Vallaths Total English Solutions MODEL TEST Paper III 1.

This genre-defying Shakespearean play is based on a popular prose romance written by one of the University Wits. The subplot of the abandoned royal baby echoes Ovids Metamorphoses. Identify the play. (a) As You Like It (b) Twelfth Night (c) The Winters Tale (d) Troilus and Cressida 2. Who of the following appears as the Chorus in Shakespeares Pericles? (a) John of Gaunt (b) John Gower (c) Geoffrey Chaucer (d) Walter Ralegh 3. Which play by Ben Jonson led him to be summoned before the Privy Council to answer charges of popery and treason? (a) Sejanus, His Fall (b) The Alchemist (c) The Poetaster (d) Everyman Out of His Humour 4. Which of the following is not a feature of Cavalier poetry? (a) It was courtly (b) It employed a mocking and cynical tone (c) It employed the Carpe Diem theme (d) Courage and valour were its important themes 5. The 17th century poet who cultivated an obscure and harsh style of verse called strong lines is ____. (a) John Donne (b) John Denham (c) John Cleveland (d) Abraham Cowley 6. This book was written by a British philosopher on the social contract and the origins of creation of an ideal state, which he called Commonwealth. Published in 1651, this book was mistaken by some Royalists as an argument in favour of Cromwells Kingship. The sub-title of this book is The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil. Which is this book? (a) Leviathan (b) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (c) Essay on the Law of Nature (d) The Social Contract 7. In Gullivers Travels who are the unfortunate beings who are immortal, but not forever young that Lemuel meets at Luggnagg? (a) Blefuscudians (b) Struldbrugs (c) Yahoos (d) The Low-Heels 8. Which of the following novels is sub-titled The History of a Young Lady? (a) Pamela (b) Clarissa (c) Shirley (d) Agnes Grey 9. Which of the following is not correctly matched? (a) Winston Smith Aldous Huxley (b) Jake Donaghue Iris Murdoch (c) Edwin Clayhanger Arnold Bennett (d) Jack Merridew William Golding 10. Which of the following novels is set in Tabasco in Mexico? (a) Brave New World (b) Chrome Yellow (c) The Man of Property (d) The Power and the Glory 11. Given below are lines from John Donnes poem The Canonization. Well build in sonnets pretty rooms; As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs, And by these hymns all shall approve Us canonizd for love What does the verb become means? (a) Even an urn will be destroyed by time (b) Even the most beautiful things in this world have come out of ashes (c) A well-wrought urn is best suited to contain the greatest ashes (d) Even a beautiful urn will contain only ashes 12. Who of the following has written Boston poems? (a) T.S. Eliot (b) W.H. Auden (c) Elizabeth Jennings (d) Ted Hughes 13. In which of these novels is a woman caught and tried for child murder? (a) Adam Bede (b) Far from the Madding Crowd (c) Villette (d) The Old Curiosity Shop 14. In which Book of Paradise Lost does Adam refer to his own sin as a felix culpa or happy fault?

(a) Book IV (b) Book IX (c) Book XI (d) Book XII 15. In A Tale of Two Cities who of the following is a villainous character, an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, who seeks personal revenge against the Evremonde family? (a) Mr. Lorry (b) Madame Defarge (c) John Barsad (d) Dr. Manette 16. Which of the following works was inspired by Boileaus Le Lutrin and Tassonis Secchia Repita? (a) Everyman in His Humour (b) Comus (c) Mac Flecknoe (d) The Battle of the Books 17. Which major novelist has also written plays, non-fiction and critical works including Studies in Classic American Literature as well as travel books such as Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places, and Morning in Mexico? (a) D.H. Lawrence (b) James Joyce (c) Lawrence Durrell (d) Aldous Huxley 18. Which of the following novels is about a novelist working on a fictional novel titled Free Women? (a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (b) Under the Net (c) Bring Up the Bodies (d) The Golden Notebook 19. The novel Every Day is Mothers Day and its sequel Vacant Possessions are by ________. (a) Jhumpa Lahiri (b) Bapsi Sidhwa (c) Hilary Mantel (d) Joyce Carol Oates 20. Charles Strickland, modeled on the artist Paul Gauguin, is a character in ________. (a) The Razors Edge (b) The Moon and Six Pence (c) Cakes and Ale (d) The Painted Veil 21. What is the sub-title of the Booker Prize winning novel Possession? (a) A Romance (b) A Tragicomedy (c) A Historical Farce (d) A Satire 22. Which is Robert Brownings dramatic poem representing a silk-winder and his wanderings in Italy? (a) The Ring and the Book (b) Sordello (c) Paraselsus (d) Pippa Passes 23. Who of the following wrote the famous novel The Room at the Top, inspired by his experiences at the Bingley Little Theatre? (a) Kingsley Amis (b) John Braine (c) Arnold Wesker (d) Edward Bond 24. Which historical figure is the central character in Bernard Shaws play, The Man of Destiny? (a) Hitler (b) Napoleon (c) Tsar Nicholas (d) Louis XIV 25. Oscar Wildes play Salome was originally written in ________. (a) Italian (b) French (c) Spanish (d) None of these 26. Which of the following critics criticized Paradise Lost for lacking in human interest? (a) Dr. Johnson (b) George Saintsbury (c) William Hazlitt (d) F.R. Leavis 27. About which of the following writers are the following statements true? (i) They believed that contemporary society and politics are oppressive. (ii) They wanted to establish an egalitarian society on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the US. (iii) This plan did not work out. (a) Emerson and Thoreau (b) Marx and Engels (c) Hawthorne and Melville (d) Southey and Coleridge 28. What did Wordsworth define as the state of being conscious of myself, / And of some other being? (a) Sub-consciousness (b) Double consciousness (c) Two-consciousnesses (d) Empathy 29. Who of the following wrote about a water spidera cinque-spotted shadow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunny bottom of the brookas a complex philosophical and Christian symbol? (a) Southey (b) Coleridge (c) Blake (d) Yeats 30. Which of the following critics held the view that a poet should handle sound subject matter with high seriousness? (a) Matthew Arnold (b) I.A. Richards (c) T.S. Eliot (d) Ezra Pound 31. This 1938 book established a genre of unconventional theatre in France which endorsed violent, austere, physical techniques to shatter the false reality that lies like a shroud over our perceptions. This theatre sought to disturb the spectators profoundly, free their unconscious repressions and oblige men to view themselves as they really are. Which is this book? (a) The Theatre and Its Double (b) The Theatre of the Absurd (c) The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (d) Theatre of the Oppressed

32. Which of the following novels has been called a modern Pilgrims Progress? (a) Metamorphosis (b) The Trial (c) The Plague (d) The Castle 33. Who of the following attempted to create a literature of the unword? (a) Jean-Paul Sartre (b) Albert Camus (c) Samuel Beckett (d) Bertolt Brecht 34. In Milan Kunderas The Joke, the people who are unfallen from the Communist faith are called by the name _________. (a) gods (b) saints (c) angels (d) immortals 35. About which of his books does Michel Foucault say this: This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thoughtour thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geographybreaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a certain Chinese encyclopaedia in which it is written that animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that. (a) The Archeology of Knowledge (b) Discipline and Punish (c) The History of Sexuality (d) The Order of Things 36. Cahiers du Cinema is a famous _________ of film studies. (a) journal (b) school (c) theory (d) text 37. _______, a mixture of local languages with English, has become a standard in itself and is the new language of the postcolonial in which canonical works like the Bible have been translated. (a) creole (b) pidgin (c) acrolects (d) basilects 38. Which two philosophers have engaged themselves with the concept of hyperreality? (a) Baudrillard and Umberto Eco (b) Baudrillard and Derrida (c) Baudrillard and Lyotard (d) Lyotard and Althusser 39. Stuart Hall is a major theorist associated with __________. (a) Gender Studies (b) Postcolonialism (c) Psychoanalytic Criticism (d) Cultural Studies 40. The word dasein which denotes the existence of the human being was used by _________. (a) Hegel (b) Husserl (c) Heidegger (d) Habermas 41. Which of the following is incorrectly matched? (a) Political Shakespeare Stanley Fish (b) Alternative Shakespeares John Drakakis (c) Shakespearean Negotiations Stephen Greenblatt (d) All are correct 42. Unfinalizability is a concept associated with _________. (a) Sigmund Freud (b) Harold Bloom (c) Mikhail Bakhtin (d) Michel Foucault 43. Which of the following critics defined the poetic language as a deviated use of the standard language where the differences are fore-grounded? (a) I.A. Richards (b) Cleanth Brooks (c) Roman Jakobson (d) Jan Mukarovsky 44. Heteroglossia refers to ________. (a) the multiple readings of a text (b) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text (c) the comments on the margins of a text (d) the gloss or commentary relating to a text 45. Lisible text and Scriptible text are concepts propounded by __________. (a) Derrida (b) Kristeva (c) Bloom (d) Barthes 46. Match the books with the authors: (i) The Art of Fiction (ii) The Craft of Fiction (iii) Aspects of the Novel (iv) The Rise of the Novel (i) E. M. Forster (ii) Henry James (iii) Percy Lubbock (iv) Ian Watt

(a) iv, iii, i, ii (b) iii, iv, i, ii (c) iii, ii, i, iv (d) ii, iii, i, iv 47. Which of the following poets attempted a Biryanization of English in his poetry? (a) Agha Shahid Ali (b) Adil Jussawalla (c) Saleem Peeradina (d) Tabish Khair 48. Who of the following has written a play about Kalidasa and his beloved, Mallika? (a) Mohan Rakesh (b) Badal Sircar (c) Girish Karnad (d) Asif Currimbhoy 49. Which of the following poems is sub-titled A Legend and a Symbol? (a) Tilottama (b) Our Casuarina Tree (c) Savitri (d) Gitanjali 50. Match these regional authors with the languages in which they write in: (i) Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (ii) Pannalal Patel (iii) Satinath Bhaduri (iv) Krishan Chander (1) Gujarati (2) Urdu (3) Oriya (4) Bengali

(a) 2, 4, 1, 3 (b) 3, 1, 4, 2 (c) 3, 4, 2, 1 (d) 4, 2, 1, 3 51. The Hungry generation was a group of writers in the ________ language. (a) Gujarati and Rajasthani (b) Gujarati (c) Oriya and Bengali (d) Bengali 52. At the beginning of Karnads play Hayavadana, who is described as the destroyer of incompleteness? (a) Shiva (b) Indra (c) Ganesha (d) Vishnu 53. Which of the following novels can be characterized as a memory novel? (a) The Shadow Lines (b) Such a Long Journey (c) The Calcutta Chromosome (d) Fury 54. Which of the following American plays is set in Harry Hopes saloon and hotel? (a) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (b) The Childrens Hour (c) The Iceman Cometh (d) The Crucible 55. Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead is set against the __________. (a) I World War (b) II World War (c) Cold War (d) Vietnam War 56. In which of the following novels does the protagonist write undelivered long letters to friends, philosophers and even to God? (a) Henderson the Rain King (b) Humboldts Gift (c) Herzog (d) The Dangling Man 57. Who wrote the novel The Red Badge of Courage set against the American Civil War? (a) Stephen Crane (b) Theodore Dreiser (c) Jack London (d) F. Scott Fitzgerald 58. In which of the following novels is Quentin Compson the narrator? (a) Absalom, Absalom! (b) As I Lay Dying (c) Light in August (d) A Rose for Emily 59. Mary Tyrone, a drug-addict who lives in memories of her past, is the protagonist of a semi-autobiographical play by _______. (a) Arthur Miller (b) Eugene ONeill (c) Tennessee Williams (d) Lillian Hellman 60. Which character in Moby Dick influences Ahab with his prophesies? (a) Starbuck (b) Queequeg (c) Tashtego (d) Fedallah 61. This novel forms part of the Dantesque Trilogy of Toni Morrison, and is set during the Reconstruction era in 1873. This Female Gothic novel explores the psychological and historical legacy of slavery. Sethe and Denver are important characters. Identify this novel. (a) Tar Baby (b) Jazz (c) Beloved (d) Song of Solomon 62. Lambert Strether, an American who travels from America to Paris, and changes from an American to a European view of things, is a character in Henry Jamess ________. (a) The Golden Bowl (b) The Portrait of a Lady (c) The Wings of the Dove (d) The Ambassadors 63. The Cairo Trilogy is written by _________. (a) Leila Aboulela (b) Naguib Mahfouz (c) Hanif Kureishi (d) Khaled Hosseini

64. The essay Where Angels Fear to Tread, which offers a scathing attack of colonialist criticism of African literature, was written by _________. (a) Ngugi wa Thiongo (b) Chinua Achebe (c) Wole Soyinka (d) Breyten Breytenbach 65. This poet from Mexico was an ambassador to India, a post he resigned in protest against the massacre of hundreds of Mexican students in 1968. The labyrinth of Solitude, his best-known work, is a book-length essay. He won the Nobel Prize in 1990. Identify this writer. (a) Octavio Paz (b) Pablo Neruda (c) Carlos Fuentes (d) Miguel Angel Asturias 66. The novel Oscar and Lucinda is set in the 19th century and is a postmodern pastiche of the Victorian novel. Identify the author. (a) Peter Carey (b) Margaret Atwood (c) Michael Ondaatje (d) Yann Martel 67. George Bowering is a poet, critic and novelist from __________. (a) New Zealand (b) Australia (c) Canada (d) South Africa 68. The Artist of Disappearance is a 2011 book by _________. (a) Shashi Deshpande (b) Kiran Desai (c) Anita Desai (d) Anita Nair 69. About which of the following topics is the narrator in Zorba the Greek writing a book? (a) agriculture (b) industry (c) classicism (d) Buddhism 70. The businessman Lopakhin is a character in __________. (a) Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment (c) Cancer Ward (d) The Cherry Orchard 71. Luigi Pirandellos Six Characters in Search of an Author begins with _________. (a) a riot (b) a rehearsal (c) a stage performance (d) a street fight 72. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing. This quotation from Dryden is an example for the figure of speech __________. (a) Metaphor (b) Analepsis (c) Antonomasia (d) Hyperbole 73. Byrons Don Juan is written in _________ metre. (a) ottava rima (b) terza rima (c) heroic stanza (d) heroic couplet 74. When rhyme occurs only in the last syllable of lines, it is called _______ rhyme. (a) masculine (b) feminine (c) regular (d) accented 75. Rime royal consists of seven lines, usually in ____________ (a) iambic pentameter (b) iambic hexameter (c) dactylic pentameter (d) Irregular metre

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