PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator

1. the very word is like a bell 4. The roman a clef (French for
To toll me back from thee to my sole self "novel with a key") uses contemporary historical figures as
Which word its chief characters. They are of
Bird Immortal course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point.
Forlorn Its Mark Rampion is modelled on
Fancy
D.H. Lawrence
2. In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" exploits E.M. Forster
Wyndham Lewis
John Donne, alliteration Arnold Bennett
Robert Herrick, trimetre
G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythmGeorge Herbert, typographic space 5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve, In the 'Prologue' Chaucer
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse represents the Wife of Bath as
of hours I. crude and vulgar
For what wears out the life of mortal men II. outspoken licentious and boastfully
'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, III. a witness to masculine oppression
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls IV. bubbling with vitality
And numb the elastic powers … Find the correct combination
Who does the poet address here according to the code
The Scholar Gipsy II and III are correct.
Telemachus II and IV are correct.
The Nightingale III and IV are correct.
The Poet's Sister, Dorothy II, III and IV are correct.


6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel

The Tree of Man


Voss


The Solid Mandala


The Vivisector



7. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club

Thomas Parnell


Alexander Pope


Joseph Addison


John Gay



8. is a theological term brought into literary criticism by

Entelechy, St. Augustine


Ambiguity, William Empson


Adequation, Fr Walter Ong


Epiphany, James Joyce



9. the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from
Ethereal Sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion

down

To bottomless perdition, there to
dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire
Who durst defy Omnipotent to

Arms.
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
Choose the appropriate word


Him He



Satan The Fiend




10. Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it

The Yellow Wallpaper


The Mad Woman in the Attic


Jane Eyre


Wide Sargasso Sea



11. Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative

Shelley's Alastor


Byron's Manfred


Coleridge's Christabel


Keats's Endymion



12. The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. Identify the novel.

Richard Wright Native Son


James Baldwin Another Country


Ralph Ellison Invisible Man


Toni Morrison Bluest Eye



13. G.M. Hopkins's "Windhover" is dedicated

To Christ, our Lord


To Christ our lord


to no one


to Christ, the Lord



14. Match List I with List II according to the code given below List I List II (Authors) (Poems)
i. Ted Hughes 1. "The Otter"
ii. Seamus 2. "Snake" Heaney
iii. W.H. 3. "Ghost Auden Crabs"
iv. D.H. 4. "Prevent the
Lawrence Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone."
Codes
i ii iii iv

1 2 4 3


2 3 1 4


3 1 4 2


3 2 1 4



15. His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb

Corah Shimei


Zimri Achitophel



16. "The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread." This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in

Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry


Samuel Taylor Coleridge,


Biographia Literaria

Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"


I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism



17. Identify the correctly matched set below
The Norman Conquest 1066
William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1575 The King James Bible 1611 Dr. Johnson's English
Dictionary 1755 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660
The Norman Conquest 1066
William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1475 The King James Bible 1611 Dr. Johnson's English
Dictionary 1755 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660

The Norman Conquest 1016 William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475 The King James Bible 1564 Dr. Johnson's English

Dictionary -1780 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660


The Norman Conquest 1013


William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1575 The King James Bible 1627 Dr. Johnson's English
Dictionary 1746 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1624-1660

18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is

a Great War veteran


a Dublin bar owner


a Jewish advertising agent


an Irish nationalist



19. "Late capitalism", by which is meant accelerated technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by

Terry Eagleton


Ernst Mandel


Raymond Williams


Stanley Fish



20. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence

Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Another Country by James Baldwin


Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Another Country by James Baldwin


Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Native Son by Richard Wright Another Country by James Baldwin Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston


Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Another Country by James Baldwin Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison



21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include other figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in its narrower usage.
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this sentence

narrower usage


technically distinguished


figures of speech


umbrella term



22. Along the shore of silver streaming
Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river
hems,

Was painted all with variable flowers,
…
Fit to deck maidens' bowers
And crown their paramours
Against their bridal day, which is not

long; Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song. (Spenser's Prothalamion) Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in

Marianne Moore's "Spenser's Ireland"


Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song"


W.H. Auden's "In Praise of Limestone"


T.S. Eliot's Waste Land



23. The tramp in Pinter's first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is

Bernard Jenkins


Roly Jenkins


Jack Jenkins


Peter Jenkins



24. Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out

Gorboduc


Tamburlaine


Ralph Roister Doister


Gammer Gurton's Needle



25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve's Way of the World open

A Chocolate-House


A Pub


A Carrefour


The drawing room of Sir Willfull's mansion



26. While "a well-boiled icicle" for "a well-oiled bicycle" is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying "Congenital food" for 'Continental food' is an example of

Malaproprism


Pleonasm


Neologism


Archaism



27. It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year
1.
Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.

2.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.

3.
Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare Orsay, Paris.

4.
Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.

5.
Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.

6.
Sigmund Freud published


The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain. Identify the year

1899 1900


1901 1903



28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
This is the epigraph to

T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"


Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would be the King"


George Eliot's Silas Marner


E.M. Forster's Howard's End



29. Robert Graves's "In Broken
Images" ends thus
He in a new confusion of his
understanding;

I in a new understanding of my
confusion.
The figure of speech here is



Chiasmus Catachresis


Inversion Zeugma



30. The phrase "leaves dancing" is an example of

pathetic fallacy


hyperbole


pun


conceit



31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes
"They were careless people". Who were they

Tom and Daisy


The Wilsons


Gatsby and his friends


The people of East Egg



32. William Wordsworth's statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly).
"to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible,

in a selection of language really used by men.


in a relation to language really used by men.


in a selection of language really used by common man.


in deference to language actually used by men.



33. Match List I with List II according to the code given below
List I List II (Novels) (Last lines)
i. Lord Jim 1. was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.'
ii. To the 2. 'April 27.
Lighthouse Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead…'
iii. A Passage 3. feels it
to India himself and says often that he is "preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave,...", while he waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.'
iv. A Portrait 4. "No not

of the yet," and the
Artist as a sky said,
Young "No, not
Man there".'
Codes
i ii iii iv
2 4 3 1
3 2 4 1
3 1 4 2
2 3 1 4

34. Identify the incorrect description/s of "Sprung Rhythm" from the following
1.
This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds hence Sprung Rhythm.

2.
In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.

3.
A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.

4.
Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration.



4 is incorrect.


1 4 are incorrect.


3 is incorrect.


1 is incorrect.



35. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language

Sigmund Freud


Jacques Lacan


Stuart Hall


Paul de Man



36. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the
Roundheads. The correct combination according to the code is

I and III are correct.


I and II are correct.


II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.



37. Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death

"The Beggar Maid"


"The Lotus-Eaters"


"Ulysses"


"Tithonus"



38. One English poet addressing another Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness… . Whose lines are these To whom are they addressed

W.H. Auden W.B. Yeats


P.B. Shelley William Blake


William Wordsworth John Milton


Ben Jonson William Shakespeare



39. Samuel Johnson's Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as

Lives of English Poets Critical and Biographical Essays.


Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of English Poets.


Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Works of English Poets.


Lives of English Poets Biographical and Critical Notes.



40. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye's four 'generic plots'

The comic


The tragic


The lyric


The ironic



41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem
1.
The Fire Sermon

2.
Death by Water

3.
A Game of Chess

4.
What the Thunder Said

5.
The Burial of the Dead



4


4


4


4



42. Sir Plume is a character in .sa

Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel


Congreve's The Way of the World


Pope's The Rape of the Lock


Farquhar's The Beaux' Strategem



43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on to "unsex me here". (Macbeth I.5.39)
Choose the right option to fill in the blank

God


the spirits of hell


the angels in heaven


no one in particular



44. You will find the following lines in an English poem Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
Of Humber would complain. Which poem Who is the poet

"Lonely Hearts." Wendy Cope


"Holy Thursday." William Blake


"Tiger Mask Ritual." Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni


"To His Coy Mistress." Andrew Marvell



45. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Whose lines are these To whom
are they addressed

John Keats. The Nightingale


P.B. Shelley. The Skylark


William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley


Robert Browning. The Grammarian



46. Match List I with List II according to the code given below
List I List II


(Novel) (Major symbol)
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog
ii. The Return of 2. train the Native
iii. Bleak House 3. heath
iv. Tess 4. mist


Codes
i ii iii iv

2 3 1 4


4 2 3 1


2 3 4 1


1 3 4 1



47. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person's relationships are homo-/hetero-sexual

The French Lieutenant's Woman


English Music


Written on the Body


Enduring Love



48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist

The Heart of the Matter


England Made Me


Brighton Rock


The Power and the Glory



49. Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear

James Quin


Nahum Tate


Peg Woffington


Charles Macklin



50. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life."
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen's age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code

II and III are correct.


II and IV are correct.


II, III and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.