Dec 2019
Dec 2019
Q.1 Which among the
following group of writers is labelled as “University Wits”?
1. Thomas Lodge,
Thomas Wilson, Walter Raleigh
2. John Fletcher, Ben
Jonson, George Peele
3. Thomas Kyd,
Francis Beaumont, John Lyly
4. Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas
Nashe
Answer: 4
Q.2 which cultural
analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth culture with
commentary on developments in cultural theory and politics?
1. Angela Mc Robbie
2. Donna Horraway
3. Linda Hutcheon
4. Julia Kristeva
Answer: 1
Q.3 Give Below are
two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as
Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Only
actual research develops research skills.
Reasons (R):
Information is discrete, whereas knowledge consists of a network of connections.
In the light of the
above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R)
are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but
is (R) false
4. (A) is false, but
is (R) true
Answer: 2
Q.4 which of the
following is a collaborative work of W.H. Auden and Christopher
Isherwood?
1. Letters from
Iceland
2. The Dance of Death
3. The Ascent of F6
4. The Orators
Answer: 3
Q.5 Who among the
following prose writers of the Romantic period authored “On Murder Considered
as one of the Fine Arts”?
1. Charles Lamb
2. Walter Savage
Lander
3. Thomas De Quincey
4. Anne Radcliffe
Answer: 3
Q.6 In which of the
following essays did Charles Lamb first use the pseudonym/persona, Elia?
1. “My First Play”
2. “The Two Races of
Men”
3. “New Year’s Eve”
4. “The South Sea House”
Answer: 4
Q.7 Give Below are
two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as
Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Many
modern British writers infused their works with an entrance sense of uncertainty,
disillusionment and despair.
Reasons (R): The
Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.
In the light of the
above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R)
are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but
is (R) false
4. (A) is false, but
is (R) true
Answer: 2
Q.8 Which of the following work was published
after 1947?
1. The Dark Room
2. Mr. Sampath: A Printer of Malgudi
3. Seven Summers
4. The Big Heart
Answer: 2
Q.9 Which one of the following observations of
“Lost Generation”. A term coined by
Gertude Stein, is
correct?
1. German Jews who
survived the Second World War and went to Israel
2. The American expatriates in Europe after
the First World War
3. The Irish Freedom
fighters of the early Twentieth Century
4. The European
living in America
Answer: 2
Q.10 Give Below are two statements one is labelled
as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A):
Dialects are the bread range of social as well as regional varieties
Reasons (R): A
dialect describes variations not only at the phonological level, but also at
the
levels of texts and
syntax.
In the light of the
above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R)
are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but
is (R) is false
4. (A) is false, but is
(R) is true
Answer: 2
Q.11 Which of the
following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel Richardson’s
Pamela?
1. Tom Jones
2. Don Quixote
3. Amelia
4. Joseph Andrews
Answer: 4
Q.12 Which of the
following statements is correct?
1. Langue is the language system, and Parole, the individual usage.
2. Langue is the
language usage, and Parole, the individual system.
3. Langue is the
language in abeyance, and Parole, the individual application.
4. Langue is the
language collective, and Parole, the individual deviation.
Answer: 1
Q.13 Of the five
conditions of the Sublime, according to Longinus, the most important condition
is:
1. Vigorous treatment
of passions
2. Majesty of the
structure
3. A lofty cast of mind
4. A wide range of
thoughts
Answer: 3
Q.14 What is the
correct chronological order of the publication of the following?
a. German Grammar
(Jacob Grimm)
b. Comparative
Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German (Franz
Bopp)
c. An Investigation
into the Origin of Old Norse or Icelandic Language (Rasmus Rask)
d. Concerning the
Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language in Comparison with those
of the Greek, Latin, Persian and German Language
(Franz Bopp)
1. (a), (b), (c) and
(d)
2. (b), (c), (d) and
(a)
3. (c), (d), (a) and (b)
4. (d), (c), (b) and
(a)
Answer: 3
Q.15 The following is
a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order of their
formulation?
1. Langue- the
unconscious- difference- heresy of paraphrase
2. The unconscious- langue- heresy of paraphrase- difference
3. Difference-
langue-heresy of paraphrase- the unconscious
4. Langue- difference-
the unconscious- heresy of paraphrase
Answer: 2
Q.16 which of the
following characters in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost over uses formal
Latinate diction?
1. Holofernes
2. Dull
3. Costard
4. Moth
Answer: 1
Q.17 Which one of the
following has two heroes with the same name?
1. The Island of the
Mighty
2. The German Goddess
3. Animal Farm
4. Armadale
Answer: 4
Q.18 Which of the
following plays by T.S Eliot is in the correct chronological order of publication?
1. Murder in the Cathedral- The Family Reunion- The Cocktail
Party- The Confidential Clerk
2. The Cocktail
Party- The Confidential Clerk- The Family Reunion – Murder in the Cathedral
3. The Family
Reunion- The Cocktail Party- Murder in the Cathedral- The Confidential Clerk
4. The Confidential
Clerk- Murder in the Cathedral- The Cocktail Party- The Family Reunion
Answer: 1
Q.19 Which of the
following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?
1. Knowledge is not
metaphysical or transcendental
2. Knowledge is not a
matter of perspective.
3. Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of
view
4. Knowledge is
unconstrained by regimes of power
Answer: 3
Q.20 which of the
following periods of English Literature is also called “Puritan Interregnum”?
1. The Neoclassical
Period
2. The Caroline Age
3. The Restoration
4. The Commonwealth Period
Answer: 4
Q.21 Which of the
following fictional characters is in the right Chronological order?
1. Uncle Toby- Man
Friday- Stephen Dedalus- Miss Havisham
2. Stephen Dedalus-
Man Friday – Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham
3. Man Friday- Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham –Stephen Dedalus
4. Miss Havisham-
Uncle Toby- Stephen Dedalus- Man Friday
Answer: 3
Q.22 Who among the
following has written a series of poems entitled “Very Indian Poems in Indian
English”?
1. Vikram Seth
2. Arun Kolatkar
3. Nissim Ezekiel
4. Keki N Daruwalla
Answer: 3
Q.23 Who made the
remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost
possible degree”?
1. Rabindranath
Tagore
2. Ezra Pound
3. B. Yeats
4. S. Eliot
Answer: 2
Q.24 Which of the
following stylistic features characterize spoken discourse?
a. Greater use of explicit
connectives
b. Greater dependence on verbal connectives
c. Greater syntactic
embedding
d. Greater use of fillers and repetitions
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.25 Which two of the
following correctly describe the features of Wuthering Heights?
a. Flash backs and time shifts
b. Oedipal obsessions
c. Magic and ritual
d. Acute evocation of place
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.26 Who among the
following are associated with the ‘Jazz Age’?
1. Ernest hemingway
and Scott Fitzgerald
2. Scott Fitzgerald
and John Dos Passos
3. John das passos
and Sherwood Anderson
4. Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson
Answer: 4
Q.27 The key figures
in the development of British cultural studies are
a. Richard Hoggard
b. Raymond Williams
c. Stuard Hall
d. Lawrence Grossberg
The most appropriate
option is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a),(b) and (c)
4. (b),(c) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.28 Which two of the
following are autobiographical narratives?
a. Kanthapura
b. Meatless Days
c. Prison and Chocolate Cake
d. The God of small
things
The correct option
is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 2
Q.29 In the following
list, which two actors belong to the Elizabethan period?
a. Richard Burbage
b. Will Kempe
c. David Garrick
d. John Kemble
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.30 How many tales
and pilgrims are there in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
1. 31 pilgrims and 24 tales
2. 23 pilgrims and 24
tales
3. 22 pilgrims and 24
tales
4. 24 pilgrims and 22
tales
Answer: 1
Q.31 Match the types
of writing with their descriptions:
|
(a) exegesis |
I.
Writing about saints’ lives |
|
(b)
invective |
II. Detailed explanation of a passage |
|
(c)
hagiography |
III.
A defence or justification of one’s actions and beliefs |
|
(d)
apology |
IV.
A bitterly critical attack of something |
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(i),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: 1
Q.32 Match the works
with authors
a) Homi bhabha i.
Saving the text
b) Geoffrey Hartman ii. The location of
cultute
c) Edward said iii.
Desire in language
d) Julia Kristeva iv. Culture and imperialism
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii),
(c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
Answer: 2
Q.33 which two
concepts developed by the French sociologist pierre bourdieu, have become
increasingly influential in cultural studies?
a. Dissemination
b. Gynesis
c. Cultural capital
d. Habitus
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.34 Which of the
following is the correct chronological order of publication of the
following poems?
1. Lamia- Paradise
lost- Alastor- The dunciad
2. The dunciad-
Alastor- Lamia- Paradise lost
3. Alastor- The
dunciad- Paradise lost- Lamia
4. Paradise lost- The dunciad- Alastor- Lamia
Answer: 4
Q.35 What is the
chronological order of the appearance of the following periodicals?
a. The Tattler
b. The Spectator
c. The Examiner
d. The Reflector
Choose the correct
option:
1. (b), (a), (d) and
(c)
2. (c), (b), (a) and
(d)
3. (a), (b), (c) and (d)
4. (d), (a), (b) and
(c)
Answer: 3
Q.36 Match the
periodicals with their writers/ contributors
a) The Rambler i.
Charles Dickens
b) Macmillan’s
Magazine ii.
Samuel Johnson
c) The guardian iii.
David Masson
d) Bentley’s
Miscellany iv.
Richard Steele
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii),
(c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
3. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iv), (b)-(i),
(c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Answer: 3
Q.37 In which of the
following works is the character ‘Ariel’ an exclusion?
1. The tempest
2. Paradise lost
3. The rape of the
lock
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Answer: 4
Q.38 Which two
aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be addressed
by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?
1. Uni directionality
2. Multi directionality
3. Complex and extensive
4. Simplistic and
abbreviated
Choose the correct option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (d) and (a)
Answer: 2
Q.39 Which of the
following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right
chronological order?
1. Bounderby – David
Copperfield- Mrs. Mann- Nathaniel Winkle
2. David Copperfield -
Mr. Bounderby- Nathaniel Winkle- Mrs. Mann
3. Nathaniel winkle- Mrs. Mann- David Copperfield - Mr. Bounderby
4. Mann- David Copperfield
per_eld- Nathaniel winkle- Mr. Bounderby
Answer: 3
Q.40 Which two
principal kinds of melancholy are proposed by Robert Burton in volume III of
Anatomy of melancholy?
a. ‘Love’
b. ‘Religious’
c. ‘Morbid’
d. ‘Psychic’
The correct option
is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (d)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 1
Q.41 Match the works
with authors:
a) Bodies that matter
i. Camille Paglia
b) A world of difference
ii. Elaine Showalter
c) A literature of
their own iii. Barbara Johnson
d) Vamps and Thamps iv. Judith Butler
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii),
(c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Answer: 3
Q.42 Match the
following technological advancements impacting learning and
teaching of language
with their corresponding years:
a) Hypertext markup
language (HTML) i. 2004
b) Streaming of video
on the internet ii. 2003
c) My space.com iii.
1991
d) Facebook iv.
1997
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Answer: 1
Q.43 Examples of
poetic compounding are found in the work of which two modernist writers?
a. Graham Greene
b. James Joyce
c. Gerard Manley Hopkins
d. Stephen spender
Choose the correct
option:
1. (c) and (d)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (c)
Answer: 3
Q.44 Which British
administrator passed a resolution for the “Promotion of European literatures
and science among the natives of India”?
1. Lord Hastings
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. Lord Bentinck
4. Lord Hardinage
Answer: 3
Q.45 In which one of
the following Middle English poems is Hector a character?
1. Troilus and Cressida
2. Piers plowman
3. The seafarer
4. Beowulf
Answer: 1
Q.46 Which two of the
following poems can be categorized as poems belonging to the Neo-classical
period of English literature.
a. “The ring and the
book”
b. “The Vanity of human wishes”
c. “Cato”
d. “Lamia”
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 2
Q.47 Which of the
following arrangements of prose-pamphlets is in the right chronological order?
1. The shortest way
with dissenters – A modest proposal – Areopagitica – Reflections on the
revolution in France
2. A modest proposal
– The shortest way with dissenters- Areopagitica – Reflections on the revolution
in France
3. Areopagitica- The shortest way with dissenters – A modest
proposal– Reflections on the revolution in France
4. Areopagitica – Reflections
on the revolution in France- The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal
Answer: 3
Q.48 Which
arrangements of D.H Lawrence’s novels is in the correct chronological sequence?
1. Kangaroo- The
Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers – The rainbow
2. Sons and Lovers – The rainbow- Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent
3. The rainbow- The
Plumed Serpent- Kangaroo- Sons and Lovers
4. The rainbow-
Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers
Answer: 2
Q.49 Which three of
the following poets figure in William Dunbar’s lament for the makers?
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. John Gower
3. Robert Henryson
4. William Langland
Choose the most
appropriate option:
1. (a), (b) and (d)
2. (a), (b) and (c)
3. (b), (c) and (d)
4. (a), (c) and (d)
Answer: 2
Q.50 Match the author
with the text:
a) Rita Kothari i. The Queen’s Hinglish
b) Probal Dasgupta ii. The Indianization
of English
c) Braj B. Kachru iii.
Translating India
d)
Baljinder k. Mahal iv. The Otherness of
English
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: 2
Q.51 Which
combination in the following constitutes the trilogy oresteia?
1. Agamemnon, The
Persians, Eumenides
2. The Persians, The
suppliants, Agamemnon
3. Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
4. Seven against
Thebes, Agamemnon, The suppliants
Answer: 3
Q.52 In paradise lost
Milton invokes his ‘heavenly muse’, ‘Urania’, at the beginning of which two
books?
a. Book I
b. Book IV
c. Book IX
d. Book VII
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 1
Q.53 Who among the
following proposed that the English Language is “man made”, not “woman made”?
1. Mary Has
2. Dorothy L Sayers
3. Dale Spender
4. Carol Chomsky
Answer: 3
Q.54 Which two of the following statements are
applicable to feminist criticism?
1. Recuperate the female writers ignored by the canon
2. Fully endorse the
social construction of gender
3. Valorize the
traditional canon uncritically
4. Mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’
Choose the correct
option
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
Answer: 3
Q.55 Give Below are
two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is
labelled as Reason
(R)
Assertion (A): The
Primary component in novelistic forms is a plot that evolves coherently from
its beginning to an end in which all complications are resolved.
Reasons (R): The
novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending social voices
that achieve their full significance only in the process of their dialogic
interaction both with each other and with the voice of the narrator.
In the light of the
above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R)
are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but
(R) false
4. (A) is false, but
(R) true
Answer: 2
Q.56 What does
Socrates mean when in Plato’s Ion, he says “Poets are nothing but the
interpreters of gods”?
1. The Poets are the
markers of their poems
2. The Poets are
acutely aware of gods in composing their poems
3. The Poets are divinely possessed when they compose their poems
4. The Poets _rst
hear what gods say then put than into words
Answer: 3
Q.57 Now often did
Richard Steel’s Tatler appear every week and how many issues of Tatler I total were
published?
1. Two times a week;
171 issues
2. Once a week; 151
issues
3. Three times a week; 271 issues
4. Three times a
week; 26 issues
Answer: 3
Q.58 Which one of the
following novels by Kingsley Amis represents its protagonist as an ‘angry young
man’?
1. I Like it Here
2. Lucky Jim
3. The Biographer’s
Moustache
4. The Great Man
Answer: 2
Q.59 Who are the
co-editors of Chutneyfying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish?
1. Jamuna Kachru
2. Rita Kothari
3. Rupert Snell
4. Alastair Pennycook
Answer: 3
Q.60 Which two
aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be
addressed by pedagogy
of language in general and of English in particular?
1. Uni Directionality
2.
Multidirectionality
3. Complex and
extensive
4. Simplistic and
abbreviated
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (d) and (a)
Answer: 2
Q.61 From whose work
did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?
1. Sophocles
2. Euripides
3. Plato
4. More
Answer: 2
Q.62 Match the author
with the story:
a) Edgar Allan Poe i. “The Fall of
the House of Usher”
b) E.M Forster ii.
“The Prophet’s Hair”
c) Katherine Mansfield
iii. “The Garden
Party”
d) Salman Rushdie iv. “The Celestial
Omnibus”
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(ii),(c)-(i),(d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii),(c)-(i),(d)-(ii)
3. (a)-(i), (b)-(iv),(c)-(iii),(d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(i),(c)-(iv),(d)-(iii)
Answer: 3
Q.63 Which two of the
following are associated with Deconstruction?
a. Jacques Derrida
b. Raymond Williams
c. Paul De Man
d. Jonathan Dolli
more
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 2
Q.64 In the UNESCO
definition, a ‘Pamphlet’ is an unbound publication that is not a
periodical and
contains:
1. No fewer than 5 and no more than 48 pages
2. No fewer than 10
and no more than 68 pages
3. No fewer than 15
and no more than 64 pages
4. No fewer than 20
and no more than 80 pages
Answer: 1
Q.65 How Many
syllables are there in the word intransigently?
1. Three
2. Six
3. Five
4. Four
Answer: 3
Q.66 Which two names
from R.M Ballantyne’s Coral Island are repeated in William Golding’s reworking
of the same text as Lord of the Flice?
a. Ralph
b. Roger
c. Jack
d. Simon
The correct option
is:
1. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 2
Q.67 Which one of W.M
Thackeray’s novels has the following as the closing sentence? “Which of us I
happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or having it is
satisfied”?
1. The Luck of Barry
Lyndon
2. Pendennis
3. Vanity Fair
4. The History of
Henry Esmond
Answer: 3
Q.68 Match the poet
with the opening line of the poem.
a) Shelley i. I cry your mercy- pity
love! Aye, love!
b) Coleridge ii. The world is too much with
us
c) Keats iii. O world, O life, O
time
d) Wordsworth iv. When true love burns desire is
Love’s pure fame
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii),
(c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: 1
Q.69 Which of the
following books carried the additional title Sermon on the Sea?
1. The Religion of
Man by Tagore
2. Essay on the Gita
by Aurobindo
3. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by Gandhi
4. Christ and
Satyagraha by Elwin
Answer: 3
Q.70 Which two of the
following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
a. Purple Hibiscus
b. July’s People
c. Cry, The Beloved Country
d. The Mimic Men
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.71 Which of the
following descriptions delineate Roman a Clef (Novel with key)?
1. A novel depicting
the life of an artist from childhood to maturity
2. A novel using the altered names of the actual people of the time
3. A novel describing
historical incidents with fictional characters
4. A novel giving the
effect of realism by highlighting the social problems of the time
Answer: 2
Q.72 Match the
theorist with the text:
a) John Fiske i.
Distinction
b) Michel de Certeau ii. The Postmodern Condition
c) Pierre Bourdieu iii. Reading the Popular
d) Jean Francois Lyotard iv. The Practice of Everyday Life
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i),
(c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
Answer: 1
Q.73 Which of the following
tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales deals with the murder of a child by Jews?
1. “The Monk’s Tale”
2. “The Second Nun’s
Tale”
3. “The Prioress’s Tale”
4. “The Shipman’s
Tale”
Answer: 3
Q.74 Who did the
following?
“Discursive practice
are not purely and simply modes of manufacture of discourse. They take shape in
technical ensembles, in institutions, in behavioral schemes, in types of
transmission and dissemination in pedagogical forms that both impose and
maintain them”
1. Roland Barthes
2. Michel Foucault
3. Homi K. Bhabha
4. Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak
Answer: 2
Q.75 Which three of
the following writers are associated with ‘kitchen sink drama’?
1. Arnold Wesker
2. John Arden
3. Shelagh Delaney
4. John Osborne
Choose the most
appropriate option:
1. (a), (b) and (d)
2. (a), (b) and (c)
3. (b), (c) and (d)
4. (a), (c) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.76 Which of the
following combinations best describes the typical methodology of literary
research?
1. Direct, empirical
and quantitative
2. Phenomenological,
speculative and abstract
3. Textual, critical and historical
4. Synoptic,
conceptual and speculative
Answer: 3
Q.77 Following Plato,
which two of the following statements about ‘Phantasm and Semblance’ are
correct?
a. ‘Phantasm’ is an
image, while ‘Semblance is the real object’.
b. ‘Phantasm’ is the
real object while ‘Semblance is only a resemblance’.
c. ‘Phantasm’ unlike semblance has the same proportional as the
object.
d. Semblance is unreal’ but looks ‘real’ as compared to phantasm.
Choose the correct
option:
1. (b) and (c)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (d) and (a)
Answer: 2
Q.78 What is the
order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
a. Problems of
Knowledge and Freedom
b. Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax
c. Syntactic
Structures
d. Knowledge of
Language
Choose the correct
option:
1. (d), (c), (b),(a)
2. (b), (c), (d), (a)
3. (c), (b), (a), (d)
4. (a), (b), (c), (d)
Answer: 3
Q.79 Give Below are
two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as
Reason (R)
Assertion (A):
Cultural Studies is simply the study of culture as a discrete entity divorced from
its social and political context.
Reasons (R): Cultural
Studies aim to understand Culture in all its complex forms and to analyse the
Social and Political context within which it manifests itself.
In the light of the
above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R)
are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but
(R) is false
4. (A) is false, but
(R) is true
Answer: 2
Q.80 Which term among
the following will be applicable to a situation in which a character initiates
a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance of the poem against
whom it is directed?
1. Conflict
2. Intrigue
3. Ally
4. Foil
Answer: 2
Q.81 Which two of the
following novels belong to the Victorian Age in English Literature?
a. Pendennis
b. The Way of All
Flesh
c. The Battle of the
Books
d. Barchester Towers
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.82 Which one of the
following titles of Robert Browning’s works means to disport in the open air, to
amuse oneself at random?
1. Jocoseria
2. “Andrea del Sarto”
3. “Abt Voglet”
4. Asolando
Answer: 4
Q.83 Match the
characters with the play:
a) Donalbain i. King Lear
b) Claudio ii. Macbeth
c) Nerissa iii. Merchant of Venice
d) Goneril iv. Measure for Measure
Choose the correct
option:
1. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iii),
(b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
4. (a)-(i), (b)-(iv),
(c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Answer: 2
Q.84 Which of the
following is the proper explanation of the concept of “Freytag’s Pyramid”?
1. Analysis of the plot of a drama
2. Analysis of the
characters of a drama
3. Analysis of the
theme of conflict between a woman and two men in drama
4. Analysis of the different types of drama
Answer: 1
Q.85 Which of the
following movements was Arthur Symons was referring to as ‘an interesting disease’
and ‘an over subtilizing refinement upon refinement’?
1. Celtic Revival
2. Romantic Movement
3. Decadence
4. Feminism
Answer: 3
Q.86 Who among the
following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images is
producing a cultural condition a kin to ‘historical amnesia’?
1. Jean Baudrillard
2. Ihab Hassan
3. Frederic Jameson
4. Daniel Bell
Answer: 3
Q.87 Which of the
following plays by Ben Jonson ends with the performance of a puppet play in
imitation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander?
1. The Alchemist
2. Volpone
3. Bartholomew Fair
4. Every Man in His
Humour
Answer: 3
Q.88 Which two of the
following plays were written by Thomas Heywood?
a. Gorboduc
b. The Play called the Four P.P
c. The Play of the Weather
d. The Spanish
Tragedy
Choose the correct
option
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
Q.89 Which of the
following is true of Aristotle’s Critical Position?
1. Writers are likely
to be mere entertainers who appeal to the emotions and passions of the
audience.
2. Texts created by
poets are almost inevitably inaccurate and defective as limitations
3. The best artitistic texts will be both complex and unified:
every part of the work will be essential to it and will be
linked to every other part.
4. Texts should be
judged on the basis of how accurately they imitate philosophical truth.
Answer: 3
Q.90 In the following
list, which two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature?
a. Kunapipi
b. Interventions
c. Daedalus
d. Clio
Choose the correct
option
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Answer: 4
Q.91 Read the
following poem and answer the questions:
HOME IS SO SAD
Home is so sad. It
stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them
back. Instead, bereft of anyone to please, it withers so, having no heart to
put aside the theft. And turn again to what is started as, a joyous shot at how
things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the
pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
Q 91. Why is the
‘home’ ‘Sad’?
1. Because it has waited in vain
2. Because its joy
has faded
3. Because it remains
unchanged
4. Because it is
devoid of resident
Answer: 1
Q92. There is a
‘thief’ in the poem. Who is that ‘thief’?
1. The time that
ticks away
2. The fate that
overpowers
3. The tenant who leaves
4. The past that
beckons
Answer: 3
Q93. Why has the ‘home’
‘withered’?
1. Because everything
has to fade sooner or later
2. Because it has no longer the reason to be what it was
3. Because it is an
organic entity in any case
4. Because it has
been betrayed categorically
Answer: 2
Q94. How was the home
before it became ‘sad’?
1. It was as it would
be
2. It was as it shall
be
3. It was as it should be
4. It was as it could
be
Answer: 3
Read the following
passage and answer the questions:
Lying is an accursed
vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we
realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of
the stake than other crimes. I find that people normally waste time quite
inappropriately punishing children for innocent misdemeanors formenting them
for thoughtless actions which lead nowhere and leave no trace. It seems to me
that the only faults which we should vigorously attack as soon as they arise
and start to develop are lying and little below that, stubbornness. Those
faults grow up with the children. Once let the tongue acquire the habit of
lying and it is astonishing how impossible it is to make it give it up. That is
why some otherwise decent men are object slaven to it. One of my tailors is a
good enough fellow, but I have never heard him once speak the truth, not even
when it would help him, if he did so.
Q95. ‘Lying’ is a
fault that should be punished only
1. When the first lie
is uttered
2. When it becomes
convenient
3. When it becomes
stubborn
4. When it begins to turn into a habit
Answer: 4
Q96. It is suggested
in the passage that the tailor does never speak the truth
because
1. He cannot keep the word he gives
2. He does not know
lying is a crime
3. He thinks lying
will help him.
4. He is a slave of
his profession
Answer: 1
Q97. According to the
author “thoughtless actions”
1. Torment others
2. Are strictly not
misdemeanors
3. Mean nothing and are soon forgotten
4. Are punishment for
children
Answer: 3
Q98. How does ‘lying’
affect
human relationships?
1. It makes the
relationships ‘human’
2. It reduces the affinity among people
3. It promotes
togetherness among diverse people
4. It does not affect at all as it is merely
words
Answer: 2
Q99. Read the
following passage from Antigone and answer question
Creon: And yet wert
bold enough to break the law
Antigone: Yea, for
these laws were not ordained by Zeus.
And she who sits
enthroned with gods below,
Justice enacted not
these human laws.
Nor did I deem that
thou, a mortal man,
Could’st by a breath
annual and override.
The immutable
unwritten laws of Heaven
The three kinds of
laws implicit in Antigone’s response are:
1. Human, unwritten,
written
2. Of Gods, of Zeus,
of Justice
3. Of Gods, of Justice, of Man
4. Of Man, of Heaven,
Of Zeus
Answer: 3
Q.100 Read the
following passage and answer the question
It was the best of
times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it
was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredibility, it was the season
of light, it was the
season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct
to heaven, we were
all going direct the other way- in short, the period was far like the
present period, that
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good
or for evil, in the
superlative degree of comparison only.
The Age described in
the above passage is best described as the Age of
1. Parallelisms
2. Inconsistencies
3. Contraries
4. Anomalies
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