1. Which of the following book by V.S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited

In a Free State

A Bend in the River

The Middle Passage

An Area of Darkness
2. 'Fluency' in language is the same as

the ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or writing.

the ability to command language rather than language commanding the user.

glibness

accuracy
3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE

This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.

Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in nature.

In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be equated with the human in respect of emotions and responses.

The term was originally used by Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).
4. Identify the correctly matched group

List I List II

i. Allegro and Pensoro 1. Pastoral elegy
ii. 'Lycidas' 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet
iv. His Blindness' 4. Prose tract
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplets

Codes
i ii iii iv v


1 2 3 4 5

5 1 2 3 4

1 3 2 4 5

5 1 2 4 3
5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood The University Wits The Rhymers' Club The Transitional Poets The Scottish Chaucerians. The right chronological sequence would be

The Scottish Chaucerians The University Wits The Transitional Poets The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood The Rhymers' Club.

The Rhymers' Club, The University Wits The Scottish Chaucerians The Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.

The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood The Rhymers' Club The Transitional Poets, The Scottish Chaucerians The University Wits.

The University Wits, The Scottish Chaucerians The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, The Transitional Poets The Rhymers' Club.
6. 'Aucitya' refers to

I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy

I and IV are correct.

I and III are correct.

II is correct.

II and IV are correct.
7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is

a Public Park

a Church

a Quarry

an Abandoned Factory
8. Match List I with List II according to the code given below
List I (Character) List II (Work)

i. Telemachus 1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey

Codes
i ii iii iv


4 1 2 3

3 1 4 2

2 4 1 3

4 3 1 2
9. This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works contain the words "sonnets" and "elegies". He is

Herman Hesse

Heinrich Heine

Joseph Freiherr VonEichendorff

Raine Marie Rilke
10. Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates

The Birds

The Wasps

The Clouds

The Frogs
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady

I. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
II. to achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. to prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above Find the correct combination according to the code

I and II are correct.

I and III are correct.

II and III are correct.

II and III are correct.
12. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer and his work. Choose the correct answer

Marquez "The Solitude of Latin America"

Borges "Chinese Encyclopaedia"

Juan Rulfo Pedro Paramo

AlejoCarpentier- "On the Marvelous in America"
13. Here is a list of Partition novels which have 'violence on the woman's body' as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out

The Pakistani Bride

What the Body Remembers

Train to Pakistan

The Ice-Candy Man
14. Match the translators in List I with the English translations of Indian Literature texts in List II according to the code given below

List I List II

i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri

Codes
i ii iii iv

4 1 2 3

3 2 1 4

2 4 1 3

1 2 3 4
15. In his poem "A Morning Walk" Nissim Ezekiel talks about a 'Barbaric City sick with slums Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains Its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged Processions led by frantic drums.' Identify the city

Calcutta

Banares

Bombay

Agra
16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are

Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention

Sound, Feeling, Nuance,Intention

Sense, Voice, Emotion,Intention

Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
17. In 'Christabel' after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline's castle on her way to Christabel's chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen

the 'angry moan' of the ailing mastiff bitch

'The Owlet's Scritch'

'The Moaning Wind'

tongue of light, a fit of flame'
18. The word resurrect is

an abbreviation

a spurious verb

a back-formation

a disguised compound
19. Match List I with List II according to the code given below

List I List II
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones 2. Bildungsroman
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic
iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary

Codes
i ii iii iv

1 2 3 4

2 1 4 3

4 3 2 1

3 4 1 2
20. Ted Hughes's poem 'The Thought-Fox' is

I. About Thought as Fox
II. About the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet's brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.

Find the most appropriate combination according to the code

I and II are correct.

I and III are correct.

I and IV are correct.

III and IV are correct.
21. In Aristotle's Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain magnitude….having a beginning, a middle, and an end'. What is

tragedy

epic

poetry

farce
22. According to Matthew Arnold, 'touchstones' help us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry. What are the 'touchstones'

The purple passages of lyric poetry

Passages from ancient poets

The lines and expressions of the great masters

Passages of epic strength and vigour
23. extremely simplified form of language used for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfill the essential needs of communication.'

Which of the following is best described by this definition

Creole

Pidgin

Dialect

Lingua franca
24. What do the prosodic features of a language tell us

The speaker's native language and its cognate languages.

The speaker's age, emotional state, social class, educational background, geographical provenance etc.

The speaker's self-confidence or lack of it.

The speaker's command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and their deployment.
25. What novel answers to the following descriptions This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. The work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods contemporary and Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance.

The Virgin in the Garden

Possession

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

The Sea Lady
26. The following words and phrases, 'peace makers', 'the fat of the labour of 'the eleventh hour' and 'the shadow of death' were made current by

the British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham

the fifteenth century British prelates

the Puritan tractarians

the sixteen-century translators of the Bible
27. Who among the following writers asserted 'Commonwealth Literature' does not exist

Amitav Ghosh

Sulman Rushdie

V.S. Naipaul

Nirad Chaudhari
28. Identify the one in correct chronological sequence

The Norman Conquest The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer William Tyndall's New Testament The Birth of William Shakespeare

The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer William Tyndall's New Testament The Birth of William Shakespeare The Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest -William Tyndall's New Testament The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer The Birth of William Shakespeare

William Tyndall's New Testament The Norman Conquest The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer The Birth of William Shakespeare
29. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence

Mary Wellstone Craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads with second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Mary Wollstone Craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads with second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Lyrical Ballads with second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Mary Wollstone Craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads with second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Mary Wollstone Craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
30. Who is John Keats's 'Sylvan Historian'

Fanny Brawne

Nightingale

The Grecian Urn

The Bridge of Quietness
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour.' The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is

The Tatler

The Spectator

The Critical Review

The Rambler
32. Arrange the following in the order in which the details of a research article essay appear in your bibliography.

Page numbers, the title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume issue numbers, year of publication

The title of the essay, page numbers, the title of the journal, volume and issue numbers, year of publication

The title of the journal, the title of the essay, page numbers, volume and issue numbers, year of publication

The title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume issue numbers, the year of publication, page numbers
33. From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia

Aldous Huxley A Brave New World

George Orwell 1984

Yevgeny Zamyatin We

Evelyn Waugh Brideshed Revisited
34. 'Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit….' Where is the passage from

Milton's Areopagitica

Sidney's Apologie for Poetry

Dryden's 'Preface to the Fables'

Marvell's The Rehearsal Transposed
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character and the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called 'Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown'. Who is Mrs. Brown

The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.

A servant in Mr. Bennett's household.

A character in a Bennett story.

Mr. Bennett's neighbour who happens to be a writer.
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out

Wasp

Stone

Thunder

Echo
37. 'Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor'd ev'ry chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link'. In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is

Elkanah Settle

Lord Harvey

Thomas Shadwell

Joseph Addison
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression'a bright book of life' to describe

the novel

the dramatic monologue

the Bible

the short lyric
39. Identify the correctly matched group

List I List II
i. Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2. Russia
iii. The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
iv. An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
v. Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin

Codes
i ii iii iv v

3 5 4 1 2

4 3 5 2 1

5 4 3 2 1

2 1 3 4 5
40. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason

Assertion Chaucer describes 'Madame Eglentyne' thus 'She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught in a trappe'

Reason On her 'broche of gold full shene' was written Amor Vincit Omnia. In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct

Both and are true and the correct explanation of

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

is true but is false.

is false but is true.
41. Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below

1. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.

1 and 3 are correct.

1 and 2 are correct.

2 and 3 are correct.

2 and 4 are correct.
42. In Monica Ali's Brick Lane which among the following characters has face like a frog'

Nazneen

Chanu

Hasina

Karim
43. 'The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check'ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's burning wheels.' (Romeo and Juliet II 1 The speaker describes

The Setting Sun

The Return Home of a Drunkard

The Drawing of a New Day

The Rising Sun
44. 'How noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable In action how like an angel in apprehension how like a God What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage

His own self

His father

Man

Woman
45. Said identifies Orientalism as

I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than one of human production In the light of the statement above

II and III are correct, I and IV are wrong.

I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.

II and III are correct and IV is wrong.

IV is correct and II and III are wrong.
46. Identify the period during which the Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds

1640-1660

1649-1660

1649-1659

1640-1659
47. "To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I mean she upright, honest, speak her mind…" What light does the quotation throw on Shug Avery

She is a manly woman.

She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.

She is bent on self-assertion

Both and
48. 1. A content word is not a function word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means functionally.

Which of these statements are correct

1 and 4 are correct.

1 and 2 are correct.

3 and 4 are correct.

2 and 4 are correct.
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.

The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.

Washington Irving was adjudged the nation's greatest writer in that year.

Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give

A Gothic Tale

A Gothic Romance

The Modern Prometheus

A Modern Parable
51. Which of the following statements on George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin [1953] is not true

On one level this is a coming of-age story.

It is an elegiac account of a village's growth into awareness in the late colonial period.

Its themes parody The Tempest.

This was George Lamming's first novel.
52. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be …

quite specific and unambiguous

ambiguous and indeterminate

suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms of sense

suggestive of links but equivocally
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North will undoubtedly notice its parallels with the story/stories of

I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness Of the above

I and II are correct.

Only IV is correct.

II and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities

It is a prosaic response to the myth of El Dorado.

It is subtitled Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.

In this book, Anderson advances the view that nations are not natural entities but narrative constructs.

In Anderson's view, modern nationalism was basically a consequence of the convergence of capitalism, the new print technology and the fixity that resulted from print extending to 'Vernacular' languages.
55. swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth everyday.' These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the novel

Middlemarch

Vanity Fair

Our Mutual Friend

Far From the Madding Crowd
56. What is a mock-heroic poem A mock-heroic poem

mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics

mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in all epics

uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations

uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship
57. Which of the following statements is not true of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy

It has a linear plot.

It opens and ends with the theme of birth.

It contains a trip to France.

It contains a marbled page.
58. In drama, an aside is addressed…

to an audience by an actor; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by other actors on the stage.

to other actors on the stage; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by the audience.

by the playwright to the audience.

by the protagonist to his/her antagonist
59. Match List I with List II according to the code given below

List I (Novels) List II (Last Lines)

i. The Mayor of Caster bridge 1. walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.'
ii. Sons and Lovers 2. their death, they were not divided.'
iii. The Great Gatsby 3. 'Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.'
iv. The Mill on the Floss 4. we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.'

Codes
i ii iii iv

1 2 3 4

2 1 3 4

4 3 2 1

3 1 4 2
60. "There is nothing outside the text," is a statement by

Victor Shklovsky

Jacques Derrida

Roland Barthes

Ferdinand de Saussure
61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy's novels. Pick the odd one out

Fanny Robin

Tess D'Urberville

Marty South

Bathsheba Everdene
62. What is the following a description of loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece'

Essay

Autobiography

Epistolary Fiction

Diary
63. From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic

Allen Tate

Robert Penn Warren

Cleanth Brooks

Claude Levi-Strauss
64. From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh's novels

Ila

Urvashi

Sonali

Piyali
65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group

Ranajit Guha

Partha Chatterjee

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Sumit Sarkar
66. Statement "Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting."

Interpretation The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten.

is a view and is not correct.

is a view and is correct.

is a poetic view, the (I)does not suit it.

is a poetic view and bears no relationship to
67. 'The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself…' What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H. Auden's view

Proud

Vainglorious

Avaricious

Silly
68. Who among Charles Dickens's characters is and who 'willin'

Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp

Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby

Martin, Little Nell

Uriah Heep, Barkis
69. "Fourth World Literature" refers to

I. the works of native people living in a land that has been taken over by non-natives.
II. the works of black people in the United States.
III. the literature of the marginalized.
IV. refers to the works of non heterosexuals Of the above

I and II are correct.

I and III are correct.

II and IV are correct.

III and IV are correct.
70. Assertion In The Duchess of Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on the Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner.

Reason His desire was to provide a strange entertainment to drive the Duchess mad. In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct

is correct, but is wrong.

Both and are correct.

is wrong, but is correct.

Both and are wrong.
71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to the study of African- American literature

It focuses on largely neglected African-American novelists and poets.

It offers a theory of African- American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and signifying practices.

It offers a theory of African- American films and dramatic arts that signify Black ethos.

It departs from critical theory of autobiographical narratives involving Black lives and cultural traditions.
72. This influential critic

I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. published such titles as The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon.
III. asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion and
IV. is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers in the English Academy. Identify the critic

Edward Said

Geoffrey Chaucer

Harold Bloom

Sven Birkrets
73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci

hegemony is synonymous with domination

hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.

hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.

hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
74. Match the following

i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers' Club The Decadents of the 1890's
ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley George Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The University Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration Playwrights

Codes
i ii iii iv

3 2 1 4

1 4 3 2

2 1 4 3

3 4 2 1
75. Combine the statements correctly According to Homi Bhabha
1. mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer's culture, behaviour and manners.
2. but it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
3. mimicry is mere copying the colonizer's culture, behaviour and manners…
4. but is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.

1 and 4

1 and 2

3 and 4

3 and 2