(8 pages) DECEMBER 2015 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer the following questions, choose the best answer from the given alternatives. 1. was a by-product of Ruskin s thinking on political economy. (a) Unto this Last (b) Sesame and Liliés (c) Munera Pulveris. 2. Riskin s Practerita is a/an. (a) record of political developments (b) record of social events (c) autobiography. 3. In Literature and Science Arnold takes up the problem, on society. (a) Impact of science (b) Impact of politics (c) Impact of foreign culture 4. wrote many short biographies. (a) Ruskin (b) G.K. Chesterton (c) Lytton Strachey 5. Browning is. (a) Obscure (b) Crystal Clear (c) Allusive
6. Arnold defines poetry as a. (a) criticism of life (b) criticism of individuals (c) criticism of politics 7. From, W.H. Auden learnt the use of symbolic method in writing poetry. (a) W.B. Yeats (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Hopkins. 8. In the history of English literature, the 20 th century is regarded as the age of. (a) Hopkins (b) Ted Hughes (c) T.S. Eliot 9. Lady Bracknell is the character of Oscar Wilde, appears in. (a) Lady Windermere s Fan (b) The Importance of being earnest (c) An ideal husband 10. The character of the Angry young man was popularised by. (a) Samuel Beekett (b) Osborne (c) T.S. Eliot 11. In his plays T.S. Eliot uses (a) Verse (b) Only prose (c) Different languages 12. Plays for Puritan was written by. (a) Milton (b) Bernard Shaw (c) Pinter 2
13. The Nobel Prize was awarded to. (a) Fry (b) Osborne (c) Pinter. 14. The Return of the Native is a. (a) Tragedy (b) Comedy (c) Tragi-Comedy. 15. In which novel is the French Revolution used as background? (a) Vanity Fair (b) Tess (c) A Tale of Two cities. 16. Which of the following novelists was a feminist? (a) Dickens (b) George Eliot (c) Kipling. 17. The egotist in Meredith s novel The Egoist is. (a) Becky sharp (b) Sir Willough pattern (c) Kim. 18. Jane Eyre is s master piece. (a) Emily Bronte (b) Anne Bronte (c) Charlotte Bronte. 19. Johnson s Dictionary consisted by two volumes and words. (a) 40,000 (b) 4,000 (c) 6,000. 20. Oxford University is in. (a) Scotland (b) France (c) England. 3
21. In the first reform bill was passed. (a) 1833 (b) 1834 (c) 1832. 22. In the Corn Law was passed. (a) 1815 (b) 1820 (c) 1831. 23. invented the first railway engine. (a) William Huskisson (b) Hudson Stephenson (c) George 24. The Second World War ended in. (a) 1946 (b) 1944 (c) 1945. 25. Due to the efforts of the league of Nations was established. (a) Woodrow Wilson (b) Clement Attlee (c) Antony Eden. 26. In the National Insurance Act was passed. (a) 1945 (b) 1946 (c) 1947. 27. Through a National Assistance Board, poor people were given. (a) Educational facilities (b) Freebies (c) Food and Shelter. 4 [P.T.O.]
28. The ministry set up the Housing Corporation. (a) Clement Attlee (b) Conservative (c) Macmillan 29. inaugurated the historical novel. (a) Jane Austen (b) Charlottte Bronte (c) Sir Walter Scott. 30. Charles Dickens often incorporates the painful experiences of his youth in London particularly in. (a) Waverley (b) David Copperfield (c) Jane Eyre. 31. was the first to evolve a more complex plot in novels. (a) Jane Austen (b) Walter Scott (c) Daver Copper field. 32. Humour and pathos, strongly mark the works of. (a) H.G. Wells (b) Sir Walter Scott (c) Charles Dickens. 33. is the mater piece of Thackeray. (a) Sense and Sensibility (b) Vanity Fair (c) Possession 5
34. Through, Thackeray brought a new depth, feeling and realism to the historical novel. (a) Henry Esmond (b) Vanity Fair (c) Great Expectations. 35. specialises in situations arising out of infidelity in love and marriage. (a) Comedy of intrigue (b) Comedy of manners (c) Sentimental comedy 36. Tragi-comedy is different from Tragedy by containing. (a) Tragic background (b) Comic relief (c) Interlude. 37. The aim of Farce is to provoke. (a) a realisation (b) stored knowledge (c) hearty laughter. 38. debased form of tragedy. (a) Farce (b) Melodrama (c) Masque. 39. is a speech in the poetic medium with a dominant dramatic note. (a) Dramatic Monologue (b) Farce (c) Melodrama 40. is the author of Andrea Del Sarto. (a) Tennyson (b) Robert Browning (c) Marlowe. 6
PART B (5 4 = 20 marks) Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 200 words. 41. Write a note on Oscar Wilde s stressing the need for forgiving sinners. 42. What are the special features of Mrs. Gaskell s novels. 43. Write a note on John Betjeman. 44. Write a note on Carlyle. 45. Write a note on the Reform bills. 46. Discuss the spread of education in Victorian England. 47. Bring out the features and development of the Miracle plays. 48. Trace the beginnings of the literary form, the Novel. PART C (2 20 = 40 marks) Write essays on any TWO of the following in about 500 words each. 49. Discuss the serious concerns in Oscar Wilde s plays. 7
50. Trace the growth of Trade unionism in England after the second world war. 51. Examine the trend of the novel in the nineteenth century. 8