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Iraq was the first country to withdraw from CENTO.
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Geneva.
11. In Security Council, the organization of United Nations the five permanent members can exercise the power to veto.
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Geneva.
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Vienna.
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Sweden is not a member of NATO.
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Paris.
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Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are members of SAARC.
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London.
25. NATO has started program “partnership for peace” on 10-11 January 1994, 22 countries members of this scheme.
26. UNO adopted the charter of Economic Rights in the year 1974.
27. SAARC was founded in
Dhaka.
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Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States.
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Vietnam joined UN in the year 1975.
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31. There are 10 non permanent members of the Security Council.
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Russia is included in G-8 group.
34. The permanent members of Security Council are five.
35. Amnesty International is a human rights organization.
36.
Jamaica, Peru and Indonesia are members of G-15.
37. UNO was founded in
San Francisco.
38. The first Non-Aligned Summit was held at
Belgrade.
39. ILO, WHO and FAO are associated with UNO.
40. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are official languages of UNO.
41. UNCTAD is located at
Geneva.
42. “Africa Fund” was created by
NAM.
43. Last joining Member of the SAARC is
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Geneva.
45. The international court of Justice was established in 1946.
46. SAARC was founded in 1985.
47. The
Africa Fund is “Helping frontline states in their fight against apartheid.
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Geneva.
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77. In acronym of SAARC ‘C’ stands for Cooperation.
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Washington.
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Asia and pacific is located at Bangkok.
80. The special agency of the UN engaged in the promotion of socio cultural rights of people, is known as UNESCO.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-1(2000)

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, including question No.7 which is Compulsory. Select questions from each Part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I

1. Wordsworth’s verdict about Blake (on his death) was that "There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott". Elaborate with reference to Black’s works.

2. Discuss Wordsworth’s work as "an expression in an age of doubt of the transcendent in nature and the good in man" (J.S. Mill)

3. Shelley’s weaknesses as a writer have always been evident; rhetorical abstraction; intellectual arrogance; and movements of intense self-pity. But in great poems like the "West Wind" or great prose works like "Defence", it is precisely these limitations that he transcends, and indeed explodes. Discuss.

OR

In spite of diverse material and frequent digressions DON JUAN (Byron) does have a strong principle of thematic unity exemplified by the recurring motif of appearance versus reality. Comment and illustrate.

PART - II

4. Discuss J. S. Mill as an important figure in British empiricism.

OR

Lamb seldom permitted his profounder views of life to appear above the humorous, pathetic and ironical surface of his writings. Discuss with reference to his "Essays".

5. George Eliot is generally credited with changing the nature of the English Novel. Discuss the change with reference to the novelists’ works

6. Write short notes on TWO of the following:

(a) The Cult of Art for Arts’ sake (b) Negative Capability
(c) Decadence (d) Liberal humanism

COMPULSORY QUESTION

7. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

(1) Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

(a) Publication of "Intimations of Immortality"

(b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign

(c) The Reform Bill of 1832

(d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

(e) 1800 - 1801

(2) Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

(a) A "feathered chorister"

(b) A "member of the plumy race"

(c) A "bird"

(d) A "tenant of the sky"

(e) An "airy fairy"

(3) Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

(a) The creation of abstract concepts

(b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition

(c) The creation of an original philosophy

(d) An examination of extraneous matters

(e) His belief in a world to come.

(4) Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of abstraction:

(a) True (b) False

(5) "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed Byron.

(a) True (b) False

(6) In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.

(a) True (b) False

(7) Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.

(a) True (b) False

(8) Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.

(a) True (b) False

(9) The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:

(a) Dante (b) Shakespeare (c) Wordsworth (d) Shelley

(10) Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:

(a) Personal freedom

(b) The individual’s responsibility to society

(c) The power of love

(d) Human conduct based on conviction

(11) Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:

(a) Worship of God (b) Passion
(c) Narcissism (d) Emotional self-indulgence

(12) The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:

(a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

(b) Advance a single system to the public

(c) Allow the writer to draw on his

(d) Be brooding and meditative. own personality

(13) Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:

(a) Crushing tragedy (b) Humor
(c) Whimsical Pathos (d) Cynicism

(14) The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:

(a) Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of century (1900)

(b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)

(c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)

(d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victor-ia (1901)

(15) Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?

(a) Mill’s "On Liberty"
(b) Tennyson’s "In memoriam"
(c) Darwin’s "Origin of Species"
(d) Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus"
(e) Ruskin’s "The stones of Venice"

(16) In which of. the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:

(a) Drama (b) Epic Poetry (c) Lyric Poetry

(d) The Essay (e) The Novel

(17) Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:

1. "Hail to thee blithe spirit"

2. "Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"

3. "Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".

4. " Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

5. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",

6. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"

7. "A hand may first and then a lip be kist;

For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"

8. "My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"

A "May Last Duchess"
B "To a sky Lark"
C "Ode to Autumn"
D "Don Juan"
E "The Prisoner of Chillon"
F "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
G "Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)
H "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER-II

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: Attempt ~ questions in all, including question No.8 which is Compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Describe "Hamlet" as one of the revenge plays in English Literature.

2. Examine critically the theme of "Pygmalion" by Shaw.

3. "Pride and Prejudice" and Jane Austen is a novel with limited range. ,Discuss.

4. W.B. Yeats was a Romantic Poet. Discuss with reference to his major Poems.

5. Do you agree that Swift is a misanthrope in his ‘Gulliver’S Travels’? Why?

6. Discuss the artistic and emotional aspects in ‘The Waste Land’ by Eliot.

7. Write a short note/essay on the following:

(a) Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy (b) ‘Fire and Ice’

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only the correct/best answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

(1) Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?

(a) A.C. Bradley (b) Palmer D.J. (c) Dr.Johnsofl

(2) Which of the following is not a dramatist?

(a) Ben Johnson (b) Eliot (c) S. Backet

(3) Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest (b) Pygmalion ‘ (c) King Lear

(4) Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?

(a) Shaw (b) Robert Frost (c) Eliot

(5) Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Horatio (b) Iago (c) Claudius

(6) Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Cordelia (b) Portia (c) Ophelia

(7) After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

(a) Elizabeth I (b) Elizabeth II (c) Elizabeth Browning

(8) Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?

(a) Leavis, F.R. (b) Cecil, D. (c) E.M.Foster

(9) ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:

(a). Spenser (b) Chaucer (c) Milton

(10) "After Apple Picking" is written by:

(a) Robert Browning (b) Robert Frost

(11) Ernest Hemingway wrote:

(a) Mr. Chips (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Old Man and the Sea

(12) "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:

(a) Bertrand Russell (b) Huxley (c) P.B.Shelle

(13) Who wrote "20th Century Views"?

(a) Abrahams, M. H. (b) Palmer, D. J. (c) Bertrand Russell

(14) ‘Desert Places’ is a:

(a) Poem (b) Play (c) Novel

(15) The University Wits were:

(a) Poets (b) Playwrights (c) Novelists

(16) William Shakespeare was Born in:

(a) 1564 (b) 1534 (c) 1616

(17) Francis Bacon died in:

(a) 1616 (b) 1626 (c) 1648

(18) The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

(a) The Age of Classicism (b) . The Restoration (c) The age of
Milton

(19) Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?

(a) John Bunyan (b) Daniel Defoe (c) Dryden

(20) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

(a) Jonathan Swift (b) Samuel Johnson (c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IIN BPS – 17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2001

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – I

NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I
1. “All that is valuable in Blake is in his lyrics.” Discuss.

2. “If nature leads to God, she also leads to Man.” Discuss the significance of the human element in Wordsworth’s Prelude in the light of this statement.

3. In the best of Shelley’s poetry, there is a splendour of movement and realization of visionary intensity. Discuss it with reference to Shelley's poems.
OR
How the Odes of Keats reflect his growing concern with the relation between art and life, beauty and reality?

PART - II
4. ‘Above all Charles Lamb was a refined humanist whose smile could be both satirist and tender.’ Discuss this statement with reference to his essays.
OR
What was the general, social, economic and moral atmosphere in the Victorian age? Write your answer with reference to the writings of Ruskin.

5. “People are Browning’s passion: men and women, revealed through their ambitions and failures, love and hatred.” Discuss with reference to his poems.

6. “The novels of Hardy are of intensely dramatic and epic nature; his characters move progressively towards a crisis.” Discuss it with reference to his novels.

7. Write short notes on the following:
(a) Tenny as a consummate craftsman in verse.
(b) Humour and pathos in Dicken’s novels.

COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:
a) Bleak House
b) A Tale of Two Cities
c) Hard Times
d) Great Expectations
e) None of these

2. The one remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;


The above two lines occur in:
a) Keats’ Hyperion
b) Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) Shelley’s Adonis
d) Keats’ Ode to Psyche
e) None of these

3. Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.

4. She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fai!


The above two lines have been taken from:
a) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
b) A Thing of Beauty
c) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
d) Ode on a Grecian Urn

5. ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
a) Ulysses
b) The Palace of Arts
c) The Lotos - Eaters
d) None of these

6. Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
a) Silas Manner
b) Adam Bede
c) Middle March
d) The Mill on the Floss

7. In all things, in all natures, in the stars,
This active principle abides,


Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.

8. “Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”
Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.

9. In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
a) an elegy
b) a collection of elegies
c) a lyric
d) a dramatic lyric
e) None of these

10. The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:
a) Shelley
b) Blake
c) Byron
d) Browning
e) None of these

11. ‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:
a) Mill on economic reforms
b) Carlyle on moral reforms
c) Ruskin on moral reforms
d) None of these

12. Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”, about:
a) Keats
b) Byron
c) Shelley
d) Blake
e) None of these

13. For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:
a) Blake
b) Keats
c) Tennyson
d) Shelley
e) None of these

14. “Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:
a) Monologue
b) Dramatic Lyric
c) Dramatic Monologue
d) Dramatic Romance
e) None of these

15. A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is:
a) Charles Dickens
b) Thackeray
c) Charlotte Bronte
d) G. Eliot
e) None of these

16. “Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.
The above line occur in Byron’s:
a) Fame
b)
Waterloo
c) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans

17. Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:
a) Little Dorrit
b) Hard Times
c) Bleak House
d) A Tale of Two Cities
e) None of these

18. Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:
a) Manfred
b) The
Island
c) The prisoner of Chillon
d) None of these

19. An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning’s Poem:
a) Paracelsus
b) My Last Duchess
c) Sordello
d) Pippa Passes

20. Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:
a) The Last Ride Together
b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
c) Ester Day
d) Abt Vogler

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IIN BPS – 17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2001

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – II

NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Hamlet suffers and suffers greatly. Can you account for his suffering?

2. It is said of Jane Austen that she involves the ‘Critical Intelligence’ of her readers. The prevailing interest is not only in ‘aesthetic delight’ but also in a sense of moral conviction. How far is this true of her “Pride and Prejudice”?

3. How does Yeats create ‘terrible’ beauty out of his imagery?

4. Comment on Swift’s policy that imperfections in nature are of stirring up human industry, with reference to his ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

5. Is ‘The Waste Land’ a public or private poem?

6. Hemingway is preoccupied with the human predicament and a moral code that might satisfactory control it. Discuss with reference to his ‘The Old Man and the Sea’.

7. Write a critical note on any ONE of the following:
(a) Robert Frost as a regional or a pastoral poet.
(b) Jane Austen’s novels are the work of a miniaturist.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:
a) revelation of character
b) dramatic purposes
c) establishing the theme
d) None of these

2. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:
a) Thrilling story
b) Tragedy
c) Satire
d) None of these

3. Hemingway wrote:
a) The Sun also Rises
b) The Rivals
c) The Jew of Malta
d) None of these

4. The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is
a) Emma
b) Elizabeth
c) Lydia
d) None of these

5. ‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:
a) An Ode
b) Sonnet
c) An Epic
d) None of these

6. T. S. Eliot wrote:
a) The Pasture
b) The Waste Land
c) Birches
d) None of these

7. G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:
a) Karl Marx
b) S. Butler
c) None of these

8. “The Waste Land’ is:
a) An Allegory
b) A Sonnet
c) Blank verse
d) None of these

9. Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:
a) Nationalism
b) Criticism
c) Romanticism
d) None of these

10. Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure
a) Bradley
b) Eliot
c) Kermode
d) None of these

11. Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?
a) French
b) German
c) None of these

12. Eliot shows a bent towards
a) Romanticism
b) Victorianism
c) None of these

13. Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:
a) M. Drabble
b) V. Woolf
c) None of these

14. The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:
a) Keats
b) Tennyson
c) Milton
d) None of these

15. Browning is known for his:
a) Dramatic Monologue
b) Parody
c) Blank verse
d) None of these

16. Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?
a) The Ice Age
b) Sons and Lovers
c) None of these

17. The ‘
Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:
a) Pastoral
b) Romance
c) Comedy
d) None of these

18. ‘The Fairie Queene’ was written by:
a)
Milton
b) Lyly
c) Spenser
d) None of these

19. ‘The Crows of Wild Olive’ was written by:
a) Huxley
b) Ben Johnson
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

20. David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Moore
d) None of these

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ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – I

NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I
1. Critically discuss Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Song of Experience as Poetry.

2. Hobbes, the English Philosopher (1588 – 1679) believed that “Man was merely a Body, or better a Machine in motion. Thus, what is the Heart but a Spring, and the Nerves but many Strings and the Joints but so may Wheels”. How did Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) restore this mechanical image to its human form?

3. Discuss Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound as an allegory of Man’s Emancipation in an Age of Hope and Deliverance.

4. Discuss the image of ‘the Serpent Woman’ in
Lamia and also image of ‘The Cruel Woman’ in La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Keats).
OR
“Byron’s Don Juan is a success because it is a satirical panorama of the ruling classes of his time” (W. H. Auden). Discuss.
PART - II
5. Discuss the Ending of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss as a manipulated ending to a narrative directed by cause-and-effect.

6. What is the principal Quest of J. S. Mill’s mind? Give an analytical study of his thought in support of your arguments.
OR
How does the Romantic Sensibility appear in Charles Lamb’s Essays?

7. Write short notes as short essays on Two of the following:
(a) Significance of the ROAD in Hardy’s novels.
(b) Browning’s Dramatic monologue.
(c) Oscar Wilde’s Ballad of Rending Goal
(d) Dickens’ Under World
(e) Ruskin’s Social Criticism
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?
a) Shelly
b) De Quincey
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

2. “A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
a) Coleridge
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

3. Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Matthew Arnold
d) None of these

4. In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at
Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in:
a) English
b) Latin
c) Greek
d) None of these

5. The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
a) 1820
b) 1825
c) 1830
d) None of these

6. The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:
a) 1800
b) 1802
c) 1798
d) None of these

7. Hero and Hero Worship was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these

8. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen
Victoria?
a) The Idylls of the kings
b) Charge of the Light Brigade
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these

9. Hardy’s Nature is:
a) Friendly
b) Indifferent
c) Vindictive
d) None of these

10. Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
a) Anneta Vallon
b) Dorothy
c) Drawn from folk song heroines
d) None of these

11. ‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above line appears?
a) The Last Ride together
b) One Word More
c) The Last Duchess
d) None of these

12. The Prelude was written in”
a) 1810
b) 1840
c) 1805
d) None of these

13. The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:
a) Charles Lamb
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

14. Oscar Wilde believed in:
a) Aestheticism
b) Escapism
c) Pragmatism
d) None of these

15. ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

16. When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?
a) 1793
b) 1795
c) 1798
d) None of these

17. The correct date of French Revolution:
a) 1793
b) 1802
c) 1789
d) None of these

18. Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:
a) Social Forces
b)
Providence
c) Fate
d) None of these

19. "Prophets of Nature ………
……………. What we have loved
Other will love …………….”
In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
a) Excursion
b) One Summer Evening
c) Prelude
d) None of these

20. “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear?
a) We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
c) Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
d) None of these

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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically analyze Hamlet’s delay problem.

2. Do you agree with Shaw in his justification of Eliza’s choice at the end of the play ‘Pygmalion’? Give reasons.

3. Swifts’ Gulliver’s Travel is a ‘mock utopia’. Explain.

4. Critically appreciate Frost’s ‘After Apple Picking’ or ‘Mending Wall’.

5. “Jane Austen’s view of life is the view of the eighteenth century civilization of which she was the last exquisite blossom. One might call it the moral realistic view. Jane Austen was profoundly moral.” (David Cecil). Elaborate.

6. What does
Byzantium symbolize in “Sailing to Byzantium”? Justify or refute Stocks’ remark that Yeats’ poetry is a battle ground for the clash of opposite with reference to “Sailing to Byzantium”.

7. “Some of Pozzo’s speeches go beyond what seems dramatically plausible in a decaying boss-figure.” Substantiate from your reading of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) Fortinbras is a character of the play:
a) Othello
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
d) None of these

2. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
a) Sir Philip Sydney
b) Dryden
c) Dr. Johnson
d) None of these

3. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:
a) Catharsis
b) Catastrophe
c) Hamartia
d) None of these

4. The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare
a) Dramatic monologue
b) Comedy
c) Tragedy
d) None of these

5. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:
a) Oedipus
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) None of these

6. Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:
a) Ben Johnson’s
b) Bernard Shaw’s
c) Shakespeare’s
d) None of these

7. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Backett
c) Ibsen
d) None of these

8. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s
Waste Land?
a) The Old Man and the Sea
b) Farewell to Arms
c) For Whom the
Bell Tolls
d) None of these

9. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:
a) Shelley
b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

10. Which is called the Victorian Age:
a) 18th Century
b) 19th Century
c) 20th Century
d) None of these

11. A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
a) A Sonnet
b) An Ode
c) A ballad
d) None of these

12. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”
a) Yeats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) None of these

13. ‘End Game’ is written by:
a) Hemingway
b) Somerset Mangham
c) Backett
d) None of these

14. My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an example of:
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) None of these

15. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
a) Oxymoron
b) Conceit
c) Alliteration
d) None of these

16. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”
a) Metaphor
b) Paradox
c) Oxymoron
d) None of these

17. Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
a) The Rock
b) The Family Reunion
c) The importance of being Earnest
d) None of these

18. Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?
a) Adam Bede
b)
Mansfield Park
c) Emma
d) None of these

19. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
a) A Poem
b) Novel
c) Drama
d) None of these

20. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:
a) Pygmalion
b) Candida
c) Getting Married
d) None of these

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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I
1. For Wordsworth, “The greatest Paradox was that though it is by the proper exercise of the eye and ear that man reaches his full moral and intellectual stature … Revelation flashes upon him when the lights of sense goes out”. Discuss.

2. “Synaesthesia in Keats is a natural concomitant of other qualities of his poetry.” Discuss illustrating from his poems.

3. “Tennyson worked with words like a jeweler, weighing them against each other, tasting their luster, placing them in their foil; yet they are mostly current coinage.” Discuss.
PART -II
4. ‘Lambs’ essays are lyric poems in prose.’ How far this remark is true? Illustrate with special reference to ESSAYS of Elia.

5. ‘Ruskin founded in
England what was really a new religion, wherein the quest for beauty in the daily lie of all, even the most humble, become a sort of duty.’ Discuss.

6. Are ‘Dickens the humorist’ and ‘Dickens the reformer’ complementary or hostile to each other? Discuss in detail.

7. Write detailed notes on TWO of the following:
(a) Hardy’s characters are subservient to plot.
(b) Adonis is a triumphant elegy.
(c) Tradition and Individual Talent.
(d) Browning’s Obscurity.

COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
a) Wordsworth
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Coleridge
d) None of these

2. “The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
a) Oceanus
b) Hyperion
c) Apollo
d) None of these

3. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

4. Adonis is modeled on:
a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
b) Lycidas
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these

5. Hardy is a:
a) Pessimist
b) Meliorist
c) Mystic
d) None of these

6. Who is one of the lake poets:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Browning
d) None of these

7. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:
a) Prometheus the Unbound
b) The Prelude
c) Songs of innocence and of experience
d) None of these

8. Who usually caricatures his characters?
a) Dickens
b) George Eliot
c) Hardy
d) None of these

9. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:
a) Shelley
b) Oscar Wilde
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

10. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:
a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Keats
d) None of these

11. ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode on Indolence
c) Ode to Melancholy
d) None of these

12. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:
a) Wordsworth
b) Blake
c) Keats
d) None of these

13. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
a) Octave
b) Sestet
c) Refrain
d) None of these

14. The Revolt of Islam is a:
a) Novel
b) An epic
c) Lyrical Drama
d) None of these

15. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called
a) Assonance
b) Rhythm
c) Alliteration
d) None of these

16. ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:
a) Immortality Ode
b) The Prelude
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
d) None of these

17. ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Galsworthy
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

18. Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?
a) Charles Lamb and his sister
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Dryden
d) None of these

19. ‘East Coker’ is written by:
a) Browning
b) Wordsworth
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

20. In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
a) Adonis
b) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) The cloud
d) None of these

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ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – II

NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory.. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Discuss briefly the universality of text ‘Waiting for Godot’ – Samuel Backett: Word Master.

2. Give briefly a critical appreciation of ‘Among School Children’ – Yeats.

3. ‘T. S. Eliot considered Hamlet to be an artistic failure.’ Do you agree? Give reasons for your answers.

4. Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice’ has been described as a fairy tale, in which deserving girl gets her prince. Would you say this was a good description? Give reasons for your answer.

5. Jonathan Swift became famous for his political writing. Gulliver’s Travels as an entertaining political story, but it became very popular as a tale for young people. Give examples from any one of the tales you remember vividly.

6. As a lover of English literature, what impresses you in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’? Give your analysis.

7. Give critical appreciation of Robert Frost’s West Running Brook and Desert Places.


COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
a) Lyly and Marlowe
b) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash
c) George Peele and Thomas Lodge
d) None of these

2. Shakespeare has written
a) Comedies
b) Tragedies
c) Historical Plays
d) None of these

3. Jane Austen’s other writings are:
a) Sense and Sensibility
b) Emma
c) Persuasion
d) None of these

4. Texts like Waiting for Godot are:
a) Ageless
b) Rare
c) Priceless
d) None of these

5. “We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
a) Shakespeare
b) Marlowe
c) Philip Sydney
d) None of these

6. The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:
a) Hamlet
b) Twelfth Night
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) None of these

7. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
a) European
b) Indians
c) American
d) None of these

8. ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
a) Carlyle
b) Bacon
c) Mantaine
d) None of these

9. Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Samuel Beckett
c) Jane Austen
d) None of these

10. ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Shelley
d) None of these

11. ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Coleridge
d) None of these

12. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
a) Marlow
b) Shakespeare
c) Benjonson
d) None of these

13. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:
a) Wordsworth
b) Shelley
c) Keats
d) None of these

14. The word renaissance means:
a) Rebirth
b) Revival
c) Renewal
d) None of these

15. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
a) Francis Bacon
b) Carlyle
c) Montaine
d) None of these

16. Spenser was:
a) Novelist
b) Dramatist
c) Prose writer
d) None of these

17. All is well that ends well is a:
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Historical Play
d) None of these

18. The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:
a) The Winter’s Tale
b) Much ado about nothing
c) Tempest
d) None of these

19. ‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:
a)
Milton
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) None of these

20. ‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from
a) Past and Present
b) Of Money
c) Of Marriage
d) None of these

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PART - I
1. Critically evaluate W. Blake as a writer of lyrical poetry.

2. How far does Wordsworth follow his critical principles in his best poems? Give examples.

3. Discuss Browning’s monologues as beautiful psychological analysis of characters belonging to different countries.
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PART - II
4. Write a Critical note on Charles Lamb as a prose writer. In what particular ways was he different from the prose writers of his age? Give examples.

5. It is said, “Dickens has his own sentimental way of solving social problems”. Discuss with examples.

6. It is said by C. Rickett. “In his earlier writing, Sweetness and bitterness are Contrasted but in his later novels of Hardy, the gloom is needlessly intensified”. Discuss with examples.

7. Write detailed notes on Two of the following:
(a) Shelley as revolutionary poet
(b) Byron as a Satirist
(c) Contrast between Romantic and Victorian poets
(d) Keats as a writer of Odes
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8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.
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1) Hellenism of Keats connotes:
a) his love of poetry
b) his love of ancient cultures
c) his love of Greek culture and art
d) None of these
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2. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode to Grecian Urn
c) Ode to Psyche
d) None of these
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3. In his poetry Tennyson is:
a) The representative poet of Victorian Age
b) The representative poet of Romantic Age
c) The best nature poet
d) None of these
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4. T. Hardy is:
a) A social reformer
b) A satirist
c) A fatalist
d) A lover of nature
e) None of these
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5. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:
a) Adam Bede
b) Middle March
c) The Mill on the Floss
d) Silas Morner
e) None of these
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6. Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:
a) Modern painters
b) The Stones of Venice
c) The Crown of wild olive
d) None of these
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7. Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:
a) Shelley
b) Wordsworth
c) Coleridge
d)
Arnold
e) None of these
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8. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Mill
d) None of these
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9. The French Revolution took place in:
a) 1793
b) 1796
c) 1798
d) None of these
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10. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:
a)
Arnold
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Shelley
d) None of these
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11. “David Copperfield” was written by:
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Thackeray
d) None of these
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12. Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) T. S. Eltio
d)
Arnold
e) None of these
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13. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Shelley
d) None of these
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14. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
a) Blake
b) Byron
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
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15. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these
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16. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Lamb
c) Mill
d) Oscar Wilde
e) None of these
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17. Ruskin is famous for:
a) Being a critic of art
b) A social reformer
c) A moral teacher
d) None of these
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18. Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:
a) The Mill on the Floss
b) Adam Bede
c) Silas Marner
d) None of these
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19. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats
d) None of these
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20. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Keats
d) T. S. Eliot
e) None of these

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1.
Lawrence very closely describes the working life of the labourers. What particular techniques does he employ in “Sons in Lovers”?

2. Discuss ‘Pygmalion’ as Satire on the rigid class system in
England. Give examples.

3. T. S. Eliot claims universally for his (The Wasteland), but many critics disagree with it. Discuss.

4. What are the main characteristics of Frost’s poetry? Discuss with examples.

5. Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’ has been best describe as ‘A heroic story’ filled with light from Sea and Sky, and sympathy with men and their mysterious fellow-creatures’. Discuss.

6. Discuss Shakespeare’s concept of tragedy with special reference to ‘Hamlet’.

7. Write critical note on major themes of Yeats’ later poetry with special reference to ‘Sailing to
Byzantium’, ‘Among School Children’ and ‘The Second Coming’.
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COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.
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1) Frost is:
a) a nature poet
b) Poet of Country life
c) a poet of nature and country life
d) None of these
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2. Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their old age”:
a) Hemingway
b) Santiago
c) Manolin
d) None of these
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3. Santiago is an illustration of:
a) Hemingway’s respect for struggle
b) Hemingway’s total view of life
c) Hemingway’s philosophy of life
d) None of these
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4. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:
a) Friendship and benevolence
b) Bitterness and revenge
c) Hatred and jealousy
d) None of these
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5. Gulliver was expelled from the
land of Yahoos because he was considered
a) a yahoo
b) a criminal
c) he hated their king
d) None of these
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6. Yeats was
a) Victorian poet
b) a modern poet
c) Both
d) None of these
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7. ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:
a) Sailing to Byzantium
b) Among School Children
c) The Second Coming
d) None of these
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8. T. S. Eliot was a
a) Critic
b) Poet
c) Both
d) None of these
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9. T. S. Eliot was
a) Romantic
b) Classicist
c) Both
d) None of these
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10. Shakespeare wrote
a) Tragedies
b) Comedies
c) Poems
d) None of these
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11. Shakespeare was born in:
a) 1570
b) 1564
c) 1590
d) None of these
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12. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:
a) Four
b) Six
c) Eight
d) None of these
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13. Shakespeare died in:
a) 1625
b) 1616
c) 1618
d) None of these
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14. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
a) 1602
b) 1608
c) 1610
d) None of these
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15. Hamlet was killed by:
a) Polonius
b) Learteus
c) Claudius
d) None of these
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16. The kind Claudius was killed by:
a) Laerteus
b) Hamlet
c) Horatio
d) None of these
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17. Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Love and marriage
b) Life of big landlords
c) Politicians
d) None of these
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18. Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Darcy
b) Mr. Bennett
c) Mr. Collius
d) None of these
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19. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Bennett
b) Mr. Bingley
c) Miss Elizabeth
d) None of these
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20. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Darcy
b) Miss Elizabeth
c) Miss Jane
d) None of these
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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. Select Two questions from each part. All questions carry equal marks.
PART - I
1. Legouis says “Wordsworth saw Nature and Man with new eyes”. Examine this new vision critically.

2. Shelley was inspired by love, that is not limited to mankind only. Discuss.

3. “Free from all moral degree, Keats’ poetry has the most compiling enchantment for lovers of pure beauty. Discuss.
PART - II
4. Ruskin expressed his ideas in a magnified poetic and decorative prose. Discuss with examples.

5. Dickens set so personal a stamp on his books that at every turn he seemed to be an innovator. Discuss.

6. Do you think that George Eliot is the first English novelist who has shown tremendous psychological insight?

7. Write detailed notes on TWO of the following:
(1) Main literary trends in Victorian Age.
(2) Main characteristics of Romanticism with special reference to English romantic poets.
(3) Robert Browning’s interest in psychological analysis of characters from different countries.
(4) The concept of fate in Hardy’s novels.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
a) 1808
b) 1812
c) 1818
d) None of these

2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:
a) Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Byron
d) None of these

3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:
a) 1790
b) 1794
c) 1820
d) None of these

5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

6. The Last Ride Together was written by:
a) Byron
b) Tennyson
c) Browning
d) None of these

7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:
a) Browning
b) Mathew Arnold
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these

11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these

12. ‘The Old Familiar Face’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Charles Lamb
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these

13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:
a) J. S. Mill
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.
a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to melancholy
d) None of these

15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these

18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Major of the Casterbridge
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these

19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:
a) Ruskin
b) J. S. Mill
c) Carlyle
d) None of these

20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Return of the Native
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these

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NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Of all the plays it is the longest and is precisely one on which Shakespeare spent most pains, yet left on it superfluous and inconsistent scenes. Substantiate statement with at least five superfluous and inconsistent scenes.

2. No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in he took no interest – For it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. To what extent the statement has relevance with the present education in our society?

3. To what extent T. S. Eliot claim is justified to have claimed the universality for the wasteland, when there exists a mounting wave of criticism by other critics? Give your objective views.

4. Robert Frost ranged in tone from the lyric to narrative from dramatic to meditative from the terrifying to humourous. All the fun’s in how you say a thing. Elaborate.

5. The Old Man and the Sea. AT 26531 words by Author’s laborious count it is perhaps his most sustained attempt to unite the actual and symbolic under one continuous narrative roof. Comment critically.

6. W. B. Yeats works deal intensely with three basic urges. List each urge elaborately.

7. Write short notes on Jane Austen and Swift separately. As you have seen them in “Pride and Prejudice” and “Gulliver Travels”.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:
a) Frost
b) Pope
c) Byron
d) None of these

2. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
c) Death in the Afternoon
d) All of the above

3. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
b) Shakespeare’s Tempest
c) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
d) None of these

4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
b) Portiain ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these

5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these

6. “Lyrical ballads” were published by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
d) None of these

7. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) Thomson

8. There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare
d) None of these

9. Shakespeare has written:
a) Historical plays
b) Comedies
c) Tragedies
d) All of these

10. Famous romantic poets were
a) Five
b) Four
c) Six
d) None of these

11. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
a) Shakespeare
b) Two gentleman of Verona
c) Midsummer’s Night Dream
d) Anthony and Cleopatra

12. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) None of these

13. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?
a)
Charlotte
b) Mr. Bennet
c) Mr. Bingley
d) None of these

14. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Confused
b) Amazed
c) Not thinking clearly
d) None of these

15. Beckett was born in
Dublin Ireland.
a) In 1906
b) In 1969
c) In 1952
d) None of these

16. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Dryden
d) None of these

17. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

18. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:
a) Emma
b) Sense and Sensibility
c) Persuasion
d) All of these

19. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) None of these

20. Father of antiquities were:
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Plato
d) All of these

ENGLISH LITERATURE - I


ATTEMPT ONLY FIVE QUESTIONS IN ALL, INCLUDING QUESTION NO.8 WHICH IS COMPLUSORY. SELECT TWO QUESTIONS FROM EACH OF PARTS I & II.

PART - 1


Q.1 William Wordsworth exalts familiar reality through the strenght of a reflective sensibility. Critically analyze the statement.

Q.2 Keat's odes depict a skillful fusion of a seeking of beauty which endures and an impassioned meditation of death. Comment.

Q.3 The predominant almost exclusie theme of W.Blake's short poems is based on the feeling of a child's unpassioned soul, the tone is simple while the emtions possess a pure ardour. Discuss.

PART - II



Q.4 In ' 'Tess', Hardy has rebelled against tradional and orthodox views'. Comment.

Q.5 'The one gift necessary to the great Novelist is the capacity to create living characters'. Discuss any two novels by Dickens in the light of this comment.

Q.6 'Gulliver's Travel' "expresses despair or that its import is nihilistic, is radically to misread the book". Justify or reject the statement.

Q.7 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(a) The use of the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning
(b) Conflict between love and duty in G.Eliot
(c) Romantic themes in W.Blake's poetry
(d) Charles Lamb as a prose writer

COMPULSORY QUESTION


Q.8 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

1. Restoration period was known as the age of :
(a)satire
(b)paganism
(c)classicism
(d)puretanism

2. Who is famous for respresenting
London in hsi novels.
(a)Thakeray
(b)Hardy
(c)Dickens
(d)W.Scott

3. Great Expectations was publsihed in :
(a) 1860-1
(b) 1857-8
(c) 1852-3
(d) none of these

4. Jane Eyre was written by :
(a) C.Dickens
(b) G.Eliot
(c) C.Bronte
(d) J.Austen

5. Who was a known aesthete?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) J.S.Mill

6. "In Memorium" is :
(a) an ode
(b) an elegy
(c) a sonnet
(d) neither

7. Tennyson was :
(a) a romantic
(b) a Victorian
(c) a Pre-Raphealite
(d) none of these

8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) none of these

9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:
(a) naturalism
(b) romanticism
(c) fatalism
(d) classicism

10. "The Recluse" was written by:
(a) Worsdworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) W.Blake
(d) Southey

11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
(a) R.Browning
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Coleridge

12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by :
(a) W.Scott
(b) Lewis
(c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) If none of these then by whom

13. An element of trhe supernatural is present in the poetry of :
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Browning
(d) Byron

14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Prometheus
(d) The Recluse

15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:
(a) W.Scott
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these

16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triuph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:
(a) W.Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) none of these

17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) J.S.Mill
(c) C.Lamb
(d) Russell

18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of :
(a) Silas Marner
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) Adam Bede

19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:
(a) A pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Return of the Native
(d) if none of these then give the correct answer

20. "The
Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:
(a) C.Bronte
(b) Hardy
(c) Emile Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
Question no 8
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. c
10. a
11. c
12. c
13. b
14. c
15. b
16. c
17. a
18. b
19. d Tess of the d’Urbervilles
20. c

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ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: (i) Attempt FIVE questions in all including question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(ii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered
(iii) Candidate must draw two straight lines (==================) at the end to separate each question attempted in Answer Books.
PART – I

1. One can distinguish in Wordsworth’s poetry a marked transition from the realm of pathos to that of ethos. Do you agree? Discuss.

2. Mathew Arnold describes Shelley “a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”. What does he mean? Elaborate.

3. “Keats had no religion save the religion of beauty, no God save Pan; the Earth was his great consoler, and so passionately did he love her, with a love far more concrete and personal than that of Wordsworth or even Shelley”. Discuss.
PART - II

4. Hardy is neither a feminist, nor a misogynist, but a realist. How far is this statement true? Discuss.
5. Dickens’ novels reflect the contemporary Victorian urban society with all its conflicts and disharmonies, both physical and intellectual. Discuss.

6. In what way do we consider George Eliot as the first modern novelist in the English Literature? Discuss.

7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following
(a) Swift as a satirist
(b) Byron’s attitude towards nature
(c) Salient features of Blake’s poetry
(d) Ruskin’s prose style

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.


(1) ‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(2) ‘The Prelude’ was composed by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Blake
(d) Byron
(e) None of these

(3) Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?
(a) The Prelude
(b) Lyrical Ballads
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) Songs of Innocence
(e) None of these

(4) Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Byron
(e) None of these

(5) Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?
(a) Blake
(b) Tennyson
(c) Browning
(d) Wordsworth
(e) None of these

(6) Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?
(a) Byron
(b) Browning
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(7) “The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode to a Nightingale
(d) Ode on Melancholy
(e) None of these

(8) Lord Byron was born in:
(a) 1788
(b) 1789
(c) 1790
(d) 1791
(e) None of these

(9) Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:
(a) The Princess
(b) In memoriam
(c) Maud
(d) Lackslay Hall
(e) None of these

(10) Pauline was written by:
(a) Browning
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(11) Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?
(a) Rossetti
(b) Morris
(c) Browning
(d) Swinburne
(e) None of these

(12) ‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Hunt
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these

(13) Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) De Quincey
(e) None of these

(14) Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in the works of:
(a) Thackery
(b) Kingsley
(c) Dickens
(d) Austin
(e) None of these

(15) Which of the following novelists is known for his Satore in the Victorian literature?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Thackery
(c) Hardy
(d) Meredith
(e) None of these

(16) Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female emancipation”?
(a) Jane Austin
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these

(17) The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:
(a) Medieval era
(b) Greek era
(c) Victorian era
(d) Romantic era
(e) None of these

(18) Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Hard Times
(c) Return of the Native
(d) Tess
(e) None of these

(19) “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode to a Nightingale
(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(d) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(e) None of these

(20) Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:
(a) Ballad
(b) Pastoral poem
(c) Sonnet
(d) Lyrical poem
(e) None of these

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ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: (i) Attempt FIVE questions in all including question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(ii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered
(iii) Candidate must draw two straight lines (==================) at the end to separate each question attempted in Answer Books.

1. ‘Hamlet touches on many problems, that troubled the protagonists, soul, like vengeance, suicide, love, without offering a solution for anyone.’ Discuss.

2. Jane Austen’s clear sighted eyes read through the inner minds of those who live around her, just as if those minds were transparent. Comment on her art of characterization.

3. “His poetry possesses an imaginative mysticism, an essential attribute of Celticism, he has the ability to efface the outlines of material objects in a dreamy mistiness.” Dilate upon Yeats’ poetry, in the light of this remark.

4. Portray the character of
Santiago; do you find a combination of the actual and the symbolic in it?
5. Give a critical appreciation of Robert Frost’s following poems:
(a) After Apple Picking
(b) Mending Walls
(c) The Tuft of Flowers

6. In D. H. Lawrence’s work men and women of our times have found their own restlessness most accurately mirrored. Discuss.
7. It is said that, Shaw tears off veils, and lays bare the half-voluntary illusions of complacently blind souls. How far is it true?

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:
(a) Ibsen
(b) Swift
(c) Butler
(d) Wells
(e) None of these

(2) Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
(a) Shaw
(b)Butler
(c) Moris
(d) Wells
(e) None of these

(3) Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?
(a) The Rape of Lucrece
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) Endymion
(d) Fairie Queene
(e) None of these

(4) Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?
(a) Spenser
(b) Milton
(c) Byron
(d) Pope
(e) None of these

(5) The Rape of the Lock is a:
(a) Parody
(b) Elegy
(c) Romance
(d) Sonnet
(e) None of these

(6) The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Pope
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these

(7) Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the ought”?
(a) Pope
(b) Dryden
(c) Locke
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(8) What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Mall Flanders?
(a) Travel-books
(b) Tragedy
(c) Romance
(d) Comedy
(e) None of these

(9) Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?
(a) Dryden
(b) Bradley
(c) Johnson
(d) L. C. Knight
(e) None of these

(10) Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?
(a) Richardson
(b) Fielding
(c) Defoe
(d) Goldsmith
(e) None of these

(11) ‘Cervantes’ is a character in:
(a) Don Quixote
(b) Pamele
(c) Tristram Shandy
(d) Tom Jones
(e) None of these

(12) Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:
(a) Richardson
(b) Sterne
(c) Fielding
(d) Smollett
(e) None of these

(13) Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:
(a) Emma
(b) Persecution
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Sense and sensibility
(e) None of these

(14) The Prelude is written in:
(a) Couplets
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Terza rima
(d) None of these

(15) In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Burns
(e) None of these

(16) Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(17) Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Pope
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these

(18) The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:
(a) Lake district
(b) Hampshire
(c) Wessex
(d) Utopia
(e) None of these

(19) Childe Harold was written by:
(a) Byron
(b) Shelley
(c) Tennyson
(d) None of these

(20) Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:
(a) Shelley
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) None of these

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NOTE: (i) First attempt PART-I (MCQ) on separate Answer Sheet which shall be taken back after 30 minutes.
(ii) Overwriting/cutting of the options/answers will not be given credit.
PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY

Q.1 Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.

(1) The Nurse’s Song was written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Tennyson
(c) Blake
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(2) William Wordsworth was born in:
(a) 1770
(b) 1771
(c) 1772
(d) 1779
(e) None of these

(3) Byron’s first published collection was called:
(a) Years of Idleness
(b) Hours of Idleness
(c) Moments of Idleness
(d) Eons of Idleness
(e) None of these

(4) The Essay of Elia was written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Blake
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(5) Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) The Triumph of life
(e) None of these

(6) Lyrical Ballads as jointly composed by:
(a) Keats and Shelley
(b) Wordsworth and Shelley
(c) Keats and Coleridge
(d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(e) None of these

(7) On liberty was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Macaulay
(c) Godwin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these

(8) “Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies … yet remain free …” This was said by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mathew Arnold
(e) None of these

(9) Macaulay lived from
(a) 1800 - 1859
(b) 1802 - 1859
(c) 1859 – 1900
(d) 1889 - 1902
(e) None of these

(10) Macaulay represented:
(a) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
(b) Working class Victorian attitudes
(c) Upper class tolerance
(d) Radical Romanticism
(e) None of these

(11) Stones of Venice was written by:
(a) Macaulay
(b) Newman
(c) Ruskin
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these

(12) Browning is famous for his:
(a) Sensory images
(b) Dramatic Monologues
(c) Narrative ballads
(d) Blank Verse
(e) None of these

(13) In Memoriam was written in:
(a) 1833
(b) 1853
(c) 1860
(d) 1863
(e) None of these

(14) “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together”.

This was written by:

(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) William Morris
(e) None of these

(15) Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1847
(c) 1850
(d) 1857
(e) None of these

(16) Dickens was from a:
(a) Lower middle class origin
(b) Upper class origin
(c) Middle class origin
(d) Working class origin
(e) None of these

(17) George Eliot’s real name was:
(a) George Evans
(b) Eliot Evans
(c) Marian Evans
(d) Marian Eliot
(e) None of these

(18) George Eliot was an:
(a) Atheist
(b) Agnostic
(c) Occultist
(d) Conventionalist
(e) None of these

(19) Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
(a) Tale of rustic life
(b) Tale of man’s destruction of nature
(c) Historical novel
(d) Tale of city life
(e) None of these

(20) The Professor was the first novel by:
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these

PART - II

NOTE: (i) PART-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II selecting TWO questions from each SECTION. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.

SECTION – I

Q. 2. “In his youth Wordsworth was a rebel and a revolutionary and reacted against the conventions of this age although he began to decline as a poet and he grew older.” Comment on this criticism of Wordsworth, giving reasons why you agree/disagree..

Q.3. “For mercy has a human heart
Pity a human face
And love the human form divine
And Peace the human dress …

And all must love the human form,
In heathen Turk or Jew:
Where Mercy, Love and Pity Dwell
There God is dwelling too.”

Who wrote these verses? Comment on whether you thing they are merely moral platitudes or spring from the poet’s sincerity.

Q.4. Keats was a romantic poet who believed in the importance of sensation and its pleasures which included taste, touch and smell as well as hearing and sight. How far do you think he fulfills these beliefs in his poems?
SECTION – II

Q.5. Browning had a “robust optimism” unlike the other Victorian poets who were worriers and doubters. Do you agree with this? Explain your answer through examples of Browning’s poetry.

Q.6. Do you believe that it was Hardy’s intention to depict Tess as a victim of divine sadism? In your opinion how successful was he in creating feelings of anger, frustration and resentment in the reader?

Q.7. How far do the stories of Dickens reflect the social evils of the Victorian Age? Explain with reference to any two of his novels.

Q.8. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(a) Characterization in the novels of George Eliot
(b) Depiction of upper class society in the plays of Oscar Wilde
(c) The influence of the occult in the poems of Blake
(d) Shelley as a revolutionary poet

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PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY

Q.1 Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.

(1) ______________ is called the first romantic critic.
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Longinus
(c) Horace
(d)
Sidney
(e) None of these

(2) _______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dryden
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(3) ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Bacon
(d) Lamb
(e) None of these

(4) The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
(a) Renaissance
(b) Jacobean Period
(c) Restoration Period
(d) Romantic Age
(e) None of these

(5) ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) William James
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) William Faulkner
(e) None of these

(6) ______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
(a) Octometer
(b) Sonnet
(c) Terza Rina
(d) Spenserian Stanza
(e) None of these

(7) A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:
(a) Period
(b) Refrain
(c) Feminine Ending
(d) Alexandrine
(e) None of these

(8) Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:
(a) Comedy of Errors
(b) Comedy of Manners
(c) Comedy of Ideas
(d) Romantic Comedy
(e) None of these

(9) ‘Verslibre’ is called as:
(a) Free Verse
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Free meter
(d) Iambic
(e) None of these

(10) Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
(a) Parallelism
(b) Alliteration
(c) Para Rhyme
(d) Rhetoric
(e) None of these

(11) ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
(a) Bradley
(b) Dover Wilson
(c) Earnest Jones
(d) Freud
(e) None of these

(12) ‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech from.
(a) Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(e) None of these

(13) ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
(a) W. H. Auden
(b) Earnest Jones
(c) Nicoll
(d) Freud
(e) None of these

(14) Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:
(a) Husband and wife
(b) Brother and Sister
(c) Father and daughter
(d) Friends
(e) None of these

(15) The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:
(a) Milton
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(16) ‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Huxley
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) None of these

(17) The poem “Wind” is written by:
(a) Shelley
(b) John Ashbery
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Ted Hughes
(e) None of these

(18) ‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Byron
(e) None of these

(19) ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Pope
(d) Dryden
(e) None of these

(20) ‘I count religion but a toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Tamburlaine
(d) Edward II
(e) None of these

PART – II

NOTE: (i) PART-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.

Q.2. “In Hamlet we see a great, an almost enormous intellectual activity and a proportionate aversion to real action consequent upon it.” Examine this remark by Coleridge.

Q.3. “Faithful Observation, personal detachment, and a fine sense of ironic comedy are among Jane Austen’s Chief Characteristics as a writer.” Discuss and illustrate from ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

Q.4. Discuss ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ as a mock epic.

Q.5. ‘Pygmalion is described as ‘A Romantic in Five Acts’ by Shaw whereas it is anti-romantic in Spirit’ Do you agree? Substantiate your view by illustrating from the play.

Q.6. ‘Yeats’ symbols, like his mask, by their triple reference to self, world, and spirit achieve on the aesthetic plane a unity of bring impossible in life. Interpret Yeats’ Poem ‘
BYZANTIUM’ in the light of this remark.

Q.7. Frost had rejected the revolutionary Principles of his Contemporaries, choosing instead ‘the old fashioned way to be new’. He employed the plain speech of rural New ENGLANDERS and preferred the Short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative. Discuss by illustrating from the poems you have read.

Q.8. “Nothing else so truly reflects the age and redeem it.” How far is it a just remark about T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land”?

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COMPULSORY
Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:
(a) 1817
(b) 1839
(c) 1843
(d) 1849
(e) None of these

(ii) Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(iii) The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadow fly; are composed by:
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Southey
(e) None of these

(iv) ‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Ruskin
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(v) The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:
(a) Helen Darbishire
(b) Ernest De Selin Court
(c) Herbert Reads
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(vi) ‘The Lay of the Last Ministerel’ is written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Tennyson
(d) Walter Scott
(e) None of these

(vii) __________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:
(a) Objectivity
(b) Subjectivity
(c) Negative capability
(d) Scepticism
(e) None of these

(viii) ‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:
(a) Walter Scott
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Thomas De Quincey
(e) None of these

(ix) ‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:
(a) Katherine Mansfield
(b) Emily Bronte
(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these

(x) ‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line from:
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these

(xi) Adonais is an elegy on the death of:
(a) Moschus
(b) Edward William
(c) John Keats
(d) Shakespeare
(e) None of these

(xii) ‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Shelley
(d) Hazlitt
(e) None of these

(xiii) ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:
(a) 1837
(b) 1838
(c) 1839
(d) 1841
(e) None of these

(xiv) ‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:
(a) Huxley
(b) Carlyle
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these

(xv) Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:
(a) Novelists
(b) Poets
(c) Critics
(d) Essayists
(e) None of these

(xvi) ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Ruskin
(c) Carlyle
(d) Darwin
(e) None of these

(xvii) Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Browning
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Galsworthy
(e) None of these

(xviii) “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a statement by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) Arnold
(e) None of these

(xix) ‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:
(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Dramatic Romance
(d) Farce
(e) None of these

(xx) George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:
(a) Brother & Sister
(b) Contemporary writers
(c) Modern poets
(d) Critics
(e) None of these
PART – II

(i) PART-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions. Select TWO from each SECTION. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
SECTION – I

Q.2. The 19th century Romantic Movement has been variously interpreted as ‘the convalescence of the feeling of beauty’, ‘renaissance of wonder’, ‘split religion’ and ‘erotic nostalgia’. Comment on the aspects giving your own assessment of the movement as it relates to the prescribed poets. (20)

Q.3. “To many readers Shelley’s genius is primarily lyrical: which commonly implies emotional. This is very doubtful – intense and uremitting intellectual activity seems to have been the main characteristic of his mind”. Justify or refute this remark by Graham Hough illustrating from the poems you have read. (20)

Q.4. ‘Wordsworths’ Philosophy of Nature is nothing more than a case of pathetic fallacy because he cannot shake off his egocentricity even when he tends to be philosophic’. Comment. (20)

Q.5. Keats has been called ‘a mystic through the medium of the senses’. Examine the statement in relation to his major odes. (20)
SECTION – II
Q.6. Hardy is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. He is essentially a meliorist. Discuss in relation to Hardy’s novels that you have read. (20)

Q.7. Charles Lambs’ essays are called ‘Lyric Poems in Prose’. Give your own comments on this statement referring to Lambs’ Essays of Elia’. (20)

Q.8. Write a detailed critical note on Browning’s Dramatic Monologue with special reference to ‘The Last Ride Together’ and ‘My Last Duchess’. (20)

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(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

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PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:
(a) Nicoll
(b) Goddord
(c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(ii) “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Laertes
(c) Polonius
(d) Claudius
(e) None of these

(iii) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil
(b) Walter Allen
(c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster
(e) None of these

(iv) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:
(a) Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) Yeats
(d) Frost
(e) None of these

(v) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Yeats
(d) Larkin
(e) None of these

(vi) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949
(b) 1950
(c) 1951
(d) 1953
(e) None of these

(vii) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1949
(e) None of these

(viii) ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden
(e) None of these

(ix) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot
(e) None of these

(x) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
(a) Hemingway
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) D.H. Lawrence
(e) None of these

(xi) The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
(a) The Taming of the Shrew
(b) As you Like it
(c) Two Gentlemen of Verona
(d) Titus Andronicus
(e) None of these

(xii) ‘If music be the food of love, play on,
give me excess of it, that Surfeiting
The appetite may sicken and die?
is a speech from
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) A Mid Summer Nights’ Dream
(c) As you Like it
(d) The Winters’ Tale
(e) None of these

(xiii) An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of another is called:
(a) Pastoral Romance
(b) Pastoral Elegy
(c) Ballad
(d) Epic
(e) None of these

(xiv) The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:
(a) Imaginists
(b) Romanticists
(c) Classicists
(d) Imagists
(e) None of these

(xv) A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:
(a) Over tone
(b) Rhetoric
(c) Extended metaphor
(d) Hyperbole
(e) None of these

(xvi) Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called:
(a) Heroic Couplet
(b) Blank verse
(c) Terza Rima
(d) Spenserian stanza
(e) None of these

(xvii) An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:
(a) Declamation
(b) Sermon
(c) Monologue
(d) Harangue
(e) None of these

(xviii) ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:
(a) Oxymoron
(b) Synaesthesia
(c) Sensuousness
(d) Contrast
(e) None of these

(xix) Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:
(a) Realistic
(b) Naturalistic drama
(c) Humanistic drama
(d) Problem play
(e) None of these

(xx) When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of:
(a) Peripety
(b) Suspense
(c) revelation
(d) Discovery
(e) None of these

PART – II
(i) SECTION-I & SECTION-II are to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions. Select TWO from each SECTION. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
SECTION – I

Q.2. “The time is out of joint! O cursed Sprite
That ever I was born to set it right.”
Explain why Hamlet feels so. (20)

Q.3. In Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot the pattern for waiting is an ingenious combination of expectations and let downs, of uncertainty and of gradual run down without end. How far do you agree with this view? (20)

Q.4. “Liza Doolittle transforms herself by Knocking Higgins off his god-like perch”. Do you agree? Substantiate your answer? (20)

Q.5. “Gulliver himself is a touchstone, a standard, a reporting agent, but he is not a person”. Explain and discuss with reference to Gulliver’s Travels. (20)
SECTION – II

Q.6. “Poem begin in delight and end in wisdom and deep understanding.” Discuss in the light of this Frost- Statement The Tuft of Flowers and Mending Wall. (20)

Q.7. “Here is a limited world; but she interprets it with the penetrating insight of the creative artist”. Discuss this remark about Jane Austen in the light of Pride and Prejudice. (20)

Q.8. Stock says of ‘The Second Coming’ that in this poem Yeats sets his own age in the perspective of eternity and condenses a whole philosophy of history into it so that it has the force of Prophecy’. Discuss. (20)