1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called "the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme".

Kim

A Passage to India

Train to Pakistan

Private Life of an Indian Prince

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

Rudyard Kipling

Edward Lear

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Robert Browning

3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language

Ferdinand de Saussure

J.L. Austin

Roman Jakobson

Victor Shklovsky

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

I and III

I and II

II and III

III and IV

5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication

Paradise Lost The Advancement of Learning An Essay Concerning Human Understanding MacFlecknoe

The Advancement of Learning An Essay Concerning Human Understanding MacFlecknoe Paradise Lost

The Advancement of Learning Paradise Lost MacFlecknoe An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Paradise Lost MacFlecknoe The Advancement of Learning An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

7. Poe's "The Raven" mourns the death of Poe's

lost Lenore

lost Abigail

pet animal

lost heritage

8. In Shakespeare's Macbeth who was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb

Macbeth

Macduff

Duncan

Malcolm

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

Belinda

Clarissa

Betty

Thalestris

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

I IV

II IV

III IV

I III

11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis

Remembering Babylon

The Great World

The Conversations at Curlow Creek

An Imaginary Life

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

I and III

I and IV

I and II

II and III

13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as "a misfire"

Virginia Woolf

Wyndham Lewis

E.M. Forster

D.H. Lawrence

14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of "Strange Surprising Adventures"

Moll Flanders

Robinson Crusoe

Roxana

Captain Singleton

15. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when he visits Lowood School

Laziness

Stealing

Lying

Spying

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

"For the love of God, where is my hat

"My mother is a fish."

"Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with."

"Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam."

17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman,

St. Agnes

St. Theresa

St. Joan

St. Carmel

18. 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 sunburnt mirth
The above description is an example of

Paronomasia

Synaesthesia

Aphaeresis

Synecdoche

19. The term, "poetic justice," to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by

Aristotle

John Dryden

Thomas Rhymer

Ben Jonson

20. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.

Jerome

William Tyndale

Miles Coverdale

Bede

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

Urania

Moneta

Melete

Mneme

22. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are named the following EXCEPT

The Sky

The Window

Time Passes

The Lighthouse

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"

The Tree of Man

Voss

Riders in the Chariot

The Solid Mandala

24. Who among the following is not a character in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

Ralph

Piggy

Peter

Jack

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

II and III

I and IV

I and III

II and IV

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

I II

I III

I IV

III IV

27. Richardson's Pamela had its origin in

the real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents

an elementary letter-writing manual

the general plight of English women

the suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values

28. The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled

A Satire against Sedition

A Satire against Tyranny

A Satire against Greed

A Satire against Apostasy

29. "Full fathom five thy father lies" is an example of

assonance

alliteration

apostrophe

enjambment

30. What is a trochee

A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses

A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable

Three successive heavy stresses

A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical

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

II and III

I and IV

I and III

II and IV

32. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.

First person

Self-conscious

Third person

Participant

33. Who among the following modern writers is associated with the quote, "Only connect"

D.H. Lawrence

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

E.M. Forster

34. Which of the following images does not figure in Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"

a boy falling out of the sky

children … skating on a pond at the edge of wood

ranches of isolation and the busy griefs

the dogs go on with their doggy life

35. Feste is a clown in

Twelfth Night

As You Like It

The Taming of the Shrew

Much Ado About Nothing

36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play

Enter a Free Man

The Real Inspector Hound

Jumpers

Night and Day

37. Which of the following is not true of free verse

Characterised by short, irregular lines.

No rhyme pattern.

Written in iambic pentameter

A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses

38. James Thomson's long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all his life, began in the first instance as a poem entitled

Spring

Summer

Winter

Autumn

39. Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared posthumously. They are known as

Mutability cantos

Friendship cantos

Justice cantos

Courtesy cantos

40. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from

repeating mistakes

totalitarianism

deconstructionism

historicism

41. What is the occupation of Max's son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter's The Home Coming

boxer

butcher

pimp

cab driver

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"

Beppo

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Don Juan

The Vision of Judgement

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

William Morris

William Holman Hunt

D.G. Rossetti

James Collinson

44. In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed a on its title-page. What is the sub-title

Love and Duty Reconcil'd

Beauty in Distress

Virtue Rewarded

Love in Excess

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

the language of the poet

the mind of the poet

the soul of the poet

the life of the poet

46. Match the character with the work

A. Pip I. Middlemarch

B. Causaubon II. Great Expectations

C. Becky Sharp III. Wuthering Heights

D. Heathcliff IV. Vanity Fair

The right combination according to the code is

I II III IV

B C D A

D A C B

B A D C

C B A D

47. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets combines the following except

analytical criticism

literary history

personal biography

Socratic dialogue

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

II and III

II and IV

III and IV

I and III

49. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley's "Adonais"

Miletus

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

50. Match the author with the work

A. John Locke I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage

B. William Dampier II. Two Treatises on Government

C. Jeremy Collier III. A Short View of Tragedy

D. Thomas Rhymer IV. Voyages

A B C D

II I IV III

III IV I II

II IV I III

IV III II I