CUCET

M.A. ENGLISH, 2021

PART-A

Q.1) Select the correct word that can best complete the given sentence:

A well-balanced diet can be a/an……..for stress.

[1] spirit

[2] buffer

[3] antidote

[4] medicine

Answer: antidote

Q.2) From the choices given below, select the pair which exhibits the same relationship as the one in capitalized pair of words:

HERBS: MEDICINE

[1] books: knowledge

[2] sound: radio

[3] time: watch

[4] juice: orange

Answer: books: knowledge

Q.3) Select the most suitable synonym:

ADEPT

[1] devious

[2] wily

[3] clumsy

[4] dexterous

Answer: dexterous

Q.4) Identify the part of the body with which the disease is associated:

Hepatitis

[1] gall bladder

[2] diaphragm

[3] stomach

[4] liver

Answer: liver-Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. The condition can be self-limiting or can progress to fibrosis (scarring), cirrhosis or liver cancer. Hepatitis viruses are the most common cause of hepatitis in the world but other infections, toxic substances (e.g. alcohol, certain drugs), and autoimmune diseases can also cause hepatitis.

There are 5 main hepatitis viruses, referred to as types A, B, C, D and E. These 5 types are of greatest concern because of the burden of illness and death they cause and the potential for outbreaks and epidemic spread. In particular, types B and C lead to chronic disease in hundreds of millions of people and, together, are the most common cause of liver cirrhosis and cancer.

Hepatitis A and E are typically caused by ingestion of contaminated food or water. Hepatitis B, C and D usually occur as a result of parenteral contact with infected body fluids. Common modes of transmission for these viruses include receipt of contaminated blood or blood products, invasive medical procedures using contaminated equipment and for hepatitis B transmission from mother to baby at birth, from family member to child, and also by sexual contact. Acute infection may occur with limited or no symptoms, or may include symptoms such as jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), dark urine, extreme fatigue, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

Q.5) Identify the meaning of the expression below from the options given:

ex officio

[1] unofficial

[2] as a result of one’s

[3] a retired official

[4] make public

Answer: as a result of one’s

Q.6) Identify the meaning of the underlined word:

Confidence in government hospitals has eroded considerably in the past decade.

[1] gradually destroyed

[2] been reimposed

[3] corroded

[4] withered

Answer: gradually destroyed

Q.7) Identify the meaning of the phrase below from the options given:

A person who helps others specially those who are poor or in trouble

[1] philhellene

[2] philadelphus

[3] philanderer

[4] philanthropist

Answer:philanthropist

Q.8) Select the most suitable antonym:

ERRATIC

[1] loose

[2] faulty

[3] regular

[4] brave

Answer: regular

Q.9) Identify the meaning of the idiom from the options given:

A bird’s-eye view

[1] without care

[2] within the walls

[3] an overall view

[4] out of place

Answer: an overall view

Q.10) Select the correct word from the answer:

Farmers know that changing winds ………… rain or drought.

[1] bring

[2] create

[3] form

[4] present

Answer: bring

Q.11) The H.C.F. (Highest Common Factor) of 3556 and 3444 is:

[1] 23

[2] 25

[3] 26

[4] 28

Answer: 28

3556 = 4 x 7 x 127 and

344 = 4 x 7 x 123

H.C.F. of 3556 and 3444 = 4 x 7 = 28

Q. 12) If a + b = 5 and 3a + 2b = 20, then (3a + b) will be:

[1] 10

[2] 15

[3] 20

[4] 25

Answer: 25

Given, a + b = 5

and 3a + 2b = 20

=> 3a + 2(5 – a) = 20

=> 3a + 10 – 2a = 20

=> a + 10 = 20

=> a = 10

b = 5 – a = 5 – 10 = – 5

Hence, 3a + b = 3 x 10 – 5

= 30-5 = 25.

Q.13) If the sum of a number and its square is 182, what is the number?

[1] 15

[2] 26

[3] 28

[4] None of these

Answer: None of these

Let the number is x

Then, x+x² = 182

 x²+x-182= 0

 x²+14x-13x-182= 0

 x(x+14) – 13(x+14) = 0

 (x-13) (x+14) = 0

 x-13= 0 or x+14=0

x= +13 or x= -14

Hence, number is 13, -14.

Q.14) 88% of 370 + 24% of 210-? = 118

[1] 256

[2] 258

[3] 268

[4] 358

Answer: 258

Q.15) Choose the correct alternative based on relationship:

Tractor:Trailer::Horse: ?

[1] Stable

[2] Cart

[3] Saddle

[4] Engine

Answer: Cart

Q.16) Choose the word which is least like the other words in the group:

[1] Geometry

[2] Algebra

[3] Trigonometry

[4] Mathematics

Answer: Mathematics

Q.17) Choose the number which is different from others in the group.

[1] 8314

[2] 2709

[3] 1315

[4] 2518

Answer: 8314

Q.18) If PALE is coded as 2134, EARTH is coded as 41590, how is PEARL coded in that code?

[1] 29530

[2] 24153

[3] 25413

[4] 25430

Answer: 24153

Q.19) Rahul told Anand, ‘Yesterday I defeated the only brother of the daughter of my grandmother.’ Whom did Rahul defeat?

[1] Son

[2] Father

[3] Brother

[4] Father-in-law

Answer: Father

Q.20) Arrange the given words in alphabetical order and choose the one that comes first.

[1] Science

[2] Scrutiny

[3] Scripture

[4] Scramble

Answer: Science – According to alphabetical order Science → Scramble → Scripture → Scrutiny.

Q.21) If Atul finds that he is twelfth from the right in a line of boys and fourth from the left, how many boys should be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the line?

[1] 12

[2] 13

[3] 14

[4] 20

Answer: 13 – The number of students in a line of boys

= 12 +41-1 = 16-1 = 15

Hence, the number of boys should be added to the line

= 28-15= 13.

Q.22) The India Energy Outlook 2021 is a new special report from the:

[1] NITI Aayog

[2] Ministry of Power

[3] International Energy Agency

[4] Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Answer:International Energy Agency -The India Energy Outlook 2021 is a new special report from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook series. The report explores the opportunities and challenges ahead for India as it seeks to ensure reliable, affordable and sustainable energy to a growing population. The report examines pathways out of the crisis that emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as longer-term trends, exploring how India’s energy sector might evolve to 2040 under a range of scenarios.

The report is presented as a series of ‘deep dives’ exploring cross-cutting issues, including: The effects of economic growth, urbanisation and industrialisation on India’s fuel and sector-level demand trends. The evolution of mobility, including electrification, in the context of growing urbanisation. The prospects for expanding energy access, especially in rural areas. Flexibility requirements in the power sector under ambitious renewable capacity targets and a significant rise in electricity demand-especially from air conditioners. Challenges and opportunities for clean energy finance, including investments in solar energy and batteries. The supply and infrastructure required for an expanded role for natural gas, along with a sector-level assessment of its potential. Impacts of India’s energy policy choices on energy access, air pollution and carbon emissions. India’s growing importance in global energy issues, and the implications of its development trajectory on international energy supply, trade and investment.

Q.23) Who among the following wrote the famous book titled ‘We the people’?

[1] T.N. Seshan

[2] Kiran Bedi

[3]NanabhoyPalkhivala

[4] Khushwant Singh

Answer: NanabhoyPalkhivala- ‘We the people’ is a book by Nani A. Palkhivala. Palkhivala in his book discusses many subjects- education and democracy; economic growth and social justice etc.

Q.24) Which of the following committees is related to ‘Personal Data Protection’?

[1] B. N. Srikrishna Committee

[2] C. Rangarajan Committee

[3] Bimal Jalan Committee

[4]Bhurelal Committee

Answer: B. N. Srikrishna Committee – In July 2017, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology set up a committee to study issues related to data protection. The committee was chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice B.N. Srikrishna.

Q.25) Galathea National Park is located in:

[1] Andaman and Nicobar

[2] Lakshadweep

[3] Coromandel Coast

[4] Konkan Coast

Answer: Andaman and Nicobar – Galathea National Park is a National Park located in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located on the island of Great Nicobar in the Nicobar Islands. The total area of this park is some 110 square kilometres, and it was gazetted as a National Park of India in 1992.

Galathea forms part of what has been designated as the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, which also includes the larger Campbell Bay National Park, separated from Galathea by a 12-km forest buffer zone.

The Galathea National Park comprises the core area of the southern part of the Biosphere Reserve in Great Nicobar Island and consists of lowland forests which have the greatest abundance of endemic avifauon.

It is the prime nesting habitat of the Nicobar Megapode and possibly the area of other endemic species too.

Flora: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

Fauna: Notable animal species giant robber crab, Megapode and Nicobar pigeon.

PART-B

Q.26) …………………is the smallest element in a language.

[1] Morpheme

[2] Phoneme

[3] Lexeme

[4] Allomorph

Answer: Phoneme

Q.27) “Sprung Rhythm” is attributed to which of the following poems?

[1] “Kubla Khan” by S.T. Coleridge

[2] “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot

[3] “Easter 1916” by W.B. Yeats

[4] “Windhover” by G.M. Hopkins

Answer: “Windhover” by G.M. Hopkins

Q.28) Which of the following concepts is Bertolt Brecht related with?

[1] Alienation Effect

[2]Post dramatic Theatre

[3] Naturalistic Drama

[4] Theatre of the Absurd

Answer: Alienation Effect

Q.29) Who is known as the “Nightingale of India”?

[1] Lata Mangeshkar

[2] Sarojini Naidu

[3] K.S. Chitra

[4] Parvathy Baul

Answer: Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor. She was called “the Nightingale of India.” Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905), was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).

Q.30) Name the floating island in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift:

[1] Yahoos

[2]Glumdalclitch

[3] Laputa

[4] Houyhnhnms

Answer: Laputa

Q.31) Which of these following literary genres emerged first?

[1] Poetry

[2] Drama

[3] Novel

[4] Memoirs

Answer: Poetry

Q.32) Who among the following is a Metaphysical Poet?

[1] John Dryden

[2] W.H. Auden

[3] Andrew Marvell

[4] Thomas Gray

Answer: Andrew Marvell

Q.33) In which year was Macaulay’s “Minute” released?

[1] 1897

[2] 1660

[3] 1895

[4]1835

Answer: 1835 – On 2 February 1835, British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his ‘Minute on Indian Education’ that sought to establish the need to impart English education to Indian ‘natives’.

Macaulay’s proposals were officially sanctioned in March, 1835. In 1837, English was made the court language. In 1844, high government posts were open to Indians.

Macaulay was a proud Englishman convinced of his own nation’s greatness and achievements, which he considered the best whether it was in the sciences or the arts. Nothing wrong with that, except that he was perhaps too prejudiced to see things from a different perspective. His famous minute will reveal his scant regard for anything Indian.

Macaulay was a proud Englishman convinced of his own nation’s greatness and achievements, which he considered the best whether it was in the sciences or the arts. Nothing wrong with that, except that he was perhaps too prejudiced to see things from a different perspective. His famous minute will reveal his scant regard for anything Indian.

In his minute on education, he justified the use of English as the medium of instruction, and also the teaching of western education to Indians.

He lampooned Indian knowledge and languages and thought them completely worthless. For instance, he said of Indian literature:

“…a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.”

Q.34)Which is the bimonthly journal published by Sahitya Akademi?

[1] Literary Criterion

[2] Indian Literature

[3]Littcrit

[4] Literature Today

Answer: Indian Literature – Sahitya Akademi publishes three literary journals of international repute, one each in English, Hindi & Sanskrit.

English literary journal Indian Literature is published once in two months as is Hindi journal Samkaleen Bhartiya Sahitya. The Sanskrit literary journal, Samskrita Pratibha is published every quarter.

All the three journals publish translations from 23 other languages apart from the creative writing in the language of the journal.

Indian Literature is being published uninterrupted from 1957, Samskrita Pratibha from 1959 &Samkaleen Bhartiya Sahitya from 1980.

Q.35) Who is the current Poet Laureate of England?

[1] Ted Hughes

[2] Simon Armitage

[3] Carol Ann Duffy

[4] Andrew Motion

Answer: Simon Armitage

Q.36) With whom is the theory of the Sublime associated?

[1] Longinus

[2] Montaigne

[3] Rosseau

[4] Aristotle

Answer: Longinus

Q.37) Train to Pakistan, a novel by Khushwant Singh, was first published in the year……….

[1] 1948

[2] 1956

[3] 1950

[4] 1955

Answer: 1956

Q.38) Erik Arthur Blair used the pseudonym………. .

[1] Lewis Carroll

[2] Saki

[3] Mark Twain

[4] George Orwell

Answer: George Orwell

Q.39) The Marathi film Court (2014) was directed by………. .

[1] Nagraj Anjule

[2] Gajendra Ahire

[3] Paresh Okashi

[4] Chaitanya Tamhane

Answer: Chaitanya Tamhane

Q.40) Who is known as the father of Indian cinema?

[1] H.S. Bhatavdekar

[2] D.G. Phalke

[3] V. Shantaram

[4] J.C. Daniel

Answer: D.G. Phalke – Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer, director, and screenwriter. He is known as the Father of Indian Cinema.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, awarded to people who worked for a long time to the Indian cinema, was created in his honour by the Government of India in 1969.

Q.41) Match List-I with List-II.

List-I

(a) Tamasha

(b) Bhavai

(c) Theyyam

(d) Jatra

List-II

(i) Kerala

(ii) West Bengal

(iii) Maharashtra

(iv) Rajasthan

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

[2] a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

[3] a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv

[4] a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii

Answer: a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

Q.42) How many languages are there in the VIII Schedule of the Constitution of India?

[1] 20

[2] 23

[3] 22

[4] 24

Answer: 22

There are 22 official languages in India and they are covered under the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution.