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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES & LITERATURE

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Total Questions : 60

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entries made in the Original Copy against each item are exactly copied in the Candidate’s Copy.
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1. The pilgrims in Chaucer’s “Prologue to Canterbury 6. The name of Olivia’s jester in the Twelfth Night
Tales” were travelling from Southwark to Canterbury is…………
to visit the shrine of ………………………. (A) Feste
(A) Thomas Beckett (B) Touchstone
(B) Jude (C) Yorick
(C) Veloth (D) Falstaff
(D) Joseph
7. What is the name of the sculpture (statue) in Greek
2. Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”is a
myth of Pygmalion?
...................line love poem.
(A) Pygmalion
(A) 38
(B) Galatea
(B) 36
(C) Hera
(C) 37
(D) 39 (D) Aphrodite
3. Who among the following authors took his novel’s 8. The church bells in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
title from Dryden’s poem “Absalom and Achitophel”? symbolize ………. …… morality.
(A) William Faulkner (A) A respectable middle class
(B) D.H. Lawrence (B) A respectable upper class
(C) Maya Angelou (C) A respectable lower class
(D) Nadine Gordimer (D) None of these
4. “And, weltering by his side, 9. Complete the full title of Wordworth’s
One next himself in power, and next in crime, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from
Long after known in Palestine, and named” …………………”
Milton refers to which fallen angel in these above given (A) Recollections of Early Childhood
lines taken from Paradise Lost?
(B) Recollections of Early Adulthood
(A) Beelzebub
(C) Recollections of Early Boyhood
(B) Moloch
(D) None of these
(C) Thammuz
10. Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
(D) Belial
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn
5. Who says these words about Tamburlaine: “Methinks
These lines are from John Keats’ ………………
I see kings kneeling at his feet”?
(A) Zenocrate (A) “Ode to Autumn”
(B) Techelles (B) “Ode to a Nightingale”
(C) Menaphon (C) “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
(D) Mycetes (D) None of these

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16. What was the name of Septimus Warren Smith’s
Who is Ulysses talking about in this line? friend in Mrs Dalloway who died in the war?
(A) Achilles (A) Peter
(B) Telemachus (B) Hugh
(C) Tiresias (C) Evans

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(A) The Circus Animals’ Desertion
(D) Six Stanzas
18. The poem “A Far Cry from Africa” is in response to:
(B) Easter 1916 (A) Mau Mau rebellion
(C) Dialogue between Self and Soul (B) Anglo-Zulu War
(D) Under Ben Bulben (C) Bambatha Rebellion
13. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a (D) Batetela rebellion

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single man in possession of a good fortune, must be 19. The poem “The Old Playhouse” opens by comparing
in want of a wife.” This forms the first sentence of
(A) Sense & Sensibility
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(C) Pride & Prejudice a (C) A swallow
(D) Mansfield Park (D) A peahen
14. What was the name of the dog that Bill Sikes owned 20. In which year did Derek Walcott receive Nobel Prize
in Oliver Twist? in Literature?
(A) Tom (A) 1990
(B) Kinchin (B) 1991

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(B) 1987
(C) William Morel (C) 1977
(D) Arthur Morel (D) 1985

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22. In Narayan’s Swami & Friends, Swami’s father is : 27. Which famous American novelist called Mark Twain
(A) Engineer “the father of American literature”?
(B) Police Superintendent (A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(C) Headmaster (B) William Faulkner
(D) Lawyer (C) Kurt Vonnegut
23. In Anita Desai’s novel Clear Light of Day Benazir (D) James Baldwin
is : 28. In which year did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel
Prize in Literature?
(A) Daughter of Hyder Ali
(A) 1949
(B) Wife of Hyder Ali
(B) 1952
(C) Wife of Mr Das
(C) 1954
(D) None of these
(D) 1961
24. Arrow of God opens with fight between two villages.
29. In “Hope is the thing with feathers,” Emily Dickinson
Choose the correct code representing the names of
compares hope to a bird which perches on/in:
the two villages.
(A) The soul
I. Okedi (B) The heart
II. Umuaro (C) The tree
III. Okperi (D) The faith
IV. Umuofia 30. Name the Wordsworth’s poem where the following
Code: lines occur:
(A) I and II Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep
(B) II and IV Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind,
(C) I and III That, deaf and silent, read’st the eternal deep,
(D) II & III Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,
25. Saleem Sinai is a character from : (A) “The Thorn”
(A) Midnight’s Children (B) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
(B) Clear Light of Day (C) “The Solitary Reaper”
(C) Arrow of God (D) None of these
(D) None of these 31. The essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” outlines
26. What was the real name of Tennessee Williams? Eliot’s attitudes which give rise to which of Eliot’s
theory?
(A) Thomas Lanier Williams II
(A) Objective correlative
(B) Thomas Lanier Williams III
(B) Unification of Sensibility
(C) Thomas Lanier Williams IV
(C) None of these
(D) Thomas Lanier Williams V
(D) Impersonal Theory

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Who is the narrator of the story “Lottery”?
Paraphrase”? (A) Vikram
(A) I A Richards (B) Unnamed school teacher
(B) Cleanth Brooks (C) Prakash
(C) T S Eliot
(D) It is told in third person
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(D) Martin Luther King (D) Martin Luther King
34. Who has written “Work Brings Solace”? 40. What was Prem Chand’s first pseudonym?
(A) King Martin Luther (A) Nawab Rai
(B) Joseph Conrad (B) Nawab Chandh
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Last Question”? (D) None
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(B) Issac Asimov But I understand: it is not the stones,
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(C) After Apple Picking
(D) None of these
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43. What is the name of the young man who died in 49. What is the friend of the narrator in “The Chimney
Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”? Sweepers” called?
(A) Matt (A) Tom Sawyer
(B) Joseph (B) William Wordsworth
(C) Hans (C) Tom Dacre
(D) Scott (D) None of these
44. “Digging” is written by……… 50. In which industry did the Unknown Citizen work in
(A) William Wordsworth W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”?
(B) Seamus Heaney (A) Automobiles
(C) John Milton (B) Ammunition manufacturing
(D) Robert Frost (C) Food processing
45. The New Hangman is written by : (D) None of these
(A) Laurence Housman 51. According to The Story of My Life, what was the
(B) George Bernard Shaw name of Helen’s pet dog?
(C) Anton Chekov (A) Belle
(D) None of these (B) Shock
46. Who has written Mother’s Day? (C) Dobby
(A) Laurence Housman (D) Munch
(B) George Bernard Shaw 52. Choose the correct name of Pico Iyer:
(C) Anton Chekov (A) Siddharth Raghavan Pico Iyer
(D) J B Priestly (B) Satish Pico Raghavan Iyer
47. According to the narrator, when does one start (C) Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
noticing a tree on the left-hand corner of the photo in (D) Swaminath Pico Raghavan Iyer
Margaret Atwood’s “This Is a Photograph of Me”? 53. My aunt and guardian ……... me to apply for civil
(A) When scanned by the viewer services.
(B) When it is viewed in sunlight (A) Want
(C) When it is produced on a thick paper (B) Wants
(D) When viewed through a magnifying glass (C) Both (A) & (B)
48. The poem, ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ begins by (D) Neither (A) nor (B)
describing “———————”. 54. ……. woman has greater abilities.
(A) The first birth day of poet’s daughter (A) The
(B) Storm (B) A
(C) Flood (C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Draught (D) Zero article

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Give the antonym of imbecile:
(A) Would (A) Rough
(B) Can (B) Naughty
(C) May
(C) Bad
(D) Must
(D) Sane
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(D) None of these given options. (D) An act full of pleasure
57. Oxymoron refers to :
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(A) A figure of speech in which the poet gives
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