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Paper III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions. Each
question carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.

Read the poem carefully and answer

the questions (1 to 4) below it : 1. What does the rose symbolise ?

Go, lovely Rose !

(A) time
Tell her, that wastes her time and
me,
That now she knows, (B) love
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be. (C) valour
Tell her that’s young
And shuns to have her graces spied,
(D) death
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
2. How is the beloved compared to the
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
rose ?
Of beauty from the light retired :
Bid her come forth,
(A) as fair as a rose
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blish so to be admired.
(B) as dull as a desert
Then die ! that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee : (C) a source of spying

How small a part of time they share

That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! (D) unglorified death

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5. Lucius is an ordinary character

3. Why are ‘her graces spied’ ?
created by William Shakespeare for

(A) because the beloved is cruel the historical play :

(A) Richard II

(B) because they spring from desert (B) Pericles

(C) Julius Caesar

(C) because they live for a short
(D) Coriolanus

time 6. The following lines are spoken by

which one of the following characters

(D) because people don’t like them in Julius Caesar by William Shakes-

peare ?
4. What is the fate of small
‘‘Stop, then and wash. How many

ages hence
beauties ?
Shall this lofty scene be acted o’er.

(A) They suffer unnecessarily In states unborn and accents yet

unknowns.

(B) They feel bleshed (A) Brutus

(B) Cassius
(C) They are rare
(C) Casca

(D) They vanish quickly (D) Cina

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7. Identify the text below in which the 9. In which play of Shakespeare does

character, ‘‘Man with the Muck the line ‘‘What a piece of work is

Rake’’ features :
man’’ occur ?

(A) Gulliver’s Travels

(A) King Lear

(B) The Unfortunate Traveller

(B) Macbeth

(C) The Canterbury Tales

(C) Hamlet

(D) The Pilgrim’s Progress

(D) Antony and Cleopatra

8. In which of the following essays does

10. Thomas Carew belongs to the group
T.S. Eliot use the term ‘‘objective

of poets called :
correlative’’ ?

(A) Metaphysical poets

(A) The Function of Criticism

(B) Cavalier poets

(B) The Frontiers of Criticism

(C) Metaphysical Poets (C) Elizabethan poets

(D) Hamlet and His Problems (D) Classical poets

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11. Which of the following is not written 13. The British literary and society

by John Cleveland ?
journal ‘The Tatler’ was founded by :

(A) ‘‘An Elegy on Ben Jonson’’

(A) Richard Steele

(B) ‘‘Mark Antony’’

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) ‘‘The Rebel Scot’’

(C) Thomas Adams

(D) ‘‘The Wish’’

(D) Richard Adams
12. ‘‘I love everything that is old; old
14. The conceit used by John Donne in
friends, old times, old manners, old

‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’

books, old wines.’’

is :
This sentence is taken from :

(A) the moving earth

(A) The Vicar of Wakefield

(B) lover’s love

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) The Citizen of the World (C) trepidation of the spheres

(D) The Good-Natur’d Man (D) twin compasses

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15. About Samuel Richardson’s creation 17. Who is the author of Life of Henry

of the character of Clarissa, who

VIII ?
swore that ‘‘if she should die,

he would no longer believe in (A) John Rushworth

providence’’ ?
(B) John Thurloe

(A) Laurence Sterne

(C) Lord Herbert of Cherbury
(B) Tobias Smollett

(D) James Howell

(C) Sir Roger de Coverley

(D) Colley Cibber 18. About revolution in France who said

16. The Interesting Narrative of the Life that it was ‘‘Mother of all evils !’’ ?

of Olaudah Equiano is :
(A) Edmund Burke

(A) A tribal narrative

(B) Philip Dormer
(B) A fairy tale

(C) John Rushworth

(C) A slave narrative

(D) An American Indian narrative (D) Roger North

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19. One of the powerful weapons of Jane 21. On which poet’s epitaph are the

Austen’s narrative art is : words engraved, ‘Here lies one whose

(A) verbosity name was writ in water’ ?

(B) irony (A) Shelley

(C) magical realism (B) Wordsworth

(D) musicality (C) Lord Byron

20. In which poem of Wordsworth, the (D) John Keats

following lines occur ? 22. In a celebrated preface this author

For oft, when on my couch I lie/in wrote, ‘Above all, this book is not

vacant or in pensive mood/They concerned with poetry. The subject

flash upon that inward eye/which is of it is war, and the pity of war.’ Who

the bliss of solitude.’’ is he ?

(A) ‘‘We are seven’’ (A) Wilfred Owen

(B) ‘‘Daffodils’’ (B) Julian Grenfell

(C) ‘‘Lucy Gray’’ (C) Sigfried Sassoon

(D) The ‘‘Solitary Reaper’’ (D) Maurice Cornford

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23. Which of the following writers has 25. Which of the following writers has

created the characters Lucky and created the character, Jimmy Porter ?

Pozzo ?
(A) John Osborne

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Harold Pinter

(B) John Osborne

(C) Arnold Whisker

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) Samuel Beckett

(D) Eugene Ionesco Death in the

26. Hemingway’s

24. In which kingdom did Oedipus Afternoon deals with the subject

rule ? of :

(A) Ithaca (A) cockfighting

(B) Thebes (B) bullfighting

(C) Athens (C) wrestling

(D) Sparta (D) shooting

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27. Who is the author of Cry, the Beloved 29. Which of the following novels deals

Country ? with the subject of Sepoy Mutinee

of 1857 ?
(A) Nadine Gordimer

(A) The Siege of Krishnapur

(B) Alan Paton

(B) A Passage to India

(C) Wole Soyinka

(C) Kim
(D) Alex La Guma
(D) Coolie

28. The journal The Atlantic Monthly

30. Who wrote the story ‘‘The Fall of the

was founded by :
House of Usher’’ ?

(A) James Russell Lowell

(A) Edgar Allan Poe

(B) Washington Irving

(B) Washington Irving

(C) Oliver Wendell Holmes (C) H.W. Longfellow

(D) Henry James (D) O. Henry

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31. Who is the author of the novel 33. Samuel Butler’s novel ‘The way of

all flesh’ is..............in character.

The Diviners ?

(A) Picaresque
(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) Historical
(B) Maria Campbell
(C) Autobiographical

(C) Jane Rule

(D) Biographical

(D) Margaret Laurence

34. ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, a term invented

32. In which of Hemingway’s novels does by John Ruskin, stands for :

the protagonist, Santiago appear ? (A) strong feeling of pathos

(B) fallacy pathetically felt

(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls

(C) attributing human feelings and

(B) The Sun Also Rises
actions to natural objects

(C) The Old Man and the Sea

(D) elemental simplicity in human

(D) A Farewell to Arms beings

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35. Which one of the following poems 37. Hermeneutics was originally the

represents the Victorian ethos for

science of interpreting :

optimism at its best ?

(A) fiction

(A) ‘‘Ulysses’’
(B) poetry

(B) ‘‘Sordello’’
(C) drama
(C) ‘‘In Memoriam’’

(D) scripture
(D) ‘‘Dover Beach’’

38. Raymond Williams is considered to

36. Who said, ‘‘Art is twice removed from

be one of the founders of :

Reality’’ ?

(A) cultural studies

(A) Socrates

(B) feminist studies

(B) Plato

(C) Aristotle (C) semiotic studies

(D) Longinus (D) psychoanalysis

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39. Who described poetic process as a

41. John Crowe Ransom is the pioneer

spontaneous overflow of powerful

of :

feelings, recollected in tranquility ?

(A) New Criticism

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) New Historicism

(B) F.R. Leavis

(C) William Wordsworth (C) Reception Theory

(D) Matthew Arnold (D) Historical Materialism

40. ‘Nation and Narration’ is authored

42. Who is the author of Mythologies ?

by :
(A) Levi Strauss

(A) Benedict Anderson

(B) John Barth

(B) Homi Bhabha

(C) Roland Barthes

(C) Partha Chatterjee

(D) Ranjit Guha (D) Donald Barthelme

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43. Who is the writer of The Political 46. Who has written the play, Men

Unconscious ? Without Shadows ?

(A) Sigmund Freud (A) Jean-Paul Sartre

(B) Carl Jung (B) Albert Camus

(C) Fredric Jameson (C) Louis Aragon

(D) William James

(D) Eugene Ionesco

44. ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ is a book

47. Who is the author of the novel, One
on the post-colonial theory by one
Hundred Years of Solitude ?
of the following authors :
(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(A) Barbara Harlowe
(B) Carlos Fuentes
(B) Henry Louis Lates
(C) Jorge Luis Borges
(C) Helen Tiffin
(D) Julio Cortazar
(D) Frantz Fanon
48. Who has written the book, Winter
45. Who has defined drama as ‘a just
in the Blood ?
and lively image of human nature’ ?

(A) James Welch

(A) Aristotle

(B) Longinus (B) Thomas King

(C) Dr. Johnson (C) Louise Endrich

(D) John Dryden (D) Tomson Highway

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49. Who is the author of the novel, 52. The novel, Two Virgins has been

Song of Solomon ? written by :

(A) Gloria Naylor (A) Kamala Markandaya

(B) Paule Marshall (B) Anita Desai

(C) Toni Morrison (C) Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee

(D) Bharati Mukherjee

(D) Alice Walker
53. Which Indian poet’s autobiography
50. Who is the author of Imaginary
is My Son’s Father ?
Homelands ?
(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Dom Moraes
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Gieve Patel
(C) Ashis Nandi
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) Dipesh Chakravorty
54. Point out adjective used by Vijay
51. Who is the author of the novel,
Tendulkar for his Ghashiram
That Long Silence ? Kotwal :

(A) Manju Kapur (A) A history play

(B) Sashi Deshpande (B) The historical play

(C) Gita Mehta (C) a-historical play

(D) Anita Desai (D) the Chronicle play

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55. ‘Godan’ a Hindi novel, translated 58. In English, nouns are generally

into English was written by : accented on :

(A) Hariwanshray Bacchan (A) The second syllable

(B) Namwar Singh (B) The first syllable

(C) The middle syllable

(C) Premchand
(D) The last syllable
(D) Arvind Adiga
59. The grammar of a language studies
56. Who among the following wrote the
the :
Foreword to Mulk Raj Anand’s
(A) Sounds of that language
Untouchable ?
(B) The classics written in that
(A) Graham Greene
language
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) The vocabulary of that language

(C) T.S. Eliot (D) The sentences and only the

(D) E.M. Forster well-formed sentences usable in

that language
57. English uses..............for yes/no
60. ...............is the smallest meaningful
questions.
unit of language.
(A) The rising tone
(A) The phoneme
(B) The falling tone
(B) The morpheme
(C) The falling rising tone
(C) The sentence

(D) The falsetto (D) The phrase

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61. Who, among the following, is not a

64. Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh’s ‘Origin
Jnanpeeth awardee ?
and Development of Religion in
(A) Gopinath Mohanty
Vedic Literature’ was translated
(B) Indira Goswami

into Marathi by :
(C) Mahasweta Devi

(D) Vilas Sarang (A) Vilas Sarang

62. Om Prakash Balmiki’s ‘Joothan’ has

(B) Dilip Chitre
been translated into English by :

(A) Girish Karnad (C) Anand Patil

(B) Shanta Gokhale

(D) Vilas Gitey

(C) Bikram K. Das

65. Who translated U.R. Anantamurthy’s
(D) Arun P. Mukherjee
Samskara into English ?
63. Mahasweta Devi’s ‘‘Draupadi’’ has

been translated into English by :

(A) Gillian Wright

(A) Sujit Mukherjee

(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Samik Bandyopadhyaya

(C) A.K. Ramanujan (C) Vijay Tendulkar

(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (D) Dilip Chitre

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66. Nita Torane’s ‘‘Living’’ contains

69. The communicative method is also
multilingual translations of each
known as :
poem in a collection from the state :

(A) Goa (A) the army method

(B) Maharashtra
(B) the structuralistic method
(C) Karnataka

(D) Kerala (C) the common grammar translation

67. How many diphthongs does English method

use ?
(D) the audio lingual method
(A) 12

(B) 10 70. When we use computers to learn a

(C) 8 language it is called :

(D) 6
(A) Computer generated programs
68. The following skills are considered

secondary in ELT : (B) Computer assisted language

(A) reading and writing learning

(B) speaking and writing

(C) Computer based classroom
(C) writing and listening

(D) speaking and writing (D) Console based classroom

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71. The questions given below consist of 72. ‘Becket’ was a play written by :

two statements, an Assertion (A) and (A) Pirendello

(B) Jean Anonith

a Reason (R). Indicate your answer
(C) T.S. Eliot
from the alternatives below :
(D) Arthur Miller
Assertion (A) : Language learning
73. Edmund Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’
is largely based on the application contains :

of what is taught or read. (A) twenty four books

(B) twelve cantos

Reason (R) : It is only through
(C) a dozen sections
experimentation that students
(D) fourteen cantos
become able practitioners of language.
74. The narrative poem ‘‘The Book of the
In the context of the two statements, Duchess’’ was written by :

which one of the following is correct ? (A) Robert Browning

(B) Geoffrey Chaucer

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
(C) Stephen Hawe
is the correct explanation of (A)
(D) John Skelton
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but 75. The myth of Antigony was revived

(R) is not the correct explanation by.................after sophocles.

(A) Jean Anouilh

of (A)
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(C) Strindberg

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true (D) Wole Syonka

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