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•ÖÖ‹Ñ?Öê …
1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions
in the booklet with the information printed on the
cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions
missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any
other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately
by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the
period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question
Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be
given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the Test Booklet Number
should be entered in the OMR Sheet and the OMR Sheet
Number should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. Negative Marking :- For each incorrect answer, 0.5 marks
shall be deducted.
D-0109 P.T.O.
Signature and Name of Invigilator OMR Sheet No. : .........................................
(To be filled by the Candidate)
Roll No.
(In words)
1. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
2. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
Roll No.____________________________
D-3009
PAPER-II
Test Booklet No.
[Maximum Marks : 100 Time : 1 
1
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4
 hours]
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖÙ£ÖµÖÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ×­Ö¤ìü¿Ö
(In figures as per admission card)
A B C D A B C D
ENGLISH
D-3009 1 P.T.O.
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7. ?ú““ÖÖ ?úÖ´Ö (Rough Work) ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?êú †Û­ŸÖ´Ö ¯Öéšü ¯Ö¸ü ?ú¸ëü …
8. µÖפü †Ö¯Ö ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ­ÖÖ´Ö µÖÖ ‹êÃÖÖ ?úÖê‡Ô ³Öß ×­Ö¿ÖÖ­Ö ×•ÖÃÖÃÖê
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9. †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ÃÖ´ÖÖ¯ŸÖ ÆüÖê­Öê ¯Ö¸ü ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ‹¾ÖÓ OMR ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯Ö¡Ö?ú
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•ÖÖ‹Ñ?Öê …
1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions
in the booklet with the information printed on the
cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions
missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any
other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately
by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the
period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question
Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be
given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the Test Booklet Number
should be entered in the OMR Sheet and the OMR Sheet
Number should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. Negative Marking :- For each incorrect answer, 0.5 marks
shall be deducted.
D-0109 P.T.O.
Signature and Name of Invigilator OMR Sheet No. : .........................................
(To be filled by the Candidate)
Roll No.
(In words)
1. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
2. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
Roll No.____________________________
D-3009
PAPER-II
Test Booklet No.
[Maximum Marks : 100 Time : 1 
1
/
4
 hours]
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖÙ£ÖµÖÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ×­Ö¤ìü¿Ö
(In figures as per admission card)
A B C D A B C D
ENGLISH
D-3009 1 P.T.O.
Paper-II 2  D-3009 
ENGLISH 
Paper – II 
 
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 
1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is 
  (A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus (D) Terence 
 
2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to 
  (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.  
  (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. 
  (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.  
  (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 
 
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in  
  (A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) 1912 
 
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary ? 
  (A) Thomas Chatterton  (B) John Gower 
  (C) Thomas Shadwell  (D) John Gay 
 
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ? 
  (A) Ivanhoe   (B) Lady of the Lake 
  (C) Heart of Midlothian  (D) The English Mail Coach 
 
6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by 
  (A) Edward Said   (B) Paul Gilroy 
  (C) Abdul R. Gurnah   (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 
 
7. The earliest tract on feminism is 
  (A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex  
  (B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own  
  (C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
  (D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 
 
8. Match the imaginary location with its creator : 
  1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy 
  3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 
  5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath 
  7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte 
  (A) 1-7 2-5  4-6  3-8  (B) 1-6  2-5  3-8  4-7 
  (C) 1-5  2-6  3-8  4-7  (D) 2-5  1-7  3-4  6-8 
 
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ? 
  (A) The Canterbury Tales  (B) The Book of the Duchess 
  (C) The House of Fame  (D) Legend of Good Women 
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D-3009 1 P.T.O.
Paper-II 2  D-3009 
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Paper – II 
 
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 
1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is 
  (A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus (D) Terence 
 
2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to 
  (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.  
  (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. 
  (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.  
  (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 
 
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in  
  (A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) 1912 
 
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary ? 
  (A) Thomas Chatterton  (B) John Gower 
  (C) Thomas Shadwell  (D) John Gay 
 
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ? 
  (A) Ivanhoe   (B) Lady of the Lake 
  (C) Heart of Midlothian  (D) The English Mail Coach 
 
6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by 
  (A) Edward Said   (B) Paul Gilroy 
  (C) Abdul R. Gurnah   (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 
 
7. The earliest tract on feminism is 
  (A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex  
  (B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own  
  (C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
  (D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 
 
8. Match the imaginary location with its creator : 
  1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy 
  3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 
  5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath 
  7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte 
  (A) 1-7 2-5  4-6  3-8  (B) 1-6  2-5  3-8  4-7 
  (C) 1-5  2-6  3-8  4-7  (D) 2-5  1-7  3-4  6-8 
 
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ? 
  (A) The Canterbury Tales  (B) The Book of the Duchess 
  (C) The House of Fame  (D) Legend of Good Women 
 
 D-3009 3  Paper-II 
10. Essays of Elia was published in 
  (A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850 
 
11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ? 
  (A) The Well of Loneliness  (B) Maurice 
  (C) Orlando   (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 
 
12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is 
  (A) a response to a major political uprising  
  (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school 
  (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne  
  (D) an ode to his native country 
 
13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is 
  (A) A structuralist study of narrative 
  (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism 
  (C) A study of the media  
  (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence 
 
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ? 
  (A) J.A. Froude   (B) Charles Kingsley 
  (C) J.S. Mill   (D) Cardinal Newman 
 
15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to 
  (A) The literature written by the labour class.  
  (B) The literature of England extolling living conditions. 
  (C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.  
  (D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad. 
 
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to 
  (A) Plato’s Republic  
  (B) Aristotle’s Poetics 
  (C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse  
  (D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 
 
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English. 
  (A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada 
 
18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size : 
  1.  epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet 
  (A) 1 2 3 4  (B) 2 1 3 4 
  (C) 2 3 4 1  (D) 1 3 4 2 
 
19. “Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?”        These 
lines are from 
  (A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”  (B) “Fra Lippo Lippi” 
  (C) “Caliban upon Setebos”  (D) “The Last Ride Together” 
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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
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(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
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(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions
in the booklet with the information printed on the
cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions
missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any
other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately
by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the
period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question
Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be
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(iii) After this verification is over, the Test Booklet Number
should be entered in the OMR Sheet and the OMR Sheet
Number should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
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not be evaluated.
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8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
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9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
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compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
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11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. Negative Marking :- For each incorrect answer, 0.5 marks
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[Maximum Marks : 100 Time : 1 
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Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
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A B C D A B C D
ENGLISH
D-3009 1 P.T.O.
Paper-II 2  D-3009 
ENGLISH 
Paper – II 
 
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 
1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is 
  (A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus (D) Terence 
 
2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to 
  (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.  
  (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. 
  (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.  
  (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 
 
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in  
  (A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) 1912 
 
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary ? 
  (A) Thomas Chatterton  (B) John Gower 
  (C) Thomas Shadwell  (D) John Gay 
 
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ? 
  (A) Ivanhoe   (B) Lady of the Lake 
  (C) Heart of Midlothian  (D) The English Mail Coach 
 
6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by 
  (A) Edward Said   (B) Paul Gilroy 
  (C) Abdul R. Gurnah   (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 
 
7. The earliest tract on feminism is 
  (A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex  
  (B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own  
  (C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
  (D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 
 
8. Match the imaginary location with its creator : 
  1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy 
  3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 
  5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath 
  7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte 
  (A) 1-7 2-5  4-6  3-8  (B) 1-6  2-5  3-8  4-7 
  (C) 1-5  2-6  3-8  4-7  (D) 2-5  1-7  3-4  6-8 
 
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ? 
  (A) The Canterbury Tales  (B) The Book of the Duchess 
  (C) The House of Fame  (D) Legend of Good Women 
 
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10. Essays of Elia was published in 
  (A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850 
 
11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ? 
  (A) The Well of Loneliness  (B) Maurice 
  (C) Orlando   (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 
 
12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is 
  (A) a response to a major political uprising  
  (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school 
  (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne  
  (D) an ode to his native country 
 
13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is 
  (A) A structuralist study of narrative 
  (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism 
  (C) A study of the media  
  (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence 
 
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ? 
  (A) J.A. Froude   (B) Charles Kingsley 
  (C) J.S. Mill   (D) Cardinal Newman 
 
15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to 
  (A) The literature written by the labour class.  
  (B) The literature of England extolling living conditions. 
  (C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.  
  (D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad. 
 
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to 
  (A) Plato’s Republic  
  (B) Aristotle’s Poetics 
  (C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse  
  (D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 
 
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English. 
  (A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada 
 
18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size : 
  1.  epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet 
  (A) 1 2 3 4  (B) 2 1 3 4 
  (C) 2 3 4 1  (D) 1 3 4 2 
 
19. “Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?”        These 
lines are from 
  (A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”  (B) “Fra Lippo Lippi” 
  (C) “Caliban upon Setebos”  (D) “The Last Ride Together” 
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20. Dr. Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” expresses 
  (A) Epicureanism (B) Humanism (C) Stoicism (D) Cynicism 
 
21. “A trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for 
  (A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Blythe Spirit 
  (C) The Way of the World  (D) The Importance of Being Earnest. 
 
22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ? 
 “In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ 
Teach the free man how to praise.” 
  (A) In Memoriam   (B) Thyrsis 
  (C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot” 
 
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by 
  (A) Thomas Carew   (B) Robert Herrick 
  (C) George Herbert   (D) Richard Crashaw 
 
24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are 
  (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday  
  (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene 
  (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle  
  (D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday 
 
25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called ? 
  (A) Lamia (B) Hyperion (C) Il Penseroso (D) Thyrsis 
 
26. Match the character with the novel : 
  1. Caddy   2. Lennie 
  3. Jake Barnes   4. Tommy Wilhelm 
  5. The Sound and the Fury  6. Of Mice and Men 
  7. The Sun Also Rises  8. Seize the Day 
  Codes : 
  (A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8  (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6 
  (C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7  (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8 
 
27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement ? 
  (A) Allen Ginsberg   (B) Mark Beard 
 (C) Isaac McCaslih   (D) Charles Beard 
 
28. “The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes 
of the years following the First World War. Who called them “The Lost Generation” ? 
  (A) H.L. Mencken   (B) Willa Cather 
  (C) Jack London   (D) Gertrude Stein 
 
29. Hyperbole is 
  1. an extravagant exaggeration 2. a racist slur 
  3. a metrical skill   4. a figure of speech 
  (A) 1 is correct   (B) 1 and 4 are correct 
  (C) 1 and 3 are correct  (D) 3 is correct 
 
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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 
1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is 
  (A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus (D) Terence 
 
2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to 
  (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.  
  (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. 
  (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.  
  (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 
 
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in  
  (A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) 1912 
 
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary ? 
  (A) Thomas Chatterton  (B) John Gower 
  (C) Thomas Shadwell  (D) John Gay 
 
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ? 
  (A) Ivanhoe   (B) Lady of the Lake 
  (C) Heart of Midlothian  (D) The English Mail Coach 
 
6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by 
  (A) Edward Said   (B) Paul Gilroy 
  (C) Abdul R. Gurnah   (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 
 
7. The earliest tract on feminism is 
  (A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex  
  (B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own  
  (C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
  (D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 
 
8. Match the imaginary location with its creator : 
  1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy 
  3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 
  5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath 
  7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte 
  (A) 1-7 2-5  4-6  3-8  (B) 1-6  2-5  3-8  4-7 
  (C) 1-5  2-6  3-8  4-7  (D) 2-5  1-7  3-4  6-8 
 
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ? 
  (A) The Canterbury Tales  (B) The Book of the Duchess 
  (C) The House of Fame  (D) Legend of Good Women 
 
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10. Essays of Elia was published in 
  (A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850 
 
11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ? 
  (A) The Well of Loneliness  (B) Maurice 
  (C) Orlando   (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 
 
12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is 
  (A) a response to a major political uprising  
  (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school 
  (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne  
  (D) an ode to his native country 
 
13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is 
  (A) A structuralist study of narrative 
  (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism 
  (C) A study of the media  
  (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence 
 
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ? 
  (A) J.A. Froude   (B) Charles Kingsley 
  (C) J.S. Mill   (D) Cardinal Newman 
 
15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to 
  (A) The literature written by the labour class.  
  (B) The literature of England extolling living conditions. 
  (C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.  
  (D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad. 
 
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to 
  (A) Plato’s Republic  
  (B) Aristotle’s Poetics 
  (C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse  
  (D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 
 
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English. 
  (A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada 
 
18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size : 
  1.  epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet 
  (A) 1 2 3 4  (B) 2 1 3 4 
  (C) 2 3 4 1  (D) 1 3 4 2 
 
19. “Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?”        These 
lines are from 
  (A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”  (B) “Fra Lippo Lippi” 
  (C) “Caliban upon Setebos”  (D) “The Last Ride Together” 
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20. Dr. Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” expresses 
  (A) Epicureanism (B) Humanism (C) Stoicism (D) Cynicism 
 
21. “A trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for 
  (A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Blythe Spirit 
  (C) The Way of the World  (D) The Importance of Being Earnest. 
 
22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ? 
 “In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ 
Teach the free man how to praise.” 
  (A) In Memoriam   (B) Thyrsis 
  (C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot” 
 
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by 
  (A) Thomas Carew   (B) Robert Herrick 
  (C) George Herbert   (D) Richard Crashaw 
 
24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are 
  (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday  
  (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene 
  (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle  
  (D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday 
 
25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called ? 
  (A) Lamia (B) Hyperion (C) Il Penseroso (D) Thyrsis 
 
26. Match the character with the novel : 
  1. Caddy   2. Lennie 
  3. Jake Barnes   4. Tommy Wilhelm 
  5. The Sound and the Fury  6. Of Mice and Men 
  7. The Sun Also Rises  8. Seize the Day 
  Codes : 
  (A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8  (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6 
  (C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7  (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8 
 
27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement ? 
  (A) Allen Ginsberg   (B) Mark Beard 
 (C) Isaac McCaslih   (D) Charles Beard 
 
28. “The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes 
of the years following the First World War. Who called them “The Lost Generation” ? 
  (A) H.L. Mencken   (B) Willa Cather 
  (C) Jack London   (D) Gertrude Stein 
 
29. Hyperbole is 
  1. an extravagant exaggeration 2. a racist slur 
  3. a metrical skill   4. a figure of speech 
  (A) 1 is correct   (B) 1 and 4 are correct 
  (C) 1 and 3 are correct  (D) 3 is correct 
 
 
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30. “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by 
  (A) Benedict Anderson  (B) Homi Bhabha 
  (C) Aijaz Ahmed   (D) Partha Chatterjee 
 
31. The New Historicists include 
  (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler 
  (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey 
 
32. Wallace Stevens’ “The Man with the Blue Guitar” may be linked to the work of the 
following artist : 
  (A) Modigliani (B) Chagall (C) Picasso (D) Cezanne 
 
33. The author of Gender Trouble is 
  (A) Elaine Showalter   (B) Helene Cixous 
  (C) Michele Barrett   (D) Judith Butler 
 
34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by 
  (A) Michel Foucault   (B) Jacques Lacan 
  (C) Julia Kristeva   (D) Roland Barthes 
 
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ? 
  (A) Frankenstein   (B) Northanger Abbey 
  (C) Castle of Otranto   (D) Mysteries of Udolfo 
 
36. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to 
  (A) The narrator of “Goblin Market”   
  (B) Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting 
  (C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper  
  (D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre 
 
37. Assertion (A) :  Dr Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical 
studies of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of 
William Wordsworth. 
 Reason (R) :  Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also 
adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth. 
  (A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.    
  (B) (A) is true but (R) is false. 
  (C) (A) and (R) are true.  
  (D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true. 
 
38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ? 
  (A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy  
  (B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders 
  (C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews  
  (D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy