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Department of English

M.A. EI{GLTSH ENTRANCE EHitrNATroN, ruNE 2012

Max. Time: 2 hourc ltlax. Marks: 10O

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1. Do not reveal your identity in any manner in any part of the answer book.

2. Enter your Hall Ticket Number on the lirst page of each answer book. Th6 paper
comprises Urree sections in all. Section A is of an obJective type. One ttrird of a
mark (1/3) will be deducted for every wring answer in iespect or'irr oorcctve tvp"
questions. No marks will be deducted for questions not attempted. -
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conllsb of Poetry Comprrehension and Sec{Xon C oomprises pr6iis Wridng, r*V
WdUng and Comprehension passage.

3. Write your answers only in the space provkled in the question paper. No additional
paper or ansiwer book will be given.

4. Space for rough work is provided on pages 26 and 27,

5. This question paper conbins 27 pages in all, Ensure that all the pages have been
printed before you staft answering.

6. At the end of the o<amination rcturn all three sectons of the answer book together
to the invigilator.

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There are 5O questions to answer.

The questions carry ONE MARK each.
Put a tick mark (4 against the conect an$^rer ONLY in the appropriate box.

Ghoose the right answer fraom the options given under eadr item.

l. Look at the sentences below and comment on their correctness:

1. This is a good TV show on elephanb.

2. This is a good TV show about elephants.

n (a) only I is correct

n (b) only 2 is conect
n (c) both 1 and 2 are correct
I (d) neither 1 nor 2 is onect

2. This is a good piece of furniture but I m afraid it lacks

n (a) finesse
tr (b) finished
[ (c) fineness
tr (d) finish

3. The usage'There are no words to praise him'means

n (a) he does not deserve to be praised

[ (b) he deserves very little praise
I (c) a few words are enough to praise him
n (d) noneoftheabove

4. I walked very slowly towards the rather scary-looking girl.

Pick the conect group of adverbs used in the sentence above:

X (a) scary, slowly, girl,

n 0) I, slowty, scary
X (c) very, scary, slowly
n (d) very, rather, slowly
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5. 'I came, I saw, I conquered'- what kind of sentence is this?

n (a) complo<
n (b) simple
n (c) compound
n (d) aHnct

6. for her careful handling of matters, the association would have been dissolved long ago.

-n (a) Despite
n (b) Apart
! (c) But
n (d) Notwithstanding
i. The teacher said to his students,'It is about to rain. The you go the better for youf.

f, (a) more -
tr (b) soon
n (c) soonest
! (d) sooner

8. Which of the following is nota passive sentence?

n (a) I was denied admission into the school.

n (b) I was wheeled into the operating theatre.
n (c) I was informed of the dangers involved.
n ($ I was tired by the end of the day.

9, The phrase'To stick onet neck ou( means

n (a) to be confused
n (b) to be curious
n (c) to take a big risk
tr (d) to ask for a chance

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lo.Thomas Alva Edison was an-peruonallty.

n (a) illustrated
f (b) illustrious
n (c) illuminated
n (d) lurninous

11. With the disappearance of foresE ffre natural habitat of several animals decrease.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate choice.

il (a) continues to
il (b) continuing to
f (c) to continue
n (d) continuation

12.The King kilhd all his enemies showing mercy. Fill in the blank with the appropriate
choice.

n (a) a little
tr (b) litde
n (c) the little
tr (d) littlest

13.The Enquiry Committee will _ the case after the records are given. Fill in the blank
with the approprlate cholce.

n (a) look into

n (b) bok for
n (c) look fonrard to
tr (d) look after

14.The phrase'To smell a raf means:

! (a) there is a dead rat in the room

n (b) fte speaker is a cat
tr (c) to suspe<t some$ring
n (d) a rat is moving suspiciously

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15.Identify the phrase that is not a meaning

of the word .foof:

D (a) a unit of measurement

tr (b) a poetic metre
! (c) a kind ofshoe
tr (d) a timb

16.'He is not in the good books of his master,. The

underrined phrase rneans

D (a) his name does not figure in the attendane register

I (b) he does not bonow book from his master
tr (c) he is not a character in his maste/s novel
n (d) the master does not like him

17. Pick the odd one out:

tr (a) homicide
X (b) human
I (c) humane
tr (d) homonym

18. A room or a building where a pemon stays is

his_.
[ (a) acommodaUon
I (b) accomodation
tr (c) accamodation
! (d) accommodation

19. He is an _ person. Fill in the blank with the orrect choie.

tr (a) imperiat
tr (b) impervious
tr (c) imperious
[ (d) imptied

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2O.'MaE pruposes, God disposes'is an o<ample of a/an_

n (a) hypothesis
I (b) synthesis
tr (c) antithesis
I (d) thesis

21. The antonym for "ambivalenf is_.

n (a) sure
n (b) clear
! (c) steadfast
n (fl multivalent

22. Neither the chairman nor the director present. Fi[ $e blank with the correct option.

n (a) are
n (b) is
n (c) isnt
n (d) was

23. A gaggle of geese, a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep and a school of _. Choose the correct
option.

tr (a) fish
[ (b) drildren
n (c) clowns
tr (d) ants

24. Which novel did Charles Dickens Not write?

n (a) Sense and*nsibility

n $) Dontuy and tun
n G) A Tale of Two Cities
n (d) OliverTwist

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25."'East is East and Wst is West, and. never the twain shall meet...'Who said this? ,

n (a) Rudyard Kipling

fI (b) EMForster
n (c) Paul Scott
n ($ John Masters

26.'Intemal Evidence' is

tr (a) evidence which is internal to the working of the critiCs mird

tr (b) a term used in analytical and textual criticism that refers to features of style
n (c) evidence that o<plains the inner life of characters in the modern novel
n (d) Noneoftheabove

27, Esperanto is_

n (a) a term that stands for the Spanish language
n (b) a form of Latin American language
n (c) an artificial International language
n (d) an odinct language

28.Saying'he passed away' instead of 'he died'is an o<ample of

n (a) euphemisrn
n (b) euphuism
tr (c) parallelism
! (d) archaism
29. A list of texts or authors seen as'classiC is called

n (a) cannon
I (b) big guns
n (c) canon
tr (d) syllabus
30. An elegy and a dirge are both forms of poetry associated with

n (a) festive occasions

f, (b) death and mourning
n (c) maritalmirth
n (d) all of the above
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31.'Malayalam', 'Able was I erc I saw Elba', 'dad'are all o<amples of

n (a) palindromes
n (b) parallelisms
n (c) dromedaries
X (d) palinodes

32. Pantomime is a form of

tr (a) drama
n (b) fiction
n (c) poetry
n (d) none ofthe above

33. Personification implies

D (a) giving a body to a ghostly figure

n (b) imparting human traits to non-human objects and ideas
tr (c) lifting a person
tr (d) a genre in fiction

When an author provides hints about what is going to happen in fiction, it is called

n (a) introspection
tr (b) foreshadowing
f, (c) flashback
n (d) bacKncking

35. An all-knowing point of view is called

n (a) nrst person
I (b) omniscient
n (c) second person
! (d) nanative wice

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36. A short phrase or quotaUon at fie beginning of a book or poem is called an

(a) epigraph
n (b) epilogue
n (c) epitaph
X (d) episode

37. The vagabond, loveable, rogu+hero ls a feature of

n (a) the plcturesque novel

tr (b) the picaresque novel
n (c) the rogue novel
f, (d) the tegat novel

38' George Orwell's famous novel l994tells one story but means someffring more. Such a tale is
called an

tr (a) afiergy
n (b) allegory
tr (c) elegy
n (d) alert

39.'I wandercd lonety as a cloud'is an example of

n (a) simile
tl (b) metaphor
tr (c) metonymy
tr (d) metrics

'He is brilliant, but he failed in the exams,.

This kind of language is

tr (a) e><aggeration
tr (b) e,xtrapolation
n (c) ironic
tr (d) excessive

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41. 'The hy of his 6ath was a h*, cold hf. The kind of wrltlng here where the first sounds of
words are repeatd is _
n (a) nretric
n (b) stylised
n (c) echoic
n (d) alliterative

42. Novels that deal with the end of the world and civilization are called

n (a) gloomy novels

n (b) war novels
n (c) crash novels
I (d) dystopic novels

43. When book are made into films it is called

n (a) choreography
n (b) modiffing
n (c) adaptation
n (d) filmography

44. Cartoons and writings that laugh at othes, specially the upper rungs of society, are called

tr (a) mockeries
I (b) fripperies
n (c) saWrs
n (d) saUres

45. Fmncis Bacon was

tr (a) a poet
n (b) a playuright
tr (c) both poet and playwright
n (d) an essayist

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46, Lines inscribed on gravestones ane

D (a) epikaphs
fl (b) epigrams
fl (c) epigraphs
tr (d) epithalamiums

47. Bombastic language refers to

n (a) the language of tenorists

n (b) good speech
n (c) wordiness
n (d) subtlety

48. A portrnanteau word refers to

I (a) a suitcase full of words

n (b) a word formed by the combination of two words
n (c) a term used to describe ports
tr (d) animalalphabet

49, 'Contagious countries'is an example of

n (a) malapropism
n (b) synonyms
D (c) malafide intent
I (d) antonyms

50. The lines'I would not love thee, dear, so much,/ Loved I not honour more'mean that the
soeaker

n (a) does not love his girlfriend

n (b) is careless about hls honour
n (c) loves honour more than he loves his girlfriend
n (d) loves his girlfriend more than honour

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Department of English

M.A, ENGLISI| ENTRANCE EXAMII{ATION. JUI{E 2Ot2

SECTION Br POETRY COMPREIIEI{SION

ITOTAL MARKS 2OI

Read the following poem carefulfy and answer the subsequent questions only in the
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space provided for each. Questions to 5 carry 4 mark each.

Tears, ldle Tears

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rlse in the hea4 and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more,

F.esh as the first beam glittering on a sail,

That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in the dark summer dawns

The earliest pipe of half-aw?kened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more,

Dear as remembered kisses after death,

And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regreq
O Death in Life, the days that are no morel

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1. Why aF the 'tears' describ€d as 'idle?

(4 Ma.k)

2. Write a note on the tone of the poem.

(4 marks)

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5. What does the phrase 'Death In Lfe- imply? (4 Ma*s)

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3, Explain the dominant image ln stanza 2.

(4 Marks)

4- Identify and oelicate the use of the two sensory images ln stanza 3.
(4 Marks)

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Departm€ntof English

M.A ET{GIISH ET{TRANCE EXAIIIIIIATION, JUI{E 2012

SECTION C

[roTAL MARIG 3Ol

PRECIS WRITING

IIISTR,UCTIONS:

t.ltlake a pr€ds of the fiollowlng passage. Wrib one single paragraph of about l5O
words.
[1o llarts]
Good and Evir
The theory of gmd and evil crosses the boundaries of many sciences or subject matters. It occupies a
place in metaphysics. It is of fundamental importance in all the moral sciences-ethics, e@nomic,
politics, jurisprudence. It appears in all the descriptive sciences of human behavior, such as psychology
and sociology, though there it is of less importance and is differenfly treated.

The relation of good and evil to truth and falsity, beauty and uglinss, canie the discussion into
logic, aesthetics, and the philosophy of art. The kue, it has been said, is the good in the sphere of our
thinking. So it may be said of the beautiful that it is a quality which thlngs have when they are good as
objg$ of contemplation and love, or good as productlons. It is no less possible to understand goodness
and beauty in terms of truth, or truth and goodness in terms of beauty.

One aim of analysis, with respect to the true, the good, and the beautiful, is to preserve their
dlstinctness without rendering each less universal. This has been attempted by writers who treat these
three tenns as having a kind of parallelism in their application to ererything, but who also inslst that each
of the three noUons conceives things under a different aspect or in a different relation. "As good adds to
being the notion of the desirable," Aquinas writes, "so the true adds a relaUon to the intellecf'; and it is
also said that the end "of the appetfte, namely good, is in the desirable thing," whereas the end "of the
intellect, namely the true, is in the intellect itself.'

In that patt of theology which goes beyond metaphysics and moral philosophy, we meet wlBr the
mncept of infinite goodness-the goodness of an infinite being-and we then face the problem of how
God's goodness is to be understood by man. The basic terms of moral theology-righteousness and sin,
salvation and damnation-are, like virtue and vice, happiness and misery conceptions of good and evil in
the condition of man. Ctheir special theological significance comes from the fact that they consider the
goodness or evil of man in terms of his relation to God.) But the theological problem which is tradiuonally
called'tthe problem of evil" @ncerns the whole universe in its relation to the divine perfectlon. According
to Barth, \he problem of ethics contains the secret that man as we know hlm in this life is an
impossibility. Thisman, in God's sight, can only perish."

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1rl.A. ENGLISH EI{TRAi{CE EHMINATIOII, JUNE 2012

SECTION C

ESSAY WRITING

2. Write a coherent essay of not more than 1(X)0 words on Violence in Scfrools based on the
following points. You may note tlrat the points given are not in any kind of order.

lro Marlcl

More personal interaction - Children to be encouraged to talk - Children disciplined but also indulged -
Children's behaviour observed - Aberrations are noticed - Before they spiral out of control - Newspaper

reports of teachers/schoolmates being gunned down - Neglect at honm - Too much money given to

children but not enough personal attention - Stressful condltlons of everyday life - Violene sen in

films/on flin books and video games

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Depar0nentof English

}I.A ENGLIT|H EilTRAI{CE EHII,IINATIOil, 2012

'UIIE
sEcTIOl{ C

INSTRUCTIONS:

Read the following paisage. Select the conect answer fom $re options ghren.

3. Comprehension Passage
ll0 madcl

I learned to garden the way I learned to write - out of necessity. We needed v&gebbles and flowers, and
I needed to tell myself a long story about life - I am still telling it - a kind of beanstalk that grows and
grows, and I can climb up rt, botn to escape the impossibility of life at the bottom, and to find another
world where giants and casdes and harpplaying hens are stillto be found.
@rdenlng, like story-telling, is a continuing narrative. one thing hads to another. uke stories, there is
alwala something golng on in the garden long after the gardener has gone to bed. The Uring grclws,
unfolds, changes, develops a maddening lifie of ib own. For mg as a writer, I go to sleep with an idea in
my head and it takes hold during the night. I open the back door in the morning, and the tulips that
refused to look at me the night before, have opened into the sun.
I think we need such continuing narratives. In the post-modem world of fragments and dislocation,
uncertainty, insecurity, the powerlessness of politics, and where money o<lsts one day and disappears
the next, there are three things that seem to me to be the permanent stuff of life: Love. Art. Gardening.
And each is about relationship; our relationship to one another, and to the mythic narragve of our lives,
and to our one and only real home; planet Earth.
And in the end, the pleasure of life, or so it seems to me, lies not in what you can'get other people to do
for you, or what you can wnggle out of - thafs the office culture but what you can do yourself.
- Tell me
what is better than your own garden in early summer; its colours, scents, harmonies? It is worth it agairr
and again.

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1. "I learned to garden the way..."

In this sentence "garden" is

n (a) a noun
n (b)averb
' n (c) an adverb
n (d) an adjective

2. "I am stilltelling it"

In this sentence the verb is

D (a) preent indefinite

n (b) present continuous
n (c) simple present
I (d) present peffect
3. Gadening is compared to

n (a) going to sleep

n (b) story-telling
n (c) selling vegetables
il (d) planting flowers

4. We need "continuing naratlvs" be@use

n (a) we seek eternity.

n (b) we have a short memory.
tr (c) we face uncertainty, insecurity and powerlessness.
tr (d) we are pessimistic by nature.

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The common hctor that binds..Love, Art and Gardening,, ls

n (a) post-modemism.
[ (b) nature worship.
n (c) relationship.
n (d) identity.

The pleasure of life is not part of

X (a) garden culture

tr (b) office cutture
I (c) music culture
n (d) money culture

Ideas in "my head" take hold

X (a) during the day

n (b) during the morning
! (c) during the night
n (d) during the afternoon

The author has the desire to garden and write because he/she wishes to

n (a) drown his/her sonow.

n (b) have the free play of imagination.
n (c) have professional success.
f (d) forget the wortd.

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9. What is \he pleasure of life" about? It is

f (a) to relax without worry

tr (b) to overcome fear
n (c) to have self-reliane
n (d) noneoftheabove

10. Nothing impresses as much as the splendor of ..your own garden', in

n (a) early winter

I (b) early spring
tr (c) early summer
n (d) earty autumn

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