December 2019 & June 2020
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Bank/ Previous Year Questions
For
BDP Course (Elective
Course)
ENGLISH (NEW) 1st Paper (New Syllabus)
EG1-01: From the Beginnings to Chaucer : Literature and Language in Evolution : EG1-01
11.01.2021
1. Which group of people was the first to arrive from the continent after the departure of the Romans from Britain?
The
Jutes
2.In which year was
the Battle of Hastings fought?
October (1066)
3. Into how many groups are the surviving remains of Old
English literature generally divided?
In four groups
(a)
Old English Epic / Heroic Poetry (b) Old English
Lyric Poetry consisting of Elegiac and Personal poems: © Old English Religious
Poetry d) Old English Prose
Why is the ‘Battle of Maldon’ an important
literary piece?
Because the poem gives the story of The
English defeated at the hand of Danes in 991.
Of how many apostles’ life stories does
‘The Fates of the Apostles’ narrate?
Twelve apostles
4.Which is a text of the ‘Matter of England ‘within the corpus of Middle English Romances?
King Horn
5.The Four PP is an interlude written by
whom?
John
Heywood
7.In the Old English epic, whose son is Beowulf?
Ecgtheow
8. Against which backdrop is Geoffrey
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde set?
Trojan War
9.In ‘The Prologue’ to The Canterbury
Tales, Chaucer presents three ideal characters on the pilgrimage. Who are they?
Knight, Parson, Ploughman
10.To which cycle does The Second
Shepherd’s Play belong?
Wake
field cycle
11.What do place names ending with suffixes
like ‘thorp’, ‘beck’ and ’dale’ mean?
Village or Hamlet
12.What did the word ‘bloom’ mean In Old
English?
Mass
of Metal
13.What does the term Anglo-Norman refer to?
North Man
14. From which languages do the words
‘breakfast’ and ‘dinner’ derive?
French
15.When did the French word ‘limousine’
enter the English vocabulary?
20th century
16.What
does the Latin word ‘popig’ mean in English?
Poppy
17. In which period was the word ‘custody’
borrowed into English?
Middle English period
18.Approximately how many words did
Shakespeare’s vocabulary consist of according to Otto Jespersen?
21,000 words
19.“I have no mind for feasting forth
tonight’- whose utterance is this?
Shylock , in Merchant of Venice
20.Who had to die for having translated the
Bible?
William Tyndale
21.Who was the first person to translate
the entire Bible into English?
John
Wycliff
22.In which year was the Authorised Version
of the Bible published?
1611
23. What does the Greek word ‘phone’ mean?
Sound
24.Into how many branches can the study of
Phonetics be divided?
Into three groups A) Articulatory B)
acoustic। C) Auditory
25.Where in the human physiognomy is the
larynx situated?
At the top of wind pipe
26.Of which organ is the blade a part?
Tongue
27.What kind of plosive is the word ‘tub’?
Voiced bilabial plosives
28.How many cardinal vowels did the English
phonetician Daniel Jones devise?
8 cardinal vowels
29.On what is a pun as a figure of speech
based?
Sound
30.What was the contribution of Roman
Emperor Claudius in early Britain?
Emperor Claudius succeeded in colonising the
British Isles and Latin was introduced in this island
31.The Saxons came to Britain from which
region?
North Sea coast from Denmark
32.Which
event is considered to be a turning point in English history in terms of its
language and literature?
Conversion to Christianity
33. In which year was the treaty of Wedmore
signed?
878
A.D.
34.Who were the Normans?
Scandinavians who during their raids had
settled in Northern France and adopted French language and culture,
intermarried, came to be known as Normans .
35.Which
of the dialects became the ‘standard’ during the AngloSaxon period?
West
Saxon
36.What was Christianity’s major
contribution to English language?
The greatest influence of Latin on Old
English was occasioned by the advent of Christianity into Britain in 597 A.D.
37.Which
statement is correct about the four surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts?
The
most important of the manuscripts so far discovered in which Old English (O.E.)
poetry has survived are
four:
1.The
Exeter Book, given to Exeter Cathedral (Devonshire, England) by Bishop Leofric.
It contains only verse. 2.The Beowulf Manuscript, now in the British Museum,
containing both verse And prose.
3.The Junius Manuscript, first printed by
‘Junius’ (Francis Du Jon, librarian to Lord Arundel) in 1665, now in Bodleian
Library, Oxford. It contains Verse only.
4.The Vercelli Book, discovered in the library
of Vercelli Cathedral (Northern Italy) where it is preserved. It has both verse
and prose.
38.What is Heorot?
A hall built on the edge Of the moorland by the king of the Danes called Hrothgar
39.Beowulf is a primary epic because of which reason?
The
Primary epic, evolves from the mores, milieu,Legends, or folk tales of a
populace and is initially Developed in an oral tradition of storytelling.
40.The character of Hnaef is found in which
writing?
The
Fight at Finnsburg (The Battle of Finnsburg):
41. In to how many categories is Medieval
romance divided?
Three categories- ‘Matter Of France’, ‘Matter of Britain’ and ‘Matter of Rome’
Which is a ‘Matter of France’ text
within the corpus of Middle English romances?
Chanson de Roland
42.What is the theme of The Book of the
Duchesse?
It
is written in dream allegory tradition on the death of Blanche, The Duchess of
Lancaster.
43.What does Langland criticize through
Piers the Plowman?
It
criticized all the forms of vices practiced in the Church
44.In which year was the feast of Corpus
Christi confirmed?
1311
45. What was not a distinctive feature of
the miracle plays from Chester, York and Wakefield?
Features •
Miracle plays developed quite rapidly in the
thirteenth century and by the fourteenth Century there was an evolution of
complete cycles of plays.
• Plays were now not confined within the
church, suitable seasons were required for the Performances.
• As
drama gradually came to acquire secular dimensions, Control of performances
passed to the trade guilds which were responsible for the Dramatic productions.
• Each guild selected a separate episode
from a cycle and it involved Nearly complete cycles of miracle Plays survive
from those of Chester, York and Wakefield.
[These are the features. All are correct.]
46. What do women most desire, according to
the Wife of Bath?
“sovereignty”.
47. ‘Surrender’ is a verb borrowed into
English from which source?
French infinitives
What does the Johnsonese expression ‘the disastrous conflagration
extended its devastating career’ mean?
'The
great fire spread'
49.“Which happiest those that pay the
willing loan” – in this sentence happy is used as what?
Verb
50.What was Shakespeare’s chief purpose to
use language?
Shakespeare used his language chiefly to
individualize his characters.
51.What does Septuagint mean in the context
of English language and literature?
Seventy
52.Why is the word Vulgate significant for
English literary history?
The
word vulgate Is Latin, meaning ‘to make common or public’; hence the word
‘vulgar’. This Latin Version of vulgate Bible seems to be England’s first
Bible.
53.When did the Protestant movement come to
England?
In the 16th century Question
56 What is Acoustic Phonetics?
Study of the physical transmission of
speech sounds.
54.Where is trachea situated in the
respiratory system?
Between larynx and the lungs
56. How many semi-vowels are there in
English?
Two
semi vowels –/w/, /j/- w and y
57.“There
is a pleasure in poetic pains” - What figure of speech does this line
exemplify?
Epigram
58.What is an Iamb?
First line unaccented and second line is
accented
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