The complete UGC NET December 2023 question paper for English Literature, covering Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature). Every question below is shown with its options and the correct answer, and a detailed explanation you can unlock by signing in. All 150 questions are free to practise.
| Exam | UGC NET December 2023 |
|---|---|
| Papers | Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature) |
| Exam date(s) | December 6, 2023 |
| Shift(s) | Shift 1 |
| Paper 1 questions | 50 questions · 60 minutes · 100 marks |
| Paper 2 questions | 100 questions · 120 minutes · 200 marks |
| Total | 150 questions |
| Marking scheme | +2 per correct answer · No negative marking |
UGC NET December 2023 · English Literature sitting
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
The following table shows the income and expenditure in ₹ millions of a certain company during the five years from 2018-2022, along with profit % and loss % incurred in all these years.
Some values are missing in the table indicated by ‘ — ‘ that you are expected to calculate if required.
Based on the data in the table, answer the questions that follow.
Profit in 2020 is _______% more than in 2018 ?
| Year | Expenditure (in ₹ millions) | Income (in ₹ millions) | Profit %(+) / Loss %(-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 192 | - | +15% |
| 2019 | 248 | - | - |
| 2020 | 210 | - | +20% |
| 2021 | - | 359.6 | - |
| 2022 | - | - | -12% |
Year-wise income, expenditure, and profit/loss of a company for 2018 to 2022
Answer: (C) 45.83
Explanation
The following table shows the income and expenditure in ₹ millions of a certain company during the five years from 2018-2022, along with profit % and loss % incurred in all these years.
Some values are missing in the table indicated by ‘ — ‘ that you are expected to calculate if required.
Based on the data in the table, answer the questions that follow.
what is the average income of the company in 2018 and 2020, (in ₹ million)?
| Year | Expenditure (in ₹ millions) | Income (in ₹ millions) | Profit %(+) / Loss %(-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 192 | - | +15% |
| 2019 | 248 | - | - |
| 2020 | 210 | - | +20% |
| 2021 | - | 359.6 | - |
| 2022 | - | - | -12% |
Year-wise income, expenditure, and profit/loss of a company for 2018 to 2022
Answer: (B) 236.4
Explanation
Based on the table
In 2022, if the expenditure of the company was 15% more than in 2019, then what was the income of the company in 2022, (in ₹ million)?
| Year | Expenditure (in ₹ millions) | Income (in ₹ millions) | Profit %(+) / Loss %(-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 192 | - | +15% |
| 2019 | 248 | - | - |
| 2020 | 210 | - | +20% |
| 2021 | - | 359.6 | - |
| 2022 | - | - | -12% |
Year-wise income, expenditure, and profit/loss of a company for 2018 to 2022
Answer: (A) 250.976
Explanation
Based on the table
In 2021, if the company's profit percent was higher by 60% of the profit percent in 2018, then the approximate percent increase in expenditure of the company in 2021 as compared to the previous year would be :
| Year | Expenditure (in ₹ millions) | Income (in ₹ millions) | Profit %(+) / Loss %(-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 192 | - | +15% |
| 2019 | 248 | - | - |
| 2020 | 210 | - | +20% |
| 2021 | - | 359.6 | - |
| 2022 | - | - | -12% |
Year-wise income, expenditure, and profit/loss of a company for 2018 to 2022
Answer: (D) 38%
Explanation
Based on the table
If the loss incurred by the company in 2019 was ₹33.2 million more than the profit of the company in 2018, then what was the loss percent incurred by the company in 2019?
| Year | Expenditure (in ₹ millions) | Income (in ₹ millions) | Profit %(+) / Loss %(-) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 192 | - | +15% |
| 2019 | 248 | - | - |
| 2020 | 210 | - | +20% |
| 2021 | - | 359.6 | - |
| 2022 | - | - | -12% |
Year-wise income, expenditure, and profit/loss of a company for 2018 to 2022
Answer: (C) 25%
Explanation
In an arithmetic series having 50 terms, the first and last terms are 3 and 199 respectively. What is the sum of all the terms?
Answer: (B) 5050
Explanation
Find the next term in the following letter series:
AM, GJ, MG, SD,.?..
Answer: (D) YA
Explanation
Which of the following are true about producer gas?
A. It results from conversion of solid biomass into gaseous fuels.
B. It is produced at lower temperature.
C. It can be used as fuel in internal combustion engines.
D. It is produced in the complete absence of oxygen.
E. The hydrogen and methane present in producer gas determine its heating value.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A), (C) and (E) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: In teacher-centred learning, the teacher gives up the traditional decision-making role and chooses instead the role of a facilitator who focuses on students' feelings.
Statement II: In learner-centred method, the teacher attempts to see the world as the students see it, creating an atmosphere of empathetic communication.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of steps followed from initial to last during water treatment process?
A. Coagulation
B. Filtration
C. Screening
D. Sedimentation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (C), (D), (A), (B)
Explanation
"More laws have been added on the books in the past five years than ever before, yet the number of crimes committed during the same period has significantly increased. Therefore, to bring the crime rate down, we must eliminate the laws.
" Which fallacy is committed in the above statement?
Answer: (C) False cause
Explanation
Identify the sampling issues that are problematic in online surveys:
A. Many people use more than one internet service provider.
B. Every person has only one unique email address.
C. A household may have one computer but several users.
D. Internet users are a biased sample of the population.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A), (C) and (D) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were mainly targeted at developing or poor countries.
Statement II: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targeted at all countries whether developed, developing, or poor.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
Explanation
If (P)₈ represents the number P in base _8, then (144)₈ + (175)₈ =
Answer: (B) (341)₈
Explanation
The organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted, stored, and recalled are known as:
Answer: (B) Schemas
Explanation
In comparison to secondary computer storage, primary storage is:
Answer: (C) Faster, more expensive per unit of storage, and not persistent
Explanation
Identify the similarities between quantitative and qualitative research:
A. Both are concerned with data reduction.
B. Both are concerned with variation in data.
C. Both lay emphasis on contextual understanding.
D. Both lay emphasis on generalization.
E. Both are concerned with answering research questions.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A), (B) and (E) only
Explanation
Which of the following was recommended by the Hunter Commission?
Answer: (C) Participation of private enterprise in higher education
Explanation
Identify the correct reasons for writing a literature review:
A. You need to know what is already known in connection with your research area.
B. It may help you develop an analytic framework.
C. It will help with the interpretation of your findings.
D. It may suggest further research questions for you.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A), (B), (C) and (D)
Explanation
An epistemological position that advocates the application of the methods of the natural sciences to the study of social reality and beyond refers to:
Answer: (A) Positivism
Explanation
Which of the following research institutes were established between the first and third Five-Year Plans?
A. Indian Institute of Science
B. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
C. Lok Bharati
D. Gandhi Gram Rural Institute
E. Raman Research Institute
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B), (C) and (D) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Nalanda University of ancient India attracted students from various parts of the world.
Statement II: The Nalanda University was overshadowed by the universities in Europe and Arabia immediately after its establishment.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
Explanation
One of the four maxims of conversation, the quantity maxim, reflects the right amount of:
Answer: (D) Information
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: IPv6 address in computer networking is 4 times larger than an IPv4 address.
Statement II: The IP address gives the location of a device on the Internet, whereas the MAC address identifies the device connected to the Internet.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
Explanation
Which of the following are the components of pedagogical analysis of teaching and learning?
A. Objective formulation
B. Selection of teaching methods and materials
C. Content analysis
D. Selection of evaluation devices
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (B), (C) and (D)
Explanation
Which among the following is an open-source software for data analysis?
Answer: (C) R
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The ability to generate unusual, yet appropriate, responses to problems or questions is known as convergent thinking.
Statement II: The ability to produce responses that are based primarily on knowledge and logic is known as convergent thinking.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
Explanation
Which of the following belong to the field of proxemics in communication?
A. Facial expressions
B. Crowding
C. Territoriality
D. Personal space
E. Eye contact
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (B), (C) and (D) only
Explanation
Using the table ,
choose the correct mapping between- graphical user interface terms and their descriptions.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Window | I. Represents a folder or a program and can be seen within a window or free standing on screen |
| B. Icon | II. Contains lists of options for a certain program |
| C. Menu | III. Used to select menu options, icons, and close or open windows |
| D. Pointer | IV. Represents an area on the screen that displays information for a specific program |
List I and List II for GUI term-description matching
Answer: (C) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
Explanation
The University of Punjab was established at Lahore in 1882 to reduce the burden of the university of:
Answer: (B) Calcutta
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): DDT bioaccumulates in the tissues of many species including humans.
Reason (R) : DDT is relatively insoluble in water but readily soluble in fats and oils.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
As per the square of opposition, which of the following propositions are so related that if one of them is true, the other must be false and vice versa?
A. All mammals are vertebrates.
B. No mammals are vertebrates.
C. Some non-mammals are not vertebrates.
D. Some mammals are not vertebrates.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A) and (D) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): No test provides a perfect picture of a student's abilities and skills.
Reason (R): A test is only one small sample of a student's performance.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
If the statement
"Some rectangles are not squares" is given as true, then according to the square of opposition
which of the following statements can be immediately inferred to be false?
Answer: (A) All rectangles are squares.
Explanation
Which of the following contextual factors determine meaning in communication behaviour?
A. Physical location
B. Participants
C. Preceding events
D. Nonfunctional goals
E. Absence of audience
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A), (B) and (C) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to the classical Indian school of logic (Nyaya), the argument "Sound is eternal because it is audible" is fallacious.
Statement II: According to the classical Indian school of logic, the argument "Sound is eternal because it is audible" commits the fallacy of irregular middle term where the middle term is too wide.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
Explanation
The sum and difference of two numbers are 19 and 7 respectively. What is the sum of their squares?
Answer: (C) 205
Explanation
When the primary function of communication is to convey new information, it is known as:
Answer: (C) Referential function
Explanation
The Convention on Biological Diversity is dedicated to promote sustainable development conceived as a practical tool for translating the principles of:
Answer: (B) Agenda 21
Explanation
A train moving at a speed of 63 km/hr enters a railway station and crosses the platform in 20 seconds. If the length of the train is 100 m, what is the length of the platform?
Answer: (C) 250 m
Explanation
A security system records video footage.
One minute of video requires 180 MegaBytes of storage.
How much storage would be needed for 2 hours of video footage?
(1 k = 1024)
Answer: (C) 21.1 GigaBytes
Explanation
Which of the following steps were taken by the University Grants Commission during the Second Five-Year Plan?
A. Introduction of three-year degree course
B. Improvement in libraries and laboratories
C. Increase in the salaries of university teachers
D. No new departments were approved in the universities
E. Hindi was made the optional medium of instruction besides local languages in all Indian universities
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A), (B) and (C) only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to Buddhism, linguistic communication should be used to adopt moral stance.
Statement II: Critical introspection is not preferred by Buddhists as part of intrapersonal communication.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
Explanation
Which of the following statements are logically equivalent?
A. No liquids are beverages.
B. No beverages are liquids.
C. All non-beverages are non-liquids.
D. All non-liquids are non-beverages.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A) and (B) only
Explanation
A certain sum of money doubles in 4 years at a compound rate of interest per annum.
The rate of interest is [Given: 2^(1/2) = 1.414, 2^(1/4) = 1.1892]:
Answer: (C) ~18.9%
Explanation
Read the Given Passage Carefully and answer the questions :
A child becomes an enlightened human being as a result of value-based education received:
The most important part of a person's life is childhood. The learning our young citizens receive at home, in school and in society between the ages of five and sixteen will shape them for the rest of their lives. During this phase, they need a good value-based education to become enlightened human beings.
Parents and teachers need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school. Education is fundamental to building the nation of our dreams. All our aspirations as a society are tied to the capabilities of our youngsters, who form such a large part of our population.
A child's individuality and creativity need to be given due importance in our education. The curriculum needs to be innovative and the examination system overhauled so that it recognizes and evaluates creativity and new thinking rather than memorization of facts. Schools must move away from being centres of education alone, instead becoming centres of knowledge and skill development.
Answer: (C) (C) at home, in school and in society and (E) between the ages of five and sixteen
Explanation
Based on the passage ,
A good examination system should:
(A) Recognize a child's creativity
(B) Recognize a childs individuality
(C) Encourage rote learning
(D) Encourage new thinking
The most important part of a person's life is childhood. The learning our young citizens receive at home, in school and in society between the ages of five and sixteen will shape them for the rest of their lives. During this phase, they need a good value-based education to become enlightened human beings. Parents and teachers need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school. Education is fundamental to building the nation of our dreams. All our aspirations as a society are tied to the capabilities of our youngsters, who form such a large part of our population. A child's individuality and creativity need to be given due importance in our education. The curriculum needs to be innovative and the examination system overhauled so that it recognizes and evaluates creativity and new thinking rather than memorization of facts. Schools must move away from being centres of education alone, instead becoming centres of knowledge and skill development.
Answer: (A) (A), (B) and (D) only
Explanation
Based on the passage ,
what is essential for building the nation of our dreams?
The most important part of a person's life is childhood. The learning our young citizens receive at home, in school and in society between the ages of five and sixteen will shape them for the rest of their lives. During this phase, they need a good value-based education to become enlightened human beings. Parents and teachers need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school. Education is fundamental to building the nation of our dreams. All our aspirations as a society are tied to the capabilities of our youngsters, who form such a large part of our population. A child's individuality and creativity need to be given due importance in our education. The curriculum needs to be innovative and the examination system overhauled so that it recognizes and evaluates creativity and new thinking rather than memorization of facts. Schools must move away from being centres of education alone, instead becoming centres of knowledge and skill development.
Answer: (B) Value-based education
Explanation
Based on the passage ,
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Schools should only be centres of education.
Statement II: Youngsters form a minimal part of our population.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
The most important part of a person's life is childhood. The learning our young citizens receive at home, in school and in society between the ages of five and sixteen will shape them for the rest of their lives. During this phase, they need a good value-based education to become enlightened human beings. Parents and teachers need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school. Education is fundamental to building the nation of our dreams. All our aspirations as a society are tied to the capabilities of our youngsters, who form such a large part of our population. A child's individuality and creativity need to be given due importance in our education. The curriculum needs to be innovative and the examination system overhauled so that it recognizes and evaluates creativity and new thinking rather than memorization of facts. Schools must move away from being centres of education alone, instead becoming centres of knowledge and skill development.
Answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
Explanation
Based on the passage ,
who need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school?
The most important part of a person's life is childhood. The learning our young citizens receive at home, in school and in society between the ages of five and sixteen will shape them for the rest of their lives. During this phase, they need a good value-based education to become enlightened human beings. Parents and teachers need to have an integrated mission: education with a good value system at home and in school. Education is fundamental to building the nation of our dreams. All our aspirations as a society are tied to the capabilities of our youngsters, who form such a large part of our population. A child's individuality and creativity need to be given due importance in our education. The curriculum needs to be innovative and the examination system overhauled so that it recognizes and evaluates creativity and new thinking rather than memorization of facts. Schools must move away from being centres of education alone, instead becoming centres of knowledge and skill development.
Answer: (C) Parents and teachers
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Match List I with List II using the table .
| List I (Character) | List II (Novel) |
|---|---|
| (A) Sethe | (I) The Handmaid's Tale |
| (B) Okonkwo | (II) Beloved |
| (C) Offred | (III) Things Fall Apart |
| (D) Winston Smith | (IV) Nineteen Eighty Four |
Characters and novels for the matching question
Answer: (A) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Explanation
Identify the correct chronological order of the following publications:
(A) Simon Gikandi's Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
(B) Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
(C) Homi K. Bhabha's Nation and Narration
(D) Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism
(E) Robert Young's Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B), (D), (C), (E), (A)
Explanation
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication dates:
(A) Michel Foucault's The Order of Things
(B) M. K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or The Indian Home Rule
(C) Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
(D) Donna Haraway's When Species Meet
(E) Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (B), (A), (E), (D), (C)
Explanation
Which of the following is not true about Raymond Williams' views on culture?
Answer: (C) The masses do not participate in the creation of cultural values.
Explanation
The Transcendental Club was a group of American intellectuals formed for philosophical discussion.
Which of the following texts is taken as a short treatise on Transcendentalism?
Answer: (A) Emerson's Nature
Explanation
Edgar Allan Poe is often called the originator of the short story as an established genre. He defined "the prose tale" as:
Answer: (A) A narrative which can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours.
Explanation
Which of the following statements best describe Anna Karenina's situation and worldview?
(A) Anna is deeply committed to the family and children.
(B) Anna's choices were more an outcome of passion and instinct.
(C) Anna accepted the exile to which she was condemned.
(D) Anna's passionate spirit and determination to live life on her own terms make her unique.
(E) She became a victim of rampant patriarchal forces.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (D) and (E) only
Explanation
Identify the poet of the following poems:
(a) The Skylark
(b) The Badger
(c) The Gypsy Camp
(d) First Love
Answer: (B) John Clare
Explanation
Which one of these is not a literary journal or magazine?
Answer: (D) The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: A Room of One's Own is a feminist essay about women's education, exclusion and writing by Virginia Woolf.
Statement II: In Other Worlds is a collection of essays written by Edward W. Said on contemporary ideas such as psychoanalysis and social theory.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement (I) is true but Statement (Il) is false
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion(A): Toni Morrison and Adrienne Rich have contributed to a distinctive style.
Reason (R): Adrienne Rich observes that feminism is the field where "subjectivity and politics have to come together" in the most natural way.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
A portmanteau is:
Answer: (B) A word that results from blending two or more words or parts of words.
Explanation
Name the poet who composed the following poems:
(a) The Divine Image
(b) The Holy Thursday
(c) The Little Boy Lost
(d) The Little Boy Found
Answer: (B) William Blake
Explanation
Indicate the correct chronological order of publication of the following literary works:
(A) Beowulf
(B) Divina Commedia
(C) Summa Theologica
(D) Le Morte d'Arthur
(E) Canterbury Tales
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (A), (C), (B), (E), (D)
Explanation
Which among the following statements is not true about NEP 2020?
Answer: (C) The policy recommends that English should be the only medium of instruction at elementary level.
Explanation
Which of the following are true about Arthur Miller's plays?
(A) After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play.
(B) Incident at Vichy deals with Nazi persecution of the Jews.
(C) The Price anticipates an economic crash.
(D) The Creation of the World and Other Business is not a serio-comic rewriting of Jesus.
(E) The Crucible uses a specific setting to consider the responsibilities of the artist.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A) and (B) only
Explanation
Which work of Francis Bacon explains the new logic or inductive method of reasoning?
Answer: (C) Novum Organum
Explanation
Which of the following statements or concepts are relevant for understanding Postmodernism?
(A) Postmodernism and Postcolonialism are mutually dependent in responding to colonial experience.
(B) Lyotard argues that the postmodern condition is characterised by a deeply felt scepticism towards metanarratives.
(C) Edward W. Said has been instrumental in postmodern theory and criticism.
(D) Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation is a seminal postmodern text.
(E) Fredric Jameson argues that parody has been replaced by pastiche in postmodernism.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (B), (D) and (E) only
Explanation
Who among the following described drama in the following words?
"A true play is three dimensional; it is literature that walks and talks before our eyes."
Answer: (A) Marjorie Boulton
Explanation
Which two cities are referred to in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities?
Answer: (C) London and Paris
Explanation
Which among the following writers are popular for partition narratives?
(A) Krishna Sobti
(B) Shashi Deshpande
(C) Saros Cowasjee
(D) Bharati Mukherjee
(E) Rahi Masoom Raza
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A),(C) and (E) Only
Explanation
Which among the following statements are true about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights?
(A) This novel was published in 1847.
(B) Emily Bronte published this novel under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
(C) Lockwood and Catherine Linton are the main narrators of the story.
(D) The novel is unique for its abstention from authorial intrusion, unusual structure and narrative technique.
(E) Wuthering Heights was the third novel of Emily Bronte.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (B) and (D) only
Explanation
Which among the following poems has not been composed by P. B. Shelley?
Answer: (D) When We Two Parted
Explanation
Which of the following characteristics of She Stoops to Conquer is not correct?
Answer: (B) It does not cast excellent characters.
Explanation
Which of the following is true about Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
(A) It illustrates vanity of humankind.
(B) It has uncompromising views on humanitarian communism.
(C) It projects self-deception, striving to disguise failure.
(D) It is a static representation without structure or development.
(E) Its incoherent dialogue suggests the despair of a society.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A) and (C) Only
Explanation
Who among the following is the earliest available Indian dramatist?
Answer: (C) Bhasa
Explanation
According to Sigmund Freud, civilisation is to some extent the cumulative product of our psychology.
Choose the correct option(s):
(A) The purpose of human life is the pursuit of happiness.
(B) Man is wholly good.
(C) Abolition of private property will remove ill-will and hostility among men.
(D) Creative art reflects the purpose of human life.
(E) Civilisation is analogous with the human psyche.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (D) and (E) Only
Explanation
Which among the following are not mentioned as the aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster?
(A) Story
(B) Imagination
(C) Plot
(D) Harmony
(E) Prophecy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B) and (D) Only
Explanation
Which among the following is not written by a sportsperson?
Answer: (D) A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir
Explanation
The essay "Discourse in the Novel" discusses that the novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending social voices.
Who is the author of this essay?
Answer: (B) Mikhail Bakhtin
Explanation
Roland Barthes in his "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives" (1966) proposed three levels of narrative structure. Which among the following are the narrative structures proposed by him?
(A) Functions
(B) Actions
(C) Grammar
(D) Narration
(E) Coherence
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A)(B) and (D) Only
Explanation
What is not true about D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers?
(A) Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical novel.
(B) It is a psychological study of the familial and love relationships of a working-class English family.
(C) The film adaptation of the novel was directed by Jack Cardiff.
(D) The storyline traces three generations of the Brangwen family.
(E) The novel narrates the story of Paul Morel whose love for his beloved overshadows the affectionate bond with his mother.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (D) and (E) Only
Explanation
"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." It is the opening line of the novel:
Answer: (A) Anna Karenina
Explanation
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks primarily deals with:
Answer: (C) Philosophy, culture, literature and the role of intellectuals
Explanation
Which among the following writers remarked that
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour"?
Answer: (A) Henry David Thoreau
Explanation
The term 'simulacra' in postmodern discourse is about:
(A) Absence of vivid representation of reality
(B) Artificially produced reality dubbed as authentic
(C) A rejection of modernistic view of reality
(D) The gap between perception and reality
(E) The psychological interplay at the level of subconscious
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B) and (C) Only
Explanation
"Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought."
What does the theorist signify by the term 'white man' here?
Answer: (D) A form of colonial authority
Explanation
Name the author/writer who is not associated with British Cultural Studies.
Answer: (A) I.A. Richards
Explanation
Identify the correct option(s) in the theorisation of nation by Homi K. Bhabha.
(A) Nation arises from similarities among people.
(B) Nationalist representation is defined by ambivalence.
(C) Nationalist representation engages with two contradictory modes of representation.
(D) Nationalist discourses are split by a disruptive double-narrative movement.
(E) Nation is a stable and fixed category.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (B), (C) and (D) Only
Explanation
Who among the following is not associated with Cultural Materialism?
Answer: (D) Stanley Fish
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the following works of Sri Aurobindo in accordance with their year of publication:
(A) The Hour of God
(B) The Mother
(C) The Life Divine
(D) The Future Poetry
(E) The Synthesis of Yoga
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (B), (D), (C), (A), (E)
Explanation
Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was not needed in the plays of the University Wits?
Answer: (D) Lives of common figures
Explanation
Who among the following declared in 1920 that "there is no longer any intellectual life in England"?
Answer: (C) Ezra Pound
Explanation
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased."
These are the opening lines of:
Answer: (B) Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
Explanation
Which among the following statements are true?
(A) Miscegenation is a sexual relationship or marriage between the people of the same race.
(B) Creole is a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community.
(C) Indian tribal people are popularly termed as aboriginals.
(D) Mulatto is a person of mixed white and black ancestry.
(E) Australian indigenous population is termed as Red Indians.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B) and (D) Only
Explanation
How many major forms of drama have been described by Bharata in his manual of dramaturgy?
Answer: (D) Ten
Explanation
Which of the following is true of Edward Said's Orientalism?
(A) It was published in 1979.
(B) It utilises the concept of discursive formulation as argued by Foucault.
(C) It undertakes a detailed analysis of imaginative geography and representation of the Orient.
(D) It is one of the foundational texts of postcolonial theory.
(E) It puts to use Barthes' concept of 'death of the author'.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B), (C) and (D) Only
Explanation
Arrange the following in the chronological order of the date/year of publication:
(A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices
(B) Anand Giridharadas's India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
(C) V.S. Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization
(D) Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters
(E) Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (C), (E), (A), (D), (B)
Explanation
Which of the following assumptions are true in the context of New Criticism?
(A) The movement popularised close reading of the text.
(B) The leading critics of New Criticism include Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, R.P. Blackmur and Kenneth Burke.
(C) The critical approach is extensively used in the study of novels and plays.
(D) This critical approach tends to discredit the historical, social and political contexts of a work of literature.
(E) J.C. Ransom published a book The New Criticism wherein he appreciates critics such as I.A. Richards, William Empson and T.S. Eliot.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A), (B) and (D) Only
Explanation
What is the correct chronological order of publication of the texts given under?
(A) R.K. Narayan's The Financial Expert
(B) Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges
(C) Raja Rao's Kanthapura
(D) Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel
(E) Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (C), (A), (B), (D), (E)
Explanation
Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature?
(A) Abrogation, resistance and assertion form the basis of postcolonial thought.
(B) Postcolonial theory defends binaries of master and slave, white and black, and coloniser and colonised.
(C) Weep Not, Child is the first novel in English by an East African writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is based on the experiences of colonized African population.
(E) Homi K. Bhabha, Edward W. Said and Gayatri Spivak are important postcolonial thinkers.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (C) and (E) Only
Explanation
"An Introduction" by Kamala Das is:
Answer: (C) A poem of resistance and protest
Explanation
What does aptly define minor literature, according to Gilles Deleuze?
Answer: (B) Deterritorialisation of language
Explanation
Which among the following is not a character from Jane Austen's novel Persuasion?
Answer: (C) Miss Crawford
Explanation
Choose the correct option in the light of the following statement:
"The fact that I am a black working-class man will determine my worldview just as much, and perhaps far more than I consciously learn in the domain of ideas."
(A) Man is capable of making free choices in the sphere of intellection and morality.
(B) The unconscious determines human thought and behaviour.
(C) Man is condemned to be free.
(D) We bear a form of "otherness" within ourselves.
(E) We can no longer talk unequivocally of a writer's intention.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (B), (D) and (E) Only
Explanation
'Panopticism' is a concept that refers to external spying. Who among the following coined this term?
Answer: (B) Michel Foucault
Explanation
Prose romances preceded the emergence of the novel as a popular literary genre. Which texts among the following fall under the category of Prose Romance?
Answer: (B) Oroonoko and The Fair Jilt
Explanation
Arrange the following texts chronologically:
(A) Bharata's Natyashastra
(B) Kshemendra's Aucityavicharacharcha
(C) Bhamaha's Kavyalankara
(D) Kuntaka's Vakroktijivitam
(E) Anandavardhana's Dhvanyaloka
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A),(C),(E),(D),(B)
Explanation
In Antonio Gramsci's definition of intellectual, which is the correct option?
(A) Every social group joining the world of production creates organically a strata of intellectuals.
(B) Intellectuals give homogeneity and awareness of a social group's function in all the fields.
(C) Intellectuals do not work for consolidating the power of a social group.
(D) The category of ecclesiastics is organically bound to the bourgeoisie.
(E) The monopoly held by the ecclesiastics in the superstructural domain was not exercised without a contestation.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (B) and (E) Only
Explanation
Who of the following was the immediate predecessor of the drama proper?
Answer: (A) The Interlude
Explanation
Use of broader principles of research underscored by philosophical rationales is termed as:
Answer: (D) Research Methodology
Explanation
"Did not Shakespeare hate and despise Iago and Edmund?" Identify the book in which this question has been mentioned.
Answer: (D) Aspects of Poetry
Explanation
Choose the correct option(s) in the New Historicist reading of Dalit writing:
(A) Dalit writing does not essentialise Indian society, culture and identity.
(B) Dalit writing has inflected the immanent metanarratives.
(C) There is no single location of Dalit writing.
(D) Dalit writing is only a political category.
(E) Dalit writing is not grounded in history.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A), (B) and (C) Only
Explanation
Sharankumar Limbale argues that Dalit literature is unique because:
(A) This brings out the Dalit reality which is liminal in time and space.
(B) This has unique historical and ideological concerns.
(C) This offers literary and cultural representations of marginalised and dispossessed people.
(D) This brings out narratives and discourses of pity.
(E) It uses disrespectful and offensive language towards revered figures.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (A), (B) and (C) Only
Explanation
What among the following is not true about Anna Karenina?
Answer: (A) The novel was published in 1872.
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): Non-fictional narrative Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington is based on the real life experiences of three aboriginal girls who fled from the Moore River Native Settlement.
Statement (II): The names of the three girls are Molly, Daisy and Mary.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement (I) is correct but Statement (Il) is incorrect
Explanation
Which among the following are the titles of the periodicals?
(A) Dickens' Household Words
(B) S.T. Coleridge's Friend
(C) Richard Steele's Guardian
(D) Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
(E) Leigh Hunt's Indicator
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) (A), (B), (C) and (E) Only
Explanation
The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a novel exploring past and future. It has been written by:
Answer: (B) Amitav Ghosh
Explanation
Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
(A) Culture and Society
(B) Culture and Anarchy
(C) To Hell with Culture
(D) Studies in Dying Culture
(E) Notes towards the Definition of Culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) (E),(B).(A),(D),(C)
Explanation
Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of Richard Hoggart were published:
(A) An Imagined Life
(B) The Uses of Literacy
(C) Higher Education: Demand and Response
(D) A Local Habitation
(E) A Sort of Clowning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
Explanation
Which of the following assertions is/are not true in the context of culture industry?
(A) The term 'culture industry' was used by the Frankfurt School to describe the operations of mass media.
(B) The dominant capitalist class instils its values and beliefs in the minds of the working-class people.
(C) The word 'industry' signifies the production of cultural products for mass consumption.
(D) The authentic culture arising from the working class is preserved and protected.
(E) The mass culture thus produced induces activism and critical thinking among the youth.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (D) and (E) Only
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
Reason (R): This is mainly because several different though related meanings have emerged at particular moments throughout its long history.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
"All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class ... have had good, at least expensive education....
" Where has Virginia Woolf explained it?
Answer: (C) The Leaning Tower
Explanation
According to Greek mythology, who is Psyche in John Keats' "Ode to Psyche"?
Answer: (A) A mortal woman
Explanation
Which of the following novels of Thomas Hardy was first published in an abridged form as Hearts Insurgent?
Answer: (B) Jude the Obscure
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Discourses are cultural and social practices rooted in psychic and physical reality.
Reason (R): Foucault defines discourse as the material manifestation of thought which shapes our subjectivity.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
In Absurd Theatre, the characters often use disjointed, repetitive and cliched speech to:
(A) Suggest that meaninglessness is also about a meaning.
(B) Suggest the working of the subconscious.
(C) Bring about comic action and relief.
(D) Illustrate the illogicality and purposelessness of human condition.
(E) Defy the self-professed 'modern' notion of dignity and wisdom.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) (A) and (D) Only
Explanation
The term 'gynocriticism' refers to:
Answer: (D) Production and analysis of writings by women on women
Explanation
What is the correct order of publication of the novels of Charles Dickens?
(A) Great Expectations
(B) Hard Times
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) David Copperfield
(E) A Tale of Two Cities
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (C),(D),(B),(E),(A)
Explanation
Which of the following is true about Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire?
(A) It is set in New Orleans.
(B) The protagonist is a Mississippi landowner.
(C) It ends with Blanche's defeat and departure.
(D) Tom Wingfield is the narrator.
(E) Laura and Stella are cousins.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (A) and (C) Only
Explanation
Identify the correct option in Julia Kristeva's definition of 'chora':
(A) Liminal space
(B) Space of the marginalised
(C) Non-expressive totality created by the bodily drives
(D) The chora has no fixed identity
(E) It precedes the linguistic sign
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) (C), (D) and (E) Only
Explanation
Read the following stanza and answer the question that follow :
The Poem is an example of :
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
Answer: (A) Parampariterupaka (consequential metaphor) because here the superimposition, undermined by a resemblance, is the cause of another superimposition.
Explanation
What is upmana (object compared to ) in the poem?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
Answer: (D) Summer's day
Explanation
What is upmeya (object compared) in the poem?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
Answer: (A) Addressee
Explanation
Which of the following statements rightly shows the relationship of upameya with upamana in the poem?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
Answer: (A) Upameya is superior to upamana
Explanation
What is the addressee in the poem ?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
Answer: (B) Masculine gender
Explanation
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
It is easy to find words for ideas than for forces because:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Some sort of parallel may be found in the way logical connectives are usually unnecessary and often misleading, because too simple. Omitting an adjective one would need 'therefore' stressing the adjective 'although'; both logical connections are implied if the sentences are just put after another. In the same way, people are accustomed to judge automatically the forces that hold together a variety of ideas; they feel they know about the forces, if they have analysed the ideas; many forces, indeed, are covertly included within ideas; and so of the two elements, each of which defines the other, it is much easier to find words for the ideas than for the forces. Most of the ambiguities I have considered here seem to me beautiful; I consider, then, that I have shown by example, in showing the nature of the ambiguity, the nature of the forces which are adequate to hold it together. It would seem very artificial to do it the other way round, and very tedious to do it both ways at once. I wish only, then, to say here that such vaguely imagined 'forces' are essential to the totality of a poem and they cannot be discussed in terms of ambiguity, because they are complementary to it. But by discussing 'ambiguity', a great deal may be made clear about them. In particular, if there is contradiction, the greater the tension; in some way other than by the contradiction, the tension must be conveyed, and must be sustained.
Answer: (B) Forces are embedded in ideas
Explanation
What does the term "logical connectives" mean?
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Some sort of parallel may be found in the way logical connectives are usually unnecessary and often misleading, because too simple. Omitting an adjective one would need 'therefore' stressing the adjective 'although'; both logical connections are implied if the sentences are just put after another. In the same way, people are accustomed to judge automatically the forces that hold together a variety of ideas; they feel they know about the forces, if they have analysed the ideas; many forces, indeed, are covertly included within ideas; and so of the two elements, each of which defines the other, it is much easier to find words for the ideas than for the forces. Most of the ambiguities I have considered here seem to me beautiful; I consider, then, that I have shown by example, in showing the nature of the ambiguity, the nature of the forces which are adequate to hold it together. It would seem very artificial to do it the other way round, and very tedious to do it both ways at once. I wish only, then, to say here that such vaguely imagined 'forces' are essential to the totality of a poem and they cannot be discussed in terms of ambiguity, because they are complementary to it. But by discussing 'ambiguity', a great deal may be made clear about them. In particular, if there is contradiction, the greater the tension; in some way other than by the contradiction, the tension must be conveyed, and must be sustained.
Answer: (C) The statement of logical form in addition to logical context
Explanation
Why does the author say that "the tension must be conveyed and must be sustained"?
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Some sort of parallel may be found in the way logical connectives are usually unnecessary and often misleading, because too simple. Omitting an adjective one would need 'therefore' stressing the adjective 'although'; both logical connections are implied if the sentences are just put after another. In the same way, people are accustomed to judge automatically the forces that hold together a variety of ideas; they feel they know about the forces, if they have analysed the ideas; many forces, indeed, are covertly included within ideas; and so of the two elements, each of which defines the other, it is much easier to find words for the ideas than for the forces. Most of the ambiguities I have considered here seem to me beautiful; I consider, then, that I have shown by example, in showing the nature of the ambiguity, the nature of the forces which are adequate to hold it together. It would seem very artificial to do it the other way round, and very tedious to do it both ways at once. I wish only, then, to say here that such vaguely imagined 'forces' are essential to the totality of a poem and they cannot be discussed in terms of ambiguity, because they are complementary to it. But by discussing 'ambiguity', a great deal may be made clear about them. In particular, if there is contradiction, the greater the tension; in some way other than by the contradiction, the tension must be conveyed, and must be sustained.
Answer: (C) Because tension is often an important clue to the meaning of a poem
Explanation
What is the possiblity in the analysis of a poem , if the forces are included in the ideas?
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Some sort of parallel may be found in the way logical connectives are usually unnecessary and often misleading, because too simple. Omitting an adjective one would need 'therefore' stressing the adjective 'although'; both logical connections are implied if the sentences are just put after another. In the same way, people are accustomed to judge automatically the forces that hold together a variety of ideas; they feel they know about the forces, if they have analysed the ideas; many forces, indeed, are covertly included within ideas; and so of the two elements, each of which defines the other, it is much easier to find words for the ideas than for the forces. Most of the ambiguities I have considered here seem to me beautiful; I consider, then, that I have shown by example, in showing the nature of the ambiguity, the nature of the forces which are adequate to hold it together. It would seem very artificial to do it the other way round, and very tedious to do it both ways at once. I wish only, then, to say here that such vaguely imagined 'forces' are essential to the totality of a poem and they cannot be discussed in terms of ambiguity, because they are complementary to it. But by discussing 'ambiguity', a great deal may be made clear about them. In particular, if there is contradiction, the greater the tension; in some way other than by the contradiction, the tension must be conveyed, and must be sustained.
Answer: (A) The ideas can be defined easily.
Explanation
Which of the following is not correct in relation to a poem?
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Some sort of parallel may be found in the way logical connectives are usually unnecessary and often misleading, because too simple. Omitting an adjective one would need 'therefore' stressing the adjective 'although'; both logical connections are implied if the sentences are just put after another. In the same way, people are accustomed to judge automatically the forces that hold together a variety of ideas; they feel they know about the forces, if they have analysed the ideas; many forces, indeed, are covertly included within ideas; and so of the two elements, each of which defines the other, it is much easier to find words for the ideas than for the forces. Most of the ambiguities I have considered here seem to me beautiful; I consider, then, that I have shown by example, in showing the nature of the ambiguity, the nature of the forces which are adequate to hold it together. It would seem very artificial to do it the other way round, and very tedious to do it both ways at once. I wish only, then, to say here that such vaguely imagined 'forces' are essential to the totality of a poem and they cannot be discussed in terms of ambiguity, because they are complementary to it. But by discussing 'ambiguity', a great deal may be made clear about them. In particular, if there is contradiction, the greater the tension; in some way other than by the contradiction, the tension must be conveyed, and must be sustained.
Answer: (B) Forces can be discussed in terms of ambiguity
Explanation
Match List - I (Text) with List - II (Author) using the table below.
| List I (Text) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. The Collaborator | I. Amandeep Sandhu |
| B. The Garden of Solitude | II. Shahnaz Bashir |
| C. Roll of Honour | III. Siddhartha Gigoo |
| D. The Half Mother | IV. Mirza Waheed |
Match the texts with their respective authors
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match List - I (Work) with List - II (Author) using the table below.
| List I (Work) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. The Wretched of the Earth | I. Benedict Anderson |
| B. Nation and Narration | II. Homi K. Bhabha |
| C. Culture and Imperialism | III. Edward W. Said |
| D. Imagined Communities | IV. Frantz Fanon |
Match the works with their respective authors
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Explanation
Match List - I (Novel) with List - II (Subtitle) using the table below.
| List I (Novel) | List II (Subtitle) |
|---|---|
| A. The Castle of Otranto | I. A Pure Woman |
| B. Tess of the d’Urbervilles | II. The Modern Prometheus |
| C. Frankenstein | III. A Novel without a Hero |
| D. Vanity Fair | IV. A Gothic Story |
Match the novels with their subtitles
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Match List - I (Term) with List - II (Definition) using the table below.
| List I (Term) | List II (Definition) |
|---|---|
| A. Ambivalence | I. Rejection of a normative concept of ‘correct’ or ‘standard’ English |
| B. Magic Realism | II. Marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race |
| C. Abrogation | III. Complex mix of attraction and repulsion |
| D. Miscegenation | IV. Inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction |
Match the terms with their definitions
Answer: (D) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match List - I (Term) with List - II (Coined by) using the table below.
| List I (Term) | List II (Coined by) |
|---|---|
| A. Heteroglossia | I. William Empson |
| B. Structures of Feeling | II. Raymond Williams |
| C. Ambiguity | III. Mikhail Bakhtin |
| D. Discourse | IV. Michel Foucault |
Match the terms with the theorists who coined them
Answer: (A) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Explanation
Match List - I (Literary Device) with List - II (Definition) using the table below.
| List I (Literary Device) | List II (Definition) |
|---|---|
| A. Hyperbole | I. Referring to something by the name of something else closely connected |
| B. Metonymy | II. A roundabout or indirect manner of expression |
| C. Synecdoche | III. A part representing the whole |
| D. Periphrasis | IV. An intentional exaggeration |
Match literary devices with definitions
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Explanation
Match List - I (Novel) with List - II (Writer) using the table below.
| List I (Novel) | List II (Writer) |
|---|---|
| A. Waiting for the Mahatma | I. Bhabani Bhattacharya |
| B. So Many Hungers | II. R.K. Narayan |
| C. The Sword and the Sickle | III. Manohar Malgonkar |
| D. Distant Drum | IV. Mulk Raj Anand |
Match novels with their authors
Answer: (A) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match List - I (Character) with List - II (Work) using the table below.
| List I (Character) | List II (Work) |
|---|---|
| A. Christophine | I. Wuthering Heights |
| B. Zillah | II. Wide Sargasso Sea |
| C. Estella | III. Things Fall Apart |
| D. Ekwefi | IV. Great Expectations |
Match characters with their works
Answer: (C) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match List - I (Story) with List - II (Author) using the table below.
| List I (Story) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. A Simple Heart | I. Joseph Conrad |
| B. An Outpost of Progress | II. Gustave Flaubert |
| C. Six Feet of the Country | III. R.K. Narayan |
| D. A Horse and Two Goats | IV. Nadine Gordimer |
Match the stories with their respective authors
Answer: (B) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Paper 1 had 50 questions and Paper 2 (English Literature) had 100 questions, for 150 in total across 3 hours.
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