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Note This paper contains seventy five objective type questions of two marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology

Samuel Weber G.C. Spivak


Paul de Man Jean-luc Nancy


2. Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its conclusion

Angel Knowledge


Doctor Good Deeds


3. Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent makes the following remark "the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the categories of tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications 'tragedy' and and views of life as tragicomedy."

August Strindberg Luigi Pirandello


D.H. Lawrence Thomas Mann


4. The Restoration period's most characteristic drama, the "comedy of manners", was gradually replaced by "sentimental drama" in response to shifts in the audience's taste. Which of the following statements best represents the difference between these two types of comedy

Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental comedies provoke sympathetic tears for the characters' faults.


Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental comedies were not.


Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies were not.


Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental comedies were written in blank verse.


5. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads

The List is done Redemption Brittle Lady


Judge tenderly of Me Called Back


6. Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf's novel

Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse


The Waves Orlando


7. Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as "the fascination of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on order."
Which of his works was he referring to

Buddenbrooks Death in Venice


The Magic Mountain Doctor Faustus


8. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from the central tale of Oroonoko's revolt and tells of various expeditions taken in company with Oroonoko. What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator

To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam


To enliven the dullness of the central narrative


To give proof of Oroonoko's daring and curiosity


To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to the events described


9. In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru's autobiography under the title

Toward Freedom In Search of Freedom


Toward Independence In Search of Independence


10. "In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth and liberty, Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve" are lines from "To Wordsworth". Who is the poet

Coleridge Shelley


Byron Keats


11. Speaking of Siva is an English translation by A.K. Ramanujan of some Bhakti

poems composed by Virasaiva saints.

Konkani Tamil


Telugu Kannada


12. In Beowulf, Beowulf accuses Unferth of
I. pagan beliefs II. killing his own "kith and kin"
III. "unchecked atrocity" IV. unprovoked war
The right combination according to the code is


I and II II and III


Iand IV Iand III


13. Charles Dickens opined that "no man ever before had the art of making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began." He was acknowledging the quality of the work of which writer

Walter Scott William Mackpeace Thackeray


George Meredith George Eliot


14. In his well-known essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell provides representative examples of what common faults

Staleness of imagery and lack of precision


Lack of precision and incorrect formatting


Incorrect formatting and staleness of imagery


Staleness of precision and lack of imagery


15. According to Roland Barthes, the "writerly text" is

a unique expression of the writer's individual genius


consumed by way of a seemingly unitary meaning


linked to active participation of the reader in the establishment of the text's meaning


immediately accessible to the reader


16. The Canadian Nobel Laureate Alice Munro is known for her

novels poems


short stories novellas


17. A critical question Eliot's Prufrock poses, so important to an understanding of his character, is

"To be or not to be "What are you thinking of


"Do I dare "Is there nothing in your head


18. A test of listening comprehension is a test of

Receptive skill Productive skill


Hearing skill Phonology


19. Colin Clout, Spenser's persona in The Shepheardes Calendar appears in two of these ecologues.
I. II. 'February'
III. 'November' IV. 'December'
The right combination according to the code is


I and IV II and III


III and IV I and III


20. Which character in Crime and Punishment speaks of St. Petersburg as a city of half crazy people filled with gloomy, harsh and strange influences

Razumikhin Peter Petrovich Luzhyn


Raskolnikov Svidrigailov


21. At the conclusion of Swift's Modest Proposal, the narrator declares that he has "not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country." What evidence does the narrator give that his advice is free from other motives
I. The narrator is Irish and a sworn bachelor, unlikely to father children.
II. He has no children who will be affected by the scheme, and thus cannot make money from it.
III. His wife is past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit by "breeding" her.
IV. The narrator is English, and therefore this scheme will not affect him personally. The right combination according to the code is

I and II II and III


IV and III I and III


22. The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching

Greek and French Greek and Latin


Latin and Scandinavian French and German


23. Most of the titles of Aldous Huxley's novels are taken from various literary works. Match the titles of his novels with the works from which they have been borrowed
I. Brave New World A. Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
II. The Doors of Perception B. Marlowe's Edward II
III. Antic Hay C. Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"
IV. Those Barren Leaves D. Shakespeare's The Tempest
The right code according to the key is
I II III IV


DCA B


DAB C


CDA B


B CDA


24. "There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but at a performance of a play that suddenly happens."
Which of the following plays have the above stage directions

Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs


August Strindberg's A Dream Play


Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
25. In Thomas Hobbes's grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is like

a great ship piloted by one man, but managed by the efforts of many.


an artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.


an octopus whose many tentacles represent the competing interests of men.


an ostrich, which thrusts its head in the sand to avoid danger and self examination.


26. The word "Calamus", a kind of water reed referenced in the title Calamus Poems, is a symbol for Whitman of

water nymphs male companions


the spirit of American democracy the impending American Civil War


27. Assertion The world is becoming increasingly multilingual. Reason To monolingual Anglophones it may look like everyone in the world is
learning English.
In the context of these two statements


Both and are true and is the correct explanation of


Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of


is true, but is false.


is false, but is true.


28. The first scene in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq opens in front of a

court temple


tavern shop


29. What is the final word in Joyce's Ulysses

Love Sex


Death Yes


30. Which Victorian novel has the subtitle "New Foes with an Old Face"

Hypatia Sybil


Pendennis Phineas Finn


31. In which of the following poems does W.H. Auden call 1930s "a low dishonest decade"

"September 1939" "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"


"No Change of Place" "The Watershed"


32. Two examples of closet drama are
I. Byron's Manfred II. Shelley's Cenci
III. Marlowe's Edward II IV. Shaw's Widower's Houses
The right combination according to the code is


Iand II Iand III


II and III II and IV


33. Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction of Joseph Conrad in his/her early career

Edward Said G.C. Spivak


Homi Bhabha Dipesh Chakrabarty


34. In The Trial what is the main character Joseph job

He works in a bank He's a politician


He works in a government office He is an entomologist


35. Which of the following best summarises the structural approach to literature

Meaning is inherent in the word itself.


A language's history explains how it works.


Meaning is generated through relationships in a system of signs.


Binary oppositions are to be avoided at all costs.


36. The Australian poet A.D. Hope is best known for his
I. elegies II. Satires
III. Sonnets IV. Doggerel verses
The right combination according to the code is


Iand II IIand IV


I and III II and III


37. At the conclusion of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver argues that his motivation for telling the tale is

to entertain his readers


to inform and instruct mankind


to assist the British nation in enlarging her colonies


to produce a travelogue of genius and learning


38. Match the character with the play
I. Everyman in His Humour A. Bonario
II. Volpone B. Subtle
III. Epicoene C. Knowles
IV. The Alchemist D. Morose
I II III IV


B D C A


B CAD


C D B A


CAD B


39. Which of the following novels by Nuruddin Farah deals with foreign aid

Maps Gifts


Secrets Links


40. In the house of Holinesse in Faerie Queene, Redcross learns repentance and the way to heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who are named

Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa Fidelia, Speranza and Una


Fidelia, Speranza and Humilita Fidelia, Speranza and Zele


41. A new historical reading, above everything else, is influenced by the philosophy of

Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan


Michel Foucault Theodore Adorno


42. The Behaviourist Theory is explained in terms of

conditioning behaviour


attitude personality


43. Who is the author of the poems "Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf" and "William Butler in Limbo"

Keith Douglas W.H. Auden


Sidney Keyes Stephen Spender


44. The form of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy is

an essay an epic poem


a dialogue a play


45. Which Flemish poet is Jacques Derrida related to

Anton Bergmann Karel L. Ledeganck


Jan Frans Willems Jan Van Beers


46. In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress which of the following are found in the Slough of Despond

Hope, great expectations, and dreams of the future.


Joy and happiness.


Fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts.


False doctrines.


47. Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Graham Greene Evelyn Waugh


William Golding Kingsley Amis


48. Among the Romantic poets William Blake was a total artist, undertaking many roles usually separated. In his last years he produced some of his finest engravings. Which of the following was NOT illustrated by Blake

The Book of Job The rape of Leda


Virgil's Pastorals The works of Dante


49. Identify the two Indian texts translated by the Orientalist William Jones
I. Abhignanamshakuntalam II. Katha Sarita Sagar
III. Mahabharatha IV. Manusmriti
The right combination according to the code is


I and II II and III


I and IV III and IV


50. Which work by a famous poet does Thomas de Quincey refer to as "the feeblest and least interesting" of his writings "being substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common places, the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps"

John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy


Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism


Shelley's Defence of Poetry


Sidney's An Apologie for Poetry


51. "On or about December 1910 human character changed," Virginia Woolf wrote. A more assertive declaration, "It was in 1915 the old world ended", was made by a novelist in one of his/her novels, picking a date of far more historical moment, the point when an entire cultural tradition seemed to end in war. Name the novelist and the novel.

D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo


Aldous Huxley Brave New World


Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway


James Joyce Ulysses


52. Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to
I. Edmund Husserl II. Charles Sanders Pierce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
The right combination according to the code is


II and III I and III


III and IV II and IV


53. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant language used by

ordinary people religious clerics


the upper classes farmers


54. Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition

Romola Scenes of Clerical Life


Adam Bede Middlemarch


55. In More's Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and distributed over the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. Who does the agricultural labour in Utopia

Agricultural labour is performed by slaves.


Adulterers and other criminals are forced to work on farms.


All citizens take two-year stints at farm work.


Farm labourers are brought in from allied countries.


56. Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as

Functional Method Natural Method


Indirect Approach Inductive Approach


57. Vikram Seth's From Heaven Lake is a/an

verse novel


exhibition of poster poetry


travel book


collection of philosophical essays


58. Which of the following is NOT a punishment given by God to Adam and Eve as a consequence of tasting the forbidden fruit

'Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow forth'


Expulsion from Eden


'Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life'


'Dust shalt eat all the days of life'


59. attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of Truth, a theological Truth 'drawn from the word and oracles of God' and determined by faith, and a 'scientific' Truth based on the light of nature and the dictates of reason.

Treatise on the laws of Ecclesiastical Piety


Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England


The Advancement of Learning


The New Atlantis


60. In Defence of Poesy what arguments does Sidney make for considering the Biblical Psalms poetry?
I. They are written in meter.
II. They originated in Church choirs
III. They were written by a single author.
IV. David uses imagery and personification to portray faith.
The right combination according to the code is


II and III I and III


Iand IV IIand IV


61. In Herman Melville's well-known story "Bartleby the Scrivener", what does the word "scrivener" mean

Pasting clerks in a Dead Letter Office


Articled clerks in an accountant's office


Clerks who copy legal documents by hand.


Clerks who serve as personal assistants to judges.


62. "Medicine is my lawful wife" once said "and literature is my mistress."

Franz Kafka Leo Tolstoy


Anton Chekhov Albert Camus


63. The critical concept of a "Willing suspension of disbelief" owes its origin to Chapter of Biographia Literaria.

IX XIV


XII XV


64. Thomas Carlyle coined two evocative phrases, 'Everlasting Nay' and 'Everlasting Yea' to suggest the swing in the national mood of his times. The phrases came from

On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History


Past and Present


Sartos Resartus


The French Revolution


65. Marxist literary criticism stresses that
I. class is an imaginary concept
II. the economy is the final determinant of cultural production
III. texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which they were written.
IV. the critic should see the work as self-sufficient
The right combination according to the code is


I and II II and III


II and IV I and III


66. St. Augustine brought Christianity, and the Latin language enriched Old English by giving it the capacity to talk about

common experience place names


abstract ideas agricultural concepts


67. Who makes the following speech in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts "I almost think we are all ghosts, all of us … It isn't just what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and all sorts of old and obsolete beliefs. They're not alive in us; but they are lodged in us and we can never free ourselves from them ….
There must be ghosts the whole country over,
as thick as the sands of the sea."


Mrs. Alving Engstrand


Pastor Manders Oswald


68. Which of these lines is NOT in Pope's Essay on Criticism

"Wretches hang that jury men may dine"


"A little learning is a dangerous thing"


"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"


"The sound must seem an echo to the sense"


69. One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that

complex material should be chosen


any kind of material can be chosen


grading of materials should be done


a small amount of material should be introduced


70. R.K. Narayan's "A Horse and Two Goats" is set in a tiny village called

Idupali Samudram


Kritam Mallur


71. Kishori Mohan Ganguli, an Indian translator working in the last quarter of 19 century, is best known for his free English translation of

the Ramayana the Mahabharata


the Bhagavad Gita Upanishad Sangraha


Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75

Remembered Village
If you love your country, he said, why are you here
Say, you are tired of hearing about
all that wonder-that-was-India crap.
It is tea that's gone cold: time to brew a fresh pot.

But what wouldn't you give for one or two places in it
Aunt's house near Kulittalai, for instance.
It often gets its feet wet in the river,
and coils of rain hiss and slither on the roof.
Even the well boils over.
Her twelve-house lane is bloated with the full moon,
and bamboos tie up the eerie riverfront
with a knot of toads.

A Black Pillaiyar temple squats at one end of the village
stone drum that is beaten thin on festivals by the devout.
Bells curl their lips at the priest's rustic Sanskrit.
Outside, pariah dogs kick up an incense of howls.

And beyond the paddy fields,
dead on time, the Erode Mail rumbles past,
a light needle of smoke threading remote villages
such as yours that are routinely dropped by schedules,
and no trains are ever missed.

72. The opening question best suggests

unremitting patriotism a condition of exile


a sense of detachment uncalled-for petulance


73. As stated who often wets feet in the river

The house The Aunt


Kullitalai The poet


74. "Bellows curl their lips at the priest's rustic Sanskrit" is an example of

Oxymoron Paradox


Personification Synecdoche


75. The words "no trains are ever missed" in their context mean that

the poet is punctual about boarding trains


all trains stop in the village but none is missed


the remote village is not a stop for trains; so no train is ever missed


the poet remembers all the trains boarded from the village


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