stages an encounter between :
(A) the human and the non-human
(B) distrust of the non-human about the humans
(C) two old friends
(D) two old enemies

NB: A& B are correct

75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in danger ?
(A) The Bird
(B) The Poet
(C) The Angleworm
(D) Frightened Beads

Monday, 6 February 2017

ENGLISH NET DECEMBER 2014 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.Two of the following list are “Angry Young Men” of the 1950’s British literary scene.
I. John Osborne
II.C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV.Kingsley Amis

The right combination, according to the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III

2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes

3.Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica?
(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.

4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was __________ .
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major

5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler

6. Match the columns:
Terms Theorists
I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew Arnold
II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T. Coleridge

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

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester

8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness

9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street

10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?
(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea

11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell

12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?

“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”

(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough

13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley

14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific”?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack

15. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II:
List – I List – II
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural Anthropology
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of Criticism

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

16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services

17. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth

18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
(D) The Invisible Man

19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel

20. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries:
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.
What is common to them?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter

21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves

22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin

23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit

(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders

24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.

25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy”?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White

26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine

27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey

28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts

(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry

29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce

30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave

31. “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred
turn’d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
scorn’d.”
Identify the text in which the above quote occurs:
(A) The Double-Dealer
(B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love

32. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda
(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina
(D) Camilla

33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
(A) “Morte d’Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”

NB: Both A & B are correct.

34. Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction?
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)

35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico

36. Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser?
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form: The Spenserian Stanza.
(C) He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet.

37. William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

38. Surrealism is associated with
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton

39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost

40. What common link do you find among
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton,
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden?
(A) They inspired paintings.
(B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings.

41. “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister

42. In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target?
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
(D) William Wycherley

43. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist

44. Who among the following is a working-class poet?
(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves

45. New Science is a work associated with _______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant

46. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following:
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia

47. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion

48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide

NB: All options are correct.

49. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Bessie Head

50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady groove”
– William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

ENGLISH NET JUNE 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. Matthew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry" Arnold cited "touchstones" from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?
(1) Chaucer
(2) Sidney
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne

2. Samuel Pepys began his diary on___________
(1) New Year's Day 1660
(2) All Saints' Day 1662
(3) Thanksgiving Day 1665
(4) New Year's Day 1667

3. On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography?
(1) Charles Dickens
(2) William Blake
(3) T. S. Eliot
(4) W. B. Yeats

4. Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?
(1) Louis MacNeice, C D. Lewis, Stephen Spender
(2) John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig
(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir
(4) W. H. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield

5.When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of _________
(1)Caesura
(2)Consonance
(3)Enjambment
(4) Hyperbole

6. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Victorian Age?
(1) The rise of a highly competitive industrial technology
(2) An emphasis on strictly controlled social behaviour
(3) A romantic focus on home and family
(4) The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities

7. In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and personal details, but notable among his characters is the depiction of ___________
(1) Queen Anne
(2) Queen Victoria
(3) Queen Caroline
(4) Queen Elizabeth

8. Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of ___________
(1) Duchess of Malfi
(2) Duchess of Lancaster
(3) Duchess of Scotland
(4) Duchess of Paris

9. What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?
(1) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades-people in London and wrote an essay on them
(2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism
(3) He was a clerk for thirty-three years in the East India Company
(4) He was clerk in South Sea House that prepared patents and documents for British trading companies in India

10. Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below:
(1) Georg Lukacs
(2) Louis Althusser
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye

11. In the lines "With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art" (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects

(1) the 'Follow Nature' fallacy

(2) artificiality

(3) aesthetic order

(4) poor taste

12. The opposite of hyperbole is_____________

(1) meiosis

(2) inversion

(3) anagnorisis

(4) synecdoche

13. What significance do we attach to the publication of I Am an Indian in Canada?

(1) The title refers to the autobiography of an unknown Indian writer longing for the South Asian countryside

(2) The first ever account of ethnic conflicts within Canada

(3) The first anthology of Native Canadian writing following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

(4) The first anthology of writers afflicted by class and gender differences in Canada of the late 1970s

14. What is the moral of "The Nun's Priest's Tale"?

(1) Slow and steady wins the race.

(2) Greed is the root of all evil.

(3) Beauty lies within.

(4) Never trust a flatterer.

15. The author of the essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" is ___________

(1) George Eliot

(2) Henry James

(3) Oscar Wilde

(4) Richard Steele

16. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects ______________

(1) man's desire to return to nature

(2) the author's criticism of colonization

(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie

(4) the aristocrat's disdain for the harsh social reality

17. Who is the author of the collection The Celtic Twilight?

(1) J. M. Synge

(2) Sean O'Casey

(3) W. B. Yeats

(4) Lady Gregory

18. In medieval England a ____________ was understood to be a trained craftsman, one who worked under a master who owned the business.

(1) pardoner

(2) summoner

(3) journeyman

(4) manciple

19. Christopher Marlowe's heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in their faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one of his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world. The name of the play is _____________

(1) The Jew of Malta

(2) Doctor Faustus

(3) Tamburlaine the Great

(4) Edward II

20. With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in "Ode to a Nightingale"?

(1) the nightingale's haunting melody

(2) the scented flavour of early summer

(3) the night sky and all the stars

(4) the peace that comes with death

21. In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word 'catharsis' in his definition of tragedy?
(1) Chapter IV

(2) Chapter VI

(3) Chapter III

(4) Chapter V

22. Match the following

The right matching according to the code is :

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

(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

23. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More's Utopia.

(1) Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with Raphael Hythloday's adventures in the four suburbs of Antwerp.

(2) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first records a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is Hythloday's discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia.

(3) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first is Thomas Mom's discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia, and the second a conversation between More and Hythloday.

(4) Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with the ordered patterns of towns and cities in Antwerp.

24. In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" what disaster befalls the ship and the crew?

(1) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into pieces.

(2) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns the crew.

(3) "Slimy things with legs" attack the ship and kill many of the crew.

(4) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of thirst.

25. Falstaff is a character in ___________

(a)Henry IV Part I

(b)The Merry Wives of Windsor

(c)The Comedy of Errors

(d)Titus Andronicus

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (a) and (c)

(3) (c) and (d)

(4) (a) and (d)

26. In her essay "Professions for Women" Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of writing and _____________

(1) driving a motor car

(2) riding a horse

(3) fishing

(4) gardening

27. The ascension of King James I in ___________ inaugurated the Jacobean age.

(1) 1600

(2) 1601

(3) 1603

(4) 1609

28. Which of the following is NOT true of the Byronic hero?

(1) moody

(2) passionate

(3) repentant

(4) remorse-tom

29. Like many other novelists, Hardy employed language variation (dialect and standard) with a purpose. In this respect which of the following statements is correct?

(1) His major characters such as Tess and Jude always speak in local dialects, as per their social positions.

(2) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in local dialects, in spite of their social positions.

(3) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in standard language in spite of their social positions.

(4) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect and standard.

30. "It used to be said," began a famous English writer, "everyone had a novel in them ... Just now, though, in 1999, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition: What everyone has in them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir". Identify the source:

(1) Martins Amis, Experience

(2) Michel Butor, Passing Time

(3) John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

(4) Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

31. The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:

(1) One sentence

(2) Two sentences

(3) Three sentences

(4) Four sentences

32. Who among the following poets compared human tears to "love's wine"?

(1) Ben Jonson

(2) John Donne

(3) Andrew Marvell

(4) John Suckling

33. Ernest Pontifex is a character in___________

(1) Tono Bungay

(2) The Man of Property

(3) The Way of All Flesh

(4) Nostromo

34. In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper editor who recounts his dealings with a couple of "loafers"?

(1) "His Chance in Life"

(2) "Thrown Away"

(3) "Lispeth"

(4) "The Man Who Would Be King"

35. Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said: "They stood for a great optimism, bathers seemed to be coming down all over, it was as if World War II had finally drawn to dose, there was an openness and high-spiritedness and relaxation of mood". Who were "they"?

(1) The Beatles

(2) The Rolling Stones

(3) The New Left

(4) The Arts Council folks

36. In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in Books___________

(1) IV and IX

(2) IV and VIII

(3) III and IX

(4) V and X

37. In Gulliver's Travels Struldbruggs are _____________ .

(1) people replete with abstract learning.

(2) people exempt from natural death.

(3) people persecuted by pets and servants.

(4) people lured by a new ideal.

38. Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called

"Gertrude Talks Back”. The scene in Atwood opens with a reference to the name of an

implied listener. Who is this implied listener?

(1) Hamlet

(2 ) Ophelia

(3) Polonius

(4 ) Claudius

39. Samuel Iohnson wrote London in imitation of __________.

(1) Horace

(2) Ovid

(3) Iuvenal

(4) Moschus

40. Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta?

(1) The Joys of Motherhood

(2) Second-Class citizen

(3) A Question of Power

(4) Kehinde

41. Samuel ]ohnson’s use of the term “metaphysical” in a piece of criticism was__________.

(1) approving

(2 ) disapproving

(3) positive

(4) accidental

42. “I am not an angel...and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." This is_________ .

(1) Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss

(2) Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem

(3) Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel

(4) Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend

43. Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?

(1) Harold Pinter

(2) Joe Orton

(3) Tom Stoppard

(4) Edward Bond

44. “He is the very pineapple of politeness!" This sentence is an example of ________.

(1) paronomasia

(2) spoonerism

(3) malapropism

(4) anaphora

45. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through_____________ .

(1) a system of structured differences in language

(2) a system of random differences in language

(3) a system of structured references in language

(4) a system of random references in language

46. Identify the group known as ”The Wesker Trilogy"?

(1) The Growth of the Soil, Game of Life, In the Grip of Life

(2) Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I’m Talking about Jerusalem

(3) The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything, Golden City

(4) Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead End

47. Who is the central character of Derek Walcott’s Dream on the Monkey Mountain?

(1) Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters

(2) Jordan, a fantasist

(3) Makak, a charcoal burner

(4) Eva Smith, a seamstress

48. The phrase ”darkness visible" (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of______________ .

(1) periphrasis

(2) pun

(3) oxymoron

(4) transposition

49. What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy Mo

(Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)?

(1) All of them are brilliant writers of autobiographies who tell stories and write poetry.

(2) They use Standard English with some Creole inflections peculiar to the Caribbean.

(3) They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its

colonial representations.

(4) They contrast the ‘First Nations’ with local populations of their respective countries.

50. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of

English Studies. Name the journal.

(1) The English Historical Review

(2) The Criterion

(3) Scrutiny

(4) The Edinburgh Review