BA I

A. Answer the foollowing question , choosing from the options

below.
1) Lyadurai Solomon taught Kalam that in order to make something
happen , one must.
a) Work very hard c) have an aptitude for the task at hand
b) Desire it intensely d) all of the above
2) Kalam hand always been fascinated by.
a) The teaching profession c)aeronautical engineering
b) Physics d) the flight of birds
3) Which of the following statements is not true about kalam?
a) Kalam always got the first rank throughout school and college.
b) Kalam benefitted from inspirational teachers at every level.
c) Kalam was an active participant in literary and cultural activities
organised by his college.
d) Kalam studied at MIT with the help of a scholarship.
4) What did kalam‟s friends in Rameswaram teach him?
a) The importace of spirituality
b) Effective time management
c) Self – awareness
d) A practical bent of mind
5) Which of these authors does kalam name as one of his favourite
writers?
a) Mahatma Gandhi c) Leo Tolstoy
b) Emily Bronte d) Isaac Newton
6) Why did kalam decide to study engineering?
a) It was more lucrative
b) It would help him get a job easily
c) It would help him achieve his childhood dream of flying
d) It was a cheaper option as compared to physics
7) ______ Believed that aptitude and passion for one‟s subject were the
key to success.
a) Prof sponder c) prof pandalai
b) Prof kurt tank d) Iyadurai solomon
8) Which of thes professors taught kalam,through a practical lesson,the
value of hard work and the importance of delivering under pressure?
a) Prof narasingha rao c) prof pandalai
b) Prof sponder d) prof srinivasan
9) What does the author describe as the inevitable corollary of loving?
a) Laughing c) losing
b) Marriage d) unbearable grief
10) Where did the sparrows build their nest?
a) Behind the air – conditioner c) in the kitchen
b) On a cupboard d) in the bedroom
11) The bird‟s nest comprised :
a) Grass , leaves and plastic sheets
b) Grass and hay
c) Flowers , leaves and insects
d) Grass , leaves and cotton wool
12) Why are the dogs sometimes slapped?
a) For playing with numm numm
b) For killing baby birds
c) For entering the bedroom
d) For destroying birds‟ nests
13) How did the female sparrow die?
a) She was killed by the dogs
b) She fell in to a bucket of water
c) She fell off from a high ledge
d) She hit the fan while flying
14) The female sparrow is :
a) Smaller, with a grey white and body
b) Smaller, with a black throat and chest
c) larger, with a grey white body
d) Smaller, with chestnut and black wings
15) What did the author find in the nest?
a) A baby bird c) both (a) and (b)
b) A speckled egg d) Neither (a) nor(b)
16) Numb needed to be fed every_____.
a) Day c) one hour
b) Two hours d) half hour

17) Which of these was numb not fed?

a) Dahlia c) watermelon
b) Insects d) bread
18) Why did the author refuse to document numm numm‟s growth?
a) She wanted to believe numb would stay with her forever
b) She found numbs growth uninteresting
c) She had a foreboding that numb would be killed soon
d) She disliked writing in diaries and journals.
19) What caused numb to lose confidence in her flying
abilities?
a) Her father‟s discouragement
b) The author‟s flying
c) The dog barking at her
d) The fan rotating at high speeds
20) What does the author decide to do after numb dies?
a) slap her dogs and get rid of them
b) close up her bedroom so that no more nests are built there
c) open a sanctuary for injured birds
d) kill the father sparrow as well
21) What was the precise moment when India become a free country?
a) Dawn c) midnight
b) Early evening d) noon
22) Why does Neharu say their „hearts are heavy with sorrow‟?
a) Because of the memories of hard times and comrades lost
b) Because the british haveleft india
c) Because of the partition
d) Because of the hard work which lies ahead
23) What aims does Nehru list for the nation to pursue ?
a) Ending British rule in Indian and eliminating all their systems
b) Making India the richest nation in the worlds and increasing the
GDP
c) Eradicating crime and increasing health and sanitation facilities
d) Ending poverty, ignorance , disease and in equality of
opportunity
24) Peace is ___________________
a) Invincible
b) Inconvertible
c) Indivisible
d) inveterate
25) Nehru compares freedom to:
a) The sun
b) Dawn
c) A star
d) Midnight
26) Who does Nehru credit as the architect of India‟s freedom?
a) Lord Mountbatten
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Nirad Chaudhari
d) Faceless and tireless freedom fighters
27) What does Nehru urge his fellow-Indians to eschew?
a) Poverty and illiteracy
b) Communalism and narrow – mindedness
c) Wealth and comfort
d) British habits and mannerisms
28) How did Ray begin his career?
a) As an actor
b) As a writer
c) As a graphic designer
d) As a poet
29) In Ray‟s opinion, films and advertising are similar fields because:
a) They both deal with lighting
b) They both utilise music
c) They both need a lot of money
d) They are both creative fields where artists express themselves
aesthetically.
30) How does Ray refer to cinema?
a) The highest form of commercial art
b) A fool‟s errand
c) Art for the people, by the people
d) Art for art‟s sake
31) Where did ray shoot Pather Panchali?
a) In the pristine backwaters of Kerala
b) In the dense mangroves of the Sunderbans
c) In the unglamorous backwoods of a Bengali village
d) In a dilapidated mansion in Calcutta
32) What did Ray find to be the hardest part of making his first film?
a) The lack of money
b) The back of practical experience
c) The lack of actors
d) The lack of equipment
33) What was the first frame Ray shot for his first film?
a) A girl drawing water from a well
b) A boy looking for his sister in a field of tall grass
c) A chariot race
d) A marriage
34) What major problem did Ray face while filming the music room?
a) Balancing means and ends
b) Finding actors
c) Lack of good music
d) Lack of time
35) The New Wave turned the lack of __________ into a virtue.
a) Actors
b) Money
c) Polish
d) Music
36) According to Ray, which European film maker displays á rare
economy of means‟?
a) Truffaut
b) Donskoi
c) Fellini
d) Antonioni
37) Which of these was a common question that most interviewers
asked ray?
a) The people whom had influenced
b) The awards that he had won
c) The people who had influenced him
d) The lessons he had learnt from ten years of film – making
38) What has ten years of film-making taught ray?
a) How to direct a film
b) Not to make a fetish of anything
c) How to get the most from his actors
d) Not to worry too much about money
39) What illusion‟ was Mrs Flaherty under?
a) That Ray‟s Pather Panchali had influenced her husband‟s work
b) That Ray had used professional actors in Pather Panchali
c) That the actors in pather panchali were villagers
d) That the husbands work had influenced Pather Panchali
40) What can an imaginative art director and good camera man do?
a) Make an entire film by themselves
b) Recreate locations so skilfully that even the keenest observer is
fooled
c) Assist the director and producer in all their tasks
d) Make a film about magic or fantasy seem realistic
41) What was not being sold by the merchants?
a) Turbans and tunics
b) Mirrors
c) Daggers
d) saffron
42) The vendors were weighing....................
a) Sandalwood
b) Henna
c) Lentil
d) Spice
43) Which of these does the goldsmith not make?
a) Wristlet
b) Anklet
c) Ivory dice
d) Ring
44) The maidens are engaged in ................
a) Weighing saffron and lentil and rice
b) Grinding sandalwood and henna and spice
c) Calling chessmen and ivory dice
d) None of the above
45) What are the fruit men selling?
a) Apple, apricots and dates
b) Citron, pomegranate and plum
c) Mango, jackfruit and banana
d) None of the above
46) Golden bells are meant for..........................
a) The girdles of dancers
b) The scabbards of the king
c) The feet of blue pigeon
d) Wristlets and anklets
47) By „Frail‟ the poet means that the dragonfly‟s wing is:
a) Strong
b) Delicate
c) Transparent
d) Thick
48) The musicians are engaged in playing .................
a) Flute, tumbrel and violin
b) Table, cymbal and harmoninum
c) Cithar, sarangi and drum
d) Guitar, shehnai and zylophone
49) For the bridegroom, the flower-girls weave..............
a) Crowns and chaplets
b) Garlands and chaplets
c) Bouquets and crowns
d) None of the above
50) „to perfume „means to
a) Add colour
b) Make fragrant
c) Make tasty
d) None of the above
51) Who or what is the subject of the poem?
a) A Flower
b) A woman
c) The moon
d) The personification of an abstract quality
52) What does the poet compare her beauty to?
a) A place with a clear skies
b) A temperate climate
c) A cloudless , starry night
d) A tender light from heaven
53) What does the poet see in her eyes?
a) His own reflection
b) A perfect blend of light and darkness
c) A starry sky
d) Heavenly light
54) How does the poet describe her hair?
a) Long and wavy
b) Black as a raven
c) Curly and golden
d) Black like the night
55) Where are the subject‟s thoughts reflected?
a) On her face
b) In her mind
c) In the poet‟s imagination
d) In a mirror
56) The phrase „dwelling-place‟ in the second stanza refers to...
a) The subject face
b) The poet‟s imagination
c) The subject‟s mind
d) The poet‟s lines
57) Which of the following is true?
a) The subject inner beauty is in contrast to her external appearance.
b) The poet‟s admiration of her external beauty is diminished by her
personality.
c) The subject inner beauty corresponds to her external
appearance.
d) None of the above
58) What contrasting set imagery is prominently featured in this poem?
a) Beauty and ugliness
b) Light and darkness
c) Goodness and evil
d) Innocence and experience
59) What is name of the woman in the poem?
a) Grace
b) Raven
c) Anne
d) She has not been named.
60) How do ones children change when one enters middle age?
a) They turn from needy dependents into friends.
b) They turn from friends to critics.
c) They turn from critics to friends.
d) They turn from children to adults.
61) Children are compared to _________in the poem
a) Pupae
b) Cocoons
c) Butterflies
d) Critics
62) How does the speakers deal with the loss of closeness with her
son?
a) By criticising him
b) By writing letters to him in golden ink
c) By reminiscing about old times while touching their belongings
d) By serving them tea and ironing their clothes
63) What does the speaker son accuse her of?
a) Living in a dream-world
b) Turning into a critic, form a friends
c) Thinking she is younger than she actually is
d) Touching his books and things
64) Why did the elephant go berserk?
a) Because of the severe cold
b) Because of the pouring rain
c) Because of the noise from firecrackers
d) Because of the heat of the summer sun
65) The ____________ comforted the sparrows when they were
crying.
a) Fly
b) Elephant
c) Woodpecker
d) Frog
66) Who came up with the plan to destroy the elephant?
a) Wood picker
b) Frog
c) sparrows
d) fly
Semester II
1) whose photographs does Sudha Murthy have on her office wall?
a) Her parents and her guru
b) Her various buildings owned by the Infosys group
c) Narayana Murthy and her children
d) IRD and Jamsethji tata
2) What subject did Sudha Murthy study at the master‟s leval?
a) Civil engineering
b) Automobile engineering
c) Computer engineering
d) Software development
3) What about TELCO‟s job requirement notice angered Sudha Murthy?
a) Poor grammar and several punctuation mistakes
b) Gender discrimination
c) Low salaries being offered
d) Discrimination against people with no work experience
4) What were Sudha Murthy reasons for attending TELCO‟s interview?
a) A free trip to pune during which she could buy sarees for her
friends
b) Gaining experience of job interviews and having her resume screened
c) The prestige associated with a company owned by the Tata groups
d) The inducement of being the first female engineer to work with
TELCO
5) Why did Sudha Murthy have to resign form TELCO?
a) She wanted to pursue a PhD in the USA
b) She was founding a new company with her husband
c) She disliked being the only woman to work on the shop floor
d) She was moving to Pune after her marriage
6) What advice did JRD Tata give Sudha Murthy when she was leaving
TELCO?
a) to always have confidence and give back society
b) To never make rash decisions and to save for the future
c) To never put all her eggs in one basket and diversify her investments
d) To cultivate hobbies and always make time for them
7) What would Sudha Murthy wish for from life?
a) For every child to have a good education
b) For more and more girls to study engineering
c) For JRD Tata to skill be alive and see how her company has
grown
d) For Infosys to become the world‟s largest employer
8) What does Sudha Murthi compare JRD Tata to ?
a) The sea
b) The sky
c) A tiger
d) A giant
9) The narrator prides himself on his __________
a) Cooking
b) Packing
c) Stitching
d) Mending
10) Which of these does the narrator always forget to pack?
a) Strawberry jam
b) Teaspoons
c) Soap
d) Toothbrush
11) What did George and Harris offer to pack ?
a) The clothes
b) The toiletries
c) The hamper
d) Fishing equipment
12) __________ is the worst packer in the world, according to the
narrator
a) George
b) Harris
c) Montgomery
d) None of the above
13) What did the narrator do to irritate George and Harris?
a) Sit on the edge of the table, watching them
b) Forget to pack the soap
c) Pack the strawberry jam on a tomato, squashing it
d) Encourage Montgomery
14) Which of these did Harris sit on?
a) Tomatoes
b) Butter
c) Strawberry jam
d) Montgomery
15) Which of these mishaps did not happen to the butter?
a) Montgomery eating it
b) George trading on it
c) Getting stuck to a slipper
d) Getting stuck in the kettle
16) Montmorency‟s ambition is to :
a) Pretend the lemons are rats
b) Break every available dish
c) Get in the way
d) Help people pack for trips
17) What reflection comforted George?
a) The packing was done at last
b) They were to go on an enjoyable trip. Despite starting troubles.
c) The butter was salvaged.
d) Whatever was broken, was broken
18) Why did the narrator want to wake up at six?
a) To write letters
b) To do some last-minute packing
c) To feed Montgomery
d) To clean the house
19) George did not reply to the narrator and Harris because:
a) He disagreed with them
b) He was already asleep
c) He was too busy packing
d) He was in another room
20) How did the narrator and Harris revenge themselves on George?
a) By instructing Montgomery to bite his ankles as soon as he woke up
b) By pouring cold water over him
c) By lacing the bath right where he could fall into it when he woke
up
d) By leaving him behind and going alone on the boating trip
21) Who accompanied Shaw to the Zetetical society meeting?
a) H. G. Wells
b) Darwin
c) Lecky
d) He went there alone.
22) How did Shaw come across to the Society?
A) A Fearful, timid man
B) A loud, brash and overconfident man
C) A cowardly foolish man
D) A scholarly and intelligent man
23) Shaw‟s first successful debate was on
a) Socialism
b) Women‟s Suffrage
c) Separation of church and state
d) Art
24) What was Shaw known as?
a) Six policemen
b) The price of a third-class railway ticket
c) Fourteen dollars
d) He did not charge a fee
25) Shaw triumphed over the situation in St James‟s Hall by:
a) Resigning from the committee
b) Making an incendiary speech to provoke his opponents
c) Using his copious notes to successfully persuade his opponents
d) Returning his fee
26) Shaw‟s maxim while on a committee was:
a) Something must be done.
b) Do no evil
c) Never resign.
d) Power to the Proletariat.
27) Which of the following is essential to become a good public
speaker?
a) Practice
b) Good elocution
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Perseverance
28) Shaw retired in his _______ Year
a) Ninety-seventh
b) Forty – fifth
c) Sixtieth
d) Eighty-fifth
29) What does the term „wandering scholar; mean in the context of this
text?
a) A learned man who is also a great traveller
b) An alumnus of the institution
c) A student who wandered away before he could complete his
studies
d) A person who prefers to learn by travelling, instead of
30) What is only penalty youth must pay?
a) Attending university
b) Having time and energy but no money
c) Being forced to excel academically
d) Having to listen to those who are older
31) On such occasions very little truth is spoken. „what are these
occasions ?
a) Weddings
b) Funerals
c) Older people advising younger people
d) Speeches given film festivals
32) Why does the speaker refrain from saying what he knows of youth?
a) The teachers would abject
b) Is was not the appropriate venue to discuss the topic
c) The students would be too bored
d) What he knows is known by everyone else as well
33) What is the „organised conspiracy‟ the speaker refers to?
a) obtaining wealth is the greatest objective of life
b) obtaining high marks is the greatest objective of life
c) obtaining a joy is the greatest objective of life
d) obtaining Friends is the greatest objective of life
34) Money dominates everybody except the man who.....
a) is already wealthy
b) does not want money
c) is a hermit
d) is well-educated
35) one of the most terrible calamities that can overtake a sane civilised
white man in the Empire, according to Kipling is:
a) to find out hi is of mixed university
b) to find out he is of mixed-race parentage
c) to be called a ‘smart man’
d) to be sent to one of the penal colonies
36) what does Kipling suggest as a cure for the depression and despair
sometimes accessioned by youth?
a) To earn as much money as possible
b) To faithfully serve the empire
c) To study the „smart man‟
d) To lose oneself in the service of others
37) The greatest liars, according to Kipling are:
a) One’s own sensations
b) Those who are older and are termed to be wise
c) Smart men
d) Civilised society
38) Which of these pieces of advice does Kipling not give in his
speech?
a) To serve others
b) To study the maxims of Socialism
c) To study the man who does not value money
d) To never take oneself too seriously
39) What is a student‟s duty by his fellow student‟s?
a) To share his money with them
b) To coach them in the subject they find difficult
c) To lead them away from materialistic pursuits to higher things
d) To ensure they are patriotic and religious
40) When do you think it is most likely that this speech was given?
a) At a wedding
b) At university‟s convocation ceremony
c) At a university’s inaugural
d) At a birthday party
41) What is our „vast collective madness?
a) Money
b) Workaholism
c) Alcoholism
d) Mobile phones
42) Who does the poet mean by „multitude‟?
a) One‟s family
b) Peer pressure
c) Society
d) Voices inside ones head
43) What inspire the „strange terror „caused by a lack of money?
a) The fear of homelessness
b) The fear of ill-treatment by one’s fellow-men
c) The fear of poverty
d) The fear of starvation
44) Who does an excessive fear of losing money lead to?
a) Miserliness
b) Poverty
c) Delirium
d) Richness
45) Money will save us from ________
a) Eating fellow humans
b) Eating junk food
c) Eating nothing
d) Eating dirt
46) The phrase „eating dirt‟ is:
a) A simile
b) A metaphor
c) An alliteration
d) A conceit
47) What things should be provided free of cost, according to the poet?
a) Bread shelter and fire
b) Bread butter and jam
c) Education and housing
d) Electricity and water
48) What uniforms are being referred to in the poem?
a) Uniform skin colour
b) School uniform
c) Soldier‟s war uniforms
d) Prison uniforms
49) In the end, all men shall:
a) Be buried in the same earth
b) Go to heaven
c) Become zombies
d) Battle each other
50) What do we read in the lines of the hands of our enemies?
a) Their future
b) Our future
c) Their occupation
d) A labour not different from our own
51) __________ is won by love
a) Marriage
b) Strength
c) Courage
d) Loyalty
52) When we do wrong against other human beings, it is ______ we
cheat and harm
a) Them
b) Their parents
c) Their countrymen
d) Ourselves
53) What is war compared to in the poem?
a) Hellfire
b) A long winter
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Neither (a) and (b)
54) When the speaker sees another person in distress, he feels
___________
a) Happy
b) Sorrowful
c) Angry
d) Wrathful
55) When the speaker sees someone in need, his instinct is to :
a) Offer help
b) Cry
c) Run away
d) Moan
56) The poet asks a series of questions in the first three stanzas, which
are not really meant to seek answers. This literary device is called:
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Apostrophe
d) Rhetorical questions
57) Who is the „He‟ being referred to in the poem?
a) An anonymous father
b) William Blake
c) God
d) The angel Gabriel
58) „He becomes an infant small; / He becomes a man of woe‟. This
indicates:
a) Oneness
b) Empathy
c) Sympathy
d) Universal brotherhood
59) Why does He give to us his joy?
a) So that our grief may be destroyed
b) So that our joy is doubled
c) So that we may have balanced emotions
d) So that we never know what sorrow is
Compulsory English
B A Part II (Semesters III & IV)
1) What does the author think is common between all human being and
races?
a) The capacity for evil
b) The human heart and soul
c) The capacity for goodness
d) The tendency towards empire building
2) Who or what is Swami Vivekananda grateful for?
a) He is grateful to India for giving birth to him
b) Hi is grateful to his parents for giving him everything he ever wanted
c) He is grateful to the west for opening their hearts, minds and homes to
him
d) He is not grateful for anything
3) Whom does he blame for his weaknesses?
a) India
b) The West
c) The English
d) Himself
4) What is the animal that he is referring to?
a) Unaware man
b) The animals for the forest
c) Cruelty
d) Pride
5) Where did man break through the fetters of delusion?
a) England
b) America
c) India
d) Shi Lanka
6) What is the solution, according to the author, to modern money-madness?
a) Renunciation
b) Living a life of privilege
c) Making more money
d) Nothing
7) According to Lynd, who cannot distinguish between the songs of cuckoos
and thrushes?
a) He himself
b) Almost everyone
c) About ten percent of the population
d) No one
8) Why was Socrates famed for his wisdom?
a) Because he knew everything
b) Because he Could answer any question
c) Because he was a great teacher
d) Because he realised at age seventy that he knew nothing
9) Who said that ray was England‟s main crop?
a) Robert Lynd
b) A prominent English author
c) Robert Bly
d) An ignorant townsman
10) Who is the author envies of?
a) Benjamin Disraeli
b) Benjamin Jowett
c) Benjamin Button
d) Benjamin Netanyahu
11) Where did the swallow want go?
a) Egypt
b) Syria
c) The Congo
d) India
12) What does the ruby go to?
a) A Seamstress
b) A poor Students
c) A match girl
d) No one
13) What jewels are the Prince‟s eyes made of?
a) Beryls
b) Rubies
c) Sapphires
d) Diamonds
14) Who come to answer the king‟s questions?
a) Everyone
b) Learned men
c) His enemies
d) His friends
15) What was the hermit doing when the king went to meet him?
a) Planting trees
b) Meditating
c) Digging the ground
d) Eating lunch
16) How did the king help the injured man?
a) He didn‟t help him
b) He changed his bandages
c) He hot medicine
d) He got his own doctor to come and help
17) Did the king give the reward to anyone?
a) To the hermit
b) To no one
c) To his councillors
d) To himself
18) What does the poet not want to do?
a) Believe that is an obstacle to true lave
b) Describe love
c) Talk about love
d) Talk about death
19) What is poem about?
a) True love
b) Death
c) Time
d) Life
20) What does he mean by „wand‟ ring bark?
a) Drift wood
b) A ship
c) A star
d) A piece of paper
21) What is the rhyme scheme of the first four lines of the poem?
a) Abab
b) Abba
c) Abcd
d) Abcc
22) What implement does time carry?
a) A pitchfork
b) A scythe
c) A compass
d) A clock
23) What is meant by the phrase ‟strong nerves‟?
a) A healthy person
b) The courage to face difficulties
c) Physical strength
d) Pride and glory
24) What are the „action of the just‟ compared to in the laser line of the
lyric?
a) Death
b) Brave deeds
c) Blood
d) Flowers
25) Who is the ultimate lord of all according to the poet?
a) Time
b) Death
c) Life
d) God
26) What does the poet wish to do like sheep and cows?
a) Stand beneath boughs
b) Sleep beneath boughs
c) Gaze meditatively
d) Graze peacefully
27) What do the squirrels in the woods do?
a) Hide themselves from humans
b) Hide nuts in the woods
c) Stand and stare
28) Whom does the poet talk about in lines 9-12 of the poem?
a) His wife
b) His lover
c) His mother
d) Beauty itself
29) What does the poet imagine beauty doing?
a) Walking
b) Staring
c) Singing
d) Dancing
30) What does the poet compare his baby to?
a) A baby
b) An innocent flower
c) Tears
d) An angel
31) What is the tone of this poem?
a) Excited
b) Despairing
c) Comic
d) Anxious
32) Which of the following colours are used in the poem?
a) Brown
b) Red
c) Blue
d) Ebony
33) Like a burden she hangs on me Identify the figure o fspeech used
in this line
a) Antonym
b) Hyperbole
c) Simile
d) Idiom

SEMESTER IV
1) Orwell finds society‟s attitude towards beggars ...
a) Interesting
b) Despicable
c) Curious
d) Amusing
2) Why does Orwell compare beggars to Criminals‟
a) He despises them
b) Society treats them both as outcasts
c) He feels they should be imprisoned
d) They earn a living by stealing
3) Which of the following professions has not been mentioned in the
essay?
a) Accountant
b) Literary critic
c) Construction worker
d) Banker
4) Who is this letter addressed to?
a) The author himself
b) The author son
c) The reader
d) No one
5) What does his son first say about the school?
a) That it is full of stupid people
b) That he loves his school
c) That he doesn‟t want to leave home
d) That he doesn‟t want to come back home
6) According to the author what is the source of his misfortune?
a) To be bred among Dissenters
b) To be taught to feel superior to everyone else
c) To be poor
d) To have too many children
7) Which of the following adjectives does the author use to describe his
child?
a) Spoiled
b) Precious
c) Precocious
d) Happy
8) With the introduction of the character named Vivienne , What angel
does the author seem to introduce to the story?
a) Tragic
b) Romantic
c) Mystery
d) Comic
9) What made Vivienne hesitate to go and live with Hartley?
a) She did not wish to live in the city
b) She did not wish to live in the suburbs
c) Shi had got a job somewhere else
d) Shi did not like Hertley
10) Who was Heloise?
a) Hartley‟s wife
b) Hartley‟s old friends
c) Vivienne‟s friends
d) Hartley‟s cook
11) What did the narrator and Gip find in place of the shop keeper
when he suddenly vanished?
a) A white rabbit
b) A kitten
c) A glass ball
d) A magician‟s hat
12) Why did the narrator not want to go to the show-room of the magic
shop?
a) He was scared
b) Hi did not have much time
c) He felt the magic was a little too genuine
d) His son was scared
13) What did Gip‟s fourth parcel from the magic shop contain?
a) A magic train
b) A kitten
c) A pigeon
d) A magic toy sword
14) „like a thing in a nightmare it was‟ what is the narrator talking
about hear?
a) His son disappearing
b) The show-room
c) The magic tricks that the shop keeper was showing them
d) The actions of one of the odd-looking assistants
15) In the poem, the country is imagined as ......
a) Heavenly
b) Free
c) Sleeping
d) Awake
16) Whom does the poet refer to using the phrase „my father‟?
a) The reader
b) His country
c) God
d) His father
17) Reason is compared to a ......
a) Country
b) Stream
c) Mountain
d) Desert
18) The poet hopes that our minds would be directed by....
a) Thought
b) God
c) Freedom
d) Action
19) What does the „domestic‟ in the phrase „narrow domestic walls
indicate?
a) Reluctance to look beyond one‟s own community
b) Reluctance to be hally in one‟s home
c) Reluctance to return to one‟s country
d) None of the above
20) What does the phrase „head ....... held high give an impression of ?
a) Pride and fear
b) Fear and integrity
c) Fearlessness and pride
d) Freedom and fear
21) The poem expresses the poet‟s?
a) Regret for the past
b) Record of the future.
c) Imaginative fantasies.
22) Which of the Following phrases gives a sense of forward motion?
a) From the depth of truth
b) The clear stream of reason
c) Let my country awake
d) Ever-widening thought and action
23) Who is poet addressing?
a) Himself
b) Time
c) Death
d) God
24) Where is he located at the moment?
a) On the last steps of a flight of stairs
b) At the end of his life
c) At the entrance to a house
d) At bottom of a well
25) What is the refrain of the poem?
a) Softly, o softly
b) No more – oh, never more
c) Faster than fairies
d) The charge of the light brigade
26) Which of the following seasons are not mentioned in the poem?
a) Spring
b) Summer
c) Winter
d) Autumn
27) How does he describe his heart?
a) Happiness
b) Sorrow
c) Despair
d) Regret
28) Identity the figure speech used in the title of the poem
a) Metaphor
b) Metonymy
c) Personification
d) Alliteration
29) What is the object of the poet‟s search in the poem?
a) A job
b) Poetic success
c) The women he loves
d) Spiritual bliss
30) Pick out the correct meaning of the word „looking – glass‟
a) Window
b) Mirror
c) Binoculars
d) French window
31) Which of these best describes the poet‟s attitude in the last two
lines of the poem?
a) Hopeful
b) Content
c) Agitated
d) Dejected
32) What is the nature of the journey to be undertaken?
a) It is easy but long
b) It is difficult but short
c) It is easy and short.
d) It is difficult and long
33) Which of the following images best suggests the arduous nature of
the journey?
a) For the night a resting – palace
b) The slow dark hours
c) Journey.... the whole long day
d) Road wind up – hill all the way
34) What might the inn at the end of the road stand for?
a) Life
b) Death
c) Heaven
d) Hope
35) Who are the wayfarers „who have gone before‟?
a) The unborn
b) The living
c) The dead
d) Travel companions
36) What can you infer about the poet form this poem?
a) The writer is a woman
b) The writer is religious.
c) The writer is irreligious.
d) The writer is religious and a woman
37) What does the road symbolise?
a) Life
b) Death
c) Heaven
d) Hope
38) The poem provides ________________ to the faithful.
a) Rest and reward
b) Despair and reassurance
c) Strength and rest
d) Hope and reassurance
39) What do „the slow dark hours‟ represent?
a) Night
b) Rest
c) Death
d) Sleep
Compulsory English
B A III
MCQ
1) Frampton was advised complete rest from...
a) Travel and adventure
b) Arguments or conversation
c) Mental excitement and vigorous exercise
d) Romance and intrigue
2) Who suggested that Frampton visit Mrs Sappleton?
a) Mr Sappleton
b) His sister
c) Vera
d) his wife
3) What was Mrs. Sappleton‟s reaction to Framoton‟s running out of the
room?
a) Delight
b) Anger
c) Astonishment
d) Annoyance
4) Who were the others travelling with the bishop?
a) Three hermits
b) Pilgrims
c) Fisherman
d) Scholars
5) Why did the bishop teach the hermits how to pray?
a) Because they were not pious
b) Because they prayed very little
c) Because they did not pray as per custom
d) None of the above
6) How did the steersman respond to the sight of the hermits running on
the water?
a) With joy
b) With awe
c) With fear
d) With interest
7) According to many in India, Swaraj meant.....
a) To drive the British out of India
b) To have one‟s own army and navy
c) To get rid of slavery
d) To vote for one‟s leaders.
8) In this dialogue, the „Reader‟ represents.....
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) The Indian freedom fighter
c) The person reading the dialogue
d) The British
9) In this dialogue, the tiger represents.....
a) The British
b) The Indians
c) The Reader
d) The Editor.

10) The most important arts, without which all other talents
seem obscured, are.....
a) Reading and writing
b) Singing and dancing
c) Speaking and pleasing
d) All of the above
11) What benefits does a winter journey have, according to
lord Chesterfield?
a) It is full of distresses
b) It develops ones patience
c) It is more comfortable than a summer journey.
d) It allows more time for self development
12) Where is the speaker going to?
a) A wedding
b) A marketplace
c) A fair
d) A house
13) Which of the following words best match the perspective
of the speaker of the poem?
a) Modern
b) Conservative
c) Feminist
d) Secular
14) What are the bangles ‟tokens‟ of ?
a) The cultures of India
b) The colours of the rainbow
c) The lives of their wearers
d) The blessings of loved ones
15) Who is called „little Prig‟?
a) The mountain
b) A tree
c) The squirrel
d) A man
16) How spry is the mountain?
a) The mountain is not spry
b) Very spry
c) Not as spry as the squirrel
d) A little spry
17) The word „sphere‟ in the poem means.....
a) A circle
b) The world.
c) The universe.
d) The sun
18) What was Miss Brill‟s profession?
a) Nurse
b) Teacher
c) Actress
d) Musician
19) Where does the story take place?
a) a carnival
b) a park
c) a city street
d) a town square

20) Which of the following is not a theme of this story?

a) Loneliness and alienation
b) Life and death
c) Youth and age
d) None of the above
21) Where would Miss Brill eat her slice of cake?
a) At home, with tea
b) On her way home from the baker‟s
c) In the park
d) At work
22) The narrator carried his money....
a) In the form of coins in a sock.
b) As a crumpled ball in his pocket.
c) In a wallet.
d) As traveller‟s cheques
23) What was the manager‟s reaction on learning the
narrator‟s purpose?
a) Indifference
b) Amusement
c) Annoyance
d) None of the above
24) Which of these worlds is not applicable to the narrator?
a) Bold
b) Timid
c) Anxious
d) Hesitant
25) What is the schoolmaster‟s reaction to filthy language?
a) Indifference
b) Amusement
c) Shock
d) None of the above
26) What is the schoolmaster‟s reaction to Socrates telling
him that he must educate children‟s characters?
a) Annoyance
b) Reluctance
c) Willingness
d) Incomprehension
27) The villager‟s view of Socrates is that.....
a) Hi is a bit too friendly
b) Hi is unconcerned about them.
c) Hi is always finding faults.
d) Hi is ignorant
28) Which word best describes the reaper‟s song?
a) Joyous
b) Sorrowful
c) Upbeat
d) Aggravating
29) What was the singer doing while singing?
a) Sitting above in a field
b) A cutting grass
c) Harvesting crops
d) Weaving baskets
30) Who was the solitary reaper?
a) An English traveller
b) An Arabian singer
c) A Scottish Farmer
d) None of the above
31) According to the poet, what is the „most vital thing in
life?
a) Strife
b) Poise
c) Silence
d) Passion
32) When one has been defrauded, it is easy to be.....
a) Angry
b) Poised
c) Selfish
d) Tranquil
33) What action does the poet recommend why one is angry
or disappointed?
a) Meditation
b) Confrontation
c) Silence
d) Belligerence
ELT SEM I
1) Where was Upagupta sleeping?
a) On a beach near Mathura
b) Inside the city of Mathura
c) Beside the city wall of Mathura
d) To the left of the ramparts of Mathura
2) What made the woman tremble in fear?
a) The sudden flash of lightning
b) The sense of an unknown danger
c) The loud noise of thunder
d) Upagupta‟s prophecy
3) When did Upaguta return to the city?
a) Exactly an year later
b) On a warm april evening
c) In late July, on an overcast day threatening heavy rain
d) On a sweltering may afternoon
4) Who does the soaker say could correctly judge what kind of sleep his
was?
a) Woodchuck
b) Woodpecker
c) God
d) Other apple- pickers
5) The speaker is sure that he will dream of
a) Woodchucks
b) Hoary grass
c) Ladders pointing at the sky
d) Large apples
6) What essence saturates the air?
a) Apple
b) Cedar
c) Autumn
d) Winter sleep
7) What made the speaker drowsy?
a) The scent of cider
b) The scent of apples
c) The fragrance of vanilla
d) Wood smoke
8) Why did tom Darcy cry?
1) His mother had died.
2) His father sold him off
3) His hair was shaved off.
4) His hair had turned snow white.
9) Who sets the boys free?
a) Their parents
b) God
c) An angel
d) The law forbidding child labour
10) What hope sustains the boys as they perform their hard
labour?
a) The promise of good wages
b) Angels setting them free from their labour
c) Being hired to do better jobs in the future
d) God watching over and protecting them
11) The light gleams on which coast?
a) French
b) English
c) Aegean
d) Russian
12) Where is the poet standing when hi begins to recite the
poem?
a) At the foot of the cliffs
b) On the French coast
c) On the beach at Dover
d) In the tranquil boy
13) What does stanza 3 refer to?
a) The Greek civilisation and literature
b) The distant northern sea
c) The question of faith
d) The commonality of human experience
14) What is the mood of the poet in the last stanza of the
poem?
a) Full of hope and cheer
b) Full of scepticism and uncertainty
c) Full of misery and despair
d) Full of faith in humankind
15) Where is the child sleeping?
a) In bed
b) In a hammock
c) Inside her room
d) In a cradle
16) What is the speaker brooding about?
a) The future
b) The past
c) His finances
d) The coming storm
17) What are the roots of innocence and beauty?
a) Intelligence, courage
b) Honesty, purity
c) Custom, ceremony
d) Kindness, courtesy
18) Being too beautiful may cause one to:
a) Lose one‟s youth sooner
b) Lose natural kindness
c) Lose all one‟s wealth
d) Gain many admirers
19) What is Natalya and Lomov‟s first quarrel about?
a) The threshing machine
b) Their dogs
c) The brunt marsh
d) The Oxen Meadows
20) What is Lomov come to Chubukov‟s house?
a) To propose to his daughter
b) To borrow their threshing machine
c) To clime the Oxen Meadows
d) For a neighbourly chat
21) Natalya and lomov quarrel about guess and Squeezer.
What are these?
a) Names of field
b) Names of dogs
c) Names of meadows
d) Names of their servants
22) Why does the girl not want to read
a) Her book is boring.
b) The light is too poor to read
c) She is illiterate
d) She soon has to leave the park
23) We are drown to that which :
a) We love
b) We understand
c) We do not understand
d) We want to explore
24) What is the girl real name?
a) Mary Jane Watson
b) Michelle Parker
c) Maya Lowell
d) Mary Jane Parker
25) The car is waiting for
a) The young man
b) The girl
c) The waitress
d) For nobody in particular
26) Which of the following is an example of allegory?
a) Jane Eyre
b) 1984
c) Mrs Dalloway
d) Animal Farm
27) Three-quarters of English poetry is written in:
a) Iambic pentameter
b) Rhyming couplets
c) Blank verse
d) Free verse
28) „Water, water everywhere,/not a drop to drink‟ is an
example of.
a) Dramatic irony
b) Verbal irony
c) Situational irony
d) Subjective irony
29) A poem delivered as a narrative speech by a character
who is not the poet is called
a) Dramatic monologue
b) Petrarch an sonnet
c) Metaphysical conceit
d) Allegory
30) Rasa is conveyed through:
a) Bhava
b) Raga
c) Tala
d) Laya
31) Which bhava conveys the adbhuta (marvellous) rasa?
a) Revulsion
b) Amazement
c) Fear
d) Enthusiasm
32) What does „rasa‟ mean?
a) Taste
b) Smell
c) Juice
d) Feel
33) A criticism that can be levelled at Bharata‟s rasa theory is
that it is:
a) Overly complicated
b) Elitist
c) Self-contradictory
d) Outdated
34) _____________ is a method advocated by new Critics.
a) Reading with socio-political context
b) Reading as per the author‟s intention
c) Close reading
d) Speed reading
35) Blackmur focused on the study of ___________
a) Author‟s biographical details
b) The socio-political context
c) Technique
d) Form and rhyming style
36) ________ Proposed the concept of „tenshion‟ in poetry.
a) Allen Tate
b) Cleanth Brooks
c) R. P. Blackmur
d) John Crowe Ransom
37) Who is considered the father of Existentialism?
a) Soren Kierkegaard
b) Jean-Paul Sartre
c) Gabriel Marcel
d) Fyodor Dostoevsky
38) Which of this artistic movements was influenced by
Existentialism?
a) Harlem Renaissance
b) Gothic art and Literature
c) Surrealism
d) Cubism
39) Who coined the term existentialism‟?
a) Jean-Paul Sartre
b) Simone de Beauvoir
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Gabriel Marcel
40) Which theatre movement was inspired by Existentialism?
a) Comedy of Manners
b) Absurdist Theatre
c) Soul theatre
d) Improve theatre
ELT SEM II

1) In what vessel does God decide to concentrate the world‟s riches?

a) A glass
b) Man
c) Earth
d) The universe
2) Which of these blessing were not given to man ?
a) Strength beauty
b) Rest
c) Honour
3) God gives out blessings from a ________
a) Jar
b) Bag
c) Drum
d) Glass
4) What are we out of tune‟ with?
a) The sea
b) The howling wind
c) Sleeping flowers
d) All of nature
5) The speaker world rather be a:
a) Modernist
b) Pagan
c) Heathen
d) Romantic
6) Who among these gods owns a wreathed horn?
a) Proteus
b) Poseidon
c) Triton
d) Zeus
7) Where does the father go to contemplate?
a) his room
b) his study
c) the balcony
d) the toilet
8) what does the father dream of?
a) His ancestors and grandchildren
b) Nomads entering India through a narrow pass
c) Becoming friends with his children
d) Retiring early
9) What refreshment does the father partake of when he reaches home?
a) Hips and black coffee
b) Strong tea and biscuits
c) Weak tea and a stale chapatti
d) Weak tea and bread
10) Who narrates the story of Ozymandies?
a) The poet
b) A traveller
c) Ozymandias himself
d) A friend of the poet‟s
11) What kind of parson was Ozymandias ?
a) Generous and forgiving
b) Bold and rash
c) Kind and compassionate
d) Cold and commanding
12) What portion of the statue remains standing>-?
a) The legs
b) The trunk
c) The head
d) Nothing
13) The poem is written in:
a) Dactyl
b) Trochee
c) Iambic pentameter
d) Spondee
14) Where is the statue located?
a) In the middle of a busy city
b) In a tribal hamlet
c) In a desert
d) On a beach
15) Where do the girls hide the bundle?
a) In the turf-loft
b) In the kitchen
c) Beneath the floorboards
d) In a cupboard
16) What does marry see when she goes to give variety his
cake?
a) Bartley
b) Nora
c) The young priest
d) Michael
17) How many children did Maurya give birth to?
a) Six
b) Eight
c) Three
d) One
18) Which of Maurya‟s sond is the last to die?
a) Michael
b) Patch
c) Shawn
d) Bartley
19) What is in the bundle Nora brings?
a) Oilskins
b) Clothes
c) Food
d) Money
20) Mrs. Jordan argues that Abel has promised to give his
_________ to jimmy
a) Bureau
b) Clock
c) Gold watch
d) Insurance premium
21) Who discovers that Abel has died?
a) Henry
b) Victoria
c) Mrs. Slater
d) Mrs. Jordan
22) The Jordans are both wearing:
a) Half mourning
b) Regular clothes
c) New mourning
d) Bright, gaudy clothes
23) Abel‟s doctor is _____________
a) Dr. Pringle
b) Dr. Cripps
c) Dr. Jordan
d) Dr. Slater
24) What item of Abel‟s does Mrs. Slater take First?
a) His bureau
b) His clock
c) His slippers
d) His dressing gown
25) Who did the Abel propose he leave his belonging to ?
a) Mrs. John Shorrocks
b) Victoria and Jimmy
c) Charity
d) Whoever he was loving with when hi died
26) Why is Mrs. Slater dressed in black?
a) It is her favourite colour.
b) She is in mourning for her recently deceased father.
c) She is in mourning for Ben‟s brother.
d) She does not own any other clothes.
27) What does (II) stand for ?
a) Intonation
b) Stress
c) Line break
d) Caesura
28) The Mysterise of Udolpho is an example of?
a) Gothic novel
b) Black comedy
c) Comedy of manners
d) Satire
29) _____________ favoured cadence over metre, believing
it do be a more natural from of poetry.
a) The Romantics
b) The imagists
c) The Neo-classicists
d) The formalists
30) There are _________ humours.
a) Seven
b) Five
c) Six
d) Four
31) Í must be cruel to be kind.‟ This statement is an example
of:
a) Paradox
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
d) Pastoral
32) Which of this is not an example of imagery?
a) Metaphor
b) Onomatopoeia
c) Simile
d) Parody
33) Which syllable receives primary stress in the word
engineer‟?
a) En
b) Gin
c) Neer
d) Ere
34) Who is believed to have invented the prologue?
a) Euripides
b) Sophocles
c) Socrates
d) Aristotle
35) Approximate rhyme is also known as :
a) Eye rhyme
b) Tail rhyme
c) Slant rhyme
d) Near rhyme
36) “Tell me not, in mournful numbers/ Life is but an empty
dream!” Which metre is being used here?
a) Trochee
b) Iamb
c) Dactyl
d) Spondee
37) The first reader-centric theory was proposed by:
a) Edmund Husserl
b) Hans Robert Jauss
c) Wolfgang Iser
d) Stanley fish
38) Which critic these thinkers influenced reader- response
theorists?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Jacques Derrida
c) Hans-Georg Gadamer
d) Maud Gonne
39) Which critic proposed the theory of affective stylistics?
a) Stanley fish
b) Hans-George Dadamer
c) Wolfgang Iser
d) Hans Robert Jauss
40) Orientalism is propagated through:
a) Textbooks
b) Films
c) Medical journals
d) All of the above
41) The orient is always set in opposition to:
a) Europe
b) The USA
c) The Occident
d) Itself
42) Orientalism is a :
a) Literary theory
b) Means of oppression
c) Colonial misconception
d) Discourse
43) Who wrote Orientalism?
a) Jacques Derrida
b) Robert Graves
c) Edward Said
d) Iravati Karve
44) Knowledge of the ___________ is essential when seeking
to rule a foreign country.
a) Geographical terrain
b) Local customs and traditions
c) Local laws
d) Colonised subject
45) Which of the critics is not considered a theorist in
Cultural Studies?
a) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
b) Stuart Hall
c) Anne Bradstreet
d) Edward Said
46) Cultural studies as a discipline originated in:
a) The USA
b) India
c) The UK
d) Europe
47) Who is known as the father of cultural studies?
a) Raymond Williams
b) Richard Hoggart
c) Stuart Hall
d) E.P. Thomson
48) Which of these theoreticians aligned most closely with
F.R Leavis‟s theoretical position?
a) Antonio Gramsci
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Stuart Hall
d) None of the above
49) Who developed the theory of cultural Materialism?
a) Stuart Hall
b) Matthew Williams
c) Antonio Gramsci
d) Jacques Derrida
BA PART III
ELT
1) What literary device does the poem begin with ?
a) Personification
b) Invocation
c) Hyperbole
d) Apostrophe
2) What does the urn in the poem represent?
a) The epitome of beauty
b) The transience of life
c) The beauty of truth
d) The permanence of art
3) Which of the following emotions may be ascribed to the speaker of
the poem in the first stanza ?
a) Melancholy
b) Curiosity
c) Sorrow
d) Joy
4) Why does the poet call the urn „sylvan historian‟?
a) Because it depicts pastoral scenes
b) Because it tells us stories of Greece
c) Because it records the history of man
d) Because it is made of good and depicts historical scenes
5) What does the poet ardently wish for ?
a) To remember a song
b) To build a dome in air
c) To unlock the potential of the imagination
d) To revive the Abyssinian maid
6) What did Kubla khan decree in xanadu ?
a) A sacred river flowing through caverns
b) A grand architectural construction
c) A sunny pleasure – dome in air
d) A declaration of war
7) The phrase „like rebounding hail‟ is an example of……
a) A metaphor
b) A synecdoche
c) A simile
d) A metonymy
8) What might the „damsel with a dulcimer‟ symbolise?
a) A muse
b) The poet
c) Kubla khan
d) An Abyssinian woman
9) Which of the following emotions would characterise the final few
lines of the poem?
a) Horror
b) Despair
c) Regret
d) Jealousy
10) What attitude does the speaker have towards his
education‟?
a) He disdains it
b) He glorifies it
c) He is apathetic about it
d) He is in two minds about it
11) What is setting of the poem?
a) A winter afternoon in Sicily
b) A hot summer day in Italy
c) A cool evening in Sicily
d) A warm night in Italy
12) What event does this poem lament?
a) The abolition of slavery
b) The end of the Civil War
c) The assassination of the president
d) The death of a father and captain
13) Who is the Captain the poem?
a) George Washington
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Walt Whitman
d) Benjamin Franklin
14) The poet exhorts the captain to…….
a) Rise up from the dead
b) Lead the ship in its „fearful trip‟
c) Exult with happiness
d) Win the Civil War
15) What does the phrase fearful trip refer to ?
a) The American Revolution
b) The Spanish Civil War
c) The American Civil War
d) The American Frontier Wars
16) What is second thing that Timotheus sings about?
a) The pleasures of alcohol
b) The divinity of Alexander
c) The defeat of Darius
d) The turns of fate
17) Whom does Timotheus sing about in the fourth stanza?
a) Alexander
b) Bacchus
c) Darius
d) Jove
18) Who is describes as having a dragon‟s body?
a) Saint Cecilia
b) Alexander
c) Olympia
d) Zeus
19) Qhom did Dryden write this poem in honour of?
a) Music
b) Alexander
c) Timotheus
d) Saint Cecilia
20) Whose translation of on the sublime popularised
Longinus‟s work?
a) Nicolas Boileau
b) Blaise Pascal
c) Jean Racine
d) Jacques Louis David
21) The theory of the sublime can be originally attributed
to….
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Horace
d) Longinus
22) Who published the Ossian cycle of poems which played a
major role in the development of the Romantic Movement?
a) Edmund Burke
b) Immanuel Kant
c) James Macpherson
d) Williams Wordsworth
23) How did Raymond Williams refer to New historicism?
a) Historical Structuralism
b) Cultural radicalism
c) Cultural materialism
d) Historical radicalism
24) New Historicism was reaction against …..?
a) Marxist theory
b) Postcolonial theory
c) Formalist theories
d) Post-structuralism theory
25) Stephan greenbelt‟s primary area of focus has been…….
a) The Restoration
b) Romanticism
c) The Renaissance
d) Modernism
26) Who redefined the word‟sublatern, to signify
representatives of an oppressed class?
a) Edward Said
b) Frantz Fanon
c) Claude Levi-Strauss
d) Antonio Gramsci
27) Who among the following is a seminal figure in subaltern
studies ?
a) Ranajit Guha
b) Bipan Chandra
c) Eric hobsbawm
d) R.K. Narayan
28) The declared aim of subaltern studies was to make the
subaltern groups the __________ of history.
a) Objects
b) Victims
c) Subjects
d) By-products

SEMESTER VI

1) What is Ulysses attitude to words his subjects ?

a) Disdain
b) Weariness
c) Hatred
d) Affection
2) What is the form of the poem?
a) Dramatic monologue
b) Pastoral
c) Ballad
d) Lyric
3) “To rust unfurnished, not to shine in use” is……
a) A simile
b) A metaphor
c) A hyperbole.
d) A synecdoche
4) What do you think Ulysses is afraid of ?
a) Losing his kingdom
b) Droning at sea
c) An inactive, purposeless life

d) The death of his loved ones

5) What do you think the poet‟s attitude towards the tiger is ?
a) Awe
b) Pity
c) Disgust
d) Fear
6) Which of the following adjectives may not be applied to the deer?
a) Peaceable
b) Unwary
c) Benign
d) Artful
7) Which of the following adjectives may not be applied to the tiger?
a) Silent
b) Pacific
c) Impressive
d) Formidable
8) What is the form of this poem?
a) Ode
b) Sonnet
c) Ballad
d) Villanelle
9) What season or time of year is the poem set in?
a) Spring
b) Autumn
c) Winter
d) Summer
10) Which of these is not an attribute of „la belle dame‟?
a) Beauty
b) Wildness
c) Strangeness
d) kindness
11) what attribute does the knight share with the kings,
princes and warriors of his dream?
a) Their enervation
b) Their bravery
c) Their apathy
d) Their passion