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MCQ ON TNSET ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTION PAPER

 

1 __________ suggests the content : series of twelve eclogues. One for each month of the year.

A : The Ruins of Time

B : Mother Hubberd's Tale

C : The Shepheards Calendar

D : Colin Clouts Come home again

2 __________ was a biting satire on the Puritans, was modelled upon the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

A : Don Juan

B : Hudibras

C : Mac Flecknoe

D : Namby-Pamby

3 "Supposes," the First prose comedy published in 1566 was the basis of Shakespeare's __________.

A : All's well that Ends well.

B : The Two Gentlemen of Verona

C : Taming of the Shrew

D : Love's Labour's Lost.

4 __________, Sir Thomas Browne's confession of faith, is a curious mixture of religious faith and scientific scepticism.

A : The Garden of Cyprus

B : Pseudodoxia Epidemica

C : Religio Medici

D : Hydriotaphia : Urne Buriall

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5 Emerson calls two of the following writers : one as his revered master and the other as his 'beloved disciple.'

A : Carlyle and Ruskin

B : Ruskin and Arnold

C : Tennyson and Browning

D : Arnold and Carlyle

6 The naval hero of Queen Elizabeth's reign whom sir Walter Scott characterised in the novel 'Kenilworth' is __________.

A : Christopher Columbus

B : Alexander Selkirk

C : Sir Walter Ralegh

D : Megellan Ferdinand

7 __________ is the author of the first critical treatise on English Literature "The Arte of English Poesie " that describes William Langland's "Piers the Plowman"

as satire.

A : George Puttenham.

B : Joseph Hall

C : Harry Bailey

D : Long will

8 Leviathan' is a philosophical tract written by __________.

A : Thomas Hobbes

B : John Milton

C : Thomas Browne

D : Robert Burton

9 One of Queen Elizabeth's courtier who wrote magnificient work of English prose. 'History of the World' is ____________

A : Thomas Carlyle

B : Water Ralegh

C : Francis Bacon

D : Sir Edward Coke

10 The Prelude : The growth of the poet ' of Wordsworth is addressed to the quickener of his life and brother of his Soul'. Who is he ?

A : Lord Byron

B : Coleridge

C : Tennyson

D : Keats

11 Robert Greene's "Alphonsus, King of Aragon" is an imitation of __________ .

A : Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

B : Marlowe's Tamburlaine

C : Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

D : Middleton's The changelling

12 Sheridan's __________ is a very telling attack on the popular sentimental drama and has been called the best burlesque of its age.

A : The School for scandal

B : The Critic

C : The Rivals

D : St. Patrick's Day

13 __________ deals with the fortunes of Pamela, a poor and virtuous maid, who resists, then finally marries and afterwards reforms her wicked master.

A : Clarissa Harlowe

B : Virtue Rewarded

C : Sir Charles Grandson

D : A good man

14 In Scott's novel, the talisman given to the hero __________ during his adventures in the Holyland at the time of Richard I.

A : Richard I, king of England

B : Sir Kenneth, the knight of the Leopard.

C : Philip II, King of France

D : Leopold, Archduke of Austria

15 Choose the correct answer

In the address 'to the reader' prefaced to the Hellenic pastoral __________, John Fletcher insisted that tragic comedy was not so called because it intermixed

mirth and murder, but because it eschewed death 'which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy.

A : The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599)

B : The Spanish Tragedy (1587)

C : The faithful Shepherdess (1608)

D : A mad world, My Masters (1608)

16 State the correct Statements

Which of the following statements are True ?

I. Culture and Anarchy playfully, divides english society into three constituent classes: a ‘Barbarian’ aristocracy, ‘a philistine’ bourgeoisie and an unlettered

‘populace’.

II. None of these classes either sympathizes with, or upholds, a truly refined high culture which could withstand further decay in the political and religious

order.

III. Matthew Arnold selectively cities ideas from European political tradition in order to determine the nature of a new social and moral cement which could

serve to bond classes together.

A : III and I are correct

B : I, II and III are correct

C : I and II are correct

D : II and III are correct

17 __________ is written in a reminiscent vein, and the character of Lucy Snowe is based on the author charlotte Bronte herself

A : Shirley

B : Jane Eyre

C : The Professor

D : Villette

18 "The Double Dealer" the best example of the comedy of manners is written by __________ .

A : William congreve

B : William Wycherley

C : Thomas Shadwell

D : John Dryden

19 Choose the Correct Answer

What is the Sub-heading of the last part of the novel The Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro ?

A : Day Six-Evening, Weymouth

B : Day Seven-Afternoon, Cornwall

C : Day Seven-Evening, Moscombe

D : Day Seven-Afternoon, Salisbury

20

Match the following

I. Pamela - Picaresque

II. Tom Jones-Virtue Rewarded

III. The Adventures of Roderick Random-Dr. Primrose

IV. The Vicar of Wakefield - Narcissa

A : (i) Pamela-Virtue Rewarded

(ii) Tom Jones-Picaresque

(iii) The Adventures of Roderick Random- Narcissa

(iv) The Vicar of the Wakefield-Dr. Primrose

B : (i) Pamela - Picaresque

(ii) Tom Jones- Dr. Primrose

(iii) The Adventures of Roderick Random-Virtue Rewarded

(iv) The Vicar of the Wakefield-Narcissa

C : (i) Pamela-Dr. Primrose

(ii) Tom Jones-Narcissa

(iii) The Adventures of Roderick Random-Picaresque

(iv) The Vicar of the Wakefield-Virtue Rewarded

D : (i) Pamela-Dr. Primrose

(ii) Tom Jones-Virtue Rewarded

(iii) The Adventures of Roderick Random-Narcissa

(iv) The Vicar of the Wakefield -Picaresque

21 Canada's most famous Native Writer, __________ known as Tekahionwake, focuses on Native - White encounter and her poems dramatise a range of points of view on Native issues and Colonisation.

A : Richard Wagamese

B : Katherena Vermette

C : Lee Maraele

D : Emily Pauline Johnson

22 Six months after the publication of "Common sense", on the fourth of July, 1776, the Americans issued the "Declaration of Independence" whose principal

author was __________.

A : Jonathan Edwards

B : James Madison

C : Thomas Paine

D : Thomas Jefferson

23 Emerson openly rejects ecclesiastic dominion over the spiritual life of the individual and advocates that man become his own church in one of his lectures

called __________.

A : The Divinity School Address

B : Representative Men

C : Society and Solitude

D : The Conduct of Life

24 __________ by Melville, subtitled as "His Forty Years of Exile" is a historical novel about the American Revolution.

A : The Confidence Man

B : The Piazza Tales

C : Anne of Green Gables

D : Israel Potter

25 The first professional poet of New England was __________, who was the wife of a farmer and mother of eight children.

A : Anne Bradstreet

B : Harriet Beecher Stowe

C : Louisa Alcott

D : Judith Murray

26 Arrange the following writers in chronological order.

1. Washingtone Irving

2. Benjamin Franklin

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Henry David Thoreau

A : 3, 2, 4, 1

B : 4, 3, 2, 1

C : 2, 1, 3, 4

D : 1, 3, 4, 2

27 Which of the following poems are not written by Bruce Dawe?

(i) Life – cycle

(ii) Blood

(iii) Quintets for Robert Morley

(iv) Home coming

A : (i) and (ii)

B : (iii) and (iv)

C : (ii) and (iii)

D : (i) and (iv)

28 __________ is the first Canadian novel which explores some of the central tensions in the Canadian settler life.

A : The Backwoods of Canada

B : The History of Emily Montague

C : Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

D : Klee Wynk

29 Which poem begins with the following lines:

"He invented a rainbow but lightning struck it

Shattered it into the lake-lap of a mountain".

A : Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer

B : Bushed

C : Low Tide on Grand Pre

D : Maps

30 Arrange the following writers in chronological order:

1. Rudy Wiebe :

2. Alistair Macleod:

3. George Elliott Clarke:

4. Jeannette. C. Armstrong

A : 2, 1, 3, 4

B : 2, 4, 3, 1

C : 3, 4, 2, 1

D : 1, 2, 4, 3

31 Who selects and interprets facts according to the prevailing prejudices of his days ?

A : The Botanist

B : The Zoologist

C : The Anthropologist

D : The Biologist

32 In Acts of Literature, who said "Literature seemed to me, in a confused way, to be the institution which allows one to say everything, in every way."

A : Jacques Derrida

B : Jean Paul Sartre

C : Michel Foucault

D : Francois Lyotard

33 In strong contrast with Bacon is Richard Hooker, one of the greatest prose writers of the Elizabethan Age. One must read the story of his life, an obscure and lowly life animated by a great spirit. These lines were uttered by:

A : Izaak Walton

B : Sir Philip Sidney

C : Sir Walter Raleigh

D : Raleigh

34 Identify the writer and the work in the given quotation:

"Against the Karakas. Then the Karaka-trees would be hidden and they were so lovely, with their broad gleaming leaves, and their clusters of yellow fruit".

A : Mary Ursula Bethel's "Pause"

B : Janet Frame's "From Faces in the water".

C : Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party".

D : Allen Curnow's "House and Land".

35 The Oxford scholar Robert Burton's famous work which influenced the prose works of Dr Johnson and Charles Lamb is:

A : The Anatomy of wit

B : The Anatomy of senses

C : The Anatomy of Influence

D : The Anatomy of Melancholy.

36 Who is referred as a foster child in the passage ?

A : Dusyanta

B : marauding demons

C : Sakuntala

D : Sita

37 Like all the __________ Henry David Thoreau belives that happiness and contentment lie in simplicity, service, sacrifice and trust.

A : great writer

B : great poet

C : great philosopher

D : great playwright

38 When did Tagore wrote a number of patriotic poems, songs, articles during the painful partition of Bengal ?

A : 1948

B : 1988

C : 1963

D : 1905

39 Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

The play opens with Dusyanta on a hunt. He enters the forest where Kanya's hermitage is situated, first as a hunter, later as a protector of the hermitage against marauding demons. He meets Sakuntala, who lives among the trees and flowering plants as if she were one of them, tending the does and fawns as a foster mother as she herself has been tended by Kanva and others as a foster child. Dusyanta falls in love with her and she with him. They marry secretly according to one of the eight accepted modes of marriage.

How does the play open ?

A : Demons meet

B : foster mother

C : Dusyanta's hunt

D : marriage ceremony

40 In which year was Rabindranath Tagore awarded Nobel Prize for Literature ?

A : 1998

B : 2011

C : 1913

D : 1948

41 Arrange the following events related to the origins of human Language in Chronological orders.

1. Emergence of a genetic change affecting the way early humans used their brains.

2. Discovery of the Foxp2 gene and its role in language development.

3. Development of a Simple Protolanguage resembling Pidgim.

4. Spread of modern humans (homo Sapiens) from Africa to other parts of the world.

A : 1, 2, 3, 4

B : 4, 2, 3, 1

C : 3, 1, 4, 2

D : 4, 3, 1, 2

42 

A : (1)-(a), (2)-(b), (3)- ( c), (4)-(d)

B : (1)-(d), (2)-(a), (3)- ( b) (4)-(c)

C : (1)-(d), (2)-(c), (3)- ( b), (4)-(a)

D : (1)-(b), (2)-(a), (3)- (d), (4)-(c)

43 " Human language is innate : in the brain is a genetically transmitted 'language organ' which determines the syntactic and semantic properties of all languages.

Hence all languages have the same underlying structure". Whose view is quoted above ?

A : Thomas Sprat

B : William Harvey

C : Noam Chomsky

D : John Wallis

44 The Short lines of two or three Stresses intentionally rough and Variable in meter which have come to be called __________.

A : Skeltonics

B : Epigram

C : Sestina

D : Tanka

45 Choose the right answer from the following :

Which of the following statements based on phonology are true ?

I Phonology can be divided into two area, segmental and suprasegmental phonology.

II Segmental Phonology deals with syllables, words and intonation phrases and suprasegmental concerned with speech sounds.

III It does not deal with the production properties and perception of the speech sound and human Languages.

IV Segmental phonology analyzes the speech sounds.

A : I only

B : I & II only

C : I, II & IV only

D : I & IV only

46 An expression that deviates from ordinary usage to call attention to itself and has been overused so often that it is felt to be hackneyed signifies __________.

A : Euphemism

B : Synecdoche

C : Metonymy

D : Cliché

47 The mark of heightening the style in rhythm, diction, repetitions figurative language that makes a passage of verse especially a descriptive passage stand out from its context is known as __________.

A : Purple Patch

B : Pyrrhic

C : Equivoque

D : Paranomasia

48 Community Language Learning (CLL) is the name of a method, developed by __________.

A : Prof James Asher

B : Prof. C.A. Curran

C : Prof. Noam Chomsky

D : Prof. Gattengo

49 The written history of sign language began in the 17th century in Spain. The first Modern treatise of phonetics and logopedia, in 1620, was written by __________.

A : Juan Pablo Bonet

B : Mac Neilage

C : Mc Cowan

D : Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof

50

A : A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

B : A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

C : A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

D : A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

51 A Study of Indian writing in English will provide

A : a historical perspective on the nativization of English.

B : Use of English

C : background of Indian poetics and imagination.

D : Western Culture.

52 Who recommended that the spread of Western learning could only be possible through the medium of English language.

A : Ram Mohan Roy

B : Macaulay

C : Rajagopalachari

D : Sri Aurabindo.

53 An experiment to test comprehension deviced by Fraser, Bellugi and Brown in 1963 is the __________.

A : Shipley test

B : Berkeley test

C : VCP test

D : ICP test

54 __________ learners like to manipulate materials and like to build, fix or make things or put things together.

A : Tactile

B : Authority-Oriented

C : Kinesthetic

D : Auditory

55 The principle of thinking and philosophy in a language study is well illustrated in Urban's book ___________.

A : The Pronunciation of English.

B : Principles of English Etymology.

C : Literary Middle English Reader.

D : Language and Reality.

56 The Natural Approach is primarily designed to develop basic communication skills. __________ are of the view that " the purpose of a language course will vary according to the needs of the students and their particular interests".

A : Roger and Brown

B : Bailey and Madden

C : Krashen and Terrell

D : Dulay and Burt

57 Assertion (A) : Cooperative Learning recommends that students with different variables of proficiency become groupmates.

Reasoning (R) : Teachers do not use this variable to create heterogeneous groups.

Choose the correct option.

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

B : Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

C : (A) is true and (R) is false.

D : Both (A) and (R) are false.

58 EAL is an abbreviation of __________.

A : English Advanced Learners

B : English as Additional Language

C : English for Academic Learning

D : Economically Average Learner

59

A : 1 3 2 4

B : 2 3 1 4

C : 1 2 3 4

D : 2 4 3 1

60 What is the best way to expose a word, so that students will get clear cut idea about the usage of the word ?

A : By drawing and painting

B : By word games

C : By doing Vocabulary exercises.

D : By doing translation

61 German thinker Edmund Husserl established the philosophical perspective and method which is termed __________ .

A : hermeneutics

B : psychological criticism

C : new historicism

D : phenomenology

62 Leo Tolstoy in What is Art ? has no use for __________ definitions that seek the nature of art in something supernatural.

A : metaphorical

B : sublime

C : metaphysical

D : objective

63 To which institution were the cultural critics like Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno associated with ?

A : Frankfurt school

B : Birmingham University

C : College de France

D : Ecole Normale Superieure

64 Identify the incorrect statement with regard to Edward W. said's orientalism

A : The Orient is an integral part of European material civilization and culture

B : The Orient has helped to define Europe as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience

C : The Orient was well appreciated by the West for its vast and vivid cultural diversity

D : The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.

65 Which among the following is not a definition of the term "Culture" proposed by Raymond Williams ?

A : "Culture is ordinary"

B : "__________ culture is about ' shared meaning' __________ "

C : " __________ culture meant a state or habit of the mind or the body of intellectual and moral activities, it means now, also, a whole way of life __________"

D : " Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language"

66 Dialogic criticism is modeled by the Soviet Critic __________ .

A : Michael Bakhtin

B : Boris Eichenbaum

C : Victor Shklovsky

D : Roman Jakobson

67 As an anthropologist, __________ wanted to discover, at the level of structure, what all humans share by view of being human.

A : Ferdinand de saussure

B : Claude Levi-Strauss

C: Jacques Lacan

D: Luce Irigaray

68 Assertion (A):Carl G. Jung and other Jungian critics focus on the genesis of myth and archetypes.

Reason (R): Myth critics such as Northrop Frye focus on their analysis

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

B : Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

C : (A) is true, but (R) is false

D : (A) is false, but (R) is true

69 Which Indian sociologist critically analysed the political and cinematic career of M.G.R in the book The Image Trap: M. G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics?

A : Sudhir Kakar

B : M.N. Srinivas

C : Ashis Nandy

D : M.S.S. Pandian

70 A Martinique born poet Aime Cesaire published his essay captioned "Discourse on colanalism", which was responsible for the emergence of concepts like

__________ .

A : Solititude

B : Gratitude

C : Negritude

D : Multitude

71 Mango Souffle' one of the first pioneer gay themed films in India is an adaptation of Mahesh Dattani's play __________.

A : Seven steps around the Fire

B : On a Muggy Night in Mumbai

C : Dance like a Man

D : Do the Needful

72 Which novel of Salman Rushdie did enter the science fiction competition before official publication and lost the contest?

A : Midnight Children

B : Grimus

C : Shame

D : The Satanic verses

73 "The Rajaji Story : A warrior from the South" was written by __________

A : Raj Mohan Gandhi

B : Masti Venkatesa Iyengar

C : Chalapathi Raju

D : B.R. Nanda

74 To promote modern poetry in English, when was the "Writers Workshop" founded by P. Lal.

A : 1956

B : 1958

C : 1960

D : 1962

75 Which play of T.P. Kailasam deals with Ekalavya's decision to join Kauravas on the eve of Kurukshetra war?

A : Burden

B : Fulfilment

C : Kaikeye

D : Keechaka

76 __________ was a piecemeal verse autobiography, and was hailed at the time as "The first book of the first Parsi".

A : The Indian muse in English Garb

B : Gujarat and Gujarati

C : The Indian Eye on English Life

D : The Indian Patriot

77 The Royal Ascetic and the Hind, written by ___________, takes the idea from Vishnu Purana.

A : Manmohan Ghose

B : Toru Dutt

C : Henry Derozio

D : Sarojini Naidu

78 In __________ R.K. Narayan offers direct criticism of educational system as to churn out clerk for business and administrative office."

A : The English Teacher

B : Swami and Friends

C : Bachelor of Arts

D : The Dark Room

79

A : 1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D

B : 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D

C : 1-C, 2-A, 3-B, 4-D

D : 1-D, 2-C, 3-A, 4-B

80 Bruce mason's classic __________ constructs a very similar model for the society of Te Parenga, where Aroba Mataira stubbornly clings to the last piece of tribal land in the district.

A : The Verdict

B : Birds in the Wilderness

C : The End of the Golden Weather

D : The Pohutukawa Tree

81 According to Iser, the reader whom the text creates for itself and amounts to 'a network of response-inviting structures' which predispose us to read in certain

ways is __________ reader.

A : actual

B : primary

C : implied

D : imagined

82 Natives fallen under the sway of European civilization, like the nationalist Aladi in Joyce cary's __________ are ultimately regarded as victims, pathetic rather

than tragic of a historical process that exceeds them.

A : Mistor Johnson

B : An American Visitor

C : African Witch

D : Aissa Saved

83 __________ poetic autobiography " Barabajan Poems" is important in understanding the journey he made, from Barbados to Cambridge University, and then to Ghana.

A : Adisa Andwele's

B : Kamau Brathwaite's

C : George Laming's

D : Esther Phillip's

84 "The Sore-Footed Man" and "The Temptations of Oedipus" are the most accomplished plays of __________.

A : Pinky Agnew

B : Leon Wadham

C : James K. Baxter

D : Dave Armstrong

85 __________ is another of Sargeson's blasts against Puritanism ; his fear of being 'locked up' and his exile on a back country farm with a new identity, suggest we are reading autobiography transferred to an incompletely hetrosexualised key.

A : I saw in my dream

B : I for one

C : Sunset village

D : Joy of the worm

86 The Rape of Clarissa is written by __________.

A : Jaeques Derrida

B : Martin Heideggar

C : Vladimir Propp

D : Terry Eagleton

87 The 'archaeological' method utilized by __________ owed a great debt to the philosopher Nietzsche.

A : Jacques Derrida

B : Foucault

C : Gilles Deleuze

D : Louis Althusser

88 Which of the following statements are true about Roland Barthes ?

(i) His first major publication is Writing Degree Zero.

(ii) The Fashion System was Barthes doctoral thesis.

(iii) Barthes taught Greek in Romania.

(iv) The author is replaced by Barthes with the scriptor.

A : (i) only

B : (i) and (ii) only

C : (i) (ii) and (iv) only

D : (ii) and (iv) only

89 Bakhtin's "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics" was published in __________.

A : 1929

B : 1984

C : 1965

D : 1981

90 Who is interpreted by Hartman to be 'Consciousness of self raised to apocalyptic pitch'?

A : Derrida

B : Wordsworth

C : Eliot

D : Marshall

91 Choose the correct sequence of the research process:

1. Define Research problem

2. Formulate Hypothesis

3. Review of Literature

4. Design Research

5. Interpret and report

6. Collecting data

7. Analysing data

A : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

B : 1, 3, 2, 4, 6, 7, 5

C : 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3

D : 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 2, 4

92 Ethnomethodology and Critical Linguistics are traditions that are a part of __________.

A : Sceptic Research

B : Creative Writing Studies

C : Discourse Analysis

D : Interview

93 Seamus Heaney argues __________ is transformed into __________ in a moment of discovery.

A : inarticulate, Cognitive bounds

B : Craft, technique

C : technique, craft

D : cognitive bounds, inarticulate

94 In what order does the online catelog typically display search results when searching by author's full name ?

A : Alphabetically by author's first name

B : Alphabetically by author's last name

C : Chronologically by publication date

D : Randomly generated order

95 __________ is one of the Primary functions of a research design.

A : To formulate the research problem

B : To Collect relevant evidence with minimal expenditure of time, effort and money.

C : To analyse research findings and reliability of the data

D : To conduct a review of literature.

96 What is the first step in developing any sample design ?

A : Determining the Sampling unit

B : Creating a source list, from which Sample is to be drawn

C : Defining the parameters of interest

D : to define the set of objects, technically called the universe.

97 Which of the following examples demonstrates the correct usage of hyphen and en dashes according to MLA handbook 9th edition ?

A : Cultural studies approach

B : Post-World War II era

C : Civil-rights-based legislation

D : Less-expensive option.

98 Close Reading is understood to be about __________.

A : Visual methodologies

B : Interview

C : Textual Analysis

D : Creative Writing.

99 _________ is usually regarded not as a research method, but as a means of presenting its results.

A : Oral History

B : Writing

C : Interview

D : Computing

100 Failings of both the new and old auto/biography is __________.

A : Partiality

B : Exclusion

C : Individualistic

D : All the above

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