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S.No. 7116                                                                                                                            P 16 ENE 5

(For canalidates admitted from 2011-2017 onwards)

MA DEGREE EXAMINATION APRIL 2019

English Elective

ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR UGC EXAMINATIONS

Time Three hours                                                                                                       Maximum 75 marks

Answer ALL questions

                                                                                                                                                 (75x1=75)

Each multiple choice questions has I alternative responses marked (a), (b), (c) or (d)

1. Chaucer's first work, "The Book of the Duchess" is a dream poem on the death of _________.

(a) Duchess of Malfi

(b) Duchess of Lancaster

(c) Duchess of Scotland

(d) Duchess of Paris

2. The moral of The Nun's Priest's tale is

(a) slow and steady wins the race

(b) greet is root of all evil

(c) beauty lies within

(d) never trust of flatterer

3.Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" was originally written in____________.

(a)English

(b)French

(c) Latin

(d) Spanish

4 .According to Bacon “Essay” is a

(a)Leisurely talk of a philosopher over the dining table

(b) Receptable for detached thoughts

(c) Disposed meditations

(d) Both (b) and (c)

5._______was the best translators of Elizabethan age

(a) Camden

(b) Кnоx

(c) Hakluyt

(d) Thomas North

6.The figure of warrior virgin in Spencer’s” Faerie Queene” represented by the character ___________.

(a) Britomart

(b) Gloriana

(C)Cynthia

(d) Duessa

7."My trade is to flatter the dead, not the living I am a tomb-maker" Who says this in "The Duchess of Malfi"?

(a) Ferdinand

(b) Cardinal

(c) Bosola

(d) Delio

8. Metaphysical poetry as 'A kind of discardia concor's is a statement of

(a) Dr. Johnson

(b)Henry Vaugham

(c) Waller

(d) Richard Baxter

9. "Reflection on the French revolution" is the great work of

(a) Lawrence Sterne

(b) Edmund Burke

(c) Joseph Addison

(d) Richard Steele

10. Pope's "The Rape of Lock" was published in 1712 in

(a).three cantos

(b) four cantos

(c) five cantos

(d) two cantos

11. Entriesbin “The Diary of Samuel Pepys” begins after ---------------------

(a) The restoration

(b) The glorious revolution

(c) The reformation

(d) The French revolution

 12 Joseph Addison in his famous work,”Female Orators” talke about

(a) the talkative nature of women

(b) women's status

(c) the beauty of women

(d) none of these

13. What is common to the following works? Identify the correct description below:

(i) Pamela                               - A sentimental Journev

(ii) Tristram Shandy              - Man of feeling

(a) All are important examples of the novels of sensibility written during Augustan age

(b) All are heroic novels

(c) All are novels on death and melancholic

(d) All are important examples of the periodical essays

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14. Who commented, "Order is Heaven's First law"?

(a) William Blake

(b) John Donne

(c) William Shakespeare

(d) Alexander Pope

15. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory?

(a) The true born Englishman

(b) Captial singleton

(c) The shortest way with dissenters

(d) Moll Flanders

16. In wordswroth’s “Prelude” the boy of winander is affected by

(a) blindness

(b) deafness

(c) muteness

(d) lameness

17. Byron’s “The vision of judgement” is a satire directed against

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) John Keats

(c) Henry Hallam

(d) Robert Southey

 18. Which of the followme paus is correctly matched?

             Authors                                            Books

(a)    William Blake                  -             Don Juan

       (b) Willtam Wordsworth       -             The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

       (c) Lord Bron                         -             The Prelude

       (d) Robert Southe                  -             The Inchcape rock

19.________is John Keats Sylvan Historian"?

(a) Fanny Brawne

(b) Nightingale

(e) The Grecian Urn

(d) The Bridge of Quietness

20. Assertion (A) :  Poetry was the dominant genre in the romantic period

Reason (R) : The romantic poets withdrew into an outer world and were less concerned with the inner                               private world.

Codes:

(a) (A) is true but (R) is false

(b) (A) is false but (R) is true

(c) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(d) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

21. De Quincey's grotesque humour is realised from which of the following?

(a)  Murder considered as one of the fine arts

(b) On the knocking at the gate in macbeth

(c) Joan of Arc

(d) Suspiria De Profoundis

22. “Logic of political Economy” is written by

(a) Wordsworth

(b) John Keats

(c) Jane Austen

(d) De Quincey

23. “Pippa passes” was published in

(a) 1833

(b) 1836

(c) 1845

(d) 1841

24.”Fail I alone in words and deeds”/ Why all men strive and who succeeds?

These lines are from

(a) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(b) Fra Lappo Lappi

(c) Caliban upon Setebus

(d) The Last Ride Together

25. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "Mary Barton” is  sub-titled

(a) The Two Nations

(b) A Tale of Manchestor Life

(c) A story of provincial life

(d) The factory girl

26._______work of Charles Dickens brought his dignity back.

(a) Dombey and Son

(b) Bleak House

(c) David Copperfield

(d) All of these

27. Which of these about "Middle March" is correct?

1.It does not have a subtitle

2.It is subtitled: A study of Town life

3.It is subtitled: A study of provincial life

4. It has a subtitle: A study of country life

(a)Only 4

(b) Only 3

(c) Only 1

(d) Only 2

28. Which of these statements is not true ABOUT “Jane Eyre”?

(a)  It is written by charlotte Bronte

(b) It was published in1847

(c) It is a bildungs roman

(d) The novel does not contain Gotic elements

29. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader “Reader I married him” occurs in_________

(a) Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones”

(b) Charlotte Bronte's “Jane Eyre”

(c) Lawrence Sterne's “Tristram Shandy”

(d) George Shot’s “Middle March”

30.________wanted to teach a lesson to the society for its reform.

(a) Arthur Hugh Clough

(b)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(c) John Ruskin

(d) Charles Dickens

31.____________commented W.B. Yeats as a foreign mind.

(a) WH. Auden

(b) Walter de la Mare

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) A.S. Collins

32. The phrase 'Only Connect' is associated with

(a) DH Lawrence

(b) James Joyce

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) Virginia Woolf

33. Which of the following author book pairs is correctly matched?

(a) Mriel Spark                     :    under the net

(b) William Golding            :    Girls of Slender means

(c) Angus Wilson                 :   Lucky jim

(d) Dorris Lessing                :   The Grass is singing

34.D.H Lawrence uses the expression “a bright book of life” to describe

(a) the novel

(b) the dramatic monologue

(c) the bible

(d) the short lyric

 35. Influence of the Indian philosophy is seen in the writings of___________

(a)  G.B. Shaw

(b) Noel Coward

(c) Tom Stoppard

(d) T.S. Eliot

36.” World within World”  is the autobiography of

(a) Lewis

(b) Spender

(c) Eliot

(d) Coleridge

37. Dorris Lessing's interest in ____________ is widely recognized.

(a) Hinduism

(b)Sufism

(c) Zen

(d) Judaism

38. Antony Powell's sequence of 12 novels were collectively known as__________

(a) The Soldier's art

(b) A dance to the music of time

(c) A question of upbringing

(d) None of the above

39. In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by__________

(a) Matthew Gregory Lewis

(b) John Polidori

(c) John Stagg

(d) Bram Stoker

40. Which of the pairs is correctly matched?

(a) Henry Green                      -   Party Going

(b) John Masters                     -   Bhowani Juncţion

(c) James Patrick Donleavy   -   The Ginger man

(d) Joyce Carry                  -   The Onion Eaters

41.  The work__________is a study of a smug radical sociologist at a new university

(a) crow

(b) the history man

(c)  loot

(d) none of these

42. Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to the fly

The prettiest little parlour that ever sen did spy

In the above lines from Mary Howitt ‘spy’ means

(a)discover

(b) sea

(c) detective

d) scout

43. “There is another man within me that is angry with me”

This is an epigraph of Graham Greene's which novel out of the following

(a) The Ministry of Fear

(b) The Man within

(c) The Third man

(d) Brighton Rock

44.  Match the following

              List I                           List II

(A) 1979                             1. Fall of Margaret Thatcher

(B) 1990                             2. Return of Hong Kong to China

(C) 1998                             3. Elections of Thatcher's conservative Government

Codes:

       (A)    (B)    (C)

(a)  1          2        3

(b)  1          3        2

(c)  3          2        1

(d)  3          1        2

45.Contemporary period of British literature was also called to be ________

(a) the information age

(b) the digital age

(c) both (a) and (b)

(d) none of these

46.This is the machine age sons. This is the machine age

We are the men when who will master it”?

These lines have been taken from

(a) The Road

(b) The Big heart

(c) Some Inner Fury

d) None of the above

47. “Magical Realisim” is closely associated with

(a) Italo Calvino

(b)Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(c) Anita Desai

(d) Rohinton Mistry

48.Isabel Archer is the romantic heroine of________.

(a) Catch 22

(b) The Portrait of Lady

(c) The Trail

(d) The Outsider

49.___________ translated Omarkhayyam' into English.

(a) Scott Fitzgerald

(b) Edgar Fauxet

(c) Edward Fitzgerald

(d) None of these

50. Who said "I furnish no specimens, I shower them by exhaustless laws, fresh and modern continually, as nature does"?

(a) Waldo Emerson

(b) Whitman

(c) Hawthorne

(d) Green leaf

51. "Live straight and you’ll think stright”. Whose statement is this?

(a) Poe

(b) Emerson

(c) Oliver Holmes

(d) Whitemen

52.”the Muse of History” is a classic postcolonial essay by

(a) Ngugi wa Thiongo

(b) Chinua Achebe

(c) Welson Harris

(d) Dereck Walcott

53. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel__________

(a) when rain clouds gather

(b) the mimic men

(c) things fall apart

(d) the interpreters

54. Playing in “The Dark” by Jom Morrison a series of refection on__________

(a) Jazz music

(b) Disability sports

(c) Whiteness and the literary imagination

(d) Black American folklore

55. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction?

(a) Kamala Markkandya

(b) Mulk Raj Anand

(c) Upmanyu Chatterjee

(d) Amitav Ghosh

56.____________among the following is known for bringing the cultural revolt

(a) Tagore

(b) Multk Raj Anand

(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

(d) Premchand

57._____________was replaced by communicative language teaching

(a) Motivational approach

(b) Situational language teaching

(c) Natural language processing

(d) Structural approach

58. Which of the following statements best describes an example of the influence of an affective factor on second langon acquisition?

(a) A second language learner makes educated guesses about world meanings in a text by recognising cognates

(b) A second language learner uses familiac vocabulary to mentally form sentences before speaking

(c) An adult second language learner finds it impossible to form second language sound that do not occur in his first language

(d) A second language learner employs several words from the first language when speaking the second language but not

59. Preparation of vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was carried out by

(a) Otto Jespersen

(b) Noamchomsky

(c) N.S. Prabhu

(d) Michael West

60. Which of the following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition?

(a) Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing

(b) Writing, Reading, Listening, Speaking

(c) Listening, speaking, Reading, Writing

(d) Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing

60.Consider the following statement A tragic hero is

1. neither good nor a corrupt villain

2. not a man of ordinary weakness and virtues like ourselvers

3. he does not occupy a great position in society

4.he falls due to some error on this part

Which of the statements given above correct?

(a)    1 and 2

(b)   1 and 4

(c)    3 and 2

(d)   3 and 4

62.Which  among the following means revelation?

(a) Perpetia

(b)Anagnorisis

(c) Hamartia

(d) Protagonist

63.Who said ‘I call the classic healthy, the romantic sickly’?

(a) Dickens

(b) Roussea

(c) Addison

(d) Goethe

64.Anatomy  of criticism by Frye came in

(a) 1956

(b) 1959

(c) 1957

(d) 1960

65. "There is nothing outside the text”, is a statement by

(a) Victor Shklovsky

(b) Jacques Derrida

(c) Roland Barthes

(d) Ferdinand de Saussure

66. "All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life" this statementiin attributed to

(a) Thomas Carlyle

(b) Mathew Arnold

(c) J.S. Mill

(d) John Ruskin

67. The term "Intentional Fallacy" is first used by

(a) William Empson

(b) Northrop Frye

(c) Wellek and Warren

(d) Wimsatt and Beardsley

68. Eliot-uses the term 'objective correlative' in his essay

(a) The Metaphysical poets

(b) Hamlet

(c) Tradition and Individual Talent

(d) Dante

69. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective

(A) New criticism

(b) Historical Criticism

(c) Reader Response Criticism

(d) Formalist Criticism

70. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?

(a) Archetype

(b) The Uncanny

(c) The Absurd

(d)The Imaginary

71. Understanding poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ___________

(a) New Historicism

(b) New Aristotelianism

(c) New criticism

(d) The new left

72. Match the following

           List I                                        List II

(a) Langue/Parole                           1.Noam Chomsky

(b) Competence / performance       2.C.S.Pierce

(c) Leonic/ Indexical                       3.Ferdinand de saussure

(d) Readerly/Writerly                    4.Roland Barthes

Codes:

       (A)    (B)    (C)   (D)

(a)     3       2        1      4

(b)    3        1        2      4

(c)     1        3        4      2

(d)     2        3        1      4

73.Practical Criticism is divided into _________ and ___________ Criticism.

(a) mimetic and judicial

(b) objective and judicial

(c) impressionistic and judicial

(d) textual and objective

74. Who is the author of the foundation of Aesthetics?

(a) Stephen Spender

(b) Walter Pater

(c) William Empson

(d) LA Richards

75. The function of the realist novel, according to Marxists is____________

(a) To describe psychologically complex characters

(b) To teach children about past

(c) To promote bourgeois ideology

(d) To make readers more realistic

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