The complete UGC NET June 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 299 questions are free to practise.
| Exam | UGC NET June 2023 |
|---|---|
| Papers | Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature) |
| Exam date(s) | June 14, 2023 |
| Shift(s) | Shift 1 · Shift 2 |
| Paper 1 questions | 99 questions · 60 minutes · 100 marks |
| Paper 2 questions | 200 questions · 120 minutes · 200 marks |
| Total | 299 questions |
| Marking scheme | +2 per correct answer · No negative marking |
UGC NET June 2023 · Shift 1 · English Literature sitting
UGC NET June 2023 · Shift 2 · English Literature sitting
49 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Based on the table above, what is the ratio of the average number of males in Town X to the average number of males in Town Y for the given period?
| Year | Town X: Number of males | Town X: Number of females | Town Y: Number of males | Town Y: Number of females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 | 49 | 54 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 54 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 56 |
| 2022 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 55 |
Year-wise numbers of males and females in Towns X and Y (in thousands).
Answer: (D) 265:282
Explanation
Based on the table above, in how many years was the number of females in Town X and Town Y less than their respective average numbers?
| Year | Town X: Number of males | Town X: Number of females | Town Y: Number of males | Town Y: Number of females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 | 49 | 54 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 54 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 56 |
| 2022 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 55 |
Year-wise numbers of males and females in Towns X and Y (in thousands).
Answer: (B) Two, Two
Explanation
Based on the table above, in which pair of years is the difference between males and females maximum for Town Y and minimum for Town X, respectively?
| Year | Town X: Number of males | Town X: Number of females | Town Y: Number of males | Town Y: Number of females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 | 49 | 54 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 54 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 56 |
| 2022 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 55 |
Year-wise numbers of males and females in Towns X and Y (in thousands).
Answer: (C) 2022 and 2021
Explanation
For Town Y, the percentage increase in the number of females for a given year with reference to the previous year is maximum in which year?
| Year | Town X: Number of males | Town X: Number of females | Town Y: Number of males | Town Y: Number of females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 | 49 | 54 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 54 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 56 |
| 2022 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 55 |
Year-wise numbers of males and females in Towns X and Y (in thousands).
Answer: (D) 2019
Explanation
The population of Town X in 2018 and 2019 together is approximately what percent of the population of Town Y in 2021 and 2022 together?
| Year | Town X: Number of males | Town X: Number of females | Town Y: Number of males | Town Y: Number of females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 | 49 | 54 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 54 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 56 |
| 2022 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 55 |
Year-wise numbers of males and females in Towns X and Y (in thousands).
Answer: (A) 86.6
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Upanayana ceremony, which marked the initiation of a child into the study of the Vedas, was performed for boys as well as for girls.
Statement II: Both boys and girls received education in ashrams and gurukulas in ancient India.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Identify the fallacy committed in the following argument:
"Capital punishment is morally wrong because it is ethically impermissible to inflict death as punishment for crime."
Answer: (C) Begging the question
Explanation
Vladimir Zworykin was associated with the invention of:
Answer: (C) Television
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to NEP 2020, at present the investment in research and innovation in India is only less than 1% of GDP.
Statement II: NEP 2020 recommends the establishment of a National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
The first Education Commission of India also adhered to:
Answer: (C) The three-language formula
Explanation
Light Water Reactors (LWR) are nuclear reactors:
Answer: (C) Which use ordinary water as moderator
Explanation
Feedback is immediate in __________ communication.
Answer: (D) Face-to-face
Explanation
The property of data such that research results apply to situations beyond the particular sample of individuals or items observed in a single research setting refers to:
Answer: (D) External Validity
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Shareware is software that users can try out for a trial period only, before being charged.
Statement II: Freeware is software that users can download free of charge, but they cannot modify the source code in any way.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A: Experimental research allows you to eliminate the influence of many extraneous factors.
Reason R: In experimental research, variables are actively manipulated and the environment is kept as controlled as possible.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Explanation
In a certain coded language:
bau mau shau satau mau sa haushau fau tau dauWhat is the code for hell in this language?
haumaushautauAnswer: (A) hau
Explanation
If a man invested Rs. 20,000 in some shares in the ratio 2:3:5, which paid dividends of 10%, 30%, and 20% respectively, what is the total dividend income of the man?
Answer: (A) Rs. 4200
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Exposure to noise pollution adversely affects the physiological health of a person.
Statement II: Exposure to noise pollution adversely affects the psychological health of a person.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
A man travels from his home to his office at a speed of 4 km/h and reaches 30 minutes late. If his speed had been 6 km/h, he would have reached 5 minutes early. Find the distance of his office from his home.
Answer: (B) 7 km
Explanation
In the light of the nature of reasoning and argument, pick out the incorrect statement(s):
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) C
Explanation
What is the binary equivalent of the decimal number 85.125?
Answer: (D) (1010101.001)
Explanation
Danny is buying a new computer that has an LED display. Which of the following statements about LED displays are true?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) A, B & D only
Explanation
The simple interest on a certain principal amount for 4 years at 10% per annum is half of the compound interest on Rs. 1000 for 2 years at 20% per annum. Find the principal amount.
Answer: (D) Rs. 550
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted from vehicles.
Statement II: Volatile Organic Compounds are emitted from some trees.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I (Concept) | List II (Definition) |
|---|---|
| A. Argument | I. A deductive argument that either is invalid or has at least one false premise |
| B. Strong argument | II. An inductive argument in which the conclusion does not follow probably from the premises |
| C. Unsound argument | III. An inductive argument in which the conclusion follows probably from the premises |
| D. Weak argument | IV. A set of statements in which a claim (conclusion) is defended with reason (premise) |
Concepts and definitions related to arguments.
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Given below are two statements in the context of NEP 2020:
Statement I: High performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries.
Statement II: Selected universities from among the top 500 universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Which of the following is a major advantage of online learning over offline learning?
Answer: (B) Flexibility
Explanation
Which of the following factors affect mediated persuasion?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) C, D, E only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Propagandic communication at the national level is supposed to recognize the fact that truth need not be separated from falsehood.
Statement II: The mediated propaganda process blurs truth and falsehood in order to be persuasive.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Biomagnification occurs when the toxic burden of a large number of organisms at a higher trophic level is accumulated and concentrated in organisms at a lower trophic level.
Statement II: The effect of toxins is magnified in the environment through food webs.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Explanation
What are the advantages of digital media?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (B) B, C, D only
Explanation
Which of the following are the benefits of a collaborative learning environment?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) A, C, D & E only
Explanation
A researcher computes sample correlation coefficients r1, r2, r3, r4 from four different samples and obtains their p-values 0.99, 0.999, 0.05, 0.005 respectively. Which correlation coefficient is significant at the 1% level?
Answer: (D) r4
Explanation
A computer processor will operate fastest when the data that it wants is in the:
Answer: (A) Cache Memory
Explanation
According to the Samkhya school of thought, a word signifies:
Answer: (A) Vyakti
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) has been adopted only in the central universities of India.
Statement II: Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) assigns credits based on the learning outcomes of a course.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The purpose of a blind study is to prevent the participants from figuring out what the experimenter wants.
Statement II: Interaction between the experimenter and the participants is always beneficial in social science research.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
In the light of changes introduced to the existing universities under the Indian Universities Act, 1904, which among the following is incorrect?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (D) C & E
Explanation
What number would replace the question mark in the series below?
1.5, 4, 7.5, 12, 17.5, 24, 31.5, ?
Answer: (C) 40
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Moodle is an example of a Learning Management System (LMS).
Statement II: Mentimeter is a tool used for creating online surveys.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Which of the following are the basic requirements for effective teaching?
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) B, D & E only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: "The jar does not exist" is common to all kinds of non-existence.
Statement II: "The jar will exist" refers to previous non-existence.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Arrange the following steps involved in a research process in the correct order:
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (D) D, B, A, E, C
Explanation
Most of the countries in the International Solar Alliance lie:
Answer: (C) Between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Explanation
Using the passage above, decolonization is the process of:
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition.
It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
Answer: (A) Becoming independent from
Explanation
Using the passage above, the most significant contribution of directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar, and Ratan Thiyam was:
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition.
It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
Answer: (D) Bringing about an amalgamation of the Indian theatrical tradition with Western realistic theatre
Explanation
Using the passage above, the Natyashastra tradition refers to:
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition.
It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
Answer: (D) Indian theatrical tradition
Explanation
Using the passage above, post-independence cultural renaissance in Indian theatre focused on:
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition.
It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
Answer: (C) Search for traditional Indian theatre
Explanation
Using the passage above, the return to and discovery of tradition in the post-independence era was inspired by:
Choose the correct answer.
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B. V. Karanth, K. N. Panikkar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition.
It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
Answer: (D) B & D only
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
The full form of MLAT is
Answer: (C) Modern Language Aptitude Test
Explanation
Statement I: The book The Life of the Drama was written by Eric Bentley.
Statement II: The Life of the Drama highlights the lives of certain seminal twentieth-century dramatists.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Writing Degree Zero | I. 1957 |
| B. Mythologies | II. 1953 |
| C. The Empire of Signs | III. 1973 |
| D. The Pleasure of the Text | IV. 1970 |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Mention the year in which Political Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, was published.
Answer: (D) 1985
Explanation
Who among the following wrote the play Angels in America?
Answer: (D) Tony Kushner
Explanation
Who wrote of Charlotte Brontë that her mind contained “nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage”?
Answer: (B) Matthew Arnold
Explanation
Which three of the following plays were written by Nissim Ezekiel?
A. Savaksa
B. Marriage-Poem
C. Nalini
D. Mister Behram
E. Sleepwalkers
Answer: (D) B, C and E
Explanation
Who proposed that the mind at birth is like a blank slate, or tabula rasa?
Answer: (A) John Locke
Explanation
Who among the following is an early Tudor poet?
Answer: (B) John Skelton
Explanation
Which of the following was NOT written by Margaret Atwood?
Answer: (B) The Stone Angel
Explanation
Arrange the texts in chronological order of publication.
A. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
B. Kim
C. The Old Wives' Tale
D. The Time Machine
E. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Answer: (A) A, D, B, C, E
Explanation
Who argued that children learn language through behaviourist reinforcement by associating words with meaning?
Answer: (B) B. F. Skinner
Explanation
Which works were authored by Thomas Carlyle?
A. Chartism
B. Past and Present
C. The French Revolution
D. Suspiria de Profundis
E. The English Mail Coach
Answer: (A) A, B and C
Explanation
What does Pierre Bourdieu mean by the term “habitus”?
Answer: (C) Durable dispositions shaping posture, speech, perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action
Explanation
Arrange the texts in chronological order of publication.
A. Two Virgins
B. The Painter of Signs
C. Shadow from Ladakh
D. A Bend in the Ganges
E. To Whom She Will
Answer: (C) E, D, C, A, B
Explanation
Which concepts are associated with Jean Baudrillard?
A. Hyperreality
B. Bricolage
C. Rhizome
D. Simulacra
E. Dispositif
Answer: (D) A and D
Explanation
Arrange the texts in chronological order of publication.
A. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
B. A Room of One's Own
C. Culture and Anarchy
D. The Lives of the Poets
E. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”
Answer: (A) A, D, E, C, B
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Humayun Kabir | I. A Goddess Named Gold |
| B. Bhabani Bhattacharya | II. Men and Rivers |
| C. Manohar Malgonkar | III. Combat of Shadows |
| D. Kamala Markandaya | IV. Possession |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Explanation
Which book was NOT written by Edward Said?
Answer: (C) Image-Music-Text
Explanation
Donna Haraway's “Cyborg Manifesto” underscores the notion that
Answer: (A) The boundaries between animal, human, and machine are breaking down
Explanation
Who are known as Cambridge Critics?
A. Arthur Quiller-Couch
B. F. R. Leavis
C. George Saintsbury
D. I. A. Richards
E. William Empson
Answer: (D) B, D and E
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. The Feast of Youth | I. Meena Kandasamy |
| B. “Hunger” | II. P. Lal |
| C. Writers' Workshop | III. Harindranath Chattopadhyaya |
| D. Touch | IV. Jayanta Mahapatra |
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Assertion (A): The experience of homosexuality in a homophobic culture is not the same for white and Black people.
Reason (R): Sexuality and sexual identity are experienced differently by white and Black people.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Identify the works written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
A. Richelieu
B. St Patrick's Day
C. The Duenna
D. The Citizen of the World
E. Irene
Answer: (C) B and C
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Lions and Shadows | I. W. H. Auden |
| B. The Still Centre | II. Louis MacNeice |
| C. Translation of Agamemnon | III. Stephen Spender |
| D. The Sea and the Mirror | IV. Christopher Isherwood |
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Match the named critical concepts in List I with their associated writers in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Egotistical Sublime | I. Matthew Arnold |
| B. Willing Suspension of Disbelief | II. Joseph Addison |
| C. Touchstone | III. John Keats |
| D. Pleasures of the Imagination | IV. Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Answer: (A) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence?
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. An Apologie for Poetry
C. “The Uses of the Spectator”
D. “My Relations”
E. “How it Strikes a Contemporary”
Answer: (B) B, A, C, D, E
Explanation
The concept of the public sphere plays a particularly important role in the work of
Answer: (A) Jürgen Habermas
Explanation
Seven Types of Ambiguity was published in the year
Answer: (D) 1930
Explanation
Match the nineteenth-century novelists in List I with their works in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. George Meredith | I. The Virginians |
| B. George Eliot | II. Scenes of Clerical Life |
| C. Charlotte Brontë | III. Evan Harrington |
| D. William Makepeace Thackeray | IV. The Professor |
Answer: (A) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Match the critical terms and texts in List I with their associated writers in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Response to Stephen Gosson | I. Aristotle |
| B. The Individual Talent | II. Matthew Arnold |
| C. Catharsis | III. T. S. Eliot |
| D. Sweetness and Light | IV. Philip Sidney |
Answer: (B) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Which fictional works form a trilogy by Mulk Raj Anand?
A. Village
B. Private Life of an Indian Prince
C. Across the Black Waters
D. The Sword and the Sickle
E. The Road
Answer: (B) A, C and D
Explanation
The name of the goddess in Kanthapura is
Answer: (A) Kenchamma
Explanation
Saussure delivered the lectures later published as Course in General Linguistics at the University of
Answer: (C) Geneva
Explanation
Purdah is a collection of poems by
Answer: (B) Imtiaz Dharker
Explanation
“Name of the Father” is a term made famous by
Answer: (B) Jacques Lacan
Explanation
Which works were written by Stuart Hall?
A. “Encoding/decoding”
B. “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’: Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies”
C. The Raw and the Cooked
D. “What is Digital Humanities?”
E. “Culture Industry”
Answer: (A) A and B
Explanation
Statement I: Criticism constructs a judgement about positive or negative qualities.
Statement II: Criticism can be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive, or descriptive.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (D) Both statements are true
Explanation
Noam Chomsky is known for his
Answer: (A) Generative grammar
Explanation
Which two plays were written by Ben Jonson?
A. Flowers for Latin Speaking
B. The Devil is an Ass
C. Sapho and Phao
D. The Woman in the Moon
E. The Staple of News
Answer: (C) B and E
Explanation
A structured interview consists of
Answer: (A) A series of predetermined questions
Explanation
Which two dramatists won the Sultan Padamsee Award?
A. Mahesh Dattani
B. Gurcharan Das
C. Girish Karnad
D. Cyrus Mistry
Answer: (B) B and D
Explanation
The Movement poets included:
A. Donald Davie
B. Hilda Doolittle
C. Michael Longley
D. Philip Larkin
E. Derek Walcott
Answer: (B) A and D
Explanation
Thomas Love Peacock authored the essay
Answer: (C) “The Four Ages of Poetry”
Explanation
Who are called Edwardian novelists?
A. George Eliot
B. Arnold Bennett
C. H. G. Wells
D. E. M. Forster
E. Robert Louis Stevenson
Answer: (C) B, C and D
Explanation
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” names which figures?
A. Ezra Pound
B. Michelangelo
C. Valerie Eliot
D. Hamlet
E. Walt Whitman
Answer: (B) B and D
Explanation
Match the twentieth-century novelists in List I with the works in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Graham Greene | I. Down and Out in Paris and London |
| B. Daniel Defoe | II. The Grass is Singing |
| C. George Orwell | III. A Journal of the Plague Year |
| D. Doris Lessing | IV. A Sort of Life |
Answer: (B) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair comprises:
A. Sunset Song
B. Brothers and Sisters
C. Cloud Howe
D. Men and Wives
E. Grey Granite
Answer: (B) A, C and E
Explanation
Which two plays were written by Edward Albee?
A. The Zoo Story
B. The Price
C. A Delicate Balance
D. Fences
E. Operation Sidewinder
Answer: (C) A and C
Explanation
Thomas Hobbes's philosophical tract Leviathan was first published in
Answer: (C) 1651
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of Raymond Williams's texts?
A. The Long Revolution
B. Culture and Society
C. Marxism and Literature
D. Writing in Society
E. The Politics of Modernism
Answer: (B) B, A, C, D, E
Explanation
Who wrote Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?
Answer: (D) Edgar Allan Poe
Explanation
Arrange these Indian poetry books chronologically.
A. Time to Change
B. Banaras and Other Poems
C. Savitri
D. The Golden Threshold
E. Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation
Answer: (B) D, C, A, B, E
Explanation
Which work of Milton adapts the form of Greek tragedy?
Answer: (A) Samson Agonistes
Explanation
Who among the following is an Australian Aboriginal poet?
Answer: (B) Kath Walker
Explanation
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas was written by
Answer: (B) Umberto Eco
Explanation
The Kothari Commission suggested
Answer: (B) English should be studied as a library language for access to standard works in science, technology, commerce, and trade
Explanation
The author of The Golden Bough, a major influence on Eliot, is
Answer: (B) James George Frazer
Explanation
Match the critical works in List I with their authors in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Practical Criticism | I. John Crowe Ransom |
| B. The New Criticism | II. F. R. Leavis |
| C. The Well-Wrought Urn | III. I. A. Richards |
| D. The Great Tradition | IV. Cleanth Brooks |
Answer: (B) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
Arrange the texts chronologically.
A. “September 1, 1939”
B. “The Collar”
C. Beppo
D. Paradise Lost
E. Seeing Things
Answer: (A) B, D, C, A, E
Explanation
Arrange these playwrights by year of birth.
A. Asif Currimbhoy
B. Gurcharan Das
C. Nissim Ezekiel
D. Gieve Patel
E. Cyrus Mistry
Answer: (C) C, A, D, B, E
Explanation
Statement I: Wordsworth's “Intimations of Immortality” was published in 1807.
Statement II: In it, Wordsworth sums up his philosophy of childhood.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (B) Both statements are true
Explanation
Who was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?
Answer: (D) Rita Dove
Explanation
Facts about the Frankfurt School include:
A. It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
B. Adorno and Horkheimer were members.
C. It established the term “Critical Theory”.
D. It had strong ties with the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
E. It was forced into exile by the Nazi rise in Germany.
Answer: (D) B, C and E
Explanation
Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning was dedicated to
Answer: (A) King James I
Explanation
Which three plays were written by the Sanskrit dramatist Bhāsa?
A. Cārudatta
B. Ratnāvalī
C. Ūrubhaṅga
D. Mālavikāgnimitram
E. Karnabhāram
Answer: (B) A, C and E
Explanation
Identify significant texts of Victorian criticism.
A. Studies in the History of the Renaissance
B. From Ritual to Romance
C. “Hamlet and His Problems”
D. “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
E. Modern Painters
Answer: (B) A, D and E
Explanation
In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, who discusses the relative merits of French and English drama?
Answer: (B) Lisideius
Explanation
What is the chronological order by birth of these English prose writers?
A. Joseph Addison
B. Francis Bacon
C. Charles Lamb
D. Virginia Woolf
E. Matthew Arnold
Answer: (B) B, A, C, E, D
Explanation
Which statements about Religio Laici are true?
A. John Dryden wrote it.
B. It strongly criticised the Anglican Church.
C. Its title means “A Layman's Faith”.
D. It was published in 1690.
E. It was a philosophico-religious prose treatise.
Answer: (B) A and C
Explanation
Assertion (A): Cultural studies treats culture as political rather than chiefly aesthetic or humanist.
Reason (R): Therefore its object of study is high art and the exalted literary canon.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) A is correct but R is not correct
Explanation
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744), an early major biography, was published by
Answer: (C) Samuel Johnson
Explanation
Ted Hughes's Wodwo is
Answer: (A) A volume named from the wild men of the woods in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Explanation
Adam in George Eliot's Adam Bede is a
Answer: (C) Carpenter
Explanation
Arrange the events chronologically.
A. First Moon landing
B. End of World War II
C. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech
D. Russian Revolution
E. India's Independence
Answer: (D) D, B, E, C, A
Explanation
Which works were written by John Dennis?
A. The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry
B. The Christian Hero
C. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
D. The Conscious Lovers
E. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare
Answer: (B) A, C and E
Explanation
Which terms are integral to New Criticism?
A. Tension
B. Mirror Stage
C. Irony
D. Polyphony
E. Paradox
Answer: (C) A, C and E
Explanation
The debate on “the condition of England question” was initiated by
Answer: (C) Thomas Carlyle
Explanation
In which book does Peter Brook study late-1940s theatre?
Answer: (A) The Empty Space
Explanation
Captain Frederick Wentworth is a character in which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: (D) Persuasion
Explanation
Who built the Red Lion in Stepney in 1567?
Answer: (C) John Brayne
Explanation
Which poets held the Oxford Professor of Poetry chair?
A. James Fenton
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Anne Sexton
E. Paul Muldoon
Answer: (C) A, C and E
Explanation
Which method studies the diversity of human cultures in their particular cultural settings?
Answer: (D) Ethnography
Explanation
Which playwrights collaborated on the satire Three Hours after Marriage?
A. John Gay
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. William Congreve
E. John Arbuthnot
Answer: (B) A, C and E
Explanation
From which Charles Dickens novel are these lines taken?
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now … I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
Answer: (A) Great Expectations
Explanation
Match the theorists in List I with their associated concepts in List II.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Antonio Gramsci | I. Popular Culture |
| B. Pierre Bourdieu | II. Hegemony |
| C. Dick Hebdige | III. Cultural Capital |
| D. Raymond Williams | IV. Subculture |
Answer: (B) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Which works were written by William Faulkner?
A. Sanctuary
B. Color Struck
C. Jesus, The Son of Man
D. Light in August
E. Absalom, Absalom!
Answer: (C) A, D and E
Explanation
Which statements about corpus linguistics are true?
A. It uses collections of naturally occurring spoken and written texts.
B. It ensures the supremacy of speech over writing.
C. It is school-level teaching of linguistics.
D. It uses computer-based empirical analysis of language use.
E. It is purely Chomskyan linguistics.
Answer: (C) A and D
Explanation
A. K. Ramanujan was also a:
A. Photographer
B. Translator
C. Painter
D. Classical singer
E. Teacher at the University of Chicago
Answer: (D) B and E
Explanation
During the performance of which play did the Globe Theatre burn down in 1613?
Answer: (B) Henry VIII
Explanation
The person described in the poem is sympathetic to
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter
Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.
She will not glance up at the bomber, or condescend
To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into morning.
Answer: (C) Disabled dogs and wounded birds
Explanation
The person described in the poem is
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter
Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.
She will not glance up at the bomber, or condescend
To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into morning.
Answer: (C) A believer
Explanation
The poem uses
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter
Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.
She will not glance up at the bomber, or condescend
To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into morning.
Answer: (A) Cartographic and nature images
Explanation
The person described in the poem
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter
Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.
She will not glance up at the bomber, or condescend
To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into morning.
Answer: (B) Is dead
Explanation
The third line of the poem suggests something about
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter
Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.
She will not glance up at the bomber, or condescend
To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into morning.
Answer: (B) The physique of the person
Explanation
In the passage, close reading implies
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893–1979) in the 1920s.
He felt that concentration upon the ‘words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements.
He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) and their colleagues in the US.
Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
Answer: (D) Attention to words and technical aspects
Explanation
The purpose of I. A. Richards's “practical criticism” was to
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893–1979) in the 1920s.
He felt that concentration upon the ‘words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements.
He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) and their colleagues in the US.
Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
Answer: (B) Usher in an objective approach to studying texts
Explanation
The statement that practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes, and patterns of language implies that it
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893–1979) in the 1920s.
He felt that concentration upon the ‘words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements.
He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) and their colleagues in the US.
Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
Answer: (C) Evaluates texts through a purely literary inquiry without contextualisation
Explanation
What kind of value judgement did practical criticism promote?
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893–1979) in the 1920s.
He felt that concentration upon the ‘words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements.
He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) and their colleagues in the US.
Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
Answer: (D) Evaluating value in terms of universal truths
Explanation
In the passage, “literary canon” means
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893–1979) in the 1920s.
He felt that concentration upon the ‘words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements.
He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) and their colleagues in the US.
Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
Answer: (C) A selection of texts established as part of a great tradition
Explanation
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
If the percentage profit in 2021 was 25% instead of 20%, what would have been the expenditure in that year?
| Year | Income (Rs. lakh) | Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 160 | 15 |
| 2019 | 130 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2021 | 190 | 20 |
| 2022 | 150 | 27.5 |
Answer: (D) Rs. 152 lakh
Explanation
The positive increase in percentage profit in comparison to the previous year was minimum in:
| Year | Income (Rs. lakh) | Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 160 | 15 |
| 2019 | 130 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2021 | 190 | 20 |
| 2022 | 150 | 27.5 |
Answer: (C) 2021
Explanation
Approximately what was the average expenditure during the years 2017 to 2022?
| Year | Income (Rs. lakh) | Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 160 | 15 |
| 2019 | 130 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2021 | 190 | 20 |
| 2022 | 150 | 27.5 |
Answer: (B) Rs. 130 lakh
Explanation
Approximately what was the expenditure in 2018?
| Year | Income (Rs. lakh) | Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 160 | 15 |
| 2019 | 130 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2021 | 190 | 20 |
| 2022 | 150 | 27.5 |
Answer: (C) Rs. 140 lakh
Explanation
The median income of the company in the six years from 2017 to 2022 was:
| Year | Income (Rs. lakh) | Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 160 | 15 |
| 2019 | 130 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2021 | 190 | 20 |
| 2022 | 150 | 27.5 |
Answer: (A) Rs. 155 lakh
Explanation
Which of the following are codes of reception in communication?
A. Bystander
B. Dominant
C. Negotiated
D. Oppositional
E. Channel
Answer: (B) B, C and D only
Explanation
The graphical representation of a frequency distribution is called:
Answer: (C) Histogram
Explanation
According to Nyaya (Classical Indian School of Logic), the fallacy of irregular middle is called:
Answer: (A) Anaikantika
Explanation
If South-East becomes East, North-West becomes West, and all other directions are changed in the same manner, what will be the direction for North?
Answer: (B) North-West
Explanation
Which of the following statements are so related that they can neither both be true nor both be false?
A. No saints are materialists.
B. All saints are materialists.
C. Some saints are not materialists.
D. Some saints are materialists.
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
The most effective way to increase government revenue would be to raise the corporate income tax, since opinion polls show widespread support for this approach. Which fallacy is committed?
Answer: (D) Appeal to Majority
Explanation
Which of the following are requirements of good teaching?
A. Responsive human environment to foster exploration
B. Appropriate responsiveness to the child and the group
C. Knowledge of subject matter
D. Maintaining interpersonal relationship
E. Strict adherence to a rigid teaching plan
Answer: (B) A, B, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following universities were established in the year 1916?
A. Delhi University
B. Banaras Hindu University
C. Mysore University
D. S.N.D.T. Women's University
Answer: (D) B, C and D only
Explanation
Find the number that can replace the question mark (?) in the series: 5, 9, 3, 11, 1, 13, -1, ?
Answer: (D) 15
Explanation
The term 'Correlation' in mass communication refers to the function of:
Answer: (C) Interpretation
Explanation
Which assessment is given to learners during the course of instruction rather than after it is completed?
Answer: (B) Formative assessment
Explanation
Arrange the stages of Piaget's theory of cognitive development in ascending order.
A. Concrete operational stage
B. Pre-operational stage
C. Sensorimotor stage
D. Formal operational stage
Answer: (B) C, B, A, D
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: (167)10 = (10100111)2
Statement II: (11010110)2 = (214)10
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
Which of the following are physical parameters used to decide water quality?
A. pH
B. Temperature
C. Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
D. Hardness
E. Conductivity
Answer: (D) B, C and E only
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Factual | I. How to do something, methods of inquiry and criteria for using skills |
| B. Conceptual | II. Basic elements students must know to be acquainted with a discipline |
| C. Procedural | III. Knowledge of cognition and one's own cognition |
| D. Metacognitive | IV. Interrelationships among basic elements within a larger structure |
Answer: (B) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Which among the following is NOT a characteristic of closed-ended questions in survey research?
Answer: (A) They allow unusual responses that the survey researcher may not have contemplated.
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Siksha | I. Metre |
| B. Nirukta | II. Phonetics |
| C. Kalpa | III. Etymology |
| D. Chhandas | IV. Religious practices |
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
In which of the following sampling methods is the sample also known as an accidental sample or haphazard sample?
Answer: (D) Convenience sampling
Explanation
Which of the following affects the downloading speed of a web page the least?
Answer: (A) Number of hyperlinks in the web page
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Compared to word processors, simple text editors such as Notepad and Emacs have limited editing features.
Statement II: Files created with simple text editors cannot be opened with word processors.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
Explanation
To calculate gross pay, hours are multiplied by the hourly rate. What MS Excel formula should be entered in cell C4 so that the formula can then be copied down the rest of column C?
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hourly Rate (Rs.) | 12.75 | |
| 2 | Name | Hours | Gross Pay |
| 3 | Arjun | 26 | |
| 4 | Rishi | 37 | |
| 5 | Ishan | 36 | |
| 6 | Ajay | 28 | |
| 7 | Arun | 30 |
Answer: (D) =$B$1*B4
Explanation
Assertion (A): Children are much more vulnerable than adults to environmental toxins.
Reason (R): For each kilogram of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults.
Answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Mentimeter is a tool used for creating interactive videos in education.
Statement II: Kahoot is a tool used for assessment in education.
Answer: (D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
Explanation
Methane (CH4):
A. Is a greenhouse gas
B. Is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
C. Is a component in determining Air Quality Index (AQI)
D. Helps in formation of ozone
E. Is a Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)
Answer: (B) A, D and E only
Explanation
Which of the following commissions suggested the establishment of National Universities in India?
Answer: (C) Knowledge Commission
Explanation
Some of the major recommendations of the Kothari Commission on Higher Education are:
A. Avoid introducing new courses
B. Select teachers at the national level
C. Restrict the expansion of higher education
D. Provide autonomy to universities
E. Abolish the continuous evaluation system
Answer: (C) B, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following components are part of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the Von Neumann model for a computer system?
A. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
B. Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
C. Memory Address Register (MAR)
D. Solid State Drive (SSD)
E. Control Unit (CU)
Answer: (D) A, C and E only
Explanation
Which of the following are features of mass communication?
A. Structured institutional system
B. Complex process of reproduction
C. Commodification of messages
D. Personalized way of communication
E. Space-time constraint
Answer: (A) A, B and C only
Explanation
Arrange the following steps pertaining to quantitative research in the correct order:
A. Analyse data
B. Hypothesis
C. Process data
D. Findings
E. Research Design
Answer: (B) B, E, C, A, D
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Because of technological strides in recent times, words and time as related to communication have become money.
Statement II: Technological convergence has contributed to the control of mass communication by a few corporates.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
The question of whether the results of a study can be generalized beyond the specific research context relates to:
Answer: (C) External validity
Explanation
In a certain coding language, 'KANPUR' is coded as 'TBMQTS'. How will 'BOMBAY' be coded in that language?
Answer: (B) APLCZZ
Explanation
The average of 5 consecutive odd numbers in descending order is 95. Find the fourth number in descending order.
Answer: (D) 93
Explanation
If the statement "No saints are materialists" is given as false, which of the following statements could be immediately inferred to be true?
A. All saints are materialists.
B. Some saints are materialists.
C. Some saints are not materialists.
D. All materialists are saints.
Answer: (B) B only
Explanation
Which one of the following is NOT a National Action Plan on Climate Change mission?
Answer: (B) National Mission on Indian Ocean
Explanation
From the Fourth Five-Year Plan onwards, the focus on technical education was to:
Answer: (A) Improve its quality and standard
Explanation
Which of the following statements is logically equivalent to the statement: "No saints are materialists"?
Answer: (A) No materialists are saints.
Explanation
An article is sold at a certain price. By selling the article at two-thirds of that price, there is a loss of 10%. Find the gain percentage at its original price.
Answer: (A) 35%
Explanation
The coming together of computing, telecommunication and media in a digital environment is technically known as:
Answer: (D) Convergence
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The concentration of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere has increased in the past few years.
Statement II: CFCs already present in the atmosphere will persist for many years.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
We shed tears when:
A. Something is tragic
B. Something is ludicrous
C. Something is surprising
D. Seriousness exceeds our expectations
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what exceeds our expectations in serious matters; we laugh at what disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Tears are the natural and involuntary response of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotions. Laughter is the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere surprise or contrast. The serious is the stress which the mind lays upon the expectations of a given order of events and the weight attached to them. When this stress is increased beyond its usual intensity and strains the feelings by the violent opposition of good and bad, it becomes the tragic.
The ludicrous is the unexpected relaxing of this stress below its usual intensity, by an abrupt transposition of ideas that takes the mind by surprise and startles it into lively sense of pleasure.
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
The author implies that animals lack the ability to:
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what exceeds our expectations in serious matters; we laugh at what disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Tears are the natural and involuntary response of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotions. Laughter is the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere surprise or contrast. The serious is the stress which the mind lays upon the expectations of a given order of events and the weight attached to them. When this stress is increased beyond its usual intensity and strains the feelings by the violent opposition of good and bad, it becomes the tragic.
The ludicrous is the unexpected relaxing of this stress below its usual intensity, by an abrupt transposition of ideas that takes the mind by surprise and startles it into lively sense of pleasure.
Answer: (B) Laugh or weep
Explanation
The author develops the passage primarily by:
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what exceeds our expectations in serious matters; we laugh at what disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Tears are the natural and involuntary response of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotions. Laughter is the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere surprise or contrast. The serious is the stress which the mind lays upon the expectations of a given order of events and the weight attached to them. When this stress is increased beyond its usual intensity and strains the feelings by the violent opposition of good and bad, it becomes the tragic.
The ludicrous is the unexpected relaxing of this stress below its usual intensity, by an abrupt transposition of ideas that takes the mind by surprise and startles it into lively sense of pleasure.
Answer: (D) Defining terms
Explanation
It can be inferred from the passage that the ludicrous is most nearly opposite to the:
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what exceeds our expectations in serious matters; we laugh at what disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Tears are the natural and involuntary response of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotions. Laughter is the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere surprise or contrast. The serious is the stress which the mind lays upon the expectations of a given order of events and the weight attached to them. When this stress is increased beyond its usual intensity and strains the feelings by the violent opposition of good and bad, it becomes the tragic.
The ludicrous is the unexpected relaxing of this stress below its usual intensity, by an abrupt transposition of ideas that takes the mind by surprise and startles it into lively sense of pleasure.
Answer: (A) Serious
Explanation
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true in the case of tears and laughter?
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what exceeds our expectations in serious matters; we laugh at what disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Tears are the natural and involuntary response of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotions. Laughter is the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere surprise or contrast. The serious is the stress which the mind lays upon the expectations of a given order of events and the weight attached to them. When this stress is increased beyond its usual intensity and strains the feelings by the violent opposition of good and bad, it becomes the tragic.
The ludicrous is the unexpected relaxing of this stress below its usual intensity, by an abrupt transposition of ideas that takes the mind by surprise and startles it into lively sense of pleasure.
Answer: (B) They are both the result of violent emotions.
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
The following lines are from one of the poems of D. H. Lawrence. Identify the poem.
“And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate;
A pettiness.”
“And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate;
A pettiness.”
Answer: (B) Snake
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Pratap Sharma | I. Sleepwalkers |
| B. Asif Currimbhoy | II. Mira |
| C. Gurcharan Das | III. A Touch of Brightness |
| D. Nissim Ezekiel | IV. The Hungry Ones |
Answer: (D) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticized speech in bourgeois society?
Answer: (D) Roland Barthes
Explanation
In the context of the nature-nurture debate in linguistics, who proposed that an innate core of abstract knowledge of language form pre-specifies a framework for all natural human languages, now known as ‘Universal Grammar’?
Answer: (B) Noam Chomsky
Explanation
Which among the following was not recognized as a major dialogue of Plato?
Answer: (D) Metaphysics
Explanation
Which of these did Macaulay’s 1835 Minute on Indian Education seek to create?
Answer: (B) A class of people Indian by blood but English by taste
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. “When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country round appeared like a continued garden, and the inclosed fields, which were generally forty-foot square, resembled so many beds of flowers.” | I. Gulliver’s Travels |
| B. “There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.” | II. A Modest Proposal |
| C. “Having to no purpose used all peaceable endeavors, the collected part of the semen, raised and inflamed, became adult, converted to choler, turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain.” | III. A Tale of a Tub |
| D. “Sweeping from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood, / Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, / Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood.” | IV. A Description of a City Shower |
Answer: (B) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Which of the following explains the difference between conceptual research and empirical research?
Answer: (A) The former is related to abstract ideas or theory, and the latter relies on experience and observation alone.
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Culture and Environment | I. F. R. Leavis and D. Thompson |
| B. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics | II. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| C. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983–1998 | III. Fredric Jameson |
| D. The Uses of Literacy | IV. Richard Hoggart |
Answer: (B) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Explanation
Who among the following is the author of the novel Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?
Answer: (B) Herman Melville
Explanation
Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication.
A. Reflections on the Revolution in France
B. Preface to Shakespeare
C. The Social Contract
D. A Treatise of Human Nature
E. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: (C) D, E, C, B, A
Explanation
Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism.
Reason (R): Poststructuralism continues structuralism’s strongly humanist perspective and closely follows structuralism in its belief that language is not the key to understanding ourselves and the world.
Choose the most appropriate answer.
Answer: (C) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Deconstruction | I. Jacques Derrida |
| B. Hegemony | II. Antonio Gramsci |
| C. Habitus | III. Pierre Bourdieu |
| D. Interpellation | IV. Louis Althusser |
Answer: (A) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Explanation
From which poem are the following lines extracted?
“Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
In search of wit these lose their common sense,
And then turn critics in their own defense”
“Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
In search of wit these lose their common sense,
And then turn critics in their own defense”
Answer: (C) An Essay on Criticism
Explanation
Of which of the following was Charles Dickens the founding editor?
A. North and South
B. The Newcomes
C. Household Words
D. The Way We Live Now
E. All the Year Round
Answer: (C) C and E
Explanation
Which of these are part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy?
A. Agamemnon
B. The Libation Bearers
C. Antigone
D. Oedipus at Colonus
E. Electra
Answer: (A) A and B
Explanation
Name the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century.
Answer: (A) Alan Sinfield
Explanation
Statement I: Althusser’s theory of ‘interpellation’ implies the act of hailing, such as ‘Hey, you!’, and thereby turning individuals into ideological, consenting subjects.
Statement II: Althusser’s theory of interpellation is very much similar to Derrida’s theory of deconstruction.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false.
Explanation
Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?
Answer: (B) Charles Darwin
Explanation
Which of the following are true in the context of Jonathan Swift?
A. He was born in Dublin and studied at Kilkenny Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin.
B. He co-authored a book with Samuel Johnson.
C. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1695.
D. He was a member of the Kit-Cat Club.
E. He wrote the sensational novel Lady Audley’s Secret.
Answer: (D) A and C
Explanation
Which of the following points are correct regarding the Direct Method of teaching English in a classroom scenario?
A. There is no interference of the mother tongue.
B. There is direct connection with the target language. Learners think in the target language and express in the target language.
C. The teaching-learning process is carried out in English.
D. This method is useful in an overcrowded classroom situation.
E. This method is based on the principle of ‘Doing by Learning.’
Answer: (A) A, B, C
Explanation
Who, among the following, wrote Lear, a play adapting Shakespeare’s King Lear?
Answer: (A) Edward Bond
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Peter Middleton | I. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry |
| B. Patricia Waugh | II. The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960–1990 |
| C. David Kennedy | III. New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980–1994 |
| D. Edward Larrissy | IV. Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects |
Answer: (C) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Who, as proprietor of the Rose Theatre, repaired it in 1592 and 1595 and spent substantial sums renovating and expanding it?
Answer: (B) Philip Henslowe
Explanation
Who among the following are writers of secular prose in the fourteenth century?
A. John of Trevisa
B. Julian of Norwich
C. John Mandeville
D. Bernard of Clairvaux
E. Walter Hilton
Answer: (C) A and C
Explanation
Find the chronological order of Thomas Hardy’s poetry publications.
A. “Channel Firing”
B. “The Darkling Thrush”
C. “In Time of the Breaking of Nations”
D. “He Never Expected Much”
E. “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy”
Answer: (B) B, E, A, C, D
Explanation
What is the standard format for citing a book under the MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition?
Answer: (C) Surname, First name. Title of the Book. Name of the Publishing House, Year of publication.
Explanation
Assertion (A): James Ellroy began writing crime fiction with Brown’s Requiem (1981).
Reason (R): James Ellroy’s mother was murdered in 1958.
Choose the most appropriate answer.
Answer: (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation
Who, along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought now known as British Cultural Studies?
Answer: (A) Raymond Williams
Explanation
Who among the following displays an influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays?
Answer: (B) Girish Karnad
Explanation
Arrange the following books in chronological order of publication.
A. The Location of Culture
B. The Future of the Race
C. Black Literature and Literary Theory
D. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
E. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Answer: (D) C, E, D, A, B
Explanation
Arrange the following writers chronologically by year of birth.
A. James Boswell
B. Edward Gibbon
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Edmund Burke
E. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Answer: (A) C, D, B, A, E
Explanation
Who wrote The Flies, an adaptation of the Electra myth?
Answer: (A) Jean-Paul Sartre
Explanation
Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender, published in 1579, was dedicated to
Answer: (C) Philip Sidney
Explanation
Who acknowledged that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose, with the difference lying in their combination and purpose?
Answer: (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Explanation
Arrange the following poems of Louis MacNeice in chronological order of publication.
A. “Sunday Morning”
B. “Bagpipe Music”
C. “Star-Gazer”
D. “Entirely”
E. “Prayer Before Birth”
Answer: (A) A, B, D, E, C
Explanation
Which plays feature the rehearsal of a play within the body of the main play?
A. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
B. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
C. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
D. Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
E. Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
Answer: (B) B and E
Explanation
Which among the following are correct?
A. Philip Roth — USA
B. Shirley Jackson — Australia
C. Henry James — Canada
D. Ruskin Bond — India
E. Ali Cobby Eckermann — Australia
Answer: (C) A, D and E
Explanation
Arrange the following poetry anthologies by Nissim Ezekiel in chronological order of publication.
A. The Exact Name
B. Latter-Day Psalms
C. Sixty Poems
D. The Unfinished Man
E. A Time to Change
Answer: (B) E, C, D, A, B
Explanation
Which English poet, at an early age, wrote of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: “I have been reading Sons and Lovers and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing that book he’d still be England’s greatest novelist”?
“I have been reading Sons and Lovers and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing that book he’d still be England’s greatest novelist”
Answer: (D) Philip Larkin
Explanation
Who translated Aristotle’s Poetics into Latin?
Answer: (A) Giorgio Valla
Explanation
Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication.
A. Tara
B. Mister Behram
C. Goa
D. Marriage-Poem
E. The Dumb Dancer
Answer: (C) D, C, E, A, B
Explanation
Which play may be considered a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and parts of Hamlet and King Lear?
Answer: (D) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
Explanation
Find the chronological sequence of John Milton’s publications.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Lycidas
C. “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”
D. “On Shakespeare”
E. Paradise Regained
Answer: (D) C, D, B, A, E
Explanation
Who composed the poem “Address to a Steamvessel”?
Answer: (B) Joanna Baillie
Explanation
Arrange the following works by date of first publication.
A. Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
B. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
C. T. S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture
D. Raymond Williams, Keywords
E. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel
Answer: (A) C, E, D, A, B
Explanation
Who among the following is the author of the story collection Reginald in Russia?
Answer: (A) Hector Hugh Munro ‘Saki’
Explanation
Which of these are plays written by Bertolt Brecht?
A. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
B. Galileo
C. Copernicus
D. Archimedes
E. Man Equals Man
Answer: (C) A, B and E
Explanation
Arrange the following writers chronologically by date of birth.
A. Goethe
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Bertolt Brecht
D. Eugene O’Neill
E. Molière
Answer: (D) E, A, B, D, C
Explanation
Statement I: Invisible Man, published in 1952, is a novel by American writer Ralph Ellison.
Statement II: It is a surreal and claustrophobic novel describing the experiences of a young African American in New York.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
Who does Achitophel represent in John Dryden’s allegorical poem Absalom and Achitophel?
Answer: (A) First Earl of Shaftesbury
Explanation
Identify the two previous titles of Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.”
A. “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”
B. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C. “A Child’s Reminiscence”
D. “The Wound-Dresser”
E. “A Word Out of the Sea”
Answer: (A) C and E
Explanation
Penguin Books were prosecuted for obscenity and later acquitted for publishing which D. H. Lawrence novel?
Answer: (C) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Explanation
Which of the following does Roland Barthes contend in “From Work to Text”?
A. The work is a methodological field
B. The text must be understood as a computable object
C. The Text is plural
D. The work is never caught up in a process of filiation
E. The work is ordinarily the object of consumption
Answer: (C) C and E
Explanation
According to Andrew Milner in Re-Imagining Cultural Studies, which three of Raymond Williams’s early meanings of ‘culture’ remain in play in Keywords?
A. An individual habit of mind
B. The state of intellectual development of a whole society
C. The arts as a whole
D. The way of life of a group or people
E. Elitism
Answer: (B) B, C and D
Explanation
“My man, my sons, forming the axis
while I, wife and mother
insignificant as a fly
climbed the glass panes of their eyes.”
Identify the Kamala Das poem from which these lines are taken.
“My man, my sons, forming the axis
while I, wife and mother
insignificant as a fly
climbed the glass panes of their eyes.”
Answer: (D) A Widow’s Lament
Explanation
In which year was Edmund Burke’s Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful published?
Answer: (D) 1757
Explanation
Who among the following was NOT one of the original members of Johnson’s Literary Club?
Answer: (B) John Dryden
Explanation
Which poetry anthologies have NOT been written by Philip Larkin?
A. The North Ship
B. The Less Deceived
C. The Whitsun Weddings
D. Death of a Naturalist
E. Responsibilities
Answer: (D) D and E
Explanation
Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock?
A. Headlong Hall
B. Nightmare Abbey
C. Imaginary Conversations
D. The Spirit of the Age
E. Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
Answer: (A) A and B
Explanation
Who among the following was famous as a diarist?
Answer: (A) John Evelyn
Explanation
Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication.
A. Jane Eyre
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Middlemarch
D. The Return of the Native
E. The Newcomes
Answer: (B) A, E, B, C, D
Explanation
Which cultural theorist made the following observation about the formation and development of British cultural studies?
“What is important are the significant breaks — where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, regrouped around a different set of premises and themes.”
“What is important are the significant breaks — where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, regrouped around a different set of premises and themes.”
Answer: (B) Stuart Hall
Explanation
Who composed Lucasta: Posthume Poems, published posthumously?
Answer: (C) Richard Lovelace
Explanation
Match the English essayists and authors in List-I with their works in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Charles Lamb | I. Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare |
| B. William Hazlitt | II. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays |
| C. Walter Savage Landor | III. Imaginary Conversations |
| D. Thomas Love Peacock | IV. Gryll Grange |
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Explanation
Who was the author of Novum Organum?
Answer: (B) Francis Bacon
Explanation
Name the playwright who wrote Gallathea.
Answer: (D) John Lyly
Explanation
Match the Indian writers and translators in List-I with their works in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Purushottam Lal | I. Speaking of Siva |
| B. Adil Jussawalla | II. The Man of Dharma and the Rasa of Silence |
| C. A. K. Ramanujan | III. Rough Passage |
| D. R. Parthasarathy | IV. Missing Person |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Match the eighteenth-century writers in List-I with their works in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. David Hume | I. A Treatise of Human Nature |
| B. Edward Gibbon | II. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| C. William Godwin | III. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice |
| D. Tobias Smollett | IV. A Complete History of England |
Answer: (A) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
Statement I: Unlike Plato, Aristotle considers that poetry at its best requires great skill, and differentiates good from bad poetry on systematic aesthetic grounds.
Statement II: Aristotle accepts Plato’s insight that emotions are important to poetry, but rejects Plato’s distrust of emotions.
Choose the correct answer.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
Which of the following is the first novel of Beryl Bainbridge?
Answer: (B) A Weekend with Claude
Explanation
Match the Milton scholars in List-I with their studies in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Christopher Hill | I. Milton and the English Revolution |
| B. Catherine Belsey | II. John Milton: Language, Gender, Power |
| C. E. M. W. Tillyard | III. Milton |
| D. Thomas N. Corns | IV. Milton’s Language |
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
What do M. K. Naik and Shyamala Narayan call Indian English drama in Indian English Literature: 1980–2000: A Critical Survey?
Answer: (B) The sick man of Indian English literature
Explanation
Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication.
A. Jude the Obscure
B. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
D. A Pair of Blue Eyes
E. Far from the Madding Crowd
Answer: (A) C, D, E, B and A
Explanation
Which novelists have been correctly matched with their works?
A. Thomas Hardy — The Return of the Native
B. Charles Dickens — The History of Henry Esmond
C. Virginia Woolf — Mrs Dalloway
D. George Eliot — Northanger Abbey
E. Charlotte Brontë — The Professor
Answer: (B) A, C and E
Explanation
Which poems were written by the American poet Robert Lowell?
A. “Anecdote of the Jar”
B. “Skunk Hour”
C. “Howl”
D. “Night Sweat”
E. “A Gift Outright”
Answer: (B) B and D
Explanation
In which Charles Dickens novel is a high-spirited nineteen-year-old left penniless with his mother and sister Kate after his father’s death?
Answer: (C) Nicholas Nickleby
Explanation
Who wrote A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature?
Answer: (C) E. F. Oaten
Explanation
Which two plays were written by Arthur Miller?
A. They Too Arise
B. The Real Thing
C. Some Kind of Love Story
D. Tiny Alice
E. The Crying of Lot 49
Answer: (A) A and C
Explanation
Who made the following observation in the pamphlet Plays Confuted in Five Actions (1582)?
“I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that… bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked to furnish the playhouses in London.”
“I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that… bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked to furnish the playhouses in London.”
Answer: (C) Stephen Gosson
Explanation
Which books were published in 1791?
A. Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
B. James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson
C. Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
D. Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
E. Paine’s The Rights of Man
Answer: (B) B and E
Explanation
Joseph Addison was associated with which periodicals?
A. The London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Gentleman’s Magazine
D. The Tatler
E. The Rambler
Answer: (B) B and D
Explanation
Which of the following books was NOT written by Raymond Williams?
Answer: (C) Culture and Imperialism
Explanation
Which of the following novels were written by Wilkie Collins?
A. Basil
B. A Tale of a Tub
C. The Woman in White
D. Lapsing
E. A School for Lovers
Answer: (C) A and C
Explanation
Which among the following was NOT written by Thomas Carlyle?
Answer: (C) The Stones of Venice
Explanation
Match the American authors in List-I with their works in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Ernest Hemingway | I. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life |
| B. William Faulkner | II. Light in August |
| C. Herman Melville | III. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson |
| D. Mark Twain | IV. Across The River And Into The Trees |
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Explanation
According to Stuart Hall, which features are generally accepted as true of Cultural Studies as practised at the University of Birmingham?
A. It strengthened the barrier between high and low culture.
B. It privileged text at the cost of context.
C. It accommodated study of working-class lives.
D. It promoted readings based on social and political contexts.
E. It was essentially apolitical.
Answer: (B) C and D
Explanation
Arrange the following works of T. S. Eliot in chronological order of first publication.
A. The Sacred Wood
B. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
C. “The Metaphysical Poets”
D. “The Function of Criticism”
E. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Answer: (C) A, C, D, E, B
Explanation
Which poems have NOT been composed by Adrienne Rich?
A. “Diving into the Wreck”
B. “Transcendental Etude”
C. “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
D. “The Applicant”
E. “Ripples on the Surface”
Answer: (D) D and E
Explanation
Which two plays of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
A. A Marriage Proposal
B. Three Sisters
C. The Cherry Orchard
D. Uncle Vanya
E. The Seagull
Answer: (D) B and E
Explanation
What is the meaning of “putrescent” in the poem?
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade:
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed:
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market:
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
Answer: (A) Decomposed
Explanation
Which statement about the poem is true?
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade:
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed:
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market:
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
Answer: (B) It concerns humans’ propensity for war despite the catastrophes it creates.
Explanation
The title “Apostrophe to Man” is __________ in the context of the overall content.
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade:
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed:
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market:
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
Answer: (B) Ironic and satirical
Explanation
The last line, “Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out,” chiefly uses which figurative device?
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade:
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed:
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market:
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
Answer: (C) Alliteration
Explanation
What does “detestable” mean in the context of the poem?
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade:
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed:
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market:
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
Answer: (B) Contemptible
Explanation
What is the meaning of “quotidian”?
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice.
Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self-awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings.
Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the ‘small.’ Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions — turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of ‘event.’ They are moments in time that leave no historical mark, at least as history has traditionally been understood.
As these examples suggest, such practices are everyday not only because they are ordinary but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines.
Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
Answer: (C) Daily practices
Explanation
What is NOT related to the meaning of “interstice”?
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice.
Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self-awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings.
Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the ‘small.’ Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions — turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of ‘event.’ They are moments in time that leave no historical mark, at least as history has traditionally been understood.
As these examples suggest, such practices are everyday not only because they are ordinary but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines.
Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
Answer: (A) Monolithic
Explanation
“Everyday life” as a theory deals with
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice.
Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self-awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings.
Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the ‘small.’ Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions — turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of ‘event.’ They are moments in time that leave no historical mark, at least as history has traditionally been understood.
As these examples suggest, such practices are everyday not only because they are ordinary but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines.
Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
Answer: (B) Events that are mundane and steeped in banality
Explanation
Why is everyday life studies regarded as a science of the ‘small’ in the passage?
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice.
Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self-awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings.
Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the ‘small.’ Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions — turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of ‘event.’ They are moments in time that leave no historical mark, at least as history has traditionally been understood.
As these examples suggest, such practices are everyday not only because they are ordinary but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines.
Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
Answer: (D) It deals with events that are part of mundane processes and practices.
Explanation
In the context of the passage, Michel de Certeau’s theory of everyday life offers a site of __________ the dominant order.
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice.
Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self-awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings.
Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the ‘small.’ Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions — turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of ‘event.’ They are moments in time that leave no historical mark, at least as history has traditionally been understood.
As these examples suggest, such practices are everyday not only because they are ordinary but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines.
Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
Answer: (B) Resisting
Explanation
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