OCTOBER 2011 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer ALL questions. Fill in the blanks with the right answers from the options given : 1. Renaissance is said to have begin in. (a) France (b) Italy (c) Turkey 2. is the description of an ideal state of society. (a) Utopia (b) Renaissance (c) Reformation 3. Shakespeare borrowed the material for his history plays from. (a) Holinshed's chronicles' (b) Marlowe's plays (c) Morality plays
4. Bacon modelled his essays after. (a) Voltaire (b) Rousseau (c) Montaigne 5. is the author of the most fascinating diary in the English Language. (a) Dr. Johnson (b) Samuel Pepys (c) Bosewell 6. Essays of Elia was written by. (a) Hazlitt (b) Mary Lamb (c) Charles Lamb 7. Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by. (a) Shakespeare (b) Spenser (c) Chaucer 8. is a true representative of metaphysical Poetry. (a) Spenser (b) John Donne (c) Alexander Pope 2
9. Milton's Paradise host consists of books. (a) 10 (b) 14 (c) 12 10. brought everlasting fame to Thomas Gray. (a) Elegy written in a country churchyard (b) The Progress of Poesy (c) The Bard 11. dealt with the lives of the saints. (a) The Mysteries (b) The Miracles (c) The Moralities 12. dealt with the artificial life of the upper class society of London. (a) The sentimental comedy (b) The comedy of Manners (c) The Shakespearean comedy 3
13. Daniel Defoe's was based on the true story of a ship wreaked seaman named Alexander Selkirk. (a) Captain Singleton (b) Robinson Crusoe (c) Moll Fanders 14. Sense and Sensibility was written by. (a) Emily Broute (b) George Eliot (c) Jane Austen 15. is considered to be the father of Historical novel in English. (a) Sir Walter Scolt (b) Charles Dickens (c) Henry Fielding 16. The Word Renaissance means. (a) Rebirth (b) Revival (c) Retrival 17. was considered to be the father of Protestantism. (a) Martin Luther King Jr. (b) Martin Luther (c) Martin Luthern. 4
18. Henry VIII's attempt to marry after discovering Catherine was the starting point of Reformation. (a) Anne Boleyn (b) Anne Mary (c) Anne Brown 19. Shakespeare produced his dramatic master pieces during the reign of. (a) Henry VIII (b) Queen Mary (c) Queen Elizabeth 20. was the main conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot. (a) Guy Fawkes (b) Guy Ferdinand (c) Guy Mannering 21. Oliver Cromwell was made the in 1653. (a) Lord Admiral (b) Lord Protector (c) Lord Provincial 5
22. was a staunch supporter of Raritanism. (a) John Bunyan (b) John Dryden (c) John Donne 23. Sir Thomas Roe Persuaded the Indian Emperor in 1615 to grant rights for trade in India. (a) Akbar (b) Aurengzib (c) Jehangir 24. The successful overthrowing throwing of James II without any bloodshed is referred to by the term. (a) The Glorious Revolution (b) The Glorious over (c) The Glorious ouster 25. George Fox is considered to be founder of. (a) Puritanism (b) Quakerism (c) Agricultural Revoluation 6
26. The Great Plague of devastated the city of London. (a) 1665 (b) 1666 (c) 1667 27. The age of Queen Anne is best remembered for its. (a) Schools (b) Coffee houses (c) Theatres. 28. is considered to be first leader of the anti-slave trade movement. (a) Abraham Lincoln (b) Martin Luther King (c) William Wilberforce 29. is considered to be The father of English Law. (a) Jeremy Bentham (b) John Ruskin (c) J.S. Mill 7
30. Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo by the. (a) Duke of Wellington (b) Duke of Edinborough (c) Duke of Windsor 31. The word essay is derived from the French word. (a) essai (b) assai (c) assei 32. is one of the popular Periodical. (a) Charles Lamb (b) Francis Bacon (c) Addison 33. Life and Letters of Lord Maculay was written by. (a) G.M. Trevelyan (b) James Boswell (c) Dr. Johnson 34. The Pindaric ode consists of the strophe, the antistrophe and the. (a) epode (b) abode (c) over-strophe 8
35. gave the sonnet its present form of fourteen lines. (a) Petrarch (b) Wyatt (c) Surrey 36. In Memoriam is an elegy by. (a) Robert Browning (b) Mathew Arnold (c) Lord Tennyson 37. The Idyll in Greek means. (a) Little poem (b) Little Picture (c) Little Hymn 38. Edmund Spenser's is an epic. (a) Epithalamion (b) The Shephered's Calendar (c) Faerie Queene 39. Milton's Paradise Lost has books. (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 10 40. The mock epic The Rape of the lock was written by. (a) John Dryden (b) Alexander Pope (c) John Milton 9
PART B (5 4 = 20 marks) Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each : 41. Holinshed's Chronicles. 42. Addison and Steel's The Spectator. 43. John Donne as a metaphysical poet. 44. Wordsworth's The Preface to Lyrical Ballads. 45. The University Wits. 46. Sir Walter Scott, as a historical novelist. 47. The Great Fire of 1666 and its effect. 48. Write a note on Sonnet. PART C (2 20 = 40 marks) Write essays of about 350 to 400 words each on any TWO of the following. 49. Write an essay on Shakespeare's genius as a master dramatist. 50. Trace the origin and the development of the novel. 10
51. Write an essay on the causes and the effects of the Industrial Revolution. 52. Write an essay on the various forms of Poetry. 11