June 2014 - Paper-II
1. “The
just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
(A)
Syntactic
(B)
Semantic
(C)
Collocation
(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
(C) 4
1 2 3
(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
(C)
Philip Sidney
(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
(C)
Hyperbole
(D)
Euphemism
5. A
Spenserian stanza has
(A)
four iambic pentameters
(B)
six iambic pentameters
(C)
eight 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.
Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv.
Maud Bodkin 4.
Techniques as discovery
Codes
:
i ii
iii iv
(A)
2 1 4 3
(B) 3
2 1 4
(C) 1
2 3 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
(C)
presence
(D)
creativity
ENGLISH
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
(C) 4
2 1 3
(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
(C)
David Lodge
(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
(C)
Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(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
(C)
Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(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
(C)
The Duke and Senators
(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
(C) A
room in Killingworth 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
(C)
4 1 2 3
(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
(C)
I, III 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
(C)
sonnets
(D)
stanzas
18. “That
glory never shall his wrath or might 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
(C)
To defeat God
(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
(C)
Tristram Shandy
(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
(C)
Henry Fielding
(D)
Tobias Smollett
21. “Where
ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines ?
(A)
Pope
(B)
Gray
(C)
Collins
(D)
Southey
22. Which
of the following works is not actually a prose essay ?
(A) Essay
of Dramatic Poesy
(B)
Essay on Man
(C) An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(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
(C)
Mrs. Marwood
(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
(C)
Dorothy to Bridget
(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
(C)
1830
(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’
(C)
‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(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’
(C)
‘A Poison Tree’
(D)
‘Ah Sunflower’
28. Who
is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ?
(A)
Mary Wollstonecraft
(B)
William Godwin
(C)
Mary Hay
(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
(C)
It should be realistic
(D)
It should be viewed as anartistic 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
(C) 4
2 1 3
(D) 1
3 2 4
31. Which
among the following novels was not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s
room
(C) Aaron’s
Rod
(D)
A Passage to India
32. “A
sudden blow : the great wingsbeating still
Above
the staggering girl, her thighscaressed
By
the dark webs, her nap caught inhis 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
(C)
W.H. Auden
(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”
(C)
“Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D)
“The Second Coming”
34. Who
among the following is not a surrealist poet ?
(A)
Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B)
David Gascoyne
(C)
Kenneth Allot
(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
(C) The
Ministry of Fear
(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
(C) Molloy,
Murphy, Malone Dies
(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
(C)
William Somerset Maugham
(D)
J.B. Priestly
38. D.H.
Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels.
(A)
Realism
(B)
Naturalism
(C)
Primitivism
(D)
Expressionism
39. Who
among the following is not an American modernist poet ?
(A)
William Carlos Williams
(B)
Ezra Pound
(C)
William Ellery Channing, the younger
(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
(C)
Ishmael Reed
(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
(C)
4 3 2 1
(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
(C)
The Caribbean
(D)
Amnesia
43. Which
of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?
(A)
Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B)
Himani Banerjee
(C)
Joy Kogawa
(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
(C)
‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(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
(C)
‘Morte d’Arthur’
(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
(C) Silas
Marner
(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
(C) Mill
on the Floss
(D) Hard
Times
48. From
the following women
characters
in Hardy’s novels choose
the
odd one out :
(A)
Bathsheba Everdene
(B)
Eustacia Vye
(C)
Elizabeth Jane
(D)
Lucetta
49. “Out
of the gosple he tho words caught 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
(C)
2, 3 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
(C)
3 4 2 1
(D) 4
3 2 1
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