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1. The novel in which the hero is born only after the book is half way through.
A) Pamela B) Moll Flanders
C) Tristram Shandy D) Shamela

2. To whom does the remark, “the well of English undefiled” refer to?
A) Philip Sidney B) William Langland
C) Christopher Marlowe D) Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Match the names of heroines with the plays of Shakespeare.

a. Rosalind 1. The Tempest
b. Portia 2. Much Ado About Nothing
c. Miranda 3. The Merchant of Venice
d. Beatrice 4. As You Like It

A) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2 B) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

C) a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1 D) a-1, b-4, c-2, d-3

4. The Playboy of the Western World is a work by

A) Sean O’Casey B) Seamus Heaney
C) W.B. Yeats D) J M Synge

5. Which of the following writers does not belong to the group, University wits?
A) John Lyly B) John Webster
C) Robert Greene D) Thomas Lodge

6. Name the Australian poet and environmentalist who died in the year 2000.
A) John Blight B) Joan Burns
C) Judith Wright D) Jack Lindsay

7. The poet who was the first to call John Donne metaphysical
A) John Dryden B) Dr Johnson
C) T S Eliot D) Henry Vaughan

8. Fielding’s Tom Jones is the typical example of a ------ novel.

A) Epistolary B) Picaresque
C) Mock–epic D) Allegoric

9. Who is the author of A Modern Utopia?

A) Aldous Huxley B) H G Wells
C) Thomas Moore D) George Orwell

10. The Globe Theatre associated with Shakespeare was destroyed in fire in
A) 1613 B) 1616 C) 1619 D) 1621
11. Identify the themes of the following poems:
a. The Rime of Ancient Mariner 1. Memory and passing of time
b. Ode to the West Wind 2. Tale of Retribution
c. Immortality Ode 3. Unrequited love
d. La Belle Dame Sans Merci 4. Reminder of natural and human mortality
A) a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3 B) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
C) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3 D) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

12. A pedagogic approach that recommends learning by doing.

A) Grammar Translation B) Communicative approach
C) Constructivism D) Suggestopedia

13. Which of the following novels begins with the sentence, “When he was nearly
thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow?”
A) To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.
B) The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
C) Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
D) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

14. Who among the following are the Movement Poets?

I. Kingsley Amis II. D J Enright III. W H Auden IV. Philip Larkin

A) I, III and IV B) I, II and IV C) II, III and IV D) I, II and III

15. Who remarked that ‘poetry begins with a lump in the throat’?
A) Wallace Stevens B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Robert Frost D) Emily Dickinson

16. Who among the following playwrights are associated with the ‘theatre of the absurd’?
I. Eugene Ionesco II. Samuel Beckett III. Jean Genet IV. Bertolt Brecht
A) I, II and IV B) I, III and IV C) II, III and IV D) I, II and III
17. Who proposed that the ‘mirror stage’ was part of the infant’s development?
A) Jacques Lacan B) Carl Jung
C) Melanie Klein D) Sigmund Freud

18. “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.” Who does this
comment refer to?
A) John Keats B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) Lord Byron D) William Wordsworth

19. Identify the novels wherein the novelists employ metafiction:

I. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
II. Slaughterhouse–Five by Kurt Vonnegut
III. It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene
IV. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
A) II and IV B) I and II C) II and III D) I and IV

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20. Which are the features of postmodernism?
I. It was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason.
II. It embraced clarity
III. It was anti-authoritarian by nature
IV. It broke the established norms of style.

A) II, III and IV B) I, II and III C) I, III and IV D) I, II and IV

21. “O lady! We receive what we give / And in our life alone does Nature live”. Where
do the lines appear?
A) Dejection: An Ode B) Immortality Ode
C) Ode to a Skylark D) Ode to a Nightingale

22. The fictional character Sir Roger de Coverley appears in

A) The Tatler B) The Tribune
C) The Spectator D) A Tale of a Tub

23. Who propounded the Monitor theory of Second Language Acquisition?

A) Chomsky B) Ellis C) Hatch D) Krashen

24. Match the following novels and the novelists

a. The Interpreter of Maladies 1. Salman Rushdie
b. Shame 2. Anita Desai
c. Baumgartner’s Bombay 3. R K Narayan
d. The Dark Room 4. Jhumpa Lahiri

A) a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2 B) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

C) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1 D) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3

25. Which of the following facts, according to the Cognitive theorists is not related to
acquisition of language?
A) Language acquisition depends on a chain of Stimulus-Response activities.
B) In the course of learning the child constructs a mini grammar.
C) Children are biologically programmed for language learning.
D) The child plays an active role in learning a language.

26. Identify the following methods/ approaches with their features.

a. Structural approach 1. Focus on the written rather than oral language
b. Direct method 2. Language presented in the form of continuous
discourse
c. Grammar-translation method 3. Learner masters the patterns of sentences
d. Communicative approach 4. Grammar is taught inductively

A) a- 4, b – 3, c - 1, d - 2 B) a- 3, b - 4, c – 1, d - 2
C) a- 2, b - 1, c – 3, d – 4 D) a - 1, b - 2, c - 4, d - 3.

27. Identify the novel not written by Michael Ondaatje.

A) The English Patient B) A Bird in the House
C) In the Skin of a Lion D) Anil’s Ghost

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28. Match the poems with the poets.
a. Obituary 1. Peter Porter
b. Your Attention Please 2. Wole Soyinka
c. Telephone Conversation 3. A K Ramanujan
d. A Far Cry from Africa 4. Derek Walcott
A) a- 2, b - 1, c - 4, d- 3. B) a - 2, b- 4, c- 1, d - 3.
C) a- 1, b - 4, c - 2, d- 3. D) a- 3, b- 1, c- 2, d- 4.

29. Match the following literary theories with their features

a. Deconstruction 1. The perspective of historical materialism
b. Structuralism 2. Intrinsic understanding of actual words on page.
c. Marxist Criticism 3. Resists any process of interpretation
d. New Criticism 4. Contribution to narratology
A) a – 1, b – 4, c - 3, d - 2 B) a – 2, b - 3, c - 1, d - 4.
C) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d – 2 D) a – 4, b – 2, c - 3, d - 1
30. “I gave commands and all smiles stopped together.” The line in Browning’s poem
‘My Last Duchess’ shows actually
A) the innocence of the narrator B) the cruelty of the narrator
C) the evil ways of the victim D) the problem solving skill of the narrator.
31. Match the following books and their writers.
a. The Eminent Victorians 1. Bernard Shaw
b. Shakespearean Tragedy 2. C M Bowra
c. The Quintessence of Ibsenism 3. A C Bradley
d. The Romantic Imagination 4. Lytton Strachey
A) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2 B) a - 3, b - 4, c - 2, d - 1
C) a - 2, b - 4, c - 1, d - 3 D) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d - 2
32. The Bow- Wow theory in language is associated with
A) Pronunciation of words B) Word meaning
C) Origin of language D) Structure of the word
33. Bertrand Russell wrote the book ------- in collaboration with A N Whitehead.
A) Principia Mathematica
B) A History of Western Philosophy
C) The Problems of Philosophy
D) The Conquest of Happiness.
34. The formation of the word ‘edit’ from ‘editor’ is an example of
A) back formation B) suffix formation
C) prefix formation D) assimilation
35. The study of the history of words of a language is
A) Phonology B) Morphology
C) Etymology D) Philology

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36. Match the critical terms with the critics they are associated with
a. Coleridge 1. Touchstone Method
b. Arnold 2. Secondary Imagination
c. Dryden 3. Differance
d. Derrida 4. Comparative criticism
A) a - 4, b - 1, c - 2, d – 3. B) a - 2, b - 1, c - 3, d – 4
C) a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1. D) a - 2, b - 1, c - 4, d - 3

37. The critic who identified woman as the ‘other’ and man as the dominating subject.
A) Elaine Showalter B) John Stuart Mill
C) Simone de Beauvoir D) Kate Millet

38. “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” The line appears in
A) ‘Ode to Fear’ by William Collins
B) ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake
C) ‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns
D) ‘The Task’ by William Cowper

39. “He disappeared in the dead of winter / the brooks were frozen, the airports almost
deserted...” Whose death is lamented here?
A) W B Yeats B) Ezra Pound
C) T S Eliot D) William Carlos Williams
40. “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy
is ignorance; that imitation is suicide, that he must take for himself for better or worse
as his portion: that the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can
come to him but his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
Where does this passage appear?
A) Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
B) Thoreau’s ‘Walden’
C) Emerson’s ‘Self Reliance’
D) Emerson’s ‘Oversoul’

41. Identify the epitaphs of the writers

a. I had a lover’s quarrel with the world 1. H G Wells
b. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished. 2. John Keats
and unyielding, O Death
c. Goddamn you all: I told you so 3. Robert Frost
d. Here lies one whose name was writ in water 4. Virginia Woolf
A) a - 4, b - 1, c - 3, d - 2 B) a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1
C) a - 3, b - 1, c - 2, d - 4 D) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d – 2.
42. Tottel’s Miscellany collected the poems of
A) Wyatt and Surrey B) Chaucer and Gower
C) Dryden and Pope D) Emerson and Thoreau
43. Which of these works is considered a ‘forerunner of the novel’?
A) The Canterbury Tales B) The Divine Comedy
C) Paradise Lost D) Pilgrim’s Progress

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44. Which of the following is the work by Mary Shelley?
A) Dracula B) Frankenstein
C) Frankenstein’s Monster D) Count Dracula
45. Identify and match the fictional world of the following writers.
a. William Faulkner 1. Wessex
b. R K Narayan 2. Yoknapatawpha
c. Thomas Hardy 3. Tilbury town
d. E A Robinson 4. Malgudi
A) a - 2, b - 3, c - 1, d – 4 B) a - 2, b - 1, c – 4, d - 3
C) a - 2, b - 4, c - 1, d – 3 D) a - 4, b - 2, c - 3, d - 1

46. The term ‘sweetness and light’ was borrowed by ----- from ------
A) Dryden, Chaucer B) Sidney, Dante
C) Wordsworth, the Bible D) Arnold, Swift

47. Which of the following novels is written by D H Lawrence?

A) The Rainbow B) Middlesex
C) The Snake in the Garden D) Cutting Stone

48. Match the following closing lines and their respective poems.
a. To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield 1. Ode to the West Wind
b. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. 2. The Waste Land
c. If winter comes can spring be far behind? 3. Ulysses
d. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata / Shantih Shantih Shantih 4. The Unknown Citizen
A) a - 2, b - 3, c - 1, d - 4 B) a - 2, b - 1, c – 4, d - 3
C) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 4, b – 1, c - 3, d - 2

49. On which syllable does the primary stress fall on the word ‘constitution’?
A) First B) Second C) Third D) Fourth

50. Why does Dr Faustus in Marlowe’s play sell his soul to the devil and sign an
agreement?
A) To master women. B) To practise forbidden medicine.
C) To amass wealth. D) To attain superhuman power.
51. Identify the words that have the diphthong / əυ / .
I. talk II. spoke III. show IV. cloth
A) I and III B) II and III C) III and IV D) I and IV
52. ------- by Milton is an appeal to Parliament.
A) L’Allegro B) Areopagitica
C) Hymn on Nativity D) Il Penseroso

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53. Who commented about Philip Larkin being ‘the saddest heart in the post war super
market’?
A) Andrew Motion B) Christopher Ricks
C) Martin Amis D) Eric Homberger
54. The line ‘I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the
wounded person’ appears in
A) Dickinson’s ‘Because I could not Stop for Death’
B) Poe’s ‘The Raven’
C) Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’
D) E.E Cummings ‘I sing of Olaf’

55. If rasa is to be expressed properly each one of its elements should be in consonance
with it. This consonance is
A) Aucitya B) Vibhava C) Vritti D) Vyanjana

56. The ‘gentleman caller’ in Tennessee Williams’ dream play Glass Menagerie is
A) Tom B) Jim O’ Connor
C) Shakespeare D) Mr Wingfield

57. Match the following concepts with the closest English equivalents
a. Vakrokti 1. stimulant
b. Bhava 2. suggestion
c. Dhwani 3. figure of speech
d. Vibhava 4. emotion

A) a - 3, b - 4, c - 2, d - 1. B) a - 2, b - 1, c – 4, d - 3.
C) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d – 2 D) a - 4, b - 2, c - 3, d - 1.

58. Who does the protagonist in the Miracle plays represent?

A) Vice B) Virtue C) Everyman D) Death

59. Aristotelian term for the tragic flaw in a hero that causes his downfall.
A) Catharsis B) Peripeteia C) Anagnorisis D) Hamartia

60. The theorist who is identified with the movement ‘post structuralism’.
A) Jacques Derrida B) Levi Strauss
C) Roland Barthes D) Ferdinand de Saussure

61. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel by------ published in the year ------
A) George Orwell, 1944. B) Aldous Huxley, 1953.
C) Salman Rushdie, 2007. D) Arundhati Roy, 2017.

62. The Cat and Shakespeare is a work by

A) Arthur Koestler B) Sashi Tharoor
C) Raja Rao D) Amitav Ghosh

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63. Match the following works and their authors.
a. The Mad Woman in the Attic 1. Kate Millet
b. Sexual Politics 2. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
c. The Second Sex 3. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 4. Simone de Beauvoir

A) a - 2, b - 1, c - 4, d - 3 B) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d –2
C) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 2, b - 4, c – 3, d -1

64. Who wrote the book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

A) Jonathan Swift B) John Locke
C) Edmund Burke D) Laurence Sterne

65. The Golden Threshold, published in 1905 with an introduction by Arthur Symons,
was the collection of poems by
A) Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Toru Dutt
D) Sri Aurobindo

66. The title “Raisin in the Sun” was borrowed by ------ from ------
A) Eugene O’Neill, Joel Chandler Harris
B) Stephen Crane, Harriet Beecher Stowe
C) Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte
D) Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes

67. Colonel Redfern, father of Alison, appears in

A) The Canterbury Tales B) The Leather stocking Tales
C) Look Back in Anger D) Look Before You Laugh
68. The First African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A) Chinua Achebe B) Derek Walcott
C) Wole Soyinka D) Toni Morrison

69. Match the following poems with the poets.

a. A River 1. Toru Dutt
b. Boat-Ride along the Ganga 2. Nissim Ezekiel
c. Enterprise 3. A K Ramanujan
d. Our Casuarina Tree 4. Keki N Daruwalla
A) a - 2 , b - 1, c - 3, d - 4 B) a -4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2
C) a - 2, b - 3, c - 1, d - 4 D) a - 3, b - 4, c - 2, d - 1
70. Which among the following are quotes from Robert Frost’s poems?
I. Good fences make good neighbours
II. Earth is the right place for love
III. The fact is the sweetest dream that labour knows
IV. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
A) I, III and IV B) II, III and IV C) I, II and IV D) I, II and III

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71. The expression ‘a well boiled icicle’ instead of ‘a well oiled bicycle’ is an example of
A) Spoonerism B) Malapropism
C) Archaism D) Neologism

72. Which is the poem written by Dryden on the theme of Paradise Lost?
A) Annus Mirabilis B) All for Love
C) The State of Innocence D) The Hind and the Panther

73. Which of the following books is written by Raymond Williams?

A) The Political Unconscious B) Culture and Society
C) Postmodernism D) Against Interpretation

74. Identify the characteristics of the Victorian age in literature.

I. Rapid urbanization and decline of rural England.
II. The impact of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
III. The impact of the French language.
IV. Extension of the method of empirical investigation.
A) I, II and IV B) I, III and IV
C) II, III and IV D) I, II and III

75. Ngugi wa Thiong’o who used to write in English, now prefers to write in
A) Oromo B) Gikuyu C) Igbo D) Yoruba

76. The Rez Sisters is a ------- by --------

A) Novel, E J Pratt B) Short story, Sam Shepard
C) Poem, A D Hope D) Play, Tomson Highway

77. Match the following correctly.

a. Adonais – 1. Arthur Hallam
b. Lycidas – 2. Arthur Hugh Clough
c. In Memoriam 3. Edward King
d. Thyrsis 4. John Keats
A) a - 1, b - 2, c - 4, d - 3. B) a - 2, b - 1, c - 4, d - 3
C) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 3, b - 1, c – 2, d - 4
78. Taslima Nasreen writes in
A) Bengali B) French C) English D) Swedish

79. Henrik Ibsen was a native of

A) Ireland B) Sweden C) Norway D) Scotland

80. The speech habits peculiar to a particular person

A) dialect B) idiolect C) register D) pidgin

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81. Identify the features of Bacon’s essays
I. Ideas are expressed in short pithy sentences.
II. Deal with personal experiences
III. Full of references to the classics.
IV. At times he avoided conventional grammar
A) I, III and IV B) II, III and IV
C) I, II and IV D) I, II and III
82. English words like skirt, shirt, skull and sky have a ------- origin.
A) Latin B) Celtic C) French D) Scandinavian
83. Which is the novel not written by Kazuo Ishiguro?
A) The Memorial B) A Pale View of Hills
C) The Remains of the Day D) The Unconsoled

84. Which of the following are not essays?

I. An Essay on Criticism II. An Essay on Man
III. Essay of Dramtick Poesie IV. Essays of Elia
A) I and III B) II and III
C) I and II D) II and IV

85. Match the following characters with the novelists who created them.
a. Uriah Heep 1. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Elizabeth Bennet 2. Charles Dickens
c. Becky Sharp 3. George Eliot
d. Dinah Morris 4. Jane Austen
A) a- 1, b -4, c- 2 , d -3. B) a -3 , b - 1, c - 2, d - 4
C) a- 4, b - 3, c - 2, d- 1 D) a- 2 , b -4, c - 1, d - 3
86. Staying Alive (1988) is a work by
A) Arundhati Roy B) Vandana Shiva
C) Medha Patkar D) Shoba De
87. Leopold Bloom is a character in ------ by -------
A) Ulysses, Joyce B) A Doll’s House, Ibsen
C) Uncle Vanya, Chekov D) Mrs Dalloway, Woolf

88. The second half of the title “The Empire Writes Back” is
A) Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literature
B) Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literatures
C) Theory and Practice of Post Colonial Literature
D) Theory and Practice of Post Colonial Literatures

89. Who among the following writers was a symbolist?

A) Smollet B) Pound C) Mallarme D) Goethe

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90. Who was the first person to introduce the printing press to England?
A) Wilbur Wright B) James Parker
C) William Caxton D) William Hunter
91. Match the following poets with their poems.
a. Banjo Paterson 1. The Wandering islands
b. A D Hope 2. The Man from Snowy River
c. Judith Wright 3. The Quality of Sprawl
d. Les Murray 4. All Things Conspire
A) a - 3 , b- 1 , c - 2, d- 4 B) a- 4 , b - 2 , c- 3 , d -1
C) a- 2 , b- 4 , c - 1, d - 3 D) a- 2, b - 1, c - 4 , d -3

92. Which of the following are the characteristics of dystopian fiction?

I. It expresses the author’s concern about society.
II. It describes a society that is conceived to be perfect.
III. It presents an imaginary place where people lead a fearful life.
IV. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four is an example.

A) I, III and IV B) II, III and IV C) I, II and III D) I, II and IV

93. ‘O my love is like a red red rose.’ The figure of speech used here is
A) Metaphor B) Simile
C) Synecdoche D) Metonymy

94. “Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests.

I’ll dig with it.” The lines appear in ------- by -------
A) Fire and Ice, Frost
B) After Apple Picking, Frost
C) Mid-term Break, Seamus Heaney
D) Digging, Seamus Heaney

95. The following titles of books are borrowed from Shakespeare’s plays. Identify the plays.
a. Cakes and Ale 1. As You Like It
b. The Sound and the Fury 2. The Tempest
c. Brave New World 3. Twelfth Night
d. Under the Greenwood Tree 4. Macbeth
A) a - 1 , b – 4, c - 3, d - 2. B) a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1
C) a - 3, b - 4 , c - 2, d - 1. D) a -4 , b - 1, c - 2, d- 3

96. Which are the features of the Petrarchan sonnet?

I. Divided into two stanzas
II. There is an argument and a counter argument or clarification
III. There is a turn, volta
IV. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef
A) II, III and IV B) I, III and IV
C) I, II and IV D) I, II and III

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97. What is the pronunciation of tense morpheme ‘ed’ when it comes after the phoneme
/t/ or /d/?
A) /id/ B) /t/ C) /d/ D) None of these

98. “ Where ignorance is bliss / T’s folly to be wise.” Who wrote the lines?
A) Alexander Pope B) Thomas Gray
C) William Collins D) Robert Southey

99. Arrange the following novels of William Golding chronologically.

I. The Inheritors II. Lord of the Flies
III. Rites of Passage IV. The Spire
A) II, I, IV and III B) I, II, IV and III
C) IV, II, III and I D) III, IV, I and II
100. Pope’s Rape of the Lock has an introductory note on this aspect of the poem.
A) Imagery B) Hyperbole C) Zeugma D) Machinery

101. This work is one of the ‘Waverley’ novels

A) The Moonstone B) The Castle of Otranto
C) Waverley D) The Count of Monte Cristo
102. The poet who coined the terms ‘inscape’ and ‘instress.’
A) Hopkins B) Swinburne C) Browning D) Longfellow

103. Which are the novels written by V S Naipaul?

I. The Burning Wheel II. Howard’s End
III. The Mystic Masseur IV. The Mimic Men
A) I and II B) I and IV C) II and IV D) III and IV

104. The poet who expressed the Victorian condition in the lines “Wandering between two
worlds, one dead, / the other powerless to be born.”
A) Browning B) Arnold C) Tennyson D) Shelley

105. Match the following characters and the plays in which they appear.
a. Joe Keller 1. Riders to the Sea
b. Petey Bowles 2. Arms and the Man
c. Maurya 3. All My Sons
d. Captain Bluntschli 4. The Birthday Party
A) a - 2 , b - 3, c – 1, d - 4 B) a - 4, b - 3, c – 2, d - 1
C) a - 2, b - 1, c - 4, d – 3 D) a - 3, b - 4, c – 1, d - 2

106. The writer who does not belong to the ‘Bloomsbury’ group.
A) E M Forster B) James Joyce
C) Virginia Woolf D) Lytton Strachey

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107. “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” are the lines from
T S Eliot’s
A) The Hollow Men B) Little Gidding
C) Journey of the Magi D) Ash Wednesday
108. The relation between the ‘signifier’ and the ‘signified’, according to Ferdinand de
Saussure, is
A) symbiotic B) mandatory C) rational D) arbitrary
109. Identify the nature of the following language tests.
a. Achievement test 1. assesses the learner’s abilities required to use language
b. Aptitude test 2. assesses the learner’s strength and weakness
c. Proficiency test 3. directly related to a known syllabus
d. Diagnostic test 4. measures learner’s innate capacity for something
A) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d - 2 B) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2
C) a - 4, b - 3, c - 2, d - 1 D) a - 2, b - 1, c - 3, d- 4
110. A specific theory of ‘male gaze’ was elaborated by -------- in the essay “Visual
Pleasures and Narrative Cinema.”
A) Laura Mulvey B) Stanley Fish
C) Roland Barthes D) Linda Hutcheon

111. The omission of sounds in connected speech is

A) syncopation B) liaison C) assimilation D) elision

112. Choose the correct words to fill in the blanks.

The study of how children learn to speak has proved to be one of the most -------,
important and complicated branches of language study in recent years. The
fascination of the subject ------ from the natural interest people -------- in developing
abilities of children.

A) disheartening, brews, leave

B) fascinating, stems, take
C) encouraging, descend, bestow
D) flourishing, distils, give

113. The process of conveying the sounds of the source words by letters in the target
language.
A) Transmutation B) Transcreation
C) Translation D) Transcription

114. Match the titles of plays with the playwrights.

a. Evam Indrajit 1. Girish Karnad
b. Kanyadaan 2. Mahesh Dattani
c. Dance Like a Man 3. Badal Sircar
d. Hayavadana 4. Vijay Tendulkar
A) a - 3, b - 4, c - 2, d - 1 B) a - 2, b - 3, c- 1, d - 4
C) a - 3, b - 4, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1

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115. Who popularized the verse form ‘limerick’?
A) John Updike B) Muriel Spark
C) Lewis Carroll D) Edward Lear

116. The film that won the Oscar 2017 best picture award.
A) The Big Short B) La La Land C) Moonlight D) Selma

117. Match the following autobiographical works with their authors.

a. My Father’s Son 1. Nirad C Chaudhuri
b. The Outcaste- Akkarmashi 2. B R Ambedkar
c. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 3. Sharankumar Limbale
d. Waiting for a Visa 4. Dom Moraes
A) a - 3, b - 4, c - 2, d - 1 B) a - 2, b - 1, c - 3, d- 4
C) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 2, b - 4, c - 3, d - 1

118. The process of substituting a harsh word with a mild one is

A) circumlocution B) slang
C) cliche D) euphemism
119. Match the names of protagonists with the novels they figure in.
a. Deven Sharma 1. A Suitable Boy
b. Malik Solanka 2. In Custody
c. Gauri 3. Fury
d. Lata 4. The Old Woman and the Cow

A) a - 2, b - 3, c - 4, d - 1 B) a - 2, b -1, c - 4, d - 3
C) a - 4, b - 3, c - 1, d - 2 D) a - 3, b - 2, c - 1, d- 4 .

120. “I wish the good old times would come again,” she said, “when we were a great deal
quite so rich. I do not mean that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state.... in
which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that
you have money and enough to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.” The passage
is from Lamb’s essay:

A) Poor Relations B) Dream Children: A Reverie

C) Tombs in the Abbey D) Old China
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