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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. In a 1817 review of Coleridges Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term
Lake School of Poets grouping...

(1) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(2) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron

(3) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt

(4) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

2. I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark... The

above lines are taken from...

(1) The Soldier

(2) Dulce et Decorum Est

(3) To His Dead Body

(4) Strange Meeting

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its
inspiration :

(i) Coral Island (ii) The Odyssey

(iii) The Mahabharat (iv) Jane Eyre

(v) The Great Indian Novel (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea

(vii) Omeroos (viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)

(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) - (vi) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)

(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)

(4) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)

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4. His life was gentle and the elements/So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up/And
say to all the world, This was a man !
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?

(1) Enobarbus on Antony

(2) Brutus on Caesar

(3) Cleopatra on Antony

(4) Marc Antony on Caesar

5. When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she
lies.
The author of these lines is...

(1) Philip Sidney

(2) Edmund Spenser

(3) Christopher Marlowe

(4) William Shakespeare

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...

(1) The Napoleonic Wars

(2) The Glorious Revolution

(3) The French Revolution

(4) Poor Laws

7. Great wits are sure to madness near allied

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The above lines appear in...

(1) Mac Flecknoe

(2) Absalom and Achitophel

(3) Essay on man

(4) Alexanders Feast

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8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?

(A) Edward Said (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Homi Bhabha (D) Aijaz Ahmed

9. David Maloufs An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :

(A) Aristotle (B) Juvenal

(C) Ovid (D) Horace

10. Jabberwocky is a character in....

(1) The Importance of Being Earnest

(2) Fra Lippo Lippi

(3) Through the Looking Glass

(4) Goblin Market

11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Saids thesis
in Orientalism ?

(1) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as
irrational and primitive.

(2) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as
irrational and primitive.

(3) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational
and modern.

(4) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as
rational and modern.

(1) (iii)

(2) (iv)

(3) (i) and (iv)

(4) (ii) and (iii)

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12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the
lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year
belonging to two separate periods.

Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard
literary Example histories, Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.

(1) (AST) and (R) are correct

(2) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect

(3) (AST) and (R) are incorrect

(4) (R) does not follow from (AST)

13. Everyman is...

(1) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible

(2) a medieval morality play

(3) a Tudor interlude

(4) a miracle play

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?

(1) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain

(2) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender

(3) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound

(4) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

15. Doris Lessings interest in __________ is widely recognized :

(A) Hinduism (B) Sufism (C) Zen (D) Judaism

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