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Paper -II
1. Which among the following poems has been hailed as Semi Waste Land" ?
(A) Dover Beach (B) Thyrsis
ef Empedocles on Etna (D) The Scholar Gypsy

2. Who among the following American poets is known for the use of anti-thesis ?
A Robert Frost (B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Walt Whitman (D) R. W. Emerson

3. Who among the following trench poets wrote the poem Strange Meeting" ?
, (AY Wilfred Owen (B) Rupert Brooke
(C) Isaac Rosenberg (D) Siegfried Sassoon

4. The animal imagery is profusely found in the poetry of

(A) Seamus Heaney B Ted Hughes
(C) Philip Larkin (D) Carol Ann Duffy

5. The character of Madame Sosostris appears in

4r The Waste Land (B) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(C) The Hollow Men (D) Gerontion

6. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - Who among the following romantic poets
said this ?

(A) P. B. Shelley
(BY John Keats
(C) Lord Byron
(D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English
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7. "Oh, sir,she smiled, no doubt,/Whene'erI passed her, but who passed without/ 14. The senior lady who is satirized in The Wauof the World by William
Much the same smile"? These lines are found in the poem (A) Millamant (B) Mrs. Marwood
(A) Porphyria's Lover (gY Lady Wishfort (D) Mrs. Fainall

dBNFra Lippo Lippi

15. John Dryden's Al for Love is
(C) The Last Ride Together
(D) My Last Duchess ,(AYA heroic tragedy (B) A tragedy
(C) A heroic play (D) A melodrama

8. Who wrote the unfnished epic poem Hyperion ?

(A) William Wordsworth 16. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal has as its protagonist
(B) William Blake
(A) Sir Peter Teazle (B) Joseph Surface
(C) Robert Southey DY JohnKeats
(C) Sir Oliver Surface .(DYCharles Surface
9. Who wrote the lines - "Ispeak three languages, write in two, dream in one" ?
17. The witty dialogue in The Importance of Being Earnest primarily serves to
la Kamala Das (B) Eunice De Souza
(A) Develop the plot
(C) Imtiaz Dharker Menka Shivdasani (BY Critique social norms
(C) Explore moral dilemmas
10.) How many verses are there in Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali ("Songs of
Offering) ? | 0 (D) Build suspense
(A) 101 (BY111 (C) 108 (D) 121
18. The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is best described as
11. In Hamlet, who among the following characters does NOT die ? (A) A comedy of errors
(A) Ophelia (B) Claudius (9Horatio (D) Laertes (B) A
comedy of humours
(e Acomedy of menace
12. Who is the protagonist in The Jew of Malta ? (D) A comedy of manners
(A) Shylock (B) Marlowe
19. Caryl Churchill's Top Girls has
(C) Rosencrantz (DY Barabas
(A) An all-male cast
13. The "green world" in A Midsummer Night's Dream symbolizes (BYAmix of historical and fictional female characters
(A) Chaos and disorder B Rebirth and renewal (C) Atraditional family structure
(C) Magic and fantasy (D) Justice and fairness (D) A capitalist social structure
 20. The Crucible is an allegory for the historical event oI 26. John Ruskin's ornate prose style was followed by
(A) The Great Depression sDscar Wilde (B) George Eliot
BY The McCarthy trials (C) Emile Bronte E Walter Pater
(C) The Civil War
alternatively titled
(D) The American Revolution 27. The Children of the Sea, published in USA, is
UA Heart of Darkness
(21, Which critic commented about Pip's progress in Great Expectations as "a snob's
progress" ?
(B) Lord Jim
(C) Nostromo
Humphry House (B) Dorothy Van Ghent
(P The Nigger of the Narcissus
R. Leavis (D) Bulwar Lyppon
28. Women in Love is a sequel to
22. The epigraph of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is derived from (B) Sons and Lovers
t(AY The Rainbow
Romeo and Juiet (C) The White Peacock (D) The Plumed Serpent
(B) The Tempest
(C) As You Like t 29. Which one of the following novels is written by Doris Lessing ?
o The Two Gentlemen of Verona (A) The Little Stranger (BY The Golden Notebook
(C) The Sea, The Sea (D) The Fig Tree
23. The famous bee and spider allegory is depicted in
(A) Robinson Crusoe BY The Battle of the Books 30. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla is based on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
(C) Gultiver's Travels (D) A Tale of a Tub Identify the author.
JA Benjamin Disraeli Edward Bulwer-Lytton
24. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are novels (C) Charles Reade (D) Anthony Trollope
cast in the
(A) Epistolary mode ,B Picaresque mode 31. Hagiography is centred around the lives of
Regional mode (D) Historical mode (A) Poets (B) Warriors
Saints (D) Women
25. Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Her characters are absolutely true to life and all her
work has the perfection of a míniature painting." Who is she ? 32. Who wrote V. S. Naipaul's biography The Worid is What it is ?
AY JaneAusten (B) Frances Burney aY Patrick French (B) Vivek Menezes
(C) Mary Shelley (D) Maria Edgeworth (C) Paul Theroux (D) Kerry Harwin
Enah
 squalor of an
of the sordid
41, Dominique Lapierre wrote an appealing account
33. Amitav Ghosh's The Liing Mountain is an example or
(B) Parable (C) Fable Dr folktale Indian city. ldentify the city.
(A) Ballad Ja Calcutta (B) Bormbay

(C) Madras (D) Delhi

34. Samuel Pepys' Diary was written in
(B 17h Century
(A) 16th Century "An Anthem of Love ?
(D) 19th Century 42. Who wrote the poems "The Gift of India" and
(C) 18th Century B Sarojini Naidu
(A) Kamala Das
sections. (C) Toru Dutt (D) Aru Dutt
35. The Story of my Experiments with Truth has
Five (D) Six
(A) Three (B) Four
indicating the society for the
43. Who wrote the hard-hitting poem "Sita Speak"
injustice meted out to women down the ages ?
36. Hind Swaraj is written in
AB Dialogue mode , (4 Bina Agarwal s Meena Kandasamy
(A) Epistolary mode
(D) Narrative mode (C) Amrita Pritam (D) Menka Shivdasani
(C) Descriptive mode
Akademi
37. The fatwa' incident is narrated by Rushdie in 44. Who is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya
JA The Satanic Verses (B) Shame Award ?
(B) Mahesh Elkunchwar
(C) Joseph Anton (D) The Moor's Last Sigh Asif Currimbhoy
(C) Habib Tanvir Mahesh Dattani
38. Who states "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you
peaçe but the triumph of principles" ? 45. Which Indian poet passed away in the year 2024 ?
A Ralph Emerson MahatmaGandhi (B) Jayanta Mahapatra
AK. K. Daruwala
(C) Swami Vivekananda (D) Henry Thoreau
(C) Niranjan Mohanty P. Lal
39. Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Passage to England has a section entitled
46. In which of the following novels one does NOT portray the Gandhian age and the
(A) English Women BY Engish People impact of Gandhi?
nglishWeather (D) English Theatre (A) Ingilab by K. A. Abbas
(B) In Transit by Venu Chitale
40. History of theRoyal Society of London (1667) was written by
(B) John Tillotson
(Cthe Dark Room by R. K. Narayan
(A) William Temple
.( Thomas Sprat (D) George Savile (D) Kanthapura by Raja Rao
 remains
German Jew who an
47. Baumgartner'S Bombayiis a novel about
a wheree he is a outsider 53. In Saussurean linguistics, the
signifier refers to
and in India, firang
because he is a Jew
all his ife, in his country SAY The sound or image used to convey meaning
Who wrote this moving novel ? (B) The concept that a word represents
BYAnita Desai
(A) Vikram Seth
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (C) The function of a word in a sentence
(C) Nayantara Sahgal (D) The grammatical rules governing a language
language learning occurs
48. Towards an Aesthetics of Dait Literature is written by 54. According to B.F. Skinner's behaviourist theory,
(B) Namdeo Dhasal through
A Sharankumar Limbale
(D) Baby Kamble (A) Inherited grammar structures
(C) Omprakash Valmiki
(B) Social interaction

49. Her short stories including "Kavach and "A Childhood Tale" are widely read e r Imitation, reinforcement and habit formation
She is a
andform the part of the curriculum at various Indian universities. (D) Cognitive development
prominent Indian Dalit feminist writer. Who is she ?
that
(A) Shamila Rege BY Urmila Pawar 55. A major criticism of the behaviourist view of language learning is
(C) Rekha Raj (D) Gogu Shyamala AY It does not account for the inate ability to form complex utterances
(B) It overemphasizes the role of social interaction
50. Who is the author of Astadhyayi ? (C) It ignores the importance of language in culture
Afanini (B) Patanjali (D) It does not explain language reinforcement
{C) Bhatrihari (D) Katyayana
56. Chomsky's Universal Grammar theory is used to explain

51. The concept of displacement in larnguage refers to (A) Why languages are so diverse
(B How children acquire their native language without direct teaching
(A} The ability of language to express abstract thoughts
(C) The role of external reinforcement in language learning
(B) The representation of sounds through symbols (D) The influence of culture on language
CYThe ability to communicate about things not present in time and space
(D) The structural flexibility of sentences 57. According to Jean Piaget, language acquisition is closely linked to
(A) The development of grammar
52. The directive function of language is used primarily to
BY Cognitive development
(A) Provide information 1(Br Influence the behaviour of others (C) Social interaction
(C) Express emotions (D) Build social relationships (D) Formal instruction
 58. Bilingualisn is defini as 63. Cultural studiesas a branch of forrnai academic study itseif had its origins in
languages
(A) The ability to transiate between two (A) Humanism B) FeminiSm
toanother
B) Alinguistic shift from one language IcYMarxism {D) New Criticisi
(C) Using language creativeBy
The abilitv to speak two languages fluently 64. Whointroduced the concept of hybrictity ?
(A) Ajaz Ahmad
concerned with
59. Futnctionainin inguistics is primarily (BYMomi Bhabha
(4) The ciassification of languages into families (C) Edward Said

B) The historicai development of languages (D) GayatriChakravarty Spivak

Ho larnguage is used in real-life commnunication
65. In 1964, cultural studies as a formal discipine was inaugurated withn the
The innate structures governing language use establishment of
(B) the Harvard Schoct
(AY the Birmingham School
60. Whict of the folowing best exemplifies a perlocutionary act? (C) the Oxford School (D) the Cambridge Schooi
{A Acomand givern by a teacher
B The speaker stating a fact 66. Who founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies iCCCS) ?
SThe iüstener's reaction to a command slArRaymnond Williams x (BRichard Hoggart
(C) Dennis Dworkin {D) Stuart Hall
{D The speaker's formulation of a request

61. Who coied the expression utura animi to mean "cultivation of the soul? 67. Cultural Marxism in Post-War Britain : History, the New Left, and the Origins of
Cultural Studies is written by
Cicero (B) Aristotle
IC: Miat
NaEIanet Morgan (B) E.P, Thompson
D) Horace
(YDennis Dworkin (D) Angela McRobbie
62. Who founded the infiuential journal New Left Review in the 1950s ?
68. Which among the following is written by Stuart Hai! ?
(A} Kun-Hsing Chen (A) Contemporary Cultural Studies
(B) Heier. Davis
(B) The Making of the Enghsh Working Cazs
(C) Lawrence Grossberg (C) The Aftermath of Feminism
DY Stuart Hall (D DoingCultura! Stuches: The Story of the Sony Walkman
69. In 1994, Jefrey Williams conducted an interview titled"Questioning Cultural
74. Who answered Thomas Campion's attack on rhyme in ADefence of Rhyme?
Studies". What is its subtitle ? (A) Philip Sidney NBY Samuel Daniel
A"An Interview with Paul Gilroy" (C) Walter Raleigh (D) Ben Jonson
(B) An Interview with Paul Willis"
75. Who among the following is a well-known lexicographer ?
(C) An Interview with Alan Sokal"
cA Samuel Johnson (B) John Dryden
IB "An Interview with Paul Smith"
(C) Francis Bacon (D) Montaigne
70. Counter hegemony refers to
76. Primary imagination is the basis of all creative activities. Who among the
(A) The rejection of all cultural norms following said this ?
BCultural practices that resist dominant ideologies
(C) The elimination of high culture
(A) William Wordsworth ((Ers. T. Coleridge
(C) John Keats (D) P. B. Shelley
(D) Government-led resistance movements
77. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault theorises
71. According to Plato, literature is
(A) The role of socio-cultural values
(A) A reflection of the ideal world
(B) The economic structures of feudalism
BYTwice removed from reality
cY The reinforcement of power structure through discipline by prisons
(C) A means of attaining truth
(D) The representation of morality in literature
(D) A rational discourse

78. In Dryden's An Essay ofDramatic Poesy, there are four interlocutors representing
72. In Aristotle's Poetics, which among the following is considered to be the soul of four different ideologies. Which of them impersonate Dryden's views ?
tragedy ?
(A) Lisideius (B) Eugenius
LaY Plot (B) Character
(C) Crites DY Neander
(C) Diction (D) Spectacle
79. Matthew Arnold's concept of "disinterestedness" calls for
73. Horace's principle of dulce et utile emphasizes that poetry should
(A) A subjective approach to literature
(A) Only entertain the reader
(BAn objective evaluation of literature
(B) Instruct the reader but avoid entertainment
(C) A focus on political criticism
(er Entertain and instruct simultaneously
(D) A purely emotional response to literature
(D) Focus on moral teaching without aesthetic value
 oE Who coined the term "Collective
concept of aporia ?
Unconscious" ?
80. Who among the following gave the (A) Northrop Frye
(A) Pal D. Mann
(B) Leonel Trilling B Carl Yung
(D acques Derrida (C) Sigmund Freud (D) W. B. Yeats
(C) Frederick Jameson
g7. What didI. A. Richards mean by 'synaesthesis' ?
81. Who was the author of The Wel-Wrought Urn ?
6dowilliam Emson (B) I. A. Richards (A) The peculiar organization of our impulses in a manner that harmonizes them
Brooks (D) Wimsatt Brooks (B) The highest point of aesthetic pleasure
r (9 Cleanth
(CY The simultaneous consciousness of beauty in so many things
disability studies ?
82. Whointroduced the theory of dismodernism' in (D) The association of thought and feeling
NATennard J. Davis
(B) Oliver Sacks 88. The work Silent Spring critically engages with the problem of
(C) Mike Oliver (A) Biocentrism
(D) Rosemarie Garland-Thonson
,(BAnthropocentrism
to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul
83. The only way to get rid of a temptation is stated this ?
(C) Anthropomorphism
longing for the things .... unlawful." Who
grows sick with (D) Deep Ecology
(B) Judith Butler
(4YOscar Wilde
(C) Allen Ginsberg
(D) Eve Sedgwick
89. Of the following theorists identify the one who has examined the narrative
constructions of history.
embellishmnent ?
84. Which term in Sanskrit means
(A) Paul Ricoeur
(A) Vakrokti (B) Vynjana
a DY Alamkara (B) Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
(C) Guna
(©Aayden White
associated with the theories of
85. The terms competence' and performance' are (D) Theodore Adorno
(AJNoam Chomsky
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure 90. Who among the following is an Indian ecofeminist ?
(C) Lionel Bloomfeld (A) Gauri Viswanathan (B) Arundhati Roy
(D) Charles F. Hockett (D) Medha Patkar
(CWandana Shiva
Enlish Bgish
 typically characterized by 96. Theoretical research in literary studies involves
91. Acompelling research question in literary studiesis
consensus
(A) Its capacity to conirm pre-existing critical AYApplying literary theories to interpret texts
and theoreticall analysis (B) Focusing exclusively on authorial intent
BYA focused inquiry that facilitates deep textualinterpretations
(C) An open-ended structure that offers multiple (C) Dismissing historical and cultural contexts
analysis
(D) Its reliance on biographical details as the core of (D) Comparing biographies of literary figures

92. In the realm of literarv research. a hvpothesis functions as 97. The primary purpose of a research design in literary studies is to
(A) A definitive assertion about the meaning of a text (A) Provide a rigid framework that cannot be adapted
(B) A synthesis of existing interpretations without innovation B Outline a systematic approach to answering the research question
(C) A factual claim based on primary evidence (C) Serve as a reservoir of biographical details
DrAprovisional statement subject to critical scrutiny and analysis (D) Present only the conclusions of the research

93. The classification of a text as a primarv source in literary studies is contingent

98. A comprehensive literature review is essential because
upon
(A) It focuses exclusively on primary sources
, (4Y Its originality as the subject of analysis
(B) Its status as an authoritative critical interpretation (B) It exhausts all possible interpretations of a text
(C) The period in which it was written (it identifies gaps in the current research and leads to the thesis statement
(D) Its relevance to contemporary literary theory (D) It serves as the primary argument of the research

94. Textual analysis in literary research most frequently involves 99. A blueprint of research work is called
(A) Empirical testing of historical claims JAResearch design (B) Research tool
BYClose reading and interpretation of language, themes and structure (C) Research question (D) Research problem
(C) Purely biographical research on the author
(D) Dismissing secondary sources in favour of direct textual engagement 100. Plagiarisn in research is
(A) Quoting someone and citing the source
95. Comparative research in literary studies typically BY Copying unscrupulously without citing the source
(A) Focuses on comparing two unrelated works for contrast (C) Creative use of previous data
(B) Compares only historical contexts (D) Acknowledging previous data and reworking on it
(r Examines texts across different literary traditions, periods or authors
(D) Is limited to texts from the same cultural background
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