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Subject Code: BJ 0030

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Credits: 4 Marks: 140
Part A (One mark questions)

1. Short story is a brief work in written in __________.
A. Verse
B. Prose
C. Ode form
D. Sonnet form


2. Who is referred to as the Prince of English essays?
A. Chesterton
B. Robert Lynd
C. Stevenson
D. Charles Lamb

3. The best examples of parables are found in ____
A. Greek Literature
B. The Bible
C. Chaucer
D. Panchatantra


4. _____ is the character who is in contradiction to the main character of the story.
Antagonist
Protagonist
Narrator
Story teller


5. Name the detective who solves murder mysteries in the crime stories fo Edgar Allan Poe
A. Dr Watson
B. Sherlock Holmes
C. Chevalier C Auguste Dupin
D. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




6. ______ is a short narrative in prose of unknown authorship, which has been transmitted
orally.
A. Folktales
B. Fable
C. Gothic Story
D. Speculative Fiction


7. What is the logical ordering of events in a story called?
A. Setting
B. Plot
C. Characterisation
D. Theme

8. Raja Rao was greatly influenced by ______
A. Gorky
B. Gandhiji
C. Swami Vivekananda
D. R. K. Narayan

9_____ could turn into a flowering tree
A. Mother
B. Elder sister
C. Younger sister
D. Sister-in-law

10. Who wrote the short story, Twice Told Tales?
A. Anton Chekov
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. R.K. Narayan
D. Nathanial Hawthorne


11. Who helped the girl when she was in the gutter in a helpless situation?
A. The King
B. The prince
C. The elder sister
D. The cart driver

12. What does the flowering tree symbolise?
A woman
A prince
Environment
Forest


13.The Jungle Book is a collection of _____ stories
A. British
B. Animal
C. Hunting
D. Indian

14. Which was the major theme for Somerset Maugham?
A. Sex
B. India and Indian life
C. Sanyasis
D. Politics

15. O'Henry's aunt, _________ nurtured his love for painting and literature
A. Elia
B. Evalina Maria Porter
C. Martha Meacham
D. Della

16. Which western wrirer influenced the Indian short story the most?
A. H H Munro
B. Maupassant
C. G.K. Chesterfield
D. Maugham

17. In the story 'Akkayya,' the character of Akkayya is a _____
A. Widow
B. Freedom fighter
C. Bania
D. Beggar
A

18. Name the utopian novel written by Bacon
A. Brave New World
B. The New Atlantis
C. 1984
D. Utopia


19. Which vernacular language influenced Rao's English?
A. French
B. Tamil
D. Hindi
D. Kannada



20. ______ means a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
A. Irony
B. Pathos
C. Humour
D. Thrill

21. O'Henry is referred to as the masters of _____ending.
A. Surprise
B. Tragic
C. Moral
D. Happy

22. Identify the example for an Indian Fable
A. Brihatkatha
B. By Way of Preface
C. Swami and His Friends
D. Jataka Tales


23. Most of the stories of O'Henry are set in ____
A. India
B. London
C. Russia
D. America


24. Where would Rosemary go when she wanted to shop?
A. Bond Street
B. Paris
C. Curzon Street
D. Regent Street


25. What did the poor lady request Rosemary one rainy afternoon?
A. Price for a cup of tea
B. A cup of tea
C. A lift in her car
D. An umbrella








26. Which is the right mental attitude suggested by Chesterton in his essay, 'On Running after
One's Hat'?
A. Negative
B. Argumentative
C. Aggressive
D. Positive

27. The theme and content of a fabliau is _____.
A. Religious
B. Moral
C. Vulgar
D. Social

28. What does the grammatical incorrect usage of English by Miss Smith suggest?
A. She was not sent to school
B. She learnt in vernacular medium school
C. She did not like using grammatically correct English
D. Her low social position


29. Bacon called his essays _______
A. Economic essays
B. Social Criticism
C. Political Farce
D. Social Analysis

30. What is the theme of the essay, 'Reflections in Westminster Abbey'?
A. Death
B. Studies
C. Fashion
D. Travel

31. Who retold the Ramayana in Hindi?
A. Kamala Sathianadan
B. Raghavanka
C. Gunabhadra
D. Tulsidas


32. The periodical published by Sir Richard Steele was ___________
A. The Rambler
B. The Tatler
C. The Spectator
D. The Examiner


33. Colonel Pickett was good at ________
A. Public speaking
B. Embroidery
C. Singing
D. Horse Riding

34. Periodical Essays were also called _____
A. Social Essays
B. Essays of Virtue
C. Critical Essays
D. Autobiographical Essays

35. The short moral stories in Bible is called ____
A. Hymns
B. Verses
C. Parables
D. Sermons


36. Who co-authored Tales from Shakespeare, along with Charles Lamb?
A. Chesterton
B. Bacon
C. Addison
D. Mary Lamb

37. Who among the following belongs to he modern Age?
A. Gardiner
B. Goldsmith
C. Bacon
D. William Hazlitt

38. What does Bacon compare books to?
A. Travel
B. Food
C. Wise men
D. Clothes

39. In his essay Reflections in Westminster Abbey, Addison says that upon going into the
church he entertained himself with _____ .
A. kneeling down to pray
B. talking to the priest
C. walking amidst the graves
D. digging of a grave


40. Foster's 'My Wood' deals with the theme of ___
A. Greed
B. Forgiveness
C. Forests
D. Furniture













































Part B (Two mark questions)
41. Identify the two types of stories
A. Story of plot and story of setting
B. Story of narration and story of conversation
C. Story of characterisation and story of appeal
D. Story of incident and story of character


42. i) In which fictitious town do the stories of Narayan take place?
ii) Mention the most important limitation of Nayaran.
A. i) Nalanada ii) lack of child characters
B. i) Malgudi ii) lack of women characters
C. i) Kannarpadi ii) lack of rural settings
D. i) Chennuru ii) lack of men characters


43. Give two examples of detectives in crime stories
A. Frankenstein and Horace Walpole
B. Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown
C. Professor Douglas and Dr. Watson
D. Chevalier Auguste C Dupin and Edgar Allan Poe


44. i) The story, 'A Flowering Tree' is from ________ state.
ii) It is taken from the collection, Folk Tales From India written by ___________.
A. i) Tamil Nadu ii) R. K. Narayan
B. i) West Bengal ii) Rabindranath Tagore
C. i) Maharashtra ii) Masti Venkatesh Iyengar
D. i) Karnataka ii) A.K. Ramanujan


45. The main themes of the story 'The Gift of Magi' are _______ and ________
A. Poverty and suffering
B. Love and sacrifice
C. Education and upbringing
D. Village life and Economy

46. _______ and ______ are the stories written by Katherine Mansfield
A. The Casuarina Tree and The British Agent
B. Life's Handicap and Soldiers Three
C.The Story Teller and Tobermory
D.An Ideal Family and A Doll's House


47. Which are the main types of characters in a story?
A. Stable and flat
B. Changing and Round
C. Static and Rigid
D. Flat and round


48. The main puroose of the ________ and _______ was to teach morals
A. Panchatantra and Jataka Tales
B. Lion King and The Jungle Book
C. Ramayana and Mahabharatha
D. Kathasarithsagara and Brihatkatha


49. What were the major themes of Katherine Mansfield's stories?
A. Related to women's lives and social hierarchies
B. Love and sacrifice
C. Rural life and love of animals
D. Caste system and freedom movement


50. Say whether the following are True (T) or False (F)
i) The word 'essay' means to write.
ii) Essays are usually very long
A. i-T; ii-T
B. i-F; ii-F
C. i-T; ii-F
D. i-F; ii-T


51. Identify FALSE statements with reference to Addisons essay, Reflections of Westminster
Abbey
i) The theme of the essay is the human existence
ii) The tone of the essay is melancholic and serious
iii) According to Addison, humans can never be equal, let alone contemporaries
iv) The usage of pronouns in the essay show the personal touch of Addison
A. ii and iv are false
B. i and iii are false
C. i and iv are false
D. ii and iii are false







52. According to Charles Lamb, if ____ and ____ say grace before eating, it is beautiful and
graceful
A. clergymen and city chaplain
B. Poor and children
C. Satan and Profet Elijah
D. Quakers and gluttons


53. Fill in the blanks
i) Goldsmith deals with the theme of _____ in his essay about the emperor Nangfu.
ii) E.M. Foster deals with the theme of _________ in his essay My Wood .
A. i- anger; ii - health
B. i- forgiveness; ii- greed
C. i- obedience; ii- jealousy
D. i- punctuality; ii- dishonesty

54. Identify the TRUE statements
i) In Spectator, we find consummate painting of contemporary life
ii) Addison paid attention to the interests of the fairer sex
iii) Addison liked the extravaganza of wives
A. Only i and ii are true
B. Only i and iii are true
C. Only ii and iii are true
D. All i, ii and iii are false

55. The well-known tales from Jainism are ____ and ____.
A. Ramayana and Mahabharatha
B. Bhagavata and Brahmanda
C. Upanishad and Purana
D. Padmapurana and Mahapurana


56. Say whether the following are true (T) or false (F)
i) The incidents that the short story writer wants to narrate and the way he arranges is
called plot
ii) The particular place where the incident in a short story takes place is called geography
A. i) T ii) F*
B. i) F ii) T
C. i) T ii) T
D. i) F ii) T


57. Mulk Raj Anands stories are modeled on ____ and _____.
A. Ramayana and Mahabharatha
B. Indian Folk Tales and Fables


C. Fairy Tales and Epics
D. All the above


58. In the story, The Gift of Magi, which among the following are the possessions of the
Youngs in which they both took a great pride?
i) Jims flat ii) Jims gold watch iii) Dellas couch iv) Dellas brown jacket
v) Dellas hair vi) Jims platinum fob chain
A. ii, iv
B. iii, v
C. i, vi
D. ii, v


59. Identify the essays written by Charles Lamb
A. On Running After Ones Hat; On Forgetting
B. The Napolean of Notting Hill; History of Henry VII
C. Prophets, Priests and Kings; Of Friendship
D. Grace Before Meal; All Fools Day



60. According to Chesterton,
i) running after ones hat is better than ______.
ii) runner must imagine himself as a _______.
A. running after a baseball; bird
B. running after a cricket ball; hunter
C. running after a football; prey
D. running after a golf ball; animal



Part C (Four mark questions)

61. Match the following
i) Anecdotes a) Earnst Hemingway
ii) Father of English Literature b) Folk tales
iii) Earliest forms of stories c) Chaucer
iv) American short story writer d) Rome
A. i-a; ii-b; iii-c; iv-d
B. i-c; ii-d; iii-a; iv-b
C. i-d; ii-c; iii-b; iv-a
D. i-b; ii-d; iii-a; iv-c


62. Among the following, select the stock characters in a gothic story


i) innocent hero
ii) lustful villain
iii) bandits
iv) religious saints
v) vampires
vi) madwomen
A. Only ii, iii, v and vi
B. Only ii, iv, v, and vi
C. Only i, ii, iv and v
D. Only iii, iv, v and vi


63. Say whether TRUE (T) or FALSE (F)
i) Theme refers to the minor idea in the story
ii) Setting means the place of action in a short story
iii) Point of view is the technique used by the reader of a short story
iv) Protagonisation is the way in which the writer presents the character to us.
A. i-T; ii-T; iii-F; iv-F
B. i-F; ii-F; iii-T; iv-T
C. i-F; ii-T; iii-F; iv-F
D. i-T; ii-F; iii-T; iv-T


64. Fill in the blanks
i) ______ went back to Sanskrit classics for inspiration.
ii) ________ wrote The Panchatantra
iii) ____________ wrote Padmapurana
iv) ________ told the story of King Harishchandra in verse.
i) Vishnu Sharma ii) Ravisena iii) Raghavanka iv) Raja Rao
i) Ravi Sena ii) Raghavanka iii) Raja Rao iv) Vishnu Sharama
i) Raghavanka ii) Raja Rao iii) Vishnu Sharma iv) Ravisena
i) Raja Rao ii) Vishnu Sharma iii) Ravisena iv) Raghavanka


65. Match the essays with their authors
i) Bacon a) On American Morals
ii) Addison b) The Valentines Day
iii) Lamb c) Female Orators
iv) Chesterton d) On Travel
A. i-c; ii-d; iii-a; iv-b
B. i-b; ii-a; iii-d; iv-c
C. i-d; ii-c; iii-b; iv-a
D. i-a; ii-c; iii-d; iv-b




66. Identify the themes in the short stories of Maupassant.
i) futility of war
ii) angry young women
iii) the rising middle class and the lower classes of France
iv) Indian life
v) love
vi) the fading nobility
A. Only ii, iii, v and vi
B. Only i, iii, v and vi
C. Only i, ii, iv and v
D. Only ii, iii, iv and vi


67. Indicate the True and False sentences
i) Most of Anand's stories are set in North India
ii) Anand makes fun of the poor, women and children in his stories
iii) 'The Lost Child' was influenced by the words of Guru Nanak
iv) In the story, 'Attilla', Attilla was a dog.
A. i-F; ii-F; iii-T; iv-F
B. i-F; ii-T; iii-F; iv-T
C. i-T; ii-F; iii-T; iv-T
D. i-T; ii-T; iii-F; iv-T


68. Identify the characteristics of Katherine Mansfields short stories:
i) themes were related to womens lives and class distinctions
ii) they begin in conventional sense
iii) they are incomplete as our life is
iv) they depict vivid details of her surroundings
v) illumination of character is the most important element of her story.
Only i ii, iii, iv
Only ii, iii, iv, v
Only i, iii, iv, v
Only i, ii, iv, v


69. The formal essay is ____, ____, _____ and ______.
A. personal, intimate, relaxed and humorous
B. serious, impersonal, systematic and expository
C. aphoristic, lyrical, personal, social
D. critical, conversational, systematic, lengthy




70. i) Jim's prized possession was ________ii) ________ bought Della's hair
iii) The total income of the couple was ________ iv) The writer puts Jim and Della on par
with ____.
A. i) gold chain ii) Jim iii) 8 dollars iv) Jesus Christ
B. i) tortoise shell comb ii) Mrs. James Dillingham Young iii) 30 dollars iv) Mme Sofronie
C. i) watch ii) Mme Sofronie iii) 20 Dollars iv) the Magi
D. i) couch ii) King Solomon iii) 1.87 dollars iv) the rich land lords


71. Identify the True and False statements:
i) In the essay, On Forgetting, Lynd praises the memory of modern man because he has
the capacity to remember telephone numbers
ii) In the essay A London Waif, the waif and the author have one thing in common, their
poverty.
iii) Colonel Pickett was good at horse riding iv) Freakish sense of humour was part of
Lambs nature
A. i-F; ii-F; iii-F; iv-F
B. i-T; ii-T; iii-F; iv-F
C. i-T; ii-T; iii-T; iv-T
D. i-F; ii-F; iii-T; iv-T


72. Answer the following questions with reference to Bacons essays Of Study and Of Travel.
i) What does Bacon compare books to?
ii) What makes people witty?
iii) With what should reading be blended to achieve perfection?
iv) Whom does Bacon recommend to take with you on a foreign trip?
A. i-travel; poetry; iii-writing; iv-atlas
B. i-experience; ii-prose; iii-teaching; iv-friend
C. i-food; ii-poetry; iii-experience; iv-learned guide or tutor
D. i-food; ii-travel; iii-preaching; iv- tutor


73. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.
I feel an almost savage envy on hearing that London has been flooded in my absence, while I
am in the mere country. My own Battersea has been, as I understand, particularly favoured as
the meeting of the rivers. Battersea was already, as I need hardly say, the most beautiful of
human localities. Now that it has the additional splendor of great sheets of water, there must
be something quite incomparable in the landscape (or waterscape) of my own romantic town.
The boat that bought the meat from the butchers must have shot along those lanes of rippling
silver with the strange smoothness of the gondola. The greengrocer who brought cabbages to
the corner of the Latchmere Road must have leant upon the oar with the unearthly grace of the
gondolier. There is nothing so perfectly poetical as an island; and when a district is flooded it
becomes an archipelago.


i) What is the authors feeling in this passage?
ii) What do you understand by Battersea?
iii) To which essay does this paragraph belong?
iv) Identify the word which means a group of many islands in a large body of water.
A. i) He is jealous ii) The river in authors town
iii) Of Travel iv) Splendor
B. i) He is happy ii) Authors book
iii) On Flood iv) Gondola
C. i) He is disappointed ii) Authors district
iii) On Running After Ones Hat iv) Archipelago
A. i) He is angry ii) The name of authors house
iii) Of Studies v) Gondolier

74. The terms that are used with reference to Poes works are _____,____, _____ and
_______.
A. Germanic, Arabesque, Grotesque and Gothic
B. Germanic, Satiric, Elegiac and Heroic
C. Nostalgic, Grotesque, Ironic and Versatile
D. Humourous, Jovial, Arabesque and Grotesque


75. Identify the books of Panchatantra.
i) The Loss of Friends
ii) The Fight of Friends
iii) The Winning of Friends
iv) Crows and Owls
v) Crows and Cranes
vi) Loss and Gains
vii) Ill Considered Actions
A. Only i, ii, iii, iv and v
B. Only ii, iii, iv, v and vi
C. Only i, iii, iv, vi and vii
D. Only iii, iv, v, vi and vii













Answer Keys
Part - A Part - B Part - C
Q. No. Ans. Key Q. No. Ans. Key Q. No. Ans. Key Q. No. Ans. Key
1 B 21 A 41 D 61 C
2 D 22 D 42 B 62 A
3 B 23 D 43 B 63 C
4 A 24 B 44 D 64 S
5 C 25 A 45 B 65 C
6 A 26 D 46 D 66 B
7 B 27 C 47 D 67 C
8 B 28 D 48 A 68 C
9 C 29 B 49 A 69 B
10 D 30 A 50 B 70 C
11 D 31 D 51 B 71 C
12 A 32 B 52 B 72 C
13 B 33 D 53 B 73 C
14 A 34 A 54 A 74 A
15 B 35 C 55 D 75 C
16 B 36 S 56 A
17 A 37 A 57 A
18 B 38 B 58 D
19 D 39 D 59 D
20 B 40 A 60 B