English Net Paper III –
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Explanation – By Anil S Awad
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1. Thomas and Henrietta
Bowdler’s edition of ‘The Family Shakespeare’ gave rise to the word
“Bowdlerize”. What does it mean?
(1) the expurgation of
indelicate language
(2) the modernization
of archaic vocabulary
(3) the
insertion of bawdy songs
(4) the expansion of
female characters
Answer – (1)
the expurgation of indelicate language
2. First follow _____
and your judgment frame. By her just_____, which is still the same. Supply the
appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
(1) wit, law
(2) reason, rule
(3) nature,
standard
(4) sense, criterion
Answer- (3)
nature, standard
Explanation
– These
lines are taken from Alexander Pope’s ‘An Essay on Criticism’ (1711) – Lines
17-18:
First follow NATURE,
and your judgment frame
By her just standard,
which is still the same:
Unerring Nature, still
divinely bright,
One clear, unchang'd,
and universal light
3. Preparation of
vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was carried out
by________
(1) Otto
Jespersen
(2) Noam Chomsky
(3) N. S. Prabhu
(4) Michael West
Answer – (1)
Otto Jepersen
Explanation
–
Otto Jepersen, the Danish Linguistic, worked throughout his life on the
development of vocabulary and grammar and its horizontal and vertical history. He is famous for his theory of ‘Great Vowel
Shift’
4. Michael Hardt and
Antonio Negri prefer to use “Empire” rather than imperialism. According to
them:
(1) There is only one
empire and we had better recognize it. Hence the Empire with E upper case.
(2) There may be many
empires but only one is patently visible and operational. That is denoted by
Empire with E upper case.
(3) The
present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence we
out to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case.
(4) The culturally
dominant global empire is the only one that really matters. We signify that
Empire with E upper case.
Answer – (3)
The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence
we out to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case.
5. Who among the
following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs “of adolescence”?
(1) F R Leavis
(2) T S Eliot
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) I A Richards
Answer – T S
Eliot (In 1933)
6. Two of among the
following critical journals became strongly associated with New Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review
(b) Southern Review
(C) Kenyon Review
(d) Hudson Review
The right combination
according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and
(c)
(4) (c) and (d)
Answer – (3) (b)
and (c) – Southern Review and Kenyon Review
Explanation
-
There were two critical journals in particular which became strongly associated
with New Criticism: The Southern Review, which began in 1935 and was edited by
Brooks and Warren and the Kenyon Review, founded by Ransom in 1939. (Reference
in - Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide By Patricia Waugh, Page No.
168).
7. Match the columns:
(a) Robert Burton (i) Urn Burial
(b) Richard Hooker (ii) The Unfortunate Traveller
(c) Thomas Browne (iii) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(d) Thomas Nashe (iv) Of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Politie
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
Answer - (3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Explanation
-
Hydriotaphia, Urn
Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a
work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part
work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus.
The Unfortunate
Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (published The Unfortunate Traueller:
or, The Life of Jacke Wilton) by Thomas Nashe (1594) is a picaresque novel
(romance) set during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (full
title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes,
Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions
with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically,
Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert
Burton, first published in 1621.
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical
Politie is Hooker's best-known work, with the first four
books being published in 1594.
8. Which of the
following characters in ‘The White Devil’ describes the glory of great men as:
“Glories, like glow worms a far off shine bright/ But looked to near have
neither heat nor light”.
(1) Vittoria
(2) Lodovico
(3) Flamineo
(4) Cornelia
Answer – (3)
Flamineo (The White Devil – Act – V, Scence I)
9. In which of Philip
Larkin’s poem does he refer to “long uneven lines” of men waiting to be
enlisted for the war?
(“Never such innocence
again” concludes the poem)
(1) “Mr. Bleaney”
(2) “Mc MXIV”
(3) “Ambulances”
(4) “Sad Steps”
Answer – (2)
“McMXIV”
Explanation
–
The Poem MCMXIV by Philip Larkin
MCMXIV (1964)
Phillip Larkin
Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As if they were
stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the
sun
On moustached archaic
faces
Grinning as if it were
all
An August Bank Holiday
lark;
And the shut shops, the
bleached
Established names on
the sunblinds,
The farthings and
sovereigns,
And dark-clothed
children at play
Called after kings and
queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist,
and the pubs
Wide open all day;
And the countryside not
caring:
The place-names all
hazed over
With flowering grasses,
and fields
Shadowing Domesday
lines
Under wheat’s restless
silence;
The differently-dressed
servants
With tiny rooms in huge
houses,
The dust behind
limousines;
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to
past
Without a word – the
men
Leaving the gardens
tidy,
The thousands of
marriages,
Lasting a little while
longer:
Never such innocence
again.
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
10. In Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”,
Gregor Samsa one morning found himself changed in his bed to a monstrous kind
of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa was:
(1) to look at his
image in the mirror
(2) to
remember what happened the day before
(3) to communicate with
anyone
(4) to brush his teeth
Answer – (2)
to remember what happened the day before
Explanation
–
Franz Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis”
Chapter – I
One morning, when
Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed
into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his
head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by
arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed
ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the
size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
"What's happened
to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room
although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A
collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a
travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently
cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It
showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a
heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.
11. Identify the
individual who is a nihilist from the following:
(1) Pechorin in ‘A Hero
of Our Times’
(2) Bazarov
in ‘Fathers and Sons’
(3) Levin in ‘Anna
Karenina’
(4) Oblomov in
‘Oblomov’
Answer –
Bazarov in ‘Fathers and Sons’
Explanation
- Bazarov
in ‘Fathers and Sons’ – A nihilist and medical student. As a nihilist he is a
mentor to Arkady, and a challenger to the liberal ideas of the Kirsanov
brothers and the traditional Russian Orthodox feelings of his own parents.
12. Which of these
works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of Superfluous
Man?
(1) The Diary of a
Superfluous Man
(2) A Hero of our Own
Time
(3) Eugene Onegin
(4) Dead Souls
Answer – (3)
Eugene Onegin
Explanation
– Although ‘The Diary of a Superfluous Man’ (1850) by the Russian author Ivan
Turgenev and A Hero of Our Time (written in 1839 and revised in 1841) by
Mikhail Lermontov, consist the example of Superfluous Man (Just like ‘Byronic
Hero’ – Proud and Self-destructive), Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel ‘Eugene
Onegin’, published in serial form between 1825 and 1832 was ‘trend-setting
novel’ for the type – Superfluous Man.
13. What is Gilgamesh?
(a) a Babylonian epic
poem
(b) a series of gnomic
verses
(c) a classical play
(d) the story of a
harsh ruler
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (c)
(3) (a) and
(d)
(4) (b)
Answer – (3)
(a) and (d) – (World Classic - Epic – a Babylonian epic poem and the story of a
harsh ruler)
14. American Dictionary
of the English Language was the work of ____published in _____
(1) Merriam Webster,
1903
(2) H L Mencken, 1930
(3) Noah Webster, 1828
(4) Benjamin Franklin,
1768
Answer – (3)
Noah Webster, 1828
Explanation
-
Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United
States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first
published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
15. Which of the
following texts of Amitav Ghosh is based on the refugee occupation of an island
in the Sundervans?
(1) Sea of Poppies
(2) The Hungry Tide
(3) River of Smoke
(4) The Glass Palace
Answer – (2)
The Hungry Tide (2004)
16. Which of the
following is described by Robert Browning as “A Child’s Story”?
(1) “Bells and
Pomegranates”
(2) “Pauline
(3) “Fifine at the
Fair”
(4) “The Pied
Piper of Hamelin”
Answer – (4)
“The Pied Piper of Hamelin” (1888)
17. Identify the New
Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London
from 1964 to 1966:
(1) John Crow Ransom
(2) Cleanth
Brooks
(3) Allen Tate
(4) Robert Penn Warren
Answer – (2)
Cleanth Brooks
18. “The Gilded Age”
refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades of
the twentieth century.
Who among the following
American writers is credited with the coining of the term?
(1) F Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Mark
Twain
(3) William Dean
Howells
(4) Theodore Dreiser
Answer – (2)
Mark Twain
19. ‘The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire’ in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward
Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that
(1) Signalled the end
of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Feudalism
(2) Signalled
the American Revolution and the French Revolution
(3) Covered the fall of
peasantry and the rise of bureaucracy in England
(4) Suggest the period
of Queen Anne’s reign.
Answer – (2)
Signalled the American Revolution and the French Revolution
20. Being so caught up,
so master by the brute_____of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his
power, Before the _____beak could let her drop.
Yeats, “Leda and the
Swan”
Choose the right words
for the blanks:
(1) beast, shiny
(2) force, animal
(3) blood,
indifferent
(4) thrust, irate
Answer – (3)
blood, indifferent
Explanation
–
See the poem by W B Yeats
Leda and the Swan
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A sudden blow: the
great wings beating still
Above the staggering
girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her
nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless
breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified
vague fingers push
The feathered glory
from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid
in that white rush,
But feel the strange
heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins
engenders there
The broken wall, the
burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the
brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his
knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent
beak could let her drop?
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
21. Match the following
(a)
Ambiguity (i) A term conined
by Julia Kristeva to refer to the fact that texts are constituted by a “tissue
of citations”
(b)
Aporia (ii) A term used
by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the variety of languages and voices within a
novel.
(c)
Intertextuality (iii) An
irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, usually
associated with deconstructive thinking.
(d)
Heteroglossia (iv) A term made
famous by William Empson to indicate that a word, phrase, or text can be
interpreted in more than one way.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer - (3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
22. Did I request thee,
Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I
solicit thee
From darkness to
promote me?
Which
nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2)
Frankenstein
(3) Don Juan
(4) Jude the obscure
Answer - (2)
Frankenstein (By Marry Shelly)
23. A literary
researcher now faced with choosing between a print text and its digital
counterpart chooses the latter mostly to:
(1)
facilitate the consultation of an exhaustive bibliography
(2) avoid the expense
of buying books
(3) look for specific
words and phrases and lines
(4) enhance his/her
understanding of textual variants, if any, between the two media
Answer – (1)
facilitate the consultation of an exhaustive bibliography
Explanation
–
Print resources have their own limitations. A researcher has to work hard to
gather them from different libraries, to scrutinize and synthesize them for
research purposes. But through internet, he has exhaustive access to different
digital texts like e-books, articles, blogs etc. which can be used to enrich
bibliography.
24. Which of the
following statements on Hudibras are true?
(a) It is a novel
written by Mathew Prior
(b) It is a satirical
poem published in 3 parts
(c) Hudibras was
written by Samuel Butler
(d) Hudibras discuss
complex issues of justice, politics and religion
(1) (c) and (d) are
true
(2) (a) and (d) are
true
(3) (b) and
(c) are true
(4) (a) and (b) are
true
Answer - (3)
(b) and (c) are true
25. The formalist
critic _______mocked the character – based criticism of ______by posing a
famous question, “How many children had Lady Macbeth”?
(1) F R Leavis, E K
Chambers
(2) Cleanth Brooks, F L
Lucas
(3) Monroe Beardsley,
Kenneth Burke
(4) L C
Knights, A C Bradley
Answer – (4)
L C Knights, A C Bradley
26. Which of the
following pair of words does not have two different vowel glides?
(1) care, pure
(2) write, freight
(3) caught,
court
(4) eight, ate
Answer – (3)
caught, court
Explanation
–
A diphthong (vowel glide) is a sound made by combining two vowels, specifically
when it starts as one vowel sound and goes to another, like the oy sound in
oil. Diphthong comes from the Greek word diphthongos which means "having
two sounds." With exception of caught - /kɔːt/ and court - /kɔːt/.
care - /'keə/ - Pure -
/pjʊə/
write - /rʌɪt/ -
freight - /freɪt/
eight - /eɪt/ - ate -
/eɪt/
27. Assertion (A):
Arts will often work
obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their best ‘criticism of life’
simply be being; they may best state by not stating.
Reason : (R)
It follows, if even only part of all this is
true, that the arts do have an important social function. […] Arts can give
greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. […] A country without great art
might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but would be a sorry
society.
(1) Reason
(R) is perfectly aligned with Assertion (A)
(2) Assertion (A) is
unrelated to Reason (R)
(3) Assertion (A)
hardly reflects Reason (R)’s elaboration
(4) Reason (R), in
fact, contradicts Assertion (A)
Answer - (1) Reason (R) is perfectly aligned with Assertion (A)
Explanation
–
Assertion
– Explained
‘Arts will often work
obliquely, by myth or symbol’ – Art works indirectly and affects society. Myth
and symbols are the tools of arts. Myth, legends, tales, fables, parables,
folktales etc. has great impact on masses (Refer – Jung’s ‘Collective
Consciousness’). Different symbols too
have its meaning and they too affects society. For example – Rising Sun –
Optimism, Setting Sun – Pessimism, Darkness – Evil, Light – Good, Hope etc.
(Refer – Northrop Frye’s ‘Archetype of Criticism’)
‘They may make their
best ‘criticism of life’ simply be being’ – Their (myth and symbol) very
existence is useful to give meaning to the life. We critically analyze most of the things
related to our day-to-day life by taking examples from theses myths and symbols,
directly or indirectly.
‘They may best state by
not stating’ – These myths and symbols are there forever. They don’t state
anything themselves, but society perceive them, analyze them and follow them.
Since they are myths and symbols, they don’t need to state anything, they are
followed by masses- consciously and unconsciously.
Reason – Explained
‘It follows, if even
only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an important social
function.’ – If the myths and symbols are working in these ways and regulating
the society and if there is a little truth in the above assertion, it means
simply that the arts have important social function to do. Arts regulate
society.
‘Arts can give greater
depth to a society’s sense of itself.’ – Arts ‘best state by not stating’ and
thus can give great scope for introspection to the society.
‘A country without
great art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but would be a
sorry society.’ – Here ‘thriving earthworms’ may refer to the people not having
taste for arts. Such society can be powerful, but can’t be civilized –
concludes the passage.
(This is my personal
interpretation. If you disagree with the answer – wait for the authentic key
from CBSE-UGC)
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
28. Which of the
following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme?
(1) friend – friendship
(2) courage –
courageous
(3) rely – reliable
(4) climate – climactic
Answer – (1)
friend – friendship - @This question seems doubtful.
Explanation
–
Here –
friend (noun) –
friendship (noun) – adding suffix - ship
courage (noun) –
Courageous ( adjective) – adding suffix – ous
rely (verb) – reliable
(adjective) – adding suffix – able
climate (noun) –
climatic(adjective)
Derivational morphemes
can change the grammatical category (or part of speech) of a word. For example,
adding -ful to beauty changes the word from a noun to an adjective (beautiful).
But it is not the essential rule. One can add morpheme, without changing the
category of a word.
Here -
For example –
Adjective to adjective
acceptable -
unacceptable
avoidable - unavoidable
Noun to noun
decision - indecision
balance – imbalance
Verb to verb
lock - unlock
tie - untie
The question must be
either - Which of the following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme
(that changes the category of the word)?
Or
The options should be
changed – instead of – rely – reliable – There should be relay (race) –
reliable.
Students can get
benefit of doubts (bonus marks), if they challenge the question properly.
29. Which of these
statements is incorrect about presentism and its basic premises?
(1) Hugh Grady is its
principal proponent.
(2) Our knowledge of
works from the past is conditioned by and dependent upon the ideologies of the
present.
(3) Presentism does not
contextualize cultural production in the same way or make use of the theorists
that New Historicism does.
(4) Historicism itself
necessarily produces an implicit allegory of the present in its configuration
of the past.
Answer – (3)
Presentism does not contextualize cultural production in the same way or make
use of the theorists that New Historicism does.
Explanation
– Actually Presentism contextualizes cultural production in the same way or
make use of the theorists like Marx, Freud, Foucault etc., that New Historicism
does.
Reference - Presentist
Shakespeares (Accents on Shakespeare) by Hugh Grady - Nov 2006.
30. “Where there is
leisure for fiction, there is little grief”, was Samuel Johnson’s criticism of
a famous poem. Which poem was it?
(1) P B Shelley’s
“Adonais”
(2) Philip Sidney’s
“Astrophel and Stella”
(3) Thomas Gray’s “Elegy
Written on a Country Churchyard”
(4) John
Milton’s “Lycidas”
Answer – John
Milton’s “Lycida”
Explanation
–
Dr. Johnson quoted it in his ‘Lives of Poets’ (1779)
31. The story is
grounded in the forbidden nature of Aschenbach’s Obsession with a young boy;
its author ultimately links the obsession with death, disease and esthetic
disintegration.
The author of the story
is:
(1) Goethe
(2) Mann
(3) Borges
(4) Proust
Answer – (2)
Mann
Explanation
–
Thoman Mann’s short story collection - Death
in Venice and Other Seven Stories – Translation first published in 1930.
Aschenbach is the protagonist in Death in Venice.
32. Which of the
following novels of Joseph Conrad is set in Malay?
(1) Nigger of the
Narcissus
(2) Lord Jim
(3) Nostromo
(4) Hear of Darkness
Answer – (2)
Lord Jim
Explanation
–
Lord Jim - Patusan is a
fictional country originating in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, published
in 1900. It has subsequently appeared in various films and television shows. In
Conrad's novel, the country is a remote backwater in the South Seas, forgotten
by the rest of the world and essentially without contact with outside
civilization. Prior to Jim's arrival, it is ruled by various factions of native
people, whom Conrad refers to as "Malays".
Nigger of the Narcissus
– Bombay to London
Nostromo -This novel of
Conrad is set in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the western
region of the imaginary country of Costaguana.
Hear of Darkness -
Opens on the Thames River outside London, where Marlow is telling the story
that makes up Heart of Darkness. Events of the story take place in Brussels, at
the Company’s offices, and in the Congo, then a Belgian territory.
33. Nuruddin Farah’s
Maps tells the story of _____
(1) Abida
(2) Abu
(3) Askar
(4) Andy
Answer – (3)
Askar
Explanation
–
‘Map’ - This is the first
novel by Somalian writer Nuruddin Farah's triology ‘Blood in the Sun’. It tells the story of Askar, a man coming of
age (Askar) in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody
Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken
in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a
small African village. Askar means ‘bearer of arms’. (Key – By Anil S Awad)
34. One of the most
quoted statements on poetry by John Keats is reproduced with blanks below.
Complete the statement with correct words.
“If Poetry_____as
naturally as the leaves to a tree, it _____ at all”
(1) does not come; had
better not come
(2) comes not; might
come not
(3) come not; had
better not come
(4) come not; did not
come
Answer – (3)
come not; had better not come
Explanation
–
A Letter by John Keats to John Taylor
To John Taylor
Hampstead, February
27th, 1818
Hampstead, 27 Feby
My dear Taylor -
Your alteration strikes
me as being a great Improvement - And now I will attend to the punctuations you
speak of - The comma should be at soberly, and in the other passage, the Comma
should follow quiet. I am extremely indebted to you for this attention, and
also for your after admonitions. It is a sorry thing for me that any one should
have to overcome prejudices in reading my verses - that affects me more than
any hypercriticism on any particular passage - In Endymion, I have most likely
but moved into the go-cart from the leading-strings - In poetry I have a few
axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre.
1st. I think poetry
should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; It should strike the
reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a
remembrance.
2d. Its touches of
beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead
of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of Imagery should, like the
sun, seem natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in
magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight. But it is easier to think
what poetry should be, than to write it - And this leads me to another axiom -
That if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better
not come at all. - However, it may be with me, I cannot help looking into new
countries with 'O for a Muse of Fire to ascend!' If Endymion serves me as a
pioneer, perhaps I ought to be content - I have great reason to be content, for
thank God I can read, and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths; and I
have I am sure many friends, who, if I fail, will attribute any change in my
life and temper to humbleness rather than pride - to a cowering under the wings
of great poets, rather than to a bitterness that I am not appreciated. I am
anxious to get Endymion printed that I may forget it and proceed. I have copied
the 3rd Book and begun the 4th.
Your sincere and
obliged friend,
John Keats
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
35. Manohar Malgonkar
was a hunter, a lieutenant colonel in the British army, and a tea-planter. He
also wrote a memorable novel about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially Peshwa Baji Rao
II. What is the novel?
(1) A Distant Drum
(2) A Combat of Shadows
(3) A Bend in the
Ganges
(4) The
Devil’s Wind
Answer – (4) The
Devil’s Wind
Explanation
-
The Devil's Wind is a historical novel by Manohar Malgonkar that tells the
story of Nana Saheb, the heir of the last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy,
who played a leading role in the Indian Mutiny. It provides a sympathetic
portrait of a man whom the British portrayed as a great villain, and is based
on historical sources as far as possible. The book is written as an
autobiography in which Nana Saheb describes his life in his own words.
36. Who wrote the
screenplay for the film version of John Fowles’s novel ‘The French Lieutenant’s
Woman’?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Tom Stoppard
(3) David Mamet
(4) Caryl Phillips
Answer – (1)
Harold Pinter
37. “How all their
plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kins and clowns,
not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and
shoulders to play a part in majestical matters”
What term does Philip
Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do
they violate?
(1) mongrel
tragicomedy; unity of action
(2) mixed tragedies;
unity of action
(3) multi-plot drama;
unity of time
(4) mingled yarn; unity
of place
Answer – (1)
mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action
Explanation
–
An extract from Sidney’s ‘Defence of Poety” (1583)
But, besides these
gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right
comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carries it, but
thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters,
with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and
commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy
obtained.
38. There is a large
number of religious poems in Old English Poetry. One of the finest is the
‘Dream of the Rood’. The words ‘the Rood’ in the title means:
(1) the Cross
(2) the Christian
(3) the Infidel
(4) the Cardinal
Answer – (1)
the Cross
Explanation
– A rood or rood cross, sometimes known as a triumphal cross, is a cross or
crucifix, especially the large Crucifixion set above the entrance to the chances
of a medieval church. Alternatively, it is a large sculpture or painting of the
crucifixion of Jesus.
39. Identify from among
the following, the one incorrect statement on M. Anantanarayanan’s ‘Silver
Pilgrimage’ (1961)
(1) M Ananatanarayanan
modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque novels in English
(2) ‘The Silver
Pilgrimage’ is M Anantnarayanan’s only foray into fiction
(3) This novel is main
an account of the adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan Prince of the sixteenth
Century.
(4) Amon the literary
texts quoted by the novel are lines from Shakespeare, Donne and Rile and
Classical Tamil poets.
Answer – (1)
M Ananatanarayanan modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque novels
in English.
Explanation
–
It is neither picaresque novel (although tells the story of the adventures
Prince Jayasurya from Sirlanka) nor modelled upon any English novel. It is
modelled upon Dandin’s Das-kumara-charitra. Daṇḍin was a seventh to
eighth-century Sanskrit grammarian and author of prose romances, and'is one of
the best-known writers in all of Asian history.
It is M
Anantnarayanan’s only foray into fiction. (Incursion of Jayasurya into the
enemy territories – like the Maravas - the16th Century Indian kingdom)
We have reference of
Shakespeare, Donne and Rile and Classical Tamil poets in the preface of the
book.
40. Listed below are
the titles of some influential books by Frank Kermode. Identify which one of
the titles that does NOT belong to the set.
(1) The Sense of an
Ending
(2) Not Entitled – A
Memoir
(3) The Genesis of
Secrecy
(4) The Great
Code: The Bible and Literature
Answer – (4)
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (By – Northrop Frye)
41. Identify the one
erroneous statement on Neoclassicism listed below:
(1) Lodovico
Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso greatly influenced English writers like Milton
and Dryden
(2) Neoclassicism took
its final form during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715)
(3) Boilean’s L’Art
poetique influenced Pope’s ‘Essay on Criticism’
(4) The
English relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this
dialogue is effected in Addison’s ‘An Essay on Dramatic Poesy’
Answer – (4) The
English relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this
dialogue is effected in Addison’s ‘An Essay on Dramatic Poesy’
Explanation
– Essay of Dramatic Poetry (1668) by John Dryden (Not by Addison).
42. In his “Poems of
Love and War” a collection of classic Indian poems in English translation, A K
Ramanujan sought to revive an ancient_____poetic tradition. Choose the right
word.
(1) Tamil
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Kannada
(4) Pali
Answer – (1) Tamil
(Sangam Poetry Tradition)
43. Arrange the
following sentences in the order in which they appear in Emerson’s ‘Self-Reliance’:
(a) To be great is to
be misunderstood
(b) Pythagoras was
misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and
Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
(c) If it so bad then
to be misunderstood!
(d) It is a right
fool’s word.
(e) misunderstood!
(1) (a), (e), (d), (c),
(b)
(2) (e), (a), (b), (c)
(d)
(3) (c), (d), (a), (b),
(e)
(4) (e), (d),
(c), (b), (a)
Answer - (4)
(e), (d), (c), (b), (a)
Explanation
–
Note down the full statement from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and
Other Essays
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is
it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure
and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
44. X…Do you know it is
nearly seven?
Y. (irritably) Oh! It
always is nearly seven.
X. Well, I’m hungry.
Y. I never knew you
when you weren’t…
X. What shall we do
after dinner? Go to a theatre?
Y. Oh no! I loathe
listening.
X. Well, let us go to
the club?
Y. Oh no! I hate
talking.
X Well, we might trot
round to the Empire at ten?
Y. Oh no! I can’t bear
looking at things.
It is so silly.
X. Well, what shall we
do?
Y. Nothing
X. It is awfully hard
work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite
object of any kind.
Identify the speakers
in this dialogue:
(1) Aston (X) to Mick
(Y) The Caretaker
(2) Algernon (X) to
Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest
(3) Lucky (X) to Pozzo
(Y) Waiting for Godot
(4) Man (X) to the
Woman (Y) The Waste Land
Answer – (2)
Algernon (X) to Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest (By Oscar Wild)
Explanation
-
Importance of Being Earnest- By Oscar Wild
Extract from - Act - I
Algernon. Women only do that when they have called each
other a lot of other things first. Now,
my dear boy, if we want to get a good table at Willis’s, we really must go and
dress. Do you know it is nearly seven?
Jack. [Irritably.]
Oh! It always is nearly seven.
Algernon. Well, I’m hungry.
Jack. I never knew you when you weren’t . . .
Algernon. What shall we do after dinner? Go to a theatre?
Jack. Oh no!
I loathe listening.
Algernon. Well, let us go to the Club?
Jack. Oh, no!
I hate talking.
Algernon. Well, we might trot round to the Empire at
ten?
Jack. Oh, no!
I can’t bear looking at things.
It is so silly.
Algernon. Well, what shall we do?
Jack. Nothing!
Algernon. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there
is no definite object of any kind.
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
45. Which of these
Greek plays was a source for ‘The Winter’s Tale’?
(1) Iphigeneia at Aulis
(2) Alcestis
(3) Medea
(4) Iphigeneia at
Tauris
Answer – (2)
Alcestis
Explanation
–
The Statue Scene in Act V of The Winter’s Tale has been directly
borrowed from Greek playwright Euripides’s play – ‘Alcestis’
46. Sweet is the lore
which nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the
beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
-Wordsworth
Which of the following
best summaries the speaker’s position?
(1) Nature is
incomplete without a human witness to attest to its beauty.
(2) Human endeavours
will succeed only if the laws of nature are taken into account.
(3) Nature
yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) The flaws inherent
in human nature are also evident in the natural world.
Answer – (3)
Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry.
Explanation
–
These lines are taken from Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Table Turned.
47. (a) Jean
Baudrillard tells us that postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means
non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra artificially produce a mediated
world masquerading as authenticity.
(d) It was not Jean
Baudrillad but his interpreters who coined the term “simulacra”
Which of the above
statements are true?
(1) (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and
(c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer – (2)
(a) and (c)
Explanation
–
By simulacra he means
representations of hypereality.
Max Friedman paper that says "Jean Baudrillard tells
us that postmodern societies are marked by simulacra or representations that
precede reality, artificially producing a mediated world masquerading as
authenticity".
48. Which of the
following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition?
(1) Listening – Reading
– Speaking – Writing
(2) Writing – Reading –
Listening – Speaking
(3) Listening
– Speaking – Reading – Writing
(4) Reading – Listening
– Speaking – Writing
Answer – (3)
Listening – Speaking – Reading – Writing
Explanation
- When we learn a language, there are four basic skills that we need for
complete communication. When we learn our native language (Language
Acquisition), we usually learn to listen first, then to speak, then to read,
and finally to write – LSRW.
49. Which of the
following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the poems of Derek Walcott?
(1) His poem “Goats and
Monkeys” has an epigraph from Shakespeare’s Othello
(2) In “The Sadhu of
Couva” Walcott refers to Diwali, Hanuman and the Ramayana
(4) Walcott has written
a poem entitled “Jean Rhys”
(4) In “A Far
Cry From Africa” Walcott depicts his divided loyalties in the context of the
Changuna Uprising
Answer – (4) In “A Far Cry From Africa” Walcott depicts his divided
loyalties in the context of the Changuna Uprising.
Explanation
–
A Far Cry From Africa deals with Mau Mau Uprising and not Changuna Uprising.
50. In Shakespeare’s
time who owned the rights to a theatrical script?
(1) the playwright(s)
(2) the patron of the
acting company
(3) the printer
(4) the
acting company
Answer – (4)
the acting company
51. Which of the
following sentences uses more than three cohesive devices?
(1) All that time a
person could drive for miles without seeing a house.
(2) All of them could
recite the poem yesterday.
(3) You can
use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.
(4) As soon as Mohan
entered the stadium the crowd cheered.
Answer – (3)
You can use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.
Explanation
–
There are three sentences in the above sentence, which are connected (cohesion)
to each other by using transitional word – though as well as comma (,)
1. You can use pencil
to write.
2. You can use pencil
instead of pen.
3. You can write my
name.
52. Match the columns:
Indian Text English
Translator
(a) The love of
Kamarupa and Kamalata (i) William
Jones
(b) Ramayana (ii)
Nathaniel Halhed
(c) Upanishads (iii)
W. Franklin
(d) Abhijnan Sakuntalam (iv) T H
Griffith
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer - (3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
53. Which of the
following is NOT TRUE of the New Bolt Report, “The Teaching of English in
England”?
(1) It was commissioned
in 1919.
(2) It urged the
teaching of the national literature.
(3) It proposed the
teaching of English Literature at the university level.
(4) It aimed at uniting
divided classes after the war.
Answer – (4)
It aimed at uniting divided classes after the war.
Explanation
–
The Bolt Commission aims at discussing the theoretical side of Education in
England. It neither discuss the
infrastructure facilities to be provided to the educational institutes nor
polices related to the aftermath of World War I.
54. This revenge
tragedy opens with the long soliloquy of the protagonist carrying the skull of
his poisoned fiancé and swearing vengeance for the old Duke who has committed
the vicious act. Identify the play.
(1) The Spanish Tragedy
(2) The
Revenger’s Tragedy
(3) The Duchess of
Malfi
(4) The Changeling
Answer – (2)
The Revenger’s Tragedy
55. What did Anthony
Trollope seek to criticize through the character Mr. Slope?
(1) Methodism
(2) Low
Churchmen
(3) High Church
doctrine
(4) Anglicanism
Answer – (2)
Low Churchmen
Explanation
–
Mr. Slope is a
character in Antony Trollpe novel – ‘Barchester Towers”. Mr. Slope was a domestic Chaplin of the Bishop
of Brechester who rises to the power by using all means. Mr. Slop was an
opportunist and loyal to none (than power).
56. “To refer to
symbols as ‘Lacanian symbols’, to dub self-doubt as ‘Lacanian self-doubt’, and
to call reflections in a mirror ‘Lacanian reflections’ is not to read the mind
from a perspective informed by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to
Barthes’ hermeneutic code and Foucault’s analysis of sexual discourse
constitute and interpretation necessarily different from that of traditional
humanist criticism”
The author of the
passage is objecting to critics who_____.
(1) try to force a
parallel between recent critical approaches and traditional humanist criticism.
(2)
decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories
without employing the methodology.
(3) attempt to reduce
the study of literature to a hunt for coded messages and symbols.
(4) stubbornly maintain
a traditional notion of the role of criticism while refusing to acknowledge new
theoretical developments.
Answer – (2)
decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories
without employing the methodology.
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
57. Peter Ackroyd’s
first novel, ‘The Great Fire of London’, picks up the historical echoes and
artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens
text.
(1) Great Expectaions
(2) Little
Dorrit
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop
Answer – (2)
Little Dorrit
58. Which of the
following plays by Henrik Ibsen deals with the perils that await the
emancipated woman in a society which is not ready to accept her?
(1) A Doll’s
House
(2) An Ememy of the
People
(3) Hedda Gabler
(4) Pillars of Society
Answer – A
Doll’s House
59. “Yet it is the
masculine values that prevail”, observed a famous writer “Speaking cruelly”,
she continued, “football and sport are important’, the worship of fashin, the
buying of clothes ‘trival’”
Name the author and the
text
(1) Mary
Woolstonecraft, ‘A vindication of the Rights of Woman’
(2) Audre Lorde “Age,
Race, Class…”
(3) Virginia
Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’
(4) Jean Rhys, ‘After
Leaving Mr. Mackenzie’
Answer – (3)
Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Explanation
– “Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and
sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes ‘trivial’.
And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an
important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an
insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a
drawing-room. A scene in a battle-field is more important than a scene in a
shop — everywhere and much more subtly the difference of value persists.”
60. According to
Coleridge, the “secondary imagination” “dissolves, diffuses, ______ in order to
recreate…”
Choose the right word
for the blank.
(1) disintegrates
(2)
dissipates
(3) displaces
(4) dissociates
Answer – (2)
dissipates
61. Beginning 1996, an
Indian publisher commenced the publication of a series of modern Indian novels
in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty novels of repute from
almost all Indian languages. Identify the publisher.
(1) Asian Publishing
House
(2) Macmillan
India
(3) Jaico
(4) Arnold Heinemann
Answer – Macmillan India.
Reference - ‘Changing
the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era’By Sherry Simon, Paul St-Pierre
(Page 237-239)
62. William Dunbar’s
Lament for the makers is about:
(1) kings
(2) priests
(3) poets
(4) peasants
Answer – (3)
poets
Explanation
– William Dunbar was a Scottish poet. The title of his poem is ‘Lament for the
Makars’ (not makers). Makar is ‘a poet’ or ‘a bard’ in Scottish language.
63. Who among the
following protagonists of Thomas Hardy feels his lot as akin to Job’s?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy
Answer – (3)
Jude
64. Edward Brathwaite’s
poem “Calyspo” assumes that you are familiar with______.
(1) the business of
Calyspo during Middle Passage
(2) the West
Indian Music in syncopated African rhythm
(3) the folk ways and
more of Trinidadian merchants
(4) the operatic
performance of Banjos
Answer - (2)
the West Indian Music in syncopated African rhythm
Explanation
-
Edward Brathwaite is the writer from Barbados (Caribbean Sea). The calypso
represents a significant aspect of the cultural continuum between Africa and
the New World. The origin of the calypso musical genre is in the early oral
forms of expression introduced in the plantation fields by the enslaved
Africans: songs, folktales, religious chants, ritual practices. Barthwaite
assumes that the readers know about the music and present the poem.
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
65. Which of the modern
plays by British playwright actually puts Shakespeare as character on stage?
(1) Edward
Bond’s Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter’s
Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan’s
Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton’s Loot
Answer – (1)
Edward Bond’s Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1973)
Explanation
–
The play is about the last days of William Shakespeare at his home
Warwickshire. It is a political drama
that propagates Marxism philosophy.
66. A famous challenge
to the Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic considerations came
from Edmund Burke. His work was titled:
(1) An Enquiry into the
Philosophical Origin of, Our Ideas of the sublime and the Beautiful
(2) Philosophical
Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(3) An Enquiry into the
Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
(4) Philosophical
Enquiry into Our Original Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime.
Answer – (2)
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the
Beautiful
67. Match the
following:
List A List
– B
(a) The Grammar –
Translation Method (i)
comprehensible input
(b) The Direct Method (ii)
strategic use of mother tongue
(c) Total Physical
Response (iii)
shuns mother tongue
(d) The Natural
Approach (iv)
oral input
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer – (1)
(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
The Grammar
–Translation Method – Strategic use of mother tongue (Limited use of mother
tongue to make the content comprehensible, but the main aim of learning is the
target language)
The Direct Method –
shuns mother tongue (It strictly avoids the use of mother tongue in teaching
language)
Total Physical Response
– Oral input (It is developed by James Asher. It is essentially based upon the
coordination of language and the physical movements)
The Natural Approach –
Comprehensible input (The natural approach is a method of language teaching
developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell in the late 1970s and early
1980s. It aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition in a classroom
setting, and to this end it emphasises communication, and places decreased
importance on conscious grammar study and explicit correction of student
errors.)
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
68. Which of these works by Indian writers
does NOT have the Naxalite Movement as a background?
(1) Mother of 1084
(2) The Lives of Others
(3) The Shadow Lines
(4) The Lowland
Answer – (3)
The Shadow Lines (Partition Novel)
Explanation
– Mother of 1084 – Originally a Bengali novel – Haar Charuasi Maa - 1974 novel
by Mahasweta Devi. The background of the
novel is the Naxalite revolution in 1970s. It is the story of Broti, the son of
Sujata who was killed by the state for advocating ideology. Sujata is a strong
woman, who tries to justify the revolutionary way adopted by her son. Her
efforts turn into the political upheaval in Bengal and the Communist Party
forms the Government.
The Lives of Others –
The 2014 novel by Neel Mukharjee. It is a story set in 196s of a Bengali youth
Supratik who joins Communist Party of India (Marxist) to mobilize the peasants
against the land lords.
The Lowland – It is
second novel of Jumpa Lahiri published in 2013. It is a story two brothers –
Subhash and Udayan. Subhash goes to USA for further studies and Udayan, the
younger of the two, is executed by the state for his tie with naxalites.
69. “So when the last
and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant
shall devour,
The trumpet shall be
heard on high,
The dead shall live,
the living die,
And music shall untune
the sky”
These are the closing
lines of a famous poem.
Identify the poem
(1) Il Penseroso
(2) “Song for
St. Cecilia’s Day”
(3) “The Good – Morrow”
(4) “Song : The Year’s
at the Spring”
Answer – (2)
Song for St. Cecilia’s Day – John Dryden
70. This
eighteenth-century English poem imitates Spenser in stanza form and in allegorical
narrative: passers – by are lured by an enchanter with promises of ease,
luxury, and aesthetic delight, then consigned to a dungeon wehre they languish
in apathy and impotence until the Kinght of Arts and Industry dissolves the
spell. Identify the poem.
(1) The Vanity of Human
Wishes
(2) The Seasons
(3) The
Castle of Indolence
(4) The Task
Answer – (3)
The Castle of Indolence – James Thomson
71. Which of the
following statement on the Hogarth press is FALSE?
(1) The Hogarth press
was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf
(2) Its location was
their home, called Hogarth House
(3) The press
was solely devoted to published international classics in translation
(4) The press published
translations of Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rilke, Svevo and other.
Answer - (3)
The press was solely devoted to published international classics in translation
Explanation
–
Not only the international classic in translation, but English works by
Katherine Mansfield, T S Eliot, E M Foster and Ezra Pound…also some armature
contemporary writers in English.
Read the below passage
and answer questions 72 to 75 that follow:
THE ANTIGUA THAT I
knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua you, a tourist, would
see now. That Antigua no longer exists. That Antigua no longer exists partly
for the usual reason, the passing of time, and partly because the bad-minded
people who used to rule over it, the English, no longer do so. (But the English
have become such a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with
themselves now that they no longer have one quarter of the earth’s human
population bowing and scraping before them. They don’t seem to know that this
empire business was all wrong and they should, at least, be wearing sackcloth
and ashes in token penance of the wrongs committed, the irrevocableness of
their bad deeds, for not natural disaster imaginable could equal the harm they
did. Actual death might have been better. And so all this fuss over empire –
what went wrong here, what went wrong there – always makes me quite crazy, for
I can say to them what went wrong : they should never have left their home,
their precious England, a place they loved so much, a place they had to leave
but could never forget. And so everywhere they went the turned it into England;
and everybody they met they turned English. But no place could ever really be
England, and nobody who did not look exactly like them would ever be English,
so you can imagine the destruction of people and land that came from that. The
English hate each other and they hate England, and the reason they are so
miserable now is that they have no place else to go and nobody else to feel better than.
72. To whom is the
passage directly addressed?
(1) readers
(2) non-antiguans
(3) tourists
(4) the English
Answer – (3)
tourists
Explanation
–
‘THE ANTIGUA THAT I knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua
you, a tourist, would see now.’
Although it is
addressed to readers – the readers are particular and narrow-downed as ‘tourists’
in the above passage.
73. The English feel
extremely miserable because:
(1) Their political
supremacy is over
(2) They do
not have anyone else to feel superior to
(3) They have been
reduced to a state of non-entity
(4) They have no lands
to colonise
Answer – (2)
They do not have anyone else to feel superior to
Explanation
–
See the last line - ‘The English hate each other and they hate England, and the
reason they are so miserable now is that they have no place else to go and nobody else to feel better than.’ The
English have nobody else to feel better than.
74. Do the British
realize that colonizing countries was a bad practice, according to the
narrator?
(1) Yes; they do
(2) No; they don’t
(3) The
narrator is rather unsure they do
(4) The narrator is
rather unsure they don’t.
Answer – The
narrator is rather unsure they do
Explanation
–
See the line - ‘They don’t seem to know that this empire business was all
wrong.’ The word ‘seem’ shows that the writer is unsure.
(Key – By Anil S Awad)
75. Which of the
following best describes the content of the extract?
(1) The speaker
fervently desires better understanding between the English and the colonized
people in post colonial times.
(2) The speaker is
interested in nostalgic tours of émigré Antiguans to their childhood home
(3) The
speaker whose childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change currently
evident in the pungent irony.
(4) The speaker is
making a case for the penance of the English, the erstwhile rulers of Antigua.
Answer - (3) The speaker whose childhood was spent in Antigua
reports the great change currently evident in the pungent irony.
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Paper – III – Model Answer Key By Anil S Awad
1. (1) the expurgation of indelicate language
2. (3) nature, standard
2. (3) nature, standard
3. (1) Otto Jespersen
4. (3) The present day
empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence we out to
differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case.
5. (2) T S Eliot
6. (3) (b) and (c)
7. (3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
8. (3) Flamineo
9. (2) “Mc MXIV”
10. (2) to remember what
happened the day before
11. (2) Bazarov in ‘Fathers
and Sons’
12. (3)
Eugene Onegin
13. (3) (a) and (d)
14. Answer – (3) Noah
Webster, 1828
15. (2)
The Hungry Tide (2004)
16. (4) “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
(1888)
17. (2) Cleanth Brooks
18. (2) Mark Twain
19. (2) Signalled the
American Revolution and the French Revolution
20. (3) blood, indifferent
21. (3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
22. (2) Frankenstein
23. (1) facilitate the
consultation of an exhaustive bibliography
24. (3)
(b) and (c) are true
25. (4) L C Knights, A
C Bradley
26. (3)
caught, court
27. (1) Reason (R) is
perfectly aligned with Assertion (A)
28. – (1) friend – friendship
@
29. (3) Presentism does
not contextualize cultural production in the same way or make use of the
theorists that New Historicism does.
30. (4) John Milton’s
“Lycidas”
31. (2) Mann
32. (2) Lord Jim
33. (3) Askar
34. (3) come not; had
better not come
35. (4) The Devil’s
Wind
36. (1) Harold Pinter
37. (1) mongrel
tragicomedy; unity of action
38. (1) the Cross
39. (1) M
Ananatanarayanan modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque novels in
English.
40. (4) The Great Code:
The Bible and Literature (By – Northrop Frye)
41. (4) The English
relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this dialogue is
effected in Addison’s ‘An Essay on Dramatic Poesy’
42. (1) Tamil (Sangam
Poetry Tradition)
43. (4) (e), (d), (c),
(b), (a)
44. (2) Algernon (X) to
Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest (By Oscar Wild)
45. (2) Alcestis
46. (3) Nature yields a
pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry.
47. (2) (a) and (c)
48. (3) Listening –
Speaking – Reading – Writing
49. (4) In “A Far Cry
From Africa” Walcott depicts his divided loyalties in the context of the
Changuna Uprising.
50. (4) the acting
company
51. (3) You can use a
pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.
52. (3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
53. (4) It aimed at
uniting divided classes after the war.
54. (2) The Revenger’s
Tragedy
55. (2) Low Churchmen
56. (2) decoratively
apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories without employing
the methodology.
57. (2) Little Dorrit
58. (1) A Doll’s House
59. Answer – (3)
Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’
60. (2) dissipates
61. (2) Macmillan India
62. (3) poets
63. (3) Jude
64. (2) the West Indian
Music in syncopated African rhythm
65. (1) Edward Bond’s
Bingo
66. (2) Philosophical
Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
67.
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(i)
68.
(3) The Shadow Lines (Partition Novel)
69. (2) “Song for St.
Cecilia’s Day”
70.
(3) The Castle of Indolence
71. (3) The press was
solely devoted to published international classics in translation
72. (3) tourists
73. (2) They do not
have anyone else to feel superior to
74. (3) The narrator is
rather unsure they do
75. (3) The speaker
whose childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change currently evident
in the pungent irony.
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