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Which of the following statements regarding the poem Ode to the West Wind is/are

true ?

1. The poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near
Florence.

2. The stanzaic form of the poem consists of a set of four tercets closed by a couplet
rhyming with the middle line of the preceding tercet.

3. The terms ‘Destroyer and Preserver’ in the 141൫ refers to the Hindu Gods, Siva
and Vishnu respectively.

4. The “fierce Maenad” in line No. 21 hints at a female worshipper who danced
frenziedly in the worship of Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and vegetation.

A) 1 and 4 only 8) 28೧63 only ©) All are false D) All are true

“The lucid but eddying and pointless dialogue is often funny, and pratfalls and other modes
of slapstick are used to project the alienation and tragic anguish of human existence.”

About which of the following plays does M. H. Abrams make this observation ?
A) Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

B) Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

C) Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 2

0) Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Which among the following statements is/are not true regarding the novel Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen ?

1. The English ruling classis represented in the novel through the portrayal of three
land-owning families, Bertrams, Rushworths and Crawfords.

2. The Rushworths inhabit a ‘spacious modern-built house’, which must be built out of
the proceedings of the family’s Antiguan Sugar plantations.

3. Most of the novel's minor characters seen to have been constructed on the ‘Seven
Deadly Sins’ principle.

4. The Crawfords are the wealthiest of the three families, with an ancient and
venerable Royalist history.

A) 2 and 4 only 8) 1 and3 only ©) 1 and 2 only 0) 3 and 4 only

Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from
the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said : somewhat alarmed
at his own temerity :

“Please, Sir, | want some more.”

These lines are taken from the novel,

A) Hard Times

B) Oliver Twist

C) David Copperfield

D) Nicholas Nickleby