Q.81
Mini, Bimla, Binodini, Kadambini are important and memorable characters created by -
- (A)
R. K. Narayan
- (B)
Amitav Ghosh
- (C)
Rabindranath Tagore
- (D)
Shashi Deshpande
RPSC वरिष्ठ अध्यापक (माध्यमिक शिक्षा) पेपर II अंग्रेज़ी 2022
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इस पेपर का Syllabus:Syllabus (English)
Q.82
A period of visual and literary arts during the reign of James I of England came to be known as the -
- (A)
Tudor period
- (B)
Jacobean period
- (C)
Caroline period
- (D)
Metaphysical period
Q.83
Virmati, Shakuntala and Swarna choose not to conform to societal standards. Name the novel and the writer.
- (A)
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- (B)
That Long Silence – Shashi Deshpande
- (C)
Difficult Daughters – Manju Kapur
- (D)
A Married Woman – Manju Kapur
Q.84
R. K. Narayan’s mentor and friend was -
- (A)
Graham Greene
- (B)
Krishnaswami
- (C)
R. K. Laxman
- (D)
Ramchandra
Q.85
“Like a huge Python, winding round and round
The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars
up to its very summit near the stars
A creeper climbs, in …..”
These lines are taken from -
- (A)
Bianca, or the Young Spanish Maiden
- (B)
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
- (C)
The Diary of Mademoiselle D’ Arvers
- (D)
Our Casuarina Tree
Q.86
An important element of Satire is -
- (A)
sorrow
- (B)
wit and humour
- (C)
adventure
- (D)
anger
Q.87
Which of the following is <u>not</u> true about Manju Kapur?
- (A)
She does not ever address any socio-political issues in the country.
- (B)
Her novel ‘A Married Woman’ was called ‘fluent and witty’ in the ‘Independent’.
- (C)
She touches bases social themes like marriage, girl education, dowry, religion etc. in her novels.
- (D)
She won the Commonwealth Prize for first novels for ‘Difficult Daughters’.
Q.88
John Webster, Thomas Middleton and Philip Massinger belonged to which period?
- (A)
Victorian period
- (B)
Modern period
- (C)
Jacobean period
- (D)
Romantic period
Q.89
“The love song of J. Alfred Prufock” is considered to be an example of -
- (A)
personification
- (B)
mock-epic
- (C)
dramatic monologue
- (D)
metaphor
Q.90
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a dramatic monologue?
- (A)
A single speaker
- (B)
Presence of multiple dialogues
- (C)
Revelation of character’s psychology
- (D)
Silent listener
Q.91
Major themes of the modernist movement were -
- (A)
Alienation and isolation
- (B)
Disillusionment
- (C)
Stream of Consciousness
- (D)
All of the above
Q.92
His works focus on the flora and fauna in and around the Himalayas. He loves nature and spends time in idyllic surroundings. He is -
- (A)
R. N. Tagore
- (B)
Nissim Ezekiel
- (C)
Arun Kolatkar
- (D)
Ruskin Bond
Q.93
Which literary movement came into being by rejecting romanticism?
- (A)
Neo-classicism
- (B)
Supernaturalism
- (C)
Modernism
- (D)
Hedonism
Q.94
Which taboo topic does Shashi Deshpande highlight is her short story ‘The Intrusion’?
- (A)
Male Chauvinism
- (B)
Homosexuality
- (C)
Infanticide
- (D)
Marital rape
Q.95
Curtail Sonnet were written by-
- (A)
Shakespeare
- (B)
Wordsworth
- (C)
Hopkins
- (D)
Milton
Q.96
What among these is a non-fiction work by Arundhati Roy?
- (A)
The God of Small Things
- (B)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- (C)
In Custody
- (D)
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
Q.97
“She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ……”
AND
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills”. The above lines are example of -
- (A)
Metaphor
- (B)
Satire
- (C)
Irony
- (D)
Simile
Q.98
Select the correct option -
Mock-epic style can be liken to -
- (A)
Imitating
- (B)
Burlesque
- (C)
Sorrowful
- (D)
Both (1) and (2)
Q.99
Who was the Poet Laureate from 1930-1967 in the modern period?
- (A)
Rupert Brooke
- (B)
Thomas Hardy
- (C)
Walter De La Mare
- (D)
John Masefield
Q.100
Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and the Rossetti were associated with -
- (A)
naturalism
- (B)
romanticism
- (C)
aestheticism
- (D)
imagism