CBSE – NET – MODEL ANSWER KEY
English Paper II
10th July 2016
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1.
Which British University figures in
William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
1)
Durham
2)
Glasgow
3)
Cambridge
4)
Oxford
Answer – 3) Cambridge
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| PRELUDE BOOK - VI |
2.
Who is the author of A Woman
Killed with Kindness?
1)
John Marston
2)
Thomas Middleton
3)
John Fletcher
4)
Thomas Heywood
Answer – 4) Thomas Heywood (first acted in 1603)
3.
In William Congreve’s The Way of
the World identify the speaker of the line: “One’s cruelty is one’s
power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power”?
1)
Mirabell
2)
Witwould
3)
Millamant
4)
Mincing
Answer – 3) Millamant – Act II, Scene V
MILLAMANT
Mirabell, did you take
exceptions last night? Oh, ay, and went away. Now I think on't I'm angry--no,
now I think on't I'm pleased:- for I believe I gave you some pain.
MIRABELL
You would affect a cruelty
which is not in your nature; your true vanity is in the power of pleasing.
MILLAMANT
Oh, I ask your pardon for
that. One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's cruelty
one parts with one's power, and when one has parted with that, I fancy one's
old and ugly.
4.
T S Eliot found spiritual support in
1)
Christianity
2)
Hinduism
3)
Buddhaism
4)
Judaism
Answer – 2) Hinduism
(UGC Key - Answer is 1 - Christianity - you can challenge this question with the following explanation, if you will.)
Reference:
The Waste Land (ending)
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
These
lines are taken from Brihadaranyaka Upnishada
T
S Eliot clearly In his Page-Borbour lectures which he gave at the University of
Virginia in 1933 he made these comments about his courtship with the East: “Two
years spent in the study of Sanskrit under Charles Lanman, and a
year in the mazes of Patanjali's metaphysics under the guidance of James
Woods, left me in a state of enlightened mystification. A good half of the
effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after--and
their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like
schoolboys--lay in trying to erase from my mind all the categories and kinds of
distinction common to European philosophy from the time of the Greeks. My
previous and concomitant study of European philosophy was hardly better than an
obstacle. And I came to the conclusion--seeing also that the influence of
Brahmin and Buddhist thought upon Europe, as in Schopenhauer, Hartmann, and
Deussen, had largely been through romantic misunderstanding--that my only hope
of really penetrating to the heart of that mystery would lie in forgetting how
to think and feel as an American or a European: which, for practical as well as
sentimental reasons I did not wish to do.”
5.
By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag?
1)
Grildrig
2)
Glumdalclithc
3)
Splacknuck
4)
Mannikin
Answer – 1) Grildrig
6.
Who among the following was born in
India?
1)
Paul Scott
2)
Lawrence Durrel
3)
E M Forster
4)
V S Naipaul
Answer – 2) Lawrence Durrel (Born: Feb. 27, 1912. Jalandhar)
7.
What metaphor does Edmund Spenser
employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the
relationship between the tale and its readers?
1)
That of a caravan of lost sould,
traversing a desert
2)
That of a stagecoach, which picks up
diverse passengers along the way
3)
That of a ship filled
with jolly mariners
4)
That of a riderless horse, following
his own direction.
Answer – 3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners
Lines from Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12
Now strike your sailes yee jolly Mariners,
For we be come unto a quiet rode,
Where we must land some of our passengers,
And light this weary vessell of her lode.
Here she a while may make her safe abode,
Till she repaired have her tackles spent,
And wants supplide. And then againe abroad
On the long voiage whereto she is bent:
Well may she speede and fairely finish her intent.
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| BOOK - I CANTO XII |
8.
Who among the following is not
associated with Russian formalism?
1)
Roman Jakobson
2)
Georges Poulet
3)
Boris Eichenbaum
4)
Victor Shklovsky
Answer 2) Georges Poulet (Geneva School – Structural Linguistics)
9.
Which character in Dickens keeps on
hoping that “something will turn up”?
1)
Barkis
2)
Micawber
3)
Uriah Heep
4)
Miss Havisham
Answer - 2) Micawber (David
Copperfield)
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| DAVID COPPERFIELD |
10.
What is the name of the boat that
rescues Ishmael in Harman Melville’s Moby Dick?
1)
Pequod
2)
Rachel
3)
Hagar
4)
Sphinx
Answer – 2) Rachel
Explanation
– Ishmael is the crew member of Pequod. When the whale sinks the ship, all the crew members drown, with the exception of Ishmel:
See the excerpt from the novel -
Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day
and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main. The unharming sharks, they
glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with
sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up
at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing
children, only found another orphan.
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| MOBY DICK |
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11.
Northanger Abeey
is parody of the ____romance
1)
Oriental
2)
French
3)
Goethic
4)
Popular
Answer – 3) Goethic
12.
Who among the following authors were
greatly influenced by Thomas Carlye’s writings?
I.
Charles Dickens
II.
Elizabeth Gaskell
III.
Emily Bronte
IV.
Oscar Wilde
The
right combination according to the code is
1)
I and II
2)
II and III
3)
I and IV
4)
I and III
Answer – 1) I and II
13.
Which of the following is another term
to describe “art for art’s sake”?
1)
Aestheticism
2)
Didacticism
3)
Realism
4)
Neo-realism
Answer – 1) Aestheticism
14.
The statement that there are “none
so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of
1)
Oxymoron
2)
Antithesis
3)
Paradox
4)
Metonomy
Answer – 3) Paradox
15.
Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
1)
Marlow
2)
Director of Companies
3)
Kurtz
4)
An unnamed narrator
Answer – 4) An unnamed narrator
16.
The Mistakes of a Night
is the subtitle of
1)
The Conscious Lovers
2)
The Good Natur’d Man
3)
She Stoops to Conquer
4)
The Rivals
Answer – 3) She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
17.
Identify the first novel written by Patrick
White:
1)
The Living and the Dead
2)
The Tree of Man
3)
Happy Valley
4)
The Aunt’s Story
Answer – 3) Happy Valley (1939)
18.
In King Lear for what reason
does Kent assume a disguise?
1)
To continue to serve
Lear, though Lear has banished him
2)
To spy on Edmund
3)
To antagonize Goneril and Regan
4)
To revenge upon Lear for banishing him
Answer – 1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him
19.
What is feminine rhyme?
1)
A rhyme on two
syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed
2)
A rhyme on two syllables
3)
A rhyme on three syllables
4)
A Poem in which every third syllable
rhymes
Answer – 1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is
unstressed.
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| M H ABRAM'S GLOSSARY - PAGE 317 |
20.
Identify two of the following written
by Christopher Fry:
I.
French Without Tears
II.
The Lady’s Not for
Burning (1949)
III.
Venus Observed (1950)
IV.
The Deep Blue Sea
The
right combination according to the code is
1)
II and III
2)
I and III
3)
II and IV
4)
I and IV
Answer – 1) II and III (The
Lady’s Not for Burning and Venus Observed)
French Without Tears and The Deep Blue
Sea – Terence Rattigan
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21.
In
1)
something positive
2)
something negative
3)
something historical
4)
something old
Answer – 2) something negative
Beginning
of the essay ‘Traditional and Individual Talent’ –
In
English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its
name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a
tradition”; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of
So-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.” Seldom, perhaps, does the
word appear except in a phrase of censure.
22.
Who of the following is a Cavalier
poet?
1)
George Herbert
2)
John Donne
3)
Robert Herrick
4)
Andrew Marvell
Answer – 3) Robert Herrick
23.
Which of the following is not
Jacques Derrida’s work?
1)
Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
2)
The Transcendence of
the Ego
3)
Of Grammatology
4)
The Work of Mourning
Answer – 2) The Transcendence of the Ego (By Jean-Paul Sartre)
24.
In Paradise Lost which
character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side?
1)
Adam
2)
Eve
3)
Raphael
4)
God
Answer – 1) Adam
Adam
himself tells the story of making of Eve from his left side. See the lines 460-480
from Book VIII – Paradise Lost.
Mine eyes he clos'd, but op'n left the Cell [ 460 ]
Of Fancie my internal sight, by which
Abstract as in a transe methought I saw,
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the
shape
Still glorious before whom awake I stood;
Who stooping op'nd my left side, and took [ 465 ]
From thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warme,
And Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
But suddenly with flesh fill'd up and heal'd:
The Rib he formd and fashond with his hands;
Under his forming hands a Creature grew, [ 470 ]
Manlike, but different sex, so lovly faire,
That what seemd fair in all the World, seemd now
Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her containd
And in her looks, which from that time infus'd
Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, [ 475 ]
And into all things from her Aire inspir'd
The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Shee disappeerd, and left me dark, I wak'd
To find her, or for ever to deplore
Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure: [ 480 ]
25.
A S Byatt’s Possession attempts
the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on
I.
Alfred Tennyson
II.
Robert Browning
III.
Christina Rossetti
IV.
William Morris
The
right combination according to the code is
1)
I and II
2)
II and IV
3)
II and III
4)
III and IV
Answer – 3) II and III
Explanation
– Possession is the fictional story of the relationship between two Victorian
Poets Randolph Henry Ash (character based on Browning or Tennyson) and
Christabel LaMotte (Christina Rossetti). In the above option – there is no
option to match Tennyson with Christina Rossetti – I & III. But we can
match Browning with Christina Rossetti – II and III.
26.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
is a short comedy by
1)
Bernard Shaw
2)
W B Yeats
3)
J M Synge
4)
John Osborne
Answer – 1) Bernard Shaw
The
Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George
Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark
Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to persuade
her to create a national theatre.
27.
John Milton’s description of gold as a
“precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as
1)
A dactyl
2)
An oxymoron
3)
Enjambment
4)
Zeugma
Answer – 2) An oxymoron
Explanation
– Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms
appear in conjunction. Here precious means
valuable (something positive) and bane means distress or annoyance (something
negative). Two contradictory words are put together here.
28.
There is a play on the name of Machiavelli
in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
1)
Doctor Faustus
2)
The Jew of Malta
3)
Tamburlaine, the Great
4)
Edward II
Answer – 2) The Jew of Malta
See the opening of the play...
THE JEW OF MALTA.
Enter MACHIAVEL.
MACHIAVEL. Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead,
Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps;
And, now the Guise
is dead, is come from France,
To view this land, and frolic with his friends.
To some perhaps my name is odious;
But such as love me, guard me from their tongues,
And let them know that I am Machiavel,
And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words.
Admir'd I am of those that hate me most:
Though some speak openly against my books,
Yet will they read me, and thereby attain
To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off,
Are poison'd by my climbing followers.
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Birds of the air will tell of murders past!
I am asham'd to hear such fooleries.
Many will talk of title to a crown:
What right had Caesar to the empery?
Might first made kings, and laws were then most
sure
When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood.
Hence comes it that a strong-built citadel
Commands much more than letters can import:
Which maxim had Phalaris observ'd,
H'ad never bellow'd, in a brazen bull,
Of great ones' envy: o' the poor petty wights
Let me be envied and not pitied.
But whither am I bound? I come not, I,
To read a lecture here in Britain,
But to present the tragedy of a Jew,
Who smiles to see how full his bags are cramm'd;
Which money was not got without my means.
I crave but this,—grace him as he deserves,
And let him not be entertain'd the worse
Because he favours me.
[Exit.]
29.
Shakespeare famously neglects to
observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel
Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticism in his Preface
to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson
believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully?
1)
Time
2)
Place
3)
Action
4)
Johnson does not feel that the
Aristotelian dramatic unities are important
Answer – 3) Action
Excerpt
from ‘Preface to Shakespeare’
In
his other works he has well enough preserved the unity of action.
He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled;
he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is
seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare is the poet of nature: But his
plan has commonly what Aristotle requires, a beginning, a middle, and an end;
one event is concatenated with another, and the conclusion follows by easy
consequence. There are perhaps some incidents that might be spared, as in other
poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage; but the
general system makes gradual advances, and the end of the play is the end of
expectation.
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30.
Who among the following was praised
and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?
1)
John Clare
2)
George Crabbe
3)
Robert Burns
4)
Walter Scott
Answer – 3) Robert Burns
31.
Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with
a projection forward in time after devastating atomic war?
1)
The Grass is Singing
2)
The Golden Notebook
3)
The Four-Gated City
4)
A Proper Marriage
Answer – 3) The Four-Gated City
32.
Name the dominant meter of the
following quatrain?
The curfew tolls the knell of parting
day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the
lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary
way
And leaves the world to darkness and
to me
1)
Iambic Hexameter
2)
Trochaic Pentameter
3)
Iambic Pentameter
4)
Terza Rima
Answer – 3) Iambic Pentameter
Explanation
-
These lines are from Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in Country Churchyard – which
is an ideal example of – heroic quatrain (four-line stanza), written in iambic
pentameter with rhyme scheme abab.
33.
Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta
provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to
bring up their children in London?
I.
The Slave Girl
II.
The Joys of Motherhood
III.
Second Class Citizen
IV.
In the Ditch
The
right combination according to the code is
1)
I and II
2)
II and III
3)
III and IV
4)
I and IV
Answer – 3) III and IV
34.
In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
who keeps Christian’s head above water in the River of Death?
1)
Hopeful
2)
Helpful
3)
Faithful
4)
Cheerful
Answer – 1) Hopeful
35.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
is
1)
Religious allegory
2)
Fairy tale
3)
Long poem
4)
Utopian novel
Answer – 3) Long poem (By Byron)
36.
In Thomas More’s Utopia which of
the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians?
1)
Music
2)
Public lectures
3)
Conversation
4)
Dicing and cards
Answer – 4) Dicing and cards
Excerpt
from Utopia –
You
have also many infamous houses, and, besides those that are known, the
taverns and ale- houses are no better; add to these dice, cards, tables,
football, tennis, and quoits, in which money runs fast away; and those that are
initiated into them must, in the conclusion, betake themselves to robbing for a
supply.
They
do not so much as know dice, or any such foolish and mischievous games.
37.
Which of the following statements does
not describe Michel Foucault’s position?
1)
In Foucault’s work
sexuality is literally written on body
2)
Power operates through discourse
3)
There is connection between power and
knowledge
4)
Where there is power, it is possible
to find resistance.
Answer – 1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on
body
38.
In which year did Great Exhibition
take place?
1)
1851
2)
1857
3)
1861
4)
1871
Answer – 1) 1851
39.
When Fidesssa says, “O but I fear
the fickle freakes.../Of fortune false, and odds of armes in field” (Faerie
Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of...
1)
Alliteration
2)
Allegory
3)
Assonance
4)
Antithesis
Answer – 1) Alliteration
40.
Match the work with author:
Work
I.
The Excursion
II.
Christabel
III.
Milton
IV.
Queen Mab
Author
A.
S T Coleridge
B.
P B Shelley
C.
William Wordsworth
D. William
Blake
I II III IV
1. C
A B D
2. C A D B
3. B C A D
4. B A C D
Answer – 2) C A D B
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41.
Which of the following phrases is not
found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”?
1)
Far from the madding crowd
2)
A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown
3)
Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen
4)
All nature is but art,
unknown to thee
Answer – 4) All nature is but art, unknown to thee (From Alexander
Pope’s Essay on Man)
42.
Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
is a defence of
1)
Youth against old age
2)
Old age against youth
3)
Power against knowledge
4)
Knowledge against power
Answer – 2) Old age against youth
43.
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are
made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates?
1)
Nobility, church and
commoners
2)
Royalty, nobility and peasantry
3)
Royalists, republicans and peasants
4)
Country, city and commons
Answer – 1) Nobility, church and commoners
44.
Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the
wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow
him/her to live as a slave?
1)
Sula
2)
Tar Baby
3)
Song of Solomon
4)
Beloved
45.
Who among the following translated
Homer?
1)
Thomas Gray
2)
Samuel Johnson
3)
Oliver Goldsmith
4)
Alexander Pope
Answer – 4) Alexander Pope (Published – 1715)
46.
Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a
1)
Picaresque novel
2)
Epistolary novel
3)
Diary novel
4)
Coming of age novel
Answer – 4) Coming of age novel
47.
When was the English ban on James
Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?
1)
1924
2)
1945
3)
1936
4)
1962
Answer – 3) 1936
48.
Who among the following is not an
imagist?
1)
Ezra Pound
2)
W B Yeats
3)
Amy Lowell
4)
T E Hulme
Answer – 2) W B Yeats (He was symbolist)
49.
Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared
in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections
on, fictional mistress known as
1)
Celia
2)
Julia
3)
Anne
4)
Melanie
Answer – 1) Celia
50.
Match the novelists with thir work:
NOVELISTS
I.
William Golding
II.
Salman Rushdie
III.
Graham Swift
IV.
Peter Ackroyd
Work
A.
Grimus
B.
Hawksmoor
C.
Darkness Visible
D. Waterland
I II III IV
1) D A C B
2) C A D B
3) B C A D
4) B A C D
Answer - 2) C A D B
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SHORT ANSWER KEY
1) 3) Cambridge
2) 4) Thomas Heywood (first acted in 1603)
3) 3) Millamant – Act II, Scene V
4) 2) Hinduism (UGC Key Answer - 1. Christianity)
5) 1) Grildrig
6) 2) Lawrence Durrel
7) 3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners
8) 2) Georges Poulet (Geneva School – Structural Linguistics)
9) 2) Micawber (David Copperfield)
10) 2) Rachel
11) 3) Goethic
12) 1) I and II (Dickens and Gaskell)
13) 1) Aestheticism
14) 3) Paradox
15) 4) An unnamed narrator
16) 3) She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
17) 3) Happy Valley (1939)
18) 1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him
19) 1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
20) 1) II and III (The Lady’s Not for Burning and Venus Observed)
21) 2) something negative
22) 3) Robert Herrick
23) 2) The Transcendence of the Ego (By Jean-Paul Sartre)
24) 1) Adam
25) 2) II and III (Browning & Rossetti)
26) 1) Bernard Shaw
27) 2) An oxymoron
28) 2) The Jew of Malta
29) 3) Action
30) 3) Robert Burns
31) 3) The Four-Gated City
32) 3) Iambic Pentameter
33) 3) III and IV (Motherhood & Ditch)
34) 1) Hopeful
35) 3) Long poem (By Byron)
36) 4) Dicing and cards
37) 1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on body
38) 1) 1851
39) 1) Alliteration
40) 2) C A D B
41) 4) All nature is but art, unknown to thee (From Alexander Pope’s Essay
on Man)
42) 2) Old age against youth
43) 1) Nobility, church and commoners
44) 4) Beloved
45) 4) Alexander Pope (Published – 1715)
46) 4) Coming of age novel
47) 3) 1936
48) 2) W B Yeats (He was symbolist)
49) 1) Celia
50) 2) C A D B
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