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Paper II

Note This paper contains fifty objective marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term

aporia


difference


erasure


supplement



2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love

Harold Pinter


Alan Bennett


Caryl Churchill


Tom Stoppard



3. Arrange the following in the chronological order
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's
Vindication of the Rights of Women
2.
Lyrical Ballads

3.
French Revolution

4.
Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry



2


2


3


4



4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story

Sons and Lovers


Ulysses


The Power and the Glory


Heart of Darkness



type questions, each question carrying two
5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn


Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries


H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine


Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries



6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt

Troilus and Criseyde


The House of Fame


The Book of Duchess


The Legend of Good Women



7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

Gorboduc


Ralph Roister Doister


Damon and Pythias


Lamentable Tragedy



8. Who of the following poets is Australian

Austin Clarke


Judith Wright


Edwin Muir


Derek Walcott



9. "He found it [English] brick and left it marble", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they

Milton on Shakespeare


Dryden on Milton


Johnson on Dryden


Jonson on Shakespeare



10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate

Tony Morrison


Seamus Heaney


Ted Hughes


Geoffrey Hill



11. List I List II
I. "Because I a. Robert could not stop Frost for death…"
II. "O Captain b. William
My Captain!" Carlos Williams
III. "Two roads c. Emily diverged in a Dickinson wood…."
IV. "So much depends d. Walt
/upon" Whitman The correctly matched series would be

III-b; IV-a


III-c; IV-d


III-d; IV-c


III-a; IV-b



12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" are

comic


solemn


hortatory


irony



13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden's "September
1939". What is the meaning of the word in italics

bench


night club


house


park



14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

Practical Criticism


New Criticism


Standard English Project


Basic English Project



15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear

The Rivals


She Stoops to Conquer


The Mysteries of Udolpho


The Way of the World



16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe's life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe's best play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

I and II are true.


II and III are true.


II and IV are true.


III and IV are true.



17. "Art for Art's Sake" became a rallying cry for

the Aesthetes


the Symbolists


the Imagists


the Art Noveau School



18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

S. T. Coleridge


P. B. Shelley


Thomas De Quincey


Lord Byron



19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true

"The General Prologue' is appended to The Canterbury Tales.


In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.


The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author's death.


The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.



20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts

Anthony Powell


Evelyn Waugh


William Golding


Graham Greene



21. List I List II
1.
Good sense is I. Brooks, "The the body of Formalist poetic genius Critic"

2.
Poetry is the II. Sidney, breath and a Defence/ An finer spirit of Apology for all knowledge. Poetry

3.
Literary III. Wordsworth, criticism is a


Preface
description
to Lyrical
and evaluation
Ballads
of its object
4. Nature never IV. Coleridge, set forth the
Biographia
earth in as rich
Literaria
a tapestry as
diverse poets
have done

1 2 3 4

IV III I II


II IV III I


III II I IV


IV II I III



22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India

A Tramp Abroad


Roughing It


The Innocents Abroad


Following the Equator



23. William Blake's famous poems such as "London", "The Sick Rose", and "The Tyger" appear in

Songs of Innocence


Songs of Experience


The Marriage of Heaven and Hell


Vision of the Daughters of Albion



24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott

Richard Hogarth


Joshua Reynolds


George Cruishank


John Tennial



25. The last of Gulliver's Travels is to

The Land of the Houyhnhnms


The Land of Homosapiens


The Land of the Hurricanes


The Newfound Land



26. Madam Merle is a character in

The Great Gatsby


The Portrait of a Lady


The Jungle


The Heart is a Lonely Hunter



27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English

The typist scene


The pub scene


The hyacinth garden scene


The Chapel Perilous scene



28. The words "If it were done when tis done, then twere well It were done quickly…" are uttered by

Hamlet


Lear


Othello


Macbeth



29. John Dryden's Absalom and Achotophel a

religious tract


political allegory


comic verse epic


comedy



30. The term 'the comedy of menace' is associated with the early plays of

Arnold Wesker


John Arden


Harold Pinter


David Hare



31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.

Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.


He was born in India but schooled in England.


He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.


He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

32. What is the correct combination of the following
I. Balachandra a. The Tamarind Rajan Tree
II. R. K. b. The Coffer Narayan Dams
III. Kamala c. The Dark Markandaya Dancer
IV. Romen d. The Dark Room Basu

I c;II d;III- b;IV b


I a;III- b;IV c


I c;II a;III d;IV b


I c;III- a;IV b



33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.

James Shirley and Chris Shirley


Henry Treece and Charles Triesten


Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell


Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys



34. comes, be far behind (Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind")

winter, spring


autumn, summer


wind, rains


spring, winter



35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works
I. Let us go then, you and I…..
II. Call me Ishmael…..
III. When shall we three meet again
IV.
He disappeared in the dead of winter

V.
I wish either….begot me …..


a.
Moby Dick

b.
Macbeth


c. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
d. Tristram Shandy
e. "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

III-b; V-d


III-a; V-d


III-d; V-c


III-d; V-a



36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy

Hamlet


The Duchess of Malfi


Volpone


Gorboduc

37. What is a neologism

A word with roots in a native language


A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use


A word newly coined or used in a new sense


An obsession with new words and phrases



38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said's Orientalism

Makes use of Foucault's concept of discursive formulation


Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory


Makes use of Barthes's concept of writerly text


Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony



39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are

carbon, gold, silver and brass


brass, silver, gold and diamond


iron, gold, silver and brass


gold, platinum, silver and diamond



40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending

Lucky Jim


The Prime of Jean Brodie


The French Lieutenant's Woman


The Clockwork Orange



41. "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" is an example of

Bathos


Epistrophe


Chiasmus


Anti-climax



42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct

Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.


Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.


Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.


Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

only gender


only class


both class and gender


only patriarchy



44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer

Oscar Wilde


Oliver Goldsmith


Edmund Burke


Thomas Gray



45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

The Restoration


The Glorious Revolution


The Reformation


The French Revolution



46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or

rhymed


broken


accented


run-on



47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay "Naipaul's India and Mine"

Kamala Das


R. Parthasarthy


A. K. Ramanujam


Nissim Ezekiel



48. Match the following
I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd
II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell
III. Life of 3. Samuel Johnson Johnson
IV. Lives of 4. Richard Poets Ellman

III-1, IV-2


III-2, IV-3


III-3, IV-4


III-1, IV-4



49. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of

simile


image


conceit


metonymy



50. An epilogue is

prefixed to a text which it introduces.


suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.


a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.


a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.



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