Paper 2 Dec 2018 (Q 61 to 80) free online mock test

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1. Fill in the blanks
   “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
   ________ in this petty pace from day to day,
   To the last _______ of recorded time;
   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
   The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
   Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
   That _______ and frets his hour upon the stage,
   And then is _______ no more: it is a tale
   Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
   Fill in the blanks. Choose the set that carries the correct words.
   
   1.   Walks. Breath, creeps, shown
   2.   Creeps, syllable, struts, heard
   3.   Moves, syllable, frowns, heard
   4.   Creeps, moment, struts, seen
2. What is an “implied reader”?
   1.   The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is
      supposedly addressed.
   2.   A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to
      exercise its e
   3.   The ideal reader of a work of literature which is approximated over time by
      successive responses of generations of actual readers.
   4.   The ideal “average” reader who can approach a work of literature with no
      preconceived ideas about the author’s life, the time of composition, etc.
3. Read the lines from the poem
   Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care
   To tend the homely, slighted Shepherd’s trade,
   And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ?
   Were it not better done, as others use,
   To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
   Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair ?
   Who are Amaryllis and Neaera in the above extract from John Milton’s “Lycidas”?
   
   1.   Both were goddesses of love and war respectively appearing in Greek pastoral
      poetry.
   2.   Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in Shakespearce’s romantic comedies;
      Neaera, a minor character in love’s Labour’s lost
   3.   Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in ancient pastoral poetry, notably in Virgil’s
      eculogues; Neaera, a nymph who appears in Virgil’s Eclogues.
   4.   Both were one-time lovers of Lycidas, the dead shepherd.
4. The chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too
   sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” The
   fall of the Indian rupee in the final decades of 19 century is referred to in one
   of Oscar Wilde’s plays . identify the play.
   1.   The importance of being earnest
   2.   Lady Windermere’s fan
   3.   An Ideal Husband
   4.   A Woman of no importance
5. “Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings,
   and that we are actually alive.”
   This passage forms part of
   1.   Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
   2.   John Osborne’s look Back in anger
   3.   Samuel Beckett’s waiting for Godot
   4.   Harold Pinter’s the birthday party
6. What tone will be best suited to the following poem ?
   THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH AGE
   Through leaves are many , the root Is one;
   Through all the lying days of my youth
   I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
   Now I may wither into the truth.
   1.   Regret
   2.   Excitement
   3.   Revulsion
   4.   Exultation
7. Match the author with the title:
   (Author)
   (a) Alan paton
   (b) Ngugi wa thiong’o
   (c) Teju cole
   (d) Wole Soyinka
   (Title)
   (1) open city
   (2) cry, the beloved country
   (3) a grain of wheat
   (4) the interpreters
   
   1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
   2.   (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
   3.   (a)-(2), (b)-(2), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
   4.   (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
8. Which of the following is the most accurate statement by W.E.B. Du Bois’s
   famous articulation of the ‘twoness’ of black Americans?
   1.   “it is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this scene of always lokking
      at one’s self through the eyes of others.”
   2.   “This sense of always looking at one’s self, a peculiar sensation through the eyes is
      double consciousness.”
   3.   “Through the eyes of others, this sense of always looking at one’s self, we acquire the double-consciousness.”
   4.   “this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the
      eyes of others, is a peculiar sensation.”
9. Match the plays to their setting:
   (a) Krapp’s last tape
   (b) Happy days
   (c) Waiting for Godot
   (d) Endgame
   (1) a country road;a tree
   (2) bare interior; two small windows high up ; grey light
   (3) expanse of scorched grass forming a low mound; blinding light
   (4) a laze evening in future, white light.
   
   1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
   2.   (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
   3.   (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
   4.   (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
10. Albert Camus borrows the following epigraph to his novel The Plague
    form________
    “it is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another , as it is
    to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not,”
    
    1.   James Hogg’s The Confessions of a Justified Sinner
    2.   Jeremy Bentham’s the principles of morals and legislation
    3.   Robert Burton’s the anatomy of melancholy
    4.   Daniel Defoe’s robinson crusoe
11. “We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single
    “theological” meaning (the “message” of the Author-god) but a
    multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original,
    blend and clash . . . . literature . . . . by refusing to assign a “secret”, an ultimate
    meaning, to the text (and to the world as text) liberates what may be called an
    anti-theological activity , that is truly revolutionary since to refuse to fix meaning is, in the end to refuse god and his hypostases- reason, science, law.”
    The passage comes from which of the following essays?
    1.   “tradition and individual talent” by T.S. eliot
    2.   “discource in the novel “ by Mikhail bakhtin
    3.   “what is an author?” by Michel Foucault
    4.   “the death of the author” by roland barthes
12. The Norman Conquest was a significant landmark in English history.
    What French did the Normans speak and what was it known as?
    1.   They spoke a dialectal French (also called Anglo-Frisian), somewhat closer to the
       Parisian.
    2.   They spoke Norman French (Anglo-Norman). Theirs was certainly not the standard
       French.
    3.   They spoke standard French (of mainland France). Their French was very sweet
       and musical.
    4.   They spoke normal French, rather distinct from Anglo-Norman, another standard
       language.
13. Nicholas Nickleby firmly established Charles Dickens as a dominant
    novelist of his time and the book as an unrivalled literacy phenomenon. To
    celebrate the completion of the book, a painter noted that there had been
    nothing comparable to him since the days of Samuel Richardson. Identify the
    painter.
    1.   Leonard Woolf
    2.   David Wilkie
    3.   John Cruickshank
    4.   Ernest Dawson
14. Match the writer with the work:
    (Name of work)
    (1) Leviathan
    (2) The Practice of Piety
    (3) The Art of English Poesy
    (4) The History of the Royal Society
    (Writer)
    (a) George Puttenham
    (b) Thomas Spart
    (c) Lewis Bayly
    (d) Thomas Hobbes
    1.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
    2.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
    3.   (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
    4.   (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
15. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
    1.   Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random
    2.   Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
    3.   Mathew Lewis’s The Monk
    4.   William Beckford’s Vathek
16. Jonathan Swift arrived in London in 1710 and confronted a rapidly
    changing world in the new Tory ministry. His reactions to this world are vividly
    recorded in his journal to Stella, a series of letters addressed to
    (a) Hester Vanhomrigh
    (b) Esther Johnson
    (c) Rebecca Dingley
    (d) Lady Mary Montagu
    The right combination according to the code is:
    1.   (b) and (c)
    2.   (b) and (d)
    3.   (c) and (d)
    4.   (a) and (b)
17. __________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly
    recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of
    scenes from the novel.
    1.   Horace Nightingale
    2.   George Eliot
    3.   Margaret Cavendish
    4.   Queen Victoria
18. Which of the following statements on Rajmohan’s Wife is not true?
    1.   Bankim Chandra published it soon after serialization and was elated in seeing its
    2.   The novel was serialized in 1864 in a short-lived magazine in Calcutta.
    3.   By common consent, Rajmohan’s Wife is the first novel in English published by an
       Indian.
    4.   His vivid descriptions of the routine of Bengali households reveal a lot about the
       nineteenth century.
19. In Thomas Moore’s Utopia (Book2) , the reader is told that in this new
    world there are few mistakes in marriage because
    1.   there is an extensive courtship period preceding the actual wedding.
    2.   the family gods are invoked before finalizing the nuptials.
    3.   there is a community get together where prospective husbands and wives
       announce wedding plans endorsed by elders.
    4.   prospective husbands and wives see one another naked before agreeing to the
       match.
20. “Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have
    occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason,
    fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? I present to you
    History, the fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama.”
    Which postmodern novel thus subverts the truth claims of traditional
    historiography?
    1.   A.S. Byatt’s possession
    2.   John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
    3.   Graham Swift’s Waterland
    4.   Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

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