Q.1-3)

Q.1) Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?

[1] The court and the marketplace must be got rid of.

[2] Try what one may, no one can ever be at ease.

[3] Ruling a state s easier than managing a family.

[4] Solitude is one condition of peace with one self.

Answer – [2]

Q.2) The mistake human beings make is to:

[1] abjure solitude when desirable.

[2] abstain from the love of leisure.

[3] exaggerate the value of family.

[4] abstain from restraining the mind.

Answer – [4]

Q.3) The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we:

A. detach ourselves from family life.

B. are deep into buying and selling

C. mentally abstains from hustle and bustle.

D. are into schools of philosophy.

[1] B and D only

[2] A and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] B and C only

Answer – [1]

Q.4-6)

Q.4) Thoughts true for all time are:

[1] born of God’s care.

[2] for all human hearts

[3] imbued with logic of mind.

[4] felt deep inside the self.

Answer – [4]

Q.5) In the second stanza the poet thinks of:

[1] what all makes a wise old man.

[2] what all earns all others’ praise.

[3] what he does not want to appear.

[4] what he thinks he is, a fool.

Answer – [3]

Q.6) Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?

[1] He believes in the efficacy of prayer.

[2] He is an old man wise as old are.

[3] He is old but happy in not being wise.

[4] He is a foolish young man who thinks wisely.

Answer – [3]

Q.7) The whole description is an example of:

[1] aporia

[2] image.

[3] analogy.

[4] sarcasm.

Answer – [4]

Q.8) What is the ‘system’ of which Dombey and Son were the centre?

[1] The British political system

[2] The country’s commerce

[3] The family business

[4] The workings of nature

Answer – [2]

Q.9-10) Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. — Ha! here’s three on’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

– Shakespeare, King Lear

Q.9) ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:

[1] Man is far more than what he seems to be.

[2] Man is not as well endowed as some other animals

[3] Accommodated man s well endowed.

[4] As an animal, man is a superior animal.

Answer – [2]

Q.10) Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?

[1] Man just uses what animals possess

[2] Animal’s attributes are external

[3] Man can accommodate same properties

[4] Animals unlike men are more complex

Answer – [4]

Q.11) Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial?

[1] Plato

[2] Xenocrates

[3] Phaedo

[4] Aristotle

Answer – [1]

Q.12) In “The Life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets’?

A. They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.

B Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.

C. They neither copied nature nor life.

D. They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] B and D only

[4] C and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.13) In “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?

[1] affirmation

[2] judiciousness

[3] disinterestedness

[4] cohesiveness

Answer – [3]

Q.14) How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “ Horatian Ode”?

[1] ‘telescoping of images and multiplied associations’

[2] ‘a tough reasonableness beneath a sight lyric grace’

[3] ‘a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’

[4] ‘heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’

Answer – [2]

Q.15) In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis?

[1] Browning and Arnold

[2] Tennyson and Swinburne

[3] Pound and Hopkins

[4] Milton and Shelley

Answer – [4]

Q.16) Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:

[1] homonyms.

[2] homophones.

[3] homologues.

[4] homografts.

Answer – [2]

Q.17) According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:

A. an interlocking structure.

B. a system of constant change.

C. a system of signs.

D. a self-standing formation.

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and D only

[4] C and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.18) The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

[1] phoneme

[2] morpheme.

[3] sememe.

[4] lexeme.

Answer – [4]

Q.19) Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts’?

[1] Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker

[2] J. L. Austin and John Searle

[3] Paul Grice and Michael Devite

[4] Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap

Answer – [2]

Q.20) Usage in

“You have hissed the mystery lectures.” is an example of:

[1] error of lexical choice.

[2] inadvertent mistake.

[3] spoonerism.

[4] metathesis.

Answer – [3]

Q.21) Who wrote the short story, “The Voter”?

[1] Ngugi wa Thiong’o

[2] Wole Soyinka

[3] Chinua Achebe

[4] Chimamanda Nozi Adichie

Answer – [3]

Q.22) Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

[1] Marcellus

[2] Bernardo

[3] Ghost

[4] Horatio

Answer – [1]

Q.23) Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?

[1] Chares Lamb

[2] William Hazlitt

[3] Thomas De Quincey

[4] John Ruskin

Answer – [2]

Q.24) Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations without altering the original title?

[1] Shirley Jackson

[2] Kathy Acker

[3] Angela Carter

[4] Peter Carey

Answer – [2]

Q.25) Who, in “The World as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?

[1] Susan Sontag

[2] Noam Chomsky

[3] Anthony Burgess

[4] C.K. Ogden

Answer – [1]

Q.26) In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”?

[1] Book I

[2] Book IV

[3] Book VIl

[4] Book XI

Answer – [4]

Q.27) Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author?”

[1] The Canterbury Tales

[2] The Thousand and One Nights

[3] The Decameron

[4] Tut Namah

Answer – [2]

Q.28) Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?

[1] G. K. Chesterton

[2] Umberto Eco

[3] Tzvetan Todorov

[4] Vladimir Propp

Answer – [3]

Q.29) Who among the following says that ideology is “a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence”?

[1] Herbert Marcuse

[2] Fredric Jameson

[3] Terry Eagleton

[4] Louis Althusser

Answer – [4]

Q.30) Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?

A. Samuel Johnson

8. Alexander Pope

C. Horace Walpole

D. Thomas Gray

[1] A and B only

[2] B and D only

[3] B and C only

[4] A and C only

Answer – [4]

Q.31) Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

A. Wildtrack

B. Wodwo

C. Lupercal

D. Jack Straw’s Castle

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and C only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [3]

Q.32) Which two of the following are works by I. A. Richards?

A. Concepts of Criticism

B. Science and Poetry

C. The Philosophy of Rhetoric

D. English Literature in Our Time and the University

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] A and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.33) Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays?

A. “From the History of Novelistic Discourse”

B. “Discourse in the Novel”

C. “Romance and Novel”

D. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] A and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [4]

Q.34) 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”

[1] A and B only

[2] C and D only

[3] B and D only

[4] A and C only

Answer – [2]

Q.35) Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India?

A. Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series

B. Murray Colonial and Home Library Series

C. Colonial Library Series by Macmillan

D. Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and C only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [3]

Q.36) Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?

A. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.

B. Kincaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26.

C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.

D. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986.

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and C only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [3]

Q.37) Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”?

A. contextual estimate

B. personal estimate

C. comparative estimate

D. historic estimate

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [4]

Q.38) Match List I with List II

LIST I (Plays)

A. Madmen and the Specialists

B. The Sea at Dauphin

C. The Trial Of Dedan Kimathi

D. An Echo in the Bone

LIST II ( Playwrights)

I. Dennis Scott

II. Wole Soyinka

III. Derek Walcott

IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

[1] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer – 4

Q.39) Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.

A. Longman’s Magazine

B. Cornhill Magazine

C. Blackwood’s Magazine

D. Bentley’s Miscellany

[1] C, B, A, D

[2] C,D, B, A

[3] B, C, D, A

[4] B, C, A, D

Answer – [2]

Q.40) Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication.

A. “The Wild Swans at Coole”

B. “The Second Coming”

C. “Among School Children”

D. “Adam’s Curse”

[1] A,C, D, B

[2] D, A,B, C

[3] C, A, B, D

[4] C, A, D, B

Answer – [2]

Q.41) Assertion A: The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.

Reason R: The ‘Dear Reader,’ invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.

[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 – [3]

Q.42) Statement I: The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon.

Statement Il: Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo’s statement, “They give birth astride of a grave…”

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

[2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are false

[3] Statement I is true but Statement II false

[4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer – [3]

Q.43) Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favor of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.

Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

[2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect

[3] Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect

[4] Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

Answer – [4]

Q.44) Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

[1] A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[2] Love’s Labour’s Lost

[3] The Comedy of Errors

[4] The Taming of the Shrew

Answer – [1]

Q.45) Which of the following is a dead language?

[1] Gothic

[2] Frisian

[3] Yiddish

[4] Cantonese

Answer – [1]

Q.46) Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15″-century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler?

[1] Victor Frankenstein

[2] Peter Quint

[3] Count Dracula

[4] Prince Manfred

Answer – [3]

Q.47) Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature?

[1] Brass-Spittoon

[2] Silver-Fork

[3] Golden-Spoon

[4] Diamond-Jar

Answer – [2]

Q.48) What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

[1] epic theatre

[2] musical theatre

[3] proletarian theatre

[4] Kitchen-sink theatre

Answer – [1]

Q.49) Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?

[1] Harold Bloom

[2] T.S. Eliot

[3] Allen Tate

[4] F.R. Leavis

Answer – [1]

Q.50) Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxis’?

[1] Georg Lukacs

[2] Raymond Williams

[3] Stuart Hall

[4] Antonio Gramsci

Answer – [4]

Q.51) Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?

[1] The Drowned World

[2] Concrete Island

[3] The Crystal World

[4] Kingdom Come

Answer – [3]

Q.52) Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?

[1] dudwords

[2] ghostwords

[3] protowords

[4] pseudowords

Answer – [2]

Q.53) Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

[1] Colonialism will die a natural death sans any violent struggle against it.

[2] Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.

[3] The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.

[4] Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.

Answer – [3]

Q.54) Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?

A. Syntactic Structures

B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

C. Language and Society

D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

E. The Pragmatics of Politeness

[1] A and C only

[2] B and D only

[3] C and E only

[4] D and A only

Answer – [4]

Q.55) Which among the following are examples of the Künstlerroman?

A. The Portrait of a Lady

B. David Copperfield

C. Tom Jones

D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[1] A and C only

[2] B and D only

[3] A and B only

[4] C and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.56) Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?

A. The British Museum is Falling down

B. The Seven Sisters

C. Changing Places

D. Nice Work

E. Empire of the Sun

[1] A, B and C only

[2] B, D and E only

[3] A, C and D only

[4] C, D and E only

Answer – [3]

Q.57) Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India?

A. India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world.

B. No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue.

C. More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently.

D. English is the country’s principal language of commerce.

E. With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states.

[1] A and D only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and E only

[4] D and E only

Answer – [1]

Q.58) Match List I with List II

LIST I (AUTHOR)

A. Robert Browning

B. S.T. Coleridge

C. A.W. Pinero

D. Alfred Tennyson

E. William Wordsworth

LIST II (TEXT)

I. Queen Mary

II. The Sacred Mrs Tanqueray

III. Remorse

IV. The Borderers

V. Strafford

[1] A-V, B-III, C-II, D-I, E- IV

[2] A-III, B-V, C-IV, D-II, E- I

[3] A-I, B-III, C-V, D-II, E- IV

[4] A-II, B-V, C-IV, D-I, E- III

Answer – [1]

Q.59) Match List I with List II

LIST I (BOOK)

A. Anniversaries

B. The Temple

C. The Rehearsal Transpos’d

D. Pindarique Odes

LIST II (POET)

I. Abraham Cowley

II. John Donne

III. George Herbert

IV. Andrew Marvell

[1] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

[2] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

[3] A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

[4] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Answer – [2]

Q.60) Match List I with List II

LIST I (NOVEL)

A. A Handful of Dust

B. Brighton Rock

C. Howard’s End

D. The plumed Serpent

E. Those Barren Leaves

LIST II (WRITER)

I. E.M. Forster

II. Evelyn Waugh

III. D.H. Lawrence

IV. Aldous Huxley

V. Graham Greene

[1] A-V, B-III, C-II, D-I, E- IV

[2] A-III, B-V, C-IV, D-II, E- I

[3] A-II, B-V, C-I, D-III, E- IV

[4] A-I, B-V, C-IV, D-II, E- III

Answer – [3]

Q.61) Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child’s first language acquisition:

A. holophrastic

B. babbling

C. telegraphic speech

D. cooing.

[1] A,C,D,B

[2] B,A,D,C

[3] C,B,A,D

[4] D,B,A,C

Answer – [4]

Q.62) Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:

A. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

B. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

C. Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

D. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

[1] A,D,B,C

[2] B,C,D,A

[3] C,A,D,B

[4] D,B,C,A

Answer – [3]

Q.63) Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:

A. phallogocentrism

B. locutionary act

C. interpellation

D. interpretive community

[1] A,D, C, B

[2] B,C, A, D

[3] C, B, D, A

[4] D, A, B, C

Answer – [2]

Q.64) Statement I: All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors.

Statement II: Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are correct.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct but Statement Il s incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect but Statement I is correct.

Answer – [2]

Q.65) Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the ‘most obvious features of each other’s language.

Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin s spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are correct.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct but Statement Il is incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect but Statement Il is correct.

Answer – [3]

Q.66) Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson?

A. Jonson’s physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent.

B. Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically.

C. Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that

Jonson s said to have pioneered.

D. John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children’s company of players.

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] D and A only

Answer – [2]

Q.67) Who is the author of The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?

[1] A. Revathi

[2] V. Geetha

[3] Bama

[4] Mukta Sarvagod

Answer – [1]

Q.68) Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?

[1] Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[2] Octavio Paz

[3] Gabriela Mistral

[4] Jorge Luis Borges

Answer – [2]

Q.69) What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?

[1] Centre for Contemporary Studies

[2] Centre for Culture Studies

[3] Centre for New Cultural Studies

[4] Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Answer – [4]

Q.70) Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?

[1] Balzac

[2] Flaubert

[3] Motiere

[4] Stendhal

Answer – [4]

Q.71) Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?

A) It critiques the idea of high culture.

B) It overlooks the idea of high culture

C) It defines culture as a way of life.

D) It equates culture with science.

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.72) Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do?

A. To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide

B. To foreground a personal history of the Partition

C. To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust

D. To find and unite families separated at the Partition

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [1]

Q.73) Match List I with List II

LIST I (BOOK)

A. English, August

B. In Custody

C. Such a Long Journey

D. Funny Boy

LIST II ( AUTHOR)

I. Shyam Selvadurai

II. Anita Desai

III. Rohinton Mistry

IV. Upamanyu Chaterjee

[1] A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

[2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

[3] A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer – [1]

Q.74) Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films?

A. It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture.

B. It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture.

C. It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist.

D. It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture.

[1] A and B only

[2] A and D only

[3] B and C only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.75) Match List I with List II

LIST I (WRITER)

A. Homi Bhabha

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Roland Barthes

D. John Fiske

LIST II ( BOOK)

I. Reading the Popular

II. The Location of Culture

III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture

IV. Image- Music- Text

[1] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer – [4]

Q.76) Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

A. Elton John

B. Rabindranath Tagore

C. Bob Dylan

D. Bob Marley

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.77) Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial film?

A. The film magazine columnist

B. The director

C. Fan clubs

D. The producer

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] B and C only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.78) Which of the following is true of mass media?

[1] It usually has a central, single source.

[2] Its audience is in close proximity to its source.

[3] It can affect a localised population only.

[4] It usually has multiple sources.

Answer – [4]

Q.79) With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?

A. Neo-classical

B. Symbolist

C. Modernist

D. Postmodernist

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.80) Which of these departments did the Wood’s Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?

A. Arabic

B. English

C. French

D. Law

[1] A, B and C only

[2] A, B and D only

[3] B, C and D only

[4] A, C and D only

Answer – [2]

Q.81) Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies?

A. It is politically engaged.

B. It privileges text over context.

C. It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism.

D. It studies the means of production of a text.

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] A and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer – [3]

Q.82) Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals,” focus on primarily?

[1] India

[2] Brazil

[3] Japan

[4] Borneo

Answer – [2]

Q.83) Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature.

A. Praneshacharya (Samskara)

B. Sakuni (Mahabharata)

C. Rusty (The Room on the Roof)

D. Gobar (Godan)

[1] A, B, C, D

[2] B, A, C, D

[3] B,C, D, A

[4] B, D, C, A

Answer – [4]

Q.84) Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?

[1] Dynamics of media

[2] Motivations of crime

[3] Workings of power

[4] Workings of love triangles

Answer – [3]

Q.85) Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?

[1] Impoverishment

[2] Deifcation

[3] Personifcation

[4] Infantisation

Answer – [4]

Q.86) 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

[1] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer – [1]

Q.87) Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968?

A. the primacy of English literatures and cultures

B. the centrality of Africa in the Department of English

C. the primacy of orature in the syllabus

D. the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [4]

Q.88) Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:

A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

B. Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

C. Pablo Neruda’s Canto General

D. Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil

[1] A,B,C,D

[2] A,B,D,C

[3] B,C,A,D

[4] D,A,B,C

Answer – [2]

Q.89) Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

A. Estragon

B. Pozzo

C. Bassanio

D. Murphy

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] C and D only

[4] A and D only

Answer – [1]

Q.90) Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?

[1] Probal Dasgupta

[2] Yamuna Kachru

[3] Binoo K. John

[4] S.K.Verma

Answer – [1]

Q.91) Match List I with List II

LIST I (LIBRARY/INSTITUTE)

A. Connemara Public Library

B. Dhvanyaloka

C. Bhandarkar Oriental Institute

D. Asiatic Society

LIST II ( LOCATION)

I. Kolkata

II. Chennai

III. Mysore

IV. Pune

[1] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer – [4]

Q.92) Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:

A. The Imagist poets

B. The Cavalier poets

C. The Movement poets

D. The Lake poets

[1] B, D, C, A

[2] D, A, B, C

[3] D, B, A, C

[4] B, D, A, C

Answer – [4]

Q.93) Match List I with List II

LIST I (TEXT)

A. Advancement of Learning

B. Past and Present

C. English Traits

D. Illness as Metaphor

LIST II ( AUTHOR)

I. Susan Sontag

II. Francis Bacon

III. Thomas Carlyle

IV. R.W. Emerson

[1] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

[4] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

Answer – [3]

Q.94) Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:

A. dissociation of sensibility

B. unreliable narrator

C. theatre of cruelty

D. egotistical sublime

[1] D,A,B,C

[2] D,A,C,B

[3] D,B,A,C

[4] B,D,A,C

Answer – [2]

Q.95) Match List I with List II

LIST I (TEXT)

A. The Lie of the Land

B. Masks of Conquest

C. Rethinking English

D. This Gift of English

LIST II ( AUTHOR)

I. Alok Mukherjee

II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

III. Gauri Viswanathan

IV. Svati Joshi

[1] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

[2] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

[3] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

[4] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

Answer – [1]

Q.96) Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

[1] PHLA

[2] MHRA

[3] ARIEL

[4] MFS

Answer – [2]

Q.07) The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:

[1] 1970.

[2] 1962.

[3] 1951.

[4] 1957.

Answer – [3]

Q.98) Who among the following has coined the term, ‘ecofeminism’?

[1] Helene Cixous

[2] Francoise d’Eaubonne

[3] Marguerite Duras

[4] Monique Wittig

Answer – [2]

Q.99) Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

[1] Richard D. Altick

[2] James Thorpe

[3] Gerald Graff

[4] Jerome McGann

Answer – [4]

The question is about identifying the author of Radiant Textuality.

Correct Answer: (4) Jerome McGann

Q.100) Arrange the following in their chronological order:

A. English replaces Persian as official language of the Company

B. Arrival of Charles Grant in India

C. Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras

D. Construction of Fort William in Calcutta

[1] D, B, C, A

[2] D, A, C, B

[3] B, A, D, C

[4] D, B, A, C

Answer – [4]