UGC NET JUNE 2014 SOLVED ENGLISH PAPER III
01. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to
English sounds and metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond
Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse
02. Here are some characteristics of Morality Plays :
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.
2. They depict man’s temptation and sinning, his quest for
salvation and his confrontation with Death.
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters
are by no means personifications, of virtues,
vices and death.
4. A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero,
a predecessor of the Villainhero in Elizabethan drama.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.
03. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and
religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the
correctly matched set :
(A) Una – Truth
Guyon – Temperance
Duessa – Deceit
Orgoglio – Pride
(B) Una – Pride
Guyon – Deceit
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Una – Deceit
Guyon – Pride
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(D) Una – Temperance
Guyon – Truth
Duessa – Pride
Orgoglio – Deceit
04. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board
Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) Absalom and Achitrphel
05. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Antonio’s Revenge The Changeling
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday Every Man in his Humour
The Changeling Antonia’s Revenge
(C) The Changeling Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(D) Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Changeling
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
06. Though Coleridge refers to “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”, the
“human villain” Iago is far from “motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct
07. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme
should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) III and IV are correct
08. The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a
bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling
after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described
his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this
Jacobean playwright ?
(A) John Fletcher
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman
(D) John Marston
09. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with
“______” and so ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”
10. In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of
his beloved ?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization”
(C) “The Apparition”
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”
11. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok’d Husband
ii. William Wycherley 2. The Recruiting Officer
iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife
iv. George Farquhar 4. The Orphan, or the unhappy
marriage
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 2
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 3 1 2 4
12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.”
In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as compared to mortal man ?
I. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a bird as a
species.
II. The word “Bird” stands for the nightingale’s song.
III. When considered as a species man is equally “immortal” as
the “Bird”.
IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because songs of birds have
given pleasure to man through the ages.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only I and III are correct
(B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
(D) Only I and IV are incorrect
13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem in
_________
(A) 8 parts (B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts (D) 6 parts
14. Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women
characters. From the following list pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
15. Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle of the present age” and
Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his
memory. Who is he ?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren
16. The play was first performed in 1773. The author asked a friend “Did
it make you laugh ?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said then that
was all he required. He used for plot a reputed experience of his own as a
schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to be directed to an inn but was
shown the gateway to the local squire’s house. Which play is this ?
(A) Sheridan’s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
(C) Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith’s The Good Natured Man
17. What is Johnson’s opinion regarding the “Violation” of the three unities in
the plays of Shakespeare ?
I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action
satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered because they did not follow the
Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
19. “No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is
the page of history. Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or
that borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is shortlived
and pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.”
This passage describing the quality of greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
20. In Blake’s “The Human Abstract”, the fragmented world of Experience
is symbolized in the image of the
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(C) Raven
(D) Fruit of Deceit
21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that
she has excluded public interest from her novels Graham
Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day was surely more
separate from public life… with us, however consciously
unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our
stories terribly persistent like grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with
recurring economic and political crisis like the Great Depression,
Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of Hitler
and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions;
writers could not remain unaffected.
In the light of (A) and (R) which 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.
22. Match the titles of the books with their authors :
List – I List – II
i. Psychology
and Art Today 1. John Strachey
ii. Revolution in
Writing 2. W.H. Auden
iii. The Coming
Struggle for
Power 3. C. Day Lewis
iv. Arrow in the
Blue 4. Arthur Koestler
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
23. George Meredith’s first novel was banned by Mudie’s Circulating
Library for its supposed moral offence.
Identify the novel :
(A) The Egoist
(B) Evan Harrington
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
24. Match the titles of the following poems by Tennyson with their opening lines
according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Titles of poems) (Opening Lines)
i. “Tithonus” 1. “‘Courage’ he said, and pointed
towards the land.
The mounting
wave will roll us
shoreward soon.”
ii. “The Lotos-
Eaters” 2. “The woods decay,
the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep
their burthen to the ground.”
iii. ‘Ulysses’ 3. “On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye.”
iv. ‘The Lady of
Shalott’ 4. “It little profists that an idle king,
By this still hearth,
among these barren crags,
Matched with an
aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race.”
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 4 3 1
25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From
Sonnets from the Portuguese” ?
(A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
(C) She presented it under the guise of a translation from the
Portuguese language.
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a Portuguese.
26. Yeast’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
(A) Irish Culture
(B) The art and culture of Byzantium in general
(C) Irish revolutionaries
(D) Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium
27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand And the stars in her hair were
______.” (Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”)
(A) 7 and 3 (B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4 (D) 4 and 6
28. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North and South – Villette
(B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and South – Adam Bede
(C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
(D) North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede – Villette
29. In which of the following novels by canrod do the Gould couple and
Decoud appear as characters with Costaguana as the setting ?
(A) Victory
(B) Under Western Eyes
(C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
30. Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given
below :
List – I List – II
(Plays) (Authors)
i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht
iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T.S. Eliot
iv. The Family Reunion 4. George Bernard Shaw
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the
paintings of three painters were displayed. Identify the painters :
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, commit suicide by hanging herself ?
(A) Theseus hated her
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her
(D) She was lonely and depressed
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice
34. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of Things Past
ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary
iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy
iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte Christo
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2
35. Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina ?
1. Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate
spirit and determination to live life on her own terms.
2. She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.
3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
36. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault’s Pendulum
iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 4 1 3
37. Which among the following plays by Aristophanes is an attack on
‘modern’ education and morals as imparted and taught by the radical
intellectuals known as The Sophists ?
(A) Clouds (B) Wasps
(C) Acharnians (D) Knights
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting
actually figure as a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
(D) To the Lighthouse
39. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century
led to the promotion of
(A) English prose
(B) The British Empire
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the list below :
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often suggests the _________ of love
(A) Fragility (B) Madness
(C) Completeness (D) Security
41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler Saw
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room
iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
42. Modern English emerged from the
(A) South Midland dialect
(B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language
(D) Northumbrian dialect
43. Most culinary terms in English are derived from
(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
(C) Native sources
(D) Arabic cooking
44. “Blended learning” is a mode of instruction/learning in which
(A) the learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes are integrated
(D) learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches
45. ‘Risk-taking’ is one of the traits of a good
(A) language learner
(B) language teacher
(C) teacher of grammar rules
(D) printer of books and authors
46. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on
the principle of ‘joy and easiness’ is called
(A) Suggesto paedia
(B) Total physical response
(C) The Direct Method
(D) The audio-lingual method
47. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys :
1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
4. The concept of Existentialism
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer
because
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel’s property.
2. He loved her
3. Though he did not like her moral ideas about many things
in life, he had hoped to win her over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of U.R.
Ananthamurthy’s Samskara.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with the progressive ideas of the times.
3. The novel is set in Malgudi
4. The novel is a satire on the representatives of a decadent Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(A) 4 and 5 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
50. Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and
Happy to the mythic characters / figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem. Read the poem carefully and pick
out the most appropriate answers. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants, your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave : the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain the poster in the bus that said :
my bleeding is under control A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I could say : those mountains have a
meaning but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
Adrienne Rich
51. How does the poet suggest that the lover has not left ?
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate that she is trying her
best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest that the speaker has not
left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip ‘forever’ which means she will
never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of her wounds perhaps
indicating that she may be able to leave sometime in future.
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s poem plan to leave ?
I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) I, II and III are correct
(D) I and III are correct
53. What does Rich imply when she says “The grammar turned and attacked
me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted through language.
54. How would you compare Rich’s poem and Donne’s poem with the
same title ?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne’s poem
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne’s poem
(C) Rich’s poem is a scathing attack on Donne’s poem.
(D) Rich is defining Donne’s concept of love
55. What is the theme of the poem ? Identify the false statement in the list
below :
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to leave though one might want to.
(C) about the pain suffered in relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne’s where the speaker
dominates the addressee.
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann’s
Transposed Heads ?
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
(C) It deals with domestic strife.
(D) It deals with ancient times.
57. The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan has been divided into
four sections. Arrange them in their chronological order :
(A) The striders – The Relations – Second Sight – the Black Hen
(B) The Relations – The Striders – The Black Hen – Second Sight
(C) Second Sight – The Relations – The Black Hen – Striders
(D) The Black Hen – Second Sight – The Striders – The Relations
58. In one of her novels, Margaret Atwood demonstrated the potentially
‘Cannibalistic’ nature of human relationships. Identify the novel :
(A) Surfacing
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
(D) The Edible Woman
59. Match the characters with the novels of Amitav Ghosh in which they
appear according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Novels)
i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta Chromosome
iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1
60. Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet
(C) That Other History
(D) Agra Bazar
61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence ?
(A) Mohan (B) Jaya
(C) Rati (D) Kamat
62. In Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision
of freedom for his people is
(A) through money
(B) through violence
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind
63. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : To give a text an author is to impose a limit on
that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the
writing.
Reason (R) : A text is made up of multiple meanings drawn
from many sources, and this multiplicity is focused on the
reader.
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 and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.\
64. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project of colonialism as
characterized by what Foucault had called ‘epistemic violence’,
the imposition of a given set of beliefs over another.
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that participation in the political process – access to
citizenship, becoming a voter – will help to mobilize the
subaltern on “the long road to hegemony.”
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 and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
65. Match the following authors with their works from the given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger’s Daughter
ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy
Find the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii ii i iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 4 3 2 1
66. Match the following authors with their plays from the lists given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Plays)
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman
ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara’s Ole Man
iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don’t You want to be Free
iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun
Find the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i i i iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
67. Identify the critics and their respective works :
(A) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Ben Jonson – Discoveries Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Horace – Poetics Aristotle – Ars Poetica Quintillian – On the sublime
Longinus – Discoveries Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(C) Horace – On the sublime Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Discoveries
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria Ben Jonson – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy Sidney – Ars Poetica Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Longinus – On the Sublime Ben Jonson – An Apology for
Poetry Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden – Discoveries
68. Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry ?
(A) The poet spreads his language across the page as though
language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of ‘image’.
(B) The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as
well as an expression of imagination
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it,
and like a scientist does not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image
as against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.
69. Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye
70. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated
with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They
are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second
one ?
(A) Romance (B) Epic
(C) Fiction (D) Novel
Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the following passage :
Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option.
The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the
negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native town is a crouching village, town on its
knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is an envious man. And this the settler
knows very well… It is true, for there is no native who does not dream atleast once
a day of setting himself up in the settler’s place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of The Earth)
71. To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village is
1. the worst face of apartheid
2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical degradation
4. a special village with its own amenities.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct
(B) 1 and 2 are correct
(C) only 3 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
72. Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
73. What does the term ‘crouching village’ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct
74. Why does the native look at the settler’s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct
75. What is the settler’s attitude towards the blacks ?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he knows that his
position is never safe.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct
English sounds and metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond
Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse
02. Here are some characteristics of Morality Plays :
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.
2. They depict man’s temptation and sinning, his quest for
salvation and his confrontation with Death.
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters
are by no means personifications, of virtues,
vices and death.
4. A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero,
a predecessor of the Villainhero in Elizabethan drama.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.
03. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and
religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the
correctly matched set :
(A) Una – Truth
Guyon – Temperance
Duessa – Deceit
Orgoglio – Pride
(B) Una – Pride
Guyon – Deceit
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Una – Deceit
Guyon – Pride
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(D) Una – Temperance
Guyon – Truth
Duessa – Pride
Orgoglio – Deceit
04. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board
Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) Absalom and Achitrphel
05. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Antonio’s Revenge The Changeling
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday Every Man in his Humour
The Changeling Antonia’s Revenge
(C) The Changeling Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(D) Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Changeling
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
06. Though Coleridge refers to “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”, the
“human villain” Iago is far from “motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct
07. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme
should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) III and IV are correct
08. The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a
bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling
after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described
his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this
Jacobean playwright ?
(A) John Fletcher
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman
(D) John Marston
09. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with
“______” and so ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”
10. In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of
his beloved ?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization”
(C) “The Apparition”
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”
11. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok’d Husband
ii. William Wycherley 2. The Recruiting Officer
iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife
iv. George Farquhar 4. The Orphan, or the unhappy
marriage
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 2
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 3 1 2 4
12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.”
In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as compared to mortal man ?
I. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a bird as a
species.
II. The word “Bird” stands for the nightingale’s song.
III. When considered as a species man is equally “immortal” as
the “Bird”.
IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because songs of birds have
given pleasure to man through the ages.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only I and III are correct
(B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
(D) Only I and IV are incorrect
13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem in
_________
(A) 8 parts (B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts (D) 6 parts
14. Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women
characters. From the following list pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
15. Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle of the present age” and
Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his
memory. Who is he ?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren
16. The play was first performed in 1773. The author asked a friend “Did
it make you laugh ?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said then that
was all he required. He used for plot a reputed experience of his own as a
schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to be directed to an inn but was
shown the gateway to the local squire’s house. Which play is this ?
(A) Sheridan’s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
(C) Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith’s The Good Natured Man
17. What is Johnson’s opinion regarding the “Violation” of the three unities in
the plays of Shakespeare ?
I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action
satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered because they did not follow the
Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
19. “No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is
the page of history. Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or
that borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is shortlived
and pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.”
This passage describing the quality of greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
20. In Blake’s “The Human Abstract”, the fragmented world of Experience
is symbolized in the image of the
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(C) Raven
(D) Fruit of Deceit
21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that
she has excluded public interest from her novels Graham
Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day was surely more
separate from public life… with us, however consciously
unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our
stories terribly persistent like grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with
recurring economic and political crisis like the Great Depression,
Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of Hitler
and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions;
writers could not remain unaffected.
In the light of (A) and (R) which 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.
22. Match the titles of the books with their authors :
List – I List – II
i. Psychology
and Art Today 1. John Strachey
ii. Revolution in
Writing 2. W.H. Auden
iii. The Coming
Struggle for
Power 3. C. Day Lewis
iv. Arrow in the
Blue 4. Arthur Koestler
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
23. George Meredith’s first novel was banned by Mudie’s Circulating
Library for its supposed moral offence.
Identify the novel :
(A) The Egoist
(B) Evan Harrington
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
24. Match the titles of the following poems by Tennyson with their opening lines
according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Titles of poems) (Opening Lines)
i. “Tithonus” 1. “‘Courage’ he said, and pointed
towards the land.
The mounting
wave will roll us
shoreward soon.”
ii. “The Lotos-
Eaters” 2. “The woods decay,
the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep
their burthen to the ground.”
iii. ‘Ulysses’ 3. “On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye.”
iv. ‘The Lady of
Shalott’ 4. “It little profists that an idle king,
By this still hearth,
among these barren crags,
Matched with an
aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race.”
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 4 3 1
25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From
Sonnets from the Portuguese” ?
(A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
(C) She presented it under the guise of a translation from the
Portuguese language.
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a Portuguese.
26. Yeast’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
(A) Irish Culture
(B) The art and culture of Byzantium in general
(C) Irish revolutionaries
(D) Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium
27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand And the stars in her hair were
______.” (Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”)
(A) 7 and 3 (B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4 (D) 4 and 6
28. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North and South – Villette
(B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and South – Adam Bede
(C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
(D) North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede – Villette
29. In which of the following novels by canrod do the Gould couple and
Decoud appear as characters with Costaguana as the setting ?
(A) Victory
(B) Under Western Eyes
(C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
30. Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given
below :
List – I List – II
(Plays) (Authors)
i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht
iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T.S. Eliot
iv. The Family Reunion 4. George Bernard Shaw
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the
paintings of three painters were displayed. Identify the painters :
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, commit suicide by hanging herself ?
(A) Theseus hated her
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her
(D) She was lonely and depressed
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice
34. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of Things Past
ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary
iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy
iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte Christo
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2
35. Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina ?
1. Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate
spirit and determination to live life on her own terms.
2. She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.
3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
36. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault’s Pendulum
iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 4 1 3
37. Which among the following plays by Aristophanes is an attack on
‘modern’ education and morals as imparted and taught by the radical
intellectuals known as The Sophists ?
(A) Clouds (B) Wasps
(C) Acharnians (D) Knights
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting
actually figure as a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
(D) To the Lighthouse
39. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century
led to the promotion of
(A) English prose
(B) The British Empire
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the list below :
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often suggests the _________ of love
(A) Fragility (B) Madness
(C) Completeness (D) Security
41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler Saw
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room
iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
42. Modern English emerged from the
(A) South Midland dialect
(B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language
(D) Northumbrian dialect
43. Most culinary terms in English are derived from
(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
(C) Native sources
(D) Arabic cooking
44. “Blended learning” is a mode of instruction/learning in which
(A) the learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes are integrated
(D) learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches
45. ‘Risk-taking’ is one of the traits of a good
(A) language learner
(B) language teacher
(C) teacher of grammar rules
(D) printer of books and authors
46. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on
the principle of ‘joy and easiness’ is called
(A) Suggesto paedia
(B) Total physical response
(C) The Direct Method
(D) The audio-lingual method
47. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys :
1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
4. The concept of Existentialism
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer
because
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel’s property.
2. He loved her
3. Though he did not like her moral ideas about many things
in life, he had hoped to win her over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of U.R.
Ananthamurthy’s Samskara.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with the progressive ideas of the times.
3. The novel is set in Malgudi
4. The novel is a satire on the representatives of a decadent Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(A) 4 and 5 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
50. Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and
Happy to the mythic characters / figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem. Read the poem carefully and pick
out the most appropriate answers. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants, your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave : the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain the poster in the bus that said :
my bleeding is under control A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I could say : those mountains have a
meaning but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
Adrienne Rich
51. How does the poet suggest that the lover has not left ?
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate that she is trying her
best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest that the speaker has not
left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip ‘forever’ which means she will
never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of her wounds perhaps
indicating that she may be able to leave sometime in future.
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s poem plan to leave ?
I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) I, II and III are correct
(D) I and III are correct
53. What does Rich imply when she says “The grammar turned and attacked
me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted through language.
54. How would you compare Rich’s poem and Donne’s poem with the
same title ?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne’s poem
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne’s poem
(C) Rich’s poem is a scathing attack on Donne’s poem.
(D) Rich is defining Donne’s concept of love
55. What is the theme of the poem ? Identify the false statement in the list
below :
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to leave though one might want to.
(C) about the pain suffered in relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne’s where the speaker
dominates the addressee.
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann’s
Transposed Heads ?
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
(C) It deals with domestic strife.
(D) It deals with ancient times.
57. The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan has been divided into
four sections. Arrange them in their chronological order :
(A) The striders – The Relations – Second Sight – the Black Hen
(B) The Relations – The Striders – The Black Hen – Second Sight
(C) Second Sight – The Relations – The Black Hen – Striders
(D) The Black Hen – Second Sight – The Striders – The Relations
58. In one of her novels, Margaret Atwood demonstrated the potentially
‘Cannibalistic’ nature of human relationships. Identify the novel :
(A) Surfacing
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
(D) The Edible Woman
59. Match the characters with the novels of Amitav Ghosh in which they
appear according to the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Novels)
i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta Chromosome
iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1
60. Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet
(C) That Other History
(D) Agra Bazar
61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence ?
(A) Mohan (B) Jaya
(C) Rati (D) Kamat
62. In Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision
of freedom for his people is
(A) through money
(B) through violence
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind
63. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : To give a text an author is to impose a limit on
that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the
writing.
Reason (R) : A text is made up of multiple meanings drawn
from many sources, and this multiplicity is focused on the
reader.
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 and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.\
64. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project of colonialism as
characterized by what Foucault had called ‘epistemic violence’,
the imposition of a given set of beliefs over another.
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that participation in the political process – access to
citizenship, becoming a voter – will help to mobilize the
subaltern on “the long road to hegemony.”
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 and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
65. Match the following authors with their works from the given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Works)
i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger’s Daughter
ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy
Find the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii ii i iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 4 3 2 1
66. Match the following authors with their plays from the lists given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Plays)
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman
ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara’s Ole Man
iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don’t You want to be Free
iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun
Find the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i i i iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
67. Identify the critics and their respective works :
(A) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Ben Jonson – Discoveries Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Horace – Poetics Aristotle – Ars Poetica Quintillian – On the sublime
Longinus – Discoveries Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(C) Horace – On the sublime Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Discoveries
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria Ben Jonson – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy Sidney – Ars Poetica Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Longinus – On the Sublime Ben Jonson – An Apology for
Poetry Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Dryden – Discoveries
68. Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry ?
(A) The poet spreads his language across the page as though
language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of ‘image’.
(B) The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as
well as an expression of imagination
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it,
and like a scientist does not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image
as against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.
69. Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye
70. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated
with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They
are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second
one ?
(A) Romance (B) Epic
(C) Fiction (D) Novel
Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the following passage :
Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option.
The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the
negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native town is a crouching village, town on its
knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is an envious man. And this the settler
knows very well… It is true, for there is no native who does not dream atleast once
a day of setting himself up in the settler’s place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of The Earth)
71. To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village is
1. the worst face of apartheid
2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical degradation
4. a special village with its own amenities.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct
(B) 1 and 2 are correct
(C) only 3 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
72. Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct
73. What does the term ‘crouching village’ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct
74. Why does the native look at the settler’s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct
75. What is the settler’s attitude towards the blacks ?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he knows that his
position is never safe.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct
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