Measure for Measure
D)
The Merchant of Venice
E)
As You Like It
44. The passage focuses on
A) denouement of the play
B) intricacies of the plot
C) relationship of the characters
D) hubris of the hero
E) catharsis achieved by the audience
45. The passage is from a discussion of
A) Beckett’s
Endgame
B) Ibsen’s
A Doll’s House
C) Strindberg’s
The Father
D) Garcia Lorca’s
Blood Wedding
E) Albee’s
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
46. Its author intended the book as ‘a picture of myself.’ And for the rest of
his life – to the scandal of many – he actually referred to himself by the name
of the novel or sometimes as ‘Yorick,’ the hapless preacher-jester who rides
slowly through the story on a ‘lean, jackass of a horse.’ The scandal lay first
in the book’s sheer exuberant nonsense and mostly in its author’s wildly
suggestive indecency – this was a novel, after all, that began with the ill-timed
question ‘Pray my dear, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?’
The book described above is
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A) Joseph Andrews
B) Pendennis
C) Don Quixote
D) David Copperfield
E) Tristram Shandy
47. If you’re anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic
line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental
terms, and plant them everywhere.
Though the Philisitne may jostle, you will rank as an
apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in
your medieval hand.
The movement alluded to is most closely associated with which of the
following?
A) Wordsworth, Coleridge, and De Quincey
B) Keats, Shelley, and Hazlitt
C) Wilde, Pater, and Whistler
D) Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold
E) T. S. Eliot, Pound, and T. E. Hulme
48. The passage implies that those ‘anxious for to shine’ are
A) botanists
B) soldiers
C) historians
D) rakes
E) poseurs
49. It is mainly the story of two young women, Amelia Sedley and Becky
Sharp. Amelia, says Chesterton, suffers throughout the novel ‘from that first
watercolour sketch of the two schoolgirls, in which Amelia is all the water
and Rebecca all the colour.’
The novel discussed above is
A) Dickens’
Great Expectations
B) Lawrence’s
Women in Love
C) Austen’s
Emma
D) Thackeray’s
Vanity Fair
E) Woolf’s
The Waves
50. Identify the author of the work. Base your decision on the content and
style of the passage.
The poets of the seventeenth century, the successors of the dramatists of the
sixteenth, possessed a mechanism of sensibility which could devour any kind
of experience. They are simple, artificial, difficult, or fantastic, as their
predecessors were; no less nor more than Dante, Guido Cavalcanti, Guinicelli,
or Cino. In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from
which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was
aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century,
Milton and Dryden.
A) Wallace Stevens
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B) Ezra Pound
C) Edith Wharton
D) William Carlos Williams
E) T. S. Eliot
51. Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
Of turning whatsoe’er he touched to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease –
Touch
them
with gold,
they’ll turn to what you please
.
Which of the following best describes the lines above?
A) They satirize venal politicians.
B) They commend the diplomacy of modern statesmen.
C) They predict a world in which materialism will vanish.
D) They deride those who adopt poverty as a way of life.
E) They purport to present rules of good behaviour.
52. ‘A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what
its frivolity destroys,’ she writes. And in this ‘society of irresponsible
pleasure-seekers’ that she satirizes in
The House of Mirth
, holding it partly
accountable for the death at 28 of the beautiful, luxury-loving, moneyless
heroine, Lily Bart.
The ‘she’ referred to above is
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Iris Murdoch
C) Katherine Anne Porter
D) Edith Wharton
E) Margaret Drabble
53. According to the author, ‘The line of demarcation and stratification
between the rich and the poor in Lycurgus was as sharp as though cut by a
knife or divided by a high wall.’ This sense of a greatly superior life lived by
the rich and their offspring, and of his slim chance of sharing in it, causes
Clyde Griffiths, the poor nephew of Samuel Griffiths (the collar-
manufacturing tycoon of Lycurgus), to plan to drown his pregnant and
proletarian sweetheart.
The passage above is from a discussion of
A) Crane’s
The Red Badge of Courage
B) Dreiser’s
An American Tragedy
C) Hawthorne’s
The Marble Faun
D) Fitzgerald’s
Tender Is the Night
E) Hemingway’s
The Sun Also Rises
54. GRACE
How much, preventing God! how much I owe
To the defenses thou hast round me set:
Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,
These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
I dare not peep over this parapet
To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,
The depths of sin to which I had descended,
Had not these me against myself defended.
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----- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the context of this poem, ‘preventing’ means
A) condemning
B) ignoring
C) evading
D) enticing
E) anticipating
55. In line 3, ‘Example, custom, fear, occasion slow’ served to
A) provide security for the speaker’s financial obligations
B) earn the speaker’s contempt for their servility
C) make the speaker too timid to express original ideas
D) restrain the speaker’s self-destructive impulses
E) shield the speaker from guilty recollections
56. His hero Septimus Harding, a benign clergyman, plunges into a crisis of
soul when the sensational press unjustly assails him as an avaricious wastrel.
No sooner has this tiny storm abated than the new bishop, Dr. Proudie, arrives
with his despotic wife and slimy, ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope.
The passage above is from a discussion of novels by
A) Dickens
B) Trollope
C) Fielding
D) Thackeray
E) James
Questions 57-59 refer to the following works.
A)
The House of the Seven Gables
B)
The House of Life
C)
The Fall of the House of Usher
D)
Bleak House
E )
Heartbreak House
57. Which is by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
58. Which is by Charles Dickens?
59. Which is by Edgar Allan Poe?
60. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes or endeavoring to
move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully,
especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such
an height. Humour was his proper sphere: and in that he delighted most to
represent mechanic people. He was deeply conversant in the ancients, both
Greek and Latin, and he borrowed freely from them. But he has done his
robberies as openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law.
Which of the following accurately describes the passage above?
A) Arnold is discussing Wordsworth.
B) Dryden is discussing Jonson.
C) Swift is discussing Pope.
D) Shelley is discussing Shakespeare.
E) Eliot is discussing Milton.
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