UPHESC Assistant Professor English Solved Question Paper Exam April 2025 (Advt. No. 51)
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UPHESC Assistant Professor English Solved Question Paper Exam April 2025 (Advt. No. 51)
Part-1: General Knowledge (Q. No. 1-30).
Part-2: English Literature (Q. No. 31-100).
31. Which of the following would best describe the relationship among the Knight, the Squire, and the Yeoman in the General Prologue?
(A) Son, father, attendant
(B) Attendant, father, son
(C) Father, attendant, son
(D) Father, son, attendant
Answer: (D)
32. The other name of The Tragedy of Gorboduc is -
(A) Senecan Tragedy
(B) Ferrex and Porrex
(C) Fall Down
(D) Tragedy of Two Brothers
Answer: (B)
33. Which play by Christopher Marlowe features the line “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships”?
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) Doctor Faustus
(C) Dido, Queen of Carthage
(D) Edward II
Answer: (B)
34. What is the name of Tess’s ill-begotten child?
(A) Happiness
(B) Sorrow
(C) Repentance
(D) Buddy
Answer: (B)
35. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Surely some revelation is at hand; i. Ode on a Grecian Urn
b. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? ii. Ode to the West Wind
c. If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; iii. The Second Coming
d. I will show you fear in a handful of dust iv. The Waste Land
(A) a – i, b – ii, c – iii, d – iv
(B) a – iii, b – ii, c – i, d – iv
(C) a – iii, b – i, c – ii, d – iv
(D) a – ii, b – i, c – iii, d – iv
Answer: (C)
36. What is the title of the last volume of A. K. Ramanujan’s collection of poems?
(A) The Striders
(B) Relations
(C) The Black Hen
(D) The Second Sight
Answer: (C)
37. A metrical unit with two stressed syllables is called -
(A) Spondee
(B) Anapest
(C) Trochee
(D) Dactyl
Answer: (A)
38. Who among the following wrote the book A Map of Misreading?
(A) Geoffrey Hartman
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) John Drakakis
(D) Frank Kermode
Answer: (B)
39. Who among the following said “We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indians. We have grown to look at the large world as part of us.”?
(A) R. K. Narayan
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Arun Joshi
Answer: (C)
40. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. They know not well the subtle ways i. Success is Counted Sweetest
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
b. A worship new I sing, you captains, ii. Passage to India
voyagers, explorers, yours, you engineers,
you architects, machinists, yours, you, not
for trade or transportation only, But in God’s
name, and for thy sake, O soul.
c. To comprehend a nector requires sorest need. iii. Brahma
d. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder iv. Mending Wall
if I could put a notion in his head: why do they
make good neighbors.
(A) a – ii, b – iii, c – iv, d – i
(B) a – ii, b – iii, c – i, d – iv
(C) a – ii, b – i, c – iv, d – iii
(D) a – iii, b – ii, c – i, d – iv
Answer: (D)
41. Which of the following is an example of a bilabial consonant?
(A) /t/
(B) /p/
(C) /d/
(D) /f/
Answer: (B)
42. In which essay of T. S. Eliot we find the discussion of dissociation of sensibility?
(A) “The Perfect Critic”
(B) “Hamlet and His Problems”
(C) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(D) “The Function of Criticism”
Answer: (C)
43. Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was published in the year
(A) 1756
(B) 1759
(C) 1765
(D) 1769
Answer: (C)
44. Who has uttered the following lines in the play Saint Joan?
“The old Greek tragedy is rising among us. It is the chastisement of hubris.”
(A) Joan
(B) Charles
(C) Bluebard
(D) The Archbishop
Answer: (D)
45. Which chapter signifies the final stage of Paul Morel’s emotional and psychological journey in the novel Sons and Lovers?
(A) The Release
(B) Derelict
(C) The Death of William
(D) The Triumph of Clara
Answer: (B)
46. Arrange the following works in chronological order :
I. Culture and Anarchy
II. Biographia Literaria
III. The Study of Poetry
IV. Lyrical Ballads
(A) IV, II, I, III
(B) II, IV, I, III
(C) IV, II, III, I
(D) II, IV, III, I
Answer: (A)
47. Name the colour and the deity of Shant Rasa.
(A) White – Indra
(B) Blue – Krishna
(C) White – Vishnu
(D) Red – Brahma
Answer: (C)
48. Identify the critic who is of the view that “the two pillars upon which a theory of criticism must rest are an account of value and an account of communication”.
(A) F. R. Leavis
(B) I. A. Richards
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: (B)
49. Who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful ?
(A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(B) Samuel Butler
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: (C)
50. Which of the following characters of Shakespeare has an anagram for a name?
(A) Mercutio
(B) Falstaff
(C) Caliban
(D) Hamlet
Answer: (C)
51. Who has said that “Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important. ”?
(A) Friedrich Nietzsche
(B) Victor Shklovsky
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Mikhail Bakhtin
Answer: (B)
52. Which of the following never hung on Santiago’s wall?
(A) Picture of sacred heart of Jesus
(B) Tinted photograph of his wife
(C) Picture of Fidel Castro
(D) Picture of the Virgin Cobre
Answer: (C)
53. The sentence ‘Flying planes are dangerous’ is an example of
(A) Surface structure
(B) Deep structure
(C) Ostensive proposition
(D) Noun phrase
Answer: (B)
54. Arrange the following in the sequence of their publication :
I. Death of a Salesman
II. The Scarlet Letter
III. The Old Man and the Sea
IV. Moby Dick
(A) I, II, IV, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) I, III, II, IV
Answer: (A)
55. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Chitra Kavya i. Bharat Muni
b. Bhayanakam ii. Carl Jung
c. Affective Stylistics iii. Anandavardhana
d. Racial Memories iv. Stanley Fish
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(A) a – i, b – iii, c – iv, d – ii
(B) a – iii, b – i, c – iv, d – ii
(C) a – iii, b – i, c – ii, d – iv
(D) a – i, b – iii, c – ii, d – iv
Answer: (B)
56. Where is the grammarian buried in “A Grammarian’s Funeral”?
(A) On a high mount
(B) In a sacred bush
(C) In a sacred cave
(D) In a school ground
Answer: (A)
57. Arrange the following in a chronological order :
I. Corn Laws passed
II. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published
III. Jane Austen’s Emma published
IV. David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy published
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) I, III, IV, II
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) IV, II, III, I
Answer: (B)
58. Which game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party?
(A) A game of chess
(B) Blindman’s buff
(C) A game of cards
(D) Musical chairs
Answer: (B)
59. “For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people. ”
The given lines occur in an essay by
(A) Thomas Carlyle
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) George Orwell
Answer: (C)
60. What is the source of the epigraph of The Waste Land?
(A) Dante’s “Inferno”
(B) Petronius’s “Satyricon”
(C) Homer’s Odyssey
(D) Virgil’s Aeneid
Answer: (B)
61. In John Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, who speaks for the “moderns”?
(A) Crites
(B) Eugenius
(C) Lisedeius
(D) Neander
Answer: (D)
62. Who wished to be called a Synecdochist?
(A) R.W. Emerson
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Emily Dickinson
Answer: (B)
63. In The Lion and the Jewel, for whom the metaphor of fox is used?
(A) Sidi
(B) Barako
(C) Lekunle
(D) Sadiku
Answer: (B)
64. Which branch of Linguistics examines language use, its variation, its development, change and standardisation, its regional and class dialects, its lingua francas and its specialised codes?
(A) Psycholinguistics
(B) Applied linguistics
(C) Sociolinguistics
(D) Stylistics
Answer: (C)
65. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
In which play of Shakespeare does the above line appear?
(A) Romeo and Juliet
(B) All’s Well That Ends Well
(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer: (D)
66. Jane Austen borrowed the title Pride and Prejudice from a novel written by
(A) Samuel Richardson
(B) Frances Burney
(C) Aphra Behn
(D) Sir Walter Scott
Answer: (B)
67. What is the name of captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
(A) The Pequod
(B) The Essex
(C) The Rachel
(D) The Endeavor
Answer: (A)
68. Which of the following is not used in the falling tone?
(A) Statements made without emotional implications
(B) ‘Wh’ questions asked neutrally
(C) Polite requests
(D) Commands
Answer: (C)
69. The pair “too/two’’ is an example of
(A) Homography
(B) Homophony
(C) Polysemy
(D) Collocation
Answer: (B)
70. Which of the following poems contains the expression “disjucta membra’’?
(A) Africa
(B) Ruins of a Great House
(C) Tizzic
(D) Judas
Answer: (B)
71. Who among the following coined the term “Negritude”?
(A) Edward Braithwait
(B) Derek Walcott
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Aime Cesaire
Answer: (D)
72. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Gitanjali is a collection of poems. Tagore received the Nobel prize for literature in 1916 for
its English translation, song offering.
Statement II: Mahatma Gandhi originally wrote Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule in English and later
translated it into his native language Gujarati.
In the light of above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) Both the Statements are true
(B) Both the Statements are false
(C) Statement I is true and Statement II is false
(D) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Answer: (B)
73. The vocal tract includes the Cavities inside
(A) The lungs and the mouth
(B) The mouth and the nose
(C) The mouth, nose and lungs
(D) Fossae, larynx and trachea
Answer: (B)
74. Who was put on trial in 1786 in the British history?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Warren Hastings
(D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
Answer: (C)
75. The expression “Nobody comes, nobody goes” is a refrain in the play
(A) The Way of the World
(B) Candida
(C) Look Back in Anger
(D) Waiting for Godot
Answer: (C)
76. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Mccann is a female character in The Birthday Party.
Statement II: The Birthday Party has been described as a “comedy of menace”.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) Both the Statements are true
(B) Both the Statements are false
(C) Statement I is true and Statement II is false
(D) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Answer: ()
77. What is the original Greek title of Longinus’s “On the Sublime”?
(A) Peri Hypsous
(B) Poetica Hypsous
(C) Tractatus Sublimis
(D) De Sublimitate
Answer: (D)
78. Name the structuralist critic who gave the idea of vestimentary code of dressing sense.
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Gerard Gennette
(D) Levi Strauss
Answer: (A)
79. Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems was published under the title
(A) The Golden threshold
(B) The Broken wing
(C) The Sceptred Flute
(D) The Feather of the Dawn
Answer: (A)
80. When people speak different forms of a language in different social situations, the phenomenon is referred to as
(A) Diglossia
(B) Bilingualism
(C) Multilingualism
(D) Ethnicism
Answer: (A)
81. In summer of the seventeenth doll, vera is associated with
(A) Roo
(B) Pearl
(C) Emma
(D) Bubba
Answer: (B)
82. ‘‘My manners are tearing off heads.’’
The above line is from the poem
(A) ‘‘Crow’’
(B) ‘‘Hawk Roosting’’
(C) “Jaguar’’
(D) ‘‘Snowdrop’’
Answer: (B)
83. In which magazine was ‘‘Culture and Anarchy’’ first published?
(A) Christian Observer
(B) The London Review
(C) Harper’s Weekly
(D) Cornhill Magazine
Answer: (D)
84. When was the Libel Act that restricted the freedom of the press, passed in the British Parliament?
(A) 1789
(B) 1792
(C) 1798
(D) 1805
Answer: (B)
85. Under the Net is the first published novel of
(A) Graham Greene
(B) William Golding
(C) Iris Murdoch
(D) George Orwell
Answer: (C)
86. What, according to Aristotle, is the difference between poetry and history?
(A) Poetry is fictional while history is factual
(B) Poetry deals with universal truths while history is specific
(C) Poetry is rhythmic; history is prosaic
(D) Poetry appeals to emotions while history appeals to reason
Answer: (B)
87. The terms, “Repressive State Apparatuses (RSAs)’’ and ‘‘Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs)’’ are
associated with
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser
Answer: (D)
88. ‘‘‘What do the kids at school say ?’
‘Anything, Italian, Greek, Indian.’
Tell them you’re Indian.’’
These lines occur in
(A) ‘‘Indian Reservation : Caughnawaga’’
(B) ‘‘The Bear on the Delhi Road’’
(C) My Place
(D) The Mystic Drum
Answer: (C)
89. How many times has Margaret Atwood bagged the Booker Prize?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) None of these
Answer: (B)
90. Whose philosophical ideas influenced G.B. Shaw as expressed in his play Man and Superman?
(A) Henri Bergson
(B) Immanuel Kant
(C) Friedrick Nietzsche
(D) Edmond Spencer
Answer: (C)
91. The expression ‘Cymini Sectores’ in ‘‘of studies’’ means
(A) The area in London where chimines were placed
(B) The industrialists
(C) Hair splitters
(D) Colleges
Answer: (C)
92. Identify the figure of speech in the following line:
‘‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’’
(A) Metonymy
(B) Personification
(C) Transferred epithet
(D) Metaphor
Answer: (D)
93. How many consonants are possible in a final consonant cluster in English?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Answer: (C)
94. ‘‘I am not an American. I am the American.’’ Who gave this statement?
(A) Mark Twain
(B) R.W. Emerson
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Arthur Miller
Answer: (A)
95. A syllable on which there is a pitch change, is said to have a
(A) Static tone
(B) Move
(C) Consonant cluster
(D) Kinetic tone
Answer: (D)
96. ‘‘See, see where christ’s blood streams in the firmament. One drop would save my soul, half a drop : ah, my Christ’’
The underlying theme in the above lines is related to
(A) Damnation
(B) Blessing
(C) Redemption
(D) Decadence
Answer: (C)
97. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II.
L ist – I List – II
a. ‘‘Desire itself is movement’’ I. ‘‘Dover Beach’’
b. ‘‘Consume my heart away; sick with desire’’ II. ‘‘Hawk Roosting’’
c. ‘‘Now I hold creation in my foot’’ III. ‘‘Burnt Norton’’
d. ‘‘Ah, love, let us be true to one another’’ IV. ‘‘Sailing to Byzantium’’
(A) a – I, b – II, c – III, d – IV
(B) a – II, b – III, c – IV, d – I
(C) a – III, b – IV, c – II, d – I
(D) a – IV, b – I, c – III, d – II
Answer: (C)
98. Which Victorian author wrote the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’’?
(A) Eliza Lynn
(B) Henry Wood
(C) George Eliot
(D) Charles Dickens
Answer: (C)
99. In Charles Lamb’s ‘‘Dream Children’’, ‘‘the faithful Bridget’’ refers to
(A) Lamb’s Early Love Ann Simmons
(B) Lamb’s Sister mary
(C) Mr. Bartrum
(D) John Lamb
Answer: (B)
100. Who proposed the term “tricontinentalism’’ for post colonialism to show the commonality among Asia, Africa, and South America with regard to colonialism?
(A) Frantz Fanon
(B) Robert Young
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Answer: (B)
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UPHESC Assistant Professor English Solved Question Paper Exam April 2025 (Advt. No. 51)
Part-1: General Knowledge (Q. No. 1-30).
Part-2: English Literature (Q. No. 31-100).
31. Which of the following would best describe the relationship among the Knight, the Squire, and the Yeoman in the General Prologue?
(A) Son, father, attendant
(B) Attendant, father, son
(C) Father, attendant, son
(D) Father, son, attendant
Answer: (D)
32. The other name of The Tragedy of Gorboduc is -
(A) Senecan Tragedy
(B) Ferrex and Porrex
(C) Fall Down
(D) Tragedy of Two Brothers
Answer: (B)
33. Which play by Christopher Marlowe features the line “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships”?
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) Doctor Faustus
(C) Dido, Queen of Carthage
(D) Edward II
Answer: (B)
34. What is the name of Tess’s ill-begotten child?
(A) Happiness
(B) Sorrow
(C) Repentance
(D) Buddy
Answer: (B)
35. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Surely some revelation is at hand; i. Ode on a Grecian Urn
b. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? ii. Ode to the West Wind
c. If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; iii. The Second Coming
d. I will show you fear in a handful of dust iv. The Waste Land
(A) a – i, b – ii, c – iii, d – iv
(B) a – iii, b – ii, c – i, d – iv
(C) a – iii, b – i, c – ii, d – iv
(D) a – ii, b – i, c – iii, d – iv
Answer: (C)
36. What is the title of the last volume of A. K. Ramanujan’s collection of poems?
(A) The Striders
(B) Relations
(C) The Black Hen
(D) The Second Sight
Answer: (C)
37. A metrical unit with two stressed syllables is called -
(A) Spondee
(B) Anapest
(C) Trochee
(D) Dactyl
Answer: (A)
38. Who among the following wrote the book A Map of Misreading?
(A) Geoffrey Hartman
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) John Drakakis
(D) Frank Kermode
Answer: (B)
39. Who among the following said “We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indians. We have grown to look at the large world as part of us.”?
(A) R. K. Narayan
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Arun Joshi
Answer: (C)
40. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. They know not well the subtle ways i. Success is Counted Sweetest
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
b. A worship new I sing, you captains, ii. Passage to India
voyagers, explorers, yours, you engineers,
you architects, machinists, yours, you, not
for trade or transportation only, But in God’s
name, and for thy sake, O soul.
c. To comprehend a nector requires sorest need. iii. Brahma
d. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder iv. Mending Wall
if I could put a notion in his head: why do they
make good neighbors.
(A) a – ii, b – iii, c – iv, d – i
(B) a – ii, b – iii, c – i, d – iv
(C) a – ii, b – i, c – iv, d – iii
(D) a – iii, b – ii, c – i, d – iv
Answer: (D)
41. Which of the following is an example of a bilabial consonant?
(A) /t/
(B) /p/
(C) /d/
(D) /f/
Answer: (B)
42. In which essay of T. S. Eliot we find the discussion of dissociation of sensibility?
(A) “The Perfect Critic”
(B) “Hamlet and His Problems”
(C) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(D) “The Function of Criticism”
Answer: (C)
43. Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was published in the year
(A) 1756
(B) 1759
(C) 1765
(D) 1769
Answer: (C)
44. Who has uttered the following lines in the play Saint Joan?
“The old Greek tragedy is rising among us. It is the chastisement of hubris.”
(A) Joan
(B) Charles
(C) Bluebard
(D) The Archbishop
Answer: (D)
45. Which chapter signifies the final stage of Paul Morel’s emotional and psychological journey in the novel Sons and Lovers?
(A) The Release
(B) Derelict
(C) The Death of William
(D) The Triumph of Clara
Answer: (B)
46. Arrange the following works in chronological order :
I. Culture and Anarchy
II. Biographia Literaria
III. The Study of Poetry
IV. Lyrical Ballads
(A) IV, II, I, III
(B) II, IV, I, III
(C) IV, II, III, I
(D) II, IV, III, I
Answer: (A)
47. Name the colour and the deity of Shant Rasa.
(A) White – Indra
(B) Blue – Krishna
(C) White – Vishnu
(D) Red – Brahma
Answer: (C)
48. Identify the critic who is of the view that “the two pillars upon which a theory of criticism must rest are an account of value and an account of communication”.
(A) F. R. Leavis
(B) I. A. Richards
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: (B)
49. Who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful ?
(A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(B) Samuel Butler
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: (C)
50. Which of the following characters of Shakespeare has an anagram for a name?
(A) Mercutio
(B) Falstaff
(C) Caliban
(D) Hamlet
Answer: (C)
51. Who has said that “Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important. ”?
(A) Friedrich Nietzsche
(B) Victor Shklovsky
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Mikhail Bakhtin
Answer: (B)
52. Which of the following never hung on Santiago’s wall?
(A) Picture of sacred heart of Jesus
(B) Tinted photograph of his wife
(C) Picture of Fidel Castro
(D) Picture of the Virgin Cobre
Answer: (C)
53. The sentence ‘Flying planes are dangerous’ is an example of
(A) Surface structure
(B) Deep structure
(C) Ostensive proposition
(D) Noun phrase
Answer: (B)
54. Arrange the following in the sequence of their publication :
I. Death of a Salesman
II. The Scarlet Letter
III. The Old Man and the Sea
IV. Moby Dick
(A) I, II, IV, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) I, III, II, IV
Answer: (A)
55. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Chitra Kavya i. Bharat Muni
b. Bhayanakam ii. Carl Jung
c. Affective Stylistics iii. Anandavardhana
d. Racial Memories iv. Stanley Fish
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(A) a – i, b – iii, c – iv, d – ii
(B) a – iii, b – i, c – iv, d – ii
(C) a – iii, b – i, c – ii, d – iv
(D) a – i, b – iii, c – ii, d – iv
Answer: (B)
56. Where is the grammarian buried in “A Grammarian’s Funeral”?
(A) On a high mount
(B) In a sacred bush
(C) In a sacred cave
(D) In a school ground
Answer: (A)
57. Arrange the following in a chronological order :
I. Corn Laws passed
II. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published
III. Jane Austen’s Emma published
IV. David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy published
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) I, III, IV, II
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) IV, II, III, I
Answer: (B)
58. Which game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party?
(A) A game of chess
(B) Blindman’s buff
(C) A game of cards
(D) Musical chairs
Answer: (B)
59. “For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people. ”
The given lines occur in an essay by
(A) Thomas Carlyle
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) George Orwell
Answer: (C)
60. What is the source of the epigraph of The Waste Land?
(A) Dante’s “Inferno”
(B) Petronius’s “Satyricon”
(C) Homer’s Odyssey
(D) Virgil’s Aeneid
Answer: (B)
61. In John Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, who speaks for the “moderns”?
(A) Crites
(B) Eugenius
(C) Lisedeius
(D) Neander
Answer: (D)
62. Who wished to be called a Synecdochist?
(A) R.W. Emerson
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Emily Dickinson
Answer: (B)
63. In The Lion and the Jewel, for whom the metaphor of fox is used?
(A) Sidi
(B) Barako
(C) Lekunle
(D) Sadiku
Answer: (B)
64. Which branch of Linguistics examines language use, its variation, its development, change and standardisation, its regional and class dialects, its lingua francas and its specialised codes?
(A) Psycholinguistics
(B) Applied linguistics
(C) Sociolinguistics
(D) Stylistics
Answer: (C)
65. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
In which play of Shakespeare does the above line appear?
(A) Romeo and Juliet
(B) All’s Well That Ends Well
(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer: (D)
66. Jane Austen borrowed the title Pride and Prejudice from a novel written by
(A) Samuel Richardson
(B) Frances Burney
(C) Aphra Behn
(D) Sir Walter Scott
Answer: (B)
67. What is the name of captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
(A) The Pequod
(B) The Essex
(C) The Rachel
(D) The Endeavor
Answer: (A)
68. Which of the following is not used in the falling tone?
(A) Statements made without emotional implications
(B) ‘Wh’ questions asked neutrally
(C) Polite requests
(D) Commands
Answer: (C)
69. The pair “too/two’’ is an example of
(A) Homography
(B) Homophony
(C) Polysemy
(D) Collocation
Answer: (B)
70. Which of the following poems contains the expression “disjucta membra’’?
(A) Africa
(B) Ruins of a Great House
(C) Tizzic
(D) Judas
Answer: (B)
71. Who among the following coined the term “Negritude”?
(A) Edward Braithwait
(B) Derek Walcott
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Aime Cesaire
Answer: (D)
72. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Gitanjali is a collection of poems. Tagore received the Nobel prize for literature in 1916 for
its English translation, song offering.
Statement II: Mahatma Gandhi originally wrote Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule in English and later
translated it into his native language Gujarati.
In the light of above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) Both the Statements are true
(B) Both the Statements are false
(C) Statement I is true and Statement II is false
(D) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Answer: (B)
73. The vocal tract includes the Cavities inside
(A) The lungs and the mouth
(B) The mouth and the nose
(C) The mouth, nose and lungs
(D) Fossae, larynx and trachea
Answer: (B)
74. Who was put on trial in 1786 in the British history?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Warren Hastings
(D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
Answer: (C)
75. The expression “Nobody comes, nobody goes” is a refrain in the play
(A) The Way of the World
(B) Candida
(C) Look Back in Anger
(D) Waiting for Godot
Answer: (C)
76. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Mccann is a female character in The Birthday Party.
Statement II: The Birthday Party has been described as a “comedy of menace”.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) Both the Statements are true
(B) Both the Statements are false
(C) Statement I is true and Statement II is false
(D) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Answer: ()
77. What is the original Greek title of Longinus’s “On the Sublime”?
(A) Peri Hypsous
(B) Poetica Hypsous
(C) Tractatus Sublimis
(D) De Sublimitate
Answer: (D)
78. Name the structuralist critic who gave the idea of vestimentary code of dressing sense.
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Gerard Gennette
(D) Levi Strauss
Answer: (A)
79. Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems was published under the title
(A) The Golden threshold
(B) The Broken wing
(C) The Sceptred Flute
(D) The Feather of the Dawn
Answer: (A)
80. When people speak different forms of a language in different social situations, the phenomenon is referred to as
(A) Diglossia
(B) Bilingualism
(C) Multilingualism
(D) Ethnicism
Answer: (A)
81. In summer of the seventeenth doll, vera is associated with
(A) Roo
(B) Pearl
(C) Emma
(D) Bubba
Answer: (B)
82. ‘‘My manners are tearing off heads.’’
The above line is from the poem
(A) ‘‘Crow’’
(B) ‘‘Hawk Roosting’’
(C) “Jaguar’’
(D) ‘‘Snowdrop’’
Answer: (B)
83. In which magazine was ‘‘Culture and Anarchy’’ first published?
(A) Christian Observer
(B) The London Review
(C) Harper’s Weekly
(D) Cornhill Magazine
Answer: (D)
84. When was the Libel Act that restricted the freedom of the press, passed in the British Parliament?
(A) 1789
(B) 1792
(C) 1798
(D) 1805
Answer: (B)
85. Under the Net is the first published novel of
(A) Graham Greene
(B) William Golding
(C) Iris Murdoch
(D) George Orwell
Answer: (C)
86. What, according to Aristotle, is the difference between poetry and history?
(A) Poetry is fictional while history is factual
(B) Poetry deals with universal truths while history is specific
(C) Poetry is rhythmic; history is prosaic
(D) Poetry appeals to emotions while history appeals to reason
Answer: (B)
87. The terms, “Repressive State Apparatuses (RSAs)’’ and ‘‘Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs)’’ are
associated with
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser
Answer: (D)
88. ‘‘‘What do the kids at school say ?’
‘Anything, Italian, Greek, Indian.’
Tell them you’re Indian.’’
These lines occur in
(A) ‘‘Indian Reservation : Caughnawaga’’
(B) ‘‘The Bear on the Delhi Road’’
(C) My Place
(D) The Mystic Drum
Answer: (C)
89. How many times has Margaret Atwood bagged the Booker Prize?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) None of these
Answer: (B)
90. Whose philosophical ideas influenced G.B. Shaw as expressed in his play Man and Superman?
(A) Henri Bergson
(B) Immanuel Kant
(C) Friedrick Nietzsche
(D) Edmond Spencer
Answer: (C)
91. The expression ‘Cymini Sectores’ in ‘‘of studies’’ means
(A) The area in London where chimines were placed
(B) The industrialists
(C) Hair splitters
(D) Colleges
Answer: (C)
92. Identify the figure of speech in the following line:
‘‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’’
(A) Metonymy
(B) Personification
(C) Transferred epithet
(D) Metaphor
Answer: (D)
93. How many consonants are possible in a final consonant cluster in English?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Answer: (C)
94. ‘‘I am not an American. I am the American.’’ Who gave this statement?
(A) Mark Twain
(B) R.W. Emerson
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Arthur Miller
Answer: (A)
95. A syllable on which there is a pitch change, is said to have a
(A) Static tone
(B) Move
(C) Consonant cluster
(D) Kinetic tone
Answer: (D)
96. ‘‘See, see where christ’s blood streams in the firmament. One drop would save my soul, half a drop : ah, my Christ’’
The underlying theme in the above lines is related to
(A) Damnation
(B) Blessing
(C) Redemption
(D) Decadence
Answer: (C)
97. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II.
L ist – I List – II
a. ‘‘Desire itself is movement’’ I. ‘‘Dover Beach’’
b. ‘‘Consume my heart away; sick with desire’’ II. ‘‘Hawk Roosting’’
c. ‘‘Now I hold creation in my foot’’ III. ‘‘Burnt Norton’’
d. ‘‘Ah, love, let us be true to one another’’ IV. ‘‘Sailing to Byzantium’’
(A) a – I, b – II, c – III, d – IV
(B) a – II, b – III, c – IV, d – I
(C) a – III, b – IV, c – II, d – I
(D) a – IV, b – I, c – III, d – II
Answer: (C)
98. Which Victorian author wrote the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’’?
(A) Eliza Lynn
(B) Henry Wood
(C) George Eliot
(D) Charles Dickens
Answer: (C)
99. In Charles Lamb’s ‘‘Dream Children’’, ‘‘the faithful Bridget’’ refers to
(A) Lamb’s Early Love Ann Simmons
(B) Lamb’s Sister mary
(C) Mr. Bartrum
(D) John Lamb
Answer: (B)
100. Who proposed the term “tricontinentalism’’ for post colonialism to show the commonality among Asia, Africa, and South America with regard to colonialism?
(A) Frantz Fanon
(B) Robert Young
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Answer: (B)
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