SSB Odisha Lecturer 2016: Lecturer recruitment for non-government aided colleges, English
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1 The First Folio of Shakespeare's 6 Andrew Marvell pays his homage to
plays appeared in : the Lord Protector and a tribute to the
(A) 1623 royal dignity of Charles I in :
(B) 1664 (A) The Garden
(c) logr (B) Bermudas
(D) 1650 (C) An Horatian Ode upon
Cromwell's Retum from lreland
2. The words "Allthe world's a stage"
in Shakespeare's As You Like lt, are
(D) To His Coy Mistress
uttered by: 7 About whom did T. S. Eliot write "A
(A) Rosalind thoughtto him was an experience" ?
(B) Jacques (A) John Donne
(C) Orlando (B) AndrewMarvell
(D) Oliver (C) George Herbert
3 Feste is a character in Shakespeare's :
(D) Richard Crashaw
(A) Twelfth Night 8. Which of the following works of
(B) The Tempest Dr. Johnson is an imitation of the
(C) The Winter'i Tale Tenth Satire of Juvenal?
(D) The Taming of the Shrew (A) Rasse/as
4 In Marlowe's play, whatwasthe name (B) The Vanity of Human Wishes
of the Jew of Malta ? (C) London
(A) Lazarus (D) A Dictionary of the English
(B) Solomon Language
(C) Shylock L Which Augustan writer's epitaph
(D) Barabas reads "one who strove with all his
5. The Shoemaker's Holiday is by : might to champion liberty" ?
(A) Thomas Dekker (A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Thomas Middleton (B) Alexander Pope
(C) Thomas Kyd (C) Jonathan Swift
(D) Thomas Nashe (D) Henry Fielding
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10. The third book of Gulliuer's Irayes is : (B) William Wordsworth
(A) AVoyage to Lilliput (C) S. T. Coleridge
(B) AVoyage to Brobdingnag (D) Robert Southey
(C) AVoyage to Laputa
15. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf , a
(D) A Voyage to the Country of
cloud !/ I fall upon the thorns of life !
Houyhnhnms
I bleed ! These lines are from :
11. The main idea of Alexander Pope's (A) Ode to the West Wind
The Dunciad was taken from John
(B) Ode to Autumn
Dryden's:
(C) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(A) Religio Laici
(B) The Medal (D) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) The Hind and the Panther 16. Lyrical Ballads is a collection of
(D) Mac Flecknoe poems by:
12. The Restoration period began in (A) William Wordsworth and John
1660 with the restoration of : Keats
(A) King Charles I
(B) William Wordsworth and
(B) King Charles ll Dorothy Wordsworth
(C) King James I (C) William Wordsworth and S. T.
(D) King James ll Coleridge
13. Which one of the following plays is (D) William Wordsworth and
NOT byWilliam Congreve ? Robert Southy
(A) The Double Dealer 17. ln which play of Ben Jonson do we
(B) The Plain Dealer find the three rogues Subtle, Face
(C) The Way of the World and Doll?
(D) Love for Love (A) Volpone
14. Who among the following was NOT (B) The Silent Woman
a'Lake Poet'? (C) The Alchemist
(A) G. G. Byron (D) Bartholomew Fair
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18. Philasteris a: 22. Coketown is the setting of which one
(A) Tragi-comedy of Charles Dickens' novel ?
(B) Historicalplay (A) Oliver Twist
(C) Revenge tragedy (B) David Copperfield
(D) Narrative poem (C) Great Expectations
(D) Hard Times
19. Which English novel begins with the
famous statement : "lt is a truth 23. The title'Vanity Fair'has been taken
universally acknowledged that a from:
single man in possession of a good (A) The Pilgrim's Progress
fortune must be in want of a wife" ? (B) The Divine Comedy
(A) Jane Eyre (C) Utopia
(B) Wuthering Heights (D) Paradise Lost
(C) Pride and Prejudice 24. Which one of Elizabeth Gaskell's
(D) Mansfield Park novels has been called a Victorian
Much Ado About Nothing ?
20. The subtitle'ATale, Supposed to be
written by Himself , belongs to which
(A) Mary Barton
work of Oliver Goldsmith ? (B) Cranford
(A) She Sfoopsto Conquer (C) North and South
(B) The Vicar of Wakefield (D) Ruth
(C) The Good-Natur'd Man 25. Thou has notlived, whyshould'stthou
(D) The Deserted Village perish so ? / Thou had'st one aim,
one business, one desire."
21. ldentify the matching pair :
The above lines are from Matthew
(A) Gwendolen Harleth - Adam
Arnold's:
Bede
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Eppie - Daniel Deronda
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Dorothea Brooke - Middle-
march
(C) Thyrsis
(D) Dinah Morris - Felix Holt (D) To Margueite
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26. ln ln Memoriam, Tennyson mourns 31. The line "We must love one another
the death of : or die" is from :
(A) John Keats (A) W. H. Auden's September 1,
(B) Lord Byron 1939
(C) Arthur Henry Hallam (B) Ezra Pound's Rposfes
(D) Arthur Hugh Clough (C) T. S. Eliot's Ihe Hollow Men
27. Aurora Leigh is written by: (D) Philip Larkin's The Whitsun
(A) D. G. Rossetti Weddings
(B) Robert Browning 32. 'lmagism'was a movement in the :
(C) Christina Rossetti (A) Seventeenth Century
(D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (B) Eighteenth Century
28. Which of the following was (C) Nineteenth Century
associated with the 'Bloomsbury (D) Twentieth Century
Group'?
33. Who among the following was one of
(A) W. B. Yeats
the founders of theAbbeyTheatre ?
(B) T. E. Hulme
(A) Amy Lowell
(C) T. S. Eliot
(B) W. B. Yeats
(D) Virginia Woolf
(C) T. E. Hulme
29. Pozzo and Lucky are characters in :
(D) Aldous Huxley
(A) The Cherry Orchard
(B) A Doll's House 34. Choose the correct order of the five
parts of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland:
(C) Waiting for Godot
(A) A Game of Chess- The Buial
(D) The Death of a Salesman
of the Dead - Death by Water
30. Who made use of 'sprung rhythm'in - What the Thunder Said -
poetry ?
The Fire Sermon
(A) W. B. Yeats (B) The Burial of the Dead - A
(B) Ezra Pound Game of Chess - The Fire
(C) T. S. Eliot Sermon - Death by Water -
(D) G. M. Hopkins Whatthe ThunderSaid
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(C) The Fire Sermon - What the (B) H. G Wells
Thunder Said - A Game of (C) J. M Barrie
Chess - The Burial of the
(D) Rudyard Kipling
Dead - Death by Water
(D) Death by Water - The Fire 39. Which of the following works by
Sermon - What the Thunder George Oruuell is a dystopia ?
Said- The Burial of the Dead (A) Animal Farm
- A Game of Chess (B) NineteenEighty-Four
35. ln which novel did Joseph Conrad (C) A Clergyman's Daughter
first introduce his technique of (D) The Road to Wigan Pier
'oblique narrative'?
40. The term'Stream of Consciousness'
(A) Heart of Darkness
was coined by:
(B) Kangaroo
(A) James Joyce
(C) The Niger of Narcissus
(B) William James
(D) Lord Jim
(C) D. H. Lawrence
36. G. B. Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's (D) E. M. Forster
Profession is about :
(A) Prostitution 41. Who is the author of A Journal of
Forly-Eight Hours of the Year 1945 ?
(B) ContemporaryPolitics
(C) Science Fantasy (A) K. K. Sinha
(D) Child Labour (B) Romesh Chunder Dutt
(C) Kylas Chunder Dutt
37. Stanley Webber is a character in
(D) Shoshee Chunder Dutt
Harold Pinter's:
(A) The Homecoming 42. Pick the odd one out :
(B) The Birthday Party (A) John Nobody
(C) The Room (B) Summer in Calcutta
(D) The Caretaker (C) The Descendants
38. The Little Minister is a novel by : (D) The Old Playhouse and Other
(A) John Galsworthy Poems
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43. Kiran Nagarkar's Ravan & Eddie is (B) The Trotter-Nama
a novel about the hybrid culture of (C) Red Earth and'Pouring Rain
which lndian City ?
(D) Looking through G/ass
(A) Kolkata
(B) Chennai 48. What is the real name of the
(C) Delhi character Kirillov in Raja Rao's
Comrade Kiillov ?
(D) Bombay
(A) Padmanabha lyer
44. Who founded the English weekly
(B) Sivarama Sastri
newspaper Karmayogin ?
(C) Rama
(A) SriAurobindo
(B) RabindranathTagore (D) Ramakrishna Pai
(C) LalBehari Dey 49. Whose autobiography is entitled My
(D) Bankim Chandra Chattopa- Story ?
dhyay (A) Toru Dutt
45. Who is the protagonist of R. K (B) R. K. Narayan
Narayan's The Dark Room ? (C) BharatiMukherjee
(A) Raju (D) Kamala Das
(B) Sriram 50. Which of the following books by A.
(C) Mali K. Ramanujan was posthumously
(D) Savitri pubtished ?
46. Tulsi family finds mention in which (A) The Striders
one of V. S. Naipaul's works ? (B) The Black Hen
(A) The Mystic Masseur (C) Second Sighf
(B) A House For Mr. Bisuzas (D) Relations
(C) An Area of Darkness
(D) The Middle Passage 51. Who is the author of A Connecticut
Yankee in King Afthur's Court ?
47. Which novel by Vikram Chandra (A) Bret Harte
revolves around the fate of Sanjay
reincarnated as monkey thatAbhay
(B) John Hay
shoots ? (C) MarkTwain
(A) Dethi (D) HenryJames
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52. The Gold-Bug is written by : (B) Stephan
(A) EdgarAllan Poe (C) Manolin
(B) William Ellery Channing (D) Leonard
(C) Margaret Fuller 57 . Who is the author of Adding Machine ?
(D) George Bancroft (A) James Matthew Barrie
53. Walden Pond was a place of (B) Elmer Rice
enormous importance for :
(C) TennesseeWilliams
(A) Jonathan Edwards (D) ArthurMiller
(B) Henry David Thoreau 58. Pick the odd one out :
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (A) The Bostonians
(D) HenryWadsworth Longfellow (B) TheAwkuardAge
(C) The Wings of the Dove
54. Who is the author of The Life of
(D) The lceman Cometh
Reason ?
(A) E. E. Cummings 59. ln Cold Blood is written by :
(A) Truman Capote
(B) Harry Crosby
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Alan Seeger
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) George Santayana
(D) PaulAuster
55. The Middle Years (1917) is the title
60. One of the founders of ftre Atlantic
of an unfinished autobiographical
Monthly was:
sketch. Who is its author ?
(A) W. D. Howells
(A) HenryJames (B) Sarah Orne Jewett
(B) Robert G. lngersoll (C) Charles EIiot Norton
(C) W W. Jacobs (D) JamesRussellLowell
(D) Frank Norris 61. Vathekis a:
56. What was the old man's child (A) Gothic novel
assistant's name is lhe Old Man (B) Socialnovel
and the Sea ? (C) Bildungsroman
(A) John (D) Epistolary novel
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62. Pick the odd one out : 67. Who wrote the screenplay for The
(A) Astrophel and Stella French Lieutenant's Woman (1 98 1 ),
(B) Amoretti directed by Karel Reisz ?
(C) The River Duddon (A) Harold Pinter
(D) Modern Love (B) Arthur Miller
63. The term 'Theatre of Cruelty' was (C) Edward Albee
introduced by:
(D) Edward Bond
(A) PeterWeiss
(B) AntoninArtaud 68. ln ancient Greece, 'lyric' was the
(C) Bertolt Brecht name of :
(D) Erwin Piscator (A) A form of love song
64. ln Greece,'epinicion'was devoted to (B) A song for accompaniment on
praise: the lyre
(A) The painters
(C) A didactic song
(B) The politicians
(D) A song sung for Praising the
(C) The athletes
King
(D) The prophets
65. The elegiac stanza is named after its 69. Which novelofAusten ridiculed the
use in : contemporary gothic novels ?
(A) Elegy Written in a Country (A) NofthangerAbbey
Churchyard
(B) Sense and Sensibility
(B) ln Memoiam
(C) "Full Fathom Five Thy Father (C) Emma
Lies" (D) Persuasion
(D) Duino Elegies
70. The rhyme scheme of the octave of
66. Who coined the term 'Theatre of the Petrarchan Sonnet is :
Absurd'?
(A) abcabcab
(A) Eugene lonesco
(B) SamuelBeckett (B) abababab
(C) Martin Esstin (C) aabaaaba
(D) Harold Pinter (D) abbaabba
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71. ln Tomashevsky's analysis of 74 Who wrote , The Feminine Mystique ?
narrative, the term 'syuzhet' refers to :
(A) Betty Friedan
(A) Grammar
(B) Simone de Beauvoir
(B) Story
(C) ShulamithFirestone
(C) Plot
(D) [Vletaphor (D) Mary Daly
75 Which among the following texts was
72. Thinking aboutWomen is written by:
responsible for introducing the term
(A) Mary Ellmann
'touchstone' into the world of literary
(B) Kate Millett
criticism ?
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Judith Fetterley (A) Defence of Poetry
(B) Political Shakespeare
73. Which among the following
statements is NOT true of Lacan's (C) The Study of Poetry
notion of 'the mirror stage' ? (D) The Poetics of Prose
(A) This stage is attended by the 76, Among the following, who popu-
6-18 month child.
larised the term 'New Criticism ?
(B) lt consists of the child's
(A) John Crowe Ransom
identification with the image in
the mirror (B) l.A. Richards
(C) The mechanism is attended bY (C) William K. Wimsatt
a sense of anxietY resulting (D) Allen Tate
from the first jubilation at the
77 New Criticism is concerned with the :
recognition of one's own image
and the sense of anguish, (A) Trans-historicaltexts
following the jubilation, issued (B) HistoricitY of texts and the
from the child's realisation that textualitY of history
the image is fake.
(C) HistorY as a homogenous
(D) OnlYwhenweareadultswecan pattern of facts and events
successfutlY forgo the longing
(D) HistorY as an archive of
for unitY and identification with
knowledge
ourown reflection'
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78. Which among the following 82. ln Elizabethan tragedy, 'comic relief'
statements is NOT true of 'Structu- was integrated as the partof the play:
ralism'?
(A) That would divert the mind of
(A) Structuralism claimed itself to the audience from the grim
be a scientific project
world of tragedy
(B) Structuralism is in opposition to
(B) That would showcase the
be mimetic view of literature
playwright's ability to write
(C) The individual author is seen as
comic scenes.
the origin of producer of a work
(D) Structuralism employs the (C) Thatwould not be performed in
concepts of syntagm and the public theatres.
paradigm to analyse a text (D) That would counterpoint and
79. ln Aristotle's idea about tragedy, enhance the tragic significance
'Anagnorisis' leads to :
83. The cognitive view of metaphor
(A) Hamartia asserts that :
(B) Hubris (A) Ordinary use of language is
(C) Catharsis pervasively and indispensably
(D) Peripeteia metaphorical
80. Pick the odd one out : (B) IVletaphors mean onlywhatthe
(A) ProvincializingEurope words mean literally
(B) The Political lJnconscious (C) The term'metaphor'should be
(C) Orientalism replaced by the word 'vehicle'
(D) White Mythotogies (D) As the main purpose of
81. The rose in William Blake's The Sick . Ianguage is to communicate
Rose is an examPle of : truths and that can only be
(A) Metaphor achieved through literal
(B) ConventionalSYmbol language, therefore, metaphor
(C) Private Symbol is to be abandoned forthe sake
(D) Allegory of greater clarity of meaning
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84. "The most heterogeneous ideas are 89. Whocoined theterm'PoeticJustice' ?
yoked by violence together"
-this (A) Thomas Rymer
famous definition of metaphysical (B) OscarWilde
conceit is provided by :
(C) William Wordsworth
(A) Alexander Pope (D) John Lyly
(B) SamuelJohnson
(C) John Donne 90. The Golden Bough is an example of :
(D) T. S. Eliot (A) Postcolonialcriticism
(B) Feminist criticism
85. Robinson Crusoe is an example of :
(C) Myth criticism
(A) Naturalism (D) Newcriticism
(B) Realism
(C) Magic Realism 91. "Hurrah ! I have finished the task."
The above line can be reported as :
(D) Romance
(A) He cried that he had finished
86. Equivoque is a specialtype of :
the task
(A) Hyperbole (B) He shouted with joythat he had
(B) Bathos finished the task
(C) Ballad (C) He remarked that he had
(D) Paranomasia finished the task
(D) He reported that he had
87. Which novel initiated'Naturalism' as
finished the task
a literary movementin France ?
(A) Germinie Lacerteux 92. You watch me every day while I :
(B) An Bonheur des dames (A) Eat my breakfast
(C) The're'se Raquin (B) Ate my breakfast
(D) LesLaurierssontcoupebs (C) Was eating my breakfast
(D) Had eaten my breakfast
88. According to Keats, which poet
possessed negative capability 93. The dishonest cashier
'enormously'? with ten thousand rupees.
(A) Coleridge (A) made after
(B) Homer (B) made for -
(C) Shakespeare (C) made away
(D) Virgil (D) made up
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94. Anewsecretaryhas after (B) earned
my resignation. (C) incurred
(A) taken down (D) accumulated
(B) taken to
98. Can you help me ? I a
(C) taken off
post office.
(D) taken over
(A) am looking for
95. He has great regard his
(B) look for
parents.
(C) am look for
(A) on
- (D) looking for
(B) for
(c) with 99. He it unless you were
to order him to do it.
(D) at
(A) Ought not
96. She often boasts her -do
(B) Should not
aristocratic upb ring ing
(C) Would not
(A) about
(D) Need not
(B) to
(c) bv 100. I was upsetbY his behaviour- I
chose not to make an issue of it'
(D) of
(A) Of course
97. John had such heavy
debts that nothing short of a miracle
(B) Due to this
could save him from bankruPtcY. (c) still
(A) caused (D) SimilaritY
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