SET Model question paper 1

1) Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym
Elia for which periodical?

2) The first University Commission was instituted by Lord Curzon in the year

3) “Jaws/Eatand are finished and the jawbone
comes to the beach”. The lines suggest:

4) From the following, pick out what is not
part of mass culture?

5) Which leading figure of the Harlem
Renaissance wrote “Montage of a Dream
Deferred”?

6) The final line in Samson Agonistes: ‘And
calm of mind all passion spent’ gives an idea of

7) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?

8) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

9) Whichcritic changes Horace’s title Epistula
ad Pisones into Ars Poetica?

10) Which of these authors was acclaimed by
Mikhail Bakhtin as the supreme example of
dialogism?

11) Who was the first composer of an English
Dictionary?

12) “You are about to begin reading Italo
Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a
traveller. Relax. Concentrate…”
This is an address by

13) Who described the ‘Bloomsbary 01001 as
a group of upper middle-class ‘black beetles’?

14) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

15) In which drama do we find the following
line:
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

16) Who among the following critics has coined
the expression “structure of feeling”?

An Enemy of the People is written by:

18) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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19) চ. 8. Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy”
was occasioned by…

20) In which chapter of Biographia Literaria,
does Coleridge discuss the language of metrical
composition?

Which of the following forms is 7101
connected with Speculative Fiction?

22) Who wrote the following?
“What passing bells for those who 016 as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”

23) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

24) The term ‘Mestiza’ comes under the
purview of

25) Which of the following plays inspired
Shakerpeare’s Comedy of Errors?

26) Pick out the multi-genre text containing
poems, stories and essays about climate change:

27) Who among the following in “An Essay 01
Dramatic Poesy” speaks in favour of the regularity
and decorum of the French plays?

28) Which of the following sources of the
sublime are nor mentioned by Longinus in On The
Sublime?

29) From the varieties of English which one is
not used in the spoken form?

30) T. S. Eliot alludes to a refrain in
Edmund Spenser’s “Prothalamion”— “Sweet
Thames, run softly, till T end my song” in

31) Who is described by Matthew Arnold as
‘the scantiest and frailest 01 classics’?

32) Who is credited with having founded the
Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies?

33) Who among the following offers ‘axioms’
of poetry?

34) “Landscape plotted and pieced- fold, fallow,
and plow;”— is an instance of

35) Who is the author of the work The Castle of
My Skin?

36) Silent Spring 15 one of the key texts of—

In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Sir Guyon is the personification of

38) Which of the following texts may be
regarded as an introduction to Canadian literary
identity?

39) In which novel 00 you find the character
Benjamin Burnham?

40) Ofthe following whichis notacollection of
short stories written by Thomas Hardy?

41) Inthediscourse of decoloniality, the concept
of “border thinking” is advocated by

42) Which of the following is nor a part of V. S.
Naipaul’s Indian Trilogy?

43) Inwhich poemdoes Allen Ginsberg lament
his mother’s insanity?

44) Which poet wrote avant-garde poems in
which conventional punctuation was ignored in
favour of a dynamic language?

45) Which of these is not a search engine?

46) Who is credited with having founded the
Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies?

47) Which among the following is a fine
example of ‘Comedy of Menace’?

48) Whichcritic changes Horace’s title Epistula
ad Pisones into Ars Poetica?

49) The first University Commission was
instituted by Lord Curzon in the year

50) Which among the following is a fine
example of ‘Comedy of Menace’?

51) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

52) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

53) “Landscape plotted and pieced- fold, fallow,
and plow;”— is an instance of
y

54) Mark 006 odd one out:

55) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?

56) Who among the following introduced ‘rime
royal’ in English poetry?

57) From which poem are the following lines
taken?
“I’sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream…”
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58) The poetry of Dylan Thomas often strongly
reflects the elements of

59) Whichofthe following 18th Century novels
can be regarded as a “picaresque novel”?

60) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

61) Agit Prop Theatre does not display one 01
the following characteristics:

62) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

63) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

64) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

65) Inwhich grammardo you find deep structure
and surface structure?

66) Which of the following texts may be
regarded as an introduction to Canadian literary
identity?

67) “This curved jawbone did not laugh/but
gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph”. These
lines offer an example of

68) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

69) Who among the following writers has not
been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature?

70) Sociery is all but rude,
Tothis delicious solitude.”—In which
poem do we find these lines?

71) Who among the following developed the
idea of ‘Pantisocracy’?

72) Identify the poem which is not by Nissim
Ezekiel—

73) Shelley’s statement, “1 always seek in what
Isee the likeness of something beyond the present
and tangible object” may be described as

74) Gudrun is a character in both

75) Which of the following plays inspired
Shakerpeare’s Comedy of Errors?

76) In which poem do we find the following
lines?
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp
Or what’s a heaven for?

77) In which wave of feminist theory, can we
place Chandra Talpade Mohanty?

78) Inwhich grammardo you find deep structure
and surface structure?

79) Who among the following was not a part of
the Oxford Movement?

80) Who among the following was the editor of
the journal “Scrutiny”?

81) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

82) In which book of the Republic did Plato
expound his theory of mimesis

83) Which of the following forms is 7101
connected with Speculative Fiction?

84) “This is the sea’s achievement; with shells/
vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls.” The lines use:

85) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

86) “Thoustillunravished bride of quietness™—
This line offers an example of

87) Which of these novels was celebrated by
Nirad C. Chaudhuri as “the finest novel in the
English language with an Indian Theme”?

88) Find the odd one out:

89) Who is the author of the work The Castle of
My Skin?

90) Who among the following 15 a writer from
Nagaland?