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French Literature
Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?
[1] Barzac [2] Flaubert [3] Moliere [4] StendhalAnswer: 4
Australian Literature
The Aboriginal Australian poet, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem ‘we are going’ examines the impact of colonial conquest on aboriginal Australians with reference to:
[A] Loss of ‘bora ground’ [B] Loss of aboriginal identify [C] Loss of new education [D] Loss of primitive culture [E] None of the aboveChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and D only [2] C, D and E only [3] A, B and C only [4] A, C and D onlyAnswer: [1] A, B and D only
Who among the following poets have lived in Australia?
A) Judith Wright
B) Yusef Komunyakaa
C) Kath Walker
D) Thomas Kinsella
E) T. S. Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) A, B and C
3) A, B and D
4) A and E
Answer: 2) A, B and C
Which among the following are correct?
A) Philip Roth – USA
B) Shirley Jackson – Australia
C) Henry James – Canada
D) Ruskin Bond – India
E) Ali Cobby Eckermann – Australia
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D and E
2) A, C and D
3) A, D and E
4) B, C and D
Answer:3) A, D and E
Who among the following is an Australian Aboriginal poet?
1) Judith Wright
2) Kath Walker
3) Robert Frost
4) Maya Angelou
Answer: 2) Kath Walker
Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?
(a) “Meditation on a bone”
(b) “Imperial Adam”
(c) “Woman to Man”
(d) “The Old Prison”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (a) and (b) only [2] (a) and (d) only [3] (b) and (d) only [4] (c) and (d) onlyAnswer: 4
German Literature
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s postscript to The General in his labyrinth (1991) about Simon bolivar’s last and terrible journey to the Caribbean coast of Nueva Granada in 1830 is one of the finest examples of_________
[1] Reading archive and using its contents. [2] Processing archival information for theoretical judgement. [3] Irrelevance of archive for an artist. [4] A novelist getting misguided by the archive.Answer: [1] Reading archive and using its contents.
Which among the following are true in the context of Gabriel García Márquez?
A) He was a Caribbean novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
B) He was affectionately known as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
C) He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
D) Love in the Time of Cholera is a Memoir written by Márquez.
E) His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, C and D only.
2) B, C and D only.
3) B, C and E only.
4) A, C and E only.
Answer: 3) B, C and E only.
Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha was originally written in ____
[1] French [2] Russian [3] English [4] GermanAnswer: [4] German
Identify the correct pairs:
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – The Feast of the Goat
B) Jorge Luis Borges – The Autumn of the Patriarch
C) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
D) EL Doctorow – Ragtime
E) A S. Byatt – Possession
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C
2) A, B and E
3) B, C and D
4) C, D and E
Answer: 4) C, D and E
Canadian literature
Which of the following is NOT written by Margaret Atwood?
1) The Edible Woman
2) The Stone Angel
3) Surfacing
4) The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer: 2) The Stone Angel
Canadian multiculturalism act was passed in the year:
[1] 1958 [2] 1968 [3] 1978 [4] 1988Answer: [4] 1988
Choose the right chronological sequence of publication of the following novels by Margaret Atwood.
[A] Lady oracle [B] The blind assassin [C] The handmaid’s tale [D] The testaments [E] Alias graceChoose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B, C, D, E [2] A, C, E, B, D [3] E, A, D, B, C [4] C, A, D, E, BAnswer: [2] A, C, E, B, D
Ancient Literature
Which of these are part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy?
A) Agamemnon
B) The Libation Bearers
C) Antigone
D) Oedipus at Colonus
E) Electra
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) C and D
4) D and A
Answer:1) A and B
