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1. The term ‘Subaltern’ in the
Post-Colonial context was first used by
1) Raymond Williams
2) Frantz Fanon
3) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
4) Antonio Gramsci
Answer - 4)
Antonio Gramsci
2. Which Poet wrote the line
“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” which subtly expresses the postmodern
unexpressibility?
1) Ezra Pound
2) Gertrude
Stein
3) E.E.Cummings
4) Pablo Neruda
Answer - 2)
Gertrude Stein
Her
poem - "Sacred Emily" (1913)
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Loveliness extreme.
Extra gaiters.
Loveliness extreme.
Sweetest ice-cream.
Page ages page ages page ages.
Wiped Wiped wire wire.
3. Which play of Mahesh
Dattani deals with Hindu-Muslim conflict in India?
1) Final Solutions
2) Dance Like a Man
3) Bravely Fought the Queen
4) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
Answer - 1)
Final Solutions
4. Which work is based on the
Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
1) Amulya Malladi’s The Mango Season
2) C.K. Janu’s Mother Forest
3) Indra Sinha’s
Animal’s People
4) Arundhathi Roy’s The Cost
of Living
Answer - 3)
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
5. Who coined the phrase “The
medium is the message”?
1) Raymond Williams
2) Richard Dyer
3) Marshall
McLuhan
4) Charles Babbage
Answer - 3) Marshall McLuhan
6. Which country is the
background of the novel Shame by Salman Rushdie?
1) India
2) Pakistan
3) Taiwan
4) Bangladesh
Answer - 2) Pakistan (Q – Quetta)
7. Which poet was glorified by
García Márquez as the greatest poet of the 20th century, in any language?
1) Octavio Paz
2) Jorge Luis Borges
3) Carlos Drummond de Andrade
4) Pablo Neruda
Answer - 4) Pablo Neruda
8. Which writer is closely
associated with the Harlem Renaissance Movement?
1) Claude McKay
2) Malcolm X
3) Alex Haley
4) Alice Walker
Answer - 1) Claude McKay
Harlem Renaissance Movement was known as the "New Negro
Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
9. Who is the author of The
Testament of Beauty?
1) Robert
Bridges
2) W.B. Yeats
3) John Masefield
4) T. S. Eliot
Answer - 1) Robert Bridges
10. James Joyce's Ulysses is
based on the pattern of :
1) Homer's Odyssey
2) Tennyson's Ulysses
3) Virgil's Aenied
4) Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Answer - 1)
Homer's Odyssey
11. A character in Virginia
Woolf’s novels changes his sex. Which is that novel?
1) Mrs. Dalloway
2) Orlando
3) To the Light House
4) The Voyage Out
Answer - 2) Orlando
12. Who is the originator of
'Sprung Rhythm'?
1) A.E. Houseman
2) Stephen Spender
3) Christopher Fry
4) G. M. Hopkins
Answer - 4) G. M. Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as
a brindled cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple
upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls;
finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and
pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and
tackle and trim.
All things counter, original,
spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled
(who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour;
adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty
is past change:
Praise him.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844–1889)
13. Who called Hamlet an
‘artistic failure’?
1) T. S. Eliot
2) I.A. Richards
3) F. R. Leavis
4) Aldous Huxley
Answer - 1) T. S. Eliot
14. Who initiated the term 'New
Criticism' in English literary criticism?
1) Henry James
2) I.A.Richards
3) David Daiches
4) William Empson
Answer - 2) I.A.Richards
(John Crow Ransom is the founder of the term 'New Criticism' - 1941. He addressed it to the practices done by I A Richards in his books - The Meaning of Meaning (1923) and Practical Criticism (1929).)
15. The Province Town Players were a group of playwrights from
1) America
2) Britain
3) Ireland
4) Germany
Answer - 1) America
16. What is a passion play?
1) A play about love and sex
2) A play about someone’s
intense love for God
3) A play about the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus
4) A play from
New Testament showing Jesus’s love for man
Answer - 4) A play from New Testament showing Jesus’s love for man
17. Arthur Miller wrote a
screenplay especially for his wife, Marilyn Monroe. Which is it?
1) The Misfits
2) A view from the Bridge
3) After the Fall
4) Death of a Salesman
Answer - 1) The Misfits
18. Which one of the following
is an 'artificial' comedy’?
1) The Birthday Party
2) The Cocktail Party
3) The Way of the World
4) Volpone
Answer - 3) The Way of the World
(Comedy of Manners are also
called artificial comedy)
19. The term 'Electra Complex'
has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra written by:
1) Aeschylus
2) Sophocles
3) Euripides
4) Seneca
Answer - 4) Seneca
20. Who is the progenitor of
the ‘theatre of cruelty’?
1) Stanislavsky
2) Chekhov
3) Grotowski
4) Artaud
Answer - 4) Artaud
21. Which of the following
playwright has exploited myths for most of his dramas?
1) Vijay Tendulkar
2) Mahesh Dattani
3) Girish Karnad
4) Manjula Padmanabhan
Answer - 3)
Girish Karnad
22. Which modern American
Playwright produced tragedies of common men?
1) Tennessee Williams
2) Arthur Miller
3) Edward Albee
4) T.S.Eliot
Answer - 2) Arthur Miller
23. Who is the central
character symbolizing power in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel?
1) Baroka
2) Lakunle
3) Sadiku
4) Sidi
Answer - 1)
Baroka
24. The Childhood of
Jesus is a novel by –––––––––, who won the Nobel prize for literature.
1) Patrick White
2) Nadine Gordimer
3) J.M. Coetzee
4) Saul Bellow
Answer - 3) J.M.
Coetzee
25. Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Autobiography
of My Mother presents the life of the narrator and the mother who had
died –––
1) in childbirth
2) in an accident
3) of poverty
4) of old age
Answer - 1) in childbirth
26. ––––––––– is famous for
his Diary.
1) Jeremy Taylor
2) Thomas Sprat
3) Samuel Pepys
4) John Evelyn
Answer - 3)
Samuel Pepys and 4) John Evelyn - Both options seem right. Both were diarist.
(You can challenge this question)
(You can challenge this question)
27. Who is the author of The
Royal Slave?
1) Charles Gildon
2) Aphra Behn
3) John Bunyan
4) La Calprenede
Answer - 2)
Aphra Behn
28. ––––––––– collaborated
with Dryden to produce Oedipus and The Duke of Guise.
1) Nathaniel Lee
2) Nicholas Rowe
3) Matthew Prior
4) Samuel Butler
Answer - 1) Nathaniel Lee
29. ––––––––– was known as the maker of the great dictionary and was one of the extraordinary figures of the Augustan Age.
1) Edmund Burke
2) Dr.Samuel Johnson
3) Edward Gibbon
4) Gibert White
Answer - 2) Dr.Samuel Johnson
30. The Reform Bill was passed
in the year –––––––––.
1) 1831
2) 1836
3) 1834
4) 1832
Answer - 4) 1832
31. ––––––––– bears a strong
resemblance to Quentin Durward, written by George P.R. James
1) Richelieu A Tale of France
2) The Cripsey
3) Del’Orme
4) Lord Montagu
Answer - 1) Richelieu A Tale of France
32. ––––––––– describes himself as a super-tramp wrote delightful poems of the countryside in an extremely simple style.
1) Rupert Brooke
2) John Masefield
3) Gordon Bottomley
4) W.H. Davies
Answer - 4) W.H. Davies
33. The British Museum
is Falling Down is written by ––––––
1) David Lodge
2) Ian McEwan
3) Jeanette Winterson
4) John Fowles
Answer - 1) David Lodge
34. “Thy need is greater
than mine” are the words of ––––––––
1) Ben Jonson
2) Sir Philip Sidney
3) Dante
4) Pope
Answer - 2) Sir
Philip Sidney
35. ––––––––– proposes that
philosophy and religion would be ‘replaced by poetry’ in modern society.
1) William Empson
2) T.S. Eliot
3) Arnold
4) F.R.Levis
Answer - 3) Arnold
36. The best-known examples of
blacks replacing Indian workers are in coastal ––––––––
1) Chile
2) Argentina
3) Uruguay
4) Venezuela
Answer - 4) Venezuela
37. ––––––––– is a novel by
Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in
2008.
1) Sea of Poppies
2) The Circle of Reason
3) The Shadow Lines
4) The Calcutta Chromosome
Answer - 1) Sea of Poppies
38. Bhagavad Gita and
Its Message is written by –––––––––
1) Raja Roa
2) Sri Aurobindo
3) Tagore
4) Mulk Raj Anand
Answer - 2) Sri
Aurobindo
39. The first great Russian
novelist was –––––––––.
1) Leo Tolstoy
2) Ivan Turgenev
3) Nikolai Gogol
4) Anton Chekhov
Answer - 3) Nikolai Gogol
40. Victor Shklovsky comes
under –––––––––.
1) Feminist criticism
2) New historicism
3) Formalist
Criticism
4) Postcolonial criticism
Answer - 3) Formalist Criticism
41. Who is the author of Nation and Narration?
1) Homi Bhabha
2) Frantz Fanon
3) Jacque Derrida
4) Michel Foucault
Answer - 1) Homi
Bhabha
42. ––––––––– is an overall
plan for the orderly presentation of language material.
1) Approach
2) Method
3) Technique
4) Material
Answer - 2) Method
43. The Bilingual Method was developed by –––––––––
1) C.J. Dodson
2) Dr. Johnson
3) Dell Hymes
4) John Gumperz
Answer - 1) C.J. Dodson
44. The original language of
Britain was –––––––––
1) Celtic
2) Swedish
3) Danish
4) Scandinavian
Answer - 1)
Celtic
45. Another popular genre in the middle Ages was the beast-fable, a form which Chaucer uses brilliantly in –––––––––
1) “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
2) “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
3) “The Clerk’s Tale”
4) “The Merchant’s Tale”
Answer - 2) “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
46. The canto was a
traditional Italian literary device and ––––––––– was the first English poet to
use it effectively.
1) Milton
2) Sidney
3) Chaucer
4) Spenser
Answer - 4) Spenser
47. Marlowe based Doctor
Faustus on the early sixteenth century ––––––––– doctor Johann Faust, a
practitioner of magic, who was thought to have sold his soul to the Devil in
exchange for knowledge and magical power.
1) German
2) French
3) Scandinavian
4) Italian
Answer - 1)
German
48. ––––––––– refers to
Shakespeare resentfully as ‘‘an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.”
1) George Peele
2) Thomas Nashe
3) Robert Greene
4) Thomas Lodge
Answer - 3) Robert Greene
49. A True Relation of
My Birth, Breeding and Life is an autobiography of –––––––––.
1) Thomas Traherne
2) Margaret
Cavendish
3) Dorothy Waugh
4) Lady Anne Halkett
Answer - 2) Margaret Cavendish
50. Grace Abounding to
the Chief of Sinners is a spiritual autobiography of –––––––––, which
records his transformation from a self-doubting sinner into an eloquent and
fearless Baptist preacher.
1) John Guttenberg
2) Oliver Cromwell
3) John Bunyan
4) Thomas Gray
Answer - 3) John Bunyan
51. The Hind and the Panther is an allegorical beast fable written by Dryden in defense of the doctrines of the –––––––––.
1) Roman
Catholic Church
2) Protestant Church
3) Stories of Aesop
4) Royal Court
Answer - 1)
Roman Catholic Church
52. Swift wrote The
Battle of the Books in support of his patron –––––––––.
1) Sir William Temple
2) William Wotton
3) Lord Berkeley
4) Isaac Bickerstaff
Answer - 1) Sir William Temple
53. ‘‘Epistle 2. To a Lady’’
is one of ––––––––– poems that Pope grouped together under the title Epistles
to Several Persons.
1) three
2) four
3) five
4) ten
Answer - 2) four
54. Coleridge said that the
Preface to the Lyrical Ballad was “––––––––– of my own brain.’’
1) insight
2) half a child
3) a child
4) influence
Answer - 2) half
a child
55. ––––––––– A
Vindication of the Rights of Men was a formidable piece of argumentation
in response to Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France.
1) Maria Edgeworth’s
2) Dorothy Wordsworth’s
3)
Wollstonecraft's
4) Joanna Baillie’s
Answer - 3) Wollstonecraft's
56. Keats’ fragment ‘The
Fall of Hyperion: A Dream’ is modeled on –––––––––.
1) Dante’s Inferno
2) Homer’s Illiad
3) Virgil’s Aeneid
4) Dante’s
Divine Comedy
Answer - 4)
Dante’s Divine Comedy
57. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is a
spiritual autobiography of –––––.
1) Stuart Mill
2) Lord Tennyson
3) Edward Fitzgerald
4) Cardinal Newman
Answer - 4)
Cardinal Newman
58. Browning’s –––––––––,
which was inspired by an old book of legal records concerning a murder trial in
seventeenth-century Rome.
1) The Ring and
the Book
2) Men and Women
3) Dramatis Personae
4) Strafford
Answer - 1) The Ring and the Book
59. Forster’s Howards End
involves a conflict between two families, one interested in ––––––––– and the
other only in money and business.
1) art and life
2) fancy and fantasy
3) love and literature
4) art and literature
Answer - 4) art
and literature
60. As a fiction writer Woolf rebelled against what she called the ––––––––– of her contemporary novelists.
1) realism
2) materialism
3) cynicism
4) mimicism
Answer - 2) materialism
61. In ‘‘Politics and the
English Language,’’ Orwell explores the decay of ––––––––– and the ways in
which that decay might be resiste.
1) politics
2) human values
3) morals
4) language
Answer - 4) language
I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely
language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing
thought. Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract
words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of
political quietism. Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can you struggle
against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought
to recognise that the present political chaos is
connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably
bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify
your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot
speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity
will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language — and with variations
this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is
designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment,
but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can
even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase — some
jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or
other lump of verbal refuse — into the dustbin where it belongs.
62. At the heart of –––––––––
is the vexed relationship between the master, his servant and a nurse.
1) That Time
2) Not I
3) Waiting for Godot
4) Endgame
Answer - 4)
Endgame
63. Pinter’s The Birthday Party is a play in three acts which centers around Stanley Webber, a retired ––––––––– in his late thirties.
1) dancer
2) musician
3) civil servant
4) bar tender
Answer - 2)
musician
64. Richard’s Practical
Criticism, based on student analyses of poetry, emphasized the importance of
objective and balanced ––––––––– which was sensitive to the figurative language
of literature.
1) observation
2) criticism
3) appreciation
4) close reading
Answer - 4)
close reading
65. Deconstruction, according
to Derrida, aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claim to
have a ––––––––– meaning.
1) infinite
2) finite
3) indeterminate
4) determinate
Answer - 4) determinate
66. Inventing the term
“gynocritics,” ––––––––– says unlike the feminist critique, gynocritics offers
many theoretical opportunities.
1) Simon de Beauvoir
2) Kate Millet
3) Helene Cixous
4) Elaine Showalter
Answer - 4)
Elaine Showalter
67. For Homi K. Bhabha, mimicry is a form of –––––––––, and his post-colonial theory is a comic approach to colonial discourse.
1) mockery
2) mimicry
3) imitation
4) difference
Answer - 2) mimicry
68. Originally the Normans had
been Scandinavians and the term “Norman” comes from “Northman” who had been
granted a territory in northern ––––––––– in the early tenth century.
1) Scandinavia
2) Northumbria
3) Briton
4) France
Answer - 4)
France
69. ––––––––– is an approach
to language teaching developed by British linguists from the 1930s to 1960s.
1) Structural Approach
2) Audiolingual Method
3) Community Language Learning
4) Situational
Language Teaching
Answer - 4)
Situational Language Teaching
70. Homer's epic poem The
Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' ––––––––– struggle to return home to
Ithaca after the Trojan War.
1) ten-year
2) fifteen –year
3) twenty-year
4) thiry-year
Answer - 1) ten-year
71. Mother Courage says that
she got her name from driving her wagon through a cannon barrage to save
fifty_________.
1) Soldiers
2) Children
3) Loaves of
bread
4) Citizens
Answer - 3) Loaves of bread
72. Tiruvalluvar’s ideas were
probably influenced by ––––––––– traditions and written in the years between
the Cankam era and the bhakti era
1) Dravidian
2) Aryan
3) Jain
4) Buddhist
Answer - 3) Jain
73. The American Poet, civil
rights activist, historian, songwriter and frequent autobiographer Marguerite
Annie Johnson is known as –––––––––.
1) Gwendolyn Brooks
2) Maya Angelou
3) Alice Walker
4) Toni Morrison
Answer - 2) Maya Angelou
74. Maxine Hong Kingston
––––––––– combines myth, family history, folktales and memories of the
experience of growing up within two conflicting cultures.
1) China Men
2) The Fifth Book of Peace
3) Veterans of Peace
4) Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Answer - 4)
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
75. According to Saussure, the
connection between the “signifier” and the “signified” is –––––––––.
1) regular
2) rule-based
3) arbitrary
4) irregular
Answer - 3)
arbitrary
SHORT ANSWER KEY
1.
4) Antonio Gramsci
2.
2) Gertrude Stein
3.
1) Final Solutions
4.
3) Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
5.
3) Marshall McLuhan
6.
2) Pakistan (Q –
Quetta)
7.
4) Pablo Neruda
8.
1) Claude McKay
9.
1) Robert Bridges
10.
1) Homer's Odyssey
11.
2) Orlando
12.
4) G. M. Hopkins
13.
1) T. S. Eliot
14.
2) I.A.Richards
15.
1) America
16.
4) A play from New Testament showing Jesus’s love for man
17.
1) The Misfits
18.
3) The Way of the World
19.
4) Seneca
20.
4) Artaud
21.
3) Girish Karnad
22.
2) Arthur Miller
23.
1) Baroka
24.
3) J.M. Coetzee
25.
1) in childbirth
26.
3) Samuel Pepys &
27.
2) Aphra Behn
28.
1) Nathaniel Lee
29.
2) Dr.Samuel Johnson
30.
4) 1832
31.
1) Richelieu A Tale of France
32.
4) W.H. Davies
33.
1) David Lodge
34.
2) Sir Philip Sidney
35.
3) Arnold
36.
4) Venezuela
37.
1) Sea of Poppies
38.
2) Sri Aurobindo
39.
3) Nikolai Gogol
40.
3) Formalist Criticism
41.
1) Homi Bhabha
42.
2) Method
43.
1) C.J. Dodson
44.
1) Celtic
45.
2) “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
46.
4) Spenser
47.
1) German
48.
3) Robert Greene
49.
2) Margaret Cavendish
50.
3) John Bunyan
51.
1) Roman Catholic Church
52.
1) Sir William Temple
53.
2) four
54.
2) half a child
55.
3) Wollstonecraft's
56.
4) Dante’s Divine Comedy
57.
4) Cardinal Newman
58.
1) The Ring and the Book
59.
4) art and literature
60.
2) materialism
61.
4) language
62.
4) Endgame
63.
2) musician
64.
4) close reading
65.
4) determinate
66.
4) Elaine Showalter
67. 1) mockery
68.
4) France
69.
4) Situational Language Teaching
70.
1) ten-year
71.
3) Loaves of bread
72.
3) Jain
73.
2) Maya Angelou
74.
4) Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
75.
3) arbitrary
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