CUET PG ENGLISH 2022

1. Who wrote 'Archetypal Criticism'?

(1) Fredric Jameson

(2) Terry Eagleton

(3) Northrop Frye

(4) Stuart Hall

Correct answer: 3

2. What was the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

(1) Joyce Carol

(2) Mark Twain

(3) Thomas Hardy

(4) Eric Blair

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 3

4. Which Shakespearean play has a character called Prospero?

(1) Othello

(2) Tempest

(3) Merchant of Venice

(4) King Lear

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 2/4

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

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 4

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

(1) Jacques Denida

(2) Noam Chomsky

(3) Sigmund Freud

(4) Saussure

Correct answer: 1

9. The first Novel of Indian English literature is

(1) Rajmohan's Wife

(2) Sarvameva Javate

(3) Kanthapura

(4) Coolie

Correct answer: 1

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

(1) Simone de Beauvoir

(2) Helene Cixous

(3) Mary Wollstonecraft

(4) Elaine Showalter

Correct answer: 3

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”

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 1

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

Correct answer: 3

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

(1) Tintern Abbey

(2) Paradise regained

(3) Paradise Lost

(4) The Waste Land

Correct answer: 3

15. The dramatic term 'Anagnorisis signifies

(1) Discovery

(2) Resolution

(3) Climax

(4) Complication

Correct answer: 1

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

(1) Michel Foucault

(2) Edward Said

(3) G.C. Spivak

(4) Homi Bhabha

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 1

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

Correct answer: 2

19. Who among the following was not an imagist?

(1) Ezra Pound

(2) TE. Hulme

(3) Dylan Thomas

(4) Hilda Doolittle

Correct answer: 3

20. Martin Esslin introduced the concept of

(1) Alienation effect

(2) Theatre of the Absurd

(3) Affective Fallacy

(4) Authoritarianism

Correct answer: 2

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

(1) Albert Camus

(2) Martin Esslin

(3) J.P. Sartre

(4) M. Heidegger

Correct answer: 1

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

(1) Id

(2) Ego

(3) Super Ego

(4) Super Id

Correct answer: 4

23. Who wrote the Pickwick Papers?

(1) Thomas Hardy

(2) Franz Kafka

(3) Charles Dickens

(4) Henry James

Correct answer: 3

24. Goblin Market was written by

(1) Stephen Spender

(2) Kathleen Raine

(3) Christina Rossetti

(4) Ezra Pound

Correct answer: 3

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

(1) Alexander Pope

(2) Jonathan Swift

(3) R.B. Sheridan

(4) John Dryden.

Correct answer: 1

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

Correct answer: 3

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

Correct answer: 3

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

Correct answer: 4

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

Correct answer: 4

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.

Correct answer: 3

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

Correct answer: 4

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

Correct answer: 1

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

Correct answer: 4

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

Correct answer: 4

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

Correct answer: 3

36. Caliban in The Tempest is an anagram of

(1) Canibal

(2) Cannibal

(3) Both (1) and (2)

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 4

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

Correct answer: 2

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

(1) Robert Browning

(2) Matthew Arnold

(3) William Wordsworth

(4) John Keats

Correct answer: 2

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

Correct answer: 3

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

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

Correct answer: 3

41. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria came out in

(1) 1815

(2) 1816

(3) 1817

(4) 1818

Correct answer: 3

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

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

Correct answer: 1

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

(1) Harold Pinter

(2) Edward Albee

(3) Samuel Beckett

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 3

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

Correct answer: 1

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

(1) Gayatri Spivak

(2) Hélène Cixous

(3) T.S. Eliot

(4) Ezra Pound

Correct answer: 3

47. Hind Swaraj was written by

(1) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(2) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(3) Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

(4) M.K.Gandhi

Correct answer: 4

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

(1) Pathetic fallacy

(2) Synecdoche

(3) Transferred Epithet

(4) Metonymy

Correct answer: 4

49. Who has authored Godan?

(1) Amrita Pritam

(2) Munshi Premchand

(3) Indira Goswami

(4) Rahi Masoom Raza

Correct answer: 2

50. Match List I with List II

List I

A. Toru Dutt.

B. Sarojini Naidu.

C. Kamala Das.

D. Meena Alexander.

List II

I. I."The Old Playhouse”

II. "Without Place”

III. "A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields"

IV. "An Anthem of Love"

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

Correct answer: 2

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

(1) Vijay Tendulkar

(2) Mohan Rakesh

(3) Mahesh Dattani

(4) Girish Karnad

Correct answer: 3

52. "O Wind. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind." What figure of speech is used?

(1) Metaphor

(2) Rhetorical Question

(3) Pun

(4) Paralipsis.

Correct answer: 2

53. Who among the following is a primary exponent of Gothic Romance?

(1) Anne Bronté

(2) Horace Walpole

(3) Charles Dickens

(4) Thomas Hardy

Correct answer: 2

54. "Daffodils" is a poem written by

(1) William Blake

(2) William Wordsworth

(3) John Keats

(4) William Shakespeare

Correct answer: 2

55. Which of the following plays was written by Harold Pinter?

(1) The Birthday Party

(2) A Doll's House

(3) Volpone

(4) Arms and Men

Correct answer: 1

56. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression "one bright book of life" to describe

(1) The novel

(2) The dramatic monologue

(3) The Bible

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 1

57. Which of the following has not been awarded with the Booker Prize twice?

(1) Margaret Atwood

(2) JM. Coetzee

(3) Peter Carey

(4) V.S. Naipaul

Correct answer: 4

58. To be, or not to be" is a statement from which of the following plays of William

Shakespeare?

(1) Othello

(2) King Lear

(3) Hamlet

(4) Macbeth

Correct answer: 3

59. Who is the author of Sexual Politics?

(1) Kate Millett

(2) Sandra Gilbert

(3) Margaret Atwood

(4) Hélène Cixous

Correct answer: 1

60. "O my love's like a red, red rose" is an example of

(1) Metaphor

(2) Hyperbole

(3) Simile

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 3

61. "Peripeteia" means

(1) Recognition of error

(2) Tragic flaw

(3) Reversal of fortune

(4) Purgation of emotion.

Correct answer: 3

62. Who defended poetry against Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse?

(1) John Dryden

(2) Alexander Pope

(3) Philip Sydney

(4) P.B. Shelley

Correct answer: 3

63. Which one among the following is regarded as the first English Comedy?

(1) Ralph Roister Doister

(2) Gammer Gurton's Needle

(3) Gorboduc

(4) Love's Labour's Lost

Correct answer: 1

64. Who wrote the famous work Sherlock Holmes?

(1) P.D. James

(2) Edgar Allan Poe

(3) Arthur Conan Doyle

(4) Agatha Christie

Correct answer: 3

65. Heathcliff is a character in

(1) Middlemarch

(2) Wuthering Heights

(3) The Return of the Native

(4) Bleak House.

Correct answer: 2

66. Find the odd one out.

(1) Horace Walpole

(2) Mrs. Radcliffe

(3) Mathew Lewis

(4) James Boswell

Correct answer: 4

67. The Norman Conquest took place in ____

(1) 1022

(2) 1106

(3) 1066

(4) 1016

Correct answer: 3

68. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity."

These lines have been taken from a poem, written by

(1) John Donne

(2) Abraham Cowley

(3) Henry Vaughan

(4) Andrew Marvell

Correct answer: 4

69. The word "Catharsis" signifies

(1) Personification

(2) Purgation

(3) Pontification

(4) None of the above

Correct answer: 2

70. The term "Metaphysical Poets" was first used by

(1) Ben Johnson

(2) Samuel Johnson

(3) John Dryden

(4) John Lyly

Correct answer: 2

71. Negative Capability is a term coined by

(1) William Wordsworth

(2) John Keats

(3) W. Blake

(4) P.B. Shelley

Correct answer: 2

72. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is written by

(1) William Hazlitt

(2) S.T. Coleridge

(3) Thomas De Quincey

(4) Leigh Hunt

Correct answer: 3

73. Find the odd one out.

(1) Socrates

(2) Plato

(3) Aristotle

(4) Horace

Correct answer: 4

74. The Enlightenment was characterised by

(1) An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will

(2) The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life

(3) A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation

(4) Accelerated industrial production and general well-being of the public

Correct answer: 3

75. The famous play 'Dr. Faustus' is written by

(1) William Shakespeare

(2) T.S Eliot

(3) Christopher Marlove

(4) George Bernard Shaw

Correct answer: 3