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5. Which of the following statements is not applicable to Derrida‟s rejection of the notion of the „Metaphysics of Presence‟? 1. Which of the following statements isnot (A) The desire for immediate access to true of Tolstoy‟s Anna Karenina? It is meaning privileges presence over concerned with absence. (A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life. (B) All presences are necessarily (B) The belief in social progress and metaphysical and, therefore, are to be scientific advancement. rejected. (C) Insistent quest for meaning. (C) A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play of (D) The reaction of immediate family members to someone‟s terminal illness. „difference‟ and „differance‟. (D) Metaphysics involves

2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda‟s guardian installinghierarchies and orders ofsubordination in the sylph is unable to prevent the Baron‟s fatal mischief because variousdualisms that it encounters.

(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda‟s heart. 6. Read the following and its code: (B) He is disturbed by Clarissa‟s speech. “a prince‟s court (C) The view is blocked by the imposing is like a common fountain, whence should figure of Sir Plume. flow Pure silver drop in general: but if‟t (D) He is yet to return from a visit to the chance Cave of Spleen. Some curs‟d example poison‟t near the head Death and disease through the whole 3. „Ah! I‟ll never, never meet such a man land spread.” again. You ought to have heard him recite Code: I. It is the description of the French Court at poetry … Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi. II. It is about the English court. Such was Darkness these words about Kurtz are spoken by Webster‟s England, but to avoid censorship Webster gives his play a foreign location. (A) The manager III. It is about the Italian court. (B) The intended (C) The first-class agent IV. The court is located in Malfi.

(D) The Russian The correct combination according to the 4. Arrange the following ELT methods and code is: approaches in the order in which they (A) I and IV are correct. appear. Use the codes given below: (B) I and II are correct. Code: (C) II and III are correct. I. Direct Method (D) II and IV are correct. II. The Communicative Language Teaching III. The Grammar Translation Method 7. Literary works by post-modern British IV. The Silent Way writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share which of the following The correct combination according to the characteristics? code is: (A) I, III, IV, III (A) The use of fragmented narrative structures with multiple shifts in (B) III, I, IV, II 01

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consciousness, chronology and 10. Which of the following statements is location. not true of many contemporary African (B) An emphasis on the rich universality writers? of life in cultures and countries all (A) They convey a melancholy tone of over the world. longing for traditionalreligious rituals. (C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for (B) They celebrate unambiguously the nineteenth and early twentieth century benefits of Western education. life, typically expressed in rueful, (C) They bemoan the loss of values and melancholic tones. indict aspirations of wealth. (D) The use of brief, economic literary (D) They assess the social impact of forms and a spare, astringent literary systems and institutions of colonial style. rule.

11. The „Angel in the House‟ became a 8. Given below are two statements, one is common label for the Victorian ideal of labelled as Assertion (A) and the other respectable middle-class femininity. The labelled as Reason (R): phrase originated with a popular long Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers poem by maintain that being „unhomed‟ is not the (A) Arthur Munby same as being „homeless‟. (B) Arthur Hugh Clough Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at (C) Charlotte Mew home in themselves: their cultural identity (D) Coventry Patmore crisis has made them psychological refugees. In the context of the above statements, which 12. Which of the following literary types is one of the following is correct? associated with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire? Code: (A) Flaneur

(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong. (B) Poete Maudit (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct. (C) Encomium (C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct. (D) Honnete Homme (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong. 13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image 9. Which of the following statements are clusters are associated with not true about Margaret Laurence‟s Novel, Code: The Stone Angel? I. Rain Code: II. Beasts I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in III. Insects Manitoba called Manawaka. IV. River II. The novel was written when she was away from Canada. The correct combination according to the III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by code is: Hagar Shipley. (A) I and III are correct. IV. The novel is least known of her works. (B) I, II and IV are correct. (C) III and IV are correct.

The correct combination according to the (D) I and IV are correct. code is: (A) I and II are correct. 14. Which of the following poets describes (B) II and III are correct. his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo- (C) II and IV are correct. Indian. She is Indian English, the language (D) I and IV are correct. that I use.” (A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Keki Daruwalla 02

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(C) A.K. Ramanujan 18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen (D) R. Parthasarathy portrays an „excess of sensibility‟ in (A) Marianne 15. All of the following are characteristics (B) Margaret of Renaissance humanism except (C) Elinor (A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures. (D) Lucy (B) Rejection of Christian principles. (C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek 19. Ben Jonson disliked writers were inferior to later authors. Code: (D) Primary causative agent of the I. fantastic comedy Reformation. II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and stupendous tragedy

16. „Stand up, young woman … and tell me III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus what sort of a barbarous people your IV. The ability of satire to expose human country folk are, where child-murder is vices and follies become so commonplace as to require the restraint of laws like yours.‟ The queen in The correct combination according to the Scott‟s The Heart of Midlothian is code is: referring to a strange (A) I and III are correct. Scottish law according to which if a woman (B) III and IV are correct. (A) gives birth to a child and the child is (C) I and IV are correct. missing, she is considered guilty of (D) I and II are correct. infanticide. (B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the 20. Given below are two statements, one child is missing and she has not labelled as Assertion (A) and the other confided to anyone about her labelled as Reason (R): pregnancy, she is considered guilty of Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s infanticide. Baldwin and Ellison returned (C) gives birth to a child and the child is to universal themes and missing and she has not confided to focused on innovations in

anyone about her pregnancy, she is literary forms. considered guilty of infanticide. Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African (D) gives birth to a child and kills the and American Literature was child and she is guilty of infanticide. mostly preoccupied with protest. 17. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the definition of New In the context of the above statements, which Historicism? New historicist critics one of the following is correct? (A) Remind us that it is treacherous to Code: reconstruct the past as it really was – (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the rather than as we have been correct explanation of (A). conditioned by our own place and (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not time to believe the way it was. the correct explanation of (A). (B) Are less likely to see history as linear (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. and progressive, as something (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. developing toward the present. (C) Tend to view history as literature‟s 21. In coining the term „Ecriture feminine‟

background. Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual

(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary production, not necessarily written by text has a single or easily identifiable women. Who among the following male historical context. writers is used by her as an example? (A) D.H. Lawrence 03

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(B) Joseph Conrad (B) I and II are correct. (C) James Joyce (C) III and IV are correct. (D) E.M. Forster (D) I and III are correct.

22. Of the following characters in Jacobean 26. Judith Wright‟s works reveal the plays, choose the one who is not a following features except one. Which one? villainous character: (A) A keen focus on the Australian (A) De Flores (The Changeling) environment (B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam) (B) Concern for the relationship between the (C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush. Old Debts) (C) A correspondence between inner (D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi) existence and objective reality. (D) An obsession with religious and political 23. Resistance to slavery created a issues. literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of the eighteenth century 27. Arrange the following books in the in Britain. Suchliterature included books order in which they appeared: Code: written byformer slaves. Two such writings are I. Leviathan

Code: II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity I. Mary Robinson III. Le MorteD‟Arthur II. Olaudah Equiano IV. Utopia III. Mary Prince IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley The correct combination according to the code is: The right combination according to the code (A) I, IV, III, II is (B) III, IV, I, II (A) I and IV are correct. (C) III, IV, II, I (B) I and II are correct. (D) III, I, IV, II (C) II and IV are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize? 24. Hippolyte Taine published his four (A) The Artist of Disappearance and In volumes History of English Literature in Custody

1864 based on the following categories (B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting except one. Which one? (C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way

(A) Race (D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain (B) Psychology (C) Historical moment 29. Edward Said points to two forms of (D) Milieu orientalism. They are (A) Real and fake 25. The two „mother-figures‟ in Dickens‟s (B) Voluntary and involuntary Great Expectations are (C) Subjective and objective Code: (D) Latent and manifest I. Estella II. Miss Havisham 30. Which of the plays in its Preface was III. Mrs Joe described by Eugene O‟Neill as „a play of IV. Georgiana old sorrow, written in tears and blood‟? (A) Desire under the Elms The right combination according to the code (B) The Hairy Ape is: (C) Long Day‟s Journey into Night (A) II and III are correct. (D) Mourning Becomes Electra 04

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(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the 31. “With all the eagerness to know the correct explanation of (A). truths of life, she retained very childlike (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not ideas about marriage … the really the correct explanation of (A). delightful marriage must be that when (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. your husband was a sort ofa father, and (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of 34. Which of the following novels acted as George Eliot‟s novels. Who is she? an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging (A) Romola a new narrative style in English? (B) Hetty Sorel (A) Raja Rao‟s Kanthapura (C) Maggie (B) G.V. Desani‟s All about H Hatterr (D) Dorothea (C) Mulk Raj Anand‟s Untouchable

(D) R.K. Narayan‟s The Sweet Vendor 32. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other 35. Ann Radcliffe‟s The Mysteries of labelled as Reason (R): Udolpho is a novel about Assertion (A): The term “Standard (A) A father and a daughter setting out on English” is misleading. a journey. Reason (R): There are many linguistic (B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni communities that do have a and her visit to Venice. genuine standard variety, a (C) Emily‟s adventures in the castle of fixed and invariant form of the Udolpho, the outcome of the language that is used for adventures, her escape and her final certain kinds of union with Valencourt. communication. (D) The adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho. In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct? 36. In Marxist criticism the term Code: „interpellation‟ defines

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (A) The ways in which the ideological correct explanation of (A). structure in social formation is (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not constructed out of material practices. the correct explanation of (A). (B) The ways in which the ideological (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. structure in social formation is (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. constructed out of discursive practices. 33. Given below are two statements, one is (C) The ways in which the subjects of an labelled as Assertion (A) and the other ideology are placed in false positions labelled as Reason (R): of knowledge regarding themselves. Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends (D) The ways in which the subjects ofan in a flurry of random allusions. ideology resist false positionsof Reason (R): The ending of the poem knowledge regarding others. reflects the poet‟s divided life between America and England 37. According to Longinus, the sublime has and a life given over to the following features except : primitivism. (A) It is the essence of all great poetry and

oratory. In the context of the above statements, which (B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal one of the following is correct? of persuasion. (C) It valorises a special use of language. (D) It is a matter of reader-response. 05

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38. In a trickster tale Code: 42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”, I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves Donne says to death: “Those whom thou as the protagonist think‟st thou dost over-throw / Die not, II. The ending is ambiguous poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or What does he mean? a liar (A) Death is very strong. IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods (B) Death is not death, because after death we wake up to live eternally. The correct combination according to the (C) One must face death courageously and code is: defiantly. (D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is. (A) II and III are correct. (B) I, II and III are correct.

(C) I and III are correct. 43. In which of the following plays of Luigi (D) I and IV are correct. Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality, becomes the 39. The best source for historical evidence setting of the play? of individual words in English is (A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are) (A) The American Heritage Dictionary (B) To Clothe the Naked (B) Fennell (C) The Life I Gave You (C) The Oxford English Dictionary (D) Six Characters in Search of an Author (D) The Online Merriam-Webster‟s Dictionary 44. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is 40. Which of the following statements on labelled as Reason (R): the ending of Kafka‟s “Metamorphosis” is Assertion (A): Many modern British correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is writers infused their works marked by with an extreme sense of (A) Violent convulsions. uncertainty, disillusionment (B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly and despair. perceptible. Reason (R): The writers were responding to (C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to the devastation of war and administer the last rites. feeling disconnected from the (D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who traditions of the past. discovers the body. In the context of the above statements, which 41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its one of the following is correct? informing principle that archetypes are Codes: present in all literature and provide the (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the basis of its interconnectedness. correct explanation of (A). Practitioners include (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not Code: the correct explanation of (A). I. Northrop Frye (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. II. Dorothy Van Ghent (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. III. Derek Traversi

IV. Maud Bodkin 45. Which among the following statements The correct combination according to is not correct? Badal Sircar‟s Pagla Ghora the code is: is a play about (A) I and IV are correct. (A) The condition of women in post- (B) I and III are correct. Second World War Bengal. (C) II and IV are correct. (B) The political and religious conditions (D) I and II are correct. of the time. 06

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(C) Sexual passion. Code: (D) Lack of communication between men List – I List – II and women. (Works) (Themes) I. The Heart of Midlothian, 46. The various symbols used in Girish Tess of the D‟urbervilles 1. Suicide Karnad‟s Tughlaq are associated with II. The End of the Affair, Code: the Golden Bowl 2. Greed I. Pythons III. The Heart of the Matter, II. Vultures Lord Jim 3. Infanticide III. Wasps IV. Heart of Darkness, IV. Butterflies Nostromo 4. Adultery

The correct combination according to the The correct combination according to the code is: code is: (A) I and II are correct.

(B) I and III are correct. I II III IV (C) III and IV are correct. (A) 3 4 1 2 (D) II and III are correct. (B) 4 3 1 2 (C) 1 3 2 1 47. “Collocations” refer to (D) 4 1 3 2 (A) The combination of words in a phrase (B) The act of positioning words 51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in (C) Grouping of words in a sentence the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando‟s (D) Combination of natural words blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of the following is not the correct answer? 48. Of the following statements, which one (A) Many will swoon when they look at is not true of Congreve‟s The Way of the blood. World? (B) She faints because of her real concern and (A) The Way of the World was staged in anxiety for Orlando. 1700. (C) Frailty, thy name is woman.

(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln‟s (D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later Inn Fields. claims. (C) It was a failure on the stage. (D) The dialogue was unintelligible. 52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides‟s Medea? In Euripides‟s Medea 49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne‟s Look the chorus consists of Back in Anger displays (A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Code: Medea‟s next door neighbours I. Rebelliousness (B) Fifteen Athenian elders II. Nostalgia (C) Fifteen Spartan women III. Restlessness (D) Fifteen Sicilian Women IV. Mendacity 53. Which of the following is not an award The right combination according to the code received by Mahasweta Devi? is: (A) Ramon Magsaysay Award (A) I and II are correct. (B) Jnanpith Award

(B) I and III are correct. (C) Padmashri

50. The following are two lists of works and their themes. Match them correctly: 07

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54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official language of the English 57. The following are two lists of Parliament in characters and the works in which we find (A) 1755 them. Match them correctly according to (B) 1362 the code: (C) 1611 List – I List – II (D) 1879 (Characters) (Works) I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas 55. The following are two lists of II. Raghu 2. Midnight‟s Children statements and the poets / critics who made III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth them. Match them correctly: IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura List – I List – II Code: (Statements on imagination) (Poets / I II III IV critics) (A) 2 1 3 4 I. One power alone makes (B) 3 2 1 4 a poet – The Imagination, (C) 4 1 2 3 The Divine Vision 1. Shelley (D) 1 2 3 4 II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth 2. 58. In spite of being constant in his Coleridge relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved III. The great instrument of in relationships with three other ladies in moral good is the imagination 3. Blake the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list IV. Works of imagination should of these women. Find the odd one: be written in a very plain language 4. Keats (A) Molly Seagrim (B) Mrs Western The right combination according to the code (C) Lady Booby is: (D) Lady Bellaston Code: I II III IV 59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted (A) 2 1 3 4 with the headlines: „A book the police (B) 3 4 1 2 should ban; loathsome study of sex (C) 1 3 2 1 depravity; misleading youth to (D) 4 1 3 2 unspeakable disaster.‟ Its opening chapter was originally suppressed. Name the novel: 56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the (A) Lady Chatterley‟s Lover morality of R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral (B) The Rainbow Island involving adventures of three boys (C) Women in Love marooned on South Pacific Island. Two (D) The White Peacock names are repeated in Golding‟s tale. They are 60. In Keats‟s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the Code: key ideas are best described as the I. Ralph following except one. Which one? II. Roger (A) Movement versus stasis III. Jack (B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss IV. Simon (C) Scars of history versus consolations of art (D) Beauty versus truth The correct combination according to the code is: 61. These critics transcend the subjective (A) I and II are correct. point of view. They bow to other forms of (B) III and IV are correct. objective authority: the authority of the (C) I and IV are correct. past and the authority of the social (D) I and III are correct. 08

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consensus. They adopt the scientific III. The Roman Catholic Church attitude without the science. IV. The Protestant Faith The above formulation best describes (A) The Neoclassical Critics The correct combination according to the (B) The Romantic Critics code is: (C) The Art for Art Sake Critics (A) I and III are correct. (D) The Symbolist Critics (B) I and II are correct. (C) I and IV are correct. 62. In Beckett‟s Waiting for Godo, which (D) II and III are correct. character has two pages of unpunctuated speech? 67. Which of the following statements is (A) Estragon not a correct description of Pope‟s The (B) Vladimir Dunciad?

(C) Lucky (A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers (D) Pozzo and bad writing. (B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the 63. Laura Mulvey‟s pioneering essay, civilization of the time. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is (C) It is about the coronation of Theobald. an instance of the feminist appropriation of (D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only. psychoanalysis. It particularly uses (A) Freud‟s concept of sublimation 68. Which of the following statements (B) Jung‟s concept of collective unconscious cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir- (C) Lacan‟s concept of the gaze Whorf” hypothesis? (D) Lacan‟s notion of the fragmented body (A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe. 64. Which of the following novelists does (B) Language is a guide to social reality. not belong to the “Campus Novelists” (C) One adjusts to reality essentially without Group? the use of language.

(A) Angus Wilson (D) A language and the society that uses it (B) David Lodge interlock.

(C) Anthony Powell (D) Malcolm Bradbury 69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell? 65. Which of the following statements is Code: not true of The Stranger by Camus? I. Socrates (A) The title character is Meursault, an II. Aristotle Algerian who kills an Arab man. III. Heraclitus (B) The story, divided into two parts, IV. Plato gives Meursault‟s first person narrative before and after the murder The correct combination according to the respectively. code is: (C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale (A) I and II are correct. it depicts. (B) I and IV are correct. (D) The theme and outlook of the novel (C) II and IV are correct. are cited as exemplars of (D) I and III are correct. existentialism. 70. Which of the following best describes

66. The Faerie Queene is an epic the role of revision in the writing process? celebration of (A) Revision is discrete phase of the Code: writing process that should occur after I. Queen Elizabeth the initial drafting phase. II. The Irish Nation 09

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(B) Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second draft 75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls phase of the writing process. asleep on (C) Revision is a recursive activity that (A) The Mendip hills may occur at any phase of the writing (B) The Purbeck hills process. (C) The Malvern Hills (D) Substantive revision should occur (D) The Cheviot Hills primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.

71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet? (A) Robert Burns (B) Thomas Chatterton (C) William Collins (D) Charlotte Smith

72. “Why can‟t we be friends now‟ … it‟s what I want. It‟s what you want.‟ But the horses didn‟t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn‟t want it.” At the end of A Passage to India Forster suggests that (A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends. (B) Probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends. (C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not

want the English and the Indians to be friends, not yet. (D) The East is east and the West is west and the twain shall never meet.

73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a (A) Dialect (B) Creole (C) Pidgin (D) Register

74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis. Hewrote a review which introduced the term: (A) The Earthly School of Poetry (B) The Fleshly School of Poetry (C) The Stealthy School of Poetry (D) The Esoteric School of Poetry

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