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1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?

2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)

3. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?

4. Who claimed: “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind”?

5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?

6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of

7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton rock’ which is

8. Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group of poets?

9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?

10. The correct combination according to the code is

Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century?

Code:

I. Eminent Victorians

II. Jungle Book

III. Philistine Victorians

IV. The Way of All Flesh

11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and performs work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?

12. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy ofmarriage shows that she

13. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom?

14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.” The repetition of a phrase is

15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:

16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?

17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle:

18. Who among this group of youngmale characters in Jane Austen’snovels is not sent to the University for Education?

19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of

20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?

21. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.

22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.

23. Which is the correct combination according to the above code?

Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:

I. The Dictionary of the English Language

II. The History of Rasselas

III. The Vanity of Human Wishes

IV. Lives of the English Poets

24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:

I. commedia dell’arte

II. Confessional poetry

III. Agitprop

IV. Picaresque novel

The correct combination is:

Code:

25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?

26. Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy. The other two novels are:

27. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?

28. “Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of

29. The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel?

30. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on _______.

31. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled

32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in

33. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?

34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?

35. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:

36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net?

37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except

38. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called

39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?

40. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster:

41. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to make the Bible available to

42. Literary works such as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form?

43. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley. The poem consists of

44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse figure is

45. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration?

46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic?

47. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by

48. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit combined with delight?

49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as especially prone to

50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as ‘The Sage of High gate’?


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