Which tense is used in the sentence, "She will have finished her work by evening"?
A
Future perfect
B
Present perfect
C
Past perfect
D
Future continuous
Question 3Single Answer
What is the correct form of the verb in the sentence, "If I ___ rich, I would travel the world"?
A
Am
B
Was
C
Were
D
Will be
Question 4Single Answer
What is the role of a conjunction in a sentence?
A
Connects clauses or sentences
B
Modifies a verb
C
Describes a noun
D
Replaces a noun
Question 5Single Answer
Which sentence uses the correct subject-verb agreement?
A
The team are playing well.
B
The teams is playing well.
C
The team is playing well.
D
The teams has played well.
Question 6Single Answer
What is the correct punctuation for the sentence, "I love reading books however I dont have much time"?
A
I love reading books, however, I don’t have much time.
B
I love reading books, however I don’t have much time.
C
I love reading books however, I don’t have much time.
D
I love reading books; however, I don’t have much time.
Question 7Single Answer
Which part of speech is the word "quickly" in the sentence, "She runs quickly"?
A
Adjective
B
Adverb
C
Noun
D
Verb
Question 8Single Answer
What is the passive voice form of the sentence, "The chef cooked a delicious meal"?
A
A delicious meal was cooked by the chef.
B
A delicious meal is cooked by the chef.
C
The chef was cooking a delicious meal.
D
A delicious meal has been cooked by the chef.
Question 9Single Answer
What is the correct sequence to form a coherent sentence from these words: "always," "she," "carefully," "drives"?
A
She carefully drives always.
B
She drives always carefully.
C
Always she drives carefully.
D
She always carefully drives.
Question 10Single Answer
Which modal verb indicates obligation in the sentence, "You ___ submit your assignment by tomorrow"?
A
Can
B
May
C
Might
D
Must
Question 11Single Answer
What is the main idea of a passage describing the impact of deforestation on wildlife?
A
The beauty of forests
B
The benefits of logging
C
The loss of animal habitats
D
The history of deforestation
Question 12Single Answer
Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?
A
He painted the house with great care.
B
She read the book quietly in the library.
C
The dog barked loudly at the stranger.
D
Running to catch the bus, the bag fell.
Question 13Single Answer
What is the correct use of the apostrophe in the sentence, "The childrens books are on the shelf"?
A
The children’s books’ are on the shelf.
B
The childrens’ books are on the shelf.
C
The children books are on the shelf.
D
The children’s books are on the shelf.
Question 14Single Answer
What is the tone of a literary text that uses vivid imagery to describe a serene lake?
A
Melancholic
B
Peaceful
C
Satirical
D
Suspenseful
Question 15Single Answer
Which clause is dependent in the sentence, "Although it was raining, we went hiking"?
A
Although it was raining
B
We went hiking
C
It was raining
D
We went
Question 16Single Answer
वाक्य में जेरंड का क्या कार्य है?
A
विशेषण के रूप में कार्य करता है
B
क्रियाविशेषण के रूप में कार्य करता है
C
संज्ञा के रूप में कार्य करता है
D
क्रिया के रूप में कार्य करता है
Question 17Single Answer
"वह शाम तक अपना काम ख़त्म कर लेगी" वाक्य में कौन सा काल प्रयुक्त हुआ है?
A
भविष्य पूर्ण
B
वर्तमान पूर्ण
C
भूतकाल पूर्ण
D
भविष्य सतत
Question 18Single Answer
वाक्य, "अगर मैं अमीर होता, तो मैं दुनिया की यात्रा करता" में क्रिया का सही रूप क्या है?
A
अम
B
था
C
होगा
D
थे
Question 19Single Answer
वाक्य में संयोजक की क्या भूमिका होती है?
A
क्रिया को संशोधित करता है
B
खंडों या वाक्यों को जोड़ता है
C
संज्ञा का वर्णन करता है
D
संज्ञा को प्रतिस्थापित करता है
Question 20Single Answer
"वह तेज़ी से दौड़ती है" वाक्य में "जल्दी" शब्द किस भाग का है?
A
विशेषण
B
क्रियाविशेषण
C
संज्ञा
D
क्रिया
Question 21Single Answer
वाक्य, "शेफ ने स्वादिष्ट भोजन पकाया" का कर्मवाच्य रूप क्या है?
A
रसोइये द्वारा स्वादिष्ट भोजन पकाया जाता है।
B
रसोइये ने स्वादिष्ट भोजन पकाया।
C
रसोइया स्वादिष्ट भोजन पका रहा था।
D
रसोइये ने स्वादिष्ट भोजन पकाया है।
Question 22Single Answer
"आप अपना असाइनमेंट कल तक जमा कर दें" वाक्य में कौन सी मॉडल क्रिया दायित्व को इंगित करती है?
A
एक कर सकते हैं
B
मई
C
अवश्य
D
पराक्रम
Question 23Single Answer
वन्य जीवन पर वनों की कटाई के प्रभाव का वर्णन करने वाले गद्यांश का मुख्य विचार क्या है?
A
पशु आवासों का नुकसान
B
लॉगिंग के लाभ
C
वनों की सुंदरता
D
वनों की कटाई का इतिहास
Question 24Single Answer
किस वाक्य में लटकता हुआ संशोधक है?
A
बस पकड़ने के लिए दौड़ते समय बैग गिर गया।
B
उसने पुस्तकालय में चुपचाप किताब पढ़ी।
C
कुत्ता अजनबी पर जोर से भौंका।
D
उसने घर को बहुत सावधानी से रंगा।
Question 25Single Answer
एक साहित्यिक पाठ का स्वर क्या है जो एक शांत झील का वर्णन करने के लिए सजीव कल्पना का उपयोग करता है?
A
उदासी
B
सस्पेंसपूर्ण
C
व्यंग्यात्मक
D
शांतिपूर्ण
Question 26Single Answer
"हालांकि बारिश हो रही थी, फिर भी हम पैदल घूमने गए" वाक्य में कौन सा उपवाक्य आश्रित है?
A
हम गए
B
हम लंबी पैदल यात्रा पर गए
C
बारिश हो रही थी
D
हालाँकि बारिश हो रही थी
Question 27Single Answer
उपयोगकर्ता पुस्तिका जैसे गैर-साहित्यिक पाठ का उद्देश्य क्या है?
A
मनोरंजन करना
B
राजी करना
C
सूचित करना
D
वर्णन करना
Question 28Single Answer
साहित्यिक पाठ में प्रयुक्त "परोपकारी" का समानार्थी शब्द क्या है?
A
एक तरह
B
क्रूर
C
उदासीन
D
सतर्क
Question 29Single Answer
कौन सा वाक्य उपवाक्य भाव में है?
A
काश मैं एक पक्षी होता
B
मैं एक पक्षी हूँ
C
मैं एक पक्षी बनूँगा
D
मैं एक पक्षी था
Question 30Single Answer
समाचार पत्र के संपादकीय का मुख्य उद्देश्य क्या है?
A
तथ्यों की रिपोर्ट करना
B
उत्पादों का विज्ञापन करने के लिए
C
राय व्यक्त करने के लिए
D
पाठकों का मनोरंजन करने के लिए
General Studies
Question 31Single Answer
Yojna a weekly journal
A
Ministry of Finance
B
Ministry of Information and Broadcastin
C
Ministry of Rural Development
D
Planning Commission
Question 32Single Answer
Kurukshetra a journal on rural development is published by
A
Ministry of Finance
B
Ministry of Information and Broadcastin
C
Ministry of Rural Development
D
Planning Commission
Question 33Single Answer
In ruby laser, the stimulated emission is due to transition from
A
metastable state to any lower state
B
any higher state of lower state
C
metastable state to ground state
D
any higher state to ground state
Question 34Single Answer
A direct current I flows along the length of an infinitely long straight thin walled pipe, then the magnetic field is
A
uniform throughout the pipe not zero
B
zero only along the axis of the pipe
C
zero at any point inside the pipe
D
maximum at the centre and minimum at the edge
Question 35Single Answer
The Cripps mission was an attempt by the British government to
A
Extend communal representation in the Imperial legislature
B
Convince the Congress to join the Central legislature
C
Secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II
D
Conclude the Round Table Conferences Successfully
Question 36Single Answer
Consider the following with reference to the East India Association organised in London:
1. It was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji.
2. The organisation aimed to present correct information about India to the British public and voice Indian grievances.
3. The East India Association incorporated the National Indian Association before the Komagata Maru incident.
Select the correct answer using the codes below.
A
1 and 2 only
B
2 and 3 only
C
3 only
D
1 and 3 only
Question 37Single Answer
How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANLINESS’ each of the which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?
A
Two
B
Three
C
Five
D
Four
E
None of these
Question 38Single Answer
Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
A
True
B
False
C
Uncertain
D
None
Question 39Single Answer
If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the second, the third, the sixth and the eight letters of the word FRAGMENT using each only once, which of the following will be the third letter of that word ? If no such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give ‘Y’ as the answer.
A
A
B
E
C
T
D
X
E
Y
Question 40Single Answer
How many such letters are there in the word ORIENTAL each of which is as far away from the beginning of the word as when they are arranged alphabetically?
A
None
B
One
C
Two
D
Three
E
More than three
Question 41Single Answer
How many such pairs of letters in the word CREDIT each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?
A
None
B
One
C
Two
D
Three
E
More than three
Question 42Single Answer
The respiratory quotient during cellular respiration would depend on
A
the nature of enzymes involved
B
the nature of the substrate
C
the amount of carbon dioxide released
D
the amount of oxygen utilised
Question 43Single Answer
Which of the following is not a green - house gas ?
A
Water vapour
B
Carbon monoxide
C
Methane
D
Oxygen
Question 44Single Answer
10-6 M NaOH is diluted 100 times. The pH of the diluted base is
A
between 7 and 8
B
between 5 and 6
C
between 6 and 7
D
between 10 and 11
Question 45Single Answer
The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4% and 6% is Rs. 3. The ratio of the two selling prices is:__________ ?
A
51:52
B
52:53
C
51:53
D
52:55
Question 46Single Answer
Which of the following numbers is irrational ?
A
√49
B
0.125
C
√2
D
22/7
Question 47Single Answer
356 x 936 – 356 x 836 = ?
A
35600
B
34500
C
9630
D
93600
Question 48Single Answer
Arrange in descending order: 5/8, 7/10, 3/4
A
3/4 > 7/10 > 5/8
B
7/10 > 3/4 > 5/8
C
3/4 > 5/8 > 7/10
D
5/8 > 7/10 > 3/4
Question 49Single Answer
What is (3^{4} times 9^{2}) ?
A
36
B
38
C
310
D
96
Question 50Single Answer
Who was the real founder of Turk rule in Bihar ?
A
Ibn Bakhtiyar Khilji
B
Ibrahim
C
Dariya Khan Noohani
D
Malik Husamuddin
E
None of the above / More than one of the above
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General Studies
Question 51Single Answer
Who was the first Indian Governor of Bihar ?
A
Dr. Shri krishna Singh
B
Brij Kishor Prasad
C
B.P. Mandal
D
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
E
None of the above/More than one of the above
Question 52Single Answer
In which year the Chauri Revolt of Bihar took place ?
A
1842
B
1798
C
1784
D
1832
E
None of the above / More than one of the above
Question 53Single Answer
In which year was Orissa separated from Bihar ?
A
1936
B
1956
C
2000
D
1912
E
None of the above/ More than one of the above
Question 54Single Answer
During which movement 'Azad Dasta' was active in Bihar ?
A
Non-Cooperation Movement
B
Civil Disobedience Movement
C
Quit India Movement
D
Champaran Satyagraha
E
None of the above / More than one of the above
Question 55Single Answer
"Who said, 'India was a parrot unto itself'?
A
Malik Muhammad Joyce
B
Raskhan
C
Rich Khusrow
D
Rich Hasan
Question 56Single Answer
Which is the national game of Bhutan ?
A
badminton
B
basketball
C
football
D
archery
Question 57Single Answer
When was the Constituent Assembly of India formed?
A
1946
B
1947
C
1948
D
1950
Question 58Single Answer
Who is known as the "Father of the Indian Renaissance" ?
A
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B
Swami Vivekananda
C
Rabindranath Tagore
D
Mahatma Gandhi
Question 59Single Answer
What is the lithosphere composed of ?
A
Water and gases
B
Rocks and minerals
C
Living organisms
D
Air and gases
Question 60Single Answer
Which is the longest river in India?
A
Yamuna
B
Ganges
C
Brahmaputra
D
Godavari
Question 61Single Answer
Which two major religions originated in Bihar?
A
Hinduism and Islam
B
Sikhism and Christianity
C
Buddhism and Jainism
D
Zoroastrianism and Baha'i Faith
Question 62Single Answer
Where is Nalanda University, one of the oldest universities in the world, located?
A
Patna
B
Gaya
C
Nalanda
D
Vaishali
Question 63Single Answer
What is the capital of Bihar?
A
Gaya
B
Bhagalpur
C
Patna
D
Muzaffarpur
Question 64Single Answer
What new authority was granted to Mukhiyas in Bihar in June 2025?
A
Approve schemes up to Rs.10 lakh
B
Approve schemes up to Rs.5 lakh
C
Approve schemes up to Rs.15 lakh
D
Approve schemes up to Rs.20 lakh
Question 65Single Answer
Which initiative was announced to increase the monthly allowance of Panchayati Raj representatives in June 2025?
A
Pragati Yatra
B
Panchayat Empowerment Scheme
C
Rural Governance Reform
D
Bihar Development Mission
Question 66Single Answer
Which Indian state launched the ‘Green Energy Villages’ initiative in 2025 to promote renewable energy?
A
Uttar Pradesh
B
Rajasthan
C
Tamil Nadu
D
Gujarat
Question 67Single Answer
Which organization developed the K-6 hypersonic Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) tested in 2025?
A
ISRO
B
HAL
C
Bharat Dynamics Limited
D
DRDO
Question 68Single Answer
Which ministry established the Passport Seva Portal to streamline passport services in 2025?
A
Ministry of Home Affairs
B
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
C
Ministry of External Affairs
D
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Question 69Single Answer
What is the primary goal of the Digital Payment Intelligence Platform (DPIP) launched by the RBI in 2025?
A
Promote cash transactions
B
Enhance cybersecurity in digital payments
C
Reduce ATM usage
D
Increase bank branch networks
Question 70Single Answer
Which Indian state topped the vulture population census in 2025?
A
Rajasthan
B
Gujarat
C
Madhya Pradesh
D
Maharashtra
English
Question 71Single Answer
Mathew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry " Arnold cited "touchstones" from poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?
A
Chaucer
B
Sidney
C
Spenser
D
Donne
Question 72Single Answer
Samuel Pepys began his diary on................
A
New Year's Day 1660
B
All Saints' Day 1662
C
Thanksgiving Day 1665
D
New Year's Day 1667
Question 73Single Answer
On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?
A
Charles Dickens
B
William Blake
C
T. S. Eliot
D
W. B. Yeats
Question 74Single Answer
Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?
A
Louis MacNeice, C. D. Lewis Stephen Spender
B
John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig
C
MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir
D
W. H. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield
Question 75Single Answer
When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of........................... .
A
Caesura
B
Consonance
C
enjambment
D
hyperbole
Question 76Single Answer
The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
A
Syntactic
B
Semantic
C
Collocation
D
None of the above
Question 77Single Answer
Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given :
List - I List - II
(a) Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
(b) Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c) Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
(d) Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
A
Codes :
a. b. c. d
2. 1. 3. 4
B
3. 2. 1. 4
C
4. 1. 2. 3
D
3. 1. 2. 4
Question 78Single Answer
The separation of styles in accordance with class in medieval works of literature and art.
A
Ben Jonson
B
Shakespeare
C
Philip Sidney
D
Edmund Spenser
Question 79Single Answer
"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of
A
Irony
B
Paradox
C
Hyperbole
D
Euphemism
Question 80Single Answer
A Spencerian stanza has
A
four iambic pentameters
B
six iambic pentameters
C
eight iambic pentameters
D
ten iambic pentameters
Question 81Single Answer
In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?
A
A toy
B
A piano
C
A drum
D
A violin
Question 82Single Answer
How does Lord Jim end ?
A
Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin
B
Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
C
Jim Andrews " the call of exalted egoism " and betrays Jewel.
D
Jim surrenders himself to Doramin.
Question 83Single Answer
"Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books," To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?
A
Graham Greene
B
George Orwell
C
Charles Morgan
D
Evelyn Waugh
Question 84Single Answer
Modernism has been described as being concerned with "Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself ". Who is the critic?
A
Stephen Spender
B
Malcolm Bradbury
C
Lionel Trilling
D
Joseph Frank
Question 85Single Answer
"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing." The above lines are quoted from
A
"Tintern Abbey Revisited "
B
" Michael"
C
"Frost at Midnight"
D
"This Lime - Tree Bower, My prison"
Question 86Single Answer
To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.
A
aporia
B
difference
C
erasure
D
supplement
Question 87Single Answer
Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
A
Harold Pinter
B
Alan Bennett
C
Caryl Churchill
D
Tom Stoppard
Question 88Single Answer
Arrange the following in the chronological order.
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
A
4 , 3, 1, 2
B
3, 2, 1, 4
C
1, 2, 4. 3
D
2, 1, 3, 4
Question 89Single Answer
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
A
Sons and Lovers
B
Ulysses
C
The Power and the Glory
D
Heart of Darkness
Question 90Single Answer
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
A
W. B. Yeats, Lady George and Edward Martyn
B
Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
C
H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
D
Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
Question 91Single Answer
Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri Called "The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme" .
A
Kim
B
A Passage to India
C
Train to Pakistan
D
Private Life of an Indian Prince.
Question 92Single Answer
Who is the author of the poem "The Defence of Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?
A
Rudyary Kipling
B
Edward Lear
C
Alfred Lord Tennyson
D
Rebert Browning
Question 93Single Answer
Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
A
Ferdinand de Saussure
B
J. L. Austin
C
Roman Jakobson
D
Victor Shkolvsky
Question 94Single Answer
From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility ?
(I) Elinor (II) Marianne
(III) Mary (IV) Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
A
I and III
B
I and II
C
II and III
D
III and IV
Question 95Single Answer
Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
A
Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
B
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
C
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
D
Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust.
Question 96Single Answer
Who among the following advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth and acquires all ideas by experience?
A
John Locke
B
John Wesley
C
Isaac Watts
D
Denis Diderot
Question 97Single Answer
Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?
A
Walter pater
B
Oscar Wilde
C
Thomas Carlyle
D
John Ruskin
Question 98Single Answer
Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels?
A
Knightley
B
Darcy
C
Collins
D
Mr. Martin
Question 99Single Answer
A poet once referred to an old man as " A tattered coat upon a stick ". That is an example of...................... .
A
Metonymy
B
Sarcasm
C
Simile
D
Metaphor
Question 100Single Answer
Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?
A
Lycidas
B
In Memoriam
C
Thyrsis
D
Adonais
Question 101Single Answer
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :
A
Six volumes
B
Nine Volumes
C
Ten Volumes
D
Four volumes
Question 102Single Answer
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
A
It was published in 1644
B
It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing
C
It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade
D
It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England
Question 103Single Answer
Thomas Hardy's last major novel was........... .
A
Tess of the D'urbervilles
B
Jude the Obscure
C
The Return of the Native
D
The Trumpet Major
Question 104Single Answer
------ the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?
A
Bird
B
Immortal
C
Forlorn
D
Fancy
Question 105Single Answer
In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" --------------------- exploits ----------------- .
A
John Donne, alliteration
B
Robert Herrick, trimetre
C
G. M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
D
George Herbert, typographic space
Question 106Single Answer
No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! For what wears out the life of moral men?' Tis that repeated shocks, again and numb the elastic powers.............. Who does the poet address here?
A
The Scholar Gipsy
B
Telemachus
C
The Nightingale
D
The Poet's Sister, Dorothy
Question 107Single Answer
Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century :
A
Advancement of Learning
B
Gulliver's Travels
C
The Spectator
D
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Question 108Single Answer
Which, among the following is a place through which John Bunyan 's Christian does not pass?
A
The Slough of Despond
B
Mount Helicon
C
The Valley of Humiliation
D
Vanity Fair
Question 109Single Answer
The period of Queen Victoria 's reign is :
A
1830 - 1900
B
1837 - 1901
C
1830 - 1901
D
1837 - 1900
Question 110Single Answer
Which of the following statements about The Lyrica Ballads is not true?
A
It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge 's The Time of the Ancient Mariner.
B
It also carried pastoral and other poems.
C
It carried a " Preface " which Wordsworth added in 1800 .
D
It also printed from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
Question 111Single Answer
Which British University figures in William Wordsworth 's Prelude ?
A
Durham
B
Glasgow
C
Cambridge
D
Oxford
Question 112Single Answer
Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature ?
A
Brass-Spittoon
B
Diamond-Jar
C
Golden-Spoon
D
Silver-Fork
Question 113Single Answer
What term did Beetroot Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre ?
A
epic theatre
B
kitchen-sink theatre
C
musical theatre
D
proletarian theatre
Question 114Single Answer
Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors ?
A
dud words
B
ghost words
C
protowords
D
pseudo words
Question 115Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only
Question 116Single Answer
In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is propose by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism ?
A
affirmation
B
cohesiveness
C
disinterestedness
D
judiciousness
Question 117Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 118Single Answer
What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called ?
A
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
B
Centre for Contemporary Studies
C
Centre for Culture Studies
D
Centre for New Cultural Studies
Question 119Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (d) only
B
(b) and (c) only
C
(c) and (e) only
D
(d) and (e) only
Question 120Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II .
List-I List-II
(Poem) (Poet)
(a) "The Road Not Taken" I. Pablo Neruda
(b) "Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines" II. Robert Frost
(c) "I hear America Singing" III. Langston Hughes
(d) "I, too, Sing America" IV. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I II III IV
B
II I IV III
C
III II IV I
D
IV I II III
Question 121Single Answer
Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures" is an example of :
A
error of lexical choice
B
inadvertent mistake
C
metathesis
D
spoonerism
Question 122Single Answer
Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel ?
A
Balzac
B
Flaubert
C
Moliere
D
Stendhal
Question 123Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(b), (a), (d), (c)
B
(d), (a), (c), (b)
C
(d), (b), (a), (c)
D
(d), (b), (c), (a)
Question 124Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (c) only
B
(a) and (b) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only
Question 125Single Answer
Given below are two statements :
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
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
A
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
B
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
C
Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect
D
Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct
Question 126Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (c) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(a) and (b) only
D
(b) and (d) only
Question 127Single Answer
Who is the author of The Truth about Me : A Hijra Life Story ?
A
A. Revathi
B
Bama
C
Mukta Sarvagod
D
V. Geetha
Question 128Single Answer
Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily ?
A
Borneo
B
Brazil
C
India
D
Japan
Question 129Single Answer
The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is :
A
lexeme
B
morpheme
C
phoneme
D
sememe
Question 130Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(b) and (c) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 131Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II :
List-I List-II
(Book) (Author)
(a) English, August I. Shyam Selvadurai
(b) In Custody II Anita Desai
(c) Such a Long Journey III. Rohinton Mistry
(d) Funny Boy IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I II IV III
B
II IV I III
C
III II I IV
D
IV II III I
Question 132Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(b), (d), (a), (c)
B
(b), (d), (c), (a)
C
(d), (a), (b), (c)
D
(d), (b), (a), (c)
Question 133Single Answer
Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
(a) Estragon
(b) Pozzo
(c) Bassanio
(d) Murphy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 134Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 135Single Answer
Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India ?
A
Anthony Burgess
B
C.K. Ogden
C
Noam Chomsky
D
Susan Sontag
Question 136Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II :
List-I List-II
(Writer) (Book)
(a) Homi Bhabha I. Reading the Popular
(b) T.S. Eliot II. The Location of Culture
(c) Roland Barthes III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(d) John Fiske IV. Image-Music-Text
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I II IV III
B
II III IV I
C
III II I IV
D
IV II III I
Question 137Single Answer
Which among the following are examples of the Kiinstlerroman ?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 138Single Answer
With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated ?
(a) Neo-classical
(b) Symbolist
(c) Modernist
(d) Postmodernist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (d) only
B
(a) and (b) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(c) and (d) only
Question 139Single Answer
Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :
A
homonyms
B
homografts
C
homologues
D
homophones
Question 140Single Answer
The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in :
A
1951
B
1957
C
1962
D
1970
Question 141Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(b), (c), (a), (d)
B
(b), (c), (d), (a)
C
(c), (b), (a), (d)
D
(c), (d), (b), (a)
Question 142Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) and (c) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(a) and (b) only
D
(b) and (d) only
Question 143Single Answer
Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position ?
A
Colonialism will die a natural death sans any violent struggle against it
B
Peasants and social outcasts have little revolu-tionary potential in Africa
C
Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class
D
The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building
Question 144Single Answer
Who among the following says that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence" ?
A
Fredric Jameson
B
Herbert Marcuse
C
Louis Althusser
D
Terry Eagleton
Question 145Single Answer
Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without altering the original title ?
A
Angela Carter
B
Kathy Acker
C
Peter Carey
D
Shirley Jackson
Question 146Single Answer
In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul" ?
A
Book III
B
Book IV
C
Book VII
D
Book XI
Question 147Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II :
List-I List-II
(Text) (Author)
(a) Advancement of Learning I. Susan Sontag
(b) Past and Present II. Francis Bacon
(c) English Traits III. Thomas Carlyle
(d) Illness as Metaphor IV. R.W. Emerson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I III IV II
B
II III IV I
C
III IV II I
D
IV I II III
Question 148Single Answer
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :
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
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
A
(A) is correct, but (R) is not correct
B
(A) is not correct, but (R) is correct
C
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
D
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Question 149Single Answer
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A
(a), (d), (b), (c)
B
(b), (c), (d), (a)
C
(c), (a), (d), (b)
D
(d), (b), (c), (a)
Question 150Single Answer
Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with speech acts' ?