PG TRB ENGLISH (2014 - 2015) QUESTION PAPER WITH ANSWERS PART 3

89. In which of the following year, “The wreck of Duetchland” happened as mentioned by
Hopkins in his poem?
A) 7th Dec., 1875 B) 17th Nov., 1895 C) 17th Dec., 1865 D)7th Jan., 1885
90. “He that can walk, under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the stron man.” These
lines are written by
A) Carlyle B) Bacon C) Coleridge D) Arnold
91. Adonias is an written on the death of
A) Gray B) Wordsworth C) Coleridge D) Keats
92. The great-grandmother of Lamb’s children, field lived in
A) Norfolk B) Yorkshire C) Lancashire D) Warwick
93. According to Shelley, Poets are the unacknowledged ________ of the world.
A) Rulers B) Reformers C) Legislators D) Saviours
94. _________is the first and last of all knowledge.
A) Novel B) Poetry C) Drama D) Philosophy
95. Ultimately Young Catherine married
A) Edgar B) Linton C) Hindley D) Hareton
96. “No poet, No artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his
appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.” These words
are written by
A) Sir Philip Sydney B) T.S. Eliot C) Mathew Arnold D) Carlyle
97. Which of the following Novels of Graham Greene deals with the persecution of Catholics in
Mexico?
A) The End of the Affair B) The Heart of the Matter
C) The Human Factor D) The Power and the Glory
98. George Eliot is the pen-name of
A) Mary Wolstoncraft B) Ifor Evans C) Mary Ann Evans D) Jane Austen
99. “In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking and drowning”.
The lines are taken from Wilfred Owen’s poem
A) Strange Meeting B) Duke et Decorum Est
C) Isensibility D) Shadwell Stair
100. ‘Who is the third who always walks beside you’?
The third person referred here is
A) Tinesius B) Phubas C) Jesus D) Hieronymo
101. In Measure for Measure why does the Duke leave Vienna in the charge of Lord Angels?
A) He does not like to serve as the Duke
B) He wants to observe Angels at work and analyse the situation in Vienna in disguise
C) He is scared of Angels and wants to abdicate his throne
D) He is sick and tired of his responsibilities and wants to enjoy life
102. How does Cleopatra kill herself?
A) She lets herself be bitten by poisonous asps
B) She stabs herself with a dagger
C) She drinks a goblet of wine with poison
D) She throws herself out of her balcony
103. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A) 36 plays and136 sonnets B) 35 plays and 154 sonnets
C) 36 plays and 155 sonnets D) 36 plays and 154 sonnets
104. Which of the following is not a great tragedy by Shakespeare?
A) Macbeth B) Hamlet C) The Tempest D) King Lear
105. In which play of Shakespeare does Shylock appear?
A) As you Like it B) The Merchant of Venice
C) Othello D) The Winters Tale
106. Which of the following plays was written by Wole Soyinka?
A) The Road B) Black Justice C) Ozidi D) Son of Guyana
107. Which of the following novels of Chinua Achebe is titled from W.B. Yeats poem “The Second
Coming”?
A) Arrow of God B) No Longer at Ease
C) Things Fall Apart D) A Man of The people

108. In Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country” Absalom was found guilty of murdering.
A) Stephen Kumalo B) James Jarvis
C) John Kumalo D) Arthur Trevelyan Jarvis
109. The character ‘Sadiku’ appears in Wole Soyinka’s
A) Kongi’s Forest B) The Lion and The Jewel
C) The Road D) None of these
110. “Facially, I am brunette, but madam, you should see the rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles
of my feet”.
In which of the following poems of Wole Soyinka these epithets are taken from?
A) Agbor Dancer B) To my First White Hairs
C) Telephonic Conversation D) DedicatioN