PUBDET 2023 Question Paper English

Paper – II
Subject : ENGLISH
(Booklet Number)
Duration: 90 Minutes No. of Question : 50 Full Marks: 100

INSTRUCTIONS
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11. This booklet contains questions in English only.
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English 1 A

SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK

English 2 

ENGLISH

1. Which of these poets believed in Pantheism ?
(A) Wordsworth and Coleridge (B) Wordsworth and Southey
(C) Wordsworth and Byron (D) Wordsworth and Shelley

2. Which of these authors is NOT a Metaphysical poet ?
(A) George Herbert (B) Henry Vaughan
(C) Richard Suckling (D) Abraham Cowley

3. Complete the sequence with the appropriate word – sonnet, ballad, elegy, …
(A) satire (B) epic
(C) long narrative poem (D) ode

4. Which of these dramatists is said to write comedies of menace ?
(A) Harold Pinter (B) Samuel Beckett
(C) John Osborne (D) Arnold Wesker

5. Which of these literary forms was NOT written in the eighteenth century ?
(A) Periodical essays (B) Heroic tragedy
(C) Gothic novels (D) Romantic poetry

6. Which of these plays by Shakespeare falls into the same group as Measure for Measure ?
(A) Timon of Athens (B) Two Gentlemen of Verona
(C) Pericles (D) Troilus and Cressida

7. Find the odd one out.
(A) Oliver Goldsmith (B) Horace Walpole
(C) Aphra Behn (D) Thomas Gray

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8. Which of these authors is a British citizen of African origin ?
(A) Abdulrazak Gurnah (B) Wole Soyinka
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o (D) Nuruddin Farah

9. What is the difference between a story and a plot ?
(A) A story deals with people while a plot deals with social problems.
(B) A story moves between several locations while a plot mandatorily stays at one
place.
(C) A story is a sequence of events while a plot shows the causes behind the events.
(D) A story focuses on everyday life while a plot deals with important people.

10. What do these authors from various continents have in common – Kingsley Amis,
Patrick White, Shyam Selvadurai and J.M. Coetzee ?
(A) They are all poets (B) They are all novelists
(C) They are dramatists (D) They are all pamphleteers

11. Find the odd one out.
(A) Louis Macneice (B) Philip Larkin
(C) W.H. Auden (D) Christopher Isherwood

12. Who wrote the kind of sonnet known as the ‘curtal sonnet’ ?
(A) Edmund Spenser (B) James Thompson
(C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (D) Gerard Manley Hopkins

13. Given below is a Statement, followed by two Assumptions. Read the sentences carefully
and select the correct option.
Statement : The Age of Pope has been called ‘the age of prose and reason’.
Assumption (i) : Pope and his contemporaries were influenced by ideas that valued
reason over imagination.
Assumption (ii) : Pope’s famous poem, ‘The Rape of the Lock’, is completely bereft of
imagination.
In the light of the above Statement, how would you rate the Assumptions ?
(A) (i) is correct but (ii) is incorrect (B) (i) is incorrect but (ii) is correct
(C) Both (i) and (ii) are correct (D) Both (i) and (ii) are incorrect

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14. How many lines are there in a Spenserian stanza ?
(A) 6 lines (B) 7 lines
(C) 8 lines (D) 9 lines

15. What is an alexandrine ?
(A) A ten-syllable line in trochaic tetrameter
(B) A twelve-syllable line in iambic hexameter
(C) A fourteen-syllable line in trochaic tetrameter
(D) A sixteen-syllable line in iambic pentameter

16. What is a ‘metaphysical conceit’ ?
(A) A form of braggadocio seen in comic characters in Elizabethan drama
(B) A kind of poetic image comprising dissimilar objects and concepts
(C) A kind of stanza used in religious poetry
(D) A poem extolling the virtues of charity and piety

17. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.
The meeting _______ postponed on account of _______ town tomorrow as your presence
is _____.
(A) have been; you leave; voluntary
(B) have to be; you will leave; involuntary
(C) have had to be; you left; gustatory
(D) will have to be; your leaving; mandatory

18. Identify the mood of the italicized verb in the following sentence:
I wish it were Sunday tomorrow and not a working day.
(A) Indicative (B) Imperative
(C) Subjunctive (D) Oblative

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19. Choose the option that correctly changes the following sentence from direct to indirect
speech:

He said, ‘I went there yesterday’.

(A) He said he went there yesterday

(B) He said that he went there yesterday

(C) He said that he had gone there the previous day

(D) He said that he had been there a day before

20. Choose the word nearest in meaning to the italicized word in the following sentence:

I was extremely perturbed by his rude behaviour.

(A) Disillusioned (B) Disturbed

(C) Dismayed (D) Disgusted

21. What is the meaning of the phrase – ‘milk of human kindness; ?

(A) Good behaviour (B) Compliant nature

(C) Passivity (D) Compassion

22. Given below is a Statement, followed by an Inference. Read the sentences carefully and
select the correct option.

Statement : The current CBCS (Choice-based Credit System) syllabus is intended to
facilitate credit transfers.

Inference : The CBCS syllabus is of no use at all for students who do not wish to opt for
credit transfers.

In the light of the above Statement, the Inference is :

(A) Acceptable (B) Unacceptable

(C) Dependable (D) Indispensable

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23. The sentences given below are jumbled. Select the option that places them in their correct
logical sequence.
1. At the Restoration, he attached himself to the fortunes of King Charles II and to the
Church of England.
2. Of Dryden it can be said without qualification that he always attempted to be
representative of his age.
3. Nevertheless, despite further political adjustments, he ultimately lost his position as
Poet Laureate and Historiographer General.
4. In the pre-Restoration era, he wrote a laudation of Oliver Cromwell.
The correct sequence is :
(A) 1, 4, 3, 2 (B) 3, 1, 2, 4
(C) 2, 4, 1, 3 (D) 4, 2, 3, 1

24. What kind of poem is Langland’s Piers Plowman ?
(A) A pastoral elegy (B) A dream allegory
(C) A metrical romance (D) A heroic poem

25. Find the correct figures of speech in the italicized phrases in the following line –
‘What passing bells for those who die as cattle ?’
(A) Hypallage and simile (B) Metonymy and metaphor
(C) Apostrophe and chiasmus (D) Personification and pathetic fallacy

26. Which two plays by Shakespeare are NOT in the correct chronological order ?
(A) The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet
(B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice
(C) King Lear; The Tempest
(D) Macbeth; Hamlet

27. In which of Jane Austen’s novels do we find Catherine Morland ?
(A) Pride and Prejudice (B) Northanger Abbey
(C) Sense and Sensibility (D) Emma

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28. “Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain ---
To thy high requiem become a sod.”
The word ‘sod’ is a metaphor for:
(A) mud (B) sand
(C) happiness (D) death

29. Identify the ambiguous phrase in the following sentence - Visiting relatives can be
tedious.
(A) Visiting relatives (B) relatives can
(C) relatives can be (D) can be tedious

30. Given below are lines from a poem by Wordsworth, followed by two inferences. Study
them carefully and select the correct option.
“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more”
Inference (i) : Wordsworth is referring to a beautiful memory
Inference (ii) : Wordsworth is enjoying the music
(A) (i) is correct but (ii) is incorrect.
(B) (i) is incorrect but (ii) is correct.
(C) Both (i) and (ii) are correct.
(D) Both (i) and (ii) are incorrect.

31. A body of writing that is authorized as authentic and of great merit is known as a:
(A) cannon (B) canon
(C) collection (D) syllabus

32. Identify the figure of speech in the following line:
She sells sea shells on the sea shore
(A) tongue-twister (B) asyndeton
(C) alliteration (D) assonance

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33. A subdivision of a long narrative poem is known as:
(A) an episode (B) a canto
(C) an epigraph (D) a strophe

34. Which of these novels was NOT written by Sir Walter Scott ?
(A) The Heart of Midlothian (B) Ivanhoe
(C) Oroonoko (D) Kenilworth

35. What is the meaning of the term – polysemous ?
(A) multiple objects (B) multilingual
(C) multicoloured (D) multiple meanings

36. The perspective from which a novel is narrated is known as:
(A) the author (B) the point of view
(C) the focus (D) the frame

37. Which of these tales from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is written in prose ?
(A) The Parson’s Tale (B) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
(C) The Miller’s Tale (D) The Knight’s Tale

38. The use of vers libre (free verse) as a poetic style was common in:
(A) Neo-classical poetry (B) Pre-Raphaelite poetry
(C) Romantic poetry (D) Modernist poetry

39. ‘Epic theatre’ was a form of drama developed by:
(A) Anton Chekhov (B) George Bernard Shaw
(C) Bertolt Brecht (D) Luigi Pirandello

40. Which of these playwrights wrote absurd drama ?
(A) Samuel Beckett (B) Oscar Wilde
(C) Noel Coward (D) T.S. Eliot

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41. Which of these novels is set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution in
England ?
(A) Wuthering Heights (B) Mary Barton
(C) Daniel Deronda (D) Vanity Fair

42. Name the essayist who had worked as a clerk in the East India Company.
(A) Charles Lamb (B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas De Quincey (D) Thomas Carlyle

43. When was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species published ?
(A) 1839 (B) 1849
(C) 1859 (D) 1869

44. Study the sentences below and select the correct option.
(i) The Principle was not in her office.
(ii) She has very strong principals and will never compromise
(A) (i) is correct but (ii) is incorrect.
(B) (i) is incorrect but (ii) is correct.
(C) Both (i) and (ii) are correct.
(D) Both (i) and (ii) are incorrect.

45. Which novel by Dickens begins with the famous words – “It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times …”
(A) Hard Times (B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) Barnaby Rudge (D) Martin Chuzzlewit

46. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate group of words:
The job is _____ on _____ to Delhi, _____ I _____ it.
(A) dependant; me moving; but then; lost
(B) dependent; my moving; or else; lose
(C) depending; I move; since else; having lost
(D) dependable; I am moving; though otherwise; had lost

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Read the following poem and answer questions 47-50 below.
What are days for ?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days ?

Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.

47. What is the setting of the poem ?
(A) fields (B) a hospital
(C) a house (D) the progress of time

48. What is the central idea of the poem ?
(A) life (B) death
(C) life and death (D) happiness

49. What is implied in the phrase ‘they wake us’ ?
(A) to solve questions (B) to give us awareness
(C) to be born (D) to hear the alarm clock

50. How do the priest and the doctor solve the problem ?
(A) by administering cures for the body and soul.
(B) by running over the fields.
(C) by making death less painful.
(D) by wearing long coats.
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