Q.1 Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) James Joyce

(C) D.H. Lawrence ✅

(D) Seamus Heaney

(E) Question not attempted

Q.2 Who among the following holds that the relations among units within the kinship system, or any structure, occur in binary pairs, which are either similar to each other or different from each other?

(A) Ferdinand de Saussure

(B) Claude Levi-Strauss ✅

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Jaques Derrida

(E) Question not attempted

Q.3 Who among the following poets has another name, Madhavi Kutty?

(A) Sylvia Plath

(B) Emily Dickinson

(C) D.G. Rossetti

(D) Kamala Das. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.4 Who among the following suggests that cultural phenomena are not simply the results of objective observations but are shaped by power relations and discursive practices?

(A) Michel Foucault ✅

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Fredric Jameson

(D) Stephen Greenblatt

(E) Question not attempted

Q.5 Who has written the book Mythologies, published in 1957, which analyzes how everyday cultural objects and practices convey ideological messages?

(A) Roland Barthes ✅

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Edward Said

(D) Stephen Greenblatt

(E) Question not attempted

Q.6 Write the correct sequence of doing research on a topic:

a. Taking Notes

b. Outlining and preparing the paper.

c. Compiling a working Bibliography

d. Selecting a suitable topic.

Choose the correct sequence.

(A) abcd

(B) bcad

(C)c bad

(D) d cab ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.7 Which of the following is not correct?

(A) As a form of communication, a research paper should present information and ideas with clarity and precision

(B) Lively and intelligent writing is superior to research writing with documentation and poor presentation

(C) The researcher's own ideas should be overshadowed by documentation of sources ✅

(D) The researcher must fully document the facts and opinions he draws from his research

(E) Question not attempted

Q.8 Match the lists and choose the correct one

List I

a. Qualitative approach

b. Quantitative Approach

c. Experimental approach

d. Ethnographic approach

List II

1. Allows conclusions to be drawn about cause and effect if the design is sound

II. Collection of facts and study of the relationship of one set of facts to another

III. more concerned to understand individuals perceptions of the world rather than statistical analysis

IV. Participant's observation and fieldwork

Choose the correct matching:

(A) a-l, b-ll, c-III, d-IV

(B) a-III, b-II, c-l, d-IV ✅

(C) a-ll, b-l, d-IV, d-III

(D) a-IV, b Ill, c-ll, d-1

(E) Question not attempted

Q.9 Who has written the play Justice?

(A) John Galsworthy ✅

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) T.S. Eliot

(D) Harold Pinter

(E) Question not attempted

Q.10 In which play you find the following line: "To be, or not to be, that is the question"

(A) Volpone

(B) The Merchant of Venice

(C) Twelfth Night

(D) Hamlet ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.11 Who has used the term "Cultural Poetics" to describe the interaction between literary texts and their cultural and historical contexts?

(A) Richard Hoggart

(B) Stephen Greenblatt ✅

(C) Fredric Jameson

(D) Stuart Hall

(E) Question not attempted

Q.12 Who has challenged western representations of East, exposing how the Westerners served to perpetuate colonial power dynamics?

(A) Richard Hoggart

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Homi K. Bhabha

(D) Edward Said ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.13 Who examines how culture shaped our understanding of identity, particularly in relation to race, ethnicity and class?

(A) Richard Hoggart

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Stuart Hall ✅

(D) Stephen Greenblatt

(E) Question not attempted

Q.14 Who has explored working-class culture in the 1930s and 1940s showing how mass culture influenced and shaped individual lives?

(A) Edward Said

(B) Homi K. Bhabha

(C) Stuart Hall

(D) Richard Hoggart ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.15 Which of the following is not the correct reason of Nora leaving her husband towards the end of the play A Doll's House?

(A) Nora realizes that her husband has never loved her, and they have become strangers to each other.

(B) Nora feels betrayed and tries to understand her "self" by leaving her husband.

(C) Nora feels that she has been treated like a doll by both her father and her husband

(D) Nora realizes that her husband is the kind of person she had believed him to be and their marriage was not based on fantasies. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.16 Which statement is not true about the play Arms and the Man?

(A) The play emphasizes the futility of war.

(B) The play emphasizes that everyone is a liar.

(C) The play is a tragedy. ✅

(D) The play exposes hypocrisy of human nature.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.17 Which is not correct about the novel A House for Mr. Biswas?

(A) Tulsidom is a microcosm of colonialism.

(B) The novel deals with the identity crisis of the protagonist.

(C) V.S. Naipaul has portrayed Trinidad as a mono-cultural society. ✅

(D) The novel deals with multiple postcolonial issues.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.18 Who has written the book The Foundation of Indian Culture?

(A) M.K. Gandhi

(B) S Radhakrishnan

(C) A.P.J. Kalam

(D) Aurobindo ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.19 Which of the following is an autobiography?

(A) The Hindu View of Life

(B) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

(C) The American Scholar

(D) Long Walks to Freedom ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.20 Which is not one of the themes in Wings of Fire?

(A) The Role of Woman in Society ✅

(B) Social Harmony and Inclusivity.

(C) The Power of Dreams

(D) Vision and Innovation

(E) Question not attempted

Q.21 Which one of the following is the opinion of Aristotle?

(A) Poetry is less philosophical than history.

(B) Poetry does not have universal appeal.

(C) Poetry infuses a particular rather than universal appeal.

(D) Poetry reproduces facts to which truth is embedded. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.22 Who among the following critics has stated that "poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge"?

(A) Aristotle

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) T. S. Eliot

(D) William Wordsworth ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.23 Who among the following critics states that the poet's mind is a catalytic agent which enhances the poetic process rather than participating in it.

(A) I. A. Richards

(B) T.S. Eliot ✅

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) Roland Barthes

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.24 Match List 1 with List 2:

List 1

a. Phenomenology

b. Existentialism

c. Structuralism

d. Formalism

List 2

I. Tzvetan Todorov

II. Edmund Husserl

III. Martin Heidger.

IV. Roland Barthes

Which of the following is correct?

(A) a-l, b-Il, c-III, d-IV

(B) a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I ✅

(C) a-III, b-IV, c-I, d-II

(D) a-IV, b-l, c-II, d-III

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.25 Which of the following is not true?

(A) Action research is appropriate in any context when specific knowledge is required for a specific problem in a specific situation.

(B) Action research needs to be planned in the same systematic way as any other type of research.

(C) Action research is not a method or technique; but it is an approach which has proved to be attractive because of its problem-solving emphasis.

(D) Action research is limited to projects carried out by teachers in an educational setting. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.26 Who among the following critics pioneered the notion of infantile sexuality?

(A) Julia Kristeva

(B) Helene Cixous

(C) Sigmund Freud ✅

(D) Jaques Lacan

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.27 Who has written the book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity?

(A) Gayle Rubin

(B) Julia Kristeva

(C) Helene Cixous

(D) Judith Butler ✅

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.28 Given below are two statements.

I. Gender Studies is interdisciplinary in both its roots and its methods having arisen in literary and cultural theory, sociology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis.

II. It examines the oppressive history of gays, lesbians and other erotic groups

Choose the correct answer in reference to the above statements.

(A) Both statements are correct ✅

(B) Both statements are false.

(C) Statement I is correct but II is incorrect

(D) Statement I is incorrect but Il is correct

(E) Question not attempted

Q.29 Match the two lists in the following:

List 1

a. Polysemy

b. Synonymy

C. Antonymy

d. Hyponymy

List 2

I. the relationship of implicit inclusion

Il. Involving opposite meanings

III. Having the same meaning

IV. A range of different meanings

Which is the correct match?

(A) a-l, b-ll, c-l, d-Iv

(B) a-ll, b-lll, c-IV, d-l

(C) a-lll, b-l, c-ll, d-l||

(D) a-IV, b-III, c-II, d-I ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.30 In which Shakespearean play do you find the character Portia who has saved the life of Antonio?

(A) Hamlet

(B) Twelfth Night

(C) The Merchant of Venice ✅

(D) Henry IV PartI

(E) Question not attempted

Q.31 How many pilgrimsare there in Geofrey Chaucer's "Prologue to Canterbury Tales"?

(A) 29 ✅

(B) 32

(C) 30

(D) 28

(E) Question not attempted

Q.32 Name the essayist whose prose style is aphoristic.

(A) Richard Steele

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Francis Bacon ✅

(D) R.W.Emerson

(E) Question not attempted

Q.33 Which of the following is true?

(A) A vowel is a sound that needs an open-air passage in the mouth ✅

(B) A consonant is formed whenthe air streamis not restricted.

(C) Sounds couldoccur without air.

(D) Human beings are not capable of producing infinite number of sounds.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.34 Who among the following does not belong to neo-classical period?

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) John Dryden

(C) Dr. Johnson

(D) William Blake ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.35 Who among the following women has dominated the consciousness of W.B Yeats in shaping his poetic sensibility?

(A) Helen

(B) Lady Augusta Gregory

(C) Maud Gonne ✅

(D) Miss Hyde-Lees

(E) Question not attempted

Q.36 Who has written the book The Symbolist Movement in Literature?

(A) Arthur Symons ✅

(B) Charles Baudelaire

(C) T.S. Eliot

(D) Ezra Pound

(E) Question not attempted

Q.37 The epigraph to preface The Waste Land is a quotation from

(A) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

(B) The Satyricon by Petronius ✅

(C) The Divine Comedy by Dante

(D) The Cantos by Ezra Pound

(E) Question not attempted

Q.38 In which poem do you find the following line: "The breath goes now, and some say, no"

(A) Donne's The Extasy

(B) Donne's The Good Morrow

(C) Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ✅

(D) Spenser's The Farie Queene

(E) Question not attempted

Q.39 Match the two lists:

List 1

a. "The Rape of the Lock"

b. "The Tyger"

c. "Some Lovers Speak"

d. "The Canonization"

List 2

I. John Donne

II. Sir Philip Sidney

III. William Blake

IV. Alexander Pope

Choose the correct answer.

(A) a-l, b-l|l, c-Il, d-IV

(B) a-ll, b-l, c-IV, d-ll

(C) a-ll, b-lV,c-l, d-ll

(D) a-IV, b-III, c-II, d-I ✅

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.40 Which is not true about Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel?

(A) A Biblical tale of the action of King David against Absalom

(B) A satirical poem published in 1681

(C) A Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David .

(D) An allegory used to represent a story, contemporary to Dryden, ✅

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.41 Arrange the following according to their year of publication (from the earliest to the latest):

1. "The Lotos Eaters"

11. "Kubla Khan"

III."The Scholar Gipsy"

IV. "RabbiBen Ezra"

Which of the following is the correct order?

(A) 1, I1, l, IV

(B) II, I, III, IV. ✅

(C) I, IV, I, I1

(D) IV, I, I, II

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.42 Match the two lists in the following:

List 1

a. "Pied Beauty"

b. "The Thought Fox"

c. "The Shield of Achilles"

d. "Punishment"

List 2

I. Seamus Heaney

II. G.M. Hopkins

III. Ted Hughes

IV. W.H. Auden

Which of the following is correct?

(A) a-l, b-ll, c-lll, d-IV

(B) a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I ✅

(C) a-li, b-lV,c-l, d-|

(D) a-lV, b-l, c-ll, d-I|

(E) Question not attempted.

Q.43 The epic Paradise Lost by Milton deals with

a. the fall of mankind

b. the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden for ever

c. Story of Satan's supremacy

d. Satan's persuasion to Adam and Eve not to eattheforbidden fruit fromthe Tree of Knowledge

Which of the following is correct?

(A) a and b only ✅

(B) b and c only

(C) c and d only

(D) d and a only

(E) Question not attempted

Q.44 Which of the following is not true about Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy"?

(A) The poem was published in 1965 in the collection Ariel.

(B) The poem cannot be included in Feminist literature. ✅

(C) The poem condemns patriarchy aggressively.

(D) The poem confronts a woman's conflicting feelings about her father's death when she was a child.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.45 Who has written the novel Middlemarch?

(A) Jane Austen

(B) Henry Fielding

(C) DanielDefoe

(D) George Eliot ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.46 Who among the following used the technique of "Interior Monologue" considerably in his/her novels?

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) Henry James

(D) Virginia Woolf ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.47 Which is not true about M.K. Gandhi's book One Hundred My Experiments with Truth?

(A) It deals with Gandhiji's experiences from his early childhood till India's freedom in 1921. ✅

(B) It focuses on Gandhiji's spiritual and moral development rather than political events.

(C) It emphasizes Gandhiji's constant pursuit of truth,and self-discovery.

(D) It deals with Gandhiji's experiences from his early childhood tillIndia's freedom in 1947.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.48 The title of the novel Things Fall Apart is a quotation from the poem

(A) "Sailing to Byzantium"

(B) "Byzantium"

(C) The Second Coming" ✅

(D) "The Tower"

(E) Question not attempted

Q.49 How many phonemes are there in the variety of English widely known as Received Pronunciation (R. P.)?

(A) 44 ✅

(B) 34

(C) 26

(D) 36

(E) Question not attempted

Q.50 Which of the following poems is not written by Emily Dickinson?

(A) "Because I Could not Stop for Death"

(B) Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant"

(C) "Success is Counted Sweetest"

(D) "Nothing Gold Can Stay" ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.51 "Fool, said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write"

Who among the following poets has written the above line?

(A) Edmund Spenser

(B) Philip Sidney ✅

(C) William Shakespeare

(D) Andrew Marvell

(E) Question not attempted

Q.52 "Alone, alone, all, all alone"

In which poem do you find the above line?

(A) "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"

(B) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ✅

(C) "Ulysses"

(D) "Tintern Abbey"

(E) Question not attempted

Q.53 In which poem the following line occurs? "Ah, love, let us be true"

(A) "Dover Beach" ✅

(B) "My Last Duchess"

(C) "Ode to a Nightingale"

(D) "Lost Mistress"

(E) Question not attempted

Q.54 The patterns of variation in pitch in speech are known as

(A) rhythm

(B) tone

(C) intonation ✅

(D) accent

(E) Question not attempted

Q.55 Match the two lists below:

List 1

a. "Tragedy of the Whole Truth"

b. "The Hero as Man of Letters"

c. "Science and Values"

d. "Imperfect Sympathies"

List 2

I. Bertrand Russell

II. Charles Lamb

III. Aldous Huxley

IV. Thomas Carlyle

Which of the following is correct?

(A) a-l, b-ll, c-lll, d-IV

(B) a-11, b-lll, c-IV, d-l

(C) a-III, b-iV, c-l, d-l| ✅

(D) a-lV, b-l,c-ll, d-I||

(E) Question not attempted

Q.56 Which is not one of the three segments in Ars Poetica?

(A) Poesis

(B) Poesa ✅

(C) Poema

(D) Poeta

(E) Question not attempted

Q.57 Who among the following critics has written Principles of Literary Criticism?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Henry James

(C) SausSure

(D) I.A. Richards ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.58 The study of the production,transmission and reception ofspeech Sounds is known as

(A) phonemics

(B) stylistics

(C) semantics

(D) phonetics ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.59 Which is the mother of all rasas?

(A) Srinagar rasa ✅

(B) Shanta rasa

(C) Veera rasa

(D) Hasya rasa

(E) Question not attempted

Q.60 Which of the following is not true about Ode as a poetic type?

(A) Ode isa form of lyric.

(B) Ode is not of Greek origin. ✅

(C) Ode is often in the form of an address

(D) One of the most important features of Ode is its leisurely, slow-winding movement

(E) Question not attempted

Q.61 Which of the following is not a characteristic of an Elegy?

(A) mournfulness

(B) absolute sincerity of emotion

(C) philosophical and speculative element

(D) object ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.62 Which of the following ballads is written by John Keats?

(A) The Lady of Shallot

(B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(C) La Belle Dame Sans Merci ✅

(D) The Ballad of Father Gilligan

(E) Question not attempted

Q.63 Which of the following is a mock epic?

(A) Aenid

(B) The Rape of the Lock ✅

(C) Odyssey

(D) The Divine Comedy

(E) Question not attempted

Q.64 Which of the following stanza forms consists of nine lines, the first eight being iambic pentameters, and the last an alexandrine:

(A) Rhyme Royal

(B) The Terza Rime

(C) The Spenserian Stanza ✅

(D) The Ottava Rima

(E) Question not attempted

Q.65 Which of the following is not true?

(A) In disyllabic metre one accented syllable and another unaccented syllable form group called foot.

(B) In trisyllabic metre, one accented syllable and two unaccented syllables form a group called foot.

(C) The Dactylic is associated with Disyllabic meter ✅

(D) The Iambic is associated with Disyllabic meter

(E) Question not attempted

Q.66 Who has written the essay "The Laugh of the Medusa"?

(A) Sandra Gilbert

(B) Helene Cixous ✅

(C) Elaine Marks

(D) Luce Irigaray

(E) Question not attempted

Q.67 Which of the following is not true?

(A) Queer theory insists that all concepts linking sexual behaviours to sexual identities are social constructs.

(B) Judith Butler is a contemporary Queer theorist.

(C) Queer theory rejects the idea that sexuality is an essentialist category.

(D) Gay/lesbian studies does not challenge the notion of normative sexualities. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.68 Who has Written the book Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction?

(A) Robert J.C. Young

(B) Homi K. Bhabha

(C) Ania Loomba ✅

(D) Edward Said

(E) Question not attempted

Q.69 Who has written The Politics Postmodernism?

(A) Linda Hutcheon ✅

(B) Jean-Francois Lyotard.

(C) Jean Baudrillard

(D) Christopher Butler

(E) Question not attempted

Q.70 Who has written The Interpretation of Dreams?

(A) Jaques Lacan

(B) Sigmund Freud ✅

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Louis Althusser

(E) Question not attempted

Q.71 Which of the following has not been discussed by Matthew Arnold in "The Study of Poetry"?

(A) Historic estimate

(B) Real estimate

(C) Personal estimate

(D) Poetic estimate ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.72 Which of the following is not true about plagiarism and ethics in research?

(A) Plagiarism is not a breach of ethical conduct in research ✅

(B) Plagiarism involves paraphrasing without proper citation.

(C) Plagiarism is unethical, and undermines the integrity of a research work

(D) Plagiarism damages a researcher's reputation in academic circles.

(E) Question not attempted

Q.73 Who among the following has written the book Journey Down a Rainbow?

(A) J.B. Priestly ✅

(B) Hillaire Bellock

(C) E.V. Lucas

(D) William Hazlitt

(E) Question not attempted

Q.74 Which is not the focus of British Cultural Studies?

(A) Images of women

(B) Masculinity

(C) No opposition to dominant culture ✅

(D) The history of sexuality

(E) Question not attempted

Q.75 Which of the following is true?

(A) A Linguistic sign is not a link between a concept and a sound pattern.

(B) The signifier is the concept or meaning associated with the signified.

(C) The signified is the physical appearance of the sign, such as a word or image or sound.

(D) A linguistic sign is a link between a concept and a sound pattern. ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.76 Sir William Jones of 18th century

1. was an Orientalist educationist

2. did not learn Sanskrit and Persian

3. did not do research into classical traditions of India

4. reintroduced to the natives to their own culture and antiquity

Which of the following is/are true?

(A) 1 & 2 only

(B) 2 & 3 only

(C) 3 & 4 only

(D) 4 & 1 only ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.77 Macaulay's "Minutes of English Education" was introduced in India in

(A) 1835 ✅

(B) 1825

(C) 1845

(D) 1840

(E) Question not attempted

Q.78 When was the essay "The Art of Fiction" by Henry James published?

(A) 1889

(B) 1884 ✅

(C) 1886

(D) 1882

(E) Question not attempted

Q.79 Who is the biological father of Oedipus In the play Oedipus Rex?

(A) Polybus

(B) Creon

(C) Laius ✅

(D) Tiresias

(E) Question not attempted

Q.80 Which of the following is a correct statement in reference to the play Waiting for Godot?

(A) Vladimir is a slave to Pozzo

(B) Estragon is a slave to Vladimir

(C) Pozzo is a slave to Lucky

(D) Lucky is a slave to Pozzo ✅

(E) Question not attempted

Q.81 Who among the following characters in The Duchess of Malfi was engaged as a spy by Duke Ferdinand for spying on the Duchess?

(A) Bosola ✅

(B) Julia

(C) Antonio

(D) Cariola

(E) Question not attempted

Q.82 How are the characters Willy and Charley in the play Death of a Salesman related to each other?

(A) They are two brothers.

(B) They are two neighbors. ✅

(C) They are father and son.

(D) They are two enemies.

(E) Question not attempted

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