UGC NET English Literature October 2022 Question PaperPaper 2 with Answer Key

100 questions with the answer key and explanations.

1. Question 1

   Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated homer?

   1. ABen Johnson
   2. BThomas Dekker
   3. CThomas Heywood
   4. DGeorge Chapman

   Answer: (D) George Chapman

   Explanation

   George Chapman is known for his English translations of Homer, especially the Iliad and Odyssey.

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2. Question 2

   Which of the following is not true about “Lyrical ballads”?

   1. AIt is a manifesto of romantic poetry
   2. BIt turns English poetry away from the social and intellectual sophistication of the seventeenth and the eighteenth-century poetry
   3. CIt takes poetry out of the confines of reason and intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature
   4. DIt is very particular about the form and structure of a poem

   Answer: (D) It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem

   Explanation

   Lyrical Ballads helped announce Romantic poetry and rejected rigid neoclassical decorum; strict concern with form and structure is therefore the false statement.

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3. Question 3

   Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes’ contributions to literary theory?

   Q.3) Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes’ contributions to literary theory?
   [A] He rejected the model for structural analysis of narratives
   [B] He perceived “meaning” as an effect of various interconnections among linguistic codes
   [C] He identified the various codes found in the process of structuration
   [D] He played a significant role in the development of ‘semiology’
   [E] He questioned the concept of literary criticism as an act of uncovering some hidden truth intended by the “author”
   Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

   1. AA, B and C only
   2. BC, D and E only
   3. CB, C, D and E only
   4. DA, B, C, D and E only

   Answer: (C) B, C, D and E only

   Explanation

   Barthes is associated with semiology, narrative codes, and the critique of author-centred interpretation; statement A is not part of the correct set.

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4. Question 4

   The writer and the world by V.S. Naipaul is a

   1. ANovel
   2. BTravelogue
   3. CCollection of essays
   4. DNon-fiction

   Answer: (C) Collection of essays

   Explanation

   The Writer and the World is a nonfiction prose collection by V. S. Naipaul. Since it is specifically a collection of essays, option C is the best single choice, though the work is also broadly nonfiction.

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5. Question 5

   Given below are two statements: One is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R.

   Q.5) Given below are two statements: One is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R.
   Assertion (A): The Marxists represent Marxism as a scientific account of social change.
   Reason (R): The Marxist ideology believes that culture is a mirror of social life and the artist is an engineer of the human soul educating the working classes.
   In the light of the above statement, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

   1. ABoth (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
   2. BBoth (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
   3. C(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
   4. D(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

   Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

   Explanation

   Assertion and Reason are both true. Marxism presents history and society as governed by material conditions and class relations, and its view of culture as reflecting social life explains why Marxists treat social change scientifically.

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6. Question 6

   The “ancient and modern quarrel” in western literary criticism appears during

   1. A100BC
   2. BFifth century CE
   3. CSixteenth century CE
   4. DTwentieth century CE

   Answer: (C) Sixteenth century CE

   Explanation

   The quarrel between the ancients and the moderns belongs to the Renaissance/early modern debate over classical authority and modern achievement, so the sixteenth century is the closest option.

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7. Question 7

   Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R

   Q.7) Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R
   Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
   Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions of the predispositions that we bring to it.
   In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

   1. ABoth (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
   2. BBoth (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
   3. C(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
   4. D(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

   Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

   Explanation

   Both statements are true because reading is shaped by learned interpretive frameworks. The reason explains the assertion: readers construct meaning through needs, desires, assumptions, and critical predispositions rather than encountering texts neutrally.

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8. Question 8

   Which of the following critics is associated with the term “contrapuntal reading”?

   1. AMikhail Bakhtin
   2. BEdward said
   3. CRoland Barthes
   4. DJacques Derrida

   Answer: (B) Edward said

   Explanation

   Edward Said used contrapuntal reading to read imperial and colonial histories together.

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9. Question 9

   Match List I with List II:

   List I	List II
   (A) Hamlet	(I) 1606
   (B) Macbeth	(II) 1599
   (C) Julius Caesar	(III) 1604
   (D) Othello	(IV) 1600

   Match-list source material for question 9.

   1. A(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
   2. B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
   3. C(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
   4. D(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

   Answer: (D) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

   Explanation

   The usual approximate dates are Hamlet 1600, Macbeth 1606, Julius Caesar 1599, and Othello 1604; therefore A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III.

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10. Question 10

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) “Faces along the bar/cling to their average day.”	(I) Wilfred Owen
    (B) “The awful daring of a moments surrender.”	(II) T.S. Eliot
    (C) “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.”	(III) Allen Ginsberg
    (D) “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”	(IV) W.H. Auden

    Match-list source material for question 10.

    1. A(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    3. C(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
    4. D(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

    Answer: (A) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

    Explanation

    The first line is from W. H. Auden, the second from T. S. Eliot, the third opens Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and the fourth opens Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.

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11. Question 11

    Given below are two statements:

    Q.11) Given below are two statements:
    Statement I: The teaching of non-native literature to the students of English language teaching is arid.
    Statement II: The negative responses in ELT classroom can create an interesting classroom situation.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth statement I and statement II are correct
    2. BBoth statement I and statement II are incorrect
    3. CStatement I is correct but statement II is incorrect
    4. DStatement I is incorrect but statement II is correct

    Answer: (A) Both statement I and statement II are correct

    Explanation

    Both statements fit ELT debates about literature in the language classroom: non-native literature may be viewed as dry or difficult, yet negative responses can become productive occasions for discussion and learning.

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12. Question 12

    Which of these statements are true in the context of neuro-linguistic programming?

    Q.12) Which of these statements are true in the context of neuro-linguistic programming?
    A. ‘Neuro’ in NLP means that our behavior is determined by our sensory experiences
    B. Grammatical knowledge is a matter of practice
    C. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and john grinder in the 1970s
    D. Neuro covers “invisible thoughts and visible physiological reactions”
    E. All of the above
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AE only
    2. BA, C and D only
    3. CA and D only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (B) A, C and D only

    Explanation

    In NLP, “neuro” relates to sensory experience and physiological response, and NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s. Statement B is too general and does not define NLP.

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13. Question 13

    Identify the combination(s) that belong to the genre of sci-fi/speculative fiction.

    Q.13) Identify the combination(s) that belong to the genre of sci-fi/speculative fiction.
    A. Vandana Singh – The woman who thought she was planet
    B. Tehmina Durrani – Blasphemy
    C. Salman Rushdie – The satanic verses
    D. Priya Sarukkai Crabria – Generation 14
    E. Gautam Bhatia – The wall
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and D only
    2. BA, D and E only
    3. CA, C and D only
    4. DD, A and Conly

    Answer: (B) A, D and E only

    Explanation

    Vandana Singh’s work, Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Generation 14, and Gautam Bhatia’s The Wall are linked with science fiction/speculative fiction; the other listed works do not fit that category here.

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14. Question 14

    Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R

    Q.14) Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R
    Assertion (A): Jacques Lacan was radically critical of the esistium psychoanalytical theory.
    Reason (R): Lacan was expelled from the international psychoanalytical association in 1959.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
    2. BBoth (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
    3. C(A) is true but (R) is false
    4. D(A) is false but (R) is true

    Answer: (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)

    Explanation

    Lacan was radically critical of existing psychoanalytic theory, and he did have institutional conflict with the International Psychoanalytical Association. But expulsion is not the theoretical reason for his critique, so both are true but R does not explain A.

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15. Question 15

    When was Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women published?

    1. A2017
    2. B2018
    3. C2014
    4. D2019

    Answer: (C) 2014

    Explanation

    Murakami’s Japanese collection Men Without Women was first published in 2014; later translations appeared after that.

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16. Question 16

    Given below are two statements:

    Q.16) Given below are two statements:
    Statement I: Hannah Arendt’s “defactualization” is very close to the concept of “post-truth”.
    Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth statement I and statement II are correct
    2. BBoth statement I and statement II are incorrect
    3. CStatement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect
    4. DStatement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct

    Answer: (C) Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect

    Explanation

    Arendt’s “defactualization” is close to post-truth because both weaken the status of factual reality. Post-truth, however, is not merely absolute lies; it also involves emotional appeal, selective distortion, and indifference to truth.

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17. Question 17

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Donald Davie	(I) Against romanticism
    (B) Philip Larkin	(II) Hurry on down
    (C) Kingsley Amis	(III) The shires
    (D) John Wain	(IV) The north ship

    Match-list source material for question 17.

    1. A(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
    2. B(A)_(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    3. C(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
    4. D(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

    Answer: (D) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

    Explanation

    Donald Davie is matched with The Shires, Philip Larkin with The North Ship, Kingsley Amis with Against Romanticism, and John Wain with Hurry on Down.

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18. Question 18

    Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against poetry?

    Q.18) Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against poetry?
    [A] The poet is an imitator.
    [B] The poet is incapable of bravery.
    [C] The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the reasoning capacity of the citizens.
    [D] The poet is less responsible
    [E] The poet has no knowledge of the world.
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, C and E only
    2. BA and B only
    3. CB and D only
    4. DE and D only

    Answer: (A) A, C and E only

    Explanation

    Plato’s main objections are that poetry is imitation, excites passions in ways that weaken reason, and lacks true knowledge. Bravery and “less responsibility” are not central Platonic objections in this list.

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19. Question 19

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) To the light house	(I) 1913
    (B) Sons and lovers	(II) 1927
    (C) Finnegan’s wake	(III) 1939
    (D) The waste land	(IV) 1922

    Match-list source material for question 19.

    1. A(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
    2. B(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
    3. C(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
    4. D(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

    Answer: (D) (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

    Explanation

    The dates are To the Lighthouse 1927, Sons and Lovers 1913, Finnegans Wake 1939, and The Waste Land 1922; hence A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV.

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20. Question 20

    Given below are two statements:

    Q.20) Given below are two statements:
    Statement I: Comparative literature is a study of different cultures, nations and genres, and it explores the inherent relationship between literature and other forms of cultural exploration.
    Statement II: In the study of literature and culture, the importance of methodology is secondary.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth statement I and Statement II are true
    2. BBoth statement I and statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but statement II is false
    4. DStatement I is false but statement II is true

    Answer: (C) Statement I is true but statement II is false

    Explanation

    Statement I correctly defines comparative literature as cross-cultural and cross-generic study. Statement II is false because methodology is central, not secondary, in literary and cultural study.

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21. Question 21

    Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?

    1. A“The triumph of life”
    2. B“Ode to the west-wind”
    3. C“Queen Mab”
    4. D“The daemon of the world”

    Answer: (A) “The triumph of life”

    Explanation

    The Triumph of Life was Shelley’s unfinished final major poem.

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22. Question 22

    Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition”?

    1. AJohn Dryden
    2. BWilliam Wordsworth
    3. CS.T. Coleridge
    4. DT.S Eliot

    Answer: (B) William Wordsworth

    Explanation

    The quotation is associated with William Wordsworth’s discussion of poetic language and metrical composition, especially in the context of Romantic debates on diction.

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23. Question 23

    Which of the following is not a part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy?

    1. ASea of poppies
    2. BRiver of smoke
    3. CFlood of fire
    4. DThe Calcutta chromosome

    Answer: (D) The Calcutta chromosome

    Explanation

    The Ibis trilogy consists of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire; The Calcutta Chromosome is not part of it.

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24. Question 24

    Which among the following are true about Harold Pinter?

    Q.24) Which among the following are true about Harold Pinter?
    [A] Harold printer was born in the year 1925
    [B] He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd.
    [C] The caretaker and the alchemist are his famous plays
    [D] Stanley is a character in the birthday party
    [E] Betrayal is a story of a married couple
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, D and E only
    2. BB, D and E only
    3. CB, C and D only
    4. DA, C and D only

    Answer: (B) B, D and E only

    Explanation

    Harold Pinter was influenced by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd, Stanley is a character in The Birthday Party, and Betrayal concerns a married relationship and an affair. The birth-year/play pairing statements are not correct as listed.

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25. Question 25

    Which of the following concepts are associated with Bhartrhari’s theory of ‘Sphota’?

    Q.25) Which of the following concepts are associated with Bhartrhari’s theory of ‘Sphota’?
    [A] Rasa
    [B] Alankara
    [C] Dhvani
    [D] Vakrokti
    [E] Shabda Brahman
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA and E only
    2. BC and E only
    3. CD and B only
    4. DA and C only

    Answer: (B) C and E only

    Explanation

    Bhartrhari’s sphota theory concerns language, meaning, and ultimate linguistic reality. Dhvani and Shabda Brahman are the closest associated concepts among the options, unlike rasa, alankara, or vakrokti.

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26. Question 26

    Who is the author of A Literature of Their Own?

    1. ASandra gilbert and Susan Gubar
    2. BElaine Showalter
    3. CVirginia Woolf
    4. DSylvia Plath

    Answer: (B) Elaine Showalter

    Explanation

    Elaine Showalter is the author of A Literature of Their Own and is central to gynocriticism.

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27. Question 27

    The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith

    1. ACritiques the rural institutions
    2. BVoices revolt of the individual man against institutions
    3. CReflects upon different views on the human soul
    4. DAdvocates urbanism over rural backwardness

    Answer: (B) Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions

    Explanation

    Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village laments social disruption and voices the individual’s protest against institutions and forces that damage rural life.

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28. Question 28

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Malcolm Bradbury	(I) Masters
    (B) David lodge	(II) Lucky Jim
    (C) Kingsley Amis	(III) The history man
    (D) C P snow	(IV) Changing places

    Match-list source material for question 28.

    1. A(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
    3. C(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
    4. D(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

    Answer: (B) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

    Explanation

    Malcolm Bradbury wrote The History Man, David Lodge wrote Changing Places, Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim, and C. P. Snow wrote Masters.

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29. Question 29

    Under the Net (1954) is written by

    1. AJohn Fowles
    2. BIris Murdoch
    3. CEdmund goose
    4. DWilliam cooper

    Answer: (B) Iris Murdoch

    Explanation

    Under the Net is Iris Murdoch’s 1954 first novel.

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30. Question 30

    Who among the following has authored The Revenger’s Tragedie?

    1. ACyril Tourneur
    2. BJohn Webster
    3. CJohn Fletcher
    4. DThomas Heywood

    Answer: (A) Cyril Tourneur

    Explanation

    The Revenger’s Tragedy has traditionally been attributed to Cyril Tourneur in many literary histories, although modern attribution debates exist.

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31. Question 31

    What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts?

    Q.31) What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts?
    [A] Sexual politics
    [B] A world of difference
    [C] The female imagination
    [D] Thinking about women
    [E] A room of one’s own
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
    2. B(E), (B), (D), (A), (C)
    3. C(E), (D), (A), (C), (B)
    4. D(B), (C), (D), (E), (A)

    Answer: (C) (E), (D), (A), (C), (B)

    Explanation

    The chronological sequence is A Room of One’s Own (1929), Thinking About Women (1968), Sexual Politics (1970), The Female Imagination (1975), and A World of Difference (1987).

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32. Question 32

    Given below are two statements:

    Q.32) Given below are two statements:
    Statement I: “………. he who discovers no god whatever, how shall he discover heroes the visible temples of God” is a statement by Thomas Carlyle.
    Statement II: “It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure” is a statement made by John Ruskin.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth statement I and statement II are true
    2. BBoth statement I and statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but statement II is false
    4. DStatement I is false but statement II is true

    Answer: (A) Both statement I and statement II are true

    Explanation

    The first statement reflects Carlyle’s hero-worship, and the second expresses Ruskin’s critique of labour, pleasure, and wealth. Both attributions are correct.

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33. Question 33

    Which of the following articles of the Indian constitution made the provision for use of English. Alongside Hindi, for official purposes, for fifteen years?

    1. AArticle 351
    2. BArticle 344
    3. CArticle 343
    4. DArticle 348

    Answer: (C) Article 343

    Explanation

    Article 343 provides for Hindi as the official language and continued use of English for official purposes for fifteen years.

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34. Question 34

    Kimberle Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” is widely used for

    Q.34) Kimberle Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” is widely used for
    [A] Academic deterioration
    [B] Racial justice
    [C] Peace formation
    [D] Complex construction of power
    [E] Identity politics
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AB, D and E only
    2. BA, C and E only
    3. CB, D and C only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (A) B, D and E only

    Explanation

    Intersectionality, introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, examines overlapping structures of race, power, and identity. Racial justice, complex power construction, and identity politics are therefore the correct combination.

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35. Question 35

    The heroic couplet is a pair of

    1. ATwelve-syllable lines that rhyme
    2. BTen-syllable lines that rhyme
    3. CEight-syllable lines that do not rhyme
    4. DEight-syllable lines that rhyme

    Answer: (B) Ten-syllable lines that rhyme

    Explanation

    A heroic couplet is a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines, normally ten syllables each.

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36. Question 36

    Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.

    Q.36) Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.
    Assertion (A): Roland Barthes describes two basic categories of text as “the readerly” and “the writerly.”
    Reason (R): Language is the window through which one sees the world.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
    2. BBoth (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
    3. C(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
    4. D(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

    Answer: (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)

    Explanation

    Barthes does distinguish readerly and writerly texts. The reason is also a plausible statement about language, but it does not explain Barthes’s readerly/writerly distinction.

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37. Question 37

    Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.

    Q.37) Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.
    Assertion (A): In 19th century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman asserted economic independence over voting rights.
    Reason (R): The representation of women as power-seekers was not socially acceptable in 19th century America.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
    2. BBoth (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
    3. C(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
    4. D(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

    Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

    Explanation

    Gilman emphasized women’s economic independence because nineteenth-century American society often made open female power-seeking politically and socially unacceptable. The reason explains the assertion.

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38. Question 38

    A. L. Tennyson in the following lines:

    1. AReflects upon secularism
    2. BReflects upon evolutionary faith
    3. CReflects upon utilitarianism
    4. DReflects upon materialism

    Answer: (B) Reflects upon evolutionary faith

    Explanation

    Tennyson’s lines imagine history as moving through an “increasing purpose,” which reflects Victorian evolutionary faith rather than secularism, utilitarianism, or materialism.

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39. Question 39

    Given below are two statements:

    Q.39) Given below are two statements:
    Statement I: According to W.H. Auden. The Importance of being earnest is the purest example in English literature of a ‘verbal opera’.
    Statement II: Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a combined form make theatre performance possible.
    In the light of the above statement. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. ABoth statement I and statement II are true
    2. BBoth statement I and statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but statement II is false
    4. DStatement I is false but statement II is true

    Answer: (A) Both statement I and statement II are true

    Explanation

    Auden’s description of The Importance of Being Earnest as a “verbal opera” is accepted, and Wilde’s dramatic art depends on his command of multiple theatrical arts. Both statements are true.

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40. Question 40

    Canadian multiculturalism act was passed in the year:

    1. A1958
    2. B1968
    3. C1978
    4. D1988

    Answer: (D) 1988

    Explanation

    The Canadian Multiculturalism Act was passed in 1988.

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41. Question 41

    Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company?

    1. AWilliam Shakespeare
    2. BChristopher Marlowe
    3. CGeorge Peele
    4. DBen Johnson

    Answer: (B) Christopher Marlowe

    Explanation

    Christopher Marlowe is associated with the Admiral’s Men, the company under the patronage of the Lord Admiral, linked here with the Earl of Nottingham.

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42. Question 42

    Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?

    Q.42) Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?
    [A] Loyalties
    [B] Saint Joan of stockyards
    [C] Death of a salesman
    [D] Candida
    [E] Waiting for Godot
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA and B only
    2. BD and A only
    3. CB and C only
    4. DA and E only

    Answer: (C) B and C only

    Explanation

    Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards and Miller’s Death of a Salesman both foreground capitalism, commodity relations, and consumer culture.

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43. Question 43

    Which of the following theorists identifies “metonymy” and “metaphor” as two fundamental structures of language?

    1. AFerdinand de Sassure
    2. BRoland Barthes
    3. CJ.L. Austin
    4. DRoman Jakobson

    Answer: (D) Roman Jakobson

    Explanation

    Roman Jakobson treats metaphor and metonymy as fundamental poles of language, associated respectively with similarity and contiguity.

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44. Question 44

    Who is the author of the essay “Three women’s texts and a critique of imperialism” (1985)?

    1. AAnia Loomba
    2. BMeenakshi Mukherjee
    3. CSusan Meyer
    4. DGayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    Answer: (D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    Explanation

    The essay Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism is by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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45. Question 45

    What is meant by “corporate author” in research?

    1. AA writer who belongs to a corporate company
    2. BA writer who writes on matters of corporate affairs
    3. CA work produced by an institution, an association or a government agency
    4. DA renowned author

    Answer: (C) A work produced by an institution, an association or a government agency

    Explanation

    A corporate author is an institution, association, agency, or government body credited with producing a work, not an individual writer employed by a company.

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46. Question 46

    Which among the following are appropriate about Latin American literature?

    Q.46) Which among the following are appropriate about Latin American literature?
    [A] There has been racial coherence and unity in literary representations of Latin America
    [B] The Latin American literary tradition draws analogy between plant growth and human movement
    [C] Dzul poot’s stories depict the geography of the chilam balam towns
    [D] Quechua had a wider popularity and presence across different nations
    [E] The Latin American literature is unitary and refrains from intextuality of any kind
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, D and E only
    2. BC, B and E only
    3. CB, C and E only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (D) B, C and D only

    Explanation

    The correct statements recognize analogies of movement and growth, regional indigenous literary geography, and the broader presence of Quechua. Statements claiming racial coherence or unitary literature are too sweeping.

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47. Question 47

    Identify the correct combination among the following:

    Q.47) Identify the correct combination among the following:
    [A] Spondee: It consists of three stressed syllables
    [B] Pyrrhic: It consists of two unstressed syllables
    [C] Amphimacer: It is a metrical foot of three syllables
    [D] Choriambus: It is a foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables enclosing two unstressed syllables
    [E] Trochaic: It has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB, C and E only
    3. CB, C and D only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (B) B, C and E only

    Explanation

    Pyrrhic has two unstressed syllables, amphimacer is a three-syllable foot, and trochaic has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. Spondee has two stressed syllables, not three.

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48. Question 48

    Who among the following in the article, “Fleshly school of poetry”, attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

    1. ARobert browning
    2. BWilliam Holeman hunt
    3. CRobert Buchanan
    4. DChristina Rossetti

    Answer: (C) Robert Buchanan

    Explanation

    Robert Buchanan attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D. G. Rossetti, in The Fleshly School of Poetry.

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49. Question 49

    Subramani’s Fantasy Eaters (1988) is a

    1. ANovel
    2. BCollection of short stories
    3. CCollection of essays
    4. DPoem

    Answer: (B) Collection of short stories

    Explanation

    Subramani’s Fantasy Eaters is identified as a collection of short stories, not as a novel, essay collection, or poem.

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50. Question 50

    Identify the correct combinations:

    Q.50) Identify the correct combinations:
    [A] Dadaism – Tristan Tzara
    [B] Super realism – Guillanne Apollinaire
    [C] Surrealism – Filipo Marinetti
    [D] Futurism – Andre Breton
    [E] Nihilism – Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. A(A), (C) and (E)
    2. B(A), (B) and (E)
    3. C(B), (C) and (D)
    4. D(C), (D) and (E)

    Answer: (B) (A), (B) and (E)

    Explanation

    Dadaism is associated with Tristan Tzara; the correct option groups the accurate movement-person combinations while excluding the mismatched Surrealism/Futurism pairings shown in the list.

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51. Question 51

    Tolkappiyam is a book of grammar and poetics written in the_____ language

    1. ATelugu
    2. BTamil
    3. CKannada
    4. DMalayalam

    Answer: (B) Tamil

    Explanation

    Tolkappiyam is a foundational Tamil work of grammar and poetics.

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52. Question 52

    Identify the correct pairs:

    Q.52) Identify the correct pairs:
    [A] The boyfriend – Juliette Banerjee
    [B] Nude therapy – Margaret Chatterjee
    [C] The other woman and other stories – Dina Mehta
    [D] The Yankee and the yogi – B.G. Siddharth
    [E] Prejudice of ages – Vera Sharma
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. A(A), (B) and (C)
    2. B(A), (C) and (D)
    3. C(B), (C) and (E)
    4. D(C), (D) and (E)

    Answer: (B) (A), (C) and (D)

    Explanation

    The correct pairs are The Boyfriend–Juliette Banerjee, The Other Woman and Other Stories–Dina Mehta, and The Yankee and the Yogi–B. G. Siddharth.

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53. Question 53

    “It is significant that the productive capacities of this third space have a colonial or post colonial provenance”. The above lines have been written by

    1. ASalman Rushdie
    2. BEdward said
    3. CBenedict Anderson
    4. DHomi K. Bhabha

    Answer: (D) Homi K. Bhabha

    Explanation

    The phrase about the productive capacities of the third space is associated with Homi K. Bhabha.

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54. Question 54

    In which year miles Coverdale translated The Old Testament of the bible?

    1. A1533
    2. B1534
    3. C1535
    4. D1536

    Answer: (C) 1535

    Explanation

    Miles Coverdale’s English Bible translation appeared in 1535, making 1535 the correct year among the options.

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55. Question 55

    Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?

    1. AWinston Churchill
    2. BT.S. Eliot
    3. CW.H. Auden
    4. DNot visible in source

    Answer: (C) W.H. Auden

    Explanation

    W.H. Auden is correct based on the literary fact or concept tested in the question; the remaining options do not match the relevant author, work, date, concept, or interpretation.

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56. Question 56

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) “Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.”	(I) Irony
    (B) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”	(II) Simile
    (C) “Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster child of silence and slow time.”	(III) Antithesis
    (D) “And ice, mast-high, come floating by, as green as emerald.”	(IV) Assonance

    Match-list source material for question 56.

    1. A(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    3. C(A)-(III). (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
    4. D(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

    Answer: (B) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

    Explanation

    The matched figures are antithesis, irony, assonance, and simile respectively, giving option B.

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57. Question 57

    Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century have been represented in which of the following novels?

    Q.57) Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century have been represented in which of the following novels?
    [A] Elizabeth Bowen – The last September
    [B] May Sinclair – The divine fire
    [C] JG farewell – Troubles
    [D] J G farewell – The siege of Krishnapur
    [E] Jeffery Farnol – Black Bartlemy’s treasure
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BA, and C only
    3. CD, E and B only
    4. DB, C and A only

    Answer: (B) A, and C only

    Explanation

    Anglo-Irish relations are represented by the works marked A and C in the question set; the other listed works do not match that theme as directly.

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58. Question 58

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) The poetics of prose	(I) Stanley fish
    (B) Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics	(II) Tzvetan Todrov
    (C) Surprised by sin	(III) Mikhail Bakhtin
    (D) The way women write	(IV) Mary Hiatt

    Match-list source material for question 58.

    1. A(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
    3. C(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
    4. D(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

    Answer: (C) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

    Explanation

    The Poetics of Prose is by Tzvetan Todorov, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin, Surprised by Sin by Stanley Fish, and The Way Women Write by Mary Hiatt.

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59. Question 59

    Stuart Hall belongs to ______________schools of cultural studies.

    1. AOxford
    2. BCambridge
    3. CBirmingham
    4. DAmerican

    Answer: (C) Birmingham

    Explanation

    Stuart Hall is a central figure of the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, especially through the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

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60. Question 60

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) Salim Ali	(I) Wild beauty
    (B) Jim Corbett	(II) The fall of a sparrow
    (C) Kailash Sankhala	(III) Night and days: my book of Indian wildlife
    (D) M. Krishnan	(IV) My India

    1. A(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
    3. C(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    4. D(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

    Answer: (A) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

    Explanation

    Salim Ali wrote The Fall of a Sparrow, Jim Corbett wrote My India, Kailash Sankhala wrote Wild Beauty, and M. Krishnan wrote Night and Days: My Book of Indian Wildlife.

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61. Question 61

    Which of the collections of poems are not written by Meena Alexander?

    Q.61) Which of the collections of poems are not written by Meena Alexander?
    [A] River and bride
    [B] Articulate silence
    [C] Raw silk
    [D] Stone roots
    [E] A time to change
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and D only
    3. CC and E only
    4. DB and E only

    Answer: (A) A and B only

    Explanation

    A and B only is correct based on the literary fact or concept tested in the question; the remaining options do not match the relevant author, work, date, concept, or interpretation.

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62. Question 62

    Find out the correct sequence of the publications of the following books

    1. AIndia: An area of darkness: India: A wounded civilization: India: a million Mutinies now: A house for Mr. Biswas
    2. BA house for Mr. Biswas: India: A million mutinies now: India: An area of darkness: India: A wounded civilization
    3. CA house for Mr. Biswas: India: An area of darkness: India: A wounded civilization: India: A million mutinies now
    4. DIndia: A wounded civilization: A house for Mr. Biswas: India: An area of darkness: India: A million mutinies now

    Answer: (C) A house for Mr. Biswas: India: An area of darkness: India: A wounded civilization: India: A million mutinies now

    Explanation

    The publication order is A House for Mr Biswas (1961), An Area of Darkness (1964), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).

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63. Question 63

    Choose the right chronological sequence of publication of the following novels by Margaret Atwood.

    Q.63) Choose the right chronological sequence of publication of the following novels by Margaret Atwood.
    [A] Lady oracle
    [B] The blind assassin
    [C] The handmaid’s tale
    [D] The testaments
    [E] Alias grace
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B, C, D, E
    2. BA, C, E, B, D
    3. CE, A, D, B, C
    4. DC, A, D, E, B

    Answer: (B) A, C, E, B, D

    Explanation

    Atwood’s publication order is Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), and The Testaments (2019).

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64. Question 64

    According to Roland Barthes, which of the following “codes” are common to all narratives?

    Q.64) According to Roland Barthes, which of the following “codes” are common to all narratives?
    [A] Synthetic code
    [B] Proairctic code
    [C] Semic code
    [D] Hermeneutic code
    [E] Symbolic code
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and C only
    3. CA, B and C only
    4. DB, C, D and E only

    Answer: (D) B, C, D and E only

    Explanation

    Barthes’s narrative codes include proairetic, semic, hermeneutic, and symbolic codes. “Synthetic code” is not one of the standard Barthesian five codes.

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65. Question 65

    J Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist reading of which of the following poems of P.B Shelley?

    1. A“The triumph of life”
    2. B“Ode to the west wind”
    3. C“Revolt of Islam”
    4. D“The witch of atlas”

    Answer: (A) “The triumph of life”

    Explanation

    J. Hillis Miller is known for a deconstructive reading of Shelley’s unfinished poem The Triumph of Life.

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66. Question 66

    Who is the author of the poem “House of Fame”?

    1. AWilliam Langland
    2. BGeoffrey Chaucer
    3. CThomas Moore
    4. DPhilip Sidney

    Answer: (B) Geoffrey Chaucer

    Explanation

    The House of Fame is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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67. Question 67

    Which of these are correct combination of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective themes?

    Q.67) Which of these are correct combination of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective themes?
    [A] The Golden Notebook deals with Johor travelling to Rohonda
    [B] The Good Terrorist is about a doomed love affair
    [C] Shikasta is about a planet, which is cut-off due to the advanced Influence of civilization
    [D] Alfred and Emily explores the life of her parents
    [E] The grass is singing draws from her experiences in Africa
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AB, A and D only
    2. BA, B and E only
    3. CC, D and E only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (C) C, D and E only

    Explanation

    Shikasta concerns a planet affected by destructive civilizational forces, Alfred and Emily explores Lessing’s parents, and The Grass Is Singing draws on African experience. The other pairings are not correct.

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68. Question 68

    Which of these graphic narratives depict political crisis?

    Q.68) Which of these graphic narratives depict political crisis?
    [A] Amruta Patil – Kari
    [B] Joe Sacco – Footnotes in Gaza
    [C] Art Spiegelman – Maus
    [D] Sarnath Banerjee – Corridor
    [E] Phoebe Gloeckner – The Dairy of a teenage girl
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BC, D and E only
    3. CB and C only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (C) B and C only

    Explanation

    Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza and Art Spiegelman’s Maus are graphic narratives centrally concerned with political and historical crisis.

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69. Question 69

    Identify the poems termed as “pastoral elegies”:

    Q.69) Identify the poems termed as “pastoral elegies”:
    [A] Lycidas
    [B] In memory of W.B. Yeats
    [C] Adonais
    [D] Thyrsis
    [E] In memoriam
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB, C and E only
    3. CA, C and D only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (C) A, C and D only

    Explanation

    Lycidas, Adonais, and Thyrsis are pastoral elegies; the other listed poems are elegies but not pastoral elegies in the same sense.

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70. Question 70

    The book Women Beware Women was published in the year

    1. A1657
    2. B1620
    3. C1621
    4. D1622

    Answer: (A) 1657

    Explanation

    Women Beware Women was published in 1657, after Thomas Middleton’s death.

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71. Question 71

    Who among the following were poet laureates of England?

    Q.71) Who among the following were poet laureates of England?
    [A] Alfred Austin
    [B] Robert Bridges
    [C] Watts-Dunton
    [D] Oscar Wilde
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. A(A) and (B) only
    2. B(A) and (D) only
    3. C(B) and (C) and (D)
    4. D(A) (B) and (C) only

    Answer: (A) (A) and (B) only

    Explanation

    Alfred Austin and Robert Bridges both served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; Watts-Dunton and Oscar Wilde did not.

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72. Question 72

    Find the correct explanation of the term “Aporia”:

    1. AIt denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question
    2. BIt is an address to something inanimate
    3. CIt is applied to a work of art fraught with inherent tension
    4. DIt refers to a form of denial of existence

    Answer: (A) It denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question

    Explanation

    Aporia refers to a point of doubt, impasse, or irresolvable uncertainty in reasoning or discourse; option A captures that sense.

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73. Question 73

    Which among the following is appropriate about Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s article “literature in schools”?

    Q.73) Which among the following is appropriate about Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s article “literature in schools”?
    [A] The article discusses the relevance and adequacy of the present education system
    [B] It advocates teaching of European texts and literature to the students of the third world countries
    [C] It reflects negatively upon the literature taught to the Kenyan students in national schools
    [D] It argues that cultural imperialism distorts people’s vision of history
    [E] It observes that European teachers are better equipped to teach literature to the Kenyan students
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BC, D and E only
    3. CB, C and D only
    4. DA, C and D only

    Answer: (D) A, C and D only

    Explanation

    Ngugi’s “Literature in Schools” criticizes the education system, questions literature taught in Kenyan schools, and argues that cultural imperialism distorts historical vision.

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74. Question 74

    Identify the correct ones among the following:

    Q.74) Identify the correct ones among the following:
    [A] Arun Kolatkar uses colloquial speech in his poems
    [B] Kolatkar envisions abstract qualities to paint a picture of life of his own kind
    [C] The poem boatride by Kolatkar talks about a ride in the Ganges
    [D] Private poems in public garden is composed by Dilip chitre
    [E] ‘In Ethiopia’ is a poem on Africa by Arun Kolatkar
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB, D and E only
    3. CA, B and D only
    4. DC, B and E only

    Answer: (C) A, B and D only

    Explanation

    Arun Kolatkar is known for colloquial speech and distinctive poetic imagery, and Private Poems in Public Garden is by Dilip Chitre. The statement about Boatride and the Ganges is not correct.

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75. Question 75

    Identify the one that has not been paired correctly

    1. ACriticism in wilderness – Geoffrey Hartman
    2. BMadness and civilization – Roland Barthes
    3. CPoetry and repression – Harold bloom
    4. DStrangers to ourselves – Julia Kristeva

    Answer: (B) Madness and civilization – Roland Barthes

    Explanation

    Madness and Civilization is by Michel Foucault, not Roland Barthes. The other listed pairings are acceptable, so option B is the incorrectly paired item.

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76. Question 76

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) O’ Henry	(I) The last suttee
    (B) Rudyard Kipling	(II) Beauty
    (C) Oscar Wilde	(III) At Verona
    (D) Ralph waldo Emerson	(IV) Hard to forget

    Match-list source material for question 76.

    1. A(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    2. B(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
    3. C(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
    4. D(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

    Answer: (C) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

    Explanation

    O. Henry is matched with “Hard to Forget,” Rudyard Kipling with “The Last Suttee,” Oscar Wilde with “At Verona,” and Emerson with “Beauty.”

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77. Question 77

    Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx?

    1. ARuth Vanita
    2. BKamla Bhasin
    3. CFlaria Agnes
    4. DChandra Talpade Mohanty

    Answer: (D) Chandra Talpade Mohanty

    Explanation

    Chandra Talpade Mohanty is known for critiquing universalizing Western feminist categories, which fits the Marx-related critical appropriation in the question.

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78. Question 78

    Which writer does not belong to the angry young men movement?

    1. AJohn Osborne
    2. BKingsley Amis
    3. CSeamus Heaney
    4. DPhilip Larkin

    Answer: (C) Seamus Heaney

    Explanation

    Seamus Heaney does not belong to the Angry Young Men movement; Osborne, Amis, and Larkin are more closely associated with that post-war British milieu.

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79. Question 79

    What does Aristotle mean by the phrase “language with pleasurable accessories” in his definition of tragedy?

    Q.79) What does Aristotle mean by the phrase “language with pleasurable accessories” in his definition of tragedy?
    [A] A language full of pompous vocabulary
    [B] An embellished language
    [C] A language full of rhythm and harmony
    [D] A language superadded with song
    [E] Emotive language
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and E only
    3. CC and D only
    4. DA, B and D only

    Answer: (C) C and D only

    Explanation

    In Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, pleasurable accessories refer to rhythm, harmony, and song added to language; pompous or merely emotive language is not meant.

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80. Question 80

    Match the following works of Edward Braithwaite according to their year of publication:

    Q.80) Match the following works of Edward Braithwaite according to their year of publication:
    [A] Rights of passage
    [B] Islands
    [C] Masks
    [D] The Arrivants
    [I] 1973
    [II] 1969
    [III] 1967
    [IV] 1968
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. A(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
    2. B(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
    3. C(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
    4. D(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

    Answer: (D) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

    Explanation

    The sequence is Rights of Passage (1967), Islands (1969), Masks (1968), and The Arrivants (1973), giving A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I.

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81. Question 81

    “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Which of the following texts glorifies this as its predominant theme?

    1. AThe old man and the sea
    2. BWar and peace
    3. CA farewell to arms
    4. DFor whom the bell tolls

    Answer: (A) The old man and the sea

    Explanation

    A man can be destroyed but not defeated is the central heroic idea of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.

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82. Question 82

    Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?

    Q.82) Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?
    [A] Drabble
    [B] Postcard fiction
    [C] Novelette
    [D] Short story
    [E] Nanofiction
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AC and D only
    2. BA, B and E only
    3. CD and E only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (A) C and D only

    Explanation

    Novelette and short story are longer prose-fiction forms, not flash-fiction forms. Drabble, postcard fiction, and nanofiction are associated with very short fiction.

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83. Question 83

    Identify the correct combination among the following:

    Q.83) Identify the correct combination among the following:
    [A] Demons – Novel
    [B] Landlady – Novella
    [C] The Crocodile – Short-story
    [D] A Writer’s Diary – Essay
    [E] Mary Stuart – Translation
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BC, D and E only
    3. CB, C and E only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (A) A, B and C only

    Explanation

    The correct Dostoevsky combinations are Demons as a novel, “The Landlady” as a novella, and “The Crocodile” as a short story.

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84. Question 84

    Should poets’ bicycle-pump the human heart or squash it flat?

    1. APhilip Larkin
    2. BKingsley Amis
    3. CDonald Davie
    4. DJohn wain

    Answer: (B) Kingsley Amis

    Explanation

    The quoted formulation is associated with Kingsley Amis, matching his satirical and anti-sentimental critical stance.

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85. Question 85

    Gaiutra bahadur wrote an autobiographic novel titled

    1. AAn era of darkness
    2. BDauka Puran
    3. CThe collie woman
    4. DRama’s banishment

    Answer: (C) The collie woman

    Explanation

    Gaiutra Bahadur wrote Coolie Woman, an autobiographical and historical work about indenture and migration.

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86. Question 86

    Philip Sidney’s arcadia was influenced by

    1. AThe Spanish romance of Montemayor
    2. BThe Italian paintings of Veronese
    3. CThe Arthurian legends
    4. DThe metaphysical poetry

    Answer: (A) The Spanish romance of Montemayor

    Explanation

    Sidney’s Arcadia was influenced by the Spanish pastoral romance tradition of Montemayor.

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87. Question 87

    Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?

    Q.87) Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?
    [A] It was widespread across the world
    [B] The other leaders of the movement were John Henry Newman and R.H. Fronde
    [C] The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833
    [D] Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name
    [E] The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BA, C and E only
    3. CC, D and E only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (D) B, C and D only

    Explanation

    The Tractarian or Oxford Movement was led by figures such as Newman and Froude, was associated with Tract 90, and gained cohesion through Pusey; it was not worldwide in the sense stated.

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88. Question 88

    Match List I with List II:

    List I	List II
    (A) Gender and nation	(I) Catherine Belsey
    (B) Greek homosexuality	(II) K.J. dover
    (C) The subject of tragedy	(III) W.E.B. Du Bois
    (D) The souls of black folk	(IV) Nira Yuval-Davis

    Match-list source material for question 88.

    1. A(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
    2. B(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
    3. C(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
    4. D(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

    Answer: (D) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

    Explanation

    Gender and Nation is by Nira Yuval-Davis, Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover, The Subject of Tragedy by Catherine Belsey, and The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.

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89. Question 89

    Identify the novels that were published in the 1980s and the 1990s

    Q.89) Identify the novels that were published in the 1980s and the 1990s
    [A] Red earth and pouring rain
    [B] The circle of reason
    [C] The ghosts of vasu master
    [D] Miguel Street
    [E] The siege of Babylon
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

    1. AB, C, D and E only
    2. BA, B and C only
    3. CB, A and D only
    4. DA, C and E only

    Answer: (B) A, B and C only

    Explanation

    Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), The Circle of Reason (1986), and The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994) fall in the 1980s and 1990s; the other options include works outside that frame.

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90. Question 90

    Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter?

    Q.90) Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter?
    [A] Feminine
    [B] Gynie
    [C] Womanish
    [D] Feminist
    [E] Female
    Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BA, D and E only
    3. CA, B and E only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (B) A, D and E only

    Explanation

    Elaine Showalter’s three phases of women’s writing are Feminine, Feminist, and Female.

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91. Question 91

    Which of the following is a correct interpretation?

    Q.91-95) Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
    However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand.
    Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)

    1. AThe child claims the object as his property
    2. BThe objects that the child holds are obscure and useless
    3. CThe child cannot understand the design of the object
    4. DIn touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of life

    Answer: (D) In touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of life

    Explanation

    The passage contrasts passive ownership with creative handling. When the child touches simple blocks, he creates dynamic forms and life rather than merely possessing objects.

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92. Question 92

    In the context of the above passage, which is the closest to being true:

    Q.91-95) Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
    However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand.
    Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)

    1. AChildren actively learn while playing
    2. BChildren are objects for toy makers
    3. CToys affect the cognitive abilities of the children
    4. DChildren recreate meaning from the toys

    Answer: (C) Toys affect the cognitive abilities of the children

    Explanation

    The passage argues that toys shape how children think and act: ready-made toys restrict discovery, while simple blocks encourage active cognitive development.

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93. Question 93

    The adult causality is about

    Q.91-95) Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
    However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand.
    Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)

    1. ASensual and sexual knowledge of the world
    2. BCognitive and logical structure of the world
    3. CNihilistic recreation of the world
    4. DLinguistic structure of the objects

    Answer: (B) Cognitive and logical structure of the world

    Explanation

    “Adult causality” refers to prearranged logical and cognitive structures supplied to the child ready-made, rather than discovered by the child.

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94. Question 94

    The word “demiurge” connotes

    Q.91-95) Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
    However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand.
    Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)

    1. ACognitive inactiveness of the children
    2. BTheir sensational realization of the objects
    3. CTheir creative abilities
    4. DTheir sudden discovery

    Answer: (C) Their creative abilities

    Explanation

    “Demiurge” means a maker or creator; in the passage it points to the child’s creative ability to bring forms to life.

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95. Question 95

    The world of objects makes the child

    Q.91-95) Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
    However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand.
    Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)

    1. AImaginative
    2. BInventor
    3. CActant
    4. DCreator

    Answer: (D) Creator

    Explanation

    The passage says that with simple blocks the child is no longer merely a user or owner but becomes a creator of forms and life.

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96. Question 96

    The poem, ‘Mr Bleaney’, is written in a ______form.

    Q.96-100) Read the following poem, and answer the question that follow (96-100)
    ‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
    The whole time he was at the bodies, till
    They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
    Fall to within five inches of the sill.
    Whose window shows a strip of building land,
    Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
    My bit of garden properly in hand.’
    Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
    Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
    ‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
    Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
    On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
    Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
    The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
    I know his habits——what time he came down’
    His preference for sauce to gravy, why
    He kept on plugging at the four aways__
    Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
    Who put him up for summer holidays
    And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
    But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
    Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
    Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
    And shivered, without shaking off the dread
    That how we live measures our own nature,
    And at his age having no more to show
    Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
    He warranted no better, I don’t know.
    Philip Larkin

    1. ASatirical
    2. BLyrical
    3. CDramatic
    4. DPhilosophical

    Answer: (C) Dramatic

    Explanation

    “Mr Bleaney” is dramatic in form because it presents a speaker’s voice and situation through implied scene, speech, and character rather than direct lyric self-expression alone.

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97. Question 97

    In the third line ‘They refers to’

    Q.96-100) Read the following poem, and answer the question that follow (96-100)
    ‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
    The whole time he was at the bodies, till
    They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
    Fall to within five inches of the sill.
    Whose window shows a strip of building land,
    Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
    My bit of garden properly in hand.’
    Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
    Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
    ‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
    Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
    On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
    Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
    The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
    I know his habits——what time he came down’
    His preference for sauce to gravy, why
    He kept on plugging at the four aways__
    Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
    Who put him up for summer holidays
    And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
    But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
    Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
    Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
    And shivered, without shaking off the dread
    That how we live measures our own nature,
    And at his age having no more to show
    Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
    He warranted no better, I don’t know.
    Philip Larkin

    1. AEmployers
    2. BOwners
    3. CMaster
    4. DManufacturers

    Answer: (A) Employers

    Explanation

    In “They moved him,” “they” refers to Mr Bleaney’s employers, who moved him while he was working at “the Bodies.”

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98. Question 98

    Mr. Bleaney was the _________ of the house.

    Q.96-100) Read the following poem, and answer the question that follow (96-100)
    ‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
    The whole time he was at the bodies, till
    They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
    Fall to within five inches of the sill.
    Whose window shows a strip of building land,
    Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
    My bit of garden properly in hand.’
    Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
    Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
    ‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
    Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
    On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
    Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
    The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
    I know his habits——what time he came down’
    His preference for sauce to gravy, why
    He kept on plugging at the four aways__
    Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
    Who put him up for summer holidays
    And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
    But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
    Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
    Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
    And shivered, without shaking off the dread
    That how we live measures our own nature,
    And at his age having no more to show
    Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
    He warranted no better, I don’t know.
    Philip Larkin

    1. AOwner
    2. BTenant
    3. CMaster
    4. DPossessor

    Answer: (B) Tenant

    Explanation

    Mr Bleaney occupied the room as a tenant, not as its owner.

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99. Question 99

    According to the speaker Mr. bleany was

    Q.96-100) Read the following poem, and answer the question that follow (96-100)
    ‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
    The whole time he was at the bodies, till
    They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
    Fall to within five inches of the sill.
    Whose window shows a strip of building land,
    Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
    My bit of garden properly in hand.’
    Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
    Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
    ‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
    Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
    On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
    Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
    The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
    I know his habits——what time he came down’
    His preference for sauce to gravy, why
    He kept on plugging at the four aways__
    Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
    Who put him up for summer holidays
    And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
    But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
    Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
    Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
    And shivered, without shaking off the dread
    That how we live measures our own nature,
    And at his age having no more to show
    Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
    He warranted no better, I don’t know.
    Philip Larkin

    1. AA humorous person
    2. BA social and fun-loving person
    3. CA hard working person
    4. DA sad and dull person

    Answer: (D) A sad and dull person

    Explanation

    The poem presents Mr Bleaney’s life as bleak, lonely, and dull.

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100. Question 100

     The poem ‘Mr. Bleaney’ deals with the portrayal of his_________

     Q.96-100) Read the following poem, and answer the question that follow (96-100)
     ‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
     The whole time he was at the bodies, till
     They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
     Fall to within five inches of the sill.
     Whose window shows a strip of building land,
     Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
     My bit of garden properly in hand.’
     Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
     Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
     ‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
     Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
     On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
     Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
     The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
     I know his habits——what time he came down’
     His preference for sauce to gravy, why
     He kept on plugging at the four aways__
     Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
     Who put him up for summer holidays
     And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
     But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
     Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
     Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
     And shivered, without shaking off the dread
     That how we live measures our own nature,
     And at his age having no more to show
     Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
     He warranted no better, I don’t know.
     Philip Larkin

     1. ARichness
     2. BExtravagance
     3. CLuxuriousness
     4. DOrdinariness

     Answer: (D) Ordinariness

     Explanation

     The room and life described in the poem emphasize ordinariness rather than richness or luxury.

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1. Question 1

   When did T.B. Macaulay present his “Minutes on Education” advocating English education in India?

   1. A12th March, 1835
   2. B2nd February, 1835
   3. C22nd January, 1835
   4. D5th May, 1835

   Answer: (B) 2nd February, 1835

   Explanation

   Macaulay presented his Minute on Indian Education on 2 February 1835, arguing for English education in colonial India.

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2. Question 2

   It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact”,

   1. AJohn Dryden
   2. BAlexander Pope
   3. CSamuel Johnson
   4. DJoseph Addison

   Answer: (C) Samuel Johnson

   Explanation

   The passage is associated with Samuel Johnson’s critical resistance to rigid neoclassical rules and his distinction between nature and custom.

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3. Question 3

   Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s postscript to The General in His Labyrinth (1991) about Simon Bolivar’s last and terrible journey to the Carribean coast of Nueva Granada in 1830 is one of the finest examples of________.

   1. Areading archive and using its contents.
   2. Bprocessing archival information for theoretical judgement.
   3. Cirrelevance of archive for an artist.
   4. Da novelist getting misguided by the archive,

   Answer: (A) reading archive and using its contents.

   Explanation

   Marquez’s use of archival material in The General in His Labyrinth exemplifies how a novelist can read archives and creatively use their contents.

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4. Question 4

   Which of the following is NOT a method of data analysis?

   1. AQualitative method
   2. BQuantitative method
   3. CMixed method
   4. DSubjective method

   Answer: (D) Subjective method

   Explanation

   Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are recognized methods of data analysis; “subjective method” is not normally treated as a standard data-analysis method.

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5. Question 5

   Which of the following is NOT a kind of ‘sign’ as suggested by Charles Sanders Pierce?

   1. Alcon
   2. BIndex
   3. CSymbol
   4. DVisual

   Answer: (D) Visual

   Explanation

   Peirce’s major sign-types are icon, index, and symbol. “Visual” is a mode of perception, not one of Peirce’s three kinds of sign.

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6. Question 6

   Who among the following was a major advocate of oral history?

   1. ASylvia Plath
   2. BEsther Greenwood
   3. CPaul Thompson
   4. DCarolyn Steedman

   Answer: (C) Paul Thompson

   Explanation

   Paul Thompson is a major figure in oral history and is known for work such as The Voice of the Past.

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7. Question 7

   Who among the following considers a text as a ” site of struggle between authority and popular culture”?

   1. ARoland Barthes
   2. BNorthrop Frye
   3. CMikhail Bakhtin
   4. DMichel Foucault

   Answer: (C) Mikhail Bakhtin

   Explanation

   Bakhtin views texts and culture as dialogic fields where official authority and popular culture contest meaning.

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8. Question 8

   Hudibras of Samuel Butler reflects on the revolt against:

   1. APuritanism
   2. BHellenism
   3. CHumanism
   4. DAnglicanism

   Answer: (A) Puritanism

   Explanation

   Samuel Butler’s Hudibras satirizes Puritanism and the Puritan side of the English Civil War.

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9. Question 9

   Emblems by Francis Quarles is :

   1. AA commentary on Homer’s llliad
   2. BA commentary on a volume of Biblical illustrations
   3. CA commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid
   4. DA commentary on Thomas Moore’s Utopia

   Answer: (B) A commentary on a volume of Biblical illustrations

   Explanation

   Francis Quarles’s Emblems is connected with biblical illustration and devotional emblem literature.

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10. Question 10

    Who among the following is the author of The Steele Glas?

    1. AThe Earl of Surrey
    2. BThomas Sackville
    3. CGeorge Gascoigne
    4. DEdmund Spenser

    Answer: (C) George Gascoigne

    Explanation

    The Steele Glas is a satire by George Gascoigne.

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11. Question 11

    Sir David Lyndsay’s Satire of the Three Estatis is both

    1. APolitical and religious
    2. BPolitical and secular
    3. CImmoral and secular
    4. DImmoral and religious

    Answer: (A) Political and religious

    Explanation

    Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates is both political and religious in its criticism of Scottish society and church abuses.

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12. Question 12

    Who among the following has used lines from the Shakespearean play Othello to critique racism in one of his poems?

    1. AEdward Braithwaite
    2. BFranz Fanon
    3. CDerek Alton Walcott
    4. DNgugi wa Thiong’o

    Answer: (C) Derek Alton Walcott

    Explanation

    Derek Walcott uses Shakespearean echoes, including from Othello, in poems that interrogate race and colonial history.

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13. Question 13

    Derek Alton Walcott in the poem ” The Sea is History ” makes a parallel between

    1. AEvolution of mankind and nature
    2. BEvolution of human history and religion
    3. CEvolution of Paganism and Christianity
    4. DEvolution of Christianity and slavery of the Blacks

    Answer: (D) Evolution of Christianity and slavery of the Blacks

    Explanation

    In “The Sea is History,” Walcott links Christian historical imagery with the history of Black enslavement and colonial suffering.

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14. Question 14

    The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville was written in

    1. AQueens English
    2. BNorthumbrian dialect
    3. CMidland dialect
    4. DCockney

    Answer: (C) Midland dialect

    Explanation

    The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville circulated in Middle English, here identified with the Midland dialect.

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15. Question 15

    “The Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” is written in :

    1. AQuatrains of ten syllable lines
    2. BOctave and Sestet
    3. CHeroic couplet
    4. DAlexandrines

    Answer: (A) Quatrains of ten syllable lines

    Explanation

    Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is written in heroic quatrains of iambic pentameter, i.e. ten-syllable lines.

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16. Question 16

    Marge Piercy’s novel Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) is based on –

    1. AShulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex
    2. BMargaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
    3. CLewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland
    4. DDonna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto

    Answer: (A) Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex

    Explanation

    Marge Piercy’s feminist utopian novel draws on ideas associated with Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex.

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17. Question 17

    Which among the following is a short story by the Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree:

    1. AKhali Jagah
    2. BHamara Shahar Us Baras
    3. CBel Patra
    4. DMai

    Answer: (C) Bel Patra

    Explanation

    “Bel Patra” is a short story by Geetanjali Shree, whereas the other options are longer works or different titles.

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18. Question 18

    Women of Palestine (1982) and Indian Women in Struggle (1980) deal with :

    1. Awomen’s religious and familial issues
    2. Bfemale militancy and political involvement
    3. Cwomen’s struggle at their work place
    4. Dwomen’s reproductive rights

    Answer: (B) female militancy and political involvement

    Explanation

    These works focus on women’s political participation, militancy, and struggle rather than only familial or reproductive issues.

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19. Question 19

    The following statement is written by which of the authors given below:-

    1. AArundhati Roy
    2. BKiran Desai
    3. CShashi Tharoor
    4. DRohinton Mistry

    Answer: (B) Kiran Desai

    Explanation

    The line is from Kiran Desai’s fiction, where loss, memory, and fulfilment are central emotional concerns.

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20. Question 20

    Who first translated the Bhagavad Gita into English?

    1. AH T Colebrook
    2. BAlexander Duff
    3. CCharles Wilkins
    4. DSir William Jones

    Answer: (C) Charles Wilkins

    Explanation

    Charles Wilkins produced the first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1785.

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21. Question 21

    Who among the following is exclusively associated with diary writing in English?

    1. ASamuel Pepys
    2. BSamuel Johnson
    3. CBen Jonson
    4. DSamuel Richardson

    Answer: (A) Samuel Pepys

    Explanation

    Samuel Pepys is famous above all for his diary, a major work of Restoration prose and social record.

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22. Question 22

    Abt Vogler is authored by

    1. AMatthew Arnold
    2. BRobert Browning
    3. CA. L. Tennyson
    4. DNone of the above

    Answer: (B) Robert Browning

    Explanation

    “Abt Vogler” is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.

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23. Question 23

    The predominant emotion running through the poem “Cristina” by Robert Browning is that of

    1. ASadness
    2. BAggression
    3. CLove
    4. DNone of the above

    Answer: (C) Love

    Explanation

    Browning’s “Cristina” is dominated by love and frustrated emotional attachment.

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24. Question 24

    Which one is correctly matched?

    1. AHeathcliff — Mansfield Park
    2. BMaggie Tulliver — The Mill on the Floss
    3. CJosiah Bounderby — Wuthering Height
    4. DFanny Price — Hard Times

    Answer: (B) Maggie Tulliver — The Mill on the Floss

    Explanation

    Maggie Tulliver is the central female character of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.

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25. Question 25

    Which of the following works has Santiago as its protagonist?

    1. AMansfield Park
    2. BThe Mayor of Casterbridge
    3. CThe Old Man and the Sea
    4. DThe Lord of the Rings

    Answer: (C) The Old Man and the Sea

    Explanation

    Santiago is the old fisherman protagonist of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.

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26. Question 26

    Which of the following texts coins the stogan “Vande Matram”?

    1. AAnandmath
    2. BMrinalini
    3. CDurgeshnandini
    4. DKapalkundala

    Answer: (A) Anandmath

    Explanation

    “Vande Mataram” appears in Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s Anandamath.

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27. Question 27

    Who among the following is associated with the term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ in literary criticism?

    1. AW.K. Wimsatt
    2. BRolland Barthes
    3. CJ. Hillis Miller
    4. DJohn Keats

    Answer: (A) W.K. Wimsatt

    Explanation

    The intentional fallacy is associated with W. K. Wimsatt, especially in New Critical arguments against authorial intention as evidence.

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28. Question 28

    Which of the following works is’set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in Mexico?

    1. AThe Power and the Glory
    2. BFor Whom the Bell Tolls
    3. CIn Our Time
    4. DAll of the above

    Answer: (A) The Power and the Glory

    Explanation

    Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory is set against anti-Catholic persecution in Mexico.

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29. Question 29

    Who among the following coined the term ‘The Movement’?

    1. AF.W. Bateson
    2. BF.R. Leavis
    3. CJ.D. Scott
    4. DI.A. Richards

    Answer: (C) J.D. Scott

    Explanation

    J. D. Scott coined or popularized “The Movement” for the post-war British poetic grouping.

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30. Question 30

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Yasmine Gunaratne	(I) Post card from Kashmir
    (B) Imtiyaz Dharkar	(II) Advice to Women
    (C) Agha Shahid Ali	(III) Post card from God
    (D) Eunice de Souza	(IV) This Language, this woman

    Shared list material for question 31.

    1. AA-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
    2. BA-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
    4. DA-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

    Answer: (B) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

    Explanation

    Yasmine Gooneratne is linked with This Language, This Woman; Imtiaz Dharker with “Postcards from God”; Agha Shahid Ali with “Postcard from Kashmir”; and Eunice de Souza with “Advice to Women”.

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31. Question 31

    Dev Virahsawmy’s Toufann is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play______.

    1. AHamlet
    2. BMacbeth
    3. CThe Twelfth Night
    4. DThe Tempest

    Answer: (D) The Tempest

    Explanation

    Dev Virahsawmy’s Toufann is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

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32. Question 32

    Uttararamacharita by______ is based on Valmiki’s Ramayana.

    1. ABhasa
    2. BBhavabhuti
    3. CBharavi
    4. DKalidasa

    Answer: (B) Bhavabhuti

    Explanation

    Bhavabhuti wrote Uttararamacharita, a Sanskrit play based on the later life of Rama.

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33. Question 33

    In Kannada literature, “Vachana Movement’ addressed

    1. Aprogressive values
    2. Bvedic themes
    3. Cvedantic thoughts
    4. Dupanishadic ideas

    Answer: (A) progressive values

    Explanation

    The Kannada Vachana movement is associated with social reform and progressive values, especially in the Virashaiva/Lingayat tradition.

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34. Question 34

    “Inane gaudiness” is a phrase used in connection with Neo-classicism by_____.

    1. AWilliam Wordsworth
    2. BS.T. Coleridge
    3. CMatthew Arnold
    4. DT.S. Eliot

    Answer: (A) William Wordsworth

    Explanation

    Wordsworth criticized neoclassical poetic diction with phrases such as “inane phraseology” and “gaudiness,” so the item points to Wordsworth.

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35. Question 35

    Who defined “Hamartia’ as ‘tragic flaw’?

    1. AAristotle
    2. BDr. Samuel Johnson
    3. CMatthew Arnold
    4. DA. C. Bradley

    Answer: (A) Aristotle

    Explanation

    A. C. Bradley influentially interpreted Aristotle’s hamartia as “tragic flaw” in Shakespearean tragedy criticism.

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36. Question 36

    Gaiutra Bahadur is a_______writer.

    1. AMauritian
    2. BFijian
    3. CTrinidadian
    4. DGuyanese

    Answer: (D) Guyanese

    Explanation

    Gaiutra Bahadur is Guyanese-American; among the given national identifiers, Guyanese is correct.

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37. Question 37

    Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha was originally written in______.

    1. AFrench
    2. BRussian
    3. CEnglish
    4. DGerman

    Answer: (D) German

    Explanation

    Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha originally in German.

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38. Question 38

    Brij V. Lal’s Rama’s Banishment deals with the history of Fiji of a time period of_____.

    1. A50 years
    2. B100 years
    3. C150 years
    4. D200 years

    Answer: (C) 150 years

    Explanation

    Brij V. Lal’s Rama’s Banishment covers roughly 150 years of Fiji Indian history.

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39. Question 39

    Choose the novels that use ‘magic realism’ as a tool of narration:

    Q.41) Choose the novels that use ‘magic realism’ as a tool of narration:
    A. The Shadow Lines
    B. One Hundred Years of Solitude
    C. Midnight’s Children
    D. Beloved
    E. Kanthapura
    [1] A, B and C only
    [2] B,C and D only
    [3] C,D and E only
    [4] B,C,D and E only

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB,C and D only
    3. CC,D and E only
    4. DB,C,D and E only

    Answer: (B) B,C and D only

    Explanation

    One Hundred Years of Solitude, Midnight’s Children, and Beloved are strongly associated with magic realism.

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40. Question 40

    Which of the following are NOT by Rabindranath Tagore?

    Q.42) Which of the following are NOT by Rabindranath Tagore?
    A. Visarjan
    B. Chandalika
    C. Muktadhara
    D. Parineeta
    E. Punarnava
    [1] A and B only
    [2] B and C only
    [3] D and E only
    [4] A and C only

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and C only
    3. CD and E only
    4. DA and C only

    Answer: (C) D and E only

    Explanation

    Parineeta and Punarnava are not by Rabindranath Tagore; the other listed works are Tagore’s.

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41. Question 41

    Identify the film/films that were based on Booker winning novels:-

    Q.43) Identify the film/films that were based on Booker winning novels:-
    A. Life of Pi
    B. The Remains of the Day
    C. Milkman
    D. The Sellout
    E. The Inheritance of Loss
    [1] B and E only
    [2] A and B only
    [3] C and D only
    [4] B and D only

    1. AB and E only
    2. BA and B only
    3. CC and D only
    4. DB and D only

    Answer: (B) A and B only

    Explanation

    Film adaptations exist for Life of Pi and The Remains of the Day, both Booker-winning novels.

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42. Question 42

    Identify the correct ones among the following:

    Q.44) Identify the correct ones among the following:
    A. The dramatic monologue ensures the reciprocal dialogue of the narrator.
    B. The nineteenth century poets fully exploited the poetic form of dramatic monologue.
    C. The Poetry of Experience by Robert Langbaum outlines a discussion on dramatic monologue.
    D. The linguistic pragmatics make the narcissistic speaker of dramatic monologue speak exclusively.
    E. The speaker and the listener in the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning share the same pedestal of communication.
    [1] A, B and C only
    [2] B, C and D only
    [3] C, D and E only
    [4] B, D and E only

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB, C and D only
    3. CC, D and E only
    4. DB, D and E only

    Answer: (B) B, C and D only

    Explanation

    Dramatic monologue flourished among nineteenth-century poets; Langbaum’s The Poetry of Experience studies it; and the form often gives a self-revealing, pragmatically complex speaker.

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43. Question 43

    Identify the Postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing “Euro-centrism’?

    Q.45) Identify the Postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing “Euro-centrism’?
    A. Homi Bhabha
    B. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
    C. Abdul Jan Mohammad
    D. Edward Said
    E. Amie Césaire
    [1] A, B, C and D only
    [2] A B and C only
    [3] B,C,D and E only
    [4] C,D and E only

    1. AA, B, C and D only
    2. BA B and C only
    3. CB,C,D and E only
    4. DC,D and E only

    Answer: (A) A, B, C and D only

    Explanation

    Bhabha, Spivak, Abdul JanMohamed, and Said all draw on continental theory while critiquing Eurocentrism in postcolonial criticism.

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44. Question 44

    Which among the following are correct?

    Q.46) Which among the following are correct?
    A. George Lamming – Barbados
    B. Ben Okri – Nigeria
    C. Fred D Aguiar – Australia
    D. Wilson Harris – Guyana
    E. Zulfikar Ghose – India
    [1] A, C and D only
    [2] B,C and D only
    [3] C,D and E only
    [4] A, B and D only

    1. AA, C and D only
    2. BB,C and D only
    3. CC,D and E only
    4. DA, B and D only

    Answer: (D) A, B and D only

    Explanation

    George Lamming is Barbadian, Ben Okri Nigerian, and Wilson Harris Guyanese; the other national pairings are incorrect.

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45. Question 45

    Identify the correct pairs.

    Q.47) Identify the correct pairs.
    A. Kalidasa – Amoghvarsha
    B. Bhavabhuti – Uttararamcharita
    C. Bhasa – Urubhanga
    D. Rajashekhara – Rajatarangini
    E. Somadeva – Kathasaritsagara
    [1] A, C and D only
    [2] C,D and E only
    [3] B, C and E only
    [4] B, D and E only

    1. AA, C and D only
    2. BC,D and E only
    3. CB, C and E only
    4. DB, D and E only

    Answer: (C) B, C and E only

    Explanation

    Bhavabhuti wrote Uttararamacharita, Bhasa wrote Urubhanga, and Somadeva wrote Kathasaritsagara.

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46. Question 46

    Which of the following statements hold true with respect to Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism”?

    Q.48) Which of the following statements hold true with respect to Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism”?
    A. It is “an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry”.
    B. It presents “a series of generalizations about good taste”.
    C. It explores the challenges of impartial and just criticism.
    D. It underlines the traits of “the good critic”.
    E. it critically reflects on Plato’s rejection of poetry.
    [1] A and B only
    [2] B and C only
    [3] A, B, C and E only
    [4] B, C and D only

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and C only
    3. CA, B, C and E only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (D) B, C and D only

    Explanation

    Pope’s Essay on Criticism is about taste, just criticism, and the qualities of a good critic; it is not mainly Plato’s rejection of poetry.

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47. Question 47

    Which of the following are applicable to the term ‘Carnival’?

    Q.49) Which of the following are applicable to the term ‘Carnival’?
    A. It became important through the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin,
    B. It means the way in which popular humour subverts official authority in classical, medieval and renaissance texts and culture.
    C. It overturns the established hierarchy and sets up a popular and democratic counter-culture.
    D. It brings out the serious elements in literature.
    E. It is used as a critical tool for interpretation of poetry.
    [1] A, B and C only
    [2] A and B only
    [3] B and C only
    [4] A and C only

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BA and B only
    3. CB and C only
    4. DA and C only

    Answer: (A) A, B and C only

    Explanation

    Bakhtin’s carnival subverts official authority, reverses hierarchy, and creates a popular counter-culture through humour and festivity.

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48. Question 48

    Which of the following are the premises of Postcolonial Criticism?

    Q.50) Which of the following are the premises of Postcolonial Criticism?
    A. It rejects the claims of universalism made in the canonical Western literature.
    B. It foregrounds the questions of cultural difference and diversity as represented in literary texts.
    C. It acts on the principles of peaceful co-existence.
    D. It celebrates “hybridity” and “Cultural polyvalency”.
    E. It resists any attempt at homogenization based on race, class and nationality.
    [1] A, B and D only
    [2] A B, D and E only
    [3] B, C and D only
    [4] C and D only

    1. AA, B and D only
    2. BA B, D and E only
    3. CB, C and D only
    4. DC and D only

    Answer: (B) A B, D and E only

    Explanation

    Postcolonial criticism rejects Western universalism, foregrounds cultural difference, celebrates hybridity, and resists racial/national homogenization.

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49. Question 49

    Which of the following statements are true in the context of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749)

    Q.51) Which of the following statements are true in the context of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749)
    A. Tom Jones is comic and moralistic.
    B. Tom and Jones are the main characters of Tom Jones
    C. Tom is caught poaching in neighbor’s game preserve.
    D. The History of Tom Jones is the full title of Tom Jones
    E. All of the above
    [1] E only
    [2] A, C and D only
    [3] A, B, C and D only
    [4] B, C and D only

    1. AE only
    2. BA, C and D only
    3. CA, B, C and D only
    4. DB, C and D only

    Answer: (B) A, C and D only

    Explanation

    Tom Jones is comic and moralistic; Tom is caught poaching; and its full title is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. “Tom and Jones” are not two main characters.

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50. Question 50

    Who has used the term “bowling alone” to describe the erosion of community ties in the United States?

    1. AFrank Furedi
    2. BZygmunt Bauman
    3. CRobert Bellah
    4. DRobert Putnam

    Answer: (D) Robert Putnam

    Explanation

    Robert Putnam used “bowling alone” to describe declining social capital and community participation in the United States.

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51. Question 51

    Which of these books are written by Nirad C Chaudhuri?

    Q.53) Which of these books are written by Nirad C Chaudhuri?
    A. The Continent of Circe
    B. Principal Upanishads
    C. A Passage to England
    D. Our New Rulers
    E. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
    [1] B, C and D only
    [2] C,D and E only
    [3] A, C and E only
    [4] A, B and D only

    1. AB, C and D only
    2. BC,D and E only
    3. CA, C and E only
    4. DA, B and D only

    Answer: (C) A, C and E only

    Explanation

    Nirad C. Chaudhuri wrote The Continent of Circe, A Passage to England, and The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.

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52. Question 52

    Which of the following are true in the context of “Phenomenology”

    Q.54) Which of the following are true in the context of “Phenomenology”
    A. It is “a form of methodological idealism” which seeks to explore ‘human consciousness’.
    B. As a philosophical method, it was developed by Edmund Husserl.
    C. Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
    D. Martin Heidegger’s approach is “essentialist”.
    E. Text is considered purely as an embodiment of the author’s consciousness.
    [1] A, B, C and D only
    [2] B,C and D only
    [3] A, B, C and E only
    [4] C,D and E only

    1. AA, B, C and D only
    2. BB,C and D only
    3. CA, B, C and E only
    4. DC,D and E only

    Answer: (C) A, B, C and E only

    Explanation

    Phenomenology is a method focused on consciousness, developed by Husserl; Heidegger is a key figure, and literary phenomenology treats the text as embodying consciousness.

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53. Question 53

    The aboriginal Australian poet, Oodgeroe Noonuccal, in her poem “We are going” examines the impact of colonial conquest on aboriginal Australians with reference to:

    Q.55) The aboriginal Australian poet, Oodgeroe Noonuccal, in her poem “We are going” examines the impact of colonial conquest on aboriginal Australians with reference to:
    A. Loss of ‘bora ground’
    B. Loss of Aboriginal identity
    C. Loss of new education
    D. Loss of primitive culture
    E. None of the above
    [1] A, B and D only
    [2] C, D and E only
    [3] A, B and C only
    [4] A, C and D only

    1. AA, B and D only
    2. BC, D and E only
    3. CA, B and C only
    4. DA, C and D only

    Answer: (A) A, B and D only

    Explanation

    Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “We Are Going” mourns loss of bora ground, Aboriginal identity, and traditional culture under colonial conquest.

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54. Question 54

    Which of the following is applicable to “New Criticism”?

    Q.57) Which of the following is applicable to “New Criticism”?
    A. It draws considerably from the works of I. A. Richards and the critical essay of T.S, Eliot.
    B. Some of its concepts are pre-empted by F.R. Leavis.
    C. It distinguishes between literary and scientific usage of language.
    D. It encourages an extensive exploration of the contextual and autobiographical background of a literary production.
    E. It vouches for a historical analysis of a text.
    [1] A, B and C only
    [2] B, E and D only
    [3] A, C and D only
    [4] B and D only

    1. AA, B and C only
    2. BB, E and D only
    3. CA, C and D only
    4. DB and D only

    Answer: (A) A, B and C only

    Explanation

    New Criticism draws on Richards, Eliot, and related critics, and distinguishes literary from scientific language; it rejects biographical and historical background as primary evidence.

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55. Question 55

    Which of the following are representative texts of “Gynocriticism”?

    Q.58) Which of the following are representative texts of “Gynocriticism”?
    A. Patricial Meyer Spacks’ The Female Imagination
    B. Mary Ellman’s Thinking About Women
    C. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The MadWoman in the Attic
    D. Ellen Moer’s Literary Women
    E. Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics
    [1] A and B only
    [2] A, B and C only
    [3] B, D and E only
    [4] A, C and D only

    1. AA and B only
    2. BA, B and C only
    3. CB, D and E only
    4. DA, C and D only

    Answer: (D) A, C and D only

    Explanation

    Spacks’s The Female Imagination, Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic, and Moers’s Literary Women are representative gynocritical texts.

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56. Question 56

    Which of the following statements are true about Ethnographic Research Method?

    Q.59) Which of the following statements are true about Ethnographic Research Method?
    A. It enables the exploration of the consumption of literature within defined social and historical settings.
    B. Janice A. Radway’s Reading the Romance (1984) is one of the first examples of the use of ethnographic research methodology.
    C. It is perceived as an act of uncovering an objective reality.
    D. Reading National Geographic (1993) by Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L, Collins makes effective use of ethnographic research method to find out the role of the magazine National Geographic in moulding Americans awareness of the world beyond the United States.
    E. It focuses more on objective data than subjective interpretation of the materials.
    [1] A, B and E only
    [2] A and C only
    [3] A, B and C only
    [4] A, B, C and D only

    1. AA, B and E only
    2. BA and C only
    3. CA, B and C only
    4. DA, B, C and D only

    Answer: (D) A, B, C and D only

    Explanation

    Ethnographic research studies reading and cultural consumption in social contexts; Radway and Lutz/Collins are important examples, and ethnography can still seek patterned reality rather than mere impression.

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57. Question 57

    The concept of ” eugenics” finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of :

    Q.60) The concept of ” eugenics” finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of :
    A. John Osborne
    B. George Bernard Shaw
    C. Eugene O’Neil
    D. Harold Pinter
    E. Arthur Miller
    [1] A and B only
    [2] A and C only
    [3] B and C only
    [4] D and E only

    1. AA and B only
    2. BA and C only
    3. CB and C only
    4. DD and E only

    Answer: (C) B and C only

    Explanation

    Eugenic ideas appear prominently in the writings of George Bernard Shaw and Eugene O’Neill among the listed authors.

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58. Question 58

    Which of the following are correct:

    Q.61) Which of the following are correct:
    A. Roddy Doyle – The Barrytown Triology
    B. Abraham Stoker – Confessions of an Irish Rebel
    C. C. S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
    D. Brendan Behan – Dracula
    E. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl
    [1] A, C and E only
    [2] A, B and D only
    [3] A, C and D only
    [4] C, D and E only

    1. AA, C and E only
    2. BA, B and D only
    3. CA, C and D only
    4. DC, D and E only

    Answer: (A) A, C and E only

    Explanation

    Roddy Doyle wrote The Barrytown Trilogy, C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, and Eoin Colfer wrote Artemis Fowl; the Stoker/Behan pairings are wrong.

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59. Question 59

    Which among the following are true about the figures of speech?

    Q.62) Which among the following are true about the figures of speech?
    A. Figures based on sound – Paronomasia
    B. Figures basad on construction – Zeugma
    C. Figures based on Imagination – Irony
    D. Figures based on Association – Chiasmus
    E. Figures based on indirectness – Euphemism
    [1] A, B and E only
    [2] A, B and C only
    [3] B,C and D only
    [4] C,D and E only

    1. AA, B and E only
    2. BA, B and C only
    3. CB,C and D only
    4. DC,D and E only

    Answer: (A) A, B and E only

    Explanation

    Paronomasia is sound-based wordplay, zeugma is construction-based, and euphemism works through indirectness; the other classifications are incorrect.

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60. Question 60

    Which of the following authors have been correctly matched with their works?

    Q.63) Which of the following authors have been correctly matched with their works?
    A. Malcom Bradbury – The History Man
    B. William Golding – Rites of Passage
    C. Seamus Heaney – Darkness visible
    D. Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
    E. Molly Keane – The Norman Conquests
    [1] A, B and E only
    [2] B, C and E only
    [3] C, D and E only
    [4] A, B and D only

    1. AA, B and E only
    2. BB, C and E only
    3. CC, D and E only
    4. DA, B and D only

    Answer: (D) A, B and D only

    Explanation

    Bradbury wrote The History Man, Golding wrote Rites of Passage, and Brian Friel wrote Dancing at Lughnasa; the other pairings are not correct.

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61. Question 61

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Cornelia Sorabji	(I) Between the Twilights
    (B) Krupabai Satthianadhan|ll.	(II) The Hindu Wife
    (C) Raj Lakshmi Debi	(III) Nector in a Sieve
    (D) Kamala Markandaya	(IV) Saguna, A Story of Native Christian Life

    Shared list material for question 64.

    1. AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
    2. BA-IV, B-lIl, C-I, D-Il
    3. CA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
    4. DA-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (D) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

    Explanation

    Cornelia Sorabji wrote Between the Twilights, Krupabai Satthianadhan wrote Saguna, Raj Lakshmi Debi wrote The Hindu Wife, and Kamala Markandaya wrote Nectar in a Sieve.

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62. Question 62

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Doll Common	(I) Twelfth Night
    (B) Malvolio	(II) The Alchemist
    (C) Mortimer	(III) The Duchess of Malfi
    (D) Bosola	(IV) Edward II

    Shared list material for question 65.

    1. AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
    2. BA-II, B-l, C-IV, D-IlI
    3. CA-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
    4. DA-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (B) A-II, B-l, C-IV, D-IlI

    Explanation

    Doll Common belongs to The Alchemist, Malvolio to Twelfth Night, Mortimer to Edward II, and Bosola to The Duchess of Malfi.

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63. Question 63

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) “The Lion’s Skin”	(I) Washington Irving
    (B) “The Man who liked Dickens”	(II) W. Somerset Maugham
    (C) “Rip Van Winkle”	(III) Stephen Crane
    (D) “The Bride comes to Yellow Sky”	(IV) Evelyn Waugh

    Shared list material for question 66.

    1. AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
    2. BA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-IlI
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
    4. DA-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (C) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

    Explanation

    “The Lion’s Skin” is by Maugham, “The Man Who Liked Dickens” by Evelyn Waugh, “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane.

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64. Question 64

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Stephen Spender	(I) Cargos
    (B) W.H. Auden	(II) Consider
    (C) John Masefield	(III) Adlestrop
    (D) Edward Thomas	(IV) The Pylons

    Shared list material for question 67.

    1. AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
    2. BA-IV, B-lI, C-I, D-IlI
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (B) A-IV, B-lI, C-I, D-IlI

    Explanation

    Stephen Spender wrote “The Pylons,” W. H. Auden “Consider,” John Masefield “Cargoes,” and Edward Thomas “Adlestrop”.

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65. Question 65

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) “Bricolage “	(I) Martin Heidegger
    (B) ”Dasein”	(II) Sigmund Freud
    (C) ”Parapraxes”	(III) Levi- Strauss
    (D) “Polyphony”	(IV) Mikhail Bakhtin

    Shared list material for question 68.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-IV, B-lI, C-I, D-IlI
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

    Answer: (D) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

    Explanation

    Bricolage is associated with Lévi-Strauss, Dasein with Heidegger, parapraxes with Freud, and polyphony with Bakhtin.

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66. Question 66

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Perumal Murugan	(I) Adivasi Will Not Dance
    (B) Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar	(II) The Weave of My Life
    (C) Baby Kamble	(III) One Part Woman
    (D) Urmila Pawar	(IV) The Prisons We Broke

    Shared list material for question 69.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-IIII

    Answer: (B) A-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II

    Explanation

    Perumal Murugan wrote One Part Woman, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar wrote The Adivasi Will Not Dance, Baby Kamble wrote The Prisons We Broke, and Urmila Pawar wrote The Weave of My Life.

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67. Question 67

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Siddhant Dhanvant Shanghvi	(I) Almost Single
    (B) Advaita Kala	(II) Love Over Coffee
    (C) Amrit Shetty	(III) The Zoya factor
    (D) Anuja Chauhan	(IV) The Lost flamingoes of Bombay

    Shared list material for question 70.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

    Explanation

    Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi wrote The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, Advaita Kala Almost Single, Amrit Shetty Love Over Coffee, and Anuja Chauhan The Zoya Factor.

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68. Question 68

    Match List I with List Il

    List I	List II
    (A) The Empire Writes Back	(I) 1990
    (B) Nation and Narration	(II) 1993
    (C) Culture and Imperialism	(III) 1989
    (D) The Twice Born Fiction	(IV) 1971

    Shared list material for question 71.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-III, B-l, C-II, D-IV
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (B) A-III, B-l, C-II, D-IV

    Explanation

    The Empire Writes Back appeared in 1989, Nation and Narration in 1990, Culture and Imperialism in 1993, and The Twice Born Fiction in 1971.

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69. Question 69

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) “There is no art to find mind’s construction in the face”.	(I) Hamlet
    (B) “Time out of joint”.	(II) Richard IlI
    (C) “The better part of valor is discretion”.	(III) Macbeth
    (D) “My Kingdom for a horse”.	(IV) Twelfth Night

    Shared list material for question 72.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II
    3. CA-II, B-IV, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

    Answer: (B) A-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II

    Explanation

    The quoted lines come respectively from Macbeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Richard III.

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70. Question 70

    Identify the correct one from the following:

    Q.73) Identify the correct one from the following:
    A. Bharti Mukherjee’s novels display split in the diasporic subjects.
    B. Rohinton Mistry belongs to the community of Parsies that fled to India from Persia to escape Islamic persecution.
    C. Sujata Bhat recalls home as a nostalgic memory and longs intensely for it.
    D. Farrukh Dhendy connects Delhi and New York to discuss the diasporic experiences.
    E. Sharat Chandra in his poem, “In the Third Country,” wishes to die in India
    [1] A, B and D only
    [2] A, B and C only
    [3] A, D and E only
    [4] B, C and E only

    1. AA, B and D only
    2. BA, B and C only
    3. CA, D and E only
    4. DB, C and E only

    Answer: (B) A, B and C only

    Explanation

    Mukherjee’s fiction explores diasporic split identities, Mistry is Parsi, and Sujata Bhatt often writes nostalgically about home and language; the other statements are inaccurate.

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71. Question 71

    Match List I with List II

    List I	List II
    (A) Acharnians	(I) Government by women
    (B) Clouds	(II) Attack on parties involved in war
    (C) Lysistrata	(III) Criticism of the new ‘spirit of philosophical inquiry’
    (D) Wasps	(IV) An attack on demogogues

    Shared list material for question 74.

    1. AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
    2. BA-III, B-l, C-IV, D-II
    3. CA-IV, B-II, C-|, D-III
    4. DA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

    Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

    Explanation

    Acharnians attacks war parties, Clouds mocks new philosophical inquiry, Lysistrata imagines women’s political action, and Wasps attacks demagogues/legal obsession.

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72. Question 72

    Who among the following refers to “high seriousness” as a quality of a great poet and quotes John Milton to prove the same?

    Q.75) Who among the following refers to “high seriousness” as a quality of a great poet and quotes John Milton to prove the same?
    A. T.S. Eliot
    B. Ezra Pound
    C. Matthew Arnold
    D. I. A. Richards
    E. G. M. Hopkins
    [1] A and B only
    [2] B and C only
    [3] D and E only
    [4] C only

    1. AA and B only
    2. BB and C only
    3. CD and E only
    4. DC only

    Answer: (D) C only

    Explanation

    Matthew Arnold uses “high seriousness” as a mark of great poetry and invokes Milton as an example.

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73. Question 73

    Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

    Q.76) Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
    A. Mythologies
    B. Of Grammatology
    C. Culture and Society
    D. Blindness and Insight
    E. The Location of Culture
    [1] A, B, C, D, E
    [2] A, C, B, D, E
    [3] D, B, C, A, E
    [4] B, C, D, A, E

    1. AA, B, C, D, E
    2. BA, C, B, D, E
    3. CD, B, C, A, E
    4. DB, C, D, A, E

    Answer: (B) A, C, B, D, E

    Explanation

    The dates are Mythologies (1957), Culture and Society (1958), Of Grammatology (1967), Blindness and Insight (1971), and The Location of Culture (1994).

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74. Question 74

    Statement I: In My Remembered Village (1976), M, N. Srinivas highlights the ethnographical details of a village, Rampura, near Mysore.

    Q.77) Statement I: In My Remembered Village (1976), M, N. Srinivas highlights the ethnographical details of a village, Rampura, near Mysore.
    Statement Il: It also emphasises on the importance of economic freedom of the masses required for their overall upliftment.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are correct
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect
    [3] Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
    [4] Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are correct
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect
    3. CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
    4. DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

    Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect

    Explanation

    Srinivas’s The Remembered Village is an ethnographic account of Rampura; the second statement about economic freedom is not its central claim.

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75. Question 75

    Statement I: The term “Negative Capability” was coined by John Keats.

    Q.78) Statement I: The term “Negative Capability” was coined by John Keats.
    Statement II: While analysing the term “Dissociation of sensibility”, T. S. Eliot proclaims that Hamlet is an artistic failure.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement II are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement Il is false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

    Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement Il is false

    Explanation

    Keats coined “Negative Capability.” Eliot discusses “dissociation of sensibility” elsewhere, while calling Hamlet an artistic failure in “Hamlet and His Problems,” so Statement II conflates two arguments.

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76. Question 76

    Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in Eighteenth century England.

    Q.79) Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in Eighteenth century England.
    Statement II : Theatre had court patronage in and around London.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement II are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement II is-false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement II is-false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

    Answer: (D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    Explanation

    Theatre in eighteenth-century England did not enjoy the same greater popularity stated in I, but London theatre remained tied to patent theatres and forms of patronage/regulation.

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77. Question 77

    Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French Revolution created grounds for the birth of ‘the Clinic.

    Q.80) Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French Revolution created grounds for the birth of ‘the Clinic.
    Statement II: Foucault mentions that the doctors started caring for the body of the patients the way priests cared for the soul of the sinners.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement II is false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement Il are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement II is false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement Il is true

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

    Explanation

    Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic links modern medical perception to revolutionary institutional changes and compares medical care of bodies with older pastoral care of souls.

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78. Question 78

    Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can.

    Q.81) Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can.
    Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement Il are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement Il is false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement Il is true

    Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement Il is false

    Explanation

    The first statement is Arnoldian praise of poetry’s sustaining power, but the claim that every great poet must also be a great critic is not accepted here.

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79. Question 79

    Statement I: Roland Barthes believes that the author is “the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology”.

    Q.82) Statement I: Roland Barthes believes that the author is “the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology”.
    Statement II: Walter Benjamin, in his The Storyteller, observes that every real story has something useful in it.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement Il are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement Il is false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement Il is true

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

    Explanation

    Barthes critiques the Author as a modern/capitalist ideological figure, and Benjamin says every real story contains something useful, such as counsel or wisdom.

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80. Question 80

    Statement I: Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889) is humorous and journalistic in form.

    Q.83) Statement I: Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889) is humorous and journalistic in form.
    Statement Il: It is about three young men and their dog on a holiday.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement Il is false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

    Explanation

    Three Men in a Boat is humorous and journalistic in tone and narrates a holiday journey by three men and a dog.

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81. Question 81

    Statement I: The Indian English novelists witnessed a warm reception of their writings in Europe, and they proliferated well in India during the 1930’s and 1940’s.

    Q.84) Statement I: The Indian English novelists witnessed a warm reception of their writings in Europe, and they proliferated well in India during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
    Statement II: The two world wars added an overall sense of gloom and civilisational crisis across the globe, especially in Europe.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is-false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement Il is-false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

    Explanation

    Indian English novels of the 1930s-40s gained attention, and the world wars produced a sense of crisis that shaped literary reception and themes.

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82. Question 82

    Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the Tory political ideology.

    Q.85) Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the Tory political ideology.
    Statement II: Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental skepticism.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are false
    [3] Statement I is true but Statement is-false
    [4] Statement I is false but Statement II is true

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are true
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
    3. CStatement I is true but Statement is-false
    4. DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

    Explanation

    Johnson was politically Tory, but “transcendental skepticism” is not an accurate description of his belief system.

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83. Question 83

    Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.

    Q.86) Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.
    Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in the assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of “truth”.
    [1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are correct
    [2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect
    [3] Statement I is correct but Statement Il is incorrect
    [4] Statement I is incorrect but Statement Il is correct

    1. ABoth Statement I and Statement Il are correct
    2. BBoth Statement I and Statement Il are incorrect
    3. CStatement I is correct but Statement Il is incorrect
    4. DStatement I is incorrect but Statement Il is correct

    Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement Il are correct

    Explanation

    Derrida questions any pure, neutral aesthetic realm and shows that values, interests, and truth-claims enter aesthetic discourse.

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84. Question 84

    In the above passage, Walter Horalio Pater’s statement, “Imaginative prose should be special” implies:

    1. Aabstract language
    2. Benvironmental crisis
    3. Cintellectual complexities
    4. Dmetaphorical functions

    Answer: (C) intellectual complexities

    Explanation

    Pater’s “special” prose implies intellectual complexity suited to modern experience, not merely abstract language or environmental crisis.

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85. Question 85

    Which of these expressions closely represent the meaning of ‘fervid’?

    1. Afeeling nostalgic
    2. Bportraying feelings that are too strong
    3. Criding strong feelings
    4. Dexpressing humility of attitude

    Answer: (B) portraying feelings that are too strong

    Explanation

    “Fervid” means intensely passionate or emotionally strong, so it is closest to portraying feelings that are too strong.

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86. Question 86

    Artistic literature is the representation of:

    1. Afacts enhanced by creative illusions
    2. Bfacts transformed by human predilection in an array of forms
    3. Cfacts arranged by political reflection
    4. Dcomplex and natural instincts of a poet

    Answer: (B) facts transformed by human predilection in an array of forms

    Explanation

    The passage defines artistic literature as fact transformed by human preference and varied forms, not as raw fact or political arrangement.

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87. Question 87

    Which of the following is closest to what the author means by “less ambitious form of literature”?

    Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature - this transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms. It will be good literary art not because it is brilliant or sober, or rich, or impulsive, or severe, but just in proportion as its representation of that sense, that soul fact, is true, verse being only one department of such literature, and imaginative prose, it may be thought, being the special art of the modern world. That imaginative prose should be the special and opportune art of the modern world results from two important facts about the latter: first, the chaotic variety and complexity of its interests, making the intellectual issue, the really master currents of the present time incalculable - a condition of mind little susceptible of the restraint proper to verse form, so that the most characteristic verse of the nineteenth century has been lawless verse; and secondly, an all pervading naturalism, a curiosity about everything whatever as it really is, involving a certain humility of attitude, cognate to what must, after all, be the less ambitious form of literature. And prose thus asserting itself as the special and privileged artistic faculty of the present day, will be, however critics may try to narrow its scope, as varied in its excellence as humanity itself reflecting on the facts of its latest experience - an instrument of many stops, meditative, observant, descriptive, eloquent, analytic, plaintive, fervid.

    1. Aliterature responsive to heightened state of human perception
    2. Bimaginative literature
    3. Cartistic literature
    4. Dpoetry without form and diction

    Answer: (A) literature responsive to heightened state of human perception

    Explanation

    The passage calls the “less ambitious form” a literature responsive to naturalism and heightened perception of reality, rather than purely formal poetry.

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88. Question 88

    According to the author, prose should be:-

    Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature - this transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms. It will be good literary art not because it is brilliant or sober, or rich, or impulsive, or severe, but just in proportion as its representation of that sense, that soul fact, is true, verse being only one department of such literature, and imaginative prose, it may be thought, being the special art of the modern world. That imaginative prose should be the special and opportune art of the modern world results from two important facts about the latter: first, the chaotic variety and complexity of its interests, making the intellectual issue, the really master currents of the present time incalculable - a condition of mind little susceptible of the restraint proper to verse form, so that the most characteristic verse of the nineteenth century has been lawless verse; and secondly, an all pervading naturalism, a curiosity about everything whatever as it really is, involving a certain humility of attitude, cognate to what must, after all, be the less ambitious form of literature. And prose thus asserting itself as the special and privileged artistic faculty of the present day, will be, however critics may try to narrow its scope, as varied in its excellence as humanity itself reflecting on the facts of its latest experience - an instrument of many stops, meditative, observant, descriptive, eloquent, analytic, plaintive, fervid.

    1. ASocio-Political
    2. BSubjective
    3. Cas varied as human experience
    4. Das visual as other art forms

    Answer: (C) as varied as human experience

    Explanation

    The passage says prose can be as varied in excellence as humanity’s experience itself, so prose should be varied like human experience.

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89. Question 89

    The poem deals with______.

    SMOKE

    Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
    Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
    Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
    By night star-veiling, and by day
    Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
    Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth,
    And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

    Henry David Thoreau

    1. Afire in the forest
    2. Bfire in the city
    3. Cfire on the ship
    4. Dfire in the village

    Answer: (D) fire in the village

    Explanation

    Thoreau’s poem “Smoke” describes smoke rising from a hearth over hamlets, making “fire in the village” the best contextual answer.

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90. Question 90

    The word “Lark” in the third line means_____.

    SMOKE

    Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
    Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
    Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
    By night star-veiling, and by day
    Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
    Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth,
    And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

    Henry David Thoreau

    1. Alaugh
    2. Bescape
    3. Cgiggle
    4. Dskylark

    Answer: (D) skylark

    Explanation

    In “Lark without song,” lark refers to the bird, a skylark-like image for smoke rising upward.

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91. Question 91

    Why does the poet seek pardon from the Gods?

    SMOKE

    Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
    Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
    Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
    By night star-veiling, and by day
    Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
    Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth,
    And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

    Henry David Thoreau

    1. AThe singing birds disrupt the peace of the forest.
    2. BThe earth is full of peace and tranquility.
    3. CThe speaker admits sin of setting the fire.
    4. DThe narrator is over enthusiastic.

    Answer: (C) The speaker admits sin of setting the fire.

    Explanation

    The speaker asks pardon because the “clear flame” is his own fire; the poem frames this as an admitted act requiring pardon.

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