Non fictional Prose

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair comprises the following books:

A) Sunset Song

B) Brothers and Sisters

C) Cloud Howe

D) Men and Wives

E) Grey Granite

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and C

2) A, C and E

3) B, C and E

4) C, D and E

Answer: 2) A, C and E

What is the correct chronological sequence of the following English non-fictional prose writers according to their years of birth?

A) Joseph Addison

B) Francis Bacon

C) Charles Lamb

D) Virginia Woolf

E) Matthew Arnold

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, D, C, B, E

2) B, A, C, E, D

3) C, A, D, E, B

4) D, C, B, A, E

Answer: 2) B, A, C, E, D

Who among the following are the writers of Secular prose in the 14th century?

A) John of Trevisa

B) Julian of Norwich

C) John Mandeville

D) Bernard of Clairvaux

E) Walter Hilton

Choose the Correct answer from the options given below

1) A and B

2) B and D

3) A and C

4) D and E

Answer:3) A and C

Q.69) Match List I with List II

LIST I

A David Hume

B Edward Gibbon

C William Godwin

D Tobias Smollett

List II

I The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
II A Complete History of England
III Treatise on Human Nature
IV Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Answer:1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

Which of the following is the first novel of Beryl Bainbridge?

1) The Bottle Factory Outing

2) A Weekend with Claude

3) Harriet Said

4) Filthy Lucre

Answer:2) A Weekend with Claude

Which among the following was NOT written by Thomas Carlyle?

1) ‘Signs of the Times’

2) Sartor Resartus

3) The Stones of Venice

4) The Life of John Sterling

Answer:3) The Stones of Venice

Given below are two statements:

Statement (I): Non-fictional narrative Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington is based on the real-life experiences of three aboriginal girls who fled from the Moore River Native Settlement.

Statement (II): The names of the three girls are- Molly, Daisy and Mary.

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

Answer: (3) Statement (I) is correct but Statement (II) is incorrect

Prose romances preceded the emergence of novel as a popular literary genre. Which texts among the following fall under the category of Prose Romance?

(1) The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Spectator

(2) Oroonoko and The Fair Jilt

(3) Pamela and Clarissa

(4) Amelia and Ferdinand, Count Fathom

Answer: (2) Oroonoko and The Fair Jilt

Passage Comprehension

This sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds of writing all the way from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, than as a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing. It would not be easy to isolate, from all that has been variously called ‘literature, some constant set of inherent features. In fact, it would be as impossible as trying to identify the single distinguishing feature which all games have in common. There is no ‘essence’ of literature whatsoever. Any bit of writing may be read ‘non-pragmatically’, if that is what reading a text as literature means, just as any writing may be read ‘poetically. If I pore over the railway timetable not to discover a train connection but to stimulate in myself general reflections on the speed and complexity of modern existence, then I might be said to be reading it as literaturE) John M. Ellis has argued that the term ‘literature’ operates rather like the word ‘weed’: weeds are not particular kinds of plant, but just any kind of plant which for some reason or another a gardener does not want arounD) Perhaps ‘literature’ means something like the opposite: any kind of writing which for some reason or another somebody values highly. As the philosophers might say, ‘literature’ and ‘weed’ are functional rather than ontological terms: they tell us about what we do, not about the fixed being of things.

What is the implication of the statement: “In this sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds of writing all the way from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, than as a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing”?

1) Literature has values that are constant and universal for all classes and races.

2) Literature has a moral dimension, which cannot be superseded by any other values.

3) Literature has values that may be interpreted differently by different subject-positions.

4) The inherent quality of literature is its literariness.

Answer: 3) Literature has values that may be interpreted differently by different subject-positions.

What is the implication of the phrase, “there is no ‘essence’ of literature whatsoever” in the passage?

1) There is no sensibility in literary texts.

2) There is no central meaning in literary texts.

3) There is no aesthetic consideration in literature

4) There is no rational logic in literature

Answer: 2) There is no central meaning in literary texts.

What is the meaning of the term “non-pragmatic” used in the passage?

2) Rational

3) Practical

4) Affective

Answer: 4) Affective

What is the significance of the analogy drawn between “weed” and “literature” in the context of the passage?

1) They do not serve any descriptive function.

2) They serve some prescriptive functions.

3) They are considered expendable by deterministic systems.

4) They are both subterranean beings.

Answer: 3) They are considered expendable by deterministic systems.

What is the meaning of the word “ontological”?

1) Dealing with the study of “knowledge systems.

2) Dealing with the study of “being”.

3) Dealing with the study of “society”.

4) Dealing with the study of “nature”.

Answer: 2) Dealing with the study of “being”.