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The matching is i-2, ii-3, iii-1, iv-4. Psychology and Art Today is a volume by W.H. Auden, Revolution in Writing by C. Day Lewis, The Coming Struggle for Power by John Strachey, and Arrow in the Blue is Arthur Koestler's autobiography.

These titles are linked with the left-leaning writers of the thirties. The other codes assign them to the wrong authors, such as Koestler's autobiography to Strachey.

The authors of these books belonged to the generation of the thirties: Auden and Day Lewis as poets, Strachey as a Marxist writer, and Koestler as a journalist and novelist, so the titles are linked with that decade.

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Derrida's American disciples were Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man and J. Hillis Miller, the Yale critics who took up deconstruction in the United States. Gertrude Stein was a modernist writer, and Barbara Johnson and Michael Ryan wrote on deconstruction but the group as a whole in the second option includes Stein. Mary Ellmann wrote on feminist criticism, and Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari are French theorists, not American followers of Derrida.

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The key takes I and IV as the main image clusters, option (D): rain and the river. In A Farewell to Arms rain is repeatedly linked to disaster and death, as in the rain at the end of the novel when Catherine dies, while the river (the Tagliamento, and the river of Henry's escape) is tied to the flight from the war and to renewal.

Beasts and insects are not given as the main clusters in the key. The options that include II or III, (A), (B) and (C), therefore add clusters the key does not accept, so they are wrong.

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According to the official key, the young man who is not sent to the university is Henry Tilney. John Thorpe and James Morland in Northanger Abbey are Oxford men who appear as students and friends, and the key counts Tom Bertram among those who went.

The first, second and third options are therefore treated as the young men who attended university, and the fourth option is the one who did not, as the key states. The question tests knowledge of the education of the young men in Austen's novels, where attendance at Oxford or Cambridge marks the gentleman's sons.

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The character who realises that the beast is the evil inside the boys themselves is Simon. In Golding's Lord of the Flies he finds that the 'beast' on the mountain is only a dead parachutist, and he understands that the real beast is in the boys' own nature.

Jack and Roger lead the savagery, and Ralph tries to keep order but does not reach this insight, so the second option is correct. Simon's insight is not understood by the other boys, and he is killed by them in the frenzy of the dance, which shows how far the evil has grown.

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The dramatic structure of Restoration comedy combines features of the Elizabethan theatre, in its use of intrigue, disguise and a mixed plot, and of the neoclassical theatre of Italy and France, whose influence, in particular that of Moliere, shaped the comedy of manners. So I and II are correct, option (D). The Irish theatre and the Greek theatre are not among the sources named, so options (A), (B) and (C) are wrong. The comedy of manners that came from this mixture is seen in the plays of Congreve and Wycherley.

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The correct pairing is Nissim Ezekiel - Hymns in Darkness, Kamala Das - The Sirens, R. Parthasarathy - Rough Passage, A.K. Ramanujan - The Striders.

Ezekiel's volume is Hymns in Darkness (1976), Kamala Das's first collection is The Sirens (1964), Parthasarathy wrote Rough Passage (1977), and Ramanujan's first collection is The Striders (1966).

Each of the other options gives at least two of the four poets a book by someone else.

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The post-apartheid novel is The House Gun.

Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun (1998) is set in the new South Africa after apartheid, and tells of a family whose son is accused of murder. The key spells the title as 'The House of Gun'.

The Conservationist (1974), The Lying Days (1953) and Burger's Daughter (1979) were all written during the apartheid years.

Gordimer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1991, wrote both before and after the end of apartheid, so the date of each novel is the clue to the answer.

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The poet is Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague in 1875 and dead of leukemia in 1926. He met Tolstoy during his visits to Russia, and his last major works are the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, which contain the words elegies and sonnets in their titles. The booklet prints his name as Raine Marie Rilke.

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Heinrich Heine in Dusseldorf and Eichendorff in Silesia, and none of them wrote the Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

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The play is Riders to the Sea.

Synge's one-act tragedy (1904), set on the Aran Islands, shows Maurya losing the last of her sons to the sea. Christian prayer and holy water sit beside older pagan beliefs, the sea as an implacable power and Maurya's vision of her dead son riding behind the living one, and critics have long discussed the pagan fatalism beneath the play's Christian surface.

The other three are not Synge's: Man and Superman is by Bernard Shaw, The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot and The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen.

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The first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize was Eugene O'Neill.

O'Neill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, and he remains the only American playwright to have won it. His plays include The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night.

Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Arthur Miller won Pulitzer Prizes for drama, several of them more than once, but none was awarded the Nobel Prize.

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The heroine is Padmini.

In Girish Karnad's Hayavadana (1971), based on a tale from the Kathasaritsagara reworked by Thomas Mann, Padmini is married to Devadatta, the man of intellect, but is drawn to his friend Kapila, the man of body. When the two men's heads are transposed, the play explores which of them is now her husband.

Nalini, Radha and Shalini are not characters in the play.

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The one who is not primarily a poet is Samuel Beckett.

Beckett is known above all as a playwright and novelist, the author of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and the trilogy beginning with Molloy, and a central figure of the Theatre of the Absurd. He did write some verse, such as 'Whoroscope' (1930), but he is not ranked as a poet.

Robert Graves, Philip Larkin and W.H. Auden are major twentieth-century poets, whatever else they wrote: Graves also wrote novels such as I, Claudius, but his poetry is central to his reputation.

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Miracle plays are based on the lives of Saints.

In medieval English drama, miracle plays strictly present the lives, miracles and martyrdoms of the saints and the Virgin Mary, while mystery plays dramatise Bible stories from the Creation to the Last Judgement. The terms were often used loosely for both, but the saint's play is the defining sense of 'miracle play'.

Knights, crusaders and pilgrims are subjects of romances and later secular drama, not of miracle plays.

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The concept of 'epiphany' belongs to the works of James Joyce.

Joyce borrowed the religious term for a sudden revelation and used it, in Stephen Hero, for a moment when the essence of an ordinary object or event suddenly shows itself. The stories of Dubliners typically turn on such a moment, as at the end of 'Araby' or 'The Dead', and Joyce collected his own early prose 'epiphanies'.

T. S. Eliot is associated with the objective correlative, while Ronald Firbank and Edward Marsh, the editor of Georgian Poetry, have no link with the term.

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Using computers to learn a language is called computer assisted language learning (CALL).

CALL covers any use of computers in language teaching and learning: drill and practice programs, multimedia courseware, language corpora, online communication and, more recently, mobile and web-based tools. The term became standard in the 1980s.

Computer generated programs and computer based classrooms describe tools or settings rather than the field of language learning itself, and 'console based classroom' is not a recognised term.

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The term "Ideological State Apparatus" was coined by Louis Althusser.

In his essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' (1970), the French Marxist philosopher distinguished the Repressive State Apparatus (government, army, police, courts, prisons), which works mainly by force, from the Ideological State Apparatuses (schools, churches, family, media, culture), which reproduce the relations of production by shaping beliefs. He also introduced the idea that ideology 'interpellates' individuals as subjects.

Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson are later Marxist critics who drew on Althusser, and Edward Said is known for Orientalism, not for this concept.

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The title stands for Elizabeth Bennet, whose prejudice is against Darcy, and Mr. Darcy, whose pride is the cause of his first offence. Pride is usually linked to Darcy and prejudice to Elizabeth, so the pair Miss Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is right. Miss Havisham belongs to Great Expectations, and Mr. Collins is the clergyman of the novel, who is a figure of foolish pride but not the one the title describes.

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In The Defence of Poesy, Sidney says that the poet nothing affirms and therefore never lies, in order to defend Aristotle's view of poetry against the attack of Plato in the Republic, who banished poets as liars.

The work is not about the classical arts or the spirit of adventure, though the Renaissance setting is its context. The keyed first option states the aim.

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"Confessio Amantis", the poem of the late fourteenth century, was written by John Gower. It is a long poem in English made up of tales that a lover tells to a priest of Venus, his confessor, and it was composed around 1390.

Geoffrey Chaucer was Gower's contemporary and friend, but he wrote the Canterbury Tales. Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio were Italian writers. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy and Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, so neither wrote the poem named in the question.