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(1) In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians ?
(1) Music
(2) Public lectures
(3) Conversation
(4) Dicing and cards
Answer: Dicing and cards
(2) Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position ?
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.
(2) Power operates through discourse.
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.
Answer: In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.

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(3) In which year did the Great Exhibition take place ?
(1) 1851
(2) 1857
(3) 1861
(4) 1871
Answer: 1851
(4) When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of
(1) Alliteration
(2) Allegory
(3) Assonance
(4) Antithesis
Answer: Alliteration
(5) Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” ?
(1) “Far from the madding crowd”
(2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”
(3) “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen”
(4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”
Answer: “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”
(6) Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of
(1) youth against old age
(2) old age against youth
(3) power against knowledge
(4) knowledge against power
Answer: old age against youth
(7) In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates ?
(1) Nobility, church and commoners.
(2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry.
(3) Royalists, republicans and peasants.
(4) Country, city and commons.
Answer: Nobility, church and commoners.
(8) Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave ?
(1) Sula
(2) Tar Baby
(3) Song of Solomon
(4) Beloved
Answer: Beloved
(9) Who among the following translated Homer ?
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Alexander Pope
Answer: Alexander Pope
(10) Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a
(1) Picaresque novel
(2) Epistolary novel
(3) Diary novel
(4) Coming-of-age novel
Answer: Coming-of-age novel
(11) When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted ?
(1) 1924
(2) 1945
(3) 1936
(4) 1962
Answer: 1936
(12) Who among the following is not an imagist ?
(1) Ezra Pound
(2) W.B. Yeats
(3) Amy Lowell
(4) T.E. Hulme
Answer: W.B. Yeats
(13) Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as
(1) Celia
(2) Julia
(3) Anne
(4) Melanie
Answer: Celia
(14) Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(1) Robert Graves
(2) Raymond Williams
(3) Francis Fergusson
(4) Northrop Frye
Answer: Raymond Williams
(15) According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one ?
(1) Romance
(2) Epic
(3) Fiction
(4) Novel
Answer: Romance

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