1. "The just man justices. What kind of
This coyness, lady, were no crime." above lines

Syntactic

Semantic

Collocation

None of the above



2. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code
given
List I List II
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
Codes
i ii iii iv

2 1 3 4

3 2 1 4

4 1 2 3

3 1 2 4

3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in than in medieval works of literature and art.

Ben Jonson

Shakespeare

Philip Sidney

Edmund Spenser

4. "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of

Irony

Paradox

Hyperbole

Euphemism
5. A Spenserian stanza has

four iambic pentameters

six iambic pentameters

eight iambic pentameters

ten iambic pentameters

6. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code
given below

List I (Critic) List II (Theory)

i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
Codes
i ii iii iv

2 1 4 3

3 2 1 4

1 2 3 4

2 3 4 1

7. "The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible
and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen." Henry James is
talking here about the artist's

impersonality

absence

presence

creativity

8. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code given below

List I(Theorist) List II (Book)
i. Michel 1. Gender Trouble Foucault
ii. Judith 2. Epistemology of Butler the Closet
iii. Alan 3. History of Sinfield Sexuality
iv. Eve 4. Cultural Politics-Kosofsky Queer Reading Sedgwick
Which is the correct combination according to the code

Codes
i ii iii iv

3 1 2 4


3 1 4 2


4 2 1 3


4 3 1 2



9. "The greatness of a poet", Arnold says, "lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life". But a critic pointed out it was "not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity". Who was this critic

T.S. Eliot

F.R. Leavis

David Lodge

Allen Tate



10. Derrida's American disciples were

Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller


Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan


Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman


Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari


11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups

Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope


Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus


Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe


Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames


12. "Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years. Than with your weapons." The above lines are addresses by Othello to

Roderigo and officers


Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers


The Duke and Senators


Montano and Cassio



13. Act V of Marlowe's Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place

Westminster, a room in the palace


A room in Berkeley Castle


A room in Killingworth Castle


Within the Abbey of Neath



14. Identify the correctly matched set

"The Shepheards Calender" 1579 Tottels Miscellany 1557 Astrophel and Stella 1591 The Spanish Tragedie about 1585


"The Shepheards Calender" 1559 Tottels Miscellany 1579 Astrophel and Stella 1585 The Spanish Tragedie about 1591


"The Shepheards Calender" 1585 Tottels Miscellany 1591 Astrophel and Stella 1579 The Spanish Tragedie about 1557


"The Shepheards Calender" 1579 Tottels Miscellany 1591 Astrophel and Stella about 1585 The Spanish Tragedie about 1557



15. Match the items in the List I with items in List II according to the code given below

List I (Authors) List II (Works)
i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva or a Discourse of Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
iv. Margaret 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Cavendish

Codes
i ii iii iv

2 3 1 4


4 3 2 1


4 1 2 3


4 2 1 3



16. "But deeds, and language, such as men do use; And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the time, and sport with human follies, not with crime." In the above lines Jonson
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with
melodrama. Find out the correct combination according to the code

II and III are correct


II and IV are correct


III and IV are correct


II, III and IV are correct



17. "And if no peece of chronicle we prove, We'll build in pretty roomes."

lyrics

epics

sonnets

stanzas


18. "That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me." (Paradise Lost, Book What is being referred to by Satan

The courage never to submit or yield


To reign in Hell


To defeat God


To spread evil


19. It has been described as a "novel without predecessors", the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental. The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel

Gulliver's Travels


The Castle of Otranto


Tristram Shandy


A Tender Husband


20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist

Daniel Defoe


Samuel Richardson


Henry Fielding


Tobias Smollett


21. "Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise." Who wrote the following lines

Pope

Gray

Collins

Southey


22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay

Essay of Dramatic Poesy


Essay on Man


An Essay Concerning Human Understanding


An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision



23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the World

Millamant


Lady Wishfort


Mrs. Marwood


Mrs. Fainall



24. "Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of." Who speaks these words and to whom

Lamb to Bridget


Wordsworth to Dorothy


Dorothy to Bridget


Lamb to Dorothy



25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until

1815

1820

1830

1850



26. "A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreathed trellis of a working brain." The above lines are quoted from

'Adonais'


'Ode to Psyche'


'Eve of St. Agnes'


'Endymion'



27. "Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight." This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake's

'The Clod and the Pebble'


'The Sick Rose'


Poison Tree'


Sunflower'


28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft


William Godwin


Mary Hay


Elizabeth Inchbald


29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James' theory of the novel

It should be sentimental


It should be objective


It should be realistic


It should be viewed as an artistic form


30. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code given below

List I (Novels) List II (Characters)
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore
ii. A Passage to 2. Molly Bloom India
iii. To the 3. Gerald Crich Lighthouse
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe


Codes
i ii iii iv

3 1 2 4


2 1 4 3


4 2 1 3


1 3 2 4



31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922

Ulysses


Jacob's room


Aaron's Rod


A Passage to India



32. "A sudden blow the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast." Who is the author of the above lines

W.B. Yeats


T.S. Eliot


W.H. Auden


D.H. Lawrence



33. "Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal." The above lines are taken from

"Felix Randal"


"Sailing to Byzantium"


"Coole and the Ballylee, 1931"


"The Second Coming"



34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet

Hugh Sykes Dykes


David Gascoyne


Kenneth Allot


C. Day Lewis



35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene Identify the novel

The End of the Affair


The Heart of the Matter


The Ministry of Fear


Our Man in Havana



36. Samuel Beckett's trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is

More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy


B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable


Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies


The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy



37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920

Eugene O'Neill


Sean O'Casey


William Somerset Maugham


J.B. Priestly



38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of in his novels.

Realism


Naturalism


Primitivism


Expressionism



39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet

William Carlos Williams


Ezra Pound


William Ellery Channing, the younger


Marianne Moore



40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a 'Black Aesthetic' that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.


Amiri Baraka


Ishmael Reed


Bell Hooks



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

List I (Authors) List II (Books)
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
iii. Marina 3. Wide Sargasso Warners Sea
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men


Codes
i ii iii iv

4 2 3 1


4 1 2 3


4 3 2 1


1 3 4 2



42. Yasmine Gooneratne s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a post colonial novel of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical island nation of

Sri Lanka


Fiji


The Caribbean


Amnesia



43. Which of the following is not an Asian Canadian writer

Shauna Singh Badlwin


Himani Banerjee


Joy Kogawa


Meena Alexander



44. Which of the following is true

'Aurora Leigh' is a poem in nine books


'Aurora Leigh' is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese


'Aurora Leigh' is a nursery rhyme book


'Aurora Leigh' is "the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry"



45. "The old order changeth yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many way."

In which of the following poems do these lines appear

'Locksley Hall'


'Two Voices


'Morte d'Arthur'


'Ulysses'



46. George Eliot's attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel

Adam Bede


Felix Holt


Silas Marner


Romola



47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering

Wuthering Heights


Jude the Obscure


Mill on the Floss


Hard Times



48. From the following women characters in Hardy's novels choose the odd one out

Bathsheba Everdene


Eustacia Vye


Elizabeth Jane


Lucetta



49. "Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man
1 who loved money

2 who criticized the corrupt clergy

3 who practiced what he preached

4 who was a poor but honest


clerk Find the correct combination according to the code

2 and 3 are correct


2 and 4 are correct


3 and 4 are correct


3 and 4 are correct



50. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code given below

List I (Plays) List II (Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in 3. Vittoria his Humour Corombona
iv. The Spanish 4. Aspatia Tragedie


Codes
i ii iii iv

4 3 1 2


2 1 3 4


3 4 2 1


4 3 2 1