PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator

1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and
Scenery is written by
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
John Clare
Thomas Gray
2. Hemingway's novel A Farewell to
Arms is divided into
two books
three books
four books
five books
3. "Panopticism" is the title of a
chapter in a well-known book by
Roman Jakobson
Jacques Lacan
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
4. The lines, "She was a worthy
woman al hir lyve:/ Housbondes at
cherche dore she hadde five", are an
example of
blank verse
clerihew
heroic couplet
free verse
5. Who, among the following women
writers, famously imagined the
plight of Shakespeare's sister
George Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Irish Murdoch
Frances Burney
6. Read the following statement and
the reason given for it. Choose the
right response.
Assertion Dickens's novels
are called 'Newgate Novels'.
Reason They are called so,
because Dickens adulates in
these novels the careers and
adventures of criminals.
Both and are true and
is the correct explanation.
Both and are true, but
is not the correct
explanation.
is true, but is false.
is false, but is true.
7. Who among the following writers
does not belong to the group, the
University Wits
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
George Peele
Thomas Kyd
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8. Which of the following characters of Webster's The White Devil utters the memorable words
Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures try
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry.

(A)Vittoria Corombona


(B)Bracciano


(C)The Cardinal


(D)Flamineo


9. "All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life" this statement is attributed to

(A)Thomas Carlyle


(B)Matthew Arnold


(C)J.S. Mill


(D)John Ruskin


10. Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist

(A)J.D. Salinger


(B)Henry Greene


(C)William Faulkner


(D)Philip Roth


11. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features

(A)Doctor Faustus


(B)Edward II


(C)Hero and Leander


(D)Tamburlaine


12. Sir Fopling is a character in

(A)Wycherley's The Plain Dealer


(B)Congreve's The Way of the World


(C)Etherege's The Man of Mode


(D)Davenant's The Platonick Lovers


13. Who famously said, "Three or four families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on"

(A)Clara Reeve


(B)Maria Edgeworth


(C)Frances Burney


(D)Jane Austen


14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel

(A)When Rain Clouds Gather


(B)The Mimic Men


(C)Things Fall Apart


(D)The Interpreters


15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called

(A)Trochee


(B)Iambic


(C)Spondee


(D)Terza Rima


16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales

(A)Meekness


(B)Defiance


(C)Chastity


(D)Experience


17. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the question with the help of the Code given below

The Dunciad


The Rape of the Lock


An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism

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18. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot's novel

(A)Middlemarch


(B)Silas Marner


(C)Daniel Deronda


(D)Adam Bede



19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel by a citizen of

(A)the United Kingdom


(B)the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland


(C)the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth


(D)the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland



20. A 'curtal sonnet' consists of

lines 12 lines


lines 14 lines



21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by

(A)Robert Greene


(B)Thomas Deloney


(C)Thomas Nashe


(D)Thomas Lodge



22. Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy

(A)George Villiers


(B)John Marston


(C)John Webster


(D)Thomas Middleton



23. The author of Nation and Narration is

(A)Edward Said


(B)Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


(C)Frantz Fanon


(D)Homi Bhabha



24. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction


Henry Fielding's Tom Jones


(C)Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy


(D)Samuel Richardson's Pamela



25. The phrase 'Only Connect' is associated with

H. Lawrence


(B)James Joyce


M. Forster


(D)Virginia Woolf



26. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood

(A)The Stone Angel


Fixed Address


(C)The Edible Woman


(D)Halfbreed



27. The expression "murderous innocence" is an example of

(A)Oxymoron


(B)Zeugma


(C)Chiasmus


(D)Pun



28. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response
Assertion Othello killed Desdemona.
Reason Because Desdemona committed infidelity.

(A)Both and are true and

is the correct explanation.


(B)Both and are true, but

is not the correct explanation.


is true, but is false.


is false, but is true.



29. The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of

(A)Religion


(B)Tradition


(C)Reason


(D)Sentiments



30. Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy

(A)Lycidas


(B)L'Allegro


(C)Camus


(D)Paradise Lost



31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza

(A)Endymion


(B)The Fall of Hyperion


(C)The Eve of St. Agnes


(D)Lamia



32. Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code given below

List I List II
I. Oliver 1. The Vanity of
Goldsmith Human Wishes
II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield
III. Samuel 3. She Stoops to Johnson Conquer
IV. Richard 4. The Beggar's Sheridan Opera

Code
I II III IV

4 3 2


4 1 3


2 4 1


3 2 1


33. The term "egotistical sublime" was coined by

(A)S.T. Coleridge


(B)John Keats


(C)William Wordsworth


(D)William Hazlitt


34. Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the question with the help of the code

Middlemarch


Daniel Deronda


Felix Holt, the Radical
Romola

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35. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense of humour and comedy

(A)D.H. Lawrence


(B)P.G. Wodehouse


(C)Thomas Hardy


(D)John Galsworthy



36. Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel


L.P. Hartley's Facial Justice


(C)Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed




37. Identify the author of the following lines Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

(A)Shakespeare


(B)George Herbert


(C)John Donne


(D)Henry Vaughan



38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of essays on "The Pleasures of Imagination," written by

(A)Richard Steele


(B)John Dennis


(C)John Locke


(D)Joseph Addison



39. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
Assertion Gulliver's Travels
earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope.
Reason Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man.

(A)Both and are true, and

is the correct explanation.


(B)Both and are true, but

is not the correct explanation.


is true, but is false.


is false, but is true.



40. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the 'Great Tradition', enunciated by F. R. Leavis

(A)Joseph Conrad


(B)James Joyce


(C)Jane Austen


(D)George Eliot



41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an

(A)African-American writer


(B)American-Jewish writer


(C)American-Indian writer


(D)American-Asian writer



42. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has

(A)three Acts five Acts


(C)four Acts two Acts



43. James Joyce's Exiles is a

(A)Short Story Poem


(C)Play Novel



44. "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" is the opening sentence of

(A)Ulysses


(B)Nostromo


(C)Chrome Yellow


(D)Nineteen Eighty-Four



45. The subtitle of William Godwin's Caleb Williams is

(A)Man As He Is Not


(B)Man As He Is


(C)Things As They Are


(D)The Pupil of Nature



46. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists

(A)Helene Cixous


(B)Monica Wittig


(C)Simone de Beauvoir


(D)Luce Irigaray



47. "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" is a longer essay by

Wilson Knight


C. Bradley


(C)Thomas De Quincey


R. Leavis



48. The expression, "dreaming house" is an example of

(A)Zeugma


(B)Transferred epithet


(C)Chiasmus


(D)Apostrophe



49. The term 'Practical Criticism' is coined by

(A)William Empson


K. Wimsatt, Jr.


(C)I.A. Richards


R. Leavis



50. Victor Shklovsky's name is associated with

(A)Post-modernism


(B)New Historicism


(C)Reader Response Theory


(D)Russian Formalism



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