PAPER-II
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Paper II

Note This paper contains fifty objective type questions of two marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

He drowns in the River of Death He enters the Celestial City


He finds the Truth He discovers the way to Hell


2. God is referred to as "The President of Immortals" in

Paradise Lost Waiting for Godot


Tess of the D'urbervilles The White Devil


3. Match the character with the author
I. Madeline A. Blake
II. Prometheus B. Byron
III. Urizen C. Shelley
IV. Childe Harold D. Keats
I II III IV

B CAD


CDA B


DCA B


C D B A


4. The phrase "loud colour" is an example of

Synecdoche Synaesthesia


Redundancy Paraleipsis


5. In one of Marlowe's plays the hero is warned not "to practise more than heavenly power permits." Identify the play.

The Jew of Malta Edward the Second


Doctor Faustus Tamburlaine the Great


6. Match the Graham Greene novel with its setting
I. The Ministry of Fear A. Vienna
II. The Third Man B. Mexico
III. The Power and the Glory C. Vietnam
IV. The Quiet American D. London
I II III IV

DAB C


B A C D


DBA C


C D B A


7. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by James Joyce in 1914

Dubliners Londoners


New Yorkers Berliners


8. Patrick White's classic work Voss is based on the story of a explorer.

Flemish Australian


German Spanish


9. In "Tradition and Individual Talent" Eliot describes the workings of the poet's mind in terms of which of the following

Natural selection A chemical reaction


A flowing river A cornucopia


10. Who among the following wrote an immensely powerful play about the remapping of Irish places with new British names

J.M. Synge Seamus Heaney


Brian Friel G.B. Shaw


11. Identify the term among the following which does not relate to a movement in art or literature.

Cubism Empiricism


Expressionism Surrealism


12. "Kubla Khan" is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not published until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to publish it

Wordsworth Byron


Keats Wordsworth's sister


13. In Restoration comedy, character names often reveal character traits. What trait does the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal

Woodenness Miserliness


A desire to be thought of as witty Petulance


14. From the following list identify the two novels published by John Henry Newman
I. The Grammar of Assent II. Apologia pro vita sua


III. Loss and Gain IV. Callista
The right combination according to the code is

I and II II and III


III and IV I and IV


15. Consider the following lines form Beowulf What literary device does the poet use in these lines A few miles from here a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch above a mere.

Personification Pathetic fallacy


Metaphor Litotes


16. Which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw attacks Darwinism

You Never Can Tell Man and Superman


St. Joan Back to Methuselah


17. In King Lear to which woman has Edmund sworn his love

Cordelia Goneril


Regan both Goneril and Regan


18. The poetic line, "Break, break, break" is an example of

spondee trochee


iambus pyrrhics


19. Ben Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is a

domestic tragedy masque


villanelle closet drama


20. What is the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet

abcbcbcabc bc dd abba abbc decd ee


ababcdcdef ef gg aa bb cc dd aa bb dd


21. In More's Utopia what religion is practised by the Utopians

Belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and planetary worship


Islam


Judaism


Buddhism


22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading which great work

Cervantes's Don Quixote


Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"


Euclid's Elements


Shakespeare's The Tempest


23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens's

Bleak House Great Expectations


David Copperfield Hard Times


24. Which Keat's poem was originally intended to be part of a collection of verse-tales based on stories by Boccaccio

The Eve of St. Agnes Lamia


Isabella Hyperion


25. Where does Conrad's Heart of Darkness begin

The Congo The Thames


Belgium The Atlantic


26. In Gullivers Travels which of the following ideas is not a product of the Academy of Lagado

A random sentence-generating machine.


A proposal to end speech altogether, by carrying around sacks of the things that words signify.


A project for truncating words and shortening sentences by leaving out verbs.


A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.


27. Which of the following stories is NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Minister's Black Veil" "Young Goodman Brown"


"The Purloined Letter" "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"


28. What attributes of Shakespeare's characterization does Johnson admire in his preface to Shakespeare

The way his characters represent particular times and places.


The way his characters exhibit quirks representative of their humours or professions.


The way his characters portray the general passions and principles of human nature.


The way his characters portray real individuals.


29. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT

Medicine Anthropology


Psychology Criminology


30. "All Arabia breathes from yonder box." This line from The Rape of the Lock is an example of

periphrasis innuendo


metonymy chiasmus


31. Who among the following addresses the reader in a substantial Preface to Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

Zelotopia Democritus Junior


Democritus Solitudo


32. Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line, "the paths of glory lead but to the grave"

Those who seek glory often die in its pursuit.


Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.


The pursuit of glory is futile.


The pursuit of glory is dangerous.


33. Which novel did James Joyce call "the English Ulysses"

Robinson Crusoe Clarissa


Vanity Fair Great Expectations


34. What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of "The General Prologue"

A first-person "I" Omniscience


Third person Free indirect discourse


35. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill Magazine. Identify the author.

Elizabeth Gaskell Charlotte Bronte


Emily Bronte George Eliot


36. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis's Great Tradition is

moral purpose sublime subject matter


reader-response truth to life


37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester's Creole wife-to-be

Bertha Martha


Jane Barbara


38. Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste land

Ring-a-roses London Bridge is Falling Down


Humpty Dumpty Jack and Jill


39. Purple Hisbiscus is a workby

Cyprian Ekwensi Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Seffi Atta Chukwuemeka Ike


40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born in

France South Africa


Algeria Belgium


41. Which of the following plays is NOT part of the so-called Arnold Wesker Trilogy

Talking about Jerusalem Chips with Everything


Roots Chicken Soup with Barley


42. Identify the play from among the following in which a spendthrift young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors

The Taming of the Shrew The School for Scandal


The Strife The Philanderer


43. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories Puck of Pook's Hill


The Secret Garden Rewards and Faeries


44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse's reward for slaying the Dragon

The Dragon's treasure hoard


The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of a righteous quest


Eternal salvation


Una's hand in marriage and her parents' kingdom


45. Which of the following novels has the death of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, the former President of Pakistan, at its centre

The Kite Runner A Case of Exploding Mangoes


Shame Kartography


46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to

E.L. Woodward Charles Lutwidge Dodson


Michael Brock W.E. Houghton



47. One of the following collections initiated confessional poetry in America, a new mode in which the poet bared his/her most tormenting personal problems with great honesty and intensity.

Live or Die Words for the Wind


Life Studies Ariel


48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a by

novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne play, Mrs. Radcliffe


poem, William Blake sermon, Laurence Sterne


49. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book Paradise Lost, Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. He states that he is in particular need of aid because he has what he considers to be a disability. What is it

Lameness Deafness


Prolixity Blindness


50. Match the poets with the collection
I. Philip Larkin A. Lupercal
II. Geoffrey Hill B. Door into the Dark
III. Ted Hughes C. The Less Deceived
IV. Seamus Heaney D. For the Unfallen
I II III IV


C D B A


C BDA


CDA B


DC BA


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