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PRACTICE SET–1 ............................................................................................................................... 3-18Paper II .......................................................................................................................................................... 3

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PRACTICE SET–9 ........................................................................................................................ 115-128Paper II ...................................................................................................................................................... 115

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PRACTICE SET–10 ...................................................................................................................... 129-141Paper II ...................................................................................................................................................... 129

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Education Facts at a Glance | 1

Practice Work BookEnglish

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2 | Education Facts at a Glance

note :q This paper contains fifty (50) objective type

questions of two (2) marks each. q All questions are compulsory.

1. Which one of the following tales in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is in prose:

(a) The Squire’s tale (b) The Knight’s tale (c) The Frier’s tale (d) The Parson’s tale2. Identify the critic who said that Chaucer lacked

“high seriousness”. (a) John Ruskin (b) Coleridge (c) Matthew Arnold (b) Walter Peter3. My Fair Lady is a musical drama based on which

of the play of Shaw? (a) Pygmalion (b) St. Joan (c) Arms and the Man (d) Apple Cart4. Allworthy, Squire Western and Sophia are

characters in the novel: (a) Joseph Andrews (b) Pride and the prejudice (c) Tom Jones (d) Clarissa Harlowe5. “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of

the world” Who made this statement? (a) Matthew Arnold (b) Coleridge (c) Wordsworth (d) Shelley 6. Who was the poet who explained his kind

of poetry in terms of ‘inscape’ ‘instress’ and ‘Sprung rhythm’?

(a) Matthew Arnold (b) Robert Browning (c) G.M. Hopkins (d) W.B. Yeats7. How did the party of schoolboys in Lord of The

Flies find themselves on the desert island? (a) When the plane carrying them crashed on

the island (b) When the ship carrying them wrecked near

the shore of the island (c) When sea-pirates left them on the island

(d) When the school master sent them for a picnic to the island

8. Identify the poem that Coleridge composed in his sleep and transcribed on walking up:

(a) Christabel (b) The rime of The Ancient Mariner (c) Kubla Khan (d) Frost at Midnight9. In the dialogue form of Dryden’s Essay on

Dramatic Poesy, Dryden’s views are closest to: (a) Neander (b) Crites (c) Eugenius (d) Lisideius10. Who defined poetry as “the breadth and finer

spirit of all knowledge”? (a) Shelley (b) Coleridge (c) Wordsworth (d) Keats 11. Riders to the Sea is an tragedy written by: (a) Sean O’ Casey (b) Synge (c) Yeats (d) Isherwood12. Who is the goddess of witchcraft in Shakespeare’s

play ‘Macbeth’? (a) Aphrodite (b) Hecate (c) Minerva (d) Mordred13. Which among the following is an epistolary

novel? (a) Emma (b) Tom Jones (c) Robinson Crusoe (d) Clarissa14. The author of the Seven Types of Ambiguity

is: (a) I.A. Richards (b) William Empson (c) Cleanth Brooks (d) T.S. Eliot15. Which of the following is a stream of conscious-

ness novel? (a) The Rainbow (b) To the Lighthouse (c) Lord Jim (d) A passage to India16. Addison and Steele were joint editors of: (a) Tatler (b) The Guardian (c) The Spectator (d) The Rambler17. Eugene Marchbanks is a character in Shaw’s? (a) Arms and the Man (b) The Apple Cart

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(c) Mrs. Warren’s Profession (d) Candida18. Fancy and imagination are the central concepts

in the criticism of: (a) Coleridge (b) Wordsworth (c) Arnold (d) Eliot19. The lines “The best lack all conviction, while

the worst/Are full of passionate intensity” occur in:

(a) ‘Easter 1916’ (b) ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ (c) ‘The Tower’ (d) ‘The Second Coming’20. Donne was born in the: (a) Age of Queen Anne (b) Puritan Age (c) Restoration Period (d) Elizabethan Age21. “Nothing can please many, and please long,

but just representation of general nature” This quotation is from:

(a) Dryden (b) Johnson (c) Addition (d) Fielding22. Octave is a stanza of: (a) Five lines (b) Four lines (c) Eight lines (d) Six lines23. Marriage of Heaven and Hell is written by (a) William Blake (b) Andrew Marvell (c) Matthew Arnold (d) Dryden24. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is: (a) a parable (b) an epistolary novel (c) an allegory (d) a political fable25. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they

kill us for their sport” Who utters this line? (a) King Lear (b) Cordelia (c) Edger (d) Gloucester26. Bacon did not write: (a) Confessio Amantis (b) New Atlantis (c) Novum Organum (d) Advancement of learning27. Mephistopheles is one of the most interesting

character in a play by: (a) Thomas Kyd (b) Ben Jonson (c) Christopher Marlowe (d) Webster

28. Apologie for Poetry was written by: (a) Philip Sydney (b) Ben Jonson (c) Edmund Spenser (d) P.B. Shelley29. The line, ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ is from

Shakespeare’s: (a) Macbeth (b) Hamlet (c) Othello (d) King Lear30. Theatres were closed in England in: (a) 1642 (b) 1678 (c) 1605 (d) 158731. Religio Medici was written by: (a) Sir Thomas Browne (b) John Milton (c) Francis Bacon (d) John Bunyan32. Paradise Lost was published in: (a) 1668 (b) 1679 (c) 1667 (d) 166933. John Dryden Wrote his satire in: (a) Free Verse (b) Blank Verse (c) Heroic Couplet (d) Spenserian stanza34. Lyrical Ballads was published in: (a) 1798 (b) 1779 (c) 1797 (d) 179935. “Water, water, everywhere/not a drop to drink”

is a line from a poem of: (a) Coleridge (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley (d) Keats36. “If winter comes can spring be far behind?” is

a line from: (a) To Autumn (b) Ode to the West Wind (c) Skylark (d) Ode to a Nightingale37. Fin de siecle means: (a) End of a cycle (b) Finer feelings (c) Happy Ending (d) End of a century38. The charcter Maggie Tulliver is a creation of : (a) Joyce (b) George Eliot (c) Woolf (d) Emily Bronte39. Tiresias as a character figure in T.S. Eliot’s : (a) Gerontion (b) Sweeny among the Nightingale (c) The Waste Land (d) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrogk

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40. The title, “Things fall apart” is taken from yeats’s:

(a) Among School Children (b) The Second Coming (c) Sailing to Byzantium (d) A Prayer for My Daughter41. Pozzo is the name of a character in: (a) Waiting for Godot (b) Look Back in Anger (c) Pygmalion (d) Family Re-Union 42. Culture and Anarchy was written by: (a) Ezra Pound (b) W.B. Yeats (c) Matthew Arnold (d) T.S. Eliot43. Jane Austen did not write: (a) Mansfield Park (b) Emma (c) Sense and Sensibility (d) Silas Marner44. Who called himself “a classist in literature,

a royalist in politics, and Anglo-catholic in religion”?

(a) Matthew Arnold (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Herbert Read (d) W.B. Yeats

45. D.H. Lawrence’s earliest work is: (a) The Rainbow (b) The White Peacock (c) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (d) Sons and the Lovers46. Dr. Aziz is a character in: (a) Train to Pakistan (b) A Passage to India (c) Twilight in Delhi (d) Howard’s End47. The first British poet who was influenced by

French Symbolists was: (a) Tennyson (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.H. Auden (d) W.B. Yeats48. “The moon is no door. It is a face, in its own

right,/White as a knuckle and terribly Upset.” Which figure of speech is used in the above lines?

(a) Personification (b) Metonomy (c) Allegory (d) Satire49. The figure of speech in “five miles meandering

in a mazy motion” is: (a) Metonomy (b) Synecdoche (c) Onomatopoeia (d) Alliteration50. When a senior Professor calls a young lecturer

Mr. Socrates, he is using the figure of Speech called:

(a) Metaphor (b) Irony (c) Satire (d) Hyperbole

1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (b) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (d) 21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (c) 25. (d) 26. (a) 27. (c) 28. (a) 29. (a) 30. (a) 31. (a) 32. (c) 33. (c) 34. (a) 35. (a) 36. (b) 37. (d) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (b) 41. (a) 42. (c) 43. (d) 44. (b) 45. (b) 46. (b) 47. (d) 48. (a) 49. (d) 50. (c)

anSwerS

exPlanationS

1. The Parson’s Tale is a tale in Chaucer’s poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales. The tale which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer’s pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose treatise on virtuous living.

2. In one of his most famous essays “The Study of Poetry”, Matthew Arnold wrote that, “Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and

most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry”. He considered the most important criteria used to judge the value of a poem were “high truth” and “high seriousness”. By this standard, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales did not merit Arnold’s approval.

3. My Fair Lady is a musical based upon G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion. It was prepared by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from Professor

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