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PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator 1. (Signature) __________________________ OMR Sheet No. : ............................................... (To be filled by the Candidate) (Name) ____________________________ 2. (Signature) __________________________ (Name) ____________________________ D 30 1 3 1 Time : 1 /4 hours] Number of Pages in this Booklet : 12 Instructions for the Candidates 1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page. 2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions. 3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below : (i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet. (ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in the booklet with the information printed on the cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be given. (iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number should be entered on this Test Booklet. 4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). You have to darken the circle as indicated below on the correct response against each item. Example : where (C) is the correct response. 5. Your responses to the items are to be indicated in the OMR Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at any place other than in the circle in the OMR Sheet, it will not be evaluated. 6. Read instructions given inside carefully. 7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet. 8. If you write your Name, Roll Number, Phone Number or put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, or use abusive language or employ any other unfair means such as change of response by scratching or using white fluid, you will render yourself liable to disqualification. 9. You have to return the test question booklet and Original OMR Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. You are, however, allowed to carry duplicate copy of OMR Sheet on conclusion of examination. 10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen. 11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited. 12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers. D-30-13 Roll No. (In figures as per admission card) Roll No.________________________________ (In words) [Maximum Marks : 100 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50 1. 2. - 3. , - - , : (i) - - (ii) - / - - (iii) OMR - 4. (A), (B), (C) (D) : (C) 5. I OMR OMR , 6. 7. (Rough Work) 8. OMR , , , , , 9. - OMR OMR 10. / 11. ( ) 12. 1 P.T.O. ENGLISH Paper II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory. 1. ____ the very word is like a bell 4. To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Which word ? (A) Bird (B) Immortal (C) Forlorn The roman a clef (French for novel with a key ) uses contemporary historical figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley s Point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on _______. (D) Fancy (A) D.H. Lawrence 2. In poems like The Altar and Easter Wings ________ exploits _______. (B) (C) (A) John Donne, alliteration (B) G.M. Hopkins, rhythm (D) Arnold Bennett sprung 5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve, (D) George Herbert, typographic space 3. Wyndham Lewis Robert Herrick, trimetre (C) E.M. Forster In the Prologue Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as : No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! I. crude and vulgar For what wears out the life of mortal men ? II. outspoken licentious Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, III. a witness to masculine oppression Exhaust the energy of strongest souls IV. bubbling with vitality And numb the elastic powers and boastfully Who does the poet address here ? Find the correct combination according to the code : (A) The Scholar Gipsy (A) I, II and III are correct. (B) Telemachus (B) I, II and IV are correct. (C) The Nightingale (C) I, III and IV are correct. (D) The Poet s Sister, Dorothy Paper II (D) II, III and IV are correct. 2 D 30 13 6. 7. 8. The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel ? (A) The Tree of Man (B) Voss (C) The Solid Mandala (D) The Vivisector 10. Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it ? (A) The Yellow Wallpaper (B) The Mad Woman in the Attic (C) Jane Eyre (D) Wide Sargasso Sea 11. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club ? (A) Thomas Parnell (B) Alexander Pope (C) Joseph Addison (D) John Gay Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative ? (A) Shelley s Alastor (B) Byron s Manfred (C) Coleridge s Christabel (D) Keats s Endymion _______ is a theological term brought into literary criticism by _______. (A) Entelechy, St. Augustine (B) Ambiguity, William Empson (C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong (D) Epiphany, James Joyce 12. The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. Identify the novel. (A) Richard Wright : Native Son ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.) Choose the appropriate word : (A) Him (B) He (C) Satan (D) The Fiend D 30 13 (B) James Baldwin : Another Country (C) 9. Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man (D) Toni Morrison : Bluest Eye 13. G.M. Hopkins s Windhover is dedicated : (A) To Christ, our Lord (B) To Christ our lord (C) to no one (D) to Christ, the Lord 3 Paper II 14. Match List I with List II according to the code given below : List I List II (Authors) (Poems) i. Ted Hughes 1. The Otter ii. Seamus 2. Snake Heaney iii. W.H. 3. Ghost Auden Crabs iv. D.H. 4. Prevent the Lawrence Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone. Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 1 2 4 3 (B) 2 3 1 4 (C) 3 1 4 2 (D) 3 2 1 4 15. His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb ? (A) Corah (B) Shimei (C) Zimri (D) Achitophel 16. The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread. This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in (A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (C) Henry James, The Art of Fiction (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism Paper II 17. 18. 4 Identify the correctly matched set below : (A) The Norman Conquest 1066 William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1575 The King James Bible 1611 Dr. Johnson s English Dictionary 1755 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660 (B) The Norman Conquest 1066 William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1475 The King James Bible 1611 Dr. Johnson s English Dictionary - 1755 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660 (C) The Norman Conquest 1016 William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475 The King James Bible 1564 Dr. Johnson s English Dictionary -1780 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1649-1660 (D) The Norman Conquest 1013 William Caxton and the introduction of printing 1575 The King James Bible 1627 Dr. Johnson s English Dictionary 1746 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate 1624-1660 Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is (A) a Great War veteran (B) a Dublin bar owner (C) a Jewish advertising agent (D) an Irish nationalist D 30 13 19. Late capitalism , by which is meant accelerated technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by ______. 21. Identify the metaphorical phrase in this sentence : (A) Terry Eagleton (B) Ernst Mandel (C) Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include other figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in its narrower usage. Raymond Williams (A) narrower usage (B) 20. 22. (A) Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Another Country by James Baldwin (C) Along the shore of silver streaming Thames; Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, Fit to deck maidens bowers Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Another Country by James Baldwin And crown their paramours Against their bridal day, which is not long; Sweet Thames ! run softly till I end my song. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Native Son by Richard Wright Another Country by James Baldwin Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston (Spenser s Prothalamion) Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in : (A) Sylvia Plath s Morning Song (C) W.H. Auden s In Praise of Limestone (D) 5 Marianne Moore s Spenser s Ireland (B) (D) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston Another Country by James Baldwin Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison D 30 13 figures of speech (D) umbrella term Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ? (B) technically distinguished (C) (D) Stanley Fish T.S. Eliot s Waste Land Paper II 23. The tramp in Pinter s first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is 27. It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year : 1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome. 2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse. 3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d Orsay, Paris. 4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory. (D) Gammer Gurton s Needle 5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve s Way of the World open ? 6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams. 7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain. (A) Bernard Jenkins (B) Roly Jenkins (C) Jack Jenkins (D) Peter Jenkins 24. Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out : (A) Gorboduc (B) (C) 25. Tamburlaine Ralph Roister Doister (A) A Chocolate-House (B) A Pub (C) A Carrefour Identify the year : (A) 1899 (C) (D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull s mansion 26. 28. While a well-boiled icicle for a well-oiled bicycle is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying Congenital food for Continental food is an example of ______. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. (A) T.S. Eliot s The Hollow Men (B) (C) Neologism Rudyard Kipling s The Man Who Would be the King George Eliot s Silas Marner Pleonasm (C) (D) 1903 (D) E.M. Forster s Howard s End (D) Archaism Paper II 1901 1900 This is the epigraph to (A) Malaproprism (B) (B) 6 D 30 13 29. Robert Graves s In Broken Images ends thus : He in a new confusion of his understanding; I in a new understanding of my confusion. The figure of speech here is _______. (A) Chiasmus (B) Catachresis (C) Inversion (D) Zeugma 30. The phrase leaves dancing is an example of ________. (A) pathetic fallacy (B) hyperbole (C) pun (D) conceit 31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes : They were careless people . Who were they ? (A) Tom and Daisy (B) The Wilsons (C) Gatsby and his friends (D) The people of East Egg William Wordsworth s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly). to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______. (A) in a selection of language really used by men. (B) in a relation to language really used by men. (C) in a selection of language really used by common man. (D) in deference to language actually used by men. D 30 13 33. 32. 7 Match List I with List II according to the code given below : List I List II (Novels) (Last lines) i. 1. It was done; Lord Jim it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision. ii. To the 2. April 27. Old father, Lighthouse old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead iii. A Passage 3. He feels it himself and to India says often that he is preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave,... , while he waves his hands sadly at his butterflies. iv. A Portrait 4. No not yet, and the of the sky said, Artist as a No, not Young there . Man Codes : i ii iii iv (A) 2 4 3 1 (B) 3 2 4 1 (C) 3 1 4 2 (D) 2 3 1 4 Paper II 34. 35. Identify the incorrect description/s of Sprung Rhythm from the following : 1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds hence Sprung Rhythm. 2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length. 3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm. 4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration. (A) 4 is incorrect. (B) 1 & 4 are incorrect. (C) 3 is incorrect. (D) 1 is incorrect. 37. Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death ? (A) The Beggar Maid (B) The Lotus-Eaters (C) Ulysses (D) Tithonus 38. One English poet addressing another : Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life s common way, In cheerful godliness . Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ? (A) W.H. Auden W.B. Yeats (B) P.B. Shelley William Blake (C) William Wordsworth John Milton (D) Ben Jonson William Shakespeare 39. Samuel Johnson s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as : (A) Lives of English Poets : Critical and Biographical Essays. (B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of English Poets. (C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Works of English Poets. (D) Lives of English Poets : Biographical and Critical Notes. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language ? (A) Sigmund Freud (B) Jacques Lacan (C) Stuart Hall (D) Paul de Man 36. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England. II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope. III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church. IV. created a group known as the Roundheads. The correct combination according to the code is : (A) I and III are correct. (B) I and II are correct. (C) II and III are correct. (D) III and IV are correct. Paper II 8 D 30 13 40. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye s four generic plots ? 43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to unsex me here . (Macbeth I.5.39) Choose the right option to fill in the blank : (A) God (B) the spirits of hell (C) the angels in heaven (D) no one in particular 44. You will find the following lines in an English poem : (A) The comic (B) The tragic (C) The lyric (D) The ironic 41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem : Thou by the Indian Ganges side Shouldst rubies find; I by the side Of Humber would complain. 1. The Fire Sermon 2. Death by Water 3. A Game of Chess 4. What the Thunder Said 5. The Burial of the Dead Which poem ? Who is the poet ? (A) Lonely Hearts. Wendy Cope (B) (C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4 Mistress. 5, 1, 2, 3, 4 (C) Tiger Mask Ritual. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (D) To His Coy Andrew Marvell (A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4 (B) Holy Thursday. William Blake 45. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, (D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4 Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow Sir Plume is a character in ____ .sa The world should listen then, as I am listening now. (A) Dryden s Achitophel 42. Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ? (B) (C) and (A) John Keats. The Nightingale Congreve s The Way of the World (B) The Beaux P.B. Shelley. The Skylark (C) Pope s The Rape of the Lock (D) Farquhar s Strategem D 30 13 Absalom William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley (D) Robert Browning. Grammarian 9 The Paper II 46. Match List I with List II according to the code given below : List I (Major symbol) Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear ? List II (Novel) 49. i. The Return of the Native Bleak House 3. heath iv. Tess Nahum Tate (C) 2. train iii. (B) Peg Woffington Dombey and Son 1. fog ii. (A) James Quin 4. mist (D) Charles Macklin Codes : i ii iii (A) 2 3 1 4 (B) 4 2 3 1 (C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 1 3 4 50. iv 1 Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement : It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person s relationships are homo-/hetero-sexual : As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of : I. the surrounding families (A) The French Woman 47. II. Mrs Bennet Lieutenant s (B) English Music III. Mr Bennet (C) Written on the Body IV. The women of Jane Austen s age and society (D) Enduring Love 48. Find out the correct combination according to the code : Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist ? (A) I, II and III are correct. (A) The Heart of the Matter (B) (C) Brighton Rock I, II and IV are correct. II, III and IV are correct. England Made Me (C) (B) (D) The Power and the Glory Paper II (D) I, III and IV are correct. 10 D 30 13 Space For Rough Work Paper-II 12 D-30-13 Space For Rough Work Paper-II 11 D-30-13

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