The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.
A
The hardworking salesman collected the payment.
B
the salesman who worked heard was able to collect the payment.
C
to collect the payment the salesman had to work hard.
D
The hardworking salesman was able to collect the payment.
Question 4Single Answer
I had to stop all my work to complete this project.
A
All other work had to be stopped to complete this project by me
B
For completing this project all other work must be stopped
C
For completing this project I had to stop all my work
D
To complete this project all other work had been stopped by me
Question 5Single Answer
They have published the names of all the successful candidates.
A
The candidates who have succeeded their names they had published.
B
The names of all the successful candidates have been published by them
C
The candidates who have succeeded their names have been published by them.
D
The names of all the successful candidate were published by them.
Question 6Single Answer
The online shopping site lowered the prices.
A
Lowering of the prices was done by the online shopping site
B
The prices were lowered by the online shopping site
C
The prices had been lowered by the online shopping site
D
The prices have been lowered by the online shopping site
Question 7Single Answer
Who taught you to drive a truck ?
A
To drive a truck by whom were you taught?
B
Driving a truck by who were you taught?
C
Driving a truck by who were you being taught?
D
By whom were you taught to drive a truck?
Question 8Single Answer
We shall invite Suresh.
A
Suresh would be invited by us
B
Suresh would have been invited by us
C
Suresh will be invited by us
D
Suresh will have been invited by us
Question 9Single Answer
Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.
A
By the dark clouds the evening sky was overcast.
B
The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.
C
Dark clouds overcastted the evening sky.
D
The sky of the evening was overcasted by dark clouds.
Question 10Single Answer
The partners will celebrate their triumph tomorrow.
A
The triumph would be celebrated by the partners a day before
B
The triumph would be celebrated by the partners a day after
C
The triumph would have been celebrated by the partners a day after
D
The triumph will have been celebrated by the partners tomorrow
Question 11Single Answer
Why did break the vase?
A
why is the vase broken by him
B
why was the vase broken by him
C
why had been the vase broken by him
D
why has been the vase broken by him
Question 12Single Answer
Mariam was writing a note to her boss.
A
A note was written to her boss by Mariam
B
A note was wrote by Mariam to her boss
C
A note was being written by Mariam to her boss
D
A note was written by Mariam to her boss
Question 13Single Answer
The baby really enjoys that music.
A
That music was really enjoyed by the baby.
B
That music was really being enjoyed by the baby.
C
That music is really enjoyed by the baby.
D
This music was really enjoyed by the baby.
Question 14Single Answer
The weather disrupted the final match.
A
The final match has been disrupted by the weather.
B
The final match had been disrupted by the weather.
C
The final match was disrupted by the weather.
D
The final match was being disrupted by the weather.
Question 15Single Answer
The management committee is required to publish a report every year.
A
report would be published by the management committee every year.
B
A report would have been published by the management committee every year.
C
A report requires to be published by the management committee every year.
D
Every year the report would be published by the management committee.
Question 16Single Answer
Preeti ran the race in record time.
A
In record time Preeti ran the race.
B
The race was run by Preeti in record time
C
The race was being run by Preeti in record time
D
The race had been run by Preeti in record time
Question 17Single Answer
I shall have written the full thesis by December
A
By December I shall have wrote the full thesis.
B
The full thesis will have been written by me by December.
C
The full Thesis will be wrote by me by December
D
By December the full thesis must have been wrote by me.
Question 18Single Answer
One must keep one’s promises.
A
One’s promises must be kept by one.
B
One’s promises had to be kept.
C
Promises must be kept.
D
Promises have to be kept by one.
Question 19Single Answer
I read the story in one night.
A
The story had been read by me in one night.
B
The story has been read by me in one night
C
n one night the story has been read by me.
D
the story was read by me in one night
Question 20Single Answer
We must take care of the old.
A
Those who are old need to be taken care of by us.
B
The old must be taken care of by us.
C
Those who are old need care by us
D
The old should be taken care of by us.
Question 21Single Answer
My father generously donated money to the church.
A
Money is generously being donated to te church by my father.
B
Money has been generously donated to the church by my father.
C
Money had been generously donated to the church by my father.
D
Money was generously donated to the church by my father.
Question 22Single Answer
We will send you your laboratory reports as soon as they are ready
A
you would be sent your laboratory reports as soon as they will be ready.
B
Your laboratory reports will be sent to you as soon as they are ready.
C
You would be send your laboratory reports as soon as they will be ready.
D
Your laboratory reports should be sent to you as soon as they will be ready.
Question 23Single Answer
I saw the master conducting the orchestra.
A
I saw that the orchestra was being conducted by the master.
B
I saw the orchestra being conducted by te master
C
The master was seen conducting the orchestra by me.
D
The master was conducting the orchestra and I saw that.
Question 24Single Answer
The dog is being fed by us.
A
We fed the dog.
B
We have had been feeding the dog.
C
We are feeding the dog
D
We had been feeding the dog
Question 25Single Answer
When did Rohit return my bike?
A
When was my bike returned by Rohit?
B
When was it that Rohit returned my bike?
C
Rohit returned my bike when?
D
When did my bike come back from Rohit?
Question 26Single Answer
They are going to watch a drama tomorrow.
A
A drama is going to be watched by them tomorrow.
B
A drama will be watched by them tomorrow.
C
A drama will be watched by them tomorrow.
D
A drama was going to be watched by them tomorrow.
Tomorrow the drama is going to be watched by them.
Question 27Single Answer
The event manager is making all the reservations.
A
All the reservations would be made by the event manager.
B
All the reservations are being made by the event manager.
C
All the reservations would have been made by the event manager.
D
All the reservations will have been made by the event manager.
Question 28Single Answer
The Marathas surrendered their fort to the Mughals after the war.
A
After the war the Marathas had to surrender their fort to the Mughals.
B
The Mughals after the war took fort surrendered by the Marathas.
C
Their fort was surrendered by the Marathas to the Mughals after the war
D
the Marathas after the war surrendered their fort to the Mughals.
Question 29Single Answer
Mother filled dark filtered coffee in the cup.
A
The cup was filled with dark filtered coffee by mother.
B
Mother filled in the cup coffee which was dark and filtered coffee.
C
The cup was being by mother with dark filtered coffee.
D
The filtered coffee which was dark was filled into the cup by mother.
Question 30Single Answer
The most useful gift of my wedding was given to me by my aunt.
A
My aunt gave me the most useful gift of my wedding.
B
My aunt had given me the most useful gift of my wedding.
C
The gift which has been most useful has been given to me by my aunt.
D
My aunt has given me the most useful gift of my wedding.
Question 31Single Answer
The painting had not been painted by the famous painter.
A
The panting had never been painted the painting.
B
The painter who was famous not had painted the painting.
C
The famous painter had not painted te painting
D
The famous painter could not have painted the painting.
Question 32Single Answer
The Kangaroo carried her baby in her pouch.
A
The baby is carried by the kangaroo in er pouch.
B
The is being carried by the kangaroo in her pouch
C
The baby had been carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
D
The baby was carried by the kangaroo in her pouch.
Question 33Single Answer
The painters painted the entire building.
A
The entire building had been painted by the painters.
B
The painters had an entire building painted.
C
The entire building was painted by the painters.
D
The entire building has been painted by the painters.
Question 34Single Answer
The office boy vacuums and dusts the office every morning.
A
Every morning the office had been vacuumed and dusted by the office boy.
B
Every morning the office is vacuumed and dusted by the office boy.
C
Every morning the office has been vacuumed and dusted by the office boy.
D
Every morning the office has been vacuumed
Question 35Single Answer
I will wash the car every Sunday.
A
The car would be washed by me every Sunday.
B
The car will be washed by me every Sunday.
C
Every Sunday the car would be washed by me.
D
The car will have been washed by me every Sunday.
Question 36Single Answer
The owners remodelled car to help it sell
A
The car was remodelled by the owners to help it sell
B
The car is being remodelled by the owners to help it sell.
C
The car was remodelled by the owners to help it being sold.
D
The car is being remodeled by the owners to help it being sold.
Question 37Single Answer
The seawater eventually corroded the pillars of the bridge.
A
Eventually the pillars of the bridge are being corroded by the seawater.
B
Eventually the pillars of the bridge have been corroded by the seawater.
C
The pillars of the bridge were eventually corroded by the seawater.
D
The pillars of the bridge have been eventually corroded by the seawater
Question 38Single Answer
The teacher will give you instructions.
A
Instructions would be given to you by the teacher.
B
Instructions will have been given to you by the teacher.
C
Instructions will be given to you by the teacher.
D
Instructions were given to you by the teacher.
Question 39Single Answer
It is impossible to do this job.
A
This job is impossible to be done.
B
This job cannot be done with.
C
No one can do this job.
D
This job cannot be done by anyone.
Question 40Single Answer
Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
A
Gold medal was won by Abhinav Bindra at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
B
In 2008 at the Beijing Olympic Games Abhinav Bindra had won the Gold medal.
C
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Abhinav Bindra won the Gold medal.
D
Abhinav Bindra must have won at the Beijing Olympics Games which were conducted in 2008.
Question 41Single Answer
Jayesh has sent the email
A
The email has had been sent by Jayesh
B
The email has been sent by Jayesh
C
The email was sent by Jayesh
D
The email was send by Jayesh
Question 42Single Answer
are regional variations of a language.
A
English
B
Mandarin Chinese
C
Home language
D
Dialects
Question 43Single Answer
Sunny was driving the car so fast that it slipped at the turn.
A
Sunny slipped at the turn as he was driving the car so fast.
B
So fast was Sunny driving the car that it slipped at the turn.
C
The car was being driven by Sunny so fast that it slipped at the turn.
D
The car slipped at the turn as Sunny was driving it so fast.
Question 44Single Answer
Can we send this container by ship?
A
can this container by sent by ship?
B
Could this container be sent by ship by us?
C
Could have we sent this container by ship?
D
This container can be sent by ship. Can we?
Question 45Single Answer
My father decorated the entire house.
A
The entire house was decorated by my father.
B
The entire house was being decorated by my father.
C
The entire house has been decorated by my father.
D
The entire house had been decorated by my father.
Question 46Single Answer
Some farmers raise sugarcane in Kerala.
A
Sugarcane is raised by some farmers in Kerala.
B
Sugarcane was raised by some farmers in Kerala.
C
Sugarcane was being raised by some farmers in Kerala.
D
Sugarcane has been raised by some farmers in Kerala.
Question 47Single Answer
Sahil said, “Where will I be this time next year!”
A
Sahil asked where he should be that time the following year.
B
Sahil worried where he would be that time the next year.
C
Sahil wondered where he would be that time the following year.
D
Sahil said where he should be that time the next year.
Question 48Single Answer
Who ate the last pastry?
A
The last pastry was eaten by whom?
B
The last pastry was eaten by who?
C
The last pastry had been eaten by who?
D
The last pastry has been eaten by whom?
Question 49Single Answer
He said,“I bought an iPhone 6 yesterday.”
A
He said that he had bought an iPhone 6 the previous day
B
He said he bought an iPhone 6 the previous day
C
He said that he has bought an iPhone 6 yesterday
D
He exclaimed, an iPhone 6 has been bought by him yesterday
Question 50Single Answer
Someone gave the old man a push.
A
The old man got a push from someone.
B
somebody had given a push to the old man.
C
The old man was being pushed by someone.
D
A push was given to the old man.
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Question 51Single Answer
My father is going to build a six bedroom bungalow.
A
A six bedroom bungalow was going to be built by my father.
B
My father will have built a bungalow which will have six bedrooms.
C
a bungalow of six bedrooms will have been built by my father.
D
A six bedroom bungalow is going to be built by my father.
Question 52Single Answer
Ravi had committed a mistake
A
A mistake has been committed by Ravi.
B
A mistake had been committed by Ravi.
C
A mistake was committed by Ravi.
D
A mistake is committed by Ravi.
Question 53Single Answer
‘Are you coming with us?’ Isha asked Nisha.
A
Isha asked Nisha whether she would be going with them.
B
Isha asked Nisha if she going with them.
C
Isha asked Nisha whether she would go with them.
D
Isha asked Nisha whether she would come with us.
Question 54Single Answer
My sister will bake a dozen cakes for the fair.
A
For the fair, a dozen cakes would be backed by my sister.
B
For the fair, a dozen cakes would have been backed by my sister.
C
For the fair, a dozen cakes will be backed by my sister.
D
For the fair, a dozen cakes will have been backed by my sister.
Question 55Single Answer
The holy prophet said, “God helps those who help others.”
A
The holy prophet said that God helped those who helped others.
B
The holy prophet said that God helps those who help others.
C
The holy prophet said that God helps people who help others.
D
The holy prophet said that God helps those people who help others.
Question 56Single 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 57Single 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 58Single 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 59Single 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 60Single 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 61Single 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 62Single 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 63Single 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 64Single 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 65Single 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 66Single Answer
Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel ?
A
Balzac
B
Flaubert
C
Moliere
D
Stendhal
Question 67Single 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 68Single 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 69Single 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 70Single 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 71Single 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 72Single Answer
Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily ?
A
Borneo
B
Brazil
C
India
D
Japan
Question 73Single Answer
The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is :
A
lexeme
B
morpheme
C
phoneme
D
sememe
Question 74Single 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 75Single 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 76Single 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 77Single 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 78Single 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 79Single 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 80Single 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 81Single 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 82Single 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 83Single Answer
Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :
A
homonyms
B
homografts
C
homologues
D
homophones
Question 84Single 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 85Single 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 86Single 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 87Single 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 88Single 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 89Single 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 90Single 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 91Single 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 92Single 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 93Single 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 94Single 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 95Single 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 96Single 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 97Single 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 98Single Answer
Who is the author of Radiant Textually ?
A
Jerome McGann
B
Gerald Graff
C
James Thorpe
D
Richard D. Altick
Question 99Single 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 100Single 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 101Single 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 102Single 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 103Single 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 104Single Answer
Who wrote the short story, "The Voter" ?
A
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B
Chinua Achebe
C
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D
Wole Soyinka
Question 105Single 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
Question 106Single 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 107Single 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 108Single 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 109Single Answer
Which of the following is a dead language ?
A
Cantonese
B
Frisian
C
Gothic
D
Yiddish
Question 110Single 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 111Single 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 112Single 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 113Single 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 114Single 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 115Single 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 116Single 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 117Single 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 118Single Answer
Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets" ?
A
Charles Lamb
B
John Ruskin
C
Thomas De Quincey
D
William Hazlitt
Question 119Single 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 120Single 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 :