RPSC ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SANSKRIT COLLEGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PAPER 2 HELD ON 14-09-2024
Match the following prose works with their authors names and choose the correct option-
(1) John Lyly (a) The Anatomy of Wit
(2) Sir Philip Sidney (b) Arcadia
(3) Thomas Lodge (c) Rosalynde
(4) Thomas Nashe (d) Unfortunate Traveller
1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d
2. 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
3. 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-c
4. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
Ans. 4. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was published in 1578.Euphues is a romantic intrigue told in letters interspersed with general discussions on such topics as religion, love, and epistolary style. Lyly’s preoccupation with the exact arrangement and selection of words, his frequent use of similes drawn from classical mythology, and his artificial and excessively elegant prose inspired a short-lived Elizabethan literary style called “euphuism.” The Euphues novels introduced a new concern with form into English prose. Lyly adopted the name from Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues meaning graceful, witty. The proverb "All is fair in love and war" has been attributed to Lyly's Euphues. It was followed by Euphues and his England published in1580.
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his work. Scholars today often refer to these two major versions as the Old Arcadia and the New Arcadia.
Rosalynde or Euphues' Golden Legacy by Thomas Lodge. Published in 1590 Rosalynde is a pastoral romance and it proved to be very popular in its day and has been reprinted a number of times. The Golden Legacy in the title is an interesting concept, because the story was adapted from a 14th century tale; "The Tale of Gamelyn" once attributed to Chaucer, however more famously Shakespeare used Lodge's story as a source for his play "[As you Like it]" and so we have a sort of lineage stretching from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The Legacy in the title refers to [Euphues; the anatomy of wit] the novel published ten years earlier by John Lyly seen as the earliest precursor to what we now understand as a novel and certainly Lodge uses the ornate
The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (originally published as The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton) is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. In this adventurous and episodic work, Nashe's protagonist Jack Wilton navigates 16th-century Europe engaging with historical events. The story sees Jack swindle at a military camp, witness a massacre in Münster, and travels with Surrey. They meet literary figures, engage in deceit in Italy, and face various challenges. The narrative explores themes of religion, hypocrisy, and cultural differences. Jack's journey culminates in Italy, where he faces personal and moral dilemmas, ultimately leaving the "Sodom of Italy" with his wife Diamante.
2. Which of the following statement regarding Lord Byron are true?
A. The heroes.of his romances are pirates, outlaws etc.
B. The word Byronism denotes spirit of gloom, satiety and unrest
C. Byron compares poetry of 18" century to a Greek Temple arid of his own time to a barbarous Turkish mosque.
(1) A&C
(2) B&C
(3) A,B&C
(4) A & B
Ans. (3) A,B&C
A Byronic hero is a fictional character archetype named after the poet Lord Byron, characterized by a brooding, rebellious, and cynical nature. They are often arrogant but charismatic, intelligent, and mysterious, haunted by a troubled past and internal conflicts. Despite their darker, flawed traits like selfishness and self-destructiveness, they can also possess a hidden nobility and capacity for deep affection. Lord Macaulay described the Byronic character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection"
Lord Byron compared 18th-century poetry to a Greek temple, symbolizing its perceived perfection, order, and classical restraint, while contrasting it with the poetry of his own time, which he likened to a "barbarous Turkish mosque" to represent a more wild, emotional, and less refined style. This analogy highlights Byron's belief that while 18th-century poetry was structured and elegant, it lacked the passion and intensity of his Romantic era work. w
3. Who among the following refused to publish the Animal Farm?
(1) William Faulkner
(2) Wallace Stevens
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) Ezra Pound
Ans. (3) T.S. Eliot
Addressing the author as “Dear Orwell”, Eliot, then a director at publishing firm Faber & Faber, writes on 13 July 1944 that the publisher will not be acquiring Animal Farm for publication. Eliot described its strengths: “We agree that it is a distinguished piece of writing; that the fable is very skilfully handled, and that the narrative keeps one’s interest on its own plane – and that is something very few authors have achieved since Gulliver.”
Animal Farm, a beast fable that satirised Stalinism and depicted Stalin as a traitor, was rejected by at least four publishers, with many, like Eliot, feeling it was too controversial at a time when Britain was allied with the Soviet Union against Germany.
“I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation. It ought to excite some sympathy with what the author wants, as well as sympathy with his objections to something: and the positive point of view, which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not convincing,” wrote Eliot to Orwell. “And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne a descendant of a Puritan family, spent several months with he Brooke Farm community and chose to write his experience in the novel titled -
(1) The Scarlet Letter
(2) The House of Seven Gables
(3) Fanshawe
(4) The Blithedale Romance
Ans. (4) The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its setting is a utopian socialist farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.
Miles Coverdale, Old Moodie, Hollingsworth, Silas Foster, Mrs. Foster, Zenobia, Priscilla, Professor Westervelt are major characters.
5. Which among the following is an autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston?
(1) Dust Tracks on a Road
(2) Jonah's Gourd Vine
(3) Moses, Man of the Mountain
(4) Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ans. (1) Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of Black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.Zora Neale Hurston (1891- 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. She also wrote about contemporary issues in the black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!!.
After moving back to Florida, Hurston wrote and published her literary anthology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935), and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939).Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.
6.According to Asiatic Researches where colonial aesthetes, historians and critics documented and offered detailed, commentaries on native styles, 'colonial cultures' was Not a conjunction of -
(1) a detailèd administrative appropriation of such studies for policy making
(2) a determined set of institutional structures to implement the policies
(3) euro-centric perspèctive of eulogising the native culture from a post-colonial vantage point
(4) a thorough-study of various aspects of native cultures
Ans. (3) euro-centric perspèctive of eulogising the native culture from a post-colonial vantage point
7. In Dennis Brutus' poem "I am the Tree", what has been the collective suffering of the oppressed people compared to?
(1) tree, sheet of tin and voice
(2) sheet, voice and night
(3) night and the wind
(4) tree, wind and tin
Ans. (1) tree, sheet of tin and voice
Dennis Vincent Brutus (1924 – 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its racial policy of apartheid. Brutus’s first collection of poetry, Sirens, Knuckles and Boots (1963), was published in Nigeria while he was in prison
8. In which of the following novels written by Rushdie are-Murtaza Ali Bhutto.and Zia-ul-Haq represented by pseudonymous caricatures under the name of Iskandar Harappa-and Raza Hyder respectively?
(1) Shame
(2) Fury
(3) The Moor's Last Sigh
(4) Midnight's Children
Ans. (1) Shame
Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. It was Shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of "artificial" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus after Britain gave up control of India.
The book is written in the style of magic realism. It portrays the lives of Iskander Harappa (sometimes assumed to be Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), and General Raza Hyder (sometimes assumed to be General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq), and their relationship. The central theme of the novel is that begetting "shame" begets violence. The concepts of 'shame' and 'shamelessness' are explored through all of the characters, with the main focus being on Sufiya Zinobia and Omar Khayyám.
This story takes place in a town called "Q" which is actually a fictitious version of Quetta, Pakistan. In Q, one of the three sisters (Chunni, Munnee, and Bunny Shakil) gives birth to Omar Khayyám Shakil, but they act as a unit of mothers, never revealing to anyone who is Omar's birth mother. In addition, Omar never learns who his father is. While growing up, Omar lives in purdah with his three mothers and yearns to join the world. As a birthday present one year, Omar's "mothers" allow him to leave Q. He enrolls in a school and is convinced by his tutor (Eduardo Rodriguez) to become a doctor. Over time, he comes in contact with both Iskander Harappa and General Raza Hyder.
9. Joyne' lip to lip, and try; Each suck others breath, And whilst our tongues perplexed lie. Let who will think us dead, or wish our death. Identity the poet-
(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne
(3) Ben Jonson
(4) Andrew Marvell
Ans. (3) Ben Jonson
Begging Another by Ben Jonson
For love's sake, kiss me once again;
I long, and should not beg in vain,
Here's none to spy or see;
Why do you doubt or stay?
I'll taste as lightly as the bee
That doth but touch his flower and flies away.
Once more, and faith I will be gone;
Can he that loves ask less than one?
Nay, you may err in this
And all your bounty wrong;
This could be called but half a kiss,
What we're but once to do, we should do long.
I will but mend the last, and tell
Where, how it should have relished well;
Join lip to lip, and try
Each suck other's breath.
And whilst our tongues perplexed lie,
Let who will, think us dead or wish our death.
10. In which of the following texts does T.S. Eliot examine the relations of culture and society?
(1) After Strange Gods
(2) The Confidential Clerk
(3) The Rock
(4) Murder in the Cathedral
Ans. (1) After Strange Gods
T. S. Eliot's After Strange Gods, published in 1933, scrutinizes the relationship between tradition and individualism, building upon ideas he first explored in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." Eliot critiques the notion that tradition is static and unyielding, advocating instead for a dynamic interpretation that allows for both continuity and change. He challenges modern writers to recognize the importance of tradition in shaping originality and warns against the dangers of excessive individualism.
11. Which poem 'came upon' him, Browning writes, 'as a kind of dream'?
(1). 'Childe Roland' '
(2) ‘Andrea del Sarto`
(3) 'Caliban upon Setebo'
(4) "Fra Lippo Lippi’
Ans. (1). 'Childe Roland' '
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is a narrative poem by English author Robert Browning, written on 2 January 1852, and first published in 1855 in the collection titled Men and Women. The poem is often noted for its dark and atmospheric imagery, inversion of classical tropes, and use of unreliable narration. Childe Roland, the only speaker in the poem, describes his journey towards "the Dark Tower", and his horror at what he sees on his quest. The poem ends when Roland finally reaches the tower, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous.
The title, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play King Lear (ca. 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part:
Childe Rowland to the dark tower came.
His word was still "Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man."
— King Lear, act 3, scene 4, lines 195-197
12.Which of the following statements regarding " Savitri' arc correct?
(A) It depicts the soul's journey from earth to heaven.
(B ) It depicts the heroine figure as ‘a golden bowl fitted upon a table of the gods',
(C) Savitri enacts what T.S. Eliot misses most in modern life and literature: 'the primacy of the supernatural".
(1) (A) & (B)
(2) (A), (B) & (C)
(3) (A) & (C)
(4). (B) & (C)
Ans. (2) (A), (B) & (C)
13. '"Motivated by (his) belief that writing in the language of the colonizer alienated Africans from their own culture'. Which of the following writers, stopped writing in English and changed his name too?
(1) Chinua Achebe
(2) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
(3) Noémia de Sousa
(4) Gabriel Okara
In 1977, after seventeen years of writing in English, Ngugi abandoned it and began writing in his native language, Gikuyu. This was hardly easy. English was the colonialists’ language, but it was also an international language. Writing in English potentially gave access to a readership that was spread across the world. English also had the paraphernalia that enables circulation of literary works – publishing houses, journals and newspapers, university courses, etc. – that native languages such as Gikuyu lacked. Many languages of the colonial subjects did not even have a script.
14.Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the poem 'River by A.K. Ramanujan?
(1) The poem is about the five elements.
(2) The poet gives a complete picture of the river as preserver as well as destroyer.
(3) The poet sings of the death of a pregnant woman.
(4) The poet is sarcastic about the poets of the past.
Ans. (1) The poem is about the five elements.
A River: by A K Ramanujan
In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women's hair
clogging the watergates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poets only sang of the floods.
He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carried off three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.
The new poets still quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.
He said:
the river has water enough
to be poetic
about only once a year
and then
it carries away
in the first half-hour
three village houses,
a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda
and one pregnant woman
expecting identical twins
with no moles on their bodies,
with different coloured diapers
to tell them apart.
15. Identify the other name of Prince 'Hal' in Shakespeare -
(1) Hamlet
(2) John Holland
(3) Henry V
(4)Henry IV
Ans. (3) Henry V
16. ‘I am a venereal sore in the private part of language.'- To which poem of Namdeo Dhasal does this opening 1ine belong to?
(1) "Speculations on a Shirt"
(2) "The Day She was Gone"
(3) "Man, You Should Explode"
(4) "Cruelty"
Ans. (4) "Cruelty"
Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (1949 – 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a social movement aimed at destroying caste hierarchy in Indian society. The movement was active in the 1970s and the 1980s during which time it popularised the usage of the term dalit in India. Dhasal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2004. His first volume of poetry was Golpitha. More poetry collections followed: Moorkh Mhataryane (By a Foolish Old Man), inspired by Maoist thoughts; Tujhi Iyatta Kanchi? (How Educated Are You?); Khel; and Priya Darshini, about former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. During this time, Dhasal also wrote two novels and published pamphlets such as Andhale Shatak (Century of Blindness) and Ambedkari Chalwal (Ambedkarite Movement), a reflection on the socialist and communist concepts of B. R. Ambedkar. Later, he published two more collections of poetry: Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode (I Killed the Seven Horses of the Sun), and Tujhe Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo Ahe (I'm Walking, Holding Your Finger).
following novels with their respective themes - (a) My_Story (i) writing and creativity as a solution to bodily and mental problems. (b) Anowa (i) breaking of the tradition and woman's body commanded by patriarchal society. (c) My Feudal Lord ii power of Muslim family and its men over a woman's body. (d) Nervous conditions iyv) madness and body ailments signifying gendered social injustice. (1) (a-iv), (b-ii), (c-i), (d-i) (2) (a-ii), (b-iii), (c-iv), (d-i) (3) (a-ii), (b-ii), (c-i), (d-iv) (4) (a-i), (b-ii), (c-iii), (d-iv) (5) Question not attempted 18. n which paper does Anand Teltumbde write a monthly column and vhat is it called? (1) Alternative Politics; Economic and Political Weekly (2) Margin Speak; Economic and Political Weekly (3) Dalits; Past, Present and Future; Harijian (4) Voice in the River, The untouchables (5) Question not attempted
17. Match the following novels with their respective themes-
(a) My Story (i) writing and creativity as a solution to bodily and mental problems.
(b) Anowa (ii) breaking of the tradition and woman’s body commanded by patriarchal society
(c) My Feudal Lord (iii) Power of Muslim family and its men over a woman’s body
(d) Nervous Conditions (iv) Madness and body ailments signifying gendered social injustice
(1) a-iv b-iii c-ii d-i
(2) a-ii b-iii c-iv d-i
(3) a-ii b-iii c-i d-iv
(4) a-i b-ii c-iii d-iv
Ans. (4)
18. In which paper does Anand Teltumbde write a monthly column and what is it called?
(1) Alternative Politics ; Economic and Political Weekly
(2) Margin Speak; Economic and Political Weekly
(3) Dalits; Past, Present and Future ; Harijan
(4) Voice in the River; The Untouchables
Ans. (2) Margin Speak; Economic and Political Weekly
19. The slogan 'make it new’ was given by -
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Ezra Pound
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) James Joyce
Ans. (2) Ezra Pound
‘Make It New’ refers to Ezra Pound’s (1885–1972) modernist imperative and his 1934 collection of essays of the same name. This slogan compels the writer to create out of the material of art work that is distinctively innovative. The artist must break with the formal and contextual standards of their contemporaries in making works fundamentally individual. These ‘new’ modern works cannot be wholly autonomous, however, as they must consider the aesthetics of the past in the context of the present moment.
20. "Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies; To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise" The above lines occur in -
(1) Essay on Criticism
(2) Essay on Man
(3) Absalom and Achitophel
(4) Mac Flecknoe
Ans. (3) Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681). The poem also references the Popish Plot (1678)
Beginning: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin,
Before polygamy was made a sin;
When man, on many, multipli'd his kind,
Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd:
When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd
Promiscuous use of concubine and bride;
Ending: He said. Th' Almighty, nodding, gave consent;
And peals of thunder shook the firmament.
Henceforth a series of new time began,
The mighty years in long procession ran:
Once more the god-like David was restor'd,
And willing nations knew their lawful lord.
21. 'The first Dalit novel, arguably, to be written in any Indian language is -
(1) Angaliyat
(2) Untouchable
(3) Karukku
(4) Akkarmashi
Ans. (1) Angaliyat
22. Which of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh is set in the countries: India, Yaman, Egypt and Algeria?
(1) In An Antique Land
(2) The Shadow Lines
(3) The Circle of Reason
(4) The Hungry Tide
Ans. (3) The Circle of Reason
23. Who of the following in The God of Small Things, is a first generation convert to Christianity?
(1) Kuttappan
(2) Velutha
(3) Kelan
(4) Vellya Paapen
Ans. (3) Kelan
24. In which of the following novels of Nayantara Sahgal, the male protagonist, Ram Swarup, considers love as merely fun and often takes pride in his extra-marital involvements in spite of already having two wives at home?
(1) Rich Like Us
(2) The Day in Shadow
(3) A Situation in Delhi
(4) Storm in Chandigarh
Ans. (1) Rich Like Us
25. Which of the following poem by Les Murray expresses through rich virtual imagination the Australian bush and the ideals. and values of pioneer settlers?
(1) "The Wilderness"
(2) "Clock and Heart"
(3) Typists iri the Phoenix Building"
(4) "Burning the Effects"
Ans. (1) "The Wilderness"
26. How does the concept of "'Orientalism" as described by Edward Said influence the depiction of Indian society in çolonial literature?
(1) It accurately depicts the complexities of Indian Culture.
(2) It romanticizes and exoticizes Indian society while reinforcing colonial stereotypes.
(3) It ignores Indian society completely.
(4) It portrays Indian society as superior to British Society.
Ans. (2) It romanticizes and exoticizes Indian society while reinforcing colonial stereotypes.
27. Which among the following is not one of the seven autobiographies 'written by Maya Angelou?
(1) In Search of My Mother's Garden
(2) A Song Flung up to Heaven
(3) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
(4) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ans. (1) In Search of My Mother's Garden
28. What is the subtitle of Love's Last Shift Colley Cibber?
(1) Love Makes a Man
(2) The Fool in Fashion
(3) The Sentimental Fool
(4) Fool in Vogue
Ans. (2) The Fool in Fashion
29. Match the following poetic works with their poets and choose the correct option -
(1) Troilus and Criseyde (a) Christopher Marlowe
(2) Epithalamion (b) Spenser
(3) Hero and Leander (c) John Gower
(4) Confessio Amantis (d) G. Chaucer
(1) 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a
(2) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c
(3) 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4a
(4) '1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
Ans.
30. Buchi Emecheta's autobiography is titled -
(1) Second-Class Citizen
(2) In the Ditch
(3) The Family
(4) Head Above Water
Ans.
31. The acts/scenes in Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel” are named according to -
(1) time of the day
(2) the seasons
(3) Yoruba deities
(4) the days of the week
Ans.
32. "Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy!" Which of the following poems opens with the above lines? Who is the poet?
(1) 'On Receipt of My Mother's Picture'; William Cowper
(2) 'The Garden'; Andrew Marvell
(3) "The Retreat'; Henry Vaughan
(4) In Memorium'; Alfred Tennyson
Ans.
33. Miracle plays in 15-century often dealt with- (1) Miracles performed by King Arthur (2) The Christian version of the history of the world (3) Miracles performed by James I (4) Expeditions of Monks and friars (5) Question not attempted
34. Mathew Arnold's famous lines paid homage to which writer? 'Others abide our question. Thou art free, We ask and ask - Thou smilest and art still'
(1)Shakespeare (2) Ben Jonson (3) Marlowe (4) Milton (5) Question not attempted
35. Match the following writers with their works-
(A) Kancha Ilaiah @ (B) Barbara Joshi G (C) Eleanor Zelliot 0 (D) Arvind Nirmal (v) (1) (A-i), (B-ii), (C-iv), (D-i) (3) (A-ii), (B-iv), (C-i), (D-i) (5) Question not attempted
Heuristic Explorations From Untouchable to Dalit Why Lam not a Hindu Untouchablel: Voices of the Dalit L iberation Movement (2) (A-iit), (B-ii), (C-i), (D-iv) (4) (A-ii), (B-iv), (C-i), (D-i)
36. In which of the following stories by Mahasweta Devi the character of Somari, a dumb girl is portrayed who is suffering from triple marginalization?
(1) The Witch (3) The Little Ones (5) Question not attempted
(2) Breast Giver (4) Draupadi
37.
.........I. am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed: I have no joys which are not yours, no Aches which are. not yours. I too call myself I. The above lines are from which famous poem by Kamala Das? (1) "The Invitation" (2) "An Introduction" (3) "In Love" (4) "A Losing Battle (5) Question not attempted
38. In which one of the following poems of Frost is the last but one line repeated at the end? (1) "Stopping by the 'Woods on a Snowy Evening" (2) "The Road Not Taken" (3) Birches" (4) "After Apple Picking" (5) Question not attempted
39. The essay "'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse" is considered one-of the foundational texts of Postcolonial Feminism. Who wrote this essay? (1) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2) Alice Walker (3) Ketu H. Katrak (4) Chandra: Talpade Mohanty (5) Question not attempted
40. Y ou cannot break me with your poignant enyy, You cannot slay me with your subtle hate; For all the cruel folly you pursue I'll not cry with suppliant hands to you. Where are these lines taken from? (1) "Our Casuarina Tree", Toru Dutt (3) "Thie Young Captive", Toru Dutt (5) Question not attempted
(2) "A Hot Noon in Malabar", Kamala Das (4) "A Challenge to Fate", Sarojini Naidu
"To
41. Which diasporic writer reworks the English country-house poem made famous by Ben Jonson's Penshurst" and Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" in - (1) A.D. Hope in "The Gateway" (2) Kamala Das in "My Grandmother's House" (3) Derek Walcott in "Ruins of a Great House" (4) Agha Shahid' Ali in "HIomesick' (5) Question not attempted
42. In The Poetics of Relation, The Caribbean critic Èdouard Glissant juxtaposing originary exile with the postcolonial diasporic one gives rise to the concept of............uggesting not so much loss as
wandering and discovery. Fill in the blank with the correct option - (1) "errantry" (3) "tracing" (5) Question not attempted
D
(2) "stalking" (4) "picaresque"
43. In which poem of Christopher Okigbo, do the following lines occur- "And the flower weeps Unbruised, Lacrimae Chrict:n (1) Transition" (2) "Sacrifice" (3) "Love Apart" (5) Question not attempted
(4) "Passion Flower"
44.
Why did the midwife say that Mr. Biswas was born "in the wrong way? (A House for Mr. Biswas) (1) because of his father Raghu's miserliness (2) because it was midnight, the inauspicious hour (3) because of the poverty of Raghu, Mr. Biswas' father (4) because he was six-fingered (5) Question not attempted
45. Which of the following statements regarding "A broad side ballad" are true? A. It was printed on one side of a single sheet. B. It was sung to a well-known tune. C . It dealt with historical events.
(1) A,B &C > (2) A&B (3) A&C (4) B &C (5) Question not attempted
46.
Tis eight o'clock, - clear March night, The moon is up, - the sky is blue, The owlet, in the moonlight air, Shouts from nobody knows where; He lengthens out his lonely shout, Halloo! Halloo! a long halloo! Who is the writer and what is the name of the poem?. (1) Blake-"How Sweet I Roam'd" (2) (3) Wordsworth -- The Idiot Boy"" (4) (5) Question not attempted
Bvron- "She walks in Beauty" Coleridge Frost at Midnight
47. "Colin Clouts Come Home Again" is a pastoral poem - (1) written by Sir Walter Raleigh dedicated to Edmund Spenser (2) written by Sir Walter Raleigh dedicated to William Tyndale (3) written by Edmund Spenser dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh (4) written by Edmund Spenser dedicated to William Tyndale (5) Question not attempted
48. hich figure of speech is used in the following underlined phrase? Love you ten years before the flood." (1) Pun (2) (3) Mctaphor Allusion (5) Ouestion not attempted
Transferred Eithet
49. hich of the following poems is writen by John Webster?
(1) 'Elegy over a Tomb (2) 'To Electra' (3) 'Call for the Robin- Redbreast and the Wren' (4) "To Anthea, who may command him Anything' (5) Question not attempted
50. Which of the following statements on Dalit Literature is NOT correct?
(1) The period rom 1920 to 1956 is called the Renaissance phase in the history of the Dalis moveinents. (2) These colleges served as catalysts to promote young generation writings (3) Phule founded Milind college in Aurangabad in 1947 (4) Ambedkar founded Siddhartha college in Mumbai in 1946 (5) Question not attempted 51. The major theme of Nadine Gordimer's works is - (1) Nature (2) Pantheism (3) Religion (4) Exile and alienation (5)
Question not attempted
$2 . The Sketch Book containing "Rip Van Winkle' and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow` by Washingtor Irving was written under the pseudonym -
(1)` Geoffrey Crayon (3) Aaron Wolfe (5) Question not attempted
(2) Lemony Snicket (4) Dutch Knickerbocker
53. In Ben Jonson's play- The Alchemist" Lovewit leaves his house under the sole charge of his scheming servant. What is the name of his servant?
(1) Dapper (3) Face (5) Question not attempted
(4)Dol
(2) Subtle 42
54. Which of the following statements regarding the difficulties encountered by Christopher Marlowe i writing of Dr. Faustus is NOT correct?
(1) The passages in Tamburlaine show a shift in tempo and rise and fall in emotion more effectively than in Dr. Faustus.
(2) Marlowe could achieve effective dramatic verse only in moments of crisis
(3) Marlowe did not have the confidence which Milton and Shaw,were to exhibit later in their ideas as representing ultimate understanding.
(4) Marlowe was at a loss to illustrate super human knowledge and power in concrete dramatio situations.
(5) Question not attempted