1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson's Volpone is

Juvenal

Aristophanes

Plautus

Terence
2. Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" is addressed to

The American imperial mission in the Philippines.

The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo.

The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.

The British colonial entry into Afghanistan.
3. Poetry A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in

1922

1920

1918

1912
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer's contemporary

Thomas Chatterton

John Gower

Thomas Shadwell

John Gay
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

Lady of the Lake

Heart of Midlothian

The English Mail Coach
6. "Provincializing Europe" is a concept propounded by

Edward Said

Paul Gilroy

Abdul R. Gurnah

Dipesh Chakravarty
7. The earliest tract on feminism is

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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

1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8

1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7

1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7

2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante's The Divine Comedy

The Canterbury Tales

The Book of the Duchess

The House of Fame

Legend of Good Women
10. Essays of Elia was published in

1800

1823

1827

1850
11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction

The Well of Loneliness

Maurice

Orlando

The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
12. W.B. Yeat's "Easter 1916" is

a response to a major political uprising

a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school

a love poem for Maud Gonne

an ode to his native country
13. William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity is

A structuralist study of narrative

A piece of psychoanalytic criticism

A study of the media

An analysis of poetic ambivalence
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism

J.A. Froude

Charles Kingsley

J.S. Mill

Cardinal Newman
15. The 'Condition of England' literature refers to

The literature written by the labour class.

The literature of England extolling living conditions.

The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.

The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad.
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to

Plato's Republic

Aristotle's Poetics

Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse

Jeremy Collier's Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
17. Silence The Court is in Session is a play translated into English.

Gujarati

Bengali

Marathi

Kannada
18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size

1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet

1 2 3 4

2 1 3 4

2 3 4 1

1 3 4 2
19. "Fail I alone in words and deeds all men strive and who succeeds These lines are from

"Rabbi Ben Ezra"

"Fra Lippo Lippi"

"Caliban upon Setebos"

"The Last Ride Together"
20. Dr. Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes" expresses

Epicureanism

Humanism

Stoicism

Cynicism
21. "A trivial comedy for serious people" was the subtitle for

Everyman in His Humour

Blythe Spirit

The Way of the World

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."

In Memoriam

Thyrsis

"In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

"Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot"
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by

Thomas Carew

Robert Herrick

George Herbert

Richard Crashaw
24. Ben Jonson's comedies are

Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker's Holiday

Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene

Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker's Holiday
25. What is Allegro's' companion piece called

Lamia

Hyperion

Il Penseroso

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

1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8

2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6

3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7

4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement

Allen Ginsberg

Mark Beard

Isaac McCaslih

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"

H.L. Mencken

Willa Cather

Jack London

Gertrude Stein
29. Hyperbole is

1. an extravagant exaggeration
2. a racist slur
3. a metrical skill
4. a figure of speech

1 is correct

1 and 4 are correct

1 and 3 are correct

3 is correct
30. "Imagined Communities" is a concept propounded by

Benedict Anderson

Homi Bhabha

Aijaz Ahmed

Partha Chatterjee
31. The New Historicists include

Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose

Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler

Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg

Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
32. Wallace Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar" may be linked to the work of the following artist

Modigliani

Chagall

Picasso

Cezanne
33. The author of Gender Trouble is

Elaine Showalter

Helene Cixous

Michele Barrett

Judith Butler
34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by

Michel Foucault

Jacques Lacan

Julia Kristeva

Roland Barthes
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel

Frankenstein

Northanger Abbey

Castle of Otranto

Mysteries of Udolfo
36. The "madwoman in the attic" is a specific reference to

The narrator of "Goblin Market"

Augusta Egg's 1858 narrative painting

The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper

Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
37. Assertion 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 Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth.

is wrong but is correct.

is true but is false.

and are true.

Neither nor is true.
38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following

Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders

Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews

Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
39. "How can what an Englishman believes be heresy It is a contradiction in terms." 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.

1 and 4 are correct

2 and 1 are correct

1 and 3 are correct

2 and 4 are correct
40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept

Archetype

The Uncanny

The Absurd

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.

Chinua Achebe

V.S. Naipaul

Salman Rushdie

Ngugi wa Thiongo
42. "Magic Realism" is closely associated with

Italo Calvino

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Anita Desai

Rohinton Mistry
43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction

Kamala Markandya

Mulk Raj Anand

Upmanyu Chatterjee

Amitav Ghosh
44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel

Train to Pakistan

Sunlight on a Broken Column

The Shadow Lines

In Custody
45. Which of the following options is correct

Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.
It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.
It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.
Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson, Thoreau's Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.

and are correct.

and are correct.

and are correct.

is correct.

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

It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in structuring our experience. The whole idea of 'language' is something of a fiction what we normally refer to as 'language' can more realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different discourses which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different 'selves'. A discourse can be conceptualized as a 'system of statements which cohere around common meanings and values'. So, for example, in contemporary Britain there are discourses which can be labelled 'conservative' that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo is cherished and there are discourses which can be labelled 'patriarchal' that is, discourses which emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant discourses such as these appear 'natural' they are powerful precisely because they are able to make invisible the fact that they are just one among many different discourses. Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would not regard analysis in terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of talking about discourses rather than about language is that the concept 'discourse' acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse whenever we speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different 'selves' different discourses position us in different ways in relation to the world.

Questions

46. Which of the following is True in the light of this passage

Language is inaccurate.

Discourse is accurate.

Language comprises discourse.

Discourse comprises language.

47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage
I. different selves
II. range
III. system of statements
IV. heterogeneous collection

II and IV

II and III

III and IV

I

48. Having called language "something of a fiction", how does the author suggest its opposite By using the phrase

conceptualized as a system

more accurate to say

range of discourses

more realistically be seen

49. Which among the following statements is NOT true

Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.

Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.

Dominant discourses are natural.

Dominant discourses seem natural.

50. What does this passage plead for

Theorizing language in a new way.

Theorizing language in terms of discourses.

Studying language as discourse.

Studying discourse as language.