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Paper III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This Paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions, each
question carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
Read the following passage carefully 1. The narrator thinks that he is the
proper person to tell the story
and choose the most appropriate
because :
alternatives to answer the questions
(A) he belongs to the family
given below it :
(B) the family is famous
The story of my famous family is a (C) the family is highly talented and
story of genius and its consequences, intelligent
I suppose, and I am uniquely and (D) he is not highly talented and
intelligent
particularly suited to tell the story,
2. ‘................. and I, it’ means that :
since genius avoided me .....................
(A) genius avoided the narrator
and I, it. I remain an ordinary
(B) the narrator chose not to be a
man, if there is such a thing, calm
genius
in all weathers, aware of event
(C) he and it are suited to tell the
but uninterested and generally story
incapable of deciphering implication. (D) genius avoided me, him and it
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3. An ordinary man is incapable of 5. The tone of the passage is :
deciphering implication. This means
(A) serious
that :
(B) humorous
(A) he works out what is suggested
(C) aggressive
(B) he cannot work out what is
(D) satirical
suggested
6. Psychoanalytical theories :
(C) he is able to predict future
events (A) tend to emphasize historicity
(D) he implies that he is unable to (B) suggest that human nature is
understand things universal
4. The narrator : (C) are totally unconcerned with the
(A) believes that there are ordinary relationship between history
men and human nature
(B) accepts for the time being that (D) believe that although human
there are ordinary men nature depends upon family ties
(C) thinks that there are only and the nature of the family, it
extraordinary men has nothing to do with political
(D) assumes that men are ordinary and economic change
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7. The Renaissance held more aloof 10. Identify the source of these lines :
from .............................. in England
“Was this the face that launched a
than in Italy or even in France.
thousand ships
(A) Music
(B) Plastic Arts And burnt the topless towers of
(C) Architecture Ilium ?
(D) Historical writing Sweet Helen, make me immortal
8. Ethnic issues cannot be raised in with a kiss.”
Shakespeare’s :
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Dr. Fanstus
(B) Othello
(C) Tamberlaine
(C) The Tempest
(D) Hamlet (D) Sejanus
9. The Merchant of Venice is 11. Francis Bacon was influenced by :
Shakespeare’s :
(A) Aristotle
(A) Early comedy
(B) Machiavelli
(B) Mature comedy
(C) Tragi-comedy (C) Plato
(D) Romance (D) Erasmus
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12. The hero of Milton’s Paradise 15. The Restoration brought the major
Regained is :
drift towards .......................... interests
(A) Satan
in the social and literary world.
(B) God
(A) Religious
(C) Christ
(D) Adam (B) Cultural
13. Dryden’s All for Love is an (C) Political
adaptation of :
(D) Civic and national
(A) Webster’s The White Devil
16. The Tatler was started by :
(B) Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Shakespeare’s Troilus and (A) Dr. Johnson
Cressida
(B) Joseph Addison
(D) Shakespeare’s Antony and
(C) Sir Richard Steele
Cleopatra
14. Dr. Johnson used the term (D) Daniel Defoe
‘metaphysical’ to refer to :
17. Mrs. Malaprop is a character
(A) religious themes in poetry
immortalized by :
(B) the concerns with spiritual
matters in poetry (A) William Congreve
(C) the poet’s ability to yoke ideas (B) John Dryden
in unprecedented manner
(C) Oliver Goldsmith
(D) advocating for the material
aspects of life in poetry. (D) Richard Sheridan
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19. Whose satire is primarily founded on
18. The following works of Defoe can be
his cynicism ?
chronologically arranged as :
(A) Wycherley
(A) Robinson Crusoe — Captain (B) Congreve
Singleton — Colonel Jacque — (C) Etheredge
(D) Dryden
Moll Flanders
20. Who shows his genius for recreating
(B) Robinson Crusoe — Captain the past ?
Singleton — Moll Flanders — (A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) P.B. Shelley
Colonel Jacque
(C) Thomas Moore
(C) Robinson Crusoe — Moll
(D) Thomas Campbell
Flanders — Captain Singleton
21. Who proclaimed the doctrine of
— Colonel Jacque utility ?
(A) William Hazlitt
(D) Robinson Crusoe — Moll
(B) Jeremy Bentham
Flanders — Colonel Jacque —
(C) Adam Smith
Captain Singleton (D) William Godwin
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22. Identify the author of Confessions of 25. Which of the following is not
an English Opium Eater :
characteristic of Arnold’s poetry ?
(A) William Hazlitt
(A) Suavity
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) S.T. Coleridge (B) Wistfulness
(D) Charles Lamb (C) Serenity
23. Identify the poet who has written
(D) Strong passion
many “Visionary” poems :
(A) S.T. Coleridge 26. Which of the following characteri-
(B) Robert Southey stics best describes Thackeray ?
(C) Lord Byron (A) High moralism
(D) Robert Burns
(B) Clear-sighted realism
24. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
challenges the conventional class (C) Weak narration
distinctions by showing that :
(D) Strong propaganda
(A) Mr. Gardiner, though a trader,
is a perfect gentleman 27. In which novel of his, Fielding
(B) Wickham, the son of a steward, reverses the situation in
has better manners than Darcy, Richardson’s Pamela ?
the aristocrat
(A) Joseph Andrews
(C) Caroline Bingley is to be
condemned for looking down (B) Jonathan Wild
upon Mrs. Bennet
(C) Tom Jones
(D) The gentry do not have to work
for a living (D) Amelia
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28. The character of Rochester occurs in
30. Who among the following was not
the novel :
associated with the revival of the
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jane Eyre verse drama ?
(C) Agnes Grey
(A) T.S. Eliot
(D) Shirley
(B) W.H. Auden
29. Match ‘A’ with ‘B’ :
‘A’ ‘B’ (C) J.B. Priestley
(1) Ivanhoe (a) Henry Mackenzie
(D) Christopher Isherwood
(2) The Man of (b) Sir Walter Scott
Feeling
31. Who remarkably changed the
(3) The Vicar of (c) Samuel Johnson literary taste after the 1st World
Wakefield
War ?
(4) Rasselas (d) Oliver Goldsmith
(A) T.S. Eliot
Codes :
(A) (1)–(b), (2)–(a), (3)–(d), (4)–(c) (B) W.B. Yeats
(B) (1)–(a), (2)–(c), (3)–(b), (4)–(d)
(C) Louis MacNiece
(C) (1)–(b), (2)–(d), (3)–(a), (4)–(c)
(D) Stephen Spender
(D) (1)–(d), (2)–(a), (3)–(b), (4)–(c)
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32. One of the following anthologies by 34. Conrad’s method of putting together
Yeats is recognized as a turning
materials from the point of view of
point in the poet’s attempt to
several persons :
modernize his poetry ?
(A) Michael Robartes and The (A) is similar to Impressionism in
Dancer Painting
(B) The Tower
(B) means a lot of unnecessary
(C) Responsibilities
repetition
(D) The Wild Swans at Coole
(C) creates contradictory versions of
33. The following plays of Bernard
truth
Shaw are satires on social attitudes
towards sex relations : (D) prevents us from arriving at
(A) Back to Methuselah, Major objective truth
Barbara
35. Molier’s Alceste is engaged in :
(B) Androcles and the Lion, Arms
and the Man (A) only a hopeless love affair
(C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man (B) a potential duel
and Superman
(C) a court case
(D) The Devil’s Disciple, The Man
of Destiny (D) love affair, duel and court case
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36. Ralph is a character in : 39. Which author from the following
(A) The Lord of the Flies discusses sexual deviations freely ?
(B) Clockwork Orange (A) C.P. Snow
(C) The Enchanter’s Net (B) John Wain
(D) The Paperman (C) Irish Murdoch
37. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ is a poem (D) Laurence Durrell
which depicts :
40. In Orwell’s 1984, surveillance is not
(A) Her incestuous love for her performed through :
father
(A) Police
(B) Her Nazi tendencies
(B) Telescreen
(C) Her hatred towards her father
(C) Tape-recorders
(D) Her jealousy of her mother
(D) Mind-reading
38. James Joyce in A Portrait of an
41. Neo-classicism developed the notion
Artist as a Young Man shows the
of :
development of Stephen as a :
(A) Sensitive young man (A) Reflection
(B) Conformist (B) Resemblance
(C) Revolutionary (C) Verisimilitude
(D) Army recruit (D) Mimesis
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42. T.S. Eliot’s criticism provides : 44. Canons of literature was one of the
major concerns of :
(A) a new theory of literature
(A) modernism
(B) a reinterpretation of certain
writers such as Dante, Donne (B) post-modernism
and Dryden (C) feminism
(C) a justification for imagery and (D) black literature
symbolism 45. Coleridge makes distinction
(D) a new assessment of classicism between :
and romanticism (A) imagination and fancy
43. Plato and Aristotle considered : (B) creative and critical faculty
(A) the end of tragedy in different (C) literal and figurative
ways (D) organic and mechanical
(B) the nature of tragedy in similar 46. Multiculturalism is a concept in :
ways (A) Modernism
(C) the soul of tragedy in similar (B) Post-modernism
ways (C) Feminism
(D) tragic hero and his fate (D) Structuralism
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47. The notion of difference was 50. Historical and cultural conditions of
developed by :
the production of literary texts are
(A) Michele Foucault
studied by :
(B) Roland Barthes
(A) New criticism
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Paul de Man (B) Deconstruction
48. Carnivalesque and polyphony were
(C) New historicism
important concepts in :
(D) Psychoanalytic criticism
(A) Dialogism
(B) Structuralism 51. “Modern English has become an
(C) Reception theory analytical language.” This means
(D) Feminism that there are fewer ..........................
49. Issues like patriarchal structure of in Modern English than its earlier
society, gender discrimination and
forms.
the structure of human language
are raised by : (A) Vowel sounds
(A) Marxist criticism
(B) Cases
(B) Feminist criticism
(C) Inflexions
(C) Archetypal criticism
(D) Tenses
(D) Formalism
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52. ESP is an acronym for English for 54. In a multilingual society :
(A) a single language is used on all
.............................. purposes.
occasions
(A) selected
(B) different languages are used
(B) social depending on the types of
functions
(C) specific
(C) each language is used for
(D) study different functions
(D) the choice of a language for a
53. In a mechanical drill,
particular function is made by
(A) the item has to be repeated at an individual
least 10 times. 55. Error analysis and interlanguage
are notions related to :
(B) comprehension of the item is not
(A) the interference of the first
necessary language in second language
learning
(C) the class needs to repeat the
(B) wrong learning strategies
item in a chorus
(C) the errors made in using the
(D) audio-visual aids are used for first language
practice (D) the lack of linguistic competence
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58. Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard deals
56. The central message of Goethe’s
with :
Faust is :
(A) the rise of the working class
(A) He who strives is never lost
(B) the decline of the Feudal order
(B) One must be punished for (C) the need to emancipate serfs
(D) Love triangles
adultery
59. We associate the term ‘audience
(C) Worldly pleasures are worthless
alienation’ with :
(D) One should not give into (A) Bertolt Brecht
sensual and material tempta- (B) Luigi Pirandello
(C) August Strindberg
tions
(D) Samuel Beckett
57. Petrarch addressed his sonnets to :
60. In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary,
(A) Beatrice Emma falls in love with :
(A) Homais
(B) Laura
(B) Binet
(C) Mary Fitton
(C) Rodolphe
(D) Elizabeth Boyle (D) Justin
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61. The sea-sky dichotomy in Where 63. Who among the following has used
Shall We Go This Summer refers to Indian philosophy extensively in his
novels ?
the dialectics of :
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(A) being and becoming
(B) R.K. Narayan
(B) this world and the other world
(C) Raja Rao
(C) the self and the other
(D) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(D) man and woman
64. Jugga disrupts the plan of killing of
62. Meghnath Vadham Kavyam by
Muslims travelling to Pakistan by
Michael Madhusudan Dutt :
train because :
(A) Sings of the adventures of Rama
(A) his beloved Nooran was
(B) Sings of the weaknesses of travelling in the train
Meghnath (B) he was secular-minded
(C) Subverts the character of Rama (C) he did not believe in retaliation
(D) Questions Meghnath’s loyalty (D) he was a follower of Gandhi
towards Ravana and his non-violence
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65. Raja Rao’s Comrade Kirillov deals 67. Naipaul’s Mohan Biswas stands for
the .................................. generation of
with :
Indians in West Indies.
(A) the rise of the communist
(A) first
movement in India
(B) second
(B) the life of a Russian
(C) third
philanthropist
(D) contemporary
(C) split personality of an 68. The House of Seven Gables is
individual written by :
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(D) the friendship between India
and Russia (B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Henry James
66. Chinua Achebe writes about the
(D) Theodore Winthrop
community called :
69. The Scarlet Letter is set in :
(A) Maori
(A) the mid 17th century
(B) Niger
(B) the early 18th century
(C) Igbo
(C) the mid 18th century
(D) Ibo (D) the late 18th century
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70. A strong influence of Chinese and 73. I.A. Richards valued literature
Japanese thought and culture is for :
seen in the poems of :
(A) Satisfying impulses of human
(A) Wallace Stevens beings
(B) Ezra Pound (B) Giving us a cathartic experience
(C) William Carlos Williams (C) Being imaginative
(D) Hart Crane (D) Being instructive
71. For Sanssure ‘sign’ is : 74. Literariness, foregrounding and
(A) Form and image and the defamiliarization are some
arbitrariness of the relation important critical concepts used
between the two by :
(B) Form with a logical relation to (A) New critics
its meaning (B) Russian formalists
(C) A symbol used in language (C) Moralist critics
(D) A word with a stable form and (D) Structuralist critics
changing meaning
75. ‘Literature gives a conesthetic or
72. New Historicism is a literary method synaesthetic experience’ is an
mostly used by : argument of :
(A) Adorno (A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Stephen Greenblatt (B) I.A. Richards
(C) Gramsci (C) Matthew Arnold
(D) F.R. Leavis
(D) Northrop Frye
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