CBSE – NET – MODEL ANSWER KEY
English Paper III
10th July 2016
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1. Which of W. M
Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this?
“Which of us
is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or having it, I satisfied?
1) The History of Henry Esmond
2) Vanity Fair
3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon
4) Pendennis
Answer – 2) Vanity
Fair (1847–48)
“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which
of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is
satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play
is played out.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
2. Why does Lovewit
in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage
for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people?
1) To visit his father who
left him long ago
2) To find out new sources of
minting money
3) Because of an epidemic
of plague
4) To make a pilgrimage
Answer – 3) Because
of an epidemic of plague
Act – I, Scene – I
FACE. O, fear not him. While
there dies one a week
O' the
plague, he's safe, from thinking toward London.
Beside, he's busy at his
hop-yards now;
I had a letter from him. If he
do,
He'll send such word, for
airing of the house,
As you shall have sufficient
time to quit it:
Though we break up a
fortnight, 'tis no matter.
3. By the end of
the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe
and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of “Kitchen
sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink” calling
attention to the gritty and direct realism?
1) Mary Harrison
2) Stan Smith
3) David Sylvester
4) Philip Callow
Answer – 3) David
Sylvester
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4. Which of the
following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman?
1) Kindred
2) Strength
3) Christian
4) Discretion
Answer – 3)
Christian
5. Who among the
following translator is notable as the first translator of Bhagavada Gita
into English?
1) Charles Wilkins
2) Nathaniel Halhead
3) William Jones
4) Barbara Stoler Miller
Answer – 1) Charles
Wilkins (Published 1785)
6. In Biographia
Literaria S T Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which
1) The soul perceives the
phenomenal diversity of the universe
2) The soul
perceives the spiritual unity of the universe
3) The mind acquires images by
its associative power
4) The mind separates images
by its discriminatory power
Answer - 2) The soul
perceives the spiritual unity of the universe
7. Why do the
Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language?
1) Their wants and
passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words
2) They consider language to
be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.
3) They find speech difficult
because they are horses
4) They prefer action to words
Extract from – Gulliver’s
Travels (1725, amended 1735)
It
put me to the pains of many circumlocutions, to give my master a right idea of
what I spoke; for their language does not abound in variety of words,
because their wants and passions are fewer than among us. But it is
impossible to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the
Houyhnhnm race; particularly after I had explained the manner and use of
castrating horses among us, to hinder them from propagating their kind, and to
render them more servile.
8. Identify the
title of A D Hope’s first published book of poems.
1) Native Companions
2) The Wandering
Islands
3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
4) The Cave and the Spring
Answer – 2) The
Wandering Islands (1955)
9. Which of the
following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?
1) Learners acquire language
by trying to use it in real situations
2) Learner’s first language
plays an important role in learning
3) Language teaching should
have a focus on communicative activities
4) Language teaching
should give importance to writing rather than speech.
Answer - 4) Language
teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.
10. The Bhasmasura myth
is used in R K Narayan’s_____
1) The Man-Eater of
Malgudi
2) The Finical Expert
3) The English Teacher
4) The World of Nagraj
Answer - 1) The
Man-Eater of Malgudi
11. During the
Middle English Period, many words were borrowed from two languages:
I) Celtic
II) Latin
III) French
IV) Old Norse
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and II
2) II and III
3) II and IV
4) III and IV
Answer - 2) II and
III
12. Select the
right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations
1) King James Version –
Tyndale – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible
2) Revised Standard Version –
King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian Standard Bible
3) Tyndale – King
James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Version
4) Revised Standard Version –
Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James Version – Tyndale
Answer - 3) Tyndale
– King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard
Version
Explanation –
Tyndale Version – (1526)
King James Version (1611)
Revised Standard Version
(1946)
Holman Christian Standard
Version (2003-04)
13. The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is
1) No
2) The
3) Morning
4) Jaysus
Answer – 2) The
Extract –
Yes, tid. There's where.
First. We pass through grass behush the bush
to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far
calls. Coming, far! End here. Us
then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee,
mememormee! Till thous-
endsthee. Lps. The keys to.
Given! A way a lone a last a loved a
long the
14. Assertion:
(A): In so far
as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms
Reason:
(B) : We
appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire, or, in
other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we
bring to it.
1) Both (A) and (R)
are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2) Both (A) and (R) are true
but (R) is not the correct explation of (A)
3) Conceptual frameworks which
enable some mode of thoughts and deny or severly constrain certain others
4) the ability to suggest
transcendental levels of meaning in an utterances
Answer - 1) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Explanation – This
extract is taken from Annette Kolodny’s “Dancing Through the Minefield”
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15. One of the
key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse. This is best described as
1) The power of persuasion in
all articulations
2) The selective language
powerful people use
3) Conceptual
frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely constrain
certain others
4) The ability to suggest
transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance
Answer – 3)
Conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely
constrain certain others
16. The narrator
of Oroonoko are
I) A woman
II) Oroonoko
III) A purported
eyewitness of the events described
IV) Trefy
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and IV
2) I and III
3) II and III
4) II and IV
Answer - 2) I and III
17. Which
character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : ‘The life of a
normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at
the most twenty?’
1) Nora in A Doll’s House
2) Dr. Thomas
Stockman in An Enemy of the People
3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm
4) Oswald in Ghosts
Answer – 2) Dr.
Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
18. In literary
studies structuralism promotes
1) New interpretations of
literary works
2) The view that
literature is one signifying practice among others
3) A systematic account of literary
archetypes
4) Unstable structures of
systems of signification
Answer - 2) The view
that literature is one signifying practice among others
Reference – Literary Theory: Very Short Introduction by
Jonathan Culler (page 138)
In Literary studies, structuralism
promotes a poetics interested in the conventions that make literary works
possible; it seeks not to produce new interpretations of works but to
understand how they can have the meanings and effects that they do. But it did
not succeed in imposing this project – systematic account of literary discourse
– in Britain and America. Its main effect there was to offer new ideas about
literature and to work it one signifying practice among others. It thus opened the way to symptomatic reading
of literary works and encouraged cultural studies to try to spell out the
signifying procedures of different cultural practices.
19. P B
Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is conversation between Julian and Count
Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?
1) Julian represents Keats and
Count Maddalo, Byron
2) Julian represents
Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
3) Julian represents Shelley
and Maddalo, William Godwin
4) Julian represents Mary
Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
Answer - 2) Julian
represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
20. What is
practical criticism?
1) The close analysis of
literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political meaning
2) A moment which wished to
make literary criticism more relevant
3) The close
analysis of poems without taking account of any external information
4) The study of ambiguity
Answer - 3) The
close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information
21. Which of the
following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs of feminist literary
criticism?
1) Feminist criticism
recuperates female writers ignored by the canon
2) Feminist literary critics
offer a criticism of the construction of gender
3) Feminist literary
critics argue that the traditional canon is justified
4) Feminist literary critics
mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and female’
Answer - 3) Feminist
literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified
22. Which work
by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who Disappeared?
1) The Castle
2) Metamorphosis
3) In the Penal Colony
4) Amerika
Answer - 4) Amerika (1927)
23. Towards the
end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is
trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read
and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short
story dealing with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the
novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story?
1) Rudyard Kipling “Revisiting
the Jungle”
2) Joseph Conrad “ Shadows of
the Dark Trees”
3) Charles Dickens
“The Man Who Liked Dickens”
4) Henry Fielding “Tome Jone’s
Journey into the Wild”
Answer - 3) Charles
Dickens “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
24. At the
beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social,
political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following
statements best describes that shift?
1) England shifted from an
aristocratic Catholic monarchy to a parliamentary democracy
2) England shifted from an
atheistic oligarchy to a deistic squirearchy
3) England shifted
from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy
4) England shifted from a
parliamentary democracy to an aristocratic Catholic tyranny
Answer - 3) England
shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican
monarchy
25. The
Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on
1) Fluency
2) Accuracy
3) Appropriateness
4) Listening Skill
Answer – 2) Accuracy
Reference – Approaches To
English Language Teaching – By Joseph C Mukale (page 93, 2005)
While fluency can be thought
of only in terms of speech, accuracy goes both with speech and writing. The
grammar-translation method took care of accuracy in writing as adherence to the
norms of basic grammar, idiomatic expressions, spellings and norms of graphics.
Fluency, in the sense we understand it as a quality of speech has no place in
the grammar-translation method. Fluency is essentially an aspect that goes with
those methods which lay stress on speech. Along with fluency can considered
accuracy which in spoken English will consist in adherence to the norms of
basic grammar, idiomatic expressions, pronunciation including the prosodic
features such as stress and intonation, and aspects of detailed use of modern
English. The teacher in the classroom, therefore, requires a close acquaintance
with all the aspects of accuracy in language mentioned above. It is in short a
close acquaintance with the way English is used both in speech and in writing.
26. “[They] then
heaved out
Away with a will
in their wood-wretched ship”
This line
describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is typical of the poem’s form and
Old English poetic technique because
I) It features
alliteration
II) It rhymes
III) It features onomatopoeia
IV) It has four
strong stresses
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and II
2) II and III
3) I and IV
4) II and IV
Answer – 3) I and IV
Explanation - It also has a strong pause, or caesura, in the
middle of the line, and two strong stressed syllables on either side of the caesura.
(So that's four stresses per line.) That may all sound pretty complicated, but
actually it creates a really simple, easy-to-remember formula with a heavy
rhythm to it.
We suggest you go check out an
audio recording of Beowulf so that you can hear someone reciting a few lines in
the original Old English. It's basically a "Dum Dum (pause) Dum Dum"
sort of rhythm. Follow the URL below:
27. Identify the
poet, translator, publisher and essayist who founded a press in 1950s called ‘Writers’
Workshop’ and provided a publishing outlet for Indians and writing in
English.
1) P. Lal
2) A K Mehrotra
3) Vinay Dharwadkar
4) A K Ramanujan
Answer – 1) P. Lal
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| P. LAL |
28. Antagonised
by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote
the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction
to ‘The Thorn’?
1) The Prisoner of Chillon
2) Don Juan
3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
4) The Vision of Judgement
Answer - 2) Don Juan
29. Which of the
following theoretical movements claimed that “the device is the only hero of
literature”?
1) Russian
formalism
2) New Criticism
3) Phenomenology
4) Deconstruction
Answer – 1) Russian
Formalism
Reference – Literary Theories
– A Very Short Introduction – By Jonathan Culler
Russian Formalism
The Russian Formalists of the
early years of the twentieth century stressed that critics should concern themselves
with the literariness of literature: the verbal strategies that make it
literary, the foregrounding of language itself, and the ‘making strange’ of
experience that they accomplish. Redirecting attention from authors to verbal
‘devices’, they claimed that ‘the device is the only hero of literature’. Instead
of asking ‘what does the author say here?’ we should ask something like ‘what
happens to the sonnet here?’ or ‘what adventures befall the novel in this book
by Dickens?’ Roman Jakobson, Boris Eichenbaum, and Victor Shklovsky are three
key figures in this group which reoriented literary study towards questions of
form and technique.
30. In Jean
Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also
called “phrase regimens” denotes:
I) The multiplicity
of communities of meaning
II) The breakdown of
communities of meaning
III) The innumerable
and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are produced
IV) The singular system in
which meanings are dispersed and displaced
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and IV
2) I and III
3) II and IV
4) II and III
Answer - 2) I and
III
31. What part of
Canada is Alice Munro most famous for depicting?
1) Vancouver
2) Montreal
3) Ontario
4) Quebec
Answer - 3) Ontario
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32. In John
Gay’s Beggar’s Opera what is Peachum’s occupation?
1) Pimp
2) Lawyer
3) Fencer of stolen
goods, and master of a gang of thieves
4) Impeder of less
powerful criminals
The right combination
according to the code is
1) III & IV
2) II & III
3) I & IV
4) II & IV
Answer - 1) III
& IV
33. The opening
stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at
the age_____
1) 37
2) 15
3) 24
4) 61
Answer – 1) 37
Lines -
My tongue, every atom of my
blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here
from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years
old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till
death.
34. In which of
the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit of
aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for
their own sake and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s
fellowmen?
1) The Princess
2) The Lady of Shalott
3) The Palace of Art
4) Tithonus
Answer - 3) The
Palace of Art
35. Luigi
Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” deliberately blurs
the boarder lines between the world of the theatre and the world of ‘real life’
by carefully chiselled dialogues like:
“Don’t you feel
the ground beneath your feet as you reflect that this ‘you’ which you feel
today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to seem a mere illusion
to you tomorrow?” Who is the speaker? Who is it addressed to?
1) Stepdaughter to Father
2) Father to Stage Manager
3) Stage Manager to Director
4) Mother to Direcor
Answer - 2) Father to Stage Manager
See the following conversation
between the Father and Stage Manager in the play –
THE MANAGER. Yes, but you are asking these questions of me,
the boss,
the manager! Do you
understand?
THE FATHER. But only in order to know if you, as you really
are now, see
yourself as you once were with
all the illusions that were yours then,
with all the things both
inside and outside of you as they seemed to you
-- as they were then indeed
for you. Well, sir, if you think of all
those illusions that mean
nothing to you now, of all those things which
don't even seem to you to
exist any more, while once they were for you,
don't you feel that -- I won't
say these boards -- but the very earth
under your feet is sinking
away from you when you reflect that in the
same way this you as you feel
it today -- all this present reality of
yours -- is fated to seem a
mere illusion to you tomorrow?
THE MANAGER [without having understood much, but astonished by
the
specious argument]. Well,
well! And where does all this take us anyway?
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36. In a poem in
memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory’s son, W B Yeats mentions an Irish
writer whom had found his inspiration “In a most desolate stony palace” that he
caome “Towards nightfall upon a race/passionate and simple like his heart”
who is the writer?
1) J M Barrie
2) J M Synge
3) Issac Bickerstaffe
4) Thomas More
Answer – 2) J M
Synge
Reference -
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The
Wild Swans at Coole. 1919.
In Memory of
Major Robert Gregory
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, 25
That dying chose the living
world for text
And never could have rested in
the tomb
But that, long travelling, he
had come
Towards nightfall upon certain
set apart
In a most desolate stony
place, 30
Towards nightfall upon a race
Passionate and simple like his
heart.
37. Jacques
Derrida’s work received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who below
was a critic of Derrida?
1) John Searle
2) Jean-Francois Lyotard
3) Emmanuel Levinas
4) Pau de Man
Answer - 1) John
Searle
38. Who among
the following bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet, George
Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996?
1) Daljit Nagra
2) Vikram Seth
3) Amitav Kumar
4) Arundhati Roy
Answer – 2) Vikram
Seth
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| VIKRAM SETH |
39. Which pair
of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and oppression
of Indian women?
I) Where Shall We Go
This Summer?
II) The Zigzag Way
III) Cry, the
Peacock
IV) Baumgartner’s Bombay
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and II
2) I and III
3) II and III
4) III and IV
Answer – 2) I and
III
40. From among
the following identify the two Indian English authors who received appreciation
and encouragement from their British counterparts:
I. R K Narayan –
Graham Greene
II. Nirad C Chaudhuri – Evelyn
Waugh
III. Mulk Raj Anand
– E M Forster
IV. Raj Rao – Iris Murdoch
The right combination
according to the code is
I) I and II
II) II and IV
III) I and III
IV) III and IV
Answer - III) I and
III
41. Match the
character with the work:
I. Count Fosco A. Villette
II. Margaret B. Adam Bede
III. Lucy Snowe C.
The Woman in White
IV. Maggie Tulliver D. North or South
Codes:
I II II IV
1) C D A B
2) D C A B
3) C A D B
4) C A B D
Answer - 1) C D A B
Please Note- Maggie Tulliver
is the Character not from Adam Bede but from Mill on the Floss – Both
by George Eliot (Mery Anne Evans)
42. This poet
was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944. His posthumously
published collection of poems Ha ! Ha ! Among the Trumpets is divided
into three sections.
1) Keith Douglas
2) Sidney Keyes
3) David Gascoyne
4) Alun Lewis
Answer - 4) Alun Lewis
43. As Adam and
Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand ring steps and slow” (Book XII,
Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?
1) They are comforted by their
love for one another
2) They are
comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind
3) They are comforted by God,
who travels before them in the form of a pillar of fire
4) They are comforted by the
angel, who holds each of them by hand
Answer – 2) They are
comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind
Lines from Paradise Lost –
Book XII
I carry hence: though all by
me is lost,
Such favour I unworthy am
voutsafed,
By me the Promised Seed
shall all restore
44. In An Essay
of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase “he needed
not the spectacles of books to read Nature”?
1) Ben Jonson
2) Ovid
3) William
Shakespeare
4) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer – 3) William Shakespeare
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| WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
45. Emily
Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to
her contemporary American poet,
1) Anne Bradstreet
2) Robert Lowell
3) Walt Whitman
4) Sylvia Plath
Answer – 3) Walt
Whitman
46. In “A
Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie Queene
represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?
I. Britomart
II. Cynthia
III. Belphoebe
IV. The Faerie
Queene
The right combination
according to the code is
1) III and IV
2) I and IV
3) I and III
4) II and III
Answer - 1) III and
IV
47. Who among
the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and literature in
India?
1) Nuruddin Farah
2) Ben Okri
3) Helon Habila
4) Benjamin Kwakye
Answer – 1) Nuruddin
Farah
Nuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Wikipedia
Born: November 24, 1945 (age
70), Baidoa, Somalia
Spouse: Chitra Muliyil (m.
1970)
Education: Panjab University,
Chandigarh
Awards: Neustadt International
Prize for Literature
Nominations: NAACP Image Award
for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
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| NURUDDIN FARAH |
48. In
particular William Blake was influenced by the religious writing of
I. Martin Luther
II. Jacob Boehme
III. Emanuel
Swedenborg
IV. Confucious
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and IV
2) I and II
3) II and III
4) III and IV
Answer - 3) II and
III
49. Which
British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the English
language to create a sense of national identity and retain political control
over independent countries?
1) Alfred the Great
2) Edward the Elder
3) Kling Arthur
4) Ethelbert of Kent
Answer - 1) Alfred
the Great
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50. In “Politics
and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in
curing the English language. What is the final rule?
1) Never use metaphor, simile
or other figures of speech which you are used to seeing in print
2) Never use a long word where
a short one will do
3) If possible to cut a word
out, always cut it out
4) Break any of
these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous
Answer - 4) Break
any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous
51. In his
Defence of Poesy what is the “best and most accomplished kind of poetry” in
Sidney’s estimation?
1) Heroical, or epic
poetry
2) Lyric Poetry
3) Pastoral Poetry
4) Elegiac Poetry
Answer - 1)
Heroical, or epic poetry
52. Which writer
of the Romantic period makes the following comment: “The poet is far from
dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind
belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of
being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty”?
1) Wordsworth in Preface to
the Lyrical Ballads
2) William Hazlitt in “On the
Feeling of Immortality in Youth”
3) Leigh Hunt in
What is Poetry?
4) Keats in one of his letters
to his brother
Answer – 3) Leigh
Hunt in What is Poetry? (1844)
53. In his poem “Whispers
of Immoratality” T S Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by
death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the
marrow/The ague of the skeleton” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to
by Eliot?
1) Christopher Marlow and Andrew
Marvell
2) John Webster and
John Donne
3) Seneca and Homer
4) Thomas Kyd and Henry
Vaughan
Answer - 2) John
Webster and John Donne
54. Functional
Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is opposition to
1) Structural Approach (UGC Answer)
2) Comprehensive
Approach
3) Translation and Grammar
Method
4) Functional Approach
Answer - 2) Comprehensive Approach
UGC Key Answer - 1) Structural Approach
You can challenge this question with the following explanation, if you will.
Explanation - The comprehension approach is an umbrella term
which refers to several methodologies of language learning that emphasise
understanding of language rather than speaking. This is in contrast to the
better-known communicative approach, under which learning is thought to
emerge through language production, i.e. a focus on speech and writing. The
comprehension approach is most strongly associated with the linguists Harris
Winitz, Stephen Krashen, Tracy D. Terrell and James J. Asher.
55. According to
Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the _____ within the _____ that provides
the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
1) Individual, tradition
2) Specific, generic
3) Semiotic,
symbolic
4) Particular, general
Answer - 3)
Semiotic, symbolic
56. In ‘Comprehensive Approach’ which character speaks the following words. Who/what are they
addressed to?
“I waited for you
impatiently...all this blasted psychology is a double-edged weapon”
1) Svidrigailov to the pistol
with which he shoots himself
2) Katherine Ivanovna to
Marmeladov
3) Porfiry Petrovich
to Raskolnikov
4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he
finds in the prison cell in Siberia
Answer – 3) Porfiry
Petrovich to Raskolnikov
57. What three
Germanic tribes invaded Briton in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the
roots of modern English?
1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts
2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
3) The Saxons, Danes and
Angles
4) The Jutes, Angles
and Saxons
Answer - 4) The
Jutes, Angles and Saxons
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| MIGRATION OF THE JUTES, ANGLES AND SAXONS |
58. Which of the
following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri,
written by Arun Kolatkar?
1) Yeshwant Rao
2) Chaitanya
3) The Priest
4) An Old Man
Answer - 4) An Old
Man
59. Bertolt
Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism
was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce.
Alienation is best described as
1) Making the audience feel
that they do not belong
2) Distancing
artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis
3) Scripting unnatural
behaviour on stage
4) A rejection of capitalism
or the market
Answer - 2)
Distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis (Key word –
Distancing)
60. Ngugi wa
Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to______
1) Swahili
2) Yoruba
3) Xhosa
4) Gikuyu
Answer - 4) Gikuyu
61. Which of the
following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as explary in Essay on
Criticism?
1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden,
Dionysius, Horace
2) Aristotle, Longinus,
Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden
3) Aristotle,
Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey,
Quintilian, Longinus
Answer - 3)
Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
62. Which of the
following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a self-elegy,
anticipating the poet’s death?
1) The Old Fools
2) Aubade
3) Ambulances
4) Faith Healing
Answer - 2) Aubade
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| POEM - AUBADE |
63. John
Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by
Christian on his progress?
1) The Slough of
Despond
2) Vanity Fair
3) The River of Death
4) The Swamp of Despair
Answer - 1) The
Slough of Despond
64. Identify the
correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The Four
Quartets.
1) Burnt Norton – The Dry
Salvages – East Coker – Little Gidding
2) Burnt Norton – Little
Gidding – The Dry Salvages – East Coker
3) Burnt Norton –
East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
4) Little Gidding – Burnt
Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker
Answer – 3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
Explanation -
Burnt Norton – 1936
East Coker – 1940
The Dry Salvages – 1941
Little Gidding – 1942
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| THE FOUR QUARTETS |
65. Which of the
following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
1) They deal with the problems
of the discontents of an urban civilization
2) The plots are
striking tight knit
3) They share a sense of fun
and determining optimism
4) They incorporate elements
of popular contemporary culture
Answer – 2) The
plots are striking tight knit
66. Published in
1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was
1) Nathaniel Bailey’s
Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
of the English Language
3) Robert Cawdrey’s
Table Alphabetical
4) Thomas Blount’s
Glossographia
Answer - 3) Robert
Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
67. Which of the
following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed in Thomas
More’s Utopia?
I. First-person
narration by Raphael Hythloday
II. Third-person narration by
a narrator named Thomas More
III. First Person
narration by a narrator named Thomas More
IV. Third-person narration by
Raphael Hythloday
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and III
2) II and IV
3) II and III
4) I and II
Answer - 1) I and
III
68.
In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novel we can see space itself
becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it
does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our
primitive unattached state”
Which is the
novel?
1) Doctor Faustus
2) Death in Venice
3) The Confessions of Felix
Krull
4) The Magic
Mountain
Answer - 4) The
Magic Mountain
69. Match the
lines with the titles of the poems:
LINES
I. The
boa-constrictor’s coil/Is a fossil
II. My manners
are tearing of heads/The allotment of death
III. More coiled
steel than living
IV. Time in the sea eats its
tail
POEMS
A) “Thrushes”
B) “The Jaguar”
C) “Relic”
D) “Hawk
Roosting”
CODES:
I II III IV
1) A D A C
2) B D A C
3) C D B A
4) D B C A
70. Which
one of Joseph Conrad’s novels express the contrast between the solidarity of
shipboard life and the profound underlying loneliness of existence thus : “loneliness
impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting...that surrounds, envelops,
clothes every human sould from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond”?
1) The Heart of Darkness
2) The Nigger of the Narcissus
3) Lord Jim
4) Nostromo
Answer - ?
These lines are from An
Outcast of the Island (1986)
This question can be challenged.
As per UGC Key - answer is 9 - it means this question is dropped.
As per UGC Key - answer is 9 - it means this question is dropped.
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71. John
Dryden’s two philosophic-religios poems are
I. Absalom and Achitophel
II. A Layman’s Faith (Religio Laici)
III. Annus Mirabilis
IV. The Hind and the
Panther
The right combination
according to the code is
I) I and II
II) III and I
III) II and III
IV) II and IV
Answer - IV) II and
IV
Read the
following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75:
They are not exactly homeless.
They are dissidents who have
lost their faith
in furnished interiors,
morning walks,
the cake and the cutlery.
When you have nine lives to
live
you learn to take things in
your stride.
You learn to stretch your body
at full length and yawn at
domestic
fiction. And for this reason
your figure in horror films
in mandatory moment
between the flash of lightning
and the appearance of the
ghost.
The light is darkish blue and
you see
Yourself in the iris of the
burning
Eye. The horror is in the
seeing.
What you see is altered by the
act
of seeing. The mystery does
not stop
there. The seer is in turn
altered
by what he sees. Having known
this,
stray cats jump from roof to
roof.
They monitor the world from
treetops
and hold their weekly meetings
in the graveyard, like
wandering mendicants.
And when they walk out of the
mirror
of the sun and cross the
crowded road
in a flash, for a shining
moment,
they lurk in the light like a
giant shadow
of doubt. Ill-omen to those
who cannot
see beyond what they see.
72. The poem constructs its
account of stray cats by way of a contrast with
1) Wild cats
2) Ominous cats
3) Domestic cats
4) Mysterious cats
Answer - 3) Domestic
cats
73. In the overall context,
what do “furnished interiors, morning walks,/the cake and the cutlery”
represent?
1) Ordinary life
2) “Domestic fictions” (UGC Answer)
3) “A giant shadow of doubt”
4) Creaturely comforts
Answer – 4)
Creaturely comforts
Answer by UGC Key - 2) Domestic fictions
(Note: Since examiner chose the answer, it can't be challenged)
74. The last two lines suggest
that cats crossing the crowded road
1) is an unexceptionable
superstition
2) is not necessarily the
ill-omen it is held out to be (UGC Answer)
3) is an example of
human obsession
4) is indicative of the
homelessness of stray cats
Answer - 3) is an
example of human obsession
Answer by UGC Key - 2) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be
(Note: Since examiner chose the answer, it can't be challenged)
(Note: Since examiner chose the answer, it can't be challenged)
75. From among he following
select two words that help accentuate the enigmatic character of stray
cats:
I. Doubt
II. Mandatory
III. Faith
IV. Mystery
The right combination
according to the code is
1) I and II
2) I and IV
3) II and IV
4) III and IV
Answer -2) I and IV
Explanation- You can
get the answer by doing Stylistic Analysis of the poem –
Enigmatic - difficult
to interpret or understand; mysterious.
Mandatory and Faith –
these words shows reliability and constancy
Doubt and Mystery –
enigmatic words
KEY BY ANIL S AWAD
English NET/SET Consultant
9922113364/9423403368
SHORT ANSWER KEY
1. 2) Vanity Fair
(1847–48)
2. 3) Because of
an epidemic of plague
3. 3) David
Sylvester
4. 3) Christian
5. 1) Charles
Wilkins (Published 1785)
6. 2) The soul
perceives the spiritual unity of the universe
7. 1) Their wants
and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words
8. 2) The
Wandering Islands (1955)
9. 4) Language
teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.
10. 1) The
Man-Eater of Malgudi
11. 2) II and III –
French and Latin
12. 3) Tyndale –
King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard
Version
13. 2) The
14. 1) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
15. 3) Conceptual
frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely constrain
certain others
16. 2) I and III
– A Woman & Purported Eyewitness
17. 2) Dr. Thomas
Stockman in An Enemy of the People
18. 2) The view
that literature is one signifying practice among others
19. 2) Julian
represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
20. 3) The close
analysis of poems without taking account of any external information
21. Feminist
literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified
22. 4) Amerika
(1927)
23. 3) Charles
Dickens “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
24. 3) England shifted
from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy
25. 2) Accuracy
26. 3) I and IV-
alliteration and four strong stress
27. 1) P. Lal
28. 2) Don Juan
29. 1) Russian
Formalism
30. 2) I and III
31. 3) Ontario
32. 1) III &
IV – Master of gang of thieves & Impeder
33. 1) 37
34. 3) The
Palace of Art
35. 2) Father to
Stage Manager
36. 2) J M Synge
37. 1) John Searle
38. 2) Vikram
Seth
39. 2) I and III –
Summer & Peacock
40. 3) I and III
– Greene & Foster
41. 1) C D A B
42. 4) Alun
Lewis
43. 2) They are
comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind
44. 3) William
Shakespeare
45. 3) Walt Whitman
46. 1) III and
IV
47. 1) Nuruddin
Farah
48. 3) II and
III – Boehme & Swidenborg
49. 1) Alfred the
Great
50. 4) Break any
of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous
51. 1) Heroical, or
epic poetry
52. 3) Leigh
Hunt in What is Poetry? (1844)
53. 2) John Webster
and John Donne
54. 2) Comprehensive
Approach (UGC Key Answer - 1. Structural Approach)
55. 3) Semiotic,
symbolic
56. 3) Porfiry
Petrovich to Raskolnikov
57. 4) The Jutes,
Angles and Saxons
58. 4) And Old
Man
59. 2) Distancing
artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis (Key word – Distancing)
60. 4) Gikuyu
61. 3) Aristotle,
Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
62. 2) Aubade
63. 1) The Slough of
Despond
64. 3) Burnt
Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
65. 2) The plots are
striking tight knit
66. 3) Robert Cawdrey’s
Table Alphabetical
67. 1) I and III –
Hythloday & More
68. 4) The Magic
Mountain
69. 2) B D A C
70. 9) Question Dropped*
71. IV) II and IV –
Layman & The Hind
72. 3) Domestic
cats
73. 4) Creaturely
comforts [UGC Key - 2) Domestic Fictions]
74. 3) is an
example of human obsession [UGC Key - 3) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be)
75. 2) I and IV –
Doubt & Mystery
BY ANIL S AWAD
English NET/SET
Consultant
9922113364/9423403368
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