Q.1) Arrange the works of Thomas Carlyle in the chronological order of publication :

(A) Periods of European Culture

(B) Specimens of German Romance

(C) Heroes and Hero Worship

(D) German Literature

(E) Revolution of Modern Europe

[1] ABCDE

[2] BDAEC

[3] CDABE

[4] EBCAB

Answer – [2]

Q.2) Match the column:

(A) Tughlag

(B) The Goddess Speaks

(C) My Forest

(D) Towards Marriage

(I) V. K Gokak

(II) M. V. Rama Sarma

(Ill) Girish Karnad

(IV) V. D. Trivedi

[1] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[4] A-II B-III C-I D-IV

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Q.3) Stephen Dedalus appears as a character in :

(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(B) Mrs. Dalloway

(C) The Voyage Out

(D) Ulysses

(E) To the Light House

[1] (C) and (D) Only

[2] (A) and (D) Only

[3] (B) and (C) Only

[4] (C) and (E) Only

Answer – [2]

Q.4) Which of the following poems are not by Robert Frost ?

(A) “An Old Man’s Winter Night”

(B) “The Grindstone”

(C) “The Smile”

(D) “Under the Balcony”

(E) “The New Remorse”

[1] (D) and (E) Only

[2] (C) and (E) Only

[3] (C) and (D) Only

[4] (A) and (B) Only

Answer – [1]

Q.5) Match the column:

(A) The Wind Flower

(B) Enchantment and Sorrow

(C) Tin Flute

(D) Garden in the Wind

I. 1970

II. 1947

III. 1975

IV. 1984

[1] A-II B-I C-III D-IV

[2] A-I B-IV C-II D-III

[3] A-I B-III C-II D-IV

[4] A-II B-III C-I D-IV

Answer – [2]

Q.6) Which of the following is not known as a ‘War Poet’ in English Literature ?

[1] Rupert Brooke

[2] Siegfried Sassoon

[3] Wilfred Owen

[4] John Maxfield

Answer – [4]

Q.7) Who is the author of A Course in General Linguistics?

[1] Roman Jackobson

[2] C.S. Peirce

[3] Ferdinand de Saussure

[4] Julia Kristeva

Answer – [3]

Q.8) Which of the following is not among the University Wits ?

[1] John Lyly

[2] Thomas Norton

[3] Thomas Nash

[4] George Peele

Answer – [2]

Q.9) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater

(B) The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

(C) Unto this Last by John Ruskin

(D) The Making of England by John Richard Green

(E) On the Origin of Species by Charles Robert Darwin

[1] ABCDE

[2] BECAD

[3] CDEAB

[4] EDCBA

Answer – [2]

Q.10) Match the column:

(A) The New India

(B) This Matter of Culture

(C) East of Home

(D) Light Luggage

(I) J. Krishnamurti

(II) Ved Mehta

(III) V. V. John

(IV) Santha Rama Rau

[1] A-II B-I C-IV D-III

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[4] A-III B-IV C-I D-II

Answer – [1]

Q.11) Black Feminism pays attention to :

(A) The material lives of Black women

(B) The patriarchal nature of black society and traditions

(C) The growth of individualism

(D) The possibilities of ‘Sisterhood’ of black women

(E) Conforming to hetero sexual relationship only

[1] CDE

[2] ABC

[3] BCE

[4] ABD

Answer – [4]

Q.12) Lycidas is an example of which of the following?

[1] Romantic epic

[2] Pastoral epic

[3] Classical epic

[4] Modern epic

Answer – [2]

Q.13) Which of the following can be classified as Science Fiction ?

(A) The Moonlight

(B) Time Machine

(C) Great Expectations

(D) The Golden Gate

(E) Brave New World

[1] (E) and (C) Only

[2] (B) and (D) Only

[3] (B) and (E) Only

[4] (A) and (D) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.14) Feminist literary and cultural theory draws a link between :

(A) The representation of women in art

(B) Examining how the privileging of some meanings is at the cost of others

(C) The real, material conditions in which women live

(D) The ideological basis of acts of imagination

(E) Providing the native with the means of resistance

[1] (A) and (B) Only

[2] (B) and (C) Only

[3] (A) and (C) Only

[4] (B) and (E) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.15) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Hymns in Darkness

(B) The Unfinished Man

(C) A Time to Change and Other Poems

(D) Sixty Poems

(E) The Exact Name

[1] AECDB

[2] BADCE

[3] EACBE

[4] CDBEA

Answer – [4]

Q.16) Which of the following is not correct about “Cognitive approach to language learning” ?

[1] It lays emphasis on conscious acquisition of language

[2] It seeks intellectual understanding by the learner

[3] It seeks a reasonable understanding of structure of the language to develop better use of language

[4] It rejects the teaching of grammar and language rules

Answer – [4]

Q.17) Which of the following poets describes himself as “not an Indian poet but a poet writing a universal language of poetry, of feeling, of love and hate and sex”.

[1] Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

[2] Keki N. Daruwalla

[3] Jayanta Mahapatra

[4] Shiv K. Kumar

Q.18) Which of the following statement(s) are true about “Synecdoche” ?

(A) It is a comparison between two objects

(B) It is a figure of speech in which part refers to the whole

(C) It is a figure of speech in which the name of an attribute is substituted for that of the thing meant

(D) It is a comparison between two unrelated objects

(E) It is a figure of speech in which the whole refers to a part

[1] (A) and (E) Only

[2] (B) and (C) Only

[3] (D) and (E) Only

[4] (B) and (E) Only

Answer – [4]

Q.19) Who has written The Metaphysical Poets ?

[1] Samuel Johnson

[2] John Donne

[3] T.S. Eliot

[4] W.B. Yeats

Answer – [3]

Q.20) Which of the following is not an Empiricist Philosopher ?

[1] Rene Descartes

[2] David Hume

[3] Francis Bacon

[4] John Locke

Answer – [1]

Q.21) Which of the following writers do not exclusively belong to the eighteenth century ?

(A) Oliver Goldsmith

(B) Thomas Gray

(C) Robert Southey

(D) William Cowper

(E) Charles Lamb

[1] (A) and (D) Only

[2] (C) and (D) Only

[3] (B) and (E) Only

[4] (C) and (E) Only

Answer – [4]

Q.22) Which of the following is true about Aime Cesaire ?

(A) Aime Cesaire in best known for the term ‘negritude’

(B) Aime Cesaire was influenced by Harlem Renaissance

(C) Aime Cesaire wrote Wretched of the Earth

(D) Aime Cesaire was a feminist writer

(E) Aime Cesaire argued that colonialism was never a benevolent enterprise

[1] ABC

[2] ACD

[3] ABE

[4] CDE

Answer – [3]

Q.23) Match the column:

(A) Metonymy

(B) Paradox

(C) Personification

(D) Metaphor

(I) Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind

(II) Busy old fool, unruly Sun

(II) I enjoy reading Shakespeare

(IV) The river snakes its way through the mountains

[1] A-II B-I C-III D-IV

[2] A-III B-I C-II D-IV

[3] A-IV B-II C-III D-I

[4] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

Answer – [2]

Q.24) What is the correct chronological order of the following poets ?

(A) Thomas Carew

(B) Edward Herbert

(C) John Donne

(D) George Herbert

(E) James Shirley

[1] CDABE

[2] CBDAE

[3] ACBED

[4] CDAEA

Answer – [2]

Q.25) Which of the following statements help in understanding the concept of ‘interdisciplinarity” ?

(A) Application of education beyond University

(B) Combination of two or more topics, disciplines or subject matters

(C) Focusing on one domain for one lesson

(D) The idea of bringing together diverse disciplines

(E) Education is for the people and their development at large

[1] (A) and (E) Only

[2] (A) and (B) Only

[3] (B) and (E) Only

[4] (A) and (D) Only

Answer – [4]

Q.26) Who among the following are not part of the Black Aesthetic Movement ?

(A) David Pepper

(B) Stuart Hall

(C) Alan Sinfield

(D) Anthony Appaiah

(E) Hazel Carby

[1] (A) and (B) Only

[2] (A) and (C) Only

[3] (C) and (D) Only

[4] (D) and (E) Only

Answer – [2]

Q.27) The line “That is no country for old men” figures in which of the following poems?

[1] Sailing to Byzantium

[2] The Death of the Hired Man

[3] A Forsaken Garden

[4] Channel Firing

Answer – [1]

Q.28) Arrange the following works of Joseph Conrad in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Heart of Darkness

(B) Typhoon

(C) Under Western Eyes

(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus

(E) Outcast of the Islands

[1] ABDEC

[2] CBEDA

[3] EDABC

[4] DEACB

Answer – [3]

Q.29) Match the column:

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) Thomas Kyd

(D) Ben Jonson

(I) The Winter’s Tale

(II) The Jew of Malta

(III) Every Man in his Humour

(IV) Spanish Tragedy

[1] A-IV B-III C-I D-II

[2] A-II B-I C-IV D-III

[3] A-III B-II C-IV D-I

[4] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

Answer – [2]

Q.30) Choose the correct sequence for writing a research paper :

(A) Gathering Data

(B) Finding a Topic

(C) Finding and Reading the Best Sources

(D) Organizing Ideas and Setting Goals

(E) Writing the Paper

[1] ABCDE

[2] ABDCE

[3] CABDE

[4] BADCE

Answer – [4]

Q.31) The line “Drop drop, slow tears” is the example of :

[1] Dactyl

[2] Pyrrhic

[3] Spondee

[4] Trochee

Answer – [3]

Q.32) Match the column:

(A) Trochee

(B) Dactyl

(C) Spondee

(D) Iambics

(I) Two stressed syllables

(II) One stressed followed by two unstressed syllables

(III) Stressed syllable followed by unstressed

(IV) Unstressed followed by stressed syllable

[1] A-III B-II C-I D-IV

[2] A-IV B-I C-II D-III

[3] A-II B-III C-I D-IV

[4] A-III B-I C-II D-IV

Answer – [1]

Q.33) Match the column:

(A) “Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern”

(B) “The Pleasures of Imagination”

(C) “The Function of Criticism”

(D) “The Imagination”

(I) Joseph Addison

(II) I. A. Richards

(IIl) John Dryden

(IV) TS. Eliot

[1] A-IV B-II C-III D-I

[2] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

[3] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[4] A-II B-III C-I D-IV

Answer – [2]

Q.34) Women’s Studies is focused and built upon :

(A) Feminist critique of knowledge

(B) Cultural response of the native

(C) Political nature of the critical race theory

(D) The shift from liberal feminist views to more socialist and radical views of gender roles and culture

(E) Production of texts only

[1] (A) and (B) Only

[2] (B) and (C) Only

[3] (A) and (E) Only

[4] (A) and (D) Only

Answer – [4]

Q.35) Arrange the following literary texts in the order of their publication :

(A) The Dunciad

(B) Essay on Man

(C) The Rape of the Lock

(D) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

(E) Windsor Forest

[1] EADCB

[2] CEABD

[3] BEADC

[4] ABCDE

Answer – [2]

Q.36) Arrange the following literary magazines in the chronological order of their origin or first appearance.

(A) The Westminster Review

(B) The Edinburgh Review

(C) The Quarterly Review

(D) Blackwood’s Magazine

(E) The London Magazine

[1] ABCDE

[2] CDEAB

[3] BCDEA

[4] EDABC

Answer – [3]

Q.37) Who is the author of the French Revolution?

[1] Thomas Carlyle

[2] John Ruskin

[3] Joseph Addison

[4] John Henry Newman

Answer – [1]

Q.38) Who wrote the famous book History of Dramatic English Literature?

[1] William Ward

[2] A.C. Bradley

[3] David Daiches

[4] Anthony Powell

Answer – [1]

Q.39) The plays which are based on the Biblical stories are known as :

[1] Miracle plays

[2] Mystery plays

[3] Sentimental plays

[4] Morality plays

Answer – [2]

Q.40) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Jane Eyre

(B) Henry Esmond

(C) The Lady of the Last Minstrel

(D) Mary Barton

(E) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[1] EDABC

[2] CABDE

[3] CADBE

[4] ABCDE

Answer – [3]

Q.41) Match the column:

(A) Archetypal Patterns in Poetry

(B) The Dynamics of Literary Response

(C) The Anxiety of Influence

(D) A Literature of their Own

(I) Norman Holland

(II) Harold Bloom

(IlI) Maud Bodkin

(IV) Elaine Showalter

[1] A-III B-I C-II D-IV

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[4] A-II B-IV C-I D-III

Answer – [1]

Q.42) Which of the following statements are true about ‘cyberfeminism’?

(A) Women are not demanding material and social space

(B) Itinterrogates the patriarchal nature of the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

(C) It is a negotiation with the contemporary culture’s extensive informatization

(D) Virtual environment does not provide greater freedom to women

(E) Women are unable to appropriate the maternality of cyberspace

[1] (A) and (E) Only

[2] (B) and (C) Only

[3] (C) and (D) Only

[4] (D) and (E) Only

Answer – [2]

Q.43) Midnight’s Children is a representative text of :

[1] Poststructuralism

[2] Postcolonialism

[3] Postmodernism

[4] Modernism

Answer – [3]

Q.44) Which of the following poems are by Sir Walter Scott ?

(A) “Christmas in the Olden Time”

(B) “After the Last Breath”

(C) “Lochinvar”

(D) “Dance of Death”

(E) “A Man was Drawing near to Me”

[1] ABD

[2] BCE

[3] CDE

[4] ACD

Answer – [4]

Q.45) Who is the author of French novel, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d’Arvers ?

[1] M.K Naik

[2] Rabindra Nath Tagore

[3] Toru Dutt

[4] Emily Zola

Answer – [3]

Q.46) Who has written Jejuri?

[1] R. Parthasarthy

[2] Nissim Ezekiel

[3] Arun Kolatkar

[4] Jayanta Mahapatra

Answer – [3]

Q.47) Match the column:

(A) Postmodernism

(B) Psychoanalysis

(C) Mimicry

(D) New Historicism

(I) Jacques Lacan

(II) Stephen Greenblatt

(III) Jean Baudrillard

(IV) Homi Bhabha

[1] A-IV B-II C-III D-I

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[4] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

Answer – [4]

Q.48) Who is the author of Abhijanasakuntalam?

[1] Bhavabhuti

[2] Kalidasa

[3] Shudraka

[4] Banabhatta

Answer – [2]

Q.49) Match the column:

(A) Untouchable

(B) Serpent and the Rope

(C) Nectar in a Sieve

(D) A Tiger for Malgudi

(I) Raja Rao

(II) R. K. Narayan

(II) Mulk Raj Anand

(IV) Kamala Markandeya

[1] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[2] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

[3] A-III B-II C-IV D-I

[4] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

Answer – [2]

Q.50) Of the following, what is not true about Pidgins and Creoles ?

[1] Spoken by the Third World Countries

[2] Distorted versions of other languages

[3] New languages in their own right

[4] Developed during the periods of linguistic crisis

Answer – [2]

Q.51) “The Frontiers of Criticism” by T.S. Eliot is associated with :

[1] New Historicism

[2] New Criticism

[3] Postmodernism

[4] Postcolonialism

Answer – [2]

Q.52) Which of the following poets are called ‘Graveyard poets’?

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) Thomas Parnell

(C) Edward Young

(D) T.S. Eliot

(E) Robert Blair

[1] (B), (D), (E) Only

[2] (A), (B), (D) Only

[3] (A), (D) Only

[4] (B), (C), (E) Only

Answer – [4]

Q.53) In Patrick White’s Voss, the character Voss is :

[1] an explorer of land

[2] in search of wealth

[3] a crazy German trying to make his experience worthwhile

[4] exploring his self

Answer – [4]

Q.54) Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is an example of :

[1] Interior Monologue

[2] Dramatic Monologue

[3] Soliloquy

[4] Aside

Answer – [2]

Q.55) Which of the following was not an Irish playwright ?

[1] George Bernard Shaw

[2] John Millington Synge

[3] Oscar Wilde

[4] Harold Pinter

Answer – [4]

Q.56) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their appearance in the English Literary Scene :

(A) Art for Art’s sake

(B) Epistolary Novel

(C) Metaphysical Poetry

(D) Epic Theatre

(E) Stream of Consciousness Technique

[1] ABCDE

[2] DCABE

[3] CBAED

[4] CDEAB

Answer – [3]

Q.57) Which of the following is considered as the first published composition in English by an Indian ?

[1] Mackenzie Manuscripts

[2] Newcomes

[3] Accounts of the Jains

[4] The Brahmanical Magazine

Answer – [3]

Q.58) Match the column:

(A) Afro-American Literature

(B) Caribbean literature

(C) Australian Aboriginal literature

(D) Dalit Literature

(I) Basudev Sunani

(I) Sally Morgan

(Ill) V. S. Naipaul

(IV) Zora Neale Hurston

[1] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-II C-I D-III

[4] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

Answer – [1]

Q.59) Who wrote the famous text Dignity of Man ?

[1] Philip Sidney

[2] Thomas Wyatt

[3] Thomas More

[4] Edmund Spenser

Answer – [3]

Q.60) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publications :

(A) Love and Death

(B) Urvasie : A Poem

(C) Songs to Myrtilla

(D) Savitri

(E) Chitrangada

[1] ACDBE

[2] CBEAD

[3] ABCDE

[4] EACDB

Answer – [2]

Q.61) The line “Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me” figures in whose poetry ?

[1] William Butler Yeats

[2] Emily Dickinson

[3] Thomas Hardy

[4] Christina Rossetti

Answer – [2]

Q.62) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publications :

(A) Hemachandra Joshi’s Plays for the Young

(B) Balwant Gargi’s The Knife

(C) P. K. Bosu’s Conrad and Leonora

(D) Abdul Mi’s The Land of Twilight

(E) D. M. Borgaonkar’s Image Breakers

[1] CADEB

[2] ABCDE

[3] CBAED

[4] DCAED

Answer – [1]

Q.63) Who made this following statement ?

“Truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could have entered into the gates of popular judgments, if they had not taken a great passport of poetry”.

[1] Aristotle

[2] Plato

[3] Philip Sydney

[4] William Wordsworth

Answer – [3]

Q.64) Which of the following are correct about the components Romantic epistemology ?

(A) The active-projective view of human self or mind

(B) Mechanical, impersonal and artificial

(C) Distrust of reason

(D) Belief in reason

(E) Collectivism

[1] (B) and (D) Only

[2] (D) and (E) Only

[3] (A) and (C) Only

[4] (B) and (E) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.65) Which of the following periods in African American writing is called “Harlem Renaissance”?

[1] 1917-1920

[2] 1939-1945

[3] 1930-1935

[4] 1960-1970

Answer – [1]

Q.66) Who introduced the concept of “Biopower” ?

[1] Edward Said

[2] Chinua Achebe

[3] Walter Benjamin

[4] Michel Foucault

Answer – [4]

Q.67) Which of the following is not connected to postmodernism?

(A) Self-reflexivity

(B) Industrialisation

(C) Magic Realism

(D) Absolutism

(E) Hybridity of Styles

[1] (A) and (C) Only

[2] (C) and (E) Only

[3] (B) and (D) Only

[4] (A) and (E) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.68) Arrange the following literary texts in the order of their publication :

(A) The Taming of the Shrew

(B) Love’s Labour Lost

(C) The Merchant of Venice

(D) Much Ado About Nothing

(E) The Winter’s Tale

[1] CEBAD

[2] DABCE

[3] DECAB

[4] ABCDE

Answer – [4]

Q.69) Who wrote “A Defence of Hindoo Theism”?

[1] M. K. Gandhi

[2] Sri Aurobindo

[3] Raja Ram Mohan Roy

[4] B. R. Ambedkar

Answer – [3]

Q.70) Match the column:

(A) A House of Mr. Biswas

(B) An Area of Darkness

(C) India: A Million Mutinies now

(D) A Bend in the River

I. 1979

II. 1961

III. 1964

IV. 1990

[1] A-III B-II C-I D-IV

[2] A-II B-III C-IV D-I

[3] A-II B-I C-III D-IV

[4] A-III B-I C-II D-IV

Answer – [2]

Q.71) Which of the following books are not authored by Chinua Achebe ?

(A) Weep not Child

(B) A Grain of Wheat

(C) Things Fall Apart

(D) The Arrow of God

(E) The Petals of Blood

[1] BDE

[2] ACD

[3] ABE

[4] AB

Answer – [3]

Q.72) In the poem “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold speaks about :

(A) The sea which is calm literally and metaphorically

(B) The sea of faith which was once at its fullest

(C) The premonition experienced by Sophocles long ago

(D) The uselessness of love

(E) The war between England and France

[1] ADE

[2] BDE

[3] ABC

[4] CDE

Answer – [3]

Q.73) “These English songs gravel one to death”. This statement is attributed to :

[1] Matthew Arnold

[2] Robert Burns

[3] Alexander Pope

[4] John Dryden

Answer – [2]

Q.74) The first English tragedy “Gorboduc” was written by :

(A) Nicholas Udall

(B) Thomas Sackville

(C) Thomas Norton

(D) Thomas Lyly

(E) John Heywood

[1] (A), (B) and (D) Only

[2] (C) and (D) Only

[3] (B) and (C) Only

[4] (A) and (E) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.75) Arrange the following literary movements in the chronological order :

(A) Feminist Criticism

(B) Deconstruction

(C) Russian Formalism

(D) Phenomenological Criticism

(E) Cultural Studies

[1] CDABE

[2] CBAEB

[3] DCBAE

[4] BDCEA

Answer – [1]

Q.76) Who is the author of Mano Majra ?

[1] S. Menon

[2] Manohar Malgonkar

[3] Balchandra Rajan

[4] Khushwant Singh

Answer – [4]

Q.77) Which of the following was not a modernist writer ?

[1] James Joyce

[2] Virginia Woolf

[3] Henry Fielding

[4] D. H. Lawrence

Answer – [3]

Q.78) John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger

(A) Represented real confusions among real people of the 1950’s

(B) Is more important as a cultural phenomenon than as work of literature

(C) Is about a provincial graduate of humble social background

(D) Is about the upper-class society of 1990’s

(E) Is Victorian in its outlook

[1] CDE

[2] ABE

[3] ABC

[4] BDE

Answer – [3]

Q.79) Nadine Gordimer is a :

[1] South African writer

[2] White Nigerian writer

[3] White South African writer

[4] Kenyan writer

Answer – [3]

Q.80) Which of the following is not a Feminist Critic?

[1] Simone de Beauvoir

[2] Judith Butler

[3] Emily Bronte

[4] Virginia Woolf

Answer – [3]

Q.81) Match the column:

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Waiting for Godot

(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(D) A Room of One’s Own

(I) New Historicism

(II) Feminism

(IlI) Psychoanalysis

(IV) Postmodernism

[1] A-I B-III C-II D-IV

[2] A-IV B-II C-I D-III

[3] A-II B-III C-IV D-I

[4] A-III B-IV C-I D-II

Answer – [4]

Q.82) Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famous for which of the following ?

[1] Epic Theatre

[2] Naturalism

[3] Magic Realism

[4] Impressionism

Answer – [3]

Q.83) Match the column:

(A) “So much depends upon a red wheel barrow”

(B) “Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea”

(C) “Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of nowhere) arranging a window”

(D) “I caught the cold flash of the blue unappearable sky”

(I) Ezra Pound

(II) Stanley Kunitz

(III) William Carlos Williams

(IV) E. E. Cummings

[1] A-III B-I C-IV D-II

[2] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[3] A-IV B-III C-I D-II

[4] A-II B-III C-I D-IV

Answer – [1]

Q.84) Match the column:

(A) The moment of protagonist’s recognition in a narrative

(B) The decisive turn in tragedy by which the plot is resolved

(C) The inversion of an already established sequence

(D) The figure by which something distasteful is described in less repugnant terms

(I) Catastrophe

(II) Chiasmas

(IIl) Anagnorisis

(IV) Euphemism

[1] A-II B-III C-IV D-I

[2] A-IV B-I C-III D-II

[3] A-III B-I C-II D-IV

[4] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

Answer – [3]

Q.85) Globalization is antithetical to :

(A) The movement of capital

(B) The movement of commodities

(C) Cultural nationalism

(D) People

(E) Narcissism

[1] (A) and (C) Only

[2] (C) and (D) Only

[3] (C) and (E) Only

[4] (A) and (E) Only

Answer – [3]

Q.86) Deductive method of research intends to :

[1] Move from particular to general

[2] Move from general to particular

[3] Move from particular to particular

[4] Move from general to general

Answer – [2]

Q.87) According to Edward Albert, the years 1550-1630 is known as :

[1] The Renaissance

[2] The Age of Elizabeth

[3] The Age of Milton

[4] The Age of Chaucer

Answer – [2]

Q.88) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Animal Farm

(B) A Burnt Out Case

(C) The Mill on the Floss

(D) The Book of Snobs

(E) A Tale of Two Cities

[1] ABDCE

[2] DECAB

[3] CDEBA

[4] EABDC

Answer – [2]

Q.89) Who defined criticism as “disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world” ?

[1] TS. Eliot

[2] Matthew Arnold

[3] Samuel Johnson

[4] John Dryden

Answer – [2]

Q.90) Who has written The Myth of Sisyphus ?

[1] Samuel Beckett

[2] James Joyce

[3] Albert Camus

[4] Jean Paul Sartre

Answer – [3]

Q.91-95)

Q.91) What according to the Utopians, is the worse enemy of pleasure?

[1] Health

[2] Disease

[3] Pain

[4] Tranquility

Answer – [3]

According to the passage, the Utopians believe pain is “the bitter enemy of pleasure.” The text clearly says, “pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health.”

Q.92) Which of the following figures of speech could be appropriately read in the last sentence of the passage ?

[1] Synecdoche

[2] Metonymy

[3] Personification

[4] Conceit

Answer – [1]

Q.93) According to the Utopians, what is the nature of relation between health and pleasure ?

[1] Inversely related to each other

[2] Health is crucial to pleasure

[3] Health and pleasure are not related to each other

[4] Health and pleasure are simply matters of imagination

Answer – [2]

Q.94) What is the nature of prose used in the passage ?

[1] Narrative prose

[2] Descriptive prose

[3] Argumentative prose

[4] Philosophical prose

Answer – [3]

Q.95) What does the first line of the passage say about external stimulus ?

[1] External stimulus is necessary condition for the experience of health

[2] External stimulus is irrelevant to the experience of health

[3] External stimulus is the by-product of health

[4] External stimulus is infectious

Answer – [1]

Q. 96-100)

Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests; Snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound:

When the spade sinks into gravelly ground

My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flower beds

Bends low, comes up twenty years away

Stooping in rhythm through potato drills

Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft

Against the inside knee was levered firmly.

He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep

To scatter new potatoes that we picked,

Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

Q.96) The comparison of gun to a pen in the poem signifies :

[1] the power of written word to bring about change

[2] that the act of writing can be as lethal as using a weapon

[3] the high administration of the speaker about father’s ability to use both pen and spade

[4] the violence associated with writers

Answer – [2]

Q.97) What do you understand about the Worldview of the speaker as articulated in the poem ?

[1] Poverty is a vicious circle

[2] Environment needs to be cared for

[3] The physical and mental work need to be treated at an equal level

[4] Poetry has done no good for the making of a better world

Answer – [3]

Q.98) Which of the following statements suitably describes the speaker’s attitude towards his fathers work ?

[1] The speaker admires his/her father’s hard work and dedication

[2] The speaker is highly critical of his/her father’s choice of employment

[3] The speaker is completely indifferent to his father’s work

[4] The speaker is resentful of father for making them participate in the work

Answer – [1]

Q.99) In the line “when the spade sinks into gravelly ground” which figure of speech has been used ?

[1] Alliteration

[2] Hyperbole

[3] Assonance

[4] Onomatopoeia

Answer – [1]

Q.100) What is the nature of the setting in the poem ?

[1] The setting is rural and serene

[2] The setting is urban and noisy

[3] The setting is industrial yet solitary

[4] The setting is suburban and bustley

Answer – [1]