UGC NET PAPER- Paper II (Shift II)
Q.1) Identify the correct pairs.
[A] Kalidasa – Amoghvarsha
[B] Bhavabhuti – Uttararamcharita
[C] Bhasa – Urubhanga
[D] Rajashekhara – Rajatarangini
[E] Somadeva – Kathasaritsagara
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, C and D only
[2] C, D and E only
[3] B, C and E only
[4] B, D and E only
Answer: [3] B, C and E only
Q.2) The concept of “eugenics” finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of:
[A] John Osborne
[B] George Bernard Shaw
[C] Eugene O’Neil
[D] Harold Pinter
[E] Arthur miller
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] D and E only
Answer: [3] B and C only
Q.3) Who among the following refers to “high seriousness” as a quality of a great poet and quotes john Milton to prove the same?
[A] T. S Eliot
[B] Ezra pound
[C] Matthew Arnold
[D] I. A. Richards
[E] G. M. Hopkins
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] B and C only
[3] D and E only
[4] C only
Answer: [4] C only
Q.4) Which among the following is a short story by the booker prize winner Geetanjali Shree:
[1] Khali jagah
[2] Hamara shahar us baras
[3] Bel patra
[4] Mai
Answer: [3] Bel patra
Q.5) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Perumal murugan
[B] Hansda sowvendra shekhar
[C] Baby kamble
[D] Urmila pawar
List II
[I] Adivasi will not dance
[II] The weave of my life
[III] One part woman
[IV] The prisons we broke
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
[3] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
[4] A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Answer: [2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Q.6) Identify the film/films that were based on booker winning novels:-
[A] Life of pi
[B] The remains of the day
[C] Milkman
[D] The sellout
[E] The inheritance of loss
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] B and E only
[2] A and B only
[3] C and D only
[4] B and D only
Answer: [2] A and B only
Q.7) Who among the following was a major advocate of oral history?
[1] Sylvia Plath
[2] Esther greenwood
[3] Paul Thompson
[4] Carolyn Steedman
Answer: [3] Paul Thompson
Q.8) Which of the following is NOT a kind of ‘sign’ as suggested by Charles sanders pierce?
[1] Icon
[2] Index
[3] Symbol
[4] Visual
Answer: [4] Visual
Q.9) Which of the following texts coins the slogan “Vande Matram”?
[1] Anandmath
[2] Mrinalini
[3] Durgeshnandini
[4] Kapalkundala
Answer: [1] Anandmath
Q.10) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French revolution created grounds for the birth of ‘the clinic’.
Statement II: Foucault mentions that the doctors started caring for the body of the patients the way priests cared for the soul of the sinners.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [1] Both statement I and statement II are true
Q.11) Which of the following statements are true in the context of henry fielding’s tom jones (1749)
[A] Tom jones is comic and moralistic.
[B] Tom and jones are the main characters of tom jones
[C] Tom is caught poaching in neighbor’s game preserve.
[D] The history of tom jones is the full title of tom jones.
[E] All of the above
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] E only
[2] A, C and D only
[3] A, B, C and D only
[4] B, C and D only
Answer: [2] A, C and D only
Q.12) Who among the following has used lines from the Shakespearean play Othello to critique racism in one of his poems?
[1] Edward Braithwaite
[2] Franz fanon
[3] Derek alton Walcott
[4] Ngugi wa thiong’o
Answer: [3] Derek alton Walcott
Q.13) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] “The lion’s skin”
[B] “The man who liked dickens”
[C] “Rip van winkle”
[D] “The bride comes to yellow sky”
List II
[I] Washington irving
[II] W. Somerset Maugham
[III] Stephen crane
[IV] Evelyn Waugh
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
[2] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
[3] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
[4] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Answer: [3] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Q.14) Which of the following works has Santiago as its protagonist?
[1] Mansfield Park
[2] The mayor of Casterbridge
[3] The old man and the sea
[4] The lord of the rings
Answer: [3] The old man and the sea
Q.15) Who among the following coined the term ‘The movement’?
[1] F.W. Bateson
[2] F.R. Leavis
[3] J.D. Scott
[4] I.A. Richards
Answer: [3] J.D. Scott
Q.16) “It caught to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact”.
The above passage considered to be the death” knell of the neo-classical criticism is attributed to _____
[1] John Dryden
[2] Alexander pope
[3] Samuel Johnson
[4] Joseph Addison
Answer: [3] Samuel Johnson
Q.17) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] “There is no art to find mind’s construction in the face”
[B] “Time out of joint”.
[C] “The better part of valour is discretion”.
[D] “My kingdom for a horse”.
List II
[I] Hamlet
[II] Richard III
[III] Macbeth
[IV] Twelfth night
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
[2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: [2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Q.18) “Inane gaudiness” is a phrase used in connection with neo-classicism by ________
[1] William Wordsworth
[2] S.T. Coleridge
[3] Matthew Arnold
[4] T.S. Eliot
Answer: [1] William Wordsworth
Q.19) The predominant emotion running through the poem “Cristina” by Robert browning is that of
[1] Sadness
[2] Aggression
[3] Love
[4] None of the above
Answer: [3] Love
Q.20) Who first translated the Bhagavad Gita into English?
[1] H T Colebrook
[2] Alexander duff
[3] Charles Wilkins
[4] Sir William jones
Answer: [3] Charles Wilkins
Q.21)Choose the novels that use ‘magic realism’ as a tool of narration:
[A] The shadow lines
[B] One hundred years of solitude
[C] Midnight’s children
[D] Beloved
[E] Kanthapura
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] B, C and D only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] B, C, D and E only
Answer: [2] B, C and D only
Q.22) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Doll common
[B] Malvolio
[C] Mortimer
[D] Bosola
List II
[I] Twelfth night
[II] The alchemist
[III] The duchess of Malfi
[IV] Edward II
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
[2] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
[4] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Answer: [2] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Q.23) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in eighteenth century England.
Statement II: Theatre had court patronage in and around London.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Q.24) The following statement is written by which of the authors given below:
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss”?
[1] Arundhati Roy
[2] Kiran Desai
[3] Shashi Tharoor
[4] Rohinton Mistry
Answer: [2] Kiran Desai
Q.25) Which among the following are true about the figures of speech?
[A] Figures based on sound – paronomasia
[B] Figures based on construction – zeugma
[C] Figures based on imagination – irony
[D] Figures based on association – chiasmus
[E] Figures based on indirectness – euphemism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and E only
[2] A, B and C only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] C, D and E only
Answer: [1] A, B and E only
Q.26) Sir David lyndsay’s satire of the three estatis is both
[1] Political and religious
[2] Political and secular
[3] Political and secular
[4] Political and religious
Answer: [1] Political and religious
Q.27) Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s postscript to The General in his labyrinth (1991) about Simon bolivar’s last and terrible journey to the Caribbean coast of Nueva Granada in 1830 is one of the finest examples of_________
[1] Reading archive and using its contents.
[2] Processing archival information for theoretical judgement.
[3] Irrelevance of archive for an artist.
[4] A novelist getting misguided by the archive.
Answer: [1] Reading archive and using its contents.
Q.28) “The elegy written in a country churchyard” is written in:
[1] Quatrains of ten syllable lines
[2] Octava and sestet
[3] Heroic couplet
[4] Alexandrines
Answer: [1] Quatrains of ten syllable lines
Q.29) The Aboriginal Australian poet, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem ‘we are going’ examines the impact of colonial conquest on aboriginal Australians with reference to:
[A] Loss of ‘bora ground’
[B] Loss of aboriginal identify
[C] Loss of new education
[D] Loss of primitive culture
[E] None of the above
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and D only
[2] C, D and E only
[3] A, B and C only
[4] A, C and D only
Answer: [1] A, B and D only
Q.30) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: In my remembered village (1976). M.N. Srinivas highlights the ethnographical details of a village, Rampura, near Mysore
Statement II: It also emphasizes on the importance of economic freedom of the masses required for their overall upliftment.
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: [3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect
Q.31) Which of the following statement hold true with respect to Alexander pope’s essay on criticism”?
[A] It is “an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry”.
[B] It presents “a series of generalizations about good taste”.
[C] It explores the challenges of impartial and just criticism.
[D] It underlines the traits of “the good critic”.
[E] It critically reflects on Plato’s rejection of poetry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] B and C only
[3] A, B, C and E only
[4] B, C and D only
Answer: [4] B, C and D only
Q.32) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Cornelia Sorabji
[B] Krupabai Santhinatha
[C] Raj Lakshmi Debi
[D] Kamala Markandaya
List II
[I] Between the twilights
[II] The Hindu wife
[III] Nector in a sieve
[IV] Saguna, a story of native Christian life
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
[2] A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
[3] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
[4] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
Answer: [4] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
Q.33) Which of the following authors have been correctly matched with their works?
[A] Malcom Bradbury – The history of man
[B] William Golding – Rites of passage
[C] Seamus Heaney – Darkness visible
[D] Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
[E] Molly Keane – The Norman conquests
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and E only
[2] B, C and E only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] A, B and D only
Answer: [4] A, B and D only
Q.34) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Roland Barthes believes that the author is “the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology”.
Statement II: Walter Benjamin, in his the storyteller, observes that every real story has something useful in it.
In light of the above statement, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [1] Both statement I and statement II are true
Q.35) Which of the following are applicable to the term ‘Carnival’?
[A] It became important through the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin.
[B] It means the way in which popular humour subverts official authority in classical, medieval and renaissance texts and culture.
[C] It overturns the established hierarchy and sets up a popular and democratic counterculture.
[D] It brings out the serious elements in literature.
[E] It is used as a critical tool for interpretation of poetry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] A and B only
[3] B and C only
[4] A and C only
Answer: [1] A, B and C only
Q.36) Women of Palestine (1982) and Indian women in struggle (1980) deal with:
[1] Women’s religious and familial issues
[2] Female militancy and political involvement
[3] Women’s struggle at their workplace
[4] Women’s reproductive rights
Answer: [2] Female militancy and political involvement
Q.37) Identify the correct one from the following:
[A] Bharti Mukherjee’s novels display split in the diasporic subjects.
[B] Rohinton Mistry belongs to the community of parsies that field to India from Persia to escape Islamic persecution.
[C] Sujata Bhat recalls home as a nostalgic memory and longs intensely for it.
[D] Farrukh dhondy connects Delhi and New York to discuss the diasporic experiences.
[E] Sharath Chandra in his poem, ‘In the third country,” wishes to die in India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and D only
[2] A, B and C only
[3] A, D and E only
[4] B, C and E only
Answer: [2] A, B and C only
Q.38) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Jerome k. Jerome’s Three Men in a boat (1889) is hurthorous and journalistic in form.
Statement II: It is about three young men and their dog on a holiday.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
Q.39) Who among the following is the author of The Steele glass?
[1] The earl of surrey
[2] Thomas Sackville
[3] George Gascoigne
[4] Edmund Spenser
Answer: [3] George Gascoigne
Q.40) Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha was originally written in ____
[1] French
[2] Russian
[3] English
[4] German
Answer: [4] German
Q.41) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Indian English novelists witnessed a warm reception of their writings in Europe, and they proliferated well in India during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Statement II: The two world wars added an overall sense of gloom and civilizational crisis across the globe, especially in Europe.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
[1] Both statement I and statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [1] Both statement I and statement II are true
Q.42) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Karl Marx
[B] Levi-Strauss
[C] Michel Foucault
[D] Jean Paul Sartre
List II
[I] Madness and civilization
[II] Being and nothingness
[III] The German ideology
[IV] The elementary structures of kinship
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
[2] A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
[3] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
[4] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Answer: [1] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Q.43) The voyage and travail of sir john Mandeville was written in ___
[1] Queens English
[2] Northumbrian dialect
[3] Midland dialect
[4] Cockney
Answer: [3] Midland Dialect
Q.44) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Stephen spender
[B] W.H. Auden
[C] John Masefield
[D] Edward Thomas
List II
[I] Cargoes
[II] Consider
[III] Adlestrop
[IV] The pylons
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[2] A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
[3] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
[4] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Answer: [2] A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Q.45) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Siddhant Dhanvant Shanghvi
[B] Advaita kala
[C] Amrit Shetty
[D] Anuja Chauhan
List II
[I] Almost single
[II] Love over coffee
[III] The Zoya factor
[IV] The lost flamingoes of Bombay
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
[2] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[3] A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
[4] A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Answer: [4] A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Q.46) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.
Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of “truth”.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct 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: [1] Both statement I and statement II are correct
Q.47) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The term ‘Negative capability’ was coined by john Keats.
Statement II: While analysing the term ‘Dissociation of sensibility’, T.S. Eliot proclaims that hamlet is an artistic failure.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and statement Ii are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
Q.48) Which among the following are correct?
[A] George lamming – Barbados
[B] Ben Okri – Nigeria
[C] Fred D Aguiar – Australia
[D] Wilson Harris – Guyana
[E] Zulfikar Ghose – India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, C and D only
[2] B, C and D only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] A, B and D only
Answer: [4] A, B and D only
Q.49) Which of the following are correct:
[A] Roddy Doyle – The barrytown trilogy
[B] Abraham stoker – Confessions of an Irish rebel
[C] C. S. Lewis – The chronicles of narmia
[D] Brendan Behan – Dracula
[E] Eoin colfer – Artemis fowl
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, C and E only
[2] A, B and D only
[3] A, C and D only
[4] C, D and E only
Answer: [1] A, C and E only
Q.50) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] “Bricolage”
[B] “Dasein”
[C] “Parapraxes”
[D] “Polyphony”
List II
[I] Martin Heidegger
[II] Sigmund Freud
[III] Levi- Strauss
[IV] Mikhail Bakhtin
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
[2] A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
[3] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[4] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: [4] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Q.51) Which of the following are true in the context of “phenomenology”
[A] It is “a form of methodological idealism” which seeks to explore ‘human consciousness’.
[B] As a philosophical method, it was developed by Edmund Husserl.
[C] Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
[D] Martin Heidegger’s approach is ‘essentialist’.
[E] Text is considered purely as an embodiment of the authors conciousness.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B, C and D only
[2] B, C and D only
[3] A, B, C and E only
[4] C, D and E only
Answer: [3] A, B, C and E only
Q.52) Which of the following are novels of Irvine welsh?
[A] The acid house
[B] Trainspotting
[C] Beside the ocean of time
[D] Filth
[E] Maris Belfrage
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] B, D and E only
[2] A, B and C only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] A, B and D only
Answer: [4] A, B and D only
Q.53) The following statement is given by which of the below mentioned critics?
‘I was indignant: I demanded an explanation, nothing happened. I burst apart’.
[1] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
[2] Homi K Bhabha
[3] Stuart Hall
[4] Frantz fanon
Answer: [4] Frantz Fanon
Q.54) Derek Alton Walcott in the poem ‘The sea is history’ makes a parallel between
[1] Evolution of mankind and nature
[2] Evolution of human history and religion
[3] Evolution of paganism and Christianity
[4] Evolution of Christianity and slavery of the blacks
Answer: [4] Evolution of Christianity and slavery of the blacks
Q.55) Abt Vogler is authored by
[1] Matthew Arnold
[2] Robert browning
[3] A. L. Tennyson
[4] None of the above
Answer: [2] Robert browning
Q.56) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
Q.57) In kannada literature, ‘vachana movement’ addressed
[1] Progressive values
[2] Vedic themes
[3] Vedantic thoughts
[4] Upanishadic ideas
Answer: [1] Progressive values
Q.58) Who among the following considers a text as a ‘site of struggle between authority and popular culture”?
[1] Roland Barthes
[2] Northrop Frye
[3] Mikhail Bakhtin
[4] Michel Foucault
Answer: [3] Mikhail Bakhtin
Q.59) Identify the postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing ‘Euro-centrism’?
[A] Homi Bhabha
[B] Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
[C] Abdul Jan Mohammad
[D] Edward said
[E] Amie Cesaire
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B, C and D only
[2] A, B and C only
[3] B, C, D and E only
[4] C, D and E only
Answer: [1] A, B, C and D only
Q.60) Emblems by Francis quarries is:
[1] A commentary on homer’s lliad
[2] A commentary on a volume of biblical illustrations
[3] A commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid
[4] A commentary on Thomas Moore’s utopia
Answer: [2] A commentary on a volume of biblical illustrations
Q.61) Who defined ‘hamartia’ as ‘tragic flaw’?
[1] Aristotle
[2] Dr. Samuel Johnson
[3] Matthew Arnold
[4] A.C. Bradley
Answer: [1] Aristotle
Q.62) Which of the following is applicable to ‘new criticism’?
[A] It draws considerably from the works of I.A. Richards and the critical essays of T.S Eliot
[B] Some of its concepts are pre-empted by F.R. Leavis.
[C] It distinguishes between literary and scientific usage of language.
[D] It encourages an extensive exploration of the contextual and autobiographical background.
[E] It vouches for a historical analysis of a text.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] B, E and D only
[3] A, C and D only
[4] B and D only
Answer: [1] A, B and C only
Q.63) Who has used the term ‘bowling alone’ to describe the erosion of community ties in the United States?
[1] Frank furedi
[2] Zygmunt Bauman
[3] Robert bellah
[4] Robert Putnam
Answer: [4] Robert Putnam
Q.64) Which of the following statements are true about Ethnographic research method?
[A] It enables the exploration of the consumption of literature within defined social and historical settings.
[B] Janice A. Radway’s reading the romance (1984) is one of the first examples of the use of ethnographic research methodology.
[C] It is perceived as an act of uncovering an objective reality.
[D] Reading national geographic (1993) by Catherine A. Lutz and jane L. Collins makes effective use of ethnographic research method to find out the role of the magazine national geographic in moulding Americans awareness of the world beyond the United States.
[E] It focuses more on objective data than subjective interpretation of the materials.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and E only
[2] A and C only
[3] A, B and C only
[4] A, B, C and D only
Answer: [4] A, B, C and D only
Q.65) Who among the following is exclusively associated with diary writing in English?
[1] Samuel Pepys
[2] Samuel Johnson
[3] Ben Johnson
[4] Samuel Richardson
Answer: [1] Samuel Pepys
Q.66) Which of the following statements are true about reader response criticism?
[A] It challenges the nation that the meaning is located within the text.
[B] It refutes that the author is the originator of meaning.
[C] It sees the reader as a source of meaning.
[D] It treats the text as self sufficient.
[E] It appreciates the texts that are historical.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] A and C only
[3] A, B and C only
[4] B, D and E only
Answer: [1] A and B only & [2] A and C only & [3] A, B and C only
Q.67) Marge Piercy’s novel woman on the edge of time (1976) is based on-
[1] Shulamith firestone’s The Dialectic of sex
[2] Margaret Atwood’s The handmaid’s tale
[3] Lewis caroll’s Alice in wonderland
[4] Donna Haraway’s A cyborg manifesto
Answer: [1] Shulamith firestone’s The Dialectic of sex
Q.68) When did T.B. Macaulay present his ‘minutes on education’ advocating English education in India?
[1] 12th March 1835
[2] 2nd February 1835
[3] 22nd January 1835
[4] 5th May 1835
Answer: [2] 2nd February 1835
Q.69) Which of the following works is set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in Mexico?
[1] The power and the glory
[2] For whom the bell tolls
[3] In our time
[4] All of the above
Answer: [1] The power and the glory
Q.70) Which of the following is NOT a method of data analysis?
[1] Qualitative method
[2] Quantitative method
[3] Mixed method
[4] Subjective method
Answer: [4] Subjective method
Q.71) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the tory political ideology.
Statement II: Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [1] Both statement I and Statement II are true
Q.72) Dev virahsawmy’s toufann is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play ___
[1] Hamlet
[2] Macbeth
[3] The twelfth night
[4] The tempest
Answer: [4] The tempest
Q.73) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Yasmine Gunaratna
[B] Imtiyaz dharkar
[C] Agha shahid Ali
[D] Eunice de Souza
List II
[I] Post card from Kashmir
[II] Advice to women
[III] Post card from God
[IV] This language, this woman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
[2] A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
[3] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[4] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: [2] A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Q.74) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] The empire writes back
[B] Nation and narration
[C] Culture and imperialism
[D] The twice born fiction
List II
[I] 1990
[II] 1993
[III] 1989
[IV] 1971
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
[2] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
[4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Answer: [2] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Q.75) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Acharnians
[B] Clouds
[C] Lysistrata
[D] Wasps
List II
[I] Government by women
[II] Attack on parties involved in war
[III] Criticism of the new ‘spirit of philosophical inquiry’
[IV] An attack on demagogues
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
[2] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
[3] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
[4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Answer: [4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Q.76) Which of these books are written by Nirad C Chaudhuri?
[A] The continent of Circe
[B] Principal Upanishads
[C] A passage to England
[D] Our new rulers
[E] The autobiography of an unknown Indian
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] B, C and D only
[2] C, D and E only
[3] A, C and E only
[4] A, B and D only
Answer: [3] A, C and E only
Q.77) Which of the following are representative texts of ‘Gynocriticism?
[A] Patricial Meyer spacks’ The female imagination
[B] Mary Ellman’s Thinking about women
[C] Sandra gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The madwoman in the attic
[D] Ellen moer’s literary women
[E] Kate Millett’s sexual politics
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] A, B and C only
[3] B, D and E only
[4] A, C and D only
Answer: [4] A, C and D only
Q.78) Gaiutra bahadur is a ______ writer.
[1] Mauritian
[2] Fijian
[3] Trinidadian
[4] Guyanese
Answer: [4] Guyanese
Q.79) Who among the following is associated with the term ‘Intentional fallacy’ in literary criticism?
[1] W.K. Wimsatt
[2] Rolland Barthes
[3] J. Hillis miller
[4] John Keats
Answer: [1] W.K. Wimsatt
Q.80) Uttararamacharita by____ is based on Valmiki’s Ramayana.
[1] Bhasa
[2] Bhavabhuti
[3] Bharavi
[4] Kalidasa
Answer: [2] Bhavabhuti
Q.81) What are the points of convergence between Derrida and Barthes?
[A] Both believe in the endless play in language and literary texts.
[B] Both conclude that the meaning of a text is not final.
[C] Both construe that language has retrospective power.
[D] They believe that no meaning is reliable.
[E] They believe that “the relationship between words, meanings and texts are intrinsic to meaning rather than the word itself”.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B, D and E only
[2] A, B, C and D only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] C, D and E only
Answer: [1] A, B, D and E only
Q.82) Brij V, Lal’s Rama ‘s banishment deals with the history of Fiji of a time period of ________.
[1] 50 Years
[2] 100 Years
[3] 150 Years
[4] 200 Years
Answer: [3] 150 Years
Q.83) Hudibras of Samuel butler reflects on the revolt against:
[1] Puritanism
[2] Hellenism
[3] Humanism
[4] Anglicanism
Answer: [1] Puritanism
Q.84) Identify the correct ones among the following:
[A] The dramatic monologue ensures the reciprocal dialogue of the narrator.
[B] The nineteenth century poets fully exploited the poetic form of dramatic monologue
[C] The poetry of experience by Robert langbaum outlines a discussion on dramatic monologue
[D] The linguistic pragmatics make the narcissistic speaker of dramatic monologue speak exclusively
[E] The speaker and the listener in the dramatic monologues of Robert browning share the same pedestal of communication.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] B, C and D only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] B, D and E only
Answer: [2] B, C and D only
Q.85) Which of the following are NOT by Rabindranath Tagore?
[A] Visarjan
[B] Chandalika
[C] Muktadhara
[D] Parineeta
[E] Punarnava
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] B and C only
[3] D and E only
[4] A and C only
Answer: [3] D and E only
Q.86) Which of the following are the premises of past colonial criticism?
[A] It rejects the claims of universalism made in the canonical western literature.
[B] It foregrounds the questions of cultural difference and diversity as represented in literary texts.
[C] It acts on the principles of peaceful co-existence.
[D] It celebrates ‘hybridity’ and ‘cultural polyvalency’
[E] It resists any attempt at homogenization based on race, class and nationality.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and D only
[2] A, B, D and E only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] C and D only
Answer: [2] A, B, D and E only
Q.87) Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
[A] Mythologies
[B] Of grammatology
[C] Culture and society
[D] Blindness and insight
[E] The location of culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B, C, D, E
[2] A. C, B, D, E
[3] D, B, C, A, E
[4] B, C, D, A, E
Answer: [2] A. C, B, D, E
Q.88) Which one is correctly matched?
[1] Heathcliff – Mansfield Park
[2] Maggie Tulliver – The mill on the floss
[3] Josiah Bounderby – Wuthering height
[4] Fanny price – Hard times
Answer: [2] Maggie Tulliver – The mill on the floss
Q.89) Which of these is related exclusively with Jacques Lacan?
[A] Real
[B] Id
[C] Symbolic
[D] Ego
[E] Imaginary
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] B and D only
[3] C and E only
[4] A and E only
Answer: [3] C and E only & [4] A and E only
Q.90) According to Gerard Genette, which of the following are types of narrators?
[A] Extradiegetic
[B] Heterodiegetic
[C] Intradiegetic
[D] Homodiegetic
[E] Intradiegetic
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] B and D only
[2] A and B only
[3] C and D only
[4] A and E only
Answer: [1] B and D only & [2] A and B only & [3] C and D only
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature – this transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms. It will be good literary art not because it is brilliant or sober, or rich, or impulsive, or severe, but just in proportion as its representation of that sense, that soul fact is true, verse being only one department of such literature, and imaginative prose, it may be thought, being the special art of the modern world, that imaginative prose should be the special and opportune art of the modern world results from two important facts about the latter: first the chaotic variety and complexity of its interests, making the intellectual issue. The really master currents of the present time incalculable- a condition of mind little susceptible of the restraint proper to verse form, so that the most characteristic verse of the nineteenth century has been lawless verse, and secondly, an all pervading naturalism, a curiosity about everything whatever, as it really is involving a certain humility of attitude, cognate to what must, after all, be the less ambitious form of literature. And prose thus asserting itself as the special and privileged artistic faculty of the present day, will be however critics may try to narrow its scope, as varied in its excellence as humanity itself reflecting on the facts of its latest experience – an instrument of many stops, meditative, observant descriptive, eloquent, analytic, plaintive. Fervid.
Q.91. Which of the following is closest to what the author means by ‘less ambitious form of literature’?
[1] Literature responsive to heightened state of human perception
[2] Imaginative literature
[3] Artistic literature
[4] Poetry without form and diction
Answer: [1] Literature responsive to heightened state of human perception
Q.92) Artistic literature is the representation of:
[1] Facts enhanced by creative illusions
[2] Facts transformed by human predilection in an array of forms
[3] Facts arranged by political reflection
[4] Complex and natural instincts of a poet
Answer: [2] Facts transformed by human predilection in an array of forms
Q.93) In the above passage, Walter horalio pater’s statement, ‘imaginative prose should be special’ implies.
[1] Abstract language
[2] Environmental crisis
[3] Intellectual complexities
[4] Metaphorical functions
Answer: [3] Intellectual complexities
Q.94) According to the author, prose should be:
[1] Socio-political
[2] Subjective
[3] As varied as human experience
[4] As visual as other art forms
Answer: [3] As varied as human experience
Q.95) Which of these expressions closely represent the meaning of ‘fervid’?
[1] Feeling nostalgic
[2] Portraying feelings that are too strong
[3] Riding strong feelings
[4] Expressing humility of attitude
Answer: [2] Portraying feelings that are too strong
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
SMOKE
Light – winged smoke! Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight:
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest:
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight, vision gathering up thy skirts:
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun:
Go thou, my incence, upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame,
Henry David Thoreau
Q.96) Why does the poet seek pardon from the gods?
[1] The singing birds disrupt the peace of the forest
[2] The earth is full of peace and tranquility
[3] The speaker admits sin of setting the fire
[4] The narrator is over enthusiastic
Answer: [3] The speaker admits sin of setting the fire
Q.97) The poem deals with ____
[1] Fire in the forest
[2] Fire in the city
[3] Fire on the ship
[4] Fire in the village
Answer: [4] Fire in the village
Q.98) In the first line of the poem, ‘Icarian bird’ connotes______
[1] Short of ambition
[2] Pride
[3] Destruction
[4] Waxen wing
Answer: Short of ambition
Q.99) Which figure of speech is implicit in ‘light winged smoke!’?
[1] Apostraphe
[2] Simile
[3] Oxymoron
[4] Hyperbole
Answer: [1] Apostraphe
Q.100) The word ‘lark’ in the third line means______
[1] Laugh
[2] Escape
[3] Giggle
[4] Skylark
Answer: [4] Skylark
