Paper- II- English Literature (100 Questions)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
[T]he aim of all solitude…is the same: to live more at leisure and at one’s ease. But people do not always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state: whatever the mind is wrapped up in it, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the market place we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life….Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country….They often follow us even into the cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them.
— Michel de Montaigne, “Of solitude”

51. Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?
(A) Ruling a state is easier than managing a family
(B) Solitude is one condition of peace with one self
(C) The court and the marketplace must be got rid of
(D) Try what one may, no one can ever be at ease

52. The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we:
A. detach our self from family life.
B. are deep into buying and selling.
C. mentally abstain from hustle and bustle.
D. are in to schools of philosophy.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and C only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

53. The mistake human beings make is to:
(A) abjure solitude when desirable.
(B) abstain from restraining the mind.
(C) abstain from the love of leisure.
(D) exaggerate the value of family.

Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;

From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song’s sake a fool?

I pray–for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.

• W.B.Yeats

54. In the second stanza the poet thinks of:
(A) what all earns all others’ praise.
(B) what all makes a wise old man.
(C) what he does not want to appear.
(D) what he thinks he is, a fool.

55. Thoughts true for all time are:
(A) born of God’s care.
(B) felt deep inside the self.
(C) for all human hearts.
(D) imbued with logic of mind.

56. Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?
(A) He believes in the efficacy of prayer.
(B) He is a foolish young man who thinks wisely.
(C) He is an old man wise as old are.
(D) He is old but happy in not being wise.

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to fl oat their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A. D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey—and Son.

• Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

57. The whole description is an example of:
(A) analogy.
(B) aporia.
(C) image.
(D) sarcasm.

58. What is the ‘system’ of which Dombey and Son were the centre?
(A) The British political system
(B) The country’s commerce
(C) The family business
(D) The workings of nature

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. — Ha! here’s three on’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

• Shakespeare, King Lear

59. ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:
(A) Accomodated man is well endowed.
(B) As an animal, man is a superior animal.
(C) Man is far more than what he seems to be.
(D) Man is not as well endowed as some other animals.

60. Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?
(A) Animals unlike man are more complex.
(B) Animals’ attributes are external.
(C) Man can accommodate same properties.
(D) Man just uses what animals possess.

61. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Author) (Text)
A. Robert Browning I. Queen Mary
B.S.T. Coleridge II. The Second Mrs Tanqueray
C. A. W. Pinero III. Remorse
D. Alfred Tennyson IV. The Borderers
E. William Wordsworth V. Strafford
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A-II; B-IV; C-III; D-V; E-I
(B) A-III; B-V; C-II; D-I; E-IV
(C) A-IV; B-II; C-I; D-V; E-III
(D) A-V; B-III; C-II; D-I; E-IV

62. Who wrote the short story, “The Voter”?
(A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Wole Soyinka

63. Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?
(A) Concrete Island
(B) Kingdom Come
(C) The Crystal World
(D) The Drowned World

64. Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do?
A. To understand the Partition as something more than apolitical divide
B. To foreground a personal history of the Partition
C. To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
D. To find and unite families separated at the Partition
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

65. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”?
(A) Book III
(B) Book IV
(C) Book VII
(D) Book XI

66. Which of the following is true of mass media?
(A) It usually has a central, single source.
(B) It can affect a localised population only.
(C) It usually has multiple sources.
(D) Its audience is in close proximity to its source.

67. Arrange the following in their chronological order:
A. English replaces Persian as official language of the Company
B. Arrival of Charles Grant in India
C. Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
D. Construction of Fort William in Calcutta
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) B, A, D, C
(B) D, A, C, B
(C) D, B, A, C
(D) D, B, C, A

68. Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’ s “What is an Author?”?
(A) The Canterbury Tales
(B) The Decameron
(C) The Thousand and One Nights
(D) Tuti Namah

69. Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?
(A) dudwords
(B) ghostwords
(C) protowords
(D) pseudowords

70. Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968?
A. the primacy of English literatures and cultures
B. the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
C. the primacy of orature in the syllabus
D. the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

71. Given below are two statements:
Statement I : A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language.
Statement II : Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

72. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Alexander Pope
C. Horace Walpole
D. Thomas Gray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

73. Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A. Elton John
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Bob Dylan
D. Bob Marley
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

74. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:
A. phallogocentrism
B. locutionary act
C. interpellation
D. interpretive community
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A, D, C, B
(B) B, C, A, D
(C) C, B, D, A
(D) D, A, B, C

75. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Poem) (Poet)
A. “The Road Not Taken” I. Pablo Neruda
B. “Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines” II. Robert Frost
C. “I hear America Singing” III. Langston Hughes
D. “I, too, Sing America” IV. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A – I, B – II, C – III, D – IV
(B) A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
(C) A – III, B – II, C – IV, D – I
(D) A – IV, B – I, C – II, D – III

76. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?
(A) epic theatre
(B) kitchen-sink theatre
(C) musical theatre
(D) proletarian theatre

77. Which two of the following are works by I. A. Richards?
A. Concepts of Criticism
B. Science and Poetry
C. The Philosophy of Rhetoric
D. English Literature in Our Time and the University
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

78. Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:
A. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
B. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
C. Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
D. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A, D, B, C
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, A, D, B
(D) D, B, C, A

79. Who among the following has coined the term, ‘ecofeminism’?
(A) Monique Wittig
(B) Francoise d’Eaubonne
(C) Helene Cixous
(D) Marguerite Duras

80. In “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?
(A) affirmation
(B) cohesiveness
(C) disinterestedness
(D) judiciousness

81. Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?
A. The British Museum is Falling down
B. The Seven Sisters
C. Changing Places
D. Nice Work
E. Empire of the Sun
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A, B and C only
(B) A, C and D only
(C) B, D and E only
(D) C, D and E only

82. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Book) (Author)
A. English, August I. Shyam Selvadurai
B. In Custody II. Anita Desai
C. Such a Long Journey III. Rohinton Mistry
D. Funny Boy IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A – I, B – II, C – IV, D – III
(B) A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – III
(C) A – III, B – II, C – I, D – IV
(D) A – IV, B – II, C – III, D – I

83. Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India?
A. Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
B. Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
C. Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
D. Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

84. Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays?
A. “From the History of Novelistic Discourse”
B. “Discourse in the Novel”
C. “Romance and Novel”
D. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

85. Given below are two statements
Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.
Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

86. Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson?
A. Jonson’s physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent.
B. Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically.
C. Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered.
D. John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children’s company of players.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) C and D only
(D) D and A only

87. Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:
A. The Imagist poets
B. The Cavalier poets
C. The Movement poets
D. The Lake poets
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) B, D, A, C
(B) B, D, C, A
(C) D, A, B, C
(D) D, B, A, C

88. Match List I with List II
List I List II
Plays Playwrights
A. Madmen and Specialists I. Dennis Scott
B. The Sea at Dauphin II. Wole Soyinka
C. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi III. Derek Walcott
D. An Echo in the Bone IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A -II , B -III , C -I , D -IV
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D – I
(C) A -III , B -I , C -IV , D -II
(D) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I

89. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R.Leavis?
(A) Browning and Arnold
(B) Milton and Shelley
(C) Pound and Hopkins
(D) Tennyson and Swinburne

90. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:
A. an interlocking structure.
B. a system of constant change.
C. a system of signs.
D. a self-standing formation.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

91. What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?
(A) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
(B) Centre for Contemporary Studies
(C) Centre for Culture Studies
(D) Centre for New Cultural Studies

92. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?
A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
C. It defines culture as a way of life.
D. It equates culture with science.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) A and B only
(D) B and D only

93. Who is the author of The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?
(A) A. Revathi
(B) Bama
(C) Mukta Sarvagod
(D) V. Geetha

94. Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies?
A. It is politically engaged.
B. It privileges text over context.
C. It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism.
D. It studies the means of production of a text.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) A and B only
(D) B and D only

95. Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”?
A. contextual estimate
B. personal estimate
C. comparative estimate
D. historic estimate
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

96. Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature.
A. Praneshacharya (Samskara)
B. Sakuni (Mahabharata)
C. Rusty (The Room on the Roof)
D. Gobar (Godan)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(A) A, B, C, D
(B) B, A, C, D
(C) B, C, D, A
(D) B, D, C, A

97. Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?
(A) G. K. Chesterton
(B) Tzvetan Todorov
(C) Umberto Eco
(D) Vladimir Propp

98. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication.
A. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
B. “The Second Coming”
C. “Among School Children”
D. “Adam’s Curse”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) A, C, D, B
(B) C, A, B, D
(C) C, A, D, B
(D) D, A, B, C

99. Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?
(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(B) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(C) The Comedy of Errors
(D) The Taming of the Shrew

100. Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India?
A. India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world.
B. No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue.
C. More than fi ft y per cent of Indians speak English fluently.
D. English is the country’s principal language of commerce.
E. With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and D only
(B) B and C only
(C) C and E only
(D) D and E only

101. Which of the following is a dead language?
(A) Cantonese
(B) Frisian
(C) Gothic
(D) Yiddish

102. Who, in “The World as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?
(A) Anthony Burgess
(B) C. K. Ogden
(C) Noam Chomsky
(D) Susan Sontag

103. Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Phaedo
(C) Plato
(D) Xenocrates

104. Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?
A. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.
B. Kincaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2,Spring 2001, pp. 620-26.
C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
D. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism , 1750-1950,Yale UP, 1986.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

105. Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th -century English literature?
(A) Brass-Spittoon
(B) Diamond-Jar
(C) Golden-Spoon
(D) Silver-Fork

106. Given below are two statements:
Statement I : All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors.
Statement II : Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

107. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Library/Institute) (Location)
A. Connemara Public Library I. Kolkata
B. Dhvanyaloka II. Chennai
C. Bhandarkar Oriental Institute III. Mysore
D. Asiatic Society IV. Pune
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D -III

108. Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?
(A) Balzac
(B) Flaubert
(C) Moliere
(D) Stendhal

109. Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler?
(A) Count Dracula
(B) Peter Quint
(C) Prince Manfred
(D) Victor Frankenstein

110. Which of these departments did the Wood’s Despatch of 1854recommend setting up in the universities?
A. Arabic
B. English
C. French
D. Law
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A, B and D only
(B) A, B and C only
(C) A, C and D only
(D) B, C and D only

111. Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?
(A) ARIEL
(B) MFS
(C) MHRA
(D) PMLA

112. Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. Estragon
B. Pozzo
C. Bassanio
D. Murphy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:.
(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

113. Given below are two statements
Statement I: The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon.
Statement II: Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo’s statement, “They give birth astride of a grave . . .”
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
(C) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
(D) Statement I is true but Statement II is false

114. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?
A. Wildtrack
B. Wodwo
C. Lupercal
D. Jack Straw’s Castle
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

115. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?
(A) Colonialism will die a natural death sans any violent struggle against it.
(B) Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.
(C) Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.
(D) The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.

116. Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts’?
(A) Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap
(B) J.L.Austin and John Searle
(C) Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker
(D) Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

117. The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:
(A) 1951
(B) 1957
(C) 1962
(D) 1970

118. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) T. S. Eliot

119. The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:
(A) lexeme.
(B) morpheme.
(C) phoneme.
(D) sememe.

120. Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:
(A) homonyms.
(B) homografts.
(C) homologues
(D) homophones.

121. Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?
(A) Jerome McGann
(B) Gerald Graff
(C) James Thorpe
(D) Richard D. Altick

122. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Novel) (Writer)
A. A Handful of Dust I. E. M. Forster
B. Brighton Rock II. Evelyn Waugh
C. Howard’s End III. D. H. Lawrence
D. The Plumed Serpent IV. Aldous Huxley
E. Those Barren Leaves V. Graham Greene
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A- I; B-IV; C-II; D-III; E-V
(B) A- II; B-V; C-I; D-III; E-IV
(C) A- III; B-I; C-V; D-II; E-IV
(D) A- V; B-II, C-IV, D-I; E-III

123. Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?
(A) Binoo K. John
(B) Yamuna Kachru
(C) Probal Dasgupta
(D) S.K.Verma

124. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.
A. Longman’s Magazine
B. Cornhill Magazine
C. Blackwood’s Magazine
D. Bentley’s Miscellany
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) B, C, A, D
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) C, D, B, A

125. Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?
A. Syntactic Structures
B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
C. Language and Society
D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
E. The Pragmatics of Politeness
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and C only
(B) B and D only
(C) C and E only
(D) D and A only

126. In “The Life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets’?
A. They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.
B. Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.
C. They neither copied nature nor life.
D. They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

127. Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?
(A) Deification
(B) Impoverishment
(C) Infantilisation
(D) Personification

128. Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Ruskin
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) William Hazlitt

129. Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?
A. “Meditation on a Bone”
B. “Imperial Adam”
C. “Woman to Man”
D. “The Old Prison”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

130. Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?
(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(B) Gabriela Mistral
(C) Jorge Luis Borges
(D) Octavio Paz

131. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion A: The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason R: The ‘Dear Reader,’ invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(A) A is correct but R is not correct
(B) A is not correct but R is correct
(C) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(D) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

132. With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?
A. Neo-classical
B. Symbolist
C. Modernist
D. Postmodernist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

133. Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?
(A) Dynamics of media
(B) Motivations of crime
(C) Workings of love triangles
(D) Workings of power

134. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Writer) (Book)
A. Homi Bhabha I. Reading the Popular
B. T S Eliot II. The Location of Culture
C. Roland Barthes III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
D. John Fiske IV. Image-Music-Text
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A – I, B – II, C – IV, D – III
(B) A – II, B – III, C – IV, D – I
(C) A – III, B – II, C – I, D – IV
(D) A – IV, B – II, C – III, D – I

135. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Book) (Poet)
A. Anniversaries I. Abraham Cowley
B. The Temple II. John Donne
C. The Rehearsal Transpros’d III. George Herbert
D. Pindarique Odes IV. Andrew Marvell
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A-I; B-IV; C-II; D-III
(B) A-II; B-III; C-IV; D-I
(C) A-III; B-I; C-IV; D-II
(D) A-IV; B-II; C-I; D-III

136. Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films?
A. It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture.
B. It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture.
C. It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist.
D. It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

137. Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial film?
A. The film magazine columnist
B. The director
C. Fan clubs
D. The producer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and C only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

138. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Text) (Author)
A. The Lie of the Land I. Alok Mukherjee
B. Masks of Conquest II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
C. Rethinking English III. Gauri Viswanathan
D. This Gift of English IV. Svati Joshi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D -III

139. Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:
A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B. Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. Pablo Neruda’s Canto General
D. Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) A, B, C, D
(B) A, B, D, C
(C) B, C, A, D
(D) D, A, B, C

140. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Text) (Author)
A. Advancement of Learning I. Susan Sontag
B. Past and Present II. Francis Bacon
C. English Traits III. Thomas Carlyle
D. Illness as Metaphor IV. R. W. Emerson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:.
(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D –III

141. Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:
A. dissociation of sensibility
B. unreliable narrator
C. theatre of cruelty
D. egotistical sublime
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) B, D, A, C
(B) D, A, B, C
(C) D, A, C, B
(D) D, B, A, C

142. Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?
(A) Bernardo
(B) Ghost
(C) Horatio
(D) Marcellus

143. Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals,” focus on primarily?
(A) Borneo
(B) Brazil
(C) India
(D) Japan

144. How does T.S.Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”?
(A) ‘a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’.
(B) ‘a tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’
(C) ‘heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’
(D) ‘telescoping of images and multiplied associations’

145. Usage in “You have hissed the mystery lectures.” is an example of:
(A) error of lexical choice.
(B) inadvertent mistake.
(C) metathesis.
(D) spoonerism.

146. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations without altering the original title?
(A) Angela Carter
(B) Kathy Acker
(C) Peter Carey
(D) Shirley Jackson

147. Who among the following says that ideology is “are presentation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence”?
(A) Fredric Jameson
(B) Herbert Marcuse
(C) Louis Althusser
(D) Terry Eagleton

148. Which among the following are examples of the Künstlerroman?
A. The Portrait of a Lady
B. David Copperfield
C. Tom Jones
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only

149. Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child’s first language acquisition:
A. holophrastic
B. babbling
C. telegraphic speech
D. cooing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A, C, D, B
(B) B, A, D, C
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) D, B, A, C

150. Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxis’?
(A) Antonio Gramsci
(B) Georg Lukacs
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stuart Hall

Answer Keys

50.C, 51.B, 52.D, 53.B, 54.C, 55.B, 56.A, 57.D, 58.C, 59.D, 60.D, 61.D, 62.B, 63.C, 64.A, 65.D, 66.A, 67.C, 68.C, 69.B, 70.A, 71.C, 72.B, 73.C, 74.B, 75.B, 76.A, 77.C, 78.C, 79.B, 80.C, 81.B, 82.D, 83.C, 84.D, 85.D, 86.B, 87.A, 88.B, 89.D, 90.B, 91.A, 92.A, 93.A, 94.B, 95.C, 96.D, 97.B, 98.D, 99.A, 100.A, 101.C, 102.D, 103.C, 104.C, 105.D, 106.B, 107.B, 108.D, 109.A, 110.A, 111.C, 112.A, 113.D, 114.C, 115.D, 116.B, 117.A, 118.C, 119.A, 120.D, 121.A, 122.B, 123.C, 124.D, 125.D, 126.B, 127.C, 128.D, 129.D, 130.D, 131.D, 132.C, 133.D, 134.B, 135.B, 136.B, 137.A, 138.B, 139.B, 140.B, 141.C, 142.D, 143.B, 144.B, 145.D, 146.B, 147.C, 148.C, 149.D, 150.A