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K-0416 English (Paper III)
K-0416 English (Paper III)
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ENGLISH
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy-five (75) objective type questions. Each question
carries two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.
Read the following passage carefully and 1. What was the attitude of the British
answer questions 1 – 4 : towards the aborigines ?
Choose the correct answers from the
They [the British] came with their religion,
following :
bibles in hand, to civilize us savages.
Heathens, they thought we were, nomads (i) The aborigines were uncivilized
who roamed this land, forever seeking food (ii) They had a barbaric religion
and nourishment from the earth mother, the (iii) They were violent
earth we had lived in unity with for forty (iv) They were sexually promiscuous
thousand years. They came, only because
Choose the correct statement/s :
they didn’t understand us or our culture, to
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
change our ways to their ways, white ways,
white ideas, lording it over us. But who were (B) (i) and (ii) are correct
they to decree what was right and what was (C) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
wrong, forever changing us to their ways, (D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
foreign ways, they came. We had laws and
rules to abide by, we had a spirituality more 2. What are the motives the speaker
spiritual than theirs. We had family clans, all attributes to the British ?
Read the following poem carefully and 2. “Faithful love recalled thee to my mind”
answer questions 1 – 4 : the line suggests that
Surprised by joy – impatient as the Wind (i) The poet had temporarily forgotten
his companion
I turned to share the transport – Oh ! with whom
But Thee, long buried in the silent Tomb, (ii) His love was more faithful than him
That spot which no vicissitude can find ? (iii) He did not want to remember her
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind – (iv) He had to be forcibly reminded of
But how could I forget thee ? – Through what her
power, Identify the correct statement/s :
Even for the least division of an hour, (A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
Have I been so beguiled as to be blind (B) (iii) and (iv) are correct
To my most grievous loss ! – That thought’s (C) (i) and (ii) are correct
return
(D) (ii) and (iv) are correct
11. Ben Jonson argued that the purpose of 15. Who in Paradise Lost praises the
‘Image of their glorious maker’ in
comedy was
Adam and Eve ?
(A) To show and thereby correct the (A) Raphael, the angel
foibles of the age (B) The Son of God
(B) To unravel evil (C) Satan
(D) To support the existing social 16. The Birthday Party is a play by
hierarchy (A) Tom Stoppard
(B) Arnold Wesker
12. Restoration Drama was severely
(C) Harold Pinter
attacked by
(D) Samuel Beckett
(A) Charles Lamb
17. Which of the following statements are
(B) Jeremy Collier true of Samuel Butler’s Hudibras ?
(C) Dr. Johnson (i) It is a mock heroic poem
(D) Dryden (ii) It satirizes the puritans
(iii) It is written in blank verse
13. Whom does Michel Foucault consider (iv) It imitated Don Quixote
as the Founders of Discursivity ? Choose the correct statement/s :
(A) Freud and Marx (A) (i) and (iii) are correct
(B) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
(B) Hegel and Kant
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct
(C) Claude-Levi Straus and Saussure
(D) Only (i) is correct
(D) Saussure and Derrida
18. What is the nature of religious faith
defended by Dryden in his Religio
14. Which of the following deals with
Laici ?
Renaissance culture ?
(A) He defends extreme Roman
(A) Renaissance and Resistance traditionalism
(B) Renaissance Self-fashioning (B) He favours only dissenters
(C) He seeks a middle path
(C) Culture and Society
(D) He says that in religion no middle
(D) Writing Culture path is acceptable
19. Who described Dryden as the father of 23. The Merchant of Venice portrays
English criticism ? Shylock as
(A) Matthew Arnold
(i) A victim of racism
(B) Dr. Johnson
(ii) A generous human being
(C) L. C. Knights
(iii) Seeking revenge for humiliation
(D) Alexander Pope
(iv) A representative of the finance
20. Which of the following statements is true capitalist class
of Restoration Comedy ?
Of these statements :
(i) It dealt with wits and fops
(A) (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
(ii) It was accused of being amoral
(B) Only (i) and (iv) are correct
(iii) It avoided stage realism totally
(C) Only (ii) is correct
(iv) It focused on man-woman
relationship (D) Only (i) is correct
Choose the correct statement/s :
24. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
(A) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct (A) Celebrates Europe’s superiority
26. The Beggar’s Opera is 29. When Wordsworth says “I would rather
be/ A pagan suckled in a creed outworn”,
(i) A burlesque of Italian Opera he is suggesting that
(ii) A social satire (i) The pagan beliefs did not treat
nature only as resources to be
(iii) A fantasy
exploited by man for his pleasure
(iv) A patriotic play (ii) He is opposed to Christianity which
Choose the correct statement/s : did not accept Pagan beliefs
(iii) Pagans had mythopoeic world view
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct
(iv) Paganism was not materialistic
(B) (i) and (ii) are correct Of these statements :
(C) Only (iv) is correct (A) Only (iv) is true
(D) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct (B) Only (ii) is true
(C) Only (i) is true
27. What is ‘Touchstone’ in Arnold’s view ? (D) (i), (iii) and (iv) are true
(A) Aesthetic principle laid down in 30. Who among the following did not belong
classical literature to the school of New Criticism ?
(B) The reader’s original impression (A) J. C. Ransom
of the text (B) Yvor Winters
(C) Instances of great writing providing (C) Cleanth Brooks
a yard stick (D) W. K. Wimsatt
(D) Standards set down by the French
Academy 31. Which of the following statements are
true of Jane Austen ?
(i) As she hinted, she wrote about a
28. The Enlightenment endorsed
small social world
(i) Use of reason (ii) Despite her statements, her novels
(ii) Belief in progress show a remarkable understanding
of a class society
(iii) Belief in Science (iii) She offers a critique of the romantic
(iv) Rule of meritocracy sensibility
(iv) She overtly introduces political
Choose the correct statement/s :
debates in her novels
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct Choose the correct statement/s :
(B) Only (ii) and (iii) are correct (A) Only (i) is true
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are true
(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
(C) Only (iv) is true
(D) Only (iv) is correct (D) Only (iii) is true
49. In Homer’s epic Odysseus is 54. Who is the author of the moving elegy
portrayed as “Book Ends” ?
(A) A strict abider of moral conventions (A) Stevie Smith
57. Which of the following novels employs 60. Which of the following explanations are
correct ?
the technique of magic realism ?
(i) Tiresias is disturbed by Oedipus’
(A) Tin Drum hubris
(B) The Outsider (ii) As a prophet Tiresias does not want
to divulge the past
(C) Madame Bovary (iii) Tiresias finds pleasure in punishing
(D) Bread and Wine Oedipus
(iv) Tiresias wants to dethrone Oedipus
58. Aristotle is of the view that Choose the correct statement/s :
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct
(A) Poetry is less philosophical than
(B) (iii) and (iv) are correct
history
(C) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) Poetry is more philosophical than (D) Only (iv) is correct
history
61. William Tyndale who translated the
(C) Poetry and history cannot be Greek New Testament into English
compared at all was
(D) It is an unnecessary debate (A) Profusely rewarded by the King
(B) Made the head of a monastery
59. Match the following : (C) Executed
(D) Commissioned to translate The Old
(i) Objective (a) Cleanth Brooks
Testament
correlative
(ii) Intentional (b) Ezra Pound 62. Match the following :
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