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Read the following passage carefully
and choose the most appropriate
alternatives to answer the questions
given below it :
The story of my famous family is a
story of genius and its consequences,
I suppose, and I am uniquely and
particularly suited to tell the story,
since genius avoided me .....................
and I, it. I remain an ordinary
man, if there is such a thing, calm
in all weathers, aware of event
but uninterested and generally
incapable of deciphering implication.
1. The narrator thinks that he is the
proper person to tell the story
because :
(A) he belongs to the family
(B) the family is famous
(C) the family is highly talented and
intelligent
(D) he is not highly talented and
intelligent
2. ‘................. and I, it’ means that :
(A) genius avoided the narrator
(B) the narrator chose not to be a
genius
(C) he and it are suited to tell the
story
(D) genius avoided me, him and it

3. An ordinary man is incapable of
deciphering implication. This means
that :
(A) he works out what is suggested
(B) he cannot work out what is
suggested
(C) he is able to predict future
events
(D) he implies that he is unable to
understand things
4. The narrator :
(A) believes that there are ordinary
men
(B) accepts for the time being that
there are ordinary men
(C) thinks that there are only
extraordinary men
(D) assumes that men are ordinary
5. The tone of the passage is :
(A) serious
(B) humorous
(C) aggressive
(D) satirical
6. Psychoanalytical theories :
(A) tend to emphasize historicity
(B) suggest that human nature is
universal
(C) are totally unconcerned with the
relationship between history
and human nature
(D) believe that although human
nature depends upon family ties
and the nature of the family, it
has nothing to do with political
and economic change

7. The Renaissance held more aloof
from .............................. in England
than in Italy or even in France.
(A) Music
(B) Plastic Arts
(C) Architecture
(D) Historical writing
8. Ethnic issues cannot be raised in
Shakespeare’s :
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Othello
(C) The Tempest
(D) Hamlet
9. The Merchant of Venice is
Shakespeare’s :
(A) Early comedy
(B) Mature comedy
(C) Tragi-comedy
(D) Romance
10. Identify the source of these lines :
“Was this the face that launched a
thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of
Ilium ?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal
with a kiss.”
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) Dr. Fanstus
(C) Tamberlaine
(D) Sejanus
11. Francis Bacon was influenced by :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Machiavelli
(C) Plato
(D) Erasmus

12. The hero of Milton’s Paradise
Regained is :
(A) Satan
(B) God
(C) Christ
(D) Adam
13. Dryden’s All for Love is an
adaptation of :
(A) Webster’s The White Devil
(B) Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Shakespeare’s Troilus and
Cressida
(D) Shakespeare’s Antony and
Cleopatra
14. Dr. Johnson used the term
‘metaphysical’ to refer to :
(A) religious themes in poetry
(B) the concerns with spiritual
matters in poetry
(C) the poet’s ability to yoke ideas
in unprecedented manner
(D) advocating for the material
aspects of life in poetry.
15. The Restoration brought the major
drift towards .......................... interests
in the social and literary world.
(A) Religious
(B) Cultural
(C) Political
(D) Civic and national
16. The Tatler was started by :
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Sir Richard Steele
(D) Daniel Defoe
17. Mrs. Malaprop is a character
immortalized by :
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) Oliver Goldsmith
(D) Richard Sheridan

18. The following works of Defoe can be
chronologically arranged as :
(A) Robinson Crusoe — Captain
Singleton — Colonel Jacque —
Moll Flanders
(B) Robinson Crusoe — Captain
Singleton — Moll Flanders —
Colonel Jacque
(C) Robinson Crusoe — Moll
Flanders — Captain Singleton
— Colonel Jacque
(D) Robinson Crusoe — Moll
Flanders — Colonel Jacque —
Captain Singleton
19. Whose satire is primarily founded on
his cynicism ?
(A) Wycherley
(B) Congreve
(C) Etheredge
(D) Dryden
20. Who shows his genius for recreating
the past ?
(A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Thomas Moore
(D) Thomas Campbell
21. Who proclaimed the doctrine of
utility ?
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Jeremy Bentham
(C) Adam Smith
(D) William Godwin

22. Identify the author of Confessions of
an English Opium Eater :
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Charles Lamb
23. Identify the poet who has written
many “Visionary” poems :
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) Robert Southey
(C) Lord Byron
(D) Robert Burns
24. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
challenges the conventional class
distinctions by showing that :
(A) Mr. Gardiner, though a trader,
is a perfect gentleman
(B) Wickham, the son of a steward,
has better manners than Darcy,
the aristocrat
(C) Caroline Bingley is to be
condemned for looking down
upon Mrs. Bennet
(D) The gentry do not have to work
for a living
25. Which of the following is not
characteristic of Arnold’s poetry ?
(A) Suavity
(B) Wistfulness
(C) Serenity
(D) Strong passion
26. Which of the following characteristics
best describes Thackeray ?
(A) High moralism
(B) Clear-sighted realism
(C) Weak narration
(D) Strong propaganda
27. In which novel of his, Fielding
reverses the situation in
Richardson’s Pamela ?
(A) Joseph Andrews
(B) Jonathan Wild
(C) Tom Jones
(D) Amelia

28. The character of Rochester occurs in
the novel :
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jane Eyre
(C) Agnes Grey
(D) Shirley
29. Match ‘A’ with ‘B’ :
‘A’ ‘B’
(1) Ivanhoe (a) Henry Mackenzie
(2) The Man of (b) Sir Walter Scott
Feeling
(3) The Vicar of (c) Samuel Johnson
Wakefield
(4) Rasselas (d) Oliver Goldsmith
Codes :
(A) (1)–(b), (2)–(a), (3)–(d), (4)–(c)
(B) (1)–(a), (2)–(c), (3)–(b), (4)–(d)
(C) (1)–(b), (2)–(d), (3)–(a), (4)–(c)
(D) (1)–(d), (2)–(a), (3)–(b), (4)–(c)
30. Who among the following was not
associated with the revival of the
verse drama ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) J.B. Priestley
(D) Christopher Isherwood
31. Who remarkably changed the
literary taste after the 1st World
War ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) Louis MacNiece
(D) Stephen Spender

32. One of the following anthologies by
Yeats is recognized as a turning
point in the poet’s attempt to
modernize his poetry ?
(A) Michael Robartes and The
Dancer
(B) The Tower
(C) Responsibilities
(D) The Wild Swans at Coole
33. The following plays of Bernard
Shaw are satires on social attitudes
towards sex relations :
(A) Back to Methuselah, Major
Barbara
(B) Androcles and the Lion, Arms
and the Man
(C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man
and Superman
(D) The Devil’s Disciple, The Man
of Destiny
34. Conrad’s method of putting together
materials from the point of view of
several persons :
(A) is similar to Impressionism in
Painting
(B) means a lot of unnecessary
repetition
(C) creates contradictory versions of
truth
(D) prevents us from arriving at
objective truth
35. Molier’s Alceste is engaged in :
(A) only a hopeless love affair
(B) a potential duel
(C) a court case
(D) love affair, duel and court case

36. Ralph is a character in :
(A) The Lord of the Flies
(B) Clockwork Orange
(C) The Enchanter’s Net
(D) The Paperman
37. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ is a poem
which depicts :
(A) Her incestuous love for her
father
(B) Her Nazi tendencies
(C) Her hatred towards her father
(D) Her jealousy of her mother
38. James Joyce in A Portrait of an
Artist as a Young Man shows the
development of Stephen as a :
(A) Sensitive young man
(B) Conformist
(C) Revolutionary
(D) Army recruit
39. Which author from the following
discusses sexual deviations freely ?
(A) C.P. Snow
(B) John Wain
(C) Irish Murdoch
(D) Laurence Durrell
40. In Orwell’s 1984, surveillance is not
performed through :
(A) Police
(B) Telescreen
(C) Tape-recorders
(D) Mind-reading
41. Neo-classicism developed the notion
of :
(A) Reflection
(B) Resemblance
(C) Verisimilitude
(D) Mimesis

42. T.S. Eliot’s criticism provides :
(A) a new theory of literature
(B) a reinterpretation of certain
writers such as Dante, Donne
and Dryden
(C) a justification for imagery and
symbolism
(D) a new assessment of classicism
and romanticism
43. Plato and Aristotle considered :
(A) the end of tragedy in different
ways
(B) the nature of tragedy in similar
ways
(C) the soul of tragedy in similar
ways
(D) tragic hero and his fate
44. Canons of literature was one of the
major concerns of :
(A) modernism
(B) post-modernism
(C) feminism
(D) black literature
45. Coleridge makes distinction
between :
(A) imagination and fancy
(B) creative and critical faculty
(C) literal and figurative
(D) organic and mechanical
46. Multiculturalism is a concept in :
(A) Modernism
(B) Post-modernism
(C) Feminism
(D) Structuralism

47. The notion of difference was
developed by :
(A) Michele Foucault
(B) Roland Barthes
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Paul de Man
48. Carnivalesque and polyphony were
important concepts in :
(A) Dialogism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Reception theory
(D) Feminism
49. Issues like patriarchal structure of
society, gender discrimination and
the structure of human language
are raised by :
(A) Marxist criticism
(B) Feminist criticism
(C) Archetypal criticism
(D) Formalism
50. Historical and cultural conditions of
the production of literary texts are
studied by :
(A) New criticism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) New historicism
(D) Psychoanalytic criticism
51. “Modern English has become an
analytical language.” This means
that there are fewer ..........................
in Modern English than its earlier
forms.
(A) Vowel sounds
(B) Cases
(C) Inflexions
(D) Tenses

52. ESP is an acronym for English for
.............................. purposes.
(A) selected
(B) social
(C) specific
(D) study
53. In a mechanical drill,
(A) the item has to be repeated at
least 10 times.
(B) comprehension of the item is not
necessary
(C) the class needs to repeat the
item in a chorus
(D) audio-visual aids are used for
practice
54. In a multilingual society :
(A) a single language is used on all
occasions
(B) different languages are used
depending on the types of
functions
(C) each language is used for
different functions
(D) the choice of a language for a
particular function is made by
an individual
55. Error analysis and interlanguage
are notions related to :
(A) the interference of the first
language in second language
learning
(B) wrong learning strategies
(C) the errors made in using the
first language
(D) the lack of linguistic competence

56. The central message of Goethe’s
Faust is :
(A) He who strives is never lost
(B) One must be punished for
adultery
(C) Worldly pleasures are worthless
(D) One should not give into
sensual and material temptations
57. Petrarch addressed his sonnets to :
(A) Beatrice
(B) Laura
(C) Mary Fitton
(D) Elizabeth Boyle
58. Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard deals
with :
(A) the rise of the working class
(B) the decline of the Feudal order
(C) the need to emancipate serfs
(D) Love triangles
59. We associate the term ‘audience
alienation’ with :
(A) Bertolt Brecht
(B) Luigi Pirandello
(C) August Strindberg
(D) Samuel Beckett
60. In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary,
Emma falls in love with :
(A) Homais
(B) Binet
(C) Rodolphe
(D) Justin

61. The sea-sky dichotomy in Where
Shall We Go This Summer refers to
the dialectics of :
(A) being and becoming
(B) this world and the other world
(C) the self and the other
(D) man and woman
62. Meghnath Vadham Kavyam by
Michael Madhusudan Dutt :
(A) Sings of the adventures of Rama
(B) Sings of the weaknesses of
Meghnath
(C) Subverts the character of Rama
(D) Questions Meghnath’s loyalty
towards Ravana
63. Who among the following has used
Indian philosophy extensively in his
novels ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) R.K. Narayan
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Bhabani Bhattacharya
64. Jugga disrupts the plan of killing of
Muslims travelling to Pakistan by
train because :
(A) his beloved Nooran was
travelling in the train
(B) he was secular-minded
(C) he did not believe in retaliation
(D) he was a follower of Gandhi
and his non-violence

65. Raja Rao’s Comrade Kirillov deals
with :
(A) the rise of the communist
movement in India
(B) the life of a Russian
philanthropist
(C) split personality of an
individual
(D) the friendship between India
and Russia
66. Chinua Achebe writes about the
community called :
(A) Maori
(B) Niger
(C) Igbo
(D) Ibo
67. Naipaul’s Mohan Biswas stands for
the .................................. generation of
Indians in West Indies.
(A) first
(B) second
(C) third
(D) contemporary
68. The House of Seven Gables is
written by :
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Henry James
(D) Theodore Winthrop
69. The Scarlet Letter is set in :
(A) the mid 17th century
(B) the early 18th century
(C) the mid 18th century
(D) the late 18th century

70. A strong influence of Chinese and
Japanese thought and culture is
seen in the poems of :
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Carlos Williams
(D) Hart Crane
71. For Sanssure ‘sign’ is :
(A) Form and image and the
arbitrariness of the relation
between the two
(B) Form with a logical relation to
its meaning
(C) A symbol used in language
(D) A word with a stable form and
changing meaning
72. New Historicism is a literary method
mostly used by :
(A) Adorno
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Gramsci
(D) F.R. Leavis
73. I.A. Richards valued literature
for :
(A) Satisfying impulses of human
beings
(B) Giving us a cathartic experience
(C) Being imaginative
(D) Being instructive
74. Literariness, foregrounding and
defamiliarization are some
important critical concepts used
by :
(A) New critics
(B) Russian formalists
(C) Moralist critics
(D) Structuralist critics
75. ‘Literature gives a conesthetic or
synaesthetic experience’ is an
argument of :
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) I.A. Richards
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Northrop Frye

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