HP PSC HP SET ENGLISH PAPER 3, 2015

HP SET ENGLISH PAPER 3, 2015

TIME 150 MINUT                  QUESTION 75

1.         Who said these words “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal” ?

A.        I.A. Richards

B.         Matthew Arnold

C.         William Wordsworth

D.        T.S. Eliot

Ans.    D

2.         Who among the following, said “Imagination s the Queen of truth”?

A.        Ezra Pound

B.         Walter Pater

C.         Charles Baudelaire

D.        John Ruskin

Ans.    C

3.         According to matthew Arnold, the most important criteria used to judge the value of a poem is :

A.        “high truth” and “high seriousness”

B.         “high imagination and sense”

C.         “high culture”

D.        None of the above

Ans.    A

4.         Who among the following was instrumental in the forging of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement ?  

A.        John Ruskin

B.         Walter Pater

C.         William Wordsworth

D.        S.T. Coleridge

Ans.    A

5.         Who said “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”?  

A.        P.B. Shelley

B.         William Wordsworth

C.         Matthew Arnold

D.        John Ruskin

Ans.    A

6.         Longinus’s On the sublime is addressed to :  

A.        Horace

B.         Plato

C.         Aristotle

D.        Posthumius Terentianus

Ans.    D

7.         Famous Penny Post was established in the year :  

A.        1831

B.         1840

C.         1845

D.        1854

Ans.    B

8.         Alfred Tennyson was made Poet Laureate in the year :  

A.        1845

B.         1847

C.         1850

D.        1857

Ans.    C

9.         Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson is a/an :  

A.        Satire

B.         Melodrama

C.         Epic

D.        Romance

Ans.    D

10.       —————

11.       Who gave Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a notorious epithet of ‘fleshly school’?

A.        D.G. Rossetti

B.         Coventry Patmore

C.         Robert Buchanan

D.        G.M. Hopkins

Ans.    C

12.       Robert Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” exposes the hypocrises of :  

A.        Universities and Schools

B.         Science and Religion

C.         Monasteries and Religion

D.        None of these

Ans.    C

13.       “He disappeared in the dead of winter:” This famous poetic line occurs in W.H. Auden’s :  

A.        The Unknown Citizen

B.         September 1, 1939

C.         The Fall of Rome

D.        In Memory of W.B. Yeats

Ans.    D

14.       Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando is set in :  

A.        New York

B.         Elizabethan England

C.         Amsterdam

D.        None of these

Ans.    B

15.       Rebecca West was the pseudonym of :  

A.        Cecily Fairfield

B.         Radelyfee Hall

C.         Linda Hutcheon

D.        Arthur Miller

Ans.    A

16.       Brighton Rock by Graham Greene was adapted for film in :  

A.        1946 to 2000

B.         1947 to 2010

C.         1945 to 1978

D.        1987 to 1988

Ans.    B

17.       Kane and Abel is written by :  

A.        Georgette Heyer

B.         Lord Jeffrey Archer

C.         P.G. Woodhouse

D.        None of these

Ans.    B

18.       ————-

19.       Dylan Thomas died due to an overdose of :  

A.        Opium

B.         Liquor

C.         Morphine

D.        None of these

Ans.    C

20.       Hugh MacDiarmid a famous Scottish Poet is the pen-name of :  

A.        Christopher Murray Grieve

B.         D.H. Lawrence

C.         W.B. Yeats

D.        Walter Scott

Ans.    A

21.       Margaret Drabble’s which fiction discusses/exemplifies ‘sibling rivalry’ :  

A.        The Millstone

B.         A Summer Bird Cage

C.         The Ice Age

D.        The Seven Sisters

Ans.    B

22.       The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is written by :  

A.        Muriel spark

B.         John Fowles

C.         P.D. James

D.        None of these

Ans.    A

23.       Jeanette Winterson’s debut Oranges are not the Only Fruit was written in :  

A.        1982

B.         1985

C.         1987

D.        1990

Ans.    B

24.       The British Museum is Falling Down is a comic novel written by :  

A.        Muriel spark

B.         Kingsly Amis

C.         David Lodge

D.        lan McEwan

Ans.    C

25.       ‘Piers the Plownan’ is written by :  

A.        Chaucer

B.         William Langland

C.         John Gower

D.        John Wycliffe

Ans.    B

26.       When did Chaucer die ?  

A.        1400

B.         1410

C.         1390

D.        1405

Ans.    A

27.       Elizabethan Age was also known as :  

A.        Age of Shakespeare

B.         Age of Milton

C.         Age of Wars

D.        Age of Bacon

Ans.    A

28.       Thomas Kyd’s Plays are :  

A.        miracle Plays

B.         Morality Plays

C.         The Spanish tragedy and Gorboduc

D.        None of the above

Ans.    D

29.       Anne Hathaway was the wife of :  

A.        Thomas Nash

B.         Shakespeare

C.         Marlowe

D.        Spenser

Ans.    B

30.       Sir Walter Releigh’s literary works are :  

A.        the Pilgrimage

B.         Discovery of Empire of Guiana

C.         Fight about Azores

D.        All of the above

Ans.    D

31.       ‘Astrophel and Stella’ was written by :  

A.        Sidney

B.         Dryden

C.         Thomas Nash

D.        Kyd

Ans.    A

32.       Who amongst the following is not a ‘metaphysical Poet’?

A.        John Donne

B.         Richard Crashaw

C.         Henry Vaughan

D.        Michael Drayton

Ans.    D

33.       ‘Of Man’s First disobedience, and the fruit,’ is the opening line of :  

A.        Crossing the Bar

B.         On His Blindness

C.         Dover Beach

D.        Paradise Lost

Ans.    D

34.       The poem “To His coy Mistress’ was written by :  

A.        Andrew Marvell

B.         Edmund Waller

C.         John Dryden

D.        Abraham Cowley

Ans.    A

35.       William Congreve, John Bunyan and John Locke belong to :  

A.        Victorian Age

B.         Restoration Age

C.         Romantic Age

D.        Elizabethan Age

Ans.    B

36.       ‘My Dearest Rival’ refers to :  

A.        John Webster

B.         Shakespeare

C.         G.B. Shaw

D.        T.S. Eliot

Ans.    A

37.       “The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, ………… is the opening line of :  

A.        An Elegy Written In a country Churchyard

B.         The Rape of the Lock

C.         Absalom and Achitophel

D.        Ode To The Nightingale

Ans.    A

38.       “The Battle of the Books’ is ……………….. !  

A.        A tragedy

B.         Mock heroic work

C.         Patriotic work

D.        A Pastoral elegy

Ans. B

39.       ‘Ode the Evening’ was written by :  

A.        John Milton

B.         P.B. Shelley

C.         William Collins

D.        John Keats

Ans.    C

40.       Heroic couplet is used by :  

A.        Milton

B.         Bunyan

C.         John Dryden

D.        Shakespeare

Ans.    C

41.       ———

42.       Who among the poets whose names are giving below was not a ‘Chicago Poet’?  

A.        T.S. Eliot

B.         Carl Sandburg

C.         Vachel Lindsay

D.        Edgar Lee Masters

Ans.    A

43.       Which novel of Hemingway is most influenced by his own Italian War Experiences ?  

A.        In Our Time

B.         Fiesta

C.         Farewell To Arms

D.        For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ans.    C

44.       “The very rich are different from you and me.’ Who said this ?

A.        F. Scott Fitzgerald

B.         Ernest Hemingway

C.         Gertrude Stein

D.        William Faulkner

Ans.    A

45.       Which American writer has been compared to Joseph Conrad for his ability to write in English after learning it late in life ?  

A.        Henry Kissinger

B.         Vladimir Nabakov

C.         J.D. Salinger

D.        Richard Wright

Ans.    B

46.       ‘Good fences make Good neighbours’. These lines are from the peom?  

A.        Good Neighbours

B.         Good Friends

C.         Mending Wall

D.        Mended Wall

Ans.    C

47.       Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible deals mainly with :  

A.        civil war issues

B.         Insanity

C.         McCarthyism

D.        Violence

Ans.    C

48.       Which character of Saul bellow resemble him the most ?  

A.        Moses Herzog

B.         Artur Sammler

C.         Eugene Henderson

D.        Augie March

Ans.    C

49.       John Updike’s novels dealt with :  

A.        Protestant Middle Class

B.         Jews

C.         Indian Diaspora

D.        Blacks

Ans.    A

50.       Harriet Beecher Stowe the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was :  

A.        A Black

B.         A Jew

C.         An Abolitionist

D.        A Catholic

Ans.    C

51.       William Faulkner at first wrote :  

A.        Plays

B.         Poems

C.         Stories

D.        Novellas

Ans.    B

52.       The title of William Faulkner’s novel The sound and the Fury is based on :  

A.        A quotation from Shakespeare’s Macbeth

B.         A letter from Hemingway

C.         An earlier work of Faulkner

D.        A suggestion by his wife

Ans.    A

53.       At the end of the novel The Assistant by Bernard Malamud Frank  Alpine becomes :

A.        A Jew

B.         A Christian

C.         A Catholic

D.        A Methodist

Ans.    A

54.       Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woold? By Edward Albee is about :  

A.        The English novelist

B.         Gender problems

C.         Phoniness

D.        Infertility

Ans.    C

55.       Eugene O’Neill’s Play Desire Under the Elms is influenced by :  

A.        The myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus and Theseus

B.         The myth of Aeneas

C.         The myth of Philocetes

D.        The myth of Theseus and Ariadne

Ans.    A

56.       Ah, Wildernes by O’Neill is :  

A.        A Tragedy

B.         A Tragicomedy

C.         A Comedy

D.        An Absurd play

Ans.    C

Read the stanza given below and answer questions 57 to 61 that follow :

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,

Men were deceivers ever,

One foot in sea, one foot on shore,

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into Hey nonny, nonny.

Sigh no more ditties, sing no moe

Of dumps so dull and heavy,

The fraud of men was ever so,

Since summer first was heavy.

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you little blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey nonny, nonny

57.       The theme of the poem is :  

A.        Of abject lamentation

B.         Light-hearted and realistic

C.         Gloom and pessimism

D.        Emotionally neutral

Ans.    B

58.       Though there are other kinds also but the basic and the predominant foot is:  

A.        Bisyllabic, iambic

B.         Trisyllabic, iambic

C.         Bisyllabic, trochee

D.        Trishyllabic, trochee

Ans.    A

59.       The song is addressed to :  

A.        Women

B.         Men

C.         Both

D.        None of these

Ans.    A

60.       The imperative mood in grammar and repetition of the adverb ‘so’ lends …  

A.        Indirectness of effect

B.         Directness and immediacy of effect

C.         Complexity and circumlocutory effect

D.        All of the above

Ans.    B

61.       This song is sung by Bathazar, the servant to don Pedro, in Act II, Scene III of ………..  

A.        Romeo and Juliet

B.         Twelfth Night

C.         A Midsummer Night’s Dream

D.        Much Ado about Nothing

Ans.    D

62.       It was …………. Who popularized the term ‘narratology’ and gave it a structural emphasis which moved the study of narrative away from the earlier Aristotelian accounts.  

A.        J.C. Ransom

B.         Saussure

C.         Gerard Genette

D.        Cleanth Brooks  

Ans.    C

63.       Who said : “To pose Woman is to pose the absolute Other, without reciprocity, denying against all experience that she is a subject, a fellow human being.”  

A.        Simone de Beauvoir

B.         Virginia Woolf

C.         Toril Moi

D.        Annette Kolodny.

Ans.    A

64.       For his “Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of the Human Sciences”

Derrida uses …………….  Words as epigraph.

A.        Nietzsche’s

B.         Kant’s

C.         Hegel’s

D.        Montaigne’s

Ans.    D

65.       Foucault refers to many procedures of exclusion – external, internal, doctrines etc. to ………..  

A.        control and delimit discourses

B.         control and delimit women

C.         control and imprison lunatics

D.        none of the above

Ans.    A

66.       “Thick Reading’ is most frequently associated with ………  

A.        Marxist approach

B.         Phenomenological approach

C.         Psychoanalytic approach

D.        New Historicist approach

Ans.    D

67.       Of the four main dialects of Old English, the ………. Was considered most important.  

A.        West Saxon

B.         Northumbrine

C.         Kentish

D.        Mercian

Ans.    A

68.       Much of what is known about Old English comes from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People which was completed in ………….  

A.        729

B.         731

C.         739

D.        741

Ans.    B

69.       ……………. Was not one of the Middle English Dialects.  

A.        North West

B.         West Midland  

C.         South East

D.        Northern

Ans.    A

70.       M.H. Abrams in “The Deconstructive Angel” attacks the discursive practice of the deconstructionists predominantly from a ………..  

A.        Phenomenological perspective

B.         Structuralist –Linguistics perspective

C.         traditional humanist perspective

D.        Deconstructionist perspective

Ans.    C

71.       Who closes her easy by asserting, “But feminist critics must use this concept in relation to what women actually write, not in relation to a theoretical, political, metaphoric, or visionary ideal of what women ought to write.”  

A.        Helen Cixous

B.         Luce Irigary

C.         Elaine Showalter

D.        Juliet Mitchell

Ans.    C

72.       Which of the following is not important for the ‘reception-theory’?  

A.        Edmund Husserl

B.         Roman Ingarden

C.         Roman Jakobson

D.        Hans-Georg Gadamer

Ans.    C

73.       ……………..  name, more than anyone else’s, is associated with analysis of postmodernism and the socio-economic context of  ‘late capitalism’.

A.        Fredric Jameson

B.         Jean Baudrillard

C.         Raymond Williams

D.        Jerome McGann

Ans.    A

74.       The label ‘New Historicism’ has stuck with Stephen Greenblatt since 1982 but it has already been introduced in 1980 by :

A.        Louis Montrose

B.         Jean Howard

C.         Michael McCanles

D.        Joel Fineman

Ans.    C

75.       Which of the following is not a ‘Humanistic method’ of ELT ?

A.        Suggestopedia

B.         Total Physical Response

C.         The Silent Way

D.        Audiolingual Method

Ans.    D

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