(8 pages) DECEMBER 2015 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer ALL questions. 1. is the description of an ideal state of society. Utopia (b) Commonwealth (c) Republic 2. are records of important historical, political and cultural events arranged in chronological order. Criticism (b) Chronicles (c) Anachronism 3. started The Spectator. Addison (b) Steele (c) Bunyan 4. Dr. Johnson laid the foundations of English lexicography (b) essay (c) Philosophy 5. Man in Black, Beau Tibbs and Altangi are characters created by Burke (b) Goldsmith (c) Johnson
6. The unique feature of Lamb s essays is fact and fiction (b) irony and satire (c) tragedy and comedy 7. Aphoristic power and humour are the two important characteristics of style. Hazlitt (b) Bacon (c) Montaigue 8. The confessions of an Opium-Eater is the first great work of Carlyle (b) De Quincey (c) Macaulay 9. Ruskin s theory of political economy is set forth in Unto This Last (b) Praeterita (c) Sesame and Lilies 10. Stevenson s essay is an interesting exposition of the pleasure of travel. walking tours (b) an Inland voyage (c) kidnapped 11. Gower s work Speculum Meditantis is a long poem of about lines. 20,000 (b) 30,000 (c) 1000 12. is an elegy written on the death of Philip Sidney. Amoretti (b) Astrophel (c) Lucrece 2
13. The term Metaphysical poets was first used by Pope (b) Dr. Johnson (c) T.S. Eliot 14. brought immortal fame to aray. The Elegy (b) Ode to Spring (c) Ode to Evening 15. Wordsworth s laid down a new theory of poetry which was to become the creed of the Romantics. Lyrical ballads (b) Preface (c) Richael 16. God and imagination were one for Burus (b) Blake (c) Coleridge 17. Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated in publishing the Lyrical Ballads (b) The Prelude (c) Kubla Khan 18. is a romantic drama written by Shelley. The cloud (b) The cenci (c) Queen mab 19. discovered the principle of beauty in everything. Shelley (b) Keats (c) Collins 3
20. The Chief feature of every was the pursuit of man by evil forces and his rescue by conscience or Wisdom. morality (b) interlude (c) miracle 21. Kyd was influenced by the Latin tragedy writer Seneca (b) Homer (c) Aeschylus 22. established the Globe theatre in London. Thomas Kyd (b) Shakespeare (c) Sheridan 23. Fielding s most celebrated work is Pamela (b) Tom Jones (c) Robinson Crusoe 24. was the best exponent of the Gothic novel. Horace Walpole (b) Lawrence Sterne (c) Henry Fielding 25. Mrs. Radcliffe s novels are termed tales of Gothic (b) Sentimental (c) Horror 26. is considered the greatest historical novelist in English. Walter Scott (b) Thomas Hardy (c) T.S. Eliot 4 [P.T.O.]
27. The renaissance in literature began in England with William Caxton (b) Sir Thomas More (c) Demosthenes 28. made the Church of England independent of Rome. National Assistance act (b) Corn law (c) The Act of Supremacy 29. was the extreme form of Protestantism. Reformation (b) Humanitarianism (c) Puritanism 30. The greatest prose work of the Buritan period was The pilgrim s progress (b) Comus (c) Paradise Lost 31. The Royal society of science was founded in 1662 (b) 1668 (c) 1941 32. Mohock s were who terrorised the land owners by wanton outrages. The gang of Aristocratic ruffians (b) Gentlemen (c) Squires 5
33. is the father of inland navigation. Duke of Bridgewater (b) John Kay (c) Richard Arkwright 34. The first colony to be founded was Maryland (b) Georgia (c) Virginia 35. The movement that was started for the eradication of drunkenness was known as Teetotalism (b) Laissez-faire (c) Salvation army 36. The French revolution started with the breaking open of the state prison Waterloo (b) Bastille (c) Peterloo 37. gives a true picture of Paris and London during the time of the French revolution. A Tale of two cities (b) The return of the native (c) Ivanhoe 38. is concerned with the study of particular works or writers on the basis of general principles. Literary criticism (b) Practical criticism (c) Inductive criticism 6
39. Milton s Lycidas is a Ode (b) Lyric (c) Pastoral elegy 40. The Ode is of origin. Greek (b) Italy (c) French PART B (5 4 = 20 marks) Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each. 41. Sum up Sidney s idea on poetry. 42. Consider swift as a satirist. 43. How did Dryden comment on contemporary society? 44. Write a short note on the Golden Age of Queen Anne. 45. Give an account of colonial expansion during the first half of the seventeenth century. 46. Give an account of the Agrarian revolution. 47. Trace the main traits of an epic. 48. What is a short story? 7
PART C (2 20 = 40 marks) Write essay on any TWO of the following in about 500 words each. 49. Trace the main characteristics of the periodical essay of the eighteenth century. 50. Write an essay on metaphysical poetry. 51. Describe the harmful effects of the industrial revolution. 8