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British Literature,

American Literature,

Afro-American Literature,

African Literature,

Caribbean Literature,

Canadian Literature,

Australian Literature,

Indian Literature

Syllabus Paper 2

Objective Type Paper

No Of Qs - 150

Marks - 75

Negative Marking - 1/3

• British Literature through the Ages-

  • Renaissance

  • Elizabethan

  • Jacobean

  • Neo Classical

  • Romantic

  • Victorian

  • Modern

• American and Non-British English Literature

  • American Literature from Sixteenth Century to the Present Day

  • Afro-American Literature

  • African Literature

  • New Literature (Caribbean, Canadian & Australian)

• Indian Writing in English

  • Colonial

  • Post-Colonial

  • Dalit

  • Diaspora

1. Identify the poet who wrote these iconic lines:

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour..."

(1) William Wordsworth

(2) William Blake

(3) William Cowper

(4) William Collins

Ans. (2) William Blake

These iconic lines are from William Blake's poem "Auguries of Innocence".

2. The Inchcape Rock is written by:

(1) Robert Southey

(2) Coleridge

(3) Walter Scott

(4) John Keats

Ans. (1) Robert Southey

Beginning:

No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The Ship was still as she could be;
Her sails from heaven received no motion,
Her keel was steady in the ocean.

Without either sign or sound of their shock,
The waves flow’d over the Inchcape Rock;
So little they rose, so little they fell,
They did not move the Inchcape Bell.

The worthy Abbot of Aberbrothok
Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock;
On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung,
And over the waves its warning rung.

This poem narrates a tale of Sir Ralph the Rover, a ruthless pirate, who cuts the warning bell from the Inchcape Rock. Despite the calm weather and cheerful atmosphere, Ralph's malicious act foreshadows his impending doom.

As the poem progresses, the tone shifts to one of fear and anxiety. The thick haze and rising moon create an atmosphere of uncertainty, while the sound of the breakers indicates the proximity of danger. The absence of the bell's warning sound becomes a haunting reminder of Ralph's recklessness.

The poem concludes with the ship striking the rock and the despair of Sir Ralph. The sound of the bell ringing below symbolizes the ultimate retribution for his evil deed. The poem's concise and straightforward language effectively conveys the themes of good versus evil, justice, and the consequences of actions.

Compared to Southey's other works, "Inchcape Rock" lacks the introspective and melancholic nature of his later poems. Instead, it presents a more straightforward and action-packed narrative. In terms of the time period, the poem reflects the prevailing Romantic fascination with the power of nature and the consequences of human intervention.

Robert Southey: Robert Southey (1774 – 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is remembered especially for the poem "After Blenheim" and the original version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

"After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses, while repeatedly calling it "a famous victory".

3. The Heart of Midlothian focusses on the riots of which of the following city ?

(1) Glasgow

(2) Dundee

(3) St. Andrews

(4) Edinburgh

Ans. (4) Edinburgh

4. Who described Romanticism as "liberalism in literature" ?

1) Watts Dunton

(2) Victor Hugo

(3) Richard Hurd

(4) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ans. (2) Victor Hugo

5. Which of Byron's significant work begins thus :

"I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one ." ?

(1) Cain

(2) Beppo

(3) Don Juan

(4) Manfred

Ans. (3) Don Juan

6.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a narrative of a woman in conflict with her ……………………… and …………………

(1) family circumstances, natural desires

(2) natural desires, social condition

(3) family restrictions, external pressures

(4) social bondings, family loyalties

Ans. (2) natural desires, social condition

7. Which character Hardy dies whispering Job's curse ; "Let the day perish wherein I was born"?

(1) Eustacia

(2) Henchord

(3) Tess

(4) Jude

Ans. (4) Jude

8. "Roll On thou deep and dark blue ocean roll"

The above is an extract from Byron's :

(1)Don Juan

(2) A Vision of Judgement

(3) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

(4) Hebrew Melodies

Ans. (3) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

9. The chapter Murdering the innocents' occurs in which novel by Charles Dickens?

(1) Bleak House

(2) Oliver Twist

(3) Hard Times

(4) Dombey and Son

Ans. (3) Hard Times

10. …………………. believes that he is in his main purpose and effort, the enemy and destroyer of ‘Romanticism'.

(1) Newman

(2) Carlyle

(3) Ruskin

(4) Pater

Ans. (2) Carlyle

11. In which novel of Thomas Hardy, there is a somber description of Egdon Heath at the beginning?

(1) Far From the Madding Crowd

(2) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(3) Jude the Obscure

(4) The Return of the Native

Ans. (4) The Return of the Native

12. "The old order changeth yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world".

Identify the poem -

1) 'Lotus Eaters'

(2) 'Ulysses'

(3) "The passing of Arthur”

(4) In memoriam'

Ans. (3) "The passing of Arthur”

13. Which group of the following poets was called the "Auden Group" because they developed a style and subject similar to that of W.H. Auden?

(1)John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig

(2) Robert Bridges, John Masefield, W. Davies

(3) Stephen Spender, Louise, MacNeice, CD. Lewis

(4) G.M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir, Robert Burns

Ans. (3) Stephen Spender, Louise, MacNeice, CD. Lewis

14. What is the title of Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

(1) Through the Looking-Glass

(2) The Hunting of the Snark

(3) Punch

(4) Sylvie and Bruno

Ans. (1) Through the Looking-Glass

15. Towards the end of The Waste Land T.S. Eliot quotes a popular rhyme. Pick the correct option:

(1) Here we go round the Mulberry Bush

(2) Ring-a-ring a Roses

(3) London Bridge is Falling down

(4) Underneath the Mango tree

Ans. (3) London Bridge is Falling down

16. Match List-I with List-II, and select the correct option from the options that follow:

List-I List-Il

a) Dissociation of sensibility (i) D.H. Lawrence

(b) Eros, Agape (ii) Virginia Woolf

(c) The Rainbow (iii) T.S.Eliot

(d) Stream of Consciousness (iv) W.H.Auden

Codes: (a) (b) (c) (d)

(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(2) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

Ans. (3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

17. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a fantasy based on the life, personality, ancestry and literary background of her friend.

(1) Victoria Sackville-West

(2) Emily Bronte

(3) George Eliot

(4) Christina Rossetti

Ans. (1) Victoria Sackville-West

18. Which one of these poems by Ted Hughes is about writing a poem /creativity ?

(1) "Hawk Roosting"

(2) "Fern"

(3) "The Jaguar"

(4) "The Thought Fox"

Ans. (4) "The Thought Fox"

19. The Comedy of Survival : Studies in Literary Ecology written by Joseph Meeker is-

(1) a founding work on neo- Romanticism

(2) a founding work on eco- criticism

(3) a book which criticizes feminism in literature

(4) a work on eco-feminism

Ans. (2) a founding work on eco- criticism

20. "Happiness is but an occasional episode in a general drama of pain." These are the last lines in Thomas 8 Hardy's novel:

(1)The Return of the Native

(2) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(3) Tess of the D'Urbervilles

(4) Jude The Obscure

Ans. (2) The Mayor of Casterbridge

21. Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the adjective, Kafkaesque'.

(1) Invoking humour

(2) Characteristic of oppressive or nightmarish qualities

(3) Symbolizing sensibility, logic and reason

(4) Characteristic of peace and calm

22. Which of the following is a drama of social ostracism based on the life of a famous Negro Jazz singer written by Edward Albee ?

(1) The American Dream

(2) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

(3) The Zoo Story

(4) The Death of Bessie Smith

Ans. (4) The Death of Bessie Smith

23. (a) "Brahma" by Emerson owes its origin to the Brahmapurana and the Shivpurana.

(b) H.D. Thoreau was a transcendalist.

(c) Ichabod Crane is a creation of Irving.

Now choose the correct option :

(1) (a) is false; (b) & (c) are true.

(2) (b) is true, (a) & (c) are false.

(3) (a), b) & (c) are true.

(4) (a), (b) & (c) are false.

Ans. (1) (a) is false; (b) & (c) are true.

24. 'Naturalism' as a literary movement became a part of the American scene with the works of-

(1) Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London

(2) Ralph Emerson, Emily Dickinson

(3) Euegene O'Neill

(4) John Steinbeck

Ans. (1) Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London

25. Joseph Conrad's trip to India gave him material for which of his novels

(1) Lord Jim

(2)Nostromo

(3) The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

(4) Heart of Darkness

Ans. (3) The Nigger of the "Narcissus"