University of Hyderabad Ph.D. English Entrance Exam Question Paper : igmlnet.uohyd.ac.in
Name of the University : University of Hyderabad
Exam : Entrance Examinations
Paper: Ph.D. English
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Year : 2016
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Max. Marks: 75
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2. Enter your Hall Ticket Number on the question paper, the FIRST page of the OMR sheet and the Answer Book.
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3. This paper comprises TWO Sections :
** Section A consists of Multiple Choice Questions and must be answered on the OMR sheet. 0.33 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer. No marks will be deducted or questions not attempted.
** Section B must be answered in the Answer Book provided. You have to attempt any ONE question in Section B.
4. This Question Paper consists of 17 pages in all. Ensure that all pages have been printed before you start answering.
5. At the end of the examination return the OMR sheet and the Answer Book to the invigilator.
Section A : Marks 50
** 0.33 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.
** No marks will be deducted for questions not attempted.
l. These famous lines appear in a by P. B. Shelley.
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and deair.,,
a. ode
b. clerihew
c. envoi
d. sonnet
2. which of the Indian novers in English carries the following dedication?
“To the Indo-British Experience and what its sharers have learned from each other.,,
a. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight,s Children
b. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,s Heot and Dust c. Anita Desai’s In Custody
d. Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us
3. Match the following English words/phrases with the writers who first made them:
I. Chortle II. Dystopia III. Derringdo Iy. Dappted
i. G. M. Hopkins ii. Edmund Spenser iii. Lewis canoil iv. John stuart Mill
The correctly matched pair, according to the code:
a. I-i, II-ii,III-iv, fv-iii
b. I-iii, II-iv,III-ii, IV-i
c. I-ii, II-iii, III-i, IV-iv
d. I-iv,II-i, m-iii, ry-ii
Questions 5,6,7 are based on the following passage:
It must be a strange state to be like Jo! To shuffle through the streets, unfamiliar with the shapes and in utter darkness as to the meaning of those mysterious symbols, so abundant ove the shops, and the comer of streets, and on the doors, and in the windows! To see people read, and to see people write, and to see the postman deliver letters, and not to have the least idea of all that language- to be, to every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb!
5. What is Jo’s “state”?
a. Jo is new to the city.
b. Jo cannot see or hear anything.
c. Jo has no language.
d. Jo cannot read oi*rite anything.
6. Why is Jo’s state’ostrange”?
a. Jo’s being in a language that others read and write of which he is unaware.
b. Jo’s being unfamiliar with the meaning of mysterious symbols.
c. Jo’s being hardly aware that the mysterious symbols have meanings.
d. Jo’s being in a language that means differently for him and for others.
7. How does the writer suggest that he could only guess what it would be for Jo to be amidst literate people?
a. The general tone of the passage
b. The opening line of the passage
c. The repetition of “see” in line 3
d. The phrase “stone blind and dumb!”
8. “Truth,” says , ‘ois a mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomotphisms,” so memorably stated in his
a. Ludwig Wittgenste in, P hilo s ophi c al Inv e s ti gat ions.
c. Lewis Carroll, “Preface” to Alice’s Advenlures in Wonderland
d. Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-moral Sense