2021 English Set Exam Paper 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 to 4) :

Read the passage and answer the questions given below it :

Throughout his life and extensive writing career, Radhakrishnan tried to define, defend, and promulgate his religion of Hinduism, Vedanta, and the Spirit. He sought to demonstrate that his Hinduism was both philosophically coherent and ethically viable.

Radhakrishnan’s concern for experience and his extensive knowledge of the Western philosophical and literary traditions has earned him the reputation of being a bridge-builder between India and the West. He often appears to feel at home in the Indian as well as the Western philosophical contexts, and draws from both Western and Indian sources throughout his writings. Owing to this scholarly stand, Radhakrishnan has been held up in academic circles as a representative of Hinduism to the West. His publications have been influential in shaping the understanding of Hinduism, India, and the East by the West.

Radhakrishnan inherited from his upbringing a tacit acceptance of Advaita Vedanta and an awareness of the centrality of devotional practices associated with the smarta tradition. Advaita Vedanta is widely considered to be the most influential and most dominant sub-school of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Its teachings have influenced various sects of Hinduism and acquired a broad acceptance in Indian culture and beyond. The key source texts for all schools of Vedanta are the Prasthanatrayi, the canonical texts consisting of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras, of which they give a philosophical interpretation and elucidation.

Q.1. Radhakrishnan ........................ Hinduism in the West.

(A) propounded

(B) studied

(D) researched

Q.2. Radhakrishnan was a/an ................

(A) propagator of Hinduism

(B) researcher of Western Philosophy

(D) ambassador of Indian Philosophy and Culture

Q.3. Radhakrishnan .................... Sankara's Advaitam.

(A) doubted

(B) accepted

(D) followed

Q.4. The word ‘‘Canonical’’ means :

(A) Trend setting

(B) Path-breaking

(D) Well-established

Q.5. Henry James, an American-British novelist is regarded as a key figure between :

(A) Literary transcendatalism and literary modernism

(B) Literary realism and literary tradition

(D) Literary realism and literary modernism

Q.6. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,

Coleridge writes :

Water, water everywhere

And all the boards did shrink

Water, water, everywhere

Nor any drop to drink.

Which figure of speech does he employ ?

(A) Hyperbole

(B) Irony

(D) Extended metaphor

Q.7. For the first time in the history of Booker Prize for fiction, a graphic novel was nominated even though it failed to win the prestigious prize. The name of the graphic novel which figured in the long list of Booker Prize nominees in 2018 is :

(A) Sabrina

(B) The Mars Room

(D) The Long Take

Q.8. What kind of sound is /m/ ?

(A) Fricative

(B) Nasal

(D) Semi-vowel

Q.9. To which country, Hamlet is being sent by Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet ?

(A) England

(B) Denmark

(D) Rome

Q.10. In which play does Vittoria Corombona become the mistress of the Duke of Brachiano who for her sake murders both her husband and his own duchess ?

(A) Old Fortnatus

(B) The White Devil

(D) Philaster

Q.11. In which of the following peoms do the given lines occur :

‘‘Thou wastnot born for death, immortal Bird !

No Hungry generations tread thee down.’’

(A) To a Skylark

(B) Ode to a Nightingale

(D) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Q.12. In Divine Comedy, Virgil proceeds to guide Dante through the ................. concentric circles of Hell.

(A) Seven

(B) Eight

(D) Ten

Q.13. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :

(A) Knights

(B) Crusaders

(D) Saints

Q.14. Nature, that fram’d us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment,

Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds :

Above lines are taken from ...............

(A) Edward II

(B) Tamburlaine the Great

(D) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta

Q.15. Which book of Nelson Mandela was published posthumously ?

(A) Long Walk to Freedom

(B) The Struggle is My Life

(D) Dare Not Linger

Q.16. Who is the speaker of the lines :

‘Then, my glasses/Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse/And multiply the figures, as I walk/Naked between my succubae’’ ?

(A) Sir Epicure Mammon

(B) Face

(D) Lovewit

Q.17. The classification ‘‘Very Indian Poems in Indian English’’ was made by :

(A) Kamala Das

(B) A.K. Ramanujan

(D) Sarojini Naidu

Q.18. Who is the heroine of Girish Karnad’s play Hayavadana ?

(A) Nalini

(B) Radha

(D) Shalini

Q.19. In an eclectic approach to language teaching, the teacher chooses :

(A) To devise her own personal approach

(B) Different techniques from different language theories

(D) To alternate two approaches

Q.20. Match the Critics (Column A) with the Mode of literary representation (Column B) :

Column A

(i) Helen Cixous

(ii) Henry Louis Gate

(iii) Lee Edelman

(iv) Gerard Vizenor

Column B

(A) Homographic

(B) Trickster figure

(D) Feminine writing

(A) (i) (D); (ii) (C); (iii) (A); (iv) (B)

(B) (i) (A); (ii) (B); (iii) (C); (iv) (D)

(D) (i) (C); (ii) (D); (iii) (B); (iv) (A)

Q.21. The work Specters of Marx is written by :

(A) Raymond Williams

(B) Terry Eagleton

(D) Jacques Derrida

Q.22. Who is the author of The Great Tradition ?

(A) I.A. Richards

(B) F.R. Leavis

(D) Franz Kafka

Q.23. The literal meaning of ‘hamartia’ is :

(A) Misdirection

(B) Missing the mark

(D) Mistaken identity

Q.24. The journal of Richard Steele that just succeeded The Tatler was :

(A) The Spectator

(B) Athenian Mercury

(D) Female Spectator

Q.25. Matthew Arnold’s model of culture was based on :

(A) Industrialization

(B) Scientific progress

(D) Internal purification, integrity and abstinence

Q.26. In one of his novels Thomas Hardy says, ‘‘Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.’’

In which novel do these lines occur ?

(A) The Return of the Native

(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(D) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Q.27. To thee I call, thou goddess of torment !

Thou cruel wight, that sorrowest even in pain;

Help me, that am the sorry instrument

That helpeth lovers, as I can, to plain.

The above lines are written by :

(A) William Langland

(B) William Shakespeare

(D) Edmund Spenser

Q.28. The concluding line of Spensarian stanza is called :

(A) ‘alexandrine’ line

(B) ‘climatic’ line

(D) ‘terza rima’

Q.29. Identify the figure of speech in the following lines :

Sceptre and Crown

Must tumble down

And in the dust be equal made

With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

(A) Prosopopeia

(B) Metonymy

(D) Kenning

Q.30. The prose work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is written by which of the following ?

(A) William Blake

(B) William Wordsworth

(D) Charles Lamb

Q.31. Who was the most outstanding leader of a group who believed that ‘Eliot’s poetry was over-intellectual and that Auden’s was unduly sociological’ ?

(A) Ted Hughes

(B) Seamus Heaney

(D) Dylan Thomas

Q.32. The literary phenomenon called

‘‘The Angry Young Men’’ occurred in the :

(A) Forties

(B) Fifties

(D) Seventies

Q.33. Who are ape-like beasts in human form in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) ?

(A) Lilliputians

(B) Brobdingnagians

(D) Yahoos

Q.34. Who termed metaphysical poetry as ‘‘affectation of big words, fustian phrases, jingling terms, strong lines .....................’’ ?

(A) Dryden

(B) Pope

(D) Burton

Q.35. The relationship between signifier and signified is :

(A) arbitrary

(B) voluntary

(D) imaginary

Q.36. Who is the author of The Theatre of the Absurd ?

(A) Albert Camus

(B) Franz Kafka

(D) Martin Esslin

Q.37. ‘Memoir Club’ of 1920 was originally centred on two daughters of :

(A) Leslie Stephen

(B) Duncan Grant

(D) J.M. Keynes

Q.38. Shropshire Tales are authored by :

(A) A.G. Street

(B) Adrian Bell

(D) Richard Aldington

Q.39. The title of T.F. Powys’ Mr. Weston’s Good Wine, a novelistic allegory, was taken from :

(A) Jane Eyre

(B) Emma

(D) Sense and Sensibility

Q.40. ‘The Open Boat’ is a story written by :

(A) Earnest Hemingway

(B) Stephen Crane

(D) John Updike

Q.41. Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance is set in ...........................

(A) Calcutta

(B) Bombay

(D) Hyderabad

Q.42. A dialect other than the standard or literary dialect is called :

(A) Pastiche

(B) Potpourri

(D) Patois

Q.43. Word tone is called ................... and Sentence tone is called....................

(A) Pitch, stress

(B) Cadence, meter

(D) Inflection, rhythm

Q.44. Who does Philip Sidney, in his essay ‘‘An Apology for Poetry’’, call peerless ?

(A) Philosopher

(B) Historian

(D) Poet

Q.45. Viktor Shklovsky was a member of :

(A) Russian Formalism

(B) New Critical School

(D) Moscow School

Q.46. Which among the following is not a Freudian concept ?

(A) Overdetermination

(B) Sublimation

(D) Condensation

Q.47. E.P. Thomson wrote :

(A) Marxism and Literature

(B) Culture and Society

(D) The Making of the English Working Class

Q.48. The scene in which Leantio’s mother plays at chess with Livia while in another room the Duke effects his seduction of Bianca occurs in :

(A) The Changeling

(B) A Game at Chess

(D) Women Beware Women

Q.49. Jeremy Collier in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked :

(A) Romantic Comedy

(B) Sentimental Comedy

(D) Tragi-Comedy

Q.50. The subtitle of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller is ..................

(A) The Life of Jack Wilton

(B) Dido, Queen of Carthage

(D) Lenten Stuffe

Q.51. Charles Dicken’s Hard Times mainly deals with :

(A) Moral problems

(B) Religious problems

(D) Social and Industrial problems

Q.52. ‘‘The Deconstructive Angel’’ is an essay by :

(A) Paul de Man

(B) Barbara Johnson

(D) Jacques Derrida

Q.53. What figure of speech has the poet used in the following line ?

‘‘O Death in life, the days that are no more’’.

(A) Parallelism

(B) Oxymoron

(D) Dead metaphor

Q.54. John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman deals with :

(A) Degradation of Postwar England

(B) Victorian love story

(D) England during Restoration period

Q.55. Who, among the modern poets, had an admiration for D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover ?

(A) Anthony Thwaite

(B) John Betjeman

(D) Philip Larkin

Q.56. Which is not a Sentimental Comedy ?

(A) Love’s Last Shift

(B) The Conscious Lovers

(D) The Rivals

Q.57. Henrik Ibsen who is hailed as the ‘father of realism’ belonged to :

(A) Italy

(B) Germany

(D) Austria

Q.58. Which modern play is described as ‘‘A Play in Which Nothing Happens Twice’’ ?

(A) Rhinoceros

(B) Look Back in Anger

(D) Waiting for Godot

Q.59. Who, among the following, was not a war poet ?

(A) Wilfred Owen

(B) Ivor Gurney

(D) Edmund Waller

Q.60. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. These are the concluding lines of .....

(A) ‘‘To His Coy Mistress’’

(B) ‘‘Air and Angels’’

(D) ‘‘Death, Be Not Proud’’

Q.61. A Way in the World is written by :

(A) William Congreve

(B) V.S. Naipaul

(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo

Q.62. Which out of the following is the autobiography of Wole Soyinka ?

(A) The Lion and the Jewel

(B) You Must Set Forth at Dawn

(D) A Dance of the Forest

Q.63. ‘‘Our Casuarina Tree’’ reminisces about whose childhood days ?

(A) Henry Derozio

(B) Toru Dutt

(D) Sarojini Naidu

Q.64. ‘‘How do I Love Thee’’ is a famous lyric composed by which of the following :

(A) Robert Browning

(B) Alfred Tennyson

(D) Matthew Arnold

Q.65. Aravind Adiga creates his Kittur modelled on :

(A) Mysore

(B) Bangalore

(D) Chennai

Q.66. The transition from Old English to Middle English began with the :

(A) Norman Conquest of 1066

(B) John Wycliffe’s Translation of the Bible in 1384

(D) The Hundred Year War Against France 1337-1453

Q.67. The situational approach to foreign language teaching requires that :

(A) Language be taught in specific realistic situations

(B) Learners must be drilled in the rules of grammar

(D) Vocabulary must be built in the target language

Q.68. Shakespeare, according to Johnson, offers :

(A) Particular manners peculiar to individuals

(B) Particular manners peculiar to times

(D) Representations of general nature

Q.69. ‘‘Structure, sign and play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’’ was a paper presented by ............. in 1966 at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Roland Barthes

(D) Lacan

Q.70. By ‘Peripeteia’ Aristotle means :

(A) Climax

(B) Anti-climax

(D) Interlude

Q.71. When a nation casts off colonialism, it also casts off ‘‘the colonized man’’. What is the implication of Frantz Fanon ?

(A) That native intellectuals must dig up the fragments of culture

(B) That one must exoticize one’s own people

(D) When we become free of oppression, we regain our humanity

Q.72. Omniscient narrators are necessarily :

(A) Heterodiegetic

(B) Homodiegetic

(D) Prolepsis

Q.73. In which play does Corvino try to force his wife, Celia, to the protagonist’s bed ?

(A) Epicaene, or The Silent Woman

(B) Bartholomew Fair

(D) Sejanus

Q.74. Who is the author of Diary ?

(A) Daniel Defoe

(B) Samuel Johnson

(D) Alexander Pope

Q.75. Identify the members of the Cockney School of Poetry from among the options given below :

(A) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, William Wordsworth

(B) John Keats, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron

(D) Leigh Hunt, John Keats

Q.76. What is a hypothesis ?

(A) A research question to be investigated

(B) A statement that the researcher wants to test through the data collected in a study

(D) A statistical method for calculating the extent to which the results could have happened by chance

Q.77. The first step of research is ..........

(A) Identifying a problem

(B) Examining a problem

(D) Solving a problem

Q.78. Which of the following is not a feature of the Masque ?

(A) The characters are deities of classical mythology, nymphs, and personified abstractions like Love, Delight, Harmony, etc.

(B) Dances of various kinds are introduced at appropriate places

(D) There is no restriction on the number of characters

Q.79. Suzan-Loripark is a/an :

(A) African playwright

(B) Black American playwright

(D) White American playwright

Q.80. During the reign of King James, in which continent were the first British colonies founded ?

(A) Asia

(B) Africa

(D) North America

Q.81. What do you consider as the main aim of interdisciplinary research ?

(A) To over simplify the problem of research

(B) To create a new trend in research methodology

(D) To reduce the emphasis of single subject in research domain

Q.82. Who among the following is NOT a representative poet of the Victorian Age ?

(A) Robert Browning

(B) Alfred Tennyson

(D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Q.83. In the word ‘management’ the morphemement is a :

(A) Derivational morpheme

(B) Inflectional morpheme

(D) Prefix

Q.84. Who translated Waiting for Godot into English ?

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) Henrik Ibsen

(D) Herald Pinter

Q.85. Who, among the following, didn’t write a novel on the 1914-18 World War ?

(A) Sir Philip Gibbs

(B) R. H. Mottram

(D) T. F. Powys

Q.86. John Buchan’s The Thirty-nine Steps is a/an :

(A) Epistolary novel

(B) Regional novel

(D) Psychological novel

Q.87. Gabriel Garacia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story of ..................... Family.

(A) Buendia

(B) Bovary

(D) Barangwen

Q.88. Who is the hero of R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert ?

(A) Raju

(B) Krishna

(D) Margayya

Q.89. Rajmohan’s Wife is written by ...........

(A) B.B. Lal

(B) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

(D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Q.90. The study of the structure of words is called :

(A) Phonology

(B) Lexicography

(D) Semantics

Q.91. Which of these is a dialect of Old English ?

(A) Latin

(B) Northumbrian

(D) Cockney

Q.92. Wordsworth writes, ‘‘Humble and rustic life was chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart ......................... ’’.

(A) are under restraint

(B) find a better soil

(D) cannot be accurately contemplated

Q.93. Which one of the following ‘Critic School’ pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Raymond Williams – Cultural Studies

(B) Fredric Jameson – Archetypal Criticism

(D) Allen Tate – Marxist Criticism

Q.94. What does the term ‘‘baroque’’ mean in the context of literature ?

(A) Grand and highly decorated style

(B) Highly satirical

(D) Tragic with a comic interlude

Q.95. ‘True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed’.

These lines occur in :

(A) Vanity of Human Wishes

(B) Mac Flecknoe

(D) Essay on Criticism

Q.96. ‘‘We look before and after

And pine for what is not :

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught :

Our sweetest songs are those that

tell of the saddest thought’’

Which of the following poets composed the above lines ?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) P.B. Shelley

(D) Lord Byron

Direction (Q. Nos. 97 to 100) :

Read the following poem and answer the questions given below it :

O Lord of the Universe

Grant me these wishes :

Let wickedness of the wicked cease

Let the desire to do good in them increase.

Let all the living beings come together

As best friends.

Let the darkness of the sin recede,

And let the whole world behold

The Sun of one’s own Dharma arise.

Let all living beings obtain

Whatever they truly cherish.

Let every person on this planet be truly contented.

Let everyone in these three worlds be complete.

Let everyone eternally worship

The Primeval Man.

Q.97. When can a person be truly contended ?

(A) When he obtains what he did not even dream of

(B) When all his enemies are destroyed

(D) When he lives among his kins.

Q.98. How can the wickedness of the wicked cease ?

(A) When the wicked are completely destroyed

(B) When the good outnumber the wicked

(D) When the wicked themselves develop the desire to do good

Q.99. This prayer spreads the message of :

(A) The well-being of only a few

(B) The well-being of everyone in this world

(D) The good being rewarded and the bad punished

Q.100. The sun in the poem has been used as a metaphor for :

(A) Knowledge

(B) Dark

(D) Duty

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