SET Model question paper 1

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

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

3) “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

4) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

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

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

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

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

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

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

11) 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?

12) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

13) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

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

17) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?

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

19) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

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

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

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

23) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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33) “Jaws/Eatand are finished and the jawbone
comes to the beach”. The lines suggest:

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

35) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

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

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

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

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

40) Find the odd one out:

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

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

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

44) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

45) Mark 006 odd one out:

46) The poetry of Dylan Thomas often strongly
reflects the elements of

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

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

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

50) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

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

An Enemy of the People is written by:

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

54) চ. 8. Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy”
was occasioned by…

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

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

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

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

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

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

61) Gudrun is a character in both

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

63) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

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

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

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

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

69) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

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

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

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

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

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

75) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84) Which of these is not a search engine?

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

86) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

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

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