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CBSE NET ENGLISH PAPER-3
JANUARY-2017 (Prepared by Namrata Gohil)

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1) Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?

2 points

1)Beryl Bainbridge

2) Timothy Mo

3) Hanif Kureishi

4) Sam Selvon

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2)"A text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. "

2 points

1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.

2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.

3)A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of opposition.

4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.

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3) In William Congreve's The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort's:

2 points

1) Son

2) Son-in-law

3) Nephew

4) Servant

Clear selection

4)Match the periodical with the founder/s

1) Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound

2) Harriet Monroe

3) Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

4) Ford Madox Ford

A) The Egoist

B) The English Review

C) Blast

D) Poetry:A Magazine of Verse

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5) Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge's "The Rime of Ancient Mariner"?

2 points

1) To Kill a living creature is immoral.

2) People should honour and respect all living things.

3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.

4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.

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6)"The Comprehensible output Hypothesis" was proposed by:

2 points

1) Stephen Krashen

2) M.A.K.Halliday

3) Merrill Swain

4) Gertrude Buck

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7)In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim's brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne's reply became an integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature. Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.

2 points

1) William Wilberforce

2) Ignatius Sancho

3) William Blackstone

4) John Hawkins

Clear selection

8) In Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?

2 points

1)"The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth"

2)"The Fraternization Song"

3)"The Song of the Great Capitulation"

4)"The Memorial Song"

Clear selection

9) In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?

2 points

1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.

2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.

3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.

4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.

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10) Identify the two books by C.S.Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English translation: [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) Astride the Wheel

2) Going Home

3) A Purple Sea

4) In a Forest, A Deer

11)Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese is:[Select the right combination (Any Two)according to the code is:]

2 points

1) A sequence of forty four Petrarchan sonnets.

2) A rewriting of Popean didactic verse.

3) A depiction of a contemporary setting and small events of ordinary life.

4) A scathing criticism of the British colonial enterprise.

12) In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K.Gandhi covers the narrative of his life from early childhood through to:

2 points

1) 1925

2) 1929

3) 1921

4) 1927

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13) In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a different of meaning is called:

2 points

1) Phoneme

2) grapheme

3) morpheme

4) jargon

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14) Nnu Ego is a character in:

2 points

1) Chinua Achebe's Anthills of Savannah

2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

3) Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood

4) Ben Okri's The Famished Road

Clear selection

15) Match the word with definition:

1) Changing from one language variety to another in discourse

2) Rules governing the social use of language

3) Etymological source of a word

4) Words with a common ancestor

A) Etymon

B)Code Switching

C) Cognate

D) Pragmatics

Clear selection

16) What would help a reader recognize Keats' s "To Autumn" as a poem from the Romantic period?

2 points

1) Its logical succession of images

2) Its concise use of couplets

3) Its lavish natural imagery

4) Its use of iambic pentameter

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17) Which of the following is an accurate description of 'heteroglossia'?

2 points

1) Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist easier by incorporating diversity into the novelistic structure.

2) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a writer's ideological position.

3) Heteroglossia creates concrete conceptualisations through language in association with the singular view of the artistic effort resulting in the unified world of the novel.

4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple differences and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.

Clear selection

18) In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin:

2 points

1) bar

2) park

3) newspaper

4) bank

Clear selection

19) Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?[Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) The Caretaker

2)One for the Road

3) Celebration

4) The Room

20) Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on his death:"Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarch of wit"?

2 points

1) George Herbert

2) Henry King

3) Thomas Carew

4) Henry Crashaw

Clear selection

21) In his poem "Australia" A.D.Hope says that:(select any two option related to the poem)

2 points

1) Australia is "without songs, architecture, history".

2)"Her five cities are like five dry rivers."

3) The poet turns to her "to find/The Arabian desert of the human mind/Hoping if still from deserts prophets come."

4)"She is the first of lands, the warmest."

22) Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was formulated by:[Select the right combination (any two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) I . A . Richards

2) Alastair Fowler

3) William Empson

4) C.K.Ogden

23)"Britons will never be slaves!"- felt proud Britons in the 18th century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves and profiting from them. Who among the following British authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems? [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) Hannah More

2) Mary Collier

3) Anna Seward

4) Anna Yearsley

24) Match the Novelist with the work:

1) Rich Like Us

2) The Nowhere Man

3)In Custody

4) The Last Labyrinth

A) Anita Desai

B) Nayantara Sahgal

C) Arun Joshi

D) Kamala Markandaya

Clear selection

25) Identify the right chronological sequence:

2 points

1) The American Pastoral - Sister Carrie - The Great Gatsby - Beloved

2) The Great Gatsby - Sister Carrie - Beloved - The American Pastoral

3) Sister Carrie - The Great Gatsby - Beloved - The American Pastoral

4) Sister Carrie - The Great Gatsby - The American Pastoral - Beloved

Clear selection

26) In Which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term "ideology" in the German Ideology?

2 points

1) Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of society, a sort of false consciousness.

2) The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoisie society.

3) The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic relations of the society.

4) The fundamental class consciousness of the propletariat which leads to their awakening.

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27) The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the novel.

2 points

1) Disgrace

2) Age of Iron

3) Waiting for the Barbarians

4) Life and Times of Michael K.

Clear selection

28) Which of the following lines of T.S.Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner's Bombay?

2 points

1)"I will show you fear in a handful of dust, " The Waste Land

2)"In my beginning is my end", "East Coker"

3)"Human kind cannot bear very much reality", "Burnt Norton"

4)"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons, " "Love Song of Jr Alfred Prufrock"

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29) In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples of deep Christian goodness? [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) The Summoner

2) The Parson

3) The Ploughman

4) The Pardoner

30) Identify Falstaff's first words in Henry-IV, Part I:

2 points

1)"Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad?"

2)"Now, Hal, what time of the day is it, lad?"

3)"Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad?"

4)"Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad?"

Clear selection

31) Annq Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Felicia Hemans are:

2 points

1) first wave feminists

2) women poets of the Romantic Period

3) Victorian writers of popular fiction

4) nineteenth century stage artists

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32)Ray Bradbury has titles one of his short story collections- Golden Apples of the Sun - after the last line of a W.B.Yeats poem. Which poem?

2 points

1)"The Death of Cuchulain"

2)"The Peacock"

3)"The Hour Before Dawn"

4)"The Song of Wandering Aengus"

Clear selection

33)Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War presents a character's interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time?

2 points

1) After Magritte

2) Dirty Linen

3) Artist Descending a Staircase

4) Travesties

Clear selection

34)"Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In office of tenderness....." In these lines from "Ulysses", what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?

2 points

1) He shows heroic qualities.

2) He is Patient and selfless.

3) He is very much like his father.

4) He may be too tender-hearted to be king.

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35) In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT:

2 points

1) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.

2) names encapsulate traits.

3) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.

4) the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.

Clear selection

36)What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author?

2 points

1) He drowns in the fountain.

2) He is shot dead by the father.

3) He leaves the stage alone.

4) He commits Suicide.

Clear selection

37) Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character in Vanity Fair?

2 points

1) ambitious

2) energetic

3) wellborn

4) scheming

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38) Which character in Anton Chekhov's play, The Cherry Orchard, first suggests the selling of the orchard?

2 points

1) Trofimov

2) Yephikodov

3) Lopakhin

4) Varya

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39) Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th century English periodicals:

2 points

1) Tatler - Spectator - The Gentleman's Magazine - Rambler

2) Spectator - Tatler - The Gentleman's Magazine - Rambler

3) Rambler - Tatler - Spectator - The Gentleman's Magazine

4) Tatler - Spectator - Rambler - The Gentleman's Magazine

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40) Who identified "strangled articulateness" as a theme in Canadian writing?

2 points

1) Margaret Atwood

2) Northrop Frye

3) Michael Ondaatjee

4) Joy Kogawa

Clear selection

41) Identify the gynocritics in the following list: [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) Alice Jardine

2) Elaine Showalter

3) Sandra Gilbert

4) Kate Millett

42) Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana:

2 points

1) Padmini

2) Gautama

3) Kapila

4) Devadatta

Clear selection

43) Aurobindo Ghosh, author of 'Savitri', taught for some time at Baroda College after his return from England in 1893.Which subject did he teach?

2 points

1) English

2) French

3) Sanskrit

4) Bengali

Clear selection

44) Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an:

2 points

1) Complaint

2) stichomythia

3) epyllion

4) Pasturelle

Clear selection

45) Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European Language family?

2 points

1)English

2) German

3) Scandinavian

4) Finnish

Clear selection

46) What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime?

2 points

1)great thoughts

2) immoderate emotion

3) noble diction

4) dignified and elevated word arrangement

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47) Who among the following is not a beat writer?

2 points

1) Jack Kerouac

2) Allen Ginsberg

3) Robert Lowell

4) William Burroughs

Clear selection

48)This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.

2 points

1) Masque of Blankness

2) The Masque of Queens

3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

4) The Gypsies Metamorphed

Clear selection

49) Elizabeth Bishop' s poems are best remembered for their-

2 points

1) conversational intimacy

2) intellectual tenor

3) astringent satire

4) urban topography

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50) Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?

2 points

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.

Clear selection

51) In "My Last Duchess" which of the following is not one of the Duchess' s misdemeanours, according to the Duke?

2 points

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.

Clear selection

52) In his essay "From Work to Text" Roland Barthes says the following about the text: [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) The text is singular.

2) The text can be held in the hand.

3) The text is held in language.

4) The text is a methodological field.

53) Seamus Heaney's "Digging" in his first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT:

2 points

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

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54) Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English. Match the writer with his source language:

1) Kannada

2) Malayalam

3) Marathi

4) Hindi

A) O.V.Vijayan

B) Vilas Sarang

C) Krishna Baldev Vaid

4) Girish Karnad

Clear selection

55) In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael.What is this flaw?

2 points

1) gluttony

2) pride in his superiority to Eve

3) overconfidence in his free will

4) passion for Eve

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56) Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts:

2 points

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 - Utopia

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57) In Sophocles' s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was murdered:

2 points

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

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58)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?

2 points

1) Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow

2) In a Network of Lines that Enlace

3) In a Network of Lines that Interface

4) What Story there Awaits its End?

59)The novel Maurice by E.M.Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a socialist and open homosexual. Identified the writer.

2 points

1) Oscar Wilde

2) Edward Carpenter

3) W.H.Auden

4) E.F.Benson

Clear selection

60) Who among the following has elaborated on the "Indianisation" of English?

2 points

1) L.M.Khubchandani

2) B.Kumaravadivelu

3) B.B.Kachru

4) Rajendra Singh

Clear selection

61)These are four models of relating literature to history, Which of the following is associated with formalism?

2 points

1) Literary texts are universal and transcend history:the historical context of their production and reception has no bearing on the literary work which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into itself.

2) The historical context of a literary work is integral to a proper understanding of it: the text is produced within a specific historical context but in its literariness it remains separate from that context.

3) Literary works can help us to understand the time in which they are set: realist texts in particular provide imaginative representations of specific historical moments, events or periods.

4) Literary texts are bound up with other discourses and rhetorical structures:they are part of a history that is still in the process of being written.

Clear selection

62) As Gunter Grass' s novel The Tin Drum opens we find Oskar Matzerath

2 points

1) on the war front entertaining the soldiers as part of a band of dwarfs

2) in a mental hospital writing his story.

3) admitted in a hospital after his fatal fall in the wine cellar.

4) watching a ball in which the young ladies ignore his presence.

Clear selection

63) D.H.Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?

2 points

1) Egypt

2) South Africa

3) Mexico

4) Peru

Clear selection

64) Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels? [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is]

2 points

1) Sir Walter Scott

2) Charlotte Bronte

3) Maria Edgeworth

4) Jane Austen

65) Which of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels are set mostly in Japan? [Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) The Unconsoled

2) The Remains of the Day

3) An Artist of the Floating World

4) A Pale View of Hills

66)The Advancement of Learning Bacon noted the need for more studies of:[Select the right combination (Any Two) according to the code is:]

2 points

1) Moral knowledge

2)forbidden knowledge

3) civil knowledge

4) spiritual knowledge

67) Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?

2 points

1) Sartos Resartus

2) The Dream of Gerontius

3) The Professor

4) Felix Holf

Clear selection

68) As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy which discipline is more useful and praiseworthy-history or poetry?

2 points

1) History "being captivated to truth" is more useful than poetry.

2) Poetry where man can see "virtue exalted and vice punished" is more useful than history.

3) History is more useful for poetry is "an encouragement to unbridled wickedness. "

4) History and poetry are synonymous, and so both are useful.

Clear selection

69) In Bunyan 's Pilgrim's progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following statements is not true of their appearance at the fair?

2 points

1) They are dressed differently than the other fair-goers.

2) They speak the language of the Bible at the fair.

3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.

4) They refuse yo look at the merchandise at the fair.

Clear selection

70) What does the title Morte d'Arthur mean?

2 points

1) Arthur mortified

2) Death of Arthur

3) Castle of Arthur

4) Burial of Arthur

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71) Assertion (A): Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might be visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible. Reason (R):Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they suggest a more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly and of power. In the light of the statements above:

2 points

1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

3)(A) is right, but (R) is wrong.

4)(A) is wrong, but (R) is right.

Clear selection

72) The "We" of the opening line indicates

Read this poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75:

2 points

1) a group

2) two persons

3) the speaker and an imaginary listener

4) an unspecified crowd

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73) The dead animal was sighted

2 points

1) at the end of the trail

2) on the dune's steep side

3) on the dune's sloping side

4) in the swampy undergrowth

Clear selection

74) The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as

2 points

1) evasive

2) angry

3) bizarre

4) muted

75) At the close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders the visitors speechless?

2 points

1) sight

2) touch

3) sound

4) smell

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