Paper 2 Dec 2018 ( Q 81-100 ) free online mock test

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1. In which of his novels does Italo Calvino construct his narrative through a
   tarot pack of cards and re-interpret the Western canon providing new versions
   of Oedipus Rex, Faust, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear?
   1.   The Castle of Crossed Destinations
   2.   Our Ancestors
   3.   Invisible Cities
   4.   The Path to the Nest of Spiders
2. Herr God, Herr Lucifer
   Beware Beware
   Out of the ash
   I rise with my red hair
   And I eat men like air.
   Lines 4 and 5 in the above evoke:
   1.   Christ’s resurrection
   2.   The fairy-tale of a girl in the woods
   3.   The myth of the phoenix
   4.   The legend of the Lady of the Lake
3. which post-war British poet ends a poem with the line , “get stewed :
   books are aload of crap”?
   1.   Philip Larkin
   2.   Ted Hughes
   3.   Thom Gunn
   4.   Craig Raine
4. Arnold Wesker is associated with “kitchen-sink drama”, a rather
   condescending title applied to the then new-wave realistic drama depicting
   the family lives of working-class characters on stage and in broadcast plays.
   Two of the following plays begin with one character doing the dishes in a
   kitchen sink. Identify the pair.
   (a) the Kitchen
   (b) chicken soup with barley
   (c) roots
   (d) menace
   The right combination according to the code is:
   1.   (b) and (d)
   2.   (a) and (d)
   3.   (a) and (b)
   4.   (b) and (c)
5. Early African-American texts like slave narratives were often described
   as told to narratives as their ‘authors’ dictated their experiences. The persons
   who noted down these experiences are
   1.   Amanuenses
   2.   Abolitionists
   3.   Translators
   4.   Slave-drives
6. Which of the following poems is quoted as the epigraph to A Raisin in the
   Sun by Lorraine Hansberry?
   1.   “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
   2.   “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
   3.   “The Big Sea”
   4.   “I, too, Sing America”
7. As a boy growing up in Squire Allworth’s estate, Tom gets one of the
   following characters into trouble. Identify the character.
   1.   Partridge
   2.   Black George
   3.   Nightingale
   4.   Bli
8. During the Raj, the British viewed their rule in terms of a thankless duty
   to uplift the downtrodden and inculcate order into Oriental minds. The
   mission to civilize the “ silent, sullen peoples” of the east was a burden
   imposed upon them by destiny.
   The last observation is a fairly obvious allusion to
   1.   J.R. Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
   2.   Flora Annie Steel’s “The Garden of Fidelity
   3.   Maud Diver’s the Englishwoman in India
   4.   Rudyard Kipling’s “the White Man’s Burden”
9. Read the passage given below
   “Full many a lady
   I have eye’d with best regard: and many a time
   The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
   Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues
   Have I liked several women; never any
   With so full soul, but some defect in her
   Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d,
   And put it to the foil. But you, O you,
   So perfect and so peerless , are created
   Of every creature’s best.”
   This passage admiring the perfect matching of inner and outward beauty of a
   woman is taken from
   
   1.   Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
   2.   John Webster’s The Duchess of Mal
   3.   Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
   4.   Shakespeare’s Tempest
10. I, Allan Sealy’s the Trotter-Nama traces the history of the Anglo-Indian
    community in a chronicle of seven generations of the Trotter family, told by
    the seventh Trotter. This narrator is
    1.   a quack in the Indian outback
    2.   a forget of Indian miniatures
    3.   an accountant in the Indian army.
    4.   a collector of rare manuscripts.
11. Mango Souffle , India’s first major gay themed film, is an adaptation of
    Mahesh Dattani’s play
    1.   Do the Needful
    2.   Bravely Fought the Queen
    3.   Dance like a Man
    4.   On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
12. In this novel by Graham Greene a double agent uses classic works of
    fiction to encode secret information. “He put Clarissa Harlowe back in the
    bookcase” is the first clue to his treachery. Then he draws on War and Peace
    and The Way We Live Now as matrices for secretly transmitting information.
    Identify the novel.
    1.   The Man Within
    2.   Our Man in Havana
    3.   The Human Factor
    4.   The con
13. In an ode, William Collins lamented the passing of a contemporary poet.
    The ode began with the line: “In yonder grave a Druid lies.” Name the poet whose passing Collins Laments
    1.   James Thomson
    2.   William Cowper
    3.   Alexander Pope
    4.   Thomas Gray
14. In tradition ELT methods and materials, the native speaker is elevated
    and idealized against stereotyped non-native speakers. This tendency is
    dubbed ______ by Adrian Holliday.
    1.   Native speakerism
    2.   The non-native fallacy
    3.   The near-native fallacy
    4.   The native-speaker bias
15. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian Era?
    1.   The Married Women’s property Rights Act
    2.   A series of Factory acts
    3.   The Custody Act
    4.   The Women’s Suffrage Act
16. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the
    other labelled as Reason(R). Read the statements and choose the correct
    answer using the code given below:
    Assertion (A) : Gender studies do not see an urgent need to help us navigate the
    various pitfalls of racism, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and plain ignorance that flow from using “culture” as an explanatory tool.
    Reason (R) : Issues relating to Women’s rights, gender roles, sexuality and family
    obligations are centrally implicated in the so-called clash of civilizations between
    Christianity or Secularism, and Islaam.
    
    1.   (A) is only partly addressed in (R)
    2.   (R) does not follow logically from (A).
    3.   (R) is (A) and vice versa
    4.   (A) and (R) are most logically related.
17. The en-ending to denote the plural nous (as is oxen, children, brethren)
    has survived from the
    1.   Middle English hymnals and chants in English parishes
    2.   Anglo-Norman case of making plural nouns
    3.   Odd Middle-English pronouncing custom of plurals
    4.   Old English practice of making plural nouns
18. Comprehension for Q 18 to 20
    The following is an extract from a famous play. Read it carefully to answer questions
    that follow.
    Maid : [from the hall doorway] ma’am, a lady to see you –
    Nora: all right, let her come in.
    […the maid shows in MRS. LINDE, dressed in travelling clothes, and shuts the door
    after her.]
    Mrs. Linde : [in a dispirited and somewhat hesitant voice] Hello, Nora.
    Nora : hello –
    Mrs Linde: you don’t recognize me.
    Nora : no, I don’t know – but wait , I think – what ! what ! is it really you ?
    Mrs linde : yes its me
    Nora : Kristine ! to think I didn’t recognize you. But then , how could i?
    How you’ve changed, Kristine !
    Mrs. Linde : yes, no doubt I have. In nine – ten long years.
    Nora : it is so long since we met ! yes, it’s all of that. Oh, these last eight years have
    been a happy time, believe me. And so now you’ve come in to town, too. Made the
    long trip in the winter. That took courage.
    Mrs linde : I just got here by ship this morning .
    Nora : to enjoy yourself over Christmas , of course. Oh,how lovely !yes, enjoy
    ourselves we’ll do that . but take your coat off. You are not still cold? There now, lets
    get cozy here by the stove. No, the easy chair there ! I will take the rocker here. Yes,
    now you have your old look again; it was only in that first moment. You are a bit
    more pale, Kristine – and maybe a bit thinner.
    Mrs Linde : and much, much older nora.
    Nora : yes, perhaps a bit older ; a tiny, tiny bit ; not much at all. Oh, but thoughtless
    me , to sit here , chattering away. Sweet, can u forgive me?
    Mrs Linde: what do you mean?
    Nora : you have become a widow.
    Mrs Linde : yes, three years ago.
    Nora : I knew it, of course; I read it in the papers. Oh, Kristine, you must believe me; I
    often thought of writing you then , but kept postponing it, and something always
    interfered
    Mrs Linde : nora , dear, I understand completely.
    Nora : it was awful of me. You poor thing, how much you have gone through. And he
    left you nothing?
    Mrs Linse : no
    Nora : and no children?
    Mrs Linde : no.
    Nora : nothing at all then?
    Mrs Linde : not even a sense of loss to feed on.
    Nora : but how could that be?
    Mrs Linde : oh, sometimes it happens, Nora.
    Nora : so completely alone. How terribly hard that must be for you. I have three
    lovely children. You can’t see them now; they are out with the maid.
    
    Q 18-“Not even a sense of loss to feed on” implies that
    1.   Mrs. Linde is given over to feeding on sorrow.
    2.   Mrs.Linde is completely devoid of all feeling.
    3.   Mrs.Linde is sentimentally attached to an irretrievable past
    4.   Mrs. Linde’s severance from her tragic pair is total.
19. Identify the play of which this section is an excerpt
    1.   A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
    2.   The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
    3.   Wit by Margaret Edson
    4.   The importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
20. Which of the following description best applies to the above extract?
    1.   Friends comparing notes and counting losses in a meeting sudden and
       unanticipated.
    2.   the sense of loss inevitable with the passage of time and the imperceptible
       dissolution of the conventional marriage.
    3.   A chance meeting between old friends which leaves one puzzling over the
       inexplicable losses the other suffered.
    4.   A meeting of two friends – one married, the other unmarried after a gap of years.

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