NET Demo Test

Explanation: The Middle Passage: Impression of five societies British, French and
Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962). A travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. The
first book length work of non-fiction. His travelogue of 1961 is depicted in this.
Explanation of other options
(a) In a Free State: It’s a 1971 novel by V. S. Naipaul and got booker prize in the same
year for this book. It consists of 3 short stories.
(b) A Bend in the River: Its a 1979 novel by Naipaul. The opening line is – "The World is
what it is; men who are nothing who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place
in it".
(d) An area of Darkness: 1964 Travelogue by Naipaul. It was first of Naipaul's acclaimed
Indian trilogy which includes: – India: A Wounded Civilization & India: A Million
Mutinies Now. The narration is anecdotal and descriptive (deeply pessimistic work). The
book was immediately banned in India for its negative portrayal of India and its people.

The ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech or / writing.

(a) It was originally used by Pope in his Pastorals (1709). (John Ruskin coined this term in his work ‘Modern Painters’ in (1843 – 60).

(b) This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful. (True)

(c) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in nature. (True)

(d) In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature can’t be educated with the human in respect of emotions and responses. (True)

1. L’Allegro and Il Penseroso- Companion Poems (L’Allegro means ‘Happy Man’ and Il Penseroso means a Melancholy man.)
2. Lycidas: – Pastoral elegy (1637)

(It was written on the death of his friend King Edward at Cambridge. written in octosyllabic couplet).

III. Comus: A Masque presented at Ludlow Castle on Michaelmas night (1637)

(Publishes anonymously, written in blank verse).

1. Aeropagitica: Prose Tract

(Milton wrote it on ‘For the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England’, against licensing order of 1643).

1. On his blindness: It’s a sonnet.

(He started writing this sonnet in 1652 when his eyesight was deteriorated due to Glaucoma. It is written in Petrarchan form. The concluding lines read “They also serve who only stand and wait.” )

(i) The Scottish Chaucerians: James I of Scotland, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Sir David Lindsay (All are Chaucer’s contemporaries)

(ii) The University Wits: Lyly, Peele, Greene, Kyd, Marlow, Nash, Lodge. (Prominent in 1580s). The term university wits was first used by George Saintsbury.

(iii) The Transitional Poets:Thomas Gray, Robert Burns and Blake. (They are precursors of Romantic Period).

(iv) Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood:formed by DG Rossetti, John Everett Milliais and William Holemen Hunt in 1848.

(v) The Rhymers Club:It was a group of London based poets founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys.

A Quarry (on the eve of Joseph’s 31st birthday)

Explanation: The Trail (1925) originally titled ‘Der Process’ (in German) by Franz Kafka heavily influenced by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karmazov.

Raine Marie Rilke (He was a Bohemian Austrian novelist and poet.) met Tolstoy in 1898 in Italy.

The Clouds (It is a play by Aristophanes, Greek comedy considered as first extent comedies of Ideas)

(a) The Birds: It’s a play by Dophane du Morier

(b) The Wasps: It’s a play by Aristophanes

(d) The Frogs: It’s also a play by Aristophanes

• Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the fictional protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
• The name Raskolnikov is derives from the Russian ‘raskolnik’ that means ‘schismatic’.
• Raskolnikov is a young student of law living in extreme poverty in St Petersburg. He lives in a tiny garret which he rents, although due to lack of funds & has been avoiding payment for quite some time.
• He sleeps on a couch using old clothes as a pillow and due to lack of money eats very rarely. He is handsome and intelligent though generally disliked by fellow students.
• Raskolnikov has developed a self theory of a ‘great man’. He believed that people were divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’. The ordinary are the common rabble while extraordinary (notably Napoleon) who do not have to follow moral codes that apply to ordinary people since they are meant to be great man.
• Raskolnikov had been contemplating this theory for months. He himself believes to be one these extraordinary men and is thus allowed to commit murder.
• So, he murders an old lady pawnbroker Alyona Ivanova with an axe with the intention of using her money to achieve his ambition in life.
• But he was caught by the police and his theory of being an extraordinary man failed. He admits his crime and was sentenced to exile in Siberia where he begins his mental and spiritual rehabilitation, under the guidance of Sonya.

Explanation:

• The Order of things: An archaeology of the Human Sciences is a 1966 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
• In the preface of the book Foucault said “This book first arose out of a passage in Jorge Luis Borges out of the laughter that shattered as I read the passage all the familiar landmarks of my thought – our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our Geography… .This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese Encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that animals are divided into

1. a) belonging to the Emperor
2. b) embalmed
3. c) tame
4. d) suckling pigs
5. e) sirens
6. f) fabulous
7. g) stray dogs
8. h) Included in the present classification
9. i) Frenzied
10. j) innumerable
11. k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
12. l) et cetera
13. m) having just broken the water pitcher

n) that form a long way off look like flies.