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