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PAPER - II– MODEL ANSWER KEY
5th November 2017
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1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are:
a) Bath
b) Bristol👈
c) Leeds
d) London👈
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b
2) b and c
3) a and d
4) b and d👈
2. Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway?
1) “If music be the food of love, play on”
3) “Those are pearls that were his eyes”
4) “There is a tide in the affairs of man”
3. Identify the important theaters of the Elizabethan period:
a) Peacock
b) Globe👈
c) Swan👈
d) Grand
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b
2) b and c👈
3) b and d
4) a and d
Explanation:
The Peacock Theatre (previously the Royalty Theatre) belongs to the Restoration Period (17th Century) and located at Westminster.
The Grand Theater is a chain of theaters spread all over world and belongs to Modern Age.
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| GLOBE THEATRE |
4. In which poem does Mathew Arnold express the dilemma of:
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born” ?
1) Self-Dependence
2) Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse👈
3) To a Republican Friend
4) Dover Beach
Full Quote:
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Their faith, my tears, the world deride—
I come to shed them at their side.
5. Who made the comment that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called “Huckleberry Finn”?
1) Henry James
2) William Faulkner
3) Jack London
4) Earnest Hemingway👈
6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a verse exposition popular in the early 17th Century. Who popularized this kind of poetry through the work “Emblems” (1635)?
1) Robert Southwell
2) Francis Quarles👈
3) John Davies
4) Joseph Sylvester
7. Which Byron work begins thus:
“I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one…”
1) Beppo
2) Cain
3) Manfred
4) Don Juan👈
Refer the first canto of Don Juan
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
I 'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan—
We all have seen him, in the pantomime,
Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time.
8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, “Religio Medici” means:
1) Religion of a Doctor👈
2) Religion of Magician
3) Religion of Divinity
4) Religion of Meditation
9. Which among the following recent novels is a retelling of Sophocles’s “Antigone”?
1) Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire👈
2) Fiona Mozley, Elmet
3) Zadie Smith, Swing Time
4) Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
10. Identify the two important works of Paul de Man from the following list:
a) Blindness and Insight👈
b) Allegories of Reading👈
c) Theoretical Essays
d) Criticism and Ideology
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b👈
2) a and c
3) b and c
4) b and d
11. Samuel Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets saying. “About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets” In the biography of which of the following in the ‘Lives of Poets’ did Johnson make this remark?
1) John Dryden
2) Thomas Parnell
3) Abraham Cowley👈
4) Alexander Pope
The Essay ‘Metaphysical Poets’ by Samuel Johnson begins with the following lines:
COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been at one time too much praised, and too much neglected at another.
Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account.
12. The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me.
The above sentence contains example of
1) enumeration
2) litotes👈
3) anaphora
4) metonymy
Answer – 2) Litotes (ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary)
Explanation –
Enumeration - Enumeratio is a rhetorical term for the listing of details--a type of amplification and division. For example – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous speech - Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny…👈
Anaphora - In rhetoric, an anaphora is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis. Please note, only the first part of the sentence or the first sentence is repeated in anaphora to emphasis on certain aspects/person or events. For example –
In time👈 the savage bull sustains the yoke,
In time 👈all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,
In time 👈small wedges cleave the hardest oak,
In time 👈the flint is pierced with softest shower.
— Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, I, vi. 3
Metonymy - Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. For example - Crown. (For the power of a King or Queen.) 👈
13. Who is the author of the following lines?
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…”
1) Thomas Gray
2) William Blake👈
3) William Collins
4) William Cowper
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14. In Women in Love what is Winifred’s Pekinese dog called?
1) Bismarck
2) Looloo👈
3) Lucky
4) Buddy
15. Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the “heresy of paraphrase”?
1) Allen Tate
2) Cleanth Brooks👈
3) W K Wimsatt
4) Monroe C Beardsley
Answer – 2) Cleanth Brooks (From- The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry – 1947)
16. Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clouts Come Home Again is a fine example of:
1) carpe diem
2) sonnet sequence
3) georgic poetry
4) pastoral eclogue👈
17. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom does John Dryden refers to as “the most learned and judicious Writer which any Theater ever had”?
1) John Webster
2) Christopher Marlowe
3) Ben Jonson👈
4) William Shakespeare
See the extract from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy:
As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him; but something of art was wanting to the drama till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him.
18. This Australian poet was raised in New South Wales and grew up in rural Australian landscape. In 1946 she published her first book of poems. In 1962, she became cofounder and president of the Wild Life Preservation society of Queensland and served as its president several times thereafter. Identify the poet.
1) Dorothy Hewett
2) Nettie Palmer
3) Judith Wright👈
4) Amy Witting
Her first book The Moving Image, was published in 1946.
19. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in_____
1) Surinam👈
2) Abyssinia
3) Egypt
4) Assyria
20. Who published the first collection of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poems in 1918?
1) Robert Bridges👈
2) Coventry Patmore
3) John Betjeman
4) Stephen Spender
21. Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in____
1) Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
2) William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
3) Philip Sidney’s Arcadia👈
4) Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
22. Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of dramatic power of the pause from seeing popular American comedian. Which one?
1) Bob Hope
2) W C Fields
3) Jack Benny👈
4) Charlie Chaplin
23. Charles Dicken’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s:
1) Privy Council
2) Court of Appeal
3) Court of Chancery👈
4) Military Courts
24. Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’?
1) Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished
2) The root cause of crime, ambition and political conflict, are eliminated
3) There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being. 👈
4) Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number
(Pure Christianity is propagated by More in Utopia)
25. Which character created by Coleridge makes the following account of her harrowing experience?
“Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
Me, even me, a maid forlorn:
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white”
1) Geraldine 👈
2) Christabel
3) Christabel’s mother
4) The maid who appeared in Christabel’s dream
26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the somber description of Egdon Heath?
1) Jude the Obscure
2) The Return of the Native👈
3) Far from the Madding Crowd
4) Under the Greenwood Tree
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27. The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is:
1) Iambic pentameter
2) Anapestic trimester
4) Trochaic tetrameter
Answer – 3) Octosyllabic couplets
28. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
1) It is given back to its rightful owner
2) It is preserved in a monument
3) It turns into a star👈
4) It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude
See the concluding lines of ‘The Rape of the Lock’
And all those Tresses shall be laid in Dust;
This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to Fame,
And mid'st the Stars inscribe Belinda's Name!
29. The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King.
The above are examples of:
1) Anacoluthon
2) Aposiopesis
4) Antonomasia👈
Answer – 4) Antonomasia – (the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name)
Explanation –
Anacoluthon - a sentence or construction in which the expected grammatical sequence is absent, for example while in the garden, the door banged shut.
Aposiopesis - wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished. For example – School Teachers often seen using aposiopesis device while taking (oral) drill…leave the sentence to be complete by pupils.
Teacher – Shakespeare was born at…..
Pupils – Stratford-upon-Avon
Asyndenton - the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. For example - I came, I saw, I conquered.
30. Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious murders committed in 1843?
1) The Blind Assassin
2) Alias Grace👈
3) Cats Eye
4) Oryx and Crake
31. Which of the following poems by W B Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour of “the artifice of eternity”?
1) “Under Ben Bulben”
2) “Among School Children”
3) “Sailing to Byzantium” 👈
4) “After Long Silence”
The lines are:
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
32. Which of the following characters in Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane as a result?
1) Pip👈
2) Queequeg
3) Starbuck
4) Tashtego
33. Which of the following poems by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet Paul Muldoon?
1) “The Loaning”
2) “The Sandpit”
3) “A Migration”
4) “Widgeon” 👈
34. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which of the following character is put to death?
1) Piggy👈
2) Ralph
3) Simon
4) Jack
35. In ‘The Canterbury Tales’ who has a red face full of sores?
1) The summoner👈
2) The Shipman
3) The Yeoman
4) The Reeve
36. The pace of speech is called:
1) Syllable
2) Loudness
3) Tempo👈
4) Pitch
37. Match the title with the author:
a) Sexual Politics 1) Mary Ellman
b) A Literature of Their Own 2) Elin Showalter
c) Thinking About Women 3) Helene Cixous
d) The Laugh of the Medusa 4) Kate Millet
Code:
a b c d
1) iv iii i ii
2) iv ii i iii👈
3) iii iv i ii
4) iv i ii iii
38. Which of the following historical events does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” describe?
1) The Battle of Hasting
2) The War of Roses
3) The Battle of Waterloo
4) The Crimean War👈
39. Northrop Frye’s influential work, ‘Anatomy of Criticism’ includes, as the subtitle indicates, four essays. Which of the following is NOT one among them?
1) “Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths”
2) “Typological Criticism: Theory of Types” 👈
3) “Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes”
4) “Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols”
The fourth essay is - "Rhetorical Criticism: A Theory of Genres."
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40. Robert Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto”, with which of the following painters does Andrea NOT compare himself with?
1) Michelangelo
2) Leonardo da Vinci
3) Rembrandt👈
4) Raphael
41. In Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gullivers Travels’ Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the famous writer of two voyages, as:
1) Master
2) Brother
3) Cousin👈
4) Uncle
42. Who among the following is NOT a character in ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
1) Mr. Darcy
2) Miss Bingley
3) Miss Bates👈
4) Mr. Collins
Miss Bates appears in Jane Austen’s another novel – Emma.
43. “All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players”,
Occurs in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Which character says the line?
1) Jacques👈
2) Celia
3) Rosalind
4) Touchstone
44. Which of the following rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress”?
1) Thames and Rhine
2) Thames and Ganges
3) Ganges and Humber👈
4) Thames and Humber
The Lines are as follow:
Thou by the Indian Ganges’👈 side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber👈 would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
45. “The truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth”
The above is an example of:
1) Ploce👈
2) Epizeuxis
3) Plurisignation
4) Diaeresis
46. Which of the following images is NOT part of W H Auden’s poem “In Memory of W B Yeats”?
1) Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying day
2) Wolves running though evergreen forests
3) Silence invading the suburbs
4) Memory scattering like the beds👈
See the lines from the poem:
And snow disfigured the public statues;
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. 👈
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
Far from his illness
The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, 👈
The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays;
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
But for him it was his last afternoon as himself,
An afternoon of nurses and rumours;
The provinces of his body revolted,
The squares of his mind were empty,
Silence invaded the suburbs, 👈
The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers.
47. Who among the following is the author of Steps to the Temple?
1) John Donne
2) Richard Crashaw👈
3) George Herbert
4) Henry Vaughan
48. Match the character with the work
a) Jim Dixon i) Room at the Top
b) Jimmy Porter ii) Hurry on Down
c) Joe Lampton iii) Look Back In Anger
d) Charles Lumley iv) Lucky Jim
Code
a b c d
1) iv iii i ii👈
2) iv iii ii i
3) iii iv i ii
4) iii i ii iv
49. In the opening book of ‘The Prelude’ Wordsworth mentions famously that he was “fostered alike by________ and ______”
Pick out the rght pair.
a) Nature
b) Fear👈
c) Imagination
d) Beauty👈
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and c
2) d and b👈
3) d and c
4) a and d
Refer line no. 301 of Prelude:
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear:
Much favoured in my birth-place, and no less
In that beloved Vale to which erelong
We were transplanted;--there were we let loose
For sports of wider range. Ere I had told
Ten birth-days, when among the mountain slopes
Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped
The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy
With store of springes o'er my shoulder hung
50. The title of Ngugi wa Thong’o’s ‘Petals of Blood’ is derived from a poem by Derek Walcott.
1) A Far Cry From Africa
2) The Swamp👈
3) Goats and Monkeys
4) Midsummer
See the lines from Derek Walcott’s ‘The Swamp’:
Fearful, original sinuosities! Each mangrove sapling
Serpent like, its roots obscene
As a six-fingered hand,
Conceals within its clutch the mossbacked toad,
Toadstools, the potent ginger-lily,
Petals of blood, 👈
The speckled vulva of the tiger-orchid;
Outlandish phalloi
Haunting the travellers of its one road.
— Derek Walcott, The Swamp
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SHORT ANSWER KEY
1) 4) b and d (Bristol and London)
2) 2) “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages”
3) 2) b and c (Globe and Swan Theaters)
4) 2) Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
5) 4) Earnest Hemingway
6) 2) Francis Quarles
7) 4) Don Juan
8) 1) Religion of Doctor (1643)
9) 1) Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
10) 1) a and b (Blindness and Insight and Allegories of Reading)
11) 3) Abraham Cowley
12) 2) Litotes
13) 2) William Blake
14) 2) Looloo
15) 2) Cleanth Brooks
16) 4) pastoral eclogue
17) 3) Ben Jonson
18) 3) Judith Wright
19) 1) Surinam
20) 1) Robert Bridges
21) 3) Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
22) 3) Jack Benny
23) 3) Court of Chancery
24) 3) There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being
25) 1) Geraldine
26) 2) The Return of the Native
27) 3) Octosyllabic couplets
28) 3) It turns into a star
29) 4) Antonomasia
30) 2) Alias Grace (1996)
31) 3) “Sailing to Byzantium”
32) 1) Pip
33) 4) Widgeon
34) 1) Piggy
35) 1) The Summoner
36) 3) Tempo
37) 2) iv – ii – i – iii
38) 4) The Crimean War
39) 2) “Typological Criticism: Theory of Types”
40) 3) Rembrandt
41) 3) Cousin
42) 3) Miss Bates
43) 1) Jacques
44) 3) Ganges and Humber
45) 1) Ploce
46) 4) Memory scattering like the beds
47) 2) Richard Crashaw
48) 1) iv – iii – i – ii
49) 2) d and b (Beauty and Fear)
50) 2) The Swamp
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