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Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Paper – III :
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.

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1. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this ? “Which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? Or, having it, is satisfied ?”
(1) The History of Henry Esmond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon
(4) Pendennis

2. Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, alongwith Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people ?
(1) To visit his father who left him long ago.
(2) To find out new sources of minting money.
(3) Because of an epidemic of plague.
(4) To make a pilgrimage.

3. By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of “Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling attention to the gritty and direct realism ?
(1) Martin Harrison
(2) Stan Smith
(3) David Sylvester
(4) Philip Callow

4. Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman ?
(1) Kindred
(2) Strength
(3) Christian
(4) Discretion

5. Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English ?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) Nathaniel Halhead
(3) William Jones
(4) Barbara Stoler Miller

6. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which
(1) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
(2) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
(3) the mind acquires images by its associative power.
(4) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.

7. Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language ?
(1) Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words.
(2) They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.
(3) They find speech difficult because they are horses.
(4) They prefer action to words.

8. Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems.
(1) Native Companions
(2) The Wandering Islands
(3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
(4) The Cave and the Spring

9. Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching ?
(1) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
(2) Learners’ first language plays an important role in learning.
(3) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
(4) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.

10. The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s _________.
(1) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
(2) The Financial Expert
(3) The English Teacher
(4) The World of Nagaraj

11. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two languages :
I. Celtic
II. Latin
III. French
IV. Old Norse
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II (2) II and III
(3) II and IV (4) III and IV

12. Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.
(1) King James Version – Tyndale –Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian Standard Bible
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Version
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James Version – Tyndale

13. The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is
(1) No
(2) The
(3) Morning !
(4) Jaysus

14. Assertion (A) : In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R) : We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire, or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we bring to it.
(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.

15. One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse. This is best described as
(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.
(2) the selective language powerful people use.
(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely constrain certain others.
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance.

16. The narrators of Oroonoko are
I. a woman
II. Oroonoko
III. a purported eyewitness of the events described
IV. Trefy
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV (2) I and III
(3) II and III (4) II and IV

17. Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : “The life of a normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty ?”
(1) Nora in A Doll’s House
(2) Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
(3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm
(4) Oswald in Ghosts

18. In literary studies structuralism promotes
(1) new interpretations of literary works.
(2) the view that literature is one signifying practice among others.
(3) a systematic account of literary archetypes.
(4) unstable structures of systems of signification.

19. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent ?
(1) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
(2) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
(3) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
(4) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin

20. What is practical criticism ? (1) The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political meaning.
(2) A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant.
(3) The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information.
(4) The study of ambiguity.