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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper II

Note This paper contains fifty objective type questions, each question carrying two
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens's 6. The plan of Arthurian stories has
Hard Times influenced the composition of
Great Expectations Tennyson's
Oliver Twist In Memoriam
The Old Curiosity Shop Idylls
"Maud"
2. Who, among the following Indian "Locksley Hall"
writers in English, has created an
identifiable imagined locale
Mulk Raj Anand 7. There are two lists given below.
Raja Rao Match the authors in List their nationality in List I with II by
R.K. Narayan choosing the right option against the
Anita Desai code.
List I List II
3. Who among the following is not a (Author) (Nationality)
formalist critic Patrick White Canada
Allen Tate Nadine New
Gordimer Zealand
Cleanth Brooks Stanley Fish Margaret Atwood Australia
William Empson Keri Hulme South Africa
Code
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian
sonnet is
abab bcbc cdcd ee
abab cdcd efef gg
abba cddc effe gg
abba abba cde cde

8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
5. Who among the following Marlovian following rhyme scheme
characters is consumed by greed ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
Barabas
ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
Tamburlaine
ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
Doctor Faustus
ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
Mephistopheles
9. "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." This claim for poetry is made in

Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"


Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry"


Sidney's "An Apology for Poetry"


Eliot's of Poetry and Poets


10. Which of the following is not about a dystopia

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four


Aldous Huxley's Brave New World


William Golding's Lord of the Flies


R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island


11. Who among the following is not associated with the translation of the Bible

Miles Coverdale


William Tyndale


John Wycliffe


Thomas Browne


12. Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are structured. Use the code given below
I. Denouement
II. Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax

Code

III, II, IV, I


III, IV, II, I


II, IV, III, I


II, IV, III


13. The term, 'curtal sonnet', was coined by

John Milton


William Blake


Gerald Manley Hopkins


Matthew Arnold


14. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was

John Bunyan


Jeremy Collier


William Wycherley


John Vanbrugh


15. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance


The Importance of Being Earnest


Saints and Sinners


An Ideal Husband


16. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code
1.
Great Expectations

2.
Hard Times

3.
Bleak House

4.
A Tale of Two Cities



Code

1


1


3


3



17. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by

Seneca


Tertullian


Virgil


Plautus



18. In its final published version, Eliot's The Waste Land contains a total of

334 lines 433 lines


373 lines 423 lines



19. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is set in

The Congo region


The Niger Delta


The Caribbean


The African Savannah



20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, "Horatio, I am dead." This is an example of

protasis


anacrusis


prolepsis


pun



21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of

Gothic fiction


Romance


Comic fiction


Bildungsroman

22. "The City of Dreadful Night", a long poem depicting the late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency, is written by

Matthew Arnold


Robert Browning


James Thomson


John Davidson



23. Which of the following novels by
V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad

The Mystic Masseur


A Bend in the River


A House for Mr. Biswas


The Mimic Men



24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda's lapdog is named

Luck Shock


Pluck Muck



25. You Can't Do Both is a novel by

John Fowles


Doris Lessing


Kingsley Amis


Irish Murdoch



26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of

Norman Mailer


Saul Bellow


Philip Roth


Bernard Malamud



27. Plato censured poetry because he believed it

eliminates the ego.


promotes sensuality.


distorts reality.


cripples the imagination.



28. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue

In Memoriam


"The Charge of the Light Brigade"


"Crossing the Bar"


"Tithonus"



29. The character Giovanni features in one of the following texts

John Cleland's Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure


John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'



John Braine's Room at the Top


John Evelyn's Diaries



30. Which of the following poems features the phrase, "the still, sad music of humanity"

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"


"Michael A Pastoral Poem"


"The Solitary Reaper"


"Tintern Abbey"



31. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyce's

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Dubliners


Ulysses


Exiles



32. Eliot uses the term "objective correlative" in his essay.

"The Metaphysical Poets"


"Hamlet"


"Tradition and the Individual Talent"


"Dante"



33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year

1995


1996


1997


1998



34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, "An Address to the Irish People" was composed by

W.B. Yeats


P.B. Shelley


Jonathan Swift


G.B. Shaw



35. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological sequence

Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World


Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World


Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World


Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India



36. "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" is written by

Alexander Pope


Samuel Johnson


John Gay


Jonathan Swift



37. Widowers' Houses was written by

Oscar Wilde


T.S. Eliot


John Galsworthy


G.B. Shaw



38. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of 'base and superstructure" in relation to literature

Edmund Wilson


Raymond Williams


Lucien Goldmann


Walter Benjamin



39. "Heteroglossia" refers to

the multiple readings of a text.


the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.


the comments on the margins of a text.


the gloss or commentary relating to a text.



40. Margaret Drabble is the author of

The Memoirs of a Survivor


The Witch of Exmoor


The Service of Clouds


The Godless in Eden



41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden's literary rival,

Richard Flecknoe


Thomas Shadwell


John Wilmot


Matthew Prior



42. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for

attacking human vices and follies.


inciting the reading public.


glorifying the culture of the upper classes.


pleasing their women readers.



43. Byron's "The Vision of Judgement" is a satire directed against

Charles Lamb


John Keats


Henry Hallam


Robert Southey



44. Tom Paine's The Rights of Man was published in

1790


1791


1792


1793



45. Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" was written in

1647


1649


1650


1648



46. "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" is about

a perilous adventure in the sea


the accidental killing of an octopus


the curse of a sea God


the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner



47. "To Daffodils" is a poem, written by

Robert Herrick


William Wordsworth


John Keats


P.B. Shelley



48. Which of the following novels reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny

The Jewel in the Crown


The Siege of Krishnapur


The Day of the Scorpion


The Towers of Silence



49. "England, my England" is a poem by

W.E. Henley


A.E. Housman


R.L. Stevenson


Rudyard Kipling



50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of

The Revolt of Islam


The Necessity of Atheism


The Triumph of Life


The Masque of Anarchy



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