Paper 3- September 2013

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Paper 3- September 2013

1. Which of the following statements is not true of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina? It is concerned with

(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life.

(B) The belief in social progress and scientific advancement.

(D) The reaction of immediate family members to someone’s terminal illness.

Answer: (D)

2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda’s guardian sylph is unable to prevent the Baron’s fatal mischief because

(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda’s heart.

(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa’s speech.

(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the Cave of Spleen.

Answer: (A)

3. ‘Ah! I’ll never, never meet such a man again. You ought to have heard him recite poetry …Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of Darkness these words about Kurtz are spoken by

(A) The manager

(B) The intended

(D) The Russian

Answer: (D)

4. Arrange the following ELT methods and approaches in the order in which they appear. Use the codes given below:

Code:

I. Direct Method

II. The Communicative Language Teaching

III. The Grammar Translation Method

IV. The Silent Way

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I, III, IV, III

(B) III, I, IV, II

(D) I, III, II, IV

Answer: (B)

5. Which of the following statements is not applicable to Derrida’s rejection of the notion of the ‘Metaphysics of Presence’?

(A) The desire for immediate access to meaning privileges presence over absence.

(B) All presences are necessarily metaphysical and, therefore, are to be rejected.

(D) Metaphysics involves installinghierarchies and orders ofsubordination in the variousdualisms that it encounters.

Answer: (B)

6. Read the following and its code: “a prince’s court
Is like a common fountain, whence should flow Pure silver drop in general: but if’t chance
Some curs’d example poison’t near the head Death and disease through the whole land spread.”

Code:

I. It is the description of the French Court at the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi.

II. It is about the English court. Such was Webster’s England, but to avoid censorship Webster gives his play a foreign location.

III. It is about the Italian court.

IV. The court is located in Malfi.

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) I and II are correct.

(D) II and IV are correct.

Answer: (B)

7. Literary works by post-modern British writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share which of the following characteristics?

(A) The use of fragmented narrative structures with multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology and location.

(B) An emphasis on the rich universality of life in cultures and countries all over the world.

(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for nineteenth and early twentieth century life, typically expressed in rueful, melancholic tones.

(D) The use of brief, economic literary forms and a spare, astringent literary style.

Answer: (A)

8. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers maintain that being ‘unhomed’ is not the same as being ‘homeless’.

Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at home in themselves: their cultural identity crisis has made them psychological refugees.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?

Code:

(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

Answer: (B)

9. Which of the following statements are not true about Margaret Laurence’s Novel, The Stone Angel?

Code:

I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in Manitoba called Manawaka.

II. The novel was written when she was away from Canada.

III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by Hagar Shipley.

IV. The novel is least known of her works.

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) II and III are correct.

(D) I and IV are correct.

Answer: (C)

10. Which of the following statements is not true of many contemporary African writers?

(A) They convey a melancholy tone of longing for traditionalreligious rituals.

(B) They celebrate unambiguously the benefits of Western education.

(D) They assess the social impact of systems and institutions of colonial rule.

Answer: (B)

11. The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by

(A) Arthur Munby

(B) Arthur Hugh Clough

(D) Coventry Patmore

Answer: (D)

12. Which of the following literary types is associated with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire?

(A) Flaneur

(B) Poete Maudit

(D) Honnete Homme

Answer: (A)

13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image clusters are associated with

Code:

I. Rain

II. Beasts

III. Insects

IV. River

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and III are correct.

(B) I, II and IV are correct.

(D) I and IV are correct.

Answer: (D)

14. Which of the following poets describes his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo-Indian.She is Indian English, the language that I use.”

(A) Nissim Ezekiel

(B) Keki Daruwalla

(D) R. Parthasarathy

Answer: (B)

15. All of the following are characteristics of Renaissance humanism except

(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures.

(B) Rejection of Christian principles.

(D) Primary causative agent of the Reformation.

Answer: (C)

16. ‘Stand up, young woman … and tell me what sort of a barbarous people your country folk are, where child-murder is become so commonplace as to require the restraint of laws like yours.’ The queen in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian is referring to a strangeScottish law according to which if a woman

(A) gives birth to a child and the child is missing, she is considered guilty of infanticide.

(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.

(C) gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.

(D) gives birth to a child and kills the child and she is guilty of infanticide.

Answer: (B)

17. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the definition of New Historicism? New historicist critics

(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was – rather than as we have been conditioned by our own place and time to believe the way it was.

(B) Are less likely to see history as linear and progressive, as something developing toward the present.

(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary text has a single or easily identifiable historical context.

Answer: (C)

18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays an ‘excess of sensibility’ in

(A) Marianne

(B) Margaret

(D) Lucy

Answer: (A)

19. Ben Jonson disliked

Code:

I. fantastic comedy

II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and stupendous tragedy

III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus

IV. The ability of satire to expose human vices and follies

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and III are correct.

(B) III and IV are correct.

(D) I and II are correct.

Answer: (D)

20. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin and Ellison returned to universal themes and focused on innovations in literary forms.

Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African and American Literature was mostly preoccupied with protest.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?

Code:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (A)

21. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) Joseph Conrad

(D) E.M. Forster

Answer: (C)

22. Of the following characters in Jacobean plays, choose the one who is not a villainous character:

(A) De Flores (The Changeling)

(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam)

(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi)

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

23. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain. Suchliterature included books written byformer slaves. Two such writings are

Code:

I. Mary Robinson

II. Olaudah Equiano

III. Mary Prince

IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley

The right combination according to the code is

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) I and II are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Answer: (D)

24. Hippolyte Taine published his four volume History of English Literature in 1864 based on the following categories except one. Which one?

(A) Race

(B) Psychology

(D) Milieu

Answer: (B)

25. The two ‘mother-figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are

Code:

I. Estella

II. Miss Havisham

III. Mrs Joe

IV. Georgiana

The right combination according to the code is:

(A) II and III are correct.

(B) I and II are correct.

(D) I and III are correct.

Answer: (A)

26. Judith Wright’s works reveal the following features except one. Which one?

(A) A keen focus on the Australian environment

(B) Concern for the relationship between the settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.

(D) An obsession with religious and political issues.

Answer: (D)

27. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared:

Code:

I. Leviathan

II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

III. Le MorteD’Arthur

IV. Utopia

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I, IV, III, II

(B) III, IV, I, II

(D) III, I, IV, II

Answer: (C)

28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?

(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody

(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting

(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain

Answer: (B)

29. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are

(A) Real and fake

(B) Voluntary and involuntary

(D) Latent and manifest

Answer: (D)

30. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood’?

(A) Desire under the Elms

(B) The Hairy Ape

(D) Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: (C)

31. “With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort ofa father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot’s novels. Who is she?

(A) Romola

(B) Hetty Sorel

(D) Dorothea

Answer: (D)

32. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): The term “Standard English” is misleading.

Reason (R): There are manylinguistic communities that dohave a genuine standard variety,a fixed and invariant form of the language that is used for certain kinds of communication.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?

Code:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (B)

33. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.

Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects the poet’s divided life between America and England and a life given over to primitivism.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (C)

34. Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English?

(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

(B) G.V. Desani’s All about H Hatterr

(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor

Answer: (B)

35. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about

(A) A father and a daughter setting out on a journey.

(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and her visit to Venice.

(C) Emily’s adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her escape and her final union with Valencourt.

(D) The adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho.

Answer: (C)

36. In Marxist criticism the term ‘interpellation’ defines

(A) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of material practices.

(B) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices.

(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan ideology resist false positionsof knowledge regarding others.

Answer: (C)

37. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :

(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.

(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.

(D) It is a matter of reader-response.

Answer: (B)

38. In a trickster tale

I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist

II. The ending is ambiguous

III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or a liar

IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) II and III are correct.

(B) I, II and III are correct.

(D) I and IV are correct.

Answer: (C)

39. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is

(A) The American Heritage Dictionary

(B) Fennell

(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary

Answer: (C)

40. Which of the following statements on the ending of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by

(A) Violent convulsions.

(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly perceptible.

(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who discovers the body.

Answer: (B)

41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include

Code:

I. Northrop Frye

II. Dorothy Van Ghent

III. Derek Traversi

IV. Maud Bodkin

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) I and III are correct.

(D) I and II are correct.

Answer: (A)

42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”, Donne says to death: “Those whom thou think’st thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” What does he mean?

(A) Death is very strong.

(B) Death is not death, because after death we wake up to live eternally.

(D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.

Answer: (D)

43. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play?

(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)

(B) To Clothe the Naked

(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author

Answer: (D)

44. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.

Reason (R): The writers were responding to the devastation of war and feeling disconnected from the traditions of the past.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (A)

45. Which among the following statements is not correct? Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about

(A) The condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.

(B) The political and religious conditions of the time.

(D) Lack of communication between men and women.

Answer: (B)

46. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with

Code:

I. Pythons

II. Vultures

III. Wasps

IV. Butterflies

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) I and III are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Answer: (A)

47. “Collocations” refer to

(A) The combination of words in a phrase

(B) The act of positioning words

(D) Combination of natural words

Answer: (C)

48. Of the following statements, which one is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the World?

(A) The Way of the World was staged in 1700.

(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.

Answer: (D)

49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger displays

I. Rebelliousness

II. Nostalgia

III. Restlessness

IV. Mendacity

The right combination according to the code is:

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) I and III are correct.

(D) III and IV are correct.

Answer: (B)

50. The following are two lists of works and their themes. Match them correctly:

(Works)

I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D’urbervilles

II. The End of the Affair, the Golden Bowl

III. The Heart of theMatter, Lord Jim

IV. Heart of Darkness, Nostromo

(Themes)

1. Suicide

2. Greed

3. Infanticide

4. Adultery

The correct combination according to the code is:

I II III IV

(A) 3 4 1 2

(B) 4 3 1 2

(D) 4 1 3 2

Answer: (A)

51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando’s blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of the following is not the correct answer?

(A) Many will swoon when they look at blood.

(B) She faints because of her real concern and anxiety for Orlando.

(D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later claims.

Answer: (D)

52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides’s Medea? In Euripides’s Medea the chorus consists of

(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea’s next door neighbours

(B) Fifteen Athenian elders

(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women

Answer: (A)

53. Which of the following is not an award received by Mahasweta Devi?

(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award

(B) Jnanpith Award

(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize

Answer: (D)

54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official language of the English Parliament in

(A) 1755

(B) 1362

(D) 1879

Answer: (B)

55. The following are two lists of statements and the poets / critics who made them. Match them correctly:

(Statements on imagination)

I. One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision

II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth

III. The greatinstrument ofmoral good isthe imagination

IV. Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language

(Poets / critics)

1. Shelley

2. Coleridge

3. Blake

4. Keats

The right combination according to the code is:

Code:

I II III IV

(A) 2 1 3 4

(B) 3 4 1 2

(D) 4 1 3 2

Answer: (B)

56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island involving adventures of three boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are repeated in Golding’s tale. They are

Code:

I. Ralph

II. Roger

III. Jack

IV. Simon

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) III and IV are correct.

(D) I and III are correct.

Answer: (D)

57. The following are two lists of characters and the works in which we find them. Match them correctly according to the code:

(Characters)

I. Ratna

II. Raghu

III. Padma

IV. Gargi

(Works)

1. A House for Mr Biswas

2. Midnight’s Children

3. The Last Labyrinth

4. Kanthapura

Code:

I II III IV

(A) 2 1 3 4

(B) 3 2 1 4

(D) 1 2 3 4

Answer: (C)

58. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one:

(A) Molly Seagrim

(B) Mrs Western

(D) Lady Bellaston

Answer: (C)

59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the headlines: ‘A book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.’ Its opening chapter was originally suppressed. Name the novel:

(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(B) The Rainbow

(D) The White Peacock

Answer: (C)

60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one?

(A) Movement versus stasis

(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss

(D) Beauty versus truth

Answer: (C)

61. These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.

The above formulation best describes

(A) The Neoclassical Critics

(B) The Romantic Critics

(D) The Symbolist Critics

Answer: (A)

62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech?

(A) Estragon

(B) Vladimir

(D) Pozzo

Answer: (C)

63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses

(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation

(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious

(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body

Answer: (C)

64. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group?

(A) Angus Wilson

(B) David Lodge

(D) Malcolm Bradbury

Answer: (C)

65. Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus?

(A) The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man.

(B) The story, divided into two parts, gives Meursault’s first person narrative before and after the murder respectively.

(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars of existentialism.

Answer: (C)

66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of

Code:

I. Queen Elizabeth

II. The Irish Nation

III. The Roman Catholic Church

IV. The Protestant Faith

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and III are correct.

(B) I and II are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Answer: (C)

67. Which of the following statements is not a correct description of Pope’s The Dunciad?

(A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing.

(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.

(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.

Answer: (D)

68. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis?

(A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe.

(B) Language is a guide to social reality.

(D) A language and the society that uses it interlock.

Answer: (C)

69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell?

Code:

I. Socrates

II. Aristotle

III. Heraclitus

IV. Plato

The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) I and IV are correct.

(D) I and III are correct.

Answer: (B)

70. Which of the following best describes the role of revision in the writing process?

(A) Revision is discrete phase of the writing process that should occur after the initial drafting phase.

(B) Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second draft phase of the writing process.

(D) Substantive revision should occur primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.

Answer: (C)

71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet?

(A) Robert Burns

(B) Thomas Chatterton

(D) Charlotte Smith

Answer: (B)

72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ … it’s what I want. It’s what you want.’ But the horses didn’t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it.” At the end of A Passage to India Forster suggests that

(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends.

(B) Probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends.

(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not want the English and the Indians to be friends, not yet.

(D) The East is east and the West is west and the twain shall never meet.

Answer: (C)

73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a

(A) Dialect

(B) Creole

(D) Register

Answer: (C)

74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis. Hewrote a review which introduced the term:

(A) The Earthly School of Poetry

(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry

(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry

Answer: (B)

75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on

(A) The Mendip hills

(B) The Purbeck hills

(D) The Cheviot Hills

Answer: (C)