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WBCSC English Question Paper
PAPER–II :
Time : 1 Hour 15 minutes
Maximum Marks: 100
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Instructions for the Candidates
1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page and roll number with subject code on the OMR Sheet attached with this booklet. Also write your OMR Sheet number in the space provided above.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple choice type questions. Answer all the questions. Each question carries two marks.
3. Each question has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). You have to select only one correct response and mark it in the OMR Sheet with blue/black ball pen. Example: A B C D Here (C) is the correct response.
4. Your responses to the questions are to be indicated only in the top page of the duplicate OMR Sheet provided with this booklet. If the marking is put at any other place than in the top page of the duplicate OMR Sheet, it will not be evaluated.
5. Sheets are attached at the end of the booklet for rough work.
6. If you write your name or put any special mark on any part of the top page of the duplicate OMR Sheet which may disclose in any way your identity, you will render yourself liable to disqualification.
7. Do not tamper or fold the OMR Sheet in any way. If you do so, your OMR Sheet will not be evaluated.
8. You should return the top page of the duplicate OMR Sheet to the invigilator at the end of the examination. You are allowed to carry the second page of the OMR Sheet back with you for your future reference.
9. If the top page of the duplicate OMR Sheet is not returned along with the test booklet, you will be disqualified.
10. No candidate shall be allowed to leave his/her seat or the examination hall/room till the end of the examination without the permission of the invigilator.
Sample Questions
1. The second tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is
(A) The Knight’s Tale
(B) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(C) The Reeve’s Tale
(D) The Miller’s Tale
2. The Earl of Surrey’s translation of Virgil was done in
(A) Blank verse
(B) Rime royal
(C) Octosyllabic couplets
(D) Iambic pentameter
3. Who among the following Shakespearean scholars first drew critical attention to the character of Falstaff with his ‘Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff’?
(A) Maurice Morgann
(B) Caroline Spurgeon
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) William Hazlitt
4. Which of the following represents the correct chronological order of the publication of the works of Spenser mentioned below?
(A) The Shepherd’s Calendar—Mother Hubberd’s Tale—Colin Clouts Come Home Again—Prothalamion
(B) Mother Hubberd’s Tale—Colin Clouts Come Home Again—Prothalamion—The Shepherd’s Calendar
(C) Prothalamion—The Shepherd’s Calendar— Colin Clouts Come Home Again—Mother Hubberd’s Tale
(D) The Shepherd’s Calendar—Prothalamion— Mother Hubberd’s Tale—Colin Clouts Come Home Again
5. Match the characters in List I with the plays (in which they appear) in List II according to the code given below:
List I List II
I. Lance i. The Taming of the Shrew
II. Benvolio ii. The Winter’s Tale
III. Baptista iii. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
IV. Mamillius iv. Romeo and Juliet
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
(A) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
6. Who among the following is considered to be the first biographer of John Donne?
(A) Abraham Cowley
(B) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(C) Izaak Walton
(D) Thomas Egerton
7. Match the dramatists in List I with the plays in List II according to the code given below:
List I List II
I. John Webster i. Satiromastix
II. John Marston ii. A Woman Killed with Kindness
III. Thomas Heywood iii. The Devil’s Law Case
IV. Thomas Dekker iv. The Dutch Courtezan
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
(A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
8. Which of these poets was never a Poet Laureate
of England?
(A) John Dryden
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Colley Cibber
9. ‘‘Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a Butterfly upon a wheel?’’
Sporus is a caricature of
(A) Joseph Addison
(B) Mary Wortley Montagu
(C) John Gay
(D) Lord Hervey
10. Match the following poets with their poems:
List I List II
I. Ben Jonson 1. Windsor Forest
II. Alexander Pope 2. Grongar Hill
III. Andrew Marvell 3. To Penhurst
IV. John Dyer 4. Upon Appleton House
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
(A) 4 2 1 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 3 1
(D) 1 4 3 2
11. “Thy Hand Great Anarch!” the title of Nirad C.
Chaudhuri’s autobiography is taken from
(A) A Satyr Against Mankind
(B) The Dunciad
(C) An Epistle on Man
(D) Annus Mirabilis
12. In John Dryden’s Essay of Dramatick Poesie the four speakers represent:
List I List II
I. Eugenius 1. John Dryden
II. Crites 2. Roger Boyle
III. Lisideius 3. Sir Robert Howard
IV. Neander 4. William D’ Avenant
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 1 2 3 4
13. ‘‘Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason so few are offended with it.’’ Whose observation is this?
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) John Dryden
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) Voltaire
14. A Tour Thro’ The Whole Island of Great Britain was written by
(A) John Gilpin
(B) Tobias Smollett
(C) Daniel Defoe
(D) Laurence Sterne
15. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas is Prince of
(A) Morocco
(B) Caribbean Islands
(C) Abyssinia
(D) Egypt
16. In which poem do we find the following line?
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
(A) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(B) The Prelude
(C) In Memorium
(D) Endymion
17. In which edition of the Lyrical Ballads was the Preface first included?
(A) 1802
(B) 1800
(C) 1798
(D) 1850
18. Who wrote the following: ‘Without contraries is no progression’?
(A) William Blake
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) S.T. Coleridge
19. Which of the following is an example of Gothic writing?
(A) Childe Harold
(B) Osorio
(C) The Siege of Valencia
(D) Vathek
20. Match the authors in List I with the characters
created by them as in List II.
List I List II
I. Jane Austen (i) Bessie Lee and Robert Leaven
II. Walter Scott (ii) Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth
III. Charlotte Bronte (iii) Victor and Elizabeth Lavenza
IV. Mary Shelley (iv) Jeanie Deans and Reuben Butler
The correct combination is:
I II III IV
(A) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(D) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
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