1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres, Survey's verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the

French verse


Italian verse


Spanish verse


Latin verse



2. Here are some characteristics Morality Plays of

1 They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.

2 They depict man's temptation and sinning, his quest for salvation and his confrontation with Death.

3 Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters are by no means personifications, of virtues, vices and death.

4 A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero, a predecessor of the Villain-hero in Elizabethan drama.


Find the correct combination according to the code

Only 1 and 2 are correct.


Only 1 and 3 are correct.


Only 1 and 4 are correct.


Only 2 and 3 are correct.



3. In Spenser's Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly matched set

Una Truth Guyon Temperance Duessa Deceit Orgoglio Pride


Una Pride Guyon Deceit Duessa Temperance Orgoglio Truth


Una Deceit Guyon Pride Duessa Temperance Orgoglio Truth


Una Temperance Guyon Truth Duessa Pride Orgoglio Deceit


4. "Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord." The above lines are quoted from

McFlecknoc


The Rape of the Lock


Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot


Absalom and Achitrphel


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

Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker's Holiday Antonio's Revenge The Changeling


The Shoemaker's Holiday Every Man in his Humour The Changeling Antonia's Revenge


The Changeling Antonio's Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker's Holiday


Antonio's Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Changeling The Shoemaker's Holiday



6. Though Coleridge refers to "Motive­hunting of a motiveless malignity", the "human villain" Iago is far from "motiveless". His motives are

I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code

I and II are correct


I and III are correct


I and IV are correct


II and IV are correct



7. In 'The Prologue' to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be
I. "cursed necromancy"
II. "audacious deeds"
III. "dalliance of love"
IV. "self-conceit"
The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct


II and III are correct


I and IV are correct


III and IV are correct


8. The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe's model, with a bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as "a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words". Who is this Jacobean playwright

John Fletcher


John Webster


George Chapman


John Marston


9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with and so ate the forbidden fruit against his "better knowledge".

"female charm"


"exceeding love"


"faithful love"


"taste so divine"


10. In which poem of Donne's is the lover's face reflected in the eyes of his beloved

"The Good Morrow"


"The Canonization"


"The Apparition"


"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"


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

List I (Dramatists) List II (Plays)
i. Thomas 1. The Provok'd Otway Husband
ii. William 2. The Recruiting Wycherley Officer
iii. Colley 3. The Country Cibber Wife
iv. George 4. The Orphan, or Farquhar the unhappy marriage

Codes
i ii iii iv

4 3 1 2


3 2 1 2


4 2 3 1


3 1 2 4



12. "Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird." In what sense is the Bird "immortal" as compared to mortal man

I. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a bird as a species.
II. The word "Bird" stands for the nightingale's song.
III. When considered as a species man is equally "immortal" as the "Bird".
IV. The "Bird" is "Immortal" because songs of birds have given pleasure to man through the ages.
Find the correct combination according to the code

Only I and III are correct


Only IV is incorrect


Only II and IV are correct


Only I and IV are incorrect



13. Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a poem in

8 parts

9 parts

7 parts

6 parts


14. Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women characters. From the following list pick the odd one out

Madge Wildfive


Meg Murdockson


Euphemia Deans


Meg Merrilees


15. Joseph Addison called him "The Miracle of the present age" and Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his memory. Who is he

John Locke


Isaac Newton


Ashley Cooper


Christopher Wren


16. The play was first performed in 1773. The author asked a friend "Did it make you laugh and getting the answer "Exceedingly" said then that was all he required. He used for plot a reputed experience of his own as a schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to be directed to an inn but was shown the gateway to the local squire's house. Which play is this

Sheridan's The Rivals


Sheridan's The School for Scandal


Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer


Goldsmith's The Good Natured Man


17. What is Johnson's opinion regarding the "Violation" of the three unities in the plays of Shakespeare
I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare's plays suffered because they did not follow the Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise
from false assumptions. The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.


II and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.


I and III are correct



18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays


On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays


On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays


On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays



19. "No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or that borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is short-lived and pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself." This passage describing the quality of greatness is taken from

"Of studies" by Francis Bacon


"The Indian Jugglers" by William Hazlitt


Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson


An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden



20. In Blake's "The Human Abstract", the fragmented world of Experience is symbolized in the image of the

Caterpillar


Fly


Raven


Fruit of Deceit


21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion and Reason
Assertion While referring to Charlotte Bronte's claim that she has excluded public interest from her novels Graham Greene writes 'Public interest in her day was surely more separate from public life… with us, however consciously unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our stories terribly persistent like grass through cement'.
Reason The decade of the "thirties was bristling with recurring economic and political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not remain unaffected. In the light of and which of the following is correct


Both and are true and is the correct explanation of


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


is true but is false.


is false, but is true.


22. Match the titles of the books with their authors

List I List II
i. Psychology and Art Today 1. John Strachey
ii. Revolution in Writing 2. W.H. Auden
iii. The Coming Struggle for Power 3. C. Day Lewis
iv. Arrow in the Blue 4. Arthur Koestler

Codes
i ii iii iv

3 1 2 4


4 2 3 1


2 3 1 4


1 2 4 3

23. George Meredith's first novel was banned by Mudie's Circulating Library for its supposed moral offence.
Identify the novel

The Egoist


Evan Harrington


Diana of the Crossways


The Ordeal of Richard Feverel



24. Match the titles of the following poems by Tennyson with their opening lines according to the code given below List-I (Titles of poems) List II (Opening Lines)
i. "Tithonus" 1. "'Courage' he said, and pointed towards the land. The mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."
ii. "The Lotos- 2. "The woods decay, Eaters" the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground."
iii. 'Ulysses' 3. "On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye."
iv. 'The Lady of 4. "It little profists that Shalott' an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race."


Codes
i ii iii iv

2 1 4 3


3 2 1 4


4 3 2 1


2 4 3 1


25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets called "From Sonnets from the Portuguese"

She wrote the whole in Portugal


The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.


She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.


The sonnets were narrated by a Portuguese.


26. Yeast's "Sailing to Byzantium" is about

Irish Culture


The art and culture of Byzantium in general


Irish revolutionaries


Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium



27. "She had lilies in her hand
And the stars in her hair were
(Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel")

7 and 3

3 and 7

6 and 4

4 and 6



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

Adam Bede Wuthering Heights North and South Villette


Wuthering Heights Villete North and South Adam Bede


Villettee North and South Wuthering Heights Adam Bede


North and South Wuthering Heights Adam Bede Villette



29. In which of the following novels by canrod do the Gould couple and Decoud appear as characters with Costaguana as the setting

Victory


Under Western Eyes


Nostromo


The Nigger of the Narcissus



30. Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given below

List I (Plays) List II (Authors)

i. Heartbreak 1. John House Galsworthy
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht
iii. In the Jungle of 3. T.S. Eliot Cities
iv. The Family 4. George Reunion Bernard Shaw


Codes
i ii iii iv


3 4 2 1


1 2 3 4


2 1 4 3


4 1 2 3


31. In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three painters were displayed. Identify the painters

Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell


Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin


Matisse, Picasso, Braque


Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse


32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, commit suicide by hanging herself

Theseus hated her


Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love


Hippolytus wanted to marry her


She was lonely and depressed


33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently

Tony Harrison


Ted Hughes


Seamus Heaney


Louis MacNeice



34. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given

List I (Authors) List II(Works)

i. Alexander 1. Remembrance of Dumas Things Past
ii. Honore de 2. Madame Bovary Balzac
iii. Gustav 3. The Human Flaubert Comedy
iv. Marcel 4. The Count of Proust Monte Christo

Codes
i ii iii iv

4 3 2 1


1 2 3 4


2 1 4 3


3 4 1 2



35. Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina
1 Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate spirit and determination to live life on her own terms.

2 She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.

3 She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.

4 Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.

1 and 2 are correct


2 and 3 are correct


1 and 3 are correct


3 and 4 are correct



36. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given

List I (Authors) List II (Works)
i. Vladimir 1. Germinal Nabokov
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault's Pendulum
iii. Umberto 3. If on a Winter's Eco Night a Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita


Codes
i ii iii iv

3 1 4 2


4 3 2 1


1 2 3 4


2 4 1 3


37. Which among the following plays by Aristophanes is an attack on 'modern' education and morals as imparted and taught by the radical intellectuals known as The Sophists

Clouds

Wasps

Acharnians

Knights


38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting actually figure as a character

The Voyage Out


The Waves


Jacob's Room


To the Lighthouse


39. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to the promotion of

English prose


The British Empire


Naval power


The Missionary Movement


40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the list below
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often suggests the of love

Fragility

Madness

Completeness

Security



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

List I (Dramatists) List II (Plays)
i. Arnold 1. Jumpers Wesker
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler Saw
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room
iv. Tom 4. Roots Stoppard

Codes
i ii iii iv

3 2 4 1


1 2 4 3


4 3 2 1


4 3 1 2



42. Modern English emerged from the

South Midland dialect


East Midland dialect


French language


Northumbrian dialect



43. Most culinary terms in English are derived from

Exotic cooking


French cooking


Native sources


Arabic cooking



44. "Blended learning" is a mode of instruction/learning in which

the learner's mother tongue and the target language are blended


learning is accessed through the mother tongue


a variety of instructional modes are integrated


learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches


45. 'Risk-taking' is one of the traits of a good

language learner


language teacher


teacher of grammar rules


printer of books and authors


46. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the principle of 'joy and easiness' is called

Suggesto paedia


Total physical response


The Direct Method


The audio-lingual method


47. Albert Camus, in his essay, 'The Myth of Sisyphus' conveys
1 The concept of Naturalism

2 The Absurdity of Human Existence

3 The Futility of all Human Endeavour

4 The concept of Existentialism

2 and 3 are correct


3 and 4 are correct


2 and 4 are correct


3 and 4 are correct


48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer because
1 Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel's property.

2 He loved her

3 Though he did not like her moral ideas about many things in life, he had hoped to win her over.

4 He realized that her moral ideas were quite deep-rooted.


Find the correct combination according to the code

only 1 and 2 are correct


only 2 and 3 are correct


only 3 and 4 are correct


only 1 is correct



49. Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara.
1 The novel is written in English

2 The novel is concerned with the progressive ideas of the times.

3 The novel is set in Malgudi

4 The novel is a satire on the representatives of a decadent Brahmin society.

5 Samskara is a regional novel

6 Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.

4 and 5 are correct


1 and 4 are correct


5 and 6 are correct


3 and 2 are correct



50. Willy in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the mythic characters figures

Venus and Adonais


Adonais and Hercules


Jupiter and Hercules


Venus and Hercules


A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

My swirling wants, your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.

They gave me a drug that slowed the
healing of wounds.

I want you to see this before I leave
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said
my bleeding is under control

A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.

A last attempt the language is a dialect
called metaphor.
These images go unglossed hair, glacier,
flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking
of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say those mountains have a
meaning but further than that I could not
say.

To do something very common, in my own
way.

Adrienne Rich

51. How does the poet suggest that the lover has not left

The words "a last attempt" indicate that she is trying her best to leave.


The words "before I leave" suggest that the speaker has not left yet.


The speaker talks of a trip 'forever' which means she will never return.


A drug she takes slows the healing of her wounds perhaps indicating that she may be able to leave sometime in future.


52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich's poem plan to leave
I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
The right combination according to the code is

I and II are correct


I and IV are correct


II and III are correct


I and III are correct



53. What does Rich imply when she says "The grammar turned and attacked me"

Language that has been used to hurt her.


Her lover has beaten her.


The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.


The pain she has herself inflicted through language.



54. How would you compare Rich's poem and Donne's poem with the same title

Rich is recreating Donne's poem


Rich is eulogising Donne's poem


Rich's poem is a scathing attack on Donne's poem.


Rich is defining Donne's concept of love


55. What is the theme of the poem Identify the false statement in the list below
It is

about the difficulty of actually saying goodbye.


about not having the strength to leave though one might want to.


about the pain suffered in relationship.


a Classical love poem like Donne's where the speaker dominates the addressee.


56. Why does Girish Karnad base his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann's Transposed Heads

It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.


It is concerned with materialism.


It deals with domestic strife.


It deals with ancient times.


57. The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan has been divided into four sections. Arrange them in their chronological order

The striders The Relations Second Sight the Black Hen


The Relations The Striders The Black Hen Second Sight


Second Sight The Relations The Black Hen Striders


The Black Hen Second Sight


The Striders The Relations

58. In one of her novels, Margaret Atwood demonstrated the potentially 'Cannibalistic' nature of human relationships. Identify the novel

Surfacing


Lady Oracle


Life Before Man


The Edible Woman



59. Match the characters with the novels of Amitav Ghosh in which they appear according to the code given below List I (Characters) List II (Novels)
i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta Chromosome
iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines


Codes
i ii iii iv

2 4 1 3


2 4 3 1


1 3 1 4


3 2 4 1



60. Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar

Bhooma


Evam Indrajeet


That Other History


Agra Bazar


61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence

Mohan

Jaya

Rati

Kamat


62. In Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak's vision of freedom for his people is

through money


through violence


through black power


through a decolonisation of the mind


63. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other as Reason
Assertion To give a text an author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

Reason A text is made up of multiple meanings drawn from many sources, and this multiplicity is focused on the reader.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct

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.


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

Assertion Spivak sees the project of colonialism as characterized by what Foucault had called 'epistemic violence', the imposition of a given set of beliefs over another.

Reason Spivak suggests that participation in the political process access to citizenship, becoming a voter will help to mobilize the subaltern on "the long road to hegemony."

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

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.

65. Match the following authors with their works from the given below

List I (Authors) List II (Works)
i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger's Daughter
ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy

Find the correct combination according to the code

Codes
i ii iii iv

1 2 3 4


2 4 1 3


3 1 4 2


4 3 2 1



66. Match the following authors with their plays from the lists given below

List I (Authors) List II(Plays)
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman
ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara's Ole Man
iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don't You want to be Free
iv. AmiriBaraka 4. Raisin in the Sun

Find the correct combination according to the code

Codes
i ii iii iv
3 4 2 1


1 2 3 4


2 1 4 3


4 3 1 2


67. Identify the critics and their respective works

Horace Ars Poetica Aristotle Poetics Quintillian Institutio Oratoria Ben Jonson Discoveries Sidney An Apology for Poetry Dryden An Essay of Dramatic Poesy


Horace Poetics Aristotle Ars Poetica Quintillian On the sublime Longinus Discoveries Ben Jonson Institutio Oratoria Sidney An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden An Apology for Poetry


Horace On the sublime Aristotle Poetics Quintillian Discoveries Longinus Institutio Oratoria Ben Jonson An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Sidney Ars Poetica Dryden An Apology for Poetry


Horace Ars Poetica Aristotle Poetics Quintillian Institutio Oratoria Longinus On the Sublime Ben Jonson An Apology for Poetry Sidney An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden Discoveries

68. Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry

The poet spreads his language across the page as though language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of 'image'.

The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as well as an expression of imagination

The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it, and like a scientist does not deal in emotions.

The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image as against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.



69. Who among the following is not a myth critic

Robert Graves


Raymond Williams


Francis Fergusson


Northrop Frye



70. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one

Romance

Epic

Fiction

Novel


The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native town is a crouching village, town on its knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The look that the native turns on the settler is a look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is an envious man. And this the settler knows very well… It is true, for there is no native who does not dream atleast once a day of setting himself up in the settler's place.
(From Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth)

71. To Frantz Fanon, the village is
1 the worst face of apartheid

2 a protected area

3 a place of moral and physical degradation

4 a special village with its own amenities.


1 and 3 are correct


1 and 2 are correct


only 3 is correct


only 4 is correct


72. Why is the 'native town' a hungry town
1 it did not have agricultural farms

2 it did not have markets

3 the blacks were steeped in poverty

4 they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.



1 and 2 are correct


3 and 4 are correct


only 1 is correct


only 4 is correct



73. What does the term 'crouching village' indicate
1 The latent aggressiveness of the blacks

2 The defenselessness of the people

3 Hopelessness and despair

4 Overflowing filth


1 and 2 are correct


2 and 3 are correct


only 1 is correct


only 2 is correct



74. Why does the native look at the settler's town with envy
1 it arises from a sense of desperation

2 he has no other option in his life

3 he wants to occupy a position of power.

4 he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.



only 1 is correct


3 and 4 are correct


only 2 is correct


1 and 4 are correct


75. What is the settler's attitude towards the blacks
1 the settler is not afraid

2 the settler considers the blacks to be harmless

3 the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.

4 the settler feels resentment because he knows that his position is never safe.



only 1 is correct


2 and 3 are correct


only 4 is correct


3 and 4 are correct