Social History -September 2020

* Which British administrator sought to make everything as English as possible in a country which resembles England in nothing”, as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro? Lord Cornwallis
* Statement II: William Jones thought that in “imagination”, “ratiocination’, and philosophy, Indians were by no means inferior to Europeans.

Novel – September 2020

* Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincey’s ‘The English Mail – Coach’? The Vision of Sudden Death, The Glory of Motion
* Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:
B. Sons and Lovers
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A. Crome Yellow
C. Mrs Dalloway
* Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism? The Yellow Wallpaper, A Room of One’s Own

Poetry – September 2020

* Who among the following wrote Mazeppa, a long narrative poem about a seventeenth-century military leader of Ukraine? Lord Byron
* Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape victim who says “Even so distant, I can taste the grief”? “Deceptions”
* Author
A. John Keats – Comic
B. William Wordsworth – The Excursion
C. P. B. Shelley – Alastor
D. William Blake – Songs of Experience
* Which two poems in the following list are examples of a dramatic monologue? A. Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses” C. Carol Ann Duy, “Medusa”

Drama – September 2020

* Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter’s plays? Menace is in the air, but it is not pinned down, or explained.
* Which two of the following dramatists are associated with the Epic Theatre? Bertolt Brecht, Arnolt Bronnen
* Which two of the following oppositions are best evoked by Hamlet’s utterance- “To be or not to be”? between life and death, between doing and abstaining from doing
* Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? “Astride of a grave and a dicult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps.” Vladimir

* Arrange the following plays in the chronological order of publication: The Country Wife – All for Love – Venice Preserved – The School for Scandal

Non-Fiction – September 2020

* Essayist
A. George Orwell- ‘Why I Write”
B. Michel de Montaigne – “On the Cannibals”
C. Charles Lamb – “On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century”
D. Jonathan Swift – “A Modest Proposal”
* Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay? Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne
* What is the subject of Ivan’s controversial essay in Brothers Karamazov? Ecclesiastical courts

Criticism – September 2020

* Critics
A. Horace – Ars Poetica
B. John Dryden – Of Dramatic Poesy
C. Samuel Daniel – A Defence of Rhyme
D. Ben Jonson – Timber: or, Discoveries
* Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is – …verse only to the eye” , adding further that it “has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers”? Samuel Johnson
* Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry? Horace, Philip Sidney
* Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of ‘great art” in his essay “Style? The Divine Comedy. Les Misérables
* Author
A. Michel de Certeau – The Practice of Everyday Life
B. John Fiske – Understanding Popular Culture
C. Pierre Bourdieu – Distinction
D. Janice Radway – Reading the Romance

Theory – September 2020

* Course in General Linguistics
* How to Do Things with Words
* Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
* Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
* Who among presented the concept of ‘multi-accentuality of the sign, saying that signs possess an Inner dialectical quality and ‘evaluative accent’? Valentin Voloshinov
* Which one of the following statements is true about Aristotle’s poetics? He asserted the value of poetry by focusing on imitation (mimesis) rather than
* Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing dierent from men’s? Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous

* Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text’s reception? Hans Robert Jauss

Linguist

A. Paul Grice – cooperative principle
B. Edward Sapir – linguistic relativity
C. Ferdinand de Saussure – linguistic signs
D. Nancy Dorian – language death
Assertion A: Signs are never neutral or innocent. Reason R: In all cases signs are organized into systems that convey some meaning.
Statement I: Consumption is an outcome of self-interest and a maximization of personal pleasure. Statement II: There are strong correlations between social status and such things as housing styles, musical tastes and food preferences.

* Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and ‘performance’? Noam Chomsky

language/Research – September 2020

Assertion A: Research methods are a range of tools that are used for different types of inquiry. Reason R: The tools used in research are products of the situations in which they are applied.
Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T. S Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in The Metaphysical Poets’? Jean Racine, Charles Baudelaire

Terms – September 2020

* In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, ‘clinamen’? Poetic misprision
Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of emergence:
B. Stream of Consciousness
D. Defamiliarization
C. Practical Criticism
A. Heresy of Paraphrase

Q.36 As mentioned in -My First Acquaintance with Poets’ which poet does
William Hazlitt describe as the ”only person I ever knew who answered the
idea of a man of genius”?
1. Coleridge
2. Wordsworth
3. Byron
4. Shelley
Answer: 1
Q.37 Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of
Post-Structuralist criticism?
1. Denite structures underlie empirical events.
2. Language is representational.
3. Apprehension of reality is a construct.
4. Knowledge operates according to procedures that are axiomatic.
Answer: 3
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Q.38 Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines,
preceded by a Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index?
1. Ragtime
2. Pale Fire
3. The Inner Side of the Wind
4. Hourglass
Answer: 2
Q.39 What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday
Party?
1. A game of chess
2. A game of cards
3. Blind man’s bu4. Musical chairs
Answer: 3
Q.40 Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets?
1. John Dryden, George Herbert, and Alexander Pope
2. Henry Vaughan, John Dryden, and John Donne
3. John Donne, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell
4. Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot and Herbert Grierson
Answer: 3
Q.41 “Hari wrote a poem on the mountains-
. Which two of the following are
admissible statements about the above sentence?
A. The sentence is an example of lexical ambiguity.
B. The sentence is an example of structural ambiguity.
C. The sentence involves two deep structures.
D. The sentence involves two surface structures.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. 8 and D only
4. C and D only
Answer: 2
Q.42 Who among the following coined the dictum, the medium is the message?
A. Raymond Williams
B. Erving Goman
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C. Marshall McLuhan
D. John Fiske
Answer: 3
Q.43 Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam
and Eve’s marital quarrel?
A. Book 4
B. Book 6
C. Book 7
D. Book 9
Answer: 4
Q.44 Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical
theory exclusively?
A. Salmagundi
B. Diacritics
C. Collaloo
D. Grand Street
Answer: 2
Q.45 Which one of the following best explains the term ‘paralanguage?
A. The ways in which people mask what they mean by the words they use
B. The ways in which people show what they mean other than by the words they use
C. The ways in which words carry meanings unintended by the speaker
D. The ways in which the silence underlying speech communicates wrong meanings
Answer: 2
Q.46 Match List I and List II
List I
Terms
A. Superreader
B. Biopower
C. Bricolage
D. Chronotope
List II
Theorists
I. Michel Foucault
II. Mikhail Bakhtin
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III. Michael Riffaterre
IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – III, B – II, C – IV, D – I
2. A – III, B – I, C – IV, D – II
3. A – IV, B – I, C -III, D – II
4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
Answer: 2
Q.47 Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:
A. Advancement of Learning
B. The Origin of Species
C. On Heroes and Hero Worship
D. The Lives of the Poets
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, A, C, B
2. D, A, B, C
3. A D, C, B
4. A D, B, C
Answer: 3
Q.48 To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of
Dr. Faustus?
1. Perseus
2. Theseus
3. Icarus
4. Achilles
Answer: 3
Q.49 According to his essay ‘Civil Disobedience. what two things did Thoreau
learn from the night he spent in jail?
A. He concluded that the State is ultimately weak.
B. He realized that captivity inspires courage.
C. He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times.
D. He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human aairs.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
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2. A and C only
3. A and D only
4. C and D only
Answer: 2
Q.50 Which two of the following statements are applicable to ‘metalanguage’?
It is:
A. a technical language which describes the properties of language.
B. known as a ‘first-order’ language.
C. a ‘second-order language that replaces a ‘rst-order language with metaphors.
D. a ‘second-order’ language.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. C and D only
3. A and D only
4. B and C only
Answer: 3
Q.51 Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to
avoid the trap of plagiarism?
A. subjectivity
B. acknowledgement
C. citation
D. interpretation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
1. A and B only
2. A and C only
3. C and D only
4. B and C only
Answer: 4
Q.52 Arrange the following 18r^-century magazines in the chronological order
of publication:
A. The Critical Review
B. The Monthly Review
C. The Gentleman’s Magazine
D. The Rambler
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, D, B, C
2. D, A, B, C
3. B, A, C, D
4. C, B, D, A
Answer: 4
Q.53 Which two of the following poems are by Robert Browning?
A.
“Locksley Hall”
B.
“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
C.
“The Lady of Shalott”
D.
“Two in the Campagna”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. B and C only
3. A and C only
4. B and D only
Answer: 4
Q.54 Which of the following are the major themes in William Congreve’s The
Way of the World?
1. jealousy and revenge
2. love and intrigue
3. intrigue and death
4. love and loyalty
Answer: 2
Q.55 On December 11, 1823, Rammohan Roy addressed a letter to the British
authority which pleaded for modern western education and is considered
historically important for the introduction of English education in India. Who
was the letter addressed to?
1. Lord Amherst
2. Lord Minto
3. Lord Macaulay
4. Lord Bentick
Answer: 1
Q.56 Which one of the following is correct about Saussure’s analysis of
language?
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1. La longue is the system of a language.
2. Parole focuses on language as a system at a particular time.
3. La longue is the particular instance of speech and writing.
4. Parole is the study of language over a period of time.
Answer: 1
Q.57 Which one of the following essays holds that “As a method, realism is a
complete failure’?
A. Virginia Woolf,
“The Mark on the Wall”
B. Oscar Wilde,
“The Decay of Lying”
C. D H Lawrence,
“Why the Novel Matters”
D. Mary McCarthy,
“My Confession”
Answer: 2
Q.58 Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of
documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MIA Handbook?
A. Nunberg, Georey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
B. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage,
1991.
C. Nunberg, Georey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley. U of California P, 1996.
D. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage
Books, 1991.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A and C only
3. A and D only
4. B and C only
Answer: 3
Q.59 Which one of these statements denes the scope of semiotics?
1. Semiotics studies the sound systems of a language.
2. Semiotics is a study of sign systems.
3. Semiotics studies human sign system only.
4. Semiotics is a study of non-human sign systems only.
Answer: 2
Q.60 Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of
Structuralism?
A. Structuralism is concerned with signs and signication.
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B. A structuralist theory considers only verbal conventions and codes.
C. Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that inuenced the 20thcentury literary criticism.
D. Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reects a given
reality.
E. All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C and E only
2. A, D and E only
3. A, B and C only
4. A, B and E only
Answer: 2
Q.61 Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in:
1. Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice
2. Chaman Nahal’s Azadi
3. Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain
4. Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice
Answer: 2
Q.62 Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a signicant
event in English history?
1.
“The Musgrove Ritual”
2.
“The Speckled Band”
3.
“The Solitary Cyclist”
4.
“The Red-Headed League”
Answer: 1
Q.63 Match List I and List II
List I
Terms
A. arche-ecriture
B. cyborg
C. genotext
D. hermeneutic circle
List II
Theorists
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I. Julia Kristeva
II. Donna Haraway
III. Friedrich Schleiermacher
IV. Jacques Derrida
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – III
2. A – III, B – I, C – II, D – IV
3. A – III, B – II, C – IV, 0 – I
4. A – IV, B – I, C – II, D – Ill
Answer: 1
Q.64 Arrange the following plays in their chronological order:
A. The Country Wife
B. Cymbeline
C. The Spanish Tragedy
D. The Rivals
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, A, C, D
2. B, C, D, A
3. C, B, A, D
4. C, A, B, D
Answer: 3
Q.65 Which among the following novels includes a questionnaire for the reader
such as -Do you like the story so far? Yes () No ()’?
1. Mantissa by John Fowles
2. Waterland by Graham Swift
3. Snow White by Donald Barthelme
4. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by halo Calvin
Answer: 3
Q.66 Which two terms from among the following are specically linked to the
work of Pierre Bourdieu?
A. habitus
B. consciousness
C. desire
D. distinction
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. A and D only
3. B and D only
4. C and D only
Answer: 2
Q.67 Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel
by novelists?
A. The Brief Compass
B. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
C. The Visionary Company
D. Testaments Betrayed
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
1. A and B only
2. A and C only
3. B and C only
4. B and D only
Answer: 4
Q.68 Harold Skimpole is a character in:
1. Bleak House
2. Dombey and Son
3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist
Answer: 1
Q.69 Macaulay’s Minute of 1835 sought to:
A. promote European literature and science among the natives.
B. impart knowledge of English literature and science through translated texts.
C. encourage branches of native learning by more useful studies.
D. stop expenditure on the publication of oriental works and spend funds only on
English education.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. B and D only
3. A and C only
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4. B and C only
Answer: 1
Q.70 Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by
date of birth):
A. Anne Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Ann Radcliffe
D. Fanny Burney
E. Maria Edgeworth
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, A, D, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A
3. D, C, E, B, A
4. A, B, C, E, D
Answer: 3
Q.71 Arrange the following critical works in their chronological order of
publication:
A.
“Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
B.
“A Defence of Rhyme”
C.
“Life of Cowley”
D.
“The Frontiers of Criticism”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C, B and D
2. B, A, C and D
3. B, C, A and D
4. C, A, D and B
Answer: 3
Q.72 Who is the author of “A Fragment” (1819), one of the earliest vampire
stories in English?
1. P.B. Shelley
2. Lord Byron
3. Bram Stoker
4. Mary Shelley
Answer: 2
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Q.73 The Duchess of Malis based on:
1. a French romance
2. an Italian novella
3. a Geman fable
4. a Scottish chronicle
Answer: 2
Q.74 Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are:
1. religious, dramatic, romantic
2. classical, romantic, neo-classical
3. philosophical, imaginative, narrative
4. religious, philosophical, imaginative
Answer: 4
Q.75 Which two of the following events are described in Samuels Pepys’s Diary?
A. The Plague in London
B. The Great Fire of London
C. The War of Spanish Succession
D. Essex Rebellion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A and C only
3. B and C only
4. B and D only
Answer: 1
Q.76 Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only ‘science’ God has bestowed
on mankind, that informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan?
1. Astronomy
2. Architecture
3. Occult sciences
4. Geometry
Answer: 4
Q.77 Who among the following is known to have popularized the term
‘glocalization’?
1. Ronald Robertson
2. Francis Fukuyama
3. John Urry
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4. John Tomlinson
Answer: 1
Q.78 In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the
“perishable treasure” of a body ‘Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible?
1.
“Bog Queen”
2.
“Grauballe Man”
3.
“Punishment
4.
“Strange Fruit”
Answer: 4
Q.79 Arrange the following authors in the chronological order of their birth:
A. Oscar Wilde
B. William Langland
C. Georey Chaucer
D. John Dryden
E. Alexander Pope
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C, D, E, A
2. A, B, C, E, D
3. B, C, D, A, E
4. C, B, A, D, E
Answer: 1
Q.80 Which two characters/speakers among the following exhibit the studious
abstraction of scholars?
A. Shylock
B. Hamlet
C. II Penseroso
D. Mosca
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. B and C only
3. C and D only
4. A and C only
Answer: 2
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Q.81 Match List I and List II
List I
Lines
A.
“Monuments of unaging intellect”
B.
“in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart”
C.
“So mastered by the brute blood of the air”
D.
“As weary-hearted as that hollow moon”
Poems
I.
“Leda and the Swan”
II.
“Adam’s Curse”
III.
“Sailing to Byzantium”
IV.
“The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – III, – IV, C – II, D – I
2. A – III, B – I, C – IV, D – II
3. A – Ill, 8 – IV, C – I, D – II
4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
Answer: 3
Q.82 Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the
other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion A: The introduction of English in India was primarily for the benet and
consolidation of British power.
Reason R: English catered to the social and economic aspirations of the emerging
middle class and urban elites in India.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given
below
1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
2. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
Answer: 2
Q.83 Which two rivers are mentioned by Andrew Marvell at the beginning of
‘To His Coy Mistress’?
A. The Ganges
B. Thames
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C. Humber
D. The Jhelum
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. A and B only
3. A and C only
4. B and C only
Answer: 3
Q.84 Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist
criticism?
A. aura
B. actant
C. narratee
D. defamiliarization
E. foregrounding
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1. A and C only
2. B and D only
3. B and C only
4. D and E only
Answer: 4
Q.85 The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter
of novels by Anthony Burgess?
A. Milton
B. Marlowe
C. Shelley
D. Keats
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A and D only
3. B and C only
4. B and D only
Answer: 4
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Q.86 A research hypothesis is:
A. a proposition which is always true
B. a provisional explanation of anything
C. a theory which will be disproved by evidence
D. a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. B and D only
4. A and C only
Answer: 3
Q.87 Who among the following was the rst Director of the Central Institute of
English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now EFL University)?
1. Prof V.K. Gokak
2. Prof C.D. Narasimhaiah
3. Prof C.J. Daswani
4. Prof K. R. S. lyengar
Answer: 1
Q.88 Match List I and List II
List I
Author
A. Thomas Pynchon
B. Howard Jacobson
C. Anthony Burgess
D. John Berger
List II
Text
I. G.
II. V
III. J
IV. M/F
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – III
2. A – II, B – III, C – IV, D – I
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3. A – II, B – III, C – I, D – IV
4. A – IV, B – III, C – I, D – II
Answer: 2
Q.89 Match List I and List II
List I
Word Borrowed
A. mongoose
B. loot
C. curry
D. betel
List II
Source Indian Language
I. Tamil
II. Malayalam
III. Hindu/ Urdu
IV. Marathi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – IV, B – III, C – I, D – II
2. A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – III
3. A – II, B – III, C – IV, D – I
4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
Answer: 1
Q.90 The deductive method diers from the inductive method in drawing its
conclusions from:
1. verication
2. particular instances
3. applications
4. general truths
Answer: 4
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Daybreak
At dawn she lay with her prole at that angle
Which, sleeping, seems the stone face of an angel;
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Her hair a harp the hand of a breeze follows
To play, against the white cloud of the pillows.
Then in a flush of rose she woke, and her eyes were open,
Swimming with blue through the rose esh of dawn.
From her dew of lips, the drop of one word
Fell, from a dawn of fountains, when she murmured
‘Darling.
’ — upon my heart the song of the rst bird.
‘My dream glides in my dream,
’ she said,
‘come true.
I waken from you to my dream of you.
’
O, then my waking dream dared to assume
The audacity of her sleep. Our dreams
Flowed into each other’s arms. like streams.
– Stephen Spender
Q.91 Match List I and List II
List I
The Item
A.
‘Her Hair’
B.
‘pillows’
C.
‘breeze’
D.
‘cheeks’
List II
What it is an example of
I. player
II.
‘a harp’
III.
‘rose’
IV.
‘cloud’
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – I, B – II, C – IV, D – III
2. A – III, B – I, C – II, D – IV
3. A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – III
4. A – IV, B – III, C – I, D – II
Answer: 3
Q.92 Match List I and List II
List I
Item
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A.
‘Her Hair a harp’
B.
‘the hand of a breeze’
C.
‘seems the stone face’
D.
‘my waking dream’
List II
What it is an example of
I. Simile
II. Metaphor
III. Oxymoron
IV. Synecdoche
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – III
2. A – IV, B – II, C – III, D – I
3. A – IV, B – III, C – II, D – I
4. A – I, B – IV, C – II, D – III
Answer: 1
Q.93 Which among the following best describes the lady’s face as “At dawn she
lay…
” asleep?
1. Her face appears to be that of stone sculpture’s.
2. The side-view of her face appears to be that of a sculpted angel’s.
3. Her face appears to be that of a stone-angel.
4. The side-view of her face appears to be that of an angel’s.
Answer: 2
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Logic cannot have any empirical part; that is, a part in which the universal and
necessary laws of thought should rest on grounds taken from experience; otherwise,
it would not be logic, i.e., a canon for the understanding or the reason, valid for all
thought, and capable of demonstration. Natural and moral philosophy, on the
contrary, can each have their empirical part, since the former has to determine the
laws of nature as an object of experience; the latter, the laws of the human will, so
far as it is aected by nature: the former, however, being laws according to which
everything does happen; the latter, laws according to which everything ought to
happen. Ethics, however, must also consider the conditions under which what ought
to happen frequently does not
– Immanuel Kant
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Q.94 “Logic cannot have any empirical part”
, because:
A. laws of thought are subjective.
B. it propounds laws whose applicability can be shown.
C. its laws are valid for all thought.
D. its laws are valid for everyone’s experience.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. B and C only
3. A and C only
4. B and D only
Answer: 2
Q.95 Based on the given passage which two of the following statements are
correct?
A. For natural philosophy, nature inuences the laws.
B. For moral philosophy, nature is to be experienced.
C. Natural philosophy does not describe how things actually do happen.
D. Moral philosophy accounts for what should be.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. B and D only
3. C and D only
4. A and D only
Answer: 4
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
And the creature run from the cur?
There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog’s obeyed in oce, —
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;
Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind for which thou whipp’st her. The usurer
hangs the cozener.
Through tatter’d clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and ord gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw cloth
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pierce it.
-King Lear
Q.96 In the passage, the church ocer is asked to whip his own back rather
than the prostitute’s because:
1. as a religious man he should punish himself for others’ sins.
2. he at one time had lusted after her.
3. men like him make them prostitutes.
4. he does not have the authority to whip a woman.
Answer: 3
Q.97 Who speaks these lines and to whom?
1. Edgar to Lear
2. Goneril to Edgar
3. Lear to Gloucester
4. Gloucester to Lear
Answer: 3
Q.98 The two sentences in the lines from -Through tatter’d clothes.: to –
…straw
doth pierce it deal with two foibles, (i) vice and (ii) sin. About these two, the
speaker says that
1. Vice aicts all but sin aicts only the weak.
2. Sin aicts all but vice aicts only the strong.
3. Sin and vice are seen in both the weak and the strong.
4. Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.
Answer: 4
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold. white lips passionately
on its forehead: passed her hands over her face: gazed wildly around; shuddered:
fell back — and died. They chafed her breast. hands, temples; but the blood had
stopped forever. They talked of hope and comfort. They had been strangers too
long.
‘It’s all over, Mrs Thingummy!’
, said the surgeon at last.
– Dickens, Oliver Twist
Q.99 In the expression,
“passed her hands over her face”
, the ‘face’ is of:
1. the lady surgeon
2. the child
3. the nurse
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4. the patient
Answer: 4
Q.100 The implication of they had been strangers too long’ is:
1. Those who spoke of ‘hope and comfort’ had been strangers too long.
2.
‘Hope’ had been stranger to ‘comfort’ for too long.
3.
‘Hope and comfort’ had been stranger to the patient too long.
4.
‘Hope and comfort’ had been strangers to the surgeon, nurse and the patient too
long.
Answer: 3
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