5th November 2017
MODEL ANSWER KEY
BY ANIL S AWAD
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1. This Byron work revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed lost at sea and she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband’s return. Byron’s technical skills in verse is in display here as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the formal. Identify the work:
1) Manfred
2) Don Juan
3) Beppo👈
4) The Bride of Abydos
Answer – 3) Beppo
_This is the story of Laura and Giuseppe (Beppo) divided into 99 Cantos and colloquial (Use of You & Me) in nature._
2. Who is the author of the poem, “Our Casuarina Tree”?
1) Sarojini Naidu
2) Toru Dutt👈
3) Rabindranath Tagore
4) Kamala Das
Answer – 2) Toru Dutt (1881)
3. In this Jacobean play the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the Jesuits, are checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew crowds to the Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I suppressed the play. Identify the play:
1) The Wonderful Yeare
2) A Game of Chess👈
3) A King and No King
4) The night of the Burning Pestle
Answer – 2) A Game of Chess
4. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ______capitalism.
1) Market
2) Monopoly
3) Imperialist
4) Multinational👈
Answer -4) Multinational
_His famous book - Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)_
_Chapter 2 – “that every position on postmodernism in culture – whether apologia or stigmatisation – is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today.”_
5. Early in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘A Handful of Dust,’ while Tony and his young son, John Andrew walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable manager, Ben about a mule “who had drunk his company’s rum ration” in the First World War and subsequently died. What is the mule named?
1) Peppermint👈
2) Dopey
3) Dynamo
4) Pookey
Answer – 1) Peppermint
6. The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current title in year:
1) 1928
2) 1930
3) 1933👈
4) 1915
Answer – 3) 1933
_In 1928 it was published with the same name ‘The Oxford English Dictionary’ but only 10 volumes. 12 volumes appeared with the same name again in 1933 with one volume-supplementary._
7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many digression across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography. In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth?
2) Volume V
3) Volume VIII
4) Volume IX
Answer – 1) Volume III
8. Miguel de Cervantes’s inimitable Don Quixote, foreshadows metafictional mooring when the novelist,
a) Says that the first chapters of the narrative are recreated from the Archive of La Mancha 👈
b) Says that it is a faithful rendering of a Catalan text in Spanish
c) Says that part of it has been translated from the Arabic by the Moorish author Cide Hamete Benengeli👈
d) Says that he is rewriting the history of a medieval knight altering the heroic vein with a farcical mode
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b
2) b and c
3) a and c👈
4) b and d
Answer – 3) a and c
9. In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature: art is an imitation of life. To argue his case, he gives the example of a:
1) Cloud
2) Chair👈
3) Tree
4) River
Answer – 2) Chair
10. The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit – Geeta marked, in William Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a reliable impression of Indian Literature”. Who was the translator?
1) Charles Wilkins👈
2) H J Colebrooke
3) Rammohan Roy
4) Nathaniel Halhed
Answer – 1) Charles Wilkins
11. One of the plays among the following contains the characters Coll, Gib, Dan and Mak. Identify the play:
1) Everman
2) The Castle of Perseverance
3) The Second Shepherd’s Play👈
4) The Marshals
Answer – 3) The Second Shepherd’s Play
12. Tereza, in Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, troubled by Tomas’s promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and nightmares. Which of the following are the terrible dreams she has?
a) She dreams of cat attacking her👈
b) She dreams of wolves attacking her
c) She dreams that she is dead and buried in a common grave where she lies with the corpses of strangers.
d) She dreams that she is dead, stripped of her clothes and plagued by other naked corpses👈
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and c
2) a and d👈
3) b and c
4) b and d
Answer – 2) a and d
13. The opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality ode”:
“There was a time when deadow, grove, andstream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did sem
Apparelled in celestial light
The glory and freshness of a dream”,
Closely resembles Coleridge’s lines:
“There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies,
The bright green vale, and the forest’s dark recess,
With all things, lay before mine eyes
In steady loveliness”
Identify the Coleridge poem:
1) “Fears In Solitude”
2) “The Mad Monk” 👈
3) “To William Wordsworth”
4) “Dejection: An Ode”
Answer – 2) “The Mad Monk”
14. Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, a rare blend of allegory and fairytale world presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Which of the following is NOT true about the enchanted world that the poem unravels?
1) Laura buys fruits from the goblins in exchange of her “golden lock” of hair and a “tear more rare than pearls”
2) Jeanie, a girl who ate the goblins’ fruits “pined away and “sought them by night and day”
3) Laura, who goes to the market again, does not see the goblins but hears only “their shrill cry piercing the air” 👈
4) Laura’s hair “grew thin and grey” and she wanes like the full moon to “swift decay”
15. In which of these prisons is Defoe’s character, Moll Flanders born?
1) Gatehouse
2) King’s Bench
3) Newgate👈
4) Ludgate
Answer -3) Newgate
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16. In which poem does Judith Wright lament the erasure of native culture in the following lines?
“The song is gone; the dance
Is secret with the dancer in the earth,
The ritual useless and the tribal story
Lost in an alien tale”
1) “The Five Senses”
2) “Legend”
3) Bullocky”
4) “Bora Ring” 👈
Answer – 4) “Bora Ring”
17. Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty. What is it?
1) Emmanuel Goldstein’s confession that he is a party operative; not an enemy of the party
2) O’Brien’s diary entry hinting at the non-existance of Big Brother
3) A photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the country while it was committed👈
4) A colleague’s revelation that the Inner Party member have systematically destroyed all historical documents and created false documents.
18. The Indian Queen is:
1) A heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden👈
2) A long poem in free verse by Keki Daruwalla
3) An autobiography of an Indian princess in exile
4) A fictional account of the Life of Maharani Gayatri Devi
19. In J M Coetzee’s Disgrace David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of one of the Romantic pets. Who is the poet?
1) Blake
2) Shelley
3) Byron👈
4) Coleridge
Answer – 3) Byron
20. Assertion (A) : There is no unity or absolute source of the myth.
Reason (C) : The focus or the source of the myth are always shadows and virtualities which are elusive, unactualizable, and nonexistent in the first place. Any search for the discursive unity in the myth is, therefore, misplaced.
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 explanation of (A)
3) (A) is true but (R) is false
4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
21. Which of the following landscapes of England figures prominently in the poetry of Ted Hughes?
1) Cornish Cliffs
2) Dorset Moors
3) Yorkshire Moors👈
4) Chesil Beach
Answer – 3) Yorkshire Moors
_‘Chesil Beach’ is related to McEwan_
_‘Cornish Cliff’ is a poem by John Betjeman_
22. The title of M C Chagala’s autobiography is:
1) Memoirs of my Working Life
2) Without Fear or Favour
3) Roses in December👈
4) The Pen as My Sword
Answer – 3) Roses in December
23. Who/Which among the following gave the expression, “a leopard cant’ change its spots” to English language?
1) The King James Bible👈
2) Geoffrey Chaucer
3) Shakespeare
4) The Royal Society
Answer – 1) The King James Bible
24. Which of the following is NOT true about Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague?
1) Dr. Rieux describes the phenomenon of dying rats using the metaphors of disease, especially the bubonic plague.
2) Paneloux interprets the plague in his first sermon as a sign of the Apocalypse. 👈
3) M. Michel is the first victim of the plague.
4) Tarrou thinks that the plague symbolizes human indifference
_In his first sermon Paneloux states that the plague is a God-sent punishment for Oran's sins._
25. John Lydgate begins his Siege of Thebes with a prologue of 176 lines in which he imagines himself joining Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury, where he speaks with the Host and agrees to tell the first tale on homeward journey. The story that Lydgate tells the pilgrims depart from Canterbury is meant to be a companion piece to:
1) The Pardoner’s Tale
2) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
3) The Knight’s Tale👈
4) The Miller’s Tale
Answer – 3) The Knight’s Tale
26. Stephen Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition consists of six main hypotheses. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
1) The Input Hypothesis
2) The Affective Filter Hypothesis
3) The Monitor Hypothesis
4) The Writing Hypothesis👈
Answer – 4) The Writing Hypothesis
27. Among Derek Walcott’s plays, which one is an exploration of colonial relationship through the Robinson Crusoe story?
1) Pantomime👈
2) Dram on Monkey Mountain
3) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
4) The Charlatan
Answer – 1) Pantomime
28. ‘Anti-foundationalism’ holds that:
1) Every theory poses different questions and, therefore, what counts as ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ differs in every case. 👈
2) All truth claims can be judged true or false, usually against empirical facts.
3) Casual statements about the relationship between dependent and independent variables can be made.
4) Truth is the foundation of all representational experience.
29. The interaction hypothesis is a theory of second language acquisition which states that the development of language proficiency is promoted by face-to-face interaction and communication. The idea is usually credited to:
1) David Nunan
2) Michael Long👈
3) Alastair Pennycook
4) Claire Kramsch
Answer – 2) Michael Long
30. In Pinter’s Birthday Party Stanley is terrorized by two visitors to a seaside boarding house. Identify the two
a) McGrath
b) Goldberg👈
c) McCann👈
d) Robinson
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b
2) b and c👈
3) a and d
4) b and d
Answer – 2) b and c (Goldberg and MaCann)
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31. Match the phrase to the ode:
a) Beechen green i) Ode on a Grecian Urn
b) Gathering swallows ii) Ode on Melancholy
c) Globed peonies iii) Ode to Nightingale
d) Green altar iv) To Autumn
Code:
a b c d
1) iii ii iv i
2) iv ii iii i
3) iv iii ii i
4) iii iv ii i👈
32. Which 19th Century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of Indians following the 1857 Mutiny in India?
1) W. M. Thackeray
2) Charles Dickens👈
3) George Eliot
4) Anthony Trollope
Answer – 2) Charles Dickens
33. The second part of Pilgrim’s Progress deals with the pilgrimage of Christian’s wife, Christiana. She has a companion and a guide in this journey. Pick out the pair’s names from the following list.
a) Patience
b) Tenderheart
c) Mercy👈
d) Greatheart👈
The right combination according to the code is:
1) c and d
2) b and c
3) a and d
4) b and d
Answer – 1) c and d
34. In which play by Eugene Ionesco do you find the grotesque image of the leg of a corpse thrusting onto the stage, and which begins to grow larger as the play progresses in menacing manner?
1) The Bald Soprano
2) Amede or How to Get Rid of It👈
3) Exit the King
4) The Lesson
Answer – 2) Amede or How to Get Rid of It
35. Which of the following characters finds that complete happiness is elusive and that “while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live”?
1) Lovelace in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
2) Rasselas in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas👈
3) Mathew Bramble in Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
4) Harley in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
36. Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:
2) A Christmas Carol – In Memoriam – Men and Women – Henry Esmond
4) In Memoriam – A Christmas Carol – Henry Esmond – Men and Women
_Publication Dates –_
A Christmas Carol (1843)
In Memoriam (1850)
Henry Esmond (1852)
Men and Women (1855)
37. Which one of Alice Munro’s short stories is about the domestic erosions of Alzheimer’s disease?
1) Dear Life
2) Runaway
3) The Bear Came Over the Mountain👈
4) Dance of the Happy Shades
Answer – 3) The Bear Came Over the Mountain
38. What work begins thus: “It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war againt him long time”?
1) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
3) Confessio Amantis
4) Piers Plowman
Answer – 2) Le Morte D’arthur
39. ________ is the subject of Asif Currimbhoy’s play, Inquilab.
1) The Naxalite Movement👈
2) The Freedom Movement
3) The on-Cooperation Movement
4) The Khilafat Movement
Answer – 1) The Naxalite Movement
40. Tom Stoppard’s play ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’, being metatheatrical, lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance. In referring to Hamlet’s end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking curtains one of the characters of Stoppard’s play says: “No one gets up after death – there is no applause – there is only silence and some second hand clothes, and that’s death” – Who makes this statement?
1) Rosencrantz
2) Guildenstern👈
3) The Player
4) Hamlet
Answer – 2) Guildenstern
41. Who among the following, has translated the classic Malayalam novel, Chemmen?
1) A K Ramanujan
2) Anita Nair👈
3) Nandini Nopany
4) Gita Krishnankutty
Answer – 2) Anita Nair
42. Which Victorian poet is the author of the following lines?
“God himself is the best Poet,
And the Real is His song.”
1) Lord Tennyson
2) Robert Browning
3) Mathew Arnold
4) Elizabeth Barrett Browning👈
Answer – 4) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
43. “You are your words. Your listeners see
Written on your face the poems they hear
Like letters carved in a tree’s bark
The sight and sounds of solitudes endured”
These are lines from a poem by ______ on the death of _____.
1) T S Eliot; Robert Frost
2) Siegfried Sasson; Wilfred Own
3) Stephen Spender; W H Auden👈
4) Dylan Thomas; Robert Bridges
Answer – 3) Stephen Spender; W H Auden
44. Allen Ginsber’s “Howl’ a key work of the beat Movement, was dedicated to_____
1) Lucien Carr
3) Herbert Huncke
4) Jack Kerouac
Answer – 2) Carl Solomon
45. In his views on the death of Cordelia in King Lear, which is the ground NOT specifically cited by Samuel Johnson?
1) It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice
3) It is contrary to the hope of the reader
4) It is contrary to the faith of chronicles
Extract from Samuel Johnson’s Notes on Shakespeare – Vol. VIII – Tragedies
_But though this moral be incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a just cause, contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles. Yet this conduct is justified by The Spectator, who blames Tate for giving Cordelia success and happiness in his alteration, and declares, that, in his opinion, the tragedy has lost half its beauty._
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46. Which of the following plays by David Hare is NOT part of a trilogy of ‘state of the nation’ plays?
1) The Absence of War
2) Racing Demon
3) The Power of Yes👈
4) Murmuring Judges
Answer – 3) The Power of Yes
47. Chimamanda Adichie’s last novel, Americanah (2013) centers on the romantic and existential struggles of a young Nigerian woman studying in the Unites States and finding success as a blogger. What is her blogging about?
1) Poverty
2) Development
3) Race👈
4) Religion
Answer – 3) Race
48. Why does Father Dolan punish Stephen with the pandybat in Joyce’s ‘Portrait of the Artist as a young Man?
1) Stephen is talking to another student to get the answer to a Latin problem.
3) Stephen is looking out of the window towards the infirmary.
4) Stephen is lost in remembering his mother’s farewell and cannot hear Father Dolan calling out his name
49. Using a non-liner narrative, this American novel explores the psychic damage to a veteran of World War II and shows how a measure of healing is attained through his acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Identify the work:
1) Dred
2) Beloved
3) Ceremony👈
4) End Zone
Answer - 3) Ceremony
50. What illusion does Lyuba Ranevsky in Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard have as she looks at the orchard?
1) She sees it gleaming with a bluish aura
3) She sees it full of ripe fruits without a trace of leaves
4) She sees her childhood friends playing in the orchard.
51. From which source did Swift get the idea of writing “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”?
2) After a reading of a maxim by la Rochefoucauld👈
3) While taking a walk near Dublin’s St. James’s graveyard
4) After reading Richard Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
Swift states -
_This I say, because you are so hardy as to tell me of your intentions to write maxims in opposition to Rochefoucauld, who is my favourite, because I found my whole character in him. However I will read him again, because I may have since undergone some alterations._
52. Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest.
a) Mutton👈
b) Pork👈
c) Sheep
d) Swine
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and b👈
2) a and c
3) b and d
4) c and d
Answer – 1) a and b (Mutton and Pork)
_The animals in the field generally kept their English names (e.g. sheep, cow, ox, calf, swine, deer), once cooked and served their names often became French (e.g. beef, mutton, pork, bacon, veal, venison, etc). Now they are the part of English Vocabulary._
53. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus?
1) Cassandra, cursed by Apollo predicts the death of Agamemmon, thou her prophecy is ignored.
3) Orestes, who has come back with the intention of murdering Clytemnestra unexpectedly meets her, and pretending to be a stranger, tells her that Orestes is dead
4) Orestes, pursued by the furies, flees from them when they fall asleep. Then, Clytemnestra’s ghost appears to wake them up.
_Agamemnon’s father (Atreus) was responsible for the killing of Aegisthus’s father (Thyestes). It was the main cause of rivalry between Agamemnon and Aegisthus._
54. The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting nuances of a boy actor dressing a boy while playing the role of a woman in the dramatic world of Shakespeare occurs in____
1) The Two Gentlemen of Verona👈
3) Twelfth Night
4) A Midsummer Night’s Dread
Answer - 1) Two Gentlemen of Verona
55. For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us is related to the category of:
2) Secondary Imagination
3) Fancy
4) Intuition
Answer - 1) Primary imagination
56. After independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was accorded the status of an:
1) Additional language👈
2) Ancillary language
3) Associate language
4) Administrative language
Answer - 1) Additional language
Nehru clearly stated:
_... for an indefinite period- I do not know how long – I would have English as an associate, additional language which can be used for official purposes. I would have it so not mainly because of the existing facilities, but because I do not wish the people of the non-Hindi areas to feel that certain advantages are denied to them, being forced to correspond in the Hindi language. They can correspond in English. I would have English as an alternate language as long as the people require it and I would leave the decision not to the Hindi-knowing people, but to the non-Hindiknowing people._
57. Which English journal announced that it was “principally intended for the use of politick Persons who are so publick – spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to look into Transactions of State” but failed to live up to this and amused readers with “accounts of Gallantry, Pleasure and Entertainment”?
1) The Spectator
2) The Tatler👈
3) The Daily Courant
4) The Review
Answer – 2) The Tatler
58. The grammar-translation method of language teaching does NOT include:
1) Focus on grammar rules
2) Vocabulary memorization
4) Focus on written language
Answer - 3) Inductive teaching
59. Who is the narrator in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve?
1) Premala
2) Saroja
3) Rukmani👈
4) Mira
Answer – 3) Rukmani
60. How would a New Historicist critic interpret Derrida’s statement, “there is nothing outside the text”?
1) Historicist critics should restrict their attention to a culture’s literary productions, all other data is irrelevant to the critic’s task
2) Language conditions the way we see the world, and there is no reality beyond the ‘prison house’ of language
3) There is no meaning outside of textual meaning (contrary to the mimeticist’s position)
4) “literature” encompasses all cultural artifacts and all the values, power relations, and ways of seeing reflected in those artifacts; there is nothing outside of the ‘text” broadly conceived👈
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61. Pick out two Austen heroines from the following list who are right-minded but neglected in the beginning but gradually are acknowledged to be corrected by characters who have previously looked down on them.
a) Elizabeth Bennet
b) Fanny Price👈
c) Emma Woodhouse
d) Anne Elliot👈
The right combination according to the code is:
1) a and c
3) c and d
4) a and d
Answer - 2) b and d
62. The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not share a first language is called:
1) English for specific purposes
2) English for basic purposes
4) English as a language tool
Answer - 3) English as lingua Franca
_For Example – A Pujabi speaking to a Tamil in English to communicate_
63. Identify the story for which E M Forster wrote the libretto for its opera version:
1) Heart of Darkness
2) The Man Who Would Be the King
3) Billy Budd👈
4) Death in Venice
Answer – 3) Billy Budd
64. Who, among the following Prem Chand translator has NOT translated Godan?
1) Jai Ratan
2) P. Lal
3) Gordon C Roadarmel
4) Christopher R King👈
Answer - 4) Christopher R King
65. “When Fred got into debt, it always seemed to him highly probable that something or other – he did not necessarily conceive what – would come to pass enabling him to pay in due time” Why is Fred Vincy in debt in Middlemarch?
1) He takes out a large loan to enable him to woo Mary Garth
3) He is paying off a blackmailer
4) He runs a charity that has got into trouble.
Answer - 2) He is an inveterate gambler
66. William Blake has a rare plan to provide telling images in arresting phrases. Match the phrases with the poems they belong to:
a) “mind forg’d manacles” i) The Tyger
b) “eternal winter” ii) The Sick Rose
c) “Fearful symmetry” iii) London
d) “crimson joy” iv) Holy Thursday
Code:
a b c d
1) ii iv i iii
2) iii i iv ii
3) iii iv i ii👈
4) iv i ii iii
Answer – 3) iii – iv – i – ii
67. In the debate between the two birds in the Middle English poem ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’ who acts as the arbiter?
1) Master Henry of Shrewsbury
2) Master William of Hereford
3) Master Freeman of Stamford
Answer - 4) Master Nicholas of Guildford
68. In the first scene in which Goethe’s Faust appears he is dejected by the study of Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Theology, turns to Magic art to acquire infinite knowledge. But he fails and in desperation attempts to commit suicide, but refrains at the final moment. What prevents Faust from coming suicide?
1) The intervention of archangel Gabriel
2) His attendant Wagner persuades him to revoke decision
4) Mephistopheles appears and offers to initiate him into magic art
69. Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul…weight of my sins…my sense of unworthiness”?
1) Under Western Eyes
2) The Shadow Line👈
3) Victory
4) The Rescue
Answer - 2) The Shadow Line (Chapter – V)
70. “Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us in love”
Identify the poem by Philip Larkin that ends with the above lines:
1) This Be the Verse
3) High Windows
4) Next, Please
Answer - 2) An Arundel Tomb
71. In the epilogue to Congreve’s Way of the World there is a warning:
Others there are whose malice we'd prevent:
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant:
And though no perfect likeness they can trace,
Yet each pretends to know the copied face.
These, with false glosses, feed their own ill-nature,
And turn to libel what was meant a satire.
1) Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious
3) Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews, lest they be charged with libel
4) Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character
72. Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617?
1) “Death, be not proud”
2) “Thou hast made me”
4) “At the round earth’s imagined corners”
Answer - 3) “Holy Sonnet 17”
_The sonnet No. 17 - Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt_
All those times I was bored
out of my mind. Holding the log
while he sawed it. Holding
the string while he measured, boards,
distances between things, or pounded
stakes into the ground for rows and rows
of lettuces and beets, which I then (bored)
weeded. Or sat in the back
of the car, or sat still in boats,
sat, sat, while at the prow, stern, wheel
he drove, steered, paddled. It
wasn't even boredom, it was looking,
looking hard and up close at the small
details. Myopia. The worn gunwales,
the intricate twill of the seat
cover. The acid crumbs of loam, the granular
pink rock, its igneous veins, the sea-fans
of dry moss, the blackish and then the graying
bristles on the back of his neck.
Sometimes he would whistle, sometimes
I would. The boring rhythm of doing
things over and over, carrying
the wood, drying
the dishes. Such minutiae. It's what
the animals spend most of their time at,
ferrying the sand, grain by grain, from their tunnels,
shuffling the leaves in their burrows. He pointed
such things out, and I would look
at the whorled texture of his square finger, earth under
the nail. Why do I remember it as sunnier
all the time then, although it more often
rained, and more birdsong?
I could hardly wait to get
the hell out of there to
anywhere else. Perhaps though
boredom is happier. It is for dogs or
groundhogs. Now I wouldn't be bored.
Now I would know too much.
Now I would know.
73. “All those times” – the opening words of the poem locate the speaker in:
1) a city suburb
2) a mountain resort
3) a natural environment👈
4) a highway motel
Answer – 3) a natural environment
74. Which pair of words best describes the repetitive tenor of the speaker’s unpretentious yet oppressive life?
a) Details
b) The car👈
c) The wood👈
d) The minutae
The right combination according to the codes is:
1) a and b
2) a and d
3) b and c👈
4) c and d
Answer – 3) b and c
75. Which of the following approximates closely a thematic statement of the poem?
1) Dogs or groundhogs lead a better life than men or women
2) Irrespective of the place, the boring rhythm of doing things over and over in human life cannot be escaped
3) Myopia is the result if you live life in the lap of nature
4) Knowledge cures existential boredom👈
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PAPER – III – SHORT ANSWER KEY
1) 3) Beppo
2) 2) Toru Dutt (1881)
3) 2) A Game of Chess
4) 4) Multinational
5) 1) Peppermint
6) 3) 1933
7) Volume III
8) 3) a and c
9) 2) Chair
10) 1) Charles Wilkins
11) 3) The Second Shepherd’s Play
12) 2) a and d
13) 2) “The Mad Monk”
14) 3) Laura, who goes to the market again, does not see the goblins but hears only “their shrill cry piercing the air” (she could see their appearance)
15) 3) Newgate
16) 4) “Bora Ring”
17) 3) A photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the country while it was committed.
18) 1) A heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden
19) 3) Byron
20) 1) Both (A) and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
21) 3) Yorkshire Moors
22) 3) Roses in December
23) 1) The King James Bible
24) 2) Paneloux interprets the plague in his first sermon as a sign of the Apocalypse.
25) 3) The Knight’s Tale
26) 4) The Writing Hypothesis
27) 1) Pantomime
28) 1) Every theory poses different questions and, therefore, what counts as ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ differs in every case
29) 2) Michael Long
30) 2) b and c (Goldberg and MaCann)
31) 4) iii – iv – ii – i
32) 2) Charles Dickens
33) 1) c and d
34) 2) Amede or How to Get Rid of It
35) 2) Rasselas in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas
36) 3) A Christmas Carol – In Memoriam – Henry Esmond – Men and Women
37) 3) The Bear Came Over the Mountain
38) 2) Le Morte D’arthur
39) 1) The Naxalite Movement
40) 2) Guildenstern
41) 2) Anita Nair
42) 4) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
43) 3) Stephen Spender; W H Auden
44) 2) Carl Solomon
45) 2) It is contrary to nonplatonic idea of decorum
46) 3) The Power of Yes
47) 3) Race
48) 2) Stephen is not doing his work because his glasses are broken
49) 3) Ceremony
50) 2) She sees her dead mother walking through the orchard
51) 2) After a reading of a maxim by la Rochefoucauld
52) 1) a and b (Mutton and Pork)
53) 2) Aegisthus’s vengeful feelings for Agamemnon results from their rivalry for the hand of Clytemnestra
54) 1) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
55) 1) Primary imagination
56) 1) Additional language
57) 2) The Tatler
58) 3) Inductive teaching
59) 3) Rukmani
60) 1) “literature” encompasses all cultural artifacts and all the values, power relations, and ways of seeing reflected in those artifacts; there is nothing outside of the ‘text” broadly conceived.
61) 2) b and d
62) 3) English as lingua Franca
63) 3) Billy Budd
64) 4) Christopher R King
65) 2) He is an inveterate gambler
66) 3) iii – iv – i – ii
67) 4) Master Nicholas of Guildford
68) 3)The chiming of the bells announcing Easter festivities
69) 2) The Shadow Line (Chapter – V)
70) 2) An Arundel Tomb
71) 2) Critics should not look for portrait of real people in the play’s characters and remember that the play is a social satire
72) 3) “Holy Sonnet 17”
73) 3) a natural environment
74) 3) b and c
75) 1) Knowledge cures existential boredom
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