1. Who among the following is not a diasporic writer

Beryl Bainbridge

Timothy Mo

Hanif Kureishi

Sam Selvon

2. "A text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture."

Which of the following best expresses the position stated above

A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.

A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.

A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of opposition.

A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.

3. In William Congreve's The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort's

Son

Son-in-law

Nephew

Servant

4. Match the periodical with the founder/s

List I List II

A. The Egoist I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound

B. The English Review II. Harriet Monroe

C. Blast III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

D. Poetry A Magazine of Verse IV. Ford Madox Ford

Codes A B C D

II III I IV

III I IV II

III IV I II

III II I IV

5. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

To kill a living creature is immoral.

People should honour and respect all living things.

Prayer can accomplish miracles.

True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.

6. "The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis" was proposed by

Stephen Krashen

M.A.K. Halliday

Merrill Swain

Gertrude Buck

7. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim's brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne's reply became an integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature.

Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.

William Wilberforce

Ignatius Sancho

William Blackstone

John Hawkins

8. In Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin

"The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth"

"The Fraternization Song"

"The Song of the Great Capitulation"

"The Memorial Song"

9. In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen

Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.

Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.

Under the pretext of weekly shopping.

Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.

10. Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English translation

I. Astride the Wheel

II. Going Home

III. A Purple Sea

IV. In a Forest, A Deer

The right combination according to the code is

III and II

I and II

I and IV

III and IV

11. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese is

I. a sequence of forty four Petrarchan sonnets.

II. a rewriting of Popean didactic verse.

III. a depiction of a contemporary setting and small events of ordinary life.

IV. a scathing criticism of the British colonial enterprise.

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

I and III

II and IV

I and IV

12. In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K. Gandhi covers the narrative of his life from early childhood through to

1925

1929

1921

1927

13. In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is called

phoneme

grapheme

morpheme

jargon

14. Nnu Ego is a character in

Chinua Achebe's Anthills of Savannah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood

Ben Okri's The Famished Road

15. Match the word with definition

List I List II

A. Etymon I. Changing from one language variety to another in discourse

B. Code switching II. Rules governing the social use of language

C. Cognate III. Etymological source of a word

D. Pragmatics IV. Words with a common ancestor

Codes A B C D

IV I III II

III II IV I

III I IV II

IV I II III

16. What would help a reader recognize Keats's "To Autumn" as a poem from the Romantic period

Its logical succession of images

Its concise use of couplets

Its lavish natural imagery

Its use of iambic pentameter

17. Which of the following is an accurate description of 'heteroglossia'

Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist easier by incorporating diversity into the novelistic structure.

Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a writer's ideological position.

Heteroglossia creates concrete conceptualisations through language in association with the singular view of the artistic effort resulting in the unified world of the novel.

Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple differences and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.

18. In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin

bar

park

newspaper

bank

19. Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter

I. The Caretaker

II. One for the Road

III. Celebration

IV. The Room

The right combination according to the code is

I and III

II and III

I and IV

II and IV

20. Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on his death "Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarch of wit"

George Herbert

Henry King

Thomas Carew

Henry Crashaw

21. In his poem "Australia" A.D. Hope says that

I. Australia is "without songs, architecture, history".

II. "Her five cities are like five dry rivers."

III. The poet turns to her "to find/The Arabian desert of the human mind/Hoping if still from deserts prophets come."

IV. "She is the first of lands, the warmest."

Codes

I and III

II and III

III and IV

I and IV

22. Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was formulated by

I. I.A. Richards

II. Alastair Fowler

III. William Empson

IV. C.K. Ogden The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and III

I and IV

I and III

23. "Britons will never be slaves felt proud Britons in the eighteenth century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves and profiting from them. Who among the following British authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems

I. Hannah More

II. Mary Collier

III. Anna Seward

IV. Anna Yearsley

The right combination according to the code is

I and III

I and IV

II and III

III and IV

24. Match the Novelist with the work

List I List II

A. Anita Desai I. Rich Like Us

B. Nayantara Sahgal II. The Nowhere Man

C. Arun Joshi III. In Custody

D. Kamala Markandaya IV. The Last Labyrinth

Codes A B C D

III II IV I

III I IV II

II I IV III

III IV I II

25. Identify the right chronological sequence

The American Pastoral Sister Carrie The Great Gatsby Beloved

The Great Gatsby Sister Carrie Beloved The American Pastoral

Sister Carrie The Great Gatsby Beloved The American Pastoral

Sister Carrie The Great Gatsby The American Pastoral Beloved

26. In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term "ideology" in The German Ideology

Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of society, a sort of false consciousness.

The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoise society.

The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic relations of the society.

The fundamental class consciousness of the proletariat which leads to their awakening.

27. The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the novel.

Disgrace

Age of Iron

Waiting for the Barbarians

Life and Times of Michael K.

28. Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner's Bombay

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust," The Waste Land

"In my beginning is my end", "East Coker"

"Human kind cannot bear very much reality", "Burnt Norton"

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

29. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples of deep Christian goodness

I. the Summoner

II. the Parson

III. the Ploughman

IV. the Pardoner

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and IV

II and III

I and IV

30. Identify Falstaff's first words in Henry IV, Part I

"Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad

"Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad

"Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad

"Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad

31. Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Felicia Hemans are

first wave feminists

women poets of the Romantic period

Victorian writers of popular fiction

nineteenth century stage artists

32. Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections Golden Apples of the Sun after the last line of a W.B. Yeats poem. Which poem

"The Death of Cuchulain"

"The Peacock"

"The Hour Before Dawn"

"The Song of Wandering Aengus"

33. Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War presents a character's interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time

After Magritte

Dirty Linen

Artist Descending a Staircase

Travesties

34. "Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness…" In these lines from "Ulysses", what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus

He shows heroic qualities.

He is patient and selfless.

He is very much like his father.

He may be too tender-hearted to be king.

35. In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT

the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.

names encapsulate traits.

unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.

the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.

36. What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author

He drowns in the fountain.

He is shot dead by the Father.

He leaves the stage alone.

He commits suicide.

37. Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character in Vanity Fair

ambitious

energetic

wellborn

scheming

38. Which character in Anton Chekhov's play, The Cherry Orchard, first suggests the selling of the orchard

Trofimov

Yephikodov

Lopakhin

Varya

39. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th century English periodicals

Tatler Spectator The Gentleman's Magazine Rambler

Spectator Tatler The Gentleman's Magazine Rambler

Rambler Tatler Spectator The Gentleman's Magazine

Tatler Spectator Rambler The Gentleman's Magazine

40. Who identified "strangled articulateness" as a theme in Canadian writing

Margaret Atwood

Northrop Frye

Michael Ondaatjee

Joy Kogawa

41. Identify the gynocritics in the following list

I. Alice Jardine

II. Elaine Showalter

III. Sandra Gilbert

IV. Kate Millett

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and IV

II and III

III and IV

42. Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana

Padmini

Gautama

Kapila

Devadatta

43. Aurobindo Ghosh, author of taught for some time at Baroda College after his return from England in 1893. Which subject did he teach

English

French

Sanskrit

Bengali

44. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an

complaint

stichomythia

epyllion

pasturelle

45. Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language family

English

German

Scandinavian

Finnish

46. What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime

great thoughts

immoderate emotion

noble diction

dignified and elevated word arrangement

47. Who among the following is not a beat writer

Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsberg

Robert Lowell

William Burroughs

48. This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.

Masque of Blankness

The Masque of Queens

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

The Gypsies Metamorphed

49. Elizabeth Bishop's poems are best remembered for their

conversational intimacy

intellectual tenor

astringent satire

urban topography

50. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are

Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto.

Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk.

Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey.

William Godwin's Caleb Williams.

51. In "My Last Duchess" which of the following is not one of the Duchess's misdemeanours, according to the Duke

She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.

She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband's favour.

She wouldn't listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behaviour.

She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source.

52. In his essay "From Work to Text" Roland Barthes says the following about the text

I. The text is singular.

II. The text can be held in the hand.

III. The text is held in language.

IV. The text is a methodological field.

The right combination according to the code is

I and III

II and IV

III and IV

III and II

53. Seamus Heaney's "Digging" in his first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT

his preoccupation with his roots

his obsession with Irish legend and folklore

his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour of his ancestors

his displaced vocation of digging with a pen

54. Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English. Match the writer with his source language

List I List II

A. O.V. Vijayan I. Kannada

B. Vilas Sarang II. Malayalam

C. Krishna Baldev Vaid III. Marathi

D. Girish Karnad IV. Hindi

Codes A B C D

II IV III I

I III IV II

II III IV I

II III I IV

55. In Book Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What is this flaw

gluttony

pride in his superiority to Eve

overconfidence in his free will

passion for Eve

56. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts

Troilus and Criseyde The Owl and The Nightingale Utopia Morte d'Arthur

Troilus and Criseyde Utopia Morte d'Arthur The Owl and the Nightingale

The Owl and the Nightingale Troilus and Criseyde Morte d'Arthur Utopia

The Owl and the Nightingale Morte d'Arthur Troilus and Criseyde Uttopia

57. In Sophocles's play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was murdered

at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi

at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi

at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi

at the crossroads on his way to Delphi

58. The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers and titles. Which of the following are the titles of the chapters in the novel

I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow

II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace

III. In a Network of Lines that Interface

IV. What Story there Awaits its End

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

I and IV

III and IV

II and IV

59. The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a socialist and open homosexual. Identify the writer.

Oscar Wilde

Edward Carpenter

W.H. Auden

E.F. Benson

60. Who among the following has elaborated on the "Indianisation" of English

L.M. Khubchandani

B. Kumaravadivelu

B.B. Kachru

Rajendra Singh

61. These are four models of relating literature to history. Which of the following is associated with formalism

Literary texts are universal and transcend history the historical context of their production and reception has no bearing on the literary work which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into itself.

The historical context of a literary work is integral to a proper understanding of it the text is produced within a specific historical context but in its literariness it remains separate from that context.

Literary works can help us to understand the time in which they are set realist texts in particular provide imaginative representations of specific historical moments, events or periods.

Literary texts are bound up with other discourses and rhetorical structures they are part of a history that is still in the process of being written.

62. As Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum opens we find Oskar Matzerath

on the war front entertaining the soldiers as part of a band of dwarfs.

in a mental hospital writing his story.

admitted in a hospital after his fatal fall in the wine cellar.

watching a ball in which the young ladies ignore his presence.

63. D.H. Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country

Egypt

South Africa

Mexico

Peru

64. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels

I. Sir Walter Scott

II. Charlotte Bronte

III. Maria Edgeworth

IV. Jane Austen

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and III

I and III

III and IV

65. Which of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels are set mostly in Japan

I. The Unconsoled

II. The Remains of the Day

III. An Artist of the Floating World

IV. A Pale View of Hills

The right combination according to the code is

I and III

II and III

III and IV

I and IV

66. In The Advancement of Learning Bacon noted the need for more studies of

I. moral knowledge

II. forbidden knowledge

III. civil knowledge

IV. spiritual knowledge

The right combination according to the code is

I and III

I and IV

II and III

II and IV

67. Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor

Sartos Resartus

The Dream of Gerontius

The Professor

Felix Holf

68. As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy which discipline is more useful and praiseworthy history or poetry

History "being captivated to truth" is more useful than poetry.

Poetry where man can see "virtue exalted and vice punished" is more useful than history.

History is more useful for poetry is "an encouragement to unbridled wickedness".

History and poetry are synonymous, and so both are useful.

69. In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following statements is not true of their appearance at the fair

They are dressed differently than the other fair-goers.

They speak the language of the Bible at the fair.

They sample every entertainment at the fair.

They refuse to look at the merchandise at the fair.

70. What does the title Morte d'Arthur mean

Arthur mortified

Death of Arthur

Castle of Arthur

Burial of Arthur

71. Assertion Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might be visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible.

Reason Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they suggest a more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly and of power. In the light of the statements above

Both and are correct and is the correct explanation of

Both and are correct but is not the correct explanation of

is right, but is wrong.

is wrong, but is right.

72. Read the following poem and answer the questions,:

Dead Fox We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out
of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time
we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the dune-side slope, spoiling
the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune's steep side
we surveyed what we'd come for ocean's
snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered
blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold ourselves to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness
settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

question:

The "We" of the opening line indicates

a group

two persons

the speaker and an imaginary listener

an unspecified crowd

73. Read the following poem and answer the questions,:

Dead Fox We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out
of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time
we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the dune-side slope, spoiling
the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune's steep side
we surveyed what we'd come for ocean's
snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered
blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold ourselves to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness
settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

question:

The dead animal was sighted

at the end of the trail

on the dune's steep side

on the dune's sloping side

in the swampy undergrowth

74. Read the following poem and answer the questions,:

Dead Fox We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out
of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time
we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the dune-side slope, spoiling
the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune's steep side
we surveyed what we'd come for ocean's
snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered
blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold ourselves to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness
settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

question:

The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as

I. evasive

II. angry

III. bizarre

IV. muted

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and III

I and IV

III and IV

75. Read the following poem and answer the questions,:

Dead Fox We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out
of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time
we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the dune-side slope, spoiling
the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune's steep side
we surveyed what we'd come for ocean's
snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered
blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold ourselves to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness
settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

question:

At the close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders the visitors speechless

sight

touch

sound

smell