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August 2024: Paper 2 (Conducted on 21st Aug 2024 : Morning Shift)

Q.1) What does ‘an eponymous’ character mean?

[1] An eponymous character is essentially devilish in nature

[2] An eponymous character gives his or her name to the title of the work

[3] An eponymous character is intriguing in nature

[4] An eponymous character is superfluous in the plot

Answer – [2]

Q.2) Who among the following is the author of I know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

[1] Toni Morrison

[2] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[3] Ama Ata Aidoo

[4] Maya Angelou

Answer – [4]

Q.3) According to Dhananjaya, there are five elements of the plot, parallel with the five stages of the action, from these respectively arise the five junctures (Samdhi). What is the correct sequence of these junctures?

A. Avamarsa

B. mukha

C. pratimukha

D. upasamhrti

E. gurbha

[1] D,B.AE.C

[2] B,C,E,A,D

[3] A,E.D.B.C

[4] C,D,B.A.E

Answer – [2]

Q.4) What was the immediate motivation for Philip Sidney to write “Apologise for Poetrie” as a defense of poetry”?

[1] Emphasis on history in Holinshed’s Chronicles

[2] Philosophical questions raised in Thomas More’s Utopia

[3] Attack on poetry in The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson

[4] Exposure of human foibles and failings in Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly.

Answer – [3]

Q.5) Who among the following was known as ‘The Lady of Christ’s’ during his college days at Cambridge?

[1] Richard Lovelace

[2] Alexander Pope

[3] John Milton

[4] Sir John Suckling

Answer – [3]

Q.6) Who among the following English translators of the Bible was burnt to death for his beliefs, however, he is remembered for his careful and important work on translation?

[1] John Wycliffe

[2] William Tyndale

[3] Miles Coverdale

[4] King James

Answer – [2]

Q.7) Which statements rightly define or describe ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’?:

A. Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is an essay in four books.

B. Sir Thomas More was the first to apply “Utopia’ to literary genre when he named his imaginary republic Utopia

C. Thomas More’s Utopia was originally written in English.

D. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World are dystopian/anti-

utopian texts.

E. More’s Utopia was translated into French, German and Spanish by Ralph Robinson.

[1] ACD

[2] CE

[3] BD

[4] DE

Answer – [2]

Q.8) What was the name of the first ship to transport indentured laborers from India to Trinidad and Tobago in 1845

[1] Duchess of Argyle

[2] Futtle Rozack

[3] Bangalore

[4] Duke of Bedford

Answer – [2]

Q.9) The poetic Line(s), “There is one great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead” appear in_____

[1] Biographia Literaria

[2] The Prelude

[3] Excursion

[4] Lyrical Ballads

Answer – [2]

Q.10) Arrange the following detective novels of Agatha Christie in the correct chronological order of their publication.

A. Death on the Nile

B. Murder in the Orient Express

C. Sparkling Cyanide

D. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

E. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

[1] E,B,D,A,C

[2] D,AE,B,C

[3] E,D,A,C,B

[4] D,E,B,A,C

Answer – [4]

Q.11) Identify the plays that John Fletcher wrote in collaboration with Francis Beaumont:

A. The Faithful Shepherdess

B. The Loyal Subject

C. Cupid’s Revenge

D. The Pilgrim

E. The Maid’s Tragedy

[1] C and E only

[2] A and D only

[3] B and C only

[4] D and E only

Answer – [1]

Q.12) Who among the following defined taste as “that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike?”

[1] Joseph Addison

[2] Samuel Johnson

[3] Richard Steele

[4] Daniel Defoe

Answer – [1]

Q.13) In his work, The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives and sought to declare the death of –

[1] Keynesian Equilibrium

[2] Christian Redemption

[3] Classical Socialism

[4] Hegelian Spirit

Answer – [3]

Q.14) The poem “France: An Ode” is written by-

[1] William Wordsworth

[2] S.T. Coleridge

[3] William Blake

[4] Robert Southey

Answer – [2]

Q.15) Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in the correct chronological order of their publication –

A. Keywords

B. Culture and Society

C. The Long Revolution

D. The Country and the City

E. Modern Tragedy

[1] A,C,B,E.D

[2] B,C,E,D,A

[3] C,B,D,AE

[4] E,A,D,B,C

Answer – [2]

Q.16) Which statement among the following rightly defines ‘an invective’?

[1] Denunciatory, abusive or vituperative speech or writing

[2] Eulogising speech, writing or act of a person

[3] Speech or writing that establishes the belief in God

[4] Speech or writing that is essentially appreciative of a person.

Answer – [1]

Q.17) Arrange the following texts of critical theory in the correct chronological order of their publication.

A. Michel Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge

B. Roland Barthes’ Mythologies

C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology

D. Jacques Lacan’s Ecrits

E. Jean-Francois Lyotard’s – The Postmodern Condition: A report on Knowledge

[1] DEBCA

[2] ABCDE

[3] BDCAE

[4] BCDEA

Answer – [3]

Q.18) Who among the following friends of Everyman, the main protagonist of the best-known morality play, Everyman, stays with him when he leaves the world to face Death?

[1] Beauty

[2] Knowledge

[3] Good Deeds

[4] Strength

Answer – [3]

Q.19) Arrange the following works by South Asian writers in the correct chronological order of their publication:

A. Kartograpgy by Kamala Shamsie

B. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

C. The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

D. Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee

E. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

[1] ABCDE

[2] ACBED

[3] EDCAB

[4] ADBEC

Answer – [4]

Q.20) Which among the following critics stated that, “The object of study in literary science is not literature but ‘literariness’, that is, what makes a given work a literary work?”

[1] Viktor Shklovsky

[2] Roman Jakobson

[3] Cleanth Brooks

[4] Allen Tate

Answer – [2]

Q.21) Who among the following called John Dryden as the father of English Criticism and affirmed that modern English prose began with Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy?

[1] Alexander Pope

[2] Jonathan Swift

[3] Samuel Johnson

[4] Charles Lamb

Answer – [3]

Q.22) Match the column:

A. Culture Industry

B. Anxiety of influence

C. Cultural materialism

D. Dialogism

I. Raymond Williams

II. Adorno and Horkheimer

III. Mikhail Bakhtin

IV. Harold Bloom

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.23) Identify the historical plays not written by Shakespeare:

A. Henry the Third

B. Richard the Third

C. Richard the Second

D. Henry the Fifth

E. Richard the Fifth

[1] A and C only

[2] C and E only

[3] D and B only

[4] A and E only

Answer – [4]

Q.24) Who among the following writers have played a significant role in the Australian Aboriginal movements?

A. Judith Wright

B. Oodegeroo Noonuccal

C. Jack Davis

D. David Malouf

E. Kevin Gilbert

[1] B.C.E only

[2] A.B.C only

[3] B.C.D only

[4] D.E.B only

Answer – [1]

Q.25) Match the column:

A. portmanteau word

B. philogy

C. phatic language

D. phantom word

I. study of the historical development of languages over time

II. used for establishing an atmosphere and the communication of feelings rather than of ideas

III. a word formed by combining two or more words

IV. a word that exists through the error of scribe, printer or lexicographer

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

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

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

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

Answer – [2]

Q.26) Which of the following stories deal with the theme of partition?

A. Thanda Gosht

B. Gharwali

C. Jila-Watan

D. Lajwanti

E. Rudali

[1] ABD

[2] BCE

[3] ACD

[4] ACE

Answer – [3]

Q.27) Who among the following was not associated with Bloomsbury Group?

[1] Virginia Woolf

[2] John Maynard Keynes

[3] Lytton Strachey

[4] Edmund Husserl

Answer – [4]

Q.28) Match the column:

A. The Man of Mode

B. The Country Wife

C. The Old Bachelor

D. The Provoked Wife

I. Sir John Vanbrugh

II. William Congreve

III. William Wycherley

IV. Sir George Etherege

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

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

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

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

Answer – [2]

Q.29) Which of the following statements are correct?

A. The term ‘performativity” was coined by Derrida

B. The idea of ‘meme’ was originally coined by Richard Dawkins.

C. The term ‘The culture industry’ was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer.

D. The term ‘Ideological State Apparatus’ was coined by Bakhtin

E. The term ‘Womanism’ was coined by Alice Walker.

[1] A,B, C

[2] D.E.A

[3] B.C,D

[4] B,C,E

Answer – [4]

Q.30) What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft’s autobiographical novel?

[1] Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman

[2] Mary: A Fiction

[3] Wives and Daughters

[4] The well of Loneliness

Answer – [2]

Q.31) Which among the following is not a novel written by Jean Rhys?

[1] Quartet

[2] Good Morning, Midnight

[3] Voyage in the Dark

[4] Golden Child

Answer – [4]

Q.32) A ‘palindrome’ is ____

[1] A recantation in song or verse

[2] A play on words by alteration of letters.

[3] A word or sentence which reads the same both ways.

[4] A sequence of clauses or sentences which have a symmetrical structure.

Answer – [3]

Q.33) Match the column:

A. Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

B. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.

C. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

D. Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.

I. DH Lawrence

II. Charles Dickens

III. Thomas Hardy

IV. Graham Greene

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.34) Match the column:

A. Fanny Burney

B. Anne Bronte

C. Pearl Buck

D. Nadine Gordimer

I. Agnes Grey

II. The Good Earth

III. My Son’s Story

IV. Evelina

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.35) Match the column:

A. Raymond Williams

B. Herbert Marcuse

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Richard Hoggart

I. Raymond Williams Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

II. Preface to film

III. One dimensional man

IV. The Uses of Literacy

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.36) How the words from a language other than English are written in a research paper?

[1] Bold letters

[2] In Italics

[3] Underlined

[4] Capital letters

Answer – [2]

Q.37) Which of the following parameters are emphasised in MLA Handbook’s (9th Edition) chapter titled, “Principles of Inclusive Language”

A. Avoid negatively judging other’s experiences.

B. Use a dictionary to check for offensive terms.

C. Extensive use of pronouns.

D. Any format for capitalization and styling.

E. Make references to identity relevant sources.

[1] CDE

[2] BCA

[3] ABE

[4] ADE

Answer – [3]

Q.38) Which among the following statements are true about Panchtantra?

A. Panchatantra is a descendant of Hitopdesha.

B. It is a manual for the instructions of the sons of a king in the principles of good conduct.

C. The first book deals with the adventures of a tortoise. deer and a cow.

D. Tantrakhyayika is one of the oldest redactions of Panchatantra.

E. Panchatantra is divided into five parts.

[1] ABC

[2] ACD

[3] BDE

[4] ACE

Answer – [3]

Q.39) Match the column:

A. Epigram

B. Epigone

C. Diegesis

D. Elision

I. an inferior or derivative follower of a more distinguished writer

II. the slurring or suppression of a vowel sound or syllable

III. a short poem with a witty turn of thought or a wittily condensed expression in prose.

IV. a term used in modern narratology to designate the narrated events as a level distinct from that of the narration

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

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

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

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

Answer – [4]

Q.40) Which of the following wrote fall under the category of LGBTQ+?

A. Making is Connecting by David Gauntlett

B. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peter

C. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

D. Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester

E. Safe Space by Alyssa Huynh

[1] ABC

[2] BCD

[3] CDE

[4] EDA

Answer – [2]

Q.41) Who among the following writers were associated to Harlem Renaissance?

A. Leslie Janison

B. Stephen King

C. Alain Locke

D. Langston Hughes

E. Zora Neale Hurston

[1] ABC

[2] BCD

[3] CDE

[4] DAE

Answer – [3]

Q.42) Who among the following published a series of essays titled The New Criticism?

[1] John Crowe Ransom

[2] William K. Wimsatt Jr.

[3] Monroe C. Beardsley

[4] Allen Tate

Answer – [1]

Q.43) Arrange the following campus novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.

A. J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

B. Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man

C. Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe

D. Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited

E. Philip Roth’s The Human Stain

[1] E,B.C.D.A

[2] D,C,B,AE

[3] A,D.E.C,B

[4] B,A,D.E.C

Answer – [2]

Q.44) Arrange the following works of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the correct chronological order of their publication.

A. Mr. Gandhi and Emancipation of Untouchables

B. The Annihilation of Caste

C. The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and its Solution

D. Federation Versus Freedom

E. Buddha and his Dhamma

[1] A,B,D,E,C

[2] C,B,A,D.E

[3] C,B,D,AE

[4] B.C,A,D,E

Answer – [3]

Q.45) Who among the following are the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. Orhan Pamuk

B. Somerset Maugham

C. Harold Pinter

D. Margaret Atwood

E. Herta Muller

[1] ABC

[2] ACD

[3] CDE

[4] ACE

Answer – [4]

Q.46) The first regular English tragedy Gorboduc contains 5 acts; while the first 3 acts were written by Thomas Norton, identify the author who wrote the remaining 2 acts-

[1] Thomas Kyd

[2] John Lyly

[3] Thomas Sackville

[4] Nicholas Udall

Answer – [3]

Q.47) Arrange the following works of ‘Black British’ writers in the correct chronological order of their publication.

A. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s No Place Like Home

B. Mike Phillips’s London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain

C. Ekow Eshun’s Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa

D. George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile

E. Caryl Phillips’s The European Tribe

[1] DAECB

[2] DEABC

[3] ABCDE

[4] BCAED

Answer – [2]

Q.48) Which among the following novelists remarked that “falsehood is so easy. truth so difficult… Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings?”

[1] Charles Dickens

[2] George Eliot

[3] William Makepeace Thackeray

[4] Thomas Carlyle

Answer – [2]

Q.49) Which statement among the following rightly defines an ‘epithet’?

[1] An adjective/adjectival phrase that condemns the protagonist of a story/novel.

[2] An adjective/adjectival phrase used to define a characteristic quality or attribute of some person or thing.

[3] An adjective/adjectival phrase suited for inscription on a tomb or memorial.

[4] A rhetorical figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive lines.

Answer – [2]

Q.50) Match the column:

A. Booker Prize

B. Pulitzer Prize

C. Nobel Prize

D. Poet laureate

I. 1917

II. 1901

III. 1668

IV. 1968

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

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

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

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

Answer – [4]

Q.51) Which of the following citations of an article published in a journal is in the correct format according to MLA Handbook (9th Edition)?

[1] 2016. Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 149-66

[2] “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, P. 149-66.

[3] Boggs, Colleen Glenney, American Periodicals. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, P. 149-66

[4] Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 149-66.

Answer – [4]

Q.52) Which of the following definitions/statements are correct?

A. The term ‘nation language’ was coined by Derek Walcott

B. “Poetic justice” is a term invented by Thomas Rhymer to convey the idea that evil is punished and virtue is rewarded.

C. The term ‘neo-colonaialism’ was coined by Ngugi Wa Thiong’ O.

D. Nihilism is a word invented by Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons.

E. Caxton, in preface to Molory’s Le Morte d’ Arthur listed the nine heroes of late medieval literature

[1] BDE

[2] ABC

[3] BCD

[4] ACD

Answer – [1]

Q.53) Alexander Pope’s famous quote, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” appears in which one of the following works?

[1] Essay on Criticism

[2] The Dunciad

[3] Essay on Man

[4] The Rape of the Lock

Answer – [1]

Q.54) Who among the following was not associated with Lake School of Poetry?

[1] S.T. Coleridge

[2] Robert Southey

[3] William Blake

[4] William Wordsworth

Answer – [3]

Q.55) Match the column:

A. Sally morgan

B. Monica clare

C. Nugi Garimara (Doris pilkington)

D. Alexis wright

I. Karobran

II. Caprice- A Stockman’s Daughter

III. My place

IV. Plains of Promise

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

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

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

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

Answer – [2]

Q.56) Match the column:

A. Ngugi Wa Thiong’O

B. Aime Cesaire

C. Frantz Fanon

D. Chinua Achebe

I. Toward the African revolution

II. There was a country

III. The language of languages

IV. Discourse on Colonialism

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

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

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

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

Answer – [2]

Q.57) Which statements are true about Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?

A. The General Prologue describes the meeting of twenty-nine pilgrims in the Tabard Inn.

B. “The Parson’s Tale” is the introductory tale that deals with seven virtues

C. The Canterbury Tales is written in prose and verse of various meters

D. Only twenty-three pilgrims tell stories and there are only twenty four stories told altogether.

E. “The Prioress’ Tale” tells about the murder of a mother by a child.

[1] BDE

[2] ACD

[3] ADE

[4] ABE

Answer – [2]

Q.58) Who among the following observed that “the artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antimonium always?”

[1] Walter Pater

[2] Oscar Wilde

[3] Edgar Allan Poe

[4] EM. Forster

Answer – [2]

Q.59) Sir Thomas Brown’s longest work, Vulgar Errors, is about-

[1] the mistaken beliefs of the poorly educated

[2] vulgarity prevailing in Aristocraic class

[3] vulgar beliefs and practices of the time

[4] use of vulgar language in literary works

Answer – [1]

Q.60) Which of the following statements are true about Bhavabhuti’s Uttararamacharita?

A. The time-space of the play is divided into two broad sections/acts.

B. The first act of the play deals only with the birth and childhood of Rama.

C.itis a play based on the Ramayana.

D. Its theme has been derived from the last canto of the Ramayana.

E. In the second act of the play, Sita takes refuge in the hermitage of the sage, Visvamitra.

[1] BDE

[2] ABE

[3] BCD

[4] ACD

Answer – [4]

Q.61) Which periodical was started by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele after closing of the Spectator in 1712?

[1] Tatler

[2] Guardian

[3] Gentleman’s Magazine

[4] Athenian Mercury

Answer – [2]

Q.62) Which among the following is not a play written by Eugene O’Neill?

[1] Anna Christie

[2] Strange Interlude

[3] The Plough and the Stars

[4] All God’s Chillun Got Wings

Answer – [3]

Q.63) According to MLA handbook, the mechanics of prose refers to technical questions that writers must follow. These include:

[1] Spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization

[2] Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, style of numbering

[3] Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, content

[4] Spelling, capitalization, style of numbering, linguistics

Answer – [2]

Q.64) Which among the following are not the genuine sources of the sublime as cited by Longinus?

A. Creation of imaginative feelings

B. The command of “full-blooded™ or robust ideas

C. The inspiration of “vehement emotion™

D. Nobility of spontaneity.

E. The general effect of dignity and elevation.

[1] BC

[2] AD

[3] CE

[4] BE

Answer – [2]

Q.65) Match the column:

A. The Idylls of the king

B. Dramatic lyrics

C. Sonnets from the Portuguese

D. Poems and Ballads

I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

II. A.C. Swinburne

III. Alfred Tennyson

IV. Robert Browning

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.66) How many Knights feature in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene?

[1] 10

[2] 12

[3] 13

[4] 11

Answer – [2]

Q.67) Match the column:

A. Shyam: An illustrated retelling of the Bhagavata

B. War of Lanka

C. Ahalya’s Awakening

D. Ajaya: Epic of the Kaurava clan

I. Anand Neelkantan

II. Kavita Kane

III. Devdutt Pattanaik

IV. Amish Tripathi

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

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

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

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

Answer – [2]

Q.68) Which of the following works are Graphic Narratives?

A. The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan

B. Bhimayana by Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand

C. Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir by Malik Sajad

D. 4 Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

E. This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition by Vishwajyoti Ghosh

[1] BCE

[2] ABC

[3] DCE

[4] ADC

Answer – [1]

Q.69) While documenting, when is a block quotation used in prose?

[1] If a quotation runs in more than four lines.

[2] If a quotation runs in more than five lines.

[3] If a quotation runs in more than three lines.

[4] If a quotation runs in more than two lines.

Answer – [1]

Q.70) Who among the following coined the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’?

[1] Virginia Woolf

[2] Marcel Proust

[3] May Sinclair

[4] James Joyce

Answer – [3]

Q.71) Arrange the following Indian writers in the correct chronological order of their birth-

A. RK. Narayan

B. Raja Rao

C. Sri Aurobindo

D. K.S. Venkataramani

E. Sarojini Naidu

[1] B,A,E,C,D

[2] D,E,C,B,A

[3] C,E,D.A,B

[4] A,B,C,E,D

Answer – [3]

Q.72) Who among the following invented ‘inscape’ and ‘instress’?

[1] LA. Richards

[2] WK. Wimsatt

[3] William Faulkner

[4] G.M. Hopkins

Answer – [4]

Q.73) Match the column:

A. Vikram Seth

B. V.S. Naipaul

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Jhumpa Lahiri

I. Knife

II. The lowland

III. The Mosque of Africa

IV. From heaven lake

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

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

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

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

Answer – [4]

Q.74) Which among the following statements are true about ‘The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian’?

A. It is an autobiographical text written by Nirad C. Chaudhary

B. It is a text of partition literature.

C. Unabashed Anglophilia of the author made this work controversial.

D. It was published in 1951.

E. It primarily raises the question of communal conflicts.

[1] ACD

[2] BDE

[3] CBA

[4] ABE

Answer – [1]

Q.75) Arrange the following texts in the correct chronological order of their publication –

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Beowulf

C. Endymion

D. The Faerie Queene

E. Paradise Lost

[1] ABDCE

[2] BDAEC

[3] BDEAC

[4] DBEAC

Answer – [3]

Q.76) Match the column:

A. Lal singh dil

B. Urmila pawar

C. Tulsi ram

D. Devanur mahadeva

I. hindi

II. kannada

III. punjab

IV. marathi

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

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

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

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

Answer – [3]

Q.77) Which of the following statements are correct?

A. ‘Diegesis’ is a term used by Plato to mean “statement’, and by Aristotle to mean ‘narration’.

B. Foucault’s term *Biopolitics’ refers to the attempts of the government to rationalise the problems.

C. ‘Hypertext is a term that refers to ‘second -degree’ literature made up of works which allude to or derive from hypotext.

D. ‘Desiring Machines’ is a concept introduced by Antonio Gramsci

E. ‘Dream Work’ is a psychoanalytical term to describe the mechanism that transforms raw material of a dream to its manifest content.

[1] ABD

[2] BCD

[3] CDE

[4] BCE

Answer – [4]

Q.78) Match the column:

A. Abbey Theatre

B. Theatre of the Absurd

C. Hope Theatre

D. Theatre of Silence

I. Martin Esselin

II. W.B. Yeats

III. Jean Jacques Barnard

IV. Philip Henslowe

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

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

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

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

Answer – [1]

Q.79) Who among the following did not belong to ‘Angry Young Men” generation of British playwrights/novelists?

[1] Amis Kingsley

[2] John Osborne

[3] Colin Wilson

[4] J.B. Priestley

Answer – [4]

Q.80) Which among the following is not a state of human mental disposition as posited by Jacques Lacan?

[1] The Historical Order

[2] The Imaginary Order

[3] The Symbolic Order

[4] The Real

Answer – [1]

Q.81) Arrange the following philosophers/theorists in the correct chronological order of their birth-

A. Simone de Beauvoir

B. Walter Benjamin

C. Jean Baudrillard

D. Mikhail Bakhtin

E. Roland Barthes

[1] BDAEC

[2] ABECD

[3] DABCE

[4] ECABD

Answer – [1]

Q.82) Who among the following stated that “true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both?”

[1] Edgar Allan Poe

[2] Philip Sidney

[3] Ralph Waldo Emerson

[4] John Keats

Answer – [3]

Q.83) Arrange the following plays of G.B. Shaw in the correct chronological order of their publication:

A. Pygmalion

B. Man and Superman

C. Arms and the Man

D. Too True to be Good

E. Saint Joan

[1] BCAED

[2] CBAED

[3] ACBDE

[4] BACDE

Answer – [2]

Q.84) Arrange the following novels in the correct chronological order of their publication-

A. So Many Hungers

B. All About H. Hatter

C. Music for Mohini

D. Waiting for the Mahatama

E. Kanthapura

[1] BEDCA

[2] ADBEC

[3] EABCD

[4] CDABE

Answer – [3]

Q.85) Who among the following is the author of The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading?

[1] Roland Barthes

[2] Wolfgang Iser

[3] Stanley Fish

[4] Hans Robert Jauss

Answer – [2]

Q.86-90)

All round me are words, and words and words,

They grow on me like leaves, they never

Seem to stop their slow growing

From within… But I tell my self, words

Are a nuisance, beware of them, they

Can be so many things, a

Chasm where running feet must pause, to

Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,

A blast of burning air or,

A knife most willing to cut your best

Friend’s throat … words are a nuisance, but.

They grow on me like leaves on a tree,

They never run to stop their coming,

From a silence, somewhere deep within…

Q.86) A major theme of the poem can best be summarized as:

[1] Words may exist independent of human existence

[2] The growth/flow of words can not be restricted

[3] Words can grow on trees

[4] Words originate from nature

Answer – [2]

Q.87) The poem is most similar in style and form to-

[1] Occasional verse

[2] Open verse

[3] Sonnet

[4] Ode

Answer – [2]

Q.88) Which one of the following poetic devices is used in the opening line of the poem?

[1] Foregrounding

[2] Anaphora

[3] Metonomy

[4] Hyperbole

Answer – [2]

Q.89) Which one of the following is not a metaphor employed in the poem?

[1] a knife

[2] a sea

[3] a tree

[4] a throat

Answer – [4]

Q.90) Which one of the following lines indicates the destructive character of words?

[1] Seem to stop their slow growing

[2] A blast of burning air or,

[3] They grow on me like leaves on a tree

[4] From a silence, somewhere deep within

Answer – [2]

Q.91-95)

I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well- known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love… And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands — of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson — that what is impossible with man is child’s play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle, we won’t have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.

Q.91) Which phrase rightly encapsulates the central message of the passage?

[1] Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

[2] For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.

[3] It is a wise child that knows its father.

[4] A burnt child dreads the fire.

Answer – [2]

Q.92) What kind of a passage is this?

[1] Expository

[2] Persuasive

[3] Descriptive

[4] Analytical

Answer – [2]