Instructions (For Q. Nos. 1 to 5) :
Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate alternatives to answer the questions given below it :
Does the road wind up-hill all the way ?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the days journey take the whole long day ?
From morn to night, my friend.
But is there for the night a resting-place?
A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?
You cannot miss that inn.
Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ?
Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
They will not keep you standing at that door.
Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak ?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek ?
Yea, beds for all who come.
Q.1. The poem consists of a dialogue between a weary traveller and …………
(A) a travel agent
(B) another traveller
(B) God
(D) an unknown guide
Q.2.The rhyme scheme of the third stanza is :
(A) bcab (B) aabb
(C) abab (D) abba
Q.3. The poem has an …………. significance.
(A) Allegorical
(B) Amorphous
(C) Aphoristic
(D) Evocative
Q.4. What, according to the poet, is man's eternal destination?
(A) The climb
(B) Heaven
(C) The summit
(D) The journey
Q.5. The poem ends on:
(A) a sarcastic note
(B) a pessimistic note
(C) an indifferent note
(D) an optimistic note
Q.6. Thackeray's Henry Esmond is considered a ………….
(A) romantic novel
(B) historical novel
(C) picaresque novel
(D) detective novel
Q.7. Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby deals with the sad conditions of ………..
(A) industries
(B) slums.
(C) boarding schools
(D) working places
Q.8. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?
(A) Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto
(B) Goldsmith – The Deserted Village
(C) Sheridan – The Old English Baron
(D) Henry Mackenzie – The Man of Feeling
Q.9. Who is not a Georgian Poet?
(A) A.E. Housman
(B) Henry Constable
(C) W.H. Davies
(D) Walter de la Mare
Q.10. Which of the following pairs is not properly matched ?
(A) James Boswell – Life of Samuel Johnson
(B) William Blake – Songs of Innocence
(C) S. Richardson – Roderick Random
(D) T. Smollett – Peregrine Pickle
Q.11. The fictional work entitled Euphues is associated with ………….
(A) Sir Philip Sidney
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) John Donne
(D) John Lyly
Q.12. ……….. is the author of Ivanhoe.
(A) George Eliot
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) Goldsmith
Q.13. The famous character of Greene, "The Whisky Priest' appears in ………….
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) The End of the Affair
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) The Man Within
Q.14. The title of Achebe's famous novel Things Fall Apart is taken from:
(A) The Second Coming
(B) The Waste Land
(C) Prelude
(D) Byzantium
Q.15. "Thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility." Who said it ?
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) Charles Lamb
Q.16. The Rise of the Novel is written by:
(A) Ian Watt
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) G. Wilson Knight
(D) A.C. Bradley
Q.17. The method of 'close reading' of the text was advocated by :
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) E.V. Lucas
Q.18. "The best all lack conviction, while the worst.
Are full of passionate intensity."
These famous lines appear in the poem :
(A) Leda and the Swan
(B) The Second Coming
(C) Easter, 1916
(D) A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Q.19. called Hamlet an artistic failure.
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) F.R. Leavis
(D) C.B. Cox
Q.20. Jim Corbett's 'Robin' is about a …………
(A) tiger
(B) cat
(C) dog
(D) leopard
Q.21. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel, Prize for literature in :
(A) 1913
(B) 1923
(C) 1912
(D) 1920
Q.22. A.C. Bradley is the famous author of the book titled :
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Shakespearan Comedy
(C) Shakespearan Tragedy
(D) Greek Tragedy
Q.23. The signifcant feature of Shakespeare's The Tempest is the playwright's use of :
(A) Magic and supernaturalism
(B) Satire
(C) Gender-switching
(D) Violence on stage
Q.24. Autobiography Was Written by:
(A) Adam Smith
(B) John Henry Newman
(C) John Stuart Mill
(D) Herbert Spencer
Q.25. Benjy is a character from ………….
(A) The Golden Bowl
(B) The Scarlet Letter
(C) The Sound and the Fury
(D) This Side of Paradise
Q.26. Who wrote Court Poems by a Lady of Quality?
(A) Elizabeth Montagu
(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(C) Queen Caroline
(D) Queen Anne
Q.27. The writer of The Man of Feeling 1771 is :
(A) Charlotte Lennox
(B) Horace Walpole
(C) Henry Mackenzie
(D) Mathew G. Lewis
Q.28. The story of Hetty and the murder of her child find their portrayals in George Eliot's …………
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Silas Marner
(C) The Mill on the Floss
(D) Middle March
Q.29. A text in which hidden or repressed meaning can be found between the lines is called a………….
(A) parabolic text
(B) palimpsest text
(C) paralanguage text
(D) sub-text
Q.30. A key text in post-structuralism is Derrida's book.........
(A) The Critical Difference
(B) Of Grammatology
(C) Seven Types of Ambiguity
(D) The Well-wrought Urn
Q.31. An intrinsive narrator' is one………….
(A) Who breaks into the narrative to comment upon a character event or situation
(B) Who distances himself from the narrative and views everything objectively
(C) Who breaks away in the middle of narration
(D) Who is the main narrator
Q.32. Derrida's 'differance' means …………
(A) differing and referring
(B) deferring and referring
(C) referring and representing
(D) differing and deferring
Q.33. Biographia Literaria is ……….
(A) a collection of biographies
(B) a critical work
(C) an autobiography
(D) a biography
Q.34. For whom is the 'unconscious' structured like a language?
(A) Lacan
(B) Freud
(C) Jung
(D) Adler
Q.35. T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in …………
(A) 1938
(B) 1948
(C) 1949
(D) 1943
Q.36. Which of the following is not an example of utopia ?
(A) Brave New World
(B) Looking Backward
(C) News from Nowhere
(D) Lost Horizon
Q.37. The Old Testament was originally written in ………..
(A) English
(B) Greek
(C) Spanish
(D) Hebrew
Q.38. Butler's Hudibras is an attack on :
(A) Female sex
(B) Puritanism
(C) Aristocracy
(D) Male dominated society
Q.39. Which of the following pairs is a mismatch from the point of view of author-work?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa – In the castle of My Skin
(B) V.S. Naipaul – A House for Mr. Biswas
(C) Wilson Harris – Palace of the Peacock
(D) J.P. Clark – Ozidi
Q.40. 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls' is a line composed by:
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Thomas Hardy
Q.41. Which of the following pairs is mismatched ?
(A) Questioning note – Clough
(B) Pessimism – James Thomson
(C) Wistful Melancholy – Matthew Arnold
(D) Malapropism – Robert Browning
Q.42. Which of the following statements is not correct?
(A) The Neo-Victorian amalgamates Victorian and Edwardian aesthetic sensibilities with modern principles and technology
(B) Pip is a character created by Charles Dickens
(C) In Memoriam is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam
(D) 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is an exposition of Browning's philosophy but in the mouth of A.L.Tennyson
Q.43. Mrs. Pipchin is a character created by :
(A) George Eliot
(B) Thomas Hardy
(C) John Donne
(D) Charles Dickens
Q.44. Which of the following works is not written by Joe Orton ?
(A) Entertaining Mr. Sloane
(B) The Ruffian on the Stair
(C) Chips with Everything
(D) The Erpingham Camp
Q.45. The Townley plays are sometimes known as:
(A) Comedy of Humour
(B) Comedy of Manners
(C) Wakefield plays
(D) Christian plays
Q.46. Who of the following does not figure in "The Spectator Club" ?
(A) Sir Roger de Coverly
(B) Andrew Freeport
(C) Captain Sentry
(D) Colonel Douglas
Q.47. 'Heteroglossia' is a term coined by:
(A) Roman Jacobson
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Mikhail Bakhtin
(D) Homi K. Bhabha
Q.48. Who has said "Poetry is a speaking picture with the ends to teach and delight"?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Aristotle
(C) Sir Philip Sidney
(D) Horace
Q.49. Which of the following is a mismatched pair :
(A) French – Paul Valery
(B) German – Chekhov
(C) Russian – Fyodor Dostoevsky
(D) Russian – Leo Tolstoy
Q.50. Who has framed charges against poetry in the light of social standards of morality?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) Matthew Arnold
Q.51. The Cry of the Children is authored by :
(A) Carlyle
(B) Ruskin Bond
(C) Elizabeth Barret
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
Q.52. 'Skimmity-ride' has been shown in the following novel :
(A) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(B) The White Peacock
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Ulysses
Q.53. Lucetta Templeman is a character in the following novel :
(A) Ulysses
(B) Sons and Lovers
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(D) A Laodicean
Q.54. It has been observed that after learning irregular forms like went and saw, some students begin to learn regular past tense forms and produce goed and seed. This is called ………… interference.
(A) retrograde
(B) retroactive
(C) regressive
(D) reductionist
Q.55. The acronym ESP stands for :
(A) English for Secondary Purposes
(B) English for Sacred Purposes
(C) English for Social Purposes
(D) English for Special Purposes
Q.56. Only the target language is used in the ………… method of teaching.
(A) Situational
(B) Grammar-translation
(C) Functional
(D) Direct
Q.57. The middle English period stretches from the beginning of the ……….. century up to the middle of the 15th century.
(A) 10th (B) 13th
(C) 9th (D) 12th
ANS : Options or Question is wrong
Q.58. ………….motivation refers to wanting to learn a language in order to communicate with people of another culture speaking it.
(A) instrumental
(B) intensive
(C) implementational
(D) integrative
Q.59. Which of the following novels contains constant parallels to Homer's Odyssey ?
(A) The First Man in the Moon
(B) Forsyte Saga
(C) Ulysses
(D) Point Counterpoint
Q.60. The Jindyworobak movement was started by:
(A) Rex Ingamells
(B) David Martin
(C) Yasmine Gonneratne
(D) Satendra Nandan
Q.61. Eca de Queiroz is the author of :
(A) The Crime of Father Amaro
(B) Chronicle of Guinea
(C) The Panorama
(D) The Book of Aesop
Q.62. The epic verse of Homer's Odyssey is in …..
(A) Pentameter
(B) Hexameter
(C) Heptameter
(D) Tetrameter
Q.63. In his comedy entitled The Clouds, ancient Greek author Aristophanes pokes fun at………..
(A) Socrates (B) Plato
(C) Aristotle (D) Epictetus
Q.64. Ghashiram Kotwal is authored by …………
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Vijay Tendulkar
(C) Satish Alekar
(D) Girish Karnad
Q.65. Which Indian poet is hailed as the Nightingale of India?
(A) Kamala Markandeya
(B) Toru Dutt
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Mahashweta Devi
Q.66. R.K. Narayan's debut novel is :
(A) The Guide
(B) Malgudi Days
(C) Swami and Friends
(D) The Financial Expert
Q.67. ……….. coined the term, 'Chutnification'.
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Amitav Ghosh
Q.68. Aravind Adiga is the author of :
(A) The Shame
(B) Possage to India
(C) The White Tiger
(D) Two States
Q.69. Who among the following American writers is known for antagonising traditional minded jews ?
(A) John Updike
(B) John Barth
(C) Philip Roth
(D) Ralph Ellison
Q.70. Which of the following does not figure in the original Augustan age, under the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 BC–AD 14) ?
(A) Virgil
(B) Horace
(C) Plato
(D) Ovid
Q.71. Who among the following does not belong to the school of New Criticism?
(A) John Crowe Ransom
(B) Fredric Jameson
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Allen Tate
Q.72. The term "Culture Industry' is coined by:
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Theodore Adorno
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Raymond Williams
Q.73. For the structuralists, Naturalization' means ………..
(A) overcoming the artificiality of the literary text
(B) adding to the artificiality of the literary text
(C) ignoring the reality of the literary text
(D) overcoming the naturalness of the literary text
Q.74. The term Bildungsroman stands for:
(A) Novel of growth
(B) Roman buildings
(C) Roman philosophy
(D) Philosophical novel
Q.75. Post-structuralists believe that ……….. is necessarily built into language.
(A) transparency
(B) lucidity
(C) Instability
(D) authenticity