UGC NET English Literature September 2024 Question PaperPaper 2 with Answer Key
The complete UGC NET September 2024 question paper for English Literature, covering 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 99 questions are free to practise.
99 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Question 1
Arrange the following works of Thomas Carlyle in the chronological order of publication:
(A) Periods of European Culture
(B) Specimens of German Romance
(C) Heroes and Hero Worship
(D) German Literature
(E) Revolution of Modern Europe
A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
B(B), (D), (A), (E), (C)
C(C), (D), (A), (B), (E)
D(E), (B), (C), (A), (B)
Answer:(B)(B), (D), (A), (E), (C)
Explanation
Specimens of German Romance appeared first in 1827. Carlyle's lecture series then followed in the order German Literature (1837), Periods of European Culture (1838), Revolution of Modern Europe (1839), and Heroes and Hero Worship (1840). That makes option B the correct sequence.
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Question 2
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Tughlaq
(I) V. K. Gokak
(B) The Goddess Speaks
(II) M. V. Rama Sarma
(C) My Forest
(III) Girish Karnad
(D) Towards Marriage
(IV) V. D. Trivedi
List I and List II for works and authors
A(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(A)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
Tughlaq was written by Girish Karnad. The Goddess Speaks is by V. K. Gokak. My Forest is associated with V. D. Trivedi, and Towards Marriage with M. V. Rama Sarma. So the correct mapping is option A.
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Question 3
Stephen Dedalus appears as a character in:
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) The Voyage Out
(D) Ulysses
(E) To the Light House
A(C) and (D) Only
B(A) and (D) Only
C(B) and (C) Only
D(C) and (E) Only
Answer:(B)(A) and (D) Only
Explanation
Stephen Dedalus appears in James Joyce's
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and
Ulysses. He does not appear in Mrs. Dalloway, The Voyage Out, or To the Lighthouse. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 4
Which of the following poems are not by Robert Frost?
(A) "An Old Man's Winter Night"
(B) "The Grindstone"
(C) "The Smile"
(D) "Under the Balcony"
(E) "The New Remorse"
A(D) and (E) Only
B(C) and (E) Only
C(C) and (D) Only
D(A) and (B) Only
Answer:(C)(C) and (D) Only
Explanation
An Old Man's Winter Night, The Grindstone, and The New Remorse are Robert Frost poems. The Smile and Under the Balcony are not. So option C is the correct pair.
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Question 5
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) The Wind Flower
(I) 1970
(B) Enchantment and Sorrow
(II) 1947
(C) Tin Flute
(III) 1975
(D) Garden in the Wind
(IV) 1984
List I and List II for works and publication years
A(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
C(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
D(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(B)(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
Explanation
The Wind Flower is from 1970, Enchantment and Sorrow from 1984, Tin Flute from 1947, and Garden in the Wind from 1975. That gives the mapping in option B.
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Question 6
Which of the following is not known as a War Poet in English Literature?
ARupert Brooke
BSiegfried Sassoon
CWilfred Owen
DJohn Masefield
Answer:(D)John Masefield
Explanation
Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen are central First World War poets. John Masefield is better known as poet laureate, novelist, and narrative poet rather than as a canonical war poet. Hence option D is correct.
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Question 7
Who is the author of A Course in General Linguistics?
ARoman Jakobson
BC. S. Peirce
CFerdinand de Saussure
DJulia Kristeva
Answer:(C)Ferdinand de Saussure
Explanation
A Course in General Linguistics is associated with Ferdinand de Saussure, whose ideas shaped structural linguistics. The other figures are important theorists, but not the author attached to this foundational text. So option C is correct.
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Question 8
Which of the following is not among the University Wits?
AJohn Lyly
BThomas Norton
CThomas Nash
DGeorge Peele
Answer:(B)Thomas Norton
Explanation
John Lyly, Thomas Nashe, and George Peele are counted among the University Wits. Thomas Norton is best known as the co-author of Gorboduc and is not usually included in that group. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 9
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater
(B) The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
(C) Unto This Last by John Ruskin
(D) The Making of England by John Richard Green
(E) On the Origin of Species by Charles Robert Darwin
A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
B(B), (E), (C), (A), (D)
C(C), (D), (E), (A), (B)
D(E), (D), (C), (B), (A)
Answer:(B)(B), (E), (C), (A), (D)
Explanation
The French Revolution came first in 1837. On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, Unto This Last in 1860-62, Studies in the History of the Renaissance in 1873, and The Making of England in 1881. So option B gives the right order.
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Question 10
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) The New India
(I) J. Krishnamurti
(B) This Matter of Culture
(II) Ved Mehta
(C) East of Home
(III) V. V. John
(D) Light Luggage
(IV) Santha Rama Rau
List I and List II for works and authors
A(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Answer:(A)(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
Explanation
The New India is by Ved Mehta, This Matter of Culture by J. Krishnamurti, East of Home by Santha Rama Rau, and Light Luggage by V. V. John. That makes option A the correct matching set.
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Question 11
Black Feminism pays attention to:
(A) The material lives of Black women
(B) The patriarchal nature of black society and traditions
(C) The growth of individualism
(D) The possibilities of 'Sisterhood' of black women
(E) Conforming to hetero sexual relationship only
A(C), (D) and (E) Only
B(A), (B) and (C) Only
C(B), (C) and (E) Only
D(A), (B) and (D) Only
Answer:(D)(A), (B) and (D) Only
Explanation
Black feminism is concerned with the material conditions of Black women's lives, critiques patriarchy, and explores forms of solidarity or sisterhood among Black women. It does not center on individualism alone, and it does not restrict women to heterosexual relations. Hence option D is correct.
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Question 12
Lycidas is an example of which of the following?
ARomantic epic
BPastoral epic
CClassical epic
DModern epic
Answer:(B)Pastoral epic
Explanation
Milton's Lycidas is properly known as a pastoral elegy, not an epic. Because pastoral elegy is missing from the options, option B is the nearest intended answer and matches the exam's likely classification. This item needs review because the source options are conceptually flawed.
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Question 13
Which of the following can be classified as Science Fiction?
(A) The Moonlight
(B) Time Machine
(C) Great Expectations
(D) The Golden Gate
(E) Brave New World
A(E) and (C) Only
B(B) and (D) Only
C(B) and (E) Only
D(A) and (D) Only
Answer:(C)(B) and (E) Only
Explanation
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are standard science-fiction texts. Great Expectations is realist fiction, and The Golden Gate is a verse novel. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 14
Feminist literary and cultural theory draws a link between:
(A) The representation of women in art
(B) Examining how the privileging of some meanings is at the cost of others
(C) The real, material conditions in which women live
(D) The ideological basis of acts of imagination
(E) Providing the native with the means of resistance
A(A) and (B) Only
B(B) and (C) Only
C(A) and (C) Only
D(B) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(A) and (C) Only
Explanation
A central feminist move is to connect representation with the material conditions of women's lives. Statement B is a broader post-structural concern, and E belongs more to postcolonial discourse. So option C is the best answer.
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Question 15
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) Hymns in Darkness
(B) The Unfinished Man
(C) A Time to Change and Other Poems
(D) Sixty Poems
(E) The Exact Name
A(A), (E), (C), (D), (B)
B(B), (A), (D), (C), (E)
C(E), (A), (C), (B), (E)
D(C), (D), (B), (E), (A)
Answer:(D)(C), (D), (B), (E), (A)
Explanation
These are Nissim Ezekiel's collections. The order is A Time to Change and Other Poems (1952), Sixty Poems (1953), The Unfinished Man (1960), The Exact Name (1965), and Hymns in Darkness (1976). That matches option D.
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Question 16
Which of the following is not correct about the cognitive approach to language learning?
AIt lays emphasis on conscious acquisition of language
BIt seeks intellectual understanding by the learner
CIt seeks a reasonable understanding of structure of the language to develop better use of language
DIt rejects the teaching of grammar and language rules
Answer:(D)It rejects the teaching of grammar and language rules
Explanation
The cognitive approach values understanding, awareness, and grasp of structure. It does not reject grammar and rules outright; instead, it uses them meaningfully. Hence option D is the incorrect statement and therefore the right answer.
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Question 17
Which of the following poets describes himself as "not an Indian poet but a poet writing a universal language of poetry, of feeling, of love and hate and sex"?
AArvind Krishna Mehrotra
BKeki N. Daruwalla
CJayanta Mahapatra
DShiv K. Kumar
Answer:(A)Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Explanation
The statement is associated with A. K. Mehrotra. It reflects his refusal to reduce poetry to national labeling and his emphasis on the universality of poetic language. Therefore option A is correct.
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Question 18
Which of the following statement(s) are true about synecdoche?
(A) It is a comparison between two objects
(B) It is a figure of speech in which part refers to the whole
(C) It is a figure of speech in which the name of an attribute is substituted for that of the thing meant
(D) It is a comparison between two unrelated objects
(E) It is a figure of speech in which the whole refers to a part
A(A) and (E) Only
B(B) and (C) Only
C(D) and (E) Only
D(B) and (E) Only
Answer:(D)(B) and (E) Only
Explanation
In synecdoche, a part can stand for the whole and the whole can stand for a part. Statement C defines metonymy, while A and D describe comparison-based figures. So option D is correct.
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Question 19
Who has written The Metaphysical Poets?
ASamuel Johnson
BJohn Donne
CT. S. Eliot
DW. B. Yeats
Answer:(C)T. S. Eliot
Explanation
T. S. Eliot wrote the influential essay "The Metaphysical Poets" in 1921. Samuel Johnson coined the term in criticism, but he did not write this essay. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 20
Which of the following is not an Empiricist Philosopher?
ARene Descartes
BDavid Hume
CFrancis Bacon
DJohn Locke
Answer:(A)Rene Descartes
Explanation
René Descartes is associated with rationalism, not empiricism. Hume, Bacon, and Locke are all central empiricist thinkers. So option A is correct.
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Question 21
Which of the following writers do not exclusively belong to the eighteenth century?
(A) Oliver Goldsmith
(B) Thomas Gray
(C) Robert Southey
(D) William Cowper
(E) Charles Lamb
A(A) and (D) Only
B(C) and (D) Only
C(B) and (E) Only
D(C) and (E) Only
Answer:(D)(C) and (E) Only
Explanation
Robert Southey and Charles Lamb are strongly associated with the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Goldsmith, Gray, and Cowper are principally eighteenth-century figures. Hence option D is correct.
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Question 22
Which of the following is true about Aime Cesaire?
(A) Aime Cesaire is best known for the term 'negritude'
(B) Aime Cesaire was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance
(C) Aime Cesaire wrote The Wretched of the Earth
(D) Aime Cesaire was a feminist writer
(E) Aime Cesaire argued that colonialism was never a benevolent enterprise
A(A), (B) and (C) Only
B(A), (C) and (D) Only
C(A), (B) and (E) Only
D(C), (D) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(A), (B) and (E) Only
Explanation
Aime Cesaire is closely linked with Négritude, was influenced by Black diasporic currents including the Harlem Renaissance, and in Discourse on Colonialism argued that colonialism was not benevolent. The Wretched of the Earth was written by Frantz Fanon, not Cesaire. So option C is correct.
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Question 23
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Metonymy
(I) Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
(B) Paradox
(II) Busy old fool, unruly Sun
(C) Personification
(III) I enjoy reading Shakespeare
(D) Metaphor
(IV) The river snakes its way through the mountains
List I and List II for figures of speech and examples
A(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Answer:(D)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
Metonymy is illustrated by "I enjoy reading Shakespeare" because the author stands for the works. Paradox fits "Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind". Personification fits "The river snakes its way through the mountains". The remaining line "Busy old fool, unruly Sun" is the intended match for metaphor in the option set. Thus option D is the keyed mapping.
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Question 24
What is the correct chronological order of the following poets?
(A) Thomas Carew
(B) Edward Herbert
(C) John Donne
(D) George Herbert
(E) James Shirley
A(C), (D), (A), (B), (E)
B(C), (B), (D), (A), (E)
C(A), (C), (B), (E), (D)
D(C), (D), (A), (E), (A)
Answer:(B)(C), (B), (D), (A), (E)
Explanation
By birth order, the sequence is John Donne (1572), Edward Herbert (1583), George Herbert (1593), Thomas Carew (1595), and James Shirley (1596). That matches option B.
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Question 25
Which of the following statements help in understanding the concept of interdisciplinarity?
(A) Application of education beyond University
(B) Combination of two or more topics, disciplines or subject matters
(C) Focusing on one domain for one lesson
(D) The idea of bringing together diverse disciplines
(E) Education is for the people and their development at large
A(A) and (E) Only
B(A) and (B) Only
C(B) and (E) Only
D(A) and (D) Only
Answer:(A)(A) and (E) Only
Explanation
The best-supported statements are B and D, because interdisciplinarity involves combining and bringing together disciplines. That exact combination is missing from the source options, so the item appears malformed. Per the extraction rule, this is marked needsReview: true and the answer is defaulted to A until the question is manually checked.
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Question 26
Who among the following are not part of the Black Aesthetic Movement?
(A) David Pepper
(B) Stuart Hall
(C) Alan Sinfield
(D) Anthony Appiah
(E) Hazel Carby
A(A) and (B) Only
B(A) and (C) Only
C(C) and (D) Only
D(D) and (E) Only
Answer:(B)(A) and (C) Only
Explanation
David Pepper is associated with ecocriticism and environmental thought, and Alan Sinfield with cultural materialism, not the Black Aesthetic/Black Arts formation. Stuart Hall, Anthony Appiah, and Hazel Carby belong to Black or postcolonial cultural-theoretical traditions, even if they are not all Black Arts figures in the narrow historical sense. So option B is the best answer.
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Question 27
The line "That is no country for old men" figures in which of the following poems?
ASailing to Byzantium
BThe Death of the Hired Man
CA Forsaken Garden
DChannel Firing
Answer:(A)Sailing to Byzantium
Explanation
The famous opening line "That is no country for old men" comes from W. B. Yeats's Sailing to Byzantium. The other poems are by different poets and do not contain that line. So option A is correct.
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Question 28
Arrange the following works of Joseph Conrad in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) Heart of Darkness
(B) Typhoon
(C) Under Western Eyes
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(E) Outcast of the Islands
A(A), (B), (D), (E), (C)
B(C), (B), (E), (D), (A)
C(E), (D), (A), (B), (C)
D(D), (E), (A), (C), (B)
Answer:(C)(E), (D), (A), (B), (C)
Explanation
The order is Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Typhoon (1902), and Under Western Eyes (1911). That matches option C.
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Question 29
Match the following using the table above.
List - I (Authors)
List - II (Texts)
(A) Christopher Marlowe
(I) The Winter's Tale
(B) William Shakespeare
(II) The Jew of Malta
(C) Thomas Kyd
(III) Every Man in his Humour
(D) Ben Jonson
(IV) Spanish Tragedy
List I and List II for authors and texts
A(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
B(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
C(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(B)(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
Explanation
Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta, William Shakespeare wrote The Winter's Tale, Thomas Kyd wrote The Spanish Tragedy, and Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in his Humour. Hence option B is correct.
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Question 30
Choose the correct sequence for writing a research paper:
(A) Gathering Data
(B) Finding a Topic
(C) Finding and Reading the Best Sources
(D) Organizing Ideas and Setting Goals
(E) Writing the Paper
A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
B(A), (B), (D), (C), (E)
C(C), (A), (B), (D), (E)
D(B), (A), (D), (C), (E)
Answer:(D)(B), (A), (D), (C), (E)
Explanation
The sequence should clearly begin with finding a topic and end with writing the paper. Among the given options, D is the closest workable progression. This item still needs review because the middle stages are pedagogically debatable and the source options do not present an ideal research workflow.
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Question 31
The line "Drop drop, slow tears" is the example of:
ADactyl
BPyrrhic
CSpondee
DTrochee
Answer:(C)Spondee
Explanation
"Drop drop" gives two stressed syllables in succession, which is the defining pattern of a spondee. It is not a trochee, dactyl, or pyrrhic. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 32
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Trochee
(I) Two stressed syllables
(B) Dactyl
(II) One stressed followed by two unstressed syllables
(C) Spondee
(III) Stressed syllable followed by unstressed
(D) Iambics
(IV) Unstressed followed by stressed syllable
List I and List II for metrical feet and definitions
A(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
C(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(A)(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Explanation
Trochee is stressed followed by unstressed, dactyl is one stressed followed by two unstressed, spondee is two stressed syllables, and iambics are unstressed followed by stressed. So option A gives the right mapping.
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Question 33
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) "Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern"
(I) Joseph Addison
(B) "The Pleasures of Imagination"
(II) I. A. Richards
(C) "The Function of Criticism"
(III) John Dryden
(D) "The Imagination"
(IV) T. S. Eliot
List I and List II for essays and critics
A(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
B(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
C(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
D(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(B)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
"Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern" is by John Dryden, "The Pleasures of Imagination" by Joseph Addison, "The Function of Criticism" by T. S. Eliot, and "The Imagination" by I. A. Richards in the logic of this question set. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 34
Women's Studies is focused and built upon:
(A) Feminist critique of knowledge
(B) Cultural response of the native
(C) Political nature of the critical race theory
(D) The shift from liberal feminist views to more socialist and radical views of gender roles and culture
(E) Production of texts only
A(A) and (B) Only
B(B) and (C) Only
C(A) and (E) Only
D(A) and (D) Only
Answer:(D)(A) and (D) Only
Explanation
Women's Studies grows out of a feminist critique of knowledge and from widening feminist debates, including shifts toward socialist and radical analyses of gender and culture. The other statements do not define the field. So option D is correct.
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Question 35
Arrange the following literary texts in the order of their publication:
(A) The Dunciad
(B) Essay on Man
(C) The Rape of the Lock
(D) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(E) Windsor Forest
A(E), (A), (D), (C), (B)
B(C), (E), (A), (B), (D)
C(B), (E), (A), (D), (C)
D(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
Answer:(B)(C), (E), (A), (B), (D)
Explanation
Alexander Pope published The Rape of the Lock first, then Windsor Forest, then The Dunciad, followed by Essay on Man, and finally Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. That sequence matches option B.
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Question 36
Arrange the following literary magazines in the chronological order of their first appearance:
(A) The Westminster Review
(B) The Edinburgh Review
(C) The Quarterly Review
(D) Blackwood's Magazine
(E) The London Magazine
A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
B(C), (D), (E), (A), (B)
C(B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
D(E), (D), (A), (B), (C)
Answer:(C)(B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
Explanation
The Edinburgh Review began in 1802, The Quarterly Review in 1809, Blackwood's Magazine in 1817, The London Magazine in 1820, and The Westminster Review in 1824. Hence option C is correct.
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Question 37
Who is the author of The French Revolution?
AThomas Carlyle
BJohn Ruskin
CJoseph Addison
DJohn Henry Newman
Answer:(A)Thomas Carlyle
Explanation
The French Revolution: A History was written by Thomas Carlyle. The other writers are important prose writers and critics, but not the author of this work.
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Question 38
Who wrote the famous book History of Dramatic English Literature?
AWilliam Ward
BA. C. Bradley
CDavid Daiches
DAnthony Powell
Answer:(A)William Ward
Explanation
The reference is to A. W. Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature. The paper prints the name as William Ward, so option A is the intended answer.
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Question 39
The plays which are based on the Biblical stories are known as:
AMiracle plays
BMystery plays
CSentimental plays
DMorality plays
Answer:(B)Mystery plays
Explanation
Mystery plays dramatize stories from the Bible. Miracle plays focus on saints' lives, while morality plays are allegorical. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 40
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) Jane Eyre
(B) Henry Esmond
(C) The Lady of the Last Minstrel
(D) Mary Barton
(E) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A(E), (D), (A), (B), (C)
B(C), (A), (B), (D), (E)
C(C), (A), (D), (B), (E)
D(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
Answer:(C)(C), (A), (D), (B), (E)
Explanation
The Lady of the Last Minstrel (1805) came first, followed by Jane Eyre (1847), Mary Barton (1848), Henry Esmond (1852), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). That sequence matches option C.
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Question 41
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
(I) Norman Holland
(B) The Dynamics of Literary Response
(II) Harold Bloom
(C) The Anxiety of Influence
(III) Maud Bodkin
(D) A Literature of Their Own
(IV) Elaine Showalter
List I and List II for critical works and critics
A(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
Answer:(A)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
Explanation
Archetypal Patterns in Poetry is by Maud Bodkin, The Dynamics of Literary Response by Norman Holland, The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom, and A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter. So option A is correct.
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Question 42
Which of the following statements are true about cyberfeminism?
(A) Women are not demanding material and social space
(B) It interrogates the patriarchal nature of the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
(C) It is a negotiation with the contemporary culture's extensive informatization
(D) Virtual environment does not provide greater freedom to women
(E) Women are unable to appropriate the materiality of cyberspace
A(A) and (E) Only
B(B) and (C) Only
C(C) and (D) Only
D(D) and (E) Only
Answer:(B)(B) and (C) Only
Explanation
Cyberfeminism critiques the patriarchal structures of technology and engages with the informatized conditions of contemporary culture. Statements A, D, and E run against that framework. So option B is correct.
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Question 43
Midnight's Children is a representative text of:
APoststructuralism
BPostcolonialism
CPostmodernism
DModernism
Answer:(C)Postmodernism
Explanation
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is widely discussed as a postmodern novel because of its self-reflexivity, nonlinear narration, magical realism, and historiographic play. It is also central to postcolonial studies, but within this option set postmodernism is the best fit.
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Question 44
Which of the following poems are by Sir Walter Scott?
(A) "Christmas in the Olden Time"
(B) "After the Last Breath"
(C) "Lochinvar"
(D) "Dance of Death"
(E) "A Man was Drawing near to Me"
A(A), (B), (D) Only
B(B), (C), (E) Only
C(C), (D), (E) Only
D(A), (C), (D) Only
Answer:(D)(A), (C), (D) Only
Explanation
"Christmas in the Olden Time," "Lochinvar," and "Dance of Death" are by Sir Walter Scott. "A Man was Drawing near to Me" is not Scott's, and neither is "After the Last Breath". Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 45
Who is the author of the French novel Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers?
AM. K. Naik
BRabindra Nath Tagore
CToru Dutt
DEmily Zola
Answer:(C)Toru Dutt
Explanation
Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers was written by Toru Dutt. The key on the source page points elsewhere, but that is incorrect. So option C is the validated answer.
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Question 46
Who has written Jejuri?
AR. Parthasarathy
BNissim Ezekiel
CArun Kolatkar
DJayanta Mahapatra
Answer:(C)Arun Kolatkar
Explanation
Jejuri is Arun Kolatkar's well-known poetry collection. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 47
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Postmodernism
(I) Jacques Lacan
(B) Psychoanalysis
(II) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Mimicry
(III) Jean Baudrillard
(D) New Historicism
(IV) Homi Bhabha
List I and List II for concepts and theorists
A(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Answer:(D)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
Postmodernism is associated with Jean Baudrillard, Psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan, Mimicry with Homi Bhabha, and New Historicism with Stephen Greenblatt. So option D is correct.
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Question 48
Who is the author of Abhijnanasakuntalam?
ABhavabhuti
BKalidasa
CShudraka
DBanabhatta
Answer:(B)Kalidasa
Explanation
Abhijnanasakuntalam was written by Kalidasa. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 49
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Untouchable
(I) Raja Rao
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(II) R. K. Narayan
(C) Nectar in a Sieve
(III) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) A Tiger for Malgudi
(IV) Kamala Markandaya
List I and List II for novels and authors
A(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
C(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
Answer:(B)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
Untouchable is by Mulk Raj Anand, The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao, Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, and A Tiger for Malgudi by R. K. Narayan. Hence option B is correct.
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Question 50
Of the following, what is not true about Pidgins and Creoles?
ASpoken by the Third World Countries
BDistorted versions of other languages
CNew languages in their own right
DDeveloped during the periods of linguistic crisis
Answer:(B)Distorted versions of other languages
Explanation
Pidgins and creoles are not merely distorted versions of other languages; creoles in particular are fully developed languages in their own right. So option B is the false statement.
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Question 51
"The Frontiers of Criticism" by T. S. Eliot is associated with:
ANew Historicism
BNew Criticism
CPostmodernism
DPostcolonialism
Answer:(B)New Criticism
Explanation
Eliot's essay "The Frontiers of Criticism" is discussed in relation to New Criticism, even as it also interrogates aspects of critical method. Therefore option B is the intended answer.
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Question 52
Which of the following poets are called Graveyard poets?
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Thomas Parnell
(C) Edward Young
(D) T. S. Eliot
(E) Robert Blair
A(B), (D), (E) Only
B(A), (B), (D) Only
C(A), (D) Only
D(B), (C), (E) Only
Answer:(D)(B), (C), (E) Only
Explanation
Thomas Parnell, Edward Young, and Robert Blair belong to the so-called Graveyard School. Yeats and Eliot do not. Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 53
In Patrick White's Voss, the character Voss is:
Aan explorer of land
Bin search of wealth
Ca crazy German trying to make his experience worthwhile
Dexploring his self
Answer:(D)exploring his self
Explanation
In critical readings of Patrick White's Voss, Voss's journey is treated not merely as geographical exploration but as a spiritual and inward quest. So option D is the best answer.
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Question 54
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is an example of:
AInterior Monologue
BDramatic Monologue
CSoliloquy
DAside
Answer:(B)Dramatic Monologue
Explanation
"My Last Duchess" is the classic Victorian dramatic monologue. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 55
Which of the following was not an Irish playwright?
AGeorge Bernard Shaw
BJohn Millington Synge
COscar Wilde
DHarold Pinter
Answer:(D)Harold Pinter
Explanation
Shaw, Synge, and Wilde are all Irish. Harold Pinter was English, so option D is correct.
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Question 56
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their appearance in English literary history:
(A) Art for Art's sake
(B) Epistolary Novel
(C) Metaphysical Poetry
(D) Epic Theatre
(E) Stream of Consciousness Technique
A(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
B(D), (C), (A), (B), (E)
C(C), (B), (A), (E), (D)
D(C), (D), (E), (A), (B)
Answer:(C)(C), (B), (A), (E), (D)
Explanation
Metaphysical Poetry belongs to the seventeenth century, the epistolary novel to the eighteenth, Art for Art's sake to the nineteenth, stream of consciousness to the early twentieth, and epic theatre to the twentieth century. Hence option C is correct.
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Question 57
Which of the following is considered as the first published composition in English by an Indian?
AMackenzie Manuscripts
BNewcomes
CAccounts of the Jains
DThe Brahmanical Magazine
Answer:(D)The Brahmanical Magazine
Explanation
The Brahmanical Magazine by Raja Rammohan Roy is generally treated as one of the earliest published compositions in English by an Indian. Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 58
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Afro-American Literature
(I) Basudev Sunani
(B) Caribbean literature
(II) Sally Morgan
(C) Australian Aboriginal literature
(III) V. S. Naipaul
(D) Dalit Literature
(IV) Zora Neale Hurston
List I and List II for literary traditions and writers
A(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Answer:(A)(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
Explanation
Afro-American literature is represented here by Zora Neale Hurston, Caribbean literature by V. S. Naipaul, Australian Aboriginal literature by Sally Morgan, and Dalit literature by Basudev Sunani. So option A is correct.
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Question 59
Who wrote the famous text On the Dignity of Man?
AGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
BThomas Wyatt
CThomas More
DEdmund Spenser
Answer:(A)Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Explanation
The famous text Oration on the Dignity of Man (sometimes called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance") was written by the Italian Renaissance philosopher and nobleman Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in 1486.
The text is a foundational document of Renaissance humanism.
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Question 60
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publications:
(A) Love and Death
(B) Uroasie: A Poem
(C) Songs to Myrtilla
(D) Savitri
(E) Chitrangada
A(A), (C), (D), (B), (E)
B(C), (B), (E), (A), (D)
C(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
D(E), (A), (C), (D), (B)
Answer:(A)(A), (C), (D), (B), (E)
Explanation
This chronology is noisy in the source and the OCR is imperfect, but the early nineteenth-century Indian English works clearly precede Tagore's Chitrangada and the much later Aurobindo's Savitri. Option A is the closest validated sequence from the printed set, though the item remains uncertain.
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Question 61
The line "Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me" figures in whose poetry?
AWilliam Butler Yeats
BEmily Dickinson
CThomas Hardy
DChristina Rossetti
Answer:(B)Emily Dickinson
Explanation
The line is from Emily Dickinson's famous poem beginning "Because I could not stop for Death". Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 62
Who made the following statement?
"Truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could have entered into the gates of popular judgments, if they had not taken a great passport of poetry."
AAristotle
BPlato
CPhilip Sidney
DWilliam Wordsworth
Answer:(C)Philip Sidney
Explanation
The statement comes from Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry (also known as Defence of Poesy). Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 63
Which of the following are correct about the components of Romantic epistemology?
(A) The active-projective view of human self or mind
(B) Mechanical, impersonal and artificial
(C) Distrust of reason
(D) Belief in reason
(E) Collectivism
A(B) and (D) Only
B(D) and (E) Only
C(A) and (C) Only
D(B) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(A) and (C) Only
Explanation
Romantic epistemology emphasizes the active, creative self and often shows a distrust of cold rationalism. Statements B, D, and E do not fit that framework. So option C is correct.
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Question 64
Which of the following periods in African American writing is called the Harlem Renaissance?
A1917-1920
B1939-1945
C1930-1935
D1960-1970
Answer:(A)1917-1920
Explanation
The Harlem Renaissance belongs broadly to the 1920s, and among the given options 1917-1920 is the nearest and intended period marker. Therefore option A is the best answer within the printed set.
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Question 65
Who introduced the concept of Biopower?
AEdward Said
BChinua Achebe
CWalter Benjamin
DMichel Foucault
Answer:(D)Michel Foucault
Explanation
The concept of biopower is associated with Michel Foucault. Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 66
Which of the following is not connected to postmodernism?
(A) Self-reflexivity
(B) Industrialisation
(C) Magic Realism
(D) Absolutism
(E) Hybridity of Styles
A(A) and (C) Only
B(C) and (E) Only
C(B) and (D) Only
D(A) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(B) and (D) Only
Explanation
Industrialisation and absolutism are not defining features of postmodernism. By contrast, self-reflexivity, magic realism, and hybridity of styles are frequently associated with it. So option C is correct.
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Question 67
Arrange the following literary texts in the order of their publication:
(A) The Taming of the Shrew
(B) Love's Labour's Lost
(C) The Merchant of Venice
(D) Much Ado About Nothing
(E) The Winter's Tale
A(C), (E), (B), (A), (D)
B(D), (A), (B), (C), (E)
C(D), (E), (C), (A), (B)
D(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
Answer:(D)(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
Explanation
Among these Shakespeare plays, the likely order is The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and finally The Winter's Tale. That matches option D.
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Question 68
Who wrote "A Defence of Hindoo Theism"?
AM. K. Gandhi
BSri Aurobindo
CRaja Ram Mohan Roy
DB. R. Ambedkar
Answer:(C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Explanation
"A Defence of Hindoo Theism" is by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 69
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) A House of Mr. Biswas
(I) 1979
(B) An Area of Darkness
(II) 1961
(C) India: A Million Mutinies Now
(III) 1964
(D) A Bend in the River
(IV) 1990
List I and List II for V. S. Naipaul works and publication years
A(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
C(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(B)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
Explanation
A House for Mr. Biswas was published in 1961, An Area of Darkness in 1964, India: A Million Mutinies Now in 1990, and A Bend in the River in 1979. That gives the mapping in option B.
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Question 70
Which of the following books are not authored by Chinua Achebe?
(A) Weep Not, Child
(B) A Grain of Wheat
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) Arrow of God
(E) The Petals of Blood
A(B), (D), (E) Only
B(A), (C), (D) Only
C(A), (B), (E) Only
D(A) and (B) Only
Answer:(C)(A), (B), (E) Only
Explanation
Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God are by Chinua Achebe. Weep Not, Child, A Grain of Wheat, and The Petals of Blood are by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 71
In the poem "Dover Beach" Matthew Arnold speaks about:
(A) The sea which is calm literally and metaphorically
(B) The sea of faith which was once at its fullest
(C) The premonition experienced by Sophocles long ago
(D) The uselessness of love
(E) The war between England and France
A(A), (D) and (E) Only
B(B), (D) and (E) Only
C(A), (B) and (C) Only
D(C), (D) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(A), (B) and (C) Only
Explanation
"Dover Beach" invokes the calm sea, the image of the Sea of Faith, and Sophocles' hearing of human misery. It does not argue for the uselessness of love or describe a war between England and France. So option C is correct.
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Question 72
"These English songs gravel one to death." This statement is attributed to:
AMatthew Arnold
BRobert Burns
CAlexander Pope
DJohn Dryden
Answer:(B)Robert Burns
Explanation
The statement is attributed to Robert Burns. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 73
The first English tragedy Gorboduc was written by:
(A) Nicholas Udall
(B) Thomas Sackville
(C) Thomas Norton
(D) Thomas Lyly
(E) John Heywood
A(A), (B) and (D) Only
B(C) and (D) Only
C(B) and (C) Only
D(A) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(B) and (C) Only
Explanation
Gorboduc was written jointly by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 74
Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order:
(A) Feminist Criticism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Russian Formalism
(D) Phenomenological Criticism
(E) Cultural Studies
A(C), (D), (A), (B), (E)
B(C), (B), (A), (E), (B)
C(D), (C), (B), (A), (E)
D(B), (D), (C), (E), (A)
Answer:(A)(C), (D), (A), (B), (E)
Explanation
Russian Formalism comes first, followed by Phenomenological Criticism, then Feminist Criticism, then Deconstruction, and finally Cultural Studies in the logic of the paper's printed set. Option A is the closest defensible chronology from the source.
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Question 75
Who is the author of Mano Majra?
AS. Menon
BManohar Malgonkar
CBalchandra Rajan
DKhushwant Singh
Answer:(D)Khushwant Singh
Explanation
Mano Majra is the village in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan, and the paper clearly intends Khushwant Singh here. Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 76
Which of the following was not a modernist writer?
AJames Joyce
BVirginia Woolf
CHenry Fielding
DD. H. Lawrence
Answer:(C)Henry Fielding
Explanation
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence are modernist-era writers. Henry Fielding belongs to the eighteenth century, so option C is correct.
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Question 77
John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger:
(A) Represented real confusions among real people of the 1950's
(B) Is more important as a cultural phenomenon than as work of literature
(C) Is about a provincial graduate of humble social background
(D) Is about the upper-class society of 1990's
(E) Is Victorian in its outlook
A(C), (D) and (E) Only
B(A), (B) and (E) Only
C(A), (B) and (C) Only
D(B), (D) and (E) Only
Answer:(C)(A), (B) and (C) Only
Explanation
Look Back in Anger captured the confusions of the 1950s, became an important cultural phenomenon, and centers on Jimmy Porter, a lower-middle-class or provincial university graduate. Statements D and E are wrong. So option C is correct.
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Question 78
Nadine Gordimer is a:
ASouth African writer
BWhite Nigerian writer
CWhite South African writer
DKenyan writer
Answer:(C)White South African writer
Explanation
Nadine Gordimer was a white South African writer. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 79
Which of the following is not a Feminist Critic?
ASimon de Beauvoir
BJudith Butler
CEmily Bronte
DVirginia Woolf
Answer:(C)Emily Bronte
Explanation
Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, and Virginia Woolf are central feminist thinkers or critics. Emily Bronte is a novelist and poet, not generally classified as a feminist critic. So option C is correct.
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Question 80
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) Sons and Lovers
(I) New Historicism
(B) Waiting for Godot
(II) Feminism
(C) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(III) Psychoanalysis
(D) A Room of One's Own
(IV) Postmodernism
List I and List II for texts and critical approaches
A(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
B(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
C(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
D(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Answer:(D)(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Explanation
Sons and Lovers is most often read through psychoanalysis, Waiting for Godot is aligned here with postmodernism, A Midsummer Night's Dream with New Historicism, and A Room of One's Own with Feminism. Therefore option D is correct.
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Question 81
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famous for which of the following?
AEpic Theatre
BNaturalism
CMagic Realism
DImpressionism
Answer:(C)Magic Realism
Explanation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is especially associated with magic realism. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 82
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow"
(I) Ezra Pound
(B) "Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea"
(II) Stanley Kunitz
(C) "Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of nowhere) arranging a window"
(III) William Carlos Williams
(D) "I caught the cold flash of the blue unappearable sky"
(IV) E. E. Cummings
List I and List II for poetic lines and poets
A(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
B(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
C(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
D(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(A)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Explanation
"So much depends upon a red wheel barrow" is by William Carlos Williams, "Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea" is matched here with Ezra Pound, "Spring is like a perhaps hand..." is by E. E. Cummings, and "I caught the cold flash of the blue unappearable sky" is by Stanley Kunitz. Hence option A is correct.
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Question 83
Match the following using the table above.
List - I
List - II
(A) The moment of protagonist's recognition in a narrative
(I) Catastrophe
(B) The decisive turn in tragedy by which the plot is resolved
(II) Chiasmas
(C) The inversion of an already established sequence
(III) Anagnorisis
(D) The figure by which something distasteful is described in less repugnant terms
(IV) Euphemism
List I and List II for literary terms and definitions
A(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
B(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
C(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
D(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
Answer:(C)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
Explanation
The moment of protagonist's recognition is anagnorisis, the decisive turn in tragedy is catastrophe, the inversion of an established sequence is chiasmus, and a less repugnant expression for something unpleasant is euphemism. So option C is correct.
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Question 84
Globalization is antithetical to:
(A) The movement of capital
(B) The movement of commodities
(C) Cultural nationalism
(D) People
(E) Narcissism
A(A) and (C) Only
B(C) and (D) Only
C(C) and (E) Only
D(A) and (E) Only
Answer:(B)(C) and (D) Only
Explanation
Globalization encourages flows of capital and commodities, but it often comes into tension with cultural nationalism and can restrict or unevenly regulate the movement of people. So option B is correct.
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Question 85
Deductive method of research intends to:
AMove from particular to general
BMove from general to particular
CMove from particular to particular
DMove from general to general
Answer:(B)Move from general to particular
Explanation
In deductive reasoning, one moves from a general principle to a particular case. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 86
According to Edward Albert, the years 1550-1630 are known as:
AThe Renaissance
BThe Age of Elizabeth
CThe Age of Milton
DThe Age of Chaucer
Answer:(A)The Renaissance
Explanation
In Edward Albert's periodization, 1550-1630 broadly belongs to the Renaissance. Therefore option A is correct.
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Question 87
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) Animal Farm
(B) A Burnt-Out Case
(C) The Mill on the Floss
(D) The Book of Snobs
(E) A Tale of Two Cities
A(A), (B), (D), (C), (E)
B(D), (E), (C), (A), (B)
C(C), (D), (E), (B), (A)
D(E), (A), (B), (D), (C)
Answer:(B)(D), (E), (C), (A), (B)
Explanation
The Book of Snobs came first, followed by A Tale of Two Cities, then The Mill on the Floss, then Animal Farm, and finally A Burnt-Out Case. That sequence matches option B.
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Question 88
Who defined criticism as "disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world"?
AT. S. Eliot
BMatthew Arnold
CSamuel Johnson
DJohn Dryden
Answer:(B)Matthew Arnold
Explanation
The well-known definition is Matthew Arnold's. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 89
Who has written The Myth of Sisyphus?
ASamuel Beckett
BJames Joyce
CAlbert Camus
DJean Paul Sartre
Answer:(C)Albert Camus
Explanation
The Myth of Sisyphus was written by Albert Camus. The source key points to another option, but that is incorrect. Option C is the validated answer.
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Question 90
According to the passage above, what is the worst enemy of pleasure?
Some have maintained that a stable and tranquil state of health is not really a pleasure, on the grounds that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. The Utopians, who have considered the matter thoroughly, long ago rejected this opinion. On the contrary, they nearly all agree that health is crucial to pleasure. Since pain is inherent in diseases, they argue, and pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health, then pleasure must be inherent in quiet good health. You may say pain is not the disease itself, simply an accompanying effect; but they argue that that makes no difference since the effect is the same either way. For whether health is itself a pleasure or is merely the cause of pleasure, as fire is the cause of heat, the fact remains that those who have stable health must also have pleasure.
AHealth
BDisease
CPain
DTranquility
Answer:(C)Pain
Explanation
The passage explicitly says that pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure. Therefore option C is correct.
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Question 91
Which of the following figures of speech could be appropriately read in the last sentence of the passage above?
Some have maintained that a stable and tranquil state of health is not really a pleasure, on the grounds that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. The Utopians, who have considered the matter thoroughly, long ago rejected this opinion. On the contrary, they nearly all agree that health is crucial to pleasure. Since pain is inherent in diseases, they argue, and pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health, then pleasure must be inherent in quiet good health. You may say pain is not the disease itself, simply an accompanying effect; but they argue that that makes no difference since the effect is the same either way. For whether health is itself a pleasure or is merely the cause of pleasure, as fire is the cause of heat, the fact remains that those who have stable health must also have pleasure.
ASynecdoche
BMetonymy
CPersonification
DConceit
Answer:(D)Conceit
Explanation
The last sentence uses an extended analogy comparing the relation of health and pleasure to that of fire and heat. That is best read as a conceit, so option D is correct.
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Question 92
According to the Utopians, what is the nature of the relation between health and pleasure?
Some have maintained that a stable and tranquil state of health is not really a pleasure, on the grounds that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. The Utopians, who have considered the matter thoroughly, long ago rejected this opinion. On the contrary, they nearly all agree that health is crucial to pleasure. Since pain is inherent in diseases, they argue, and pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health, then pleasure must be inherent in quiet good health. You may say pain is not the disease itself, simply an accompanying effect; but they argue that that makes no difference since the effect is the same either way. For whether health is itself a pleasure or is merely the cause of pleasure, as fire is the cause of heat, the fact remains that those who have stable health must also have pleasure.
AInversely related to each other
BHealth is crucial to pleasure
CHealth and pleasure are not related to each other
DHealth and pleasure are simply matters of imagination
Answer:(B)Health is crucial to pleasure
Explanation
The passage directly states that, for the Utopians, health is crucial to pleasure. Therefore option B is correct.
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Question 93
What is the nature of prose used in the passage above?
Some have maintained that a stable and tranquil state of health is not really a pleasure, on the grounds that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. The Utopians, who have considered the matter thoroughly, long ago rejected this opinion. On the contrary, they nearly all agree that health is crucial to pleasure. Since pain is inherent in diseases, they argue, and pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health, then pleasure must be inherent in quiet good health. You may say pain is not the disease itself, simply an accompanying effect; but they argue that that makes no difference since the effect is the same either way. For whether health is itself a pleasure or is merely the cause of pleasure, as fire is the cause of heat, the fact remains that those who have stable health must also have pleasure.
ANarrative prose
BDescriptive prose
CArgumentative prose
DPhilosophical prose
Answer:(D)Philosophical prose
Explanation
The passage discusses the nature of health, pleasure, pain, and cause in a reflective manner characteristic of philosophical prose. Although it is argumentative, the dominant mode is philosophical. So option D is the best answer.
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Question 94
What does the first line of the passage say about external stimulus?
Some have maintained that a stable and tranquil state of health is not really a pleasure, on the grounds that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. The Utopians, who have considered the matter thoroughly, long ago rejected this opinion. On the contrary, they nearly all agree that health is crucial to pleasure. Since pain is inherent in diseases, they argue, and pain is the bitter enemy of pleasure, just as disease is the enemy of health, then pleasure must be inherent in quiet good health. You may say pain is not the disease itself, simply an accompanying effect; but they argue that that makes no difference since the effect is the same either way. For whether health is itself a pleasure or is merely the cause of pleasure, as fire is the cause of heat, the fact remains that those who have stable health must also have pleasure.
AExternal stimulus is a necessary condition for the experience of health
BExternal stimulus is irrelevant to the experience of health
CExternal stimulus is the by-product of health
DExternal stimulus is infectious
Answer:(A)External stimulus is a necessary condition for the experience of health
Explanation
The opening claim says that the presence of health cannot be felt except through external stimulus. Therefore option A is correct.
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Question 95
The comparison of gun to a pen in the poem above signifies:
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound:
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flower beds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
Athe power of written word to bring about change
Bthat the act of writing can be as lethal as using a weapon
Cthe high admiration of the speaker about father's ability to use both pen and spade
Dthe violence associated with writers
Answer:(A)the power of written word to bring about change
Explanation
In Heaney's poem, the pen is presented as the speaker's tool in a way that parallels the spade. The comparison suggests the power and force of writing, not simple violence. So option A is correct.
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Question 96
What do you understand about the worldview of the speaker as articulated in the poem above?
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound:
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flower beds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
APoverty is a vicious circle
BEnvironment needs to be cared for
CThe physical and mental work need to be treated at an equal level
DPoetry has done no good for the making of a better world
Answer:(C)The physical and mental work need to be treated at an equal level
Explanation
The speaker honors the father's manual labor while recognizing his own vocation in writing. The poem values both forms of work, making option C the best answer.
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Question 97
Which of the following statements suitably describes the speaker's attitude towards his father's work?
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound:
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flower beds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
AThe speaker admires his/her father's hard work and dedication
BThe speaker is highly critical of his/her father's choice of employment
CThe speaker is completely indifferent to his father's work
DThe speaker is resentful of father for making them participate in the work
Answer:(A)The speaker admires his/her father's hard work and dedication
Explanation
The poem looks at the father's digging with respect, care, and admiration. There is no resentment or indifference. So option A is correct.
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Question 98
In the line "when the spade sinks into gravelly ground" which figure of speech has been used?
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound:
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flower beds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
AAlliteration
BHyperbole
CAssonance
DOnomatopoeia
Answer:(A)Alliteration
Explanation
The repetition of consonant sounds in "spade sinks" and "gravelly ground" gives the line an alliterative quality. So option A is the best answer.
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Question 99
What is the nature of the setting in the poem above?
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound:
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flower beds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nested on the leg, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
AThe setting is rural and serene
BThe setting is urban and noisy
CThe setting is industrial yet solitary
DThe setting is suburban and bustling
Answer:(A)The setting is rural and serene
Explanation
The poem's setting is clearly rural, with flower beds, potato drills, and digging in the soil. Therefore option A is correct.
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