COMPARATIVE LITERATURE- PAGE 2
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MCQs
1. The reception of Romanticism in Hindi poetry has been studied by ____.
(A) T.S. Satyanath
(B) Ramchandra Shukla
(C) Namvar Singh
(D) Anisur Rehman
Ans: C
2. The term “translation zone’ has been coined by _______.
(A) Michael Cronin
(B) Michael Wood
(C) Emily Apter
(D) Harry Levin
Ans: C
3. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been re-visioned in
(A) Wide Sargasso Sea
(B) After Leaving Mrs. Mackenzie
(C) Black Spring
(D) Changing Heaven
Ans: A
4. A colonial era detective fiction writer whose reception and translation was widespread in India was _______.
(A) R. Austin Freeman
(B) Mrs. Henry Wood
(C) Sheridan Le Fanu
(D) G.M.W. Reynolds
Ans: D
5. Who among the following has coined the term “thick translation” to designate a model of a culturally informed and context-dependent practice of translation?
(A) Kwame Anthony Appiah
(B) George Steiner
(C) Abdelkebir Khatibi
(D) Philip E. Lewis
Ans: C
6. British colonial entry creates the backdrop of ________.
(A) Shame
(B) Things Fall Apart
(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(D) The God of Small Things
Ans: B
7. Bharatendu Harishchandra’s essay entitled “Nataka” (1883) ________.
(A) Launches a virulent attack on ancient Indian dramaturgy.
(B) Makes a fresh study of the rules and processes of ancient Indian dramaturgy.
(C) Takes issue with rules of contemporary drama.
(D) Investigates the lyrical elements in ancient Indian drama.
Ans: B
8. While comparing Valmiki’s epic with Kamba’s Ramayanam, critics have commented, as the most striking difference between the two works, on the following aspect _______.
(A) Valmiki’s massive and rambling structure versus Kamban’s tight, chiselled out, tripartite structure.
(B) Valmiki’s stress on Rama as a warrior – hero against Kamban’s stress on Rama’s divinity.
(C) Valmiki’s indifferent, even chauvinist attitude to women characters versus Kamban’s sensitive and empathetic portrayal of women.
(D) Valmiki’s stress on Kingship duties of Rama as against Kamban’s emphasis on Rama’s compassion.
Ans: A
9. The dialogue
– “Bless thee Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated.”
– “I see this knavery, this is to make an ass of me.” occurs in the play ________.
(A) As You Like It
(B) Cymbeline
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ans: D
10. Whose play has been translated into English as Encounter in Umbugland?
(A) Mohan Rakesh
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Vijay Tendulkar
(D) Indira Parthasarathy
Ans: C
11. Who among the following writers was not a part of the Progressive Movement in Indian Literature?
(A) Premchand
(B) Basheer
(C) Nirmal Verma
(D) K.A. Abbas
Ans: C
12. Which of the following literary texts is about the transformative power of music in the middle of a political siege?
(A) Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
(B) Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
(C) Joanna Trollope, The Choir
(D) Leo Tolstoy, “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Ans: A
13. Which of the following features cannot be applied to most of the Bhakti writers and movements?
(A) They problematised the institution of priesthood by directly addressing God.
(B) They privileged the written tradition against the oral.
(C) They gave up Sanskrit and chose to compose in regional languages and dialects.
(D) Many of them travelled widely and were multi-lingual.
Ans: D
14. Film as Social Practice is written by ________.
(A) Robert Sklar
(B) Timothy Corrigan
(C) Susan Hayward
(D) Graeme Turner
Ans: D
15. It is generally believed that motives relate to ________.
(A) form
(B) characters
(C) content
(D) situation
Ans: D
16. Georges Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest has been adapted to cinema by _______.
(A) Robert Bresson
(B) Jean-Luc Goddard
(C) Jean Cocteau
(D) Jean Renoir
Ans: A
17. Who among the following has been associated with the “Veronica theme”?
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) Robert Musil
(C) Franz Kafka
(D) Marcel Proust
Ans: B
18. A sociology of translation may include two of the following. Identify the correct combination from the following options:
Code Factors
I. The stratification of text levels
II. Publishing policy
III. Expressive propensities of the text
IV. Cultural Interrelations
The correct combination according to the codes is:
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
19. The only reference to ‘thematology’ in Theory of Literature is in the chapter entitled ________.
(A) “Literature and Society”
(B) “Literature and Ideas”
(C) “Literary History”
(D) “Literature and Other Arts”
Ans: C
20. Which Tamil poet, among the following, wrote a long poem focusing on the episode of the disrobing of Draupathi in the Mahabharata?
(A) Kannadasan
(B) Bharathidasan
(C) Subramanya Bharathi
(D) Vinayagam Pillai
Ans: C
21. Which of the following novels by E.M. Forster uses Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?
(A) Maurice
(B) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(C) Howard’s End
(D) A Room with a View
Ans: B
22. The Soviet terror of the 1930s does not serve as the context of which of the following works?
(A) Victor Sergi’s The Case of Comrade Tulayev
(B) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
(C) Andre Malraux’s Days of Hope
(D) Evgenia Ginzburg’s Into the Whirlwind
Ans: C
23. Which of the following novels has a painter as a character?
(A) To The Lighthouse
(B) A Farewell To Arms
(C) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(D) The Grapes of Wrath
Ans: A
24. In his influential theory of romanticism, René Wellek failed to accommodate _______.
(A) Byron
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
Ans: A
25. Michel Foucault posits that history is ________.
(A) Both Linear and teleological
(B) Neither linear nor teleological
(C) Linear but not teleological
(D) Not linear but teleological
Ans: B
26. A major translator of Tamil Dalit Literature is ________.
(A) Mini Krishnan
(B) Akilan
(C) Lakshmi Holmstrom
(D) Jayakanthan
Ans: C
27. In his important essay “What is Enlightenment?” Immanuel Kant defined Enlightenment not only as a philosophical concept but ________.
(A) as a metaphysical enigma
(B) as a particular moment in history
(C) as a spiritual credo
(D) as a birth of new knowledge
Ans: B
28. If the theme is “a specific expression of a motif” (Trousson), then what motif is utilised when the situation is identified as jealousy and theme as Othello?
(A) Two men and one woman triangle
(B) Damsel in Distress
(C) The beauty and the beast
(D) Sacrificial friend
Ans: A
29. Who among the following initiated the concept of “imagined communities”?
(A) Margaret Mead
(B) Clifford Geertz
(C) Benedict Anderson
(D) Pierre Bordieu
Ans: C
30. Texts are shaped not by an imminent time, but by the play of divergent temporalities. Such a statement fits in with ________.
(A) The Formalist position
(B) The Structuralist position
(C) The Post-structuralist position
(D) The New-critical position
Ans: C
31. Premchand’s Godan was made into a film directed by _________.
(A) Shyam Benegal
(B) Trilok Jetley
(C) Mani Kaul
(D) Ketan Mehta
Ans: B
32. The theme of waiting is an important aspect of _______.
(A) Shakuntata! Court Chalu Aahe
(B) Adhe Adhure
(C) Indulekha
(D) Dakghar
Ans: D
33. An important attack on Neo-classical theory of drama came in the 19th century France from ________.
(A) Dumas
(B) Zola
(C) Hugo
(D) Flaubert
Ans: C
34. Match the following:
List – I (Themes) List – II (Theoreticians)
a. The Study of Rituals and Myths i. Jung
b. The Oedipus Complex ii. Marx
c. Inherited Archetypes iii. Freud
d. Historical Determinism iv. Frazer
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iv iii ii i
Ans: C
35. Which story with a widow theme was turned into a film?
(A) Hazar Churasi Ma
(B) Ghatashraddha
(C) Gone with the Wind
(D) Padosan
Ans: B
36. Aristotle excludes Aeschylus from his analysis of great tragedy writers because _______.
(A) He believed tragedy had not found its natural level with Aeschylus.
(B) He personally disliked Aeschylus.
(C) Aeschylus did not obey the rule of unity of space and time.
(D) Aeschylus was incapable of evoking eleos and phobos.
Ans: A
37. Russian formalism stressed that themes tend to _______.
(A) became automatized
(B) be defamiliarized
(C) collapse into motifs
(D) distinguish between the trivial and the worthwhile
Ans: A
38. The founding fathers of British culture studies are
Code:
I. I.A. Richards
II. Richard Hoggart
III. Raymond Williams
IV. Terry Eagleton
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: B
39. Which noted twentieth century scholar among the following does Ronald Inden criticise for a romantic-orientalist view of Indian Literature?
(A) Francois Gautier
(B) Koenraad Elst
(C) Alain Danielou
(D) Mircea Eliade
Ans: D
40. It is now widely acknowledged that the seeds of the modern story lie in _______.
(A) Drama
(B) Novel
(C) Folklore
(D) Epic
Ans: C
41. The scholar who argues that Marxist literary historiography need not depend on a mechanical base-superstructure model is _______.
(A) G.V. Plekhanov
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) D.D. Kosambi
(D) Eric Hobsbawm
Ans: B
42. Who among the following describes kinship systems “as like a language”?
(A) Levis-Strauss
(B) Saussure
(C) Barthes
(D) Malinowski
Ans: A
43. In Tolkappiam, the concept of iraicchi is described by commentators as a technique that _____.
(A) creates a sense of recognition in readers, which leads them to the inner meaning.
(B) causes the reader to perceive something that is different from what the words of the poem describe.
(C) points to a particular object while, in reality, aiming at a different object.
(D) provokes laughter in the reader, but in actuality, indicates something serious.
Ans: A
44. Which of the following space will not be subsumed under Foucault’s concept of heterotopia?
(A) Prisons
(B) Public parks
(C) Schools
(D) Mental asylums
Ans: B
45. The first period of modern Hindi poetry is ________.
(A) Dwivedi period
(B) Chaya vaad (Chāyāvād)
(C) Ritikaal
(D) Pragativaad
Ans: A
46. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has been viewed as a typical example of the genre of fantasy. Which modern fantasy writers break away from the medievalist influence of his “Horizon of Expectation”?
Codes:
I. Lewis
II. Donaldson
III. Rowling
IV. Mieville
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: D
47. The name of Bakhtin is associated with which of the terms below?
Codes:
I. Heteroglossia
II. Zones of characters
The right answer according to the code is
(A) I is the correct answer.
(B) II is the correct answer.
(C) I and II is the correct answer.
(D) None of them is the correct answer.
Ans: C
48. Which of the following texts does not contribute towards an inventory of methodological assumptions of a cultural studies text?
(A) Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy
(B) Williams’ Culture and Society
(C) Hall’s “Race, Culture and Communication”
(D) Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
Ans: D
49. Writing literary history by moving away from the author to the way the work is received at different moments is the method developed by _______.
(A) Rene Wellek
(B) Roman Jakolyon
(C) Victor Shklovsky
(D) Hans Robert Jauss
Ans: D
50. Bhartrhari belonged to the _______.
(A) 6th century
(B) 7th century
(C) 8th century
(D) 9th century
Ans: A
(A) T.S. Satyanath
(B) Ramchandra Shukla
(C) Namvar Singh
(D) Anisur Rehman
Ans: C
2. The term “translation zone’ has been coined by _______.
(A) Michael Cronin
(B) Michael Wood
(C) Emily Apter
(D) Harry Levin
Ans: C
3. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been re-visioned in
(A) Wide Sargasso Sea
(B) After Leaving Mrs. Mackenzie
(C) Black Spring
(D) Changing Heaven
Ans: A
4. A colonial era detective fiction writer whose reception and translation was widespread in India was _______.
(A) R. Austin Freeman
(B) Mrs. Henry Wood
(C) Sheridan Le Fanu
(D) G.M.W. Reynolds
Ans: D
5. Who among the following has coined the term “thick translation” to designate a model of a culturally informed and context-dependent practice of translation?
(A) Kwame Anthony Appiah
(B) George Steiner
(C) Abdelkebir Khatibi
(D) Philip E. Lewis
Ans: C
6. British colonial entry creates the backdrop of ________.
(A) Shame
(B) Things Fall Apart
(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(D) The God of Small Things
Ans: B
7. Bharatendu Harishchandra’s essay entitled “Nataka” (1883) ________.
(A) Launches a virulent attack on ancient Indian dramaturgy.
(B) Makes a fresh study of the rules and processes of ancient Indian dramaturgy.
(C) Takes issue with rules of contemporary drama.
(D) Investigates the lyrical elements in ancient Indian drama.
Ans: B
8. While comparing Valmiki’s epic with Kamba’s Ramayanam, critics have commented, as the most striking difference between the two works, on the following aspect _______.
(A) Valmiki’s massive and rambling structure versus Kamban’s tight, chiselled out, tripartite structure.
(B) Valmiki’s stress on Rama as a warrior – hero against Kamban’s stress on Rama’s divinity.
(C) Valmiki’s indifferent, even chauvinist attitude to women characters versus Kamban’s sensitive and empathetic portrayal of women.
(D) Valmiki’s stress on Kingship duties of Rama as against Kamban’s emphasis on Rama’s compassion.
Ans: A
9. The dialogue
– “Bless thee Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated.”
– “I see this knavery, this is to make an ass of me.” occurs in the play ________.
(A) As You Like It
(B) Cymbeline
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ans: D
10. Whose play has been translated into English as Encounter in Umbugland?
(A) Mohan Rakesh
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Vijay Tendulkar
(D) Indira Parthasarathy
Ans: C
11. Who among the following writers was not a part of the Progressive Movement in Indian Literature?
(A) Premchand
(B) Basheer
(C) Nirmal Verma
(D) K.A. Abbas
Ans: C
12. Which of the following literary texts is about the transformative power of music in the middle of a political siege?
(A) Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
(B) Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
(C) Joanna Trollope, The Choir
(D) Leo Tolstoy, “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Ans: A
13. Which of the following features cannot be applied to most of the Bhakti writers and movements?
(A) They problematised the institution of priesthood by directly addressing God.
(B) They privileged the written tradition against the oral.
(C) They gave up Sanskrit and chose to compose in regional languages and dialects.
(D) Many of them travelled widely and were multi-lingual.
Ans: D
14. Film as Social Practice is written by ________.
(A) Robert Sklar
(B) Timothy Corrigan
(C) Susan Hayward
(D) Graeme Turner
Ans: D
15. It is generally believed that motives relate to ________.
(A) form
(B) characters
(C) content
(D) situation
Ans: D
16. Georges Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest has been adapted to cinema by _______.
(A) Robert Bresson
(B) Jean-Luc Goddard
(C) Jean Cocteau
(D) Jean Renoir
Ans: A
17. Who among the following has been associated with the “Veronica theme”?
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) Robert Musil
(C) Franz Kafka
(D) Marcel Proust
Ans: B
18. A sociology of translation may include two of the following. Identify the correct combination from the following options:
Code Factors
I. The stratification of text levels
II. Publishing policy
III. Expressive propensities of the text
IV. Cultural Interrelations
The correct combination according to the codes is:
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
19. The only reference to ‘thematology’ in Theory of Literature is in the chapter entitled ________.
(A) “Literature and Society”
(B) “Literature and Ideas”
(C) “Literary History”
(D) “Literature and Other Arts”
Ans: C
20. Which Tamil poet, among the following, wrote a long poem focusing on the episode of the disrobing of Draupathi in the Mahabharata?
(A) Kannadasan
(B) Bharathidasan
(C) Subramanya Bharathi
(D) Vinayagam Pillai
Ans: C
21. Which of the following novels by E.M. Forster uses Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?
(A) Maurice
(B) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(C) Howard’s End
(D) A Room with a View
Ans: B
22. The Soviet terror of the 1930s does not serve as the context of which of the following works?
(A) Victor Sergi’s The Case of Comrade Tulayev
(B) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
(C) Andre Malraux’s Days of Hope
(D) Evgenia Ginzburg’s Into the Whirlwind
Ans: C
23. Which of the following novels has a painter as a character?
(A) To The Lighthouse
(B) A Farewell To Arms
(C) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(D) The Grapes of Wrath
Ans: A
24. In his influential theory of romanticism, René Wellek failed to accommodate _______.
(A) Byron
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
Ans: A
25. Michel Foucault posits that history is ________.
(A) Both Linear and teleological
(B) Neither linear nor teleological
(C) Linear but not teleological
(D) Not linear but teleological
Ans: B
26. A major translator of Tamil Dalit Literature is ________.
(A) Mini Krishnan
(B) Akilan
(C) Lakshmi Holmstrom
(D) Jayakanthan
Ans: C
27. In his important essay “What is Enlightenment?” Immanuel Kant defined Enlightenment not only as a philosophical concept but ________.
(A) as a metaphysical enigma
(B) as a particular moment in history
(C) as a spiritual credo
(D) as a birth of new knowledge
Ans: B
28. If the theme is “a specific expression of a motif” (Trousson), then what motif is utilised when the situation is identified as jealousy and theme as Othello?
(A) Two men and one woman triangle
(B) Damsel in Distress
(C) The beauty and the beast
(D) Sacrificial friend
Ans: A
29. Who among the following initiated the concept of “imagined communities”?
(A) Margaret Mead
(B) Clifford Geertz
(C) Benedict Anderson
(D) Pierre Bordieu
Ans: C
30. Texts are shaped not by an imminent time, but by the play of divergent temporalities. Such a statement fits in with ________.
(A) The Formalist position
(B) The Structuralist position
(C) The Post-structuralist position
(D) The New-critical position
Ans: C
31. Premchand’s Godan was made into a film directed by _________.
(A) Shyam Benegal
(B) Trilok Jetley
(C) Mani Kaul
(D) Ketan Mehta
Ans: B
32. The theme of waiting is an important aspect of _______.
(A) Shakuntata! Court Chalu Aahe
(B) Adhe Adhure
(C) Indulekha
(D) Dakghar
Ans: D
33. An important attack on Neo-classical theory of drama came in the 19th century France from ________.
(A) Dumas
(B) Zola
(C) Hugo
(D) Flaubert
Ans: C
34. Match the following:
List – I (Themes) List – II (Theoreticians)
a. The Study of Rituals and Myths i. Jung
b. The Oedipus Complex ii. Marx
c. Inherited Archetypes iii. Freud
d. Historical Determinism iv. Frazer
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iv iii ii i
Ans: C
35. Which story with a widow theme was turned into a film?
(A) Hazar Churasi Ma
(B) Ghatashraddha
(C) Gone with the Wind
(D) Padosan
Ans: B
36. Aristotle excludes Aeschylus from his analysis of great tragedy writers because _______.
(A) He believed tragedy had not found its natural level with Aeschylus.
(B) He personally disliked Aeschylus.
(C) Aeschylus did not obey the rule of unity of space and time.
(D) Aeschylus was incapable of evoking eleos and phobos.
Ans: A
37. Russian formalism stressed that themes tend to _______.
(A) became automatized
(B) be defamiliarized
(C) collapse into motifs
(D) distinguish between the trivial and the worthwhile
Ans: A
38. The founding fathers of British culture studies are
Code:
I. I.A. Richards
II. Richard Hoggart
III. Raymond Williams
IV. Terry Eagleton
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: B
39. Which noted twentieth century scholar among the following does Ronald Inden criticise for a romantic-orientalist view of Indian Literature?
(A) Francois Gautier
(B) Koenraad Elst
(C) Alain Danielou
(D) Mircea Eliade
Ans: D
40. It is now widely acknowledged that the seeds of the modern story lie in _______.
(A) Drama
(B) Novel
(C) Folklore
(D) Epic
Ans: C
41. The scholar who argues that Marxist literary historiography need not depend on a mechanical base-superstructure model is _______.
(A) G.V. Plekhanov
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) D.D. Kosambi
(D) Eric Hobsbawm
Ans: B
42. Who among the following describes kinship systems “as like a language”?
(A) Levis-Strauss
(B) Saussure
(C) Barthes
(D) Malinowski
Ans: A
43. In Tolkappiam, the concept of iraicchi is described by commentators as a technique that _____.
(A) creates a sense of recognition in readers, which leads them to the inner meaning.
(B) causes the reader to perceive something that is different from what the words of the poem describe.
(C) points to a particular object while, in reality, aiming at a different object.
(D) provokes laughter in the reader, but in actuality, indicates something serious.
Ans: A
44. Which of the following space will not be subsumed under Foucault’s concept of heterotopia?
(A) Prisons
(B) Public parks
(C) Schools
(D) Mental asylums
Ans: B
45. The first period of modern Hindi poetry is ________.
(A) Dwivedi period
(B) Chaya vaad (Chāyāvād)
(C) Ritikaal
(D) Pragativaad
Ans: A
46. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has been viewed as a typical example of the genre of fantasy. Which modern fantasy writers break away from the medievalist influence of his “Horizon of Expectation”?
Codes:
I. Lewis
II. Donaldson
III. Rowling
IV. Mieville
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: D
47. The name of Bakhtin is associated with which of the terms below?
Codes:
I. Heteroglossia
II. Zones of characters
The right answer according to the code is
(A) I is the correct answer.
(B) II is the correct answer.
(C) I and II is the correct answer.
(D) None of them is the correct answer.
Ans: C
48. Which of the following texts does not contribute towards an inventory of methodological assumptions of a cultural studies text?
(A) Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy
(B) Williams’ Culture and Society
(C) Hall’s “Race, Culture and Communication”
(D) Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
Ans: D
49. Writing literary history by moving away from the author to the way the work is received at different moments is the method developed by _______.
(A) Rene Wellek
(B) Roman Jakolyon
(C) Victor Shklovsky
(D) Hans Robert Jauss
Ans: D
50. Bhartrhari belonged to the _______.
(A) 6th century
(B) 7th century
(C) 8th century
(D) 9th century
Ans: A
51. “Why Comparative Indian Literature?” is an essay by
(A) R.K. Dasgupta
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Swapan Majumdar
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: D
52. Who among the following cannot be subsumed under the category, American Transcendentalists?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(C) Emily Dickinson
(D) Henry David Thoreau
Ans: C
53. Friedrich Schlegel was a major figure of
(A) Early German classicism
(B) Medieval German Literature
(C) The Storm and Drang Movement
(D) German Romanticism
Ans: D
54. The English Novel Rajmohan’s wife was written by
(A) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(B) Raja Rammohan Roy
(C) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Ans: C
55. Homer’s The Odyssey contains
(A) 12 books
(B) 18 books
(C) 24 books
(D) 6 books
Ans: C
56. The Hindi film Utsav was based on
(A) Gathasaptasati
(B) Tripitaka
(C) Mricchhakatika
(D) Meghduta
Ans: C
57. _________ is the study of the discursive content of images, the symbolic meanings that they express.
(A) Iconology
(B) Philology
(C) Mythography
(D) Iconography
Ans: D
58. Which early European poet used the AZP structure of the ballet to formulate his stanzaic pattern?
(A) Dante
(B) Petrarch
(C) Harace
(D) Pindar
Ans: D
59. Satyajit Ray’s award winning film “Pather Panchali” is based on a novel by
(A) Kazi Nazrul Islam
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
(D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Ans: C
60. Which of the following reports engages most clearly with the emergence of Cultural studies?
(A) Greene Report
(B) Blue Report
(C) Bernheimer Report
(D) Levin Report
Ans: C
61. Culture Studies as an academic discipline began in the UK at the
(A) University of London
(B) University of Birmingham
(C) University of Manchester
(D) University of East Anglia
Ans: B
62. Name the author of the novel Kartography
(A) Hanif Qureishi
(B) Anitav Ghosh
(C) Shyam Selvadurai
(D) Kamala Shamsie
Ans: D
63. Who among the following devised a “pointillist” method in Art history?
(A) Ernest Gombrich
(B) Fernand Braudel
(C) Erwin Panofsky
(D) Heinrich Wölfflin
Ans: B
64. The following poems furnish good examples of the artistic potential of emphasis:
I. “The Lady of Shallot”
II. “Musee des Beaux Arts”
III. “Preludes”
IV. “Ode on a Grecian Uru”
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) III and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct
Ans: D
65. Principles of Art History was written by
(A) Oskar Walzel
(B) Heinrich Wolfflin
(C) Zimmermann
(D) E. Legouis
Ans: B
66. Which of these books were published in two different editions separated by many years, the first in black and white, and the second in colour, where the racism in the former was sought to be removed by the author in the latter?
(A) Tintin in Africa
(B) Tintin in America
(C) Tintin in the Congo
(D) Tintin and the Broken Ear
Ans: C
67. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
(Broad Area) (Theorist associated with it)
i. The politics of representations 1. Richard Hoggart
ii. Cultural studies and Media 2. Stuart Hall
iii. The audience and consumption 3. Lawrence Grossberg
iv. Cultural studies in the US 4. David Morley
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Ans: C
68. The ‘Inuits’ are commonly known as
(A) Negroes
(B) Eskimos
(C) Australoids
(D) Red-Indians
Ans: B
69. An autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi is
(A) My Persia
(B) Revolution
(C) Persepolis
(D) Maus
Ans: C
70. “Understanding Comics” is written by
(A) Neil Gaiman
(B) Scott McCloud
(C) Alan Moore
(D) Raymond Williams
Ans: B
71. Which Shakespearean play was Rabindranath Tagore forced to translate at the age of fourteen as a part of his holiday homework?
(A) Antony & Cleopatra
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) The Merchant of Venice
Ans: B
72. The concept of “Social Drama” was developed by
(A) Martin Esslin
(B) Victor Turner
(C) Northrop Frye
(D) David Hare
Ans: B
73. The following play has experimented with cultural and dramatic possibilities in an historical light:
(A) Indian Ink
(B) Bringing Up Father
(C) Teeth N’ Smiles
(D) Mudrārāk asa
Ans: A
74. Which of these is not one of the general categories Raymond Williams delineates in his definition of culture?
(A) The Social
(B) The Documentary
(C) The Ideal
(D) The Actual
Ans: D
75. ‘Native Earth Performing Arts’ is a theatre company based in
(A) Toronto
(B) Brisbane
(C) Ahmedabad
(D) Nairobi
Ans: A
76. Andre Lefevere is the author of
(A) Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame
(B) The Translator’s Invisibility
(C) Of Grammatology
(D) Toward a Science of Translating
Ans: A
77. Comparison n’est pas raison: La crise de la littērature comparée is authored by
(A) Rene Etiemble
(B) Ferdinand Brunetiere
(C) Jean Frappiere
(D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ans: A
78. Which among the following is not a Gothic novel?
(A) The Sorrows of Young Weather
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Ferdinand Count Fathom
(D) Rinaldo Rinaldini
Ans: A
79. Death of a Discipline which addresses the need to usher in changes within the discipline of Comparative Literature, is written by
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Harry Levin
(C) Charles Bernheimer
(D) T.S. Eliot
Ans: A
80. Writing literary history by moving away from the author to the way the work is received at different moments is the method developed by
(A) Rene Wellek
(B) Viktor Shklovsky
(C) Hayden White
(D) Haus Robert Jauss
Ans: D
81. Which God named below is not a God of War?
(A) Hermes
(B) Mars
(C) Ares
(D) Reshep
Ans: A
82. In describing Indian literary history, who is critical of the use of period?
(A) Sisir Kumar Das in A History of Indian Literature
(B) Suniti Kumar Chatterjee in Languages and Literatures of Modern India
(C) Ganesh Devy in Of Many Heroes: An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography
(D) Douwe Fokkema in Literary History, Modernism and Post-Modernism
Ans: C
83. Rita Kothari’s Translating India is sub-titled
(A) The Politics of Translating from Gujarati into English
(B) Language, Culture, Industry
(C) The Linguistic Politics of India
(D) The Cultural Politics of English
Ans: D
84. ‘Hamartia’ means
(A) purging of excess emotions
(B) a lack of confidence on the part of the hero
(C) the poetic ability of the protagonist
(D) a tragic flaw or error in the protagonist
Ans: D
85. The following Malayalam film is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello.
(A) Kāryam Nissāram
(B) Kaliveedu
(C) Kaliyāttam
(D) Kāthodu Kāthoram
Ans: C
86. Strophe, anti-strophe and epode are parts of
(A) a sonnet
(B) a one-act play
(C) an ode
(D) a ballad
Ans: C
87. The first German adaptation of the legend of ‘The Chalk Circle’ was done by
(A) Goethe
(B) Brecht
(C) Klabund
(D) Mann
Ans: C
88. The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biography of
(A) Vincent Van Gogh
(B) Pablo Picasso
(C) Michelangelo
(D) Leonardo da Vinci
Ans: C
89. ‘Epinicia’ means
(A) Song of lamentation
(B) Wedding song
(C) Song of victory
(D) Divine hymns
Ans: C
90. Identify the person who wrote – “Just as this earth is not the sum of patches of land belonging to different people and to know the earth as such is sheer rusticity, so literature is not the mere total of works composed by different hands. Most of us, however, think of literature in what I have called the manner of the rustic.”
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) Premchand
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Thakazhi Shivshankara Pillai
Ans: C
91. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is written by
(A) Kamila Shamsie
(B) Bapsie Sidhwa
(C) Mohsin Hamid
(D) Zulfikar Ghose
Ans: C
92. A Change of Skies is
(A) a novel
(B) an epic poem
(C) a tragi-comedy
(D) a silent film
Ans: A
93. In Indian poetics, the ‘Padya’ was divided as
(A) Sargabandha and Muktaka
(B) Prabandha and Muktaka
(C) Sargabandha and Prabandha
(D) Muktaka and Parva
Ans: A
94. Name the author of Jaisa ka Taisa, an adaptation of Moliere’s L’amowe medecin.
(A) Girish Karnad
(B) Bhartendu Harishchandra
(C) Girishchandra Ghosh
(D) K.P. Khadilkar
Ans: C
95. René is a
(A) play written by Moliere
(B) a novella written by Chetanbrind
(C) a play written by Chetanbrind
(D) tragedy by Racine
Ans: B
96. Thomas Mann in The Transposed Heads borrows his theme from
(A) Kathasaritsagara
(B) Hayavadana
(C) Nagamandala
(D) Aesop’s Fables
Ans: A
97. Nouvean roman means
(A) new romance
(B) new Romanticism
(C) non-romance
(D) new novel
Ans: D
98. The traditional ‘box in box tale’ model was attempted in modern fiction as an alternative to the western novel by
(A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(B) Phaniswarnath Renu
(C) Qurratulain Hyder
(D) Trilokinath Mukhopadhyay
Ans: D
99. The Tale of Genji is
I. a Chinese story
II. written by Yukio Mishima
III. a Japanese novel
IV. written by Murasaki Shikibu
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: C
100. Gilgamesh is
(A) a Roman epic
(B) a Sumerian epic
(C) a German romance
(D) a Spanish romance
Ans: B
(A) R.K. Dasgupta
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Swapan Majumdar
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: D
52. Who among the following cannot be subsumed under the category, American Transcendentalists?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(C) Emily Dickinson
(D) Henry David Thoreau
Ans: C
53. Friedrich Schlegel was a major figure of
(A) Early German classicism
(B) Medieval German Literature
(C) The Storm and Drang Movement
(D) German Romanticism
Ans: D
54. The English Novel Rajmohan’s wife was written by
(A) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(B) Raja Rammohan Roy
(C) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Ans: C
55. Homer’s The Odyssey contains
(A) 12 books
(B) 18 books
(C) 24 books
(D) 6 books
Ans: C
56. The Hindi film Utsav was based on
(A) Gathasaptasati
(B) Tripitaka
(C) Mricchhakatika
(D) Meghduta
Ans: C
57. _________ is the study of the discursive content of images, the symbolic meanings that they express.
(A) Iconology
(B) Philology
(C) Mythography
(D) Iconography
Ans: D
58. Which early European poet used the AZP structure of the ballet to formulate his stanzaic pattern?
(A) Dante
(B) Petrarch
(C) Harace
(D) Pindar
Ans: D
59. Satyajit Ray’s award winning film “Pather Panchali” is based on a novel by
(A) Kazi Nazrul Islam
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
(D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Ans: C
60. Which of the following reports engages most clearly with the emergence of Cultural studies?
(A) Greene Report
(B) Blue Report
(C) Bernheimer Report
(D) Levin Report
Ans: C
61. Culture Studies as an academic discipline began in the UK at the
(A) University of London
(B) University of Birmingham
(C) University of Manchester
(D) University of East Anglia
Ans: B
62. Name the author of the novel Kartography
(A) Hanif Qureishi
(B) Anitav Ghosh
(C) Shyam Selvadurai
(D) Kamala Shamsie
Ans: D
63. Who among the following devised a “pointillist” method in Art history?
(A) Ernest Gombrich
(B) Fernand Braudel
(C) Erwin Panofsky
(D) Heinrich Wölfflin
Ans: B
64. The following poems furnish good examples of the artistic potential of emphasis:
I. “The Lady of Shallot”
II. “Musee des Beaux Arts”
III. “Preludes”
IV. “Ode on a Grecian Uru”
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) III and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct
Ans: D
65. Principles of Art History was written by
(A) Oskar Walzel
(B) Heinrich Wolfflin
(C) Zimmermann
(D) E. Legouis
Ans: B
66. Which of these books were published in two different editions separated by many years, the first in black and white, and the second in colour, where the racism in the former was sought to be removed by the author in the latter?
(A) Tintin in Africa
(B) Tintin in America
(C) Tintin in the Congo
(D) Tintin and the Broken Ear
Ans: C
67. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
(Broad Area) (Theorist associated with it)
i. The politics of representations 1. Richard Hoggart
ii. Cultural studies and Media 2. Stuart Hall
iii. The audience and consumption 3. Lawrence Grossberg
iv. Cultural studies in the US 4. David Morley
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Ans: C
68. The ‘Inuits’ are commonly known as
(A) Negroes
(B) Eskimos
(C) Australoids
(D) Red-Indians
Ans: B
69. An autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi is
(A) My Persia
(B) Revolution
(C) Persepolis
(D) Maus
Ans: C
70. “Understanding Comics” is written by
(A) Neil Gaiman
(B) Scott McCloud
(C) Alan Moore
(D) Raymond Williams
Ans: B
71. Which Shakespearean play was Rabindranath Tagore forced to translate at the age of fourteen as a part of his holiday homework?
(A) Antony & Cleopatra
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) The Merchant of Venice
Ans: B
72. The concept of “Social Drama” was developed by
(A) Martin Esslin
(B) Victor Turner
(C) Northrop Frye
(D) David Hare
Ans: B
73. The following play has experimented with cultural and dramatic possibilities in an historical light:
(A) Indian Ink
(B) Bringing Up Father
(C) Teeth N’ Smiles
(D) Mudrārāk asa
Ans: A
74. Which of these is not one of the general categories Raymond Williams delineates in his definition of culture?
(A) The Social
(B) The Documentary
(C) The Ideal
(D) The Actual
Ans: D
75. ‘Native Earth Performing Arts’ is a theatre company based in
(A) Toronto
(B) Brisbane
(C) Ahmedabad
(D) Nairobi
Ans: A
76. Andre Lefevere is the author of
(A) Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame
(B) The Translator’s Invisibility
(C) Of Grammatology
(D) Toward a Science of Translating
Ans: A
77. Comparison n’est pas raison: La crise de la littērature comparée is authored by
(A) Rene Etiemble
(B) Ferdinand Brunetiere
(C) Jean Frappiere
(D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ans: A
78. Which among the following is not a Gothic novel?
(A) The Sorrows of Young Weather
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Ferdinand Count Fathom
(D) Rinaldo Rinaldini
Ans: A
79. Death of a Discipline which addresses the need to usher in changes within the discipline of Comparative Literature, is written by
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Harry Levin
(C) Charles Bernheimer
(D) T.S. Eliot
Ans: A
80. Writing literary history by moving away from the author to the way the work is received at different moments is the method developed by
(A) Rene Wellek
(B) Viktor Shklovsky
(C) Hayden White
(D) Haus Robert Jauss
Ans: D
81. Which God named below is not a God of War?
(A) Hermes
(B) Mars
(C) Ares
(D) Reshep
Ans: A
82. In describing Indian literary history, who is critical of the use of period?
(A) Sisir Kumar Das in A History of Indian Literature
(B) Suniti Kumar Chatterjee in Languages and Literatures of Modern India
(C) Ganesh Devy in Of Many Heroes: An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography
(D) Douwe Fokkema in Literary History, Modernism and Post-Modernism
Ans: C
83. Rita Kothari’s Translating India is sub-titled
(A) The Politics of Translating from Gujarati into English
(B) Language, Culture, Industry
(C) The Linguistic Politics of India
(D) The Cultural Politics of English
Ans: D
84. ‘Hamartia’ means
(A) purging of excess emotions
(B) a lack of confidence on the part of the hero
(C) the poetic ability of the protagonist
(D) a tragic flaw or error in the protagonist
Ans: D
85. The following Malayalam film is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello.
(A) Kāryam Nissāram
(B) Kaliveedu
(C) Kaliyāttam
(D) Kāthodu Kāthoram
Ans: C
86. Strophe, anti-strophe and epode are parts of
(A) a sonnet
(B) a one-act play
(C) an ode
(D) a ballad
Ans: C
87. The first German adaptation of the legend of ‘The Chalk Circle’ was done by
(A) Goethe
(B) Brecht
(C) Klabund
(D) Mann
Ans: C
88. The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biography of
(A) Vincent Van Gogh
(B) Pablo Picasso
(C) Michelangelo
(D) Leonardo da Vinci
Ans: C
89. ‘Epinicia’ means
(A) Song of lamentation
(B) Wedding song
(C) Song of victory
(D) Divine hymns
Ans: C
90. Identify the person who wrote – “Just as this earth is not the sum of patches of land belonging to different people and to know the earth as such is sheer rusticity, so literature is not the mere total of works composed by different hands. Most of us, however, think of literature in what I have called the manner of the rustic.”
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) Premchand
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Thakazhi Shivshankara Pillai
Ans: C
91. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is written by
(A) Kamila Shamsie
(B) Bapsie Sidhwa
(C) Mohsin Hamid
(D) Zulfikar Ghose
Ans: C
92. A Change of Skies is
(A) a novel
(B) an epic poem
(C) a tragi-comedy
(D) a silent film
Ans: A
93. In Indian poetics, the ‘Padya’ was divided as
(A) Sargabandha and Muktaka
(B) Prabandha and Muktaka
(C) Sargabandha and Prabandha
(D) Muktaka and Parva
Ans: A
94. Name the author of Jaisa ka Taisa, an adaptation of Moliere’s L’amowe medecin.
(A) Girish Karnad
(B) Bhartendu Harishchandra
(C) Girishchandra Ghosh
(D) K.P. Khadilkar
Ans: C
95. René is a
(A) play written by Moliere
(B) a novella written by Chetanbrind
(C) a play written by Chetanbrind
(D) tragedy by Racine
Ans: B
96. Thomas Mann in The Transposed Heads borrows his theme from
(A) Kathasaritsagara
(B) Hayavadana
(C) Nagamandala
(D) Aesop’s Fables
Ans: A
97. Nouvean roman means
(A) new romance
(B) new Romanticism
(C) non-romance
(D) new novel
Ans: D
98. The traditional ‘box in box tale’ model was attempted in modern fiction as an alternative to the western novel by
(A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(B) Phaniswarnath Renu
(C) Qurratulain Hyder
(D) Trilokinath Mukhopadhyay
Ans: D
99. The Tale of Genji is
I. a Chinese story
II. written by Yukio Mishima
III. a Japanese novel
IV. written by Murasaki Shikibu
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: C
100. Gilgamesh is
(A) a Roman epic
(B) a Sumerian epic
(C) a German romance
(D) a Spanish romance
Ans: B