LBS Centre for Science & Technology : State Eligibility Test English Question Paper 2017

Name of the Organisation : LBS Centre for Science & Technology
Exam : State Eligibility Test
Subject : English
Year : 2017 Feb
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Time : 120 Minutes :

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1. William Langland wrote his poems in the —— dialect
A) West Midland
B) Northern
C) East Midland
D) South East

2. Thomas More’s Utopia can be described as ——
A) Fiction
B) A political pamphlet
C) Neither of the above
D) Both of the above.

3. Which of the following is not a work by Edmund Spenser?
A) Faerie Queene
B) Venus and Adonis
C) Prothalamion
D) Amoretti

4. Match the following:
1. Philip Sidney i. Leviathan
2. Christopher Marlowe ii. Novum Organum
3. Francis Bacon iii. The Defence of Poesy
4. Thomas Hobbes iv. University Wits
A) 1-iv, 2-iii, 3.i, 4-ii
B) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-ii
C) 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-i, 4-iv
D) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-ii, 4-i

5. ——- is generally considered the first tragedy in English:
A) Gorboduc
B) Spanish Tragedy
C) Ralph Roister Doister
D) Twelfth Night

6. Match the following:
1. Spanish Tragedy i. John Webster
2. Everyman in his Humour ii. Staple of English Tragedy
3. Duchess of Malfi iii. Ben Jonson
4. Blank Verse iv. Introduced revenge motif
A) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-ii, 4-i
B) 1-iv, 2-i, 3-ii, 4-iii
C) 1-iii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-ii
D) 1-iv, 2-iii, 3-i, 4-ii

7. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Women were not allowed to act on the Elizabethan stage.
2. Elizabethan dramatic troupes generally had patrons.
3. Elizabethan stages had no drop curtains.
4. Elizabethan plays were performed in natural light.
A) 1 and 2 only are true.
B) 1, 3 and 4 only are true
C) 1, 2 and 4 only are true.
D) All the statements are true.

8. The plots of several Shakespearean plays were taken from ——–.
A) Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
B) Holinshed’s Chronicles
C) Greek Tragedies
D) Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems

9. The Shakespearean sonnet has the rhyme scheme ———.
A) abbaabbacdccdc
B) abbabccbdefdef
C) abbacdcdefefgg
D) None of the above.

10. The term ‘metaphysical’ was coined by ——- to describe Seventeenth Century English poets like John Donne.
A) Dr Samuel Johnson
B) Alexander Pope
C) John Dryden
D) Francis Bacon

11. Put the following in their correct chronological order.
1. Restoration 2. Paradise Lost
3. Pilgrim’s Progress 4. Closing down of English playhouses by Puritans
A) 1, 3, 4, 2
B) 1, 2, 4, 3
C) 1, 2, 3, 4
D) 4, 1, 2, 3

12 Paradise Lost is structured as ——–
A) Six Books
B) Ten Books
C) Eight Books
D) Seven Books

13. A Short View of the Profanity and Licentiousness of the English Stage by Jeremiah Collier was published in ——.
A) 1642
B) 1698
C) 1660
D) 1650

14. Match the following:
1. Coffee Houses i. Robinson Crusoe
2. Satirical Verses ii. Circulation of periodicals
3. Early Colonial Narratives iii. Liberal ideas
4. Whigs iv. Dryden and Pope
A) 1-ii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-iii
B) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-ii
C) 1-iv, 2-iii, 3-i, 4-ii
D) 1-i, 2-iv, 3-ii, 4-iii.

15. The Country Wife is a play by ——-
A) J B Sheridan
B) John Dryden
C) William Wycherley
D) Alexander Pope

16. Place the following in their correct chronological sequence:
i. The Great Fire of London
ii. Establishment of the first Coffee House in London
iii. The Restoration.
iv. Publication of The Tatler and The Spectator
A) ii, iii, i, iv
B) iii, i, ii, iv
C) iv, iii, i, ii
D) i, iv, ii, iii

17. Dunciad is a mock heroic poem by ——-
A) John Dryden
B) John Bunyan
C) Oliver Cromwell
D) Oliver Goldsmith

18. Laputa is ——–
A) A flying island in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
B) The capital of a country in Swift’s Battle of the Books.
C) The name given by Swift to a political system.
D) A character in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

19. Match the following:
1. Pamela i. Picaresque novel
2. Henry Fielding ii Epistolary novel
3. Lawrence Stern iii. An Apology for the Life of Mrs.Shamela Andrews
4. The Adventures of Roderick Random iv. Tristram Shandy
A) 1-i, 2-iv, 3- iii, 4-ii
B) 1-iii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-ii
C) 1-ii, 2-iii, 3- iv, 4-i
D) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-ii, 4-i

20. Give the correct chronological sequence of the following
1. Romantic Poetry
2. Neo-Classical Poetry
3. Metaphysical Poetry
4. Transition Poetry
A) 1, 2, 3, 4
B) 3, 2, 1, 4
C) 3, 2, 4, 1
D) 4, 2, 1, 3