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PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator 1. (Signature) __________________________ OMR Sheet No. : ............................................... (To be filled by the Candidate) (Name) ____________________________ Roll No. 2. (Signature) __________________________ (In figures as per admission card) (Name) ____________________________ 30 S Roll No.________________________________ (In words) 1 3 1 Time : 1 /4 hours] [Maximum Marks : 100 Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Instructions for the Candidates 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. 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 / polythene bag on the booklet. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal / without polythene bag 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, you will render yourself liable to disqualification. 9. You have to return the 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. S-30-13 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. In the following cluster of poems by 6. In an age of pressurized happiness, Shelley, which one has the voyage we sometimes grow insensitive to motif ? subtle joys. The italicised words are (A) Adonais an example of (B) The Revolt of Islam (A) a transferred epithet (C) Ode to the West Wind (B) a simile (D) Alastor (C) a metaphor 2. In Sydney s sonnet sequence, (D) a hyperbaton Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108) 7. In Graham Greene s Brighton Rock, (A) brings no resolution (B) ends in joy Hale is murdered with the help of (C) brings a definite resolution brighton rock which is (D) promises another sonnet (A) a kind of sugar-candy sequence (B) a form of grenade 3. Who among the following English (C) a baton writers opposed the Licensing Act of (D) a kind of rock 1643 ? (A) John Milton (B) Thomas Browne 8. Which poet among this group does (C) Andrew Marvell not belong to the Auden Generation (D) Abraham Cowley group of poets ? 4. 5. (A) Stephen Spender Who claimed : I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind ? (A) Pope (B) Dryden (C) Swift (D) Addison (B) (C) Cecil Day Lewis (D) Louis Macneice 9. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist ? (A) Bathsheba (B) Lucetta (C) Sue (D) Tess Paper-II Alun Lewis In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the beast is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up ? (A) Jack (B) Simon (C) Roger (D) Ralph 2 S-30-13 10. 11. 12. Which text exemplifies the antiVictorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century ? Code : I. Eminent Victorians II. Jungle Book III. Philistine Victorians IV. The Way of All Flesh The correct combination according to the code is (A) II and IV are correct. (B) I and IV are correct. (C) III and IV are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 13. 14. S-30-13 Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare s Tempest is associated with the Earth ? (A) Ferdinand (B) Ariel (C) Caliban (D) Prospero 17. 3 Find the poet who is the odd one in the group : (A) Wallace Stevens (B) Robert Lowell (C) Sylvia Plath (D) Anne Sexton 16. The Wife of Bath s philosophy of marriage shows that she (A) is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights. (B) tends to say one thing and do the opposite. (C) cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong. (D) trusts thought too much instead of feeling. We will do it, I tell you; we will do it. The repetition of a phrase is (A) Antiphrasis (B) Diacope (C) Aposiopesis (D) Enumeratio 15. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ? (A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain s office in 1968. (B) The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. (C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s. (D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom ? (A) Okonkwo (B) Obierika (C) Ikemefuna (D) Nwoye In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle : (A) Rhetoric (B) Medieval scholasticism (C) Inductive method (D) Pseudo sciences Paper-II 18. Who among this group of young male characters in Jane Austen s novels is not sent to the University for education ? (A) Tom Bertram (B) John Thorpe (C) James Morland (D) Henry Tilney 22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes. (A) Alliteration (B) Onomatopoeia (C) Oxymoron (D) Enthymeme 19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of (A) Paul Dombey (B) Thomas Gradgrind (C) Philip Pirrip (D) Harold Skimpole 23. 20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term Theatre of the Absurd ? (A) Jean Genet (B) Jean Giraudoux (C) Samuel Beckett (D) Eugene Ionesco Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below : I. The Dictionary of the English Language II. The History of Rasselas III. The Vanity of Human Wishes IV. Lives of the English Poets Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : (A) III, I, II, IV (B) I, II, III, IV (C) IV, III, II, I (D) II, III, I, IV 24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below : I. commedia dell arte II. confessional poetry III. agitprop IV. picaresque novel The correct combination is : Code : (A) IV, I, II, III (B) I, IV, III, II (C) II, IV, I, III (D) I, III, IV, II 25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations ? (A) Birches (B) Home Burial (C) Mending Wall (D) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening S-30-13 21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them : List I List II (Lines from (Titles of poems) poems) I. The squat pen 1. Church rests as snug as Going a gun. II. A serious 2. Hawkhouse on serious Roosting earth it is. III. Time held me 3. Digging green and dying. IV. I hold creation 4. Fern Hill in my foot. Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 4 1 2 3 (B) 2 3 4 1 (C) 1 2 3 4 (D) 3 1 4 2 Paper-II 4 26. 27. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them : List I List II (Writers) (Works) I. Katherine 1. Barungin Susannah Prichard II. Colin 2. My Place Johnson III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 3 2 1 4 (B) 4 3 2 1 (C) 2 1 4 3 (D) 1 4 3 2 29. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them : List I List II (Dramatists) (Plays) I. George 1. The Country Etheredge Wife II. William 2. The Man of Wycherley Mode III. John 3. The Double Vanbrugh Dealer IV. William 4. The Provok d Congreve Wife The correct combination is : Code : I II III IV (A) 2 3 4 1 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 3 2 1 (D) 2 1 4 3 30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them : List I List II (Writers) (Works) I. Uma 1. Drums of My Parameswaran Flesh II. Bharati 2. Trishanku Mukherjee III. Michael 3. Jasmine Ondaatje IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil s Ghost Which is the correct combination according to the above code ? Code : I II III IV (A) 1 3 2 4 (B) 3 4 1 2 (C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 4 1 3 2 31. Dryden s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled (A) All for Love (B) The State of Innocence (C) Annus Mirabilis (D) Religio Medici How does John Stuart Mill define happiness ? (A) Doing what one wants to do (B) Leading a fulfilling life (C) Pleasure and the absence of pain (D) Virtuous activity 28. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime But at my back I always hear Time s winged chariot hurrying near. Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of (A) love (B) love and transience (C) love and political passion (D) love and flattery S-30-13 5 Paper-II 34. 35. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except (A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) The Jew of Malta (C) Richard III (D) Edward II According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called (A) writerly text (B) aesthetic text (C) readerly text (D) formal text 39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope s The Rape of the Lock ? (A) A mock heroic poem (B) Written in heroic couplets (C) Pope s tribute to Queen Anne (D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos 40. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer s The Female Eunuch were published in (A) 1969 (B) 1968 (C) 1970 (D) 1967 Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net ? (A) Robert Frost (B) Ezra Pound (C) Philip Larkin (D) William Carlos Williams 38. 33. 36. 37. 32. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster : (A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (B) Maurice (C) A Room of One s Own (D) The Longest Journey Who defined poetry as the best words in the best order ? (A) Wordsworth (B) Coleridge (C) Keats (D) Shelley What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ? (A) Britain s pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages. (B) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe. (C) Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel. (D) Leave England and emigrate to Germany. Conrad s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following : (A) Modernism and anticolonialism (B) Modernism and structuralism (C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism (D) Material culturalism and tribalism Paper-II 6 S-30-13 41. The Vulgate Bible was prepared to make the Bible available to (A) the ecclesiastics (B) the elite class (C) the courtiers (D) the common men 46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic ? (A) Matthew Arnold 43. 44. 45. Literary works such as Charles Dickens s David Copperfield, Samuel Butler s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form ? (A) Nouveau roman or new novel (B) Epistolary novel (C) Bildugsroman (D) Historical novel George Eliot (D) Thomas Hardy 47. Preface to Frantz Fanon s The Wretched of the Earth was written by (A) Aime Cesaire (B) Ania Loomba (C) Jean Paul Sartre (D) Edward Said 48. I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart from Ode to the West Wind by Shelley. The poem consists of (A) fourteen line terza rima stanzas (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift action (C) a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle (D) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit combined with delight ? (A) Plato (B) Aristotle (C) Horace (D) Longinus 49. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats s Muse figure is (A) Thea (B) Moneta (C) Lamia (D) Calliope Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as specially prone to (A) choler (B) blood (C) phlegm (D) melancholy What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration ? (A) Gay s Beggar s Opera (B) Butler s Hudibras (C) Pope s Dunciad (D) Dryden s Absalom and Achitophel S-30-13 Charles Dickens (C) 42. (B) 50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as The Sage of Highgate ? (A) William Blake (B) S.T. Coleridge (C) P.B. Shelley (D) William Wordsworth 7 Paper-II Space For Rough Work Paper-II 8 S-30-13

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