UGC-CBSE – ENGLISH NET
PAPER - III– MODEL ANSWER KEY
22nd January 2017
BY ANIL S AWAD
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1. Who
among the following is not a diasporic writer?
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2)
Timothy Mo
(3)
Hanif Kureshi
(4)
Sam Selvon
ANSWER - (1) Beryl
Bainbridge
EXPLANATION – Beryl Bainbridge is a British author
famous for her psychological novels, nominated for Booker Prize for five times
and declared as ‘National Treasure’ (Just like Shakespeare, Milton etc.) by
British Government in 2007.
Timothy
Mo – Anglo-Chines
Hanif
Kureshi – Anglo-Pak
Sam
Selvon – Trininad
2. “A text
is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message
of the Auhtor-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of
writings, none of the original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of
quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture.”
Which
of the following best expresses the position stated above?
(1)
A text is a tissue of lies that has no
referential and cultural validity.
(2)
A text is a communication from the Author-God
with multiple meanings.
(3)
A text is a force field of ambiguity where
meaning collapse in the face of opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning
and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
ANSWER – (4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity
of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture
EXPLANATION – This extract is taken from Roland
Barthe’s essay ‘Death of the Author’
For
detail analysis of the essay ‘The Death of the Author’, please visit my blog –
Anil Awad’s Quest for Literature
3. In
William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall (Fainall) is Lady Wishfort’s
(1)
Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3)
Nephew
(4)
Servant
Answer - (2) Son-in-law
(This question can be challenged on the basis of spelling
mistake – Fairall for Fainall)
4. Match
the periodical with founder/s
List –
I List
– II
A.
The Egoist I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
B.
The English Review II.
Harriet Monroe
C.
Blast III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
D. Poetry: A magazine of Verse IV. Ford Madox Ford
Codes:
A B C D
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV
ANSWER - (3) III IV I II
Please Note –
The Egoist – The
Periodical published famous works like ‘Traditional and Individual Talent’ (T S
Eliot), A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man and some part of Ulysses (James
Joyce), Tarr (Wyndham Lewis), Poems from The Wanderers (William Carlos
William).
The English Review – It
published the works of Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, Hermann Hesse, Aldous
Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, G. B. Shaw, Ivan Turgenev, and
William Butler Yeats etc.
5. Which
statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
(1)
To kill a living creature is immoral
(2)
People should honour and respect all living
things
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles
(4)
True harmony is achieved only through
cooperative effort.
ANSWER - UGC Key Answer - 2) People should honour and respect all living things
My Answer: (3) Prayer can accomplish miracles
My Answer: (3) Prayer can accomplish miracles
EXPLANATION – See the essence of the poem in the
following lines:
He prayeth
best, who loveth best
All
things both great and small;
For the
dear God who loveth us,
He made
and loveth all.
-
(Line No. 615 to 618)
Farewell,
farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well,
who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
— Rime of
the Ancient Mariner, lines 611-614
6. “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was
proposed by
(1)
Stephen Krashen
(2)
M A K Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4)
Gertrude Buck
ANSWER - (3) Merrill Swain
7. In Tristram
Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black
servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired
by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an
integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature.
Name
the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Stern.
(1)
William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3)
William Blackstone
(4)
John Hawkins
ANSWER – (2) Ignatius Sancho
Reference – See the content of the original
letter written by Ignatius Sacho to Stern in the Summer of 1766,
REVEREND
SIR,
It
would be an insult on your humanity (or perhaps look like it) to apologize for
the liberty I am taking.—I am one of those people whom the vulgar and illiberal
call "Negurs."—The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was
placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for
obedience.—A little reading and writing I got by unwearied application.—The
latter part of my life has been—thro' God's blessing, truly fortunate, having
spent it in the service of one of the best families in the kingdom.—My chief
pleasure has been books.—Philanthropy I adore.—How very much, good Sir, am I
(amongst millions) indebted to you for the character of your amiable uncle
Toby!—I declare, I would walk ten miles in the dog days, to shake hands with
the honest corporal.—Your Sermons have touch'd me to the heart, and I hope have
amended it, which brings me to the point.—In your tenth discourse, page
seventy—eight, in the second volume—is this very affecting
passage—"Consider how great a part of our species - in all ages down to
this—have been trod under the feet of cruel and capricious tyrants, who would
neither hear their cries, nor pity their distresses.—Consider slavery—what it
is—how bitter a draught—and how many millions are made to drink it!"—Of
all my favorite authors, not one has drawn a tear in favour of my miserable
black brethren—excepting yourself, and the humane author of Sir George
Ellison.—I think you will forgive me;—I am sure you will applaud me for
beseeching you to give one half hour's attention to slavery, as it is at this
day practised in our West Indies.—That subject, handled in your striking
manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many—but if only of one—Gracious God!
- what a feast to a benevolent heart!—and, sure I am, you are an epicurean in
acts of charity.—You, who are universally read, and as universally admired—you
could not fail—Dear Sir, think in me you behold the uplifted hands of thousands
of my brother Moors.—Grief (you pathetically observe) is eloquent;—figure to
yourself their attitudes; hear their supplicating addresses!—alas!—you cannot
refuse.—Humanity must comply—in which hope I beg permission to subscribe
myself,
Reverend,
Sir, &c.
I.
SANCHO
8. In
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette
sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?
(1)
“The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3)
“The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4)
“The Memorial Song”
ANSWER – (2) “The Fraternization Song”
9. In
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every week
for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?
(1)
Under the pretext of going to the church for
weekly confession
(2)
Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend
who lives alone
(3)
Under the pretext of weekly shopping
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
ANSWER - (4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons
10. Identify
the two books by C S Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English translation :
I.
Astride the Wheel
II.
Going Home
III.
A Purple Sea
IV.
In a Forest, A Deer
The
right combination according to the code is:
(1)
III and II
(2)
I and II
(3)
I and IV
(4) III and IV
ANSWER - (4) III and IV
11. Elizabeth
Barrett Browing’s Sonnets from the Portuguese is
I.
a sequence of forty four
Petrarchan sonnets
II.
a rewriting of Popean didactic verse
III.
a depiction of a contemporary
setting and small events of ordinary life
IV.
a scathing criticism of the British colonial
enterprise
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and II
(2) I and III
(3)
II and IV
(4)
I and IV
ANSWER - (2) I and III
12. In The
Story of My Experiments with Truth, M K Gandhi covers the narrative of his
life from early childhood though to –
1)
1925
2)
1929
3)
1921
4)
1927
ANSWER - 3) 1921
13. In a
writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is
called
1)
Phoneme
2)
Grapheme
3)
Morpheme
4)
Jargon
ANSWER - UGC key Answer - Grapheme
My Answer 1) Phoneme
My Answer 1) Phoneme
EXPLANATION - any
of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that
distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English
words pad, pat, bad, and bat.
Reference - Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory:
Reference - Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory:
14. Enu Ego
is a character in
(1)
Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah
(2)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow
Sun
(3) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
(4)
Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
ANSWER - (3) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
15. Match
the word with definition:
LIST –
I LIST –
II
A.
Etymon I.
Changing from one language variety to another
B.
Code Switching II. Rules governing the social use of language
C.
Cognate III.
Etymological source of a word
D. Pragmatics IV. Words
with a common ancestor
Codes:
A B C D
(1) IV I III II
(2) III II IV I
(3) III I IV II
(4) IV I II III
ANSWER - (3) III I IV II
EXPLANATION:
Etymon – A word or
morpheme from which a later word derived
Code Switching - the practice of alternating
between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
Cognate - (of a word) having the same linguistic
derivation as another (e.g. English father, German Vater, Latin pater ).
Pragmatics - the
branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it
is used, including such matters as deixis, the taking of turns in conversation,
text organization, presupposition, and implicature.
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16. What
would help a reader recognize Keats’s “To Autumn” as a poem from the Romantic
period?
(1) Its logical succession of images
(2)
Its concise use of couplets
(3)
Its lavish natural imagery
(4)
Its use of iambic pentameter
ANSWER - UGC key answer - Its lavish natural imagery
(1) Its logical succession of images
(1) Its logical succession of images
EXPLANATION – Images (imagery) are there to evoke the
perception of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. “soft-lifted by the
winnowing wind”, “drows’d by the fume of poppies”, “last oozings hours by
hours”, “Seasons of mist,” “maturing sun,” and “warm days, “Hedge-crickets sing”, “half-reap'd furrow
sound asleep”, “last oozings hours by hours” – These are some of the images you
can find in Keats’ ‘Ode To Autumn” in logical succession. Using such images in
a poem with sequence is also the speciality of Romantic Poetry.
Lavish
natural imagery is also found in romantic poetry, but it was also used
previously by Shakespeare in his comedies (particularly his songs) or even by
Spenser in Shepherd’s Calendar and The Faerie Queene.
17. Which
of the following is an accurate description of ‘heteroglossia’?
(1)
Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist
easier by incorporating diversity into novelistic structure
(2)
Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance
with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social
language and differentiated components of a writer’s ideological position.
(3)
Heteroglossia creates concrete
conceptualisations through language in association with the singular view of
the artistic effort resulting in the unified world of the novel.
(4)
Heteroglossia enters the
linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple difference and
voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.
ANSWER - UGC Key Answer - (2) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a writer’s ideological position.
My Answer - (4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple difference and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.
My Answer - (4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple difference and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.
(Both answers seems right in context, but it is difficult to find the proper reference for this question. It depends upon the interpretation by a linguistic in certain context.)
18. In Ulysses
Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin
(1)
Bar
(2)
Park
(3) Newspaper
(4)
Bank
Answer - (3) Newspaper
EXPLANATION – Leopold Bloom canvasses advertising for a
newspaper for his living.
19. Which
pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?
I.
The Caretaker
II. One for
the Road
III. Celebration
IV. The Room
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and III
(2)
II and III
(3) I and IV
(4)
II and IV
ANSWER - (3) I and IV
EXPLANATION –
The
Room (1957)
The
Caretaker (1960)
One for
the Road (1984)
Celebration
(2000)
20. Who
among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on
his death: “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal
monarch of wit”?
(1)
George Herbert
(2)
Henry King
(3)
Thomas Carew
(4) Henry Crashaw
ANSWER - (3) Thomas Carew
EXPLANATION – These are also the concluding lines of
the poem ‘An Elegy Upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul’s’ by Thomas Carew
Here
lies a king that ruled, as he thought fit,
The universal monarchy of wit ;
Here lies two flamens, and both those
the best :
Apollo's first, at last the true God's
priest.
21. In his
poem “Australia” A D Hope says that
I. Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”
II.
“Her five cities are like five dry rivers”
III. The poet turns to her “to find/The Arabian desert of the
human mind/Hoping if still from deserts prophets come”
IV.
“She is the first of lands, the warmest”
Codes:
(1) I and III
(2)
II and III
(3)
III and IV
(4)
I and IV
ANSWER – (1) I and III
AD
Hope's Australia
A
nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey
In the
field uniform of modern wars
Darkens
her hills, those endless, outstretched paws
Of
Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away.
They
call her a young country, but they lie:
She is
the last of lands, the emptiest,
A woman
beyond her change of life, a breast
Still
tender but within the womb is dry.
Without songs, architecture, history:
The
emotions and superstitions of younger lands,
Her
rivers of water drown among inland sands,
The
river of her immense stupidity
Floods
her monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth.
In them
at last the ultimate men arrive
Whose
boast is not: 'we live' but 'we survive',
A type
who will inhabit the dying earth.
And her
five cities, like five teeming sores,
Each
drains her: a vast parasite robber-state
Where
second-hand Europeans pullulate
Timidly
on the edge of alien shores.
Yet
there are some like me turn gladly home
From
the lush jungle of modern thought, to find
The Arabian desert of the human mind,
Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,
Such
savage and scarlet as no green hills dare
Springs
in that waste, some spirit which escapes
The
learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes
Which
is called civilization over there.
22. Basic
English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was formulated by
I. I A Richards
II.
Alastair Flower
III.
William Empson
IV. C K. Ogden
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 – (3) I and IV
EXPLANATION – The
book - Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930)
– was written by I A Richards and C K Ogden in collaboration.
23. “Britons
will never be slaves!” – felt proud Britons in the eighteenth
century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves
and profiting from them. Who among the following authors self-consciously
engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems?
I. Hannah More
II.
Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
The
right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2)
I and IV
(3)
II and III
(4)
III and IV
ANSWER – (2) I and IV Or (4) III and IV
PLEASE NOTE – With the exception of Mary
Collier – all other three poets are related to campaign against slavery and
their resisting outlet through their poems. But since the lines - Britons will
never be slaves – are taken from Anna Seward’s poem, it is inevitable to
include the option in the answer.
This
question can be challenged on the following basis:
1) Hannah
More also was the part of the campaign against slavery and wrote poems and
treatise on it. She had the famous poem ‘Slavery’ at her credit. See the
following lines:
Slavery
By Hannah More
If
Heaven has into being deigned to call
Thy
light, O Liberty! to shine on all;
Bright
intellectual Sun! why does thy ray
To
earth distribute only partial day?
Since
no resisting cause from spirit flows
Thy
universal presence to oppose;
No
obstacles by Nature’s hand impressed,
Thy
subtle and ethereal beams arrest;
Not
swayed by matter is they course benign,
Or more
direct or more oblique to shine;
Nor
motion’s laws can speed thy active course;
Nor
strong repulsion’s powers obstruct thy force:
Since
there is no convexity in mind,
Why are
thy genial rays to parts confined?
While
the chill North with thy bright beam is blest,
Why
should fell darkness half the South invest?
Was it
decreed, fair Freedom! at thy birth,
That
thou should’st ne’er irradiate all the earth?
While
Britain basks in thy full blaze of light,
Why
lies sad Afric quenched in total night?
2) The
famous quote - Britons will never be slaves – appears in Ann Seward’s poem – ‘Ode
on England’s Naval Triumphs in the Present War’. (1810)
3) Anna
Yearsley wrote a poem against slavery - A Poem on the Inhumanity of the
Slave Trade (1788)
24. Match
the Novelist with the work:
List –
I List – II
A. Anita Desai I.
Rich Like Us
B. Nayantara Sahgal II. The Nowhere
Man
C. Arun Joshi III. The Custody
D. Kamala Markandaya IV. The Last Labyrinth
Codes:
A B C D
(1) III II IV I
(2) III I IV II
(3) II I IV III
(4) III IV I II
ANSWER - (2) III I IV II
25. Identify
the right chronological sequence:
(1)
The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The
Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2)
The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The
American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American
Pastoral
(4)
Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American
Pastoral – Beloved
ANSWER - (3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The
American Pastoral
EXPLANATION –
Sister Carrie – Published: 1900 - Author: Theodore Dreiser
The Great Gatsby - Published: 10
April 1925 - Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beloved - Published: September
1987 - Author: Toni
Morrison
The American Pastoral - Published:
12 May 1997 - Author: Philip Roth
26. In
which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term
“ideology” in ‘The German Ideology’?
(1) Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of
society, a sort of false consciousness
(2)
The elaborate structures and institutions that
mark the bourgeoise society.
(3)
The concepts of base and superstore that govern
the economic relations of the society.
(4)
The fundamental class consciousness of the
proletariat which leads to their awakening.
ANSWER - (1) Something that mystifies the actual material
conditions of society, a sort of false consciousness
27. The
plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour
trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the
novel.
(1)
Disgrace
(2)
Age of Iron
(3)
Waiting for the Barbarians
(4)
Life and Times of Michael K.
ANSWER - (4) Life and Times of Michael K.
28. Which
of the following lines of T S Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for
her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?
(1)
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The
Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, East Coker
(3)
“Human kind cannot bear very much reality”,
Burnt Norton
(4)
“I have measured out my life with coffee
spoons,” Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
ANSWER - (2) “In my beginning is my end”, East Coker
29. In the
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples of
deep Christian goodness?
I. Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the
Pardnoer
The right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and II
(2)
II and IV
(3) II and III
(4)
I and IV
ANSWER - (3) II and III
30. Identify
Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I:
(1)
“Now, Harry, what time of day is it lad?”
(2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
(3)
“Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad?”
(4)
“Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad?”
ANSWER - (2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
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31. Anna
Barbauld, Laetitial Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and
Felicia Hemans are
(1)
First wave feminists
(2) Women poets of the Romantic period
(3)
Victorian writers of popular fiction
(4)
Nineteenth century stage artists
ANSWER - (2) Women poets of the Romantic period
32. Ray
Bradbury has titled one of his short story collection – Golden Apples of the
Sun – after the last line of a W B Yeats poem. Which poem?
(1)
“The Death of Cuchulain”
(2)
“The Peacock”
(3)
“The Hour Before Dawn”
(4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
ANSWER - (4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
The
words "the golden apples of the sun" are from the last line of the
final stanza of W. B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
(1899):
“
Though I am old with wandering
Through
hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will
find out where she has gone
And
kiss her lips and take her hands;
And
walk among long dappled grass,
And
pluck till time and times are done
The
silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.”
— W. B.
Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
33. Which
play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War presents a
character’s interaction with James Joyce
as he was writing Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin
leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that
time?
(1)
After Magritte
(2)
Dirty Linen
(3)
Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties
ANSWER - (4) Travesties
34. “Most
blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of
common duties, decent not to fail
In
offices of tenderness…”
In
these lines from “Ulysses” what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?
(1)
He shows heroic qualities
(2) He is patient and selfless
(3)
He is very much like his father
(4)
He may be too tender-hearted to be king
ANSWER - (2) He is patient and selfless
35. In
Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT
(1)
The London life of hedonistic young men is
portrayed
(2)
Names encapsulate traits
(3) Unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance
(4)
The heroines seek a say in the choice of a
marriage partner
ANSWER - (3) Unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make
an appearance
EXPLANATION –
Pleasure
seeking yong men and dames are the major concern of Restoration comedy.
Names
match to the traits of characters – for example – Wilwood, Witful, Wishforth etc.
Heroines
always have choice to choose their mates – the great example is the Proviso
Scene (Bargaining Scene) in the Way of the World.
Almost
in every Restoration Comedy we have unchaste women, widows, and cuckolded
husbands/wives.
36. What
happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s play Six
Characters in Search of an Author?
(1)
He drowns in the fountain
(2)
He is shot deat by the father
(3)
He leaves the stage alone
(4) He commits suicide.
ANSWER - (4) He commits suicide.
37. Which
of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character in
Vanity Fair?
(1)
Ambitious
(2)
Energetic
(3) Wellborn
(4)
Scheming
ANSWER – (3) Wellborn
EXPLANATION – Becky Sharp is a poor, orphan of low
birth who uses her charm to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
38. Which character
in Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, first suggests the selling
of the orchard?
A)
Trofimov
B)
Yephikodov
C)
Lopakhin
D) Varya
ANSWER - Lopakhin
39. Identify
the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th
Century English Periodicals:
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2)
Spectator – Tatler – The Gentleman’s Magazine –
Rambler
(3)
Rambler – Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s
Magazine
(4)
Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s
Magazine
ANSWER – (1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine –
Rambler
Tatler
– 1709
Spectator
– 1711
The
Gentleman’s Magazine – 1731
Rambler
– (1750-1752)
40. Who
identified “Strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian writing?
(1)
Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3)
Michael Ondaatjee
(4)
Joy Kogawa
ANSWER - (2) Northrop Frye
41. Identify
the gynocritics in the following list:
I.
Alice Jardine
II.
Elaine Showalter
III.
Sandra Gilbert
IV.
Kate Millett
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 – Elaine Showalter introduced the term ‘gynocriticism’.
It is just like a framework or formula to analyse literature of women. Two key
texts of gynocriticsm are Elaine Showalter's A Literature of their Own
(1977) and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic
(1979).
42. Identify
the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish
Karnad’s Hayavadana:
(1)
Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3)
Kapila
(4)
Devadatta
ANSWER - (2) Gautama
43. Aurobindo
Ghosh, author of ‘Savitri’, taught for some time at Baroda College after his
return from England in 1893. Which subject did he teach?
(1) English
(2)
French
(3)
Sanskrit
(4)
Bengali
ANSWER - UGC Answer - (2) French
(Rectified and found correct)
(Rectified and found correct)
44. Christopher
Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an
(1)
Complaint
(2)
Stichomythia
(3) Epyllion
(4)
Pasturelle
ANSWER - (3) Epyllion
EXPLANATION - Epyllion is
a narrative poem that resembles an epic poem in style, but which is
notably shorter.
45. Which
among the following does not belong to Indo-European language family?
(1)
English
(2)
German
(3)
Scandinavian
(4) Finnish
ANSWER – (4) Finnish
The Finnic languages are located at the western end of the
Uralic language family.
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46. What,
among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the
sublime?
(1)
Great thoughts
(2) Immoderate emotion
(3)
Noble diction
(4)
Dignified and elevated word arrangement
ANSWER - (2) Immoderate emotion
Immoderate
means - not sensible or restrained; excessive.
47. Who among
the following is not a beat writer?
(1)
Jack Kerouac
(2)
Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4)
William Burroughs
ANSWER - (3) Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell is confessional poet.
48. This
was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the
first masque in which Price Charles took part.
(1)
Masque of Blankness
(2)
The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4)
The Gypsies Metamorphed
ANSWER - (3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
49. Elizabeth
Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their
(1) Conversational intimacy
(2)
Intellectual tenor
(3)
Astringent satire
(4)
Urban topography
ANSWER - (1) Conversational intimacy
50. Which
chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things
as They Are?
(1)
Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto
(2)
Mathew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk
(3)
Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
ANSWER – (4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
51. In “My
Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the Duchess’s misdemeanours,
according to the Duke?
(1)
She was flattered by compliments from Fra
Pandolf
(2)
She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed
her husband’s favour
(3)
She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried
to correct her behaviour
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of
their source
ANSWER - UGC Answer Key - (3) She wouldn't listen to her husband when he tried to correct her bheaviour
(It was not misdemeanour - minor misdoing, but major one for the Duke)
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source
(It was not misdemeanour - minor misdoing, but major one for the Duke)
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source
EXPLANATION –
Misdemeanours
means wrongdoing/misbehaviour/offence
See
line No. 31 from the poem – the adjective – ‘good’
She
thanked men, – good! but thanked
Somehow
– I know not how – as if she ranked
My gift
of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift.
52. In his
essay “From Work To Text” Roland Barthes says the following about the text:
I.
The text is singular
II.
The text can be held in the hand
III.
The text is held in language
IV.
The text is a methodological
field
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and III
(2)
II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4)
III and II
ANSWER - (3) III and IV
53. Seamus
Heaney’s ‘Digging’ in his first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist,
illustrates all the following EXCEPT
(1)
His preoccupation with his roots
(2) His obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3)
His respect for the natural world of the farming
community and the labour of his ancestors
(4)
His displaced vocation of digging with a pen
ANSWER - (2) His obsession with Irish legend and folklore
54. Here is
a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English. Match the
writer with his source language:
List –
I List – II
A.
O V Vijayan I. Kannada
B.
Vilas Sarang II. Malayalam
C.
Krishna Baldev Vaid III. Marathi
D. Girish Karnad IV. Hindi
Codes:
A B C D
(1) II IV III I
(2) I III IV II
(3) II III IV I
(4) II III I IV
ANSWER - (3) II III IV I
55. In Book
8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What is
this flaw?
(1)
Gluttony
(2)
Pride in his superiority to Eve
(3)
Overconfidence in his free will
(4) Passion for Eve
ANSWER - (4) Passion for Eve
56. Identify
the chronological sequence of the following early English texts:
(1)
Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The
Nightingale – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur
(2)
Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur –
The Owl and the Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Mnorte
d’Arthur – Utopia
(4)
The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur –
Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia
ANSWER – (3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde
– Mnorte d’Arthur – Utopia
The Owl
and The Nightingale – 12th/13th Century Poem
Troilus
and Criseyde – 14th Century Romance – (1380)
Morte
d’Arthur – 15th Century Romance –
(1485)
Utopia
– 16th Century – By Thomas More – (1516)
57. In
Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was
murdered
(1)
At the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2)
At the edge of the forest as he returned from
Delphi
(3)
At the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) At the crossroads on his way to Delphi
ANSWER - (4) At the crossroads on his way to Delphi
58. The
quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller
by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers and titles. Which
of the following are the titles of the chapters in the novel?
I.
Looks Down in the Gathering
Shadow
II.
In a Network of Lines that
Enlace
III.
In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV.
What Story there Awaits its End?
The
right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2)
I and IV
(3)
III and IV
(4)
II and IV
ANSWER - (1) I and II
EXPLANATION – Alternate chapters are used for
continuity of stories. For example 3rd chapter story continues in 5
or 7 etc. But here the V chapter story runs continually in Chapter VI.
Looks
Down in the Gathering Shadow –Chapter V
In the
Network of Lines that Enlace – Chapter VI
In a
Network of Lines that Interface – Chapter VII
What
story down there awaits its end? – Chapter XI
There
is continuity in chapter V and VI
See the
last paragraph of the Chapter No. V Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
The
last two desires are easily satisfied, and are not mutually exclusive. In the
café, waiting for Ludmilla, you begin to read the book sent by Marana.
And the
beginning of Chapter No. VI - In the Network of Lines that Enlace
The
first sensation this book should convey is what I feel when I hear the
telephone ring; I say "should" because I doubt that written words can
give even a partial idea of it: it is not enough to declare that my reaction is
one of refusal, of flight from this aggressive and threatening summons, as it
is also a feeling of urgency, intolerableness, coercion that impels me to obey
the injunction of that sound, rushing to answer even though I am certain that
nothing will come of it save suffering and discomfort.
Anyway,
it’s a worthy novel of 110 pages to read at least once to see the way a
postmodernist treats a literary genre novel.
59. The
novel Maurice by E M Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had a homosexual
theme, so Forster considered its subject matter to indelicate for publication
during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a socialist and
open homosexual. Identify the writer.
(1)
Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3)
W H Auden
(4)
B F Benson
ANSWER - (2) Edward Carpenter
60. Who
among the following has elaborated on the “Indianisation”of English?
(1)
L M Khubchandani
(2)
B Kumaravadivelu
(3) B B Kachru
(4)
Rajendra Sing
ANSWER - (3) B B Kachru
EXPLANATION - He wrote a famous book - The
Indianization of English: The English Language in India, originally
published in 1983.
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61. These
are four models of relating literature to history. Which of the following is
associated with formalism?
(1) Literary texts are universal transcend history: the historical
context of their production and reception has no bearing on the literary work
which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into
itself.
(2)
The historical context of a literary work is
integral to a proper understanding of it : the text is produced within a
specific historical context but in its literariness it remains separate from
that context.
(3)
Literary works can help us to understand the
time in which they are set : realist texts in a particular provide imaginative
representations of specific historical moments, events or periods.
(4)
Literary texts are bound up with other
discourses and rhetorical structures : they are part of a history that is still
in the process of being written.
ANSWER - (1) Literary texts are universal transcend history: the
historical context of their production and reception has no bearing on the
literary work which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a
world into itself.
EXPLANATION – Key
Words – autonomous, own laws, world into itself – are near to formalism.
62. As
Gunter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum open we find Oskar Matzerath
(1)
On the war front entertaining the soldiers as
part of a band of dwarfs
(2) In a mental hospital writing his story
(3)
Admitted in a hospital after his fatal fall in
the wine cellar
(4)
Watching a ball in which the young ladies ignore
his presence
ANSWER - (2) In a mental hospital writing his story
EXPLANATION: See the
beginning lines from the novel:
Granted:
I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me
out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the
shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
63. D H
Lawrence’s 1926 novel The Plummed Serpent is set in which country?
(1)
Egypt
(2)
South Africa
(3) Mexico
(4)
Peru
ANSWER - (3) Mexico
64. Which
two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
I.
Sir Walter Scott
II.
Charlotte Bronete
III.
Maria Edgeworth
IV.
Jane Austen
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and II
(2)
II and III
(3) I and III
(4)
III and IV
ANSWER - (3) I and III
65. Which
of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are set mostly in Japan?
I.
The Unconsoled
II.
The Remains of the Day
III.
An Artist of the Floating
World
IV.
A Pale View of Hills
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and III
(2)
II and III
(3) III and IV
(4)
I and IV
ANSWER - (3) III and IV
66. In The
Advancement of Learning Bacon noted the need for more studies of
I.
Moral knowledge
II.
Forbidden knowledge
III.
Civil knowledge
IV.
Spiritual knowledge
The
right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2)
I and IV
(3)
II and III
(4)
II and IV
ANSWER - (1) I and III
67. Who
among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German
Philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
(1) Sartos Resartus
(2)
The Dream of Gerontius
(3)
The Professor
(4)
Felix Holf
ANSWER - (1) Sartos Resartus
68. As
Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy which discipline is more useful and
praiseworthy – history or poetry?
(1)
History “being captivated to truth” is more
useful than poetry
(2) Poetry where man can see “virtue exalted and vice punished” is
more useful than history
(3)
History is more useful for poetry is “an
encouragement to unbridled wickedness”
(4)
History and poetry and synonymous, and so both
are useful
ANSWER - (2) Poetry where man can see “virtue exalted and vice
punished” is more useful than history
69. In
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a
commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following
statements is not true of their appearance at the fair?
(1)
They are dressed differently than the other
fair-goers.
(2)
They speak the language of the Bible at the fair
(3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
(4)
They refuse to look at the merchandise at the
fair.
ANSWER - (3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
70. What
does the title Morte d’Arthur mean?
(1)
Arthur mortified
(2) Death of Arthur
(3)
Castle of Arthur
(4)
Burial of Arthur
ANSWER - (2) Death of Arthur
71. Assertion
(A):
Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might be
visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible
Reason
(R):
Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they suggest a
more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly and of
power.
In the
light of the statement above
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation
of (A)
(2)
Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A)
(3)
(A) is right, but (R) is wrong
(4)
(A) is wrong, but (R) is right
ANSWER - UGC Key Answer – Both (A) and
(R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
My Answer - (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
My Answer - (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
EXPLANATION – This extract is taken from E M Froster’s
‘Aspects of Novel’ published in 1927.
See the
extract:
He can
post his people in as babies, he can cause them to go on without sleep or food,
he can make them be in love, love and nothing but love, provided he seems to
know everything about them, provided they are his creations. That is why Moll
Flanders cannot be here, that is one of the reasons why Amelia and Emma cannot
be here. They are people whose secret lives are visible or might be visible: we
are people whose secret lives are invisible.
And
that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us; they
suggest a more comprehensible and thus a more manageable human race, they give
us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.
Read
the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75:
Dead
Fox
We
pretended to know nothing about it.
I
withdrew to childhood training: stay out
of
swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This
was around the time
we were
too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving
them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under
the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But
moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right
at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the
dune-side slope, spoiling
the
grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked—
it
seemed best to back away.
On the
dune’s steep side
we
surveyed what we’d come for: ocean’s
snaking
blues beyond the meadow, the silvered
blade-like
wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold
ourselves to that view.
But the
currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until
the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The
heat compounded, and ugliness
settled
its cloud over us, profound as human speech,
although
by then we were not speaking.
(It’s a
poem by By Cleopatra Mathis)
72. The
“We” of the opening line indicates
(1) A group
(2)
Two persons
(3)
The speaker and an imaginary listener
(4)
An unspecified crowd
ANSWER - UGC Key Answer - (2) Two persons
My Answer - (2) Two persons
My Answer - (1) A group
My Answer - (2) Two persons
My Answer - (1) A group
EXPLANATION – ‘We’ here refers to a specific group, may
be childhood group. Neither 'he/she or even you' is found here to define existence of other single person/listener.
73. The
dead animal was sighted
(1)
At the end of the trail
(2)
On the dune’s steep side
(3)
On the dune’s sloping side
(4)
In the swampy undergrown
ANSWER - (3) On the dune’s sloping side
74. The
reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as
I.
Evasive
II.
Angry
III.
Bizarre
IV.
Muted
The
right combination according to the code is
(1)
I and II
(2)
II and III
(3) I and IV
(4)
III and IV
ANSWER - (3) I and IV
EXPLANATION –
Evasive -
tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, especially by responding only
indirectly/ directed towards avoidance or escape.
Muted - quiet
and soft/not expressed strongly or openly.
Bizarre - very
strange or unusual
At the
beginning, the poet tries to avoid the sight - Neither of us looked – It’s a
kind of evasion.
His
reaction is neither too strange nor unusual and just decides to leave it –
it
seemed best to back away.
On the
dune’s steep side
75. At the
close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders the
visitors speechless?
(1)
Sight
(2)
Touch
(3)
Sound
(4) Smell
ANSWER - (4) Smell
EXPLANATION –
See the
lines:
But the
currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until
the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
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MODEL ANSWER KEY – IN SHORT
1.
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
2.
(4) A text is a linguistic
construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of
language and culture
3.
(2) Son-in-law
4.
(3) III IV I II
5. Please refer the explanation
6.
(3) Merrill Swain
7.
(2) Ignatius Sancho
8.
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
9.
(4) Under the pretext of
taking piano lessons
10. (4) III and IV
11. (2) I and III
12. 3) 1921
13. Please refere the explanation
14. (3) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
15. (3) III I IV II
16. Please refer the explanation
17. (4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to
homogenize its multiple difference and voices in a singular vision of
accomplished structure.
18. (3) Newspaper
19. (3) I and IV
20. (3) Thomas Carew
21. (1) I and III
22. (3) I and IV
23. (2) I and IV Or (4) III and IV (Please refer the explanation)
24. (2) III I IV II
25. (3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American
Pastoral
26. (1) Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of
society, a sort of false consciousness
27. (4) Life and Times of Michael K.
28. (2) “In my beginning is my end”, East Coker
29. (3) II and III
30. (2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
31. (2) Women poets of the Romantic period
32. (1) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
33. (4) Travesties
34. (2) He is patient and selfless
35. (3) Unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an
appearance
36. (4) He commits suicide
37. (3) Wellborn
38. Lophakin
39. (1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
40. (2) Northrop Frye
41. (3) II and III
42. (2) Gautama
43. (2) French
44. (3) Epyllion
45. (4) Finnish
46. (2) Immoderate emotion
47. (3) Robert Lowell
48. (3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
49. (1) Conversational intimacy
50. (4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
51. (4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness,
regardless of their source
52. (3) III and IV
53. (2) His obsession with Irish legend and folklore
54. (3) II III IV I
55. (4) Passion for Eve
56. (3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Mnorte
d’Arthur – Utopia
57. At the crossroads on his way to Delphi
58. (1) I and II
59. (2) Edward Carpenter
60. (3) B B Kachru
61. (1) Literary texts are universal transcend history: the
historical context of their production and reception has no bearing on the
literary work which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a
world into itself.
62. (2) In a mental hospital writing his story
63. (3) Mexico
64. (3) I and III
65. (3) III and IV
66. (1) I and III
67. (1) Sartos Resartus
68. (2) Poetry where man can see “virtue exalted and vice punished”
is more useful than history
69. (3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
70. (2) Death of Arthur
71. Please refer the explanation
72. (1) A group/(2) Two persons - (pl refer explanation)
73. (3) On the dune’s sloping side
74. (3) I and IV
75. (4) Smell
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