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(1) In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot ?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
Answer: John Webster and John Donne
(2) Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to
(1) Structural Approach
(2) Comprehensive Approach
(3) Translation and Grammar Method
(4) Functional Approach
Answer: Structural Approach

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(3) According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the _______ within the _________ that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
(1) individual, tradition
(2) specific, generic
(3) semiotic, symbolic
(4) particular, general
Answer: semiotic, symbolic
(4) In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words. Who/what are they addressed to ?
“I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted psychology is a double-edged weapon.”
(1) Svidrigailov to the pistol with which he shoots himself
(2) Katherine Ivanovna to Marmeladov
(3) Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
(4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he finds in the prison cell in Siberia
Answer: Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
(5) What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English ?
(1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts
(2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
(3) The Saxons, Danes and Angles
(4) The Jutes, Angles and Saxons
Answer: The Jutes, Angles and Saxons
(6) Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar ?
(1) “Yeshwant Rao”
(2) “Chaitanya”
(3) “The Priest”
(4) “An Old Man”
Answer: “An Old Man”
(7) Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best described as
(1) making the audience feel that they do not belong.
(2) distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
(3) scripting unnatural behaviour on stage.
(4) a rejection of capitalism or the market.
Answer: distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
(8) Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to _________.
(1) Swahili
(2) Yoruba
(3) Xhosa
(4) Gikuyu
Answer: Gikuyu
(9) Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism ?
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace.
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden.
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus.
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey, Quintilian, Longinus.
Answer: Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus.
(10) Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a self-elegy, anticipating the poet’s death ?
(1) “The Old Fools”.
(2) “Aubade”.
(3) “Ambulances”.
(4) “Faith Healing”.
Answer: “Aubade”.
(11) In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by Christian on his progress ?
(1) The Slough of Despond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The River of Death
(4) The Swamp of Despair
Answer: Vanity Fair
(12) Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The Four Quartets.
(1) Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker – Little Gidding
(2) Burnt Norton – Little Gidding –The Dry Salvages – East Coker
(3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
(4) Little Gidding – Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker
Answer: Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
(13) Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens ?
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.
Answer: The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(14) Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was
(1) Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
(3) Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
(4) Thomas Blount’s Glossographia
Answer: Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
(15) In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we can see space itself becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive unattached state.” Which is the novel ?
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Confessions of Felix Krull
(4) The Magic Mountain
Answer: The Magic Mountain

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