Q.1) The novel in which the hero is born only after the book is half way through

(A) Pamela

(B) Moll Flanders

(C) Tristram Shandy

(D) Shamela

ANSWER: C

Q.2) To whom does the remark, “the well of English undefiled” refer to?

(A) Philip Sidney

(B) William Langland

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Geoffrey Chaucer

ANSWER: D

Q.3) Match the names of heroines with the plays of Shakespeare

List I

(a) Rosalind

(b) Portia

(c) Miranda

(d) Beatrice

List II

(1) The Tempest

(2) Much Ado About Nothing

(3) The Merchant of Venice

(4) As You Like It

Codes:

A. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2

B. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-1

D. (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3

ANSWER: C

Q.4) The Play boy of the Western World is a work by

(A) Sean O’Casey

(B) Seamus Heaney

(C) W B Yeats

(D) J M Synge

ANSWER: A

Q.5) Which of the following writers does not belong to the group, University wits?

(A) John Lyly

(B) John Webster

(C) Robert Greene

(D) Thomas Lodge

ANSWER: B

Q.6) Name the Australian poet and environmentalist who died in the year 2000

(A) John Blight

(B) Joan Burns

(C) Judith Wright

(D) Jack Lindsay

ANSWER: C

Q.7) The poet who was the first to call John Donne metaphysical

(A) John Dryden

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) TS Eliot

(D) Henry Vaughan

ANSWER: B

Q.8) Fielding’s Tom Jones is the typical example of a……… novel

(A) Epistolary

(B) Picares Que

(C) Mock-epic

(D) Allegoric

ANSWER: A

Q.9) Who is the author of A Modern Utopia?

(A) Aldous Huxley

(B) H G Wells

(C) Thomas Moore

(D) George Orwell

ANSWER: B

Q.10) The Globe Theatre associated with Shakespeare was destroyed in fire in

(A) 1613

(B) 1616

(C) 1619

(D)1621

ANSWER: B

Q.11) Identify the themes of the following poems:

List I

(a) The Rime of Ancient Mariner

(b) Ode to the West Wind

(c) Immortality Ode

(d) La Belle Dame Sans Merci

List II

(1) Memory and passing of time

(2) Tale of Retribution

(3) Unrequited love

(4) Reminder of natural and human mortality

Codes:

(A). (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

(B). (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

(C). (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

(D). (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-3

ANSWER: D

Q.12) A pedagogic approach that recommends learning by doing

(A) Grammar Translation

(B) Communicative approach

(C) Constructivism

(D) Suggestopedia

ANSWER: B

Q.13) Which of the following novels begins with the sentence, “When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow?”

(A) To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

(B) The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

(C) Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner

(D) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

ANSWER: C

Q.14) Who among the following are the Movement Poets?

(1) Kingsley Amis

(2) DJ Enright

(3) WH Auden

(4) Philip Larkin

Codes:

(A) 1, 3 and 4

(B) 1, 2 and 4

(C) 2, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

ANSWER: B

Q.15) Who remarked that ‘poetry begins with a lump in the throat’?

(A) Wallace Stevens

(B) Edgar Allan Poe

(C) Robert Frost

(D) Emily Dickinson

ANSWER: B

Q.16) Who among the following play wrights are associated with the “theatre of the absurd’?

(1) Eugcne-lonesco

(2) Samuel Beckett

(3) Jcan Genet

(4) Bertolt Brecht

Codes:

(A) 1,2 and 4

(B) 1,3 and 4

(C) 2, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

ANSWER: D

Q.17) Who proposed that the ‘mirror stage’ was part of the infant’s development?

(A) Jacques Lacan

(B) Carl Jung

(C) Melanic Klein

(D) Sigmund Freud

ANSWER: C

Q.18) “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”, Who does this comment refer to?

(A) John Keats

(B) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(C) Lord Byron

(D) William Wordsworth

ANSWER: B

Q.19) Identify the novels wherein the novelists employ metafiction:

(1) The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble

(2) Slaughterhouse -Five by Kurt Vonnegut

(3) It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene

(4) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Codes:

(A) 2 and 4

(B) 1 and 2

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 1 and 4

ANSWER: D

Q.20) Which are the features of postmodernism?

1. It was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason

2. It embraced clarity

3. It was anti-authoritarian by nature

4. It broke the established norms of style

Codes:

(A) 2,3 And 4

(B) 1,2 and 3

(C) 1,3 and 4

(D) 1,2 and 4

ANSWER: D

Q.21) “O lady! We receive what we give / And in our life alone does Nature live”, Where do the lines appear?

(A) Dejection: An Ode

(B) Immortality Ode

(C) Ode to a Skylark

(D) Ode to a Nightingale

ANSWER: C

Q.22) The fictional character Sir Roger de Coverley appears in

(A) The Tatler

(B) The Tribune

(C) The Spectator

(D) A Talc of a Tub

ANSWER: C

Q.23) Who propounded the Monitor theory of Second Language Acquisition?

(A) Chomsky

(B) Ellis

(C) Hatch

(D) Krashen

ANSWER: C

Q.24) Match the following novels and the novelists

(a) The Interpreter of Maladies

(b) Shame

(c) Baumgartner’s Bombay

(d) The Dark Room

(1) Salman Rushdie

(2) Anita Desai

(3) R K Narayan

(4) Jhumpa Lahiri

Codes:

A. (a)-1, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-2

B. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-1

D. (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3

ANSWER: D

Q.25) Which of the following facts, according 1o the Cognitive theorists is not related to Acquisition of language?

(A) In the course of learning the child constructs a mini grammar

(B) Children are biologically programmed for language learning

(C) The child plays an active role in learning a language

(D) Language acquisition depends on a chain of Stimulus-Response activities

ANSWER: B

Q.26) Identify the following methods / approaches with their feature.

(a) Structural approach

(b) Direct method

(C) Grammar-translation method

(d) Communicative approach

(1) Focus on the written rather than oral language

(2) Language presented in the form of continuous discourse

(3) Learner masters the patterns of sentences

(4) Grammar is taught inductively

Codes:

A. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

B. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-4

D. (a)-1, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-3

ANSWER: A

Q.27) Identify the novel not written by Michael Ondaatje

(A) The English Patient

(B)A Bird in the House

(C) In the Skin of a Lion

(D) Anil’s Ghost

ANSWER: B

Q.28) Match the poems with the poets

List I

(a) Obituary

(b) Your Attention Please

(c) Telephone Conversation

(d) A Far Cry from Africa

List II

(1) Peter Porter

(2) Wole Soyinka

(3) A K Ramanujan

(4) Derek Walcott

Codes:

A. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

B. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

C. (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3

D. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

ANSWER: A

Q.29) Match the following literary theories with their features

List I

(a) Deconstruction

(b) Structuralism

(c) Marxist Criticism

(d) New Criticism

List II

(1) The perspective of historical materialism

(2) Intrinsic understanding of actual words on page

(3) Resists any process of interpretation

(4) Contribution to narratology

Codes:

A. (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-2

B. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-4

C. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

D. (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-1

ANSWER: B

Q.30) “I gave commands and all smiles stopped together” The line in Browning’s poem ‘My Last Duchess’ shows actually

(A) The innocence of the narrator

(B) The cruelty of the narrator

(C) The evil ways of the victim

(D) The problem-solving skill of the narrator

ANSWER: C

Q.31) Match the following books and their writers

List I

(a) The Eminent Victorians

(b) Shakespearean Tragedy

(c) The Quintessence of Ibsenism

(d) The Romantic Imagination

List II

(1) Bernard Shaw

(2) CM Bowra

(3) A C Bradley

(4) Lytton Strachey

Codes:

A. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

B. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

D. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

ANSWER: A

Q.32) The Bow-Wow theory in language is associated with

(A) Pronunciation of Words

(B) Word meaning

(C) Origin of language

(D) Structure of the word

ANSWER: B

Q.33) Bertrand Russell wrote the book in collaboration with A N Whitehead

(A) Principia Mathematica

(B) A History of Western Philosophy

(C) The Problems of Philosophy

(D) The Conquest of Happiness

ANSWER: C

Q.34) The formation of the word ‘edit’ from ’editor’ is an example of

(A) Back formation

(B) Suffix formation

(C) Prefix formation

(D) Assimilation

ANSWER: D

Q.35) The study of the history of words of a language is

(A) Phonology

(B) Morphology

(C) Etymology

(D) Philology

ANSWER: A

Q.36) Match the critical terms with the critics they are associated with

List I

(a) Coleridge

(b) Arnold

(c) Dryden

(d) Derrida

List II

(1) Touchstone Method

(2) Secondary Imagination

(3) Difference

(4) Comparative criticism

Codes:

A. (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3

B. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-4

C. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1

D. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

ANSWER: A

Q.37) The critic who identified woman as the ‘other” and man as the dominating subject

(A) Elaine Showalter

(B) John Stuart Mill

(C) Simone de Beauvoir

(D) Kate Millet

ANSWER: C

Q.38) “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” The line appears in

(A) “Ode to Fear’ by William Collins

(B) ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake

(C) To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns

(D) The Task by William Cowper

ANSWER: B

Q.39) “He disappeared in the dead of winter / the brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted Whose death is lamented here?

(A) W B Yeats

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) T S Eliot

(D) William Carlos Williams

ANSWER: A

Q.40) There i a time in every man’ education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide, that he must take for himself for better or worse as hi, portion: that the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to ill” Where does this passage appear?

(A) Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’

(B) Thoreau’s ‘Walden

(C) Emerson’s ‘Self Reliance

(D) Emerson’s ‘Oversoul

ANSWER: D

Q.41) Identify the epitaphs of the writers

List I

(a) I had lover’s Quarrel with the world

(b) Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death

(c) Goddamn you all: I told you so

(d) Here lies one whose name was writ in water

List II

(1) H G Wells

(2) John Keats

(3) Robert Frost

(4) Virginia Woolf

Codes:

A. (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-2

B. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1

C. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

D. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

ANSWER: C

Q.42) Tottel’s Miscellany collected the poems of

(A) Wyatt and Surrey

(B) Chaucer and Gower

(C) Dryden and Pope

(D) Emerson and Thoreau

ANSWER: A

Q.43) Which of these works is considered a ‘forerunner of the novel’?

(A) The Canterbury Tales

(B) The Divine Comedy

(C) Paradise Lost

(D) Pilgrim’s Progress

ANSWER: B

Q.44) Which of the following is the work by Mary Shelley?

(A) Dracula

(B) Frankenstein

(C) Frankenstein’s Monster

(D) Count Dracula

ANSWER: A

Q.45) Identify and match the fictional world of the following writers

List I

(a) William Faulkner

(b) R K Narayan

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) E A Robinson

List II

(1) Wessex

(2) Yoknapatawpha

(3) Tilbury town

(4) Malgudi

Codes:

A. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-4

B. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

C. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

D. (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-1

ANSWER: C

Q.46) The term ’sweetness and light’ was borrowed by……… from…………

(A) Dryden, Chaucer

(B) Sidney, Dante

(C) Wordsworth, the Bible

(D) Arnold, Swift

ANSWER: C

Q.47) which of the following novels is written by D H Lawrence?

(A) The Rainbow

(B) Middle Sex

(C) The Snake in the Garden

(D) Cutting Stone

ANSWER: C

Q.48) Match the following closing lines and their respective poems

List I

(a) To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

(b) Was he free? Was he happy? The Question is absurd: Had anything been wrong we should certainly heard have

(c) If winter comes can spring be far behind?

(d) Datta Dayadhvam, Damyata/ Shantih Shantih Shantih

List II

(1) Ode to the West Wind

(2) The Waste Land

(3) Ulysses

(4) The Unknown Citizen

Codes:

A. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-4

B. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

C. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

D. (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-2

ANSWER: C

Q.49) On which syllable does the primary stress fall on the word ‘constitution”?

(A) First

(B) Second

(C) Third

(D) Fourth

ANSWER: C

Q.50) Why does Dr. Faustus in Marlowe`s play sell his soul to the devil and sign an agreement?

(A) To master women

(B) To practice forbidden medicine

(C) To amass wealth

(D) To attain superhuman power

ANSWER: B

Q.51) Identify the words that have the diphthong/ev/1 Talk 2 Spoke 3 Show 4 Cloth

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 1 and 3

(C) 3 and 4

(D) 1 and 4

ANSWER: D

Q.52) …………… by Milton is an appeal to Parliament

(A) L’ Allegro

(B) Areopagitica

(C) Hymn on Nativity

(D) ll Penseroso

ANSWER: B

Q.53) Who commented about Philip Larkin being “the saddest heart in the post war super market”?

(A) Andrew Motion

(B) Christopher Ricks

(C) Martin Amis

(D) Eric Hemberger

ANSWER: B

Q.54) The line ‘I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person’ appears in

(A) Dickinson’s “Because I could not Stop for Death’

(B) Poe’s ‘The Raven’

(C) Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself

(D) E E Cummings ‘I sing of Olaf

ANSWER: C

Q.55) If rata is to be expressed properly each one of its elements should be in consonance with it. This consonance is

(A) Aucitya

(B) Vibhava

(C) Vritti

(D) Vyanjana

ANSWER: D

Q.56) The ‘gentleman caller’ in Tennessee Williams’ dream play Glass Menagerie is

(A) Tom

(B) Jim O’Connor

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Mr. Wingfield

ANSWER: A

Q.57) Match the following concepts with the closet English equivalents

List I

(a) Vakrokti

(b) Bhava

(c) Dhwani

(d) Vibhava

List II

(1) Stimulant

(2) Suggestion

(3) Figure of speech

(4) Emotion

Codes:

A. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-1

B. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

C. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

D. (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-4

ANSWER: C

Q.58) Who does the protagonist in the Miracle plays represent?

(A) Vice

(B) Virtue

(C) Everyman

(D) Death

ANSWER: D

Q.59) Aristorelian term for the tragic flaw in a hero that causes his downfall

(A) Catharsis

(B) Peripeleia

(C) Anagnorisis

(D) Hamartia

ANSWER: B

Q.60) The theorist who is identified with the movement ‘post structuralism’

(A) Jacques Derrida

(B) Levi Strauss

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Ferdinand de Saussure

ANSWER: A

Q.61) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel by published in the year

(A) George Orwell,1944

(B) Aldous Huxley,1953

(C) Salman Rushdie,2007

(D) Arundhati Roy 2017

ANSWER: C

Q.62) The Cat and Shakespeare is a work by

(A) Arthur Koestler

(B) Sashi Tharoor

(C) Raja Rao

(D) Amitav Ghosh

ANSWER: C

Q.63) Match the following works and their authors

List I

(a) The Mad Woman in the Attic

(b) Sexual Politics

(c) The Second Sex

(d) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

List II

(1) Kate Millet

(2) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

(3) Mary Wollstonecraft

(4) Simone de Beauvoir

Codes:

A. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

B. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

D. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-1

ANSWER: D

Q.64) Who wrote the book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

(A) Jonathan Swift

(B) John Locke

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) Laurence Sterne

ANSWER: C

Q.65) The Golden Threshold, published in 1905 with an introduction by Anhur Symons, was the collection of poems by

(A) Harindranath Chattopadhyaya

(B) Sarojini Naidu

(C) Toru Dutt

(D) Sri Aurobindo

ANSWER: B

Q.66) The title “Raisin in the Sun” was borrowed……… by from……………

(A)Eugene O’Neill, Joel Chandler Harris

(B) Stephen Crane Harriet Beecher Stowe

(C) Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte

(D) Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes

ANSWER: D

Q.67) Colonel Redfern, father of Alison, appears in

(A) The Canterbury Tales

(B) The Leather stocking Tales

(C) Look back in Anger

(D) Look before you Laugh

ANSWER: B

Q.68) The First African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

(A) Chinua Achebe

(B) Derek Walcott

(C) Wole Soyinka

(D) Toni Morrison

ANSWER: D

Q.69) Match the following poems with the poets

List I

(a) A River

(b) Boat-Ride along the Ganga

(c) Enterprise

(d) Our Casuarina Tree

List II

(1) Toru Dutt

(2) Ezekiel

(3) A K Ramanujan

(4) Keki N Daruwalla

Codes:

A. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-4

B. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

C. (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-4

D. (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-1

ANSWER: D

Q.70) Which among the following are Quotes from Robert Frost’s poems?

(1) Good fences make good neighbours

(2) Earth is the right place for love

(3) The fact is the sweetest dream that labour knows

(4) The paths of glory lead but to the grave

Codes:

(A) 1,3 and 4

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 2 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

ANSWER: B

Q.71) The expression ‘a well boiled icicle’ instead of ‘a well oiled bicycle’ is an example of

(A) Spoonerism

(B) Malapropism

(C) Archaism

(D) Neologism

ANSWER: D

Q.72) Which is the poem written by Dry den on the theme of Paradise Lost?

(A) Annus Mirabilis

(B) All for Love

(C) The State of Innocence

(D) The Hind and the Panther

ANSWER: C

Q.73) Which of the following books is written by Raymond Williams?

(A) The Political Unconscious

(B) Culture and Society

(C) Postmodernism

(D) Against Interpretation

ANSWER: A

Q.74) Identify the characteristics of the Victorian age in literature

(1) Rapid urbanization and decline of rural England

(2) The impact of Darwin’s theory of evolution

(3) The impact of the French language

(4) Extension of the method of empirical investigation

Codes:

(A)1, 2 and 4

(B) 1,3 and 4

(C) 2, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

ANSWER: C

Q.75) Ngugi wa Thiong’s who used to write in English, now prefers to write in

(A) Oromo

(B) Gikuyu

(C) Igbo

(D) Yoruba

ANSWER: C

Q.76) The Rez Sisters is a by

(A) Novel, E J Pratt

(B) Short story, Sam Shepard

(C) Poem, A D Hope

(D) Play, Tomson Highway

ANSWER: A

Q.77) Match the following correctly

List I

(a) Adonais

(b) Lycidas

(c) In Memoriam

(d) Thyrsis

List II

(1) Arthur Hallam

(2) Arthur Hugh Clough

(3) Edward King

(4) John Keats

Codes:

A. (a)-1, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-3

B. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

C. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2

D. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

ANSWER: D

Q.78) Taslima Nasreen writes in

(A) Bengali

(B) French

(C) English

(D) Swedish

ANSWER: D

Q.79) Henrik Ibsen was a native of asses

(A) Ireland

(B) Sweden

(C) Norway

(D) Scotland

ANSWER: B

Q.80) The speech habits peculiar to a particular person

(A) Dialect

(B) ldiolect

(C) Register

(D) Pidgin

ANSWER: B

Q.81) Identify the features of Bacon’s essays

(1) Ideas are expressed in short pithy sentences

(2) Deal with personal experiences

(3) Full of references to the classics

(4) At times he avoided conventional grammar

(A) 1, 3 and 4

(B) 2,3 and 4

(C) 1, 2 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

ANSWER: B

Q.82) English words like skirt, shirt, skull and sky have a origin

(A) Latin

(B) Celtic

(C) French

(D) Scandinavian

ANSWER: B

Q.83) Which is the novel not written by Kazuo Ishiguro?

(A) The Memorial

(B) A Pale View of Hills

(C)The Remains of the Day

(D) The Un Consoled

ANSWER: A

Q.84) Which of the following are not essays?

(1) An Essay on Criticism

(2) An Essay on Man

(3) Essay of Dramtick Poesie

(4) Essays of Elia

Codes:

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 1 and 2

(D) 2 and 4

ANSWER: C

Q.85) Match the following characters with the novelists who created them

List I

(a) Uriah Heep

(b) Elizabeth Bennet

(c) Becky Sharp

(d) Dinah Morris

List II

(1) William Makepeace Thackeray

(2) Charles Dickens

(3) George Eliot

(4) Jane Austen

Codes:

A. (a)1, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3

B. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

C. (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1

D. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

ANSWER: B

Q.86) Staying Alive (1988) is a work by

(A) Arundhati Roy

(B) Vandana Shiva

(C) Medha Patkar

(D) Shoba De

ANSWER: D

Q.87) Leopold Bloom is a character in by

(A) Ulysses, Joyce

(B) A Doll’s House, lbsen

(C) Uncle Vanya, Chekov

(D) Mrs Dalloway, Woolf

ANSWER: B

Q.88) The second half of the title “The Empire Writes Back” is

(A)Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature

(B) Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature

(C) Theory and Practice of Post-Colonial Literature

(D)Theory and Practice of Post-Colonial Literatures

ANSWER: A

Q.89) Who among the following writers was a symbolist?

(A) Smollet

(B) Pound

(C) Mallarme

(D) Goethe

ANSWER: A

Q.90) Who was the first person to introduce the printing press to England?

(A) Wilbur Wright

(B) James Parker

(C)William Caxton

(D) William Hunter

ANSWER: B

Q.91) Match the following poets with their poems

List I

(a) Banjo Paterson

(b) AD Hope

(c) Judith Wright

(d) Les Murray

List II

(1) The Wandering islands

(2) The man from Snowy River

(3) The Quality of Sprawl

(4) All Things Conspire

Codes

A. (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4

B. (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-1

C. (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3

D. (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3

ANSWER: A

Q.92) Which of the following are the characteristics of dystopian fiction?

(1) It expresses the author’s concern about society

(2) It describes a society that is conceived to be perfect

(3) It presents an imaginary place where people lead a fearful life

(4) Orwell´ s Nineteen Eighty-Four is an example

(A) 1, 3 and 4

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 2 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 4

ANSWER: A

Q.93) The official languages of the country are listed in this “Schedule’ to the Constitution of India

(A) First

(B) Fourth

(C) Sixth

(D) Eighth

ANSWER: D

Q.94) ESL refers to:

(A) English as a State Language

(B) English as a Second Language

(C) English for Special Learners

(D) English for Specific Learners

ANSWER: B

Q.95) The method of language teaching where students learn in a close-knit community with the teacher- counselor is

(A) CLL

(B) ALL

(C) ACL

(D) CSL

ANSWER: A

Q.96) Match the sub-titles/alternate titles with the titles of the work:

Titles

(1) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

(2) She Stoops to Conquer

(3) Pamela

(4) The Importance of Being Earnest

Sub-titles

(a) Mistakes of a Night

(b) Virtue Rewarded

(c) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

(d) A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

Codes:

A. (1)-b, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-d

B. (1)-d, (2)-a, (3)-b, (4)-c

C. (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-c

D. (1)-b, (2)-c, (3)-d, (4)-a

ANSWER: B

Q.97) In language leaching at the elementary and secondary levels, the best lesson plans are;

(A) Superficial

(B) Superfluous

(C) Deconstructive

(D) Dynamic

ANSWER: D

Q.98) CALL refers to:

(A) Computer Assisted Language Learning

(B) Cyber Assisted Language Learning

(C) Close Assisted Language Learning

(D) Classroom Agnostic Language Learning

ANSWER: A

Q.99) A test designed to assess the current state of a text

(A) Diagnostic

(B) Terminal

(C) Formative

(D) Summative

ANSWER: A

Q.100) “Mother-longue interference’ refers to the influence of

(A) LI on L2

(B) L2 on L1

(C) LI and L2 on each other

(D) Parents on the pupil

ANSWER: A

Q.101) The purgation of pity and terror through art is known as:

(A) Hamartia

(B) Catharsis

(C) Mimesis

(D) Anagnorisis

Q.102) The distinction between ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’ is discussed in:

(A) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

(B) Biographia Literaria

(C) De Profundis

(D) Preface to the Fables

Q.103) The theory of the impersonality of the poet was put forward by:

(A) Samuel T Coleridge

(B) Samuel Johnson

(C) T S Eliot

(D) W S Merwin

Q.104) Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work by

(A) Geoffrey Leech

(B) Jan Svartvik

(C) William Wallace

(D) William Empson

Q.105) Identify the writer who was not one of the Russian Formalists

(A) Viktor Shklovsky

(B) Vladimir Propp

(C) Boris Pastermak

(D) Roman Jacobson

Q.106) Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on can be found in the work

(A) Marxist theory, Prison Notebooks

(B) Insanity/Madness and Civilization

(C) Morality Genealogy of Morals

(D) Literary theory, “The Death of the Author”

Q.107) The Raw and the Cooked is a work by:

(A) Susan Sontag

(B) James Frazer

(C) Franz Boas

(D) Claude Levi-Strauss

Q.108) Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious was a work by published in 1905

(A) Sigmund Freud

(B) Alfred Adler

(C) Carl Jung

(D) Rudolf Reitler

ANSWER:

Q.109) Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act completes the title

(A) Reading Capital

(B) The Political Unconscious

(C) Literature of the Graveyard

(D) Art and the Human Adventure

Q.110) Identify the work that is not by Jacques Derrida

(A) Of Grammatology

(B) Of Hospitality

(C) Being and Nothingness

(D) The Beast and the Sovereign

ANSWER:

Q.111) In the work Elaine Showalter traces the history of women’s literature in Europe in three phases, which are and

(A) Feminist Manifesto, female, feminist, femme fatale

(B) Gyno critique, feminine Feminist, femme de guerre

(C) Feminist Poetics feminine, feminist, female

(D) Towards a Feminist Poetics, Feminine, Feminist, Female

Q.112) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex are works by

(A) Jean Paul Sartre

(B) Simone dc Beauvoir

(C) Judith Butler

(D) Helene Cixous

Q.113) Eurocentric prejudices against Asian and Arab-Islamic people and culture are examined by ………….in…….

(A) Edward Said, Orientalism

(B) Ivan Illich, De schooling Society

(C) Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth

(D) Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Q.114) “The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance” is a piece by;

(A) Helen Tiffin

(B) Bill Ashcroft

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Arundhati Roy

Q.115) Political Shakespeare, edited by Dollimore and Sinfield, is a collection of essays in:

(A) Dialectical Materialism

(B) Cultural Materialism

(C) Philosophical Materialism

(D) Behavioral Psychology

Q.116) Akkarmashi is the autobiography of

(A) Baburao Bagul

(B) Shantabai Kalc

(C) Sharankumar Limbale

(D) Namdev Dhasal

Q.117) “Dynamic equivalence’ and ‘forma! equivalence’ are terms relation 10 concepts on;

(A) Economics

(B) Jurisprudence

(C) Religion

(D) Translation

Q.118) “Culture is Ordinary” is a piece by

(A) Terry Eagleton

(B) Terry Pratchett

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) Langston Hughes

Q.119) Erich Fromm presents a re-interpretation of the story of

(A) Adam and Eve

(B) The Judgement of Paris

(C) The Hare and the Tortoise

(D) Noah’s Ark

Q.120) The vakroti siddhantha was postulated by:

(A) Bharata

(B) Kuntaka

(C) Anandavardana

(D) Abhinavagupta