COMPARATIVE LITERATURE- PAGE 6
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MCQs
1. A key theory in translation studies that challenges the hegemony of the source language and locates the translation firmly in the context of the target language space instead, is the
(A) Polyphony theory
(B) Polyvalence theory
(C) Multivalence theory
(D) Polysystem theory
Ans: D
2. Homeric epithet is a combination of
(A) Adjective and Noun
(B) Two adjectives
(C) Noun and Adverb
(D) Adjective and Adverb
Ans: A
3. Vidyasagar’s Bhrantibilas is an adaption of Shakespeare’s
(A) Macbeth
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Comedy of Errors
Ans: D
4. Gargantua and Pantagruel is
(A) Written by Montaigne during the medieval period in France
(B) Written by Rabelais during French Renaissance
(C) Written by Villon during early Renaissance in France
(D) Written by Montaigne during French Romanticism
Ans: B
5. The tripartite division of translation into ‘metaphases’, ‘paraphrase’ and ‘imitation’ was introduced by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) John Dryden
(C) Walter Benjamin
(D) Susan Bassnett
Ans: B
6. Apuleius’ The Golden Ass includes the following stories:
(A) Pelops and Hippodemia + Cupid and Psyche
(B) Cupid and Psyche + Thyestes and Atreus
(C) Aristomenes + Cupid and Psyche
(D) Aristomenes + Pelops and Hippodemia
Ans: C
7. The international body of Comparatists is called
(A) International Association of Comparative Literature
(B) International Comparative Literature Association
(C) World Literature and Comparative Literature Association
(D) International Association of Comparative Literary Studies
Ans: B
8. “Gorkhey Jeep” is a very famous Indian short story written in Nepali language by
(A) Rabindrakumar Moktan
(B) Shivkumar Rai
(C) Indra Bahadur Rai
(D) Jas Youzon Piyasi
Ans: A
9. The Vaishnava love lyrics were composed by
(A) Chandidas and Ramprasad
(B) Ramprasad and Govindadas
(C) Bharatchandra and Vidyapati
(D) Vidyapati and Chandidas
Ans: D
10. The concept of estrangement was used differently for literary analysis by
(A) Wellek & Prawer
(B) Iser & Jauss
(C) Brecht & Shklovsky
(D) Freud & Lacan
Ans: C
11. He Aranya He Mahanagar is
(A) a collection of Ahamiya poems by Nabakanta Barua
(B) a collection of Bangla poems by Rabindranath Tagore
(C) an anthology of ecocritical essays in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore
(D) a collection of Oriya poems by Nilakantha Das
Ans: A
12. “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” is written by
(A) Friedrich Schleiermacher
(B) Roman Jakobson
(C) John Dryden
(D) Walter Benjamin
Ans: B
13. Abhinava Bharati is
(A) a commentary of Natyashastra
(B) a biography of Abhinava Gupta
(C) a history of Kashmir
(D) an exposition of Mahabharata
Ans: A
14. According to “Natyashastra”, women characters will talk in
(A) Sauraseni Prakrit
(B) Sanskrit
(C) Magadhi Prakrit
(D) Prachya
Ans: A
15. The Haun Saussy report deals with
(A) Problems of multiculturalism after the end of the Cold War
(B) Chinese Aesthetics
(C) State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
(D) Orientalism
Ans: C
16. The writer of the travelogue, Englondey Bangamahila first published in 1885 was
(A) Krishnabhavini Das
(B) Rassundari Dasi
(C) Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
(D) Kasturba Gandhi
Ans: A
17. Identify the dominant ‘rasa’ of drama:
(A) Vira/Hasya
(B) Sringara/Vira
(C) Hasya/Raudra
(D) Sringara/Karuna
Ans: B
18. In a drama (Natyavastu) situationwise and meaningwise how many ‘Sandhis’ are there?
(A) 10
(B) 6
(C) 5
(D) 4
Ans: C
19. Jnanesvari is a famous
(A) Avadhi Commentary of Ramcharitmanas
(B) Hindi translation of Mahabharata
(C) Marathi exposition of Bhagavadgita
(D) Autobiography of Marathi saint poet Jnanesvara
Ans: C
20. Colonization provides a backdrop of
(A) The Magic Mountain
(B) Siddhartha
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The Little Prince
Ans: C
21. The first literary adaptation of the German story of Faust was done by
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) J.W. Goethe
(C) Murnau
(D) Christopher Marlowe
Ans: D
22. Aeosopica is
(A) a book of songs
(B) a book of legends
(C) a book of limerics
(D) a book of fables
Ans: D
23. “A translation has to be true to the translator no less than to the originals … Translation is choice, interpretation, an assertion of taste, a betrayal of what answers to one’s needs, one’s envies.” – Identify the author:
(A) A.K. Ramanujam
(B) Lawrence Venuti
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Susan Bassnett
Ans: A
24. Jakobson’s achievements include
(A) Communications functions
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Psychoanalytic study of literature
(D) New criticism
Ans: A
25. The American pioneer in the development of the theory and practice of Bible translation is
(A) Leonard Bloomfield
(B) Eugene A. Nida
(C) Edwin Gentzur
(D) Mildred L. Larson
Ans: B
(A) Polyphony theory
(B) Polyvalence theory
(C) Multivalence theory
(D) Polysystem theory
Ans: D
2. Homeric epithet is a combination of
(A) Adjective and Noun
(B) Two adjectives
(C) Noun and Adverb
(D) Adjective and Adverb
Ans: A
3. Vidyasagar’s Bhrantibilas is an adaption of Shakespeare’s
(A) Macbeth
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Comedy of Errors
Ans: D
4. Gargantua and Pantagruel is
(A) Written by Montaigne during the medieval period in France
(B) Written by Rabelais during French Renaissance
(C) Written by Villon during early Renaissance in France
(D) Written by Montaigne during French Romanticism
Ans: B
5. The tripartite division of translation into ‘metaphases’, ‘paraphrase’ and ‘imitation’ was introduced by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) John Dryden
(C) Walter Benjamin
(D) Susan Bassnett
Ans: B
6. Apuleius’ The Golden Ass includes the following stories:
(A) Pelops and Hippodemia + Cupid and Psyche
(B) Cupid and Psyche + Thyestes and Atreus
(C) Aristomenes + Cupid and Psyche
(D) Aristomenes + Pelops and Hippodemia
Ans: C
7. The international body of Comparatists is called
(A) International Association of Comparative Literature
(B) International Comparative Literature Association
(C) World Literature and Comparative Literature Association
(D) International Association of Comparative Literary Studies
Ans: B
8. “Gorkhey Jeep” is a very famous Indian short story written in Nepali language by
(A) Rabindrakumar Moktan
(B) Shivkumar Rai
(C) Indra Bahadur Rai
(D) Jas Youzon Piyasi
Ans: A
9. The Vaishnava love lyrics were composed by
(A) Chandidas and Ramprasad
(B) Ramprasad and Govindadas
(C) Bharatchandra and Vidyapati
(D) Vidyapati and Chandidas
Ans: D
10. The concept of estrangement was used differently for literary analysis by
(A) Wellek & Prawer
(B) Iser & Jauss
(C) Brecht & Shklovsky
(D) Freud & Lacan
Ans: C
11. He Aranya He Mahanagar is
(A) a collection of Ahamiya poems by Nabakanta Barua
(B) a collection of Bangla poems by Rabindranath Tagore
(C) an anthology of ecocritical essays in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore
(D) a collection of Oriya poems by Nilakantha Das
Ans: A
12. “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” is written by
(A) Friedrich Schleiermacher
(B) Roman Jakobson
(C) John Dryden
(D) Walter Benjamin
Ans: B
13. Abhinava Bharati is
(A) a commentary of Natyashastra
(B) a biography of Abhinava Gupta
(C) a history of Kashmir
(D) an exposition of Mahabharata
Ans: A
14. According to “Natyashastra”, women characters will talk in
(A) Sauraseni Prakrit
(B) Sanskrit
(C) Magadhi Prakrit
(D) Prachya
Ans: A
15. The Haun Saussy report deals with
(A) Problems of multiculturalism after the end of the Cold War
(B) Chinese Aesthetics
(C) State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
(D) Orientalism
Ans: C
16. The writer of the travelogue, Englondey Bangamahila first published in 1885 was
(A) Krishnabhavini Das
(B) Rassundari Dasi
(C) Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
(D) Kasturba Gandhi
Ans: A
17. Identify the dominant ‘rasa’ of drama:
(A) Vira/Hasya
(B) Sringara/Vira
(C) Hasya/Raudra
(D) Sringara/Karuna
Ans: B
18. In a drama (Natyavastu) situationwise and meaningwise how many ‘Sandhis’ are there?
(A) 10
(B) 6
(C) 5
(D) 4
Ans: C
19. Jnanesvari is a famous
(A) Avadhi Commentary of Ramcharitmanas
(B) Hindi translation of Mahabharata
(C) Marathi exposition of Bhagavadgita
(D) Autobiography of Marathi saint poet Jnanesvara
Ans: C
20. Colonization provides a backdrop of
(A) The Magic Mountain
(B) Siddhartha
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The Little Prince
Ans: C
21. The first literary adaptation of the German story of Faust was done by
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) J.W. Goethe
(C) Murnau
(D) Christopher Marlowe
Ans: D
22. Aeosopica is
(A) a book of songs
(B) a book of legends
(C) a book of limerics
(D) a book of fables
Ans: D
23. “A translation has to be true to the translator no less than to the originals … Translation is choice, interpretation, an assertion of taste, a betrayal of what answers to one’s needs, one’s envies.” – Identify the author:
(A) A.K. Ramanujam
(B) Lawrence Venuti
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Susan Bassnett
Ans: A
24. Jakobson’s achievements include
(A) Communications functions
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Psychoanalytic study of literature
(D) New criticism
Ans: A
25. The American pioneer in the development of the theory and practice of Bible translation is
(A) Leonard Bloomfield
(B) Eugene A. Nida
(C) Edwin Gentzur
(D) Mildred L. Larson
Ans: B