Paper 2 Dec 2018 (Q 21 to 40) free online mock test

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1. Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavelier
   poets such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John
   Suckling, James Shirley, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
   1.   Pious devotion to religious virtues
   2.   Carpe diem
   3.   Country ideals of the good life
   4.   Loyalty to the king
2. Who among the following are referred to as the “Scottish Chaucerians” ?
   (a) Thomas Hoccleve
   (b) Robert Henryson
   (c) John Lydgate
   (d) William Dunbar
   The right combination according to the code is :
   1.   (a) and (b)
   2.   (b) and (d)
   3.   (b) and (c)
   4.   (c) and (d)
3. The enigmatic castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Franz Kafka’s
   Castle belongs to
   1.   Count Westwest
   2.   Count Aloofwest
   3.   Count Eastwest
   4.   Count Stangewest
4. Which of the following statements is true of The Way of the World ?
   1.   Millamant and Mirabell fail to obtain the consent of Millamant’s aunt for their
      marriage
   2.   The Way of the World presents a heroine pretending to love an older man.
   3.   The Way of the World failed on stage.
   4.   The Way of the World was performed and published in 1702.
5. Which of the following would not be invoked to describe a form of new
   Historicist criticism ?
   1.   Post-structural recovery of authorial intent
   2.   Cultural materialism
   3.   Genealogy of patriarchal discourse
   4.   Archaeology of social constructs
6. Match the following authors with the novels :
   (Name of Author)
   (1) Inheritance
   (2) Listening Now
   (3) Sister of My Heart
   (4) The Hero’s Walk
   (Name of Novel)
   (a) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
   (b) Anita Rau Badami
   (c) Anjana Appachana
   (d) Indira Ganesan
   1.   (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
   2.   (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
   3.   (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
   4.   (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
7. The Romantic period produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A
   notable examples is “on the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” Who is the author?
   1.   William Charles Macready
   2.   William Hazlitt
   3.   Edmund Kean
   4.   Thomas de Quincey
8. In his Practical Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several
   kinds of meanings and that the “total meaning” is a blend of contributory
   meanings which are of different types. He identified four kinds of meaning, or
   the total meaning of a word depends upon four factors. Choose the right
   combination as proposed by Richards.
   
   1.   Sense, feeling, Tone and Matter
   2.   Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention
   3.   Sound, Sense, Tone and Matter
   4.   Image, Feeling, Tone and Intention
9. The following lines are W.B. Yeats’s metaphor for an old man :
   A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
   Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
   For every tatter in its mortal dress.
   Here, the aged man is _____, and his “soul … in its mortal dress,” is _______.
   
   1.   Point, counterpoint
   2.   Tenor, vehicle
   3.   Analogy, analogue
   4.   Vehicle, tenor
10. Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler is narrated by
    1.   Ben Lyte, a coarse Papist
    2.   Jack Wilton, an English page
    3.   Peter Marston, a sworn Calvinist
    4.   Philip Foxe, an English highwayman
11. Read the following passage and answer the questions:
    I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it
    in railway trains, or an the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had
    to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics – which are in the original, my … (Indian friends) tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of
    untranslatable delicacies of colour, of material invention –display in thought a world
    I have dreamed of all my life long. The work of a supreme culture, they yet appear as
    much a growth of the common soil as the grass and the rushes. A tradition, where
    poetry and religion are the same thing, has passed through the centuries, gathering
    from learned and unlearned metaphor and emotion, and carried back again to the
    multitude the thought of the scholar and the noble. If the civilization of Bengal
    remains unbroken, if that common mind which – as one divines – runs through all, is
    not, as with us, broken into a dozen minds that know nothing of each other,
    something even of what is most subtle in these verses will have come, in a few
    generations, to the beggar on the roads.
    — W.B. Yeats, from Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
    
    In this passage, Yeats praises Indian culture primarily because it
    1.   Is accessible to Westernes though it is rooted in a different religious tradition.
    2.   Has been flexible enough to survive a transition into the modern world.
    3.   Embodies values and gives rise to art that can be shared by people of all classes
    4.   Reflects a marvellous eclecticism in drawing from many disparate cultures
12. Which of the following had the alternative title Things as They Are?
    1.   Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
    2.   Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    3.   Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
    4.   William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
13. In imitation of which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his London
    and The Vanity of Human Wishes?
    1.   Homer
    2.   Juvenal
    3.   Horace
    4.   Tasso
14. Identify the character, a black-eyed dwarf who “constantly revealed a
    few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the
    aspect of a panting dog”.
    1.   Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby
    2.   Rigand in Little Dorrit
    3.   Mr. Crook in Bleak House
    4.   Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop
15. There are helpers and harmers among fellow-pilgrims in Christian’s
    journey in Pilgrim’s Progress. Who among the following is not a helper?
    1.   Mr. Worldly Wiseman
    2.   Good Will
    3.   The Interpreter
    4.   The Evangelist
16. Adherents of the fourteenth century religious movement associated with
    vernacular preaching, translation of New Testament into English, and
    challenges to the authority of priests and bishops were called
    1.   Levellers
    2.   Deists
    3.   Lollards
    4.   Agnostics
17. Match the term with the theorist:
    (Term)
    (a) Negritude
    (b) Womanism
    (c) Interpellation
    (4) Louis Althusser
    (Theorist)
    (1) Alice Walker
    (2) Jurgen Habermas
    (3) Aime Cesaire
    (d) Public Sphere
    1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
    2.   (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
    3.   (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
    4.   (a)-(2), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
18. In his essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864)
    Matthew Arnold contended that
    1.   Creative and critical powers should be ranked equally
    2.   Creative power should be ranked higher than critical power
    3.   Critical power should be ranked higher than creative power
    4.   Creative and critical powers are not comparable in any way
19. David Malouf’s novel Ransom is based on
    1.   a war memoir by Edmund Blunden
    2.   an episode in The Mahabharata
    3.   a war poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    4.   an episode in the Trojan war
20. The title of Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances was taken from
    1.   William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
    2.   John Donne’s “Death’s Duell”
    3.   Rudyard Kipling’s “A Death-Bed”
    4.   T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

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