January 2017 : Paper 2
October 19, 2022 2025-10-13 13:34January 2017 : Paper 2
January 2017 : Paper 2
Q.1) Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.
[1] Kim
[2] A Passage to India
[3] Train to Pakistan
[4] Private Life of an Indian Prince
Answer: 1
Q.2) Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?
[1] Rudyard Kipling
[2] Edward Lear
[3] Alfred Lord Tennyson
[4] Robert Browning
Answer: 3
Q.3) Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
[1] Ferdinand de Saussure
[2] J.L. Austin
[3] Roman Jakobson
[4] Victor Shklovsky
Answer: 3
Q.4) From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
[1] I and III
[2] I and II
[3] II and III
[4] III and IV
Answer: 2
Q.5) Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
[1] Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
[2] Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
[3] Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
[4] Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Answer: 3
Q.6) Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :
[1] Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
[2] The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
[3] The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
[4] Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: 3
Q.7) Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s
[1] lost Lenore
[2] lost Abigail
[3] pet animal
[4] lost heritage
Answer: 1
Q.8) In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb ?
[1] Macbeth
[2] Macduff
[3] Duncan
[4] Malcolm
Answer: 2
Q.9) Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
[1] Belinda
[2] Clarissa
[3] Betty
[4] Thalestris
Answer: 2
Q.10) Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
[1] I & IV
[2] II & IV
[3] III & IV
[4] I & III
Answer: 3
Q.11) Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?
[1] Remembering Babylon
[2] The Great World
[3] The Conversations at Curlow Creek
[4] An Imaginary Life
Answer: 4
Q.12) In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as good examples of English Poesy ?
I. The Mirror of Magistrates
II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Makers
IV. Ballad of Scottish King
The right combination according to the code is :
[1] I and III
[2] I and IV
[3] I and II
[4] II and III
Answer: 3
Q.13) Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?
[1] Virginia Woolf
[2] Wyndham Lewis
[3] E.M. Forster
[4] D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 1
Q.14) Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures” ?
[1] Moll Flanders
[2] Robinson Crusoe
[3] Roxana
[4] Captain Singleton
Answer: 2
Q.15) In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when he visits Lowood School ?
[1] Laziness
[2] Stealing
[3] Lying
[4] Spying
Answer: 3
Q.16) William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in its entirety ?
[1] “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
[2] “My mother is a fish.”
[3] “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”
[4] “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Answer: 2
Q.17) The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman, …………..
[1] St. Agnes
[2] St. Theresa
[3] St. Joan
[4] St. Carmel
Answer: 2
Q.18) “O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sun burnt mirth !”
The above description is an example of
[1] Paronomasia
[2] Synaesthesia
[3] Aphaeresis
[4] Synecdoche
Answer: 2
Q.19) The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by
[1] Aristotle
[2] John Dryden
[3] Thomas Rhymer
[4] Ben Jonson
Answer: 3
Q.20) ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
[1] Jerome
[2] William Tyndale
[3] Miles Coverdale
[4] Bede
Answer: 3
Q.21) In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading upwards and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None can usurp this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery, and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess ?
[1] Urania
[2] Moneta
[3] Melete
[4] Mneme
Answer: 2
Q.22) Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are named the following EXCEPT :
[1] The Sky
[2] The Window
[3] Time Passes
[4] The Lighthouse
Answer: 1
Q.23) Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?
[1] The Tree of Man
[2] Voss
[3] Riders in the Chariot
[4] The Solid Mandala
Answer: 2
Q.24) Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies ?
[1] Ralph
[2] Piggy
[3] Peter
[4] Jack
Answer: 3
Q.25) Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included
I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
III. Gerald Manley Hopkins
IV. John Millais
The right combination according to the code is
[1] II and III
[2] I and IV
[3] I and III
[4] II and IV
Answer: 2
Q.26) The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer ?
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
[1] I & II
[2] I & III
[3] I & IV
[4] III & IV
Answer: 3
Q.27) Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in
[1] the real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents
[2] an elementary letter-writing manual
[3] the general plight of English women
[4] the suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values
Answer: 2
Q.28) The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled
[1] A Satire against Sedition
[2] A Satire against Tyranny
[3] A Satire against Greed
[4] A Satire against Apostasy
Answer: 1
Q.29) “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of
[1] assonance
[2] alliteration
[3] apostrophe
[4] enjambment
Answer: 2
Q.30) What is a trochee ?
[1] A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses
[2] A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable
[3] Three successive heavy stresses
[4] A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical
Answer: 2
Q.31) Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms
I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue
III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is
[1] II and III
[2] I and IV
[3] I and III
[4] II and IV
Answer: 3
Q.32) ………….. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.
[1] First person
[2] Self-conscious
[3] Third person
[4] Participant
Answer: 2
Q.33) Who among the following modern writers is associated with the quote, “Only connect” ?
[1] D.H. Lawrence
[2] Virginia Woolf
[3] James Joyce
[4] E.M. Forster
Answer: 4
Q.34) Which of the following images does not figure in Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” ?
[1] a boy falling out of the sky
[2] children … skating on a pond at the edge of wood
[3] ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
[4] the dogs go on with their doggy life
Answer: 3
Q.35) Feste is a clown in
[1] Twelfth Night
[2] As You Like It
[3] The Taming of the Shrew
[4] Much Ado About Nothing
Answer: 1
Q.36) Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play ?
[1] Enter a Free Man
[2] The Real Inspector Hound
[3] Jumpers
[4] Night and Day
Answer: 2
Q.37) Which of the following is not true of free verse ?
[1] Characterised by short, irregular lines.
[2] No rhyme pattern.
[3] Written in iambic pentameter
[4] A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses
Answer: 3
Q.38) James Thomson’s long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all his life, began in the first instance as a poem entitled
[1] Spring
[2] Summer
[3] Winter
[4] Autumn
Answer: 3
Q.39) Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared posthumously. They are known as
[1] Mutability cantos
[2] Friendship cantos
[3] Justice cantos
[4] Courtesy cantos
Answer: 1
Q.40) Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
[1] repeating mistakes
[2] totalitarianism
[3] deconstructionism
[4] historicism
Answer: 4
Q.41) What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home Coming ?
[1] boxer
[2] butcher
[3] pimp
[4] cab driver
Answer: 3
Q.42) Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?
[1] Beppo
[2] Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
[3] Don Juan
[4] The Vision of Judgement
Answer: 3
Q.43) In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of
[1] William Morris
[2] William Holman Hunt
[3] D.G. Rossetti
[4] James Collinson
Answer: 3
Q.44) In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title ?
[1] Love and Duty Reconcil’d
[2] Beauty in Distress
[3] Virtue Rewarded
[4] Love in Excess
Answer: 1
Q.45) In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to
[1] the language of the poet
[2] the mind of the poet
[3] the soul of the poet
[4] the life of the poet
Answer: 2
Q.46) Match the character with the work :
A. Pip
B. Causaubon
C. Becky Sharp
D. Heathcliff
I. Middlemarch
II. Great Expectations
III. Wuthering Heights
IV. Vanity Fair
The right combination according to the code is :
[1] I-B, II-C, III-D, IV-A
[2] I-D, II-A, III-C, IV-B
[3] I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C
[4] I-C, II-B, III-D, IV-A
Answer: 3
Q.47) Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except
[1] analytical criticism
[2] literary history
[3] personal biography
[4] Socratic dialogue
Answer: 4
Q.48) Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is :
[1] II and III
[2] II and IV
[3] III and IV
[4] I and III
Answer: 1
Q.49) Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?
[1] Miletus
[2] Socrates
[3] Plato
[4] Aristotle
Answer: 3
Q.50) Match the author with the work :
Author
A. John Locke
B. William Dampier
C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
Work
I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
II. Two Treatises on Government
III. A Short View of Tragedy
IV. Voyages
[1] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
[2] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
[3] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
[4] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 3