SHRI PANCHAM KHEMRAJ MAHAVIDYALAYA SAWANTWADI …

University of Mumbai

SHRI PANCHAM KHEMRAJ MAHAVIDYALAYA SAWANTWADI

(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) TYBA (ENGLISH) Semester: VI

Course Title: Literary Criticism PAPER NO. V

Course Code : UAENG602

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1. In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which

later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature?

a) 1798

b) 1779

c) 1795

d) 1789

2.Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor

Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature?

a) The Excursion

b) The Prelude

c) Lyrical Ballads

d) Poems, in Two Volumes

3.Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem

celebrating the innocence of childhood ?

a) Lord Byron

b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

c) William Blake

d) William Wordsworth

4.Who does Shelley consider the true founders of civilized cultures and laws ?

a) Kings and queens

b) Poets and artists

c) Dictators and Tyrants

d) All people equally

5.Which of the following did the Romantic poets value?

a) Industrialization

b) Reason

c) The City

d) Nature

6.This era focused mostly on

a) politics

b) feelings

c) religion

d) education

7.Romantics thought the beauty of nature was a path to:

a) new places

b) sophistication

c) spiritual enlightenment

d) picnic areas

8.Romantics showed more __________ than the previous eras.

a) spirituality

b) emotion

c) loyalty

d) love

9.Realists Sought To ………………….

a) Portray life as it is

b) Explore psychology

c) Symbolically join disillusioned generations

d) Provide accounts of soldier's in the civil war

10. Which of the following authors was NOT an author during the era of Realism?

a) Mark Twain

b) Kate chopin

c) Fredrick Douglass

d) Edward Taylor

11.Realism defines the time period from the beginning of ________ until WWI.

a) the Civil War

b) the Korean War

c) the Revolutionary War

d) the Boston Tea Party

12.American Realism authors did not want their writing to contain which of the

following characteristics

a) show truth

b) keep things as real as they could

c) contain real emotions

d) show things as they were

13.Which of the following groups did Realists like to write about?

a) middle class

b) upper class

c) famous people

d) indians

14.The tone of many of the writings of the Realism era was often

a) formal

b) matter-of-fact

c) evil

d) sarcastic

15.The diction in Realism stories is ______.

a) snooty

b) formal

c) ghetto

d) common vernacular

16.Naturalist stories are always very ______

a) funny

b) somber

c) confusing

d) scary

17.Naturalism is the philosophical belief that the world process is

a) purposeless and deterministic.

b) created by God in accordance with the laws of nature.

c) primarily for human beings.

d) only understood through religious belief.

18.Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature?

a) All of these are correct

b) Fall representing growing old

c) Water symbolizing rebirth

d) The color black to symbolize evil

19.What is the purpose of symbolism?

a) To help the author stay one step ahead of the reader

b) To demonstrate how well-read the author is

c) To add layers of meaning to a creative work

d) To ensure that only educated readers will be able to understand the work

20.You should not use symbolism…

a) In allegories

b) Unless it has religious or moral significance

c) In formal essays

d) In creative writing

21.In general, what is the difference between a metaphor and a symbol?

a) A symbol is a kind of metaphor

b) Symbols are literally true, while metaphors are figuratively true

c) Symbols are more brief, while metaphors are more extended

d) Metaphors are more brief, while symbols are extended

22.Aesthetics deals with objects that are_____.

a) essential to our existence

b) unimportant to most people

c) not essential to our existence

d) rarely viewed

23.Aesthetic values have to do with _______

a) the moral value of works of art and other objects that could be judged beautiful

b) good and bad works of art and other objects that could be judged beautiful

c) the moral values of artists and critics

d) pragmatic decisions regarding the display of art

24.An important formal characteristic of art is_____.

a) social meaning

b) faithful representation

c) its power to evoke strong emotions

d) coherence

25. New Criticism is a limited way of analyzing a text because it disregards:

a) the text's historical and cultural significance

b) the author's background

c) both the text's historical and cultural significance and the author's background

d) neither the text's historical and cultural significance nor the author's background;

it's not a limited analysis

26.Structuralism originated in:

a) 1890’s

b) 1900’s

c) 1960’s

d) 1970’s

27.The observation that Structuralism is “the belief that phenomena of human life are

not intelligible except through their interrelations” was made by:

a) Jacques Derrida

b) Simon Blackburn

c) Vladmir Propp

d) Claude Levi-Strauss

28.France saw a particular rise in structuralism in:

a) 1960’s

b) 1900’s

c) 1970’s

d) 1930’s

29.Which of the following critics is not considered to have dealt basically with

Structuralism?

a) Jacques Derrida

b) Vladmir Propp

c) Claude Levi-Strauss

d) Roman Jacobson

30.The literary movement that began in response to structuralism was :

a) Romanticism

b) Colonialism

c) Post structuralism

d) Post-colonialism

31.Post structuralism particularly observes the following shortcoming in structuralism:

a) The structures it considered were not credible

b) The structures it includes are not self-sufficient

c) It overlooked a number of basic structures

d) The theory of structures itself was not credible

32.Which of the following critics is associated with post-structuralism rather than

structuralism?

a) Michel Foucault

b) Vladmir Propp

c) Roman Jacobson

d) Jacques Lacan

33.Before inventing psychoanalysis, Freud made a name for himself in which field?

a) Neurology

b) Marine biology

c) Peripheral nervous disorders

d) Literary criticism

34.All of the following contributed to Freud's decision to leave science and start private

practice in neurology EXCEPT:

a) His need for money to marry his fiancée, Martha Bernays

b) Discrimination against Jews, which prevented him from advancing in science

c) His love for medicine

d) Alienation due to the poor reception of his controversial theories

35.Why did Jung split with Freud in 1913?

a) He disagreed with Freud's exclusive emphasis on the sex drive

b) He thought that the "trauma of birth" was the primary cause of neurosis

c) He thought that Freud was too mystical and unscientific

d) He was deeply anti-Semitic

36.The word archetype means..?

a) A recurrent symbol or motif in literature.

b) A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person

or thing.

c) A type of arc.

d) Having distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing.

37._____ focuses on how racial issues have determined the quality of justice that has

been available to people of color in North America.

a) Left realism

b) Critical race theory

c) Feminist criminology

d) Racial criminology

38._____ begin to engage in antisocial behavior at an early age and continue to commit

acts that harm others throughout their lives.

a) Adolescent-limited offenders

b) Life-course persistent offenders

c) Juvenile delinquents

d) Serial killers

39.In Marxist theory, those who own property and the means of production are the

_____.

a) wealthy

b) proletariat

c) bourgeoisie

d) nihilists

40._____ was one of the first scholars to link Marxism and crime.

a) Marx

b) Bonger

c) Cullen

d) Agnew

41.In Marxist theory, the ____ is the working class.

a) proletariat

b) left

c) lex talionis

d) bourgeoisie

42.What would Marx argue needs to happen to transform a society's culture?

a) the economic foundation would have to be changed

b) new technologies would need to be introduced

c) the mass media would need to be changed

d) the economic foundation would remain the same

44.Gender studies …………….

a) argues that the female gender is superior

b) finds sexuality unimportant

c) examines how gender is less determined by nature than constructed by culture

d) is strictly about gay and lesbian writers

45.Postcolonial criticism has been important to

a) Third-World feminism

b) deconstruction

c) structuralism

d) psychological approaches

46.The claim of Robert C. J. Young is that postcolonialism

a) looks "at the world from the other side of the photograph"

b) is historically inaccurate

c) is the product of leftist propaganda

d) all of the above

47. Green Studies takes it bearing from_______

a) Romanticism

b) Transcendentalism

c) Realism

d) Expressionism

48. Ecocritics _____the notion that everything is Socially/linguistically constructed.

a) reject

b) select

c) choose

d) elect

A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend;

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I waterd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.

Till it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,

When the night had veild the pole;

In the morning glad I see;

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

49. What is the central theme of the poem?

a) Happiness leads to healthy life.

b) Anger leads to the cultivation of anger.

c) Anger is more powerful weapon against enemy.

d) Don’t angry with your enemy.

50. Identify the figure of speech used by the poet in the line

“I told my wrath, my wrath did end”

a) Metaphor

b) Alliteration

c) Simile

d) Hyperbole

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(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) TYBA (ENGLISH) Semester: VI

Course Title: 19th Century English Literature PAPER NO. VII

Course Code : UAENG504

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1.Using military force to expand current boundaries is an example of

a) Industrialism

b) Militarism

c) Nationalism

d) Imperialism

2.Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by

a) Factories

b) Hand

c) Slaves

d) Royalty

3.European imperialism of Africa, from 1880-World War I, is known as

a) Spheres of Influence

b) Scramble for Africa

c) World War I

d) French Revolution

4.What was the Industrial Revolution?

a) Changes and advancements in government

b) Changes and advancements in militarism

c) Changes and advancements in religion

d) Changes and advancements in the production of goods

5.Which of the following was a cause of the Industrial Revolution?

a) Agricultural Revolution

b) American Revolution

c) War of 1812

d) Socialism

6.Why was Great Britain the first country to industrialize?

a) The king demanded it

b) No other country wanted to industrialize

c) They had all the necessary factors of production

d) They had a political revolution

7.How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

a) Made the crime rate decrease

b) Led to an increase in farm workers

c) Make the cities cleaner and safer

d) Led to an increase in population in the cities

8.Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?

a) King Henry VIII

b) Queen Elizabeth I

c) Queen Victoria

d) King John

9.Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the

nineteenth century?

a) Paris

b) Tokyo

c) London

d) New York

10.To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary

representation?

a) the lower middle classes

b) women

c) the working classes

d) landowners

11.Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England?

a) D.G Rossetti

b) Swinburne

c) Christina Rossetti

d) Morris

12.Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in

periodicals?

a) Shakespeare

b) T. S. Eliot

c) Charles Dickens

d) P. B. Shelly

13.Vanity Fair is a novel by:

a) Jane Austin

b) Dickens

c) Emily Bronte

d) Thackery

14.Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the

nineteenth century?

a) Paris

b) Tokyo

c) London

d) Amsterdam

15.What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and

Swinburne?

a) They all belonged to the Oxford Movement

b) They were all painters

c) They were all Victorian Novelists

d) They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School

16.Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last

decade of the Victorian era?

a) studied melancholy and aestheticism

b) sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

c) raucous celebration mixed with self-congratulatory sophistication

d) paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

17.The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?

a) Puritan movement

b) Romantic revival

c) Neo-classical age

d) Metaphysical school

18.What was the name of the original Pre-Raphaelite journal?

a) The germ

b) The rambler

c) Athenaeum

d) The guardian

19.A bildungsroman is a novel that concerns itself with:

a) the architecture of a city or urban landscape, as opposed to the countryside.

b) the development of a youthful protagonist as he or she matures.

c) the history of antiquity, particularly of ancient Rome and Greece.

d) the poor versus the rich.

20.Select the option in which all three factors listed were pre-conditions of the

Industrial Revolution in Britain.

a) Literacy, law, and military power

b) Widely available printed material, literacy, adequate transportation

c) Slave owners, slave labor, and the East India Trading Company

d) Adequate transportation, gothic novels, and the steam engine

21.Sensation novels, which flourished in the Victorian period, primarily aimed to:

a) "heal the wounded heart."

b) "enlighten the mind and infuse the wit."

c) "encourage strong minds, strong souls, strong bodies."

d) preach to the nerves instead of the judgment.

22.During which century did John Stuart Mill write Utilitarianism?

a) The 17th

b) The 19th

c) The 12th

d) The 20th

23.Mill argues that justice is:

a) a less important consideration than practical utility

b) valuable because it is socially useful

c) valuable by a standard that exists independent of utility

d) at odds with social utility

24.In response to the criticism that the most virtuous people have been martyrs who

gave up their happiness, Mill replies

a) that martyrdom is only valuable because they sacrificed their own happiness for the

general good.

b) that martyrdom is actually not virtuous.

c) that martyrs are always much happier than other people.

d) that virtue is not a morally valid standard of judgment.

25.Which of the following actions would Mill judge as morally the best?

a) Saving a person from drowning out of a sense of moral duty.

b) Saving a person from drowning out of a desire for celebrity.

c) Saving a person from drowning out of a desire for reward money.

d) All three actions are equally good.

26.Which of the following is Tennyson least likely to have read before 1850?

a) The Bible

b) Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

c) Lyell’s Geology

d) Chambers’s Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

27.How is Porphyria killed?

a) She is stabbed

b) She is shot

c) She is drowned

d) She is strangled

28.When is “Porphyria’s Lover” set?

a) Just before her murder

b) As she is being killed

c) Just after her death

d) During her funeral

29.To which well-known family does Fra Lippo Lippi’s patron belong?

a) The Medicis

b) The Borgias

c) The Buonapartes

d) The Urbinatis

30.What kind of art does Fra Lippo Lippi produce?

a) Abstract art

b) Nebulous religious art

c) Landscapes

d) Portraits of real people

31.How does Porphyria move?

a) glided

b) stomped

c) flew

d) walked

32.What is the weather like at the start of Porphyria's Lover?

a) snow

b) mist and fog

c) wind and rain

d) sunshine

33.How did Fra Lippo Lippi get his interest in naturalism?

a) From a dream

b) From an art book

c) From the demands of his religious superiors

d) From his days as a beggar

34.How will Fra Lippo Lippi still follow his muse while pleasing his superiors?

a) Destroying his former work

b) Painting himself into the painting

c) Running away after finishing their work

d) Explaining the meaning of his painting to an audience

35.Why does Fra Lippo Lippi say he went to the red-light district?

a) He was instructed to by his superiors

b) He wanted to research a painting

c) He had a dream

d) He heard a merry party passing his window

36.Where does David meet Steerforth?

a) At Salem House

b) At Miss Betsey’s house

c) At Agnes’s

d) In the forest

37.Which of the following characters does David initially trust but then come to

distrust?

a) Agnes

b) Dora

c) Mr. Spenlow

d) Steerforth

38.With whom does David live while he works at the wine factory?

a) Mr. Micawber

b) Miss Betsey

c) Steerforth

d) Mr. Wickfield

39.Where does David first meet Traddles?

a) At Miss Murdstone’s

b) At Blunderstone

c) At Yarmouth

d) At Salem House

40.Who is David’s primary good influence?

a) Dora

b) Agnes

c) Miss Betsey

d) Peggotty

41.Who is David’s primary bad influence?

a) Traddles

b) Uriah

c) Steerforth

d) Doctor Strong

42.Whom does Uriah try to poison against his wife?

a) Mr. Wickfield

b) Doctor Strong

c) Jack Maldon

d) Mr. Creakle

43.In whose house does David slap Uriah?

a) Mr. Micawber’s

b) Miss Betsey’s

c) Mr. Wickfield’s

d) Doctor Strong’s

44.How does David end up at Miss Betsey’s?

a) He runs away from home

b) He runs away from Salem House

c) He runs away from the wine factory

d) He runs away from Mr. Micawber’s

45.How does Steerforth meet Little Em’ly?

a) Ham introduces them

b) He sees her on the beach

c) Mr. Peggotty introduces them

d) David introduces them

46.Which of the following characters is a dwarf?

a) Miss Mowcher

b) Mr. Barkis

c) Peggotty

d) Little Em’ly

47.Why is David sent to Salem House?

a) To fetch some milk and eggs

b) To see his grandmother

c) Because he bites Mr. Murdstone

d) Because his mother dies

48.Why is Mr. Dick unable to finish the Memorial?

a) He runs out of ink

b) He can’t stop writing about King Charles I

c) He can’t stop playing with his kite

d) It makes him too sad

49.Which of the following is not a reason that Traddles waits to marry Sophy?

a) She is in love with someone else

b) She is the fourth of ten daughters

c) He is poor

d) Her mother is ill

50.Who declares to David his intention to marry Agnes?

a) Traddles

b) Steerforth

c) Uriah

d) Jack Maldon

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(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) TYBA (ENGLISH) PAPER NO. VI Semester: VI

Course Title: Grammar and the Art of Writing Course Code : UAENG603A

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Identify the underlined clause element (SPOCA) from the following clauses.

1. She (has got) a good prize.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

2. (The fact) is he is injured.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

3. He (is ) not as stupid as he seems.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

4. Jimy gave Philip (some books).

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

5. Do you have (a shawl) which I can borrow ?

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

6. What she did was (the concern of the entire neighborhood)

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

7. My father brought me a surprise gift (on my birthday).

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) A(Adverbial)

8. He looked dignified (in his military uniform).

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) A(Adverbial)

9. (A true politician) should know what the country needs.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

10.If you follow the instructions (carefully), you will score better marks.

a) S (Subject)

b) A(Adverbial)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

11.The report (submitted) by the Government was found authentic.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

12. (Small boys) are shouting very loudly.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

13. (Johny) looks handsome in Chinese Costume

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

14.Jimmy (could not believe) what he heard about his parents.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

15. (At this age), I earn more than my father earned in his first job.

a) S (Subject)

b) A(Adverbial)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

16.Yesterday, I met (the person who slapped his wife publicly.)

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

17.What was (widely) believed is now proved wrong by the survey.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) A(Adverbial)

d) C (Compliment)

18. (All the people) who went to England those days at least learnt the art of shaving.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

19. I often (recalled) his words when I felt homesick.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

20. I (had used) more starch than what was necessary for my lawyer's collar.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

21.Have (the charges) been proved ?

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

22. The poor cannot pay (their bills).

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

23.Lata (should have been staying) In Banglore.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

24. Have you ever noticed (the mistake) in his article on Post-Modernism ?

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

25.Vijaya’s brother considers Manisha (the best student in their class).

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

26.If you follow the instructions, you (will win) the match.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

27. (Each of these boys) has been asking for a photograph of a national leader.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

28. The ruling party (should have chosen) their spokesman.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

29. You (must know) where he keeps his money.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

30.(Big offers of discount) can tempt people to buy unwanted things.

a) S (Subject)

b) P (Predicator)

c) O (Object)

d) C (Compliment)

Identify the types of underlined SCL (Subordinate Clauses) from the following

sentences.

31. It comes from the interaction between the words [that are written].

a) NCl (Noun Clause) b) RCl (Relative Clause)

c) ACl (Adverbial Clause) d) CCl (Comparative Clause)

32.It conveys [ how they trigger knowledge outside the text ].



33. It interferes with their ability to comprehend [what is read].



34.The audience was amused [by what they saw on the stage].

a) NCl (Noun Clause) b) ACl (Adverbial Clause)

c) PCl (Prepositional Clause) d) CCl (Comparative Clause)

35.The movies [he produced] brought him much fame.



36.[If you acquire some managerial skills] you will get a decent job.



37.You must know [where he keeps his money].



38.Mr. Gupta advised Ms. Dhupia [to sign the contract in full faith.]

a) NCli (Noun Clause) b) RCli (Relative Clause)

c) ACli (Adverbial Clause) d) CCli (Comparative Clause)

39.The paintings [which I brought from Pondicherry] are much in demand.



40.Nalini was surprised [at what her friends had planned for the wedding.]

a) NCl (Noun Clause) b) CCl (Comparative Clause)

c) ACl (Adverbial Clause) d) PCl (Prepositional Clause)

41. We must know [where he is living these days].



42.[Since she was short of money] I gave her my savings.



Identify the types of underlined derived structure from the following sentences.

43.What the newspapers say is quite disturbing. ---- B. S. (Basic Structure)

It is quit disturbing what the newspapers say. --- D. S. (Derived Structure)

a) Tag question b) Existential sentence

c) Passive Reconsidered d) Extraposition

44.Sheena was reading Harry Potter yesterday in the car. ---- B. S. (Basic Structure)

It was Harry Potter that Sheena was reading yesterday in the car. --- D. S. (Derived

Structure)

a) Substitution Indirect Object of PP b) Existential sentence

c) Cleft sentence d) Extraposition

45.Many people are standing at the bus-stop. ---- B. S. (Basic Structure)

There are many standing at the bus-stop. ---- D. S. (Derived Structure)


c) Tag question d) Extraposition

46.You can talk. ---- B. S. (Basic Structure)

You can talk, can’t you? ---- D. S. (Derived Structure)


c) Tag question d) Extraposition

47.The soldier killed the enemy. ---- B. S. (Basic Structure)

The enemy was killed by the soldier ---- D. S. (Derived Structure)


c) Cleft sentence d) Passive Reconsidered

48. Which linking word is used in the following sentence?

Sentence : In fact, the term 'Theatre of the Absurd' is often applied to the

plays of Engene lonesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamon, Samuel Beckett and the

early plays of Edward Albee, Pinter and many such dramatists.

a) who

b) or

c) and

d) but

Passage : In previous studies the use of tobacco, especially cigarette smoking, has been

causally linked to several diseases. Such use has been associated which increased deaths

from lung cancer and other diseases, notably coronary artery disease, chronic bronchitis,

and emphysema. These widely reported findings, which have been the cause of much

public concern, have been accepted in many countries by official health agencies, medical

associations, and voluntary health organizations. The potential hazard is great because

these diseases are major causes of death and disability. Another cause for concern is

because deaths from some of these diseases have been increasing with great rapidity.

While part of the rising trend for lung cancer is attributable to improvements in diagnosis,

the evidence leaves little doubt that a true increase in the lung cancer has taken place.

49.Choose the correct thesis statement from the following.

a) Cigarette smoking, has not been causally linked to several diseases.

b) There is increase in death from lung cancer and other diseases not because of

tobacco.

c) Tobacco is injurious to our health.

d) The potential hazard is great because lung cancer and other diseases, notably

coronary artery disease, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema are not major

causes of death and disability.

50.The sentence structure of the given passage is …………………………

a) Only Simple

b) Only Complex

c) Multilevel Balanced

d) Only Compound



(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) T.Y.B.A. (English)

PAPER NO.IV Semester: VI Course Title: 16th to 18th Century English Literature – II Course Code:UAENG601

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1. One of the most significant aspects of Restoration literature is the return of

the………..

a) Theatre

b) Poetry

c) Novel

d) Epic

2.The period from …………………is mentioned as the Restoration Age.

a) 1660 to 1700

b) 1680 to 1690

c) 1700 to 1730

d) 1600 to 1620

3.Who is not Restoration Poet from the followings?

a) John Milton

b) Alexander Pope

c) John Dryden

d) P. B. Shelly

4.John Milton wrote ……………… epic in Restoration Period.

a) Paradise Lost

b) Beowulf

c) The Faerie Queene

d) Odyssey

5.Mock-epic (also known as a mock-heroic) poetry draws heavily on the technique of

…………….

a) Satire

b) Elegy

c) Lyric

d) Sonnet

6.Who is not the playwright from the followings practised the comedies of manners in

the Restoration age.

a) William Congreve

b) George Etherege

c) William Wycherley

d) T. S. Eliot

7.………………….is a genre of English drama that flourished in the years of the

Restoration.

a) Heroic tragedy

b) Poetic Drama

c) Musical Drama

d) Absurd Theatre

8.The Neoclassical era was so named because ________ .

a) people loved classical music

b) it was a time where writers imitated the classical structures of the Romans and the

Greeks

c) new social classes were created

d) it was a time when people were very classy

9. All for Love by John Dryden is published in ………………

a) 1677

b) 1700

c) 1640

d) 1600

10. Who is the protagonist of All for Love by John Dryden?

a) Caesar

b) Antony

c) Cleopatra

d) Octavius

11. Who wrote the play? a) LORD BYRON

b) JOHN DRYDEN

c) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

d) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

12.When did the play premiere?

a) 1688

b) 1686

c) 1677

d) 1654

13.Where was it performed?

a) DUBLIN

b) NEW YORK

c) LONDON

d) PARIS

14.Which play is it similar to?

a) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

b) ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

c) MACBETH

d) HAMLET

15.Where does the play take place?

a) PARIS

b) LONDON

c) EGYPT

d) ROME

16.Where in Egypt?

a) CAIRO

b) ALEXANDRIA

c) ASWAN

d) LUXOR

17.Which of the following is not a John Dryden play?

a) DOCTOR FAUSTUS

b) THE WILD GALLANT

c) THE INDIAN QUEEN

d) MARRIAGE A LA MODE

18.What is John Dryden's most famous poem?

a) ANNE KILLIGREW

b) THE HIND AND THE PANTHER

c) ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL

d) ANNUS MIRABILIS

19.Who opens the play?

a) ANTONY

b) IRAS

c) SERAPION

d) CLEOPATRA

20.Where does the first scene take place?

a) CLEOPATRA'S BED CHAMBERS

b) ANTONY'S TENT

c) ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE

d) THE TEMPLE OF ISIS

21.Who is Serapion talking to in the first scene?

a) VENTIDIUS

b) CLEOPATRA

c) DOLABELLA

d) MYRIS

22.What are they discussing?

a) DARK OMENS

b) THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN SUNNY FOR A WHOLE YEAR

c) ANTONY'S IMPOTENCE

d) CLEOPATRA'S NYMPHOMANIA

23.Who enters and denies Serapion's interpretation of the omens?

a) ALEXAS

b) CLEOPATRA

c) ANTONY

d) VENTIDIUS

24.What is notable about Alexas?

a) HE IS ROMAN

b) HE IS A EUNUCH

c) HE IS VERY OLD

d) HE IS INTERSEX

25.Who has recently defeated Antony?

a) CAESAR

b) OCTAVIUS

c) VENTIDIUS

d) CLEOPATRA

26. In what battle was Antony defeated?

a) THE BATTLE OF ZAMA

b) THE BATTLE OF CANNAE

c) THE BATTLE OF ROME

d) THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM

27.Why are the Egyptians worried about Antony leaving Cleopatra?

a) HE IS THE ONLY ONE KEEPING THEIR MILITARY TOGETHER

b) THEY KNOW THAT THEN EGYPT WOULD BECOME A ROMAN PROVINCE

c) THEY THINK THAT IF HE LEFT THE EGYPTIAN ECONOMY WOULD SUFFER

d) THEY THINK CLEOPATRA WOULD KILL HERSELF

28. What is Antony's state of mind at the start of the play?

a) HE IS VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED

b) HE IS VERY SAD AND RECLUSIVE

c) HE IS ANXIOUS TO PERFORM A PIECE OF POETRY HE WROTE

d) HE IS SCARED BUT DETERMINED

29.Who first comes to lure Antony away?

a) ALEXAS

b) DOLABELLA

c) VENTIDIUS

d) OCTAVIA

30.Who is Ventidius?

a) A JESTER

b) A GENERAL

c) A EUNUCH

d) A PRIEST

31.What is the significance of the day on which the play takes place?

a) IT IS CAESAR'S BIRTHDAY

b) IT IS ANTONY'S BIRTHDAY

c) IT IS CLEOPATRA'S BIRTHDAY

d) IT IS ANTONY'S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

32.How many legions are waiting for Antony?

a) 10

b) 6

c) 15

d) 12

33.On what condition will the armies fight with Antony?

a) IF HE LEAVES CLEOPATRA

b) IF HE PROMISES TO NEVER GO BACK TO EGYPT

c) IF HE STAYS WITH CLEOPATRA

d) IF HE KILLS OCTAVIUS

34.What is Cleopatra's response to Antony's departure?

a) RELIEF

b) CONFUSION AND DISMAY

c) INDIFFERENCE

d) ABJECT SADNESS

35.Which play is it similar to?

a) Much ado about nothing

b) Macbeth

c) Hamlet

d) Antony and cleopatra

36. "Paradise Lost" is considered a(n):

a) Short story

b) Epic poem

c) First person narrative

d) Novel

37."Paradise Lost" by Milton is divided in ……….. books.

a) 2

b) 7

c) 12

d) 8

38. Where is Satan imprisoned in "Paradise Lost"?

a) Heaven

b) The moon

c) Hell

d) Earth

39. The genre to which “The Rape of the Lock” belongs is called...

a) mock-epic

b) elegy

c) parody

d) sonnet

40. Who is Shock in “The Rape of the Lock”?

a) Belinda’s horse

b) Belinda’s lapdog

c) The Baron’s horse

d) The poet’s muse

41.Who inspires Belinda’s dream in the first canto in “The Rape of the Lock”?

a) The muse

b) The Baron

c) Ariel

d) Umbriel

42. John Dryden’s poem “The fire of London” compares the city of London to

a……………...

a) phoenix

b) Benu

c) Boobrie

d) Strige

43. John Dryden’s poem “The fire of London” describe the London After the Great

Fire, in………….

a) 1666

b) 1690

c) 1680

d) 1700

44. Whither does Umbriel journey in “The Rape of the Lock”?

a) Hades

b) The Cave of Spleen

c) The Cave of Despair

d) The Cave of Envy

45.Who arms the Baron with a pair of scissors in “The Rape of the Lock”?

a) Belinda

b) Sir Plume

c) Lord Petre

d) Clarissa



(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) T.Y.B.A. (English) PAPER NO. VIII Semester: VI Course Title: 20th Century British Literature-II Course Code : UAENG605

1.The psychological novel can be called a novel of …………..

a) The inner man

b) Human life

c) Psychology

d) Social issue

2.The literary historian Malcolm Cowly described the years between two world wars as

a ..............… of American writing.

a) “Second flowering”

b) “Second life”

c) “First flowering”

d) “Global Expression”

3.A satire is a comic piece of writing which makes fun of an individual or society to

expose its ………………….

a) Intelligence

b) Stupidity and shortcomings

c) Smartness

d) Morality

4.Feminist Research aims at:

a) Study of women’s education

b) Equal rights for both men and women

c) Promotion of women research scholars

d) To study women as an object

5.Some popular plot conventions in Science Fiction may be all of the following except

one of the followings.

a) finding a world of fairies and giants

b) being the last person on Earth

c) finding a lost civilization

d) having an alien encounter

6.………………. is a work of fiction in which the thoughts, feelings, and motivations

carry much importance.

a) Psychological Novel

b) Realistic Novel

c) Historical Novel

d) Picaresque Novel

7.Existentialism is the term applied to the work of number of philosopher since the

………………

a) 17th Century

b) 19th Century

c) 16th Century

d) 21st Century

8.Genre that may contain advanced technologies like human-like robots is called

………………

a) Adventure

b) Science Fiction

c) Fantasy

d) Realistic Fiction

9.What organization urges children to turn their parents over to the authorities in 1984

by George Orwell?

a) The Party Youth

b) The Junior Spies

c) The Outer Party

d) The Committee of Oceanian Patriotism

10. 1984 by George Orwell published in …………..

a) 1949

b) 1980

c) 1989

d) 1998

11.Who really wrote the manifesto that O’Brien gives to Winston in 1984 by George

Orwell?

a) Emmanuel Goldstein

b) Big Brother

c) Ayn Rand

d) O’Brien

12.How old is Julia in 1984 by George Orwell?

a) 26

b) 30

c) 32

d) 35

13.What does O’Brien use to torture Winston in Room 101 in 1984 by George Orwell?

a) A cage full of rats

b) A laser heat machine

c) A machine that causes full-body physical pain

d) Hallucinogenic drugs

14.Where do Winston and Julia make love for the first time in 1984 by George Orwell?

a) The room above the antiques shop

b) The forest

c) Trafalgar Square

d) The beach

15. In what nation was Orwell born in 1984 by George Orwell?

a) India

b) Bangladesh

c) Zanzibar

d) Burma

16. Where does Frank have home in Eveline James Joyce?

a) Patagonia

b) Belfast

c) Buenos Aires

d) England

17. To whom has Eveline written letters in Eveline James Joyce?

a) her father and Harry

b) Harry and Ernest

c) Frank and Harry

d) her father and Ernest

18. What is the profession of Eveline's lover in Eveline James Joyce?

a) Doctor

b) Lawyer

c) Sailor

d) Engineer

19. How does Eveline intend to leave Dublin to elope with her lover in Eveline James

Joyce?

a) By boat

b) By train

c) On foot

d) In a carriage

20.What does Harry do for a living in Eveline James Joyce?

a) He is a sailor.

b) He is in the church-decorating business.

c) He is a builder.

d) He does not work because he is still in school.

21.How would you describe Mary at the beginning of the story Lamb to the Slaughter

by Roald Dahl?

a) Attentive

b) Angry

c) Confused

d) Smart

22.………………. is the heroine of the story "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" by Angela

Carter a) Beauty b) Marry c) Jane d) Elizabeth

23.The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen is a short story written by Graham

Greene in……….

a) 1965

b) 1920

c) 1930

d) 1970

24.The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen by Graham Greene is narrated in the ……………

a) 1st person

b) 3rd

person limited

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c) 2nd

person limited

d) 3rd

person omniscient

25."There were ………………. Japanese gentlemen having a fish dinner at Bentley's."

in The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen by Graham Greene.

a) Eight

b) Nine

c) Ten

d) Twenty

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(Cluster College : Sr. No. -29) T.Y.B.A. (English) PAPER NO. IX Semester: VI Course Title: Drama and Theatre-II Course Code : UAENG606B

1. One Act Play is based on…………..

a) Multiple ideas

b) Single idea or situation

c) Multiple situations

d) Epic Stories

2.…………… is a distinctive style of dress of an individual or a group.

a) Setting

b) Costume

c) Makeup

d) Posture

3.The Angry Young Men were a new breed of intellectuals who were mostly of

………………..or of lower middle-class origin.

a) Working class

b) High class

c) Middle class

d) Elite class

4.The problem play was popularized by the Norwegian play writer ……………

a) Henrik Ibsen

b) Mathew Arnold

c) T.S. Eliot

d) Samuel Beckett

5.The problem play deals with ……….. through debates between the characters on

stage.

a) Social issues

b) Revenge

c) Technical issues

d) Political issues

6.Expressionism tries to project the inner working of …………. of the characters.

a) The life

b) The mind

c) The brain

d) The problem

7.……………. is the most eminent and influential writer of Absurd Theatre.

a) Samuel Beckett

b) Shakespeare

c) William Wycherley

d) T. S. Eliot

8.Which Playwright wrote the play "Waiting for Godot"?

a) Samuel Beckett

b) A French Person

c) Eugene Ionesco

d) Jean Genet

9.The Theatre of the Absurd is a new form of drama after ……………

a) The Second World War

b) The First World War

c) Civil War

d) Cold War

10.What year was the play Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene written?

a) 1940

b) 1924

c) 1942

d) 1950

11.The play Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene is based on ancient _________ myths

a) Roman

b) Egyptian

c) Greek

d) Norse

12.The play Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene is set in the year…………..

a) 1850

b) 1750

c) 1800

d) 1924

13.The play Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene is set in……………..

a) The south

b) Texas

c) England

d) New England

14.The character who is felt but not seen in Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene is

…………

a) Eben

b) Cabot

c) Simeon

d) Maw

15.The elms are compared to ………….. in Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene.

a) Children

b) Animals

c) Women

d) Men

16.Simeon and peter want to go to ……………. in Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene.

a) Oregon

b) Texas

c) Mexico

d) California

17.Who do the men say killed maw Desire under the Elms by O’Neill Eugene?

a) Herself

b) No one

c) God

d) Paw

18.Who is the writer of the play in "The Proposal"?

a) Robert Frost

b) Anton Chekov

c) Carolyn Wells

d) Robin Klein

19."The Proposal" is published in …………….

a) 1890

b) 1880

c) 1800

d) 1870

20.Which land were they fighting about in "The Proposal"?

a) Oxen Meadows

b) Birchwoods

c) Burnt Marsh

d) All of the above

21.Who threatened to take the matter to court in "The Proposal"?

a) Natalya

b) Lomov

c) Chubukov

d) None

22.How are the Lomovs and Chubukovs related in "The Proposal"?

a) friends

b) cousins

c) neighbours

d) business associates

23. What did Natalya offer Lomov in "The Proposal"?

a) tea

b) brakfast

c) coffee

d) lunch

24. The play is set in which country in "The Proposal"?

a) India

b) France

c) Russia

d) Japan

25. According to Lomov, what amount would be good enough for buying squeezer in

"The Proposal"?

a) 60 Roubles

b) 35 Roubles

c) 25 Roubles

d) 40 Roubles

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