Each question carries Two (2) Two (2) Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions (1 to 4) below it :
Go, lovely Rose !
Tell her, that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that’s young
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired :
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blish so to be admired.
Then die ! that she
The common fate of all things rare May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair !
1. What does the rose symbolise ?
(A) time
(B) love
(C) valour
(D) death
2. How is the beloved compared to the rose ?
(A) as fair as a rose
(B) as dull as a desert
(C) a source of spying
(D) unglorified death
3. Why are ‘her graces spied’ ?
(A) because the beloved is cruel
(B) because they spring from desert
(C) because they live for a short time
(D) because people don’t like them
4. What is the fate of small beauties ?
(A) They suffer unnecessarily
(B) They feel bleshed
(C) They are rare
(D) They vanish quickly
5. Lucius is an ordinary character created by William Shakespeare for the historical play :
(A) Richard II
(B) Pericles
(C) Julius Caesar
(D) Coriolanus
6. The following lines are spoken by which one of the following characters in Julius Caesar by William Shakes peare ?
‘‘Stop, then and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this lofty scene be acted o’er.
In states unborn and accents yet unknowns.
(A) Brutus
(B) Cassius
(C) Casca
(D) Cina
7. Identify the text below in which the character, ‘‘Man with the Muck Rake’’ features :
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Unfortunate Traveller
(C) The Canterbury Tales
(D) The Pilgrim’s Progress
8. In which of the following essays does T.S. Eliot use the term ‘‘objective correlative’’ ?
(A) The Function of Criticism
(B) The Frontiers of Criticism
(C) Metaphysical Poets
(D) Hamlet and His Problems
9. In which play of Shakespeare does the line ‘‘What a piece of work is man’’ occur ?
(A) King Lear
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
10. Thomas Carew belongs to the group of poets called :
(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Elizabethan poets
(D) Classical poets
11. Which of the following is not written by John Cleveland ?
(A) ‘‘An Elegy on Ben Jonson’’
(B) ‘‘Mark Antony’’
(C) ‘‘The Rebel Scot’’
(D) ‘‘The Wish’’
12. ‘‘I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.’’
This sentence is taken from :
(A) The Vicar of Wakefield
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Citizen of the World
(D) The Good-Natur’d Man
13. The British literary and society journal ‘The Tatler’ was founded by :
(A) Richard Steele
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Thomas Adams
(D) Richard Adams
14. The conceit used by John Donne in ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’ is :
(A) the moving earth
(B) lover’s love
(C) trepidation of the spheres
(D) twin compasses
15. About Samuel Richardson’s creation of the character of Clarissa, who swore that ‘‘if she should die, he would no longer believe in providence’’ ?
(A) Laurence Sterne
(B) Tobias Smollett
(C) Sir Roger de Coverley
(D) Colley Cibber
16. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is :
(A) A tribal narrative
(B) A fairy tale
(C) A slave narrative
(D) An American Indian narrative
17. Who is the author of Life of Henry VIII ?
(A) John Rushworth
(B) John Thurloe
(C) Lord Herbert of Cherbury
(D) James Howell
18. About revolution in France who said that it was ‘‘Mother of all evils !’’ ?
(A) Edmund Burke
(B) Philip Dormer
(C) John Rushworth
(D) Roger North
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions (1 to 4) below it :
Go, lovely Rose !
Tell her, that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that’s young
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired :
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blish so to be admired.
Then die ! that she
The common fate of all things rare May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair !
1. What does the rose symbolise ?
(A) time
(B) love
(C) valour
(D) death
2. How is the beloved compared to the rose ?
(A) as fair as a rose
(B) as dull as a desert
(C) a source of spying
(D) unglorified death
3. Why are ‘her graces spied’ ?
(A) because the beloved is cruel
(B) because they spring from desert
(C) because they live for a short time
(D) because people don’t like them
4. What is the fate of small beauties ?
(A) They suffer unnecessarily
(B) They feel bleshed
(C) They are rare
(D) They vanish quickly
5. Lucius is an ordinary character created by William Shakespeare for the historical play :
(A) Richard II
(B) Pericles
(C) Julius Caesar
(D) Coriolanus
6. The following lines are spoken by which one of the following characters in Julius Caesar by William Shakes peare ?
‘‘Stop, then and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this lofty scene be acted o’er.
In states unborn and accents yet unknowns.
(A) Brutus
(B) Cassius
(C) Casca
(D) Cina
7. Identify the text below in which the character, ‘‘Man with the Muck Rake’’ features :
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Unfortunate Traveller
(C) The Canterbury Tales
(D) The Pilgrim’s Progress
8. In which of the following essays does T.S. Eliot use the term ‘‘objective correlative’’ ?
(A) The Function of Criticism
(B) The Frontiers of Criticism
(C) Metaphysical Poets
(D) Hamlet and His Problems
9. In which play of Shakespeare does the line ‘‘What a piece of work is man’’ occur ?
(A) King Lear
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
10. Thomas Carew belongs to the group of poets called :
(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Elizabethan poets
(D) Classical poets
11. Which of the following is not written by John Cleveland ?
(A) ‘‘An Elegy on Ben Jonson’’
(B) ‘‘Mark Antony’’
(C) ‘‘The Rebel Scot’’
(D) ‘‘The Wish’’
12. ‘‘I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.’’
This sentence is taken from :
(A) The Vicar of Wakefield
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Citizen of the World
(D) The Good-Natur’d Man
13. The British literary and society journal ‘The Tatler’ was founded by :
(A) Richard Steele
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Thomas Adams
(D) Richard Adams
14. The conceit used by John Donne in ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’ is :
(A) the moving earth
(B) lover’s love
(C) trepidation of the spheres
(D) twin compasses
15. About Samuel Richardson’s creation of the character of Clarissa, who swore that ‘‘if she should die, he would no longer believe in providence’’ ?
(A) Laurence Sterne
(B) Tobias Smollett
(C) Sir Roger de Coverley
(D) Colley Cibber
16. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is :
(A) A tribal narrative
(B) A fairy tale
(C) A slave narrative
(D) An American Indian narrative
17. Who is the author of Life of Henry VIII ?
(A) John Rushworth
(B) John Thurloe
(C) Lord Herbert of Cherbury
(D) James Howell
18. About revolution in France who said that it was ‘‘Mother of all evils !’’ ?
(A) Edmund Burke
(B) Philip Dormer
(C) John Rushworth
(D) Roger North
19. One of the powerful weapons of Jane Austen’s narrative art is :
(A) verbosity
(B) irony
(C) magical realism
(D) musicality
20. In which poem of Wordsworth, the following lines occur ?
For oft, when on my couch I lie/in vacant or in pensive mood/They flash upon that inward eye/which is the bliss of solitude.’’
(A) ‘We are seven’’
(B) ‘‘Daffodils’’
(C) ‘‘Lucy Gray’’
(D) The ‘‘Solitary Reaper’’
21. On which poet’s epitaph are the words engraved, ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ ?
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Lord Byron
(D) John Keats
22. In a celebrated preface this author wrote, ‘Above all, this book is not concerned with poetry. The subject of it is war, and the pity of war.’ Who is he ?
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) Julian Grenfell
(C) Sigfried Sassoon
(D) Maurice Cornford
23. Which of the following writers has created the characters Lucky and Pozzo ?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) John Osborne
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
24. In which kingdom did Oedipus rule ?
(A) Ithaca
(B) Thebes
(C) Athens
(D) Sparta
25. Which of the following writers has created the character, Jimmy Porter ?
(A) John Osborne
(B) Harold Pinter
(C) Arnold Whisker
(D) Samuel Beckett
26. Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon deals with the subject of :
(A) cockfighting
(B) bullfighting
(C) wrestling
(D) shooting
27. Who is the author of Cry, the Beloved Country ?
(A) Nadine Gordimer
(B) Alan Paton
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Alex La Guma
28. The journal The Atlantic Monthly was founded by :
(A) James Russell Lowell
(B) Washington Irving
(C) Oliver Wendell Holmes
(D) Henry James
29. Which of the following novels deals with the subject of Sepoy Mutinee of 1857 ?
(A) The Siege of Krishnapur
(B) A Passage to India
(C) Kim
(D) Coolie
30. Who wrote the story ‘‘The Fall of the House of Usher’’ ?
(A) Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Washington Irving
(C) H.W. Longfellow
(D) O. Henry
31. Who is the author of the novel The Diviners ?
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Maria Campbell
(C) Jane Rule
(D) Margaret Laurence
32. In which of Hemingway’s novels does the protagonist, Santiago appear ?
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B) The Sun Also Rises
(C) The Old Man and the Sea
(D) A Farewell to Arms
33. Samuel Butler’s novel ‘The way of all flesh’ is..............in character.
(A) Picaresque
(B) Historical
(C) Autobiographical
(D) Biographical
34. ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, a term invented by John Ruskin, stands for :
(A) strong feeling of pathos
(B) fallacy pathetically felt
(C) attributing human feelings and actions to natural objects
(D) elemental simplicity in human beings
35. Which one of the following poems represents the Victorian ethos for optimism at its best ?
(A) ‘‘Ulysses’’
(B) ‘‘Sordello’’
(C) ‘‘In Memoriam’’
(D) ‘‘Dover Beach’’
36. Who said, ‘‘Art is twice removed from Reality’’ ?
(A) Socrates
(B) Plato
(C) Aristotle
(D) Longinus
37. Hermeneutics was originally the science of interpreting :
(A) fiction
(B) poetry
(C) drama
(D) scripture
38. Raymond Williams is considered to be one of the founders of :
(A) cultural studies
(B) feminist studies
(C) semiotic studies
(D) psychoanalysis
39. Who described poetic process as a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) Matthew Arnold
40. ‘Nation and Narration’ is authored by :
(A) Benedict Anderson
(B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Partha Chatterjee
(D) Ranjit Guha
41. John Crowe Ransom is the pioneer of :
(A) New Criticism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Reception Theory
(D) Historical Materialism
42. Who is the author of Mythologies ?
(A) Levi Strauss
(B) John Barth
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Donald Barthelme
43. Who is the writer of The Political Unconscious ?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Carl Jung
(C) Fredric Jameson
(D) William James
44. ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ is a book on the post-colonial theory by one of the following authors :
(A) Barbara Harlowe
(B) Henry Louis Lates
(C) Helen Tiffin
(D) Frantz Fanon
45. Who has defined drama as ‘a just and lively image of human nature’ ?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Longinus
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) John Dryden
46. Who has written the play, Men Without Shadows ?
(A) Jean-Paul Sartre
(B) Albert Camus
(C) Louis Aragon
(D) Eugene Ionesco
47. Who is the author of the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude ?
(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(B) Carlos Fuentes
(C) Jorge Luis Borges
(D) Julio Cortazar
48. Who has written the book, Winter in the Blood ?
(A) James Welch
(B) Thomas King
(C) Louise Endrich
(D) Tomson Highway
49. Who is the author of the novel, Song of Solomon ?
(A) Gloria Naylor
(B) Paule Marshall
(C) Toni Morrison
(D) Alice Walker
50. Who is the author of Imaginary Homelands ?
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Ashis Nandi
(D) Dipesh Chakravorty
51. Who is the author of the novel, That Long Silence ?
(A) Manju Kapur
(B) Sashi Deshpande
(C) Gita Mehta
(D) Anita Desai
52. The novel, Two Virgins has been written by :
(A) Kamala Markandaya
(B) Anita Desai
(C) Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee
(D) Bharati Mukherjee
53. Which Indian poet’s autobiography is My Son’s Father ?
(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Dom Moraes
(C) Gieve Patel
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
54. Point out adjective used by Vijay Tendulkar for his Ghashiram Kotwal :
(A) A history play
(B) The historical play
(C) a-historical play
(D) the Chronicle play
55. ‘Godan’ a Hindi novel, translated into English was written by :
(A) Hariwanshray Bacchan
(B) Namwar Singh
(C) Premchand
(D) Arvind Adiga
56. Who among the following wrote the Foreword to Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable ?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) E.M. Forster
57. English uses..............for yes/no questions.
(A) The rising tone
(B) The falling tone
(C) The falling rising tone
(D) The falsetto
58. In English, nouns are generally accented on :
(A) The second syllable
(B) The first syllable
(C) The middle syllable
(D) The last syllable
59. The grammar of a language studies the :
(A) Sounds of that language
(B) The classics written in that language
(C) The vocabulary of that language
(D) The sentences and only the well-formed sentences usable in that language
60. ...............is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
(A) The phoneme
(B) The morpheme
(C) The sentence
(D) The phrase
61. Who, among the following, is not a Jnanpeeth awardee ?
(A) Gopinath Mohanty
(B) Indira Goswami
(C) Mahasweta Devi
(D) Vilas Sarang
62. Om Prakash Balmiki’s ‘Joothan’ has been translated into English by :
(A) Girish Karnad
(B) Shanta Gokhale
(C) Bikram K. Das
(D) Arun P. Mukherjee
63. Mahasweta Devi’s ‘‘Draupadi’’ has been translated into English by :
(A) Sujit Mukherjee
(B) Samik Bandyopadhyaya
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
64. Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh’s ‘Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature’ was translated into Marathi by :
(A) Vilas Sarang
(B) Dilip Chitre
(C) Anand Patil
(D) Vilas Gitey
65. Who translated U.R. Anantamurthy’s Samskara into English ?
(A) Gillian Wright
(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(C) Vijay Tendulkar
(D) Dilip Chitre
66. Nita Torane’s ‘‘Living’’ contains multilingual translations of each poem in a collection from the state :
(A) Goa
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Karnataka
(D) Kerala
67. How many diphthongs does English use ?
(A) 12
(B) 10
(C) 8
(D) 6
68. The following skills are considered secondary in ELT :
(A) reading and writing
(B) speaking and writing
(C) writing and listening
(D) speaking and writing
69. The communicative method is also known as :
(A) the army method
(B) the structuralistic method
(C) the common grammar translation method
(D) the audio lingual method
70. When we use computers to learn a language it is called :
(A) Computer generated programs
(B) Computer assisted language learning
(C) Computer based classroom
(D) Console based classroom
71. The questions given below consist of two statements, an Assertion (A) and a Reason (R). Indicate your answer from the alternatives below :
Assertion (A) : Language learning is largely based on the application of what is taught or read.
Reason (R) : It is only through experimentation that students become able practitioners of language.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true
72. ‘Becket’ was a play written by :
(A) Pirendello
(B) Jean Anonith
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Arthur Miller
73. Edmund Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ contains :
(A) twenty four books
(B) twelve cantos
(C) a dozen sections
(D) fourteen cantos
74. The narrative poem ‘‘The Book of the Duchess’’ was written by :
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Stephen Hawe
(D) John Skelton
75. The myth of Antigony was revived by.................after sophocles.
(A) Jean Anouilh
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Strindberg
(D) Wole Syonka