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Paper III
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[Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This Paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions, each
question carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
Instructions :—
Read
the
thatched cottages, launching the
following
passage
elegantly proportioned rowing
carefully and choose the most
boats, the Kerala villages contain
appropriate alternatives to answer
a most exotic life for the tourist,
the questions given below it :
the stranger, the passing traveller.
The tiny fishing villages of Kerala
A Gauguin world. They also
on the southwest coast are among
contain quite another life of their
the most beautiful I have ever seen.
Scalloped with sandy beaches,
own.
shaded by mop-headed coconut
Poverty of the degree one finds
palms, studded with charming
there is, perhaps, difficult for
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strangers to grasp. The Western
inevitably a merciless deity rules
idea of the Common Man is rather
over life. To people brought up on
different from ours. For the
the phrase “God is good”, it may
fishermen and fisherwomen that
not be easy to accept the Indian
populate the novel Chemmeen,
idea, “The Creator is also the
natural forces are grimly real
Destroyer”. In Kerala villages that
enemies or friends. It is far from
I have seen—where villagers who
a city view of life. The elements
have only one cloth to wear—wash
can destroy you and your family;
it in a river, canal or local pond,
they can also make it possible to
carefully, because they are in a
live.....live for another year, that is.
public place, leaving half the cloth
wrapped around the body while the
Under these merciless conditions,
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2.
other half is wet—the thought that
‘Scalloped with sandy beaches,
shaded by mopheaded coconut
anyone has a right to security and
palms, studded with charming
beneficence is less compelling than
thatched cottages’ is an example of :
it is in the West.
1.
(A) euphemism
(B) parallelism
The author is......................by the tiny
(C) hyperbole
villages of Kerala on the southwest
(D) free repetition
coast.
3.
Life is not at all.................for the
villagers of Kerala.
(A) fascinated
(A) modern
(B) frustrated
(B) respectable
(C) astonished
(C) comfortable
(D) progressive
(D) enfeebled
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4.
6.
The author suggests that the idea
Which of the following pairs is
incorrect ?
of God is shaped by :
(A) Machiavelli : Il Principe
(B) Giovanni Boccaccio :
(A) Mythology
The Decameron
(B) Traditions
(C) Baldassare Castiglione :
Il Cor tegiano
(C) Priests
(D) Thomas Sackville : New Arcadia
(D) The conditions of life
7.
5.
Which of the following statements
is not correct ?
The idea of......................is missing in
(A) Browning produced a number of
the villages of Kerala unlike in the
plays in
West.
the Bells and
Pomegranates series
(B) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
(A) Public sanitation
is authored by Robert Browning
(B) Public welfare
(C) In a Gondola is a little lyric
tragedy
(C) Democracy
(D) The Ring and the Book is
written by Tennyson
(D) Public enterprise
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8.
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a
10. The acronym ESP contrasts with :
Young Man’ is set in............. .
(A) EBP
(A) London
(B) EDP
(B) Sydney
(C) ELP
(C) Dublin
(D) EGP
(D) New York
9.
When a teacher makes changes in
11. English belongs to the.....................
published texts to make them more
branch of the Indo-European
suitable for a particular group of
language family.
learners, this is called.................. .
(A) Celtic
(A) Adoption
(B) Germanic
(B) Paraphrase
(C) Balto-slavic
(C) Adaptation
(D) Armenian
(D) Abridgement
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14. Jude the Obscure is Thomas
12. Britain established its first penal
colony in Australia in the................
Hardy’s :
century.
(A) last novel
(A) 19th
(B) first novel
(B) 18th
(C) collection of poems
(D) collection of short stories
(C) 16th
15. Which of the following pairs is
(D) 15th
incorrect ?
13. Behaviourism was used by...................
(A) The History of Emily
to explain first language acquisition.
Montague : Frances Brooke
(A) Halliday
(B) Time Machine : H.G. Wells
(B) Leech
(C) Cato : Joseph Addison
(C) Chomsky
(D) The Crown of Wild Olive :
(D) Skinner
W.H. Pater
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16. Friends, Romans, Countrymen,
18. The British author who helped
Lend me your ears;
R.K. Narayan to publish his first
I come to bury Caesar;
novel is :
not to praise him.
(A) William Golding
These words are uttered by :
(B) E.M. Forster
(A) Antony
(B) Brutus
(C) Graham Greene
(C) Cassius
(D) John Galsworthy
(D) Horatio
19. Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities deals
17. The famous phrase “dissociation of
with the :
sensibility” was coined by :
(A) Russian Revolution
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) French Revolution
(B) John Keats
(C) American Revolution
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Renaissance and Reformation
(D) P.B. Shelley
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22. ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was a
20. Matthew Arnold wrote :
phrase used by :
(A) Culture and Anarchy
(A) William James
(B) Culture and Society
(B) W.K. Wimsatt
(C) Literature and Society
(C) Erich Auerbach
(D) French Revolution
(D) Josephine Miles
21. Which Indian poet wrote the poem
23. The following novel has a section as
‘Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher’ ?
‘Scylla and Charybdis’ :
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(A) Ulysses
(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Stephen Hero
(C) Jayant Mahapatra
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) Kamala Das
(D) A Room of One’s Own
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26. Which of the following is not an
24. Who of the following was not a Beat
‘Imagist’ poet ?
writer ?
(A) T.E. Hulme
(A) Allen Ginsberg
(B) H.D.
(B) James Joyce
(C) J.G. Fletcher
(C) Gregory Corso
(D) M. Drayton
27. Which of the following is not
(D) Jack Kerouac
correct ?
25. The lines; ‘I happy am,/Joy is my
(A) Senecan tragedy was written to
name.’/Sweet joy befall thee,’ are
be recited rather than acted
written by :
(B) Thomas Kyd has written The
(A) William Wordsworth
Spanish Tragedy
(C) Christopher Marlowe has
(B) S.T. Coleridge
written The Jew of Malta
(C) William Blake
(D) The Revenge Tragedy is a 20th
(D) John Keats
Century addition to tragedy
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28. Who of the following was not
30. The lines “Bliss was it in that dawn
associated with the ‘Transcendental
to be alive,/But to be young was very
Club’ ?
heaven,” are written by :
(A) R.W. Emerson
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Bronson Alcott
(B) Coleridge
(C) Philip Roth
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
(D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. ‘Slum-landlordism’ is shown in the
29. The title of the final section of T.S.
following play :
Eliot’s The Waste Land is :
(A) Widower’s Houses
(A) What the Thunder Said
(B) Arms and the Man
(B) Death by Water
(C) Candida
(C) The Fire Sermon
(D) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(D) The Burial of the Dead
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34. German author Wolfgang Hohlbein
32. Which of the following is not a
is chiefly associated with :
correct match ?
(A) Science fiction
(A) Swift : The Tale of a Tab
(B) Pop literature
(B) Pope : Essay on Man
(C) Migrant literature
(C) Pope : The Dunciad
(D) German-American literature
35. Which of the following is a
(D) Donne : Life of Johnson
mismatched pair ?
33. Millamant is a character in :
(A) Marquis de Sade :
Justine
(Sade)
(A) The Country Wife
(B) Voltaire : Candide, Zadig ou la
(B) The Plain Dealer
Destinee
(C) The Way of the World
(C) Montesquieu : Persian Letters
(D) Candida
(D) Emile Zola : La Petite Fadette
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38. In Search of Lost Time is written
36. Hermann Hesse belonged to :
by ................ .
(A) Spain
(A) Emile Zola
(B) Portugal
(B) Marcel Proust
(C) Germany
(C) André Gide
(D) Russia
(D) Victor Hugo
37. Guy de Maupassant is the author
39. The
term
‘Carpe
Diem’
means ............. .
of ............... .
(A) Praise of life in the country
(A) The Three Musketeers
(B) Description of idyllic nature
(B) The Red and the Black
(C) Seize the day
(C) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(D) Going away from material
(D) The Necklace
things
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42. Praneshacharya is the protagonist
40. Which of the following pairs is
of :
mismatched ?
(A) Tale Danda
(A) Franz Kafka : The Trial
(B) Nagamandala
(B) Franz Kafka : Metamorphosis
(C) Hayavadana
(C) Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus
(D) Samskara
(D) Samuel Beckett : Ubu Roi (Ubu
43. Keats in his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
the King)
anlayses the issue of :
41. Which of the following is not an
(A) the state of changelessness and
permanence
example of ‘dystopia’ ?
(B) human weaknesses
(A) Brave New World
(C) the relationship between man
(B) New Atlantis
and nature
(C) 1984
(D) man’s ability to transcend his
(D) The Handmaid’s Tale
limitations
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45. Celia in As You Like It is the
44. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
daughter of :
Sunk though he be beneath the
(A) Jonathan
watery floor
(B) Bill
So sinks the day-star in the Ocean
(C) Antonio
bed.”
(D) Fredrick
In these lines from Milton’s ‘Lycidas’,
46. The line “The paths of glory lead but
the expression ‘day-star’ refers to
to the grave” occurs in :
the :
(A) Lycidas
(A) King
(B) Elegy Written in a Country
(B) Prince
Churchyard
(C) Sun
(C) The Scholar Gypsy
(D) Mars
(D) Burnt Norton
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47. The principal character in Paradise
49. Who wrote The Book of the Duchess ?
Regained is :
(A) Marlowe
(A) Adam
(B) Chaucer
(B) David
(C) Boccaccio
(C) Christ
(D) Kyd
(D) Moses
50. The white girl in The Hairy Ape
48. The line “Slings and arrows of
is :
outrageous fortune” occurs in :
(A) Miss Nancy
(A) Hamlet
(B) The White Devil
(B) Miss Rebecca
(C) Arms and The Man
(C) Miss Irene
(D) Tamburlaine
(D) Miss Mildred
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54. A kind of novel that appears to be
51. The novel The Ambassadors is
written by :
an autobiography is called.......... .
(A) William Faulkner
(A) Metafiction
(B) William Dean Howells
(B) Memoir novel
(C) Henry James
(C) Mock-heroic novel
(D) Mark Twain
(D) Picaresque novel
55. ...................is one of the known
52. Eliza Haywood is the writer
members of the Prague School.
of .............. .
(A) Memoirs
of
Mrs.
(A) Rene Wellek
Sidney
Biddulph
(B) Jacques Derrida
(B) The History of Jemmy and
(C) Sigmund Freud
Jenny Jessamy
(D) Michel Foucault
(C) The Female Quixote
56. Sigmund Freud suggested a three-
(D) Evelina
part structural model of the psyche,
dividing it into the ego, the super-
53. Matthew Prior’s Carmen Seculare
(1700) is a eulogy to............. .
ego and.............. .
(A) King George II
(A) The libido
(B) King William III
(B) The id
(C) King George I
(C) The eros
(D) King Charles I
(D) The thanatos
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57. Who proclaimed, “There is nothing
60. Spenser’s eighty sonnets in his
outside the text” ?
Amoretti are addressed to................ .
(A) Lacan
(A) Elizabeth Boyle
(B) Foucault
(C) Derrida
(B) Penelope
(D) Barthes
(C) Laura
58. Who among the following is not a
modernist writer ?
(D) Beatrice
(A) James Joyce
61. For Wordsworth, poetry takes
(B) Joseph Conrad
its origin from emotion recollected
(C) Virginia Woolf
in :
(D) Oscar Wilde
(A) anxiety
59. The term, New Historicism was
coined by.................... .
(B) serenity
(A) Derrida
(C) instinct
(B) Foucault
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) tranquillity
(D) Stephen Greenblatt
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62. Bacon’s New Atlantis was influenced
65. F.R. Leavis considers...........................
by.................. .
as the inaugurator of the great
(A) Aristotle’s Poetics
tradition of fiction in England.
(B) More’s Utopia
(C) Plato’s Republic
(A) Jane Austen
(D) Lyly’s Euphues
(B) Charles Dickens
63. Wordsworth in his Preface defines a
poet as a :
(C) Henry Fielding
(A) Prophet of new age
(D) Daniel Defoe
(B) Visionary
66. Which of the following is not a
(C) Man speaking to men
(D) Hero
‘Partition Novel’ ?
64. Paterson’s Waltzing Matilda’ is
(A) The Shadow Lines
a/an :
(A) Ode
(B) Looking Through Glass
(B) Ballad
(C) Ice Candy Man
(C) Sonnet
(D) Brick Lane
(D) Essay
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67. The famous ‘toilet scene’ appears
69. Which of the following titles does not
in :
fall in the category of Paul Scott’s
(A) Romeo and Juliet
‘Raj Quartet’ ?
(B) All is Well that Ends Well
(A) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) Merry Wives of Windsor
(B) The Jewel in the Crown
(D) The Rape of the Lock
68. Which of the following statements
(C) The Day of the Scorpion
is not true ?
(D) The Towers of Silence
(A) Rossetti delves in the folklore
and diablerie of the middle
70. “Courage ! he said, and pointed
ages
toward the land.”
(B) Henry Constable is a minor PreIn this opening line of, Tennyson’s
Raphaelite poet
(C) Morris busies himself in legends
‘Lotos Eaters’, ‘he’ refers to :
and sagas
(A) The poet
(D) The Pre-Raphaelite movement
is concerned primarily with
(B) God
neither democratic ideals nor
(C) Ulysses
with scientific and philosophical
problems
(D) Achilles
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73. Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
71. Cardinal Newman is associated
are associated with :
with :
(A) Gender Studies
(B) Third World Feminism
(A) Oxford Movement
(C) Feminism
(B) Renaissance
(D) Phenomenology
74. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal was
(C) Reformation
started in :
(D) Postmodernism
(A) The Caroline Age
(B) The Jacobean Age
72. De Bracy is a character in :
(C) The Victorian Age
(A) Ivanhoe
(D) The Postmodern Period
75. Walter Morel is a character in :
(B) Rob Roy
(A) Sons and Lovers
(C) Middle March
(B) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(C) The Plumed Serpent
(D) Pride and Prejudice
(D) Kangaroo
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