1.Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?
(1) Just So Stories
(2) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(3) The Secret Garden
(4) Rewards and Faeries
Answer: 3
2.The Little Minister is a novel by :
(A) John Galsworthy
(B)H.G. Wells 14. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
List – I (Authors)
i. Ted Hughes
ii. Seamus Heaney
iii. W.H. Auden
iv. D.H. Lawrence
List – II (Poems)
1. “The Otter”
2. “Snake”
3. “Ghost Crabs”
4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone.”
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: C
3. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
This is the epigraph to
(A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
(C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
Answer: (B)
4. The following epitaph was written by Rudyard Kipling during the war
of 1914-18.
HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
This man is his own country prayed we know not to what Powers.
We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
“Powers” here refers to _______, “then” to______, and “ours” to______.
1. The Hindus, the French, the British
2. The divine, Powers, our country
3. The military, the Hindu sepoys, Powers
4. Authorities, his compatriots, our country
Answer: 2
5.During the Raj, the British viewed their rule in terms of a thankless
duty to uplift the downtrodden and inculcate order into Oriental minds. The
mission to civilize the “ silent, sullen peoples” of the east was a burden
imposed upon them by destiny.
The last observation is a fairly obvious allusion to
1. J.R. Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
2. Flora Annie Steel’s “The Garden of Fidelity
3. Maud Diver’s the Englishwoman in India
4. Rudyard Kipling’s “the White Man’s Burden”
Answer: 4
6. “England, my England” is a poem by
(A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
(C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: A
7.Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not
true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
Answer: (C)
8. In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a
newspaper editor who recounts his dealings with a couple of “loafers” ?
(1) “His Chance in Life”
(2) “Thrown Away”
(3) “Lispeth”
(4) “The Man Who Would Be King”
Answer: 4
9.“Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading
Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him
? It is very hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal”
Indians he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’motif to sometimes disgusting lengths.
Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far
more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the “liberals” of his
day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid
and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.
Answer: D
10.In which short story does the narrator witness a consumptive young man
named Mir . Shaynor recreate The Eve of St. Agnes ” in a trance ?
a. E.M. Forster’s ” The Eternal Moment
b. Rudyard Kipling’s Wireless
c. Somerset Maugham’s The Creative Impulse
d. Aldous Huxley’s The Bookshop
Answer: B