June 2013
English Paper II
1. In
Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
(A) A
toy
(B) A
piano
(C) A
drum
(D) A
violin
Answer: (C)
2. How
does Lord Jim end?
(A) Jim
is shot through the chest by Doramin.
(B) Jim
kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
(C) Jim
answers “the call of exalted egoism” and betrays Jewel.
(D) Jim
surrenders himself to Doramin.
Answer: (A)
3.
“Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the
following authors can we attribute the above admission?
(A)
Graham Greene
(B)
George Orwell
(C)
Charles Morgan
(D)
Evelyn Waugh
Answer: (B)
4.
Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic?
(A)
Stephen Spender
(B)
Malcolm Bradbury
(C)
Lionel Trilling
(D)
Joseph Frank
Answer: (C)
5. “Only
that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet
thing.”
The
above lines are quoted from
(A)
“Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B)
“Michael”
(C)
“Frost at Midnight”
(D)
“This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison”
Answer: (C)
6. Which
one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
(A)
“Among School Children”
(B) “In
Praise of Limestone”
(C) “The
Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The
Shield of Achilles”
Answer: (A)
7. John
Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s
(A)
Troilus and Cressida
(B) The
Merchant of Venice
(C)
Antony and Cleopatra
(D)
Measure for Measure
Answer: (C)
8.
Arrange the following
works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct code:
I. No
Longer at Ease
II.
Things Fall apart
III. A
Man of the People
IV.
Arrow of God
The
correct combination according to the code is:
Code:
(A) III,
IV, II, I
(B) IV,
III, I, II
(C) II,
I, IV, III
(D) I,
II, III, IV
Answer: (C)
9.
Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(A) 1660
to 1669
(B) 1649
to 1660
(C) 1662
to 1689
(D) 1660
to 1689
Answer: (A)
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
(A) A
magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader.
(B) A
divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader.
(C) A
moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
(D) A
realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere illusion and trickery.
Answer: (C)
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary
individuals:
(A)
Addison and Lord Hervey
(B)
Dryden and Rochester
(C)
Swift and Steele
(D)
Smollett and Defoe
Answer: (A)
12.
Match the following authors with their works:
List – A
List – B
(Authors)
(Works)
I. Alice
Walker
1. Invisible Man
II.
Ralph Ellison
2. The Colour Purple
III.
Richard Wright
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
IV
Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native
Son
Which is
the correct combination according to the code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1
3 4
(B) 3 4
2 1
(C) 4 3
1 2
(D) 1 2
4 3
Answer: (Wrong question)
13.
Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?
(A) As
You Like It
(B)
Julius Caesar
(C)
Cymbeline
(D) Two
Gentlemen of Verona
Answer: (B)
14.
Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A)
Nation and Narration
(B)
Orientalism
(C)
Discipline and Punish
(D)
White Mythologies
Answer: (C)
15.
Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of
_________ Philosophy.
(A)
Aesthetic
(B)
Empiricist
(C)
Nationalist
(D)
Realist
Answer: (B)
16.
“Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all
times.” Who said this?
(A)
Edward Said
(B)
Michel Foucault
(C)
Jacques Derrida
(D)
Roland Barthes
Answer: (B)
17.
Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
(A) Kath
Walker
(B)
Peter Carey
(C)
Robert Bropho
(D) Jack
Davis
Answer: (B)
18. Sir
Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel’s Miscellany
during the Renaissance.
Identify
the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following:
(A)
Thomas Lodge
(B)
Thomas Nashe
(C)
Thomas Sackville
(D)
Henry Howard
Answer: (D)
19.
Match the following lists:
List – I
List – I
(Novelists)
(Novels)
I.
Margaret Laurence
1.
Surfacing
II.
Margaret Atwood
2. The
Stone Angel
III.
Sinclair Ross
3. Medicine River
IV.
Thomas King
4. As for Me and My House
Which is
the correct combination according to the code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 1 4
3 2
(B) 3 2
1 4
(C) 4 3
2 1
(D) 2 1
4 3
Answer: (D)
20. The
dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features of
I. The
Elizabethan Theatre
II. The
Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France
III. The
Irish Theatre
IV. The
Greek Theatre
The
correct combination according to the code is
Codes:
(A) I
and IV are correct.
(B) III
and IV are correct.
(C) II
and III are correct.
(D) I
and II are correct.
Answer: (D)
21. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
world”?
(A)
Robert Lowell
(B) Walt
Whitman
(C) Wallace
Stevens
(D)
Langston Hughes
Answer: (B)
22. The
etymological meaning of the word “trope” is
(A)
Gesture
(B)
Turning
(C)
Mirror
(D)
Desire
Answer: (B)
23. Who
among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as “a repetition
in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite ‘I AM’ ”?
(A)
Blake
(B)
Wordsworth
(C)
Coleridge
(D)
Shelley
Answer: (C)
24.
Little Nell is a character in Dickens’
(A)
David Copperfield
(B) The
Old Curiosity Shop
(C)
Bleak House
(D)
Great Expectations
Answer: (B)
25.
Match the following:
List – A
List – B
(Schools/Concept
of Criticism)
(Critics)
I.
Formalism
1. John Crow Ransom
II. New
Critics
2. The Jungians
III.
Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature
3. Victor Shklovsky
IV.
Literary art as archetypal image
4. I.A. Richards
The
correct combination according to the code is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 1
4 2
(B) 2 4
1 3
(C) 4 1
2 3
(D) 3 2
1 4
Answer: (A)
26. In
the late seventeenth century a “Battle of Books” erupted between which two
groups?
(A)
Cavaliers and Roundheads
(B)
Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(C)
Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning
(D) The
Welsh and the Scots
Answer: (C)
27.
“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love’s pleasure drives his
love away…” In the above quote the last line is an example of
(A)
Allusion
(B)
Pleonasm
(C)
Paradox
(D)
Zeugma
Answer: (C)
28.
Match the author with the work:
List – I
List – II
(Authors)
(Works)
I.
Kingsely Amis
1. Saturday and Sunday Morning
II.
Allan Silletoe
2. The Golden Note Book
III.
Doris Lessing
3. The Left Bank
IV. Jean
Rhys
4. Lucky Jim
Which is
the correct combination according to the code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4
1 2
(B) 4 1
2 3
(C) 2 3
1 4
(D) 1 2
3 4
Answer: (B)
29. In
which of Hardy’s novels does the character Abel Whittle appear?
(A) Far
from the Madding Crowd
(B) The
Return of the Native
(C) A
Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) The
Mayor of Caster bridge
Answer: (D)
30. The
phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the force
at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by
(A)
William Wordsworth
(B)
William Blake
(C)
Thomas Carlyle
(D) John
Ruskin
Answer: (B)
31.
“Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the scared
river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?
(A) A
lifeless ocean
(B) The
caverns measureless
(C) A
fountain
(D) The
waves
Answer: (AB)
32. Who
is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather
than his regional language?
(A)
Douglas Dunn
(B)
Seamus Heaney
(C)
Geoffrey Hill
(D)
Philip Larkin
Answer: (B)
33.
Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne’s Religion
Medici?
(A) It
is a story of conversion or providential experiences.
(B) It
emphasizes Browne’s love of mystery and wonder.
(C) It
is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death.
(D) It
reports the facts of Browne’s life.
Answer: (AB)
34.
Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly
mentioned?
(A) The
typist
(B)
Madam Sosostris
(C) The
Merchant from Eugenides
(D) The
Young Man Carbuncular
Answer: (C)
35.
Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in
literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?
(A)
Studied melancholy and aestheticism
(B) The
triumph of science and morbidity
(C)
Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
(D)
Raucous celebration combined with paranoid interpretation
Answer: (A)
36.
Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont
Blanc
(B)
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C)
“Adonais”
(D)
Alastor
Answer: (D)
37.
Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(A) The
Knight’s Tale
(B) The
Monk’s Tale
(C) The
Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(D) The
Miller’s Tale
Answer: (C)
38. At
the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel
(A) Sets
off in quest of life away from his mother.
(B)
Considers the option of committing suicide.
(C)
Joins his elder brother William in London.
(D)
Embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism.
Answer: (A)
39. When
you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are
using a rhetorical device of
(A)
Enumeration
(B) Ant
anagoge
(C)
Parataxis
(D) Hypo
taxis
Answer: (A)
40. The
following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them.
List – I
List – II
(Plays)
(Characters)
I. Women
Beware Women
1. Malevole
II. The
Malcontent
2. Beatrice
III. The
City Madam
3. Bianca
IV. The
Changeling
4. Doll Tear sheet
Which is
the correct combination according to the code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 1
4 2
(B) 2 1
2 4
(C) 1 2
3 4
(D) 4 3
2 1
Answer: (A)
41. With
Bacon the essay form is
(A) An
intimate, personal confession
(B)
Witty and boldly imagistic
(C) The
aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom
(D)
Homely and vulgar
Answer: (C)
42.
Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about
(A) The
English at War
(B) The
English Aristocracy
(C) The
Irish question
(D)
Scottish nationalism
Answer: (A)
43. Who
coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain
between the rich and the poor?
(A)
Charles Dickens
(B)
Thomas Carlyle
(C)
Benjamin Disraeli
(D)
Frederick Engels
Answer: (C)
44.
Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost.
Two of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are
I.
Moloch
II.
Clemos
III.
Belial
IV.
Thamuz
The
correct combination according to the code is
Code:
(A) I
and IV are correct.
(B) I
and III are correct.
(C) I
and II are correct.
(D) II
and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
45. When
Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A)
Irony
(B)
Simile
(C)
Understatement
(D)
Personification
Answer: (A)
46. John
Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of
(A)
Drawing room comedy
(B)
kitchen-sink drama
(C)
Absurd drama
(D)
Melodrama
Answer: (B)
47.
Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?
(A)
Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr.
Brocklehurst
(C) Sir
John Rivers
(D)
Eliza Reed
Answer: (B)
48.
Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?
(A)
Blake
(B)
Coleridge
(C)
Keats
(D)
Shelley
Answer: (B)
49. John
Suckling belongs to the group of
(A)
Metaphysical poets
(B)
Cavalier poets
(C)
Neo-classical poets
(D)
Religious poets
Answer: (B)
50. Sir
Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account
of Utopia is put. His name is
(A)
Michael
(B)
Raphael
(C)
Henry
(D)
Thomas
Answer: (B)
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