COMPARATIVE LITERATURE- PAGE 1
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MCQs
1. In which essay of Mathew Arnold, do we find his statement, “Everywhere there is connection, everywhere there is illustration; no single event, no single literature, is adequately comprehended except in relation to other events, to other literatures”?
(A) Study of Poetry
(B) Preface to the 1853 Poems
(C) On the Modern Element in Literature
(D) On Translating Homer
Ans: C
2. The devotional poets known as ‘Alwars’ and ‘Nayanmars’ emerged in
(A) South India
(B) Kashmir
(C) West Bengal
(D) Madhya Pradesh
Ans: A
3. Canadian Indigenous people of mixed ancestry are known as _______.
(A) Maori
(B) Mohicans
(C) Metis
(D) Igbo
Ans: C
4. George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman makes use of the Don Juan version of _______.
(A) Mozart
(B) Beethoven
(C) Bach
(D) Handel
Ans: A
5. Who, according to Wellek, is the first formal historian of English poetry?
(A) Thomas Wharton
(B) W.J. Court Hope
(C) Leslie Stephen
(D) Edmund Gosse
Ans: A
6. “A time-section dominated by a system of literary norms, standards and connections…” is
(A) A movement
(B) A period
(C) An epoch
(D) A generation
Ans: B
7. Which Jataka story was translated into Chinese and became the source of the Rama legend in China?
(A) DasharathaJataka
(B) AnamakJataka
(C) SamaJataka
(D) DevadhammaJataka
Ans: B
8. The genre not recognized as a separate one by Aristotle is _______.
(A) Lyric
(B) Epic
(C) Tragedy
(D) Comedy
Ans: A
9. The great works such as the Odyssey, Aeneid, The Divine Comedy and Faust belong to the category of ________.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) National Literature
(C) Regional Literature
(D) World Literature
Ans: D
10. Comparative Literature attempts to achieve through comparative Studies “a more balanced view, a truer= perspective than is possible from the isolated analysis of a single national literature”. Identify the author of the statement
(A) LilianFurst
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) S.S. Prawer
(D) Friederich Schlegel
Ans: A
11. Identify the prose writer who was not a historian.
(A) Francis Bacon
(B) T.B. Macaulay
(C) Sir Walter Raleigh
(D) Michel Montaigne
Ans: D
12. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and choose the right code from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Shakespeare i. Andromache
b. Homer ii. Hotspur
c. Dostoevsky iii. Mary Stuart
d. Schiller iv. Raskolnikov
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) i iv ii iii
Ans: B
13. Who has called genre an “institution”?
(A) Carol Madison
(B) Roy Pascal
(C) Harry Levin
(D) Wayne C. Booth
Ans: C
14. A historical situation in which essential difference between two genres of literature is obscured by the presence of terms that are similarly spelt and pronounced is known as ______.
(A) ‘False influence’
(B) ‘Creative treason’
(C) ‘Family of resemblances’
(D) ‘Contamination’
Ans: D
15. The author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is _______.
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Milan Kundera
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) AmitavGhosh
Ans: B
16. Who says, “Motifs are the phenomena of human spirit which have repeated themselves endlessly through centuries”?
(A) Frenzel
(B) Trousson
(C) Goethe
(D) Weisstein
Ans: C
17. Who suggests that it is impossible to transplant a genre which is firmly anchored in a specific historic geographical context?
(A) Veselovsky
(B) Etiemble
(C) Posnett
(D) Claudel
Ans: B
18. Who is of the view that mythological and legendary themes are indices of humanity because heroes of myths and legends are in us and we are in them, and therefore they partake of our lives?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Stith Thomson
(C) Raymond Trousson
(D) Elisabeth Frenzel
Ans: C
19. Who speaks of periodization as at oncenotional and ‘real’?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) S.S. Prawer
(C) Horst Frenz
(D) H.H. Remak
Ans: A
20. The first book from a comparative perspective in Tamil, Kambaramayana: A Study (1922) was written by ______.
(A) Kailasapathy
(B) V. Sachidhanadan
(C) V.V.S. Iyer
(D) Fr. Xavier Taninayagam
Ans: C
21. Shreelal Shukla’s Rāag Darbāri deals with
(A) Classical music
(B) Caste discrimination
(C) Corruption
(D) Communal disharmony
Ans: C
22. Ismat Chughtai is a celebrated ____ writer.
(A) Hindi
(B) Urdu
(C) Gujarati
(D) Marathi
Ans: B
23. Identify the set that has the correct chronological order:
(A) Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett
(B) Beckett, Pirandello, Ibsen, Strindberg
(C) Ibsen, Pirandello, Strindberg, Beckett
(D) Strindberg, Ibsen, Pirandello, Beckett
Ans: A
24. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai won the
(A) Sahitya Akademi Award
(B) The Pulitzer Prize
(C) Jnanpeeth Award
(D) The Booker Prize
Ans: D
25. Our Sister Killjoy is a novel written by _______.
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Ama Ata Aidoo
(C) Nadime Gordimer
(D) J.M. Coetzee
Ans: B
26. Anandavardhana’s poetic theory as propounded in Dhvanyaloka has an affinity with the poetic credo of
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Valery
(C) Mallarmé
(D) Rimbaud
Ans: C
27. Bhart.rhari’s Vākyapadīya is a treatise on
(A) Satire
(B) Drama
(C) Poetry
(D) Linguistics
Ans: D
28. The critic who expressed his disagreement with Ānandavardhana’s poetic theory is ______.
(A) Mahimabhat.t. a
(B) Kumarilabhat.t. a
(C) Rajasékara
(D) Sankuka
Ans: A
29. The statement, “A poem should not mean but be” was made by _______.
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Archibald Mcleish
(C) Allen Tate
(D) Ivor Winters
Ans: B
30. The concept of “The Death of the Author” was introduced by _______.
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Stanley Fish
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Michel Foucault
Ans: C
31. “Horizon of Expectations” was propagated by _______.
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Hans Robert Jauss
(C) Paul Van Tieghem
(D) Claudio Guitten
Ans: B
32. The European play that Utpal Dutt translated and staged to protest against the Emergency period in India was ______.
(A) Macbeth
(B) Faust
(C) Hamlet
(D) Mother Courage
Ans: A
33. Ramakien is an adaptation of the Ramayana in ________.
(A) The Philippines
(B) Myanmar
(C) Thailand
(D) Indonesia
Ans: C
34. In the middle of the First World War, who felt the need to immerse in a culture born out of the various literatures of our world, each of them powerfully individualized?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Andre Gide
(C) Brandt Corstius
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Ans: B
35. The ‘Ghazal’ originated in ________.
(A) Andalusia
(B) West Asia
(C) The Indian Subcontinent
(D) Afghanistan
Ans: A
36. Bharatendu Harishchandra has translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s _______.
(A) “Durgesnandini”
(B) “Sitaram”
(C) “Rajsingha”
(D) “Radharani”
Ans: C
37. The act of translation has been categorized into three types –in tralingual, in terlingual and intersemiotic, by ______.
(A) Eugene Nida
(B) Roman Jakobson
(C) Edward Sapir
(D) Theodore Savory
Ans: B
38. Who said, “The art of translation is a subsidiary art and derivative”?
(A) Wills Barnstone
(B) Hillaire Belloc
(C) Roman Jakobson
(D) George Steiner
Ans: B
39. The concept of “Transformal Generative Grammar” was propagated by ______.
(A) Chomsky
(B) Saussure
(C) Bloomfield
(D) Bassnett
Ans: A
40. Giuseppe Verdi composed an opera based on the following tragedy of Shakespeare:
(A) Hamlet
(B) King Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
Ans: C
41. Three Idiots is an adaptation of a novel by __________.
(A) Shoba De
(B) ArvindAdiga
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) ChetanBhagat
Ans: D
42. During the European Renaissance the visual arts did not flourish in________.
(A) France
(B) Italy
(C) England
(D) Spain
Ans: C
43. The following play includes dance and music on an extensive scale:
(A) Gashiram Kotwal
(B) Tughlaq
(C) Evam Indrajit
(D) Druvaswammini
Ans: A
44. The Japanese ‘No Theatre’ includes the elements of
(A) Sculpture
(B) Dance and music
(C) Sculpture and dance
(D) Painting and dance
Ans: B
45. Identify the author of the statement, “Alanguage is a dialect that has an army and a navy”.
(A) Claude Pichois
(B) A.M. Rousseau
(C) Leonard Forster
(D) Max Weinreich
Ans: D
46. F.R. Leavis staunchly disagreed with the view of the following scholar that “literature can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy”.
(A) C.P. Snow
(B) Carl Jung
(C) René Wellek and Austin Warren
(D) Hippolyte Taine
Ans: C
47. The following theorist did not belong to the school of Cultural Materialism or New Historicism:
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) George Lukacs
(D) Frederic Jameson
Ans: C
48. Who wrote Freudianism and the Literary Mind?
(A) Kenneth Burke
(B) Frederick J. Hoffman
(C) Ernst Kris
(D) Lionell Trilling
Ans: B
49. The great fascination for myths in the20th century literature was influenced by ________.
(A) Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
(B) Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism
(C) Vladimir Proppe’s Morphology of Folk
(D) Apuleius’ the Golden Ass
Ans: A
50. The first translation of the complete Bible into English was done by_______.
(A) Tyndale
(B) Luther
(C) Wycliffe
(D) Purvey
Ans: C
(A) Study of Poetry
(B) Preface to the 1853 Poems
(C) On the Modern Element in Literature
(D) On Translating Homer
Ans: C
2. The devotional poets known as ‘Alwars’ and ‘Nayanmars’ emerged in
(A) South India
(B) Kashmir
(C) West Bengal
(D) Madhya Pradesh
Ans: A
3. Canadian Indigenous people of mixed ancestry are known as _______.
(A) Maori
(B) Mohicans
(C) Metis
(D) Igbo
Ans: C
4. George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman makes use of the Don Juan version of _______.
(A) Mozart
(B) Beethoven
(C) Bach
(D) Handel
Ans: A
5. Who, according to Wellek, is the first formal historian of English poetry?
(A) Thomas Wharton
(B) W.J. Court Hope
(C) Leslie Stephen
(D) Edmund Gosse
Ans: A
6. “A time-section dominated by a system of literary norms, standards and connections…” is
(A) A movement
(B) A period
(C) An epoch
(D) A generation
Ans: B
7. Which Jataka story was translated into Chinese and became the source of the Rama legend in China?
(A) DasharathaJataka
(B) AnamakJataka
(C) SamaJataka
(D) DevadhammaJataka
Ans: B
8. The genre not recognized as a separate one by Aristotle is _______.
(A) Lyric
(B) Epic
(C) Tragedy
(D) Comedy
Ans: A
9. The great works such as the Odyssey, Aeneid, The Divine Comedy and Faust belong to the category of ________.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) National Literature
(C) Regional Literature
(D) World Literature
Ans: D
10. Comparative Literature attempts to achieve through comparative Studies “a more balanced view, a truer= perspective than is possible from the isolated analysis of a single national literature”. Identify the author of the statement
(A) LilianFurst
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) S.S. Prawer
(D) Friederich Schlegel
Ans: A
11. Identify the prose writer who was not a historian.
(A) Francis Bacon
(B) T.B. Macaulay
(C) Sir Walter Raleigh
(D) Michel Montaigne
Ans: D
12. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and choose the right code from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Shakespeare i. Andromache
b. Homer ii. Hotspur
c. Dostoevsky iii. Mary Stuart
d. Schiller iv. Raskolnikov
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) i iv ii iii
Ans: B
13. Who has called genre an “institution”?
(A) Carol Madison
(B) Roy Pascal
(C) Harry Levin
(D) Wayne C. Booth
Ans: C
14. A historical situation in which essential difference between two genres of literature is obscured by the presence of terms that are similarly spelt and pronounced is known as ______.
(A) ‘False influence’
(B) ‘Creative treason’
(C) ‘Family of resemblances’
(D) ‘Contamination’
Ans: D
15. The author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is _______.
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Milan Kundera
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) AmitavGhosh
Ans: B
16. Who says, “Motifs are the phenomena of human spirit which have repeated themselves endlessly through centuries”?
(A) Frenzel
(B) Trousson
(C) Goethe
(D) Weisstein
Ans: C
17. Who suggests that it is impossible to transplant a genre which is firmly anchored in a specific historic geographical context?
(A) Veselovsky
(B) Etiemble
(C) Posnett
(D) Claudel
Ans: B
18. Who is of the view that mythological and legendary themes are indices of humanity because heroes of myths and legends are in us and we are in them, and therefore they partake of our lives?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Stith Thomson
(C) Raymond Trousson
(D) Elisabeth Frenzel
Ans: C
19. Who speaks of periodization as at oncenotional and ‘real’?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) S.S. Prawer
(C) Horst Frenz
(D) H.H. Remak
Ans: A
20. The first book from a comparative perspective in Tamil, Kambaramayana: A Study (1922) was written by ______.
(A) Kailasapathy
(B) V. Sachidhanadan
(C) V.V.S. Iyer
(D) Fr. Xavier Taninayagam
Ans: C
21. Shreelal Shukla’s Rāag Darbāri deals with
(A) Classical music
(B) Caste discrimination
(C) Corruption
(D) Communal disharmony
Ans: C
22. Ismat Chughtai is a celebrated ____ writer.
(A) Hindi
(B) Urdu
(C) Gujarati
(D) Marathi
Ans: B
23. Identify the set that has the correct chronological order:
(A) Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett
(B) Beckett, Pirandello, Ibsen, Strindberg
(C) Ibsen, Pirandello, Strindberg, Beckett
(D) Strindberg, Ibsen, Pirandello, Beckett
Ans: A
24. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai won the
(A) Sahitya Akademi Award
(B) The Pulitzer Prize
(C) Jnanpeeth Award
(D) The Booker Prize
Ans: D
25. Our Sister Killjoy is a novel written by _______.
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Ama Ata Aidoo
(C) Nadime Gordimer
(D) J.M. Coetzee
Ans: B
26. Anandavardhana’s poetic theory as propounded in Dhvanyaloka has an affinity with the poetic credo of
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Valery
(C) Mallarmé
(D) Rimbaud
Ans: C
27. Bhart.rhari’s Vākyapadīya is a treatise on
(A) Satire
(B) Drama
(C) Poetry
(D) Linguistics
Ans: D
28. The critic who expressed his disagreement with Ānandavardhana’s poetic theory is ______.
(A) Mahimabhat.t. a
(B) Kumarilabhat.t. a
(C) Rajasékara
(D) Sankuka
Ans: A
29. The statement, “A poem should not mean but be” was made by _______.
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Archibald Mcleish
(C) Allen Tate
(D) Ivor Winters
Ans: B
30. The concept of “The Death of the Author” was introduced by _______.
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Stanley Fish
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Michel Foucault
Ans: C
31. “Horizon of Expectations” was propagated by _______.
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Hans Robert Jauss
(C) Paul Van Tieghem
(D) Claudio Guitten
Ans: B
32. The European play that Utpal Dutt translated and staged to protest against the Emergency period in India was ______.
(A) Macbeth
(B) Faust
(C) Hamlet
(D) Mother Courage
Ans: A
33. Ramakien is an adaptation of the Ramayana in ________.
(A) The Philippines
(B) Myanmar
(C) Thailand
(D) Indonesia
Ans: C
34. In the middle of the First World War, who felt the need to immerse in a culture born out of the various literatures of our world, each of them powerfully individualized?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Andre Gide
(C) Brandt Corstius
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Ans: B
35. The ‘Ghazal’ originated in ________.
(A) Andalusia
(B) West Asia
(C) The Indian Subcontinent
(D) Afghanistan
Ans: A
36. Bharatendu Harishchandra has translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s _______.
(A) “Durgesnandini”
(B) “Sitaram”
(C) “Rajsingha”
(D) “Radharani”
Ans: C
37. The act of translation has been categorized into three types –in tralingual, in terlingual and intersemiotic, by ______.
(A) Eugene Nida
(B) Roman Jakobson
(C) Edward Sapir
(D) Theodore Savory
Ans: B
38. Who said, “The art of translation is a subsidiary art and derivative”?
(A) Wills Barnstone
(B) Hillaire Belloc
(C) Roman Jakobson
(D) George Steiner
Ans: B
39. The concept of “Transformal Generative Grammar” was propagated by ______.
(A) Chomsky
(B) Saussure
(C) Bloomfield
(D) Bassnett
Ans: A
40. Giuseppe Verdi composed an opera based on the following tragedy of Shakespeare:
(A) Hamlet
(B) King Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
Ans: C
41. Three Idiots is an adaptation of a novel by __________.
(A) Shoba De
(B) ArvindAdiga
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) ChetanBhagat
Ans: D
42. During the European Renaissance the visual arts did not flourish in________.
(A) France
(B) Italy
(C) England
(D) Spain
Ans: C
43. The following play includes dance and music on an extensive scale:
(A) Gashiram Kotwal
(B) Tughlaq
(C) Evam Indrajit
(D) Druvaswammini
Ans: A
44. The Japanese ‘No Theatre’ includes the elements of
(A) Sculpture
(B) Dance and music
(C) Sculpture and dance
(D) Painting and dance
Ans: B
45. Identify the author of the statement, “Alanguage is a dialect that has an army and a navy”.
(A) Claude Pichois
(B) A.M. Rousseau
(C) Leonard Forster
(D) Max Weinreich
Ans: D
46. F.R. Leavis staunchly disagreed with the view of the following scholar that “literature can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy”.
(A) C.P. Snow
(B) Carl Jung
(C) René Wellek and Austin Warren
(D) Hippolyte Taine
Ans: C
47. The following theorist did not belong to the school of Cultural Materialism or New Historicism:
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) George Lukacs
(D) Frederic Jameson
Ans: C
48. Who wrote Freudianism and the Literary Mind?
(A) Kenneth Burke
(B) Frederick J. Hoffman
(C) Ernst Kris
(D) Lionell Trilling
Ans: B
49. The great fascination for myths in the20th century literature was influenced by ________.
(A) Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
(B) Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism
(C) Vladimir Proppe’s Morphology of Folk
(D) Apuleius’ the Golden Ass
Ans: A
50. The first translation of the complete Bible into English was done by_______.
(A) Tyndale
(B) Luther
(C) Wycliffe
(D) Purvey
Ans: C
51. Literary history offers examples of transformation of generes. The ancient satyr play is re-classified as the modern satire. This is effected through a process of _______.
(A) Influence
(B) Imitation
(C) Contamination
(D) Adaptation
Ans: C
52. In which stage of the prehistory of Comparative Literature did the gradual emergence of the idea of world literature gain acceptance?
(A) First stage
(B) Second stage
(C) Third stage
(D) Fourth stage
Ans: B
53. Melic poetry generally designates _______.
(A) Non-canonic poetry
(B) Canonic poetry
(C) Erotic poetry
(D) Religious poetry
Ans: A
54. The first Chinese translations of poems from the Gitanjali were by ______.
(A) Chen Duxiu
(B) Lu Hsun
(C) Zhong Shaoli
(D) Dong Youchen
Ans: A
55. “The ultimate issue for cultural studies is not what information is presented but whose information it is.” This assertion about culture studies was made by _______.
(A) Tejaswini Niranjana
(B) Stuart Hall
(C) Marshall McLuhen
(D) Julia Kristeva
Ans: B
56. Prithviraj Raso, ascribed to Chand Bardai, is composed in ______.
(A) Maithili
(B) Maithili and Bhojpuri
(C) Sandhyabhasa
(D) Standard Hindi
Ans: C
57. The latest International Comparative Literature Association Conference (2013) had as its theme ______.
(A) Comparative Literature Today
(B) Comparative Literature and Culture Studies
(C) Comparative Literature Methodology
(D) Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach
Ans: D
58. The World Republic of Letters is written by _______.
(A) Djelal Kadir
(B) Franco Moretti
(C) Pascale Casanova
(D) Wai Chee Dimock
Ans: C
59. In Valmiki Rāmāyāna, Rāma appears as a warrior-hero. He appears as an incarnation of God in _______.
(A) Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas.
(B) Meghnad Badh kavya by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(C) Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok K. Banker
(D) ‘Lakshmaner ‘Saktisēl’ by Sukumar Ray
Ans: A
60. A good deal of cultural studies is centred on questions of _______.
(A) exploitation
(B) representation
(C) field work
(D) application
Ans: B
61. Who had suggested the term “The Comparative Study of Literature” in lieu of “Comparative Literature”?
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Rene Wellek
(C) Lane Cooper
(D) Rene Etiemble
Ans: C
62. The narration of the story ‘Kholstomer’ through the perspective of the horse is cited as an example of what by Viktor Shklovsky?
(A) Transformation of the Horizon of Expectation.
(B) The creation of a proletarian hero.
(C) The Oedipus Complex.
(D) The use of defamiliarization.
Ans: D
63. Who among the following has proposed a radical ‘decentring of the subject’?
(A) Foucault
(B) Jameson
(C) Derrida
(D) Baudrillard
Ans: C
64. Identify the author of the statement –
“It is impossible to draw a line between Comparative Literature and general literature, between say, the influence of Walter Scott in France and the rise of the historical novel. Besides, the term ‘general literature’ lends itself to confusion; it has been understood to mean literary theory, poetics, the principles of literature.”
(A) Guillen
(B) Wellek
(C) Prawer
(D) Brunetière
Ans: B
65. The Frankfurt school scholars were keen to revitalize or re-claim which ‘tradition’?
(A) Christian
(B) Liberal
(C) Fascist
(D) Enlightenment
Ans: D
66. Who among the following discussed a “wave motion” model of literary influence wherein texts travel “across wide stretches of space and time”?
(A) Georges Gusdorf
(B) Claudio Guillen
(C) David Damrosch
(D) Earl Miner
Ans: C
67. The point that ‘influence’, as often as not, implies ‘impulsion’ rather than ‘imitation’ was forcibly made by ________.
(A) Schleiermacher
(B) Novalis
(C) Schlegel
(D) Tieck
Ans: D
68. In 2007, a commentator wrote:
“Increasingly now, comparative studies of literature across languages have become the concern of Translation Studies, it is the translation tail now that wags the comparative dog.” Identify the commentator.
(A) Susan Basnett
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Emily Apter
(D) Gayatri Spivak
Ans: B
69. Hermeneutics is the study of ______.
(A) Interpretations
(B) Linguistics
(C) Ancient History
(D) Being
Ans: A
70. In the 1990s the Sahitya Akademi planned a multi volume History of Indian Literature projected to contain ________.
(A) Ten volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Eight volumes
(D) Five volumes
Ans: A
71. The concept of “distance reading” has been proposed by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Franco Moretti
(C) Gayatri Spirak
(D) David Damrosch
Ans: B
72. Identify the Tamil short story writer whose story “Sapa Vimochanam” is cited as a remarkable example of the rendition of the Ahalya episode from the “Balakanda” of the Ramayana, as part of the focus on the subalterns in modern Tamil fiction.
(A) Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
(B) Thi Janakiraman
(C) Pudumaippithan
(D) Mouni
Ans: C
73. Who among the following was not one of the contributors to the book Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches edited by Chandra Mohan and published in 1989?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) Gerald Gillespie
(C) K. Chellappan
(D) Rene Wellek
Ans: D
74. Na D’Souza’s Dweepa has recently been translated into English by _______.
(A) Joy Braganza
(B) Susheela Punitha
(C) K. Srilatha
(D) Mini Krishnan
Ans: B
75. Who among the following uses the metaphor – a monument in the making – about world literature?
(A) Geoethe
(B) Bankim Chatterjee
(C) Tagore
(D) Herder
Ans: C
76. The contradictions of Greek tragedies are the negotiations of moral freedom and natural necessity. We find the forecast of this statement in Kant’s.
(A) “What is Enlightenment?”
(B) “Critique of Practical Reason”
(C) “Theatre as a Moral Institution”
(D) “Of Sublime”
Ans: B
77. Ang Lee’s 2012 entitled “Life of Pie” was based on a novel by
(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Kunal Basu
(C) Yann Markel
(D) Arundhati Ray
Ans: C
78. Who among the following first enunciated the idea of a pre-history of comparative literature in India?
(A) Sisir Kumar Das
(B) Indra Nath Chaudhary
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) K.M. George
Ans: A
79. “If modern Bangla poetry begins after Rabindranath, then the first modern poet is Rabindranath himself.” – This view was expressed by
(A) Buddhadeva Bose
(B) Bishnu De
(C) Satyajit Ray
(D) Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ans: A
80. The first ever picaresque novel in Europe is
(A) Guzman de Alfarache
(B) The Adventures of Roderick Random
(C) Lazarillo de Tormes
(D) El Busco’n
Ans: C
81. ‘Motif’ concretized and named is
(A) Situation
(B) Theme
(C) Leitmotif
(D) Thematology
Ans: B
82. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism was edited by
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Charles Bernheimer
(C) Susan Bassnett
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: B
83. How to Read Donald Duck was written by
(A) Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart
(B) Octavio Paz and Muriel Spark
(C) Walt Disney
(D) Che Guevara
Ans: A
84. The case for a district category called ‘postcolonial translation’ depends upon, among other things, the accruing balance of payments between the languages concerned, and whether or not that changes appreciably in the post-independence period. – Whose contention is this?
(A) Manabendra Bandyopadhyay
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Rajendra Yadav
(D) Avadesh Kumar Singh
Ans: B
85. Which Malayalam novel has Pareekutty and Karuthamma as its two protagonists?
(A) Indulekha
(B) Balyakalasakhi
(C) Khassakinte Itihasan
(D) Chemmeer
Ans: D
86. Tughlaq is
(A) A story written by U.R. Ananthamurthy.
(B) A play written by Girish Karnad.
(C) A play written by Kirtinath Kurtkoti.
(D) A story written by Girish Karnad.
Ans: B
87. Name the Urdu novel which carried the legend ‘trans created from the original Urdu…..’ in its English translation had Cyril Ashley as one of its characters.
(A) Mirat ul Urus
(B) Umraojan Ada
(C) Ek Chadar Maili Si
(D) Aag Ka Darya
Ans: D
88. Identify the author of Sahityadarpan
(A) Bharata
(B) Viswanath
(C) Vidhyadhar
(D) Vamaha
Ans: B
89. The Amar Chitrakatha comic book series was pioneered by
(A) Anant Pai
(B) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
(C) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(D) Ajit Wadekar
Ans: A
90. Mamu is a novel by
(A) Gopinath Mohanty
(B) Brinchikumar Barua
(C) Fakir Mohan Senapati
(D) Premchand
Ans: C
91. Psycho analysis, a clinical and interpretive science used to evolve theories of language, reading and literary influence, was founded by
(A) Harold Bloom
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Jacques Lacan
(D) Norman Holland
Ans: B
92. Comparative Literature: Indian Dimensions is written by
(A) Amiya Dev
(B) Ayyappa Panikkar
(C) K.M. George
(D) Swapan Majumdar
Ans: D
93. Which of the following texts does not allude to The Thousand and One Nights?
(A) Voltaire’s Candide
(B) Tennyson’s “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”
(C) Wordsworth’s Prelude
(D) Pound’s Cantos
Ans: D
94. Choose the correct option:
(i) Rohstoff is Stoff performed.
(ii) Rohstoff and Stoff belong to the realm of Historiography.
(iii) Stoff is extrinsic to the text while Rohstoff is intrinsic to the text.
(iv) Rohstaff and Stoff belong to the realm of Thermatology.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) only (iv) is correct.
Ans: D
95. How many volumes of Sahitya Akademi’s A History of Indian Literature have been published?
(A) 9
(B) 8
(C) 3
(D) 2
Ans: C
96. The use of Marxist tools for periodization of literacy history without economic reductionism has been attempted by
(A) George Plekhanov’s Art and Social Life
(B) Christopher Caudwell’s Illusion and Reality
(C) George Lukac’s Studies in European Realism
(D) Raymond Williams’ Marxism and Literature
Ans: D
97. The Annals of Rajasthan is the creation of
(A) R. Kipling
(B) James Todd
(C) H.G. Wells
(D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ans: B
98. The Divine Comedy has its reflection in
(A) “Valmiki Pratibha” by Rabindranath Tagore
(B) “Lankadahan Paala” by Leela Majumdar
(C) “Lakshmaner Shaktishel” by Sukumar Ray
(D) “Meghnadbadh Kavya” by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Ans: D
99. Monkey, a 16th century Chinese creation by Wu Ch’eng-en, is
(A) A Play
(B) A Fable
(C) A Novel
(D) An Epic
Ans: C
100. In the 20th century the concept of the ‘foreignization’ of translation has been addressed at length by
(A) Walter Benjamin
(B) Lawrence Venuti
(C) Andre Lefevere
(D) Freidrich Schleiermacher
Ans: B
(A) Influence
(B) Imitation
(C) Contamination
(D) Adaptation
Ans: C
52. In which stage of the prehistory of Comparative Literature did the gradual emergence of the idea of world literature gain acceptance?
(A) First stage
(B) Second stage
(C) Third stage
(D) Fourth stage
Ans: B
53. Melic poetry generally designates _______.
(A) Non-canonic poetry
(B) Canonic poetry
(C) Erotic poetry
(D) Religious poetry
Ans: A
54. The first Chinese translations of poems from the Gitanjali were by ______.
(A) Chen Duxiu
(B) Lu Hsun
(C) Zhong Shaoli
(D) Dong Youchen
Ans: A
55. “The ultimate issue for cultural studies is not what information is presented but whose information it is.” This assertion about culture studies was made by _______.
(A) Tejaswini Niranjana
(B) Stuart Hall
(C) Marshall McLuhen
(D) Julia Kristeva
Ans: B
56. Prithviraj Raso, ascribed to Chand Bardai, is composed in ______.
(A) Maithili
(B) Maithili and Bhojpuri
(C) Sandhyabhasa
(D) Standard Hindi
Ans: C
57. The latest International Comparative Literature Association Conference (2013) had as its theme ______.
(A) Comparative Literature Today
(B) Comparative Literature and Culture Studies
(C) Comparative Literature Methodology
(D) Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach
Ans: D
58. The World Republic of Letters is written by _______.
(A) Djelal Kadir
(B) Franco Moretti
(C) Pascale Casanova
(D) Wai Chee Dimock
Ans: C
59. In Valmiki Rāmāyāna, Rāma appears as a warrior-hero. He appears as an incarnation of God in _______.
(A) Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas.
(B) Meghnad Badh kavya by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(C) Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok K. Banker
(D) ‘Lakshmaner ‘Saktisēl’ by Sukumar Ray
Ans: A
60. A good deal of cultural studies is centred on questions of _______.
(A) exploitation
(B) representation
(C) field work
(D) application
Ans: B
61. Who had suggested the term “The Comparative Study of Literature” in lieu of “Comparative Literature”?
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Rene Wellek
(C) Lane Cooper
(D) Rene Etiemble
Ans: C
62. The narration of the story ‘Kholstomer’ through the perspective of the horse is cited as an example of what by Viktor Shklovsky?
(A) Transformation of the Horizon of Expectation.
(B) The creation of a proletarian hero.
(C) The Oedipus Complex.
(D) The use of defamiliarization.
Ans: D
63. Who among the following has proposed a radical ‘decentring of the subject’?
(A) Foucault
(B) Jameson
(C) Derrida
(D) Baudrillard
Ans: C
64. Identify the author of the statement –
“It is impossible to draw a line between Comparative Literature and general literature, between say, the influence of Walter Scott in France and the rise of the historical novel. Besides, the term ‘general literature’ lends itself to confusion; it has been understood to mean literary theory, poetics, the principles of literature.”
(A) Guillen
(B) Wellek
(C) Prawer
(D) Brunetière
Ans: B
65. The Frankfurt school scholars were keen to revitalize or re-claim which ‘tradition’?
(A) Christian
(B) Liberal
(C) Fascist
(D) Enlightenment
Ans: D
66. Who among the following discussed a “wave motion” model of literary influence wherein texts travel “across wide stretches of space and time”?
(A) Georges Gusdorf
(B) Claudio Guillen
(C) David Damrosch
(D) Earl Miner
Ans: C
67. The point that ‘influence’, as often as not, implies ‘impulsion’ rather than ‘imitation’ was forcibly made by ________.
(A) Schleiermacher
(B) Novalis
(C) Schlegel
(D) Tieck
Ans: D
68. In 2007, a commentator wrote:
“Increasingly now, comparative studies of literature across languages have become the concern of Translation Studies, it is the translation tail now that wags the comparative dog.” Identify the commentator.
(A) Susan Basnett
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Emily Apter
(D) Gayatri Spivak
Ans: B
69. Hermeneutics is the study of ______.
(A) Interpretations
(B) Linguistics
(C) Ancient History
(D) Being
Ans: A
70. In the 1990s the Sahitya Akademi planned a multi volume History of Indian Literature projected to contain ________.
(A) Ten volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Eight volumes
(D) Five volumes
Ans: A
71. The concept of “distance reading” has been proposed by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Franco Moretti
(C) Gayatri Spirak
(D) David Damrosch
Ans: B
72. Identify the Tamil short story writer whose story “Sapa Vimochanam” is cited as a remarkable example of the rendition of the Ahalya episode from the “Balakanda” of the Ramayana, as part of the focus on the subalterns in modern Tamil fiction.
(A) Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
(B) Thi Janakiraman
(C) Pudumaippithan
(D) Mouni
Ans: C
73. Who among the following was not one of the contributors to the book Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches edited by Chandra Mohan and published in 1989?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) Gerald Gillespie
(C) K. Chellappan
(D) Rene Wellek
Ans: D
74. Na D’Souza’s Dweepa has recently been translated into English by _______.
(A) Joy Braganza
(B) Susheela Punitha
(C) K. Srilatha
(D) Mini Krishnan
Ans: B
75. Who among the following uses the metaphor – a monument in the making – about world literature?
(A) Geoethe
(B) Bankim Chatterjee
(C) Tagore
(D) Herder
Ans: C
76. The contradictions of Greek tragedies are the negotiations of moral freedom and natural necessity. We find the forecast of this statement in Kant’s.
(A) “What is Enlightenment?”
(B) “Critique of Practical Reason”
(C) “Theatre as a Moral Institution”
(D) “Of Sublime”
Ans: B
77. Ang Lee’s 2012 entitled “Life of Pie” was based on a novel by
(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Kunal Basu
(C) Yann Markel
(D) Arundhati Ray
Ans: C
78. Who among the following first enunciated the idea of a pre-history of comparative literature in India?
(A) Sisir Kumar Das
(B) Indra Nath Chaudhary
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) K.M. George
Ans: A
79. “If modern Bangla poetry begins after Rabindranath, then the first modern poet is Rabindranath himself.” – This view was expressed by
(A) Buddhadeva Bose
(B) Bishnu De
(C) Satyajit Ray
(D) Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ans: A
80. The first ever picaresque novel in Europe is
(A) Guzman de Alfarache
(B) The Adventures of Roderick Random
(C) Lazarillo de Tormes
(D) El Busco’n
Ans: C
81. ‘Motif’ concretized and named is
(A) Situation
(B) Theme
(C) Leitmotif
(D) Thematology
Ans: B
82. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism was edited by
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Charles Bernheimer
(C) Susan Bassnett
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: B
83. How to Read Donald Duck was written by
(A) Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart
(B) Octavio Paz and Muriel Spark
(C) Walt Disney
(D) Che Guevara
Ans: A
84. The case for a district category called ‘postcolonial translation’ depends upon, among other things, the accruing balance of payments between the languages concerned, and whether or not that changes appreciably in the post-independence period. – Whose contention is this?
(A) Manabendra Bandyopadhyay
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Rajendra Yadav
(D) Avadesh Kumar Singh
Ans: B
85. Which Malayalam novel has Pareekutty and Karuthamma as its two protagonists?
(A) Indulekha
(B) Balyakalasakhi
(C) Khassakinte Itihasan
(D) Chemmeer
Ans: D
86. Tughlaq is
(A) A story written by U.R. Ananthamurthy.
(B) A play written by Girish Karnad.
(C) A play written by Kirtinath Kurtkoti.
(D) A story written by Girish Karnad.
Ans: B
87. Name the Urdu novel which carried the legend ‘trans created from the original Urdu…..’ in its English translation had Cyril Ashley as one of its characters.
(A) Mirat ul Urus
(B) Umraojan Ada
(C) Ek Chadar Maili Si
(D) Aag Ka Darya
Ans: D
88. Identify the author of Sahityadarpan
(A) Bharata
(B) Viswanath
(C) Vidhyadhar
(D) Vamaha
Ans: B
89. The Amar Chitrakatha comic book series was pioneered by
(A) Anant Pai
(B) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
(C) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(D) Ajit Wadekar
Ans: A
90. Mamu is a novel by
(A) Gopinath Mohanty
(B) Brinchikumar Barua
(C) Fakir Mohan Senapati
(D) Premchand
Ans: C
91. Psycho analysis, a clinical and interpretive science used to evolve theories of language, reading and literary influence, was founded by
(A) Harold Bloom
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Jacques Lacan
(D) Norman Holland
Ans: B
92. Comparative Literature: Indian Dimensions is written by
(A) Amiya Dev
(B) Ayyappa Panikkar
(C) K.M. George
(D) Swapan Majumdar
Ans: D
93. Which of the following texts does not allude to The Thousand and One Nights?
(A) Voltaire’s Candide
(B) Tennyson’s “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”
(C) Wordsworth’s Prelude
(D) Pound’s Cantos
Ans: D
94. Choose the correct option:
(i) Rohstoff is Stoff performed.
(ii) Rohstoff and Stoff belong to the realm of Historiography.
(iii) Stoff is extrinsic to the text while Rohstoff is intrinsic to the text.
(iv) Rohstaff and Stoff belong to the realm of Thermatology.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) only (iv) is correct.
Ans: D
95. How many volumes of Sahitya Akademi’s A History of Indian Literature have been published?
(A) 9
(B) 8
(C) 3
(D) 2
Ans: C
96. The use of Marxist tools for periodization of literacy history without economic reductionism has been attempted by
(A) George Plekhanov’s Art and Social Life
(B) Christopher Caudwell’s Illusion and Reality
(C) George Lukac’s Studies in European Realism
(D) Raymond Williams’ Marxism and Literature
Ans: D
97. The Annals of Rajasthan is the creation of
(A) R. Kipling
(B) James Todd
(C) H.G. Wells
(D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ans: B
98. The Divine Comedy has its reflection in
(A) “Valmiki Pratibha” by Rabindranath Tagore
(B) “Lankadahan Paala” by Leela Majumdar
(C) “Lakshmaner Shaktishel” by Sukumar Ray
(D) “Meghnadbadh Kavya” by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Ans: D
99. Monkey, a 16th century Chinese creation by Wu Ch’eng-en, is
(A) A Play
(B) A Fable
(C) A Novel
(D) An Epic
Ans: C
100. In the 20th century the concept of the ‘foreignization’ of translation has been addressed at length by
(A) Walter Benjamin
(B) Lawrence Venuti
(C) Andre Lefevere
(D) Freidrich Schleiermacher
Ans: B