UGC NET December 2021+June 2022 Morning Shift
Q.1 Identify the correct combinations:
A. Dadaism – Tristan Tzara
B. Super realism – Guillanne Apollinaire
C. Surrealism – Filipo Marinetti
D. Futurism – Andre Breton
E. Nihilism – Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (C) and (E)
2. (A), (B) and (E)
3. (B), (C) and (D)
4. (C), (D) and (E)
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Dadaism – Tristan Tzara: Dada was an anti-art movement born during World War I that rejected logic, order, and traditional aesthetics through absurdity, satire, chance, and shock. Superrealism / Surrealism precursor – Guillaume Apollinaire: Apollinaire used the term later linked to Surrealism, a movement that explored dreams, imagination, the unconscious mind, and irrational associations beyond ordinary reality. Nihilism – Ivan Turgenev: Nihilism rejects established authorities, traditions, religious beliefs, and accepted social values; Turgenev popularized the term in Fathers and Sons. The wrong pairs are Marinetti, who belonged to Futurism (celebrating speed, machines, violence, modern technology), and André Breton, who became the chief theorist of Surrealism.
Q.2. Tolkappiyam is a book of grammar and poetics written in the_____ language
1. Telugu
2. Tamil
3. Kannada
4. Malayalam
Answer: 2
Q.3. Identify the correct pairs:
A. The boyfriend – Juliette Banerjee
B. Nude therapy – Margaret Chatterjee
C. The other woman and other stories – Dina Mehta
D. The Yankee and the yogi – B.G. Siddharth
E. Prejudice of ages – Vera Sharma
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B) and (C)
2. (A), (C) and (D)
3. (B), (C) and (E)
4. (C), (D) and (E)
Answer: 2
Q.4. “It is significant that the productive capacities of this third space have a colonial or post colonial provenance”. The above lines have been written by
1. Salman Rushdie
2. Edward said
3. Benedict Anderson
4. Homi K. Bhabha
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Third Space is a concept developed by Homi K. Bhabha in postcolonial theory. It refers to an in-between cultural space where different cultures meet, interact, and create new hybrid identities. It challenges fixed ideas of identity, nation, and culture by showing that colonial and postcolonial identities are formed through negotiation, mixing, and exchange rather than purity or separation.
Q.5. In which year miles Coverdale translated The Old Testament of the bible?
1.1533
2. 1534
3. 1535
4. 1536
Answer: 3
Q.6. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?
1. Winston Churchill
2. T.S. Eliot
3. W.H. Auden
4. Harold Pinter
Answer: 3
Q.7. Match List I with List II:
List I (A) “Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.”
(B)“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
(C)“Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster child of silence and slow time.”
(D) “And ice, mast-high, come floating by, as green as emerald.”
List II
[I] Irony
[II] Simile
[III] Antithesis
[IV] Assonance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
3. (A)-(III). (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
4. (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
Answer: 2
Q. 8. Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century have been represented in which of the following novels?
A. Elizabeth Bowen – The last September
B. May Sinclair – The divine fire
C. JG farewell – Troubles
D. J G farewell – The siege of Krishnapur
E. Jeffery Farnol – Black Bartlemy’s treasure
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. A, and C only
3. D, E and B only
4. B, C and A only
Answer: 2
Q. 9. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. The poetics of prose
B. Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics
C. Surprised by sin
D. The way women write
List II
I. Stanley fish
II. Tzvetan Todrov
III. Mikhail Bakhtin
IV. Mary Hiatt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
3. (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
4. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
Answer: 3
Q.10. Stuart Hall belongs to ______________schools of cultural studies.
1.Oxford
2.Cambridge
3.Birmingham
4.American
Answer: 3
Q.11. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. Salim Ali
B. Jim Corbett
C. Kailash Sankhala
D. M. Krishnan
List II
I. Wild beauty
II. The fall of a sparrow
III. Night and days: my book of Indian wildlife
IV. My India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
3. (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
4. (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
Answer: 1
Q.12. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Comparative literature is a study of different cultures, nations and genres, and it explores the inherent relationship between literature and other forms of cultural exploration.
Statement II: In the study of literature and culture, the importance of methodology is secondary.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both statement I and Statement II are true
2. Both statement I and statement II are false
3. Statement I is true but statement II is false
4. Statement I is false but statement II is true
Answer: 3
Q.13. Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?
1. “The triumph of life”
2. “Ode to the west-wind”
3. “Queen Mab”
4. “The daemon of the world”
Answer: 1
Q.14. Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition”?
1. John Dryden
2. William Wordsworth
3. S.T. Coleridge
4. T.S Eliot
Answer: 2
Q.15. Which of the following is not a part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy?
1. Sea of poppies
2. River of smoke
3. Flood of fire
4. The Calcutta chromosome
Answer: 4
Q.16. Which among the following are true about Harold Pinter?
A. Harold printer was born in the year 1925
B. He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd.
C. The caretaker and the alchemist are his famous plays
D. Stanley is a character in the birthday party
E. Betrayal is a story of a married couple
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, D and E only
2. B, D and E only
3. B, C and D only
4. A, C and D only
Answer: 2
Q.17. Which of the following concepts are associated with Bhartrhari’s theory of ‘Sphota’?
A. Rasa
B. Alankara
C. Dhvani
D. Vakrokti
E. Shabda Brahman
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A and E only
2. C and E only
3. D and B only
4. A and C only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct set is C and E only. Bhartrhari’s Sphoṭa theory explains meaning as a holistic burst of linguistic revelation rather than a sum of separate sounds. It is closely linked to Śabda Brahman (ultimate reality as word/language) and later influences ideas behind Dhvani (suggestion), though Dhvani is developed separately by Anandavardhana
Q.18. Who is the author of A Literature of Their Own?
1. Sandra gilbert and Susan Gubar
2. Elaine Showalter
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Sylvia Plath
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
A Literature of Their Own (1977) is Elaine Showalter’s important work of feminist literary criticism. It studies the history and development of British women novelists from the nineteenth century onwards and argues that women writers created a distinct literary tradition often ignored by male-dominated criticism. Showalter also discusses phases of women’s writing—Feminine, Feminist, and Female—showing the growth of women’s literary identity.
Q.19. The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
1. Critiques the rural institutions
2. Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions
3. Reflects upon different views on the human soul
4. Advocates urbanism over rural backwardness
Answer: 2
Q.20. Match List I with List II
List I
A. Malcolm Bradbury
B. David Lodge
C. Kingsley Amis
D. C. P. Snow
List II
I. Masters
II. Lucky Jim
III. The history man
IV. Changing places
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
3. (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
4. (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Answer: 2
Q. 21. Under the Net (1954) is written by
1. John Fowles
2. Iris Murdoch
3. Edmund goose
4. William cooper
Answer: 2
Q.22. What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts?
A. Sexual politics
B. A world of difference
C. The female imagination
D. Thinking about women
E. A Room of One’s Own
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
2. (E), (B), (D), (A), (C)
3. (E), (D), (A), (C), (B)
4. (B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
Answer: 3
Q.23. Canadian multiculturalism act was passed in the year:
1.1958
2.1968
3. 1978
4. 1988
Answer: 4
Q.24. Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company?
1. William Shakespeare
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. George Peele
4. Ben Johnson
Answer: 2
Q.25. Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?
A. Loyalties
B. Saint Joan of Stockyards
C. Death of a Salesman
D. Candida
E. Waiting for Godot.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. D and A only
3. B and C only
4. A and E only
Answer: 3
Q.26. Which of the following theorists identifies “metonymy” and “metaphor” as two fundamental structures of language?
1. Ferdinand de Sassure
2. Roland Barthes
3. J.L. Austin
4. Roman Jakobson
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Roman Jakobson identifies metaphor and metonymy as two fundamental poles of language. He links metaphor with similarity and substitution, and metonymy with contiguity and association, extending the idea to literary styles and modes of thought.
Q.27. Who is the author of the essay “Three women’s texts and a critique of imperialism” (1985)?
1. Ania Loomba
2. Meenakshi Mukherjee
3. Susan Meyer
4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Answer: 4
Q.28. What is meant by “corporate author” in research?
1. A writer who belongs to a corporate company
2. A writer who writes on matters of corporate affairs
3. A work produced by an institution, an association or a government agency
4. A renowned author
Answer: 3
Q.29. Which among the following are appropriate about Latin American literature?
A. There has been racial coherence and unity in literary representations of Latin America
B. The Latin American literary tradition draws analogy between plant growth and human movement
C. Dzul poot’s stories depict the geography of the chilam balam towns
D. Quechua had a wider popularity and presence across different nations
E. The Latin American literature is unitary and refrains from intextuality of any kind
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, D and E only
2. C, B and E only
3. B, C and E only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 4
Q.30. Identify the correct combination among the following:
A. Spondee: It consists of three stressed syllables
B. Pyrrhic: It consists of two unstressed syllables
C. Amphimacer: It is a metrical foot of three syllables
D. Choriambus: It is a foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables enclosing two unstressed syllables
E. Trochaic: It has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and E only
3. B, C and D only
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Amphimacer is a three-syllable foot (stressed–unstressed–stressed), Choriambus has stressed syllables enclosing two unstressed ones (– u u –), and Trochaic meter begins with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. A is false because a spondee has two stressed syllables, not three.
Q.31. Who among the following in the article, “Fleshly school of poetry”, attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?
1. Robert Browning
2. William Holeman Hunt
3. Robert Buchanan
4. Christina Rossetti
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The phrase “The Fleshly School of Poetry” comes from an 1871 article by Robert Buchanan, in which he attacked the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially D. G. Rossetti. He accused their poetry of being overly sensual, artificial, self-indulgent, and concerned with beauty and physical desire rather than moral seriousness. The term was used critically, though later many defended Rossetti and the movement.
Q.32. Subramani’s Fantasy Eaters (1988) is a
1. Novel
2. Collection of short stories
3. Collection of essays
4. Poem
Answer: 2
Q.33. Who among the following has authored The Revenger’s Tragedie?
1. Cyril Tourneur
2. John Webster
3. John Fletcher
4. Thomas Heywood
Answer: 1
Q.34. Given below are two statements: Statement I: “………. he who discovers no god whatever, how shall he discover heroes the visible temples of God” is a statement by Thomas Carlyle. Statement II: “It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure” is a statement made by John Ruskin.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both statements I and II are true
2. Both statements I and II are false
3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false
4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Answer: 1
Q.35. Which of the following articles of the Indian constitution made the provision for use of English. Alongside Hindi, for official purposes, for fifteen years?
1. Article 351
2. Article 344
3. Article 343
4. Article 348
Answer: 3
Q.36. Kimberle Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” is widely used for
A. Academic deterioration
B. Racial justice
C. Peace formation
D. Complex construction of power
E. Identity politics
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. B, D and E only
2. A, C and E only
3. B, D and C only
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, explains how different forms of identity such as race, gender, class, and sexuality overlap to create complex experiences of discrimination and privilege. It is widely used in racial justice, in understanding the complex construction of power, and in discussions of identity politics. It is not related to academic deterioration or peace formation.
Q.37. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.
Assertion (A): Roland Barthes describes two basic categories of text as “the readerly” and “the writerly.”
Reason (R): Language is the window through which one sees the world.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4. (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
Answer: 2
Q.38. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.
Assertion (A): In 19th century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman asserted economic independence over voting rights. Reason (R): The representation of women as power-seekers was not socially acceptable in 19th century America.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4. (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
Answer: 1
Q. 39. A. L. Tennyson in the following lines: “Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns”
1. Reflects upon secularism
2. Reflects upon evolutionary faith
3. Reflects upon utilitarianism
4. Reflects upon materialism
Answer: 2
Q.40. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to W.H. Auden. The Importance of being earnest is the purest example in English literature of a ‘verbal opera’.
Statement II: Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a combined form make theatre performance possible. In the light of the above statement.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both statement I and statement II are true
2. Both statement I and statement II are false
3. Statement I is true but statement II is false
4. Statement I is false but statement II is true
Answer: 1
Q.41. Which of the collections of poems are not written by Meena Alexander?
A. River and Bride
B. Articulate Silence
C. Raw Silk
D. Stone Roots
E. A time to Change
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and D only
3. C and E only
4. B and E only
Answer: 4
Q.42. Find out the correct sequence of the publications of the following books
1. India: An Area of Darkness: India: A Wounded Civilization: India: a Million Mutinies now: A House for Mr. Biswas
2. A House for Mr. Biswas: India: A million Mutinies now: India: An Area of Darkness: India: A Wounded Civilization
3. A House for Mr. Biswas: India: An Area of Darkness: India: A Wounded Civilization: India: A Million Mutinies Now
4. India: A Wounded Civilization: A House for Mr. Biswas: India: An Area of Darkness: India: A Million Mutinies Now
Answer: 3
Q.43. Choose the right chronological sequence of publication of the following novels by Margaret Atwood.
A. Lady Oracle
B. The Blind Assassin
C. The Handmaid’s Tale
D. The Testaments
E. Alias Grace
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. A, C, E, B, D
3. E, A, D, B, C
4. C, A, D, E, B
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order is : Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), and The Testaments (2019). The sequence traces Atwood’s movement from satiric identity fiction to dystopia, historical revision, and later feminist speculative writing.
Q.44. According to Roland Barthes, which of the following “codes” are common to all narratives?
A. Synthetic code
B. Proairctic code
C. Semic code
D. Hermeneutic code
E. Symbolic code
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. A, B and C only
4. B, C, D and E only
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Barthes identifies narrative meaning through recurring codes such as the proairetic (actions), semic (character/signifiers), hermeneutic (mystery/enigma), and symbolic (deeper oppositions). “Synthetic code” is not one of Barthes’s standard five narrative codes.
Q. 45. J Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist reading of which of the following poems of P.B Shelley?
1. “The triumph of life.”
2. “Ode to the West Wind”
3. “Revolt of Islam.”
4. “The witch of Atlas.”
Answer: 1
Q.46. Who is the author of the poem “House of Fame”?
1. William Langland
2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Thomas Moore
4. Philip Sidney
Answer: 2
Q.47. Which of these are correct combination of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective themes?
A. The Golden Notebook deals with Johor travelling to Rohonda
B. The Good Terrorist is about a doomed love affair
C. Shikasta is about a planet, which is cut-off due to the advanced Influence of civilization
D. Alfred and Emily explores the life of her parents
E. The grass is singing draws from her experiences in Africa
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, A and D only
2. A, B and E only
3. C, D and E only
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 3
Q.48. Which of these graphic narratives depicts a political crisis?
A. Amruta Patil – Kari
B. Joe Sacco – Footnotes in Gaza
C. Art Spiegelman – Maus
D. Sarnath Banerjee – Corridor
E. Phoebe Gloeckner – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. C, D and E only
3. B and C only
4. B, C, and D only
Answer: 3
Q.49. Identify the poems termed as “pastoral elegies”:
A. Lycidas
B. In memory of W.B. Yeats
C. Adonais
D. Thyrsis
E. In memoriam
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and E only
3. A, C and D only
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Pastoral elegies are poems mourning the death of a person through the setting and imagery of rural life, shepherds, nature, and the countryside, following a classical tradition from Greek and Roman poetry. The dead person is often represented as a shepherd, and nature shares in the grief. Lycidas (Milton), Adonais (Shelley), and Thyrsis (Matthew Arnold) are classic pastoral elegies. In Memoriam (Tennyson) and In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Auden) are elegies, but not pastoral in form.
Q.50. The book Women Beware Women was published in the year
1. 1657
2. 1620
3. 1621
4. 1622
Answer: 1
Q.50. The heroic couplet is a pair of
1. Twelve-syllable lines that rhyme
2. Ten-syllable lines that rhyme
3. Eight-syllable lines that do not rhyme
4. Eight-syllable lines that rhyme
Answer: 2
Q.52. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The teaching of non-native literature to the students of English language teaching is arid. Statement II: The negative responses in ELT classroom can create an interesting classroom situation.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both statements I and II are correct
2. Both statements I and II are incorrect
3. Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect
4. Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct answer is 1. In ELT pedagogy, unfamiliar or “non-native” literature can initially seem difficult or distant, yet students’ resistance or negative responses may generate discussion, comparison, and deeper engagement, making the classroom more dynamic.
Q.53. Which of these statements are true in the context of neuro-linguistic programming?
A. ‘Neuro’ in NLP means that our behavior is determined by our sensory experiences
B. Grammatical knowledge is a matter of practice
C. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and john grinder in the 1970s
D. Neuro covers “invisible thoughts and visible physiological reactions”
E. All of the above
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. E only
2. A, C and D only
3. A and D only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct set is A, C, and D. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, neuro refers to how sensory experience shapes behavior and includes internal thought patterns as well as bodily responses. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s. B is unrelated to the core concept
Q.54. Identify the combination(s) that belong to the genre of sci-fi/speculative fiction.
A. Vandana Singh – The woman who thought she was planet
B. Tehmina Durrani – Blasphemy
C. Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
D. Priya Sarukkai Crabria – Generation 14
E. Gautam Bhatia – The Wall
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and D only
2. A, D and E only
3. A, C and D only
4. D, A and Conly
Answer: 2
Q.55. Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R
Assertion (A): Jacques Lacan was radically critical of the esistium psychoanalytical theory.
Reason (R): Lacan was expelled from the international psychoanalytical association in 1959.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true but (R) is false
4. (A) is false but (R) is true
Answer: 2
Q.56. When was Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women published?
1. 2017
2. 2018
3. 2014
4. 2019
Answer: 3
Q.57. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Hannah Arendt’s “defactualization” is very close to the concept of “post-truth”.
Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both statement I and statement II are correct
2. Both statement I and statement II are incorrect
3. Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect
4. Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Hannah Arendt’s idea of defactualization refers to the destruction or weakening of factual truth in public life, which closely relates to today’s concept of post-truth, where emotions and beliefs often outweigh facts. However, post-truth does not depend only on absolute lies; it also works through distortion, selective facts, repetition, misinformation, and manipulation of public opinion.
Q.58. Match List I with List II
List I
A. Donald Davie
B. Philip Larkin
C. Kingsley Amis
D. John Wain
List II
I. Against Romanticism
II. Hurry on Down
III. The shires
IV. The North Ship
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
2. (A)- (I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
3. (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
4. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Answer: 4
Q. 59. Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against poetry?
A. The poet is an imitator.
B. The poet is incapable of bravery.
C. The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the reasoning capacity of the citizens.
D. The poet is less responsible
E. The poet has no knowledge of the world.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C and E only
2. A and B only
3. B, and D only
4. E and D only
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Plato objects that the poet is an imitator of appearances rather than truth, lacks genuine knowledge, and appeals to emotion in ways that weaken rational self-control in citizens. His critique is epistemological and moral rather than about personal bravery.
Q.60. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. To the Light House
B. Sons and Lovers
C. Finnegan’s Wake
D. The Waste Land
List II
I. 1913
II. 1927
III. 1939
IV. 1922
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
2. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
3. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
4. (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
Answer: 4
Q.61. The “ancient and modern quarrel” in western literary criticism appears during
1. 100BC
2. Fifth century CE
3. Sixteenth century CE
4. Twentieth century CE
Answer: 3
Q.62. Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R
Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions of the predispositions that we bring to it.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4. (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Both statements reflect reader-response and interpretive theory: reading is shaped by learned paradigms or frameworks, not done in a neutral vacuum. We derive meaning through the assumptions, desires, and critical habits we bring to a text, which explains why interpretation depends on prior reading practices.
Q.63. Which of the following critics is associated with the term “contrapuntal reading”?
1. Mikhail Bakhtin
2. Edward said
3. Roland Barthes
4. Jacques Derrida
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Edward Said uses contrapuntal reading to read imperial and colonized histories together within the same text. Borrowed from musical counterpoint, the term suggests attending simultaneously to dominant metropolitan narratives and the silenced colonial presence behind them.
Q.64. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth
C. Julius Caesar
D. Othello
List II
I. 1606
II. 1599
III. 1604
IV. 1600
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
2. (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
3. (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
4. (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
Answer: 4
Q.65. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. “Faces along the bar/cling to their average day.”
B. “The awful daring of a moments surrender.”
C. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.”
D. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”
List II
I. Wilfred Owen
II. T.S. Eliot
II. Allen Ginsberg
IV. W.H. Auden
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
3. (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
4. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
Answer: 1
Q.66. Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer?
1. Ben Jonson
2. Thomas Dekker
3. Thomas Heywood
4. George Chapman
Answer: 4
Q.67. Which of the following is not true about "Lyrical Ballads""
1. it is a manifesto of romantic poetry
2. It turns English poetry away from the social and intellectual sophistication of the 17th and the 18th century poetry
3. It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature
4. It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem
Answer: 4
Q.68. Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes' contributions to literary theory"
A. He rejected the model for structural analysis of narratives
B. He perceived "meaning" as an effect of various interconnections among linguistic codes
C. He identified the various codes found in the process of structuration
D. He played a significant role in the development of 'semiology'
E. He questioned the concept of literary criticism as an act of uncovering some hidden truth intended by the "author"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. C, D and E only
3. B, C, D and E only
4. A, B, C, D and E only
Answer: 3
Q.69. The writer and the world by V.S. Naipaul is a
1. Novel
2. Travelogue
3. Collection of essays
4. Non-fiction
Answer: 3
Q.70. Given below are two statements: One is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R.
Assertion (A): The Marxists represent Marxism as a scientific account of social change.
Reason (R): The Marxist ideology believes that culture is a mirror of social life and the artist is an engineer of the human soul educating the working classes.
In the light of the above statement, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4. (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
Answer: 1
Q.71. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Which of the following texts glorifies this as its predominant theme?
1. The Old man and the Sea
2. War and Peace
3. A Farewell to Arms
4. For whom the Bell Tolls
Answer: 1
Q.72. Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?
A. Drabble
B. Postcard fiction
C. Novelette
D. Short story
E. Nonfiction
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. C and D only
2. A, B and E only
3. D and E only
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct answer is C and D only. Drabble (exactly 100 words) and postcard fiction are recognized flash fiction forms because of extreme brevity. Novelette is longer than a short story, and a short story is a separate broader genre, not specifically flash fiction.
Q.73. Identify the correct combination among the following:
A. Demons – Novel
B. Landlady – Novella [
C. The Crocodile – Short-story
D. A Writer’s Diary – Essay
E. Mary Stuart – Translation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. C, D and E only
3. B, C and E only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 1
Q.74. Should poets’ bicycle-pump the human heart or squash it flat? Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart: Girls aren’t like that The above lines are written by:
1. Philip Larkin
2. Kingsley Amis
3. Donald Davie
4. John wain
Answer: 2
Q.75. Gaiutra Bahadur wrote an autobiographic novel titled
1. An Era of Darkness
2. Dauka Puran
3. The collie woman
4. Rama’s banishment
Answer: 3
Q.76. Philip Sidney’s arcadia was influenced by
1. The Spanish romance of Montemayor
2. The Italian paintings of Veronese
3. The Arthurian legends
4. The metaphysical poetry
Answer: 1
Q.77. Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?
A. It was widespread across the world
B. The other leaders of the movement were John Henry Newman and R.H. Fronde
C. The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833
D. Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name
E. The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. A, C and E only
3. C, D and E only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Tractarian Movement (Oxford Movement) began in 1833 with John Keble’s Assize Sermon on “National Apostasy.” Key leaders included John Henry Newman and R. H. Froude, while E. B. Pusey became so central that followers were often called Puseyites. It was an Anglican reform movement centered at Oxford, not a worldwide movement.
Q.78. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. Gender and nation
B. Greek homosexuality
C. The Subject of Tragedy
D. The Souls of Black Folk
List II
I. Catherine Belsey
II. K.J. dover
III. W.E.B. Du Bois
IV. Nira Yuval-Davis
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
2. (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
3. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
4. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
Answer: 4
Q.79. Identify the novels that were published in the 1980s and the 1990s
A. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
B. The Circle of Reason
C. The Ghosts of Vasu Master
D. Miguel Street
E. The Siege of Babylon
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C, D and E only
2. A, B and C only
3. B, A and D only
4. A, C and E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct set is A, B, and C only because these novels fall within the 1980s–1990s: The Circle of Reason (1986), Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), and The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994). Miguel Street belongs to the 1950s, while The Siege of Babylon falls outside the stated period.
Q.80. Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter?
A. Feminine
B. Gynie
C. Womanish
D. Feminist
E. Female
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. A, D and E only
3. A, B and E only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Elaine Showalter’s three phases are Feminine, Feminist, and Female. They trace women’s writing from imitation of male literary norms, to protest against patriarchy, and finally to self-defined female experience and identity.
Q.81. Who among the following were poet laureates of England?
A. Alfred Austin
B. Robert Bridges
C. Watts-Dunton
D. Oscar Wilde
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) and (B) only
2. (A) and (D) only
3. (B) and (C) and (D)
4. (A) (B) and (C) only
Answer: 1
Q.82. Find the correct explanation of the term “Aporia”:
1. It denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question
2. It is an address to something inanimate
3. It is applied to a work of art fraught with inherent tension
4. It refers to a form of denial of existence
Answer: 1
Q.83. Which among the following is appropriate about Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s article “literature in schools”?
A. The article discusses the relevance and adequacy of the present education system
B. It advocates teaching of European texts and literature to the students of the third world countries
C. It reflects negatively upon the literature taught to the Kenyan students in national schools
D. It argues that cultural imperialism distorts people’s vision of history
E. It observes that European teachers are better equipped to teach literature to the Kenyan students
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. C, D and E only
3. B, C and D only
4. A, C and D only
Answer: 4
Q.84. Identify the correct ones among the following:
A. Arun Kolatkar uses colloquial speech in his poems
B. Kolatkar envisions abstract qualities to paint a picture of life of his own kind
C. The poem boatride by Kolatkar talks about a ride in the Ganges
D. Private poems in public garden is composed by Dilip chitre
E. ‘In Ethiopia’ is a poem on Africa by Arun Kolatkar
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, D and E only
3. A, B and D only
4. C, B and E only
Answer: 3
Q.85. Identify the one that has not been paired correctly
1. Criticism in the Wilderness – Geoffrey Hartman
2. Madness and Civilization – Roland Barthes
3. Poetry and repression – Harold Bloom
4. Strangers to ourselves – Julia Kristeva
Answer: 2
Q.86. Match List I with List II:
List I
A. O’ Henry
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Ralph waldo Emerson
List II
I. The last suttee
II. Beauty
III. At Verona
IV. Hard to Forget
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
2. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
3. (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
4. (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
Answer: 3
Q.87. Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx? “They cannot represent themselves: the must be represented”.
1. Ruth Vanita
2. Kamla Bhasin
4. Flaria Agnes
4. Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty draws on Marx’s statement, “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented,” to critique how Third World women are often spoken for by Western feminist discourse. She argues that marginalized groups should not be treated as voiceless subjects represented by others, but as diverse agents capable of representing their own experiences and identities.
Q.88. Which writer does not belong to the Angry Young Men movement?
1. John Osborne
2. Kingsley Amis
3. Seamus Heaney
4. Philip Larkin
Answer: 3
Q.89. What does Aristotle mean by the phrase “language with pleasurable accessories” in his definition of tragedy?
A. A language full of pompous vocabulary
B. An embellished language
C. A language full of rhythm and harmony
D. A language superadded with song
E. Emotive language
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and E only
3. C and D only
4. A, B and D only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
In Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, “language with pleasurable accessories” refers to the artistic elements added to speech—especially rhythm, harmony, and song. It points to the musical and metrical embellishments of drama, not pompous or merely emotional vocabulary.
Q.90. Match the following works of Edward Braithwaite according to their year of publication:
LIST - I
A. Rights of Passage
B. Islands
C. Masks
D. The Arrivants
LIST - II
I. 1973
II. 1969
III. 1967
IV. 1968
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
2.(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV),(D)-(II)
3. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
4. (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
These works belong to Brathwaite’s early Caribbean trilogy and collected sequence. Rights of Passage came first, followed by Masks, then Islands; The Arrivants later gathered the trilogy into a single landmark volume. The question tests familiarity with Caribbean literary chronology and nation-language poetics.
Comprehension
Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand. Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)
Q.91. Which of the following is a correct interpretation?
1. The child claims the object as his property
2. The objects that the child holds are obscure and useless
3. The child cannot understand the design of the object
4. In touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of life
Answer: 4
Q.92. In the context of the above passage, which is the closest to being true:
1. Children actively learn while playing
2. Children are objects for toy makers
3. Toys affect the cognitive abilities of children
4. Children recreate meaning from the toys
Answer: 3
Q.93. The adult causality is about
1. Sensual and sexual knowledge of the world
2. Cognitive and logical structure of the world
3. Nihilistic recreation of the world
4. Linguistic structure of the objects
Answer: 2
Q.94. The word “demiurge” connotes
1. Cognitive inactiveness of the children
2. Their sensational realization of the objects
3. Their creative abilities
4. Their sudden discovery
Answer: 3
Q.95. The world of objects makes the child
1. Imaginative
2. Inventor
3. Actant
4. Creator
Answer: 4
Read the following poem, and answer the questions that follow (96-100)
‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room he stayed
The whole time he was at the bodies, till
They moved him, ‘flowered curtains, thin and frayed,
Fall to within five inches of the sill.
Whose window shows a strip of building land,
Tussocky littered. ‘Mr bleaney’s took
My bit of garden properly in hand.’
Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no book
Behind the door, no room for books or bags—
‘I’ll take it. ‘So it happens that I lie
Where Mr bleaney lay, and stub my fags
On the same saucer-souvenir, and try
Stuffing my ears with cotton, wool, to drown
The jabbering set he egged her on yo buy,
I know his habits——what time he came down’
His preference for sauce to gravy, why
He kept on plugging at the four aways__
Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton folk
Who put him up for summer holidays
And Christmas at his sister’s house in stoke
But if he stood and watched the frigid wind
Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed
Telling himself that this was home, and grinned,
And shivered, without shaking off the dread
That how we live measures our own nature,
And at his age having no more to show
Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
He warranted no better, I don’t know.
Philip Larkin
Q.96. The poem, ‘Mr Bleaney’, is written in a ______form.
1. Satirical
2. Lyrical
3. Dramatic
4. Philosophical
Answer: 3
Q.97. In the third line ‘They refers to’
1. Employers
2. Owners
3. Master
4. Manufacturers
Answer: 1
Q.98. Mr. Bleaney was the _________ of the house.
1. Owner
2. Tenant
3. Master
4. Possessor
Answer: 2
Q.99. According to the speaker, Mr. Bleany was
1. A humorous person
2. A social and fun-loving person
3. A hard-working person
4. A sad and dull person
Answer: 4
Q.100. The poem ‘Mr. Bleaney’ deals with the portrayal of his_________
1. Richness
2. Extravagance
4. Luxuriousness
4. Ordinariness
Answer: 4
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