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Match list-I with list-II:
List-I(Poem)
(a) “The Road not taken “
(b) “Tonight, I can Write the Saddest lines”
(c) “I hear America Singing”
(d) “I, too, Sing America”
List-II(Poet)
I. Pablo Neruda
II. Robert Frost
III. Langston Hughes
IV. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct Answer from the options given below:
[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-IV [2] (a)-II; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-III [3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I [4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-IIIAnswer: 2
The concept of “eugenics” finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of:
[A] John Osborne [B] George Bernard Shaw [C] Eugene O’Neil [D] Harold Pinter [E] Arthur millerChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only [2] A and C only [3] B and C only [4] D and E onlyAnswer: [3] B and C only
Match List I with List II
List I
[A] “The lion’s skin” [B] “The man who liked dickens” [C] “Rip van winkle” [D] “The bride comes to yellow sky”List II
[I] Washington irving [II] W. Somerset Maugham [III] Stephen crane [IV] Evelyn WaughChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III [2] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II [3] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III [4] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-IIAnswer: [3] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Which of the following works has Santiago as its protagonist?
[1] Mansfield Park [2] The mayor of Casterbridge [3] The old man and the sea [4] The lord of the ringsAnswer: [3] The old man and the sea
Who among the following is the author of The Steele glass?
[1] The earl of surrey [2] Thomas Sackville [3] George Gascoigne [4] Edmund SpenserAnswer: [3] George Gascoigne
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.
Assertion (A): In 19th century, charlotte Perkins Gilman asserted economic independence over voting rights.
Reason (R): The representation of women as power-seekers was not socially acceptable in 19th century America.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) [2] Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A) [3] (A) is correct but (R) is not correct [4] (A) is not correct but (R) is correctAnswer: [1] Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?
[A] Loyalties [B] Saint Joan of stockyards [C] Death of a salesman [D] Candida [E] Waiting for GodotChoose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only [2] D and A only [3] B and C only [4] A and E onlyAnswer: [3] B and C only
Which among the following are appropriate about Latin American literature?
[A] There has been racial coherence and unity in literary representations of Latin America [B] The Latin American literary tradition draws analogy between plant growth and human movement [C] Dzul poot’s stories depict the geography of the chilam balam towns [D] Quechua had a wider popularity and presence across different nations [E] The Latin American literature is unitary and refrains from intextuality of any kindChoose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, D and E only [2] C, B and E only [3] B, C and E only [4] B, C and D onlyAnswer: [4] B, C and D only
Q.76) Match List I with List II:
List I
[1] O’ Henry [2] Rudyard Kipling [3] Oscar Wilde [4] Ralph waldo EmersonList II
[1] The last suttee [2] Beauty [3] At Verona [4] Hard to forgetChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) [2] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I) [3] (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II) [4] (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)Answer: [3] (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
Match the following works of Edward Braithwaite according to their year of publication:
[A] Rights of passage [B] Islands [C] Masks [D] The Arrivants [I] 1973 [II] 1969 [III] 1967 [IV] 1968Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV) [2] (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) [3] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III) [4] (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)Answer: [4] (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Which of the following texts glorifies this as its predominant theme?
[1] The old man and the sea [2] War and peace [3] A farewell to arms [4] For whom the bell tollsAnswer: [1] The old man and the sea
In whose poem the readers meet Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
1) Thom Gunn
2) Kamau Brathwaite
3) Roy Fisher
4) Adrienne Rich
Answer: 4) Adrienne Rich
Which among the following is NOT an American Slave narrative?
1) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
2) Life and Adventure of Henry Bibb
3) Narrative of Solomon Northup
4) Songs of Enchantment
Answer: 4) Songs of Enchantment
Who among the following theorists has written on affective economies?
1) Franco Moretti
2) Bruno Latour
3) Sara Ahmed
4) Nigel Thrift
Answer: 3) Sara Ahmed
Which of the following is false about Frederick Douglass?
1) Douglass’s autobiography belongs to the tradition of fugitive-slave narrative popular in the North before the Civil War.
2) He provides a first-person account of his life spent in slavery.
3) He was famous as an orator, dedicated to a black liberation movement.
4) He wrote Up From Slavery.
Answer: 4) He wrote Up From Slavery.
Which of the following are the novels written by John Steinbeck?
A) The Naked and the Dead
B) The Grapes of Wrath
C) East of Eden
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
E) Cannery Row
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, C and D only.
2) B, C and E only.
3) C, D and E only.
4) A, D and E only.
Answer: 2) B, C and E only.
Identify the correct pairs:
A) Ewan McEwan – Amsterdam
B) Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller
C) Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason
D) D M Thomas – Everest Hotel
E) Doris Lessing – The Testaments
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C only.
2) A, B and E only.
3) B, C and D only.
4) C, D and E only.
Answer: 1) A, B and C only.
Match List I with List II
LIST I (Output Device) LIST II (Description)
A) Richard Wright I. A Mercy
B) Toni Morrison II. Kindred
C) Barbara Chase Riboud III. American Hunger
D) Octavia Butler IV. Sally Hemings
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2) A III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Answer: 1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Choose from the following options the correct combination of the plays which made significant use of expressionistic techniques:
1) The Hairy Ape, Machinal, All My Sons, Waiting for Lefty
2) The Hairy Ape, The Crucible, Rapid Transit, The Adding Machine
3) The Hairy Ape, Rapid Transit, All My Sons, The Adding Machine
4) The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, Rapid Transit, The Adding Machine
Answer: 4) The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, Rapid Transit, The Adding Machine
Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
A) Walt Whitman I. Howl
B) A D Hope II. A Far Cry From Africa
C) Derek Walcott III. Beat! Beat! Drums!
D) Allen Ginsberg IV. Australia
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
2) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
4) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Answer: 3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
Arrange the works in chronological sequence:
A) The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein
B) The Theater of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
C) The Playwright as Thinker by Eric Bentley
D) Modern American Drama by C)W.E Bigsby
E) Modern Drama in Theory and Practice by L. N. Styan
Choose the correct answers from the options given below:
1) A, D, C, D and E
2) E, C, D, A and B
3) B, D, A, E and C
4) C, B, A, E and D
Answer: 4) C, B, A, E and D
Statement I: The book The Life of the Drama was written by Eric Bentley.
Statement II: The book The Life of the Drama highlights the lives of certain seminal twentieth century dramatists.
In the light of the statements given above, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
4) Statement II is true but Statement I is false
Answer: 3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Who among the following has written the play Angels in America?
1) David Mammet
2) August Wilson
3) Sam Shepard
4) Tony Kushner
Answer: 4) Tony Kushner
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” names the following figures:
A) Ezra Pound
B) Michelangelo
C) Valerie Eliot
D) Hamlet
E) Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, C, and E
2) B and D
3) B, D and E
4) D and E
Answer: 2) B and D
Who among the following has written Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?
1) Herman Melville
2) Nathaniel Hawthorne
3) Mark Twain
4) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: 4) Edgar Allan Poe
Which of the following are written by William Faulkner?
A) Sanctuary
B) Color Struck
C) Jesus, The Son of Man
D) Light in August
E) Absalom, Absalom!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C
2) B, C and D
3) A, D and E
4) C, D and E
Answer: 3) A, D and E
Who among the following is the author of the novel titled Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?
1) Walt Whitman
2) Herman Melville
3) Mark Twain
4) Tennessee Williams
Answer: 2) Herman Melville
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): James Ellroy started writing crime fiction, commencing with Brown’s Requiem (1981)
Reason (R): James Ellroy’s mother was murdered in 1958.
1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)
3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
Answer:2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)
Arrange the following chronologically in accordance with their date of birth:
A) Goethe
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Bertolt Brecht
D) Eugene O’Neill
E) Moliere
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, C, E
2) B, E, A, C, D
3) C, D, A, B, E
4) E, A, B, D, C
Answer:4) E, A, B, D, C
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Invisible Man, published in 1952, is a novel by American writer Ralph Ellison
Statement II: It is a surreal and claustrophobic novel, which describes the experiences of a young African American in New York.
In the context of the statements above, choose the correct answer from among the following:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false, but Statement II is true
Answer:1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Identify the two previous titles of the poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” as Walt Whitman continued to revise it until it reached the present form in the “Sea-Drift” section of the 1881 edition.
A) “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”
B) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C) “A Child’s Reminiscence”
D) “The Wound-Dresser”
E) “A Word Out of the Sea”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C and E
2) D and B
3) A and D
4) B and E
Answer:1) C and E
Which of the following poems are written by the American poet. Robert Lowell?
A) “Anecdote of the Jar”
B) “Skunk Hour”
C) “Howl”
D) “Night Swe”
E) “A Gift Outright”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and D
3) C and E
4) E and A
Answer:2) B and D
Which of the following two plays have been written by Arthur Miller?
A) They Too Arise
B) The Real Thing
C) Some Kind of Love Story
D) Tiny Alice
E) The Crying of Lot 49
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and E
3) C and E
4) B and D
Answer:1) A and C
Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
A Ernest Hemingway I Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
B William Faulkner II Light in August
C Herman Melville III The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
D Mark Twain IV Across The River And Into The Trees
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3) A-I. B-III, C-II, D-IV
4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer:1) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Which poems have NOT been composed by Adrienne Rich?
A) “Driving into the Wreck”
B) “Transcendental Etude”
C) “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
D) “The Applicant”
E) “Ripples on the Surface”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) A and C
4) D and E
Answer: 4) D and E
Edgar Allan Poe is often called as the originator of the short story as an established genre. He defined ‘the prose tale’ as:
(1) A narrative which can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours.
(2) A narrative which can be read within five minutes or less.
(3) A narrative that can be read at one sitting of from one hour to four hours.
(4) A narrative that may be concluded and enjoyed in the single spell of less than half an hour.
Answer: (1) A narrative which can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours.
Which of the following is true about Tennessee Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire?
(A) It is set in New Orleans.
(B) The protagonist is a Mississippi landowner.
(C) It ends with Blanche’s defeat and departure.
(D) Tom Wingfield is the narrator.
(E) Laura and Stella are cousins.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A) and (D) Only
(2) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (B) and (E) Only
Answer: (2) (A) and (C) Only
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Toni Morrison and Adrienne Rich have contributed to a distinctive style.
Reason (R): Feminism, Adrienne Rich observes, is the field where “subjectivity and politics have to come together” in the most natural way.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
(4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct.
Answer: (2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
Which of the following is true about Arthur Miller’s plays?
(A) After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play.
(B) Incident of Vichy deals with Nazi prosecution of the Jews.
(C) The Price anticipates economic crash.
(D) The Creation of the World is not a serio-comic re-writing of the story of Jesus.
(E) The Crucible uses a specific setting to consider the responsibilities of the artist.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) (E) and (A) Only
(2) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (A) and (B) Only
(4) (D) and (E) Only
Answer: (3) (A) and (B) Only
Which among the following writers remarked that “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour”?
(1) Henry David Thoreau
(2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(3) Henry James
(4) Emily Dickinson
Answer: (1) Henry David Thoreau
