December 2021: Paper 2 (Conduced on 1st December 2021 Morning Shift)

This is the OFFICIAL Question Paper & Answer Key for the UGC NET September 2020 Paper taken from www.ugcnet.nta.nic.in.

Q.1) The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we:

(a) Detach our self from family life.

(b) Are deep into buying and selling.

(d) Are in to schools of philosophy.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.2) Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?

[1] Ruling a state is easier than managing a family.

[2] Solitude is one condition of peace with one self.

[3] The court and the marketplace must be got rid of.

[4] Try what one may, no one can ever be at ease.

Answer: 4

Q.3) The mistake human beings make is to:

[1] Abjure solitude when desirable.

[2] Abstain from restraining the mind.

[3] Abstain from the love of leisure.

[4] Exaggerate the value of family.

Answer: 2

Directions (Q.no. 4 to 6): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting-bone;
Thinks in a marrow-bone;

From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song’s sake a food?

I pray-for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again-
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
W.B Yeats

Q.4) Thoughts true for all time are:

[1] Born of God’s care.

[2] Felt deep inside the self.

[3] For all human hearts.

[4] Imbued with logic of mind.

Answer: 2

Q.5) In the second stanza the poet thinks of:

[1] What all earns all others’ praise.

[2] What all makes a wise old man.

[3] What he does not want to appear.

[4] What he thinks he is, a fool.

Answer: 3

Q.6) Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?

[1] He believes in the efficacy of prayer.

[2] He is a foolish young man who thinks wisely.

[3] He is an old man wise as old are.

[4] He is old but happy in not being wise.

Answer: 4

Directions (Q.no. 7 to 8): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
The earth was made for Dombey and son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A.D had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey – and son.
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

Q.7) What is the ‘system’ of which Domney and son were the centre?

[1] The British political system

[2] The country’s commerce

[3] The family business

[4] The workings of nature

Answer: 2

Q.8) The whole description is an example of:

[1] Analogy

[2] Aporia

[3] Image

[4] Sarcasm

Answer: 4

Directions (Q.no. 9 to 10): Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow ‘st the worm not silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. —Ha! here’s three one’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Shakespeare, King Lear

Q.9) Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?

[1] Animals unlike man are more complex.

[2] Animal’s attributes are external.

[3] Man can accommodate same properties.

[4] Man just uses what animals possess.

Answer: 1

Q.10) ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:

[1] Accommodated man is well endowed.

[2] As an animal, man is a superior animal.

[3] Man is far more than what he seems to be.

[4] Man is not as well-endowed as some other animals.

Answer: 4

Q.11) Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature?

[1] Brass-Spittoon

[2] Diamond-Jar

[3] Golden-Spoon

[4] Silver-Fork

Answer: 4

Q.12) What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

[1] Epic theatre

[2] Kitchen-sink theatre

[3] Musical theatre

[4] Proletarian theatre

Answer: 1

Q.13) Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?

[1] Dudwords

[2] Ghostwords

[3] Protowords

[4] Pseudowords

Answer: 2

Q.14) Which two of the following are words by I.A Richards?

(a) Concepts of Criticism

(b) Science and Poetry

(d) English Literature In our time and the university

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.15) In “The function of Criticism at the present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?

[1] Affirmation

[2] Cohesiveness

[3] Disinterestedness

[4] Judiciousness

Answer: 3

Q.16) According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:

(a) An interlocking structure

(b) A System of constant change.

(d) A self-standing formation.

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.17) What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?

[1] Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

[2] Centre for Contemporary Studies

[3] Centre for Culture Studies

[4] Centre for New Cultural Studies

Answer: 1

Q.18) 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.

(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.

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (c) and (e) only

[4] (d) and (e) only

Answer: 1

Q.19) Match list-I with list-II:

List-I(Poem)

(a) “The Road not taken “

(b) “Tonight, I can Write the Saddest lines”

(d) “I, too, Sing America”

List-II(Poet)

I. Pablo Neruda

II. Robert Frost

III. Langston Hughes

IV. Walt Whitman

Choose the correct Answer from the options given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-IV

[2] (a)-II; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.20) Usage in “you have hissed the mystery lectures” is an example of:

[1] Error of lexical choice

[2] Inadverant mistake

[3] Metathesis

[4] Spoonerism

Answer: 4

Q.21) Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?

[1] Barzac

[2] Flaubert

[3] Moliere

[4] Stendhal

Answer: 4

Q.22) Arrange the following in their chronological order:

(a) English replaces Persian as official language of the company.

(b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India.

(d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta.

Choose the correct answer the options given below

[1] (b), (a), (d), (c)

[2] (d), (a), (c), (b)

[3] (d), (b), (a), (c)

[4] (d), (b), (c), (a)

Answer: 3

Q.23) 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

(d) The producer

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.24) 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:

[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct.

[2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct.

Answer: 2

Q.25) 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.

(d) It equates culture with science.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (a) and (b) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.26) Who is the author of the truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?

[1] A. Revathi

[2] Bama

[3] Mukta Sarvagod

[4] V. Geetha

Answer: 1

Q.27) Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily?

[1] Borneo

[2] Brazil

[3] India

[4] Japan

Answer: 2

Q.28) The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

[1] Lexeme

[2] Morpheme

[3] Phoneme

[4] Sememe

Answer: 1

Q.29) 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.

(d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.30) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I(Book)

(a) English, August

(b) In Custody

(d) Funny Boy

List-II(Author)

I. Shyam Selvadurai

II. Anita Desai

III. Rohinton Mistry

IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[2] (a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-I; (d)-III

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

Answer: 4

Q.31) Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:

(a) The Imagist poets

(b) The Cavalier poets

(d) The Lake poets

[1] (b), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (b), (d), (c), (a)

[3] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 1

Q.32) Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

(a) Estragon

(b) Pozzo

(d) Murphy

Choose the correct answer from the options below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.33) Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?

(a) “Meditation on a bone”

(b) “Imperial Adam”

(d) “The Old Prison”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 4

Q.34) Who, in “The world as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?

[1] Anthony Burgess

[2] C.K. Ogden

[3] Noam Chomsky

[4] Susan Sontag

Answer: 4

Q.35) Match List -1 with List-II:

List-I(Writer)

(a) Homi Bhabha

(b) T.S. Eliot

(d) John Fiske

List-II(Book)

I. Reading the popular

II. The Location of culture

III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture

IV. Image-Music-Text

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

Answer: 2

Q.36) Which among the following are examples of the Kunstler roman?

(a) The Portrait of a Lady

(b) David Copperfield

(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.37) With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?

(a) Neo-classic

(b) Symbolist

(d) Postmodernist

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c)only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.38) Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:

[1] Homonyms

[2] Homograft’s

[3] Homologues

[4] Homophones

Answer: 3

Q.39) The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:

[1] 1951

[2] 1957

[3] 1962

[4] 1970

Answer: 1

Q.40) Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.

(a) Longman’s Magazine

(b) Cornhill Magazine

(d) Bentley’s Miscellany

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[2] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[3] (c), (b), (a), (d)

[4] (c), (d), (b), (a)

Answer: 4

Q.41) Which of these generally taken to be true of cultural studies?

(a) It is politically engaged.

(b) It privileges text over context.

(d) It studies the means of production of a text.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (a) and (b) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.42) Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

[1] Colonialism will die a natural death San any violent struggle against it.

[2] Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.

[3] Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.

[4] The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.

Answer: 4

Q.43) Who among the following says that ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individual to their real condition of existence”?

[1] Fredric Jameson

[2] Herbert Marcuse

[3] Louis Althusser

[4] Terry Eagleton

Answer: 3

Q.44) Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations without altering the original title?

[1] Angela Carter

[2] Kathy Acker

[3] Peter Carey

[4] Shirley Jackson

Answer: 2

Q.45) In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”?

[1] Book III

[2] Book IV

[3] Book VII

[4] Book XI

Answer: 4

Q.46) Match list-I and list-II:

List-I(Text)

(a) Advancement of learning

(b) Past and Present

(d) Illness as Metaphor

List-II(Author)

I. Susan Sontag

II. Francis Bacon

III. Thomas Carlyle

IV. R.W. Emerson

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.47) Given Below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled 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.

Assertion (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:

[1] (A) is correct, but (R) is not correct.

[2] (A) is not correct, but (R) is correct.

[3] Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

[4] Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

Answer: 1

Q.48) Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:

(a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

(b) Kiran Desai, The inheritance of Loss

(d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (d), (b), (c)

[2] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[3] (c), (a), (d), (b)

[4] (d), (b), (c), (a)

Answer: 3

Q.49) Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts?

[1] Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap

[2] J.L. Austin and John Searle

[3] Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker

[4] Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

Answer: 2

Q.50) 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

(d) To find and unite families separated at the partition

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.51) Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?

[1] Dynamics of media

[2] Motivations of crime

[3] Workings of love triangles

[4] Workings of power

Answer: 4

Q.52) Match list-I with list-II:

List-I(Book)

(a) Anniversaries

(b) The Temple

(d) Pindarique Odes

List-II(Poet)

I. Abraham Cowley

II. John Donne

III. George Herbert

IV. Andrew Marvell

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.53) Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

[1] Jerome McGann

[2] Gerald Graff

[3] James Thorpe

[4] Richard D. Altick

Answer: 1

Q.54) 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.

(d) It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b)and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.55) How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”?

[1] ‘A contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’.

[2] ‘A tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’.

[3] ‘Heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’

[4] ‘Telescoping of images and multiplied associations’

Answer: 2

Q.56) Match list-1 with List-II:

List-I

(a) A Handful of Dust

(b) Brighton Rock

(d) The Plumed Serpent

(e) Those Barren Leaves

List-II

I. E.M. Forster

II. Evelyn Waugh

III. D.H. Lawrence

IV. Aldous Huxley

V. Graham Greene

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-III; (e)-V

[2] (a)-II; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[4] (a)-V; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I; (e)-III

Answer: 2

Q.57) 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:

[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct.

[2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

[3] statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect.

[4] statement I is incorrect, but statement is correct.

Answer: 3

Q.58) Who among the following has coined the terms, ‘eco- feminism’?

[1] Monique Wittig

[2] Francoise d’Eaubonne

[3] Helene Cixous

[4] Marguerite Duras

Answer: 2

Q.59) Who wrote the short story, “The volter”?

[1] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[2] Chinua Achebe

[3] Ngugi wa Thiongo

[4] Wole Soyinka

Answer: 2

Q.60) Which two of the following fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The study of poetry”?

(a) Contextual estimate

(b) Personal estimate

(d) Historic estimate

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.61) 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?

[1] Browning and Arnold

[2] Milton and Shelley

[3] Pound and Hopkins

[4] Tennyson and Swinburne

Answer: 2

Q.62) Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler?

[1] Count Dracula

[2] Peter Quint

[3] Prince Manfred

[4] Victor Frankenstein

Answer: 1

Q.63) Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child ‘s first language acquisition:

(a) Holophrastic

(b) Babbling

(d) Cooling

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (c), (d), (b)

[2] (b), (a), (d), (c)

[3] (c), (b), (a), (d)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 4

Q.64) Which of the following is a dead language?

[1] Cantonese

[2] Frisian

[3] Gothic

[4] Yiddish

Answer: 3

Q.65) Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?

[1] Concrete Island

[2] Kingdom Come

[3] The Crystal World

[4] The Drowned World

Answer: 3

Q.66) Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering is as both a blessing and a curve?

[1] Allen Tate

[2] F.R. Leavis

[3] Harold Bloom

[4] T.S. Eliot

Answer: 3

Q.67) Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial?

[1] Aristotle

[2] Phaedo

[3] Plato

[4] Xenocrates

Answer: 3

Q.68) Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?

[1] G.K. Chesterton

[2] Tzvetan Todorov

[3] Umberto Eco

[4] Vladimir Propp

Answer: 2

Q.69) Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

(a) Wild track

(b) Wodwo

(d) Jack Straw’s Castle

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.70) Arrange the following poems by W.B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication?

(a) “The Wild Swans at Coole”

(b) “The Second coming”

(d) “Adam’s Curse”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (c), (d), (b)

[2] (c), (a), (b), (d)

[3] (c), (a), (d), (b)

[4] (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: 4

Q.71) 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

(d) Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b), (c), (d)

[2] (a), (b), (d), (c)

[3] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[4] (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: 2

Q.72) Which of the following is true of mass media?

[1] It usually has a central, single source.

[2] It can affect a localized population only.

[3] It usually has multiple sources.

[4] Its audience is in close proximity to its source.

Answer: 1

Q.73) Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?

[1] Charles Lamb

[2] John Ruskin

[3] Thomas De Quincey

[4] William Hazlitt

Answer: 4

Q.74) Who among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(a) Elton John

(b) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Bob Marley

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.75) Match List-I with List-II.

List-I(Author)

(a) Robert Browning

(b) S.T. Coleridge

(d) Alfred Tennyson

(e) William Wordsworth

List-II

I. Queen Mary

II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

III. Remorse

IV. The Borderers

V. Strafford

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-III; (d)-V; (e)-I

[2] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-V; (e)-III

[4] (a)-V; (b)-III; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

Answer: 4

Q.76) Who wrote the Labyrinth of Solitude?

[1] Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[2] Gabriela Mistral

[3] Jorge Luis Borges

[4] Octavio Paz

Answer: 4

Q.77) Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:

(a) Phallogocentrism

(b) Locutionary Act

(d) Interpretive community

Choose the correct answer from the option given below

[1] (a), (d), (c), (b)

[2] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[3] (c), (b), (d), (a)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 2

Q.78) Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Negugi Wa Thiongo object to be in 1968?

(a) The primacy of English literatures and cultures.

(b) The centrality of Africa in the Department of English.

(d) The focus on the study of the historic continuity of English Literature

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.79) Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

[1] ARIEL

[2] MFS

[3] MHRA

[4] PMLA

Answer: 3

Q.80) Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxes’?

[1] Antonio Gramsci

[2] Georg Lukacs

[3] Raymond Williams

[4] Stuart Hall

Answer: 1

Q.81) Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour 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:

[1] Both statement I and Statement II are correct.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.

Answer: 4

Q.82) 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 and precedent.

(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae patronymically.

(c) Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick To catch the old one belong to the genre of Comedy of Humors that Jonson is said to have pioneered.

(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson is writing for a children’s company of players.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (c) and (d) only

[4] (d) and (a) only

Answer: 2

Q.83) 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

(d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.84) Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?

(a) The British Museum is Falling down

(b) The Seven Sisters

(d) Nice Work

(e) Empire of the Sun

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b) and (c) only

[2] (a), (c) and (d) only

[3] (b), (d) and (e) only

[4] (c), (d) and (e) only

Answer: 2

Q.85) Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?

(a) Syntactic Structures

(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour

(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

(e) The pragmatics of Politeness

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (b) and (d) only

[3] (c) and (e) only

[4] (d) and (a) only

Answer: 4

Q.86) 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.” Callaloo, vol.24, no.2, Spring 2001, pp .620-26.

(d) Wellek, Rene. A history of modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP,1986

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.87) Which of these departments did the Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?

(a) Arabic

(b) English

(d) Law

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b) and (d) only

[2] (a), (b) and (c) only

[3] (a), (c) and (d) only

[4] (b), (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.88) Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

[1] Bernardo

[2] Ghost

[3] Horatio

[4] Marcellus

Answer: 4

Q.89) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(a) The Lie of the Land

(b) Masks of Conquest

(d) This Gift of English

List-II

I. Alok Mukherjee

II. Rajeswari Sunder Ranjan

III. Gauri Viswanathan

IV. Swathi Joshi

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.90) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I(Library/Institute)

(a) Connemara Public Library

(b) Dhwanyaloka

(d) Asiatic Society

List-II(Location)

I. Kolkata

II. Chennai

III. Mysore

IV. Pune

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.91) 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”

(d) “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 4

Q.92) Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

[1] A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[2] Love’s Labour ‘s Lost

[3] The comedy of Errors

[4] The Taming of the Shrew

Answer: 4

Q.93) Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Matter art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?

[1] Deification

[2] Impoverishment

[3] Infantilization

[4] Personification

Answer: 3

Q.94) Which of the following narratives cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author”?

[1] The Canterbury Tales

[2] The Decameron

[3] The Thousand and One Nights

[4] Tuti Namah

Answer: 3

Q.95) Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?

(a) Samuel Johnson

(b) Alexander Pope

(d) Thomas Gray

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and(c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.96) Arrange the following characters in the chronological in which they appeared in Indian literature?

(a) Praneshacharya (Samskara)

(b) Sakuni (Mahabharata)

(d) Gobar (Godan)

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b), (c), (d)

[2] (b), (a), (c), (d)

[3] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[4] (b), (d), (c), (a)

Answer: 4

Q.97) Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The opening and closing lines for 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:

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are false

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are True

[3] Statement I is false, but Statement II is true

[4] Statement I is true, but Statement II is false

Answer: 4

Q.98) Match List-I with List-II.

List-I(Plays)

(a) Madmen and Specialists

(b) The Sea at Dauphin

(d) An Echo in the Bone

List-II(Playwrights)

I. Dennis Scott

II. Wole Soyinka

III. Derek Walcott

IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’s

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[4] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

Answer: 2

Q.99) Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:

(a) Dissociation of Sensibility

(b) Unreliable Narrator

(d) Egotistical Sublime

Choose The correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[3] (d), (a), (c), (b)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 3

Q.100) Who is the author of The Otherness of English:
India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?

[1] Binoo K. John

[2] Yamuna Kachru

[3] Prabal Dasgupta

[4] S.K. Verma

Answer: 3

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