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(1) Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul... the weight of my sins... my sense of unworthiness” ?
(1) Under Western Eyes
(2) The Shadow Line
(3) Victory
(4) The Rescue
Answer: The Shadow Line
(2) In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as good examples of English Poesy ?

I. The Mirror of Magistrates

II. The Shepherd’s Calendar

III. Lament for the Makers

IV. Ballad of Scottish King

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and III
Answer: I and II

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(3) Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: Virginia Woolf
(4) Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures” ?
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
(5) In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when he visits Lowood School ?
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: Lying
(6) William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in its entirety ?
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
(2) “My mother is a fish.”
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Answer: “My mother is a fish.”
(7) The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman, _____.
(1) St. Agnes
(2) St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
Answer: St. Theresa
(8)
“O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,

Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !”

The above description is an example of

(1) Paronomasia
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Answer: Synaesthesia
(9) The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
Answer: Thomas Rhymer
(10) ______ is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
Answer: Miles Coverdale
(11) In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading upwards and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None can usurp this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery, and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess ?
(1) Urania.
(2) Moneta.
(3) Melete.
(4) Mneme.
Answer: Moneta
(12) Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are named the following EXCEPT :
(1) The Sky
(2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
(4) The Lighthouse
Answer: The Sky
(13) Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?
(1) The Tree of Man
(2) Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Answer: Voss
(14) Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies ?
(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy
(3) Peter
(4) Jack
Answer: Peter
(15) Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included

I. Holman Hunt

II. Arthur Hugh Clough

III. Gerald Manley Hopkins

IV. John Millais

The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: I and IV

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