ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 2
1. Who is the sympathetic character in Orwell's Animal Farm?
(a). Snowball
(b). Napoleon
(c). Squealer
(d). Boxer
Answer: Option-D
2. The essay 'On Tolerance" is written by --------
(a). Steele
(b). A. G. Gardiner
(c). Francis Bacon
(d). E. M. Forster
Answer: Option-D
3. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things bagged the -------- for fiction in 1997.
(a). Pulitzer Prize
(b). Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
(c). Booker Prize
(d). Kendra Sahitya Academy Award
Answer: Option-C
4. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a ---------- novel.
(a). Picaresque
(b). Gothic
(c). Epistolary
(d). Stream of Consciousness
Answer: Option-B
5. Rasa in Sanskrit means:
(a). Emotion
(b). Balance
(c). Essence
(d). Anger
Answer: Option-C
6. Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?
(a). Anandavardhana
(b). Abhinava Gupta
(c). Valmiki
(d). Vyasa
Answer: Option-A
7. What is meant by Peripeteia?
(a). tragic flaw
(b). Catharsis
(c). plot
(d). Reversal
Answer: Option-D
8. When was the Preface to Lyrical Ballads published?
(a). 1800
(b). 1600
(c). 1900
(d). 1700
Answer: Option-A
9. Who made the following remarks:
“Good Sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its Drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere”.
(a). Shelley
(b). Wordsworth
(c). Coleridge
(d). Keats
Answer: Option-C
10. Tradition and Individual Talent was published first in
(a). The Egoist
(b). The Sacred Wood
(c). the Waste Land
(d). Selected Essays
Answer: Option-A
11. What does signifier mean according to Saussure?
(a). Sign
(b). shape
(c). idea
(d). concept
Answer: Option-B
12. Whose name is associated with the term gynocriticism?
(a). Kamala Das
(b). Showalter
(c). Mathew Arnold
(d). TS Eliot
Answer: Option-B
13. Who wrote the book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge?
(a). Jean- Francois Lyotard
(b). Jacques Derrida
(c). Noam Chomsky
(d). Edward Said
Answer: Option-A
14. The Wretched of the Earth is penned by
(a). Gayatri Spivak
(b). Ben Okri
(c). Franz Fanon
(d). Chinua Achebe
Answer: Option-C
15. Smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of language is called a ----------
(a). Morpheme
(b). Phoneme
(c). Allomorph
(d). Allophone
Answer: Option-B
16. Words like 'Motel', 'Brunch' and 'Smog' are formed in a special way and this process is known as ---
(a). Blending
(b). Back-formation
(c). Clipping
(d). Autonomasia
Answer: Option-A
17. The native speaker's knowledge of the structure of a language is his linguistic ----------
(a). Performance
(b). Parole
(c). Competence
(d). Style
Answer: Option-C
18. ------------is the active articulator in the oral cavity.
(a). Alveolar
(b). Teeth
(c). Palate
(d). Tongue
Answer: Option-D
19. English RP has ---------- pure vowels or monothongs.
(a). 12
(b). 20
(c). 24
(d). 44
Answer: Option-A
20. A phonemic transcription is also called --------- transcription.
(a). Allophonic
(b). Narrow
(c). Convergent
(d). Broad
Answer: Option-D
21. Statements are normally spoken in the --------------tone.
(a). Rising
(b). Falling
(c). Fall-rise
(d). None of these
Answer: Option-B
22. The study of meaning and its manifestation in language is referred to as ---------
(a). Poetics
(b). Rhetoric
(c). Semantics
(d). Semiology
Answer: Option-C
23. Germanic languages are also known by the term ------------
(a). Teutonic
(b). Latinate
(c). Balto Slavonic
(d). Celtic
Answer: Option-A
(a). Snowball
(b). Napoleon
(c). Squealer
(d). Boxer
Answer: Option-D
2. The essay 'On Tolerance" is written by --------
(a). Steele
(b). A. G. Gardiner
(c). Francis Bacon
(d). E. M. Forster
Answer: Option-D
3. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things bagged the -------- for fiction in 1997.
(a). Pulitzer Prize
(b). Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
(c). Booker Prize
(d). Kendra Sahitya Academy Award
Answer: Option-C
4. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a ---------- novel.
(a). Picaresque
(b). Gothic
(c). Epistolary
(d). Stream of Consciousness
Answer: Option-B
5. Rasa in Sanskrit means:
(a). Emotion
(b). Balance
(c). Essence
(d). Anger
Answer: Option-C
6. Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?
(a). Anandavardhana
(b). Abhinava Gupta
(c). Valmiki
(d). Vyasa
Answer: Option-A
7. What is meant by Peripeteia?
(a). tragic flaw
(b). Catharsis
(c). plot
(d). Reversal
Answer: Option-D
8. When was the Preface to Lyrical Ballads published?
(a). 1800
(b). 1600
(c). 1900
(d). 1700
Answer: Option-A
9. Who made the following remarks:
“Good Sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its Drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere”.
(a). Shelley
(b). Wordsworth
(c). Coleridge
(d). Keats
Answer: Option-C
10. Tradition and Individual Talent was published first in
(a). The Egoist
(b). The Sacred Wood
(c). the Waste Land
(d). Selected Essays
Answer: Option-A
11. What does signifier mean according to Saussure?
(a). Sign
(b). shape
(c). idea
(d). concept
Answer: Option-B
12. Whose name is associated with the term gynocriticism?
(a). Kamala Das
(b). Showalter
(c). Mathew Arnold
(d). TS Eliot
Answer: Option-B
13. Who wrote the book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge?
(a). Jean- Francois Lyotard
(b). Jacques Derrida
(c). Noam Chomsky
(d). Edward Said
Answer: Option-A
14. The Wretched of the Earth is penned by
(a). Gayatri Spivak
(b). Ben Okri
(c). Franz Fanon
(d). Chinua Achebe
Answer: Option-C
15. Smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of language is called a ----------
(a). Morpheme
(b). Phoneme
(c). Allomorph
(d). Allophone
Answer: Option-B
16. Words like 'Motel', 'Brunch' and 'Smog' are formed in a special way and this process is known as ---
(a). Blending
(b). Back-formation
(c). Clipping
(d). Autonomasia
Answer: Option-A
17. The native speaker's knowledge of the structure of a language is his linguistic ----------
(a). Performance
(b). Parole
(c). Competence
(d). Style
Answer: Option-C
18. ------------is the active articulator in the oral cavity.
(a). Alveolar
(b). Teeth
(c). Palate
(d). Tongue
Answer: Option-D
19. English RP has ---------- pure vowels or monothongs.
(a). 12
(b). 20
(c). 24
(d). 44
Answer: Option-A
20. A phonemic transcription is also called --------- transcription.
(a). Allophonic
(b). Narrow
(c). Convergent
(d). Broad
Answer: Option-D
21. Statements are normally spoken in the --------------tone.
(a). Rising
(b). Falling
(c). Fall-rise
(d). None of these
Answer: Option-B
22. The study of meaning and its manifestation in language is referred to as ---------
(a). Poetics
(b). Rhetoric
(c). Semantics
(d). Semiology
Answer: Option-C
23. Germanic languages are also known by the term ------------
(a). Teutonic
(b). Latinate
(c). Balto Slavonic
(d). Celtic
Answer: Option-A
24. According to Aristotle, Hamartia is ______.
A:-a moral failing of the protagonist
B:-a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall
C:-a sudden change in fortune
D:-an incident which leads to the protagonist's death
Ans: B
25. "Lyrical Ballads" was published with a preface in the year ______.
A:-1789
B:-1850
C:-1798
D:-1800
Ans: D
26. In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Eliot describes the process of poetic creation in terms of an analogy of ______.
A:-a chain reaction
B:-divine inspiration
C:-a chemical reaction
D:-organic growth
Ans: C
27. "Archetype" means ______.
A:-an original idea or model on which something is patterned
B:-a myth
C:-an original story behind a myth
D:-the structure of a literary work
Ans: A
28. Jacques Derrida's lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" heralded the beginning of ______.
A:-Structuralism
B:-Cultural Materialism
C:-Post-structuralism
D:-Post-feminism
Ans: C
29. The second phase in the history of women's literature as discussed by Elaine Showalter in her essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics."
A:-The Feminist phase
B:-The Feminine phase
C:-The Female phase
D:-None of these
Ans: A
30. Michael Foucault's essay discussing the notion of the 'author'.
A:-The Death of the Author
B:-What Is an Author?
C:-On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity
D:-The Author in Court
Ans: B
31. Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" is related to ______.
A:-the stage in which the child symbolically connects ideas, emotions etc.
B:-the stage in which the child has no notion of the individual self
C:-the stage in which the child begins to speak
D:-a critical stage in the development of individuality during a child's growth
Ans: D
32. The author of the book "Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature".
A:-Sharankumar Limbala
B:-Omprakash Valmiki
C:-Bama
D:-Kancha Ilaiah
Ans: A
33. English language is derived from ______.
A:-West Germanic
B:-East Germanic
C:-North Germanic
D:-None of these
Ans: A
34. A systematic variation of vowels in the same root or in related roots or affixes in the Indo-European languages that is usually paralleled by differences in use or meaning.
A:-Anacoluthon
B:-Diacritic
C:-Ablaut
D:-Umlaut
Ans: C
35. The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
A:-Alfred
B:-Caedmon
C:-Boethius
D:-Bede
Ans: D
36. The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ______ in 1066.
A:-King Canute
B:-King Haokon VI
C:-William the Conqueror
D:-Prince Carl
Ans: C
37. King James' Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ______.
A:-1511
B:-1611
C:-1711
D:-1811
Ans: B
38. The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
A:-phoneme
B:-morpheme
C:-vowel
D:-consonant
Ans: A
39. The linguistic term for the study of the ways in which words combine into such units as phrase, clause, and sentence.
A:-morphology
B:-syntax
C:-phonemics
D:-orthography
Ans: B
40. A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
A:-Language
B:-Language and Mind
C:-Course in General Linguistics
D:-Syntactic Structures
Ans: C
41. In T.G. Grammar an abstract underlying structure that incorporates all the syntactic information required for the interpretation of a given sentence.
A:-deep structure
B:-surface structure
C:-context-free grammar
D:-generative semantics
Ans: A
42. A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
A:-style
B:-dialect
C:-idiolect
D:-register
Ans: D
43. Why did the poet in the poem "Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
A:-Because she used to play under the casurina tree with her friends in childhood
B:-Because she often saw her children playing under it.
C:-Because her father had a casurina tree in the yard cut down against her wishes
D:-None of the above
Ans: D
44.What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
A:-The roar of the sea
B:-The beams of the moon
C:-The howl of a dog
D:-The song of the bird
Ans: D
45. Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
A:-An American soldier
B:-A Nazi
C:-A cruel parent
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
46. According to B R Ambedkar the caste system _________
A:-Is a systematic division of people according to their professions
B:-Recognizes the dignity of labour
C:-Prevents unemployment
D:-Does not promote an egalitarian society
Ans: D
47. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in ______
A:-1956
B:-1976
C:-1981
D:-1991
Ans: C
48. The protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones is ____
A:-A dictator of a South American country
B:-A usurper of power in a Caribbean island
C:-An African American trade union leader
D:-A worker in a mine
Ans: B
49. Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man" was associated with _________
A:-The Harlem Renaissance
B:-The Beat Movement
C:-The Black Arts Movement
D:-None of the above
Ans: A
50. Lalithambika Antharjanam was a contemporary of ______
A:-Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
B:-Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar
C:-A R Raja Raja Varma
D:-O Chandu Menon
Ans: A
51. The following is the protagonist of Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye:
A:-Freida
B:-Pecola
C:-Sula
D:-Jadine
Ans: B
52. Who is the author of 'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' ?
A:-Louis Montrose
B:-Walter Benn Michaels
C:-Stephen Greenblatt
D:-Jonathan Goldberg
Ans: B
53. The 'New Historicists' attempt to situate and interpret 'Texts' in relation to:
A:-Social theories
B:-Social structure
C:-The cultural system in which they were produced
D:-The class structure of the society
Ans: C
54. Which of the following is a prominent feature of 'New Feminisms' ?
A:-Its ideologies predominantly 'Gynocentric'
B:-It posits superiority of women
C:-It supports racial discrimination
D:-It considers European and Non-European women as unequals
Ans: A
55. Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) ?
A:-Raymond Williams
B:-Terry Eagleton
C:-Harold Bloom
D:-Richard Hoggart
Ans: D
56. What does 'Diaspora' (in the Biblical context) denote?
A:-Movement of people
B:-Migration of people
C:-Mass exodus of the Jews
D:-Transplanted people and their literature
Ans: C
57. Who among the following is a 'Queer' critic?
A:-Ivy Compton
B:-Mary Wollstonecraft
C:-Carol Vance
D:-Naomi Wolf
Ans: C
58. What is the most prominent feature of post-colonial literature?
A:-A pre-occupation with the colonial experience from a Non-European point of view
B:-Euro-centric constructs/texts
C:-Emphasis on subaltern experience
D:-Emphasis on racial prejudices
Ans: A
59. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the literature of the 'Diaspora' ?
A:-A craving for the homeland and its values
B:-Search for an identity in the country of settlement
C:-Sense of deprivation in language, land, identity, race etc.
D:-Pre occupation with the superior European life
Ans: D
60. What is the UK equivalent of the term 'Eco-criticism' ?
A:-Contemporary studies
B:-Nature studies
C:-Green studies
D:-Sustenance studies
Ans: C
61. What is denoted by the term 'Hyper-reality' in post-modernism?
A:-Inability of consciousness to differentiate between reality and its simulation
B:-An abstract idea standing for historical experience
C:-An illusion
D:-Inability to realize reality
Ans: A
A:-a moral failing of the protagonist
B:-a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall
C:-a sudden change in fortune
D:-an incident which leads to the protagonist's death
Ans: B
25. "Lyrical Ballads" was published with a preface in the year ______.
A:-1789
B:-1850
C:-1798
D:-1800
Ans: D
26. In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Eliot describes the process of poetic creation in terms of an analogy of ______.
A:-a chain reaction
B:-divine inspiration
C:-a chemical reaction
D:-organic growth
Ans: C
27. "Archetype" means ______.
A:-an original idea or model on which something is patterned
B:-a myth
C:-an original story behind a myth
D:-the structure of a literary work
Ans: A
28. Jacques Derrida's lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" heralded the beginning of ______.
A:-Structuralism
B:-Cultural Materialism
C:-Post-structuralism
D:-Post-feminism
Ans: C
29. The second phase in the history of women's literature as discussed by Elaine Showalter in her essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics."
A:-The Feminist phase
B:-The Feminine phase
C:-The Female phase
D:-None of these
Ans: A
30. Michael Foucault's essay discussing the notion of the 'author'.
A:-The Death of the Author
B:-What Is an Author?
C:-On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity
D:-The Author in Court
Ans: B
31. Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" is related to ______.
A:-the stage in which the child symbolically connects ideas, emotions etc.
B:-the stage in which the child has no notion of the individual self
C:-the stage in which the child begins to speak
D:-a critical stage in the development of individuality during a child's growth
Ans: D
32. The author of the book "Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature".
A:-Sharankumar Limbala
B:-Omprakash Valmiki
C:-Bama
D:-Kancha Ilaiah
Ans: A
33. English language is derived from ______.
A:-West Germanic
B:-East Germanic
C:-North Germanic
D:-None of these
Ans: A
34. A systematic variation of vowels in the same root or in related roots or affixes in the Indo-European languages that is usually paralleled by differences in use or meaning.
A:-Anacoluthon
B:-Diacritic
C:-Ablaut
D:-Umlaut
Ans: C
35. The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
A:-Alfred
B:-Caedmon
C:-Boethius
D:-Bede
Ans: D
36. The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ______ in 1066.
A:-King Canute
B:-King Haokon VI
C:-William the Conqueror
D:-Prince Carl
Ans: C
37. King James' Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ______.
A:-1511
B:-1611
C:-1711
D:-1811
Ans: B
38. The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
A:-phoneme
B:-morpheme
C:-vowel
D:-consonant
Ans: A
39. The linguistic term for the study of the ways in which words combine into such units as phrase, clause, and sentence.
A:-morphology
B:-syntax
C:-phonemics
D:-orthography
Ans: B
40. A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
A:-Language
B:-Language and Mind
C:-Course in General Linguistics
D:-Syntactic Structures
Ans: C
41. In T.G. Grammar an abstract underlying structure that incorporates all the syntactic information required for the interpretation of a given sentence.
A:-deep structure
B:-surface structure
C:-context-free grammar
D:-generative semantics
Ans: A
42. A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
A:-style
B:-dialect
C:-idiolect
D:-register
Ans: D
43. Why did the poet in the poem "Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
A:-Because she used to play under the casurina tree with her friends in childhood
B:-Because she often saw her children playing under it.
C:-Because her father had a casurina tree in the yard cut down against her wishes
D:-None of the above
Ans: D
44.What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
A:-The roar of the sea
B:-The beams of the moon
C:-The howl of a dog
D:-The song of the bird
Ans: D
45. Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
A:-An American soldier
B:-A Nazi
C:-A cruel parent
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
46. According to B R Ambedkar the caste system _________
A:-Is a systematic division of people according to their professions
B:-Recognizes the dignity of labour
C:-Prevents unemployment
D:-Does not promote an egalitarian society
Ans: D
47. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in ______
A:-1956
B:-1976
C:-1981
D:-1991
Ans: C
48. The protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones is ____
A:-A dictator of a South American country
B:-A usurper of power in a Caribbean island
C:-An African American trade union leader
D:-A worker in a mine
Ans: B
49. Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man" was associated with _________
A:-The Harlem Renaissance
B:-The Beat Movement
C:-The Black Arts Movement
D:-None of the above
Ans: A
50. Lalithambika Antharjanam was a contemporary of ______
A:-Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
B:-Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar
C:-A R Raja Raja Varma
D:-O Chandu Menon
Ans: A
51. The following is the protagonist of Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye:
A:-Freida
B:-Pecola
C:-Sula
D:-Jadine
Ans: B
52. Who is the author of 'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' ?
A:-Louis Montrose
B:-Walter Benn Michaels
C:-Stephen Greenblatt
D:-Jonathan Goldberg
Ans: B
53. The 'New Historicists' attempt to situate and interpret 'Texts' in relation to:
A:-Social theories
B:-Social structure
C:-The cultural system in which they were produced
D:-The class structure of the society
Ans: C
54. Which of the following is a prominent feature of 'New Feminisms' ?
A:-Its ideologies predominantly 'Gynocentric'
B:-It posits superiority of women
C:-It supports racial discrimination
D:-It considers European and Non-European women as unequals
Ans: A
55. Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) ?
A:-Raymond Williams
B:-Terry Eagleton
C:-Harold Bloom
D:-Richard Hoggart
Ans: D
56. What does 'Diaspora' (in the Biblical context) denote?
A:-Movement of people
B:-Migration of people
C:-Mass exodus of the Jews
D:-Transplanted people and their literature
Ans: C
57. Who among the following is a 'Queer' critic?
A:-Ivy Compton
B:-Mary Wollstonecraft
C:-Carol Vance
D:-Naomi Wolf
Ans: C
58. What is the most prominent feature of post-colonial literature?
A:-A pre-occupation with the colonial experience from a Non-European point of view
B:-Euro-centric constructs/texts
C:-Emphasis on subaltern experience
D:-Emphasis on racial prejudices
Ans: A
59. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the literature of the 'Diaspora' ?
A:-A craving for the homeland and its values
B:-Search for an identity in the country of settlement
C:-Sense of deprivation in language, land, identity, race etc.
D:-Pre occupation with the superior European life
Ans: D
60. What is the UK equivalent of the term 'Eco-criticism' ?
A:-Contemporary studies
B:-Nature studies
C:-Green studies
D:-Sustenance studies
Ans: C
61. What is denoted by the term 'Hyper-reality' in post-modernism?
A:-Inability of consciousness to differentiate between reality and its simulation
B:-An abstract idea standing for historical experience
C:-An illusion
D:-Inability to realize reality
Ans: A
62. How many second person personal pronouns were in Early Modern English ?
A:-one
B:-two
C:-three
D:-five
Correct Answer:- Option-B
63. How many varieties of English are in use globally ?
A:-Two
B:-Three
C:-Four
D:-Many
Correct Answer:- Option-D
64. Bloomfield is connected with __________ .
A:-Semantics
B:-Traditional Grammar
C:-American Structuralism
D:-Prague School
Correct Answer:- Option-C
65. TG Grammar is associated with :
A:-Sapir
B:-Chomsky
C:-Saussure
D:-Firth
Correct Answer:- Option-B
66. Creole is __________ .
A:-a combination of many languages
B:-a language developed from Pidgin
C:-a variety of English
D:-a combination of two languages
Correct Answer:- Option-B
67. Gitanjali was originally written in __________
A:-English
B:-Sanskrit
C:-Bengali
D:-Hindi
Correct Answer:- Option-C
68. Sri Aurobindo's full name is ___________ .
A:-Aurobindo Ghose
B:-Aurobindo Dhun
C:-Aurobindo Krishna
D:-Aravind Ghosh
Correct Answer:- Option-A
69. In "Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher", the best poets wait for __________ .
A:-Experience
B:-Images
C:-Love
D:-Words
Correct Answer:- Option-D
70. In "Road not Taken", two roads diverged in a ___________ .
A:-green forest
B:-yellow wood
C:-a green meadow
D:-a dark wood
Correct Answer:- Option-B
71. Which ocean is mentioned in "Daddy" ?
A:-Indian
B:-Pacific
C:-Atlantic
D:-Arctic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
72. Who wrote "Philosophy of Hinduism" ?
A:-Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
B:-Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
C:-M.K. Gandhi
D:-Sri Aurobindo
Correct Answer:- Option-B
73. Emerson, in "Self Reliance" calls upon the individual to rely on :
A:-intuition
B:-conscience
C:-reason
D:-popular opinion
Correct Answer:- Option-A
74. The rebels believed that Emperor Jones could be killed only by a :
A:-Silver bullet
B:-Copper bullet
C:-Poisoned arrow
D:-White man
Correct Answer:- Option-A
75. In Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai was held as a political prisoner during __________ .
A:-Independence struggle
B:-Partition of India
C:-15 August, 1947
D:-Emergency
Correct Answer:- Option-D
76. Manjula Padmanabhan's The Harvest is a play that can be termed as :
A:-Expressionistic
B:-Dadaist
C:-Futuristic
D:-Surrealistic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
77. One of the following is considered a seminal text in Post Colonial Studies :
A:-The Laugh of the Medusa
B:-The Anxiety of Influence
C:-The Wretched of the Earth
D:-The Step Mother Tongue
Correct Answer:- Option-C
78. In relation to imperialism, colonialism specifically concerns __________ .
A:-trade
B:-conquest
C:-exploitation
D:-settlement
Correct Answer:- Option-D
79. Raymond Williams is associated with :
A:-Prague School
B:-Birmingham Centre
C:-Frankfurt School
D:-London School
Correct Answer:- Option-B
80. Dick Hebdige terms the new forms of cultures produced by marginalized groups __________ .
A:-Popular cultures
B:-Sub cultures
C:-Minor cultures
D:-Low cultures
Correct Answer:- Option-B
81. Stephen Greenblatt is a __________ .
A:-New Historicist
B:-Post Feminist
C:-Queer Theorist
D:-Cultural Materialist
Correct Answer:- Option-A
82. Epistemology of the Closet, a significant contribution to queer theory is authored by __________ .
A:-Kate Millett
B:-Julia Kristeva
C:-Juliet Mitchell
D:-Eve K Sedgwick
Correct Answer:- Option-D
83. Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as __________ .
A:-revolutionary
B:-reactionary
C:-antifeminist
D:-imperial
Correct Answer:- Option-A
84. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by :
A:-Hegel
B:-Lyotard
C:-Habermas
D:-Jameson
Correct Answer:- Option-C
85. Glotfelty defines ecocriticism as "the study of the relationship between literature and __________ ".
A:-nature
B:-flora and fauna
C:-ecology
D:-physical environment
Correct Answer:- Option-D
A:-one
B:-two
C:-three
D:-five
Correct Answer:- Option-B
63. How many varieties of English are in use globally ?
A:-Two
B:-Three
C:-Four
D:-Many
Correct Answer:- Option-D
64. Bloomfield is connected with __________ .
A:-Semantics
B:-Traditional Grammar
C:-American Structuralism
D:-Prague School
Correct Answer:- Option-C
65. TG Grammar is associated with :
A:-Sapir
B:-Chomsky
C:-Saussure
D:-Firth
Correct Answer:- Option-B
66. Creole is __________ .
A:-a combination of many languages
B:-a language developed from Pidgin
C:-a variety of English
D:-a combination of two languages
Correct Answer:- Option-B
67. Gitanjali was originally written in __________
A:-English
B:-Sanskrit
C:-Bengali
D:-Hindi
Correct Answer:- Option-C
68. Sri Aurobindo's full name is ___________ .
A:-Aurobindo Ghose
B:-Aurobindo Dhun
C:-Aurobindo Krishna
D:-Aravind Ghosh
Correct Answer:- Option-A
69. In "Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher", the best poets wait for __________ .
A:-Experience
B:-Images
C:-Love
D:-Words
Correct Answer:- Option-D
70. In "Road not Taken", two roads diverged in a ___________ .
A:-green forest
B:-yellow wood
C:-a green meadow
D:-a dark wood
Correct Answer:- Option-B
71. Which ocean is mentioned in "Daddy" ?
A:-Indian
B:-Pacific
C:-Atlantic
D:-Arctic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
72. Who wrote "Philosophy of Hinduism" ?
A:-Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
B:-Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
C:-M.K. Gandhi
D:-Sri Aurobindo
Correct Answer:- Option-B
73. Emerson, in "Self Reliance" calls upon the individual to rely on :
A:-intuition
B:-conscience
C:-reason
D:-popular opinion
Correct Answer:- Option-A
74. The rebels believed that Emperor Jones could be killed only by a :
A:-Silver bullet
B:-Copper bullet
C:-Poisoned arrow
D:-White man
Correct Answer:- Option-A
75. In Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai was held as a political prisoner during __________ .
A:-Independence struggle
B:-Partition of India
C:-15 August, 1947
D:-Emergency
Correct Answer:- Option-D
76. Manjula Padmanabhan's The Harvest is a play that can be termed as :
A:-Expressionistic
B:-Dadaist
C:-Futuristic
D:-Surrealistic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
77. One of the following is considered a seminal text in Post Colonial Studies :
A:-The Laugh of the Medusa
B:-The Anxiety of Influence
C:-The Wretched of the Earth
D:-The Step Mother Tongue
Correct Answer:- Option-C
78. In relation to imperialism, colonialism specifically concerns __________ .
A:-trade
B:-conquest
C:-exploitation
D:-settlement
Correct Answer:- Option-D
79. Raymond Williams is associated with :
A:-Prague School
B:-Birmingham Centre
C:-Frankfurt School
D:-London School
Correct Answer:- Option-B
80. Dick Hebdige terms the new forms of cultures produced by marginalized groups __________ .
A:-Popular cultures
B:-Sub cultures
C:-Minor cultures
D:-Low cultures
Correct Answer:- Option-B
81. Stephen Greenblatt is a __________ .
A:-New Historicist
B:-Post Feminist
C:-Queer Theorist
D:-Cultural Materialist
Correct Answer:- Option-A
82. Epistemology of the Closet, a significant contribution to queer theory is authored by __________ .
A:-Kate Millett
B:-Julia Kristeva
C:-Juliet Mitchell
D:-Eve K Sedgwick
Correct Answer:- Option-D
83. Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as __________ .
A:-revolutionary
B:-reactionary
C:-antifeminist
D:-imperial
Correct Answer:- Option-A
84. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by :
A:-Hegel
B:-Lyotard
C:-Habermas
D:-Jameson
Correct Answer:- Option-C
85. Glotfelty defines ecocriticism as "the study of the relationship between literature and __________ ".
A:-nature
B:-flora and fauna
C:-ecology
D:-physical environment
Correct Answer:- Option-D
86:-In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents the Wife of Bath as a depiction of __________ .
A:-Experience
B:-Cleanliness
C:-Meekness
D:-Chastity
Ans: D
87:-Which text by Antonio Gramsci inspired Stuart Hall ?
A:-The Prison Diaries
B:-The Princess Diaries
C:-The Marxism Diaries
D:-The Motorcycle Diaries
Ans: A
88:-Hester wore the 'scarlet letter' as :
A:-Religious Observance
B:-A Memento of her relationship with the Pastor
C:-A Mark of Sexual Transgression
D:-A Token of Dimmesdale's Guilt
Ans: C
89:-What according to Coleridge is "essentially vital" and struggles "to idealize and unify" ?
A:-Secondary Imagination
B:-Primary Imagination
C:-Fancy
D:-None of these
Ans: A
90:-What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
A:-Alliterative
B:-Epic
C:-Acrostic
D:-Haiku
Ans: C
91:-"Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways", are the words of the Chorus in which play ?
A:-Hamlet
B:-Oedipus at Colonus
C:-The Winter's Tale
D:-Murder in the Cathedral
Ans: D
92:-What is the theme of "The Blessed Damozel" ?
A:-Revenge
B:-Undying Love
C:-Family Feud
D:-Chivalry
Ans: B
93:-Name the Shakespearean play with an epilogue :
A:-Twelfth Night
B:-Henry IV
C:-Hamlet
D:-The Tempest
Ans: D
94:-According to Edward Said, 'the orient' is portrayed in Western novels, media and art work as __________ .
A:-Too focused on historical facts and accurately portraying the experience of life in the region
B:-A place prone to liberal democracy and revolutionary feminism
C:-An accurate depiction of the modern day Middle East and Asia
D:-Lost in the past, prone to despotic rule and plagued by 'odd' cultural traditions
Ans: D
95:-What did Sophia leave for Tom at the inn at Upton ?
A:-Her shawl
B:-Her muff
C:-Her stays
D:-Her petticoat
Ans: B
96:-The subplot of Hayavadana is centred around __________ .
A:-The man with the horse's head
B:-The dolls
C:-The love triangle
D:-The Bhagavata
Ans: A
97:-"Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by :
A:-Roman Jakobson
B:-Jacques Lacan
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Jacques Derrida
Ans: C
98:-When Act I of Waiting for Godot opens, Estragon is :
A:-Asleep
B:-Trying to pull his boot off
C:-Making castles in the dirt
D:-Staring off into space
Ans: B
99:-The idea that people are weighed down by the roles they play is introduced by William Wordsworth in Immortality Ode, based on the concept of __________ .
A:-Theatrum mundi
B:-Spiritus mundi
C:-Transit Gloria mundi
D:-Lectio brevior
Ans: A
100:-Who was sent by Polonius to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
A:-Francisco
B:-Samson
C:-Reynaldo
D:-Gorgonzola
Ans: C
A:-Experience
B:-Cleanliness
C:-Meekness
D:-Chastity
Ans: D
87:-Which text by Antonio Gramsci inspired Stuart Hall ?
A:-The Prison Diaries
B:-The Princess Diaries
C:-The Marxism Diaries
D:-The Motorcycle Diaries
Ans: A
88:-Hester wore the 'scarlet letter' as :
A:-Religious Observance
B:-A Memento of her relationship with the Pastor
C:-A Mark of Sexual Transgression
D:-A Token of Dimmesdale's Guilt
Ans: C
89:-What according to Coleridge is "essentially vital" and struggles "to idealize and unify" ?
A:-Secondary Imagination
B:-Primary Imagination
C:-Fancy
D:-None of these
Ans: A
90:-What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
A:-Alliterative
B:-Epic
C:-Acrostic
D:-Haiku
Ans: C
91:-"Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways", are the words of the Chorus in which play ?
A:-Hamlet
B:-Oedipus at Colonus
C:-The Winter's Tale
D:-Murder in the Cathedral
Ans: D
92:-What is the theme of "The Blessed Damozel" ?
A:-Revenge
B:-Undying Love
C:-Family Feud
D:-Chivalry
Ans: B
93:-Name the Shakespearean play with an epilogue :
A:-Twelfth Night
B:-Henry IV
C:-Hamlet
D:-The Tempest
Ans: D
94:-According to Edward Said, 'the orient' is portrayed in Western novels, media and art work as __________ .
A:-Too focused on historical facts and accurately portraying the experience of life in the region
B:-A place prone to liberal democracy and revolutionary feminism
C:-An accurate depiction of the modern day Middle East and Asia
D:-Lost in the past, prone to despotic rule and plagued by 'odd' cultural traditions
Ans: D
95:-What did Sophia leave for Tom at the inn at Upton ?
A:-Her shawl
B:-Her muff
C:-Her stays
D:-Her petticoat
Ans: B
96:-The subplot of Hayavadana is centred around __________ .
A:-The man with the horse's head
B:-The dolls
C:-The love triangle
D:-The Bhagavata
Ans: A
97:-"Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by :
A:-Roman Jakobson
B:-Jacques Lacan
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Jacques Derrida
Ans: C
98:-When Act I of Waiting for Godot opens, Estragon is :
A:-Asleep
B:-Trying to pull his boot off
C:-Making castles in the dirt
D:-Staring off into space
Ans: B
99:-The idea that people are weighed down by the roles they play is introduced by William Wordsworth in Immortality Ode, based on the concept of __________ .
A:-Theatrum mundi
B:-Spiritus mundi
C:-Transit Gloria mundi
D:-Lectio brevior
Ans: A
100:-Who was sent by Polonius to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
A:-Francisco
B:-Samson
C:-Reynaldo
D:-Gorgonzola
Ans: C
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