GSET Eng P-III Aug 2017
Prepared by Komal Shahedapuri and Megha Trivedi
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Read the following passage and answer the questions 1 to 4 :                                                               The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office buildings.           The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the post office with its shingle tortured mansard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements colored like mud. The city was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes - they seemed - for laughter and tranquility.                                                 Over a concrete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all - night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure considerably illuminated by champagne. Below the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare.                                                  In one of the skyscrapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye - shades after a night of talking with paris and Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, their old shoes slapping. The dawn mist spun away. Cues of men with lunch - boxes clumped toward the immensity of new factories, sheets of glass and hollow tile, glittering shops where five thousand men worked beneath one roof, pouring out the honest wares that would be sold up the Euphrates and across the veldt. The whistles rolled out in greeting a chorus cheerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built, it seemed, for giants.      1. The first sentence of the first paragraph : ( I ) is a loose sentence ( II ) contains a simile ( III ) contains polysyndeton.
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2. In the second paragraph, the old is contrasted with the new to :
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3. The passage is written primarily in which of the narrative styles?
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4. The " twenty lines of polished steel" refers to :
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5. The agent of salvation for "Dante in The Divine Comedy" is :
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6.Which of these is not a history play ?
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7. Chaucer was called " Father of English Poesie" by :
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8. The Norman Conquest marks the beginning of :
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9. Which statement is not true about the Jacobean Age ?
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10. What is a play designed for reading rather than performance called ?
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11. Who is the author of " Troilus and Criseydo"?
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12. Which is the " three person coalition" after the death of Julius Caesar ?
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13. "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow" occurs in Shakespeare's play :
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14. Who among  the following were University wits?                                                                                         ( I ) Christopher Marlow and Robert Greene                                      ( II ) Thomas Nashe and Thomas Lodge                               ( III ) George Peel and John Lyly
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15. The two characters that appear in the Spectator are :                                                                            ( i ) Roger de Coverly     ( ii ) Robert Harley                                             ( iii ) Andrew Freeport    ( iv ) Lord Chesterfield                                                    
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16) Given below are two lists related to Gulliver's Travels. Match the book with the title according to the codes given below :
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17) Match the names of the books by Daniel Defoe with their year of publication according to the codes below :
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18. Arrange the epistles in "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope in the order in which they appear in the poem :                                                                                               ( 1 ) Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Society.                                                      ( 2 ) Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Himself as an Individual.                        ( 3 ) Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Universe                                                                 ( 4 ) On the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Happiness
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19. " The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomason shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." This tribute to Thomson's ability was paid by:
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20. Identify the title of the poem which occurs in the " Songs of Innocence" as well as in the " Songs of Experience" :
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21. In " Biographia Literaria " Coleridge remarks:           " It dissolves, diffuse, dissipates, in order to recreate........."                                                                   " It " refers to :                
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22. Shelley's " Ode to the West Wind" is written in :    
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23. "................. is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." Pick the correct phrase to fill in the blanks.
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24. "Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great uncle or grandame, whom they never saw." These lines are from which essay of Charles Lamb?
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25. The solution to the problems of the family of Nicholas Nickleby comes from:
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26. " This grew, I gave commands;                                 Then all smiles stopped together"                                     The 'I' in these lines is :
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27) Match the plays with the playwrights according to the codes below :
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28. Which of the two works of Charles Dickens were published serially?                                                        ( i ) Pickwick Papers         ( ii ) Oliver Twist                     ( iii ) Hard Times                ( iv ) A Tale of Two Cities
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29. Who is not a member of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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30. Who amongst  the following was not a part of the Oxford Movement?
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31. " Heart of Darkness" is a fictional work based on Conard's journey to:
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32. Which of the following poems is not composed by W.H.Auden?
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33. Which of the following novels by E.M. Forster was published after his death?
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34. Identify the literary journal edited by T.S. Eliot from the list given below:
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35. Identify the author in whose novel the words, 'Big brother', 'Thought Police' and 'Newspeak' appear:
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36. The term 'Kitchen sink drama' is associated with:
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37. Which of the following poems was written by Dylan Thomas?
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38. Who among the following has not written criticism based on myth and archetypes?
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39. Identify a work of science fiction from the following list of novels:
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40. Who, among the following , has written a biography of V.S.Naipaul?
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41) Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species' was published in the year :
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42) Name the essay in which Matthew Arnold proposes his  touchstone theory :
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43) Identify the thinker associated with the concept of 'Utilitarianism' :
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44) Sense, intention ,tone and feeling are terms used in the criticism of poetry by :
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45) Ezra Pound's  "In a Station of the Metro" was :
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46) The term 'Polyphonic Novel' was suggested by the following critic
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47) "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture." This sentence occurs in the essay :
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48) Which of the following novels follows the narrative style of Victorian fiction as a literary technique ?
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49) 'Ecriture Feminine' refers to :
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50) The theory of polysystems has particular relevance to the following branch of literary studies
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51) Code-switching is a kind of  :
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52) The notion of "Input Hypothesis" is attributed to :
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53) Who wrote An Introduction to Functional Grammar ?
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54) Which of the four is a nasal sound ?
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55) TESOL stands for
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56) The Study of "Transformational Generative Grammar" begun with :
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57) Jean Racine's tragedy, Phaedre was based on :
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58) Ibsen's Ghosts is known for its :
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59) Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros is an example of :
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60) "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." This is te openind sentence of :
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61) 'Alienation-Effect' is a term we usually associate with the plays of :
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62) Match List I with List II according to the codes given below
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63) Identify the play of Girish Karnad that has affinities with a work of Thomas Mann
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64) Which of the novels opens with the beginning line, "The Slave of Ms. H 6 first stepped upon the stage of modern history in 1942" ?
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65) The Ancient Legends of Hindustan was written by :
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66) Ramaswamy is a protagonist of Raja Rao's novel :
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67) Match the  author with his work according to the codes given below :
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68) Who amongst the following is a playwright and poet ?
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69) Who amongst he following is not an aboriginal Canadian writer ?
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70) Identify the poem by Robert Frost in which the following lines  occur : "My long two-pointed ladder' sticking through a tree toward  heaven still .... "
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71) "I knowed he was white inside" This line appears in which novel ?
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72) "Mask of Conquest : Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanthan argues that  :
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73) Who wrote the essay  "Is there a text in this class ?"
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74) Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities' in a treatise on :
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75) Who among the following has proposed the evolution of women's literary development through feminine phase, feminist phase and female phase :
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