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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES & LITERATURE

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1. In “Prologue to Canterbury Tales,”who tells the first 6. Following lines form the opening of?
tale? Five years have past; five summers, with the
(A) The Reeve length
(B) The Knight
Of five long winters! And again I hear
(C) The Pardoner
(A) “Tintern Abbey”
(D) The Cook
(B) “The Tyger”
2. Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
(C) “Paradise Lost Book I”
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. (D) “Ulysses”
These lines are from: 7. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” narrates the hero’s discontent
(A) Donne’s “Batter My Heart” upon his return to his kingdom in:
(B) Blake’s “The Tyger” (A) Ithaca
(C) Chaucer’s “Prologue to Canterbury Tales” (B) Troy
(D) Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (C) Rome
3. Who among the following famous poets proclaims (D) England
that Milton, in his epic poem “Paradise Lost”, was
8. The epigraph of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred
“of the Devil’s party without knowing it”?
Prufrock” is taken from which of the following texts?
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
(A) Dante’s Inferno, Canto 27
(B) John Dryden
(C) T.S. Eliot (B) Dante’s Inferno, Canto 18
(D) William Blake (C) Dante’s Inferno, Canto 22
4. The Rape of the Lock is written in which style? (D) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
(A) Mock heroic 9. Towards the end of the first part of Tamburlaine,
(B) Epic Zenocrate is made empress of:
(C) Ode (A) Damascus
(D) Elegy (B) Babylon
5. Gave thee clothing of delight,
(C) Turkey
Softest clothing wooly bright;
(D) Persia
Gave thee such a tender voice,
10. The play Twelfth Night opens with Orsino calling
Making all the vales rejoice!
music “food of ……………….”:
These lines are from
(A) Life
(A) Wordworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
(B) Tennyson’s “Ulysses” (B) Mind
(C) Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (C) Heart
(D) Blake’s “The Lamb” (D) Love

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11. Where is the Act 2 of the play The Way of the World 17. What is the name of Darcy’s sister with whom
set? Wickham tries to elope?
(A) St. James’ Park (A) Georgiana
(B) Hyde Park (B) Eliza
(C) A chocolate house (C) Nancy

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(C) France (C) Jane Eyre
(D) Currer Bell
19. In Oliver Twist, who is Nancy in love with?
13. In The Glass Menagerie, which author’s book Tom
borrowed from the library did Amanda return? (A) Noah
(A) William Shakespeare (B) Oliver Twist

(B) Henry James (C) Sikes

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14. In which year was Ghosts first performed?
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(B) 1882
(C) The Rover Magazine
(C) 1883
(D) The Wizard Magazine
(D) 1884
21. What is the name of the old man who shows Jordan
15. Tughlaq is originally written in which Indian the hidden guerrilla camp in For Whom the Bell Tolls?
language ?
(A) Anselmo
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23. The novel Swami and Friends is set in a fictional 29. In which chapter of Through the Looking-Glass
town called: does the White Knight sing “Haddocks’ Eyes” after
(A) Kunzun rescuing Alice?
(B) Chinnikopa (A) Humpty Dumpty
(C) Malgudi (B) It’s my own Invention
(D) Patna (C) The Lion and the Unicorn
24. In the second part of the novel Clear Light of Day,
(D) Queen Alice
Raja is ill with which disease?
30. In Midnight’s Children, Aadam Aziz is
(A) Cholera
(A) Saleem’s grandfather
(B) Malaria
(C) Tuberculosis (B) Saleem’s father
(D) HIV AIDS (C) Saleem’s uncle
25. “The Purloined Letter” ends with a line from the play (D) Saleem’s classmate
Atrée et Thyeste, “If such a sinister design isn’t worthy 31. What was the name of the son of the chief priest who
of Atreus, it is worthy of Thyestes.” Who is the author dies during a ceremony in Arrow of God?
of the play?
(A) Obika
(A) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
(B) Oduche
(B) Voltaire
(C) Edogo
(C) Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps
(D) Nwafo
(D) Étienne Aignan
26. What was the original title of “The Yellow Wallpaper”? 32. Where does the story take place in 2 States?
(A) The Yellow Wall-paper: A Story (A) IIM Ahmedabad
(B) Story of The Yellow Wall-paper (B) IIM Bangalore
(C) Story of the Wall-paper (C) IIM Indore
(D) None of these (D) IMI Delhi
27. What is the name of Paul’s wife in the story “The 33. Shakuntala was the daughter of Visvamitra and:
Collector of Treasures”?
(A) Misrakeshi
(A) Kenalepe
(B) Menaka
(B) Dikeledi
(C) Purvachitti
(C) Tiro
(D) Urvashi
(D) Mompati
34. Who gives Lal Ded “one precept”?
28. Who has written Draupadi?
(A) Mahesh Devi (A) Mother
(B) R. K. Narayan (B) Guru
(C) Anita Desai (C) Father
(D) None of these (D) Husband

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35. To which goddess does the chorus compare 41. “A Bird, came down the Walk” contains how many
Antigone? stanzas?
(A) Athena (A) 3
(B) Artemis (B) 4
(C) Dionysus
(C) 5
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Frost?
37. What was the original title of Gulliver’s Travels?
(A) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the (A) Mending Wall
World (B) Home Burial
(B) Travels of Captain Gulliver (C) After Apple Picking
(C) Captain Gulliver’s Travels in the Remote World (D) The Gift Outright

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(D) Ted Hughes
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39. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, where does Mrs in Literature?
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46. Currants and gooseberries, 50. In The Colour Purple, who advises Harpo to beat
Sofia?
Bright-fire-like barberries,
(A) Alphonso
Figs to fill your mouth,
(B) Celie
Citrons from the South,
(C) Mister
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; (D) Shug
Come buy, come buy. 51. Alice Walker is famous for having coined which of
These lines are taken from which poem? the following terms?
(A) “Goblin Market” (A) Black feminist
(B) Womanist
(B) “Uphill”
(C) Écriture féminine
(C) “Dream Land”
(D) Masculinist
(D) None of these
52. How many chapters does the A Vindication of
47. How many questions does the narrator in the poem the Rights of Woman consist of?
“Uphill” ask the guide? (A) 11
(A) 6 (B) 12
(B) 7 (C) 13
(C) 8 (D) 14
53. Who wrote the Preface to Frankenstein?
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(A) William Godwin
48. That flowering, silken, old embroidery, torn
(B) Lord Byron
From some court-lady’s dress and round
(C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
The wodden scabbard bound and wound
(D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Can, tattered, still protect, faded adorn
54. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
These lines are taken from which poem? how old was Harry when his parents were killed by
(A) “Goblin Market” Voldemort?
(B) “Uphill” (A) 5 months
(C) “A Dialogue between Self and Soul” (B) 9 months
(C) 12 months
(D) “Easter 1916”
(D) 15 months
49. Bertolt Brecht is:
55. Who has written “The Crack-up”?
(A) English
(A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(B) German (B) William Faulkner
(C) French (C) Miss Minnie Cooper
(D) Russian (D) P B Shelley

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Faulkner’s “Dry September”?
(A) 55 (A) Vaakhs
(B) 59 (B) Vaknai
(C) 62
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58. When did Pablo Neruda win the Nobel Prize in (A) A dove
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(A) 1965
(B) 1969 (C) A pigeon
(C) 1971
(D) Cupid
(D) 1973

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