PAPER III ENGLISH

Note : Attempt all the questions. Each question carries two (2) marks. 1. The starting point of English literature is from (A) Chaucer (B) King Alfred (C) Beowulf (D) Shakespeare 2. What is the year of Norman Conquest? (A) 1056 (B) 1066 (C) 1076 (D) 1086 3. Who were the Lollards? (A) Low country people (B) Early English Writers (C) Anglos (D) The followers of the religious reformer, John Wycliff 4. Who wrote Piers Plowman? (A) William Langland (B) Geoffrey Chaucer (C) John Wycliff (D) John Gower 5. Which of the following character does not appear in Canterbury Tales? (A) The Knight (B) The Wife of Bath (C) Ganymede (D) The Doctor of physic 6. Lord Randal is a famous (A) Lyric (B) Allegory (C) Ballad (D) Epic 7. In which year was Principia published (A) 1680 (B) 1681 (C) 1687 (D) 1666 8. George Herbert was educated at (A) Oxford (B) Cambridge (C) Harvard (D) None of the above 9. Which poet helped Milton in writing when he became blind (A) Andrew Marvell (B) Henry Vaughar (C) John Donne (D) None of the above 3

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Queen Anne succeeded to the throne in (A) 1702 (B) 1704 (C) 1706 (D) 1708 The Shoemakers Holiday is a (A) masque (B) mock epic (C) burlesque (D) tragedy Who coined the term metaphysical poets in English? (A) Dr. Samuel Johnson (B) Prof. Grierson (C) A.C. Bradley (D) T.S. Eliot How do Cavalier poets differ from Elizabethan poets? (A) Cavalier poets are less dependent on music (B) The Verses of the Cavalier poets are more sonorous (C) The Cavalier poets language is not as effective as that of the Elizabethan poets (D) The Verses of Elizabethan poets contain more number of literary devices than those of the Cavalier poets The Rape of the Lock is (A) an epic (B) a long narrative poem (C) a mock epic (D) a lyric How many verse dramas did Milton write? (A) one (B) two (C) five (D) seven Who said, If Pope be not a poet, where poetry to be found? (A) John Dryden (B) S.T. Coleridge (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson Hudibras is a scathing criticism of (A) The Puritans (B) The Presbyterians and Independents (C) The Calvinists (D) The Orthodox Church In which novel does Mr. Allworthy appear? (A) Pilgrims Progress (B) Pamela (C) Guy Mannering (D) Tom Jones Who wrote Moll Flanders? (A) John Bunyan (B) Daniel Defoe 4

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(C) Oliver Goldsmith (D) Henry Fielding Satire or sense, alas can sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel The above lines have been written by (A) John Dryden (B) Abraham Cowley (C) Alexander Pope (D) John Milton When was The Lyrical Ballads published? (A) 1798 (B) 1799 (C) 1810 (D) 1812 What is the title of the incomplete drama of John Keats? (A) Cenci (B) Aureng zebe (C) Otho (D) Antonios Revenge Laodamia is a poem written by (A) Samuel T. Coleridge (B) William Blake (C) Byron (D) William Wordsworth Who wrote My Love is like a red, red rose? (A) Byron (B) John Keats (C) William Blake (D) Robert Burns Pride and Prejudice is considered a (A) Historical Novel (B) Satirical Novel (C) Domestic Novel (D) Novel of Manners Who wrote On Heroes and Hero Worship? (A) John Ruskin (B) Thomas Carlyle (C) Mathew Arnold (D) Robert Browning John Stuart Mill became editor of London Review in (A) 1804 (B) 1814 (C) 1824 (D) 1834 Robert Brownings narrators in many of his dramatic monologues are (A) musicians (B) artists (C) sculptors (D) soldiers What is the name of the metre used by G.M. Hopkins in The Wreck of the Deutschland? 5

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(A) Heroic Couplet (B) Blank Verse (C) Sprung Rhythm (D) None In which novel does Michael Henchard appear? (A) Little Dorrit (B) Vanity fair (C) The Mayor of Casterbridge (D) Shirley Who wrote The Portrait of a Lady? (A) Oscar Wilde (B) W. M. Thackeray (C) Charlotte Bronte (D) Henry James When was T.S. Eliots The Wasteland published? (A) 1922 (B) 1926 (C) 1928 (D) 1931 What was the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Leslie Stephen? (A) Husband and Wife (B) Man and his niece (C) Author and publisher (D) Father and daughter Rudyard Kipling was born in (A) London (B) New York (C) Bombay (D) Liverpool In which work does the line The river sweats oil and tar appear? (A) The Cocktail Party (B) The Waste Land (C) Murder in the Cathedral (D) Family Reunion Who is considered an exponent of Imagism? (A) T.S. Eliot (B) Virginia Woolf (C) James Joyce (D) Ezra Pound Who said Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (A) Lord Acton (B) William Shakespeare (C) D.H. Lawrence (D) Rudyard Kipling Which of the following works has been written by E.M. Forster? (A) The Longest Journey (B) A Room with a View (C) A Passage to India (D) Women in Love 6

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The autobiography of Jean Genet is called (A) The Thiefs Journal (B) A Hall of Mirrors (C) Saint Genet (D) The Lesson G.M. Hopkins was born in (A) 1860 (B) 1865 (C) 1844 (D) 1861 Platos Ion was written in the (A) Second century (B) Third century (C) Fourth century (D) Fifth century What are the proper emotions for a plot in a tragedy? (A) Pity and fear (B) Fear and horror (C) Tragic pleasure (D) Disaster appreciated the universal appeal of William Shakespeare (A) Sir Philip Sidney (B) Ben Jonson (C) John Dryden (D) Alexander Pope T.S. Eliot first used Objective Correlative in (A) Metaphysical Poets (B) Tradition and Individual Talent (C) On Poetry and Poets (D) Essay on Hamlet P.B. Shelley was called a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain by (A) Matthew Arnold (B) I.A. Richards (C) T.S. Eliot (D) W.B. Yeats According to Aristotle virtue stood for (A) excellence (B) goodness (C) performance of good deeds (D) moral mobility and performance of good deeds An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney is an epitome of (A) Classical Criticism (B) Renaissance Criticism (C) Romantic Criticism (D) Modern Criticism Vowels of changing quality are called (A) consonants (B) monothongs 7

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(C) dipthongs (D) tripthongs Choose the key word which represents voiceless bilabial plosive (A) pin (B) bin (C) tin (D) king Expand TESP (A) Teaching English for Second Purpose (B) Teaching English for Stress and Pronunciation (C) Testing English for Special Purpose (D) Teaching English for Specific Purposes is a neoromantic critic (A) Herbert Read (B) Marcel Proust (C) W.B. Yeats (D) Roman Jakobson Le Deuxieme Sexe was translated as (A) The First Sex (B) The Second Sex (C) The Neutral Sex (D) The Primary Sex In The Opposing Self Lionel Trilling highlights (A) the basic problem of life and art (B) the need for understanding human sexuality (C) the fundamental issues of life and art, the problem of self (D) the path of being ones self Jurgen Habermas is a philosopher (A) French (B) American (C) British (D) German Logocentrism is used by (A) Jacques Derrida (B) Jacques Lacan (C) Julia Kristeva (D) Louis Althusser In Virgils Aenid Aeneas is the son of (A) Goddess Venus (B) Zeus (C) Mercury (D) Neptune Polyphemus appears in (A) Illiad (B) Odyssey (C) Divine Comedy (D) Paradise Lost In Sophocles Antigone succeeds Oedipus as the king of Thebes (A) Polynices 8

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(B) Eteocles (C) Ismene (D) Creon Leo Tolstoy was born in (A) 17th Century (B) 18th Century (C) 19th Century (D) 20th Century The Prince was written by Niccolo Machiavelli in (A) English (B) Greek (C) French (D) Italian The French Novel Le Journal de Mademeisalled Arvers has been written by (A) Toru Dutt (B) Sarojini Naidu (C) Subramania Bharati (D) None of the above was first written in English and later translated into Bengali (A) Urvashi (B) The Child (C) The Gardener (D) Superior No, not only prophets/walk on water.... The lines are from A.K. Ramanujans (A) Obituary (B) Breaded Fish (C) The Striders (D) A Plant Amitav Ghosh takes up the issue of Malaria in (A) The Circle of Reason (B) The Countdown (C) The Shadow Lines (D) The Calcutta Chromosome teaches English in R.K. Narayans The English Teacher (A) Margayya (B) Krishnan (C) Raman (D) Jagan Henry Thoreau lived as a hermit and wrote a classic named (A) Walden (B) Concord (C) The Scarlet Letter (D) Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Which literary novel inspired Abraham Lincoln to become American President? (A) Moby Dick (B) Uncle Toms Cabin (C) Aunt Philliss Cabin (D) Walden The length of Idanare by Wole Soyinka is an epic with lines 9

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(A) 480 (B) 1000 (C) 535 (D) 435 Who wrote The Pleasures of the Exile (A) V.S. Naipaul (B) Shiva Naipaul (C) William Walsh (D) George Lamming Most popular novel of Taslima Nasrin is (A) Shame (B) Disgrace (C) Jwala (D) Lagja The notion of hybridity is central to s work (A) Homi K. Bhabha (B) Henry Louis Gates (C) Monroe C. Beardsley (D) Georges Bataille has significantly made use of the terms sign, signifier and signified (A) Roland Barthes (B) Ferdinand de Saussure (C) Lucien Goldmann (D) Pierre Macherey Helene Cixous wrote (A) Metamorphoses (B) Tendencies (C) The Laugh of the Medusa (D) Touching feeling initiated New Historicism (A) Stanley fish (B) Raymond Williams (C) Wolfgang Iser (D) Stephen Greenblatt The term Subaltern was first used by the Italian Marxist (A) Stuart Hall (B) Antonia Gramsci (C) Dick Hebdige (D) John Fiske

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