CUET PG ENGLISH 2023 SHIFT III
- Sayan Roy
- Jan 26
- 15 min read
1. Toxophilus was, in the author's own words, written "in the English tongue for English men". Who is the author?
1. Sir Thomas More
2. John Skelton
3. William Tyndale
4. Roger Ascham
Correct answer: 4
2. Who introduced the term "Stream of Consciousness"?
1. James Joyce
2. Henry James
3. William James
4. Samuel Richardson
Correct answer: 3
3. Into how many parts is the essay "Tradition and Individual Talent" divided?
1. Two
2. Three
3. Four
4. Five
Correct answer: 1
4. John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is an example of
1. science fiction
2. allegory
3. detective fiction
4. autobiography
Correct answer: 2
5. In which year was the first Nobel Prize in Literature awarded?
1. 1907
2. 1913
3. 1901
4. 1923
Correct answer: 3
6. Match the works in List I with their authors in List II:
LIST I
A. Doctor Faustus
B. Julius Caesar
C. In Defence of Poesy
D. The Faerie Queene
LIST II
I. William Shakespeare
II. Christopher Marlowe
III. Edmund Spenser
IV. Sir Philip Sidney
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-I, C-IV. D-III
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I. D-II
3. A-I, B-III, C-II. D-IV
4. A-IV. B-II. C-III. D-I
Correct answer: 1
7. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Preface to Lyrical Ballads was first published in 1798.
Statement II: Preface to Lyrical Ballads is the unacknowledged manifesto of the Romantic Movement.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: 1
8. Match List I with List II:
LIST I
A. The Sex which is Not One
B. The Newly Born Women
C. The Madwoman in the Attic
D. On Lies, Secrets and Silence
LIST II
I. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
II. Luce Irigaray
III. Adrienne Rich
IV. Helene Cixous
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-II, B-IV. C-I, D-III
4. A-II. B-III, C-I. D-IV
Correct answer: 1
9. Match List I with List II:
LIST I
Α. 1700-1745
B. 1798-1832
C. 1625-1660
D. 1340-1400
LIST II
I. The Age of Milton
II. The Age of Chaucer
III. The Age of Wordsworth
IV. The Augustan Age
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-IV. B-III. C-I. D-II
Correct answer: 4
10. Who amongst the following is not a part of the group of the "University Wits"?
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. William Shakespeare
3. Robert Greene
4. George Peele
Correct answer: 2
11. Beowulf is a work of
1. Poetry
2. Play
3. Novel
4. Short story
Correct answer: 1
12. Lucifer is a character in which of the following works:
1. Doctor Faustus
2. Paradise Lost
3. The Faerie Queene
4. The Jew of Malta
Correct answer: 2
13. Match List I with List II:
LIST I
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. Henry Fielding
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Samuel Johnson
LIST II
I. Tom Jones
II. The Lives of the Poets
III. Biographia Literaria
IV. The Vicar of Wakefield
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. А-III, В-І, С-IV, D-II
3. A-IV, B-I, C-III. D-II
4. A-I. B-III, C-IV. D-I
Correct answer: 3
14. Which of the following is not a writer from the Renaissance Period?
1. William Shakespeare
2. John Donne
3. William Wordsworth
4. Christopher Marlowe
Correct answer: 3
15. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Robert Browning
B. John Keats
C. P.B. Shelley
D. Matthew Arnold
LIST II
I. Ode To a Nightingale
II. My Last Duchess
III. Dover Beach
IV. Prometheus Unbound
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
2. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
3. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4. A-1, B-III, С-IV, D-II
Correct answer: 3
16. What is the function of Drama, according to Dryden?
1. Purgation
2. Religious Teaching
3. Delight and Instruction
4. Transportation
Correct answer: 3
17. Who wrote "Our Sweetest Songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts"?
1. William Wordsworth
2. John Keats
3. P.B. Shelley
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Correct answer: 3
18. Which of the following works has not been written by T.S. Eliot?
1. The Cocktail Party
2. Murder in the Cathedral
3. The Boy with a Cart
4. The Wasteland
Correct answer: 3
19. Which of the following is not a mythological retelling?
1. The Oath of Vayuputras
2. The Palace of Illusions
3. Nagmadala
4. Vanity Fair
Correct answer: 4
20. English August: An Indian Story is a famous novel written by:
1. Upamanyu Chatterjee
2. Vikram Seth
3. Raja Rao
4. David Davidar
Correct answer: 1
21. The first Indian novel, Rajmohan's Wife, was written by:
1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
2. R. K. Narayan
3. Raja Rao
4. Rabindranath Tagore
Correct answer: 1
22. What was the original name of Mushi Premchand?
1. Prem Dass
2. Dhani Ram
3. Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
4. Yusuf Ahmad
Correct answer: 3
23. A Bend in the Ganges' is written by.
1. Khushwant Singh
2. Anita Desai
3. R. K. Narayan
4. Manohar Malgonkar
Correct answer: 4
24. Mohan Rakesh's 'Adhe Adhure' highlights the issues and problems connected with:
1. The neo-rich
2. The middle class
3. The aristocracy
4. The poor
Correct answer: 2
25. Who was the first recipient of Saraswati Samman?
1. Vijay Tendulkar
2. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
3. Sharankumar Limbale
4. Mahesh Elkunchwar
Correct answer: 2
26. Who wrote the preface to Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable?
1. W. B. Yeats
2. E. M. Forster
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. T. S. Eliot
Correct answer: 2
27. Who among the following has based a substantial part of his work on the Partition and related issues?
1. Mirza Ghalib
2. Saadat Hasan Manto
3. Mohan Rakesh
4. Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Correct answer: 2
28. Which Indian novelist has written The Cat and Shakespeare?
1. R. K. Narayan
2. Khushwant Singh
3. Raja Rao
4. Anita Desai
Correct answer: 1
29. Gender is an imposed division of sexes.
1. culturally
2. biologically
3. socially
4. individually
Correct answer: 1
30. The technique of "defamiliarisation" is to make
1. unfamiliar things familiar
2. familiar things unfamiliar
3. unfamiliar things unfamiliar
4. familiar things familiar
Correct answer: 2
31. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Russian Formalism
B. New Criticism
C. Feminist Criticism
D. New Historicism
LIST II
I. 1960s-present
II. 1980s onwards
III. 1920s-1930s
IV. 1940s-1950s
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
2. A-III, B-IV, C-1, D-II
3. A-IV, B-I, C-II. D-III
4. А-II. В-III, C-I. D-IV
Correct answer: 1
32. The phrase "dissociation of sensibility" was coined by
1. Francis Bacon
2. William Wordsworth
3. T.S. Eliot
4. Cleanth Brooks
Correct answer: 3
33. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Palindrome
B. Palinode
C. Palimpsest
D. Panegyric
LIST II
I. A word and or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards
II. A composition in prose or public speech in elaborate praise a person, group or deed
III. The written surface of a parchment which is scraped off to use for a new text
IV. A poem in which the poet renounces an earlier poem or type of subject matter
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II. B-IV. C-III. D-I
2. A-I, B-IV, C-III. D-II
3. A-I, B-II, C-III. D-IV
4. A-IV. B-I, C-III, D-II
Correct answer: 2
34. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Stress
B. Intonation
C. Pitch
D. Juncture
LIST II
I. The transition in an utterance between adjacent speeches
II. The relative loudness of a component element in an utterance
III. The variation in the rise and fall of the voice in the course of an utterance
IV. The rise and fall of the voice rhythm in the course of an utterance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
2. A-IV, B-III. C-II, D-I
3. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4. A-II, B-IV, C-III. D-I
Correct answer: 3
35. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Blank Verse
B. Dramatic Monologue
C. Sonnet
D. Elegy
LIST II
I. A lyric poem uttered by a speaker to a listener(s), thereby revealing their own character.
II. A lyric poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines with a particular rhyme scheme
III. A formal lament in verse for the death of a person
IV. Unrhymed iambic parameter lines in a poem
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-IV. B-II, C-III, D-I
3. A-IV, B-I, C-II. D-III
4. A-I, B-III, C-II. D-IV
Correct answer: 3
36. The "Antimasque" was a form developed by:
1. William Shakespeare
2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Ben Jonson
4. John Donne
Correct answer: 3
37. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Folklore
B. Myth
C. Archetype
D. Fairy tales
LIST II
I. Recurrent themes, actions, types of characters and images claimed to be a result of elemental and universal patterns in the human psyche
II. Stories of various kinds of marvels
III. Verbal compositions, sayings and social rituals handed down the generations orally
IV. A story in a system of hereditary stories of ancient origin assigned to a particular cultural group
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
3. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. A-III. B-IV. C-II, D-I
Correct answer: 3
38. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A: The Elizabethan Age is regarded as the Golden Age of English Literature
Reason R: Queen Elizabeth ruled England from 1558-1603 and brought peace to the land
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
2. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
Correct answer: 1
39. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A: Both the monologue and the soliloquy are the same and can be used interchangeably
Reason R: There is a difference between the monologue and the soliloquy. The former is a lengthy speech by one individual to others, while the latter is a monologue that expresses the character's thoughts privately
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
2. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
Correct answer: 4
40. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Folio
B. Quarto
C. Octavo
D. Duodecimo
LIST II
I. A "large" printer's sheet which is folded twice to form four leaves
II. A "large" printer's sheet which is folded thrice to form eight leaves
III. A "large" printer's sheet which is III. folded once to form two leaves of four pages
IV. A "large" printer's sheet which is folded to form twelve leaves
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. А-І, В-III, C-IV, D-II
2. А-III, В-II, C-I. D-IV
3. А-III, В-I, C-II. D-IV
4. A-IV, B-I, C-II. D-III
Correct answer: 3
41. ___includes words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhyming verses in an imaginative style.
1. Prose
2. Poetry
3. Play
4. Non-fiction
Correct answer: 2
42. Langland's, Piers Plowman is an example of
1. Epic
2. Allegorical Poem
3. Lyric
4. Elegy
Correct answer: 2
43. 'Graveyard Poets' is a term applied to:
1. Sixteenth century poets who wrote pastoral elegies and raised questions about the justice of fate
2. Seventeenth century poets who wrote elegies lamenting the death of a friend or a person
3. Eighteenth century poets who wrote meditative poems on human morality
4. Nineteenth century poets who wrote romantic poems on love and life
Correct answer: 3
44. Which of the following groups of words are related to each other?
1. Crime Fiction, Murder mysteries. Detective stories, Police novel
2. Practical Criticism, Theoretical Criticism, New Criticism. Cultural Studies
3. Deconstruction, difference, trace, structuralism
4. Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labours Lost. The Taming of a Shrew, Julius Caesar
Correct answer:-1
45. Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Autobiography
B. Memoir
C. Diary
D. Hagiography
LIST II
I. Generalized chronicles of the deeds of a Christian Saint based on pious legends
II. A biography written by the subject themselves
III. A first person account of the notable monuments in the author's life
IV. A day to day record of events in one's life
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. А-ІІІ. В-ІI, C-IV, D-I
2. A-II. B-III, C-I, D-IV
3. A-I, B-II, С-III, D-IV
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Correct answer: 4
46. Arrange the following in a chronological order:
A. Bourgeois or domestic tragedy
B. Shakespearean tragedy
C. Classical tragedy
D. Medieval tragedy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A. D. C. B
2. C. D. B. A
3. B. A. C. D
4. C. D. A, B
Correct answer: 2
47. The famous essay "The Politics of Translation" is written by:
1. Eugene Nida
2. Mahasweta Devi
3. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
4. Josephine Balmer
Correct answer: 3
48. Untranslatability is a possibility in:
1. Drama
2. Cultural contexts
3. Grammar
4. Prose
Correct answer:-2
49. J. C. Catford divides the shift in translation into major types.
1. Nine
2. Four
3. Two
4. Three
Correct answer: 3
50. Munshi Premchand's Godaan has been translated into English by:
1. Jai Rattan and Purshottama in 1957
2. Gordon C. Roadarmel in 1968
3. Both (1) and (2)
4. None of the above
Correct answer: 3
51. In translation. SL and TL mean:
1. Semiotic Language and Transmitted Language
2. Source Language and Target Language
3. Simple Language and Transferred Language
4. None of the above
Correct answer: 2
52. "Ecriture Feminine" is a term derived from the writings of:
1. Julia Kristeva
2. Helene Cixous
3. Toril Moi
4. Luce Irigaray
Correct answer: 2
53. The term 'Weltliteratur' was coined by:
1. F. W. J. Schelling
2. A. W. Schegel
3. J. G. Herder
4. J. W. V. Goethe
Correct answer:-4
54. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The principle behind all art is imitation
Statement II: The principle behind all art is magnification
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: 3
55. In Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, who defended the English plays?
1. Crites
2. Neander
3. Lisideius
4. Eugenius
Correct answer:-2
56. Who first objected to Wordsworth's Theory of Language?
1. S.T. Coleridge
2. John Keats
3. Lord Byron
4. J. W. H. Atkins
Correct answer: 1
57. Consider the following statements about Structuralism:
A. Structuralism spread all over the world following a rise in its importance in France.
B. Structuralism is related to criticism in all fields of literature and art.
C. Structuralism began in the 1960s.
D. Structuralism tries to identify certain structures in a piece of work.
Choose the correct options:
1. A. B. C
2. A, C, D
3. A and D
4. C and D
Correct answer: 3
58. Who said, "There is nothing outside to the text"?
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Jacques Lacan
3. Jacques Derrida
4. Ferdinand de Saussure
Correct answer: 3
59. Interpellation, according to Althusser, is a process by which a concrete individual becomes a concrete ____
1. Citizen
2. Agent
3. Subject
4. Individual
Correct answer: 3
60. Close reading" is the term often used to describes the method of ____
1. Marxism
2. New Criticism
3. Structuralism
4. Formalism
Correct answer: 2
61. According to Longinus, which two of the following qualities apply to 'Great Poetry'?
A. It must be the work of a genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
1. B and C
2. A and B
3. A and C
4. C and D
Correct answer: 3
62. According to Longinus, sublimity is a certain loftiness and excellence in the use of ____
1. Imagery
2. Language
3. Style
4. Grammar
Correct answer: 2
63. Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Jnanpith Award in
1. 2018
2. 2019
3.2020
4. 2022
Correct answer:1
64. Milton's 'Lycidas' is ____
1. a ballad
2. an epic
3. an elegy
4. a sonnet
Correct answer: 3
65. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is told from-
1. The first person point of view
2. The second person point of view
3. The third person point of view
4. The omniscient point of view
Correct answer: 1
Question Numbers: (66 to 70)
Question Label: Comprehension
"The success rate of transplants with living donors is higher than with brain-dead donors. Unlike in western countries where cadaver donor transplantation is predominant, in India there has been a rise of living liver donors". Living donors or liver transplant (LDLT) can save patients with locally advanced liver cancer and acute liver failure though deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) in not suitable for most patients. LDLT can be done as soon as a family member is found fit to donate a part of the liver, while DDLT requires waiting in India for 6-18 months." Dr. S.K. Sarin, Director, Institution of Liver and Biliary Science, said, "A deceased donor is mostly preferred because of the risks to a living donor. But when the requirement is for, say 2,000 donors, we get just 300-400 deceased donors. But even with non-living donors, there are challenges, often even people aged 35 are obese or consume alcohol in large amounts. More than 60% of the donors are wives or mothers".
As per government rule, the donor has to be a first degree relative of the recipient, that is a husband, wife, brother, sister, father, mother, son or daughter. A healthy living donor can donate up to 60% of the liver, which grows back to normal size in 4-6 weeks.
"In north India, DDLT constitutes 3-4% of transplants, while in South India, it is higher at 10-15%. Overall, 92% of recipients recover well, said Dr. Neerav Goyal of Apollo Hospitals. "The recipient goes on long term imumuno-suppressant medications, usually life-long." Liver transplants do have some risks. "A thrombus may form in the blood vessels during the surgical process. The liver can also be rejected by the patient's body". pointed out Dr. Bhushan Bhole, senior consultant, GI surgery and liver transplantation, PSRI Hospital "A donated organ acts as a foreign organ and the body may not accept it."
Liver failure occurs due to non-alcoholic cirrhosis, alcoholic liver diseases, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Another factor is acute liver failure in a short time due to Hepatitis A and E drug toxicity due to anti-TB medicines.
Post-transplant care involves regular blood tests and lifelong administration of medicines to prevent transplant rejection. These costs around Rs. 5,000 a month. But despite the need for long-term medication and regular follows ups, liver transplant recipients have an excellent quantity of life and a normal life expectancy. "More than 250 patients I know have lived 15-25 years after transplant, some of the little kids we transplanted have now become doctors, lawyers and sportspersons got married and have children of their own." smiled Arvinder Soin.
66. Out of the options given below, choose a suitable title for the passage:-
1. Living Liver Donors
2. Cadaver Liver Donors
3. Risks in Liver Transplants
4. Liver Transplants
Correct answer: 4
67. Match List I with List II Complete the information
LIST I
A. Deceased donor liver transplant(DDLT)
B. An LDLT donor as per rules has to be
C. An LDLT donor can donate
D. DDLT is preferred mostly
LIST II
I. Due to the risk to a living donor
II. Upto 60% of the liver which grows back to its normal size in 4 to 6 weeks
III. A first degree relative of the recipient
IV. Unsuitable for most patients
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. А-І, В-II, C-IV, D-II
2. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Correct answer: 3
68. "DECEASED" as used in the passage means:
1. Suffering from an illness
2. A person with liver cirrhosis
3. A cadaver donor
4. A healthy donor
Correct answer:3
69. A liver transplant becomes necessary when liver failure occurs due to:
A. Bad eating habits
B. Acute Hepatitis-B, C, A, and E
C. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease
D. Lack of exercise and smoking
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. B and C only
3. A and D only
4. B and D only
Correct answer: 2
70. Identify the wrong statements with regard to liver transplant.
A. In south India DDLT constitutes 3 to 4%
B. The liver recipient usually goes on life long immuno-suppressant medications
C. In liver transplants, more than 92% recover well
D. In LDLT. more than 60% of the donors are wives and mothers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A only
2. B only
3. C only
4. D only
Correct answer:1
Question level: Comprehension
Question number: (71-75)
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean rows will I have there, and a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace come dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings: There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow. I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore: While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey.
And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear it in the deep heart's core
71. Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
1. To explore the region
2. To escape the industrialised environment of cities
3. To be with his friends
4. To settle for life
Answer:- 2
72. What figure of speech is used in '... the veils of the morning'?
1. Oxymoron
2. Hyperbole
3. Simile
4. Metaphor
Correct answer: 4
73. What does "bee-loud glade" refer to?
1. The loud buzzing of the bees in open nature
2. Open space where the bees sing
3. The living quarters of the bees
4. Fighting amongst the bees
Correct answer: 2
74. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
1. abab
2. aabb
3. abba
4. baba
Correct answer: 1
75. "A small cabin made of clay and wattles.... ".What does it resemble?
1. a cubicle
2. a shanty
3. an apartment
4. a hut
Correct answer:-4
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