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(1) What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home Coming ?
(1) boxer
(2) butcher
(3) pimp
(4) cab driver
Answer: pimp
(2) Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?
(1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(3) Don Juan
(4) The Vision of Judgement
Answer: Don Juan

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(3) In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of
(1) William Morris
(2) William Holman Hunt
(3) D.G. Rossetti
(4) James Collinson
Answer: D.G. Rossetti
(4) In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title ?
(1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(2) Beauty in Distress
(3) Virtue Rewarded
(4) Love in Excess
Answer: Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(5) Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Answer: Socratic dialogue
(6) Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?

I. In the Heart of the Country

II. Life and Times of Michael K.

III. Disgrace

IV. Waiting for the Barbarians

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: II and III
(7) Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: Plato
(8) Who among the following is not a diasporic writer ?
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon
Answer: Beryl Bainbridge
(9) “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.” Which of the following best expresses the position stated above ?
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
Answer: A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
(10) In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant
Answer: Son-in-law
(11) Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ?
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
Answer: People should honour and respect all living things.
(12) “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by
(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck
Answer: Merrill Swain
(13) In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature.
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins
Answer: Ignatius Sancho
(14) In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin ?
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”
Answer: “The Fraternization Song”
(15) In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen ?
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
Answer: Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.

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