Q.1) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I		LIST II
A.	Langue	I.	Meaning conveyed
B.	Parole	II.	Socially shared language
C.	Signifier	III.	Speech
D.	Signified	IV.	Word

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV

4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Answer:

Q.2) Which of the following assertions is not true with respect to cultural intermediaries?

1) The term cultural intermediaries was introduced by the French cultural theorist pierce Bourdieu.

2) Cultural intermediaries mediate between the production of cultural events and its consumers

3) Promotional materials do not constitute cultural intermediaries

4) Fan clubs are cultural intermediaries

Answer:

Q.3) The Birth of Tragedy from the spirit of music by Friedrich Nietzsche.

A) Examines the origins and development of poetry, specifically Greek tragedy.
B) Argues the Socratic rationalism and optimism led to the death of Greek tragedy.
C) Examines the origin of music and dance in ancient Greece
D) Argue that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusion of Apollonian and Dionysian elements.
E) Argues that the music is the spirit of tragedy.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, B, D only

2) A, C, E only

3) B, D, E only

4) B, C, D only

Answer:

Q.4) Arrange the works of Toni Morrison in the order of chronology of their publication.

A) Jazz
B) Beloved
C) In Bluest Eye
D) Song of Solomon
E) Tar Baby

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, E, C, D, B

2) D, C, E, B, A

3) C, D, E, B, A

4) E, D, A, B, C

Answer:

Q.5) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Concept/Theory		LIST II Developed By
A.	Polysystem Theory	I.	Ernest August Gutt
B.	Relevance Theory	II.	Hans J. Vermeer
C.	Skopos Theory	III.	Itamar Enen Zohar
D.	Covert Translation	IV.	Juliane House

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

3) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

4) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

Answer:

Q.6) Chronologically arrange the Rudiom playwrights in order of their birth.

A) Asif Currimbhoy
B) Nissim Ezekiel
C) Cyrus Mistry
D) Mahesh Dattani
E) Gurcharan Das

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, D, E, C, B

2) D, B, C, E, A

3) A, E, D, B, C

4) B, A, E, C, D

Answer:

Q.7) Which text is considered to be the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal author?

1) Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

2) David Unaipon’s Native Legends

3) Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s We are going

4) Doris Pilkington Garimara’s Caprice; A stockman’s daughter

Answer:

Q.8) Which of the following is not a Dalit narrative written by Perumal Murugan?

1) Tirukkural: The Book of Desire

2) Poonachi

3) One Part Woman

4) Pyre

Answer:

Q.9) Friendship’s Garland (187

1) is a sequel to which one of the following works by Mathew Arnold?

1) Culture an Anarchy

2) Essays in Criticism

3) One the study of Celtic Literature

4) Literature and Dogma

Answer:

Q.10) Who among the following were not associated with Kit-Cat Club?

A) George Etherege
B) Richard Steele
C) Samuel Johnson
D) William Congreve
E) Joseph Addison

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B and D only

2) B and E only

3) A and C only

4) D and E only

Answer:

Q.11) Phonetics refers to.

A) Production of speech sounds
B) Reception of speech sounds
C) Transmission of speech sounds
D) Pattern of speech sounds
E) Word Formation

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and C only

2) B and D only

3) D and E only

4) A and D only

Answer:

Q.12) Place the following works in ascending order of their publication year.

A) Diamond Dust by Anita Desai
B) Breast-Giver by Mahashweta Devi
C) Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
D) Dream and Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott
E) Exile and the kingdom by albert Camus

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, B, C, D, E

2) E, D, C, B, A

3) D, B, C, A, E

4) B, C, A, D, E

Answer:

Q.13) Neo-Platonism was founded by.

A) Plato
B) Plotinus
C) Porphyry
D) Aristotle
E) Pythagoras
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and B only

2) C and D only

3) B and C only

4) D and E only

Answer:

Q.14) Who among the following wrote “Plan of a novel”?

1) E.M. Forster

2) D.H. Lawrance

3) Jane Austen

4) Thomas Hardy

Answer:

Q.15) Who wrote the poem “Poem in Praise of Menstruation”?

1) Gloria Steinem

2) Seamus Heaney

3) Francis Thompson

4) Lucille Clifton

Answer:

Q.16) Three satirical stories by W.M. Thackeray portraying unhappy marriage and exploitation of one partner by the order, are titled as.

1) Men’s Wives

2) Wives’ Husbands

3) Wife and Husband

4) Wife without a Husband

Answer:

Q.17) In the postmodern condition Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives. The one whose death he above all sought to declare was…

1) Hegelian spirit

2) Christian Redemption

3) Keynesian Equilibrium

4) Classical Socialism

Answer:

Q.18) Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of R.K. Narayan in order of their publication?

A) The Vendor of Sweets
B) The Bachelor of Arts
C) The English Teacher
D) The Guide
E) The Financial Expert

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, D, B, E, C

2) C, B, D, A, E

3) B, C, E, D, A

4) E, A, B, C, D

Answer:

Q.19) Arrange the following plays in order of their publication.

A) Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
B) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
C) Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf? By Edward Albee
D) The iceman cometh by Eugene O’Neil
E) Twelve Angry Man by Reginald Rose

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, D, E, B, C

2) A, C, B, E, D

3) D, C, B, A, E

4) D, B, A, E, C

Answer:

Q.20) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Australian Aboriginal Text		LIST II Author
A.	Wahngin Country	I.	Alexis Wright
B.	Plains of Promise	II.	Jack Davis
C.	My Place	III.	Anita Heiss
D.	Not Meeting Mr. Right	IV.	Sally Morgan

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

3) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

4) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV

Answer:

Q.21) A manuscript having an overlap with earlier papers by the same authors or by some of the present authors is termed as.

1) Plagiarism

2) Self-Plagiarism

3) Intersexuality

4) Multiple references

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Q.22) Chronologically arrange the financial writings of Margaret Atwood?

A) Edible Woman
B) The Handmaid’s Tale
C) The Blind Assassin
D) Lady Oracle
E) The Robbers Bride

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, C, A, E, D

2) D, B, C, A, E

3) E, A, D, C, B

4) A, D, B, E, C

Answer:

Q.23) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Event		LIST II Year
A.	International year of the World’s Indigenous People	I.	1998
B.	Australian Parliament formally apologized to the stolen generation	II.	1993
C.	Formal end of white Australian policy	III.	1973
D.	The first National Sorry Day	IV.	2008

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

3) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

4) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I

Answer:

Q.24) Wittgenstein’s statement, Limits of language defines limits of thought me

A) The structure of language defines its meaning
B) Intended meaning defines structure of language
C) That which can be defined meaningfully can be thought
D) Structure and meaning are independent of each other
E) Thought precedes language

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and C only

2) A and B only

3) D and E only

4) C and D only

Answer:

Q.25) The Latin epic Aeneid by Virgil?

A) Incorporates various legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness.
B) Relates the story of the legendary founding of Rome.
C) Relates the story of the legendary founding of Lavinium
D) Recounts the story of Aeneas journey in the first 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are patterned after Homer’s Odyssey
E) Recounts the story of Aeneas journey in the last 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are patterned after Homer’s Odyssey

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, C and D only

2) A, B and D only

3) A, D and E only

4) A, C and E only

Answer:

Q.26) Who among the following women writers wrote the first female Dalit autobiography?

1) Sharmila Rege

2) Urmila Pawar

3) Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble

4) Meena Kandasamy

Answer:

Q.27) Which of the following assumption is not true with regard to Lacan’s concept/theory of standpoint?

A) It assumes that social position can provide privileged perspective on some relation and knowledge.
B) It argues that those who are marginalised or oppressed may have access to insights and perceptions that dominant group lacks
C) It refers to a situation in which the oppressed class s destined to lose the class consciousness.
D) It suggests that the perspectives of those on the margins of society cannot help to understand social dynamics.
E) The theory is based on the idea that social contradictions and political struggle can shape counter-hegemonic norms.

Answer:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and C only

2) D and E only

3) B and C only

4) C and D only

Answer:

Q.28) The key principles of research design brought together in material on measurement principles, sampling and case study, survey and experimentation is termed as.

1) Research Methodology

2) Research Methods

3) Research Techniques

4) Research Designs

Answer:

Q.29) The term post-modernism was used in 1917 by German philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz to describe.

1) Nihilism of 20th century’s western culture

2) Communism as system of Governance

3) Decline of Oligarchies

4) Epistemic Violence

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Q.30) Which one of the following statements about Booker Prize is not correct?

1) A prestigious British award given annually to a full-length novel

2) Eligible writers shall belong to the United Kingdom and the commonwealth countries

3) It was established in 1968 by booker McDonald, a multinational company

4) It was established to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France.

Answer:

Q.31) The term abstract poem.

A) was coined by Edith Sitwell
B) refers to a poem in which words are chosen for their aural quality
C) refers to a poem in which words re chosen for imagery and symbolism
D) was coined by W.H. Auden
E) refers to a poem in which word are not specifically used for their sense/meaning.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, C, D only

2) A, B, E, only

3) A, C, E only

4) C, D, E only

Answer:

Q.32) Women in love is a sequel to which one of the following novels by D.H. Lawrance?

1) Lady chatter’s lover

2) The White Peacock

3) Sons and Lovers

4) The Rainbow

Answer:

Q.33) Chronologically arrange the Anglo-Indian writers in order of their birth?

A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Michael Madhusudan Dutta
C) Manmohan Ghose
D) Henry Derezio
E) Toru Datt

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) C, E, A, B, D

2) D, B, E, C, A

3) B, D, C, E, A

4) A, E, B, D, E

Answer:

Q.34)Chronologically arrange the novels of Salman Rushdie in order publications?

A) Fury
B) Midnight’s children
C) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
D) The Moor’s Last Sigh
E) Grimus

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, C, A, D, E

2) E, B, D, C, A

3) A, E, B, C, D

4) D, B, C, E, A

Answer:

Q.35)M.H. Abram’s The Mirror and the Lamp, Romantic theory and the Critical Tradition.

A) describe 18th century English Literature as mirror
B) describe 19th century English Literature as Lamp
C) describe 19th century English Literature as mirror
D) the metaphor of mirror is used to describe literature as a cool intellectual reflection of outward realities.
E) the metaphor of mirror is used to describe literature as an illumination shed by artists upon their inner and outer worlds.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) C, D, E only

2) C, D, A only

3) A, B, D only

4) A, B, E only

Answer:

Q.36) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Author		LIST II Nobel Prize Year
A.	Wole Soyinka	I.	1991
B.	Nadine Gordimer	II.	1993
C.	Derek Walcott	III.	2003
D.	J.M. Coetzee	IV.	986

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I

2) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

4) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

Answer:

Q.37 Absalom, Absalom! is.

1) a novel by William Faulkner

2) a satirical poem by John Dryden

3) a drama by G.B Shaw

4) a poem by P.B Shelley

Answer:

Q.38) Identify the name of the essayist who made the following assertion.
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

1) Richard Hooker

2) Sir Francis Bacon

3) Sir Richard Steele

4) Joseph Addison

Answer:

Q.39) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Novel		LIST II Novelist
A.	Delinquent Chacha	I.	Rohinton Mistry
B.	Tales from Firozsha Baag	II.	Ved Prakash Mehta
C.	Beethoven Among the Cows	III.	Gita Hariharan
D.	A thousand faces of night	IV.	Rukun Advani

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

2) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

Answer:

Q.40) In his work, The dialogic imagination Mikhail Bakhtin.

A) develops theory of polyphony.
B) postulates that language is imaginary
C) postulates that language evolves dynamically
D) argues that languages get affected by the culture that produces it as it helps to shape that culture
E) develops theory of imaginative language.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, D, E only

2) A, C, D only

3) A, B, D only

4) C, D, E only

Answer:

Q.41) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Disability Narrative		LIST II Writer
A.	A Room Called Earth	I.	Won Pyung Sohn
B.	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow	II.	Padma Venkaraman
C.	A Time to Dance	III.	Medeleine Ryan
D.	Almond: A Novel	IV.	Gabrielle Zevin

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

3) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

4) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

Answer:

Q.42) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I (Particulate Matter Terms)		LIST II (Explanation)
A.	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star	I.	William Miller
B.	Wee Willie Winkie	II.	Jane and Ann Taylor
C.	Mary had a little lamb	III.	Sarah Catherine Martin
D.	Old Mother Hubbard	IV.	Sarah Josepha Hale

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

2) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I

3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV

4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Answer:

Q.43) John Dryden’s of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay is written in the form of a dialogue between Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents.

1) Alexander Pope

2) John Dryden

3) Sir Robert Howard

4) Charles Sackville

Answer:

Q.44) In Long Revolution, Raymond Williams conducted a long-range study of 350 canonical writers drawn from the Oxford introduction to English literature for the period.

1) 1789-1950

2) 1764-1939

3) 1450-1914

4) 1470-1920

Answer:

Q.45) Which one of the following is not a screen adaption of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors?

1) The boys from Syracuse

2) Angoor

3) Do Dooni Char

4) Love in a Wood

Answer:

Q.46) Which among the following is said to be the first fiction magazine (created by Hugo Gernsback)?

1) Time and the Conways

2) Henceforward

3) New Worlds

4) Amazing Stories

Answer:

Q.47) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I		LIST II
A.	Heteroglossia	I.	deliberate foolishness / nonsense for effect
B.	Homosociality	II.	Diversity of languages used in Epics
C.	Mathnavi	III.	Same-sex relationships which are not necessarily sexual.
D.	Morology	IV.	long narrative epic or heroic poem in rhyming couplets

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

2) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

3) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

4) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

Answer:

Q.48) Who among the following wrote that.
“Poetry is not a branch of authorship it is the stuff of which one life is made. The rest is mere oblivion, a dead letter, for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

1) Mary Shelley

2) Charles Lamb

3) William Hazlitt

4) S.T. Coleridge

Answer:

Q.49) Who among the following is not associated with lesbian and gay studies?

A) Jane Rule
B) Jonathan Dollimore
C) John Wain
D) Elizabeth Jennings
E) Richard Dyer

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and E only

2) C and D only

3) B and C only

4) D and E only

Answer:

Q.50) Greek word polis refers to.

A) Social Structure
B) Political Structure
C) Legal Structure
D) City State
E) Barbarians

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B and D only

2) A and B only

3) B and C only

4) D and E only

Answer:

Q.51) Arrange the following Black American writers chronologically (in order of their birth)?

A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Langston Hughes
E) James Baldwin

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) D, A, E, C, B

2) D, E, A, B, C

3) E, A, D, B, C

4) E, A, B, C, D

Answer:

Q.52) Akkarmashi (The outcaste) is an autobiography of which one of the following Dalit writers?

1) Annabhau Sathe

2) Sharankumar Limbale

3) Anand Teltumde

4) Baby Kamble

Answer:

Q.53) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I		LIST II
A.	The Language Instinct	I.	Steven Pinker
B.	Reflection of Language	II.	Noam Chomsky
C.	Variety of language serving a specialized function in a multilingual community	III.	Creole/Creolization
D.	Existence of a common variety of language for people from different cultures	IV.	Diglossia

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

3) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

4) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

Answer:

Q.54) Plato viewed poetry as.

A) an limitation of reality
B) self-subsistent entity
C) distant from reality
D) manifestation of reality
E) life as experience in reality

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A and C only

2) B and D only

3) D and E only

4) A and E only

Answer:

Q.55) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I		LIST II
A.	On a Muggy night in Mumbai	I.	R. Raj Rao
B.	The Golden Gate	II.	Mahesh Duttani
C.	The Boyfriend	III.	Vikram Chandra
D.	Love and Longing in Bombay	IV.	Vikram Seth

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

3) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Answer:

Q.56) Which of the following assertions/assumptions are not true regarding cultures of space?

A) Space is about power to control access, representation and use.
B) Space is simply land or built-up area
C) The Space influences social relations and communities
D) Space is socially constructed through social relations
E) Space has nothing to do with everyday activities of people

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, B and C only

2) E and D only

3) B and E only

4) A and E only

Answer:

Q.57) Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in order of their production / publication.

A) Twelfth Night
B) The Taming of the shrew
C) Much Ado About Nothing
D) Romeo and Juliet
E) The Winter’s Tale

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) D, C, B, A, E

2) B, D, A, E, C

3) A, D, C, B, E

4) B, D, C, A, E

Answer:

Q.58) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Postcolonial term		LIST II Coined/Employed by
A.	othering	I.	The term employed by Robert Young
B.	Ecological imperialism	II.	Coined by Gayatri Spivak
C.	Colonial Desire	III.	Coined by Alfred W. Crosby
D.	Third Space	IV.	Coined by Homi K Bhabha

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

3) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

Answer:

Q.59) Arrange the following novels by Chinua Achebe in order of their publication.

A) A Man of the People
B) Things Fall Apart
C) Arrow of God
D) Anthills of Savanmah
E) No Longer at Ease

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) C, B, E, D, A

2) B, C, E, A, D

3) B, E, C, A, D

4) A, B, D, E, C

Answer:

Q.60) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Text		LIST II Author
A.	Critique of Judgements	I.	Martin Heidegger
B.	The Phenomenology of Spirit	II.	Sigmund Freud
C.	Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego	III.	Immanuel Kant
D.	The role of the university in the New Reich	IV.	G.W.F. Hegel

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

3) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-1

Answer:

Q.61) Big Daddy is fictional character in.

1) The novel Ninety Eighty-four by George Orwell

2) The play cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee William

3) The play look back in Anger by John Osborne

4) The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Answer:

Q.62) Which research treats physical and social world as objects based on standardized data?

1) Empirical

2) Action

3) Quantitative

4) Qualitative

Answer:

Q.63) Term Social fact and collective consciousness in the context of language were used by.

A) Franz Boas
B) Bloomfield
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Noam Chomsky
E) Saussure

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) C and E only

2) A and B only

3) B and C only

4) D and B only

Answer:

Q.64) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Term		LIST II Meaning
A.	Catastrophe	I.	The introductory part of a play or narrative poem
B.	Epitasis	II.	The final action that completes the unraveling of the plot in a play, especially a tragedy.
C.	Protasis	III.	The dramatic complication that immediately precedes the climax of the play
D.	Catastasis	IV.	The part of the play that develops the main action and that lends to the catastrophe.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Answer:

Q.65) Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I Poem		LIST II Indian Poet
A.	Night of the Scorpion	I.	Kamala Das
B.	Unfinished Poem	II.	A.K. Ramanujan
C.	The Looking Glass	III.	Eunice De Souza
D.	To a Friend Far away	IV.	Nissim Ezekiel

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

4) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

Answer:

Q.66) Who said that an author has no claim to original thought but only to apt presentation of what was already being thought by others?

1) Alexander Pope

2) Ezra Pound

3) Max Muller

4) Harold Bloom

Answer:

Q.67) Who among the following are writers of wordless graphic narratives?

A) Roy Fuller
B) Orijit Sen
C) Anthony Hecht
D) George Mathew Appupen
D) George Monbiot

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) D and E only

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Q.68) Chronologically arrange the following works in order of their publication.

A) Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
B) Martin Luther King’s 95 theses at Wittenberg
C) The first Book of common prayer by Thomas Crammer
D) Thomas More’s utopia
E) Machiavelli the Prince

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) E, D, B, A, C

2) A, C, B, E, D

3) E, B, C, A, D

4) D, A, B, C, E

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Q.69) Chronologically arrange the following in order of their publication / occurrence?

A) Caxton printed Malory’s Morte D’Arthur
B) Establishment of Caxton’s printing press
C) Gutenberg printed Bible in Mainz, Germany
D) Caxton’s History of Troy, first book printed in English
E) First translation of the Christian Bible into English by John Wycliff.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, E, D, C, A

2) C, B, E, A, D

3) E, C, D, B, A

4) D, A, B, C, E

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Q.70) Who wrote the book The History of European Languages?

1) Alexander Murrey

2) A.S. Diamond

3) William Jones

4) Bloomfield

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Q.71) From which book of john Milton’s poem paradise lost he epigraph of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein taken when Adam asks God. Did I request thee, maker from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee, from drankness to promote me?

1) Book I

2) Book II

3) Book X

4) Book XII

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Q.72) The term Collective unconsciousness.

A) was introduced by Sigmund Freud
B) was introduced by Carl Jung
C) Contains archetypes or universal primordial images and ideas
D) contains stereotypes and individual experiences stored in unconscious.
E) is used to describe the unconscious common to humanity as a whole that originates in the inherited structure of the brain.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, C, E only

2) B, C, E only

3) B, D, E only

4) C, D, E only

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Q.73) Which one of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen was described as an open sewer?

1) A Doll’s House

2) An Enemy of the people

3) Ghosts

4) The Wild Duck

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Q.74) The salient tendencies of Hellenistic philosophy are.

A) Cynicism
B) Epicureanism
C) Stoicism
D) Surrealism
E) Expressionism

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) A, B and E only

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Q.75) Who said that language is a system of signs whose parts and must be considered in their synchronic solidarity?

1) Saussure

2) Bloomfield

3) Roman Jakobson

4) Sigmund Freud

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Q.76) The property of research to replicate the same results using the same technique is termed as.

1) Validity

2) Reliability

3) Relevance

4) Coherence

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Q.77) Which one of the following novels by E.M. Forster is about homosexual love?

1) Howards End

2) A Room with a view

3) Maurice

4) Where Angles Fear to Tread

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Q.78) Hypothesis made during or after the research work is over, is known as.

1) Inductive hypothesis

2) Deductive Hypothesis

3) Null Hypothesis

4) Internal Hypothesis

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Q.79) Sequence the following works of Dostoyevsky in the order of their publication.

A) Notes from Underground
B) Crime and Punishment
C) The Idiot
D) The Brothers Karamazov
E) Poor Folk

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B, C, E, A, D

2) E, A, B, C, D

3) A, B, C, D, E

4) C, A, D, B, E

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Q.80) Who among the following American writers was the first Black American to become the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at he Library of Congress?

1) Kyra Davis

2) Meri Nana-Ama Domquah

3) Rita Francis Dove

4) Lucille Clifton

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Q.81) Which of the following is considered to be the first Indian novel in English?

1) Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Rajamohan’s Wife

2) Toru Dutt’s The Young Zamindar

3) K.K. Sinha’s Samjogita

4) K.K. Sinha’s The Star of Sikri

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Q.82) Arrange the following partition-based film in order of their release/production.

A) Garm Hawa
B) Tamas
C) Khamosh Pani
D) Chinnamul
E) Subarnarekha

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) D, E, A, B, C

2) E, D, B, A, C

3) A, B, D, E, C

4) A, D, E, B, C

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Q.83) Who made the following statements in defense of Santarasa the eight rasas are like eight gods, and the sant is like their highest entre Siva?

1) Bharat

2) Anandavardhan

3) Dandin

4) Abhinavgupta

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Q.84) Kai Po Che! is the screen adaption of which one of the following novels by Chetan Bhagat?

1) The 3 Mistakes of My life

2) Five point someone

3) Half Girlfriend

4) Two States

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Q.85) Which among the following texts are not written by Mary Wollstonecraft?

A) The Wrongs of Man
B) Vindication of the Rights of Man
C) Thoughts on the Education of Sons
D) Vindication of the rights of woman
E) The Wrongs of woman

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) B and D only

2) B and E only

3) D and E only

4) A and C only

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Q.86) Things as they are or the adventure of Caleb Williams was written as a call to end.

1) The abuse of workers by the industrialists

2) The abuse of masses by the Church

3) The abuse of power by a tyrannical government

4) The abuse of tenants by the landlords

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Q.87) Which one of the following English novels received Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2023?

1) Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gaur

2) All the lives we never lived by Anuradha Roy

3) The Blind lady’s descendants y Anees Salim

4) Chronicles of a corpse bearer by Cyrus Mistry

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Q.88) Sherlock Holmes, the greatest of all financial detectives, made his first appearance in which one of the following novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

1) Strand Magazine

2) A study in Scarlet

3) The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

4) The case-book of sherlock Holmes

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Q.89) Who among the following were associated with Metaphysical society founded in 1869 by sir James Knowles?

A) Robert Browning
B) T.H. Huxley
C) Alfred Tennyson
D) Mathew Arnold
E) William Gladstone

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1) A, B and C only

2) B, D and E only

3) C, D and E only

4) B, C and E only

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Q.90) Which one of the following plays mock the Restoration drama of Dryden and Thomas Otway?

1) The Beggar’s opera by john gay

2) Tom Thumb by henry fielding

3) The critic by R.B Sheridan

4) The Rehearsal by George Villiers

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Comprehension:
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets
towards your oceanic eyes.
There is the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames
its aims turning a drowning man’s.
I send out red signals across your absent eyes
that smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.
You keep only darkness, my distant female
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.
Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad nets
to that sea that thrashed by your oceanic eyes
The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you
The night gallops on its shadowy mare
shedding blue tassels over the land

Q.91) Identify the type of imagery used in the poem?

1) Natural Imagery

2) War Imagery

3) Urban Imagery

4) Metaphysical Imagery

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Q.92) What is the central theme of the poem?

1) Search for self

2) Love and longing

3) Self-fulfilment

4) Fate and destiny

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Q.93) Identify the mood of the poem.

1) Sombre

2) Sarcastic

3) Exhilarating

4) Nostalgic

Answer:

Q.94) The phrases oceanic eyes and absent eyes are the examples of.

1) Parallelism

2) Consonance

3) Anaphora

4) Dissonance

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Q.95) What does the phrase red signals sent out signify?

1) Passion/zest for life

2) Distress and desperation of speaker

3) Threatening signals

4) Hopefulness and warmth

Answer:

Comprehension: –
Suspicion amongst thoughts is like bat amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly, they are to be repressed, or at the least well-guarded: for they cloud the mind, they lease friends. And they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealously, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain, for they take place in the stoutest natures, as in the example of Henry the seventh of England. There was not a more suspicious man, nor a more stout. And in such a composition they do small hurt. For commonly they are not admitted. But with examination, whether they be likely or not. But in fearful natures they gain ground too fast. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. What would men have? Do they not think they will have their own ends, and be truer to themselves than to them? Therefore, there is no better way to moderate suspicions, than to account upon such suspicions as true, and yet to bridle them as false. For so far, a man ought to make use of suspicions, as to provide, as if that should true that he suspects, yet it may do him no hurt. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes, but suspicions, that are artificially nourished, and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of other, have strings. Certainly, the best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion, is frankly to communicate them with the party that he suspects. For thereby he shall be sure to know more of the truth of them than he did before, and withal shall make that party more circumspect not to give further cease of suspicion. But this would not be done to men of base natures, for they, if they find themselves once suspected, will never be true. The situation says, suspicion gives license to faith, as if suspicion did give a passport to faith but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself.

Q. 96) Which among the following is true in the context of given paragraph?

A) Henry the Seventh ruled ruthlessly for long time

B) Suspicion is a stepping stone to faith

C) Suspicion kills the layer of human spirit

D) Rulers should suppress suspicion of all forms.

Answer:

Q.97) What helps in eliminating suspicion?

1) Stout physique

2) Discussion and knowledge

3) Observation

4) Eternal alliance

Answer:

Q.98) What does the word guarded signify?

1) To protect

2) To possess

3) To keep under control

4) militaristic exercise

Answer:

Q.99) What is the primary theme of the paragraph?

1) the challenges of maintaining supremacy

2) the importance of personal relationships

3) perspectivising suspicion

4) to contrast between fearful and stout people

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Q.100) What tone does the passage predominantly convey?

1) Nostalgic and sentimental

2) Urgent and alarmed

3) Detached and reflective

4) Suspenseful and dramatic

Answer: