Madhya Pradesh Set 1
June 20, 2023 2023-12-18 16:09Madhya Pradesh Set 1
Madhya Pradesh Set 1
Q.1) Who Chaucer was merely nine years the “‘Black-Death swept over England ‘Black Death’ is also known by another name
(A) The great plague
(B) The great fire
(C) The great drought
(D) The great upheaval
ANSWER: A
Q.2) Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language’ Who said this:
(A) Legouis
(B) Haddow
(C) Lang
(D) Lowes
ANSWER: D
Q.3) Who is the author of Piers Plowmen?
(A) Sir Thomas Malory
(B) Margery Kempe
(C) Geoffrey Chaucer
(D) William Langland
ANSWER: D
Q.4) Who among the following has been called the ‘Moring Star of Reformation
(A) Wycliffe
(B) Malory
(C) Chaucer
(D) Caxton
ANSWER: A
Q.5) Who among the following was killed in a tavern brawl:
(A) Kyd
(B) Greene
(C) Lyly
(D) Marlowe
ANSWER: D
Q.6) Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritan in his play
(A) Twelfth Night
(B) Hamlet
(C)The Tempest
(D) Henry 4, Part 1
ANSWER: A
Q.7) Famous satiric drama Volpone is written by
(A) Sir Walter Scot
(B) Christopher Marlow
(C) Ben Johnson
(D) George Herbert
ANSWER: C
Q.8) Whom does the Duchess marry in The Duchess of Malfi?
(A) Bassanio
(B) Malvolio
(C) Antonio
(D) Mortimer
ANSWER: C
Q.9) The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the 17* century in which of the follow countries?
(A) Jordon
(B) England
(C)Malaysia
(D) Tunisia
ANSWER: B
Q.10) Who represents Absalom in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel??
(A) The of Duke of Monmouth
(B) Charles II
(C) The Earl of Shaftesbury
(D) Cromwell
ANSWER: A
Q.11) who first called the age of Pope and Johnson as “The Augustan Age”?
(A) Steele
(B) Goldsmith
(C) Johnson
(D) Burke
ANSWER: B
Q.12) Name the protagonist of Pamela
(A) Mr B
(B) Colonel Jac Q. ue
(C) Lovelace
(D) John Belford
ANSWER: A
Q.13) Joseph Andrews is written by whom?
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) Henry Fielding
(C) John Donne
(D) Tobias Smollett
ANSWER: B
Q.14) …A book should help as either to enjoy life or to endure it Who said this
(A) Boswell
(B) Pope
(C) Dr Johnson
(D) Addison
ANSWER: C
Q.15) Name the metrical form Pope brought to perfection
(A) The heroic couplet
(B) Blank verse
(C) Free verse
(D) The ode
ANSWER: A
Q.16) Who among the following defied Romanticism as disease and Classicism as health?
(A) Peter
(B) Watts Dunton
(C) Goethe
(D) Victor Hugo
ANSWER: C
Q.17) Name the poets who collaborated on The Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
(A) S T Coleridge and William Blake
(B) P B Shelley and William Wordsworth
(C) William Wordsworth and Coleridge
(D) William Blake and P B Shelley
ANSWER: C
Q.18) Wordsworth describes all good poetry as:
(A) The rhythmic expression of moral intuition
(B) The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
(C) The polite patter of a corrupted age
(D) The divine gift of age
ANSWER: B
Q.19) Who is the hero of Childe Harold?
(A) Nature
(B) Tiger
(C) A Prince
(D) The Poet himself
ANSWER: D
Q.20) Which of the following pair of writers wrote historical novels?
(A) Henry Fielding and T Smollett
(B) Addison and Steele
(C)Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
(D) Stern and T Smollett
ANSWER: C
Q.21) Match the following and choose the correct answer using the code given below
List I
(1) Poems, Chiefly lyrical
(2) Sketches by ‘Boz
(3) Sartor Resartus
(4) Strafford
List II
(A) Carlyle
(b) Tennyson
(c) Dickens
(d) Robert Browning
Codes:
A. (A) -1, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-4
B. (A) -1, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-4
C. (A) -1, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-4
D. (A) -1, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-4
ANSWER: C
Q.22) Name the ruler who marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era
(A) King Henry VIII
(B) Queen Elizabeth I
(C) Queen Victoria
(D) King John
ANSWER: C
Q.23) Who wrote On the Origin of Species that inspired many novelists?
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Francis Galton
(C) Michael Faraday
(D) Alexander Bain
ANSWER: A
Q.24) ‘Fagin’ is a character from which of the following novels:
(A) Oliver Twist
(B) Great Expectations
(C) David Copperfield
(D) Hard Times
ANSWER: A
Q.25) Identify the poem, written by Alfred Tennyson containing the under given line “To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”,
(A) Maud
(B) Ulysses
(C) In Memoriam
(D) Locksley Hall
ANSWER: B
Q.26) In which poem did W, B Yeats use the phrase “the artifice of eternity”?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
ANSWER: A
Q.27) Who wrote Plain Tales from the Hills?
(A) Rudyard Kipling
(B) William Watson
(C) G B Shaw
(D) John Davidson
ANSWER: A
Q.28) Who is the writer of Riders to the Sea?
(A) R L Stevenson
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) J M Synge
(D) Y B Yeats
ANSWER: C
Q.29) A Passage to India was published in the year:
(A) 1924
(B) 1925
(C) 1926
(D) 1899
ANSWER: A
Q.30) Name the play in which following lines occur
-Nothing happens nobody comes
Nobody goes, it’s awful!”
(A) Waiting for Godot
(B) The Murder in the Cathedral
(C) The Caretaker
(D) Rides to the Sea
ANSWER: A
Q.31) who is the author of The Fountain Overflows?
(A) Rebecca West
(B) Elizabeth Bowen
(C) Compton Burnett
(D) Rose Macaulay
ANSWER: A
Q.32) -Success is only a delayed failure’ is a famous sentence from 4 Sort of Life Who is the author of this book?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) Elizabeth Bowen
(C)John Osborne
(D) Rebecca West
ANSWER: A
Q.33) Who is the author of The Female Eunuch
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Germaine green
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Alan Sillitoe
ANSWER: B
Q.34) who is the author of Cloud Nine?
(A) David Hare
(B) Trevor Griffith
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Howard Brenton
ANSWER: C
Q.35) Who wrote An Artist of the Floating World)
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Kazvo Ishiguro
(C) Louis de Benieres
(D) Shashi Deshpande
ANSWER: B
Q.36) Leaves of Gras is considered as one of the classics of world poetry Who among the following wrote it?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Robert Frost
(C) T S Eliot
(D) Emily Dickinson
ANSWER: A
Q.37) Shiva Trilogy is written by
(A) V S Naipaul ,
(B) Amish Tripathi
(C) Ashok K Banker
(D) Shashi Tharoor
ANSWER: B
Q.38) Which one of the following is Sylvia Plath’s novel?
(A) Ariel
(B) The Colossus
(C) The Bell Jar
(D) Catch 22
ANSWER: C
Q.39) My True Faces is a novel by;
(A) Sudhir Ghosh
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Manohar Malgaonkar
(D) Chaman Nahal
ANSWER: C
Q.40) Who wrote The Gift of India?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) Ramanujan
(C) Toru Dutt
(D) Sarojini Naidu
ANSWER: D
Q.41) Which of the following is not by Aristotle?
(A) Metaphysics
(B) Ethics
(C) Poetics
(D) Symposium
ANSWER: D
Q.42) Who represents Dryden himself in An essay on Dramatic Poesy?
(A) Crites
(B) Eugenius
(C) Neander
(D) Lisideius
ANSWER: C
Q.43) Which out of the following is not associated with LA Richards?
(A) Principles of Literacy Criticism
(B) The Meaning of Meaning
(C) The symbolist movement in Literature
(D)The Philosophy of Rhetoric
ANSWER: C
Q.44) The Dhvanyaloka, a treatise on the structure of meaning, written by
(A) Anandavardhana
(B) Bharata
(C) Bhamaha
(D) Vamana
ANSWER: A
Q.45) The Vokroktiivitam by Kuntaka propounds
(A) The theory of aesthetic experience
(B) The theory of diction
(C) The theory of figures
(D) The theory of oblique expression
ANSWER: D
Q.46) ……is an extended narrative that carries a second meaning along with its surface story
(A) Symbol
(B) Allegory
(C) Exposition
(D) Conceit
ANSWER: B
Q.47) … is a device by which non-human and non-living nature is credited with human emotions:
(A) Parody
(B) Pathetic Fallacy
(C)Objective Correlative
(D) Unification of Sensibility
ANSWER: B
Q.48) A Closet Drama is:
(A) A drama set in closet or in a single room
(B)A drama intended to be performed within a closet and not on stage
(C)A drama though written in the dramatic form intended to be read rather than to be performed in the theatre
(D) None of these is correct
ANSWER: C
Q.49) Which form of sonnet falls into two main parts an octave and a sestet:
(A) Petrarchan
(B) Shakespearean
(C)Spenserian
(D) None of these is correct
ANSWER: A
Q.50) Onomatopoeia means:
(A) Echoing the same sound repeatedly
(B) Echoing of the sense or the meaning in different words
(C)Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size or movement
(D) Echoing of the sense by the movement
ANSWER: C
PART – B
AI nine O’clock in the morning towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was
approaching Petersburg at full speed It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was
difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage
windows Some of the passengers were returning from aboard, but their third class
compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a
shorter distance on business, All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy
after the night’s journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog
In one of the third-class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one
another by the window Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little
luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into
conversation If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment
they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite
one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw train One of them was short man about
twenty-seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes He had a broad and flat
nose and light check bones His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and
even malicious smile But the high and well-shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of
the lower part of the face What was particular about the young man’s face was its death like
pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time
an almost painfully passionate expression He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep
skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been
exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared
Q.1) Choose the right option regarding the space given to the passengers for description in the first paragraph of the passage:
(A) The passengers of humble rank are given less space than that given to those returning from abroad
(B) The passengers of humble rank are given more space than that given to those returning from Both the passengers – the passengers of humble rank and those returning from abroad – are abroad
(C) given equal space
(D) It is uncertain to decide
ANSWER: B
Q.2) Most of the passenger can be said to have hailed from
(A) The low background
(B) The high background
(C) The foreign background
(D) The strange background
ANSWER: A
Q.3) ho were most conspicuous by their striking appearance in the train?
(A) The people of humble rank
(B) The people returning from abroad
(C) The young man and his shivering fellow traveler
(D) The people of humble rank and those returning from abroad
ANSWER: C
Q.4) Which dominant sentiment is experienced in the passage?
(A) The sentiment of pathos
(B) The sentiment of wonder
(C) The sentiment of anger
(D) The sentiment of laughter
ANSWER: A
Q. 5) “What a piece of work is man” is spoken by
(A) Hamlet’s uncle
(B) Hamlet
(C) Hamlet’s mother
(D) Horatio
ANSWER: B
Q. 6) Which of the following Canterbury Tales is in Prose?
(A) The Pardoner’s Tale
(B)The Parson’s Tale
(C) The Monk’s Talc
(D) The Knight’s Tale
ANSWER: B
Q. 7) The first folio edition of Shakespeare was published in the year
(A) 1641
(B) 1623
(C) 1665
(D) 1564
ANSWER: B
Q. 8) Lullaby of a Lover is written by
(A) George Gascoigne
(B) Thomas More
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) Laurenee Minot
ANSWER: A
Q. 9) The word “coy” in the poem, “To His Coy mistress” means
(A) Timid
(B) Voluptuousness
(C) Sensuous
(D) Shy
ANSWER: D
Q. 10) The concept of Bacon’s essay is said to be borrowed from
(A) Montaigne
(B) Plato
(C) Aristotle
(D) Moilere
ANSWER: A
Q. 11) How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devi1?
(A) 16 years
(B) 20 years
(C) 24 years
(D) 28 years
ANSWER: C
Q. 12) Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true
(1) Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life
(2) Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play
(3) His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second
(4) Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare
(A) 1 & 2
(B) 2 & 3
(C) 2 & 4
(D) 3 & 4
ANSWER: A
Q. 13) Who said following lines about metaphysical poets? “The metaphysical poets were men of learning and to show their learning was their whole endeavor ………… they neither copy nature nor life
(A) T S Eliot
(B) Johnson
(C) John Carey
(D) John Fiske
ANSWER: B
Q. 14) “Shepherdess Calender” was written is Elizabethan period by
(A) George Gascoigne
(B) Thomas Sackville
(C) Lord Buckhlerst
(D) Edmund Spenser
ANSWER: D
Q. 15) “Hymn to Adversity’ is poem by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Thomas Gray
(C)Edward Gibbon
(D) William Blake
ANSWER: B
Q. 16) Who speaks the following “Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment” The Way of the Word
(A) Witwoud
(B) Millamont
(C) Mirabel
(D) Lady Wishfort
ANSWER: A
Q. 17) The Dunciad’, a long and elaborate satire, does not deal with one of the following
(A) The bad poets
(B)Pedants
(C) Pretentious Critics
(D) Contemporary artists
ANSWER: D
Q. 18) Bhaktirasa was given by
(A) Madhusudan Saraswathi
(B) Rupa Goswami
(C) Adi Shankaracharya
(D) Abhinav Gupta
ANSWER: B
Q. 19) John Donne “affects the metaphysics- This remark was made by
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) Allen Tete
(C) TS Eliot
(D) John Dryden
ANSWER: D
Q. 20) Enquiry concerning Political Justice by William Godwin is a book that primarily deals with one of the following aspects
(A) Political and Social ideas
(B) Literary Ideas
(C) Religious ideas only
(D) Metaphysic and spirituality
ANSWER: A
Q. 21) Who among the following was most influenced by William Godwin?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) Robert Burns
(D) P B Shelley
ANSWER: D
Q. 22) Alexander Pope’s an Essay in Criticism
(1) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age
(2) Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work
(3) Is a prose essay that gives us such Quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing'”
(4) Appeared in 1701
Codes:
(A) 3 & 4 are incorrect
(B) 1 & 2 are incorrect
(C) 1 & 4 are correct
(D) Only 1 and 4 are correct
ANSWER: A
Q. 23) These are the last words of a Romantic poet Read the lines carefully and find out who among the following is the poet -1 am dying but without capitation of a speedy release ls it not strange that very recently by gone images and scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown from the spice-islands of youth and hope – those twin realities of the phantom world? I do not add love, but what is love but youth and hope embracing, and seen as one?
(A) S T Coleridge
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) P B Shelley
(D) William Blake
ANSWER: A
Q. 24) Who wrote the Religion of the Heart
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B)Thomas De Quincey
(C) S T Coleridge
(D) William Hazlitt
ANSWER: A
Q. 25) Match the following:
LIST-1
(1) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, George
(2) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham
(3) Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves
(4) W H Dave’s, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater
LIST-2
(A) Metaphysical poets Crabbe
(b) Transitional poets Cowley
(c) War poets
(d) Georgians
Codes:
A. (1)-d, (2)-a, (3)-c, (4)-b
B. (1)-b, (2)-a, (3)-c, (4)-d
C. (1)-b, (2)-a, (3)-c, (4)-d
D. (1)-a, (2)-c, (3)-d, (4)-b
ANSWER: C
Q. 26) ‘Cry of the children’ is a poem written by
(A) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Dante D Rossetti
(D) Sir Henry Taylor
ANSWER: A
Q. 27) Unto this Last (1861) is a well-known book by John Ruskin One of the following Indian leaders that was much influenced by this book It was
(A) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) M K Gandhi
ANSWER: D
Q. 28) Who among the following wrote these lines “The conduct of the upper is screened by conversations and thus the real character is not easily seen; if it is seen, it must be portrayed subjectively; where as in the lower walks, conduct is a direct expression of the inner life; and thus, character can be directly portrayed through the act’
(A) Thomas Hardy
(B)George Eliot
(C) William Makepeace Thackeray
(D) Oscar Wilde
ANSWER: A
Q. 29) In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following
(1) It dissolves, diffuse, dissipate in order to create
(2) It has aggregative and associative power
(3) It plays with fixities and definities
(4) It has shaping and modifying power
The correct combination reads
(A) 1 & 2 for fancy; 2 & 4 for imagination
(B) 1 & 3 for fancy; 1 & 4 for imagination
(C) 2 & 3 for fancy; 1 & 4 for imagination
(D) 3 & 4 for fancy; 1& 2 for imagination
ANSWER: A
Q. 30) Which of the following phrases indicates the ‘interior now of thought’ in modern British literature
(A) Automatic writing
(B) Confused daze
(C) Total recall
(D) Stream of Consciousness
ANSWER: D
Q. 31) The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works Identify the correctly matched group
(1) Pale Fire
(2) The Sound and the Fury
(3) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
(4) Under the Greenwood tree
(5) Of Cakes and Ale e Vladimir Nabokov
(A) Thomas Hardy
(B) Somerset Maugham
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Tom Stoppard
Codes:
A. (1)-e, (2)-d, (3)-c, (4)-a (5)-b
B. (1)-d, (2)-e, (3)-b, (4)-c (5)- a
C. (1)-e, (2)-c, (3)-d, (4)-a (5)- b
D. (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-e (5)- a
ANSWER: C
Q. 32) Who wrote Undertones of War in 1928
(A) Edmund Blunden
(B) Elizabeth Bowen
(C) Edward Bond
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
ANSWER: A
Q. 33) The Cantor a long poem based on Dante’s Divine Comedy is written by
(A) Ezra Pond
(B) Ramsey Campbell
(C) A S Byatt
(D) Peter Carey
ANSWER: A
Q. 34) Choose from the following correct group of Cavalier poets
(A) Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Robert Burton
(B) Thomas Carew Sir John Suckling, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace
(C) Thomas Carew Henry Vaughan Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick
(D) Izzak Walton Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick
ANSWER: B
Q. 35) Bertolt Brecht’s play was written against the hack drop of the rise of Hitler
(A) Jungle of the Cities
(B) Man Equals Man
(C) A Respectable Wedding
(D) Mother Courage and her Children
ANSWER: D
Q. 36) Giles Cooper’s best-known work for television depicted relations between Britain and Germany
(A) Everything in the Garden
(B) Happy Family
(C) The Other Man
(D) None of these is correct
ANSWER: C
Q. 37) which comedy, among the following, written by Howard Newby, describes the encounter between European and Arabic Culture?
(A) A Guest and His Going
(B) Kith
(C) A Lot to Ask ·
(D) A Step to Silence
ANSWER: A
Q. 38) Which of the following is in chronological order as per their birth
(A) Philip Larkin, William Golding C S Lewis
(B) C S Lewis, Philip Larkin, William Golding
(C) William Golding, C S Lewis, Philip Larkin
(D) C S Lewis, William Golding, Philip Larkin
ANSWER: D
Q. 39) Who remained Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998
(A) Doris Lessing
(B) Iris Murdoch
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) C S Lewis
ANSWER: C
Q.40 Which of the following is not correct about Hardy
(A) The interpreter of Life
(B) The interpreter of Death
(C) The interpreter of Nature
(D) The Interpreter of Character
ANSWER: B
Q. 41) Who said these lines about Longinus “And Longinus, who was undoubtedly after Aristotle, the greatest critics among the Greeks
(A) T S Eliot
(B) W B Yeats
(C) Hazlitt
(D) John Dryden
ANSWER: D
Q. 42) Robert Buchanan described Rossetti’s poetry as belonging to
(A) The fleshly school of poetry
(B) The platonic school of poetry
(C) The metaphysical school of poetry
(D) The romantic school of poetry
ANSWER: A
Q. 43) Who said following lines
“Those rules of old discovered, not devised are nature still, but Nature methodized”
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Coleridge
(D) Keats
ANSWER: B
Q.44) The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry…… our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay” This claim for poetry he has been made in
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of Poesy
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”
(D) Eliot’s “Poetry and Poets”
ANSWER: A
Q. 45) Who wrote the History of Australian Literature?
(A) Randolph Stow
(B) H M Green
(C) Handel Richardson
(D) Francis Adam
ANSWER: D
Q. 46) Who wrote The History of Sexuality?
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) Wolfgang Iser
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) Gayatri Spivak
ANSWER: A
Q. 47) In Orientalism Edward Said Examines
(A) Indian Tradition of Criticism
(B) The Tradition of Western Criticism
(C) The vast tradition of Western construction of the Orient
(D) Greek Tradition of Criticism
ANSWER: C
Q. 48) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is
(A) Trochaic foot
(B) lambic foot
(C) Dactylic foot
(D) Monosyllabic foot
ANSWER: A
Q. 49) Who wrote Television Culture
(A) Susan Bordo
(B) Riccloto Canudo
(C) John Fiske
(D) Andrew Sarris
ANSWER: C
Q. 50) Empire, a collaborative book which deals with:
(A) Criticism
(B) Film
(C) Drama
(D) Painting
ANSWER: A
Q. 51) Rising measure means
(A) The stress as one syllable hovers over the next
(B) Those feet which end with a stressed syllable
(C) Those feet which begin with a stressed syllable and fall away to an unstressed syllable
(D) The stress as one syllable
ANSWER: B
Q. 52) Match the following
(1) Good sense is the body of poetic genius
(2) Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge
(3) Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object
(4) Nature never sets forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done
(A) Brooks “The Formalist Critic”
(B) Sidney An Apology for Poetry”
(C) Wordsworth “Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(D) Coleridge “Biographia Literaria”
Codes:
(A). (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
(B). (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-c, (4)-a
(C). (1)-c, (2)-b, (3)-a, (4)-d
(D). (1)-d, (2)-b, (3)-a, (4)-c
ANSWER: A
Q. 53) Around the time of the Norman Conquest English Vocabulary was enriched by
(A) French
(B) Scandinavian
(C) Spanish
(D) Hungarian
ANSWER: A
Q. 54) Match the following categories of translation
(1) Metaphrase
(2) Paraphrase
(3) Imitation
(4) Adaptation
(A) Translation with Latitude
(b) Forsaking both words and sense
(c) Word by word and line by line
(d) More or less free translation
Codes:
A. (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-b, (4)-d
B. (1)-b, (2)-a, (3)-c, (4)-d
C. (1)-d, (2)-b, (3)-a, (4)-c
D. (1)-a, (2)-c, (3)-d, (4)-b
ANSWER: A
Q. 55) Who among the following has written The History of Canadian Literature
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) W H New
(C) Archibald Lampman
(D) G D Roberts
ANSWER: B
Q. 56) The Mahabharata was written by
(A) Maharishi Vyas Himself
(B) Ganapati to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
(C) Rishi Parashar to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
(D) Sukhdev to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
ANSWER: B
Q. 57) The Tin Drum is written by
(A) Robert Muslim
(B) Frank Kafka
(C) Thomas Mann
(D) Gunter Grass
ANSWER: D
Q. 58) Phantom Dwelling is written by
(A) Judith Wright andey
(B) Rosemary Dobson
(C) Jack Davis
(D) Dorothy Hewett
ANSWER: A
Q. 59) Mister Pip-novel by Lloyd Jones came in the year
(A) 2000
(B) 2006
(C) 2007
(D) 2011
ANSWER: B
Q. 60) Hilde Domin with pseudonym Hilde Palm was born in
(A) 1909
(B) 1920
(C) 1923
(D) 1942
ANSWER: A
Q. 61) Identify the correct matched pair of translators and translations
Set I
(1) A K Ramanujan
(2) Mohini Chatterjee
(3) Romesh Chandra Dutt
Set II
(a) The Bhagavad-Gita
(b) The Ramayana
(c) Speaking of Shiva
Codes:
(A) (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-b
(B) (1)-a, (2)-b, (3)-c
(C) (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-b
(D) (1)-b, (2)-c, (3)-a
ANSWER: A
Q. 62) Who wrote The Life Divine
(A) Sri Aurobindo
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) R K Narayan
ANSWER: A
Q. 63) Which of the following poems is not composed by Sarojini Naidu
(A) Palanquin Bearer
(B) Songs of Radha
(C) Fishermen of Coromandel
(D) Indian Philosophy
ANSWER: D
Q. 64) Bharta enumerates in his classical manual to drama
(A) Ten rasas
(B) Nine rasas
(C) Eight rasas
(D) Seven rasas
ANSWER: C
Q. 65) Kuntaka’s Theory of Vakrokti works at…… levels of language
(A) Five
(B) Six
(C) Seven
(D) Eight
ANSWER: B
Q. 66) Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950)
(A) Whitman
(B) William Faulkner
(C) Alice Walker
(D) None of these is correct
ANSWER: B
Q. 67) What was strange about Emily Dickenson
(A) She rarely left home
(B) She wrote in code
(C) She never attempted to publish her poetry
(D) She wrote her poems in invisible ink
ANSWER: A
Q. 68) ‘Under the old Elm’ is a/an………
(A) Lyric
(B) Sonnet
(C) Ode
(D) Ballad
ANSWER: C
Q. 69) Robert Frost got the Pulitzer Prize, ……… times
(A) Two
(B) Four
(C) Three
(D) Five
ANSWER: B
Q. 70) The Path of Thunder is written by
(A) Peter Abrahams
(B) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(C) Mohammed Nasechu Ali
(D) Elechi Amadi
ANSWER: A
Q. 71) Ananda Vardhan’s theory of Dhvani is based on
(A) Abhidha
(B) Abhidha and Lakshna
(C) Abhidha and Vyanjana
(D) Abhidha Lakshana and Vyanjane
ANSWER: D
Q. 72) Which of the following is not included in some larger containing structure by the structuralist critics to analyze prose narratives
(A) The convention of a particular literary genre
(B) A series of random comments on narrative arranged alphabetically
(C) A notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs
(D) A network of intertextual connections
ANSWER: B
Q. 73) To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up Derrida makes use of the term
(A) Difference
(B) Erasure
(C) Aporia
(D) Supplement
ANSWER: C
Q. 74) Who wrote these lines
“Yet if the only form of tradition of handling down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its success, tradition should positively be discouraged We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand and novelty is better than repetition”
(A) W B Yeats
(B) T S Eliot
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) W H Auden
ANSWER: B
Q. 75) S Kopas theory relates to
(A) Novel
(B) Translation
(C) Monologue
(D) Travelogue
ANSWER: B