1. Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul
is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
Answer: (C)
2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) The ability to put oneself across
comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) The ability to command language
rather than language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness
(D) Accuracy
Answer: (A)
3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic
Fallacy is NOT TRUE?
(A) This term applies to descriptions
that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally
understood as human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in
nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used
with disapproval because nature cannot be equated with the human in respect of
emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by
Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).
Answer: (D)
4. Identify the correctly matched group:
List – I List – II
i. ‘L’ Allegro and ‘IlPensoro so’ 1. Pastoral elegy
ii. ‘Lycidas’ 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet
iv. ‘On His Blindness’ 4. Prose tractwww.ugcnet-info.blogspot.com
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion poems in
octo-syllabic couplets
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3
Answer: (B)
5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
University Wits – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets – The Scottish
Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence would
be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The
University Wits – The Transitional Poets – The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood –
The Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The University
Wits – The Scottish Chaucerians – The Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets, The Scottish Chaucerians –The
University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish
Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The
Rhymers’ Club.
Answer: (A)
6. ‘Aucitya’ refers to:
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial
two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The
place is
(A) A Public Park
(B) A Church
(C) A Quarry
(D) An Abandoned Factory
Answer: (C)
8. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below:
List – I List – II
(Character) (Work)
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer: (D)
9. This renowned German poet was born in
Prague and died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by
him. The titles of his last two works contain the words “sonnets” and
“elegies”. He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke
Answer: (D)
10. Which of the following plays gained
notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates?
(A) The Birds
(B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds
(D) The Frogs
Answer: (C)
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady:
I. To get her money and achieve his
ambition in life.
II. To achieve his political goal as an
extremist and a nihilist
III. To prove his superiority over other
young men of the time.
IV. All of the above
Find the correct combination according
to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
12. In his preface to The Order of
Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer and his
work.
Choose the correct answer:
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin
America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous
in America”
Answer: (B)
13. Here is a list of Partition novels
which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd
one out:
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
Answer: (C)
14. Match the translators in List – I
with the English translations of Indian Literature texts in List – II according
to the code given below:
List – I List – II
i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer: (C)
15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim
Ezekiel talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with slums / Deprived of seasons,
blessed with rains / its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged/ Processions led by
frantic drums.’ Identify the city:
(A) Calcutta
(B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(D) Agra
Answer: (C)
16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards
links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These
are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intentionwww.ugcnet-info.blogspot.com
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
Answer: (A)
17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine
enters SirLeoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several
ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does
not serve as an omen:
(A)The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing
mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’
Answer: (C)
18. The word resurrect is
(A) An abbreviation
(B) A spurious verb
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound
Answer: (C)
19. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below:
List – I List – II
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones 2. Bildungsroman
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic
iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (B)
20. Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought- Fox’
is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. about the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing
poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet’s
brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination
according to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that
it is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain
magnitude….having a beginning, a middle, and an end’. What is ‘it’?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Epic
(C) Poetry
(D) Farce
Answer: (A)
22. According to Matthew Arnold,
‘touchstones’ help us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry.
What are the ‘touchstones’?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the
great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
Answer: (C)
23. ‘An extremely simplified form of language
used for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different
languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfill the essential
needs of communication.’
Which of the following is best described
by this definition?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
Answer: (B)
24. What do the prosodic features of a language
tell us?
(A) The speaker’s native language and its
cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional state,
social class, educational background, geographical provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence or
lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the
resources of the language spoken by him/her and their deployment.
Answer: (B)
25. What novel answers to the following descriptions?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a British
writer. The work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry
as also third-person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods –
contemporary and Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
Answer: (B)
26. The following words and phrases, ‘peace
makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the fat of the land’, ‘a labour of love’, ‘the eleventh
hour’ and ‘the shadow of death’ were made current by
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger
Ascham
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates
(C) The Puritan tractarians
(D) The sixteen-century translators of
the Bible
Answer: (D)
27. Who among the following writers asserted
‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not exist?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
Answer: (B)
28. Identify the one in correct chronological
sequence:
(A) The Norman Conquest – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of William
Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer –
William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare – The Norman
Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William
Tyndall’s New Testament – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William
Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New Testament –
The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William
Shakespeare
Answer: (A)
29. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical
Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the
Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on, the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Answer: (B)
30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan
Historian’?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
Answer: (C)
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with
a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning,
vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our
discourse and our behaviour.’ The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym
of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
Answer: (A)
32. Arrange the following in the order
in which the details of a research article / essay appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the essay,
the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, year of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page numbers,
the title of the journal, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the title
of the essay, page numbers, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the title of
the journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of publication, page numbers
Answer: (D)
33. From the following indicate the work
which is not a Dystopia:
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited
Answer: (D)
34. ‘Unless wariness be used, as good almost
kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
God’s image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the
image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but
a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed
Answer: (A)
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of
character and the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John
Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom
she happens to meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens
to be a writer.
Answer: (A)
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images
in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo
Answer: (C)
37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all
and some, For here’s a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern
rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor’dev’ry chink Goodly and great he
rails behind his link’.
In the above extract from Absalom and
AchitophelOg is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
Answer: (C)
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a
bright book of life’ to describe
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
(C) The Bible
(D) The short lyric
Answer: (A)
39. Identify the correctly matched group:
List – I List – II
i. Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man 2. Russia
iii. The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
iv. An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
v. Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
Answer: (A)
40. Given below are two statements, one labelled
as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes ‘Madame
Eglentyne’ thus: ‘She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that
she sawe a mous caught in atrappe’
Reason (R): On her ‘broche of gold full
shene’ was written Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two statements,
which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is
not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: (B)
41. Identify the correct statements on Langue
and Parole below:
1. Langue is the abstract language
system, the grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually
produced by its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually
produced by its users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language
system, the grammar of a system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
Answer: (B)
42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among
the following characters has ‘a face like a frog’?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim
Answer: (B)
43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning
night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; and flecked
darkness like a drunkardreels
From forth day’s path and Titan’sburning
wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)The
speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
Answer: (C)
44. ‘How noble in reason ! How
infinitein faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how
like anangel! In apprehension how like a God!’
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
Answer: (C)
45. Said identifies Orientalism as:
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on
anontological and epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the
Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than oneof
human production
In the light of the statement above:
(A) II and III are correct, I and IVare
wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are
wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is
wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are
wrong.
Answer: (C)
46. Identify the period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell
and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral
grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659
Answer: (B)
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more
manly than rest, men. I means she upright, honest, speak her mind…”What light
does the quotation throwon ShugAvery?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting
her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
Answer: (D)
48. 1. A content word is not a function
word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than
a function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning
whereas a function word just about means functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
Answer: (A)
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history
of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following:
(A) Mark twain’s The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger
gained wide circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the
nation’s greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American
Dictionary of the English Language in that year.
Answer: (D)
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein
did Marry Shelley give?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
Answer: (C)
51. Which of the following statements on
George Lamming’s In the Castle ofMy Skin [1953] is not true?
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age
story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of
avillage’s growth into awareness in the late colonial period.
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s first
novel.
Answer: (C)
52. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily
Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be …
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward
movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
Answer: (A)
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Seasons of
Migration to the North will undoubtedly notice its parallels with the story/stories
of:
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict
Anderson’s Imagined Communities?
(A) It is a prosaic response to the myth
of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the Origin
and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson advances the
view that nations are not natural entities but narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson’s view, modern nationalism
was basically a consequence of the convergence of capitalism, the new print technology
and the fixity that resulted from print extending to ‘Vernacular’ languages.
Answer: (A)
55. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive,
for the rain it raineth everyday. ’These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the
novel:
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
Answer: (A)
56. What is a mock-heroic poem?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets
and critics
(B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue
in all epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs
and affectations
(D) Uses a mocking style to deride
heroes and hero-worship
Answer: (C)
57. Which of the following statements is
not true of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of
birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
Answer: (A)
58. In drama, an aside is addressed…
(A) To an audience by an actor; the words
so spoken are not meant to be heard by other actors on the stage.
(B) To other actors on the stage; the words
so spoken are not meant to be heard by the audience.
(C) By the playwright to the audience.
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist
Answer: (A)
59. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below:
List – I List – II
(Novels) (Last
Lines)
i. The Mayor of Casterbridge 1. ‘He walked towards the faintly humming,
glowing town, quickly.’
ii. Sons and Lovers 2. ‘In their death,
they were not divided.’
iii. The Great Gatsby 3. ‘Happiness was but
the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.’
iv. The Mill on the Floss 4. ‘So we beat on, boats
against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: (D)
60. “There is nothing outside the text,”
is a statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer: (B)
61. Here is a list of women abandoned by
their lovers in Hardy’s novels.
Pick the odd one out:
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene
Answer: (D)
62. What is the following a description of?
‘A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary
Answer: (A)
63. From the following indicate the
critic who is not a New Critic:
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer: (D)
64. From the following list, pick out a
woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels:
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali
(D) Piyali
Answer: (B)
65. Pick the odd man out of the
following members of the subaltern group:
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) DipeshChakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar
Answer: (D)
66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep
and forgetting.”
Interpretation (I): The human soul never
tires in the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human life is a long
sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does
not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no
relationship to (I).
Answer: (B)
67. ‘The parish of rich women, physical
decay, / yourself…’
What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H.
Auden’s view?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
Answer: (D)
68. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters
is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
Answer: (D)
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
I. The works of native people living in
a land that has been taken over by non-natives.
II. The works of black people in the
United States.
III. The literature of the marginalized.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of
Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on the
Duchess and they dance and sing in a
crazy manner.
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a
strange entertainment to drive the Duchess mad.
In the context of the two statements,
which one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer: (B)
71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of
Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to the study of African- American
literature?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected
African-American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African-
American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African-
American films and dramatic arts that signify Black ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of
autobiographical narratives involving Black lives and cultural traditions.
Answer: (B)
72. This influential critic
I. wrote influential commentaries on
such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. Published such titles as The Anxiety
of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon.
III. Asserted that most literary
criticism is but slightly disguised religion and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known
and contrarian among his American peers in the English Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist
Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent
on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of
coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
Answer: (B)
74. Match the following:
i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas
Lodge, Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers’ Club /
The Decadents of the 1890’s
ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley
George Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais, James
Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The
University Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B.
Yeats 4. The Restoration Playwrights
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
Answer: (D)
75. Combine the statements correctly:
According to Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating
the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection
and excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the
colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a
certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 3 and 2
Answer: (A)
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