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KSET Previous Question English Paper – II

Paper : II
Subject : ENGLISH
Time : 1 Hour 15 Minutes

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Maximum Marks : 100
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8
Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions. Each question carries two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.

1. Piers Plowman written by William Langland is
(A) a romance
(B) a theological poem
(C) an allegorical poem
(D) a didactic poem

2. Which of the following characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is not an example of the corrupt clergy ?
(A) The Monk
(B) The Friar
(C) The Pardoner
(D) The Parson

3. In his ‘Apology for Poetry’ Sidney defends poetry against the charge of
(A) Falsehood
(B) Amorality
(C) Obscurity
(D) Prejudice

4. Which of the following is not a Sonnet sequence in English ?
(A) Amoretti
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Epithalamion
(D) Delia

5. ________ introduced blank verse to English poetry.
(A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) Thomas Wyatt
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) Earl of Surrey

6. Which poem by Milton contains an attack against corrupt clergymen ?
(A) L’ Allegro
(B) Il Penseroso
(C) Comus
(D) Lycidas

7. The famous ‘Bargain Scene’ in The Way of the World is about
(A) Negotiation of dowry
(B) Sexual morality
(C) Assertion of woman’s rights
(D) Greed in human beings

8. In which Book of Paradise Lost does Satan succeed in tempting Eve ?
(A) Book I
(B) Book II
(C) Book IV
(D) Book IX

9. A metaphysical conceit is
(A) An extended comparison
(B) An oxymoron
(C) Personification
(D) Metonymy

10. Charles Lamb defended restoration drama against charges of
(A) Immorality
(B) Vulgarity
(C) Political extremism
(D) Religious bigotry

11. Which of the following descriptions is not used for the eighteenth century ?
(A) Augustan age
(B) Age of good sense
(C) Neo-classical period
(D) The sentimental age

12. In The Rape of the Lock Belinda’s lock is finally transformed into
(A) a star
(B) a bird
(C) a moon
(D) a sun

13. Which of the following writers is not a Satirist ?
(A) Dryden
(B) William Cooper
(C) Somuel Butler
(D) Swift

14. Vindication of The Rights of Woman was written by
(A) Mary Wollstenicraft
(B) William Godwin
(C) Aphra Behn
(D) J. S. Mill

15. Sir Fretful Plagiary appears in Sheridan’s
(A) The Critic
(B) The Rivals
(C) The School for Scandal
(D) A Trip to Scarborough

16. The sub-title of Frankenstein refers to the myth of
(A) Icarus
(B) Daedalus
(C) Promethens
(D) Vulcan

17. Coleridge describes the creative imagination as
(A) Primary imagination
(B) Secondary imagination
(C) Fancy
(D) The dionysian imagination

18. The following is not referred by Wordsworth in his preface to The Lyrical Ballads
(A) Popular fiction
(B) Political ideology
(C) Expression of emotions
(D) The diction of the neo-classical poets

19. “It is a truth well-known….. These famous opening lines of Pride and Prejudice are
(A) Ironical
(B) Factual
(C) Paradoxical
(D) Sentimental

20. Who among the following is not a member of the fictional Spectator Club invented by Richard Steele ?
(A) Roger de Coverley
(B) Captain Sentry
(C) Lawyer Anton
(D) Will Honeycomb

21. Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities is associated with
(A) Royal Court of France
(B) The Jacobins
(C) The English Working Class
(D) The French Aristocracy

22. Matthew Arnold refers to the English middle-class as
(A) Barbarians
(B) Populace
(C) Philistines
(D) Traders

23. Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights is
(A) A reliable narrator
(B) An unreliable narrator
(C) The only narrator in the novel
(D) None of the above

24. The phrase ‘dark satanic mills’ appears in
(A) Hard Times
(B) ‘London’
(C) Unto This Last
(D) Middlemarch

25. Match the novel with its author
1) Barchester Towers
2) Charles Reade
3) North and South
4) The Cloister and Hearth
5) Treasure Island
6) Antony Trollope
7) R. L. Stevenson
8) Elizabeth Gaskell
(A) 1 – 7 3 – 6 4 – 8 5 – 2
(B) 1 – 6 3 – 2 4 – 8 5 – 7
(C) 1 – 8 3 – 2 4 – 7 5 – 6
(D) 1 – 6 3 – 8 4 – 2 5 – 7

26. In Eliot’s poem Prufrock admits that he is not
(A) Moses
(B) Hamlet
(C) Achilles
(D) St. Augustine

27. In Women in Love Birkin is
(A) The artist lover of Gudrun
(B) Lawrence’s mouthpiece
(C) The industrial magnate
(D) A political activist

28. ‘A poem should not mean, but be’ is a line written by
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Louis Machiece
(C) W. B. Yeats
(D) Dylan Thomas

29. The action in The Heart of the Matter takes place in
(A) Mexico
(B) A British Colony
(C) The West Indies
(D) London

30. Which of the following works by George Orwell is a dystopia ?
(A) Animal Farm
(B) 1984
(C) ‘Shooting an Elephant’
(D) The Road to Wigan Pier

31. The style of Beckett in his fiction is best described as
(A) Rhetorical
(B) Dense
(C) Minimalist
(D) Passionate

32. Post-war immigrant writing in England
(A) Considers racialism as a thing of the past
(B) Avoids any reference to racialism
(C) Finds cultural assimilation easy
(D) Sees racialist attitudes as still prevalent

33. “Better of course, if images were plain, warnings clearly said, shapes put down quite still”. These lines have been described as providing the manifesto ‘The Movement’ poetry. Who wrote them ?
(A) Donald Davie
(B) Kingsley Amis
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) Thom Gunn

34. What is common to Zeadie Smith, Caryl Phillips, Monica Ali and Hanif Khureshi ?
(A) They are expatriates from U.S.A.
(B) They write about immigrants in UK
(C) They are supporters of communism
(D) They write about South Asians

35. The writer best known for his campus novels is
(A) David Lodge
(B) Ian McEwun
(C) Martin Amis
(D) Graham Swift

36. “Next to of Course God America” is a poem by E.E. Cummings which
(A) Critiques sentimental nationalism
(B) Jingoism
(C) Belief in America’s greatness
(D) All the above

37. “All right then, I will go to hell” This famous statement is made by