MA English Literature Expected Questions for Allahabad University PG Entrance

Expected questions for the Allahabad University PG entrance exam for MA English Literature are given below. (Questions bilkul sahi hain saare Kuch answers Galat ho sakte hain)

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इलाहाबाद यूनिवर्सिटी के MA Englush Literature PG एंट्रेंस एग्ज़ाम के लिए संभावित सवाल नीचे दिए गए हैं।

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Questions :-

Q1. In Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, what specific thought completely alters the speaker's state of deep depression and self-pity?

(A) The sudden realization of financial stability

(B) The memory of the beloved's intense love

(D) The spiritual realization of worldly vanity

Q2. In John Donne's The Canonization, what central metaphor does the speaker use to prove that the lovers' union is perfectly balanced, immortal, and self-sustaining?

(A) The compass and the map

(B) The phoenix and its ashes

(D) The canonized saint and the relic

Q3. In Satan's famous speech from Paradise Lost (Book I), what psychological justification does he give to assert his internal sovereignty despite losing heaven?

(A) The mind is its own place, and can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.

(B) God's tyrannical power can never conquer the divine immortal form of angels.

(D) Evil is inherently stronger than good because it requires no divine grace.

Q4. In John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, the character of Achitophel is a brilliant satirical caricature of which real-world historical figure?

(A) King Charles II

(B) The Duke of Monmouth

(D) Oliver Cromwell

Q5. Alexander Pope opens his An Essay on Man by urging St. John to "leave all meaner things to low ambition." What is the ultimate stated purpose of this philosophical poem?

(A) To challenge scientific empirical rationalism

(B) To vindicate the absolute ways of God to man

(D) To praise human reason as the highest universal virtue

Q6. What stark difference in tone and philosophy separates William Blake's The Nurse’s Song in Songs of Innocence from its counterpart in Songs of Experience?

(A) The Innocence nurse feels old and weary, while the Experience nurse plays along.

(B) The Innocence nurse allows the children to play until dark, while the Experience nurse views their play with bitter envy and restriction.

(D) There is no thematic difference; both poems celebrate childhood liberty.

Q7. In Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, what does the poet credit the "beauteous forms" of the Wye landscape with providing him during his long years of absence in lonely rooms and noisy towns?

(A) A desire to abandon human society entirely

(B) Material wealth and artistic recognition

(D) A precise intellectual understanding of political philosophy

Q8. In Ode to the West Wind, Percy B. Shelley identifies the West Wind as both a ________ and a ________.

(A) Creator; Dissolver

(B) Destroyer; Preserver

(D) Tyrant; Liberator

Q9. In Keats's Ode to a Nightingale, how does the speaker explicitly escape his painful mortal world to join the nightingale in its dark, aromatic forest?

(A) Through the intoxicating, numbing effects of wine (Bacchus)

(B) On the viewless wings of Poesy (imagination)

(D) By following the sweet, guiding melody of a pastoral flute

Q10. In Toru Dutt's sonnet Baughmaree, what specific tree is described as standing out among the green foliage like "a red, red flash" or a sudden erupting volcano?

(A) The Seemul tree

(B) The Mango tree

(D) The Tamarind tree

Q11. Sarojini Naidu's The Flute Player of Brindaban uses a deeply spiritual theme. The speaker is willing to abandon all worldly attachments to follow the music of which deity?

(A) Lord Shiva

(B) Lord Krishna

(D) Lord Indra

Q12. In Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali (Song 11: "Leave this Chanting"), where does the poet explicitly state that God actually resides?

(A) In the grand inner sanctums of golden temples

(B) Where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and the path-maker is breaking stones

(D) In the sacred chanting of holy mantras and scriptures

Q13. In his poem Background, Casually, Nissim Ezekiel explores his identity as an Indian Jew. How does he describe his feeling of isolation during his childhood in a Catholic school?

(A) He felt completely accepted due to shared monotheism.

(B) He felt like a "wrong accent" or an outsider, facing casual prejudice.

(D) He found peace by mastering traditional Sanskrit texts.

Q14. What central tension drives Robert Frost's poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?

(A) The fear of freezing to death versus the survival instinct

(B) The beauty of isolated nature versus the demands of social obligations and duties

(D) The speaker's loss of religious faith in a vast world

Q15. In Walt Whitman’s elegy O Captain! My Captain!, what shocking poetic contrast forms the emotional core of the poem?

(A) The ship is sinking while the crowd celebrates on shore.

(B) The voyage is a failure, yet the Captain is being highly awarded.

(D) The Captain abandons his crew to save his own life.

Q16. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses, how does the aging king view his current domestic life and duties in Ithaca?

(A) As a deeply rewarding, peaceful end to a chaotic life

(B) As a boring, stagnant existence dealing with a "savage race" and unequal laws

(D) As a vital political mission to conquer neighboring islands

Q17. In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue My Last Duchess, what is the primary grievance the Duke has against his late wife?

(A) She was unfaithful to him with Fra Pandolf.

(B) She spent too much of his aristocratic money on art.

(D) She refused to smile when he walked into the room.

Q18. In Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, what does the "Sea of Faith" doing that causes the poet such deep, modern existential melancholy?

(A) Flooding the world with religious extremism

(B) Retreating with a melancholy, long, withdrawing roar

(D) Remaining perfectly calm, hiding global dangers

Q19. In The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy, what makes the aged bird's joyful song so ironic and striking to the speaker?

(A) The bird is physically injured and bleeding.

(B) The winter landscape is completely dead, desolate, and devoid of any visible hope.

(D) The speaker realizes the bird's song is a harbinger of war.

Q20. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Pied Beauty is a famous hymn of praise. What type of things does the poet specifically thank God for?

(A) Perfect, symmetrical, and unblemished creations

(B) Things that are dappled, speckled, counter, original, and strange

(D) The silent, unchanging eternity of the cosmos

Q21. What terrifying cultural prophecy is symbolized by the "rough beast" slouching towards Bethlehem in W. B. Yeats's The Second Coming?

(A) The joyful return of Jesus Christ to heal the earth

(B) The birth of a new, chaotic, and violent historical cycle out of anarchy

(D) A literal ecological collapse of the global environment

Q22. In T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, how does the protagonist measure out his highly mundane, anxious, and paralyzed life?

(A) In miles traveled across the ocean

(B) In books read and poems written

(D) By the ringing of church bells

Q23. In his elegy In Memory of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden famously makes which radical assertion regarding the functional power of creative writing?

(A) Poetry can start massive political revolutions.

(B) Poetry makes nothing happen; it survives as a way of happening.

(D) Only political poetry has a right to exist.

Q24. Kamala Das’s poem An Introduction is a powerful, candid assertion of female identity. How does she respond to critics who tell her not to write in English?

(A) She apologizes and promises to write only in her native Malayalam.

(B) She states that the language she speaks becomes hers, its distortions and its queernesses all hers.

(D) She claims she only writes in English for commercial success.

Q25. Derek Walcott's A Far Cry from Africa captures the deep postcolonial agony of a hybrid identity. What historical event forms the immediate backdrop of this poem?

(A) The Algerian War of Independence

(B) The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya

(D) The Nigerian Civil War

Q26. In Wole Soyinka's Dragonfly at My Window Pane, the trapped insect serves as a deep, multi-layered metaphor for what?

(A) The absolute freedom of nature over human structures

(B) The psychological state of a political prisoner or restricted intellectual under tyranny

(D) The destruction of the African ecosystem by Western industries

Q27. In Judith Wright’s Australian poem Bora Ring, what does the historical silence of the landscape signify?

(A) The peaceful coexistence of settlers and native people

(B) The tragic loss, displacement, and erasure of Aboriginal culture and rituals

(D) The speaker’s deep desire for quiet meditation

Q28. In A. D. Hope’s highly critical poem Australia, how does the poet subvert traditional patriotic descriptions of his home continent?

(A) He praises its dense, ancient, and lush green tropical rainforests.

(B) He describes it as a nation of high cultural and intellectual genius.

(C) He characterizes it as a drab, second-hand European civilization in a desert, "without songs, architecture, or history."

(D) He argues it is the richest and most powerful military nation on Earth.

Q29. In Sylvia Plath's deeply intense poem Daddy, what extreme historical metaphor does the speaker use to express her relationship with her overbearing father?

(A) An ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and his slave

(B) A brutal Nazi executioner and a helpless Jewish victim

(D) A modern capitalist boss and an underpaid factory worker

Q30. In Emily Dickinson’s poem After Great Pain, A Former Feeling Comes, what specific metaphor does she use to describe the stiff, mechanical movement of the feet?

(A) Like wooden wheels on a rocky road

(B) A Quartz contentment, like a stone

(D) Like iron boots marching into a raging battle

Q31. In Agha Shahid Ali's poem Postcard from Kashmir, what emotional crisis does the speaker experience when holding a small postcard photo of his homeland?

(A) Anger at the intense political violence occurring in the valley

(B) The painful realization that his memory of home is shrinking and will never match the giant, messy reality

(D) Fear that he will be arrested if he ever decides to return

Q32. In A. K. Ramanujan’s Love Poem for a Wife I, what is the primary cause of the emotional distance and unbridgeable gap between the husband and wife?

(A) Active extramarital affairs and betrayal

(B) Deeply rooted political disagreements about modern India

(D) A severe language barrier between two different states

Q33. Arun Kolatkar's poem The Butterfly captures a brief, vivid moment in Jejuri. How is the physical life of the butterfly described?

(A) As an immortal, spiritual presence in the old temple

(B) As a fragile, transitory spark of life that opens and closes, existing purely in the present moment

(D) As a symbol of the heavy stone carvings of the gods

Q34. In Gwendolyn Brooks's The Lovers of the Poor, what is the true, underlying psychological motivation of the wealthy ladies who visit the slums?

(A) Genuine, selfless empathy and a desire for structural social reform

(B) A superficial, self-serving desire to feel charitable, which turns to disgust when faced with real dirt and poverty

(D) An economic plan to invest in low-income housing

Q35. In Keki N. Daruwalla’s poem Ghagra in Spate, how is the river depicted during the destructive monsoon season?

(A) As a gentle, life-giving goddess bringing prosperity to fields

(B) As a terrifying, unpredictable, and violent force of nature that destroys human life and property

(D) As a dry, empty bed symbolizing global drought

Q36. In George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, how does the pragmatic Swiss soldier Bluntschli fundamentally subvert Raina's romantic, idealized notions of warfare?

(A) By presenting a flawless, heroic strategy to win the war single-handedly

(B) By carrying chocolates in his cartridge box instead of ammunition and admitting he is terrified of the front lines

(D) By dualing Sergius to prove his superior sword fighting skills

Q37. In Mahesh Dattani’s play Where There’s a Will, what clever legal method does the autocratic patriarch Hasmukh Mehta use to control his family even after his sudden physical death?

(A) He leaves his entire fortune to a local political party.

(B) He sets up a trust fund managed by his mistress, Kiran Jhaveri, forcing his family to live by his rules to get money.

(D) He leaves everything to his youngest, estranged daughter.

Q38. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, what ironic and terrifying psychological effect do the ingredients of the Witches' prophecies have on Macbeth’s actions?

(A) They make him completely abandon his ambition and retire to his castle.

(B) They give him a false, arrogant sense of absolute security while actively sealing his doom.

(D) They make him realize that King Duncan was a terrible ruler.

Q39. In The Merchant of Venice, on what exact legal loophole does Portia (disguised as Balthazar) defeat Shylock's claim to a pound of Antonio's flesh?

(A) Shylock took the money too late, past the agreed deadline.

(B) The bond allows a pound of flesh but explicitly forbids Shylock from shedding even a single drop of Christian blood.

(D) The contract was missing an official notary seal from the court.

Q40. In T. S. Eliot’s verse drama Murder in the Cathedral, what does the Fourth Tempter offer Archbishop Thomas Becket that constitutes his greatest spiritual danger?

(A) Immediate physical safety and political protection from the King's knights

(B) Immense worldly riches and absolute control over the English parliament

(D) A return to his happy, carefree youth as a secular courtier

Q41. In Eugene O’Neill’s expressionistic play Desire Under the Elms, what deep psychological obsession drives the fierce conflict between old Ephraim Cabot and his son Eben?

(A) A political dispute over the abolition of slavery

(B) A mutual obsession with owning the stone-walled New England farm, which Eben believes belongs rightfully to his dead mother

(D) A desire to leave the country and move to California

Q42. In Harold Pinter's comedy of menace The Birthday Party, what strange, terrifyingly ambiguous action do Goldberg and McCann perform during Stanley's party that breaks him mentally?

(A) They physically blindfold him, interrogate him with absurd questions, and break his glasses.

(B) They read aloud his private diary to the crowd.

(D) They force him to sign away his boarding house.

Q43. In Girish Karnad's Hayavadana, what major philosophical and existential crisis arises after Padmini accidentally transposes the heads of Devadatta and Kapila?

(A) Both men instantly die due to the magic of the Goddess.

(B) It triggers a massive dispute over whether the mind (intellect) or the body (physical strength) constitutes the true identity of a person.

(D) The characters lose their memories entirely and forget who Padmini is.

Q44. In Shaw’s Arms and the Man, what nickname does Raina give to Captain Bluntschli during their first secret encounter in her bedroom?

(A) The Brave Swiss

(B) The Chocolate Cream Soldier

(D) The Hero of Slivnitza

Q45. What do the massive, overhanging Elm trees symbolise physically and psychologically at the start of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms?

(A) Free, uninhibited wild passion and joy

(B) A crushing, claustrophobic, and protective maternal spirit that broods over the Cabot house

(D) The absolute absence of spiritual belief in the characters

Q46. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, who is the only character able to fulfill the prophecy of being "not of woman born"?

(A) Malcolm

(B) Banquo

(D) Fleance

Q47. In Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, what instrument does Meg present to Stanley as a birthday gift, which he later plays wildly and erratically?

(A) A flute

(B) A drum

(D) A harmonica

Q48. In Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, what does the sub-plot of the horse-headed man (Hayavadana) searching for completeness mirror?

(A) The main plot's tragic human struggle for physical and mental perfection and unity

(B) A historical war between two ancient kingdoms

(D) The classical division between high-caste and low-caste societies

Q49. In T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, how do the four Knights try to justify their brutal murder of Thomas Becket to the audience at the end of the play?

(A) They claim they were completely insane at the time.

(B) They step out of the historical setting and use modern, rational political arguments to claim it was a necessary act for State welfare.

(D) They quote religious texts to prove Becket was a heretic.

Q50. In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, what metal casket must the successful suitor choose to win Portia’s hand in marriage according to her father’s will?

(A) Gold

(B) Silver

(D) Bronze

Answers :-

1. B

2. B

3. A

4. C

5. B

6. B

7. C

8. B

9. B

10. A

11. B

12. B

13. B

14. B

15. C

16. B

17. C

18. B

19. B

20. B

21. B

22. C

23. B

24. B

25. B

26. B

27. B

28. C

29. B

30. B

31. B

32. C

33. B

34. B

35. B

36. B

37. B

38. B

39. B

40. C

41. B

42. A

43. B

44. B

45. B

46. C

47. B

48. A

49. B

50. C

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