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'This papercontainsfifty (50) multiple choicequestions, eachcarryringtwo (2) marks. Attemptall of them

EdwardII is a play by

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(B) Marlowe

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Epithalamionis a (A) love song (C) nuptial song

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JohnWebster'sWhite Devil is (A) Brachiano

(B) Vittoria

(C) Bosola

(D) Julia

Which oneof thefollowingis,inprose ? (A) TheMonk'sTale (c) Parson's Tale

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(B) TheKnight,sTale (D) TheTaleof thewife of Bath

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Whichof the followineis Milton's'l*s work?

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(A) L Allegro

(B) Il Penseroso

(C) SamsonAgonistes

(D) ParadiseLost

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Dryden's Mac Flecknoeis a satiredirectedat (A) Denham

(B) Steele

(C) Addison

(D) Shadwell

Identify the work that is NOT allegorical. : (A) The Pilgrim's Progress

(B), The FaerieQueene

(C) Everyman

(D) All for Love

10. The conceitof gold beatento airy thinnessoccursin the poem entitled (A) A Valediction, Mourning (B) The Extasie Forbidding (C) AValediction of Weeping

(D) Love'sProgress

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11. In which play doesthe ProvisoSceneoccur? I

(A) The CountryWife

(B) The Way of the World

(C) TheMan of Mode

(D) Marriagea la Mode

12. The guard at the gatesof Hell in ParadiseLost is (A) Beelzebub

(B) Belial

(C) Sin

(D) Moloc

13. Apart from SherlockHolmes,who is the most important charucterin Doyle's fiction? (A) Dr. Bateson

(B) Dr. Watson

(C) Dr. Johnson

(D) Dr. Morrison

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(A) a personalessay

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(D) a novel

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Book III of Gulliver's Travelsdepictsthe world of

(A) Lilliput

(B) Brobdingnag

(C) Houyhnhnms

(D) Laputa

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(B) Wordsworth

(C) Southey

(D) Thomson

17. Vindicationof the Rights of Womenwas written by

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(A) Margaret Fuller

(B) Mary Wollstonecraft

(C) Mary Shelley

(D) MariaEdgeworth

1 8 . The Borderersis (A) a tragedy

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(C) a novel

(B) a comedy (D) an epic

t 9 . 'The Bard' is a poem by (A)- Gray

(B) Collins

(C) Young!

(D) Cowper

20. The idea of spotsof time occursin (A) Christabel

(B) PrometheusUnbound

(C) The Prelude

(D) The Prisonerof Chillon

2 L Becky Sharpis a characterin (A) David Copperfield

(B) Vanity Fair

(C) Middlemarch

(D) A Tale of Two Cities

22- which oneof the followingis Nor a work by ThomasHardy? (A) The Pictureof Dorian Gray

(B) Tessof theD'Urbervilles

(C) The Woodlanders

(D) The Trurnpet-Major [P.TO.

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23- 'iAh, love,'letus,#etrue To ole another!" Thesetrines.were ,writtenby (A) Arnold

(B) Shelley

(C) Keats

(D) Byron

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24' Which one of the following is from the later and matureperiodof Dickens' career? (A) Martin Chuzzlewit

(B) PickwickPapers

(C) Oliver Twist

(D) GreatExpectations -

25. "The LeadenEcho and the GoldenEcho,' isa poem by (A) Yeats (B) Hopkins (C) Auden

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26. Which of the following is NOT a fictional work?

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(A) Mr. BennetandMrs. Brown

(B) Mrs. Dallowav -

(C) Jacob's Room

(D) The Waves

27. Whatis characteristic of Shaw'splays? (A) Theyarefull of action. (B) They have no stagedirections. (C) Stagesettingis not important., (D) Theyhqye$ri$1g.nre-faces,

28. 'Thingsfall aparf,th. ..n#.'.urrrrothold,. mi

I he hne occursin a poemby

(A) T. S, Eliot

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) W B. Yeats

(D) Dylan Thomas

29. Theplays of William SomefsetMauglarn resemble (A) Restorationdrama

(B) Sentimentaldrama ::' :'' ]' : ' : : t " ( D) t' poetic' dr am a ' :' :' ::: ;:"

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30. The threebestknown JewishAmericannovelistsare (A) Edith Wharton,GertrudeSteinandWilla Cather (B) RichardWright, Ralph Ellison and JamesBalclwin (c)

BernardMalamud, SaurBellow and Norman Mailer

(D) NathanielHawthorne.SaulBellow and Herman Melville

3 1 . Death of a salesmanembodiesthe tragedyof a common man who believesin materialistic v a l u e sH. i s n a mei s

(A) Biff

( B) W illy Lor nan

(C) Happy Loman

( D) Char lie

32. HoneyandNick, MarttraandGeorgearecharacters in ,Who's (A) Albee's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?, (B) Genet's'Balcony' (C) Odets''the adding Machine, ( D ) M i l l e r 's'T h eC ru ci b l e ' l 33. which of the following is the backgroundin almost alr of Frost,spoetry? (A) Califomia

(B) Georgia

(C) Chicago

(D) New England

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34. The nameof Tristram'sfatherin TristramShandy is (A) Walter

(B) roby

(C) Yonick

(D) Trim

35. Which of the following is in a dialoeueform? (A) Apologiefor poetrie (B) ( C ) Es s a )o, f D ra rn a tiP c o csi e

Defenceqf Poetry

(D) Biographia Literaria

36. The useof commonman'slanguagein poetry wasemphasised by (A) P.B. Shelley (B) John Keats (C) William Wordsworth

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F6 37. Stephen is associated Greenblatt with (A) New Historicism

(B) Marxism

(C) Formalism

(D) Structuralism

38. The concept'Horizonof Expectation'is centralin (A) Reader-Response Criticism

(B) PostcolonialCriticism

(C) FeministCriticism

(D) StructuralistCriticism

39. Which of the following novelshasNOT beenwritten byV. S. Naipautr? (A) A Housefor Mr. Biswas

(B) The Mimic Men

(C) The Mystic Masseur

(D) The River Between

40. In 'Prefac'eto Shakespeare', Dn.Johnson / comic elements. (A) admires

(B) discards

(C) justifies

(D) overlooks

41. The collectionof poemsentitled StationIsland is written by (A) Louis MacNerce

(B) ElizabethJennings

(C) Ted Hughes

(D) SeamusHeaney

42. Identifotheauthorwho is NOTAfrican-American. (A) ToniMorrison

(B) JamesBaldwin

(C) MargaretAtwood

(D) Amiri Baraka

43. Which of the following is the most recenttravelogueby V. S. Naipaul? (A) India:A Million MutiniesNow

(B) India:A WoundedCjvilization

(C) The Middle Passage

(D) An Area of Darkness

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F6 44. Which of the following is NOT a novel by MargaretDrabble? '

(A) The E)'e of the Needle (C) The RadiantWa),

(B) A ClosedElze (D) Reahnsof Gold

45. Which of the following is a novelby Kiran Desai? (A) That Long Silence (C) Rich Like Us

(B) Voicesin the City (D) The Inheritanceof Loss

46. 'Through every star,througheveryblade of grass,is not a God madevisible?' This is an exampleof (A) inversion (B) a rhetoricalquestion (C) free repetition

(D) an exclamatoryquestion

47. 'Belindasmiled,and all the world was gay'. The line is an exampleof (A) pathetic fallacy

(B) paradox

(C) hyperbole

(D) transferredepithet

48. 'The Assyriancarnedown like the wolf on the fold, And his cohortswere gleamingin purple and gold'. The basicmetricalpatternin theselines is (A) amphibrach (C) dactyl

(B) trochee (D) anapaest

49. 'l madea garlandfor her head, And braceletstoo, and fragrantzone'. The basicmetricalpatternin theselines is (A) iambic

(B) anapaest

(C) trochaic

(D) dactyl

50. 'While meltingmusic stealsuponthe sky, And soften'dsoundsalongthe watersdie'. The soundelfectusedin theselines is (A) internalrhyme

(B) consonance

(C) alliteration

(D) assonance