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Question 1Single 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 2Single 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 3Single 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 4Single 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 5Single 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 6Single 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 7Single 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 8Single 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 9Single 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 10Single 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 11Single Answer

Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel ?

A
Balzac
B
Flaubert
C
Moliere
D
Stendhal

Question 12Single 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 13Single 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 14Single 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 15Single 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 16Single 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 17Single Answer

Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily ?

A
Borneo
B
Brazil
C
India
D
Japan

Question 18Single Answer

The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is :

A
lexeme
B
morpheme
C
phoneme
D
sememe

Question 19Single 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 20Single 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 21Single 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 22Single 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 23Single 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 24Single 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 25Single 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 26Single 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 27Single 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 28Single Answer

Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :

A
homonyms
B
homografts
C
homologues
D
homophones

Question 29Single 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 30Single 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 31Single 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 32Single 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 33Single 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 34Single 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 35Single 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 36Single 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 37Single 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 38Single 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 39Single Answer

Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with speech acts' ?

A
Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap
B
J.L. Austin and John Searle
C
Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker
D
Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

Question 40Single Answer

Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do ?
(a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
(b) To foreground a personal history of the Partition
(c) To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
(d) To find and unite families separated at the Partition
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 41Single Answer

Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays ?

A
Dynamics of media
B
Motivations of crime
C
Workings of love triangles
D
Workings of power

Question 42Single Answer

Match List-I with List-II :
List-I List-II
(Book) (Poet)
(a) Anniversaries I. Abraham Cowley
(b) The Temple II. John Donne
(c) The Rehearsal Transpros'd III. George Herbert
(d) Pindarique Odes IV. Andrew Marvell
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I IV II III
B
II III IV I
C
III I IV II
D
IV II I III

Question 43Single Answer

Who is the author of Radiant Textually ?

A
Jerome McGann
B
Gerald Graff
C
James Thorpe
D
Richard D. Altick

Question 44Single Answer

Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films ?
(a) It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture
(b) It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture
(c) It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist
(d) It sought to break down the dominance of 'high' culture
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 45Single Answer

How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode" ?

A
'a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle'
B
a tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace'
C
'heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity'
D
'telescoping of images and multiplied associations'

Question 46Single Answer

Match List-I with List-II :
List-I List-II
(Novel) (Writer)
(a) A Handful of Dust I. E.M. Forster
(b) Brighton Rock II. Evelyn Waugh
(c) Howard's End II. D.H. Lawrence
(d) The Plumed Serpent IV. Aldous Huxley
(e) Those Barren Leaves V. Graham Greene
Codes :

A
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
I IV II III V
B
II V I III IV
C
III I V II IV
D
V II IV I III

Question 47Single Answer

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language
Statement II : Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community
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 48Single Answer

Who among the following has coined the term, 'eco-feminism' ?

A
Monique Wittig
B
Francoise d'Eaubonne
C
Helene Cixous
D
Marguerite Duras

Question 49Single Answer

Who wrote the short story, "The Voter" ?

A
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B
Chinua Achebe
C
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D
Wole Soyinka

Question 50Single Answer

Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" ?
(a) contextual estimate
(b) personal estimate
(c) comparative estimate
(d) historic estimate
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

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Question 51Single Answer

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

A
Browning and Arnold
B
Milton and Shelley
C
Pound and Hopkins
D
Tennyson and Swinburne

Question 52Single Answer

Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century reallife character, Vlad the Impaler ?

A
Count Dracula
B
Peter Quint
C
Prince Manfred
D
Victor Frankenstein

Question 53Single Answer

Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition :
(a) holophrastic
(b) babbling
(c) telegraphic speech
(d) cooing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (c), (d), (b)
B
(b), (a), (d), (c)
C
(c), (b), (a), (d)
D
(d), (b), (a), (c)

Question 54Single Answer

Which of the following is a dead language ?

A
Cantonese
B
Frisian
C
Gothic
D
Yiddish

Question 55Single Answer

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

A
Concrete Island
B
Kingdom Come
C
The Crystal World
D
The Drowned World

Question 56Single Answer

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

A
Allen Tate
B
F.R. Leavis
C
Harold Bloom
D
T.S. Eliot

Question 57Single Answer

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

A
Aristotle
B
Phaedo
C
Plato
D
Xenocrates

Question 58Single Answer

Who is the author of "The Typology of Detective Fiction" ?

A
G.K. Chesterton
B
Tzvetan Todorov
C
Umberto Eco
D
Vladimir Propp

Question 59Single Answer

Which two are the works of Ted Hughes ?
(a) Wildtrack
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal
(d) Jack Straw's Castle
Choose the correct given below: answer from the options :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 60Single Answer

Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication .
(a) "The Wild Swans at Coole"
(b) "The Second Coming"
(c) "Among School Children"
(d) "Adam's Curse"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (c), (d), (b)
B
(c), (a), (b), (d)
C
(c), (a), (d), (b)
D
(d), (a), (b), (c)

Question 61Single Answer

Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication :
(a) Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(b) Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
(c) Pablo Neruda's Canto General
(d) Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (b), (c), (d)
B
(a), (b), (d), (c)
C
(b), (c), (a), (d)
D
(d), (a), (b), (c)

Question 62Single Answer

Which of the following is true of mass media ?

A
It usually has a central, single source
B
It can affect a localised population only
C
It usually has multiple sources
D
Its audience is in close proximity to its source

Question 63Single Answer

Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets" ?

A
Charles Lamb
B
John Ruskin
C
Thomas De Quincey
D
William Hazlitt

Question 64Single Answer

Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(a) Elton John
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bob Dylan
(d) Bob Marley
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 65Single Answer

Match List-I with List-II .
List-I List-II
(Author)                                                                    (Text)
(a) Robert Browning I. Queen Mary
(b) S.T. Coleridge                                                     II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
(c) A.W. Pinero                                                         III. Remorse
(d) Alfred Tennyson IV. The Borderers
(e) William Wordsworth V. Strafford
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
II IV III V I
B
III V II I IV
C
IV II I V III
D
V III II I IV

Question 66Single Answer

Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude ?

A
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B
Gabriela Mistral
C
Jorge Luis Borges
D
Octavio Paz

Question 67Single Answer

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory :
(a) phallogocentrism
(b) locutionary act
(c) interpellation
(d) interpretive community
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (d), (c), (b)
B
(b), (c), (a), (d)
C
(c), (b), (d), (a)
D
(d), (a), (b), (c)

Question 68Single Answer

Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968 ?
(a) the primacy of English literatures and cultures
(b) the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
(c) the primacy of orature in the syllabus
(d) the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
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 69Single Answer

Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style ?

A
ARIEL
B
MFS
C
MHRA
D
PMLA

Question 70Single Answer

Who among the following is associated with a 'philosophy of praxis' ?

A
Antonio Gramsci
B
Georg Lukacs
C
Raymond Williams
D
Stuart Hall

Question 71Single Answer

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favors of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified
Statement II : Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers
In 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 72Single Answer

Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson ?
(a) Jonson's physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent
(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically
(c) Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered
(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company of players
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(b) and (c) only
C
(c) and (d) only
D
(d) and (a) only

Question 73Single Answer

Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India ?
(a) Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
(b) Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
(c) Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
(d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 74Single Answer

Which of the following are novels by David Lodge ?
(a) The British Museum is Falling down
(b) The Seven Sisters
(c) Changing Places
(d) Nice Work
(e) Empire of the Sun
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (b) and (c) only
B
(a), (c) and (d) only
C
(b), (d) and (e) only
D
(c), (d) and (e) only

Question 75Single Answer

Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky ?
(a) Syntactic Structures
(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
(c) Language and Society
(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(e) The Pragmatics of Politeness
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (c) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(c) and (e) only
D
(d) and (a) only

Question 76Single Answer

Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Puig, Manuel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
(b) Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." Callao, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26
(c) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996
(d) Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 77Single Answer

Which of these departments did the Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities ?
(a) Arabic
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Law
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (b) and (d) only
B
(a), (b) and (c) only
C
(a), (c) and (d) only
D
(b), (c) and (d) only

Question 78Single Answer

Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ?

A
Bernardo
B
Ghost
C
Horatio
D
Marcellus

Question 79Single Answer

Match List-I with List-II .
List-I List-II
(Text) (Author)
(a) The Lie of the Land I. Alok Mukherjee
(b) Masks of Conquest II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
(c) Rethinking English III. Gauri Viswanathan
(d) This Gift of English IV. Svati Joshi
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 80Single Answer

Match List-I with List - II :
List -I List -II
(Library/Institute) (Location)
(a) Connemara Public Library I. Kolkata
(b) Dhvanyaloka II. Chennai
(c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute III. Mysore
(d) Asiatic Society IV. Pune
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 81Single Answer

Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays ?
(a) "From the History of Novelistic Discourse"
(b) "Discourse in the Novel"
(c) "Romance and Novel"
(d) "Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel"
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 82Single Answer

Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play ?

A
A Midsummer Night's Dream
B
Love's Labour's Lost
C
The Comedy of Errors
D
The Taming of the Shrew

Question 83Single Answer

Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattel art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology ?

A
Deification
B
Impoverishment
C
Infantilisation
D
Personification

Question 84Single Answer

Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault's "What is an Author" ?

A
The Canterbury Tales
B
The Decameron
C
The Thousand and One Nights
D
Tuti Namah

Question 85Single Answer

Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771 ?
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Horace Walpole
(d) Thomas Gray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 86Single Answer

Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature .
(a) Praneshacharya (Samsara)
(b) Sakuni (Mahabharata)
(c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof)
(d) Gobar (Godan)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (b), (c), (d)
B
(b), (a), (c), (d)
C
(b), (c), (d), (a)
D
(b), (d), (c), (a)

Question 87Single Answer

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon
Statement II : Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo's statement, "They give birth astride of a grave ..."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
B
Both Statement I and Statement II are true
C
Statement I is false, but Statement II is true
D
Statement is true, but Statement II is false

Question 88Single Answer

Match List-I with List-II .
List-I List-II
(Plays) (Playwrights)
(a) Madmen and Specialists I. Dennis Scott
(b) The Sea at Dauphin II. Wole Soyinka
(c) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi III. Derek Walcott
(d) An Echo in the Bone IV. Ngugi wa Thiong's
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
II III I IV
B
II III IV I
C
III I IV II
D
III IV II I

Question 89Single Answer

Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance :
(a) dissociation of sensibility
(b) unreliable narrator
(c) theatre of cruelty
(d) egotistical sublime
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(b), (d), (a), (c)
B
(d), (a), (b), (c)
C
(d), (a), (c), (b)
D
(d), (b), (a), (c)

Question 90Single Answer

Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India's Aunty Tongue Syndrome ?

A
Binoo K. John
B
Yamuna Kachru
C
Probal Dasgupta
D
S.K. Verma

Question 91Single Answer

The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions from :

A
verification
B
particular instances
C
applications
D
general truths

Question 92Single Answer

Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory exclusively ?

A
Salmagundi
B
Diacritics
C
Callaloo
D
Grand Street

Question 93Single Answer

Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-Structuralist criticism ?

A
Definite structures underlie empirical events
B
Language is representational
C
Apprehension of reality is a construct
D
Knowledge operates according to procedures that are axiomatic

Question 94Single Answer

Which one of the following is correct about Saussure's analysis of language ?

A
La langue is the system of a language
B
Parole focuses on language as a system at a particular time
C
La langue is the particular instance of speech and writing
D
Parole is the study of language over a period of time

Question 95Single Answer

Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text's reception ?

A
Wolfgang Iser
B
Stanley Fish
C
Hans Robert Jauss
D
Pierre Bourdieu

Question 96Single Answer

Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets ?

A
John Dryden. George Herbert and Alexander Pope
B
Henry Vaughan, John Dryden and John Donne
C
John Donne, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell
D
Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot and Herbert Grierson

Question 97Single Answer

Which one of the following statements is true about Aristotle's poetics ?

A
He asserted the value of poetry by integrating rhetoric and imitation (mimesis)
B
He asserted the value of poetry by focusing on both rhetoric and imitation (mimesis)
C
He asserted the value of poetry by giving preference to rhetoric over imitation (mimesis)
D
He asserted the value of poetry by focusing on imitation (mimesis) rather than rhetoric

Question 98Single Answer

Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is ".....verse only to the eye", adding further that it has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers" ?

A
John Dryden
B
Alexander Pope
C
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D
Samuel Johnson

Question 99Single Answer

Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are :

A
religious, dramatic, romantic
B
classical, romantic, neo-classical
C
philosophical, imaginative, narrative
D
religious, philosophical, imaginative

Question 100Single Answer

In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, 'clinamen' ?

A
poetic hyperbole
B
poetic misprision
C
poetic sublime
D
poetic supplement

Question 101Single Answer

Who among the following is known to have popularized the term 'glocalization' ?

A
Ronald Robertson
B
Francis Fukuyama
C
John Urry
D
John Tomlinson

Question 102Single Answer

Who among the following coined the dictum, "the medium is the message" ?

A
Raymond Williams
B
Erving Goffman
C
Marshall McLuhan
D
John Fiske

Question 103Single Answer

Who among the following presented the concept of 'multi-accentually' of the sign, saying that signs possess an 'inner dialectical quality' and evaluative accent' ?

A
Roland Barthes
B
Stuart Hall
C
Jacques Derrida
D
Valentine Voroshilov

Question 104Single Answer

On December 11, 1823, Ram Mohan Roy addressed a letter to the British authority which pleaded for modern western education and is considered historically important for the introduction of English education in India. Who was the letter addressed to ?

A
Lord Amherst
B
Lord Minot
C
Lord Macaulay
D
Lord Bentinck

Question 105Single Answer

Which British administrator sought "to make everything as English as possible in a country which resembles England in nothing", as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro ?

A
Lord Bentinck
B
Lord Hastings
C
Lord Cornwallis
D
Lord Wellesley

Question 106Single Answer

Who among the following was the first Director of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now EFL University) ?

A
Prof. V.K. Gokak
B
Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah
C
Prof. C.J. Dasani
D
Prof. K.R.S. Ingra

Question 107Single Answer

Which one of the following best explains the term 'paralanguage' ?

A
The ways in which people mask what they mean by the words they use
B
The ways in which people show what they mean other than by the words they use
C
The ways in which words carry meanings unintended by the speaker
D
The ways in which the silence underlying speech communicates wrong meanings

Question 108Single Answer

Which two of the following oppositions are best evoked by Hamlet's utterance-"To be or not to be" ?
(a) Between life and death
(b) between action and emotion
(c) between affirmation and confirmation
(d) between doing and abstaining from doing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (d) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(c) and (a) only
D
(d) and (c) only

Question 109Single Answer

Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, 'competence' and 'performance' ?

A
Noah Webster
B
Steven Pinker
C
Roman Jacobson
D
Noam Chomsky

Question 110Single Answer

Which one of these statements defines the scope of semiotics ?

A
Semiotics studies the sound systems of a language
B
Semiotics is a study of sign systems
C
Semiotics studies human sign system only
D
Semiotics is a study of non-human sign systems only

Question 111Single Answer

Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only 'science' God has bestowed on mankind, that informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan ?

A
Astronomy
B
Architecture
C
Occult sciences
D
Geometry

Question 112Single Answer

As mentioned in "My First Acquaintance with Poets" which poet does William Hazlitt describe as the "only person I ever knew who answered the idea of a man of genius" ?

A
Coleridge
B
Wordsworth
C
Byron
D
Shelley

Question 113Single Answer

Which one of the following essays holds that "As a method, realism is a complete failure" ?

A
Virginia Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall"
B
Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"
C
D.H. Lawrence, "Why the Novel Matters"
D
Mary McCarthy, "My Confession"

Question 114Single Answer

Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines, preceded by a Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index ?

A
Ragtime
B
Pale Fire
C
The Inner Side of the Wind
D
Hourglass

Question 115Single Answer

Which among the following novels includes a questionnaire for the reader such as "Do you like the story so far" Yes ( ) No ( ) ?

A
Mantissa by John Fowles
B
Water land by Graham Swift
C
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
D
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

Question 116Single Answer

What is the subject of Ivan's controversial essay in Brothers Karamazov ?

A
Transubstantiation
B
The evils of clergy
C
The Eucharist
D
Ecclesiastical courts

Question 117Single Answer

Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a significant event in English history ?

A
"The Musgrove Ritual"
B
"The Speckled Band"
C
"The Solitary Cyclist"
D
"The Red-Headed League"

Question 118Single Answer

Harold Skim pole is a character in :

A
Bleak House
B
Dombey and Son
C
Great Expectations
D
Oliver Twist

Question 119Single Answer

Who is the author of "A Fragment" (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English ?

A
P.B. Shelley
B
Lord Byron
C
Bram Stoker
D
Mary Shelley

Question 120Single Answer

Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in :

A
Arun Joshi's The Apprentice
B
Chaman Nahal's Azadi
C
Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain
D
Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice

Question 121Single Answer

Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape victim who says "Even so distant, I can taste the grief" ?

A
"Deceptions"
B
"Faith Healing"
C
"Sad Steps"
D
"Wild Oats"

Question 122Single Answer

In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the "perishable treasure" of a body "Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible" ?

A
"Bog Queen"
B
"Grauballe Man"
C
"Punishment"
D
"Strange Fruit"

Question 123Single Answer

Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve's marital quarrel ?

A
Book 4
B
Book 6
C
Book 7
D
Book 9

Question 124Single Answer

Who among the following wrote Mazeppa, a long narrative poem about a seventeenth century military leader of Ukraine ?

A
William Cowper
B
Lord Byron
C
P.B. Shelley
D
S.T. Coleridge

Question 125Single Answer

Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter's plays ?

A
Menace is in the air and it leads to bloody violence
B
Menace is in the air and it is realized through the female characters
C
Menace is in the air, but it is not pinned down, or explained
D
Menace is in the air and anarchy follows in a systematic manner

Question 126Single Answer

To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus ?

A
Perseus
B
Theseus
C
Icarus
D
Achilles

Question 127Single Answer

Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth, Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps ."

A
Estragon
B
Lucky
C
Vladimir
D
Pozzo

Question 128Single Answer

Which of the following are the major themes in William Congreve's The Way of the World ?

A
jealousy and revenge
B
love and intrigue
C
intrigue and death
D
love and loyalty

Question 129Single Answer

What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party ?

A
A game of chess
B
A game of cards
C
Blind man's buff
D
Musical chairs

Question 130Single Answer

The Duchess of Malfi is based on :

A
a French romance
B
an Italian novella
C
a German fable
D
a Scottish chronicle

Question 131Single Answer

Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor, The Future of the Book, U of California P, 1996
(b) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage, 1991
(c) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, ed. the Future of the Book. Berkeie: U of California P, 1996
(d) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(a) and (d) only
D
(b) and (c) only

Question 132Single Answer

A research hypothesis is :
(a) a proposition which is always true
(b) a provisional explanation of anything
(c) a theory which will be disproved by evidence
(d) a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(b) and (c) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(a) and (c) only

Question 133Single Answer

Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the trap of plagiarism ?
(a) subjectivity
(b) acknowledgement
(c) citation
(d) interpretation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(c) and (d) only
D
(b) and (c) only

Question 134Single Answer

Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism ?
(a) A Small Place
(b) The Yellow Wallpaper
(c) Emma
(d) A Room of One's Own
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (d) only
B
(c) and (d) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(a) and (c) only

Question 135Single Answer

Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing different from men's ?
(a) Elaine Showalter
(b) Luce Irigaray
(c) Kate Millett
(d) Simone de Beauvoir
(e) Helene Cixous
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (c) and (d) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(c), (d) and (e) only
D
(b) and (e) only

Question 136Single Answer

Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism ?
(a) Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification
(b) A structuralise theory considers only verbal conventions and codes
(c) Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the 20^th century literary criticism
(d) Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given reality
(e) All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a), (c) and (e) only
B
(a), (d) and (e) only
C
(a), (b) and (c) only
D
(a), (b) and (e) only

Question 137Single Answer

Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism ?
(a) aura
(b) actant
(c) narratee
(d) defamiliarization
(e) foregrounding
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (c) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(d) and (e) only

Question 138Single Answer

Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry ?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Horace
(c) Samuel Daniel
(d) Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (c) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(a) and (d) only
D
(d) and (c) only

Question 139Single Answer

Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T.S. Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in "The Metaphysical Poets" ?
(a) Francois Villon
(b) Jean Racine
(c) Charles Baudelaire
(d) Arthur Rimbaud
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (c) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 140Single Answer

Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu ?
(a) habitus
(b) consciousness
(c) desire
(d) distinction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (c) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(b) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only

Question 141Single Answer

Macaulay's Minute of 1835 sought to :
(a) promote European literature and science among the natives
(b) impart knowledge of English literature and science through translated texts
(c) encourage branches of native learning by more useful studies
(d) stop expenditure on the publication of oriental works and spend funds only on English education
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (d) only
B
(b) and (d) only
C
(a) and (c) only
D
(b) and (c) only

Question 142Single Answer

Which two of the following statements are applicable to met language' ?
It is :
(a) a technical language which describes the properties of language
(b) known as a 'first-order' language
(c) a 'second-order' language that replaces a first-order' language with metaphors
(d) a 'second-order' language
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(c) and (d) only
C
(a) and (d) only
D
(b) and (c) only

Question 143Single Answer

"Hari wrote a poem on the mountains". Which two of the following are admissible statements about the above sentence ?
(a) The sentence is an example of lexical ambiguity
(b) The sentence is an example of structural ambiguity
(c) The sentence involves two deep structures
(d) The sentence involves two surface structures
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 144Single Answer

Which two of the following events are described in Samuels Pepys's Diary ?
(a) The Plague in London
(b) The Great Fire of London
(c) The War of Spanish Succession
(d) Essex Rebellion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 145Single Answer

Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay ?
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Francois Rabelais
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Michel de Montaigne
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

A
(c) and (a) only
B
(a) and (b) only
C
(c) and (d) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 146Single Answer

Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of "great art" in his essay "Style" ?
(a) Iliad
(b) The Divine Comedy
(c) Les Miserable
(d) Faust
Choose the most appropriate 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 147Single Answer

According to his essay “Civil Disobedience”, what two things did Thoreau learn from the night he spent in jail ?
(a) He concluded that the State is ultimately weak
(b) He realized that captivity inspires courage
(c) He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times
(d) He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human affairs
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (d) only
C
(a) and (d) only
D
(c) and (d) only

Question 148Single Answer

Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincy’s "The English Mail-Coach" ?
(a) The Glory of Mobility
(b) The Vision of Sudden Death
(c) The Glory of Motion
(d) The Vision of Unexpected Truth
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 149Single Answer

Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists ?
(a) The Brief Compass
(b) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
(c) The Visionary Company
(d) Testaments Betrayed
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

A
(a) and (b) only
B
(a) and (c) only
C
(b) and (c) only
D
(b) and (d) only

Question 150Single Answer

The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels by Anthony Burgess ?
(a) Milton
(b) Marlowe
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
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

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