COMPARATIVE LITERATURE- PAGE 3
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MCQs
1. Which of the following works does not address the theme of ‘The Fall of Man’?
(A) Milton’s Paradise Lost
(B) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
(D) Camus’ The Fall
Ans: B
2. The 17th century collection of French fables which facilitated the migration of tales to a large extent were written by
(A) La Fontaine
(B) Aesop
(C) Ignacy Krasicki
(D) Phaedrus
Ans: A
3. The following book argues that growth in literary criticism and the interest in institutionalizing literary education are closely interrelated:
(A) Is there a text in this class?
(B) The Anxiety of Influence
(C) The Social Mission of English Criticism: 1848 – 1932
(D) After Theory
Ans: C
4. By “Cultural Capital” is meant ____.
(A) the prestige attached to a particular work of art, or any commodity, in a socio-cultural milieu
(B) the prestige attached to capitalist culture in a sociocultural milieu
(C) the distinction capitalism draws between/among culture’s products and effects
(D) the capital culture makes in a scenario that undervalues noncultural products and services
Ans: A
5. The following could constitute legitimate objects of enquiry within cultural studies
I. Work song
II. Comic book
III. Film
IV. Social networking
The correct combination according to the code:
(A) Only III
(B) Only II
(C) All of the above
(D) II and IV
Ans: C
6. Arrange the following in chronological order:
i. Aeschylus’ death
ii. Babur’s arrival in India
iii. Virgil’s birth
iv. The traditional date for the fall of Troy
Codes:
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv i iii ii
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) iv iii ii i
Ans: B
7. Grouped below are languages that share socio-historical and cultural traditions of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Identify the group to which languages with this shared history belong:
1. Hindi, Urdu, English, Dogri
2. Bangla, Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati
3. Manipuri, Maithili, Malayalam
4. Chhattisgarh, Haryanvi, Marathi
Codes:
(A) 1
(B) 3 & 4
(C) 2
(D) 1 & 2
Ans: D
8. Which of the following argues for an open embrace of and sympathy for, linguistic aliens and minorities?
(A) Monolingualism of the Other
(B) Strangers to Ourselves
(C) A Million Mutinies
(D) The Stranded Diaspora
Ans: A
9. Which of the following statements on Vande Matram is/are not true?
1. Its opening passage is an invocation of fertility, beauty and benignity.
2. It code switches from Sanskrit to Bangla and back.
3. It is the battle chant of the Hindu army in Bankim Chandra’s novel.
4. It is a lyric Bankim Chandra wrote at the ascension of George V to the throne of England.
5. It became popular as a great revolutionary hymn during India’s struggle for independence.
Codes:
(A) 1 & 2 are not true.
(B) 4 is not true.
(C) 3 & 5 are not true.
(D) 3 is not true.
Ans: B
10. Identify the author of Literary into Cultural Studies from the following:
(A) Lawrence Grossberg
(B) Meghan Morris
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Anthony Easthoge
Ans: D
11. Hori is a character in
(A) Godan
(B) House of Kanooru
(C) Hajaar Churashir Ma
(D) Padmamali
Ans: A
12. Identify the writer of The Joys of Motherhood.
(A) Ama Ata Aidoo
(B) Buchi Emecheta
(C) Flora Nwapa
(D) Bessie Head
Ans: B
13. On the question of cultural production of meaning, this text highlighted how different class cultures might in fact share sources, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, yet make radically opposed meanings of those works in arriving at a consciousness of one’s relational position in society. The text in question is
(A) The Uses of Literacy
(B) The Making of English Working Class
(C) Culture and Society: 1780-1950
(D) Crusoe’s Footprints
Ans: B
14. Which of the following art styles does not belong to the classical group?
(A) Expressionism
(B) The Baroque
(C) The Renaissance
(D) The Gothic
Ans: C
15. All except one of the following films incorporate the experience of the partition in their plots. Identify the exception.
(A) Garm Hawa
(B) Earth 1947
(C) Heat and Dust
(D) Meghey Dhaka Tara
Ans: C
16. Which of the following languages was not covered by the original four volumes of the National Bibliography of Indian Literature 1901-1953 published by the Sahitya Akademi, but was part of the fifth volume, which was envisaged and added later to the series?
(A) Kashmiri
(B) Rajasthani
(C) Sanskrit
(D) Sindhi
Ans: B
17. Identify the author who is a double migrant:
(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Shani Mootoo
(C) Shyam Selvadurai
(D) Anita Rau Badami
Ans: B
18. The philosopher whose deconstructionist critique of problems of origins, essence and presence caught the attention of critics who had grown disenchanted with New Criticism and structuralism, was
(A) Jacques Derrida
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Mikhail Bakhtin
(D) Roland Barthes
Ans: A
19. Bakhtin proposes the notion of
(A) Heteroglossia
(B) Zones of characters
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of them
Ans: C
20. Name the translator who infamously stated that the Persian poets he translated were not poets enough until he made them so
(A) William Jones
(B) Charles Wilkins
(C) Edward Fitzgerald
(D) Ram Mohan Roy
Ans: C
21. Which of the following is one of the definitive characteristics of the French School of Comparative Literature?
(A) Stylistics
(B) Polygenesis Studies
(C) Influence Studies
(D) Mythological Studies
Ans: C
22. The common element is early Bangla and Ahamiya literature is
(A) Namah texts
(B) Charyapadas
(C) Krittibas’ Ramayana
(D) Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita
Ans: B
23. G.K. Chisterton’s “After Walt Whitman” is _______
(A) A parody of Whitman’s themes
(B) A caricature of Whitman’s persona
(C) A tribute to Whitman’s clairvoyance
(D) A parody of Whitman’s style
Ans: D
24. Which of the following is, in sum, Paul de Man’s thesis in such books as Blindness & Insight and Allegories of Reading?
(A) In all things that speech can express, these are two elements – the outward or instrumental and the real or spiritual.
(B) What literature “knows” is that knowledge is a paretic, that is, unavailable, because it is subject to a double bind. We cannot have access to the truth that we seek in literature; and this is literature’s truth.
(C) Canonical works take the measure of the reader by means of their authority; their capacity to rebuke, baffles, and thwart us, as well as surprise us with unexpected, astonishing power. Even at its most frustrating, the canonical work draws us on; in our fascination, we remain loyal to it.
(D) In the struggle for the allegiance of the reading public, the established poetics can point to prestigious finished products whereas the adherents of the new poetics cannot yet do so. Consequently, the challenges being to import their own ‘finished products’.
Ans: B
25. “From country to popular” is the subtitle of a volume of which series on Indian Literary history?
(A) A History of Indian Literature
(B) The Oral Tradition in India
(C) Literary History of India
(D) India: Her Literature and Culture
Ans: A
26. The Pleiade is
(i) A cluster of stars
(ii) A group of 18th century French poets
(iii) A group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians.
(A) Only (i) is correct.
(B) Only (ii) is correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
Ans: C
27. Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?
(A) Jagannatha
(B) Bharata
(C) Mammata
(D) Anandavardhana
Ans: D
28. Novels that breach the template are held by reception aesthetics to be
(A) Discursively constructed
(B) Extending the horizon of expectation
(C) Creating estrangement
(D) Canonically correct
Ans: B
29. Miss Leela Benare is the protagonist of which of these plays?
(A) Evam Indrajit
(B) Ghasiram Kotwal
(C) Adhe Adhure
(D) Silence! The Court is in Session
Ans: D
30. “The theorist who took it upon himself to” distinguish between what is social from what is individual in language, and what is essential from what is ancillary was
(A) Eugene Nida
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Roman Jacobson
Ans: B
31. Name the 1958 work that applied structuralist and semi logical methods to a range of non-literary texts such as wrestling, food and fashion
(A) S/Z
(B) The Pleasure of the Text
(C) Mythologies
(D) Writing Degree Zero
Ans: C
32. The European poet who compared his own poetic style with that of Pinder in the lines “Julus, whoever rivals Pindar……” was
(A) Roousard
(B) Harace
(C) Catullus
(D) Villon
Ans: B
33. The Loeb Classical Library is known to provide comparative literary scholars with __________.
(A) Original classics in unexpurgated format
(B) Literary translations of classics
(C) Literal translations of classics
(D) Original classics, edited, with notes and lists of sources
Ans: C
34. Identify the Booker Prize awardee from the list below, who was not born in India.
(A) Arundhati Ray
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Aravind Adiga
Ans: C
35. Babaji Nataka
(i) Is considered by many as the first Oriya play.
(ii) Has been translated into English as The Holy Man.
(iii) Is written in colloquial 19thcentury Oriya.
(iv) Has several characters who speak Bangla, Hindi and English.
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(B) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
(C) Only (i) is correct.
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
Ans: D
36. Uttararamacaritam was a famous play of
(A) Bhavabhuti
(B) Kalidasa
(C) Shudraka
(D) Banabhatta
Ans: A
37. The name of Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury has been taken from
(A) Othello
(B) King Lear
(C) Hamlet
(D) Macbeth
Ans: D
38. Ovid’s Metamorphoses contains
(A) A collection of religious sayings
(B) A collection of myths
(C) A collection of parables
(D) A collection of poems on ancient European civilization
Ans: B
39. Identify the book which does not fall under the category of diasporic literature
(A) Can you hear the Night bird call?
(B) The Oath of the Vayuputras
(C) Interpreter of Maladies
(D) The Sorrow and the Terror
Ans: B
40. Identify the one which is not a historical novel:
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(C) War and Peace
(D) Moby Dick
Ans: D
41. The Order of Things is a book by
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
Ans: B
42. Aayatollah Khomeini had declared a ‘fatwa’ on
(A) Arundhati Ray for “God of Small Things”
(B) Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children
(C) Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses
(D) Amitav Ghosh for River of Smoke
Ans: C
43. The Cherry Orchard was written by
(A) Moliere in French
(B) Chekhov in Russian
(C) Heine in German
(D) Chekhov in Polish
Ans: B
44. Who declared that the “unconscious is structured like a language”?
(A) Jacques Lacan
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Roman Jacobson
(D) Sigmund Freud
Ans: A
45. The greatest theorist of tragicomedy was
(A) Giovanni de Bernardo
(B) Battista Guarini
(C) John Dryden
(D) Joseph Addison
Ans: B
46. “Translation as Perjury” is an essay by
(A) Rammohan Roy
(B) N. Kamala
(C) Anisur Rahman
(D) Sujit Mukherjee
Ans: D
47. Counterpoints is written by
(A) Ipshita Chanda
(B) Nabaneeta Dev Sen
(C) Chandra Mohan
(D) Ajeet Kaur
Ans: B
48. Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Flies borrows its theme from
(A) Sophocles
(B) Aristophanes
(C) Homer
(D) Aeschylus
Ans: D
49. The first department of comparative literature was started at
(A) Jadavpur University
(B) Calcutta University
(C) Delhi University
(D) University of Kerala
Ans: A
50. Which of the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
(A) John Steinbeck
(B) Jean-Paul Sartre
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Harold Pinter
Ans: C
(A) Milton’s Paradise Lost
(B) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
(D) Camus’ The Fall
Ans: B
2. The 17th century collection of French fables which facilitated the migration of tales to a large extent were written by
(A) La Fontaine
(B) Aesop
(C) Ignacy Krasicki
(D) Phaedrus
Ans: A
3. The following book argues that growth in literary criticism and the interest in institutionalizing literary education are closely interrelated:
(A) Is there a text in this class?
(B) The Anxiety of Influence
(C) The Social Mission of English Criticism: 1848 – 1932
(D) After Theory
Ans: C
4. By “Cultural Capital” is meant ____.
(A) the prestige attached to a particular work of art, or any commodity, in a socio-cultural milieu
(B) the prestige attached to capitalist culture in a sociocultural milieu
(C) the distinction capitalism draws between/among culture’s products and effects
(D) the capital culture makes in a scenario that undervalues noncultural products and services
Ans: A
5. The following could constitute legitimate objects of enquiry within cultural studies
I. Work song
II. Comic book
III. Film
IV. Social networking
The correct combination according to the code:
(A) Only III
(B) Only II
(C) All of the above
(D) II and IV
Ans: C
6. Arrange the following in chronological order:
i. Aeschylus’ death
ii. Babur’s arrival in India
iii. Virgil’s birth
iv. The traditional date for the fall of Troy
Codes:
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv i iii ii
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) iv iii ii i
Ans: B
7. Grouped below are languages that share socio-historical and cultural traditions of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Identify the group to which languages with this shared history belong:
1. Hindi, Urdu, English, Dogri
2. Bangla, Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati
3. Manipuri, Maithili, Malayalam
4. Chhattisgarh, Haryanvi, Marathi
Codes:
(A) 1
(B) 3 & 4
(C) 2
(D) 1 & 2
Ans: D
8. Which of the following argues for an open embrace of and sympathy for, linguistic aliens and minorities?
(A) Monolingualism of the Other
(B) Strangers to Ourselves
(C) A Million Mutinies
(D) The Stranded Diaspora
Ans: A
9. Which of the following statements on Vande Matram is/are not true?
1. Its opening passage is an invocation of fertility, beauty and benignity.
2. It code switches from Sanskrit to Bangla and back.
3. It is the battle chant of the Hindu army in Bankim Chandra’s novel.
4. It is a lyric Bankim Chandra wrote at the ascension of George V to the throne of England.
5. It became popular as a great revolutionary hymn during India’s struggle for independence.
Codes:
(A) 1 & 2 are not true.
(B) 4 is not true.
(C) 3 & 5 are not true.
(D) 3 is not true.
Ans: B
10. Identify the author of Literary into Cultural Studies from the following:
(A) Lawrence Grossberg
(B) Meghan Morris
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Anthony Easthoge
Ans: D
11. Hori is a character in
(A) Godan
(B) House of Kanooru
(C) Hajaar Churashir Ma
(D) Padmamali
Ans: A
12. Identify the writer of The Joys of Motherhood.
(A) Ama Ata Aidoo
(B) Buchi Emecheta
(C) Flora Nwapa
(D) Bessie Head
Ans: B
13. On the question of cultural production of meaning, this text highlighted how different class cultures might in fact share sources, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, yet make radically opposed meanings of those works in arriving at a consciousness of one’s relational position in society. The text in question is
(A) The Uses of Literacy
(B) The Making of English Working Class
(C) Culture and Society: 1780-1950
(D) Crusoe’s Footprints
Ans: B
14. Which of the following art styles does not belong to the classical group?
(A) Expressionism
(B) The Baroque
(C) The Renaissance
(D) The Gothic
Ans: C
15. All except one of the following films incorporate the experience of the partition in their plots. Identify the exception.
(A) Garm Hawa
(B) Earth 1947
(C) Heat and Dust
(D) Meghey Dhaka Tara
Ans: C
16. Which of the following languages was not covered by the original four volumes of the National Bibliography of Indian Literature 1901-1953 published by the Sahitya Akademi, but was part of the fifth volume, which was envisaged and added later to the series?
(A) Kashmiri
(B) Rajasthani
(C) Sanskrit
(D) Sindhi
Ans: B
17. Identify the author who is a double migrant:
(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Shani Mootoo
(C) Shyam Selvadurai
(D) Anita Rau Badami
Ans: B
18. The philosopher whose deconstructionist critique of problems of origins, essence and presence caught the attention of critics who had grown disenchanted with New Criticism and structuralism, was
(A) Jacques Derrida
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Mikhail Bakhtin
(D) Roland Barthes
Ans: A
19. Bakhtin proposes the notion of
(A) Heteroglossia
(B) Zones of characters
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of them
Ans: C
20. Name the translator who infamously stated that the Persian poets he translated were not poets enough until he made them so
(A) William Jones
(B) Charles Wilkins
(C) Edward Fitzgerald
(D) Ram Mohan Roy
Ans: C
21. Which of the following is one of the definitive characteristics of the French School of Comparative Literature?
(A) Stylistics
(B) Polygenesis Studies
(C) Influence Studies
(D) Mythological Studies
Ans: C
22. The common element is early Bangla and Ahamiya literature is
(A) Namah texts
(B) Charyapadas
(C) Krittibas’ Ramayana
(D) Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita
Ans: B
23. G.K. Chisterton’s “After Walt Whitman” is _______
(A) A parody of Whitman’s themes
(B) A caricature of Whitman’s persona
(C) A tribute to Whitman’s clairvoyance
(D) A parody of Whitman’s style
Ans: D
24. Which of the following is, in sum, Paul de Man’s thesis in such books as Blindness & Insight and Allegories of Reading?
(A) In all things that speech can express, these are two elements – the outward or instrumental and the real or spiritual.
(B) What literature “knows” is that knowledge is a paretic, that is, unavailable, because it is subject to a double bind. We cannot have access to the truth that we seek in literature; and this is literature’s truth.
(C) Canonical works take the measure of the reader by means of their authority; their capacity to rebuke, baffles, and thwart us, as well as surprise us with unexpected, astonishing power. Even at its most frustrating, the canonical work draws us on; in our fascination, we remain loyal to it.
(D) In the struggle for the allegiance of the reading public, the established poetics can point to prestigious finished products whereas the adherents of the new poetics cannot yet do so. Consequently, the challenges being to import their own ‘finished products’.
Ans: B
25. “From country to popular” is the subtitle of a volume of which series on Indian Literary history?
(A) A History of Indian Literature
(B) The Oral Tradition in India
(C) Literary History of India
(D) India: Her Literature and Culture
Ans: A
26. The Pleiade is
(i) A cluster of stars
(ii) A group of 18th century French poets
(iii) A group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians.
(A) Only (i) is correct.
(B) Only (ii) is correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
Ans: C
27. Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?
(A) Jagannatha
(B) Bharata
(C) Mammata
(D) Anandavardhana
Ans: D
28. Novels that breach the template are held by reception aesthetics to be
(A) Discursively constructed
(B) Extending the horizon of expectation
(C) Creating estrangement
(D) Canonically correct
Ans: B
29. Miss Leela Benare is the protagonist of which of these plays?
(A) Evam Indrajit
(B) Ghasiram Kotwal
(C) Adhe Adhure
(D) Silence! The Court is in Session
Ans: D
30. “The theorist who took it upon himself to” distinguish between what is social from what is individual in language, and what is essential from what is ancillary was
(A) Eugene Nida
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Roman Jacobson
Ans: B
31. Name the 1958 work that applied structuralist and semi logical methods to a range of non-literary texts such as wrestling, food and fashion
(A) S/Z
(B) The Pleasure of the Text
(C) Mythologies
(D) Writing Degree Zero
Ans: C
32. The European poet who compared his own poetic style with that of Pinder in the lines “Julus, whoever rivals Pindar……” was
(A) Roousard
(B) Harace
(C) Catullus
(D) Villon
Ans: B
33. The Loeb Classical Library is known to provide comparative literary scholars with __________.
(A) Original classics in unexpurgated format
(B) Literary translations of classics
(C) Literal translations of classics
(D) Original classics, edited, with notes and lists of sources
Ans: C
34. Identify the Booker Prize awardee from the list below, who was not born in India.
(A) Arundhati Ray
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Aravind Adiga
Ans: C
35. Babaji Nataka
(i) Is considered by many as the first Oriya play.
(ii) Has been translated into English as The Holy Man.
(iii) Is written in colloquial 19thcentury Oriya.
(iv) Has several characters who speak Bangla, Hindi and English.
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(B) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
(C) Only (i) is correct.
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
Ans: D
36. Uttararamacaritam was a famous play of
(A) Bhavabhuti
(B) Kalidasa
(C) Shudraka
(D) Banabhatta
Ans: A
37. The name of Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury has been taken from
(A) Othello
(B) King Lear
(C) Hamlet
(D) Macbeth
Ans: D
38. Ovid’s Metamorphoses contains
(A) A collection of religious sayings
(B) A collection of myths
(C) A collection of parables
(D) A collection of poems on ancient European civilization
Ans: B
39. Identify the book which does not fall under the category of diasporic literature
(A) Can you hear the Night bird call?
(B) The Oath of the Vayuputras
(C) Interpreter of Maladies
(D) The Sorrow and the Terror
Ans: B
40. Identify the one which is not a historical novel:
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(C) War and Peace
(D) Moby Dick
Ans: D
41. The Order of Things is a book by
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
Ans: B
42. Aayatollah Khomeini had declared a ‘fatwa’ on
(A) Arundhati Ray for “God of Small Things”
(B) Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children
(C) Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses
(D) Amitav Ghosh for River of Smoke
Ans: C
43. The Cherry Orchard was written by
(A) Moliere in French
(B) Chekhov in Russian
(C) Heine in German
(D) Chekhov in Polish
Ans: B
44. Who declared that the “unconscious is structured like a language”?
(A) Jacques Lacan
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Roman Jacobson
(D) Sigmund Freud
Ans: A
45. The greatest theorist of tragicomedy was
(A) Giovanni de Bernardo
(B) Battista Guarini
(C) John Dryden
(D) Joseph Addison
Ans: B
46. “Translation as Perjury” is an essay by
(A) Rammohan Roy
(B) N. Kamala
(C) Anisur Rahman
(D) Sujit Mukherjee
Ans: D
47. Counterpoints is written by
(A) Ipshita Chanda
(B) Nabaneeta Dev Sen
(C) Chandra Mohan
(D) Ajeet Kaur
Ans: B
48. Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Flies borrows its theme from
(A) Sophocles
(B) Aristophanes
(C) Homer
(D) Aeschylus
Ans: D
49. The first department of comparative literature was started at
(A) Jadavpur University
(B) Calcutta University
(C) Delhi University
(D) University of Kerala
Ans: A
50. Which of the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
(A) John Steinbeck
(B) Jean-Paul Sartre
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Harold Pinter
Ans: C
51. Match the terms in List – I with the one’s in List – II and choose the right code from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Racine (i) Romanticism
(b) Lamartine (ii) Realism
(c) Chekhov (iii) Expressionism
(d) Kaiser (iv) Neo-classicism
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: D
52. “Sanskrit has a wonderful structure more perfect than Greek, more copious than the Latin …” Identify the author of this statement.
(A) T.B. Macaulay
(B) Sir William Jones
(C) J.J. Clarke
(D) Lord Bentinck
Ans: D
53. Name the comparatist who says that the two-way relationship of ‘emitter’ and ‘receiver’ is essential to any understanding of literary fortunes.
(A) Harry Levin
(B) S.S. Prawer
(C) Graham Hough
(D) C.L. Waterhouse
Ans: B
54. Identify the true statement:
(A) The first volume of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past is entitled Swann’s Way.
(B) Marcel Proust wrote a novel in many volumes entitled Swann’s Way.
(C) Marcel Proust imitated James Joyce when he wrote in the stream of consciousness manner.
(D) Dorothy Richardson inspired Marcel Proust to write Swann’s Way.
Ans: A
55. Identify the true statement from the following:
(A) Neo-classicism originated in Germany.
(B) The Neo-classical “movement” in literature had its origins in France and from there it spread to countries like England and Germany.
(C) Neo-classicism was confined to France.
(D) Neo-classicism came to England via Germany.
Ans: B
56. The Renaissance and particularly the baroque style, according to Wellek and Warren, flooded the whole of Eastern Europe, but hardly touched _______.
(A) Rome
(B) Poland
(C) Russia
(D) Greece
Ans: C
57. Thomas Wolfe’s book Look Homeward, Angel celebrates ______ culture.
(A) German
(B) Russian
(C) Greek
(D) Roman
Ans: A
58. “The early practitioners of Comparative Literature were folklorists… who studied the origins of literature, its diversification in oral literary forms and its emergence into the early epic, drama and lyric.” Who says this?
(A) Wellek and Warren
(B) Remak and Weisstein
(C) Baldensperger and Balakian
(D) Pollock and Leibnitz
Ans: A
59. “The literary historian must be a critic even in order to be an historian.” Identify the author of the statement.
(A) Benedetto Croce
(B) Van Tieghem
(C) Norman Foerster
(D) Hans Naumann
Ans: C
60. Who is the author of Mimesis?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Erich Auerbach
(C) Plato
(D) Longinus
Ans: B
61. The prominent scientific work of the 19th century that profoundly influenced contemporary literature was _______.
(A) The Origin of Species
(B) Principia Mathematica
(C) Dialogue on the Two Greatest Systems
(D) Civilization and its Discontents
Ans: A
62. Which of the following is not a North American author?
(A) Hemingway
(B) Saul Bellow
(C) Salinger
(D) Garcia Marquez
Ans: D
63. Which member of the Harlem Renaissance authored the book, Shakespeare in Harlem?
(A) Zora Neale Hurston
(B) Longston Hughes
(C) Countee Cullen
(D) James Weldon Johnson
Ans: B
64. Mäori writers have played an important role in the cultural renaissance in _______.
(A) Australia
(B) South Africa
(C) New Zealand
(D) Jamaica
Ans: C
65. Identify the popular performing art form which is not from India.
(A) Tamasha
(B) Jatra
(C) Kabuki
(D) Nautanki
Ans: C
66. August Strindberg’s play The Ghost Sonata is modelled on a piece by _____.
(A) Beethoven
(B) Bach
(C) Mozart
(D) Brahms
Ans: A
67. Utilitarianism was castigated in the following novel:
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Hard Times
(C) Middlemarch
(D) Far from the Madding Crowd
Ans: B
68. Walter Veit’s essay, “Topics in Comparative Literature” has appeared in ______.
(A) Literary History
(B) Comparative Literary Studies
(C) Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature
(D) New Literary History
Ans: C
69. With reference to his novel, A Wilderness of Mirrors, Max Frisch coined the term, ______.
(A) exponential pattern
(B) patternless pattern
(C) experimental pattern
(D) experiential pattern
Ans: D
70. The study of thematology has been resurrected by _______.
(A) Trousson, Goethe and Tieghem
(B) Trousson, Frenzel and Levin
(C) Levin, Wellek and Warren
(D) Goethe, Etiemble and Weisstein
Ans: B
71. Identify the author of the statement: “Themes, like symbols… are polysemous: that is, they can be endowed with different meanings in the face of differing situations. This is what makes an enquiry into their permutations an adventure into the history of ideas.”
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Harry Levin
(C) Benedetto Croce
(D) David Mayer
Ans: B
72. The only references in the Theory of Literature to thematology are found in the chapter entitled _______.
(A) Literary Genres
(B) Evaluation
(C) Literary History
(D) Literature and Ideas
Ans: C
73. Identify the comedy from the following plays:
(A) The Miser
(B) Phaedra
(C) Andromache
(D) Le Cid
Ans: A
74. Who wrote La Vita Nuova?
(A) Petrarch
(B) Dante
(C) Boccaccio
(D) Chretien de Troyes
Ans: B
75. The first printing press in Europe was set up by ______.
(A) Gutenberg
(B) Caxton
(C) Sir Thomas More
(D) Erasmus
Ans: A
76. Elaine Showalter is associated with ________.
(A) Feminism
(B) Cultural materialism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Reception
Ans: A
77. Which Marxist text among those listed below engages with formalism?
(A) Lenin and Philosophy by Althusser
(B) The Novel and the People by Fox.
(C) Art and Social Life by Plekhanov
(D) Literature and Revolution by Trotsky
Ans: D
78. The journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India is called ______.
(A) Literary and Cultural Studies
(B) Comparative Literature
(C) Literature and Literary Studies
(D) Sahitya
Ans: D
79. The chief exponent of Dhvani theory is ________.
(A) Kuntaka
(B) Bharata
(C) Abhinava Gupta
(D) Anandavardhana
Ans: D
80. The periodical Indian Literature is currently edited by _______.
(A) K. Satchidanandan
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Yashodhara Mishra
(D) Indranath Choudhari
Ans: C
81. Which of the following words is not an acceptable translation of the term ‘rasa’?
(A) Flavour
(B) Truth
(C) Desire
(D) Beauty
Ans: B
82. Bharatendu Harishchandra had translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s _______.
(A) Durgeshnandini
(B) Sitaram
(C) Rajani
(D) Rajsimha
Ans: D
83. In his An Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi mentions one of these texts as a distinct influence. Identify the text.
(A) Thoreau, Walden
(B) Ruskin, Unto This Last
(C) Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
(D) Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Ans: B
84. “Indian Literature is one though written in different languages.” This was a statement by ______
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) S. Radhakrishnan
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: B
85. The theme of the educated hero as the liberator of the oppressed peasant appears diachronically in _______.
(A) Russian Nihilist and Marxist traditions.
(B) French tradition of the revolution of 1789 and the anti-Nazi resistance.
(C) Bengali leftist writings of the Progressive and Naxalite eras.
(D) Malayalam literature of the 1930s and 1970s.
Ans: C
86. In an Akam poem, the description of a buffalo treading on a lotus as he feeds on small flowers symbolises an unfaithful man who makes his lady love suffer by visiting prostitutes, is an example of ________.
(A) Ullurai
(B) Utanurai
(C) Nakai
(D) Sirappu
Ans: B
87. In which of these novels does M.K. Gandhi not feature by his physical presence?
(A) R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(C) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(D) Sashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
Ans: C
88. Sartre’s The Flies borrows its theme from _______.
(A) Homer
(B) Aeschylus
(C) Sophocles
(D) Aristophanes
Ans: B
89. The utopian aspirations of the epic poets of the sixteenth century have been disentangled by examining the theme of earthly paradise by ________.
(A) Kaiser
(B) Frye
(C) Giamatti
(D) Levin
Ans: C
90. The Comparatist who introduces a distinction, between ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ influence, by asking the question, ‘did a Renaissance poet have to read Petrarch in order to write a petrarchan sonnet’ is _______.
(A) G.E. Lessing
(B) A. Balakian
(C) J.T. Shaw
(D) C. Guillen
Ans: D
91. Which of the following pairs do not deal with thematology?
(A) Stoff-Rohstoff
(B) Dominant – Residual
(C) Plot – Tale
(D) Trait – Type
Ans: B
92. The critic who defined ‘analogy’ or ‘affinity’ as “resemblances in style, structure, mood or idea between works which have no other connection” is ________.
(A) Wellek
(B) Aldridge
(C) Prawar
(D) Balakian
Ans: B
93. In the Harry Potter series, a central theme is ________.
(A) Religion
(B) Sports
(C) Racism
(D) Modern Science
Ans: C
94. Who among the following has mapped the reception of Kalidasa’s Abhijñānasākuntalam in nineteenth century Europe?
(A) Michael Dodson
(B) Ronald B. Inden
(C) Dorothy Figueira
(D) Richard King
Ans: C
95. Evam Indrajit is _______.
(A) A short story by Rabindranath
(B) A play by Badal Sarkar
(C) A play by Girish Karnad
(D) A novel by Munshi Prem Chand
Ans: B
96. The critic who believes that a high translation activity takes place when a literature is in its initial stage of development is ________.
(A) Nida
(B) Evan Zohar
(C) Newmark
(D) Steiner
Ans: B
97. Which genre came up in medieval India as non-fiction but has survived to encompass fiction in modern South Asia?
(A) Upanyās
(B) Mahākāvya
(C) Nāmāh
(D) Nātaka
Ans: C
98. The critic who talks about the impossibility of translation is ________.
(A) Dryden
(B) Arnold
(C) Croce
(D) Cowper
Ans: C
99. Who talked about three kinds of poetry – the heroic (epic and tragedy), the scommatic (satire and comedy), and the pastoral?
(A) Hobbes
(B) Davenant
(C) Dallas
(D) Coleridge
Ans: A
100. The writer who makes a distinction between languages and meta language in connection with translation is ________.
(A) Catford
(B) Nida
(C) Steiner
(D) Lefevère
Ans: B
List – I List – II
(a) Racine (i) Romanticism
(b) Lamartine (ii) Realism
(c) Chekhov (iii) Expressionism
(d) Kaiser (iv) Neo-classicism
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: D
52. “Sanskrit has a wonderful structure more perfect than Greek, more copious than the Latin …” Identify the author of this statement.
(A) T.B. Macaulay
(B) Sir William Jones
(C) J.J. Clarke
(D) Lord Bentinck
Ans: D
53. Name the comparatist who says that the two-way relationship of ‘emitter’ and ‘receiver’ is essential to any understanding of literary fortunes.
(A) Harry Levin
(B) S.S. Prawer
(C) Graham Hough
(D) C.L. Waterhouse
Ans: B
54. Identify the true statement:
(A) The first volume of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past is entitled Swann’s Way.
(B) Marcel Proust wrote a novel in many volumes entitled Swann’s Way.
(C) Marcel Proust imitated James Joyce when he wrote in the stream of consciousness manner.
(D) Dorothy Richardson inspired Marcel Proust to write Swann’s Way.
Ans: A
55. Identify the true statement from the following:
(A) Neo-classicism originated in Germany.
(B) The Neo-classical “movement” in literature had its origins in France and from there it spread to countries like England and Germany.
(C) Neo-classicism was confined to France.
(D) Neo-classicism came to England via Germany.
Ans: B
56. The Renaissance and particularly the baroque style, according to Wellek and Warren, flooded the whole of Eastern Europe, but hardly touched _______.
(A) Rome
(B) Poland
(C) Russia
(D) Greece
Ans: C
57. Thomas Wolfe’s book Look Homeward, Angel celebrates ______ culture.
(A) German
(B) Russian
(C) Greek
(D) Roman
Ans: A
58. “The early practitioners of Comparative Literature were folklorists… who studied the origins of literature, its diversification in oral literary forms and its emergence into the early epic, drama and lyric.” Who says this?
(A) Wellek and Warren
(B) Remak and Weisstein
(C) Baldensperger and Balakian
(D) Pollock and Leibnitz
Ans: A
59. “The literary historian must be a critic even in order to be an historian.” Identify the author of the statement.
(A) Benedetto Croce
(B) Van Tieghem
(C) Norman Foerster
(D) Hans Naumann
Ans: C
60. Who is the author of Mimesis?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Erich Auerbach
(C) Plato
(D) Longinus
Ans: B
61. The prominent scientific work of the 19th century that profoundly influenced contemporary literature was _______.
(A) The Origin of Species
(B) Principia Mathematica
(C) Dialogue on the Two Greatest Systems
(D) Civilization and its Discontents
Ans: A
62. Which of the following is not a North American author?
(A) Hemingway
(B) Saul Bellow
(C) Salinger
(D) Garcia Marquez
Ans: D
63. Which member of the Harlem Renaissance authored the book, Shakespeare in Harlem?
(A) Zora Neale Hurston
(B) Longston Hughes
(C) Countee Cullen
(D) James Weldon Johnson
Ans: B
64. Mäori writers have played an important role in the cultural renaissance in _______.
(A) Australia
(B) South Africa
(C) New Zealand
(D) Jamaica
Ans: C
65. Identify the popular performing art form which is not from India.
(A) Tamasha
(B) Jatra
(C) Kabuki
(D) Nautanki
Ans: C
66. August Strindberg’s play The Ghost Sonata is modelled on a piece by _____.
(A) Beethoven
(B) Bach
(C) Mozart
(D) Brahms
Ans: A
67. Utilitarianism was castigated in the following novel:
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Hard Times
(C) Middlemarch
(D) Far from the Madding Crowd
Ans: B
68. Walter Veit’s essay, “Topics in Comparative Literature” has appeared in ______.
(A) Literary History
(B) Comparative Literary Studies
(C) Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature
(D) New Literary History
Ans: C
69. With reference to his novel, A Wilderness of Mirrors, Max Frisch coined the term, ______.
(A) exponential pattern
(B) patternless pattern
(C) experimental pattern
(D) experiential pattern
Ans: D
70. The study of thematology has been resurrected by _______.
(A) Trousson, Goethe and Tieghem
(B) Trousson, Frenzel and Levin
(C) Levin, Wellek and Warren
(D) Goethe, Etiemble and Weisstein
Ans: B
71. Identify the author of the statement: “Themes, like symbols… are polysemous: that is, they can be endowed with different meanings in the face of differing situations. This is what makes an enquiry into their permutations an adventure into the history of ideas.”
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) Harry Levin
(C) Benedetto Croce
(D) David Mayer
Ans: B
72. The only references in the Theory of Literature to thematology are found in the chapter entitled _______.
(A) Literary Genres
(B) Evaluation
(C) Literary History
(D) Literature and Ideas
Ans: C
73. Identify the comedy from the following plays:
(A) The Miser
(B) Phaedra
(C) Andromache
(D) Le Cid
Ans: A
74. Who wrote La Vita Nuova?
(A) Petrarch
(B) Dante
(C) Boccaccio
(D) Chretien de Troyes
Ans: B
75. The first printing press in Europe was set up by ______.
(A) Gutenberg
(B) Caxton
(C) Sir Thomas More
(D) Erasmus
Ans: A
76. Elaine Showalter is associated with ________.
(A) Feminism
(B) Cultural materialism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Reception
Ans: A
77. Which Marxist text among those listed below engages with formalism?
(A) Lenin and Philosophy by Althusser
(B) The Novel and the People by Fox.
(C) Art and Social Life by Plekhanov
(D) Literature and Revolution by Trotsky
Ans: D
78. The journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India is called ______.
(A) Literary and Cultural Studies
(B) Comparative Literature
(C) Literature and Literary Studies
(D) Sahitya
Ans: D
79. The chief exponent of Dhvani theory is ________.
(A) Kuntaka
(B) Bharata
(C) Abhinava Gupta
(D) Anandavardhana
Ans: D
80. The periodical Indian Literature is currently edited by _______.
(A) K. Satchidanandan
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Yashodhara Mishra
(D) Indranath Choudhari
Ans: C
81. Which of the following words is not an acceptable translation of the term ‘rasa’?
(A) Flavour
(B) Truth
(C) Desire
(D) Beauty
Ans: B
82. Bharatendu Harishchandra had translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s _______.
(A) Durgeshnandini
(B) Sitaram
(C) Rajani
(D) Rajsimha
Ans: D
83. In his An Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi mentions one of these texts as a distinct influence. Identify the text.
(A) Thoreau, Walden
(B) Ruskin, Unto This Last
(C) Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
(D) Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Ans: B
84. “Indian Literature is one though written in different languages.” This was a statement by ______
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) S. Radhakrishnan
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: B
85. The theme of the educated hero as the liberator of the oppressed peasant appears diachronically in _______.
(A) Russian Nihilist and Marxist traditions.
(B) French tradition of the revolution of 1789 and the anti-Nazi resistance.
(C) Bengali leftist writings of the Progressive and Naxalite eras.
(D) Malayalam literature of the 1930s and 1970s.
Ans: C
86. In an Akam poem, the description of a buffalo treading on a lotus as he feeds on small flowers symbolises an unfaithful man who makes his lady love suffer by visiting prostitutes, is an example of ________.
(A) Ullurai
(B) Utanurai
(C) Nakai
(D) Sirappu
Ans: B
87. In which of these novels does M.K. Gandhi not feature by his physical presence?
(A) R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(C) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(D) Sashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
Ans: C
88. Sartre’s The Flies borrows its theme from _______.
(A) Homer
(B) Aeschylus
(C) Sophocles
(D) Aristophanes
Ans: B
89. The utopian aspirations of the epic poets of the sixteenth century have been disentangled by examining the theme of earthly paradise by ________.
(A) Kaiser
(B) Frye
(C) Giamatti
(D) Levin
Ans: C
90. The Comparatist who introduces a distinction, between ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ influence, by asking the question, ‘did a Renaissance poet have to read Petrarch in order to write a petrarchan sonnet’ is _______.
(A) G.E. Lessing
(B) A. Balakian
(C) J.T. Shaw
(D) C. Guillen
Ans: D
91. Which of the following pairs do not deal with thematology?
(A) Stoff-Rohstoff
(B) Dominant – Residual
(C) Plot – Tale
(D) Trait – Type
Ans: B
92. The critic who defined ‘analogy’ or ‘affinity’ as “resemblances in style, structure, mood or idea between works which have no other connection” is ________.
(A) Wellek
(B) Aldridge
(C) Prawar
(D) Balakian
Ans: B
93. In the Harry Potter series, a central theme is ________.
(A) Religion
(B) Sports
(C) Racism
(D) Modern Science
Ans: C
94. Who among the following has mapped the reception of Kalidasa’s Abhijñānasākuntalam in nineteenth century Europe?
(A) Michael Dodson
(B) Ronald B. Inden
(C) Dorothy Figueira
(D) Richard King
Ans: C
95. Evam Indrajit is _______.
(A) A short story by Rabindranath
(B) A play by Badal Sarkar
(C) A play by Girish Karnad
(D) A novel by Munshi Prem Chand
Ans: B
96. The critic who believes that a high translation activity takes place when a literature is in its initial stage of development is ________.
(A) Nida
(B) Evan Zohar
(C) Newmark
(D) Steiner
Ans: B
97. Which genre came up in medieval India as non-fiction but has survived to encompass fiction in modern South Asia?
(A) Upanyās
(B) Mahākāvya
(C) Nāmāh
(D) Nātaka
Ans: C
98. The critic who talks about the impossibility of translation is ________.
(A) Dryden
(B) Arnold
(C) Croce
(D) Cowper
Ans: C
99. Who talked about three kinds of poetry – the heroic (epic and tragedy), the scommatic (satire and comedy), and the pastoral?
(A) Hobbes
(B) Davenant
(C) Dallas
(D) Coleridge
Ans: A
100. The writer who makes a distinction between languages and meta language in connection with translation is ________.
(A) Catford
(B) Nida
(C) Steiner
(D) Lefevère
Ans: B