Paper 2 Dec 2018 (Q 41 to 60) free online mock test

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1. What type of writing Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune
   art of the modern world”?
   1.   The lyric
   2.   Comic drama
   3.   The novel
   4.   Nonfiction prose
2. It was the First narrative on the life of a black woman slave to be
   published in England in 1831. It has profound influence on the abolition
   movement in Britain. Identify the book and its author
   1.   Mattie Jane Jackson – The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
   2.   Elizabeth – Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured Woman
   3.   Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince
   4.   Harriet Jacobs – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
3. 1992 demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya produced two
   controversial literary responses. Identify them
   1.   Out of Place, The Algebra of In
   2.   Annals and antiquities, between Sunlight and Shadows
   3.   The Moor’s Last Sigh, Lajja
   4.   Chronicles of a Riot Foretold, Shame
4. What is peculiar about the reference in the following in the some poets’
   names in the plural?
   “it is a freezing, bleak day in January, and I am looking for poetry. I see a few
   Chaucers, a few Shakespeares, and a hardcover, three-dollar History of
   Modern Poetry published in 1987.”
   1.   Synecdochic use; names for their respective works.
   2.   Usually refer to biographies of the poets in question.
   3.   Unusual; awkward metaphors no longer in use.
   4.   Standard reference to more texts of one poet.
5. Deconstructionist critics argue that texts are never free from
   1.   the interpretations bestowed by the totalizing critic.
   2.   distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language.
   3.   the material conditions that determine the production and reception.
   4.   the equivocal and ironically unstable worldview of the author.
6. “What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim
   reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth
   he hear it? No. is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with
   the living? No. why? Detraction will not suffer it. – therefore, I’ll none of it:
   Honour is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism.”
   
   Which character in the following Shakespearce’s dramas made this statement
   about honour?
   1.   Claudius in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
   2.   Falstaff in King Henry four-part 1
   3.   Hamlet in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
   4.   Hotspur in King Henry four-part 1
7. Why did Plato banish the poet from his ideal state?
   1.   Poetry makes an artificial distinction between form and content
   2.   Poetry deals with form, to the neglect of content.
   3.   In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails to discern the
      transcendent reality behind mere appearance
   4.   the poet can never produce a completely accurate replica of the reality it seeks to
      represent, and (moreover) the purpose of art is not to describe reality but to change
      it.
8. “Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them
   but bubbles of water.” Who is the author of this line?
   1.   R.B. Sheridan
   2.   Francis Bacon
   3.   John Webster
   4.   Oscar Wilde
9. Match the character with the work:
   (Characters)
   (1) Sons and lovers
   (2) Kangaroo
   (3) Women in love
   (4) The Rainbow
   (Name of work)
   (a) Rupert Birkin
   (b) Lydia Lensky
   (c) Miriam Leivers
   (d) Richard Somers
   1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
   2.   (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
   3.   (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
   4.   (a)-(4), (b)-(1), 9c)-(2), (d)-(3)
10. Read the passage given below
    If once into love’s hands it come!
    All other griefs, allow a part
    To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;
    They come to us, but us love draws;
    He swallows us and never chaws;
    By him, as by chain’d shot, whole ranks do die;
    He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.
    – John Donne, 1633
    Which sentence best paraphrases line of the passage above?
    1.   Love tends to grab us and never let go.
    2.   Distress comes in many forms, but none lasts as long as heartache.
    3.   Unbidden pain afflicts us, but we are lured by love.
    4.   Emotions can damage us, but none as severely as love.
11. Which ancient writer’s name is directly mentioned in Lord Byron’s poem
    “the Isles of Greece”?
    1.   Euripides
    2.   Sophocles
    3.   Sappho
    4.   Aeschylus
12. What attitude towards death would you find in such poems as
    Tennyson’s “crossing the bar,” Whitman’s “Death Carol,” and Kipling’s
    “L’Envoi”?
    1.   Resignation
    2.   Despair
    3.   Hope
    4.   Protest
13. One of the most flexible metres, ________is a five foot line. It was
    introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century and has since then
    become the commonest of metres in English poetry.
    1.   Iambic
    2.   Trochaic
    3.   Hexameter
    4.   Pentameter
14. The titular figure of Federico Garcia Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio
    Sanchez Mejias” was
    1.   a revolutionary who was associated with Che Guevara
    2.   a popular priest and poet
    3.   a spy who helped the revolutionaries during the Spanish Civil War
    4.   a popular matador and writer
15. The fault of Cowley and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical
    race is that of pursuing his thoughts to their ramifications, by which he loses
    the grandeur of generality; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what
    is little can be but pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Thus all
    the power of description is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration; and the
    force of metaphors is lost, when the mind by the mention of particulars is
    turned more upon the original than the secondary sense, more upon that from
    which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied.
    What Dr. Johnson actually faults here is:
    1.   The metaphysical insistence on the particular than the general.
    2.   The force of metaphors that blunts description
    3.   The metaphysical poets’ tendency to saunter away.
    4.   The mind that goes astray toward the original
16. In Marlow’s Doctor Faustus, what books does Valdes council Faustus to
    study in preparation for conjuring up spirits?
    (a) the works of Bacon and Abanus
    (b) the Hebrew Psalter and New Testament
    (c) the works of Ovid and Homer
    (d) the works of Baxter and Horst
    The right combination according to the code is:
    
    1.   (a) and (b)
    2.   (b) and (c)
    3.   (a) and (d)
    4.   (a) and (c)
17. Match the following concepts with their definitions:
    (Concepts)
    (a) Collocation
    (b) Corpus
    (c) Hyponymy
    (d) Matrix
    (Definitions)
    (1) A semantic relationship of one-to-many
    (2) A grid used in lexical analysis
    (3) A combination of two lexical items in a grammatical pattern
    (4) A large body of texts
    1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(2), (d)-(4)
    2.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
    3.   (a)-(4), (b)-(2), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
    4.   (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
18. Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
    (a) John Clare
    (b) John Keats
    (c) William Cobbett
    (d) Robert Burns
    The right combination according to the code is:
    1.   (a) and (b)
    2.   (c) and (d)
    3.   (b) and (c)
    4.   (a) and (d)
19. “The good thing about words, “Hanif Kureishi remarks in “loose tongues”,
    “is that their final effect is incalculable. […] you can never know what your
    words might turn out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the
    world they make will be like. Anything could happen. The problem with silence
    is that we know exactly what it will be like.”
    Kureishi, in sum, suggests:
    (a) There is always some risk involved in writing/speaking.
    (b) It is better to avoid using words than to risk miscommunication.
    (c) Words being predictable, are always open to misinterpretation.
    (d) The unpredictable, in deed, is the strength of words.
    Determine the correct combination according to the code:
    1.   (a) and (c)
    2.   (b) and (d)
    3.   (b) and (c)
    4.   (a) and (d)
20. Which interpretation of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” best
    represents the mimetic perspective?
    1.   The line is an ironic quotation, the equation of “beauty” and “truth” as “all we know
       on earth” suggests that reality is an illusory concept and that the primary function of
       art is to construct a world within an aesthetic reality of its own.
    2.   Those aspects of reality which we perceive to be “beautiful” are the only worthy
       subject matter of the artist, and it is the artist’s job to observe closely and isolate
       those sublime elements from the
    3.   The author’s arbitrary imposition of order upon the chaotic impressions of reality
       constitutes the only “truth” in a work of art.
    4.   A work of literature is “beautiful” insofar as it offfers an accurate representation of
       its subject matter, with fully realized characters and vivid description of events.

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