CUET PG 2023 SHIFT II

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1. Which of the following books have not been written by Virginia Woolf?

(1) The Voyage Out

(2) To the Lighthouse

(3) The Waves

(4) The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Correct answer: 4

2. G.M. Trevelyan is primarily known as

(1) A dramatist

(2) A historian

(3) A poet

(4) A critic

Correct answer: 2

3. “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire” Which pathbreaking poem in English literature begins with these lines?

(1) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(2) The Wasteland

(3) Ode to a Nightingale

(4) The Prelude

Correct answer: 2

4. “The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, but Shadwell never deviates into sense” From which poem has this line been taken?

(1) The Rape of the Lock

(2) In Memorium

(3) Il Penseroso

(4) Mac Flecknoe

Correct answer: 4

5. “Let us go then you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky.” which poem of T.S. Eliot begins with this line?

(1) The Waste Land

(2) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(3) The Hollow Men

(4) Little Gidding

Correct answer: 2

6. Match List-I with List-II

List-I

A. “The Second Coming”

B. The Waste Land

C. “The Road Not Taken”

D. “The Tyger”

List-II

I. T.S. Eliot

II. Robert Frost

III. W.B. YEATS

IV. William Blake

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Correct answer: 4

7. Which of the following plays have not been written by George Bernard Shaw?

(1) Man and Superman

(2) Back to Methuselah

(3) Playboy of the Western World

(4) Saint Joan

Correct answer: 3

8. A Dictionary of the English Language was written by

(1) Alexander Pope

(2) Samuel Johnson

(3) James Boswell

(4) Oliver Goldsmith

Correct answer: 2

9. The Fairie Queen has been written by

(1) Thomas Lodge

(2) William Tyndale

(3) Sir Philip Sidney

(4) Edmund Spenser

Correct answer: 4

10. What do the following plays have in common?

(1) The Ways of the World

(2) She Stoops to Conquer

(3) The Importance of Being Earnest

(4) Pygmalion

Choose the correct answer from the given options below

(1) All of them belong to the genre of comedy of manners

(2) All of them belong to the genre of Revenge Tragedy

(3) All of them belong to the genre of Realistic Plays

(4) All of them are written by the same writer

Correct answer: 1

11. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads was published in

(1) 1798

(2) 1800

(3) 1802

(4) 1805

Correct answer: 2

12. Gorbudoc, the first English tragedy was written in

(1) Blank Verse

(2) Prose

(3) Rhyming Couplets

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 1

13. Match List-I with List-II

List-I

A. An Essay on Man

B. The Fairie Queen

C. Hard Times

D. Hyperion

List-II

I. John Keats

II. Charles Dickens

III. Edmund Spenser

IV. Alexander Pope

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Correct answer: 3

14. The first printing press was set up in England in

(1) 1456

(2) 1466

(3) 1476

(4) 1486

Correct answer: 3

15. Who is the central protagonist as well as the narrator in Raja Rao’s “The Serpant and the Rope”?

(1) Madeleine

(2) Rama

(3) Savithri

(4) Little Mother

Correct answer: 2

16. Who wrote the lines, “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”?

(1) Paul Scott

(2) Rudyard Kipling

(3) E.M. Forster

(4) Enid Blyton

Correct answer: 2

17. Aziz is the central character in E.M. Forster’s

(1) A Room with a View

(2) Howard’s End

(3) Where Angels Fear to Tread

(4) A Passage to India

Correct answer: 4

18. Malgudi is a fictional town conceived by

(1) Anita Desai

(2) Raja Rao

(3) Bhabani Bhattacharya

(4) R.K. Narayan

Correct answer: 4

19. For which play did Vijay Tendulkar get the Sahitya Akademi Award for Literature?

(1) Ghasiram Kotwal

(2) Kanyadan

(3) Shantata Court Chalu Aache

(4) Gidhade

Correct answer: 3

20. In which of Mulk Raj Anand’s novels Bakha appear as a main character?

(1) Coolie

(2) Untouchable

(3) The Village

(4) Two Leaves and a Bud

Correct answer: 2

21. Anandamath, a famous novel is written by

(1) Rabindranath Tagore

(2) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

(3) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(4) Vishnu Prabhakar

Correct answer: 2

22. Tomb of Sand, a novel written by

(1) Margaret Atwood

(2) Gitanjali Shree

(3) Arundhati Roy

(4) Jhumpa Lahiri

Correct answer: 2

23. Kalidas’ Meghdoot is a

(1) Novel

(2) Poem

(3) Drama

(4) Short Story

Correct answer: 2

24. Savriti, an epic in blank verse was written by

(1) Rabindranath Tagore

(2) Toru Dutt

(3) Sri Aurobindo

(4) Sarojini Naidu

Correct answer: 3

25. Intertextuality is a term coined by

(1) Julia Kriesteva

(2) Monique Wittig

(3) Hilene Cixous

(4) Judith Butler

Correct answer: 1

26. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: A Nourean roman (Or new novel) contains all the standard elements of plot, characterization, descriptions of states of mind, its location in time and space, and a reference to the world in which the work is set.

Statement II: A Bildungsroman is a novel of formation or a novel of education in which the development of a protagonist's mind and character in its journey from childhood to maturity is portrayed.

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

Correct answer: 4

27. Match List I with List II:

List I

(A) Alliteration

(B) Assonance

(D) Allusion

List II

(I) Repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants.

(II) Repetition of a speech some in a sequence of nearby words.

(III) A passing reference to a literary/ historical person, work, place or event.

(IV) Repetition of identical or similar vowels

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Correct answer: 3

28. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R),

Assertion (A): The Miracle Plays and Morality Plays were similar in nature and these terms can be used interchangeably.

Reasons (R): Miracle playas were religious in nature and dealt with themes such as the fall of man, the life of Christ etc. Morality plays came later and their characters were personified abstractions taken from sacred texts.

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

Correct answer: 4

29. Match List-I with List II:

List I

(A) New Criticism

(B) New Historicism

(D) New Humanism

List II

(1) A literary text is situated within the totality of the institutions and social practices of a particular time of and place

(II) A positive programme which has undertaken to connect formal aspects of literature to the historical, political and worldly concerns.

(III) It argues for a return to humanistic education.

(IV) The concern of literary criticism with the detailed consideration of the work itself.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

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

Correct answer: 1

30. In Death. Be Not Proud, John Donne writes one short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall be no more; Death thou shall die the underlined line an example of

(1) Oxymoron

(2) Antithesis

(3) Paradox

(4) Irony

Correct answer: 3

31. French _____ was inaugurated in the 1950s by cultural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss

(1) Feminism

(2) Structuralism

(3) Modernism

(4) Transculturalism

Correct answer: 2

32. The graphic novel is a term used in the 1970's to denote works in which the narrative is told:

(1) Through words only

(2) Through technical drawings

(3) Through religious paintings.

(4) Through illustrations and words

Correct answer: 4

33. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress' is an example of

(1) A symbolic text

(2) An allegorical work

(3) A modern novel

(4) A post-modern piece of writing

Correct answer: 2

34. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(A) Phonology

(B) Morphology

(D) Semantics

List-II

(I) The study of the ordering of speech words into small meaningful groups

(II) The study of the way sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses and sentences,

(III). The study of the meaning of words and the combination of words in phrases and sentences

(IV) The study of elementary speech sounds

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

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

Correct answer: 4

35. Match List I with List II:

List-I

(A) Augustan Period

(B) Modern Period

(D) Victorian Period

List-II

(1) 1798-1830

(II) 1832-1901

(III) 1700-1745

(IV) 1901-1945

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

(3) (A)-(11), (3)-(IV), (C)-(1), (D)-(II)

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

Correct answer: 1

36. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Discourse analysis (developed in the 1970s) concerns itself with the use of language in a running discourse continued over a number of sentences and involving the interaction of the speaker (writer) and the auditor (reader) in a specific context

Reasons (R): In Discourse analysis, the meaning of a discourse is dependent on specific cultural conditions and circumstances.

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

Correct answer: 1

37. Identity the group of words that has the odd one out:-

(1) ode, elegy, sonnet, poem

(2) short story, novel, novella, fiction

(3) phonetics, phonemes, morphology, morphemes.

(4) autobiography, biography, life writing, fiction

Correct answer: 4

38. The word "translation" is derived from

(1) Norse

(2) Greek

(3) German

(4) Latin

Correct answer: 4

39. The term "translation studies" was put forward by

(1) Andre Lefevere

(2) Susan Bassnett

(3) Walter Benjamin

(4) James Holme

Correct answer: 2

40. Who said "Poetry is what gets lost in translation"

(1) William Wordsworth

(2) John Dryden

(3) T.S. Eliot

(4) Robert Frost

Correct answer: 4

41. Comparative Literature: Indian Dimensions',

(1) E.V Ramakrishnan

(2) Avadhesh Kumar Singh

(3) Swapan Majumdar

(4) Amiya Dev

Correct answer: 4

42. The essay "The Task of the Translator" is written by:

(1) Walter Benjamin

(2) Roman Jacobson

(3) Engene Nida

(4) Susan Bassnett

Correct answer: 1

43. The concept of 'Hyperreality' was given by

(1) Lukacs

(2) Lacan

(3) Baudrillard

(4) Bassnett

Correct answer: 3

44. For which of the following books did V.S. Naipaul get the Booker Prize?

(1) Half a Life

(2) A House for Mr. Biswas

(3) A Bend in the River

(4) In a Free State

Correct answer: 4

45. In which of the following do animals speak as humans to demonstrate a useful truth?

(1) Fable

(2) Play

(3) Folk tale

(4) Science fiction

Correct answer: 1

46. Match List I with List II:

List I

(A) "The Death of the Author"

(B) "A Room of One's Own"

(D) "What is an Author"?

List-II

(I) Ferdinand de Saussure

(II) Michel Foucault

(III) Roland Barthes

(IV) Virginia Woolf

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Correct answer: 2

47. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Poetry according to Plato is thrice removed from reality.

Statement II: Poetry according to Plato is the mother of all lies.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct 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 true but Statement II is incorrect

(4) Statement I is false but Statement II is correct

Correct answer: 1

48. Who defined poetry as the "speaking picture"?

(1) Sir Philip Sidney

(2) P.B. Shelley

(3) Matthew Arnold

(4) T.S. Eliot

Correct answer: 1

49. Who pioneered the "Touchstone Method" of literary criticism?

(1) S.T. Coleridge

(2) Matthew Arnold

(3) William Hazlitt

(4) Walter Pater

Correct answer: 2

50. Which of the following poem reflects John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and hands of a compass?

(1) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(2) The Canonization

(3) The Sunne Rising

(4) A Valediction: Forbidding Weeping

Correct answer: 1

51. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R),

Assertion (A): The introduction of English in India was primarily for the benefit and consolidation of British power.

Reasons (R): English caters to the social and economic aspirations of the emerging middle class and urban elites in India.

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

Correct answer: 1

52. The term "Negative capability" was introduced by

(1) S.T. Coleridge

(2) John Keats

(3) Samuel Johnson

(4) T.S. Eliot

Correct answer: 2

53. Simulacrum Signifies that modern culture replaces reality with

(1) Machines

(2) Images

(3) artefacts

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 2

54. Which of the following plays was written in blank verse?

(1) The Castell of Perseverance

(2) Gammar Gurton's Needle

(3) Ralph Roister Doister

(4) Gorboduc

Correct answer: 4

55. A text, according to Roland Barthes, is a

(1) A Methodological

(2) A physical book

(3) A work

(4) All of the above

Correct answer: 4

56. According to Judith Butler, Gender identity is

(1) Biological

(2) Performative

(3) Social

(4) Moral

Correct answer: 2

57. In which of the following works was the concept of "Gynocritism" introduced?

(1) Sexual Politics

(2) A Literature of their own

(3) The Female Eunuch

(4) The Second Sex

Correct answer: 2

58. What are Northrop Frye's three current patterns of symbolism in literature?

(1) Apecallyptic, demonic, analogical

(2) Analogical, Demonic, tragie

(3) Comic, Apocalyptic, Romantic

(4) Tragic, Comic, Romantic

Correct answer: 1

59. Aristotle declared that the plot is the

(1) Most essential

(2) Most useful

(3) Soul of the tragedy

(4) Non-essential

Correct answer: 3

60. Who praised Dryden as the Father of English Criticism?

(1) T.S. Eliot

(2) Dr. Samuel Johnson

(3) Scott-James

(4) Atkins

Correct answer: 2

61. What is the theme of poetry for Wordsworth?

(1) Urban Life

(2) Rustic life

(3) Nature

(4) Artificial life

Correct answer: 2

62. Who said, "Poetry is primarily an auditory system of symbols"?

(1) Franz Boas

(2) Sapir

(3) Bloach

(4) Whitney

Correct answer: 2

63. The essay "Death of the Author" was written by

(1) Jacques Derrida

(2) Roland Barthes

(3) Claude Levistrauss

(4) Baudrillard

Correct answer: 2

64. In which essay of T.S. Eliot, the phrase "dissociation of sensibility" occur?

(1) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

(2) "Hamlet and His Problems”

(3) "The Metaphysical Poets"

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 3

65. Jnanpith Award 2021-22 was given to

(1) Ashapoorna Devi

(2) Damodor Mauzo

(3) Amitabh Ghosh

(4) Pratibha Rai

Correct answer: 2

On the basis of your reading of the following excerpt, answer the questions that follow:

On the rack in the railway carriage immediately opposite Clovis was a solidly wrought travelling bag with a carefully written label, on which was inscribed, J.P Huddle, The Warren Tifield, near Slowborough. Immediately below the rack sat the human embodiment of the label, a solid, sedate individual, sedately dressed, sedately conversational. Even without his conversation (which was addressed to a friend seated by his side, and touched chiefly on such topic as the backwardness of roman hyacinths and the prevalence of measles at the rectory), one could have gauged fairly accurately the temperament and mental outlook of the travelling bag's owner. But he seemed unwilling to leave anything to the imagination of a casual observer, and his talk grew presently personal and introspective,

"I don't know how it is," he told his friend "I am not much over forty, but I seem to have settled down into a deep groove of elderly middle-age. My sister shows the same tendency. We like everything to be exactly in its accustomed place, we like things to happen exactly at their appointed times; we like everything to be usual, orderly, punctual, methodical, to a hair's breadth, o a minute. It distresses and upset us if it is not so. For instance, to take a very trifling matter, a thrush has built its nest year after year in the catkin-tree on the lawn; this year, for no obvious reason, it is building in the ivy on the garden wall. We have said very little about it, but I think we both feel that the change is unnecessary, and just a little irritating."

"Perhaps" said the friend, "it is a different thrush."

We have suspected that," said J.P. Huddle, "and 1 think it give us even more cause for annoyance. We don't feel that we want a change of thrush at our time of life, and yet, as I have said, we have scarely reached an age when these things should make themselves seriously felt".

66. On the basis of your reading of this excerpt what do you think is the tone of this piece? Choose the correct option

(1) melancholic

(2) bitter

(3) didactic

(4) humorous

Correct answer: 4

67. On the basis of your understanding of the passage, choose the option that can must closely replace the underlined words without changing their meanings.

A sedate individual, sedately dressed, sedately conversational

(1) compose, impressively, quietly

(2) biased, shabbily, unsociably

(3) witty, unsophisticatedly, unpleasantly

(4) stressed, comically, erratically

Correct answer: 1

68. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option to complete the following sentence

JP huddle, the warren was a ____ were person and the themes of his conversation were ____

(1) jovial, serious

(2) secretive, obscure

(3) composed, frivolous

(4) insolent, brilliant

Correct answer: 3

69. According to the except, JP Huddle's major cause for concern is:-

(1) A change of thrush occurring at his time of life.

(2) The absolute lack of orderliness, method and punctuality in his life.

(3) His sister manifesting the same tendencies as him.

(4) The typical characteristics of middle age unpleasantly intruding rather early on to his life

Correct answer: 1

70. Match the expressions in List I with their meaning in List II:

List-I

(A) To a hair's breadth

(B) trifling matter

(D) human embodiment

List-II

(I) To be fixed in a particular ways of life

(II) Physical representation

(III) To a very small amount

(IV) Not an important incident

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (А)-(II). (В)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)

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

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

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

Correct answer: 2

Read the following passage and answers the questions that follow:

OpenAl, a for-profit artificial intelligence lab in San Francisco, invited the public to converse with a new artificially intelligent chatbot, ChatGPT, on Nov. 30, 2022. Within days, more than a million people had signed up to converse with the program. Minds were blown.

Chat GPT is the first chatbot that's enjoyable enough to speak with and useful enough to ask for information. It can engage in philosophical discussions and help in practical matters false hype, the real thing is here. It's easier to use more intuitive, gives better answers and it's arguably more fun and what really make it stand out from the pack is its gratifying ability to handle feedback about its answers, and revise them on the fly really is like a conversation with a Robot.

And along with its "fun part"- writing poems, telling jokes debeting politics, writing realistic TED Talk on ludicrous subjects ChatCGPT "will actually take stances, "Kantrowitz writes." When I mentioned Hitler built highways in Germany, it replied they were made with forced labor. This was impressive, nuanced pushback I hadn't previously seen from chatbots,

Where a question doesn't have a clear answer chatGPT often won't be pinned down, "which in itself is a notable development in computing, and unlike other chatbots chatGPT does a pretty good job of weeding out inappropriate requests including question that are racist, sexist, homophobic transphobic or otherwise discriminatory or questions not to mention illegal.

ChatGPT has limitation. First of all the chatbot has "limited knowledge of world we events after 2021. Also, "ChatGPT sometime writes plausible- sound but incorrect or nonsensical "answer" and it is often excessively verbose and overuses certain phrases.

"We are not capable of understanding the context or meaning of the words we gonorate, Chat(GPT told Time in an interview, because "we don't have access to the vast amount of knowledge that a human has. We can only provide information that we've been trained on, and we may not be able to answer questions that are outside of our training data."

We are just tools we should not be relied on for critical decisions or complex tasks

71. How was the open Al Chat bot chat GPT of California "mind blowing"?

Choose the correct answer

(1) it could engage you in an enjoyable and uninformative talk.

(2) it gave inappropriate, racist and sexist response.

(3) It was easiest to use, intuitive and gave better answers.

(4) It did not take nuanced stances.

Correct answer: 3

72. On the basis of your reading of the passage, choose the correct statements:-

A. ChatGPT has a limited knowledge of world events after 2021.

B Being just tool, ChatGPT Should not be relied on for critical decisions.

C. Where there is no clear answer, chat GTP gives up.

D. ChatGPT can only provide information that they have been trained on.

E ChatGTP can answer questions even if they are out of its training data

(1) B and C

(2) A, B and D only

(3) D and A only

(4) C and E only

Correct answer: 2

73. Match the words in List-I with their meaning in List-II:

List-I

(A) Nuance

(B) Plausible

(D) Gratifying

List-II

(1) difficult to detect

(II) using more words than necessarу

(III) feeling satisfaction

(IV) seeing to reasonable

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Correct answer: 3

74. What do you think can be a suitable title for this passage choose the correct option:

(1) The Chatty ChatGTP

(2) Chat your Way Through

(3) The Path-breaking Al tool-Chat GPT

(4) The Enigmatic Chat GPT

Correct answer: 3

75. What makes Chat GTP Stand out from the pack is ____

(Fill in the blank with the correct option)

(1) it can not weed out inappropriate requests.

(2) its capability of understanding the context requests.

(3) it has abilities at par with human beings.

(4) its ability to handle feedback about its answers and revise them.

Correct answer: 4

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