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Note : This paper contains fifty
(50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
( ALL THE ANSWERS ARE
COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE A LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS.
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1. The epithet “a comic epic in
prose” is best applied to
(A) Richardson’s Pamela
(B) Sterne’s A Sentimental
Journey
(C) Fielding’s Tom Jones
(D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
("Comic prose epics" is a
type of epic derived from the serious epic that satirizes
contemporary ideas or conditions in a form and style burlesquing the serious
epic. It is also noted as mock epics Exm: The Rape of the Lock
(1712) by the English poet Alexander Pope. Several novels also fall into this
category. Fielding himself refers to his two novels, Joseph Andrews
and Tom Jones, as "comic prose epics". In the preface Joseph
Andrews, Fielding described his own fictional form as "a comic
romance" or a "comic epic poem in prose," and in Tom Jones
as a "heroical, historical prosaic poem" ; a form of
"prosai-comi-epic writing" . In defining the novel as an epic genre,
Fielding emphasized its function in presenting a broad picture of an era, but
one, unlike verse epic, in which primarily the weaknesses of humanity are put
on display. So the critics do vary on the genre of these novels. Nonetheless
from the given options as Joseph Andrews is not there, Tom
Jones is right option. )
2. Muriel Spark has written a
dystopian novel called
(A) Memento Mori
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie
Brodie
(C) Robinson
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
( The Republic( 4th century bc ) by Greek philosopher Plato,Sir
Thomas More 's Utopia (1516), Francis Bacon 's The New Atlantis
(1627) dealt with the fictional island of ideal society which is better
than reality. They are popularly known as 'utopian' novel. However, many
other works followed and established a slight new genre, named dystopian (antiutopian)
fiction where life is worse than reality. Dystopia is found in Spark’s
best known novel is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) other example:
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It is the story of an eccentric Edinburgh
schoolteacher seen through the eyes of an admiring (but later disenchanted)
pupil. Rowe has written that "Nothing is wasted in [The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie], which is so much about a waste of human energy."
Other close option is The Ballad
of Peckham Rye (1960) authored by Spark . But here Spark wanted “to write
something light and lyrical – as near a poem as a novel could get, and in as
few words as possible”)
3. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an
example of
(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature
(Erewhon satirizes various aspects
of Victorian society, including criminal punishment, religion and
anthropocentrism. For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are
treated as if they were ill whilst ill people are looked upon as criminals.
Another feature of Erewhon is the absence of machines; this is due to the
widely shared perception by the Erewhonians that they are potentially
dangerous. This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles
Darwin's evolution theory; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after
it was published in 1859.)
4. The line “moments of unageing
intellect” occurs in Yeats’s
(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) The Circus Animals’
Desertion
( Read this poem: Sailing
To Byzantium)
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped the following poets together as
the ‘Lake School of Poets’ :
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and
Southey
(They are called Lake Poets because they all lived in the
Lake district of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a group,
reviewed by Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review they shared
their common habitation but no such poetic ideology. However, they are
considered part of the Romantic Movement. Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lloyd,
Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincy are other poets of this
group.)
6. Which of the following novels is
not by Patrick White ?
(A) The Vivisector
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda
( The Vivisector suggests
White's vision of his protagonist's approach to art. The novel is by and large
a ruthless vivisection of the artist ,Hurtle Duffield, from early childhood to
death.
The Tree of Man is forth published
novel of this Australian writer . It is an ideological and cultural survey of
Parker family and their sea saw fortune.
Voss, 5th novel by Patrick
White is a expedition novel on Prussian explorer and naturalist
Ludwig Leichhardt. The story has a strong religious favour too.
While Oscar and Lucienda is
Peter Carey's novel describing a gumbling story.)
7. The famous line “……. where
ignorant armies clash by night” is taken from a poem by
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Matthew Arnold
( The line is in Matthew Arnold's
Dover Beach that tells about value of love, faith, religiosity and peace.Here
the ignorant armies are the citizen of this materialist world who are madly
striking each other ignorantly- a scene of total anarchy or waste.)
8. Which among the following novels
is not written by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) Surfacing
(B) The Blind Assassin
(C) The Handmaid’s Tale
(D) The Stone Angel
( Margaret Atwood and Margaret
Laurence are Canadian writers.
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood's second
novel is structured around the point of view of a young woman who travels
with her friends on a lake in Northern Quebec, to search for her missing
father. This psychological mystery tale presents a compelling study of a woman
who is also searching for herself- present, past and future.
The Blind Assassin, centred on the
protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, this Margaret Atwood's novel is
pictorial details of lives around the time of the Second World War.
The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian
novel by Margaret Atwood, explores themes of women in subjugation
and the various means by which they gain individualism engaging with the social
structure.
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
is most controversial story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year old woman struggling to
come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss.)
9. The term ‘theatre of cruelty’ was
coined by
(A) Robert Brustein
(A) Robert Brustein
(B) Antonin Artaud
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello
( lDuring the early 1930s, the French
poet, actor, and theorist Antonin Artaud put forth a theory for a Surrealist experimental
theater called the Theater of Cruelty that shades a major influence on
avant-garde 20th-century theater. lBased on ritual and fantasy, this form of
theater launches an attack on the spectators' subconscious in an attempt to
release deep-rooted fears and anxieties that are normally suppressed, forcing
people to view themselves and their natures without the shield of civilization.
By cruelty, he meant not exclusively sadism or causing pain, but just as often
a violent, physical determination to shatter the false reality. He believed
that text had been a tyrant over meaning, and advocated, instead, for a theater
made up of a unique language, halfway between thought and gesture. )
10. The verse form of Byron’s Childe
Harold was influenced by
(A) Milton
(B) Spenser
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope
(Ottava rima is a stanza of eight
lines: a verse form made up of eight lines in iambic pentameter with the rhyme
scheme abababcc. The stanza is remodeled by Edmund Spenser as seen in his long
allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590–6). {Spenserian stanza, an
English poetic stanza of nine iambic lines, the first eight being pentameters
while the ninth is a longer line known either as an iambic hexameter or as an
alexandrine. The rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. }The meter is again revived
successfully by the younger English Romantic poets of the early 19th century:
Byron used it for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812, 1816), Keats for ‘The
Eve of St Agnes’ (1820), and Shelley for The Revolt of Islam (1818)
and Adonais (1821).
Is thy face like thy mother's, my
fair child!
Ada! sole daughter of my house and
heart?
When last I saw thy young blue eyes
they smiled,
And when we parted,—not as now we
part,
But with a hope.—
Awaking with a start,
The waters heave around me; and on
high
The winds lift up their voices: I
depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's
gone by,
When Albion's lessening shores could
grieve or glad mine eye.)
11. Tennyson’s Ulysses is
(I) a poem expressing the need for
going forward and braving the struggles of life
(II) a dramatic monologue
(III) a morbid poem
(IV) a poem making extensive use of
satire The right combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I & IV
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and II
(Read the critical appreciation of
the poem, Ulysses)
12. Which post-war British poet was
involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Geoffrey Hill
(Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), American
poet and prose writer,married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived
together first in the United States and then England, having two children
together: Frieda and Nicholas. She separated from Hughes in 1962 and took an
apartment in London with her two children. Following a long struggle with
depression and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide in 1963, at the
age of 30 shortly after separating from Hughes. Many Plath fans and scholars
have assigned much of the blame for her death to Hughes.Controversy continues
to surround the events of her life and death, as well as her writing and
legacy.)
13. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles
is in part
(I) a puzzle
(I) a puzzle
(II) a debate
(III) a threnody
(IV) a beast fable
The correct combination for the
above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV
(B) II, III & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) II & IV
(The Parlement of Foules,a dream poem, shows the influence of
Dante and of Giovanni Boccaccio on Chaucer. In The Parlement we
witnesses an inconclusive debate about love among the different classes of
birds. The Parlement of Foules contains a mixture of comedy and
serious speculation about the puzzling nature of love.)
14. Who among the following wrote a
book with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Paine
(D) Edward Gibbon
(In 1794 Part I of The Age of
Reason was published while Paine was still in prison; Part II in 1795
and a portion of Part III in 1807.)
15. The Restoration comedy has been
criticized mainly for its
(A) excessive wit and humour
(B) bitter satire and cynicism
(C) indecency and
permissiveness
(D) superficial reflection of
society
16. Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses is an essay by
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser
( Louis Althusser (1918-1990),
French philosopher, is best known for his contributions to the debate over the
origins and development of the theories of German philosopher Karl Marx.His Ideology
and Ideological State Apparatuses was first published: in La Pensée, 1970 in French)
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme
of Shakespeare’s
(A) Coriolanus
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Henry IV Part – I
(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
18. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’
is associated with
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart
( Raymond
Williams (1921 - 1988) British critic and novelist. notable
work :Culture and Society)
19. Which of the following author
book pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net
(B) William – Girls of Golding
Slender Means
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is
Singing
(Doris Lessing, , British novelist
and short-story writer, published The Grass is Singing in 1950, in
which Africa provides the setting for The novel.)
20. Who among the following is a
Canadian critic ?
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye
(Northrop Frye (1912-1991), Canadian
literary critic, best known as a major proponent of archetypal criticism, has
most important work, Anatomy of Criticism (1957), introducing archetypal
criticism, identifying and discussing basic archetypal patterns as found in
myths, literary genres, and the reader’s imagination.)
21. Sethe is a character in
(A) The Colour Purple
(B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Beloved
(D) Lucy
(Sethe,a mother who kills her
daughter Beloved rather than have her grow up as a slave, is the main character
in Toni Morrison's 1987 Pulitzer-prize winning novel Beloved.The book
mainly explores black Americans' relationship to slavery.)
22. Imagined Communities is a book
by
(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
23. Who among the following is a
Cavalier poet ?
(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Richard Crashaw
(C) John Suckling
(D) Anne Finch
(Cavalier Poets are the group of
17th-century English lyric poets, associated with the Royalists,i. e. the
followers of King Charles I at the time of the English Civil War. Three of
them—Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace—were attached to the
court of Charles, and one, Robert Herrick, was a clergyman. These poets were
influenced by Ben Jonson and formed an informal social, as well as literary
circle.)
24. Which play of Wilde has the
subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) An Ideal Husband
25. Which of the following plays is
not written by Wole Soyinka ?
(A) The Lion and the Jewel
(B) The Dance of the Forests
(C) Master Harold and the Boys
(D) Kongi’s Harvest
(Master Harold and the Boys is
written by Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director, and actor.)
26. Which of the following plays by
William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope ?
(A) The Plain Dealer
(B) The Country Wife
(C) Love in a Wood
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
27. ‘Inversion’ is the change in the
word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like. Another term
for inversion is
(A) Hypallage
(A) Hypallage
(B) Hubris
(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton
28. The phrase ‘the willing
suspension of disbelief ’ occurs in
(A) Biographia Literaria
(A) Biographia Literaria
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(C) In Defence of Poetry
(D) Poetics
29. The religious movement Methodism
in the 18th century England was founded by
(A) John Tillotson
(B) Bishop Butler
(C) Bernard Mandeville
(D) John Welsey
(Methodism, worldwide Protestant
movement dating from 1729, started when a group of students at the University
of Oxford, England, began to assemble for worship, study, and Christian
service.)
30. My First Acquaintance with
Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin
in Spenser’s Faerie Queene is represented by the character
(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana
(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa
(The hero of Book III, the female
warrior virgin, who represents Chastity. )
32. The book Speech Acts is written
by
(A) John Austin
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
(John Searle's The book Speech Acts
is an essay in the Philosophy of Language.)
33. Which among the following is not
a sonnet sequence ?
(A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel
and Stella
(B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(D) D.G. Rossetti – The House
of Life
(Derek Walcott, born in 1930, West
Indian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate, who is known for his vivid
portrayal of Caribbean culture and his inventive use of language wrote the epic
poem Omeroos .)
34. ‘Incunabula’ refers to
(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
(B) books published before the year
1501
(C) books containing an account of
myths and rituals
(D) books wrongly attributed to an
author
(Incunabula is a collective term
denoting books printed before the year 1501. The study of incunabula is
important as a source of information regarding the early development of the art
of typography, and also because priceless items of incunabula include the first
printed versions of many classical, medieval, and Renaissance works.)
35. The most notable achievement in
Jacobean prose was
(A) Bacon’s Essays
(B) King James’ translation of the
Bible
(C) Robert Burton’s Anatomy of
Melancholy
(D) None of the above
36. The Court of Chancery is a
setting in Dickens’
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Hard Times
(C) Dombey and Son
(D) Bleak House
37. Which romantic poet coined the
famous phrase ‘spots of time’ ?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron
(William Wordsworth, English
romantic poet, wrote about the concept of "spots of time"
There are in our existence spots of
time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue, whence, depressed
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse, our minds
Are nourished and visibly repaired...
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue, whence, depressed
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse, our minds
Are nourished and visibly repaired...
-William Wordsworth, from The
Prelude, Book Twelfth )
38. The statement ‘I think,
therefore, I am’ is by
(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre
(French philosopher, scientist, and
mathematician René Descartes publishes Philosophical Essays in 1637.
Descartes applies the rational inquiry of science to philosophy and argues that
one can only be certain of one’s own existence. All else derives from this
basic premise which Descartes states as cogito ergo sum (Latin for “I
think, therefore I am”).)
39. Verse that has no set theme – no
regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
(I) open form
(II) flexible form
(III) free verse
(IV) blank verse
The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
(C) II, III and IV are correct
(D) I and III are correct
40. Which is the correct sequence of
publication of Pinter’s plays ?
(A) The Room, One for theRoad, No
Man’s Land, The Homecoming
(B) The Homecoming, NoMan’s Land,
The Room,One for the Road
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No
Man’s Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, TheRoom, The
Homecoming,No Man’s Land
(The Room(1957),The Homecoming
(1964), The Basement (1966), No Man’s Land (1974), One
for the Road (1984).)
41. Johnson’s Dictionary of the
English Language was published in the year
(A) 1710
(B) 1755
(C) 1739
(D) 1759
(The Dictionary of the English
Language appeared in 1755.)
42. The literary prize, Booker of
Bookers, was awarded to
(A) J.M. Coetzee
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis
(D) Salman Rushdie
43. In Keats’ poetic career, the most
productive year was
(A) 1816
(B) 1817
(C) 1820
(D) 1819
(Keats’s great creative outpouring came in the year
of 1819, when he composed a group of five odes.)
44. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was
published in 1712 in
(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos
( Pope’s most famous poem, The
Rape of the Lock (first published 1712; revised edition published 1714), is
a fanciful and ingenious mock-heroic work based on a true story.)
45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional
character associated with
I. A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness
The correct combination for the
above statement according to the code is
(A) I & II
(B) I, II & III
(C) III & IV
(D) I & III
(A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is
a semi autobiographical novel and Ulysses is focused on the events of a single
day and related them to one another in thematic patterns based on Greek
mythology. Both figure Stephen Dedalus as a lead role.)
46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls
for his
(A) ignorance
(B) pride
(C) courage
(D) drunkenness
(Becoming an isolated madman—and some critics have compared Ahab with Shakespeare’s King Lear—Ahab battles his evil forces alone and is destroyed as a result.)
(Becoming an isolated madman—and some critics have compared Ahab with Shakespeare’s King Lear—Ahab battles his evil forces alone and is destroyed as a result.)
47. The first complete printed
English Bible was produced by
(A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
(C) Miles Coverdale
(D) Roger Ascham
(In 1535 AD, Myles Coverdale's Bible;
The first complete Bible was printed in the English
Language)
48. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary
Barton is sub-titled
(A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
(C) A Story of Provincial Life
(D) The Factory Girl
( Mary Barton sub-titled as
A Tale of Manchester Life (1848) examines the schism between rich and poor
in industrial Manchester, England, during the 1840s.)
49. Some of the Jacobean
playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The
playwright is
(A) John Ford
(B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
(D) Thomas Heywood
(Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641), according to his own testimony,
wrote more than 220 plays for the English stage. Although not always tightly
constructed and sometimes resorting to cliché, His plays exhibit a remarkable
talent for dramatic and fanciful situations and pleasing an audience. Heywood's
best plays are A Woman Killed with Kindness (performed 1603, printed
1607), The Fair Maid of the West (1631) and The English Traveller
(1633). )
50. The concept of
“Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives’ Tales
( Women in Love discloses
Lawrence’s assertion of establishing the
equilibrium Male / Female relationship.)
equilibrium Male / Female relationship.)
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