The complete UGC NET August 2024 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 August 2024 |
|---|---|
| Papers | Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature) |
| Exam date(s) | August 21, 2024 |
| Shift(s) | Shift 1 · Shift 2 |
| Paper 1 questions | 100 questions · 60 minutes · 100 marks |
| Paper 2 questions | 199 questions · 120 minutes · 200 marks |
| Total | 299 questions |
| Marking scheme | +2 per correct answer · No negative marking |
UGC NET August 2024 · Shift 1 · English Literature sitting
UGC NET August 2024 · Shift 2 · English Literature sitting
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Identify the probability sampling techniques.
Answer: (C) Only A and C
Explanation
When the sample has been randomly selected, which among the following may be expected in cross-sectional research designs?
Answer: (A) Only A and C
Explanation
The students' t-test would be useful for:
Answer: (C) Only A, C and D
Explanation
Which of the following statements best describes a blog?
Answer: (B) A chronological list of posts on a website typically written by a single author about a subject
Explanation
Three successive discounts of 30% on the marked price of an item are together equivalent to a single discount of:
Answer: (C) 65.7%
Explanation
"Description of actual words, written or spoken, used to tell a story" and images or pictures come under the category of:
Answer: (A) Discourse
Explanation
If you want to understand the theoretical reasons that led researchers to conduct a study that appeared as a research article in a journal, which section of the article would you read?
Answer: (C) Introduction
Explanation
Which of the following statements are logically equivalent?
Answer: (D) B and D Only
Explanation
A history teacher wants to create an interactive timeline showcasing the evolution of different art movements over centuries. Which tool would best support the creation of this multimedia presentation?
Answer: (A) Prezi
Explanation
Dissolved Oxygen (DO), a water quality parameter, is essential in which of the following water bodies or sources?
Answer: (A) A, B and E Only
Explanation
The number of digits an individual can report back without error in a single presentation represents:
Answer: (B) Memory span
Explanation
To understand global climate change, GCM models are widely used. GCM stands for:
Answer: (B) Only B and C
Explanation
Which of the following research approaches suggests that theory is an outcome of research?
Answer: (B) Inductive approach
Explanation
Identify the sequence of words A-E that correctly fills the blanks in the following paragraph:
The ______ is the "brain" of the computer and the ______ processor made by Intel is an example of this. The speed of the processor is measured in ______. ______ is a volatile memory whereas ______ is used in most computers to hold a small special piece of software known as the "boot up" program.
Answer: (A) B, D, E, C, A
Explanation
Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar was associated with:
Answer: (B) Only B, C, D
Explanation
A collection of the student's work in an area, showing growth, self-reflection, and achievements is known as:
Answer: (B) Portfolio
Explanation
Which of the following universities were multi-disciplinary in ancient India?
Answer: (D) Only B, C, D, E
Explanation
If the statement "Some birds are not mammals" is given as true, which of the following statements can be immediately inferred to be false?
Answer: (D) All birds are mammals
Explanation
In a certain coding language, if the word STORK is coded as VQRON, then the word TIRED will be coded as:
Answer: (B) WFUBG
Explanation
The National Education Policy, 2020 recommended the integration of humanities at the undergraduate level with subjects of:
Answer: (A) Only A, B, C, D
Explanation
A person travels from X to Y at a speed of 50 km/hr and returns from Y to X by increasing the speed by 50%. What is the average speed during the journey?
Answer: (B) 60 km/hr
Explanation
Which electronic technology was the key technology for making the first-generation electronic computer?
Answer: (C) Vacuum Tube based
Explanation
Which of the following is correct in the context of syllogism?
Answer: (D) C and E Only
Explanation
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was first opened for signature during:
Answer: (B) Earth Summit
Explanation
"Molecules are in random motion. Qutub Minar is composed of molecules. Therefore, Qutub Minar is in constant random motion." Identify the fallacy committed in the above statement.
Answer: (D) Fallacy of composition
Explanation
The general context of communication is known as communication - :
Answer: (A) Situation
Explanation
When a water body becomes extremely low in nutrient content, then it is called:
Answer: (B) Oligotrophic
Explanation
The National Education Policy, 2020 aims to create:
Answer: (C) Knowledge hubs
Explanation
Which of the following, in communication, are the rhetorical structures?
Answer: (B) Only B, C, D, E
Explanation
Which of the following are essential elements of mass communication?
Answer: (D) Only B, C, D, E
Explanation
In a breeder reactor:
Answer: (A) More fissile materials are produced than are consumed
Explanation
An important feature of the Third Five Year Plan was:
Answer: (C) Setting up examination research units in some universities
Explanation
Working 9 hours a day, 12 persons complete a work in 25 days. Working 6 hours a day, 15 persons can do the same work in:
Answer: (C) 30 days
Explanation
Based on the table above, the average monthly salary offered to an M. Tech. (Computer Science) student in 2023 is approximately how much percent more than that in 2022?
| Employment Area | 2019 I (%) | 2019 II (Rs.) | 2020 I (%) | 2020 II (Rs.) | 2021 I (%) | 2021 II (Rs.) | 2022 I (%) | 2022 II (Rs.) | 2023 I (%) | 2023 II (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 22 | 54500 | 17 | 63800 | 23 | 75500 | 19 | 89200 | 32 | 98100 |
| SQA | 36 | 51700 | 48 | 63900 | 43 | 76300 | 37 | 89600 | 32 | 102200 |
| Software Development | 19 | 52900 | 23 | 64400 | 21 | 70500 | 16 | 77600 | 20 | 86400 |
| Other | 23 | 42600 | 12 | 50900 | 13 | 60200 | 28 | 66400 | 16 | 75400 |
Employment area-wise details of M. Tech. (Computer Science) students from 2019 to 2023.
Answer: (A) 12.17
Explanation
Based on the table above, what is the average monthly salary offered to an M. Tech. (Computer Science) student in 2020?
| Employment Area | 2019 I (%) | 2019 II (Rs.) | 2020 I (%) | 2020 II (Rs.) | 2021 I (%) | 2021 II (Rs.) | 2022 I (%) | 2022 II (Rs.) | 2023 I (%) | 2023 II (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 22 | 54500 | 17 | 63800 | 23 | 75500 | 19 | 89200 | 32 | 98100 |
| SQA | 36 | 51700 | 48 | 63900 | 43 | 76300 | 37 | 89600 | 32 | 102200 |
| Software Development | 19 | 52900 | 23 | 64400 | 21 | 70500 | 16 | 77600 | 20 | 86400 |
| Other | 23 | 42600 | 12 | 50900 | 13 | 60200 | 28 | 66400 | 16 | 75400 |
Employment area-wise details of M. Tech. (Computer Science) students from 2019 to 2023.
Answer: (A) Rs. 60750
Explanation
Based on the table above, in 2021, students getting employment in Hardware earned how many lakhs more than those getting employment in Software Development (per annum)?
| Employment Area | 2019 I (%) | 2019 II (Rs.) | 2020 I (%) | 2020 II (Rs.) | 2021 I (%) | 2021 II (Rs.) | 2022 I (%) | 2022 II (Rs.) | 2023 I (%) | 2023 II (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 22 | 54500 | 17 | 63800 | 23 | 75500 | 19 | 89200 | 32 | 98100 |
| SQA | 36 | 51700 | 48 | 63900 | 43 | 76300 | 37 | 89600 | 32 | 102200 |
| Software Development | 19 | 52900 | 23 | 64400 | 21 | 70500 | 16 | 77600 | 20 | 86400 |
| Other | 23 | 42600 | 12 | 50900 | 13 | 60200 | 28 | 66400 | 16 | 75400 |
Employment area-wise details of M. Tech. (Computer Science) students from 2019 to 2023.
Answer: (B) 337.92
Explanation
Based on the table above, what is the percentage increase in the average starting salary per month for employment in Hardware in 2023 with reference to 2019?
| Employment Area | 2019 I (%) | 2019 II (Rs.) | 2020 I (%) | 2020 II (Rs.) | 2021 I (%) | 2021 II (Rs.) | 2022 I (%) | 2022 II (Rs.) | 2023 I (%) | 2023 II (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 22 | 54500 | 17 | 63800 | 23 | 75500 | 19 | 89200 | 32 | 98100 |
| SQA | 36 | 51700 | 48 | 63900 | 43 | 76300 | 37 | 89600 | 32 | 102200 |
| Software Development | 19 | 52900 | 23 | 64400 | 21 | 70500 | 16 | 77600 | 20 | 86400 |
| Other | 23 | 42600 | 12 | 50900 | 13 | 60200 | 28 | 66400 | 16 | 75400 |
Employment area-wise details of M. Tech. (Computer Science) students from 2019 to 2023.
Answer: (D) 80%
Explanation
Based on the table above, in all the five years, the number of students getting employment in Hardware is how many less than the number of students getting employment in SQA?
| Employment Area | 2019 I (%) | 2019 II (Rs.) | 2020 I (%) | 2020 II (Rs.) | 2021 I (%) | 2021 II (Rs.) | 2022 I (%) | 2022 II (Rs.) | 2023 I (%) | 2023 II (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 22 | 54500 | 17 | 63800 | 23 | 75500 | 19 | 89200 | 32 | 98100 |
| SQA | 36 | 51700 | 48 | 63900 | 43 | 76300 | 37 | 89600 | 32 | 102200 |
| Software Development | 19 | 52900 | 23 | 64400 | 21 | 70500 | 16 | 77600 | 20 | 86400 |
| Other | 23 | 42600 | 12 | 50900 | 13 | 60200 | 28 | 66400 | 16 | 75400 |
Employment area-wise details of M. Tech. (Computer Science) students from 2019 to 2023.
Answer: (C) 734
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I: Patterns of Communication | List II: Social Unit |
|---|---|
| A. Physical situation | I. Participants |
| B. Persons involved in interaction | II. Key |
| C. Manner of communication enacted | III. Instrumentality |
| D. Channels of communication | IV. Scene or setting |
Patterns of communication and corresponding social-unit terms.
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I: Term | List II: Meaning |
|---|---|
| A. Decision making | I. The tendency to hold on a belief in the face of contradictory evidence |
| B. Confirmation bias | II. The tendency to have more confidence in judgment and decisions than we should based on probability |
| C. Belief perseverance | III. The tendency to search for and use information that supports our ideas rather than refutes them |
| D. Overconfidence bias | IV. Evaluating alternatives and making choices among them |
Terms and meanings related to decision and judgment biases.
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I: Malware types | List II: Characteristics |
|---|---|
| A. Trojan Horse | I. Propagates copies of itself through a network |
| B. Worm | II. Triggers action when certain condition occurs |
| C. Logic Bomb | III. Hooks standard OS calls to hide the existence of malware |
| D. Rootkit | IV. Contains unexpected covert effect |
Malware types and their characteristics.
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
According to the classical Indian school of logic (Nyaya), which fallacy is committed in the argument: "Anything that is thinkable is nameable because it is thinkable"?
Answer: (B) Sadharana
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I: Swayamprabha Channel No. | List II: Theme |
|---|---|
| A. Channel 03 (PRABODH) | I. Education and Home Science |
| B. Channel 04 (SAARASWAT) | II. Information, Communication and Management Studies |
| C. Channel 05 (PRABANDHAN) | III. Law and Legal Studies |
| D. Channel 06 (VIDHIK) | IV. Social and Behavioural Sciences |
Swayamprabha channel numbers and themes.
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
If (L)_M represents a number L in base-M number system, then which of the following equalities are true?
(127.125)10 = (1111111.001)2(127.125)10 = (1333.02)4(127.125)10 = (177.1)8(127.125)10 = (7F.2)16Answer: (C) A, B and C only
Explanation
In the letter series, some letters are missing. Complete the series by choosing the correct alternative:
b_b_bb__bbb_bb_b
Answer: (B) bbaaab
Explanation
Using the passage above, the languages that A. K. Ramanujan tried to bring to limelight in Indological studies are:
A. K. Ramanujan was one of those thinkers, like Freud (whom he greatly, though not uncritically, admired), who so transformed our way of looking at a subject that we are in danger of undervaluing their contribution, since we have come to take for granted precisely what they taught us, as we view the subject through their eyes. At a time when the American Indo-logical establishment regarded native Indian scholars merely as sources of information about language and texts, like the raw fiber that were taken from India to be processed in British mills, but seldom as scholars who might have their own ideas about how to process those texts, Ramanujan taught them all how to weave a theory, a folktale, a poem, a book.
Long before it was politically respectable, let alone politically correct, to study the works of women or of 'illiterate' peasants, Ramanujan valued their poetry, their stories and their counter-systems. At a time when Indian literature meant Sanskrit, and Sanskrit meant Greek and Latin, Ramanujan arrived in Chicago to join Edward C. Dimock and the other 'founding fathers' in proclaiming to the world the relevance of Tamil and Bengali and the other mother tongues. Without so much as raising his gentle voice, he blazed a great path through the centre of Indological studies. He gave us so many new paradigms that no Indologist can now think about India without thinking through his thoughts.
Answer: (C) Tamil, Bengali and other mother tongues
Explanation
Using the passage above, Ramanujan emphasized on:
A. K. Ramanujan was one of those thinkers, like Freud (whom he greatly, though not uncritically, admired), who so transformed our way of looking at a subject that we are in danger of undervaluing their contribution, since we have come to take for granted precisely what they taught us, as we view the subject through their eyes. At a time when the American Indo-logical establishment regarded native Indian scholars merely as sources of information about language and texts, like the raw fiber that were taken from India to be processed in British mills, but seldom as scholars who might have their own ideas about how to process those texts, Ramanujan taught them all how to weave a theory, a folktale, a poem, a book.
Long before it was politically respectable, let alone politically correct, to study the works of women or of 'illiterate' peasants, Ramanujan valued their poetry, their stories and their counter-systems. At a time when Indian literature meant Sanskrit, and Sanskrit meant Greek and Latin, Ramanujan arrived in Chicago to join Edward C. Dimock and the other 'founding fathers' in proclaiming to the world the relevance of Tamil and Bengali and the other mother tongues. Without so much as raising his gentle voice, he blazed a great path through the centre of Indological studies. He gave us so many new paradigms that no Indologist can now think about India without thinking through his thoughts.
Answer: (C) A path through Indological studies
Explanation
Using the passage above, who were the 'founding fathers' that Ramanujan joined in Chicago?
A. K. Ramanujan was one of those thinkers, like Freud (whom he greatly, though not uncritically, admired), who so transformed our way of looking at a subject that we are in danger of undervaluing their contribution, since we have come to take for granted precisely what they taught us, as we view the subject through their eyes. At a time when the American Indo-logical establishment regarded native Indian scholars merely as sources of information about language and texts, like the raw fiber that were taken from India to be processed in British mills, but seldom as scholars who might have their own ideas about how to process those texts, Ramanujan taught them all how to weave a theory, a folktale, a poem, a book.
Long before it was politically respectable, let alone politically correct, to study the works of women or of 'illiterate' peasants, Ramanujan valued their poetry, their stories and their counter-systems. At a time when Indian literature meant Sanskrit, and Sanskrit meant Greek and Latin, Ramanujan arrived in Chicago to join Edward C. Dimock and the other 'founding fathers' in proclaiming to the world the relevance of Tamil and Bengali and the other mother tongues. Without so much as raising his gentle voice, he blazed a great path through the centre of Indological studies. He gave us so many new paradigms that no Indologist can now think about India without thinking through his thoughts.
Answer: (C) Edward C. Dimock and others
Explanation
Using the passage above, what did Ramanujan teach in America?
A. K. Ramanujan was one of those thinkers, like Freud (whom he greatly, though not uncritically, admired), who so transformed our way of looking at a subject that we are in danger of undervaluing their contribution, since we have come to take for granted precisely what they taught us, as we view the subject through their eyes. At a time when the American Indo-logical establishment regarded native Indian scholars merely as sources of information about language and texts, like the raw fiber that were taken from India to be processed in British mills, but seldom as scholars who might have their own ideas about how to process those texts, Ramanujan taught them all how to weave a theory, a folktale, a poem, a book.
Long before it was politically respectable, let alone politically correct, to study the works of women or of 'illiterate' peasants, Ramanujan valued their poetry, their stories and their counter-systems. At a time when Indian literature meant Sanskrit, and Sanskrit meant Greek and Latin, Ramanujan arrived in Chicago to join Edward C. Dimock and the other 'founding fathers' in proclaiming to the world the relevance of Tamil and Bengali and the other mother tongues. Without so much as raising his gentle voice, he blazed a great path through the centre of Indological studies. He gave us so many new paradigms that no Indologist can now think about India without thinking through his thoughts.
Answer: (B) Weave theories, folktales, poems and books
Explanation
Using the passage above, who is A. K. Ramanujan compared to in the text?
A. K. Ramanujan was one of those thinkers, like Freud (whom he greatly, though not uncritically, admired), who so transformed our way of looking at a subject that we are in danger of undervaluing their contribution, since we have come to take for granted precisely what they taught us, as we view the subject through their eyes. At a time when the American Indo-logical establishment regarded native Indian scholars merely as sources of information about language and texts, like the raw fiber that were taken from India to be processed in British mills, but seldom as scholars who might have their own ideas about how to process those texts, Ramanujan taught them all how to weave a theory, a folktale, a poem, a book.
Long before it was politically respectable, let alone politically correct, to study the works of women or of 'illiterate' peasants, Ramanujan valued their poetry, their stories and their counter-systems. At a time when Indian literature meant Sanskrit, and Sanskrit meant Greek and Latin, Ramanujan arrived in Chicago to join Edward C. Dimock and the other 'founding fathers' in proclaiming to the world the relevance of Tamil and Bengali and the other mother tongues. Without so much as raising his gentle voice, he blazed a great path through the centre of Indological studies. He gave us so many new paradigms that no Indologist can now think about India without thinking through his thoughts.
Answer: (B) Sigmund Freud
Explanation
99 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Which statement among the following rightly defines an 'epithet'?
Answer: (B) An adjective/adjectival phrase used to define a characteristic quality or attribute of some person or thing.
Explanation
Who among the following invented 'inscape' and 'instress'?
Answer: (D) G.M. Hopkins
Explanation
A 'palindrome' is ______.
Answer: (C) A word or sentence which reads the same both ways.
Explanation
In his work, The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives and sought to declare the death of -
Answer: (C) Classical Socialism
Explanation
What was the name of the first ship to transport indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago in 1845?
Answer: (B) Futtle Rozack
Explanation
Who among the following was known as 'The Lady of Christ's' during his college days at Cambridge?
Answer: (C) John Milton
Explanation
Sir Thomas Browne's longest work, Vulgar Errors, is about-
Answer: (A) the mistaken beliefs of the poorly educated
Explanation
The first regular English tragedy Gorboduc contains 5 acts; while the first 3 acts were written by Thomas Norton, identify the author who wrote the remaining 2 acts-
Answer: (C) Thomas Sackville
Explanation
Who among the following English translators of the Bible was burnt to death for his beliefs, however, he is remembered for his careful and important work on translation?
Answer: (B) William Tyndale
Explanation
How many Knights feature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene?
Answer: (B) 12
Explanation
Alexander Pope's famous quote, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," appears in which one of the following works?
Answer: (A) Essay on Criticism
Explanation
Who among the following friends of Everyman, the main protagonist of the best-known morality play, Everyman, stays with him when he leaves the world to face Death?
Answer: (C) Good Deeds
Explanation
While documenting, when is a block quotation used in prose?
Answer: (A) If a quotation runs in more than four lines.
Explanation
How are words from a language other than English written in a research paper?
Answer: (B) In italics
Explanation
According to MLA Handbook, the mechanics of prose refers to technical questions that writers must follow. These include:
Answer: (B) Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, style of numbering
Explanation
Who among the following published a series of essays titled The New Criticism?
Answer: (A) John Crowe Ransom
Explanation
Who among the following observed that “the artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian always”?
Answer: (B) Oscar Wilde
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with Lake School of Poetry?
Answer: (C) William Blake
Explanation
Who among the following did not belong to the “Angry Young Men” generation of British playwrights/novelists?
Answer: (D) J.B. Priestley
Explanation
Who among the following coined the term “Stream of Consciousness”?
Answer: (C) May Sinclair
Explanation
Which among the following is not a novel written by Jean Rhys?
Answer: (D) Golden Child
Explanation
What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's autobiographical novel?
Answer: (B) Mary: A Fiction
Explanation
Which text among the following is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women?
Answer: (B) Good Wives
Explanation
Who among the following is the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Answer: (D) Maya Angelou
Explanation
Who among the following is the author of The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading?
Answer: (B) Wolfgang Iser
Explanation
Which among the following is not a state of human mental disposition as posited by Jacques Lacan?
Answer: (A) The Historical Order
Explanation
Which among the following novelists remarked that “falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings?”
Answer: (B) George Eliot
Explanation
Who among the following stated that “true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both?”
Answer: (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explanation
Which periodical was started by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele after closing of The Spectator in 1712?
Answer: (B) Guardian
Explanation
Who among the following called John Dryden the father of English criticism and affirmed that modern English prose began with Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
Answer: (C) Samuel Johnson
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with the Bloomsbury Group?
Answer: (D) Edmund Husserl
Explanation
Which among the following critics stated that, “The object of study in literary science is not literature but ‘literariness’, that is, what makes a given work a literary work?”
Answer: (B) Roman Jakobson
Explanation
What was the immediate motivation for Philip Sidney to write Apologie for Poetrie as a defense of poetry?
Answer: (C) Attack on poetry in The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson
Explanation
The poem “France: An Ode” is written by-
Answer: (B) S.T. Coleridge
Explanation
Who among the following defined taste as “that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike?”
Answer: (A) Joseph Addison
Explanation
The poetic line(s), “There is one great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead” appear in
Answer: (B) The Prelude
Explanation
What does 'an eponymous' character mean?
Answer: (B) An eponymous character gives his or her name to the title of the work
Explanation
Which among the following is not a play written by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer: (C) The Plough and the Stars
Explanation
Which statement among the following rightly defines 'an invective'?
Answer: (A) Denunciatory, abusive or vituperative speech or writing
Explanation
Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Keywords |
| B | Culture and Society |
| C | The Long Revolution |
| D | The Country and the City |
| E | Modern Tragedy |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (B) B, C, E, D, A
Explanation
Arrange the following works of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Mr. Gandhi and Emancipation of Untouchables |
| B | The Annihilation of Caste |
| C | The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and its Solution |
| D | Federation Versus Freedom |
| E | Buddha and his Dhamma |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (C) C, B, D, A, E
Explanation
Arrange the following philosophers/theorists in the correct chronological order of their birth.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Simone de Beauvoir |
| B | Walter Benjamin |
| C | Jean Baudrillard |
| D | Mikhail Bakhtin |
| E | Roland Barthes |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (A) B, D, A, E, C
Explanation
Arrange the following Indian writers in the correct chronological order of their birth.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | R.K. Narayan |
| B | Raja Rao |
| C | Sri Aurobindo |
| D | K.S. Venkataramani |
| E | Sarojini Naidu |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (C) C, E, D, A, B
Explanation
Arrange the following novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | So Many Hungers |
| B | All About H. Hatterr |
| C | Music for Mohini |
| D | Waiting for the Mahatma |
| E | Kanthapura |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (C) E, A, B, C, D
Explanation
Arrange the following plays of G.B. Shaw in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Pygmalion |
| B | Man and Superman |
| C | Arms and the Man |
| D | Too True to be Good |
| E | Saint Joan |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (B) C, B, A, E, D
Explanation
Arrange the following detective novels of Agatha Christie in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Death on the Nile |
| B | Murder in the Orient Express |
| C | Sparkling Cyanide |
| D | The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
| E | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (D) D, E, B, A, C
Explanation
Arrange the following children's books in the correct chronological order of their publications.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | J.K. Rowling - The Goblet of Fire |
| B | Philip Pullman - Northern Lights |
| C | C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe |
| D | J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit |
| E | William Golding - Lord of the Flies |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (A) D, E, C, B, A
Explanation
According to Dhananjaya, there are five elements of the plot, parallel with the five stages of the action, from these respectively arise the five junctures (Samdhi). What is the correct sequence of these junctures?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Avamarsa |
| B | mukha |
| C | pratimukha |
| D | upasamhrti |
| E | gurbha |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (B) B, C, E, A, D
Explanation
Arrange the following texts of critical theory in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Michel Foucault - The Archaeology of Knowledge |
| B | Roland Barthes - Mythologies |
| C | Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology |
| D | Jacques Lacan - Ecrits |
| E | Jean-Francois Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (C) B, D, C, A, E
Explanation
Arrange the following works by South Asian writers in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Kartography by Kamila Shamsie |
| B | The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| C | The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| D | Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee |
| E | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (D) A, D, B, E, C
Explanation
Arrange the following campus novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace |
| B | Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man |
| C | Mary McCarthy - The Groves of Academe |
| D | Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited |
| E | Philip Roth - The Human Stain |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (B) D, C, B, A, E
Explanation
Arrange the following texts in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The Pilgrim's Progress |
| B | Beowulf |
| C | Endymion |
| D | The Faerie Queene |
| E | Paradise Lost |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (C) B, D, E, A, C
Explanation
Arrange the following works in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Ahmed Ali - Twilight in Delhi |
| B | Chaman Nahal - Azadi |
| C | Manohar Malgonkar - Distant Drum |
| D | Mulk Raj Anand - Untouchable |
| E | K.A. Abbas - Tomorrow is Ours: A Novel of the India of Today |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (A) D, A, E, C, B
Explanation
Arrange the following works of 'Black British' writers in the correct chronological order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - No Place Like Home |
| B | Mike Phillips - London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain |
| C | Ekow Eshun - Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa |
| D | George Lamming - The Pleasures of Exile |
| E | Caryl Phillips - The European Tribe |
Items to arrange in chronological order
Answer: (B) D, E, A, B, C
Explanation
Which of the nineteenth-century novels portray disabled characters in them?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment |
| B | Flaubert's Madame Bovary |
| C | Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice |
| D | Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol |
| E | Melville's Moby-Dick |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A, D, E only
Explanation
Which of the following works are graphic narratives?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan |
| B | Bhimayana by Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand |
| C | Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir by Malik Sajad |
| D | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry |
| E | This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition by Vishwajyoti Ghosh |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) B, C, E only
Explanation
Who among the following writers were associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Leslie Jamison |
| B | Stephen King |
| C | Alain Locke |
| D | Langston Hughes |
| E | Zora Neale Hurston |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) C, D, E only
Explanation
Which of the following works are categorised under science fiction?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
| B | Wendy Mass's A Mango-Shaped Space |
| C | Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyper Reality |
| D | Frank Schätzing's The Swarm |
| E | Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B, C, E only
Explanation
Which statements are true about Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The General Prologue describes the meeting of twenty-nine pilgrims in the Tabard Inn. |
| B | The Parson's Tale is the introductory tale that deals with seven virtues. |
| C | The Canterbury Tales is written in prose and verse of various metres. |
| D | Only twenty-three pilgrims tell stories and there are only twenty-four stories told altogether. |
| E | The Prioress' Tale tells about the murder of a mother by a child. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) A, C, D only
Explanation
Which of the following works fall under the category of LGBTQ+?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Making is Connecting by David Gauntlett |
| B | Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters |
| C | Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston |
| D | Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester |
| E | Safe Space by Alyssa Huynh |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) B, C, D only
Explanation
Identify the plays that John Fletcher wrote in collaboration with Francis Beaumont.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The Faithful Shepherdess |
| B | The Loyal Subject |
| C | Cupid's Revenge |
| D | The Pilgrim |
| E | The Maid's Tragedy |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) C and E only
Explanation
Identify the historical plays not written by Shakespeare.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Henry the Third |
| B | Richard the Third |
| C | Richard the Second |
| D | Henry the Fifth |
| E | Richard the Fifth |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) A and E only
Explanation
Who among the following are recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Orhan Pamuk |
| B | Somerset Maugham |
| C | Harold Pinter |
| D | Margaret Atwood |
| E | Herta Muller |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) A, C, E only
Explanation
Who among the following writers have played a significant role in the Australian Aboriginal movements?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Judith Wright |
| B | Oodgeroo Noonuccal |
| C | Jack Davis |
| D | David Malouf |
| E | Kevin Gilbert |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) B, C, E only
Explanation
Which of the following stories deal with the theme of Partition?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Thanda Gosht |
| B | Gharwali |
| C | Jila-Watan |
| D | Lajwanti |
| E | Rudali |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) A, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following definitions/statements are correct?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The term 'nation language' was coined by Derek Walcott. |
| B | 'Poetic justice' is a term invented by Thomas Rymer to convey the idea that evil is punished and virtue is rewarded. |
| C | The term 'neo-colonialism' was coined by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. |
| D | Nihilism is a word invented by Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons. |
| E | Caxton, in the preface to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, listed the nine heroes of late medieval literature. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) B, D, E only
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | 'Diegesis' is a term used by Plato to mean 'statement', and by Aristotle to mean 'narration'. |
| B | Foucault's term 'Biopolitics' refers to attempts of government to rationalise problems. |
| C | 'Hypertext' refers to second-degree literature made up of works which allude to or derive from hypotext. |
| D | 'Desiring Machines' is a concept introduced by Antonio Gramsci. |
| E | 'Dream Work' is a psychoanalytical term for the mechanism transforming raw dream material into manifest content. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) B, C, E only
Explanation
Which of the following statements are true about Bhavabhuti's Uttararamacharita?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The time-space of the play is divided into two broad sections/acts. |
| B | The first act of the play deals only with the birth and childhood of Rama. |
| C | It is a play based on the Ramayana. |
| D | Its theme has been derived from the last canto of the Ramayana. |
| E | In the second act of the play, Sita takes refuge in the hermitage of the sage Visvamitra. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) A, C, D only
Explanation
Which among the following statements are true about Panchatantra?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Panchatantra is a descendant of Hitopadesha. |
| B | It is a manual for the instruction of the sons of a king in principles of good conduct. |
| C | The first book deals with the adventures of a tortoise, deer and a cow. |
| D | Tantrakhyayika is one of the oldest redactions of Panchatantra. |
| E | Panchatantra is divided into five parts. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B, D, E only
Explanation
Which among the following statements are true about The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | It is an autobiographical text written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. |
| B | It is a text of Partition literature. |
| C | Unabashed Anglophilia of the author made this work controversial. |
| D | It was published in 1951. |
| E | It primarily raises the question of communal conflicts. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A, C, D only
Explanation
Which of the following parameters are emphasised in MLA Handbook (9th Edition) chapter titled “Principles of Inclusive Language”?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Avoid negatively judging others' experiences. |
| B | Use a dictionary to check for offensive terms. |
| C | Extensive use of pronouns. |
| D | Any format for capitalization and styling. |
| E | Make references to identity relevant sources. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) A, B and E only
Explanation
Which among the following are not the genuine sources of the sublime as cited by Longinus?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Creation of imaginative feelings |
| B | The command of “full-blooded” or robust ideas |
| C | The inspiration of “vehement emotion” |
| D | Nobility of spontaneity |
| E | The general effect of dignity and elevation |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) A and D only
Explanation
Which statements rightly define or describe 'utopia' and 'dystopia'?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is an essay in four books. |
| B | Sir Thomas More was the first to apply 'Utopia' to a literary genre when he named his imaginary republic Utopia. |
| C | Thomas More's Utopia was originally written in English. |
| D | Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are dystopian/anti-utopian texts. |
| E | More's Utopia was translated into French, German and Spanish by Ralph Robinson. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B and D only
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The term 'performativity' was coined by Derrida. |
| B | The idea of 'meme' was originally coined by Richard Dawkins. |
| C | The term 'culture industry' was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer. |
| D | The term 'Ideological State Apparatus' was coined by Bakhtin. |
| E | The term 'womanism' was coined by Alice Walker. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) B, C, E only
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
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| List I (Author) | List II (Text) |
|---|---|
| A. Sally Morgan | I. Karobran |
| B. Monica Clare | II. Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter |
| C. Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) | III. My Place |
| D. Alexis Wright | IV. Plains of Promise |
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Matching Author with Text
Answer: (B) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
Match List I with List II
| List I (Postcolonial Writer) | List II (Text) |
|---|---|
| A. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | I. Toward the African Revolution |
| B. Aime Cesaire | II. There Was a Country |
| C. Frantz Fanon | III. The Language of Languages |
| D. Chinua Achebe | IV. Discourse on Colonialism |
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Matching Postcolonial Writer with Text
Answer: (B) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
Match List I with List II
| List I (Cultural Critic/Theorist) | List II (Work) |
|---|---|
| A. Raymond Williams | I. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |
| B. Herbert Marcuse | II. Preface to Film |
| C. Fredric Jameson | III. One Dimensional Man |
| D. Richard Hoggart | IV. The Uses of Literacy |
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Matching Cultural Critic/Theorist with Work
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
Match List I with List II
| List I (Term) | List II (Critic/Theorist) |
|---|---|
| A. Culture Industry | I. Raymond Williams |
| B. Anxiety of Influence | II. Adorno and Horkheimer |
| C. Cultural Materialism | III. Mikhail Bakhtin |
| D. Dialogism | IV. Harold Bloom |
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Matching Term with Critic/Theorist
Answer: (C) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
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| List I (Term) | List II (Definition) |
|---|---|
| A. Epigram | I. An inferior or derivative follower of a more distinguished writer |
| B. Epigone | II. The slurring or suppression of a vowel sound or syllable |
| C. Diegesis | III. A short poem with a witty turn of thought or a wittily condensed expression in prose |
| D. Elision | IV. A term in narratology for narrated events distinct from the narration |
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Matching Term with Definition
Answer: (D) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
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| List I (Linguistic/Grammatical Term) | List II (Meaning/Definition) |
|---|---|
| A. Portmanteau word | I. Study of the historical development of languages over time |
| B. Philology | II. Used for establishing an atmosphere and communicating feelings rather than ideas |
| C. Phatic Language | III. A word formed by combining two or more words |
| D. Phantom word | IV. A word that exists through the error of a scribe, printer or lexicographer |
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Matching Linguistic/Grammatical Term with Meaning/Definition
Answer: (B) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
Match List I with List II
| List I (Comedy) | List II (Dramatist) |
|---|---|
| A. The Man of Mode | I. Sir John Vanbrugh |
| B. The Country Wife | II. William Congreve |
| C. The Old Bachelor | III. William Wycherley |
| D. The Provoked Wife | IV. Sir George Etherege |
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Matching Comedy with Dramatist
Answer: (B) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
Match List I with List II
| List I (Quote) | List II (Novelist) |
|---|---|
| A. Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. | I. D.H. Lawrence |
| B. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. | II. Charles Dickens |
| C. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. | III. Thomas Hardy |
| D. Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess. | IV. Graham Greene |
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Matching Quote with Novelist
Answer: (C) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
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| List I (Books/Collection of Poems) | List II (Poet) |
|---|---|
| A. The Idylls of the King | I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| B. Dramatic Lyrics | II. A.C. Swinburne |
| C. Sonnets from the Portuguese | III. Alfred Tennyson |
| D. Poems and Ballads | IV. Robert Browning |
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Matching Books/Collection of Poems with Poet
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
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| List I (Dalit Writer) | List II (Language) |
|---|---|
| A. Lal Singh Dil | I. Hindi |
| B. Urmila Pawar | II. Kannada |
| C. Tulsi Ram | III. Punjabi |
| D. Devanur Mahadeva | IV. Marathi |
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Matching Dalit Writer with Language
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
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| List I (Prize/Recognition) | List II (Officially Started in the Year) |
|---|---|
| A. Booker Prize | I. 1917 |
| B. Pulitzer Prize | II. 1901 |
| C. Nobel Prize | III. 1668 |
| D. Poet Laureate | IV. 1968 |
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Matching Prize/Recognition with Officially Started in the Year
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
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Match List I with List II
| List I (Diaspora Writer) | List II (Work) |
|---|---|
| A. Vikram Seth | I. Knife |
| B. V.S. Naipaul | II. The Lowland |
| C. Salman Rushdie | III. The Masque of Africa |
| D. Jhumpa Lahiri | IV. From Heaven Lake |
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Matching Diaspora Writer with Work
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
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| List I (Theatre) | List II (Leading Figure/Founder) |
|---|---|
| A. Abbey Theatre | I. Martin Esslin |
| B. Theatre of the Absurd | II. W.B. Yeats |
| C. Hope Theatre | III. Jean Jacques Bernard |
| D. Theatre of Silence | IV. Philip Henslowe |
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Matching Theatre with Leading Figure/Founder
Answer: (A) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
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| List I (Woman Novelist) | List II (Novel) |
|---|---|
| A. Fanny Burney | I. Agnes Grey |
| B. Anne Bronte | II. The Good Earth |
| C. Pearl Buck | III. My Son's Story |
| D. Nadine Gordimer | IV. Evelina |
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Matching Woman Novelist with Novel
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Match List I with List II.
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| List I (Retellings) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata | I. Anand Neelakantan |
| B. War of Lanka | II. Kavita Kane |
| C. Ahalya's Awakening | III. Devdutt Pattanaik |
| D. Ajaya: Epic of the Kaurava Clan | IV. Amish Tripathi |
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Matching Retellings with Author
Answer: (B) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Which one of the following lines indicates the destructive character of words?
All round me are words, and words and words,<br>They grow on me like leaves, they never<br>Seem to stop their slow growing<br>From within... But I tell my self, words<br>Are a nuisance, beware of them, they<br>Can be so many things, a<br>Chasm where running feet must pause, to<br>Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br>A blast of burning air or,<br>A knife most willing to cut your best<br>Friend's throat ... words are a nuisance, but.<br>They grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br>They never seem to stop their coming,<br>From a silence, somewhere deep within...
Answer: (B) A blast of burning air or,
Explanation
Which one of the following poetic devices is used in the opening line of the poem?
All round me are words, and words and words,<br>They grow on me like leaves, they never<br>Seem to stop their slow growing<br>From within... But I tell my self, words<br>Are a nuisance, beware of them, they<br>Can be so many things, a<br>Chasm where running feet must pause, to<br>Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br>A blast of burning air or,<br>A knife most willing to cut your best<br>Friend's throat ... words are a nuisance, but.<br>They grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br>They never seem to stop their coming,<br>From a silence, somewhere deep within...
Answer: (B) Anaphora
Explanation
Which one of the following is not a metaphor employed in the poem?
All round me are words, and words and words,<br>They grow on me like leaves, they never<br>Seem to stop their slow growing<br>From within... But I tell my self, words<br>Are a nuisance, beware of them, they<br>Can be so many things, a<br>Chasm where running feet must pause, to<br>Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br>A blast of burning air or,<br>A knife most willing to cut your best<br>Friend's throat ... words are a nuisance, but.<br>They grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br>They never seem to stop their coming,<br>From a silence, somewhere deep within...
Answer: (D) a throat
Explanation
A major theme of the poem can best be summarized as:
All round me are words, and words and words,<br>They grow on me like leaves, they never<br>Seem to stop their slow growing<br>From within... But I tell my self, words<br>Are a nuisance, beware of them, they<br>Can be so many things, a<br>Chasm where running feet must pause, to<br>Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br>A blast of burning air or,<br>A knife most willing to cut your best<br>Friend's throat ... words are a nuisance, but.<br>They grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br>They never seem to stop their coming,<br>From a silence, somewhere deep within...
Answer: (B) The growth/flow of words can not be restricted
Explanation
The poem is most similar in style and form to-
All round me are words, and words and words,<br>They grow on me like leaves, they never<br>Seem to stop their slow growing<br>From within... But I tell my self, words<br>Are a nuisance, beware of them, they<br>Can be so many things, a<br>Chasm where running feet must pause, to<br>Look, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br>A blast of burning air or,<br>A knife most willing to cut your best<br>Friend's throat ... words are a nuisance, but.<br>They grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br>They never seem to stop their coming,<br>From a silence, somewhere deep within...
Answer: (B) Open verse
Explanation
Which “will of God” is the author referring to in the line, “I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will”?
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love...<br><br>And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands - of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson - that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Answer: (D) To turn towards children in humility and innocence to learn wisdom.
Explanation
What kind of a passage is this?
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love...<br><br>And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands - of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson - that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Answer: (B) Persuasive
Explanation
What does “a real war” signify in the phrase “a real war against war”?
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love...<br><br>And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands - of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson - that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Answer: (D) A war against self-conceit and prejudices
Explanation
What according to the passage, is needed to spread peace and love in the world?
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love...<br><br>And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands - of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson - that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Answer: (B) Preservation of natural innocence
Explanation
Which phrase rightly encapsulates the central message of the passage?
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love...<br><br>And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands - of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson - that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Answer: (B) For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.
Explanation
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Based on the table above, what is the approximate percentage increase in the total exports of all six countries together in 2022 compared with 2020?
| Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 40 | 80 | 120 | 90 | 180 |
| B | 60 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
| C | 100 | 110 | 140 | 180 | 130 |
| D | 90 | 120 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
| E | 120 | 100 | 110 | 200 | 220 |
| F | 48 | 80 | 120 | 150 | 240 |
Country-wise details of exports (in Rs. crore), 2019-2023.
Answer: (C) 38.89%
Explanation
Based on the table above, if the export of country A in 2024 is 20% more than the combined exports of country B in 2022 and country E in 2021, what is the income of country A in 2024 if its import is Rs. 184 crore?
| Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 40 | 80 | 120 | 90 | 180 |
| B | 60 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
| C | 100 | 110 | 140 | 180 | 130 |
| D | 90 | 120 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
| E | 120 | 100 | 110 | 200 | 220 |
| F | 48 | 80 | 120 | 150 | 240 |
Country-wise details of exports (in Rs. crore), 2019-2023.
Answer: (D) 68
Explanation
Based on the table above, over all the given years, the average export of country E is how much percent more than the average export of country C?
| Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 40 | 80 | 120 | 90 | 180 |
| B | 60 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
| C | 100 | 110 | 140 | 180 | 130 |
| D | 90 | 120 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
| E | 120 | 100 | 110 | 200 | 220 |
| F | 48 | 80 | 120 | 150 | 240 |
Country-wise details of exports (in Rs. crore), 2019-2023.
Answer: (A) 13 7/11
Explanation
Based on the table above, what was the income of all six countries together in 2023 if the total imports of all six countries together was Rs. 770 crore in that year?
| Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 40 | 80 | 120 | 90 | 180 |
| B | 60 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
| C | 100 | 110 | 140 | 180 | 130 |
| D | 90 | 120 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
| E | 120 | 100 | 110 | 200 | 220 |
| F | 48 | 80 | 120 | 150 | 240 |
Country-wise details of exports (in Rs. crore), 2019-2023.
Answer: (A) Rs. 250 crore
Explanation
Based on the table above, in 2019, if the ratio of exports to imports for country D and country F are 1:2 and 4:1 respectively, what is the total import of countries D and F together in that year?
| Country | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 40 | 80 | 120 | 90 | 180 |
| B | 60 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
| C | 100 | 110 | 140 | 180 | 130 |
| D | 90 | 120 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
| E | 120 | 100 | 110 | 200 | 220 |
| F | 48 | 80 | 120 | 150 | 240 |
Country-wise details of exports (in Rs. crore), 2019-2023.
Answer: (C) Rs. 192 crore
Explanation
60 persons consume 300 kg of wheat in 40 days. In how many days will 25 persons consume 100 kg of wheat?
Answer: (C) 32 days
Explanation
The idea that mass media do not have much power to directly influence the audience led to the concept of:
Answer: (A) Limited effects
Explanation
The National Education Policy, 2020 supported the idea of:
Answer: (A) Science only education
Explanation
The approach in which researchers use the existing data to create groups for comparison is called:
Answer: (B) Ex post facto
Explanation
Which of the following Green House Gases (GHGs) was considered during the second compliance period of Kyoto Protocol at Doha?
Answer: (C) Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3)
Explanation
Which of the following social sciences have contributed much to the knowledge of mass communication?
Answer: (D) A, B, C only
Explanation
Which of the following statements are logically equivalent?
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Reena wanted to eat an ice-cream. She took out a phone number online. She repeated the number over and over again while dialing. After the order was delivered, she forgot the number. This is an example of which memory process?
Answer: (A) Short-term memory
Explanation
In which type of assessment do students measure their own progress against their previous performance rather than against external criteria or peers?
Answer: (B) Ipsative assessment
Explanation
Arrange the probabilities corresponding to the standard normal variate z lying in the following intervals, in increasing order.
Answer: (A) D, B, C, A
Explanation
If the statement 'No monkeys are feline.' is given as true, which of the following statements can be inferred to be true?
Answer: (D) Some monkeys are not feline
Explanation
Which of the following norms are prescribed for foreign universities to set up their campuses in India?
Answer: (D) B, C, E only
Explanation
By selling 35 eggs for Rs. 30, a man loses 25%. How many eggs should he sell for Rs. 144 to gain 20%?
Answer: (C) 105
Explanation
Which of the following represents the epistemological orientation of quantitative research?
Answer: (C) Positivism
Explanation
Which of the following arguments is fallacious because the major term is all pervasive and the middle term is all-inclusive?
Answer: (D) Everything is nameable because it is knowable.
Explanation
Identify the fallacy committed in the following statement: 'Water is non-poisonous; therefore, its components oxygen and hydrogen are non-poisonous.'
Answer: (A) Fallacy of division
Explanation
The contents of Swayamprabha channel -4 with the theme of 'Education and Home Science' are provided by:
Answer: (A) CEC, New Delhi
Explanation
Which of the following are the interactive whiteboard softwares that allow teachers to create digital lessons, annotate documents and collaborate with students in real time?
Answer: (B) A, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following electronic technologies is the key technology for making the third generation electronic computer?
Answer: (B) Integrated Circuit (IC) based
Explanation
Which of the following would create the most stable computer network with the fastest data transmission?
Answer: (D) Connect devices to a switch using optic fibre cables
Explanation
In a certain coding language, the word 'SLIGHT' is coded as 'UJKEJR', then the word 'GROUND' will be coded as:
Answer: (D) IPQSPB
Explanation
Which of the following are considered hot media?
Answer: (C) C, D, E only
Explanation
With reference to open source software, which of the following statements are correct?
Answer: (A) A, B and D only
Explanation
In communication, a text is a product of:
Answer: (C) Social interaction
Explanation
Find the next term in the number series 2A11, 4D13, 12G17, 48J23.
Answer: (C) 240M31
Explanation
The components of quality education identified in the National Education Policy of 2020 are:
Answer: (B) B, C, D only
Explanation
A British official of the East India Company who was interested in higher learning in India was:
Answer: (D) William Jones
Explanation
Which of the following is an example of negative feedback in the context of climate change?
Answer: (A) Oceans remove carbon dioxide from the air
Explanation
Identify the nominal variables.
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
Which higher-order knowledge can make the difference between how well and quickly students learn material?
Answer: (C) Metacognition
Explanation
Identify the sequence of words A-E that correctly fills the blanks in the following paragraph:
In the context of human-computer interaction, a ______ is an interface built around visual things and Windows-11 is an example of an ______ with these visual things. ______ is a region of the screen used to display information. ______ is a small picture used to represent folders, software etc., whereas ______ is a list of options that the user can select from.
Answer: (C) E, A, C, D, B
Explanation
Burning of solid waste, such as cans, batteries, plastic etc. generates:
Answer: (B) A, C and D only
Explanation
A measure of the consistency of observations of a single situation made by different people refers to:
Answer: (D) Inter-rater reliability
Explanation
Three successive discounts of 10%, 20%, and 30% on the marked price of an item are equivalent to a single discount of:
Answer: (D) 49.6%
Explanation
Which of the following two statements cannot both be true but can both be false?
Answer: (A) A and D only
Explanation
Based on the passage above, in Rig-Veda, Agni is connected with:
A careful study of the Rig-Veda shows that even in the early times, karma and jnana were recognized as two separate factors in the spiritual progress of man. Karma is connected with the world immediately above the one in which we live; and jnana is connected with the world further above that. Agni and Indra are connected with sacrifices, and the gods of the highest world are connected with prayer and jnana. Since the Vedic Samhitas are intimately connected with sacrifices, it is but natural that the gods connected with sacrifices, the gods of the two lower regions, should be more prominent in the Rig-Veda. It is only through jnana that the soul can get into a state of everlasting bliss. This jnana is esoteric knowledge. At the time of the Rig-Veda, the rsis had evolved a highly complicated system of philosophy and the value of jnana as a means to final release from the world of physical bondage had been well established. The Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda are of little importance to a student of ancient Indian culture. One notes the same optimistic tone in the Yajur-Veda regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world. Material plenty is also quite noticeable. Gold and ornaments are spoken of freely as covetable objects. Cows are mentioned in thousands. So far as culture is concerned, and so far as religion and philosophy go, there is no difference between the Rig-Veda and the other two Vedas.
Answer: (B) Sacrifices
Explanation
Based on the passage above, the optimistic tone regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world exists in:
A careful study of the Rig-Veda shows that even in the early times, karma and jnana were recognized as two separate factors in the spiritual progress of man. Karma is connected with the world immediately above the one in which we live; and jnana is connected with the world further above that. Agni and Indra are connected with sacrifices, and the gods of the highest world are connected with prayer and jnana. Since the Vedic Samhitas are intimately connected with sacrifices, it is but natural that the gods connected with sacrifices, the gods of the two lower regions, should be more prominent in the Rig-Veda. It is only through jnana that the soul can get into a state of everlasting bliss. This jnana is esoteric knowledge. At the time of the Rig-Veda, the rsis had evolved a highly complicated system of philosophy and the value of jnana as a means to final release from the world of physical bondage had been well established. The Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda are of little importance to a student of ancient Indian culture. One notes the same optimistic tone in the Yajur-Veda regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world. Material plenty is also quite noticeable. Gold and ornaments are spoken of freely as covetable objects. Cows are mentioned in thousands. So far as culture is concerned, and so far as religion and philosophy go, there is no difference between the Rig-Veda and the other two Vedas.
Answer: (A) The Yajur-Veda
Explanation
Based on the passage above, at the time of Rig-Veda, the rsis valued jnana as a means:
A careful study of the Rig-Veda shows that even in the early times, karma and jnana were recognized as two separate factors in the spiritual progress of man. Karma is connected with the world immediately above the one in which we live; and jnana is connected with the world further above that. Agni and Indra are connected with sacrifices, and the gods of the highest world are connected with prayer and jnana. Since the Vedic Samhitas are intimately connected with sacrifices, it is but natural that the gods connected with sacrifices, the gods of the two lower regions, should be more prominent in the Rig-Veda. It is only through jnana that the soul can get into a state of everlasting bliss. This jnana is esoteric knowledge. At the time of the Rig-Veda, the rsis had evolved a highly complicated system of philosophy and the value of jnana as a means to final release from the world of physical bondage had been well established. The Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda are of little importance to a student of ancient Indian culture. One notes the same optimistic tone in the Yajur-Veda regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world. Material plenty is also quite noticeable. Gold and ornaments are spoken of freely as covetable objects. Cows are mentioned in thousands. So far as culture is concerned, and so far as religion and philosophy go, there is no difference between the Rig-Veda and the other two Vedas.
Answer: (C) To find release from the world of physical bondage
Explanation
Based on the passage above, what is the original source of cultural life of the Hindus?
A careful study of the Rig-Veda shows that even in the early times, karma and jnana were recognized as two separate factors in the spiritual progress of man. Karma is connected with the world immediately above the one in which we live; and jnana is connected with the world further above that. Agni and Indra are connected with sacrifices, and the gods of the highest world are connected with prayer and jnana. Since the Vedic Samhitas are intimately connected with sacrifices, it is but natural that the gods connected with sacrifices, the gods of the two lower regions, should be more prominent in the Rig-Veda. It is only through jnana that the soul can get into a state of everlasting bliss. This jnana is esoteric knowledge. At the time of the Rig-Veda, the rsis had evolved a highly complicated system of philosophy and the value of jnana as a means to final release from the world of physical bondage had been well established. The Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda are of little importance to a student of ancient Indian culture. One notes the same optimistic tone in the Yajur-Veda regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world. Material plenty is also quite noticeable. Gold and ornaments are spoken of freely as covetable objects. Cows are mentioned in thousands. So far as culture is concerned, and so far as religion and philosophy go, there is no difference between the Rig-Veda and the other two Vedas.
Answer: (D) Sacred Vedas
Explanation
Based on the passage above, according to Rig-Veda, jnana refers to:
A careful study of the Rig-Veda shows that even in the early times, karma and jnana were recognized as two separate factors in the spiritual progress of man. Karma is connected with the world immediately above the one in which we live; and jnana is connected with the world further above that. Agni and Indra are connected with sacrifices, and the gods of the highest world are connected with prayer and jnana. Since the Vedic Samhitas are intimately connected with sacrifices, it is but natural that the gods connected with sacrifices, the gods of the two lower regions, should be more prominent in the Rig-Veda. It is only through jnana that the soul can get into a state of everlasting bliss. This jnana is esoteric knowledge. At the time of the Rig-Veda, the rsis had evolved a highly complicated system of philosophy and the value of jnana as a means to final release from the world of physical bondage had been well established. The Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda are of little importance to a student of ancient Indian culture. One notes the same optimistic tone in the Yajur-Veda regarding man's life in this world and his future in the other world. Material plenty is also quite noticeable. Gold and ornaments are spoken of freely as covetable objects. Cows are mentioned in thousands. So far as culture is concerned, and so far as religion and philosophy go, there is no difference between the Rig-Veda and the other two Vedas.
Answer: (C) Everlasting bliss
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Aerosol | I. Particles formed by incomplete combination with mixture of carbon volatiles |
| B. Nano Particles | II. Particles with size less than 2.5 micrometer |
| C. Smoke | III. Particles with size less than 0.2 micrometer |
| D. Fine particles | IV. Any solid or liquid particle suspended in air |
Particulate matter terms and explanations.
Answer: (B) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Allergens | I. Substances that cause cancer |
| B. Carcinogens | II. Substances that can hamper embryonic growth |
| C. Mutagens | III. Substances that activate the immune system |
| D. Teratogens | IV. Substances that can damage or alter genetic material |
Nature of substances and their effects.
Answer: (D) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| Five Year Plan | Agency set up |
|---|---|
| A. First five year plan | I. Autonomous colleges |
| B. Second five year plan | II. University Grants Commission |
| C. Third five year plan | III. Specialized departments of scientific study |
| D. Fifth five year plan | IV. Two rural institutes in Wardha and Mysore |
Five year plans and agencies set up.
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| Malware type | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| A. Trapdoor | I. Produces varying but operationally equivalent copies of itself |
| B. Time Bomb | II. Code that allows unauthorized quick access at a later time |
| C. Polymorphic Virus | III. Instructions interpreted rather than executed |
| D. Macro virus | IV. Triggers action when specified time occurs |
Malware types and characteristics.
Answer: (B) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Match the following using the table above.
| Concept | Related medium |
|---|---|
| A. Attention economy | I. Public speech |
| B. Narrow casting | II. Television |
| C. Synchronous audience | III. Internet |
| D. Peculiar form of presentness | IV. FM Radio |
Concepts and related media.
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Which one of the following plays mock the Restoration drama of Dryden and Thomas Otway?
Answer: (D) The Rehearsal by George Villiers
Explanation
Identify the name of the essayist who made the following assertion: "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
Answer: (B) Sir Francis Bacon
Explanation
From which book of John Milton's poem Paradise Lost the epigraph of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein taken when Adam asks God: "Did I request thee, maker from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee, From darkness to promote me?"
Answer: (C) Book X
Explanation
Three satirical stories by W.M. Thackeray portraying unhappy marriage and exploitation of one partner by the other, are titled as -
Answer: (A) Men's Wives
Explanation
Who among the following wrote that - "Poetry is not a branch of authorship: it is 'the stuff of which one life is made'. The rest is 'mere oblivion' ' a dead letter: for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it."
Answer: (C) William Hazlitt
Explanation
Who among the following wrote "Plan of a Novel"?
Answer: (C) Jane Austen
Explanation
John Dryden's Of Dramatick Poesy: An Essay is written in the form of a dialogue between Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents:
Answer: (B) John Dryden
Explanation
Which text is considered to be the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal author?
Answer: (C) Oodgeroo Noonuccal's We Are Going
Explanation
Which among the following is said to be the first fiction magazine (created by Hugo Gernsback)?
Answer: (D) Amazing Stories
Explanation
Who wrote the poem "Poem in Praise of Menstruation"?
Answer: (D) Lucille Clifton
Explanation
Big Daddy is a fictional character in -
Answer: (B) the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee William
Explanation
Things as They Are or The Adventure of Caleb Williams was written as a call to end...
Answer: (C) The abuse of power by a tyrannical government
Explanation
Absalom, Absalom! is -
Answer: (A) a novel by William Faulkner
Explanation
Sherlock Holmes, the greatest of all fictional detectives, made his first appearance in which one of the following novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Answer: (B) A Study in Scarlet
Explanation
Friendship's Garland (1871) is a sequel to which one of the following works by Matthew Arnold?
Answer: (A) Culture and Anarchy
Explanation
Which one of the following novels by E.M. Forster is about 'homosexual love"?
Answer: (C) Maurice
Explanation
Which one of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen was described as 'an open sewer'?
Answer: (C) Ghosts
Explanation
Women in Love is a sequel to which one of the following novels by D.H. Lawrence?
Answer: (D) The Rainbow
Explanation
The term 'Post-modernism' was used in 1917 by German philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz to describe:
Answer: (A) Nihilism of 20th century's western culture
Explanation
In The Post Modern Condition Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives. The one whose death he above all sought to declare was...
Answer: (D) Classical Socialism
Explanation
Which of the following is considered to be the first Indian novel in English?
Answer: (A) Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Rajamohan's Wife
Explanation
In Long Revolution, Raymond Williams conducted a long-range study of 350 canonical writers drawn from the Oxford Introduction to English Literature for the period...
Answer: (D) 1470 - 1920
Explanation
Which of the following assertions is not true with respect to 'cultural intermediaries' ?
Answer: (C) Promotional materials do not constitute cultural intermediaries.
Explanation
Who made the following statements in defense of Śantarasa "the eight rasas are like eight gods, and the sant is like their highest centre Siva"?
Answer: (D) Abhinavgupta
Explanation
Which one of the following is not a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors?
Answer: (D) Love in a Wood
Explanation
Akkarmashi (The Outcaste) is an autobiography of which one of the following Dalit writers?
Answer: (B) Sharankumar Limbale
Explanation
Who among the following American writers was the first Black American to become the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress?
Answer: (C) Rita Francis Dove
Explanation
Which one of the following English novels received Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2023?
Answer: (A) Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gour
Explanation
Kai Po Che! is the screen adaptation of which one of the following novels by Chetan Bhagat?
Answer: (A) The 3 Mistakes of My Life
Explanation
Which of the following is not a Dalit narrative written by Perumal Murugan?
Answer: (A) Tirukkural: The Book of Desire
Explanation
Who among the following women writers wrote the first female Dalit autobiography?
Answer: (C) Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble
Explanation
Who said that language is a system of signs whose parts can and must be considered in their synchronic solidarity?
Answer: (A) Saussure
Explanation
Hypothesis made during or after the research work is over, is known as:
Answer: (A) Inductive Hypothesis
Explanation
Who wrote the book The History of European Languages?
Answer: (A) Alexander Murrey
Explanation
A manuscript having an overlap with earlier papers by the same authors or by some of the present authors is termed as:
Answer: (B) Self Plagiarism
Explanation
The property of research to replicate the same results using the same technique is termed as -
Answer: (B) Reliability
Explanation
Who said that an author has no claim to original thought but only to apt presentation of what was already being thought by others?
Answer: (A) Alexander Pope
Explanation
Which research treats physical and social world as objects based on standardized data?
Answer: (C) Quantitative
Explanation
The key principles of research design brought together in material on measurement principles, sampling and case study, survey and experimentation is termed as -
Answer: (B) Research Methods
Explanation
Which one of the following statements about 'Booker Prize' is not correct?
Answer: (B) Eligible writers shall belong to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Countries
Explanation
Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in order of their production/publication.
| A. Twelfth Night |
| B. The Taming of the Shrew |
| C. Much Ado About Nothing |
| D. Romeo and Juliet |
| E. The Winter's Tale |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (D) B, D, C, A, E
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the following in order of their publication/occurrence?
| A. Caxton printed Malory's Morte D'Arthur |
| B. Establishment of Caxton's printing press |
| C. Gutenberg printed Bible in Mainz, Germany |
| D. Caxton's History of Troy, first book printed in English |
| E. First translation of the Christian Bible into English by John Wycliff. |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (C) E, C, D, B, A
Explanation
Arrange the following Black American writers chronologically (in order of their birth)?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Maya Angelou |
| B | Toni Morrison |
| C | Alice Walker |
| D | Langston Hughes |
| E | James Baldwin |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (B) D, E, A, B, C
Explanation
Sequence the following works of Dostoyevsky in the order of their publication:
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Notes from Underground |
| B | Crime and Punishment |
| C | The Idiot |
| D | The Brothers Karamazov |
| E | Poor Folk |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (B) E, A, B, C, D
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of Margaret Atwood?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Edible Woman |
| B | The Handmaid's Tale |
| C | The Blind Assassin |
| D | Lady Oracle |
| E | The Robber Bride |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (D) A, D, B, E, C
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the Anglo-Indian writers in order of their birth?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Sarojini Naidu |
| B | Michael Madhusudan Dutta |
| C | Manmohan Ghose |
| D | Henry Derozio |
| E | Toru Dutt |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (B) D, B, E, C, A
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of R.K. Narayan in order of their publication?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The Vendor of Sweets |
| B | The Bachelor of Arts |
| C | The English Teacher |
| D | The Guide |
| E | The Financial Expert |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (C) B, C, E, D, A
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the following works in order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Ariosto's Orlando Furioso |
| B | Martin Luther King's 95 Theses at Wittenberg |
| C | The first Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer |
| D | Thomas More's Utopia |
| E | Machiavelli's The Prince |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (A) E, D, B, A, C
Explanation
Arrange the following novels by Chinua Achebe in order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | A Man of the People |
| B | Things Fall Apart |
| C | Arrow of God |
| D | Anthills of Savannah |
| E | No Longer at Ease |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (C) B, E, C, A, D
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the Indian playwrights in order of their birth
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Asif Currimbhoy |
| B | Nissim Ezekiel |
| C | Cyrus Mistry |
| D | Mahesh Dattani |
| E | Gurcharan Das |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (D) B, A, E, C, D
Explanation
Arrange the works of Toni Morrison in the order of chronology of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Jazz |
| B | Beloved |
| C | The Bluest Eye |
| D | Song of Solomon |
| E | Tar Baby |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (C) C, D, E, B, A
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the novels of Salman Rushdie in order publication?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Fury |
| B | Midnight's Children |
| C | The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
| D | The Moor's Last Sigh |
| E | Grimus |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (B) E, B, D, C, A
Explanation
Arrange the following partition based film in order of their release/production.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Garm Hawa |
| B | Tamas |
| C | Khamosh Pani |
| D | Chinnamul |
| E | Subarnarekha |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (A) D, E, A, B, C
Explanation
Arrange the following plays in order of their publication.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
| B | The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams |
| C | Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf? by Edward Albee |
| D | The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neil |
| E | Twelve Angry Man by Reginald Rose |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (A) A, D, E, B, C
Explanation
Place the following works in ascending order of their publication year.
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Diamond Dust by Anita Desai |
| B | Breast-Giver by Mahashweta Devi |
| C | Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka |
| D | Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott |
| E | Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus |
Items to arrange in order
Answer: (B) E, D, C, B, A
Explanation
Plato viewed poetry as-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | an imitation of reality |
| B | self-subsistent entity |
| C | distant from reality |
| D | manifestation of reality |
| E | life as experience in reality |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Greek word 'polis' refers to-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Social Structure |
| B | Political Structure |
| C | Legal Structure |
| D | City State |
| E | Barbarians |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) B and D only
Explanation
The Latin epic Aeneid by Virgil?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | incorporates various legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness |
| B | Relates the story of the legendary founding of Rome. |
| C | relates the story of the legendary founding of Lavinium. |
| D | recounts the story of Aeneas' journey in the first 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are |
| E | recounts the story of Aeneas' journey in the last 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A, C and D only
Explanation
Neo-Platonism was founded by-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Plato |
| B | Plotinus |
| C | Porphyry |
| D | Aristotle |
| E | Pythagoras |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B and C only
Explanation
Who among the following were not associated with Kit-Cat Club?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | George Etherege |
| B | Richard Steele |
| C | Samuel Johnson |
| D | William Congreve |
| E | Joseph Addison |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) A and C only
Explanation
Who among the following were associated with Metaphysical Society founded in 1869 by Sir James Knowles?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Robert Browning |
| B | T.H. Huxley |
| C | Alfred Tennyson |
| D | Matthew Arnold |
| E | William Gladstone |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) B, C and E only
Explanation
The salient tendencies of Hellenistic Philosophy are:
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Cynicism |
| B | Epicureanism |
| C | Stoicism |
| D | Surrealism |
| E | Expressionism |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) A, B and C only
Explanation
Which among the following texts are not written by Mary Wollstonecraft?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The Wrongs of Man |
| B | Vindication of the Rights of Man |
| C | Thoughts on the Education of Sons |
| D | Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| E | The Wrongs of Woman |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) A and C only
Explanation
Who among the following are writers of wordless graphic narratives?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Roy Fuller |
| B | Orijit Sen |
| C | Anthony Hecht |
| D | George Matthew Appupen |
| E | George Monbiot |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B and D only
Explanation
Who among the following is not associated with lesbian and gay studies?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Jane Rule |
| B | Jonathan Dollimore |
| C | John Wain |
| D | Elizabeth Jennings |
| E | Richard Dyer |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) C and D only
Explanation
The term 'abstract poem' -
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | was coined by Edith Sitwell |
| B | refers to a poem in which words are chosen for their aural quality |
| C | refers to a poem in which words are chosen for imagery and symbolism |
| D | was coined by W.H. Auden |
| E | refers to a poem in which words are not specifically used for their sense/meaning. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) A. B, E only
Explanation
Which of the following assertions/assumptions are not true regarding cultures of space?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | space is about power to control access, representation and use. |
| B | Space is simply land or built-up area. |
| C | The Space influences social relations and communities. |
| D | Space is socially constructed through social relations. |
| E | Space has nothing to do with everyday activities of people. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) B and E only
Explanation
Which of the following assumption is not true with regard to Lacan's concept/theory of standpoint?
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | It assumes that social position can provide privileged perspective on some relations and |
| B | It argues that those who are marginalised or oppressed may have access to insights and |
| C | It refers to a situation in which the oppressed class is destined to lose the class |
| D | It suggests that the perspectives of those on the margins of society cannot help to understand |
| E | The theory is based on the idea that social contradictions and political struggle can shape |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (D) C and D only
Explanation
M.H. Abram's The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition-
A. describes 18th century English Literature as "mirror"
B. describes 19th century English Literature as "Lamp"
C. describes 19th century English Literature as "mirror.
D. the metaphor of 'mirror' is used to describe literature as a cool intellectual reflection of outward realities.
E. the metaphor of 'mirror' is used to describe literature as an illumination shed by artists upon their inner and outer worlds.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (C) A, B, D only
Explanation
In his work, The Dialogic Imagination, Mikhail Bakhtin-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | develops theory of Polyphony. |
| B | postulates that language is imaginary. |
| C | postulates that language evolves dynamically. |
| D | argues that language gets affected by the culture that produces it as it helps to shape that |
| E | develops theory of imaginative language. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) A, C, D only
Explanation
The term "Collective Unconsciousness" -
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | was introduced by Sigmund Freud |
| B | was introduced by Carl Jung |
| C | contains archetypes or universal primordial images and ideas. |
| D | contains stereotypes and individual experiences stored in unconscious. |
| E | is used to describe the unconscious common to humanity as a whole that originates in the |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (B) B, C, E only
Explanation
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Examines the origins and development of poetry, specifically Greek tragedy. |
| B | Argues that Socratic rationalism and optimism led to the death of Greek tragedy. |
| C | Examines the origin of music and dance in ancient Greece. |
| D | Argues that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusion of Apollonian and Dionysian elements. |
| E | Argues that the music is the spirit of tragedy. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A, B, D only
Explanation
Wittgenstein's statement, Limits of language defines limits of thought', means, -
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | The structure of language defines its meaning. |
| B | intended meaning defines structure of language. |
| C | That which can be defined meaningfully, can be thought. |
| D | Structure and meaning are independent of each other. |
| E | Thought precedes language. |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Terms 'Social fact' and 'collective consciousness' in the context of language were used by-
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Franz Boas |
| B | Bloomfield |
| C | Emile Durkheim |
| D | Noam Chomsky |
| E | Saussure |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) C and E only
Explanation
Phonetics refers to -
| Label | Item |
|---|---|
| A | Production of speech sounds |
| B | Reception of speech sounds |
| C | Transmission of speech sounds |
| D | Pattern of speech sounds |
| E | Word formation |
Statements/items for selection
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Langue | I. | Meaning conveyed |
| B. | Parole | II. | Socially shared language |
| C. | Signifier | III. | speech |
| D. | signified | IV. | word |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (A) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Rhyme) | LIST II (Author) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | I. | William Miller |
| B. | Wee Willie Winkie | II. | Jane and Ann Taylor |
| C. | Mary had a Little Lamb | III. | Sarah Catherine Martin |
| D. | Old Mother Hubbard | IV. | Sarah Josepha Hale |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (D) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Postcolonial Term) | LIST II (Coined/Employed By) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | 'othering' | I. | The term employed by Robert Young |
| B. | Ecological Imperialism | II. | coined by Gayatri Spivak |
| C. | Colonial Desire | III. | Coined by Alfred W. Crosby |
| D. | Third Space | IV. | Coined by Homi K. Bhabha |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Heteroglossia | I. | deliberate foolishness/nonsense for effect |
| B. | Homosociality | II. | Diversity of languages used in Epics |
| C. | Mathnavi | III. | Same-sex relationships which are not necessarily sexual. |
| D. | Morology | IV. | long narrative epic or heroic poem in rhyming couplets |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Concept/Theory) | LIST II (Developed By) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Polysystem Theory | I. | Ernest August Gutt |
| B. | Relevance Theory | II. | Hans J. Vermeer |
| C. | Skopos Theory | III. | Itamar Enen Zohar |
| D. | Covert Translation | IV. | Juliane House |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (B) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Term) | LIST II (Meaning) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Catastrophe | I. | the introductory part of a play or narrative poem |
| B. | Epitasis | II. | The final action that completes the unravelling of the plot in a play, especially a tragedy. |
| C. | Protasis | III. | The dramatic complication that immediately precedes the climax of the play. |
| D. | Catastasis | IV. | The part of the play that develops the main action and that lends to the catastrophe |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (C) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Australian Aboriginal Text) | LIST II (Author) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Wahngin Country | I. | Alexis Wright |
| B. | Plains of Promise | II. | Jack Davis |
| C. | My Place | III. | Anita Heiss |
| D. | Not Meeting Mr. Right | IV. | Sally Morgan |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (C) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Poem) | LIST II (Indian Poet) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Night of the Scorpion | I. | Kamala Das |
| B. | Unfinished Poem | II. | A.K. Ramanujan |
| C. | The Looking Glass | III. | Eunice De Souza |
| D. | To a Friend Far Away | IV. | Nissim Ezekiel |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Disability Narrative) | LIST II (Writer) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | A Room Called Earth | I. | Won Pyung Sohn |
| B. | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | II. | Padma Venkaraman |
| C. | A Time to Dance | III. | Medeleine Ryan |
| D. | Almond: A Novel | IV. | Gabrielle Zevin |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Text) | LIST II (Author) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Critique of Judgement | I. | Martin Heidegger |
| B. | The Phenomenology of Spirit | II. | Sigmund Freud |
| C. | Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego | III. | Immanuel Kant |
| D. | The Role of the University in the New Reich | IV. | G.W.F. Hegel |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (D) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | The Language Instinct | I. | Steven Pinker |
| B. | Reflections of Language | II. | Noam Chomsky |
| C. | Variety of language serving a specialized function in a multilingual community | III. | Creole/Creolization |
| D. | Existence of a common variety of language for people from different cultures | IV. | Diglossia |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (A) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Event) | LIST II (Year) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | International year of the World's Indigenous People | I. | 1998 |
| B. | Australian Parliament formally apologised to the stolen generation | II. | 1993 |
| C. | formal end of White Australian Policy | III. | 1973 |
| D. | the first National Sorry Day | IV. | 2008 |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (D) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Work) | LIST II (Author) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | On a Muggy Night in Mumbai | I. | R. Raj Rao |
| B. | The Golden Gate | II. | Mahesh Duttani |
| C. | The Boyfriend | III. | Vikram Chandra |
| D. | Love and Longing in Bombay | IV. | Vikram Seth |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (A) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Novel) | LIST II (Novelist) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Delinquent Chacha | I. | Rohinton Mistry |
| B. | Tales from Firozsha Baag | II. | Ved Prakash Mehta |
| C. | Beethoven Among the Cows | III. | Gita Hariharan |
| D. | A Thousand Faces of Night | IV. | Rukun Advani |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (B) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Match the List-I with List-II
| LIST I (Author) | LIST II (Nobel Prize Year) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Wole Soyinka | I. | 1991 |
| B. | Nadine Gordimer | II. | 1993 |
| C. | Derek Walcott | III. | 2003 |
| D. | J.M. Coetzee | IV. | 1986 |
Matching lists from the source page
Answer: (A) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
Explanation
Identify the mood of the poem -
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets<br>towards your oceanic eyes.
Answer: (A) Sombre
Explanation
What does the phrase red signals sent out' signify?
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets<br>towards your oceanic eyes.
Answer: (B) Distress and desperation of speaker
Explanation
The phrases 'oceanic eyes' and 'absent eyes' are the examples of -
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets<br>towards your oceanic eyes.
Answer: (A) Parallelism
Explanation
Identify the type of imagery used in the poem?
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets<br>towards your oceanic eyes.
Answer: (A) Natural Imagery
Explanation
What is the central theme of the poem?
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets<br>towards your oceanic eyes.
Answer: (B) Love and longing
Explanation
What helps in eliminating suspicion?
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind, lose friends, and check business. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much more than to know little; therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. The best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion is frankly to communicate with the party suspected.
Answer: (B) Discussion and knowledge
Explanation
What does the word 'guarded' signify?
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind, lose friends, and check business. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much more than to know little; therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. The best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion is frankly to communicate with the party suspected.
Answer: (C) to keep under control
Explanation
What tone does the passage predominantly convey?
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind, lose friends, and check business. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much more than to know little; therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. The best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion is frankly to communicate with the party suspected.
Answer: (C) Detached and reflective
Explanation
What is the primary theme of the paragraph?
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind, lose friends, and check business. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much more than to know little; therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. The best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion is frankly to communicate with the party suspected.
Answer: (C) perspectivising suspicion
Explanation
Which among the following is true in the context of given paragraph?
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind, lose friends, and check business. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much more than to know little; therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. The best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion is frankly to communicate with the party suspected.
Answer: (B) Suspicion is a stepping stone to faith.
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