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Solved Question Paper
1. Which among the following writers once remarked that “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”?
(1) Charles Lamb
(2) P.B. Shelley
(3) Lord Byron
(4) John Keats
Answer (3) Lord Byron
2. Which of the following definitions of linguistic terms are correct?
A. Orthoepy is the study of correct grammar in conformity with established regional patterns.
B. Philology is the study of phonemes and other characteristics of the systems of speech sounds
in individual languages.
C. Synchronic study pertains to the study of language at a specific historical point.
D. Diachronic study pertains to historical dimensions of language i.e., linguistic change over the period of time.
E. Phonology is the study of language in its cultural and social contexts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A and B only (2) B and E only (3) C and D only (4) A and E only
Answer: (3) C and D only
3. What is the correct chronological order of the works of John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
C. Lycidas
E. L’Allegro
B. Paradise Regained
D. Comus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) E, D, C, A, B (2) C, D, B, A, E (3) A, B, E, C, D (4) C, E, A, B, D
Answer: Comus, Lycidas, L’Allegro, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,
4. Patrick White, the Australian novelist, was a recipient of which of the following prizes
A. Australian of the Year (1973)
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Booker Prize
D. Nobel Prize in Literature (1973)
E. Perkins Prize in Narrative
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A and B only (2) A and D only (3) A and E only (4) B and C only
Ans: (2) A and D only
5. What is the correct chronological sequence of famous dramatists in order of their birth?
A. William Congreve
B. John Dryden
C. William Wycherley
D. George Barnard Shaw
E. John Millington Synge
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, C, A, D, E (2) A, C, B, E, D (3) C, B, A, D, E (4) E, B, C, A, D
Answer: (1)
6. What is the full-form of APA?
(1) Psychological Association of America
(2) American Psychological Association
(3) Association of America for Psychology
(4) Association of Psychology for America
Answer: (2) American Psychological Association
7. What is the correct sequence of various periods of English Literature?
A. Caroline Age
B. Jacobean Age
C. Restoration Age
D. Commonwealth Period E. Augustan Age
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) D, B, A, E, C (2) A, E, B, C, D (3) B, A, D, C, E (4) E, C, A, D, B
Answer: (3) B, A, D, C, E
8. Which of the following works were edited by gay activists, writers or artists:
A. Are We not Men? by Philip Brian Harper
B. Charisma by Erica Edward
C. Extravagant Abjection by Dariek Scott
D. Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism by Henry Louis Gates
E. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, C, D only
(2) A, B, C only
(3) A, D, E only
(4) E, C, D only
Answer: (2) A, B, C only
9. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following books of D.H. Lawrence?
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Sons and Lovers
D. The White Peacock
C. The Rainbow
E. The Plumed Serpent
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, B, D, C, E
(2) D, B, C, E, A
(3) B, D, E, C, A
(4) E, A, B, C, D
Answer: D, B, C, E, A
10. Literature review provides:
(1) Citation details
(2) Discussion of works already researched in a relevant subject area
(3) A list of primary sources
(4) Provides hypothesis of the research undertaken
Answer: (2) Discussion of works already researched in a relevant subject area
11. P.B. Shelley’s Adonais laments the death of :
(1) John Keats (2) Mary Shelley (3) Robert Byron (4) Leigh Hunt
Answer: 1) John Keats
12. Who coined the term “Phallogocentric”?
(1) Luce Irigaray
(2) Jacques Derrida
(3) Jacques Lacan
(4) Sigmund Freud
Answer: (2) Jacques Derrida
13. Identify the text from which the following lines have been taken.
“Therefore compare we the poet with the historian and with the moral philosopher; and if he go
beyond them both, no other skill can match him.”
(1) Preface to Shakespeare
(2) An Essay on Man
(3) An Essay on Criticism
(4) Defense of Poesie
Answer: (4) Defense of Poesie
14. Match List – I with List – II. List – I – Term/Concept
A. Objectivism
B. Pathetic Fallacy
C. Sprung Rhythm
D. Structures of Feeling
List – II Invented/Coined by
I. John Ruskin
II. G.M. Hopkins
III. William Carlos Williams
IV. Raymond Williams
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
(2) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
(3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
(4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: (4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
15. The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is a tribute to:
(1) Abraham Lincoln
(2) Emily Dickinson
(3) George Washington
(4) Walt Whitman’s brother
Answer: (1) Abraham Lincoln
16. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I
Text
A. Kena, Isa, Katha and Mundaka Upanishads (1830s)
B. Ramayana (1870-5)
C. Mahabharata (7 vols 1895)
D. The Bhagvet Geeta (1785)
List – II
Translated by
I. Ralph T.H. Griffith
II. Manmatha Nath Dutt III. Charles Wilkins
IV. Ram Mohan Ray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
(3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
(4) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
Answer:(2) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-II
17 Match List – I with List – II. Text
A. Coolie
B. The Serpent and the Rope
C. Waiting for the Mahatma
D. Shadow from Ladakh
Character
I. Satyajit
II. Munoo
III. Ramaswamy
IV. Sriram
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
(3) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
(2)A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(4)A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: (4) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
18 Who among the following was not a leading figure of New Criticism?
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(3) I.A. Richards
(2) Allen Tate
(4) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: (2) I.A Richards
19. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Poem
A. To His Coy Mistress
B. The Scholar Gypsy
C. Still I Rise
D. If
List – II Poet
I. Rudyard Kipling
II. Andrew Marvel
III. Matthew Arnold
IV. Maya Angelou
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
(3) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
(2) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
(4) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Answer: (1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
20 What is the correct sequence of five stages of action in order of occurrence as described by Dhananjaya in Dasarupa?
A. Praaptyaashaa (Prospect of success) B. Aarambh (Beginning)
C. Niyataapti (Certainty of success)
D. Yatna (Effort)
E. Phalaagama (Attainment of the result)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, B, D, C, E
(2) D, A, B, E, C
(3) C, D, A, B, E
(4) B, D, A, C, E
Answer: (4) B, D, A, C, E
21. Who among the following was not associated with the Movement Poetry?
(1) Charles Kingsley
(3) Elizabeth Jennings
(2) Donald Davie
(4) John Wain
Answer: (1) Charles Kingsley
22. Which of the following writers pioneered the Australian Aboriginal Movement ? A. David Malouf
B. Jack Davis
C. Oodgeroo Noonucal
D. Kevin Gilbert
E. Judith Wright
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, E only
(2) B, C, D only
(3) E, D, A only
(4) A, B, D only
Answer: (2) B, C, D only
23. Which of the following statements are correct about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s “Annihilation of Caste”, and concerns dealt within it?
A. It is an undelivered speech written in 1936.
B. It focuses on the need to create a society where individuals are treated with dignity and
respect, regardless of their caste.
C. There will be outcastes even if the caste system is completely destroyed.
D. Ideal society will always have a strong caste system even if it is based on liberty, equality and
fraternity.
E. This is a fictitious novel.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A and B only (2) B and E only (3) E and D only (4) C and A only
Answer: (1) A and B only
24. Which of the following popular Indian words have been incorporated in Oxford Dictionary in the recent past?
A. Chai
B. Bhaijaan
C. Jugaad
D. Kamaal
E. Namaste
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, B, D only 2) A, C, E only (3) B, C, D only (4) C, D, E only
Answer: 2) A, C, E only
25. Which among the following does not fall in the category of Morality Plays ?
(1) The Castell of Perseverance
(2) Mind, Will and Understanding
(3) Mankind
(4) The City Heiress
Answer: (4) The City Heiress
26. The term ‘negritude’, coined by Aime Cesaire, was appreciated as well as criticised by critics and thinkers. Select the correct responses that this term received.
A. Senegal Senghor considered this term to be derogatory.
B. Leon Damas didn’t participate in the negritude movement.
C. Creole writers attacked this term for its monolithic look.
D. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka considered ‘negritude’ as an unhealthy fetishism of the ‘native’ state.
E. Frantz Fanon was extremely critical of the term ‘negritude’ and never used it.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1)A and B only
(2) B and C only
(3) E and D only
(4) C and D only
Answer: 4
27. From the following writers, who are known for Magic Realism?
A. R.K. Narayan
C. V.S. Naipaul
E. Mulk Raj Anand
B. Salman Rushdie
D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A and B only (2) B and C only (3)BandDonly (4) D and E only
Answer: (3) B and D only
28. Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth –
A. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
C. Robert Frost 1874 – 1963
D. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
E. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) B, D, E, A, C (2) C, B, A, E, D (3) A, E, B, D, C (4) D, C, B, A, E
Answer: (1)
29. Who among the following was not associated with the Yale School?
(1) Harold Bloom (2) Terry Eagleton (3) Paul de Man (4) Jacques Derrida
Answer: Terry Eagleton
30 What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Indian writers in order of their birth?
A. Manohar Malgonkar
B. Mulk Raj Anand
C. Toru Dutt
D. Khushwant Singh
E. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) B,C,E,D,A (2)A,C,D,E,B (3) E,C,B,A,D (4) D,B,C,E,A
Answer: (3)
31. Match List – I with List – II. Concept / Term
A. Chora
B. Carnivalization
C. Contrapuntal Reading
D. Ecriture Feminine
Developed / Coined by
I. Helene Cixous
II. Julia Kristeva
III. Mikhail Bakhtim
IV. Edward W. Said
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
(3) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(4) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Answer 2
32. Who among the following were associated with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
(1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais
(2) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt
(3) John Everett Millais and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(4) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Leigh Hunt
Answer: (1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais
33. Who among the following African writers observed that “O my body, make of me always a man
who questions” ?
(1) Chinua Achebe
(3) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(2) Frantz Fanon
(4) Toni Morrison
Answer: (2) Frantz Fanon
34. The line – “He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of
God prevail”, occurs in:
(1) Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society
(2) Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language
(3) Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
(4) Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
Answer: (3) Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
35. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Book
I. Vikram Chandra
II. Ruskin Bond
III. Deepa Annapara
IV. Satyajit Ray
List – II – Author
A. The Complete Adventures of Feluda
B. The Perfect Murder
C. SacredGames
D. Djinn Patrolon the Purple Line
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
(3) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
(4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: (2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
36. Which articles of Indian Constitution pertain to the provisions relating to the Official Language of the Union?
A. 342
B. 343
C. 344
D. 345
E. 346
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) C and D only (2) D and E only (3) B and C only (4) A and B only
Answer: (3) B and C only
37. Which out of the following will allow you to avoid plagiarism?
(1) Using paraphrases or quotes by other sources in your name.
(2) Not using a plagiarism checker software before submitting the assignment.
(3) Giving credit to the original author in an in-text citation and in the list of works cited.
(4) Not keeping a proper documentation of references used.
Answer: (3)
38. Match List – I with List – II. List – I Term / Concept
A. Third Space
B. Weltliteratur
C. Post-Impressionism
D. Simulacra
List – II Invented / Coined by
I. Jean Baudrillard
II. Goethe
III. Homi Bhabha
IV. Roger Fry
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
(2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-IL
(3) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
(4) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
Answer: (1)
39. Which of the following writers remarked that “You are your best thing”?
(1) Toni Morrison in Beloved 1987
(2) George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss 1860
(3) Arundhati Roy in The God of small things 1997
(4) Emile Bronte in Wuthering Heights 1847
Answer: (1)
40. Who among the following was not associated with Cockney School of Poetry?
(1)- John Keats
(2) P.B. Shelley
(3) Leigh Hunt
(4) William Blake
Answer: (4)
41. Which is the latest edition of Chicago Manual of Style ?
(1) 18th edition
(2) 16th edition
(3) 17th edition
(4) 15th edition
Answer (3)
42. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Dalit Women Writers in order of their birth?
A. Urmila Pawar
B. Bama
C. Meena Kandasamy
D. Gogu Shyamala
E. Kumud Pawde
(1) E, A, B, C, D
(2) E, A, B, D, C
(3) C, D, B, A, E
(4) E, A, C, B, D
Answer: (2)
43. Which among the following chapters is the distinct feature of the latest edition of MLA Handbook?
(1) Mechanics of Prose
(2) Principles of Inclusive Language
(3) Documenting Sources: An Overview
(4) Formating your Research Project
Anwer: (2)
44. Barbara Smith, in her essay, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”, raises concerns for:
A. Only Black women
B. Black lesbian women
C. Black women in the White world only
D. Black lesbian women amongst black women vis-a-vis the White women
E. Black and White women, both together, as they have universal concerns
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B and D only
(2) C and D only
(3) B and E only
(4) A and Conly
Answer: (1) B and D only
45. Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order of their emergence:
A. Imagism
B. Impressionism
C. Absurdism
D. Futurism
E. Pre-Raphaelitism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, C, D, E, B
(2) B, D, C, E, A
(3) D, A, B, C, E
(4) E, B, D, A, C
Answer: (4) E, B, D, A, C
46. Choose the correct statements with regard to the binary pair Langue and Parole introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure –
A. Langue is translated as speech and parole as language.
B. Langue is the internal structure of a language; not language itself.
C. Parole is the event of language.
D. Parole and language are a set of vocabulary only
Ε. There is no distinction between Parole and Langue
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A and C only
(2) A and E only
(3) C and B only
(4) A and D only
Answer: (3) C and B only
47. Who among the following observed that “Nothing can please many, and please long, but representations of general nature”?
(1) Philip Sidney
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) S.T. Coleridge
(4) William Wordsworth
Answer: (2) Samuel Johnson
48. Which day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day ?
(1) February 21
(2) September 14
(3) September 23
(4) March 8
Answer: (1)
49. What is the correct chronological sequence of periods of American Literature? A. Early National Period (1775–1828)
C. Naturalistic Period (1900–1914)
B. Revolutionary Age (1765–1790)
E. Realistic Period (1865–1900)
D. Romantic Period in America/ Age of Transcendentalism (1828–1865)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) C, D, A, B, E
(2) B, A, D, E, C
(3) E, B, C, D, A
(4) A, C, B, E, D
Answer: (2) B, A, D, E, C
50. Which among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as defined by I.A. Richards in Practical Criticism?
(1) Feeling
(2) Form
(3) Tone
(4) Intention
Answer: (2) Form
51. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Dramatist
A. MartinEsslin
B. BertoltBrecht
C. AntoninArtaud
D. AugustStrindberg
List – II Theatrical form/Technique
I. The Theatre of cruelty
II. Dream Play
III. Estrangement-effect
IV. The Theatre of the Absurd
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) А-І, В-ІП, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
(3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(4) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
Answer: (3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II 52.
52. Match The Following
A. Dhvanyaloka
B. Kavyadarsa C.
Vakyapadiya
D. Dasrupa
List – II – Author
I. Dandin
II. Dhananjay
III Anandvardhan
IV. Bhartrhari
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
(2) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
(3) A-III, В-I, C-IV, D-II
(4) А-І, В-ІІ, С-III, D-IV
Answer: (3) A-III, В-I, C-IV, D-II
53. Identify the author who stated the following lines – “There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail.”
(1) Alexander Pope
(2) Thomas de Quincey
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) Philip Sidney
Answer:(2) Thomas de Quincey
54. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following works were published :
A. Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
B. Life of Johnson (1791)
C. Johnson’s Dictionary (1755)
D. Lives of the Poets (1779-1781)
E. The Life of Nelson (1813)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, E, B, C, D
(2) C, A, D, B, E
(3) B, A, E, C, D
(4) C, B, A, E, D
Answer: (2) C, A, D, B, E
55. Out of the following, which bibliographical entry follows the style prescribed in MLA Handbook (9th edition)?
(1) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
(2) M.A.R, Habib. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi, Blackwell Publishing: 2008
(3) (2008) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi: Blackwell Publishing
(4) (2008) M.A.R. Habib. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi, Blackwell Publishing.
Answer: (1) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
56. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Term
A. Anaphoric word
B. Morpheme
C. Antecedent
D. Periphrasis
List – II Definition
I. A unit of language that cannot be analysed into smaller units.
II Refers back to a word or phrase previously used in a text/ conversation
III Use of two or more words to express a meaning which could otherwise be expressed in a single word.
IV. A word or phrase that is referred back to by a pronoun or other preform.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) А-І, В III, С-II, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
(3) A-II, B-1, C-IV, D-III
(4) A-III, B-IV, C-1, D-II
Answer: (3)
57. Which of the following works is not written by Chinua Achebe?
(1) Arrow of God
(2) No Longer at Ease
(3) An Image of Africa
(4) Weep not, Child
Answers: (4) Weep not, Child (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 1964)
58. Under whose presidency was PEN (an international association of poets, playwrights, editors essayists and novelists) founded by Mrs. Dawson-Scott in 1921?
(1) John Galsworthy
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) W.B. Yeats
(4) Ezra Pound
Answer: (1) John Galsworthy
59. Who among the following used ‘untranslatableness’ in his famous work? (1) William Wordsworth in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(2) Philip Sidney in Defense of Poesie
(3) S.T. Coleridge in Biographia Literaria
(4) Matthew Arnold in The Study of Poetry
Answer: (3) S.T. Coleridge in Biographia Literaria
60 Arrange the following films on disability concerns in the order of their year of release.
A. Paa (2009)
C. Iqbal (2005)
E. Fanaa (2006)
B. Khamoshi (1996)
D. Margarita with a Straw (2015)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) E, D, C, B, A
(3) B, C, E, A, D
(4) B, C, A, E, D
Answer: (3) B, C, E, A, D
61. Chronologically arrange the following texts in order of publication. A. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963)
B. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949)
C. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929)
D. Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970)
E. Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (1976)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) C, B, A, D, E
(3) D, C, B, A, E
(4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer: (2) C, B, A, D, E
62. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Original name
A. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson B. Mary Ann Evans
C. Eric Arthur Blair
D. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
List – II Penname / Pseudonym
1. George Eliot
II. Mark Twain
III. George Orwell IV. Lewis Carroll
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
(3) A-I, В-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(4) А-П, В-1, C-III, D-IV
Answer: (1) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
63. What is the correct sequence of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh in order of their year of publication?
A. The Hungry Tides (2004)
C. The Sea of Poppies (2008)
E. The Circle of Reason (1986)
B. The Shadow lines (1988)
D. The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, E, D, C, A
(2) E, B, D, A, C
(3) A, E, D, B, C
(4) D, C, A, B, E
Answer:(2) E, B, D, A, C
64. The poetic line “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” appears in:
(1) S.T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
(2) Alfred Tennyson’s “In Memorium A.H.H”
(3) Shakespeare’s “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”
(4) Mathew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”
Answer: (2)
65. What is the correct chronological sequence of the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya in order of their publication ?
A. A Goddess Named Gold (1960)
B. Music for Mohini (1952)
C. Shadow from Ladakh (1966)
D. So Many Hungers (1947)
E. He Who Rides A Tiger (1954)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) D, B, E, A, C
(2) A, D, C, B, E
(3) E, C, D, B, A
(4) B, A, C, E, D
Answer: (1) D, B, E, A, C
66. Who among the following refers to Byron’s works as “monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety”?
(1) Charles Lamb
(2) Robert Southey
(3) Mary Shelley
(4) Leigh Hunt
Answer: (2) Robert Southey
67. Which of the following statements is not true about Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea?
(1) It was first published in 1966.
(2) It takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(3) Action of the novel takes place in South Africa
(4) Name of Antoinette’s mother is Annette
Answer: (3) Action of the novel takes place in South Africa
68. The Two Nations is the subtitle of:
(1) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
(2) Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil
(3) Anthony Trollope’s The Warden
(4) Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Answer: (2)
69. Which among the following is not a work of Samuel Johnson?
(1) The Rambler
(2) The Idler
(3) The Journal of Stella
(4) The Pernicious Effects of Revery
Answer: (3) The Journal of Stella
70. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Dalit Panthers Movement?
A. Dalit Panthers movement was influenced by the Black Panthers Movement.
B. Dalit Panthers is a social organisation that was founded by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
C. Dalit Panthers movement was led by Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal and JV Pawar.
D. Jyotiba Phule participated actively in Dalit Panthers Movement.
E. Dalit Panthers movement was rooted in the little Magazine Movement
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, C, D only
(2) A, B, C only
(3) A, C, E only
(4) A, D, E only
Answer: (3) A, C, E only
71 Which of the following books was edited by gay activists and artists Joseph Beam and Essex Hemphill?
(1) Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991)
(2) No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (2016)
(3) Race Men (2000)
(4) Manning the Race (2004)
Answer: (1) Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991)
72 . What is the correct chronological sequence of the following works in order of their publication?
A. Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner (1958)
B. Ved Mehta’s Face to Face (1957)
C. Khuswant Singh’s I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1968)
D. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’s Inqilab (1958)
E. G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, D, A, C, E
(2) D, B, C, A, E
(3) E, D, B, C, A
(4) A, C, D, E, B
Answer: Marks given to all
73. Annotated Bibliography provides :
(1) A list of all the works cited/referred to in the research.
(2) Only those works that are cited in the research.
(3) A brief summary stating importance of the works cited/referred to in the research.
(4) A 250-worded abstract.
Answer: (1) A list of all the works cited/referred to in the research
74. What is the correct chronological sequence of British poets in order of their birth?
A. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
B. John Milton (1608-1674)
C. John Donne (1572-1631)
D. Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
E. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) C, E, B, D, A
(2) D, B, C, A, E
(3) B, C, D, E, A
(4) A, D, E, C, В
Answer: (1) C, E, B, D, A
75. What is the correct sequence of the following plays of Girish Karnard in order of their year publication?
A. Hayavadan (1971)
B. Nagmandala (1988)
C. Tughlaq (1964)
D. Yayati (1961)
E. Bali, The Sacrifice (1980)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) D, A, E, B, C
(2) C, D, A, E, B
(3) D, C, A, E, Β
(4) C, A, D, E, B
Answer: (3)
76. A brief reference in the text that indicates the source of the idea or quotation consulted from another source is:
(1) In-text citation
(2) Section heading
(3) Hypothetical statement
(4) Objective
Answer: (1) In-text citation
77. Which of the following texts deals with the theme of creolisation?
(1) My Son’s Story
(2) Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
(3) Things Fall Apart
(4) Wide Sargasso Sea
Answer: (4) Wide Sargasso Sea
78. Who among the following was not a proponent of Oxford Movement?
(1) John Henry Newman
(2) Richard Hurrell Froude
(3) Edward Bouverie Pusey
(4) Charles Kingsley
Answer: (4) Charles Kingsley
79. In the 1985 essay, “Three Women’s Texts and a critique of Imperialism”, Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject.
Which are the texts referred in the title of the essay?
A. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys B. Jane Eyre by Charolotte Bronte
C. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
D. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
E. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B and D only
(2) C, D and A only
(3) A, B and C only
(4) E, B and D only
Answer: (3) A, B and C only
80. Who among the following was not associated with Cambridge School of Critics?
(1) F.R. Leavis
(2) Q.D. Leavis
(3) William Empson
(4) Kenneth Burke
Answer: (4) Kenneth Burke
81, Match List – I with List – II.
List – I- Author
A. Richard Hoggart
B. Ashish Nandy
C. Raymond Williams
D. E.P. Thompson
List – II -Text
1. The Secret Politics of Our Desires
II, The Making of the English Working Class
III. The Uses of Literacy
IV. The Long Revolution
Choose the correct answer from the options given below : (1) А-III, В-1, С-IV, Q-II
(2) A-II, В-III, C-1, D-IV
(3) А-ІІІ, В-II, C-IV, D-I
(4) А-II, В-1, C-IV, D-III
Answer: (1) А-III, В-1, С-IV, Q-II
82. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Term
A. Apodosis
B. Protasis
C. Collocation
D. Copular verb.
List – II Definition
1. Clause expressing the condition
II. Clause expressing the consequence
III Links the subject of a sentence with a complement
IV. A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) А-І, В-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-1
(3) A-IV, В-III, C-I, D-II
(4) A-II, B-1, C-IV, D-III
Answer: (4) A-II, B-1, C-IV, D-III
83. Which of the following magazines aimed at depicting concerns of girls who embraced the tenets of girl culture the girlhood?
A. Sassy (U.S feminist Magazine first issue 1988)
B. Bust
C. Bitch
D. Ophelia Speaks
E. Colonize This!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B and D only
(2) A, E and D only
(3) A, B and C only
(4) B, C and D only
Answer: 3
84. Which work of John Keats is dedicated to Thomas Chatterton?
(1) Lamia
(2) Endymion
(3) Hyperion
(4) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Answer: 2
85. Name the British poet who wrote Sohrab and Rustum:
(1) Mary Shelley
(2) Edward Fitzgerald
(3) Matthew Arnold
(4) Alfred Tennyson
Answer: 3
86. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Term
A. Aporia
B. Econce
C. Encomium
D. Hagiography
List – II Definition
I. Technical term in structuralist theory that implies ‘utterance’
II. Formal eulogy in prose or verse to glorify people, objects or ideas
III The writing or study of the lives of the saints
IV. A term used in theory of deconstruction to indicate conflict between rhetoric and thought Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
(2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
(3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
(4) А-ІІ, В-III, C-1, D-IV
Answer: 3
87. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I Work
A. Language as Paradox
B. Against Interpretation
C. Realism and the Contemporary Novel
D. Politics and the English Language
List – II Writer
I. Raymond Williams
II. Cleanth Brooks
III George Orwell
IV. Susan Sontag
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) А-І, В-III, C-II, D-IV
(3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Answer: 3
88. Arrange the following literary theories/movements in chronological order of their emergence:
A. Cultural Studies
B. Postmodernism
C. Feminism
D. Surrealism
E. Reception Theory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A, C, B, D, E (2) C, D, A, B, E (3) E, A, B, D, C (4) D, A, C, E, B
Answer: 2
89. Which of the following statements are correct about Prosody ?
A. In the study of novel, it concerns narrative technique.
B. In the study of poetry, it concerns meter and other techniques of versification. C. In the study of drama, it concerns theatrical devices.
D. In the study of spoken sounds, it concerns intonation, pitch, stress, rhythm etc. E. In the study of discourse, it concerns the content and delivery.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) A and C only
(2) B and D only
(3) A and E only
(4) C and E only
Answer: 2
90. Arrange the following works in order of their year of publication. A. Orientalism 1978.
C. Black Skin White Masks. 1952.
B. Nation and Narration 1990
E. The Location of Culture. 1994
D. Decolonising the Mind 1986
Choose the correct answer from the options given below : (1) B, E, A, C, D
(2) D, C, E, A, B
(3) A, D, C, E, B
(4) C, A, D, B, E
Answer: 4
Direction for 91 to 95 :
Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been so crystal stair It’s had tacks in it And splinters And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor Bare.
But all the time I’se been a’climbin’ on, And reachin’ Landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin in the dark, Where there ain’t been no light
So boy, don’t you turn back;
Don’t you set down on the steps ‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard; Don’t you fall now –
For I’se still goin’, honey
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t no crystal stair.
91. What kind of life does the line, “life for me… no crystal stair, signify!
(1) A life devoid of pain
(2) A life full of hardships and struggles
(3) An ideal and perfect life
(4) A life full of miracles and blessings
Answer: (2) A life full of hardships and struggles
92. Which one of the following is an ‘extended metaphor’ in the poem?
(1) Tacks
(2) Splinters
(3) Staircase
(4) Bare floor
Answer: (3) Staircase
93 Which colloquial form of English is used in the poem?
(1) American English
(2) Indian English
(4) African-American English
(3) Australian English
Answer: 4
94. What advice does the speaker give to his/her son in the poem?
(1) Stay strong and never give up in life
(2) Eat, drink, and be merry
(3) Never take risks in life
(4) Stay calm and wait for good fortune
Answer:1
95. Which rhetorical device has been used by the poet by repeating “And” at the beginning of many lines in the poem?
(1) Alliteration
(2) Hyperbole
(3) Anaphora
(4) Amplifier
Answer: 3
Read the passage and answer the questions on the basis of your comprehension: (96 to 100)
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very nearly bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for its self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shop keeper, it has no large profit from its trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most of its resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life’s commerce, is a big merchant. He earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess of wealth in man’s life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of their life. But there they stop. They must know their surroundings in order to be able to take their shelter and seek their food, some properties of things in order to build their dwellings some signs of the different seasons to be able to get ready to adapt themselves to the changes. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is freedom Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
96. What, according to the writer, is the basic difference between animal and man?
(1) Animals are preoccupied with self-sustenance while man aspires for attainment of freedom through knowledge.
(2) Animals work beyond the limits of necessities while man maintains austerity. (3) Animals work for profit while man works selflessly.
(4) Animals seek freedom at any cost while man is bound to one’s physical needs.
Answer 1
97. What gives man the freedom to be useless and irresponsible ?
(1) Knowledge
(2) Artistic taste
(3) Abundance of wealth in life
(4) Selflessness
Answer : 3
98. At what stage does knowledge become freedom for man?
(1) Where man uses the knowledge to gain power
(2) Where man uses the knowledge to supersede animal
(3) Where man engages with knowledge for the material growth
(4) Where man acquires a surplus of knowledge beyond primary necessities of life
Answer: 4
99. What does the metaphor “a big merchant” stand for?
(1) A philanthropist
(2) A good samaritan
(3) A voracious accumulator of knowledge
(4) A mercenary
Answer: 3
100. What does the author mean by “Man also must know because he must live” ?
(1) Knowledge is the essence of man’s life
(2) Knowledge makes one pragmatic
(3) Knowledge enables one to acquire wealth
(4) Knowledge is vital for countering animals
Answer: 1
