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(1) Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana :
(1) Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3) Kapila
(4) Devadatta
Answer: Gautama
(2) Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an
(1) complaint
(2) stichomythia
(3) epyllion
(4) pasturelle
Answer: epyllion

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(3) Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language family ?
(1) English
(2) German
(3) Scandinavian
(4) Finnish
Answer: Finnish
(4) What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime ?
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) dignified and elevated word arrangement
Answer: immoderate emotion
(5) Who among the following is not a beat writer ?
(1) Jack Kerouac
(2) Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4) William Burroughs
Answer: Robert Lowell
(6) This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.
(1) Masque of Blankness
(2) The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4) The Gypsies Metamorphed
Answer: Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(7) Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their
(1) conversational intimacy
(2) intellectual tenor
(3) astringent satire
(4) urban topography
Answer: conversational intimacy
(8) Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
Answer: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
(9) In “My Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the Duchess’s misdemeanours, according to the Duke ?
(1) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.
(2) She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour.
(3) She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behaviour.
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source.
Answer: She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behaviour.
(10) In his essay “From Work to Text” Roland Barthes says the following about the text :

I. The text is singular.

II. The text can be held in the hand.

III. The text is held in language.

IV. The text is a methodological field.

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) III and II
Answer: III and IV
(11) Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT
(1) his preoccupation with his roots.
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore.
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour of his ancestors.
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen.
Answer: his obsession with Irish legend and folklore.
(12) In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What is this flaw ?
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his superiority to Eve
(3) overconfidence in his free will
(4) passion for Eve
Answer: passion for Eve
(13) Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts :
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The Nightingale – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur
(2) Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur – The Owl and the Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur – Utopia
(4) The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur – Troilus and Criseyde – Uttopia
Answer: The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur – Utopia
(14) In Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was murdered
(1) at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2) at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi
(3) at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) at the crossroads on his way to Delphi
Answer: at the crossroads on his way to Delphi
(15) The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers and titles. Which of the following are the titles of the chapters in the novel ?

I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow

II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace

III. In a Network of Lines that Interface

IV. What Story there Awaits its End ?

The right combination according to the code is

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

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