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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties 5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was

a text may open up, Derrida makes use heralded by such figures as
of the term : (A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory
(A) aporia and Edward Martyn
(B) difference
(B) Jonathan Swift and his
(C) erasure contemporaries
(D) supplement
(C) H. Drummond, Edward
2. Who, among the following English Irving and John Ervine
playwrights, scripted the film (D) Oscar Wilde and his
Shakespeare in Love ? contemporaries
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
6. Which poem by Chaucer was written
(C) Caryl Churchill
on the death of Blanche, Wife of John
(D) Tom Stoppard
of Gaunt ?
3. Arrange the following in the (A) Troilus and Criseyde
chronological order : (B) The House of Fame
1. Mary Wollstonecrafts (C) The Book of Duchess
Vindication of the
Rights of Women (D) The Legend of Good Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution 7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is
4. Percys Reliques of Ancient the other title of
English Poetry
(A) Gorboduc
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2 (B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 (C) Damon and Pythias
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4
(D) Lamentable Tragedy
4. Which of the following employs a
narrative structure in which the main 8. Who of the following poets is
action is relayed at second hand Australian ?
through an enclosing frame story ?
(A) Austin Clarke
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses (B) Judith Wright
(C) The Power and the Glory (C) Edwin Muir
(D) Heart of Darkness (D) Derek Walcott

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9. He found it [English] brick and left it 13. I sit in one of the dives
marble, remarked one great writer on On Fifty Second Street,
another. Who were they ? Uncertain and afraid
(A) Milton on Shakespeare As the clever hopes expire
(B) Dryden on Milton Of a low dishonest decade.
(C) Johnson on Dryden So begins Audens September 1,
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare 1939. What is the meaning of the
word in italics ?
(A) bench
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel
(B) night club
Laureate ?
(C) house
(A) Tony Morrison
(D) park
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
(D) Geoffrey Hill reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
11. List I List II (B) New Criticism
I. Because I a. Robert (C) Standard English Project
could not stop Frost (D) Basic English Project
for death
II. O Captain ! b. William 15. In which of the following works does
My Captain! Carlos Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
Williams (A) The Rivals
III. Two roads c. Emily (B) She Stoops to Conquer
diverged in a Dickinson (C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
wood. (D) The Way of the World
IV. So much depends d. Walt
/upon Whitman 16. Which of the following statements about
The correctly matched series would be : Christopher Marlowe are true ?
(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a I. Edward II was written in the last
year of Marlowes life.
(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
II. Many critics consider Doctor
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c Faustus to be Marlowes best
(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a
12. The predominant tone and thrust of close second.
Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal IV. Marlowe was less educated than
are Shakespeare.
(A) comic (A) I and II are true.
(B) solemn (B) II and III are true.
(C) II and IV are true.
(C) hortatory
(D) III and IV are true.
(D) irony
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17. Art for Arts Sake became a rallying 21. List I List II
cry for
1. Good sense is I. Brooks, The
(A) the Aesthetes the body of Formalist
(B) the Symbolists poetic genius Critic
2. Poetry is the II. Sidney,
(C) the Imagists
breath and a Defence/ An
(D) the Art Noveau School finer spirit of Apology for
all knowledge. Poetry
3. Literary III. Wordsworth,
18. Confessions of an English Opium
criticism is a Preface
Eater is a literary work by
description
(A) S. T. Coleridge to Lyrical
and evaluation
of its object Ballads
(B) P. B. Shelley
4. Nature never IV. Coleridge,
(C) Thomas De Quincey
set forth the Biographia
(D) Lord Byron earth in as rich
Literaria
a tapestry as
diverse poets
19. Which of the following statements about have done
The Canterbury Tales is true ?
1 2 3 4
(A) The General Prologue is (A) IV III I II
appended to The Canterbury
Tales. (B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales
in this work. (D) IV II I III
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained
unfinished at the time of its 22. In which of the following travel books
does Mark Twain give an account of
authors death.
his visit to India ?
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir (A) A Tramp Abroad
Gawain and The Franklin are
characters and tale-tellers in this (B) Roughing It
work. (C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
20. Who, among the following, was a
Catholic novelist, an Intelligence 23. William Blakes famous poems such
Officer, a film critic and set his as London, The Sick Rose, and
fictions in far-away places wrecked by The Tyger appear in
political conflicts ? (A) Songs of Innocence
(A) Anthony Powell (B) Songs of Experience
(B) Evelyn Waugh (C) The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell
(C) William Golding
(D) Vision of the Daughters of
(D) Graham Greene Albion
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24. Who among the following English 30. The term the comedy of menace is
artists illustrated the novels of Dickens associated with the early plays of
and Scott ? (A) Arnold Wesker
(A) Richard Hogarth (B) John Arden
(B) Joshua Reynolds (C) Harold Pinter
(C) George Cruishank (D) David Hare
(D) John Tennial
31. Examine the following statements and
25. The last of Gullivers Travels is to identify one of them which is not true.
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms (A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year
(B) The Land of Homosapiens 1936.
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes (B) He was born in India but
schooled in England.
(D) The Newfound Land
(C) He returned to India as a police
26. Madam Merle is a character in constable in Burma.
(A) The Great Gatsby (D) He is the author of Jungle Book
and Barrack Room Ballads.
(B) The Portrait of a Lady
(C) The Jungle
32. What is the correct combination of the
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter following ?
I. Balachandra a. The Tamarind
27. In which of the following scenes of
Rajan Tree
The Waste Land do we have a
departure from Standard English ? II. R. K. b. The Coffer
Narayan Dams
(A) The typist scene
III. Kamala c. The Dark
(B) The pub scene Markandaya Dancer
(C) The hyacinth garden scene IV. Romen d. The Dark Room
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene Basu
(A) I c; II d; III b; IV b
28. The words If it were done when tis (B) I d; II a; III b; IV c
done, then twere well / It were done
(C) I c; II a; III d; IV b
quickly are uttered by
(D) I d; II c; III a; IV b
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
33. Name the poet who chooses his
(C) Othello successor and the successor-poet
(D) Macbeth whom Dryden satirises in his famous
poem.
29. John Drydens Absalom and (A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
Achotophel a
(B) Henry Treece and Charles
(A) religious tract Triesten
(B) political allegory (C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas
(C) comic verse epic Shadwell
(D) comedy (D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

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34. If______ comes, can_______ be far 38. Which of the following is not true of
behind ? (Shelley, Ode to the West Edward Saids Orientalism ?
Wind)
(A) Makes use of Foucaults concept
(A) winter, spring
of discursive formulation
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains (B) Is one of the founding texts of
(D) spring, winter Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthess concept
35. The following passages are the very
of writerly text
first lines of well-known works. Match
the lines and the works : (D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of
I. Let us go then, you and I.. hegemony
II. Call me Ishmael..
III. When shall we three meet again ?
IV. He disappeared in the dead of 39. Thomas Love Peacock classified
winter poetry into 4 periods. They are :
V. I wish either.begot me ..
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
a. Moby Dick
b. Macbeth (B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
c. The Love Song of J. Alfred (C) iron, gold, silver and brass
Prufrock
d. Tristram Shandy (D) gold, platinum, silver and
e. In Memory of W. B. Yeats diamond
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c 40. Which among the following novels has
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a more than one ending ?
(A) Lucky Jim
36. Which of the following is not a
revenge tragedy ? (B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(A) Hamlet (C) The French Lieutenants Woman
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone (D) The Clockwork Orange
(D) Gorboduc

37. What is a neologism ? 41. You have seen how a man was made
(A) A word with roots in a native a slave; you shall see how a slave was
language made a man is an example of
(B) A word whose meaning changes (A) Bathos
with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in (B) Epistrophe
a new sense
(C) Chiasmus
(D) An obsession with new words
and phrases (D) Anti-climax

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42. Which of the following statements is 46. In a poem, a line may either be end-
NOT correct ? stopped or
(A) rhymed
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a (B) broken
stanzaic form in some of his (C) accented
major poems. (D) run-on
(B) Chaucer was the author of The
Legend of Good Women. 47. Which of the following poets
wrote the essay Naipauls India and
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when Mine ?
the court poetry of his day was (A) Kamala Das
written in Anglo-Norman and (B) R. Parthasarthy
Latin. (C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named (D) Nissim Ezekiel
the Governor
48. Match the following :
I. James Joyce 1. Peter
Ackroyd
43. Material feminism studies inequality
II. T. S. Eliot 2. James
in terms of
Boswell
(A) only gender III. Life of 3. Samuel
Johnson Johnson
(B) only class IV. Lives of 4. Richard
(C) both class and gender Poets Ellman

(D) only patriarchy (A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
44. Who among the following is not an (D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
Irish writer ?
49. The pen is mightier than the sword
(A) Oscar Wilde
is an example of
(B) Oliver Goldsmith (A) simile
(B) image
(C) Edmund Burke (C) conceit
(D) Thomas Gray (D) metonymy

50. An epilogue is
(A) prefixed to a text which it
45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys
begins after introduces.
(B) suffixed to a text which it sums
(A) The Restoration up or extends.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that
(B) The Glorious Revolution formally begins a book.
(C) The Reformation (D) a piece of writing or speech that
bears no relation to the text at
(D) The French Revolution hand.
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