1. Which of the following statements is not true of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina It is concerned with

the jumbled trivia of day-to­day life.

the belief in social progress andscientific advancement.

insistent quest for meaning.

the reaction of immediate family members to someone's terminal illness.

2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda's guardian sylph is unable to prevent the Baron's fatal mischief because

he discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda's heart.

he is disturbed by Clarissa's speech.

the view is blocked by the imposing figure of Sir Plume.

he is yet to return from a visit to the Cave of Spleen.

3. I'll never, never meet such a man again.
You ought to have heard him recite poetry …
Oh, he enlarged my mind."

the manager

the intended

the first-class agent

the Russian

4. Arrange the following ELT methods and approaches in the order in which they appear. Use the codes given below
Code
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way
The correct combination according to the code is

III, IV, III

III, IV, II

III, II, IV

III, II, IV

5. Which of the following statements is not applicable to Derrida's rejectionof the notion of the 'Metaphysics of Presence'

The desire for immediate access to meaning privilegespresence over absence.

All presences are necessarilymetaphysical and, therefore, are to be rejected.

A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play of'difference' and 'differance'.

Metaphysics involves installing hierarchies and orders of subordination in the various dualisms that it encounters.

6. Read the following and its code
"a prince's court
Is like a common fountain, whence should flow
Pure silver drops in general: but if't chance
Some curs'd example poison't near the head
Death and disease through the wholeland spread."
Code
I. It is the description of the French Court at the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi.
II. It is about the English court.Such was Webster's England,but to avoid censorship Webster gives his play a foreign location.
III. It is about the Italian court.
IV. The court is located in Malfi.
The correct combination according tothe code is

I and IV are correct.

I and II are correct.

II and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.

7. Literary works by post-modern British writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share which of the following characteristics

The use of fragmented narrative structures with multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology and location.

An emphasis on the rich universality of life in cultures and countries all over the world.

A sense of sentimental nostalgia for nineteenth and early twentieth century life, typically expressed in rueful, melancholic tones.

The use of brief, economic literary forms and a spare, astringent literary style.



8. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason

Assertion Some post-colonial writers maintain that being 'unhomed' is not the same as being 'homeless'.

Reason Because the migrants are not at home in themselves their cultural identity crisis has made them psychological refugees.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct
Code

is correct, but is wrong.

Both and are correct.

is wrong, but is correct.

Both and are wrong.



9. Which of the following statements are not true about Margaret Laurence's Novel, The Stone Angel
Code

I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in Manitoba called Manawaka.
II. The novel was written when she was away from Canada.
III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by Hagar Shipley.
IV. The novel is least known of her works.
The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.

II and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.

I and IV are correct.


10. Which of the following statements is not true of many contemporary African writers

They convey a melancholy tone of longing for traditional religious rituals.

They celebrate unambiguously the benefits of Western education.

They bemoan the loss of values and indict aspirations of wealth.

They assess the social impact of systems and institutions of colonial rule.


11. The 'Angel in the House' became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by

Arthur Munby

Arthur Hugh Clough

Charlotte Mew

Coventry Patmore


12. Which of the following literary types is associated with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire

Flaneur

Poete Maudit

Encomium

Honnete Homme



13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image clusters are associated with
Code
I. rain II. beasts
III. insects IV. river

The correct combination according to the code is

I and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.

III and IV are correct.

I and IV are correct.



14. Which of the following poets describes his "mistress" as

"No, she is not Anglo-Indian.
She is Indian English, the language that I use."

Nissim Ezekiel

Keki Daruwalla

A.K. Ramanujan

R. Parthasarathy


15. All of the following are characteristics of Renaissance humanism except

sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures.

rejection of Christian principles.

belief that ancient Latin and Greek writers were inferior to later authors.

primary causative agent of the Reformation.



16. 'Stand up, young woman … and tell me what sort of a
barbarous people your country folkare, where child-murder is become so commonplace as to require the restraint of laws like yours.'

The queen in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian is referring to a strangeScottish law according to which if a woman

gives birth to a child and thechild is missing, she is considered guilty of infanticide.

secretly gives birth to a childand the child is missing and she has not confided to anyoneabout her pregnancy, she isconsidered guilty of infanticide.

gives birth to a child and thechild is missing and she has not confided to anyone about herpregnancy, she is consideredguilty of infanticide.

gives birth to a child and killsthe child and she is guilty ofinfanticide.


17. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the definition ofNew Historicism New historicist critics

remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was rather than as we have been conditioned by ourown place and time to believethe way it was.

are less likely to see history aslinear and progressive, as something developing toward the present.

tend to view history as literature's background.

are unlikely to suggest that aliterary text has a single oreasily identifiable historical context.


18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays an 'excess of sensibility' in

Marianne

Margaret


Elinor

Lucy


19. Ben Jonson disliked
Code
I. fantastic comedy
II. wide-ranging chronicle-history and stupendous tragedy
III. the comedies of Terence and Plautus
IV. the ability of satire to expose human vices and follies
The correct combination according to the code is

I and III are correct.

III and IV are correct.

I and IV are correct.

I and II are correct.

20. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason
Assertion In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin and Ellison returned to universal themes and focused on innovations in literary forms.
Reason In the 1930s and 40s African and American Literature was mostly preoccupied with protest.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct
Code

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of

Both and are true and is not the correct explanation of

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.



21. In coining the term 'Ecriture feminine' Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example

D.H. Lawrence

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

E.M. Forster



22. Of the following characters in Jacobean plays, choose the one whois not a villainous character

De Flores (The Changeling)

Luke Frugal (The City Madam)

Sir Giles Overreach New Way to Pay Old Debts)

Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi)


23. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of theeighteenth century in Britain. Suchliterature included books written byformer slaves. Two such writings are
Code
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is

I and IV are correct.

I and II are correct.

II and IV are correct.

II and III are correct.


24. Hippolyte Taine published his four-volume History of English Literaturein 1864 based on the followingcategories except one. Which one

Race

Psychology

Historical moment

Milieu


25. The two 'mother-figures' in Dickens's Great Expectations are
Code
I. Estella II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to the code is

II and III are correct.

I and II are correct.

III and IV are correct.

I and III are correct.


26. Judith Wright's works reveal the following features except one. Which one

A keen focus on the Australian environment

Concern for the relationshipbetween the settlers, indigenousAustralians and the bush.

A correspondence between innerexistence and objective reality.

An obsession with religiousand political issues.


27. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared
Code
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
III. Le Morte D'Arthur
IV. Utopia
The correct combination according to the code is

IV, III, II

III, IV, II

III, IV, II, I

III, IV, II


28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody

In Custody and Feasting, Fasting

Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way

In Custody and Fire on the Mountain


29. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are

real and fake

voluntary and involuntary

subjective and objective

latent and manifest


30. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O'Neill as play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood'

Desire under the Elms

The Hairy Ape

Long Day's Journey into Night

Mourning Becomes Electra


31. "With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort of a father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it." She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot's novels. Who is she

Romola

Hetty Sorel

Maggie

Dorothea



32. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion and theother labelled as Reason
Assertion The term "Standard English" is misleading.
Reason There are manylinguistic communities that do have a genuine standard variety,a fixed and invariant form of the language that is used for certainkinds of communication.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct
Code

Both and are true and the correct explanation of

Both(A) and are true and is not the correct explanation of

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.


33. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion and theother labelled as Reason
Assertion The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.
Reason The ending of the poem reflects the poet'sdivided life between America and England and a life givenover to primitivism.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of(A).

Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.


34. Which of the following novels actedas an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style inEnglish

Raja Rao's Kanthapura

G.V. Desani's All About H Hatterr

Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable

R.K. Narayan's The Sweet Vendor


35. Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about

a father and a daughter settingout on a journey.

the kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and her visit to Venice.

Emily's adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcomeof the adventures, her escapeand her final union with Valencourt.

the adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho.



36. In Marxist criticism the term 'interpellation' defines

the ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of material practices.

the ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices.

the ways in which the subjectsof an ideology are placed infalse positions of knowledgeregarding themselves.

the ways in which the subjects ofan ideology resist false positionsof knowledge regarding others.


37. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except

It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.

It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.

It valorises a special use oflanguage.

It is a matter of reader-response.



38. In a trickster tale Code
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist
II. the ending is ambiguous
III. the hero can be a shape shifter,a cheat or a liar
IV. humans act as a mouth piece for the gods

The correct combination according tothe code is

II and III are correct.

II and III are correct.

I and III are correct.

I and IV are correct.



39. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is

The American HeritageDictionary

Fennell

The Oxford English Dictionary

The Online Merriam-Webster's Dictionary


40. Which of the following statements onthe ending of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is correct ?The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by

violent convulsions.

a slow ebbing away of lifehardly perceptible.

the miraculous appearance of a priest to administer the last rites.

the intense mourning of thecleaner who discovers the body.


41. Archetypal criticism accepts as itsinforming principle that archetypesare present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include

Code
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin The correct combination according tothe code is

I and IV are correct.

I and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.

I and II are correct.


42. In the sonnet "Death, Be Not Proud", Donne says to death: "Those whomthou think'st thou dost over-throw /Die not, poor death, nor yet canstthou kill me." What does he mean

Death is very strong.

Death is not death, because after death we wake up to liveeternally.

One must face death courageously and defiantly.

Death is not as strong as hethinks he is.


43. In which of the following plays ofLuigi Pirandello the stage itself, thesymbol of appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play

Right You Are (If You Think,You Are)

To Clothe the Naked

The Life I Gave You

Six Characters in Search of an Author



44. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion and theother is labelled as Reason Assertion Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reason The writers were responding to the devastationof war and feelingdisconnected from the traditions of the past.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct
Codes

Both and are true and the correct explanation of

is not the correct explanation of

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.



45. Which among the followingstatements is not correct Badal Sircar's Pagla Ghora is a playabout

the condition of women in post-Second World War Bengal.

the political and religious conditions of the time.

sexual passion.

lack of communication between men and women.



46. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq are associated with Code
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies

The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.

I and III are correct.

III and IV are correct.

II and III are correct.



47. "Collocations" refer to

the combination of words in a phrase

the act of positioning words

grouping of words in a sentence

combination of natural words


48. Of the following statements, whichone is not true of Congreve's The Way of the World

The Way of the World was staged in 1700.

It was played at the theatre inLincoln's Inn Fields.

It was a failure on the stage.

The dialogue was unintelligible.


49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger displays
Code
I. Rebelliousness II. Nostalgia
III. Restlessness IV. Mendacity

The right combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.

I and III are correct.

II and III are correct.

III and IV are correct.


50. The following are two lists of worksand their themes. Match them correctly
Code
List I List II
(Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D'urbervilles 1. Suicide
II. The End of the Affair, The Golden Bowl 2. Greed
III.The Heart of the Matter, Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
IV.Heart of Darkness,Nostromo 4. Adultery

The correct combination according tothe code is
I II III IV
3 4 1 2

4 3 1 2

1 3 2 1

4 1 3 2


51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando's blood, why does Rosalindfaint Which of the following is notthe correct answer

Many will swoon when theylook at blood.

She faints because of her real concern and anxiety for Orlando.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

She is counterfeiting as sheherself later claims.


52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides's Medea In Euripides'sMedea the chorus consists of

fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea's next door neighbours

Fifteen Athenian elders

Fifteen Spartan women

Fifteen Sicilian Women



53. Which of the following is not an award received by Mahasweta Devi

Ramon Magsaysay Award

Jnanpith Award

Padmashri

Commonwealth Writers Prize



54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official language of theEnglish Parliament in

1755

1362

1611

1879


55. The following are two lists of statements and the poets critics who made them. Match them correctly
List I List II
(Statements on critics) (Poets /imagination)
I. One power alone makes a poet The Imagination, The Divine Vision 1. Shelley
II. … what the imagination seizes on beautymust be the truth 2. Coleridge
III. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination 3. Blake
IV. Works of imagination should be written in a veryplain language 4. Keats

The right combination according to the code is
Code
I II III IV
2 1 3 4

3 4 1 2

1 3 2 1

4 1 3 2


56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts themorality of R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island involving adventures ofthree boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are repeated in Golding's tale. They are Code
I. Ralph II. Roger
III. Jack IV. Simon
The correct combination according tothe code is

I and II are correct.

III and IV are correct.

I and IV are correct.

I and III are correct.


57. The following are two lists of characters and the works in which we find them. Match them correctlyaccording to the code
List I List II
(Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
II. Raghu 2. Midnight'sChildren
III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura

Code
I II III IV
2 1 3 4

3 2 1 4

4 1 2 3

1 2 3 4


58. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom isinvolved in relationships with threeother ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one

Molly Seagrim

Mrs Western

Lady Booby

Lady Bellaston


59.This novel by Lawrence was greetedwith the headlines book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.' Its openingchapter was originally suppressed.Name the novel

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Rainbow

Women in Love

The White Peacock


60. In Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" the key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one

Movement versus stasis

Disappointing love versus eternal bliss

Scars of history versus consolations of art

Beauty versus truth


61. These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science. The above formulation best describes

The Neoclassical Critics

The Romantic Critics

The Art for Art Sake Critics

The Symbolist Critics


62. In Beckett's Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech

Estragon

Vladimir

Lucky

Pozzo

63. Laura Mulvey's pioneering essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses

Freud's concept of sublimation

Jung's concept of collective unconscious

Lacan's concept of the gaze

Lacan's notion of the fragmented body



64. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the "Campus Novelists" Group

Angus Wilson

David Lodge

Anthony Powell

Malcolm Bradbury



65. Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus

The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man.

The story, divided into twoparts, gives Meursault's first person narrative before and after the murder respectively.

It is a realistic novel, true to the locale it depicts.

The theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars ofexistentialism.


66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of
Code
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
The correct combination according tothe code is

I and III are correct.

I and II are correct.

I and IV are correct.

II and III are correct.


67. Which of the following statements isnot a correct description of Pope's The Dunciad

The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing.

It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.

It is about the coronation of Theobald.

It wishes to satirize Theobald only.


68. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the "Sapir-Whorf" hypothesis

Each language presents us with its own categorization of theuniverse.

Language is a guide to socialreality.

One adjusts to realityessentially without the use oflanguage.

A language and the society thatuses it interlock.


69. Which philosophers does Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell
Code
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato

The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.

I and IV are correct.

II and IV are correct.

I and III are correct.



70. Which of the following best describes the role of revision in the writing process

Revision is discrete phase of the writing process that should occur after the initial drafting phase.

Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second-draft phase of the writing process.

Revision is a recursive activity that may occur at any phase of the writing process.

Substantive revision should occur primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.



71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet

Robert Burns

Thomas Chatterton

William Collins

Charlotte Smith



72. "Why can't we be friends now' … it's what I want. It's what you want.' But the horses didn't want it they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it." At the end of A Passage to India Forster suggests that

if Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends.

probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends.

though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not want the English and the Indians to be friends, not yet.

the East is East and the West is West and the twain shall never meet.


73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a

dialect

creole

pidgin

register


74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis. He wrote a review which introduced the term

The Earthly School of Poetry

The Fleshly School of Poetry

The Stealthy School of Poetry

The Esoteric School of Poetry


75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on

the Mendip hills

the Purbeck hills

the Malvern hills

the Cheviot hills


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