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l. A Room of One's Ziew - a ferninist classic- was writtelr by(a) Virginia Woolf O) Simone de Beauvoir(c) Wollstonecraft (d) K*e Milla

2. Notes Towards the Defnition of Culrzre was written by(a) W. B. Yeats O) T. S. Eliot(c) E.M: Forster (d) Matdrew Arnold

3. Ramsays in To the Lighthouse re,pr€sent(a) well-knit familyO) husband-wifeconflict(c) the conflict between the male and the female principles(d) simply a conflict betwe€n two bcings

4. Which ofthe following is NOT a work by Philip Larkin ?(a) TheNorth Ship O) A Girl of Winter(c) The Whitson Weddings (d) The Two Poets of Croistic

5. Which of the following is NOT a wort by Ted Hughes ?(a) Shakespeare and the Goddess of BeingO) Cromwell(c) The Hawk in the Rain(d) Tales from Ovid

6. Stevie Smith is known for(a) her realist poetry O) ironic verses(c) witty, caustic and enignatic verses (d) matter-of-fact writing

7. Where was George Orwell bom ?(a) Begal O) Delhi(c) Rangoon (d) Madras

t. Which of the following is NOT a work by George Orwell ?(a) Nineteen Eighty-four O) Anbul Farm(c) Shooting an Elephant (d) A Better Class ofpersons

9. When William Golding was awarded Nobel prize ?(a) 1983 O) 1956(c) 1968 (d) 1988

10. Which of the following is NOT a work by William Golding ?(a) Lord of the Flies O) Rites of passage

(c) Gallic Wars (d) The paper Men

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11. Which of the following is a novel by Doris Lessing ?(a) Mona Lisa . (b) Memoirs of a Survivor(c) [,ove's Shadow (d) Problems of Life and Mind

12. Which of the following is NOT a work by Graham Greene ?

(a) Doting (b) . The Power and the Glory(c) The Heart of the Matter (d) The End of the Affair

f3. Stephen Leacock was a(a) Poet O) Joumalist(c) Playwright (d) Humorist

14. Pappachi is a character in(a) Tale of Two Cities O) The God of Small Things(c) Satanic Verses (d) House of Mr. Biswas.

15. Towards the end of Raja Rao's Kanthapura, Murthy writes a letter to(a) Ratna O) Rangamma(c) Bhatta (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

16. Who wrote the lntroduction to the English Translation of Tagore's Geeunjali ?

(a) Tagore himself O) Graham Greene(c) W.B. Yeats (d) H'G' Wells

17. Who made a film on Tagore's novel The Home and The World ?

(a) Satyajit RaY O) Mrinal Sen

(c) David Lean (d) ShYam Benegal

18. Who recommended R. K. Narayan's first novel to a publistrer in England for publication ?

(a) Jawaharlal Ndrrl O) Graham Greene

(c) James Joyce ' (O Mulk Raj Anand

19. Which of the following is NOT a work of R. K. Narayan ?

(a) Swami and His Friends O) MY DaYs

(c) A Horse and Two Goats (d) Mr. Swamy

20. The Booker Prize winner novet of V.S. Naipaul In a Free Sute explora(a) the problems ofnationality and identity in alien lands

O) the problems gf nationality and identity in one's own land(c) the problems of regional imbalances in alie'n land(d) the problem ofregional imbalances is one's own land

21. V. S. Naipaul's The Overcrowded Banacoon is(a) a collection of short stories O) a collection ofpersonal and political articles

G) a novel (d) an autobiographical memoir

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22. Salman Rushdie is considered one of the exponants of(a) realism O) magic realism(c) absurd literature (d) sequential fiction

23. a Salman Rushdi e' s Haroun and the Sea of Saries is(a) a collection of Stories (b) a collection of folk tales(c) a collection ofmythical fables (d) a novel for children

24. A generative grammar operates upon(a) infinite rules O) infinite vocabulary of units(c) finite vocabulary (d) both O) & (c)

25. According to Chomsky, kansformational grammars are(a) same as phrase-structure grammars

O) of the same power as finite state grammars(c) less powerful than phrase-structure granuwrs(d) more powerfrrl than phrase-stnrcture grammarc

26. In Chomsky's view, human creativity is(a) rule-govemed O) haphazard(c) conscious (d) unconholled

27. Language-systemsare(a) static O) unproductive(c) productive (d) none ofthe ibove

28. , Generativism in grammar is(a) an adjunct to behaviourism O) a reaction to behaviourism(c) similar to behaviourism (d) similar to descriptiv€ gmrnmar

29. If sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society, the aims guiding thistheory and research is(a) sociological (b) linguistic(c) both(a)&O) (d) Neitha(a)nor(b)

30, Sociolingrristicsconhibutesto(a) the descriptive linguistics O) language planning(c) grammatical studies (d) None of the above

31. Accent refers to(a) pronunciation (b) grarnmar(c) both (a) & O) (d) allophonic variation

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lf somebody spea.ks in dialect in Britain, it is(a) by itself a reference to a s€parate language

O) in relation to its diference fiom Standard English(c) a reference to a variety ofRP(d) None of the above

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Dialec'tal differences cover(a) pronunciation(c) vocabulary

Register is a concept pertaining to(a) morpholory(c) psycholinguistics

Language acquisition is a Part of(a) sociolinguistics(c) semiotics

(a) rationalistPrinciPle(c) systemic aPProach

Behaviourist linguistics is attributed to(a) Robins(c) Grimm

(a) innate to the mind(c) both (a) & (b)

(b) grammar(d) all the above

O) sociolinguistics(d) generativism

O) ethnolinguistics(d) psycholinguistics

Primarily rule-systerns of generative grammars are

(a) stored neurophysiologically O) psychological

(c) both (a) & O) (d) neither (a) nor (b)

In psycholinguistics, the relationship between language and thoughg as formulated by

Chomsky, is rational in the sense that(a) thought comes into being because oflanguage

bt language serves for the expression ofpre-existing full articulate thougltt

(c) language and thought evolve together

(d) AII the above

The behaviourist theory is based upon

o)(d)

stimulus-tesponse theorysign theory

40. In the mentalist theory, the language faculty is

(b) Gleason(d) Bloomfield

O) species-sPecific(d) neither (a) nor (b)

O) structure dep€ndent(d) None ofthe above

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41. In the linguistic theory of chomsky, the innate capacity of human mind to acquire

language facultY is(a) simply arbirary(c) independent of stnrcture

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42. Vibration of vocal chords makes a sound(a) audible O) articulatory(c) voiced (d) voiceless

43. In Saussure's linguistic theory sign is(a) positively related with meaning O) aftitrary(c) empty (d) both(b)&(c)

44. The form is sign is(a) signifier O) signified(c) sigrrification (d) value

45. Signal is different from sign on account ofit being(a) negative O) empty(c) positive (d) All the above

46. Sound lK lis(a) labio{eirtal O) Clottal(c) alveolar (d) velar

47. Sound ll I is(a) laterd O) bilabial(c) fricative (d) dental

,ft. Sound lg lis(a) velar . O) voiced(c) voiceless (d) both (a) & O)

49. Suffixes are of(a) two qpes (b) three tlpes(c) one tlpe only (d) four types

50. A morpherne is(a) free O) bound(c) both (a) & (b) (d) neither (a) nor (b)

51. Allophones are(a) contrastive O) similar(c) in free variation (d) None ofthe above

52. dark '1' and clear 'l' are(a) phonemes (b) allophones(c) free morphernes (d) bound morphemes

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53. Sound lflis(a) fricative O) afticate(c) plosive (d) nasal

54. The narrative of The God of Small llizgs covers a period(a) r9n-997 O) 1969-1993(c) . 1962-l%9 (d) 1962-1993

55. To which book of B.R. Ambodkar did Arundhati Roy write an inhoduction ?

(a) Speeches of Ambedkar O) Annihilation of Caste(c) Scourge of Caste (d) Programme for Depressed Casteb

56. Comrade Kirilov is a novel by(a) Mulk Raj Anand O) Raja Rao(c) Gralnm Greene (d) H.G. Wells

57. Bakha is a character in one ofthe novels of(a) Mulk Raj Anand O) Raja Rao(c) tuiit8 Desai (d) R. K. Narayan

53. Fifty sennons ueanributed to(a) Marvel O) JohnMilton(c) Dante (d) John Donne

59. Name the modem English Po€t who was not a British Subject by birth.(a) T. S. Eliot O) W. B. Yeats

(c) Philip Inkin (d) NobodY

60. In Raja Rao's The Serpent and The Rope, whil.is the name of Ramaswamy's wife ?

(a) Savithri O) Saroja(c) Madeleine (d) Elizabetlt

61. Hard Times by Dickens ap,pearad in(a) 1848 O) 1850

(c) lE52 (d) 1854

62. Hard Times is I in an industrial town(a) Lancanshire (b) Preston(c) Coketown (d) None ofthe above

, 63. Listpning to Grasshopers is a collection of essays by(a) Raja Rao O) Salman Rushdie

(c) V. S. Naipaul (d) Arundhati RoY

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@. A 'conceit' in metaphysical poetry is(a) metaphor O) a symbol(c) a far-fetched metaphor (d) a part of speech

65. Milton's Paradise los, came out in(a) 1660 O) 1708

(c) 1667 (d) l7l8

66. Lycidas is a wort by(a) Alexander Pope (b) John Milton(c) Marvell (d) John Donne

Cl . ln Paradise Regain ed, Milton wrote about the ternptation of(a) Jesus O) Adam(c) Eve (d) Michael

68. Who wrote the po ern Milton in I 804 ?

(a) Cowper O) William Blake(c) Wordsworth (d) Shelley

69. ln Biographia Literaria, Coleridge distinguishes between(a) Consciousness and unconscious (b) Mind and body(c) Matter and metaphysics (d) Fancy and imagination

70. An aspect of the meaning of Blake' s Song of the Innocence and Experience pertalns to(a) a simple depiction of nature

O) human will(c) possibility ofprogress to a higher innocence(d) None of the above

71. The poem PoLson Tree was entitled in Blake's manuscript as

(a) Christian Forbearance O) Christian(c) The Fall (d) The Temptation

72. Blake's works can be seen to be derived from(a) Scottish mlhology (b) hymnological radition(c) lyrical tradition (d) religious tradition

73. Who wrote the es say The Constitution of Church and State 'l(a) William Wordsworth O) Tennyson(c) John Donne (d) Coleridge

74. In which novel ofJane Austen do naval Officers appear as characters ?(a) Pride and Prejudice O) Mansfield Park(c) Sense and Sensibility (d) Emma

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75. Jane Austen's Novels show

(a) Passionate rejection of conservative values '

(b) . Rejection of Christian values

(c) Affirmation of the vidues of reshaint

(d) No insistence on Propriety

76. Waverley is oonsidered a novel by(a) Richardson O) ThackeraY

(c) HardY (d) Scott

TT.ChildeHaroldapardintwocantosinl8l2.Howmanywereaddedtoitin1316andl8l8 ?(a) Ten O) Two

(c) Seven (d) Three

78. Don Juan is a Poem bY

(a) Ben Jonson (b) Marlowe

(c) BYron (d) Robert SoutheY

79. 'Wit' in John Donne's poetry means

(a) Sharp intellect ody

O) ironic wisdom(c) satire(d-) free play of intelligence and delight in intellectual games

80. Areopagitica is apamphlet written by

(a) Milton G) Bacon

, (c) Jonson (d) Addison

81. Parson Adams is a character in one ofthe novets of(a) Richardson O) Fielding

(c) Scott (d) Conrad

82. Lines written afew miles above Tintera Abbey appwtd as a part of(a) The Prelude O) The Excursion

G) Lyrical Ballads (d) None of the above

83. ln Lyrtcal Ballads, Wordsworth chose to describe

(a) human love 0) industrial life

("i humble and rustic life (d) None ofthe above

E4.BookVlllofTheExcarsionrecordsWordsworth'simpressionsof' (a) hir r"hool O) the place ofhis'birth

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E5. Who is the author of the pamphla The Necessity of Atheism ?(a) Shelley O) Keats(c) Milton (d) Arnotd

86. The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by(a) Byron O) Scott(c) Keats (d) Marlowe

t7 . Kats's The Fall of Hyperion: A dream is the story of the resistance of the Titans to(a) the natural fury O) new order of the Gods(c) the flux of the material universe (d) the world of imagination

tt. ldonaic is a bibute by Shelley to(a) Dante O) petrarch(c) Keats (d) Shakespeare

t9. The author of ll e Ring and The Book is(a) Robert Brovming O) Alfred Tennyson(c) MatthewAmold (d) ElizabcthBrowning

90. The Ring and The 8oo& retells the story of an ltalian murder trial fiom the perspective of(a) the lawyer O) the pope(c) Roman citizens (d) all of them

91. A series of lectures atilled Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in Hisrory are attributedto(a) JosephAddison O) MatthewAmold(c) Thomas Carlyle (d) Ruskin

y2. who was among the first critics to write about the elusive smile of Mona Lisa ?(a) William Hale White O) Walter pat€r(c) Oscar Wilde (d) W. B. yeats

93. Who was knowr as the Lady of the Lamp ?(a) Florence Nightingale O) E.B. Browning(c) Goorge Eliot (d) Virginia Woo|f

94. who nrrore the long brank-verse 'nove| Awora Leigh: A poem in Nine Boorrs ?(a) RobcrtBmvming O) E. B-Browning(c) ChristinaRossetti (d) GeorgeEliot

95. Although charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyrewas published in l g4z, the first novel she wrotewas(a) Shirley O) Agnes Grey(c) Domestic Manners (d) The professor

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96. Mr. Rochester is a Charactcr in(a) Shirley O) Agnes GreY

G) Domestic Manners (d) Jane EYre

97 . lf Jane Eyre rwgrizes the virtues of self-discipline, it, at the same time,(a) tests the probity ofpassionate commitnent

O) upholds only the Victorian virtu€s of self-renrmciation(c) stands for the current conservative values(d) none ofthe above

98. Nelly Dean is a character in(a) Yilleue O) The Tenant of Wildlife Hall(c) Wuthering Heights (d) Past and Present

99. Wuthering Heights in the novel |lluhertng Heights is the name of(a) a range ofhills O) a devastated landscape

(c) ahouse (d) none ofthe above

100. Pamelaby Samuel Richar&on earned a place on the Vatican's lnde:r of(a) most readable books (b) prohibited books(c) moralbooks (d) romances

101. Sanuel Richardson called the novelistic form(a) Romance (b) fictive(c) narrative (d) a new species ofwriting

102. Richardson's Pamela was witten in the style of(a) third person narrative O) plain autobiography(c) epistolary writing (d) folktales

103. Henry Fielding called his novel Joseph Andrews(a) an epic O) a comic epic poem in prose

(c) anepicpoem (d) an epical prose fiction

104. Besides other essays, John Ruskin also wrote on(a) drama O) mYthologY(c) historyofcoins (d) architecture

105. Sophia is.a character in the novel(a) Amelia O) Tom Jones

(c) TomandJerry (d) Toad ofToad Hall

106. The Last Man is a novel written by(a) Godwin Wollstonecroft O) Sh€ridan(c) Martha Sherwood (d) Mary Shelley

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107. To whom are the last lines of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbev ddressed ?(a) 'Coleridge (b) AlexanderPope(c) Dorothy Wordsworth (d) Shakespeare

l0E. Who wrote the gothic novel The Monk?(+ Walter Scott O) Horace Walpole(c) Gregory Mathew lrwis (d) William Godwin

109. Holy Sonnets were written by(a) JohnDonne O) Cowper(c) BenJonson (d) Spencer

ll0. Who is the narrator in RajaRao's Kanthapura ?(a) Murthy (b) Author(c) Achakka (d) Rangamma

lll. The Prophecy of Dante was written by(a) John Donne (b) John Byron(c) Dorothy Wordsworth (d) John Ruskin

ll2. 'Beauty is rutlU futh beaug, - that is allye known on earih, and all ye need to know'these line are from(a) Hlperion O) Ode to a Nightingale(c) Ode on a Gracian Um (d) Ode to the West Wind

113. An Ode is(a) a lyrical poem O) like a sonnet(c) arhymed poem (d) a poem in the form ofan address

ll4. Swift's A Tale of a ?zD is the tale of the tastes and opinions of three brothers representing(a) Roman Catholicism O) Anglicanism(c) Calvinistic dissent (d) All the above

115. Who represents the view-point of the ancients in Swrft's The Battle of.the Bootrs ?(a) Aesop O) bee(c) ant (d) spider

116. Who wrote the following famous lines :

"..' I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell inClubs and Assernblies, at Tea Tables, and in Coffee Houses"(a) Steele O) Swift(c) Addison (d) Dennis

ll7. Who created the famous character Sir Roger de Coverley ?(a) Steele O) Swift(c) Addison (d) Dennis

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1lt. What is the narne ofthe early eighteenth c€ntury joumal in which essays concerning social

noms and etiquett€s aPPeated ?

(a) The spectator (b) The Times

(c) The Guardian (d) The London Express

ll9. An Essay on Criticism is(a) a poetic discourse O) a prose work

(c) an elegy (d) an autobiographical wor*

120. An Essay on Cnticlsm is an aphoristic discourse which presents

(a) imaginativecriticism

O) a oitical theory based upon froe will(c) liberal criticism(d) criticism as a disciplined ext€Nrsion of neo-classical good manners

l2l. The Rape oftle lock is known for(a) its heroic qualities O) its portayal ofclassical age

(c) domesticization ofepic (d) its genuine seriousness oftone

122. Who is the author of The Dunciad ?

(a) AlexanderPope (b) John Dryden

G) William Congreve (d) Ian Watt

123. It is said that Chades Dickens was deeply influenced by(a) John Ruskin O) Karl Mant(c) Hobbes (d) Thomas CarlYle

124. Sue is a character in the novel(a) David Copperfield O) Sons and lnvers(c) Jude the Obscure (d) Judith

125. Dickens' Bleak House is(a) a satire on the abuses ofthe old court

O) a satire on the worting of the state

(c) a depiction ofPovertY onlY(d) none ofthe above

126. Pip is the protagonist of(a) Bleak House O) Great Expectations

(c) Retum of the Native (d) Middlemarch

121 . The life of Jomthan tlild the Grea! is a short novel by

(a) Samuel Richardson O) James Joyce

G) HenryFielding (d) H.G. Wells

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l2t. Samuel Richardson's novel C/anssa was written in the style of(a) third person narrative O) first person nanative(c) romance (d) epistolary novel

129. In Hardy's works there is a struggle of man against(a) the indifferent force that rules the world

O) the socioeconomic structure only(c) the gender inequality(d) the rural-urUan divide

130. Which of the following is a book of poems by Thomas Hardy ?

(a) TheDurciad o) Empedocl*(c) Wessex Poems (d) New Poems

l3l. Lycidas by Milton is(a) a sonn€t (b) a monologue(c) a lyric (d) an elegy

132. ln Wuthertng Heights therc is a(a) naturalistic porhayal ofnature O) prosaic description ofsrrounding(c) a poetic gnndeur ofvision (d) a neo-classical critique ofmanners

133. To whom does Matthew Amold's famous phrase "classics of our prose" refer ?(a) Bacon O) Alexander Pope(c) Chaucer (d) Hazlitt

134. Who is the author of a famous heatise on novel erftitled Aspects of the Novel ?

(a) E. M. Fonter O) David Cecil(c) Northrop Frye (d) Virginia Woolf

135. Who is the author of 77re Confidential Clerk?(a) Ibsen O) Beckett(c) Shaw (d) T. S. Eliot

136. 'The Fire Sermon' is a section of(a) Gerontion O) The Waste Land(c) Essay on Man (d) Ancient Mariner

137. Mrs. Dalloway is a novel pertaining to(a) absurd literature O) sheam of consciousness sryle of writing(c) diasporic literature (d) realist literature

l3E. John Tanner is a character in(a) Doll's House O) Man and Superman(c) Amrs and 0re Man (d) Flies

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139. Innia is mtntve poeo by(a) Spencer O) Keats(c) EzraPound (d) Shelley

140. Conrad's novel.lVosrrorro is set in(a) Poland O) an African island(c) Czechoslovakia (d) an imaginary South American country

l4l. Aziz is a chracter in(a) A Passage to India (b) Untouchable(c) SatanicVerses (d) ThewhiteTiger

142. Howard Endis a novel by(a) James Joyce O) H. G. Wells(c) E. M. Forster (d) Graham Greene

143, The Sacred Wood is a cgllaion of critical essays by(a) I. A. Richards O) T. S. Eliot(c) Frazer (d) W. B. Yeats

144. The wild Swans at coole isby. (a) Dorothy Wordsworth O) Walter Pater

(c) James Joyce (d) W. B. Yeats

145, A Portrait of tlu Artist as a Youngnan is zbakby(a) Jarnes Joyce O) Maude Gonne

, (c) Virginia Woolf (d) Graham Greene

146. Which is the first novel of D.H. L"avnetlc€ ?(a) Sons andlovers O) The Rainbow' .(c) Women in Inve (d) Iady Chotterley's Inver

147. Twilight inltdt is a havel book(a) Doris kssing O) D. H. Iawrence(c) James Joyce (d) V. S. NaiPaul

l4t. The term 'objective correlative' is attributed to(a) I. A. Richard O) EmPson

(c) W. B. Yeats (d) T. S. Eliot

.. 149. George Bemard Shaw was(a) a socialist O) a communist

!c) afabiansocialist (d) ananarchist

' 150. Who is the narrator in Heart of Darhrass'l

. (a) Kurtz O) Marloweli (c) Author himself (d) Russian sailor

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