PAPER III
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Note : Attempt all the questions. Each question carries two (2) marks.
1. Which poet was glorified by GarcaMrquez as the greatest poet of the 20th century,
in any language?
1) Octavio Paz
2) Jorge Luis Borges
3) Carlos Drummond de Andrade
4) Pablo Neruda
2. Which writer is closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance Movement?
1) Claude McKay
2) Malcolm X
3) Alex Haley
4) Alice Walker
3. Who is the author of The Testament of Beauty?
1) Robert Bridges
2) W.B. Yeats
3) John Masefield
4) T. S. Eliot
4. James Joyce's Ulysses is based on the pattern of :
1) Homer's Odyssey
2) Tennyson's Ulysses
3) Virgil's Aenied
4) Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
5. A character in Virginia Woolfs novels changes his sex. Which is that novel?
1) Mrs. Dalloway
2) Orlando
3) To the Light House
4) The Voyage Out
6. Who is the originator of 'Sprung Rhythm'?
1) A.E. Houseman
2) Stephen Spender
3) Christopher Fry
4) G. M. Hopkins
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7. Who is the progenitor of the theatre of cruelty?
1) Stanislavsky 2) Chekhov
3) Grotowski 4) Artaud
8. Which of the following playwright has exploited myths for most of his dramas?
1) Vijay Tendulkar
2) Mahesh Dattani
3) GirishKarnad
4) ManjulaPadmanabhan
9. Which modern American Playwright produced tragedies of common men?
1) Tennessee Williams
2) Arthur Miller
3) Edward Albee
4) [Link]
10. Who is the central character symbolizing power in Wole Soyinkas The Lion and the
Jewel?
1) Baroka 2) Lakunle
3) Sadiku 4) Sidi
11. The Childhood of Jesus is a novel by , who won the Nobel prize for
literature.
1) Patrick White 2) Nadine Gordimer
3) J.M. Coetzee 4) Saul Bellow
12. Jamaica Kincaids novel Autobiography of My Mother presents the life of the
narrator and the mother who had died
1) in childbirth 2) in an accident
3) of poverty 4) of old age
13. is famous for his Diary.
1) Jeremy Taylor
2) Thomas Sprat
3) Samuel Pepys
4) John Evelyn
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14. The British Museum is Falling Down is written by .
1) David Lodge
2) Ian McEwan
3) Jeanette Winterson
4) John Fowles
15. Thy need is greater than mine are the words of .
1) Ben Jonson
2) Sir Philip Sidney
3) Dante
4) Pope
16. proposes that philosophy and religion would be replaced by poetry
in modern society.
1) William Empson
2) T.S. Eliot
3) Arnold
4) [Link]
17. The best-known examples of blacks replacing Indian workers are in coastal
1) Chile
2) Argentina
3) Uruguay
4) Venezuela
18. is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize in 2008.
1) Sea of Poppies
2) The Circle of Reason
3) The Shadow Lines
4) The Calcutta Chromosome
19. Bhagavad Gita and Its Message is written by
1) Raja Roa
2) Sri Aurobindo
3) Tagore
4) Mulk Raj Anand
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20. Another popular genre in the middle Ages was the beast-fable, a form which Chaucer
uses brilliantly in
1) The Wife of Baths Tale
2) The Nuns Priests Tale.
3) The Clerks Tale
4) The Merchants Tale
21. The canto was a traditional Italian literary device and was the first
English poet to use it effectively.
1) Milton
2) Sidney
3) Chaucer
4) Spenser
22. Marlowe based Doctor Faustus on the early sixteenth century doctor
Johann Faust, a practitioner of magic, who was thought to have sold his soul to the
Devil in exchange for knowledge and magical power.
1) German
2) French
3) Scandinavian
4) Italian
23. refers to Shakespeare resentfully as an upstart crow, beautified with our
feathers.
1) George Peele
2) Thomas Nashe
3) Robert Greene
4) Thomas Lodge
24. A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life is an autobiography of .
1) Thomas Traherne
2) Margaret Cavendish
3) Dorothy Waugh
4) Lady Anne Halkett
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25. Keats fragment The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is modeled on .
1) Dantes Inferno
2) Homers Illiad
3) Virgils Aeneid
4) Dantes Divine Comedy
26. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is a spiritual autobiography of .
1) Stuart Mill
2) Lord Tennyson
3) Edward Fitzgerald
4) Cardinal Newman
27. Brownings , which was inspired by an old book of legal records concerning
a murder trial in seventeenth-century Rome.
1) The Ring and the Book
2) Men and Women
3) Dramatis Personae
4) Strafford
28. Forsters Howards End involves a conflict between two families, one interested in
and the other only in money and business.
1) art and life
2) fancy and fantasy
3) love and literature
4) art and literature
29. As a fiction writer Woolf rebelled against what she called the of her
contemporary novelists.
1) realism
2) materialism
3) cynicism
4) mimicism
30. In Politics and the English Language, Orwell explores the decay of and
the ways in which that decay might be resiste.
1) politics
2) human values
3) morals
4) language
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31. is an approach to language teaching developed by British linguists from
the 1930s to 1960s.
1) Structural Approach
2) Audiolingual Method
3) Community Language Learning
4) Situational Language Teaching
32. Homer's epic poem The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' struggle to
return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
1) ten-year 2) fifteen -year
3) twenty-year 4) thiry-year
33. Mother Courage says that she got her name from driving her wagon through a cannon
barrage to save fifty_________.
1) Soldiers 2) Children
3) Loaves of bread 4) Citizens
34. Tiruvalluvars ideas were probably influenced by traditions and written in
the years between the Cankam era and the bhakti era
1) Dravidian 2) Aryan
3) Jain 4) Buddhist
35. The American Poet, civil rights activist, historian, songwriter and frequent
autobiographer Marguerite Annie Johnson is known as .
1) Gwendolyn Brooks 2) Maya Angelou
3) Alice Walker 4) Toni Morrison
36. Maxine Hong Kingston combines myth, family history, folktales and
memories of the experience of growing up within two conflicting cultures.
1) China Men
2) The Fifth Book of Peace
3) Veterans of Peace
4) Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
37. According to Saussure, the connection between the signifier and the signified is
.
1) regular 2) rule-based
3) arbitrary 4) irregular
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38. The term Subaltern in the PostColonial context was first used by
1) Raymond Williams
2) Frantz Fanon
3) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
4) Antonio Gramsci
39. Which Poet wrote the line A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose which subtly expresses
the postmodern unexpressibility?
1) Ezra Pound
2) Gertrude Stein
3) [Link]
4) Pablo Neruda
40. Which play of Mahesh Dattani deals with Hindu-Muslim conflict in India?
1) Final Solutions
2) Dance Like a Man
3) Bravely Fought the Queen
4) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
41. Which work is based on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
1) Amulya Malladis The Mango Season
2) C.K. Janus Mother Forest
3) Indra Sinhas Animals People
4) Arundhathi Roys The Cost of Living
42. Who coined the phrase The medium is the message?
1) Raymond Williams
2) Richard Dyer
3) Marshall McLuhan
4) Charles Babbage
43. Which country is the background of the novel Shame by Salman Rushdie?
1) India
2) Pakistan
3) Taiwan
4) Bangladesh
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44. Who called Hamlet an artistic failure?
1) T. S. Eliot
2) I.A. Richards
3) F. R. Leavis
4) Aldous Huxley
45. Who initiated the term 'New Criticism' in English literary criticism?
1) Henry James
2) [Link]
3) David Daiches
4) William Empson
46. The Province Town Players were a group of playwrights from
1) America 2) Britain
3) Ireland 4) Germany
47. What is a passion play?
1) A play about love and sex
2) A play about someones intense love for God
3) A play about the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus
4) A play from New Testament showing Jesuss love for man
48. Arthur Miller wrote a screenplay especially for his wife, Marilyn Monroe. Which is
it?
1) The Misfits
2) A view from the Bridge
3) After the Fall
4) Death of a Salesman
49. Which one of the following is an 'artificial' comedy?
1) The Birthday Party
2) The Cocktail Party
3) The Way of the World
4) Volpone
50. The term 'Electra Complex' has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra written by:
1) Aeschylus 2) Sophocles
3) Euripides 4) Seneca
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51. Who is the author of The Royal Slave?
1) Charles Gildon
2) Aphra Behn
3) John Bunyan
4) La Calprenede
52. collaborated with Dryden to produce Oedipus and The Duke of Guise.
1) Nathaniel Lee
2) Nicholas Rowe
3) Matthew Prior
4) Samuel Butler
53. was known as the maker of the great dictionary and was one of the
extraordinary figures of the Augustan Age.
1) Edmund Burke
2) [Link] Johnson
3) Edward Gibbon
4) Gibert White
54. The Reform Bill was passed in the year .
1) 1831 2) 1836
3) 1834 4) 1832
55. bears a strong resemblance to Quentin Durward, written by George
P.R. James
1) Richelieu A Tale of France
2) The Cripsey
3) DelOrme
4) Lord Montagu
56. describes himself as a super-tramp wrote delightful poems of the
countryside in an extremely simple style.
1) Rupert Brooke
2) John Masefield
3) Gordon Bottomley
4) W.H. Davies
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57. The first great Russian novelist was .
1) Leo Tolstoy
2) Ivan Turgenev
3) Nikolai Gogol
4) Anton Chekhov
58. Victor Shklovsky comes under .
1) Feminist criticism
2) New historicism
3) Formalist Criticism
4) Postcolonial criticism
59. Who is the author of Nation and Narration?
1) Homi Bhabha
2) Frantz Fanon
3) Jacque Derrida
4) Michel Foucault
60. is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material.
1) Approach
2) Method
3) Technique
4) Material
61. The Bilingual Method was developed by
1) C.J. Dodson
2) Dr. Johnson
3) Dell Hymes
4) John Gumperz
62. The original language of Britain was
1) Celtic
2) Swedish
3) Danish
4) Scandinavian
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63. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is a spiritual autobiography of ,
which records his transformation from a self-doubting sinner into an eloquent and
fearless Baptist preacher.
1) John Guttenberg
2) Oliver Cromwell
3) John Bunyan
4) Thomas Gray
64. The Hind and the Panther is an allegorical beast fable written by Dryden in defense
of the doctrines of the .
1) Roman Catholic Church
2) Protestant Church
3) Stories of Aesop
4) Royal Court
65. Swift wrote The Battle of the Books in support of his patron .
1) Sir William Temple
2) William Wotton
3) Lord Berkeley
4) Isaac Bickerstaff
66. Epistle 2. To a Lady is one of poems that Pope grouped together under
the title Epistles to Several Persons.
1) three 2) four
3) five 4) ten
67. Coleridge said that the Preface to the Lyrical Ballad was of my own brain.
1) insight
2) half a child
3) a child
4) influence
68. A Vindication of the Rights of Men was a formidable piece of
argumentation in response to Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France.
1) Maria Edgeworths
2) Dorothy Wordsworths
3) Wollstonecraft's
4) Joanna Baillies
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69. At the heart of is the vexed relationship between the master, his servant
and a nurse.
1) That Time 2) Not I
3) Waiting for Godot 4) Endgame
70. Pinters The Birthday Party is a play in three acts which centers around Stanley
Webber, a retired in his late thirties.
1) dancer 2) musician
3) civil servant 4) bar tender
71. Richards Practical Criticism, based on student analyses of poetry, emphasized the
importance of objective and balanced which was sensitive to the figurative
language of literature.
1) observation 2) criticism
3) appreciation 4) close reading
72. Deconstruction, according to Derrida, aims to show that any text inevitably
undermines its own claim to have a meaning.
1) infinite 2) finite
3) indeterminate 4) determinate
73. Inventing the term gynocritics, says unlike the feminist critique,
gynocritics offers many theoretical opportunities.
1) Simon de Beauvoir
2) Kate Millet
3) Helene Cixous
4) Elaine Showalter
74. For Homi K. Bhabha, mimicry is a form of , and his post-colonial theory is
a comic approach to colonial discourse.
1) mockery
2) mimicry
3) imitation
4) difference
75. Originally the Normans had been Scandinavians and the term Norman comes from
Northman who had been granted a territory in northern in the early
tenth century.
1) Scandinavia 2) Northumbria
3) Briton 4) France
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