Dec 09
1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is
(A)
Juvenal
(B) Aristophanes
(C)
Plautus
(D)
Terence
2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to
(A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.
(B)
The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo.
(C)
The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D)
The British colonial entry into Afghanistan.
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet
Monroe in
(A)
1922
(B)
1920
(C)
1918
(D) 1912
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary?
(A)
Thomas Chatterton
(B) John Gower
(C)
Thomas Shadwell
(D) John Gay
(D) John Gay
5. Which
of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Lady of the Lake
(B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart
of Midlothian
(D) The English Mail Coach
6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A)
Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C)
Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty
7. The
earliest tract on feminism is
(A)
Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
(B)
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(D)
Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
8. Match
the imaginary location with its creator:
1.
Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy
3.
Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens
5.
Wessex 6. Egdon Heath
7.
Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte
(A)
1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(C)
1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
9. Which
Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?
(A) The Canterbury Tales
(B) The Book of the Duchess
(B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame
(D) Legend
of Good Women
10. Essays
of Elia was published in
(A)
1800
(B) 1823
(C)
1827
(D)
1850
11. Which
of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ?
(A) The
Well of Loneliness
(B) Maurice
(C) Orlando
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
12. W.B.
Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is
(A) a response to a major political uprising
(B)
a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school
(C)
a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D)
an ode to his native country
13. William
Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is
(A)
A structuralist study of narrative
(B)
A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
(C)
A study of the media
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of
Utilitarianism?
(A)
J.A. Froude
(B) Charles Kingsley
(B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill
(D)
Cardinal Newman
15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to
(A)
The literature written by the labour class.
(B)
The literature of England extolling living conditions.
(C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.
(D)
The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad.
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in
immediate response to
(A)
Plato’s Republic
(B)
Aristotle’s Poetics
(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
(D)
Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a
_________ play translated into English.
(A)
Gujarati
(B)
Bengali
(C) Marathi
(D)
Kannada
18. Arrange
the following in ascending order in terms of size :
1.
epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet
(A)
1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D)
1 3 4 2
19. “Fail
I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?” These
lines
are from
(A)
“Rabbi Ben Ezra”
(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi”
(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi”
(C)
“Caliban upon Setebos”
(D) “The Last Ride Together”
20. Dr.
Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” expresses
(A) Epicureanism
(B)
Humanism
(C)
Stoicism
(D) Cynicism
21. “A
trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for
(A) Everyman
in His Humour
(B) Blythe Spirit
(B) Blythe Spirit
(C) The
Way of the World
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
22. Which
famous elegy closes with the following lines ?
“In
the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his
days,/
Teach
the free man how to praise.”
(A) In
Memoriam
(B) Thyrsis
(B) Thyrsis
(C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
(D)
“Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot”
23. The Temple is
a collection of poems by
(A)
Thomas Carew
(B) Robert Herrick
(B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert
(D)
Richard Crashaw
24. Ben
Jonson’s comedies are
(A) Volpone,
Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(C) Volpone,
The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(D) Volpone,
Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called?
(A) Lamia
(B) Hyperion
(C) Il Penseroso
(D) Thyrsis
26. Match the character with the novel :
1.
Caddy 2. Lennie
3.
Jake Barnes 4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The
Sound and the Fury 6. Of Mice and Men
7. The
Sun Also Rises 8. Seize the Day
Codes :
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8
(B)
2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(C)
3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
Caddy--
The Sound and the Fury
Lennie---- Of
Mice and Men
Jake
Barnes--- The Sun Also Rises
Tommy
Wilhelm--- Seize the Day
27. Who
among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement?
(A) Allen Ginsberg
(B)
Mark Beard
(C)
Isaac McCaslih
(D) Charles Beard
(D) Charles Beard
28. “The
Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and
aesthetes of the years following the First World War. Who called them “The Lost
Generation”?
(A)
H.L. Mencken
(B) Willa Cather
(B) Willa Cather
(C)
Jack London
(D) Gertrude Stein
29. Hyperbole is
1.
an extravagant exaggeration 2. a racist slur
3.
a metrical skill 4. a figure of speech
(A)
1 is correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C)
1 and 3 are correct
(D) 3 is correct
(D) 3 is correct
30. “Imagined
Communities” is a concept propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson
(B)
Homi Bhabha
(C)
Aijaz Ahmed
(D) Partha Chatterjee
(D) Partha Chatterjee
31. The
New Historicists include
(A)
Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
(B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
(D)
Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
32. Wallace Stevens’ “The Man with the Blue Guitar” may be linked
to the work of the following artist:
(A)
Modigliani
(B)
Chagall
(C) Picasso
(D)
Cezanne
33. The author of Gender Trouble is
(A)
Elaine Showalter
(B) Helene Cixous
(B) Helene Cixous
(C)
Michele Barrett
(D) Judith Butler
34. The
structural analysis of signs was practised by
(A)
Michel Foucault
(B) Jacques Lacan
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C)
Julia Kristeva
(D) Roland Barthes
35. Which
of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ?
(A) Frankenstein
(B) Northanger Abbey
(C) Castle of Otranto
(D) Mysteries of Udolfo
(D) Mysteries of Udolfo
36. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to
(A)
The narrator of “Goblin Market”
(B)
Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting
(C)
The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
37.
Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets carries
critical and biographical studies of poets he admired. It does not, however,
carry a life of William Wordsworth.
Reason
(R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also
adored.
This explains his omission of Wordsworth.
(A)
(A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(B)
(A) is true but (R) is false.
(C)
(A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph
Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram
Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela,
Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
This
means
1.
An Englishman does not know what heresy is.
2.
An Englishman has no beliefs.
3.
And, therefore, there is no question of his heresy.
4.
And, therefore, there cannot be any question of his acting his beliefs.
(A)
1 and 4 are correct
(B) 2 and 1 are correct
(B) 2 and 1 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D)
2 and 4 are correct
40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?
(A)
Archetype
(B) The Uncanny
(C)
The Absurd
(D) The Imaginary
(D) The Imaginary
41. He
wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer
for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies’. Identify the
writer.
(A)
Chinua Achebe
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C)
Salman Rushdie
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
42. “Magic
Realism” is closely associated with
(A) Italo Calvino
(B)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C)
Anita Desai
(D) Rohinton Mistry
(D) Rohinton Mistry
43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and
fiction?
(A)
Kamala Markandya (B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C)
Upmanyu Chatterjee (D) Amitav Ghosh
44. Which
of the following is NOT a Partition novel?
(A) Train
to Pakistan
(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The
Shadow Lines
(D) In Custody
45. Which of the following options is correct?
(i)
Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.
(ii)
It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.
(iii)
It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of
Locke.
(iv)
Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson,
Thoreau’s Walden and
the writings of Margaret Fuller.
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct.
(B)
(ii) and (iii) are correct.
(C)
(iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct
(D) (iv) is correct
46. Which of the following is True in the light of this passage ?
(A)
Language is inaccurate.
(B) Discourse is accurate.
(B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
(D) Discourse comprises language.
(D) Discourse comprises language.
47. What
words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this
passage?
I.
different selves
II. range
II. range
III.
system of statements
IV. heterogeneous collection
IV. heterogeneous collection
(A) II and IV
(B)
II and III
(C)
III and IV
(D)
I
48. Having
called language “something of a fiction”, how does the author suggest its
opposite
?
By
using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system
(B) more accurate to say
(B) more accurate to say
(C)
range of discourses
(D) more realistically be seen
(D) more realistically be seen
49. Which
among the following statements is NOT true ?
(A)
Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.
(B)
Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.
(C)
Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
50. What
does this passage plead for ?
(A)
Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.
(C)
Studying language as discourse.
(D)
Studying discourse as language
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