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17 febru 2013 III paper solution
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Paper-III
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ENGLISH
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2013
5.
Psychoanalytical theories :
(A) tend to
emphasize historicity
(B)
suggest that human nature is
universal
(C)
are totally unconcerned with the relationship
between history and human nature
(D)
believe that although human
nature depends upon family ties and the nature of the family, it has nothing to
do with political and economic change
Ans:B
7.
The Renaissance held more aloof
from .............................. in England than in Italy or even in France.
(A) Music
(B) Plastic
Arts
(C) Architecture
(D) Historical
writing
Ans:B?A
8.
Ethnic issues cannot be raised in
Shakespeare’s :
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Othello
(C) The Tempest
(D) Hamlet
Ans:A
the issues of race, to which the dramatist applies in such
plays as Titus Andronicus, The Tempest and Othello, provide a new vision on the
impact of these races on cultural and social life of English people.except
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Othello
(C) The Tempest
(D) Hamlet
Ans:A
9.
The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare’s :
(A) Early
comedy
(B) Mature
comedy
(C) Tragi-comedy
(D) Romance
Ans:D
10.
Identify the source of these
lines : “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of
Ilium ?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal
with a kiss.”
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) Dr. Fanstus
(C) Tamberlaine
(D) Sejanus
Ans:A
11.
Francis Bacon was influenced by :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Machiavelli
(C) Plato
(D) Erasmus
Ans:A
12.
The hero of Milton’s Paradise Regained is :
(A) Satan
(B) God
(C) Christ
(D) Adam
Ans:B
13.
Dryden’s All for Love is an adaptation of :
(A) Webster’s
The White Devil
(B) Webster’s
The Duchess of Malfi
(C)
Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
(D)
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Ans:A
14.
Dr. Johnson used the term
‘metaphysical’ to refer to :
(A) religious
themes in poetry
(B)
the concerns with spiritual
matters in poetry
(C)
the poet’s ability to yoke ideas
in unprecedented अà¤ूतपूर्व manner
(D)
advocating for the material
aspects of life in poetry.
Ans:A/C
15.
The Restoration brought the major
drift towards .......................... interests in the social and literary
world.
(A) Religious
(B) Cultural
(C) Political
(D) Civic and
national
Ans:C
18.
The following works of Defoe can
be chronologically arranged as :
(A)
Robinson Crusoe — Captain
Singleton — Colonel Jacque — Moll Flanders
(B)
Robinson Crusoe — Captain
Singleton — Moll Flanders — Colonel Jacque
(C)
Robinson Crusoe — Moll Flanders —
Captain Singleton
— Colonel
Jacque
(D)
Robinson Crusoe — Moll Flanders —
Colonel Jacque — Captain Singleton
Ans:D
19.
Whose satire is primarily founded
on his cynicism ?
(A) Wycherley
(B) Congreve
(C) Etheredge
(D) Dryden
Ans:D
20.
Who shows his genius for
recreating the past ?
(A) Sir
Walter Scott
(B) P.B.
Shelley
(C) Thomas
Moore
(D) Thomas
Campbell
Ans:A
22.
Identify the poet who has written
many “Visionary” poems :
(A) S.T.
Coleridge
(B) Robert
Southey
(C) Lord
Byron
(D) Robert
Burns
Ans:A
23.
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen challenges the conventional class
distinctions by showing that :
(A)
Mr. Gardiner, though a trader, is
a perfect gentleman
(B)
Wickham, the son of a steward,
has better manners than Darcy, the aristocrat
(C)
Caroline Bingley is to be
condemned for looking down upon Mrs. Bennet
(D)
The gentry do not have to work
for a living
Ans:c
25.
Which of the following is not characteristic of Arnold’s poetry ?
(A) Suavity
(B) Wistfulness
(C) Serenity
(D) Strong
passion
Ans:D
25.
Which of the following
characteri-stics best describes Thackeray ?
(A) High
moralism
(B) Clear-sighted
realism
(C) Weak
narration
(D) Strong
propaganda
Ans:C
26.
In which novel of his, Fielding
reverses the situation in Richardson’s Pamela
?
(A) Joseph Andrews
(B) Jonathan Wild
(C) Tom Jones
(D) Amelia
Ans:B/C
30.
Who among the following was not associated with the revival of the
verse drama ?
(A) T.S.
Eliot
(B) W.H.
Auden
(C) J.B.
Priestley
(D) Christopher
Isherwood
Ans:C
31.
Who remarkably changed the
literary taste after the 1st World War ?
(A) T.S.
Eliot
(B) W.B.
Yeats
(C) Louis
MacNiece
(D) Stephen
Spender
Ans:D
32.
One of the following anthologies
by Yeats is recognized as a turning point in the poet’s attempt to modernize
his poetry ?
(A)
Michael Robartes and The Dancer
(B) The Tower
(C) Responsibilities
(D) The Wild Swans at Coole
Ans:A/B
33.
The following plays of Bernard
Shaw are satires on social attitudes towards sex relations :
(A)
Back to Methuselah, Major Barbara
(B)
Androcles and the Lion, Arms and the Man
(C)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man and Superman
(D)
The Devil’s Disciple, The Man of Destiny
Ans:C?D
34.
Conrad’s method of putting
together materials from the point of view of several persons :
(A)
is similar to Impressionism in
Painting
(B)
means a lot of unnecessary
repetition
(C)
creates contradictory versions of
truth
(D)
prevents us from arriving at
objective truth
Ans:A
34.
Molier’s Alceste is engaged in :
(A) only a
hopeless love affair
(B) a
potential duel
(C) a court
case
(D) love
affair, duel and court case
Ans:D
36.
James Joyce in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man shows the
development of Stephen as a :
(A) Sensitive
young man
(B) Conformist
(C) Revolutionary
(D) Army
recruit
Ans:D/B
Which author from the following discusses sexual deviations विचलन freely ?
(A) C.P. Snow
(B) John Wain
(C) Irish
Murdoch
(D) Laurence
Durrell
Ans:D
39.In Orwell’s 1984, surveillance पाळत ठेवणे is not performed through :
(E) Police
(F) Telescreen
(G) Tape-recorders
(H) Mind-reading
Ans:H
40.
Neo-classicism developed the
notion of :
(A) Reflection
(B) Resemblance
(C) Verisimilitude
(D) Mimesis
Ans:B
42.
T.S. Eliot’s criticism provides :
(A) a new
theory of literature
(B)
a reinterpretation of certain
writers such as Dante, Donne and Dryden
(C)
a justification for imagery and
symbolism
(D)
a new assessment of classicism
and romanticism
Ans:A
43.
Plato and Aristotle considered :
(A)
the end of tragedy in different
ways
(B)
the nature of tragedy in similar
ways
(C)
the soul of tragedy in similar
ways
(D) tragic
hero and his fate
Ans:C
44.
Canons of literature was one of
the major concerns of :
(A) modernism
(B) post-modernism
(C) feminism
(D) black
literature
Ans:C
54.
In a multilingual society :
(A)
a single language is used on all
occasions
(B)
different languages are used
depending on the types of functions
(C)
each language is used for
different functions
(D)
the choice of a language for a
particular function is made by an individual
Ans:D
55.
Error analysis and interlanguage
are notions related to :
(A)
the interference of the first
language in second language learning
(B) wrong
learning strategies
(C)
the errors made in using the
first language
(D) the lack
of linguistic competence
Ans:B
56.
The central message of Goethe’s
Faust is :
(A) He who
strives is never lost
(B)
One must be punished for adultery
(C) Worldly
pleasures are worthless
(D)
One should not give into sensual
and material tempta-tions
ANS:A
58.
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard deals with :
(A) the rise
of the working class
(B) the
decline of the Feudal order
(C) the need
to emancipate serfs
(D) Love
triangles
Ans:B
59.
We associate the term ‘audience
alienation’ with :
(A) Bertolt
Brecht
(B) Luigi
Pirandello
(C) August
Strindberg
(D) Samuel
Beckett
Ans:B
60.
In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Emma falls in love with :
(A) Homais
(B) Binet
(C) Rodolphe
(D) Justin
Ans:C
61.
The sea-sky dichotomy in Where Shall We Go This Summer refers to the dialectics of :
(A) being and
becoming
(B) this
world and the other world
(C) the self
and the other
(D) man and
woman
Ans:B
62.
Meghnath Vadham Kavyam by Michael Madhusudan Dutt :
(A) Sings of
the adventures of Rama
(B)
Sings of the weaknesses of
Meghnath
(C) Subverts
the character of Rama
D) Questions Meghnath’s loyalty towards Ravana
Ans:C
63.
Who among the following has used
Indian philosophy extensively in his novels ?
(A) Mulk Raj
Anand
(B) R.K.
Narayan
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Bhabani
Bhattacharya
Ans:A
64.
Jugga disrupts the plan of
killing of Muslims travelling to Pakistan by train because :
(A)
his beloved Nooran was travelling
in the train
(B) he was
secular-minded
(C) he did
not believe in retaliation
(D)
he was a follower of Gandhi and
his non-violence
Ans:A/C
Raja Rao’s Comrade
Kirillov deals with
A. the
rise of the communist movement in India
B. the
life of a Russian philanthropist
C. split
personality of an individual
D. the
friendship between India and Russia
Ans:A
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