1. Identify which of the fo1lowing sets has one critic who does not belong with the
others.

a.
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Wiliam K Wimsatt

b.
Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren

c.
Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Monroe Beardsley

d.
Robert Penn Warren, Monroe Beardsley, Northrop Frye


2. New fields of interdisciplinary research in literature and culture do not include, as
yet,

a.
Face Studies

b.
Happiness Studies

c.
Victim Studies

d.
Fat Studies


3. 'Irregardless' is not in standard use because
a.
it is a new term and yet to gain acceptance.

b.
it has now grown obsolete.

c.
the prefix duplicates the suffix and as such is unnecessary.

d.
it is a Hinglish word.


4. Afjilia, Hypatia, Frontiers, Camera Obscura and Meridians are all journals focusing on
a.
Films and television

b.
Geography and literature

c.
Mythology

d.
Women and gender studies


5. What characteristics of Seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics?
a.
Its intellectual complexity

b.
Its union of thought and passion

c.
Its uncompromising engagement with politics

d.
aandb


6. The keynote of Robert Browning's philosophy of life is
a.
agnosticism

b.
optimism

c.
pessimism

d.
skepticism



7. Which ofthe following is NOT an entry in Raymond Williams's Keywords?
a.
Taste

b.
Tradition

c.
Theory

d.
Text


8. Latin has contributed more words to English than any foreign language.
a.
more

b.
better

c.
other

d.
older


9. The adjectival Arab in English means
a.
the language and literature ofthe Arabian people.

b.
the land ofthe people ofArabia.

c.
therepresentation ofthepeople ofArabia.

d.
the people of Arabia or their culture.


10. What relation do you see between the two stanzas ofthe poem below?
Why did baby die,
Making Father sigh,
Mother cry?

Flowers that bloom to die
Make no reply
Of "Why?"
But bow and die.

a.
The first and the second stanzas relate to each other by the logic of metaphor.

b.
The second stanza of the poem logically presents an answer for the question in its first.

c.
The second stanza ofthe poem offers a logical analogy to the in its first.

d.
The first and the second stanzas do not relate to each other by the logic of metaphor.


11. Identify the protest movement with which Aime Cesaire of Martinique, Leopold Senghor of Senegal, and Leon Damas of French Guiana were associated during the 1930s.
a.
The Negritude movement

b.
The Black Panther movement

c.
'The Intemationale'

d.
The Francophone Caucus



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12. Thomas Carlyle's "The Hero as Poet" focuses on two poets. Who are they?
a.
Homer and Dante

b.
Dante and Shakespeare

c.
Ovid and Shakespeare

d.
Chaucer and Boccaccio


13. A poet writes:
A pin has a head, but has no hair; A clock has a face, but no mouth there; Needles have eyes, but they cannot see; A fly has a trunk without lock or key. "
These lines
a.
carry live metaphors.

b.
are anthropomorphic.

c.
carry dead metaphors.

d.
are paradoxical.


14. In Western history, Theory seems to have traversed a long course. Arrange the major signposts of its traversal chronologically:
a.
Victorian, Pre-Socratic, the Enlightenment, Modem, the Renaissance, The
Middle Ages, Postmodern, Romantic ...


b.
The Middle Ages, Postmodern, Romantic, Pre-Socratic, the Enlightenment,
Modem, Victorian, the Renaissance ...


c.
Pre-Socratic, The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,
Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Postmodern ...


d.
The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Pre-Socratic, The Middle Ages,
Postmodern, Romantic, Victorian ...



15. "Writing is the continuation of politics by other means" -or so believed the critical analysts and writers of Tel Quel. This statement is attributed to
a.
Roland Barthes

b.
Georges Poulet

c.
Philippe Sollers

d.
Jacques Derrida


16. "To spend too much time in sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, are perfected by experience...",
a.
virtues

b.
pleasures

c.
relationships

d.
studies



17. A society which thinks that it has outlived the need for magic is either mistaken in that opinion, or else it is a dying society, perishing for lack of interest in its own maintenance.
In other words:
a. The need for magic is integral to the sustenance of all living societies.
b. All living societies outlive the need for magic to sustain themselves.
c. The need for magic)s not so integral to the sustenance of living societies.
d. No living society will outlive the need for magic to sustain itself.

18. " in the younger sort, is a part ofeducation; in the elder, a part of experience".
a.
Travel

b.
Exercise

c.
Love

d.
Reading


19. RICHARD: And ifmy word be sterling yet in England,
Let it command a mirror hither straight. .. BOLING-BROKE: Go some of you and fetch a looking glass.
a.
Richard's utterance evokes no response in Boling-broke.

b.
Boling-broke understands what Richard urgently requires.

c.
Bo1ing-broke's response is too prompt to comprehend Richard's command fully.

d.
Richard's command is hardly intelligible to Boling-broke for all his readiness.


20. When he was eight years old he had become Hungry for words, and he would munch his way Through comics, adverts, anything with some Printed food to hold the pangs at bay.
Here is an example of a poet
a.
taking a cliched metaphor seriously and literally for comic effect.

b.
taking a serious and literal phrase metaphorically for comic effect.

c.
reading an ironic tone in a passage breathing a neutral tone.

d.
reading a neutral tone in a passage breathing an ironic tone.


21. 'The question said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different
things.' 'The question said Humpty-Dumpty, 'which is to be master-that's all.'
Which indeed?
a.
word

b.
meaning

c.
you

d.
thing



22. English sentences have a rhythm oftheir own, which in the study ofspeech is called
a.
pitch

b.
accent

c.
intonation

d.
inflection


23. We expect to see John tomorrow.
If you want to change the meaning of this sentence, and yet retain the syntax, which word in the following would you NOT use?
a.
meet

b.
ask

c.
listen

d.
visit


24. The following is a celebrated passage in Derek Walcott's "The Schooner Flight."
just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
And either nobody, or a nation.

Identify the speaker.
a.
Mehring

b.
Brother Man

c.
Castaway Jones

d.
Shabine


25. In what chronological sequence would the following English writers appear in an anthology?
a.
Jonathan Swift, William Hazlitt, Francis Thompson, Henry Fielding, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Thomas Browne, Walter Bagehot, Charles Lamb, Walter H. Pater, Joseph Addison, Thomas Carlyle, Francis Bacon, Oliver Goldsmith, Algernon C. Swinburne, Charles Dickens.

b.
Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Walter Bagehot, Algernon C. Swinburne, Walter H. Pater, Francis Thompson.

c.
Walter Bagehot, Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Carlyle, Francis Bacon, Walter H. Pater, Henry Fielding, Francis Thompson, Algernon C. Swinburne, William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, Joseph Addison, William Makepeace Thackeray.

d.
Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, Algernon C. Swinburne, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter H. Pater, William Makepeace Thackeray, Francis Thompson, Charles Dickens, Walter Bagehot.



26. Which sentences go together....

When you call me, I will give you the address. You are likely to call me, so that I can give you the address.


When you call me, I will give you the address. You are not likely to call me for me to give you the address.


When you call me, I will give you the address. Whenever you want the address, you will look for me.

When you call me, I will give you the address. When you want my address, call me.

a.


b.



c.
d.
27. Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream may be situated within which 20th century aesthetic movement?
a.
Imagism

b.
Voyeurism

c.
Expressionism

d.
Methodism


28. Among the following who does not quite fit the category of a postcolonial critic?
a.
Neil Lazarus

b.
Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O

c.
Katherine Hayles

d.
Ali Behdad


29. Among the science fiction authors listed here, which one was responsible for the first known definition ofcyberspace?
a.
Isaac Asimov

b.
William Gibson

c.
Arthur C. Clarke

d.
Ray Bradbury


30. The following authors could best be grouped as writers ofthe
Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Charles Brockdon Brown
a. American pastoral
b. American frontier fiction
c. American war writing
d. American Gothic


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31. "A story which portrays events that occur at the same time as the original work, but
focuses on different characters in a different setting" is the definition of

a.
sequel

b.
prequel

c.
sidequel

d.
interquel


32. Which is the odd one out?
a.
Elegy

b.
Eclogue

c.
Bucolic

d.
Pastoral


33. The Panopticon is related to the paradigm of
a.
Laura Mulvey's notion of visual pleasure in the cinema

b.
Jacques Lacan's idea of mirror stage

c.
Michel Foucault's theory ofdiscipline

d.
Judith Butler's concept ofperfomativity


34. "That which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant oftime" is
the

a.
definition of the image by Pound

b.
definition ofthe symbol by Mallarme

c.
definition ofthe allusion by Eliot

d.
definition ofthe sign by Saussure


35. Surface and Deep Structure are part of
a.
Wren and Martin Grammar

b.
Traditional Grammar

c.
Modern English Grammar

d.
Transformational Generative Grammar


36.
"The mortuary occupied a corner position". How many Noun phrases are there in the above sentence?

37.
During whose reign was Richard Burbage an English stage actor?


a. I
b. 2
c. 3
d. 6

a.
Elizabeth I

b.
Victoria

c.
Henry VIII

d.
George II


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38. Who is the author ofthe play, Remorse?
a.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

b.
William Wordsworth

c.
William Blake

d.
Percy Shelley


39. William Wilberforce is associated with
a. The abolition of slavery in Britain The American Civil War
c.
The Great Plague of London

d.
The Second World War


40. Identify the correctly matched group:

"Because I could not stop for death ... Walt Whitman


"0 Captain! My Captain!" William Carlos Williams


"Two roads diverged in a wood ..." Emily Dickinson

"So much depends upon ..." Robert Frost




a.


b.


c.


d.



41. Modernism has been described by one of the following critics as being concerned with the "disenchantment of our culture with culture itself'.
a.
Stephen Spender

b.
Malcolm Bradbury

c.
Lionel Trilling

d.
Joseph Frank


42. "Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him? It is very hard to do so. [....] When he is writing not of British but of "loyal" Indians he carries the 'Salaam, Sahib' motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the "liberals" of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards".
a.
This is E. M. Forster's "India, Again".

b.
This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster's India.

c.
This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.

d.
This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.



43. "It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing
how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other." What
does it in this statement stand for?

a.
Marxism

b.
Structuralism

c.
Formalism

d.
New Historicism


44. To refer to the irresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use ofthe term:
a.
aporia

b.
difference

c.
erasure

d.
supplement


45. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory ofrelations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies?
a.
Raymond Williams

b.
Christopher Caudwell

c.
Lucien Goldmann

d.
Antonio Gramsci


Questions 46-50 are based on the following passage:
BardBox returns, after a four year hiatus, because there is so much good and interesting original Shakespeare production continuing to appear online, and the best of it needs documenting. A prime example is this delightful dramatised vlog, the creation of a four­women creative team from New Zealand called the Candle Wasters. Set in and around a New Zealand high school, it presents a modernised take on Much Ado About Nothing in the form of a vlog, with the various characters taking to the camera to share their thoughts with us.
This is an exceptional undertaking, absolutely in tune with its times. The parts are winningly performed and the plot and themes of Shakespeare's plays credibly translated to twenty-first century New Zealand. It makes the transition of the sexual politics of
Shakespeare's era to the preoccupations of modem times seem not too forced, and it finds space for both the light and the dark, even if it is happier when things are happy. Compared to the complicated and rather heavy-handed attempt by the Royal Shakespeare Company to embrace the social media era with its Midsummer Night's Dreaming of 2013, this seems unforced, a logical way of retelling what Shakespeare has to say, through the media and method most likely to be appreciated by its target audience. It also ably demonstrates how online video can free .us from the stage by breaking down the received narrative and exploring its constituent parts afresh. This is why Shakespeare belongs on YouTube.
46. Bardbox appears to be
a.
a video programme about bards and Shakespeare

b.
an internet site that shows a vlog

c.
the Candle Wasters online forum

d.
an internet site that lists original Shakespeare productions that appear online


47. When the author says Bardbox is back, the reference is to Bardbox having had a previous online presence,
a. during a hiatus

b.
with a hiatus of four years

c.
during a hiatus offour years when not much Shakespeare was available online

d.
without a hiatus ever


48. From the passage we can gather that a vlog is
a.
online and to do with the Candle Wasters

b.
online and involves people speaking their thoughts to a camera

c.
online and a forum for high school dramatics

d.
online and a forum for Shakespeare plays


49. In comparison with the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Candle Wasters' Much Ado about Nothing is
a.
an adaptation of Shakespeare to a media for a larger target audience

b.
forced and not too happy

c.
complicated and heavy-handed

d.
not really what Shakespeare has to say


50. The passage tells us that online Shakespeare productions
a.
are better than theatre productions

b.
are the only way to watch Shakespeare today

c.
are a way of not restricting Shakespeare to the stage

d.
are the only way New Zealanders watch Shakespeare today




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Section B
(MARKS 25)
Attempt either or
I. Write an essay on any ONE of the following topics:
1.
Reading for Life

2.
Some Shibboleths in Critical Thinking

3.
The Uses of Error

4.
Why (and How) Freud Haunts Readers

5.
Some Mistaken Assumptions about English Literacy (in India)

6.
The Modernity of Modern Prose

7.
Difference as a (Mis)reading of Sameness

8.
The Role of the Critic

9.
The "Cultural Unconscious"

10.
The Use of Fancy Literary Theories/Theorists in Research.


II. Write an essay on the following poem examining the speaker's concerns over language and memory.
Chemo Side Effects: Memory
Where is the word I want?
Groping
in the thicket,
about to pinch the
dangling
berry, my fingerpads
close on
air.

I can hear it
scrabbling like a squirrel
on the oak's far side.

Word, please send over this black stretch of ocean
your singular flare,
blaze
your topaz in the mind's blank.

I could always pull the gift
from the lucky-dip barrel,
scoop the right jewel
from my dragon's trove....

Now I flail,
.­
the wrong item creaks up on the mental dumbwaiter.
No use turning out of sight, a bicycle down a Venetian alley-I clatter after, only to find gondolas bobbing in sunny silence, a pigeon mumbling something I just can't catch.