Paper-2-Official-Question-Paper
Q1. Wordsworth in the sonnet “The World is Too Much with Us” is becoming the:
(1) gains of material progress ✅
(2) loss of sensitivity to one’s past
(3) survival of the fittest
(4) erasure of childhood experiences
Answer:- (1) gains of material progress ✅
Explanation: The poem critiques how humans have lost spiritual connection and sensitivity to nature due to material greed.
Q2. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write in all?
(1) 156
(2) 154 ✅
(3) 155
(4) 164
Answer:- (2) 154 ✅
Explanation: Shakespeare authored 154 sonnets, primarily focused on themes of love, time, and beauty.
Q3. What fault does the Duke accuse his wife of in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”?
(1) She smiled at everyone
(2) She was too easily pleased
(3) She thanked everyone much the same as she thanked him
(4) She was not happy with him ✅
Answer:- (4) She was not happy with him ✅
Explanation: The Duke was displeased with her behavior, feeling she treated everyone with equal warmth, not valuing his status.
Q4. Who is Proteus on the basis of the poem “The World is Too Much with Us”?
(1) Prime Minister of England
(2) A Stock broker
(3) A Roman Emperor
(4) A Sea God ✅
Answer:- (4) A Sea God ✅
Explanation: Proteus, a sea god from Greek mythology, represents natural mystery and divine insight lost to modern materialism.
Q5. Which is not one of the reasons that prevented the Duke from talking directly to his wife in “My Last Duchess”?
(1) He claims he didn’t have the “skill in speech” to explain what he wanted from her
(2) He suggests she might have resisted being lessoned
(3) She would have burst out crying which he could not tolerate
(4) She might “make excuse” for her behaviour ✅
Answer:- (4) She might “make excuse” for her behaviour ✅
Explanation: This reason is not mentioned in the poem. The Duke says he wouldn’t “stoop” to explain or correct her.
Q6. In line 10 of “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”, the word compass means:
(1) an instrument for finding direction
(2) a round circular course
(3) an accomplishment
(4) range or reach ✅
Answer:- (4) range or reach ✅
Explanation: In this context, compass refers to the scope or range of love, which remains constant.
Q7. Who is the protagonist of Train to Pakistan?
(1) Hukum Chand
(2) Jugga ✅
(3) Iqbal
(4) Lambardar Banta Singh
Answer:- (2) Jugga ✅
Explanation: Jugga, a dacoit, becomes the central heroic figure due to his sacrificial act for communal harmony.
Q8. We come to know Michael Henchard’s age at the beginning of the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge when:
(1) He tells the funnily woman that he is ‘of age’
(2) He agrees to sell his wife to the sailor
(3) He places his hand on the Bible and pledges not to drink for twenty-one years ✅
(4) He is elected the mayor of Casterbridge
Answer:- (3) He places his hand on the Bible and pledges not to drink for twenty-one years ✅
Explanation: Henchard swears not to drink for 21 years, revealing his current age is 21.
Q9. On what day do young Catherine and Hareton plan to get married?
(1) New Year’s Day ✅
(2) The Ides of March
(3) The anniversary of Heathcliff’s death
(4) Valentine’s Day
Answer:- (1) New Year’s Day ✅
Explanation: Their marriage on New Year’s Day in Wuthering Heights symbolizes hope and renewal.
Q10. Which of the following novels opens with the lines, “One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third its span…”?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) Oliver Twist
(3) The Mayor of Casterbridge ✅
(4) The Untouchable
Answer:- (3) The Mayor of Casterbridge ✅
Q11. When does the narrator time the monologue in Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover”?
(1) Just before the murder
(2) As he is strangling her
(3) Just after her death ✅
(4) During her funeral
Answer:- (3) Just after her death ✅
Explanation: The speaker reflects on the murder immediately after killing Porphyria, presenting his justification.
Q12. Keats visualizes that the reaper is ‘sound asleep’ in “Ode to Autumn” because of:
(1) the heat of the mature sun
(2) the drowsiness caused by the scent of poppies ✅
(3) tiredness and fatigue from hard work
(4) half the work being complete
Answer:- (2) the drowsiness caused by the scent of poppies ✅
Explanation: Keats personifies Autumn as drowsy with the fume of poppies, evoking a dreamy stillness.
Q13. “Glory be to God for dappled things -”
What does ‘dappled’ mean here?
(1) fickled
(2) spotted in varied colours ✅
(3) dazzling
(4) useful
Answer:- (2) spotted in varied colours ✅
Explanation: In Pied Beauty, Hopkins celebrates diversity in nature; dappled refers to things marked with many colors or spots.
Q14. “Please, Sir, I want some more” — What is Oliver asking for and where in the novel Oliver Twist?
(1) A second bowl of the thin gruel; the parish workhouse ✅
(2) A few pennies; at Fagin’s
(3) Books; at Brownlow’s
(4) Space to sleep; in the coffin-maker’s shop
Answer:- (1) A second bowl of the thin gruel; the parish workhouse ✅
Explanation: This famous line shows Oliver’s courage in asking for more food in the harsh workhouse.
Q15. Wordsworth had opined in Lyrical Ballads that poetry is an overflow of emotions recollected in tranquility. Which lines in “The Solitary Reaper” attest to this?
(1) stop here or gently pass
(2) numbers flow/for old . . . far-off things
(3) in my heart I bore/long after it was heard no more ✅
(4) I listened, motionless and still
Answer:- (3) in my heart I bore/long after it was heard no more ✅
Explanation: These lines show how the emotional impact of the reaper’s song lingered in the poet’s memory.
Q16. Donne’s poem “The Flea” has a triple symmetry — three protagonists, three stanzas, and:
(1) three accusations
(2) three denials
(3) three couplets ✅
(4) three questions
Answer:- (3) three couplets ✅
Explanation: Each stanza in The Flea contains three rhymed couplets, creating a formal symmetry reflecting the poem’s content.
Q17. What eventually happens to the dead crewmen in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
(1) They drop down and their souls fly past ✅
(2) They come alive to curse the Mariner
(3) The Mariner throws them out of the ship
(4) The Mariner takes them aboard and buries them
Answer:- (1) They drop down and their souls fly past ✅
Explanation: The crew dies and their souls, described as flying past the Mariner, highlight his guilt and supernatural punishment.
Q18. What is the peculiar characteristic of the poem “Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S.” by Nissim Ezekiel?
(1) Its pleasant tone
(2) Its sentimentality
(3) Its use of English ✅
(4) Its diversions
Answer:- (3) Its use of English ✅
Explanation: The poem humorously uses Indian English expressions to satirize formal farewell speeches.
Q19. “That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good: I found a thing to do.”
In these lines from Porphyria’s Lover, what does the lover do?
(1) He looks into her eyes to ascertain her love
(2) He bares her shoulder to lay his head on it
(3) He winds her hair three times around her neck ✅
(4) He asks her if she loves him not
Answer:- (3) He winds her hair three times around her neck ✅
Explanation: The speaker kills Porphyria by strangling her with her own hair to preserve the perfect moment.
Q20. In “So long lives this”, the last line of “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” alludes to:
(1) the sonnet ✅
(2) nature’s season
(3) the beauty of the fair
(4) the buds of May
Answer:- (1) the sonnet ✅
Explanation: The line means the poem will immortalize the beloved’s beauty as long as people read it.
Q21. Where does the ‘negotiation’ for a second wife take place in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning in the first part of the poem?
(1) in the garden where the cherries grow
(2) in the Duke’s private art gallery ✅
(3) in Fra Pandolf’s studio
(4) in an ante-chamber of the castle
Answer:- (2) in the Duke’s private art gallery ✅
Explanation: The Duke is speaking to a servant arranging his next marriage while showing a portrait in his gallery.
Q22. The imagery in Keats’s Ode to Autumn moves from:
(1) close at hand to a distance ✅
(2) known to unknown lands
(3) spring to winter
(4) conspiracy to celestial endeavour
Answer:- (1) close at hand to a distance ✅
Explanation: The poem begins with the abundance of harvest and gradually moves to distant, fading sounds of nature.
Q23. The Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a Curtal Sonnet. Why is it so called?
(1) since the fourteen lines have been curtailed ✅
(2) because it curtains the theme of the poem
(3) as it depicts messages onomatopoietically
(4) because each line is shortened in metre
Answer:- (1) since the fourteen lines have been curtailed ✅
Explanation: A Curtal sonnet is a shortened version of the traditional 14-line sonnet, used innovatively by Hopkins.
Q24. And sacrilege, three sins in killing three — What does ‘sacrilege’ mean here in the above line?
(1) righteousness
(2) piety
(3) obscene
(4) desecration ✅
Answer:- (4) desecration ✅
Explanation: In Donne’s The Flea, sacrilege refers to the desecration or violation of something sacred, like love or union.
Q25. Who, in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, writes a will that “no flower be planted on my grave and that no man remember me”?
(1) Lucetta
(2) Susan
(3) Newson
(4) Henchard ✅
Answer:- (4) Henchard ✅
Explanation: Henchard writes this will at the end, reflecting his remorse and self-imposed isolation.
Q26. What destination does young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) London where her cousin Linton lives
(3) The nearby village
(4) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags ✅
Answer:- (4) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags ✅
Explanation: Young Catherine wishes to explore the fairy caves, highlighting her adventurous spirit.
Q27. Who among the following poets is known for his ‘Hellenic’ spirit?
(1) P.B. Shelley
(2) John Milton
(3) John Keats ✅
(4) Lord Byron
Answer:- (3) John Keats ✅
Explanation: Keats is often celebrated for his fascination with Greek (Hellenic) mythology, beauty, and classical forms.
Q28. In stanza 2 of “The Solitary Reaper”, Wordsworth makes two comparisons. They are with:
(1) the Nightingale and the Cuckoo ✅
(2) Arabian sands and Hebrides
(3) notes and trillings
(4) shade and silence
Answer:- (1) the Nightingale and the Cuckoo ✅
Explanation: Wordsworth compares the reaper’s song to the melodious birds to emphasize its enchanting effect.
Q29. Henchard in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge says, “See now how it’s ourselves that are ruled by the powers above us!”
This shows that the novel is governed by the philosophy of:
(1) Existentialism
(2) Pessimism
(3) Determinism ✅
(4) Laissez-faire
Answer:- (3) Determinism ✅
Explanation: Hardy believed in fate’s dominance over human will — a key trait of determinism.
Q30. How many hours did rain pour down in The Night of the Scorpion?
(1) Ten ✅
(2) Twelve
(3) Eight
(4) Nine
Answer:- (1) Ten ✅
Explanation: The poem begins with the line that tells us rain had been falling for ten hours, setting the mood and scene.
Q31. Where was Heathcliff originally picked up by Earnshaw?
(1) Buckinghamshire
(2) Liverpool ✅
(3) Southampton
(4) Edinburgh
Answer:- (2) Liverpool ✅
Explanation: Mr. Earnshaw finds Heathcliff as an orphaned child in the streets of Liverpool and brings him home to Wuthering Heights.
Q32. What is the subtitle of the poem My Last Duchess?
(1) Fra Pandolf
(2) Claus of Innsbruck
(3) Ferrara ✅
(4) Lucrezia de’Medici
Answer:- (3) Ferrara ✅
Explanation: “Ferrara” is the subtitle, indicating the historical setting and alluding to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.
Q33. By using “Stolen on his wing” in line two of “On His 23rd Birthday”, Milton is using the poetic device of –
(1) hyperbole
(2) metaphor
(3) personification ✅
(4) onomatopoeia
Answer:- (3) personification ✅
Explanation: Time is personified as a thief with wings, suggesting the fleeting nature of youth.
Q34. The subtitle of Kubla Khan is –
(1) A vision in a Dream. A fragment ✅
(2) A vision fragment
(3) A vision and Fragment
(4) A fragment of vision
Answer:- (1) A vision in a Dream. A fragment ✅
Explanation: Coleridge subtitled Kubla Khan this way to indicate the poem’s origin in a dream and its incomplete form.
Q35. ‘Seven Sleepers’ den’ in Donne’s The Good-Morrow is an allusion to –
(1) a moral indictment
(2) a superstitious belief
(3) an English folk tale
(4) a religious parable ✅
Answer:- (4) a religious parable ✅
Explanation: The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is a Christian parable symbolizing awakening and spiritual rebirth.
Q36. Who adopts Oliver Twist in the end of the novel?
(1) Bill Sikes
(2) Fagin
(3) Mr. Brownlow ✅
(4) Jack Dawkins
Answer:- (3) Mr. Brownlow ✅
Explanation: Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver, ensuring a secure and loving future for him.
Q37. How much was Michael Henchard willing to offer if Donald Farfrae agreed to stay back as his manager in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge?
(1) half of his business
(2) half of the profits
(3) Farfrae could name his own terms
(4) a third share in his business ✅
Answer:- (4) a third share in his business ✅
Explanation: Henchard, impressed by Farfrae, offers him a third share in his business to persuade him to stay.
Q38. Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym –
(1) Ellis Bell ✅
(2) Mary Westmacott
(3) Ayn Rand
(4) Ellis Peters
Answer:- (1) Ellis Bell ✅
Explanation: Emily Brontë used the male pseudonym Ellis Bell to publish her work in a male-dominated literary world.
Q39. “Cruel and Sudden, hast thou since / Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?” — The above lines occur in the poem:
(1) Good Morrow
(2) The Flea ✅
(3) My Last Duchess
(4) Kubla Khan
Answer:- (2) The Flea ✅
Explanation: These lines appear in Donne’s The Flea, as the speaker reacts to the woman killing the flea, symbolizing their union.
Q40. Light in On His Blindness alludes to Milton’s loss of sight. However, it also symbolically suggests:
(1) an inner glow
(2) wisdom
(3) goal in life
(4) diminishing of faith ✅
Answer:- (4) diminishing of faith ✅
Explanation: “Light” symbolically refers to both Milton’s eyesight and his faith/ability to serve God, now fading due to blindness.
Q41. The Mayor of Casterbridge has the background of –
(1) Essex
(2) Sussex
(3) Wessex ✅
(4) Northampton
Answer:- (3) Wessex ✅
Explanation: Thomas Hardy sets the novel in a fictional region called Wessex, modeled on the southwest of England.
Q42. The real name of ‘The Artful Dodger’ in Dickens’ Oliver Twist is –
(1) Fagin
(2) Bill Sikes
(3) Noah Claypole
(4) Jack Dawkins ✅
Answer:- (4) Jack Dawkins ✅
Explanation: “The Artful Dodger” is the nickname of Jack Dawkins, a skilled young pickpocket trained by Fagin.
Q43. “You can do nothing to help me. I am past all hope.” Who says this in Oliver Twist?
(1) Nancy ✅
(2) Rose
(3) Oliver
(4) Monks
Answer:- (1) Nancy ✅
Explanation: Nancy says this to Rose Maylie, expressing her hopelessness in the tragic circumstances of her life.
Q44. William Wordsworth was on the itinerary of a neighbouring country and he wrote an experience thereof in his poem The Solitary Reaper. Which was the country he went to?
(1) Ireland
(2) Scotland ✅
(3) Netherland
(4) France
Answer:- (2) Scotland ✅
Explanation: Wordsworth was inspired to write The Solitary Reaper during a walking tour in the Scottish Highlands.
Q45. The progression of thought in John Donne’s The Flea follows a logic which can be described as:
(1) description, argument, antithesis ✅
(2) narration, resolution, achievement
(3) argument, attainment, exemplification
(4) denial, acceptance, agreement
Answer:- (1) description, argument, antithesis ✅
Explanation: Donne begins with a description of the flea, builds an argument about its symbolic significance, and presents a counter-response.
Q46. At the end of the play A Doll’s House, Nora –
(1) reconciles with Torvald
(2) commits suicide
(3) leaves Torvald ✅
(4) kills Torvald
Answer:- (3) leaves Torvald ✅
Explanation: Nora walks out on her husband and children to find her own identity, marking a revolutionary act in 19th-century drama.
Q47. What gift does Mr. Singh give Bakha in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable?
(1) A football
(2) A cricket bat
(3) A hockey stick ✅
(4) Candies and cigarettes
Answer:- (3) A hockey stick ✅
Explanation: Mr. Singh gifts Bakha a hockey stick, symbolizing his interest in sports and a moment of joy amid humiliation.
Q48. The sonnet “On His 23rd Birthday” symbolizes the poet’s:
(1) journey from doubt to self-discovery ✅
(2) experiences as a poet
(3) coming to maturity
(4) sinking into pathos
Answer:- (1) journey from doubt to self-discovery ✅
Explanation: Milton reflects on his youthful uncertainty but reaffirms his purpose and divine duty, marking spiritual growth.
Q49. Keats’ poem To Autumn has a stanzaic structure of –
(1) Eight lines
(2) Nine lines
(3) Ten lines
(4) Eleven lines ✅
Answer:- (4) Eleven lines ✅
Explanation: Each stanza of To Autumn consists of 11 lines with a unique rhyme scheme and rich imagery.
Q50. What was inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights?
(1) Hindley Earnshaw, 1729
(2) 1623
(3) Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
(4) Hareton Earnshaw, 1500 ✅
Answer:- (4) Hareton Earnshaw, 1500 ✅
Explanation: The inscription “Hareton Earnshaw, 1500” is carved into the stone above the door of Wuthering Heights, indicating its long history.
Q51. The subtitle of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist is:
(1) The Children’s Crusade
(2) The Parish Boy’s Progress ✅
(3) The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
(4) A Provincial Life
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The subtitle of Oliver Twist is The Parish Boy’s Progress, an allusion to The Pilgrim’s Progress, reflecting Oliver’s journey through poverty and hardship.
Q52. What, according to Nora, would be the ‘Greatest miracle of all’ in A Doll’s House?
(1) Torvald taking responsibility for Nora’s action
(2) Torvald giving credit to women’s role in society
(3) Krogstad not asking Nora to repay the loan
(4) Nora’s father bringing her up as an equal ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Nora refers to the possibility of true equality in marriage—a miracle where her husband would treat her as an equal, which did not happen.
Q53. “Every fair from fair” (line 7) in Shall I compare thee… means:
(1) The young maiden’s sense of justice
(2) The beauty of everything beautiful ✅
(3) Exhibition of beauty versus natural beauty
(4) From time to time
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The line implies that all beautiful things lose their beauty eventually due to time or chance.
Q54. Milton in his sonnet On His Blindness dramatises the poem with his use of:
(1) Metaphors
(2) Autobiography
(3) Dialogue ✅
(4) Reflection
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The poem uses a dramatic dialogue between the speaker and “Patience,” personified, to explore Milton’s struggle with blindness and divine service.
Q55. Who is ‘the subtle thief of youth’ in the poem On His 23rd Birthday?
(1) Devil
(2) God
(3) Time ✅
(4) Angel
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: In the poem, Milton refers to Time as the “subtle thief of youth,” lamenting how quickly time has passed without significant achievement.
Q56. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” Which figure of speech is used here?
(1) Understatement
(2) Pun
(3) Paradox ✅
(4) Hyperbole
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: A paradox is a statement that seems contradictory yet holds truth. Here, it contrasts real music with imagined music.
Q57. “My hasting days fly on with full career.” What does the phrase ‘full career’ refer to?
(1) Peak to talent
(2) Messenger
(3) Full speed ✅
(4) Poetic career
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Full career” means at full speed—Milton reflects on how quickly life is passing by.
Q58. Which of the following is an example of a ‘dead metaphor’?
(1) The Head of a Department ✅
(2) Your room is a kennel
(3) Life is but a walking shadow
(4) Blind mouths
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: A dead metaphor is one that has been used so often it is no longer vivid—like “head of a department,” where “head” has lost its metaphorical force.
Q59. Anaphora is:
(1) Contradictory statement
(2) The use of an epithet for a proper name
(3) The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more lines ✅
(4) When the speaker stops in the middle of his speech to create a certain effect
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Anaphora is a rhetorical device that involves repetition at the beginning of successive lines or clauses for emphasis.
Q60. “Oh stay, three lives in one flee spare, Where we almost, nay, more than married are.” Which figure of speech is used?
(1) Conceit ✅
(2) Understatement
(3) Equivocation
(4) Pun
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: A conceit is an extended metaphor with complex logic. Donne’s poetry often uses metaphysical conceits like this to compare love to abstract or surprising concepts.
Q61. “The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.”
Which figure of speech is used in the above line?
(1) Synecdoche
(2) Metonymy
(3) Transferred Epithet ✅
(4) Circumlocution
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Weary way” is an example of a transferred epithet, where the adjective “weary” describes the “way” instead of the “ploughman.”
Q62. Which literary movement led writers not to imagine life as it could be, but was actually lived?
(1) Rationalism
(2) Realism ✅
(3) Romanticism
(4) Determinism
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Realism focused on everyday life and ordinary characters, avoiding romanticized or exaggerated portrayals.
Q63. Which was the movement that used incongruous imagery, subtlety of thought, and ingenious comparisons in their poetry?
(1) Magic Realism
(2) Dystopian
(3) Metaphysical ✅
(4) Naturalism
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Metaphysical poets like John Donne used elaborate metaphors (conceits) and intellectual wit in their poetry.
Q64. Which figure of speech is used in “Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines”?
(1) Metaphor ✅
(2) Hyperbole
(3) Simile
(4) Anaphora
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: The “eye of heaven” refers to the sun, making it a metaphor comparing the sun to an eye without using “like” or “as.”
Q65. With which movement were Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti associated?
(1) Pre-Raphaelite ✅
(2) Transcendental
(3) Verismo
(4) Socialist Realism
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Both Rossettis were part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a movement that aimed to return to the detail and vividness of pre-Renaissance art.
Q66. Which movement in English Literature thrived between 1660 and 1798?
(1) Reformation
(2) Cavalier
(3) Neo-classical ✅
(4) Pre-Romantic
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The Neo-classical period emphasized reason, order, and decorum, influenced by classical antiquity.
Q67. “Early in the morning, I was woken up by the cock-a-doodle-do of the rooster.”
Which figure of speech is being used here?
(1) Assonance
(2) Onomatopoeia ✅
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Personification
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Cock-a-doodle-do” is an onomatopoeia—it imitates the natural sound made by a rooster.
Q68. Which literary movement was initiated by Horace Walpole?
(1) Pre-Raphaelite
(2) Gothic ✅
(3) Decadent
(4) Futurism
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto is considered the first Gothic novel, initiating the movement.
Q69. “So the whole ear of Denmark, Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused.”
Which figure of speech is used in these lines from Hamlet?
(1) Synecdoche
(2) Personification ✅
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Parable
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The “ear of Denmark” is personified to represent the entire nation that has been deceived.
Q70. Comus, The Faerie Queene, Venus and Adonis are examples of which literary form?
(1) Melodrama
(2) Menippean satire
(3) Masque ✅
(4) Monologue
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: These are allegorical works often performed in courtly settings with music, dance, and elaborate costumes—hallmarks of the masque form.
Q71. A prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero who lives by his wits in a corrupt society is –
(1) Post modernism
(2) Protologism
(3) Picaresque ✅
(4) Platonic idealism
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The picaresque novel features a clever, lower-class protagonist navigating a corrupt world, often episodically.
Q72. ‘Alone together’ and ‘Growing smaller’ are examples of which figure of speech?
(1) Hyperbole
(2) Oxymoron ✅
(3) Anagram
(4) Tautology
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two seemingly contradictory terms appear together.
Q73. The philosophy of the Oxford Movement was known as:
(1) Newmanitism
(2) Paseyitism
(3) Tractarianism ✅
(4) Apostolicism
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Tractarianism refers to the theological ideas of the Oxford Movement, based on the “Tracts for the Times.”
Q74. The adherents of which movement seek to overcome the contradictions of the conscious and the unconscious minds by creating unreal or bizarre stories full of juxtapositions?
(1) Gothic
(2) Surrealism ✅
(3) Freudianism
(4) Psychosis
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Surrealism focused on expressing the subconscious through dreamlike and illogical imagery.
Q75. Which movement is connected to the slogan ‘Art for art’s sake’?
(1) Pre-Raphaelite
(2) Ibsenism
(3) Existential
(4) Aesthetic ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: The Aesthetic Movement emphasized beauty and art’s value independent of moral or utilitarian functions.
Q76. The Oxford Movement was essentially –
(1) A rationalist movement
(2) A literary movement
(3) A religious movement ✅
(4) A movement for democracy
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The Oxford Movement aimed to revive Catholic elements within the Church of England, making it a religious reform.
Q77. “A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.” Who has said this?
(1) Dryden
(2) T.S. Eliot ✅
(3) Dr. Johnson
(4) H. Grierson
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: T.S. Eliot praised the metaphysical poets for fusing thought and feeling, especially in Donne’s work.
Q78. Who said, “Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream; he awoke and found it true”?
(1) S.T. Coleridge
(2) John Keats ✅
(3) F.R. Leavis
(4) P.B. Shelley
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: This quote by John Keats emphasizes the Romantic ideal of imagination blending with reality.
Q79. ‘Custom is the most certain mistress of language.’ Who has written this?
(1) Matthew Arnold
(2) Dr. Johnson
(3) Ben Jonson ✅
(4) Sir Philip Sidney
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Ben Jonson advocated for following linguistic custom and natural usage over rigid rules.
Q80. By ‘objective correlative’ Eliot means –
(1) Correlation between different poets
(2) Correlation between different poems
(3) A literary technique to evoke a particular emotion by means of symbol ✅
(4) Comparison and contrast in an objective way
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: T.S. Eliot’s objective correlative refers to using external symbols or actions to express internal emotions.
Q81. Where does Matthew Arnold talk of Wordsworth’s ‘healing power’ and his strength to ‘make us feel’?
(1) In his essay “Wordsworth”
(2) In Memorial Verses April 1850 ✅
(3) In “The Study of Poetry”
(4) In Essays in Criticism
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Arnold reflects on Wordsworth’s emotional and spiritual influence in his elegiac poem Memorial Verses, written after Wordsworth’s death.
Q82. “The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by a formula of that particular emotion.” T.S. Eliot is here talking of his views on –
(1) Unified sensibility; “The Metaphysical Poets”
(2) Individual Talent; “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(3) Programmatic Criticism; “The Second-Order Mind”
(4) Objective Correlative; “Hamlet and His Problems” ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: In his essay Hamlet and His Problems, Eliot proposes the idea of the objective correlative as the means to evoke emotion in art.
Q83. “All conventions and affectations of pedantry must be discarded in order to evolve the true poetic style, which should not only be simple, but unaffected.”
The above line occurs in –
(1) Preface to Lyrical Ballads ✅
(2) Literary Criticism
(3) The Study of Poetry
(4) Practical Criticism
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth advocated for a simple and natural poetic style.
Q84. G. Wilson Knight opines that character is merely a role that we play. Who, according to the critic, goes deeper than character and depicts our true self, our fundamental nature?
(1) Christopher Marlowe
(2) Ben Jonson
(3) Shakespeare ✅
(4) John Milton
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Knight believed Shakespeare explored deeper psychological and existential truths beyond conventional character traits.
Q85. I.A. Richards coined a term ‘synaesthesis’ which according to him meant:
(1) Feeling of impersonality
(2) Rivalry of conflicting impulses
(3) Development of purgation theory
(4) Harmony and equilibrium of our impulses ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Synaesthesis, as used by Richards, referred to the psychological balance of impulses achieved through poetry.
Q86. In which critical work of his does Cleanth Brooks argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox?
(1) Understanding Poetry
(2) The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry ✅
(3) Modern Poetry and the Tradition
(4) An Approach to Literature
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: In The Well-Wrought Urn, Brooks emphasizes paradox as central to poetic meaning and New Criticism.
Q87. Which among the following is not a Modernist critic?
(1) T.S. Eliot
(2) Fredric Jameson ✅
(3) Stephen Greenblatt
(4) Ezra Pound
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Fredric Jameson is a postmodern critic known for Marxist literary theory, not associated with Modernism.
Q88. The Laugh of the Medusa, a feminist essay, is written by –
(1) Simone de Beauvoir
(2) Hélène Cixous ✅
(3) Luce Irigaray
(4) Julia Kristeva
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Hélène Cixous wrote The Laugh of the Medusa, a foundational feminist text advocating écriture féminine.
Q89. Skepticism towards grand narratives is a characteristic of which critical approach?
(1) Modernism
(2) Post-modernism ✅
(3) New Historicism
(4) Cultural Materialism
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Postmodernism is marked by doubt about universal truths or “grand narratives,” as explained by theorists like Lyotard.
Q90. What according to Derrida is not a part of the definition of Différance?
(1) Synchrony and diachrony
(2) Unavoidability of context
(3) Differentials between what is signified
(4) Authorial intent ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Derrida’s concept of Différance undermines fixed meanings and authorial intent, emphasizing difference and deferral.
Q91. Paul Gilroy, William Safran, Robin Cohen and Sudesh Mishra are associated with:
(1) New Historicism
(2) Migration and Diaspora Studies ✅
(3) Third-wave Feminism
(4) Post-Structuralism
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: These scholars are known for their contributions to diaspora and migration studies, analyzing identity and cultural dislocation.
Q92. “When I offered the word ‘ins’ many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of colour…” Which word is Alice Walker referring to?
(1) Feminism
(2) Gynocriticism
(3) Colour Purple
(4) Womanism ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Womanism was coined by Alice Walker to distinguish the experiences of Black women from mainstream feminism.
Q93. “Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader… we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth” — Who says this and in which text?
(1) I.A. Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism
(2) Stanley Fish: Is There a Text in This Class?
(3) Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author ✅
(4) Louise Rosenblatt: Literature as Exploration
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: In The Death of the Author, Barthes challenges traditional author-centric criticism and emphasizes reader involvement.
Q94. Which among the following is not a book written by Michel Foucault?
(1) Madness and Civilisation
(2) The Order of Things
(3) Of Grammatology ✅
(4) Discipline and Punish
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Of Grammatology is a work by Jacques Derrida, not Foucault. The others are key texts by Foucault on power and knowledge.
Q95. Which among the following is not one of the notable concepts propounded by Mikhail Bakhtin?
(1) Jouissance ✅
(2) Heteroglossia
(3) Dialogism
(4) Carnivalesque
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Jouissance is a concept from Lacan and Kristeva, associated with pleasure beyond language, not from Bakhtin.
Q96. Who posited that the human psyche is framed within the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real (RSI)?
(1) Fredric Jameson
(2) Jacques Lacan ✅
(3) Sigmund Freud
(4) Carl Gustav Jung
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Lacan divided the psyche into three registers: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real — foundational to his psychoanalytic theory.
Q97. “An utterance has meaning only in the context of a pre-existent system of rules and conventions.” This quote by Jonathan Culler attests to his ___ views.
(1) Structuralist ✅
(2) Post-colonial
(3) Modernist
(4) Postmodernist
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Jonathan Culler is a Structuralist critic who emphasized that meaning in language is determined by cultural codes.
Q98. Which one of the following books is not by Elaine Showalter?
(1) A Literature of Their Own
(2) The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture
(3) Madwoman in the Attic ✅
(4) Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Madwoman in the Attic is by Gilbert and Gubar, not Showalter. The others are major feminist works by Showalter.
Q99. Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are books by –
(1) Chinua Achebe; Postmodernity
(2) Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial ✅
(3) Edward Said; Orientalism
(4) Salman Rushdie; Imaginary Homelands
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Frantz Fanon authored both works, foundational in postcolonial theory, addressing racism and colonial trauma.
Q100. Judith Butler, a gender theorist and third-wave feminist, is known for her contribution to the ideas of:
(1) Feminine, feminist and female
(2) Gender as social construction and gender performativity ✅
(3) Ethics of ambiguity
(4) The Feminine Mystique
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Judith Butler theorized gender performativity, arguing that gender is not innate but enacted through repeated performance.
Q101. Pastiche and allusion are both mechanisms in
(1) Intertexuality ✅
(2) Identity Formation
(3) Subalternism
(4) Grammatology
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Both pastiche (imitation of styles) and allusion (indirect reference) are tools used in intertextuality, which emphasizes how texts are interconnected.
Q102. The Affective Fallacy concerns the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of:
(1) the writer’s pursuit of a vision of artistic beauty
(2) the author’s intention
(3) emotional effects on the reader ✅
(4) separating intellectual thought from experience of feeling
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The Affective Fallacy, coined by Wimsatt and Beardsley, argues that evaluating a work based on the reader’s emotional response is a critical error.
Q103. Literary theory refers to hypothesis that reveal what literature can mean and literary criticism is _
(1) the criticism of literature texts
(2) is to find what is common in all literature
(3) is to seek differences in genres
(4) the study, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of literature ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Literary criticism involves detailed analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of literature, while theory explores broader conceptual frameworks.
Q104. ‘New Critics’ did not focus on:
(1) the text
(2) author’s intention
(3) historical contexts and biography
(4) reader’s response
Answer:- (4) Option ✅ (Assumed as correct due to absence of asterisk; let me know if key correction is needed)
Explanation: New Criticism emphasized close reading and rejected approaches like reader-response criticism which considers reader’s feelings or reactions.
Q105. Of which two requirements in a poet does Horace say that “so much does the one require the assistance of the other…”?
(1) Natural gift and the rigours of art ✅
(2) Consistent industry and an awesome master
(3) An innate genius and capability of display
(4) Chiseling and honing ability without talent
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Horace in Ars Poetica advocates for a balance between natural talent and trained skill to create effective poetry.
Q106. In what ways does Aristotle differentiate between various art forms?
(1) On the basis of manner of imitation, artist and era.
(2) By the medium, objects and manner of imitation ✅
(3) According to the age, objects and tools
(4) According to artist, artistic effort and artist’s age
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: In Poetics, Aristotle distinguishes art forms through medium, object, and manner of imitation.
Q107. “It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet” said Sir Philip Sidney. So what, according to him, makes a poet?
(1) Study of nature and its imitation as it is.
(2) Study of nature and its faithful depiction.
(3) Study of nature and creating it as more beautiful than the real ✅
(4) Study of nature and its servile imitation.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Sidney believed that a poet’s role is to idealize nature — to present it in an enhanced, imaginative form, not merely imitate it.
Q108. “To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets and not of all poets.” Who, according to Ben Jonson, can truly judge poets?
(1) those who had a long history of writing
(2) the best ✅
(3) the most critical of others
(4) those who had studied the craft well
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: In his Discoveries, Jonson asserts that only the best poets possess the insight and ability to critique other poets effectively.
Q109. Longinus explained sublime as
(1) something more than what is good for instruction and delight
(2) something that moves the soul and uplifts the spirit
(3) something that is a valuable treatise on men and morals
(4) a certain destination and consummate excellence in expression ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Longinus in On the Sublime defines the sublime as an elevated style marked by greatness of expression and emotional impact.
Q110. In whose work did Pope find ‘unequalled fire and rapture’?
(1) Aristotle
(2) Homer ✅
(3) Virgil
(4) Horace
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Alexander Pope admired Homer for his passionate and imaginative poetic energy, as seen in his translations and references.
Q111. Who said this and where:
“The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers”
(1) John Dryden – Essay on Dramatic Poesy
(2) Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism
(3) Samuel Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare ✅
(4) F.R. Leavis – New Bearings in English Poetry
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: In Preface to Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson compares Shakespeare’s well-structured writing to a carefully arranged garden.
Q112. According to Dryden, criticism as first instituted by Aristotle was meant as setting up a standard of judging well; its business was not principally:
(1) compare writers
(2) to preach goodwill
(3) to find fault ✅
(4) to favour Greek writers
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Dryden believed Aristotle introduced criticism as a constructive activity, not simply for fault-finding.
Q113. Poetry “awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought.” Who said this and where?
(1) Walter Pater – Appreciations
(2) Matthew Arnold – The Study of Poetry
(3) John Keats – in a private letter
(4) P.B. Shelley – A Defence of Poetry ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Shelley emphasizes the transformative power of poetry in his essay A Defence of Poetry.
Q114. “And then my heart with pleasure fills / And dances with the daffodils” & “The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more” — These lines are examples of which theoretical percept of Wordsworth?
(1) Humble and rustic life reveals passions
(2) Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings… ✅
(3) Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
(4) The best portion of a good man’s life is…
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: These lines reflect Wordsworth’s famous idea that poetry stems from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Q115. In the first sentence of The Great Tradition, F.R. Leavis does not mention which one of the novelists he regards as ‘great’?
(1) T.S. Eliot ✅
(2) Jane Austen
(3) Henry James
(4) Joseph Conrad
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Leavis included Austen, James, and Conrad as great novelists, but not T.S. Eliot, who was a poet and critic.
Q116. “We hate poetry that has a palpable design on us… Poetry should be great and unobtrusive.” Where did Keats say this?
(1) “On the Aims of Poetry”: letter to J.H. Reynolds ✅
(2) “On Negative Capability”: Letter to George and Tom
(3) On the Imagination: Letter to Bailey
(4) On Shakespeare and “Eternal Poetry”: Letter to Reynolds
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: In his letters, particularly to Reynolds, Keats advocated for poetic subtlety without moral or didactic intrusions.
Q117. In Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats tells us that the urn is a historian who can narrate:
(1) flowery tales ✅
(2) leaf-fring’d legends
(3) stories of Tempe and Arcady
(4) what transpires in a sacrifice
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Keats calls the urn a “Sylvan historian” capable of telling flowery tales more sweetly than words can.
Q118. What does the narrator in Kubla Khan profess to do if he could ‘revive’ the ‘symphony and song’ of the damsel?
(1) lure his listeners magically
(2) build the dome in air ✅
(3) attain paradise
(4) play the dulcimer himself
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Coleridge writes that if he could revive her music, he would build that dome in air, symbolizing poetic vision.
Q119. In order to counter ‘Despair’, what does the narrator in Carrion Comfort attempt to do?
(1) Pray
(2) Cry
(3) Hope ✅
(4) Choose
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The speaker, resisting despair, chooses to hope in the face of spiritual and emotional anguish.
Q120. What kind of a place was it where the ‘stately pleasure-dome’ was decreed in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
(1) measureless
(2) paradise
(3) savage ✅
(4) Abyssinian
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Coleridge describes Xanadu as a savage place, holy and enchanted — reflecting its mysterious power.
Q121. Which of the following poem ends with the line, “God has not said a word”?
(1) The Night of the Scorpion
(2) The Flea
(3) Carrion Comfort
(4) Porphyria’s Lover ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue Porphyria’s Lover ends chillingly with “God has not said a word,” indicating divine silence after a murder.
Q122. What is the backdrop of Train to Pakistan?
(1) Gujrawala
(2) Mano Majra ✅
(3) Abohar
(4) Bhinderwala
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is set in the fictional border village Mano Majra, during the Partition of India.
Q123. The last four lines of Kubla Khan are a clear indication of Coleridge’s –
(1) indebtedness to Milton
(2) religiosity
(3) spiritualism
(4) supernationalism ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: The final lines reflect supernatural themes as the poet is seen as a powerful figure, inspiring awe and fear—hallmarks of supernaturalism.
Q124. The poetic device that Hopkins uses in the first few lines of Carrion Comfort while addressing ‘Despair’ is –
(1) Apostrophe ✅
(2) Refrain
(3) Calligram
(4) Metaphor
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Hopkins directly addresses Despair as if it were a person—this is a clear use of apostrophe, a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an abstract idea.
Q125. Rime of the Ancient Mariner is –
(1) A lyric
(2) A heroic poem
(3) A ballad ✅
(4) An elegy
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in ballad form and uses balladic stanzas and themes.
Q126. “It all came from his belief that the only absolute truth was death.” This fatalistic line refers to ___ in Train to Pakistan.
(1) Hukum Chand ✅
(2) Banta Singh
(3) Imam Baksh
(4) Jugga
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Hukum Chand, the magistrate in Train to Pakistan, is portrayed as a deeply fatalistic and morally compromised character.
Q127. “We are meeting today to wish her bon voyage.” What is meant by ‘bon voyage’?
(1) to wish good luck for journey ✅
(2) to wish for a sea-journey after hardships
(3) to avoid a sea-journey
(4) to officially apply for a sea-journey
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Bon voyage is a French phrase meaning “have a good trip” or wish someone a good journey.
Q128. In Ezekiel’s poem “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” what is the order of events in the farewell event?
(1) narrator speaks, others speak and Miss Pushpa sums up ✅
(2) narrator speaks, Miss Pushpa thanks, others speak
(3) inauguration, key speaker, vote of thanks
(4) narrator introduces Miss Pushpa, Miss Pushpa describes her stay in the office
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: The poem humorously presents a farewell where the narrator speaks, others give speeches, and finally Miss Pushpa responds.
Q129. The phrase ‘sordid boon’ in the poem “The World is Too Much With Us” is a/an –
(1) hyperbole
(2) oxymoron ✅
(3) euphemism
(4) synecdoche
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The phrase “sordid boon” is an oxymoron—a contradictory phrase combining something mean (sordid) with something positive (boon).
Q130. Match the following novels with the characters who figure in them:
- Wuthering Heights — I. Rank
- Doll’s House — II. Sohini
- The Untouchable — III. Nooran
- Train to Pakistan — IV. Lockwood
A B C D
(1) I II III IV
(2) III IV I II
(3) II III IV I
(4) IV I II III ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation:
- Wuthering Heights – Lockwood
- Doll’s House – Rank
- The Untouchable – Sohini
- Train to Pakistan – Nooran
Q131. In the beginning of the poem “Pied Beauty” how many things that Hopkins recounts are ‘dappled’?
(1) 3
(2) 4
(3) 2
(4) 5 ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: In the opening lines of Pied Beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins praises five dappled things including skies, trout, chestnuts, finches’ wings, and landscape plots.
Q132. The incident of ‘Wife auction’ takes place in –
(1) Jude the Obscure
(2) The Mayor of Casterbridge ✅
(3) The Untouchable
(4) Wuthering Heights
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: In Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, the protagonist Michael Henchard sells his wife in a drunken state—a pivotal incident in the novel.
Q133. What is the name of the hockey player in The Untouchable?
(1) Charat Kumar
(2) Charta Ram
(3) Charan Singh
(4) Charat Singh ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Charat Singh is the upper-caste hockey player in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable who shows unexpected kindness to Bakha.
Q134. What does Keats mean by “O Attic shape” when he addresses the urn in his poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
(1) because the urn is housed in an attic
(2) because of its static nature
(3) because it relates to Greece ✅
(4) because it depicts legends
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Attic” refers to the region of Attica in Greece—so “Attic shape” means the urn is of Greek origin.
Q135. Where is Mulk Raj Anand’s novel The Untouchable set?
(1) In Jammu
(2) In Bulashah ✅
(3) In Bulandshahar
(4) In Bhatinda
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The novel is set in the fictional town of Bulashah, representing a typical north Indian town with caste hierarchies.
Q136. The poem “The Good Morrow” by Donne has 21 lines and is divided into three sets that conform to a rhyming pattern of –
(1) abacabc
(2) aaabbbe
(3) ababccc
(4) abababc ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Each stanza of Donne’s The Good Morrow follows a 7-line structure with a rhyme scheme of abababc.
Q137. Match the following novels with the most predominate elements depicted in them:
- Wuthering Heights — I. Determinism
- Train to Pakistan — II. Feminism
- Doll’s House — III. Gothic
- The Mayor of Casterbridge — IV. Historical
A B C D
(1) III IV II I ✅
(2) IV III I II
(3) I II III IV
(4) II I IV III
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation:
- Wuthering Heights – Gothic
- Train to Pakistan – Historical
- Doll’s House – Feminism
- Mayor of Casterbridge – Determinism
Q138. The poem “Carrion Comfort” deals with –
(1) spiritual struggle within ✅
(2) depression and despair
(3) glory of angels
(4) a blacksmith
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Carrion Comfort focuses on the spiritual turmoil and resilience in the face of despair.
Q139. Match the genre with the poem:
- Ancient Mariner — I. Ode
- My Last Duchess — II. Dramatic Monologue
- To Autumn — III. Ballad
- Night of the Scorpion — IV. Narrative poem
A B C D
(1) IV I II III
(2) III II I IV ✅
(3) I III IV I
(4) II IV III I
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation:
- Ancient Mariner – Ballad
- My Last Duchess – Dramatic Monologue
- To Autumn – Ode
- Night of the Scorpion – Narrative poem
Q140. A Doll’s House is based on the real-life incidents of a fellow novelist of Ibsen. Who was she?
(1) Nora Keiler
(2) Laura Keiler ✅
(3) Kristine Keiler
(4) Anne Marrie
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: A Doll’s House was inspired by the real-life story of Laura Keiler, a friend of Ibsen who faced similar marital challenges.
Q141. Which of the following names is not the one used by Torvald for Nora in The Doll’s House?
(1) little squirrel
(2) little Miss Extravagant
(3) mousie ✅
(4) little lark
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Torvald calls Nora pet names like “little lark,” “little squirrel,” and “little Miss Extravagant,” but “mousie” is not among them.
Q142. What medicine did the father in Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel not use to cure the mother from the poison?
(1) every curse and blessing
(2) the services of medical practitioners ✅
(3) powder, mixture, herb
(4) paraffin on the toe and flamed it
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: The father used various traditional methods but avoided the help of medical practitioners, as mentioned in the poem.
Q143. Match the following novels with the places they are set in:
- Doll’s House – I. Yorkshire moors
- Wuthering Heights – II. Fictional rural England
- Mayor of Casterbridge – III. Norwegian town
- Oliver Twist – IV. London
A B C D
(1) III I II IV ✅
(2) I II IV III
(3) III II I IV
(4) IV III I II
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation:
- Doll’s House – Norwegian town
- Wuthering Heights – Yorkshire moors
- Mayor of Casterbridge – Fictional rural England
- Oliver Twist – London
Q144. Whom did Nils Krogstad love and fail to marry?
(1) Nora
(2) Anne Marrie
(3) Mrs. Kristine Linde ✅
(4) Emmy
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: In A Doll’s House, Krogstad once loved Kristine Linde, and their unresolved past becomes important in the plot.
Q145. The villagers in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem The Night of the Scorpion prayed that:
(1) may her sufferings decrease
(2) may the misfortunes of her next birth be lessened
(3) May the sum of evil become diminished with her pain ✅
(4) May they not be infected with her evil
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The villagers believed that the woman’s suffering could diminish the accumulated evil of her past life.
Q146. With what piece of hope does Bakha in The Untouchable return home at the end of the novel?
(1) That Mahatma Gandhi was going to free India
(2) That untouchability had ended
(3) That India would soon be free
(4) That India would soon get a flushing toilet ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Bakha finds hope in the invention of the flushing toilet, which would eliminate the need for manual scavenging.
Q147. What word/words does Bakha use to warn people that an untouchable is approaching in The Untouchable?
(1) Hat, Hatja
(2) Posh, keep away, posh ✅
(3) Dur, Dur raho
(4) Aya, aya, aya
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Bakha shouts “Posh, keep away, posh” to warn the upper castes of his presence, as per caste customs.
Q148. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Who says this of whom in Wuthering Heights?
(1) Isabella about Heathcliff
(2) Catherine of Edgar Linton
(3) Catherine about Heathcliff ✅
(4) Catherine about Hareton
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Catherine declares this line to express her deep spiritual connection with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
Q149. “I have rescued you unscathed from the cruel talons of the hawk”. Who is ‘hawk’ here?
(1) Nils Krogstad ✅
(2) Rank
(3) Torvald Helmer
(4) Mrs. Linde
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: In A Doll’s House, Mrs. Linde refers to Nils Krogstad as the “hawk” when she claims to have saved Nora.
Q150. Who is the benefactor of Oliver Twist at the end of the novel Oliver Twist?
(1) Rose Maylie
(2) Mr. Brownlow ✅
(3) Charley Bates
(4) Monks
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver at the end of the novel and provides him with a secure and loving home.
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