CUET PG ENGLISH 2022

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1. Who wrote 'Archetypal Criticism'?

(1) Fredric Jameson

(2) Terry Eagleton

(3) Northrop Frye

(4) Stuart Hall

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Correct answer: 3

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2. What was the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

(1) Joyce Carol

(2) Mark Twain

(3) Thomas Hardy

(4) Eric Blair

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Correct answer: 2

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3. "Give me the extension and motion and I will construct the universe." Who said this?

(1) Galileo

(2) William Harvey

(3) René Descartes

(4) Francis Bacon

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Correct answer: 3

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4. Which Shakespearean play has a character called Prospero?

(1) Othello

(2) Tempest

(3) Merchant of Venice

(4) King Lear

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Correct answer: 2

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5. Which of the following texts does not come under Science Fiction?

(1) The War of the Worlds

(2) The Lord of the Rings

(3) Journey of the Center to the Earth

(4) Hard Times

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Correct answer: 2/4

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6. Who amongst the following is the first Indian English playwright to have received?

the Sahitya Akademi Award?

(1) Vijay Tendulkar

(2) Mahesh Dattani

(3) Girish Karnad

(4) Rabindranath Tagore

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Correct answer: 2

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7. What following text cannot be classified under Magic Realism?

(1) One Hundred Years of Solitude

(2) Midnight's Children

(3) The Tin Drum

(4) A Fine Balance

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Correct answer: 4

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8. G.C. Spivak translated Of Grammatology into English. Who wrote it?

(1) Jacques Denida

(2) Noam Chomsky

(3) Sigmund Freud

(4) Saussure

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Correct answer: 1

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9. The first Novel of Indian English literature is

(1) Rajmohan's Wife

(2) Sarvameva Javate

(3) Kanthapura

(4) Coolie

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Correct answer: 1

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10. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by

(1) Simone de Beauvoir

(2) Helene Cixous

(3) Mary Wollstonecraft

(4) Elaine Showalter

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Correct answer: 3

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11. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" occurs in

(1) "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

(2) "Endymion"

(3) Ode to Autumn"

(4) "Ode to Melancholy”

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Correct answer: 2

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12. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury has been derived from a play by

(1) William Shakespeare

(2) Christopher Marlowe

(3) Ben Johnson

(4) Samuel Beckett

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Correct answer: 1

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13. _____ in translation is being faithful and accurate to the source language text.

(1) Distortion

(2) Target Language

(3) Fidelity

(4) None of the above

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Correct answer: 3

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14. Which book begins with "of man's first disobedience"

(1) Tintern Abbey

(2) Paradise regained

(3) Paradise Lost

(4) The Waste Land

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Correct answer: 3

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15. The dramatic term 'Anagnorisis signifies

(1) Discovery

(2) Resolution

(3) Climax

(4) Complication

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Correct answer: 1

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16. Who wrote the famous work Orientalism (1978)?

(1) Michel Foucault

(2) Edward Said

(3) G.C. Spivak

(4) Homi Bhabha

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Correct answer: 2

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17. "The language of the age is never the language of poetry." Who said this?

(1) Thomas Gray

(2) James Thomson

(3) Philip Sidney

(4) Alexander Pope

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Correct answer: 1

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18. Which of the following novels is not by D.H. Lawrence?

(1) Sons and Lovers

(2) Dubliners

(3) The Rambow

(4) Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Correct answer: 2

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19. Who among the following was not an imagist?

(1) Ezra Pound

(2) TE. Hulme

(3) Dylan Thomas

(4) Hilda Doolittle

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Correct answer: 3

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20. Martin Esslin introduced the concept of

(1) Alienation effect

(2) Theatre of the Absurd

(3) Affective Fallacy

(4) Authoritarianism

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Correct answer: 2

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21. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) was written by

(1) Albert Camus

(2) Martin Esslin

(3) J.P. Sartre

(4) M. Heidegger

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Correct answer: 1

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22. The following are components of Sigmund Freud's theory of mind except

(1) Id

(2) Ego

(3) Super Ego

(4) Super Id

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Correct answer: 4

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23. Who wrote the Pickwick Papers?

(1) Thomas Hardy

(2) Franz Kafka

(3) Charles Dickens

(4) Henry James

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Correct answer: 3

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24. Goblin Market was written by

(1) Stephen Spender

(2) Kathleen Raine

(3) Christina Rossetti

(4) Ezra Pound

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Correct answer: 3

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25. "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" is written by

(1) Alexander Pope

(2) Jonathan Swift

(3) R.B. Sheridan

(4) John Dryden.

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Correct answer: 1

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26. Who amongst the following is the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(1) Alice Walker

(2) Maya Angelou

(3) Toni Morrison

(4) Zora Neale Hurston

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Correct answer: 3

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27. Whom did John Keats regard as the prime example of negative capability"?

(1) John Donne

(2) John Milton

(3) William Shakespeare

(4) William Wordsworth

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Correct answer: 3

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28. Who among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative dictionary of the English language?

(1) Bishop Berkley

(2) Horace Walpole

(3) Edmund Burke

(4) Samuel Johnson

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Correct answer: 4

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29. What is the name of Belinda's lapdog in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock?

(1) Luck

(2) Muck

(3) Pluck

(4) Shock

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Correct answer: 4

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30. Which of the following plays was not written by Christopher Marlowe?

(1) Tamburlaine

(2) Dr. Faustus

(3) Henry II

(4) The Jew of Malta.

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Correct answer: 3

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31. During which of the following periods did the Puritans, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth, shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds?

(1) 1603-1625

(2) 1625-1640

(3) 1640-1660

(4) 1649-1660

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Correct answer: 4

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32. Arrange the following in the correct chronological sequence:

A. William Tyndale's New Testament

B. The Norman Conquest

C. Death of Geoffrey Chaucer

D. The Birth of William Shakespeare

 

(1) BCAD

(2) CBDA

(3) BCDA

(4) ABDC

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Correct answer: 1

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33. Who among the following was not a practitioner of 'New Criticism"?

(1) I.A. Richards

(2) John Crowe Ransom

(3) T.S. Eliot

(4) M.H. Abrams

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Correct answer: 4

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34. Which of the following is not a partition novel?

(1) Tamas

(2) Train to Pakistan

(3) The Shadow Lines

(4) The God of Small Things

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Correct answer: 4

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35. "Euphemism stands for

(1) Depiction of a situation as it is

(2) Depiction of a situation in a complex way

(3) Depiction of a distasteful situation in an alternative way

(4) None of these

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Correct answer: 3

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36. Caliban in The Tempest is an anagram of

(1) Canibal

(2) Cannibal

(3) Both (1) and (2)

(4) None of the above

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Correct answer: 4

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37. "Turning and Turning in the widening gyre

The Falcon cannot hear the falconer:

Things fall apart. The center cannot hold:

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"

These lines have been taken from which of the following poems written by W.B. Yeats?

(1) A Prayer for my Daughter

(2) The Second Coming

(3) Among School Children

(4) Sailing to Byzantium

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Correct answer: 2

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38. Who introduced the "Touchstone Method" in poetry?

(1) Robert Browning

(2) Matthew Arnold

(3) William Wordsworth

(4) John Keats

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Correct answer: 2

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39. Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Booker Prize in 1993 for

(1) Grimus

(2) The Satanic Verses

(3) Midnight's Children

(4) Shalimar The Clown

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Correct answer: 3

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40. Match the following:

A. The Jungle. I Leo Tolstoy

B. The Grapes of Wrath. II. Upton Sinclair

C. War and Peace III. Charles Dickens.

D. A Tale of Two Cities IV. John Steinbeck

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A-I. B-II. C-III, D-IV

(2) Α-II. Β-III. C-IV. D-I

(3) A-II. B-IV. C-I. D-III

(4) A-II. B-I, C-III, D-IV

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Correct answer: 3

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41. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria came out in

(1) 1815

(2) 1816

(3) 1817

(4) 1818

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Correct answer: 3

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42. In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poetry (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the Ancients?

(1) Lisideius

(2) Neander

(3) Eugenius

(4) Crites

Correct answer: 4

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43. "All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority." Who said this?

(1) Ralph Ellison

(2) Ezra Pound

(3) E.M. Forster

(4) Lewis Carroll

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Correct answer: 1

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44. Waiting for Godor, the famous play was written by

(1) Harold Pinter

(2) Edward Albee

(3) Samuel Beckett

(4) None of the above

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Correct answer: 3

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45. Who is the poet of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

(1) S.T. Coleridge

(2) William Wordsworth

(3) P.B. Shelley

(4) Lord Byron

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Correct answer: 1

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46. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" was written by

(1) Gayatri Spivak

(2) Hélène Cixous

(3) T.S. Eliot

(4) Ezra Pound

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Correct answer: 3

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47. Hind Swaraj was written by

(1) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(2) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(3) Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

(4) M.K.Gandhi

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Correct answer: 4

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48. The pen is mightier than the sword-this is an example of

(1) Pathetic fallacy

(2) Synecdoche

(3) Transferred Epithet

(4) Metonymy

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Correct answer: 4

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49. Who has authored Godan?

(1) Amrita Pritam

(2) Munshi Premchand

(3) Indira Goswami

(4) Rahi Masoom Raza

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Correct answer: 2

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50. Match List I with List II

List I

A. Toru Dutt.

B. Sarojini Naidu.

C. Kamala Das.

D. Meena Alexander.

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List II

I. I."The Old Playhouse”

II. "Without Place”

III. "A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields"

IV. "An Anthem of Love"

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A-III B-IV. C-II. D-I

(2) A-III В-IV. C-I. D-II

(3) Α-ΙΙ. Β-I. C-IV. D-II

(4) A-IV. B-III. C-I, D-II

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Correct answer: 2

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51. Who is the author of the play, Final Solutions?

(1) Vijay Tendulkar

(2) Mohan Rakesh

(3) Mahesh Dattani

(4) Girish Karnad

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Correct answer: 3