UGC ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER II- JUNE 2012

ENGLISH

Paper – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two  marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term:

(A) aporia

(B) difference

(C) erasure

(D) supplement

Ans: A

2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Alan Bennett

(C) Caryl Churchill

(D) Tom Stoppard

Ans: D

3. Arrange the following in the chronological order:

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2

(B) 3, 2, 1, 2

(C) 1, 2, 4, 3

(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

Ans: A

4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Ulysses

(C) The Power and the Glory

(D) Heart of Darkness

Ans: D

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Ans: A

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(C) The Book of Duchess

(D) The Legend of Good Women

Ans: C

7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(C) Damon and Pythias

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

Ans: A

8. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(C) Edwin Muir

(D) Derek Walcott

Ans: B

9. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(C) Johnson on Dryden

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

Ans: C

10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?

(A) Tony Morrison

(B) Seamus Heaney

(C) Ted Hughes

(D) Geoffrey Hill

Ans: A/B

11.              List – I                                                          List – II

I. “Because I could not stop for death…”           a. Robert Frost

II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”                             b. William Carlos Williams

III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”              c. Emily Dickinson

IV. “So much depends /upon”                              d. Walt Whitman

The correctly matched series would be :

(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a

(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d

(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c

(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

Ans: D

12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

(A) comic

(B) solemn

(C) hortatory

(D) irony

Ans: D

13. I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics?

(A) bench

(B) night club

(C) house

(D) park

Ans: B

14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(C) Standard English Project

(D) Basic English Project

Ans: D

15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear?

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho

(D) The Way of the World

Ans: A

16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.

II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.

IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

(A) I and II are true.

(B) II and III are true.

(C) II and IV are true.

(D) III and IV are true.

Ans: A

17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes

(B) the Symbolists

(C) the Imagists

(D) the Art Noveau School

Ans: A

18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) P. B. Shelley

(C) Thomas De Quincey

(D) Lord Byron

Ans: C

19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

Ans: C

20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(C) William Golding

(D) Graham Greene

Ans: D

21. List – I                                                                           List – II

1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius          I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”

2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of

    all knowledge.                                                  II. Sidney, Defence/ An           Apology for Poetry

3. Literary criticism is a description and

    Evaluation of its object                                     III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

4. Nature never set forth the earth in

as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done                                                                                                                    IV. Coleridge,BiographiaLiteraria

1       2       3       4

   

   (A)   IV       III       I       II

   (B)   II        IV       III     I

   (C)   III       II        I       IV

   (D)   IV       II        I        III

Ans: A

22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(C) The Innocents Abroad

(D) Following the Equator

Ans: D

23. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

Ans: B

24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(C) George Cruishank

(D) John Tennial

Ans: C

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(C) The Land of the Hurricanes

(D) The Newfound Land

Ans: A

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(C) The Jungle

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Ans: B

27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English?

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(C) The hyacinth garden scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

Ans: B

28. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by

(A) Hamlet

(B) Lear

(C) Othello

(D) Macbeth

Ans: D

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy

Ans: B

30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) John Arden

(C) Harold Pinter

(D) David Hare

Ans: C

31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year1936.

(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.

(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.

(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

Ans: C

32. What is the correct combination of the following?

I. Balachandra Rajan                                           a. The Tamarind Tree

II. R. K. Narayan                                                  b. The Coffer Dams

III. Kamala Markandaya                                       c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu                                                   d. The Dark Room

(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b

(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c

(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b

(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

Ans: A

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirizes in his famous poem.

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

Ans: C

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

(A) winter, spring

(B) autumn, summer

(C) wind, rains

(D) spring, winter

Ans: A

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works :

I. Let us go then, you and I…..                       a. Moby Dick

II. Call me Ishmael…..                                     b. Macbeth

III. When shall we three meet again ?           c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter       d. Tristram Shandy

V. I wish either….begot me …..                      e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d

(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d

(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c

(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

Ans: A

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Volpone

(D) Gorboduc

Ans: C

37. What is a neologism?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

Ans: C

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation

(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory

(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

Ans: C

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are:

(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(C) iron, gold, silver and brass

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

Ans: C

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending?

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman

(D) The Clockwork Orange

Ans: C

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Anti-climax

Ans: C

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanza form in some of his major poems.

(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.

(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ans: D

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(C) both class and gender

(D) only patriarchy

Ans: C

44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) Thomas Gray

Ans: D

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Reformation

(D) The French Revolution

Ans: A

46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or

(A) rhymed

(B) broken

(C) accented

(D) run-on

Ans: D

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine”?

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(C) A. K. Ramanujam

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

Ans: D

48. Match the following:

I. James Joyce                     1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot                         2. James Boswell

III. Life of Johnson               3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of  Poets               4. Richard Ellman

(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3

(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4

(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4

Ans: B

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile

(B) image

(C) conceit

(D) metonymy

Ans: D

50. An epilogue is

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.

(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.

(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.

(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.

Ans: B

UGC NET ENGLISH PAPER II SOLVED 2009 JUNE

Note :This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.


1.In a 1817 review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term 'Lake School of Poets' grouping...

(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron

(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement. The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

2.'I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...' The above lines are taken from...

(A) “The Soldier”
(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”
(C) “To His Dead Body”
(D) “Strange Meeting”

Read the poem Strange Meeting by Wilfred Oven.


3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration :

(i) Coral Island                                   (ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat                           (iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel                 (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos                                     (viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)
(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)

Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

An enduringly popular classic of children’s fiction, The Coral Island tells the story of three boys stranded on a seemingly idyllic desert island. Thoughtful Ralph, clever, brave Jack and mischievous Peterkin soon find, however, that their new home has more than a few surprises in store! Wayne Forester’s energetic reading brings this classic adventure vividly to life. The Coral Island inspired a whole genre of adventure literature, influencing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

The Great Indian Novel, as author Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned, takes its title not from the author's estimate of its contents but in deference to its primary source of inspiration, the ancient epic the Mahabharata. In Sanskrit, Maha means great and Bharata means India.

Omeros is a 1990 epic poem by Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott The epic is set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Although its name is Omeros (Homer in Greek) it has just a minor touch of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The narrative of Omeros is multilayered. Walcott focuses on no single character; rather, many critics have taken the "hero" of Omeros to be the island of St. Lucia itself. The narrative draws heavily on the legacy of the Homeric epics; Book One even opens with an invocation of the Greek poet, who is likened to the blind character, Seven Seas. However, while many characters within the epic derive their appellations from Homeric characters, this is the only absolute correlation; the themes are Homeric in inspiration, but the story does not imitatively follow the plot of either the Iliad or the Odyssey.

4. “His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man !'”
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?

(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Brutus

Julius Caesar Act V. Scene V


Marc ANTONY


This was the noblest Roman of them all:

All the conspirators save only he

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;

He only, in a general honest thought

And common good to all, made one of them.

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world 'This was a man!'


5. “When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies”. The author of these lines is...

(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) William Shakespeare

Read Sonnet 138 by Shakespeare

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...

(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws

7. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in...

(A) Mac Flecknoe
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Essay on man
(D) Alexander’s Feast

8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?

(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed

Strategic essentialism, a major concept in postcolonial theory was introduced by the Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It refers to a strategy that nationalities, ethnic groups or minority groups can use to present themselves. While strong differences may exist between members of these groups, and amongst themselves they engage in continuous debates, it is sometimes advantageous for them to temporarily 'essentialize' themselves and bring forward their group identity in a simplified way to achieve certain goals.

9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :

(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace

10. Jabberwocky is a character in....

(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Goblin Market



11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said's thesis in Orientalism ?

(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.

(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii)

12.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods.

Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary histories, Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.

(A) (AST) and (R) are correct
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)

13. Everyman is...

(A) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible
(B) a medieval morality play
(C) a Tudor interlude
(D) a miracle play

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?

(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

15.Doris Lessing’s interest in __________ is widely recognized :

(A) Hinduism
(B) Sufism
(C)Zen
(D)Judaism

16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as...

(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion
(C) understatement
(D) circumlocution

17. Arrange the following in chronological order...

(I) The death of Shakespeare
(ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
(iii) Caxton and the printing press
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England

(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii)

Norman conquest 1066
Caxton and the printing press 1476
Accession of James I to the English throne 1603
The death of Shakespeare 1616

18. The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by :

(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Derek Walcott

19. “Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above lines are from...

(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier

Read Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.
20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was written by...

(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) James Boswell

21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written:

(i) Lycidas                        (ii)Arthur Hugh Clough
(iii)Adonais                       (iv) A.H. Hallam
(v) In Memoriam              (vi) Edward King
(vii) Thyrsis                      (viii) Keats

(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)
(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii);(v) - (ii)
(C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
(D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) – (iv)

"Lycidas" is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a college mate of Milton's at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.

“Adonaïs”: A pastoral elegy on the Death of John Keats written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works

“In Memoriam” is a poem by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833.

Thyrsis is the title of a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42.

22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on:

(A) Jazz music
(B) Disability sports
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
(D) Black American folklore

23. “He's not the brightest man in the world” is an example of:

(A) Chiasmus
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes
(D) Simile

24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is associated with...

(A) Wolfgang Iser
(B) Stanley Fish
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) H.R. Jauss

25. The following writers have something in common : What is it ?

Mary Seacole                     J.A. Froude
Mary Kingsley                   Anthony Trollope

(I) They are all victorians
(ii) They are all writers of children's fiction
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild
(iv) They are all travel writers

(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) ii) and (iv)
D) (i) and (iv)

26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...

(A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(C) A German narrative
(D) None of the above

Faustus is a timeless myth pointing directly at the universal truth inherent to our misguided and blasphemous penchant for an ultimate sort of knowledge and power. The idea of an individual selling his or her soul to the devil for knowledge is an old motif in Christian folklore, one that had become attached to the historical persona of Johannes Faustus, a disreputable astrologer who lived in Germany sometime in the early 1500s. The immediate source of Marlowe's play seems to be the anonymous German work Historia von D. Iohan Fausten of 1587, which was translated into English in 1592, and from which Marlowe lifted the bulk of the plot for his drama.

27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement ?

(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group :

(A) Jews
(B) Muslims
(C) Hindus
(D) French Canadians

29. Who among the following is NOT a 'University Wit' ?

(A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) George Peele
(C) Robert Greene
(D) Ben Jonson

30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, 'He has a wooden leg'. Now this wooden leg is...

(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) ambiguous
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct

Phrase: Wooden leg- It comes from the time of the old sailors and pirates where an infamous one had a wooden leg and could drink his rum like no other. Hence the term, wooden leg, is still used for someone who drinks a lot.

31. Prosody studies:

(A) Line endings
(B) Meanings of words
(C) Patterns of prose
(D) Metrics

Prosody is the study of poetic metre and of the art of versification, including rhyme, stanzaic forms, and the quantity and stress of syllables.

32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play?
(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ...

(A) New Historicism
(B) New Aristotelianism
(C) New Criticism
(D) The New Left

Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert \Pennwarren

34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason?

(A) sixteenth century
(B) seventeenth century
(C) eighteenth century
(D) nineteenth century

35. What is common to the following poems ?

Wordsworth's 'The Recluse'
Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'
Byron's 'Don Juan'
Keats' 'Hyperion'

(A) They are all elegies
(B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
(D) They are women-centred poems

36. Who among the following called the novel ‘the bright book of life’ ?

(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley

37. “Ripeness is all'' is a line from...

(A) Hamlet
(B) King Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth

38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was translated by...

(A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(D) A.K. Ramanujan

39. Abel Whittle is a character in:

(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd
(D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I ?

(A)January
(B) April
(C) August
(D)November

41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem?

(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
(C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Golden grove unleaving?
(D) The world is too much with us

Read the Poem by Hopkins..


42.Politics and the English Language is an essay by :

(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) George Orwell
(D) Raymond Williams

43. 'The mind-forged manacles' is phrase from :

(A) ''London''
(B) ''Eternity''
(C) “A Poison Tree”
(D) “I Asked a Thief”

Read the poem "London" by William Blake.

44. “He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?

(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge

45. The Globe Theatre opened in :

(A) 1585
(B) 1593
(C) 1599
(D) 1603


Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the questions 46 to 50 :

      We need to begin by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere fact that the word exists, or that an academic institution has been built around it, does not mean that the thing itself is self-evident.

       Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to begin with are not hard to find. The full history of the word literature and its equivalents in all languages and all eras has yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look at the question makes it clear that the term has not been around forever. In the European languages, the word literature in its current sense is quite recent: it dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one? Moreover, many languages (many African languages, for example) have no generic term covering all literary productions. To these initial observations we may add the fragmentation characteristic of literature today. Who dares specify what literature is and what is not, given the irreducible variety of the writing that tends to be attached to it, from vastly different perspectives?

       The argument is not conclusive: a notion may legitimately exist even if there is no specific term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over the 'naturalness' of literature. A theoretical examination of the problem proves no more reassuring. Where do we come by the conviction that there is indeed such a thing as literature? From experience, we study 'literary' works in school, then in college; we find the 'literary' type of book in specialized stores; we are in the habit of referring to 'literary' authors in everyday conversation. An entity called 'literature' functions at the level of intersubjective and social relations; this much seems beyond question. Fine. But what have we proved? That in the broader system of a given society or culture, an identifiable element exists that is known by the label literature. Have we thereby demonstrated that all the particular products that take on the function of 'literature' possess common characteristics, which we can identify with legitimac? Not at all.

46. This passage casts doubt on:

(A) the assumption called literature.
(B) the idea of literature.
(C) the institution of literature.
(D) the notion of literature.


47. Literature is unsustainable because :...

(A) we are unclear as to what it means.
(B) we are unsure as to its message.
(C) we are not persuaded that the claims made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are the right and the only possible ones.


48. How does the writer argue that the existence of literature is hardly self-evident?

(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by argument that its legitimacy can be interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label does not match the thing we know to be literature.

(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)

49. “Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one”? What makes this a
       reasonable question to consider in this context?

(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to better empirical verification than an 'eternal' one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one must be taken
       on trust or not at all.
(D) historical phenomenon is well above disputation while an 'eternal' one is not.



50.What does ‘the fragmentation characteristic of literature today' suggest to the writer ?

(A) the fragmentation of modern consciousness.
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its readers.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation into this concept.


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