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Time: 90 minutes
Marks: 100

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Come to the window… the poet is addressing to
(a) visitor (b)friend
(c) the reader (d) his lady love
Dover Beach is one of the most important poems of the
(a) 18th century (b) 19th century
(c) 20th century (d) 17th century
Who defines poetry as a criticism of life”
(a) Keats , Matthew Arnold
(c) Coleridge (d) Shelly
is watching the last oozing of the cider-press.
(a) A woman (b) Personified autumn
(c) A farmer – d) A gleaner
Which one of the following odes is not by John Keats?
(a) Ode to the West Wind (b) Ode to Autumn
(c) Ode to Melancholy (d) Ode to a Nightingale
In which year Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Gitanjali?
(a) 1912 (b) 1931 1918 (d) 1915
The poem Scholar Gipsy’ was published in 1853 by
(a) Tennyson (, Matthew Arnold
(c) AC. Swinburne (d) Robert Browning

Spoken English and Broken Englishis Shaws Radio talk, in which he addresses
(a) Foreign students of English –
(b) Natives who speak a non-standard dialect
(c) The American Public
(d) Both Foreign students of English and natives who speak a non standard
Dr. Bhim. Rao Ambedkar passed away on
(20 December , 1956 (b) December , 1955
(c) December , 1956 (d) December , 1956
The Conjurors Revenge is taken from
(a) Literary Lapses (b) The story of philosophy
(c) The art of drawing (d) The lessons of history
The Conjuror showed an empty cloth and produced a bowl of
(a) Eggs (b) Flowers (c) Fruits (d) – Gold Fish
Martin Luther King Jr. was influenced by
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose (d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech on the occasion of The Centenary Celebrations of Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation on 28th August 1963 at
(a) Senate (b) Lincoln Memorial
(c) Memorial Hall (d) Golden Memorial
An ode is a
(a) lyrical play (b) a little sound
(c) lyrical poem – (d) narrative poem

15. Match the following :
(i) Have A Dream 1. Hehad-it-uphissleeve
(ii) Dover Beach 2. Neither joy, nor love. Nor light nor certitude, nor peace, mor help for pain
(iii) Little Girls are Wiser than Men. 3. Free at lastFree at lastThank God almighty, we are free at last
(iv) The Conjurors Revenge 4. Ye shall in no wiser enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Codes:
(ii) (iii) (iv) (?) 3. 2 4
(b) 3 1 2 . (c) 2 3 4 1 (d) 3 4 2 1.
A collection of poems is
(a) Philology (b) Phonology (c) Anthology (d) Pathology
Choose the appropriate verb form in the given sentence.
An honest person always — the truth. (a) has spoken (b) speak (c) speaks (d) has been speaking
The gaps for fillingin the poem Insensibility refers to the
(a) Soldiers who have died (b) The gaps in the trenches (c) Flowers (d) The poets tearful feeling
In which nation was Wilfred Owen born?
(a) The United States of America (b) United Kingdom
(c) Ireland (d) Wales
The poem Insensibility by Wilfred Owen is about
(a) Death (b) Love (c) War (d) Poverty

21. Who said Strength is Life; Weakness is Death?
(a) R. K. Naravan – Vivekananda
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Satyvathi Devi
22. From Homecoming is the – and last part of Rough Passage.
(a) fifth (b) forth (c) third (d) second
23. Rajagopal Parthasarathy was born in
(a) Delhi (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala
24. In which year was Sahitya Academy Translation Prize awarded to R. Parthasarathy.
(a) 1995 (b) 1993 (c) 1996 (d) 1994
25. — time of the day is described in the poem From Homecoming.
– a) Evening (b) Morning (c) Afternoon (d) Midnight
26. Who tries to pacify the angry men in the story Little Girls are Wiser than Men?
Akoulyas Grandmother (b) Malashas Grandmother
(c) Akoulyas Grandfather (d) Malashas Grandfather
27. Who among the following is not the frequent visitor to the river?
(a) Woodcutter (b) Farmer (c) Mule drivers (d) Milk men
28. Who did the boy make friendship with, on his way to the river?
– sa) Village (b) Wood cutter (c) City Boy (d) Girl
29. Choose the correct synonym for the phrase Fleet to Air.
(a) Visible (b) Vanish
(c) Come to light (d) ?ppear
30. The play Sacrifice’ was set in the temple of
(a) Lord Shiva (b) Lord Krishna
(c) Lord Venkateswara (d) Goddess