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1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century: (A) Advancement of Learning (B) Gullivers Travels (C) The Spectator (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyans Christian does NOT pass ? (A) The Slough of Despond (B) Mount Helicon (C) The Valley of Humiliation (D) Vanity Fair
3. The period of Queen Victorias reign is (A) 18301900 (B) 18371901 (C) 18301901 (D) 18371900
4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ? (A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (B) It also carried pastoral and other poems. (C) It carried a Preface which Wordsworth added in 1800. (D) It also printed from Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text: (A) William Golding, The Inheritors (B) Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived (C) William Empson, Collected Poems (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had leftleaning tendencies ? (A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington (B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke (C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis (D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
7. Match the following : 1. The Sage of Concord 5. Emily Dickinson 2. The Nun of Amherst 6. R.W. Emerson 3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot 4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens (A) 16; 25; 38; 47 (B) 15; 26; 37; 48 (C) 18; 27; 36; 45 (D) 17; 28; 35; 46 ENGLISH Paper II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions. D3012 3 PaperII 8. Name the theorist who divided poets into strong and weak and popularized the practice of misreading: (A) Alan Bloom (B) Harold Bloom (C) Geoffrey Hartman (D) Stanley Fish
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to (A) the sun (B) the moon (C) the north star (D) the rose
10. Which of the following awards is not given to IndianEnglish writers ? (A) The Booker Prize (B) The Sahitya Akademi Award (C) The Gyanpeeth (D) Whitbread Prize
11. Identify the correct statement below : (A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurtons Needle are tragedies. (B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurtons Needle are comedies. (C) All of them are problem plays. (D) All of them are farces.
12. W.M. Thackerays Vanity Fair owes its title to (A) Brownings Fifine at the Fair (B) Shakespeares Merchant of Venice (C) Goldsmiths Vicar of Wakefield (D) Bunyans Pilgrims Progress 13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in (A) 1642 (B) 1640 (C) 1659 (D) 1660
14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge ? (A) Robert Southey (B) Sir Walter Scott (C) William Hazlitt (D) A. C. Swinburne
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true ? 1. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two acts. 2. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two scenes. 3. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two parts. 4. It does not carry a subtitle. (A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 1
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group ? I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater (A) I and II (B) I (C) II and III (D) IV PaperII 4 D3012 17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ? (A) Bishop Berkeley (B) Samuel Johnson (C) Edmund Burke (D) Horace Walpole
18. In Drydens Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ? (A) Lisideius (B) Crites (C) Eugenius (D) Neander
19. The term invective refers to (A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing. (B) an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule. (C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance. (D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London ? (A) How far can you go (B) The White Teeth (C) An Equal Music (D) Brick Lane 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below : (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S. (B) For Eliot who started publishing versedrama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published. (C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels. (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
22. The Enlightenment was characterized by (A) accelerated industrial production and general well being of the public. (B) a belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation. (C) the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life. (D) an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: ...there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow ? (A) King Lear (B) Hamlet (C) Coriolanus (D) Macbeth D3012 5 PaperII 24. Match the following pairs of books and authors : Books Authors I. Condition of the Working Class in England i. John Ruskin II. London Labour and the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew III. Past and Present iii. Thomas Carlyle IV. The Unto This Last iv. Friedrich Engels Codes : I II III IV (A) iv i ii iii (B) iv ii iii i (C) ii iv i ii (D) iii ii iv iv
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters ? (A) Wyndham Lewiss Enemy (B) Harold Pinters Caretaker (C) Katherine Mansfields Life of Ma Parker (D) Graham Greenes Brighton Rock
26. What is common to the following writers ? Identify the correct description below : William Congreve George Etherege William Wycherley Thomas Otway (A) All of these were Restoration playwrights (B) All of them were critics of Orwells regime (C) All of them edited Shakespeares plays (D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age 27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth ? (A) Emma (B) Mansfield Park (C) Persuasion (D) Northanger Abbey
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the discovery of English in colonial India ? (A) Signs taken for Wonders (B) Mimicry (C) Nation and Narration (D) The Commitment to Theory
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English. (A) Edmund Spensers Amoretti (B) Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella (C) Samuel Daniels Delia (D) Michael Draytons Ideas Mirror
30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul ? (A) The Mystic MasseurMiguel StreetThe Suffrage of Elvira A House for Mr. Biswas. (B) Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas The Suffrage of Elvira. (C) The Suffrage of Elvira Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas. (D) The Mystic Masseur The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street A House for Mr, Biswas.
31. Kubla Khan takes an epigraph from (A) Samuel Purchas Purchas His Pilgrimage (B) Hakluyts Voyages (C) The Book Named the Governour (D) Sir Thomas Mores Utopia PaperII 6 D3012 32. Which of the following author theme is correctly matched ? (A) The Battle of the Books Tribute to The rude forefathers of the hamlet. (B) The Rape of the Lock Quarrel between ancient and modern authors. (C) Grays Elegy Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values. (D) The Deserted Village Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
33. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism ? (A) Nostromo (B) From Ritual to Romance (C) A Room of Ones Own (D) A Dance to the Music of Time
34. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forsters A Passage to India as a camaeo ? (A) The Birthday Party (B) A Resounding Tinkle (C) Indian Ink (D) Amadeus
35. Shakespeares sonnets (A) do not carry a dedication. (B) are dedicated to James I of England. (C) are dedicated to Mary Arden. (D) are dedicated to an unknown Mr. W.H.
36. Which of the following poems uses terza rima ? (A) John Keatss Ode to a Nightingale (B) P.B. Shelleys Ode to the West Wind (C) William Wordsworths The Solitary Reaper (D) Alfred Tennysons Ulysses 37. When one says that someone is no more or that someone has breathed his/ her last, the speaker is resorting to (A) euphism (B) euphony (C) understatement (D) euphemism
38. Which of the following are companion poems ? (A) Gypsy songs and Songs and Sonnets (B) LAllegro and II Penseroso (C) The Good Morrow and The Sun Rising (D) Full Fathom Five and Hark, Hark! the Lark
39. What does the term episteme signify ? (A) Knowledge (B) Archive (C) Theology (D) Scholarship
40. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ? (A) A reflection (B) A speaking picture (C) A refraction (D) A reflected picture
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of negative capability ? (A) John Milton (B) William Wordsworth (C) William Shakespeare (D) P.B. Shelley
42. Charles Dickenss A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence (A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (B) It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times. (C) It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times. (D) It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by (A) Edwin Muir (B) Edward Thomas (C) Robert Bridges (D) Coventry Patmore D3012 7 PaperII 44. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence ? 48. Match the following texts with their respective themes : (A) A Poison Tree The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias (B) The Deserted Village A Poison Tree Ozymandias The Blessed Damozel (C) The Blessed Damozel A Poison Tree The Deserted Village Ozymandias (D) The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias A Poison Tree I. Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship, seduction II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing III. Alexanders Feast (Dryden) iii. Absolute sovereignty IV. The Way of the World (Congreve) iv. The power of music 45. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies ? Codes : I II III IV (A) i ii iii iv (B) ii iii iv i (A) Raymond Williams (B) Christopher Caudwell (C) iii iv i ii (C) Lucien Goldmann (D) iv iii i ii (D) Antonio Gramsci
49. The preliminary version of James Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called 46. F. Turners famous hypothesis is that (A) the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization. (A) Stephen Hero (B) the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination. (B) Blooms Blunder (C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus (C) the Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization. (D) The Dead
50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works. (D) the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.
47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate ? (ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative (iii) A pastiche is also known as a purple passage. II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter III. an eightline stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet (iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language. IV. an eightline stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter (A) (i) and (ii) are correct. (B) only (i) is correct. (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. (A) I and II (B) II (C) III (D) IV (D) only (iv) is correct. Q.No. SC30 Q01 A Q02 B Q03 B Q04 D Q05 C Q06 C Q07 A Q08 B Q09 A Q10 C Q11 B Q12 D Q13 A Q14 D Q15 D Q16 A Q17 B Q18 B Q19 A Q20 D Q21 A Q22 B Q23 B Q24 B Q25 B Q26 A Q27 C Q28 A Q29 A Q30 D Q31 A Q32 A Q33 C Q34 C Q35 D Q36 B Q37 D Q38 B Q39 A Q40 B Q41 C Q42 A Q43 C Q44 B Q45 A UGC - NET DECEMBER 2012 ANSWER KEYS (PAPER II) SUBJECT : ( 30 )ENGLISH Q46 C Q47 D Q48 B Q49 A Q50 A