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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MCQs
1. In France, the term ‘Comparative Literature’ came into use in the early 19th century in emulation of _____.
(A) Cuvier’s Anatamie Comparée
(B) Friedrich Schlegel’s Sammttiche Werke
(C) Dámaso Alonso’s Poesia Espa–nola
(D) Phillippe Van Tieghem’s Les Influences
Ans: A
2. Utnapishtim is a character in
(A) The Book of Dead
(B) Gilgamesh
(C) The Old Testament
(D) The Aeneid
Ans: B
3. The aesthetician who assigns to ‘dhvani’ a supreme position in poetry and at the same time emphasizes the significance of ‘Vakrokti’ is ________.
(A) Bhavabhuti
(B) Asvagho a
(C) Bhoja
(D) Kuntaka
Ans: C
4. The idea that the unconscious is structured ‘like a language’, was introduced by _________.
(A) Carl Jung
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Jaques Lacan
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Ans: C
5. Who, according to Weisstein, was a great influence on Pushkin?
(A) Keats
(B) Byron
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth
Ans: B
6. Who has attempted to show Saul Bellow’s awareness of Weltliteratur and to relate his work to European and American traditions?
(A) Peter Demetz
(B) Tony Tanner
(C) James Boyd
(D) D.R. Haggis
Ans: B
7. The book, Landmarks in French Literature written by Lytton Strachey, sets to compare _______.
(A) Shakespeare and Rimbaud
(B) Shakespeare and Mallarme
(C) Shakespeare and Racine
(D) Shakespeare and Beaudalaire
Ans: C
8. The Colour Purple is a literary text by
(A) Alice Walker
(B) Toni Morrison
(C) Maya Angelou
(D) Jean Rhys
Ans: A
9. Who among the following composed an exhaustive text on Indian dramaturgy?
(A) Patanjali
(B) Bhasa
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Bharata
Ans: D
10. The person who made a film version of Premchand’s ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’ is _______.
(A) Sai Paranjpe
(B) Satyajit Ray
(C) Shyam Benegal
(D) Girish Karnad
Ans: B
11. Chandrashekar Kambar who was honoured this year with the Jnanpeeth Award belongs to the State of ______.
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka
(D) Andhra Pradesh
Ans: C
12. Jonathan Dallimore is associated with _______.
(A) Cultural Materialism
(B) Futurism
(C) Reader-Response Theory
(D) Structuralist Marxism
Ans: A
13. In his highly influential essay, “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Walter Benjamin puts forward his theory of _______.
(A) beauty
(B) aura
(C) truth
(D) utility
Ans: B
14. Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic is a “rewrite” of ______.
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Pamela
(C) Adam Bede
(D) Jane Eyre
Ans: D
15. “Great books, classics and the best that has been written in the world” constitute _______.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) World Literature
(C) Classical Literature
(D) National Literature
Ans: B
16. According to Ananda K. Coomarasamy the whole of Indian aesthetics hinges on ______.
(A) Vakrokti
(B) Riti
(C) Dhvani
(D) Rasa
Ans: D
17. The literary work, The Types Approach to Literature (1945) was written by _______.
(A) Anna Balakian
(B) Irwin Ehrenpreis
(C) Irene Behrens
(D) Von Wiese
Ans: B
18. The term ‘mode’ was popularized by _______.
(A) Northrop Frye
(B) Austin Warren
(C) Joel Spingarn
(D) Alex Preminger
Ans: A
19. The essay, “Parody, Travesty and Burlesque: Imitations with a Vengeance” is written by _______.
(A) Germain Bree
(B) Roy Pascal
(C) Harry Weber
(D) Ulrich Weisstein
Ans: B
20. “In thematological studies, the poetic creation is no longer viewed as an independent, self-contained work of art but is seen only in terms of its component parts.” Who says this?
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Wolfgang Kayser
(C) Julius Wiegand
(D) Paul Marker
Ans: B
21. Who calls the Hundred Years War a ‘motif’ but the Joan of Arc, Stoff, and a theme?
(A) Frenzel
(B) Etiemble
(C) Baldensperger
(D) Trousson
Ans: D
22. Satyajit Ray’s “Sonar Kella” is a film based on a story by ______.
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Premchand
(C) Satyajit Ray
(D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Ans: C
23. Orlando Furioso was written by _______.
(A) Miguel Cervantes
(B) Ludovico Ariosto
(C) Giovanni Boccaccio
(D) Niccolo Machiavelli
Ans: B
24. The basic discourse of orientalism was presented by _______.
(A) Edward Said
(B) William Jones
(C) A.W. Schlegel
(D) Hermann Hesse
Ans: A
25. In ‘Free Translation’ or ‘paraphrasing’
(A) matter is more important than the language.
(B) language is more important than the matter.
(C) rhythm is the most important factor.
(D) cultural specificity is not taken into account.
Ans: A
26. The first Greek New Testament was published by
(A) G. Chapman
(B) D. Erasmus
(C) G. Steiner
(D) J. Denham
Ans: B
27. The basic tenets of European Renaissance are found in ______.
(A) Virgil’s The Aeneid
(B) Dante’s The Divine Comedy
(C) Machiavelli’s The Prince
(D) Vittorio’s Saul
Ans: C
28. ‘Haiku’ is traditional Japanese
(A) fable
(B) poem
(C) one-act play
(D) short story
Ans: B
29. According to Rene Wellek, ‘Universal Literature’ is the terms that compete with the meaning of _______.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) Classical Literature
(C) General Literature
(D) National Literature
Ans: A
30. The tradition of the picaresque novel in Europe was born during the
(A) Medieval period
(B) Renaissance period
(C) Romantic period
(D) Neo-classical period
Ans: B
31. Hermeneutics is the study of
(A) spirituality
(B) linguistics
(C) theory
(D) interpretation
Ans: D
32. Phenomenology is a philosophy associated with
(A) J.P. Sartre
(B) I. Kant
(C) M. Heidegger
(D) P. Hazard
Ans: C
33. Which of the following texts does not contain a flood episode?
(A) Gilgamesh
(B) The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
(C) The Old Testament
(D) Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Ans: B
34. What is an ‘epinicia’?
(A) A song of lamentation
(B) A love song
(C) A victory song
(D) A song of longing
Ans: C
35. “Toba Tek Singh” is written by _____.
(A) Ismat Chughtai
(B) Sadat Hasan Manto
(C) Kishan Chander
(D) Vaidehi
Ans: B
36. Which work of Thomas Mann is based on an Indian source?
(A) The Magic Mountain
(B) The Holy Sinner
(C) The Transposed Heads
(D) The Beloved Returns
Ans: C
37. Which among the following epics contains the most number of lines?
(A) The Ramayana
(B) The Mahabharata
(C) The Iliad
(D) The Odyssey
Ans: B
38. Die leiden des jungen Werther is
(A) An epistolary novel
(B) A historical novel
(C) A mystery novel
(D) A heroic novel
Ans: A
39. Who wrote Dhvanyaloka Locanam?
(A) Anandavardhana
(B) Bharata
(C) Abhinavagupta
(D) Bhasa
Ans: C
40. Hardayalu Singh’s Dvaityavansha in Ravana Mahakavya was inspired by
(A) Ramacaritamanas
(B) Valmiki’s Ramayana
(C) Meghnadvadh Kavya
(D) Ram ki Shaktipuja
Ans: C
41. Ratnavali is an example of
(A) Bhana
(B) Natika
(C) Prahasana
(D) Kavya
Ans: B
42. The notion of ‘closet drama’ was initiated by
(A) Seneca
(B) Sophocles
(C) Aristophanes
(D) Molière
Ans: A
43. The Varkari poets were so called because
(A) They were Vaisnavas.
(B) They undertook an annual pilgrimage.
(C) They went to war.
(D) They used to write protest poetry.
Ans: B
44. Tulsidas wrote the Ramacaritamanas in
(A) Awadhi
(B) Brajbhasha
(C) Hindawi
(D) Maithili
Ans: A
45. ‘Bezbaroar Kal’ is considered a distinct literary period in the history of
(A) Bangla literature
(B) Ahomiya literature
(C) Oriya literature
(D) Gujarati literature
Ans: B
46. Indian literary history, according to which scholar, can be seen in terms of periodic and at the same time recurring cycles?
(A) Swapan Majumdar
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Ganesh Devy
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: A
47. The idea of the Nirguna Brahma and the Saguna Brahma is asserted in
(A) The Valmiki Ramayana
(B) The Ramacaritamanas
(C) The Krittibas Ramayana
(D) The Old Javanese Ramayana
Ans: B
48. The romantic renaissance in Kerala, said to be the result of Kerala’s contact with the West, also started with the translation of the Sanskrit text ______.
(A) Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda
(B) Bharavi’s Kiratarjuniya
(C) Kalidasa’s Sakuntalam
(D) Bhasa’s Sapnavasabdatta
Ans: B
49. Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas, a crucial work in the making of the borders of Hindi, was written by _______.
(A) Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’
(B) Namvar Singh
(C) Ramachandra Shukla
(D) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi
Ans: C
50. Identify the set that has the correct chronological order:
(A) Cervantes, Voltaire, Günter Grass, Mark Twain
(B) Cervantes, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Günter Grass
(C) Voltaire, Cervantes, Mark Twain, Günter Grass
(D) Voltaire, Mark Twain, Cervantes, Günter Grass
Ans: B
(A) Cuvier’s Anatamie Comparée
(B) Friedrich Schlegel’s Sammttiche Werke
(C) Dámaso Alonso’s Poesia Espa–nola
(D) Phillippe Van Tieghem’s Les Influences
Ans: A
2. Utnapishtim is a character in
(A) The Book of Dead
(B) Gilgamesh
(C) The Old Testament
(D) The Aeneid
Ans: B
3. The aesthetician who assigns to ‘dhvani’ a supreme position in poetry and at the same time emphasizes the significance of ‘Vakrokti’ is ________.
(A) Bhavabhuti
(B) Asvagho a
(C) Bhoja
(D) Kuntaka
Ans: C
4. The idea that the unconscious is structured ‘like a language’, was introduced by _________.
(A) Carl Jung
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Jaques Lacan
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Ans: C
5. Who, according to Weisstein, was a great influence on Pushkin?
(A) Keats
(B) Byron
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth
Ans: B
6. Who has attempted to show Saul Bellow’s awareness of Weltliteratur and to relate his work to European and American traditions?
(A) Peter Demetz
(B) Tony Tanner
(C) James Boyd
(D) D.R. Haggis
Ans: B
7. The book, Landmarks in French Literature written by Lytton Strachey, sets to compare _______.
(A) Shakespeare and Rimbaud
(B) Shakespeare and Mallarme
(C) Shakespeare and Racine
(D) Shakespeare and Beaudalaire
Ans: C
8. The Colour Purple is a literary text by
(A) Alice Walker
(B) Toni Morrison
(C) Maya Angelou
(D) Jean Rhys
Ans: A
9. Who among the following composed an exhaustive text on Indian dramaturgy?
(A) Patanjali
(B) Bhasa
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Bharata
Ans: D
10. The person who made a film version of Premchand’s ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’ is _______.
(A) Sai Paranjpe
(B) Satyajit Ray
(C) Shyam Benegal
(D) Girish Karnad
Ans: B
11. Chandrashekar Kambar who was honoured this year with the Jnanpeeth Award belongs to the State of ______.
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka
(D) Andhra Pradesh
Ans: C
12. Jonathan Dallimore is associated with _______.
(A) Cultural Materialism
(B) Futurism
(C) Reader-Response Theory
(D) Structuralist Marxism
Ans: A
13. In his highly influential essay, “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Walter Benjamin puts forward his theory of _______.
(A) beauty
(B) aura
(C) truth
(D) utility
Ans: B
14. Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic is a “rewrite” of ______.
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Pamela
(C) Adam Bede
(D) Jane Eyre
Ans: D
15. “Great books, classics and the best that has been written in the world” constitute _______.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) World Literature
(C) Classical Literature
(D) National Literature
Ans: B
16. According to Ananda K. Coomarasamy the whole of Indian aesthetics hinges on ______.
(A) Vakrokti
(B) Riti
(C) Dhvani
(D) Rasa
Ans: D
17. The literary work, The Types Approach to Literature (1945) was written by _______.
(A) Anna Balakian
(B) Irwin Ehrenpreis
(C) Irene Behrens
(D) Von Wiese
Ans: B
18. The term ‘mode’ was popularized by _______.
(A) Northrop Frye
(B) Austin Warren
(C) Joel Spingarn
(D) Alex Preminger
Ans: A
19. The essay, “Parody, Travesty and Burlesque: Imitations with a Vengeance” is written by _______.
(A) Germain Bree
(B) Roy Pascal
(C) Harry Weber
(D) Ulrich Weisstein
Ans: B
20. “In thematological studies, the poetic creation is no longer viewed as an independent, self-contained work of art but is seen only in terms of its component parts.” Who says this?
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Wolfgang Kayser
(C) Julius Wiegand
(D) Paul Marker
Ans: B
21. Who calls the Hundred Years War a ‘motif’ but the Joan of Arc, Stoff, and a theme?
(A) Frenzel
(B) Etiemble
(C) Baldensperger
(D) Trousson
Ans: D
22. Satyajit Ray’s “Sonar Kella” is a film based on a story by ______.
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Premchand
(C) Satyajit Ray
(D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Ans: C
23. Orlando Furioso was written by _______.
(A) Miguel Cervantes
(B) Ludovico Ariosto
(C) Giovanni Boccaccio
(D) Niccolo Machiavelli
Ans: B
24. The basic discourse of orientalism was presented by _______.
(A) Edward Said
(B) William Jones
(C) A.W. Schlegel
(D) Hermann Hesse
Ans: A
25. In ‘Free Translation’ or ‘paraphrasing’
(A) matter is more important than the language.
(B) language is more important than the matter.
(C) rhythm is the most important factor.
(D) cultural specificity is not taken into account.
Ans: A
26. The first Greek New Testament was published by
(A) G. Chapman
(B) D. Erasmus
(C) G. Steiner
(D) J. Denham
Ans: B
27. The basic tenets of European Renaissance are found in ______.
(A) Virgil’s The Aeneid
(B) Dante’s The Divine Comedy
(C) Machiavelli’s The Prince
(D) Vittorio’s Saul
Ans: C
28. ‘Haiku’ is traditional Japanese
(A) fable
(B) poem
(C) one-act play
(D) short story
Ans: B
29. According to Rene Wellek, ‘Universal Literature’ is the terms that compete with the meaning of _______.
(A) Comparative Literature
(B) Classical Literature
(C) General Literature
(D) National Literature
Ans: A
30. The tradition of the picaresque novel in Europe was born during the
(A) Medieval period
(B) Renaissance period
(C) Romantic period
(D) Neo-classical period
Ans: B
31. Hermeneutics is the study of
(A) spirituality
(B) linguistics
(C) theory
(D) interpretation
Ans: D
32. Phenomenology is a philosophy associated with
(A) J.P. Sartre
(B) I. Kant
(C) M. Heidegger
(D) P. Hazard
Ans: C
33. Which of the following texts does not contain a flood episode?
(A) Gilgamesh
(B) The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
(C) The Old Testament
(D) Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Ans: B
34. What is an ‘epinicia’?
(A) A song of lamentation
(B) A love song
(C) A victory song
(D) A song of longing
Ans: C
35. “Toba Tek Singh” is written by _____.
(A) Ismat Chughtai
(B) Sadat Hasan Manto
(C) Kishan Chander
(D) Vaidehi
Ans: B
36. Which work of Thomas Mann is based on an Indian source?
(A) The Magic Mountain
(B) The Holy Sinner
(C) The Transposed Heads
(D) The Beloved Returns
Ans: C
37. Which among the following epics contains the most number of lines?
(A) The Ramayana
(B) The Mahabharata
(C) The Iliad
(D) The Odyssey
Ans: B
38. Die leiden des jungen Werther is
(A) An epistolary novel
(B) A historical novel
(C) A mystery novel
(D) A heroic novel
Ans: A
39. Who wrote Dhvanyaloka Locanam?
(A) Anandavardhana
(B) Bharata
(C) Abhinavagupta
(D) Bhasa
Ans: C
40. Hardayalu Singh’s Dvaityavansha in Ravana Mahakavya was inspired by
(A) Ramacaritamanas
(B) Valmiki’s Ramayana
(C) Meghnadvadh Kavya
(D) Ram ki Shaktipuja
Ans: C
41. Ratnavali is an example of
(A) Bhana
(B) Natika
(C) Prahasana
(D) Kavya
Ans: B
42. The notion of ‘closet drama’ was initiated by
(A) Seneca
(B) Sophocles
(C) Aristophanes
(D) Molière
Ans: A
43. The Varkari poets were so called because
(A) They were Vaisnavas.
(B) They undertook an annual pilgrimage.
(C) They went to war.
(D) They used to write protest poetry.
Ans: B
44. Tulsidas wrote the Ramacaritamanas in
(A) Awadhi
(B) Brajbhasha
(C) Hindawi
(D) Maithili
Ans: A
45. ‘Bezbaroar Kal’ is considered a distinct literary period in the history of
(A) Bangla literature
(B) Ahomiya literature
(C) Oriya literature
(D) Gujarati literature
Ans: B
46. Indian literary history, according to which scholar, can be seen in terms of periodic and at the same time recurring cycles?
(A) Swapan Majumdar
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Ganesh Devy
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: A
47. The idea of the Nirguna Brahma and the Saguna Brahma is asserted in
(A) The Valmiki Ramayana
(B) The Ramacaritamanas
(C) The Krittibas Ramayana
(D) The Old Javanese Ramayana
Ans: B
48. The romantic renaissance in Kerala, said to be the result of Kerala’s contact with the West, also started with the translation of the Sanskrit text ______.
(A) Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda
(B) Bharavi’s Kiratarjuniya
(C) Kalidasa’s Sakuntalam
(D) Bhasa’s Sapnavasabdatta
Ans: B
49. Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas, a crucial work in the making of the borders of Hindi, was written by _______.
(A) Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’
(B) Namvar Singh
(C) Ramachandra Shukla
(D) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi
Ans: C
50. Identify the set that has the correct chronological order:
(A) Cervantes, Voltaire, Günter Grass, Mark Twain
(B) Cervantes, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Günter Grass
(C) Voltaire, Cervantes, Mark Twain, Günter Grass
(D) Voltaire, Mark Twain, Cervantes, Günter Grass
Ans: B
51. Who among the following was not one of the contributors to Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches, edited by Chandra Mohan and published in 1989?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) K. Chellapan
(C) Gerald Gillespie
(D) Rene Wellek
Ans: D
52. Which of the following constitutes one of the periods of literary history demarcated by Sisir Kumar Das in his A History of Indian Literature?
(A) 1800-1835
(B) 1857-1919
(C) 1885-1919
(D) 1857-1900
Ans: A
53. That the notion of fidelity in translation was not an essential one for the Indian context before colonial contact, was argued by
(A) Sujit Mukherjee
(B) Hrish Trivedi
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Jaucy James
Ans: A
54. Lacan has been influential on
(A) French Feminism
(B) Post-Modernism
(C) Marxist Cultural Studies
(D) American Feminism
Ans: A
55. The tradition of Revenge Tragedy was introduced in Europe by
(A) Corneille
(B) Kyd
(C) Seneca
(D) Racine
Ans: C
56. Identify the writer who says: “I think Comparative Literature, which is not different from the study of single literatures so far as the critical methodology is concerned, but differs only in matter and attitude, can play a vital role in the reorganization of our literature faculties and in the teaching of literature.”
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) K.M. George
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: D
57. Eiron and alazon are characters in _______.
(A) Sophoclean tragedy
(B) Farce
(C) Aristophenian comedy
(D) Interlude
Ans: C
58. “Triumph and Tragedy” is one of the sections of the following book:
(A) Partitioning Pakistan
(B) A History of Indian Literature
(C) The Legacy of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
(D) Sylvia Plath : An Unauthorized Biography
Ans: B
59. Prithviraj Raso ascribed to Chand Bardai is composed in
(A) Standard Hindi
(B) Maithili
(C) Maithili and Bhojpuri
(D) Sandhyabhasha
Ans: D
60. Hayden White says: “… a specifically historical inquiry is born less of the necessity to establish that certain events occurred than of the desire to determine what certain events might mean for a given group, society, or culture’s conception of its present tasks and future prospects.” Here, White reconceptualises historical process to include the
(A) importance of validation of historical events
(B) application of archival procedures to past occurrences
(C) relations between texts and the contexts of production as well as reception
(D) indexical relation between intention and meaning
Ans: C
61. The Macmillan Modern Indian Novels in Translation series
(A) domesticates all culture – specific markers into English
(B) retains many culture-specific markers and provides detailed annotations
(C) retains culture-specific markers, but neither annotates them nor signposts them by italicising
(D) retains culture-specific markers, italicises them, but does not provide any connotations
Ans: B
62. Of primary importance to Aristotle’s understanding of tragedy is the play
(A) Oedipus Rex
(B) Oedipus Tyrannus
(C) Antigone
(D) Choephoroi
Ans: A
63. Hutom Pyanchar Naksha is written by
(A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(B) Kaliprasanna Sinha
(C) Fakir Mohan Senapati
(D) Nabakanta Barua
Ans: B
64. Kiratarjuna according to the Sashtras, is designated as
(A) Charit
(B) Mahakavya
(C) Virgatha
(D) Akhyayika
Ans: B
65. Assertion (A): The erosion of national boundaries in the sphere of literary production may serve as a Utopian project of encouraging transnational solidarity and exchange.
Reason (R): It can be deployed to disguise, in processes of cultural imperialism, the residual asymmetries embedded in neo-colonial structures of politics, economics and international power.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: B
66. Post Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice has been jointly edited by
(A) Harish Trivedi & Jaucy James
(B) Jaucy James & Susan Bassnett
(C) Susan Bassnett & Harish Trivedi
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Andre Lefevere
Ans: C
67. The play by Vijay Tendulkar that is modelled on a real-life incident in the world of the media is
(A) Kanyadaan
(B) Bimala
(C) Kamala
(D) A Friend’s Story
Ans: C
68. The following theoreticians have been particularly critical of thematology:
(i) Fernand Baldensperger
(ii) Paul Hazard
(iii) Benedetto Croce
(iv) Rene Wellek
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (i) and (iii)
(C) All of the above
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
69. In Manto’s short story “Khol do”, the name of one of the characters is
(A) Hasina
(B) Sakina
(C) Hanifa
(D) Kamala
Ans: B
70. Which of the following has little, if any, theoretical efficacy as a contentcategory?
(A) Motif
(B) Situation
(C) Staff
(D) Theme
Ans: C
71. Identify the writer of Kafka on the Shore.
(A) Haruki Murakami
(B) Yukio Mishima
(C) Hideo Oguma
(D) Kobo Abe
Ans: A
72. In which of these books did Gurbhagat Singh’s “Comparative Literature: Towards a Non-
Logocentric Paradigm” appear?
(A) Aspects of Comparative Literature
(B) Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization
(C) Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice
(D) Comparative Literature: The Indian Context
Ans: C
73. W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” uses a cluster of images from Bruegel’s paintings. While the poem explicitly mentions his “Fall of Icarus” some other references to his works include:
I. The Crucifixion
II. The Massacre of the Innocents
III. The Numbering at Bethlehem
IV. The Procession to Calvary
The correct combination according to the code is:
Codes:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
74. In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published The Lyrical Ballads. The same year saw the publication of another such joint venture in Europe. The contributors to this anthology were
(A) Lamartine and Musset
(B) Goethe and Schiller
(C) Shelley and Keats
(D) Heine and Herder
Ans: B
75. Who among the following Indian scholars is reputed to have contemplated a literary history of/for India in at least two of his major books?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) K. Ayyappa Panicker
(C) Sujit Mukherjee
(D) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Ans: C
76. “Comparative Literature is the study of the literature beyond the confines of one particular country” – whose definition of comparative literature is this?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) H.H. Remak
(C) Rene Wellek
(D) Anna Balakian
Ans: B
77. The methodology of analogical study was advocated by the
(A) French school of comparative literature
(B) Russian school of comparative literature
(C) American school of comparative literature
(D) German school of comparative literature
Ans: C
78. When we trace the development of the sonnet in Europe since Petrarch’s days, we are referring to
(A) Regional literature
(B) World literature
(C) National literature
(D) General literature
Ans: D
79. The most important criterion for deciding the nationality of a writer is
(A) Linguistic
(B) Geographical
(C) Religious
(D) Political
Ans: A
80. When one says, “A’ has influenced ‘B’ on the basis of similarities between the works of two authors,” we study
(A) Evidences
(B) Sources
(C) Affinities
(D) Parodies
Ans: C
81. The cycle of American Literature is authorised by
(A) Arthur Rimbaud
(B) Robert Spiller
(C) Van Tieghem
(D) Hypolytte Taine
Ans: B
82. A ‘counter-design’ is popularized by
(A) Bertolt Brecht
(B) Henry Person
(C) Rene Etiemble
(D) Ferdinand Brunetiere
Ans: A
83. Attempt at historical reconstruction has led to a great stress on the intention of the author. Identify the author of the statement:
(A) Wellek and Warren
(B) Schlegel - Tieck
(C) Carre - Guyard
(D) Hassan - Guillen
Ans: A
84. In the study of literary History, Holinshed’s Chronicles would constitute
(A) An affinity
(B) A source
(C) An influence
(D) An imitation
Ans: B
85. Who among the following was the first writer to stress the segregation of literary genres?
(A) Horace
(B) Cicero
(C) Piso
(D) Quintilian
Ans: B
86. The principal topic of discussion in the third international congress of literary history held in Lyon in 1939 was
(A) Problem of literary types.
(B) Problem of literary translation.
(C) Literary relationship between the west and the east.
(D) Study of Thematology
Ans: A
87. Who is of the view that generic classification is a waste of time?
(A) Van Tieghem
(B) Benedetto Croce
(C) Eliseo Vivas
(D) Jeremias Gotthelf
Ans: B
88. Identify the author of the book Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love – lyric,
(A) Johannes Hosle
(B) Kurt Wais
(C) Peter Dronke
(D) Hypolytte Taine
Ans: C
89. The ‘Orestes’ theme has been used by
(A) Marlowe
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Webster
(D) Kyd
Ans: B
90. Who is the author of the statement, “life is not the greatest good, but guilt is the greatest evil.”
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Karl Jaspers
(C) Schiller
(D) Peterson
Ans: C
91. Thanks to whose efforts did the 1920’s witness the emergence of the History of Ideas?
(A) Woodberry
(B) Chandler
(C) Lovejoy
(D) Hamburger
Ans: C
92. Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature does not contain a chapter on
(A) Literary Genres
(B) Thematology
(C) Literary History
(D) Literature and the other Arts.
Ans: B
93. Paul Hazard almost omits thematolo from comparative literature, as it does not involve
(A) Study of other Arts
(B) Literary history
(C) History of Ideas
(D) Literary Influences
Ans: D
94. The author of the essay “The Tradition of Traditions” is
(A) T.E. Hume
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Rene Wellek
(D) Harry Levin
Ans: C
95. The critic who argued that the “word ‘romantic’ has come to mean so many things that by itself, it means nothing.”
(A) Harry Levin
(B) M.H. Abrams
(C) L.R. Furst
(D) A.O. Lovejoy
Ans: D
96. Who, by mistake, called the masters of Roman satire, comic playwrights?
(A) Boileau
(B) Grande della scala
(C) Isidore
(D) Alvin Kernan
Ans: C
97. Bion is an exponent of
(A) Comedy
(B) Lyrical Drama
(C) Tragedy
(D) Pastoral Elegy
Ans: D
98. The most important work of Dandin is
(A) Vakyapadiya
(B) Kavyadarsa
(C) Sringaraprakasa
(D) Kavyanusasanam
Ans: B
99. The most important exponent of oblique poetry in Sanskrit is
(A) Dandin
(B) Bharata
(C) Kuntaka
(D) Abhinavagupta
Ans: C
100. Akam and Puram are the unique features of
(A) Bhakti Poetry
(B) Sankam Literature
(C) Love Poetry
(D) Heroic Poetry
Ans: B
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) K. Chellapan
(C) Gerald Gillespie
(D) Rene Wellek
Ans: D
52. Which of the following constitutes one of the periods of literary history demarcated by Sisir Kumar Das in his A History of Indian Literature?
(A) 1800-1835
(B) 1857-1919
(C) 1885-1919
(D) 1857-1900
Ans: A
53. That the notion of fidelity in translation was not an essential one for the Indian context before colonial contact, was argued by
(A) Sujit Mukherjee
(B) Hrish Trivedi
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Jaucy James
Ans: A
54. Lacan has been influential on
(A) French Feminism
(B) Post-Modernism
(C) Marxist Cultural Studies
(D) American Feminism
Ans: A
55. The tradition of Revenge Tragedy was introduced in Europe by
(A) Corneille
(B) Kyd
(C) Seneca
(D) Racine
Ans: C
56. Identify the writer who says: “I think Comparative Literature, which is not different from the study of single literatures so far as the critical methodology is concerned, but differs only in matter and attitude, can play a vital role in the reorganization of our literature faculties and in the teaching of literature.”
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) K.M. George
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
Ans: D
57. Eiron and alazon are characters in _______.
(A) Sophoclean tragedy
(B) Farce
(C) Aristophenian comedy
(D) Interlude
Ans: C
58. “Triumph and Tragedy” is one of the sections of the following book:
(A) Partitioning Pakistan
(B) A History of Indian Literature
(C) The Legacy of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
(D) Sylvia Plath : An Unauthorized Biography
Ans: B
59. Prithviraj Raso ascribed to Chand Bardai is composed in
(A) Standard Hindi
(B) Maithili
(C) Maithili and Bhojpuri
(D) Sandhyabhasha
Ans: D
60. Hayden White says: “… a specifically historical inquiry is born less of the necessity to establish that certain events occurred than of the desire to determine what certain events might mean for a given group, society, or culture’s conception of its present tasks and future prospects.” Here, White reconceptualises historical process to include the
(A) importance of validation of historical events
(B) application of archival procedures to past occurrences
(C) relations between texts and the contexts of production as well as reception
(D) indexical relation between intention and meaning
Ans: C
61. The Macmillan Modern Indian Novels in Translation series
(A) domesticates all culture – specific markers into English
(B) retains many culture-specific markers and provides detailed annotations
(C) retains culture-specific markers, but neither annotates them nor signposts them by italicising
(D) retains culture-specific markers, italicises them, but does not provide any connotations
Ans: B
62. Of primary importance to Aristotle’s understanding of tragedy is the play
(A) Oedipus Rex
(B) Oedipus Tyrannus
(C) Antigone
(D) Choephoroi
Ans: A
63. Hutom Pyanchar Naksha is written by
(A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(B) Kaliprasanna Sinha
(C) Fakir Mohan Senapati
(D) Nabakanta Barua
Ans: B
64. Kiratarjuna according to the Sashtras, is designated as
(A) Charit
(B) Mahakavya
(C) Virgatha
(D) Akhyayika
Ans: B
65. Assertion (A): The erosion of national boundaries in the sphere of literary production may serve as a Utopian project of encouraging transnational solidarity and exchange.
Reason (R): It can be deployed to disguise, in processes of cultural imperialism, the residual asymmetries embedded in neo-colonial structures of politics, economics and international power.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: B
66. Post Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice has been jointly edited by
(A) Harish Trivedi & Jaucy James
(B) Jaucy James & Susan Bassnett
(C) Susan Bassnett & Harish Trivedi
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Andre Lefevere
Ans: C
67. The play by Vijay Tendulkar that is modelled on a real-life incident in the world of the media is
(A) Kanyadaan
(B) Bimala
(C) Kamala
(D) A Friend’s Story
Ans: C
68. The following theoreticians have been particularly critical of thematology:
(i) Fernand Baldensperger
(ii) Paul Hazard
(iii) Benedetto Croce
(iv) Rene Wellek
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (i) and (iii)
(C) All of the above
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
69. In Manto’s short story “Khol do”, the name of one of the characters is
(A) Hasina
(B) Sakina
(C) Hanifa
(D) Kamala
Ans: B
70. Which of the following has little, if any, theoretical efficacy as a contentcategory?
(A) Motif
(B) Situation
(C) Staff
(D) Theme
Ans: C
71. Identify the writer of Kafka on the Shore.
(A) Haruki Murakami
(B) Yukio Mishima
(C) Hideo Oguma
(D) Kobo Abe
Ans: A
72. In which of these books did Gurbhagat Singh’s “Comparative Literature: Towards a Non-
Logocentric Paradigm” appear?
(A) Aspects of Comparative Literature
(B) Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization
(C) Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice
(D) Comparative Literature: The Indian Context
Ans: C
73. W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” uses a cluster of images from Bruegel’s paintings. While the poem explicitly mentions his “Fall of Icarus” some other references to his works include:
I. The Crucifixion
II. The Massacre of the Innocents
III. The Numbering at Bethlehem
IV. The Procession to Calvary
The correct combination according to the code is:
Codes:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
74. In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published The Lyrical Ballads. The same year saw the publication of another such joint venture in Europe. The contributors to this anthology were
(A) Lamartine and Musset
(B) Goethe and Schiller
(C) Shelley and Keats
(D) Heine and Herder
Ans: B
75. Who among the following Indian scholars is reputed to have contemplated a literary history of/for India in at least two of his major books?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) K. Ayyappa Panicker
(C) Sujit Mukherjee
(D) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Ans: C
76. “Comparative Literature is the study of the literature beyond the confines of one particular country” – whose definition of comparative literature is this?
(A) Ulrich Weisstein
(B) H.H. Remak
(C) Rene Wellek
(D) Anna Balakian
Ans: B
77. The methodology of analogical study was advocated by the
(A) French school of comparative literature
(B) Russian school of comparative literature
(C) American school of comparative literature
(D) German school of comparative literature
Ans: C
78. When we trace the development of the sonnet in Europe since Petrarch’s days, we are referring to
(A) Regional literature
(B) World literature
(C) National literature
(D) General literature
Ans: D
79. The most important criterion for deciding the nationality of a writer is
(A) Linguistic
(B) Geographical
(C) Religious
(D) Political
Ans: A
80. When one says, “A’ has influenced ‘B’ on the basis of similarities between the works of two authors,” we study
(A) Evidences
(B) Sources
(C) Affinities
(D) Parodies
Ans: C
81. The cycle of American Literature is authorised by
(A) Arthur Rimbaud
(B) Robert Spiller
(C) Van Tieghem
(D) Hypolytte Taine
Ans: B
82. A ‘counter-design’ is popularized by
(A) Bertolt Brecht
(B) Henry Person
(C) Rene Etiemble
(D) Ferdinand Brunetiere
Ans: A
83. Attempt at historical reconstruction has led to a great stress on the intention of the author. Identify the author of the statement:
(A) Wellek and Warren
(B) Schlegel - Tieck
(C) Carre - Guyard
(D) Hassan - Guillen
Ans: A
84. In the study of literary History, Holinshed’s Chronicles would constitute
(A) An affinity
(B) A source
(C) An influence
(D) An imitation
Ans: B
85. Who among the following was the first writer to stress the segregation of literary genres?
(A) Horace
(B) Cicero
(C) Piso
(D) Quintilian
Ans: B
86. The principal topic of discussion in the third international congress of literary history held in Lyon in 1939 was
(A) Problem of literary types.
(B) Problem of literary translation.
(C) Literary relationship between the west and the east.
(D) Study of Thematology
Ans: A
87. Who is of the view that generic classification is a waste of time?
(A) Van Tieghem
(B) Benedetto Croce
(C) Eliseo Vivas
(D) Jeremias Gotthelf
Ans: B
88. Identify the author of the book Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love – lyric,
(A) Johannes Hosle
(B) Kurt Wais
(C) Peter Dronke
(D) Hypolytte Taine
Ans: C
89. The ‘Orestes’ theme has been used by
(A) Marlowe
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Webster
(D) Kyd
Ans: B
90. Who is the author of the statement, “life is not the greatest good, but guilt is the greatest evil.”
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Karl Jaspers
(C) Schiller
(D) Peterson
Ans: C
91. Thanks to whose efforts did the 1920’s witness the emergence of the History of Ideas?
(A) Woodberry
(B) Chandler
(C) Lovejoy
(D) Hamburger
Ans: C
92. Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature does not contain a chapter on
(A) Literary Genres
(B) Thematology
(C) Literary History
(D) Literature and the other Arts.
Ans: B
93. Paul Hazard almost omits thematolo from comparative literature, as it does not involve
(A) Study of other Arts
(B) Literary history
(C) History of Ideas
(D) Literary Influences
Ans: D
94. The author of the essay “The Tradition of Traditions” is
(A) T.E. Hume
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Rene Wellek
(D) Harry Levin
Ans: C
95. The critic who argued that the “word ‘romantic’ has come to mean so many things that by itself, it means nothing.”
(A) Harry Levin
(B) M.H. Abrams
(C) L.R. Furst
(D) A.O. Lovejoy
Ans: D
96. Who, by mistake, called the masters of Roman satire, comic playwrights?
(A) Boileau
(B) Grande della scala
(C) Isidore
(D) Alvin Kernan
Ans: C
97. Bion is an exponent of
(A) Comedy
(B) Lyrical Drama
(C) Tragedy
(D) Pastoral Elegy
Ans: D
98. The most important work of Dandin is
(A) Vakyapadiya
(B) Kavyadarsa
(C) Sringaraprakasa
(D) Kavyanusasanam
Ans: B
99. The most important exponent of oblique poetry in Sanskrit is
(A) Dandin
(B) Bharata
(C) Kuntaka
(D) Abhinavagupta
Ans: C
100. Akam and Puram are the unique features of
(A) Bhakti Poetry
(B) Sankam Literature
(C) Love Poetry
(D) Heroic Poetry
Ans: B