CUET PG ENGLISH 2024
- Sayan Roy
- Jan 26
- 21 min read
1. Match the Text (List-I) to the Genre/Type (List-II)
LIST I (Name of the Text)
A. Paradise Lost
B. "Porphyria's Lover"
C. King Lear
D. The Dunciad
LIST II (Genre Type)
I. Dramatic Monologue
II. Satire
III. Epic
IV. Tragedy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (III), (B) (I), (C) (IV), (D) - (II)
2. (A) (I), (B) (III), (C) (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(III), (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (I)
4. (A)(IV), (B) (I), (C) (II), (D) - (III)
Correct answer: 1
2. In T.S. Eliot's seminal poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. in the line "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas", Identify the figures of speech:
(A). Metonymy
(B). Paradox
(C). Synecdoche
(D). Alliteration
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), and (D) only
2. (A), and (D) only
3. (B), (C), and (D) only
4. (C) and (D) only
Correct answer: 4
3. Who out of the following are the seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment Age?
(A). Julia Kristeva
(B). Michel Foucault
(C). Immanuel Kant
(D). René Descartes
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (C) only
2. (C) and (D) only
3. (A) and (D) only
4. (B) and (C) only
Correct answer: 2
4. Arrange these Comedies of William Shakespeare in their chronological order
(oldest first):
(A). The Tempest
(B). As You Like It
(C). The Taming of the Shrew
(D). A Midsummer Night's Dream
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B). (C). (D).
2. (D), (A), (C), (B).
3. (B). (D), (A), (C).
4. (C), (D), (B), (A).
Correct answer: 4
5. Select the traditional definition of the "ballad" from the following:
1. A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure
2. A song transmitted orally, that tells a story.
3. A poem written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines to refer to the subject matter of change and loss.
4. Any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling.
Correct answer: 2
6. Match the Concept (List-I) to its Originator (List-II)
LIST I (Concept)
A. Dissociation of Sensibility
B. Negative Capability
C. Intentional Fallacy
D. Mimesis
LIST II (Originator)
1. Wimsatt & Beardslev
II. Aristotle
III TS Eliot
IV. John Keats
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)-(III), (B) (IV), (C) (I), (D) - (II)
2. (A) - (I), (B) - (III). (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) (IV). (B) - (III), (C) - (I). (D) - (II)
4. (A) (II), (B) - (1), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)
Correct answer: 1
7. Which of the following is the correct rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet?
1. ABABCDCDEFEFGG
2. ABBAABBABCDBCD
3. ABBAABBACDCDCD
4. ABABBCBCCDCDEE
Correct answer: 3
8. Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:
1. The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
2. Emma (1861) by Jane Austen
3. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) by John Dryden
4. The Rover (1677-1681) by Aphra Behn
Correct answer: 3
9. "On and on, now east now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps, or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains."
In this quote from Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, what figure of speech is deployed when the driveway is called "the poor thread"?
1. Simile
2. Allusion
3. Antithesis
4. Metaphor
Correct answer: 4
10. What is 'parapraxis' also known as?
1. Screen Memory
2. Defence Mechanism
3. Freudian Slip
4. Transference
Correct answer: 3
11. Identify the thinker who is not associated with the Frankfurt School of Marxist Aesthetics established in 1923.
1. Walter Benjamin
2. Herbert Marcuse
3. Theodor Adorno
4. Louis Althusser
Correct answer: 4
12. "I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do," Cixous writes in her so-called manifesto, "The Laugh of the Medusa". Identify the statements that are true for "ecriture feminine".
(A). Neither theory nor theorizable, ecriture feminine is conceived of as a future,
if not utopian practice.
(B). Women must write their bodies, write their desires and so unleash their power
(C). This writing will confirm and realize for women a place in the symbolic. (D). This writing will liberate the immense resources of the unconscious.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) only
2. (A), (B), and (D) only
3. (A), (C), and (D) only
4. (A), (B), (C), and (D) only
Correct answer: 2
13. Identify the correct chronological order of the following theoretical movements
(oldest first):
(A). Structuralism.
(B). New Criticism
(C). Postcolonialism
(D). Feminist Criticism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C). (D).
2. (A), (C), (B), (D).
3. (B), (A), (D), (C).
4. (C), (B), (D), (A).
Correct answer: 3
14. Arrange the following stages in the order that reflects Freud's arguments about the uncanny:
(A). Unconscious repetition of repressed childhood experiences.
(B). Recognition of something familiar yet foreign.
(C). Encounter with the "double" or doppelgänger.
(D). Manifestation of repressed infantile fears and taboos.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B). (C), (D).
2. (A), (C). (B). (D).
3. (B), (A), (D), (C).
4. (C), (B), (D), (A).
Correct answer: Dropped
15. Identify the early feminist work that discusses male writers like Milton, Pope, and Rousseau.
(A). Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
(B). Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(C). Olive Schreiner: Women and Labour
(D). Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (B) only
2. (B) and (D) only
3. (B), (C), and (D) only
4. (A), (B), and (D) only
Correct answer: 4
16. What is the common characteristic among the following texts? Pamela: The Colour Purple: Dracula: Humphry Clinker
1. They are all examples of Gothic Literature.
2. They were all published in the same decade.
3. All of them have a female protagonist.
4. They are all written in the epistolary mode.
Correct answer: 4
17. Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):
LIST I (Playwright)
A. Girish Kanad
B. Habib Tanvir
C. Badal Sircar
D. Mohan Rakesh
LIST II (Play)
I. Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1958)
II. Ebong Indrajit (1974)
III. Charandas Chor (1975)
IV. Nagamandala (1990)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) - (I), (B) - (II). (C) - (III). (D) - (IV)
2. (А)-(III). (В) (I). (C) (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) (IV). (B) (I), (C) (II). (D) - (III)
4. (A) (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)
Correct answer: 4
18. Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?
(A). Fledgling (2005)
(B). The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
(C). Parable of the Sower (1993)
(D). The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) only
2. (B) and (C) only
3. (D) only
4. (A) and (C) only
Correct answer: 4
19. In which Absurdist play, first written in French as Fin de partie, would you find the following characters: Hamim, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?
1. Play (1963)
2. Endgame (1957)
3. Waiting for Godot (1952)
4. Happy Days (1961)
Correct answer:2
20. Identify the poet of poems like "Background, Casually", "The Railway Clerk" and "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.".
1. Agha Shahid Ali
2. Nissim Ezekiel
3. Manjeri Sundararaman Isvaran
4. Adil Jussawalla
Correct answer:2
21. Who is the author of the 2014 novel The Black Hill?
1. Janice Pariat
2. Mamang Dai
3. Ruskin Bond
4. Gieve Patel
Correct answer:2
22. Which famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children's magazine Sandesh?
1. Sukumar Ray
2. Satyajit Ray
3. Lila Ray
4. Ranga Rao
Correct answer:2
23. Identify the author of the autobiographical text. The Man Who Would Be Queen:
Autobiographical Fictions (2011).
1. Hoshang Merchant
2. R. Raj Rao
3. Vikram Seth
4. Devdutt Pattanaik
Correct answer:1
24. Match List-I with List-II
LIST I (Indian Writing in English)
A. Em and the Big Hoom
B. A Bend in the Ganges
C. A House for M. Biswas
D. The Guide
LIST II (Author)
I R. K. Narayan
II VS Naipaul
III Manohar Malgonkar
IV Jerry Pinto
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)(IV), (B) (II), (C) (III). (D) - (I)
2. (A) (I), (B)-(III), (C) (II). (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(I). (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) (IV), (B) (III). (C) (II). (D) - (1)
Correct answer: 4
25. Arrange the following Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication. (oldest first)
(A). Train to Pakistan
(B). Delhi: A Novel
(C). I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
(D). The Company of Women
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C), (D).
2. (A), (D), (C), (B),
3. (A), (B). (D), (C).
4. (A), (C), (B). (D).
Correct answer: 4
26. Which Mahesh Dattani's play, published in 1990, deals with the themes of gender and disability?
1. Tara
2. Night Queen
3. Where There's a Will
4. Bravely Fought the Queen
Correct answer: 4
27. Which of the following works of 'magical realism' can be accredited to the celebrated author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
1. Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
4. The House of the Spirits (1982)
Correct answer:1
28. Match the author (List I) with the text (List II)
LIST I (Author)
A. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
B. Maithili Sharan Gupta
C. Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
D. Mahadevi Varma
LIST II (text)
I. Yama
II. Rashmirathi
III Bharat-Bharati
IV. Saroj Smriti
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (II), (B) (III). (C) (IV). (D) - (1)
2. (A) (I), (B)-(III), (C) - (II). (D) - (IV)
3. (A) (1), (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) (III), (B) (IV), (C) (I), (D) - (II)
Correct answer:1
29. Which of the following are the features of an idiolect?
(A). It is the particular form of a language that is specific to a group of performers depending on their geographical location.
(B). It is a language variety that emanates from the type of language used by a particular social group of people.
(C). It emphasizes the speech traits that are habitual to an individual.
(D). This word is mainly used by linguists when discussing differences in speech from one person to another.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) and (D) only
2. (B) and (D) only
3. (C) and (D) only
4. (A), (B) and (D) only
Correct answer: 3
30. X is the practice of converting a text from one language into another language on the basis of sound. Unlike a translation, X doesn't tell you the meaning of the words, but it helps you pronounce them. It changes the letters from one alphabet or language into the corresponding, similar-sounding characters of another alphabet.
Identify the process marked 'X'.
1. Semantics
2. Transliteration
3. Transcription
4. Graphological Translation
Correct answer: 2
31. A comparative study of literature is a technique by way of which two diverse works of literature are juxtaposed to ascertain the presence of similar or dissimilar literary elements. Literary contact between texts can be classified as genetic or typological. Typological contacts stem from those in literary similarities that are born thanks to the sameness or similarity of the types of circumstances that may manifest in different parts of the world, giving rise to identical ideological and other problems, which are then manifested in the literature of these places. From the following, select the text that bears typological similarity to Anna Karenina.
1. War and Peace
2. Mrs. Dalloway
3. God of Small Things
4. Madame Bovary
Correct answer: 4
32. Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I (Translation Studies Concept)
A. Subtitling
B. Transcreation
C. Voice-over
D. Dubbing
LIST II (Definition)
I. Also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary, is a production technique where a voice that is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, or filmmaking. theatre, or other presentations. It is read from a script and may be spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice talent
II. In the video production world, the phrase is used when the original speaker's audio track is replaced entirely by the voice actor's
III. It is a term used chiefly by advertising and marketing professionals to refer to the process of adapting a message from one language to another while maintaining its intent, style, tone, and context. When successfully done, it evokes the same emotions and carries the same implications in the target language as it does in the source language.
IV. A translation practice that consists of presenting a written text, generally on the lower part of the screen, that endeavors to IV. recount the original dialogue of the speakers, as well as the discursive elements that appear in the image, and the information that is contained on the soundtrack.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (IV), (B) (III), (C) (I), (D) - (II)
2. (A) (I), (B) (II), (C) (III), (D) (IV)
3. (A) (II), (B)-(III), (C) (IV), (D) - (1)
4. (A) (III), (B)-(IV), (C) (II), (D)-(1)
Correct answer: 1
33. Arrange the steps of the Translation Process' in the correct order:
(A). 'Analysis', of the Source Language text in order to decode its meanings.
(B). 'Transfer', of the meanings from the Source Language text to the Target Language text without losing the integrity of the Source Language text.
(C). 'Restructuring', of the Source Language through recreation in the Target
Language text.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (C), (A), (B).
2. (A), (C), (B).
3. (A), (B), (C).
4. (B). (A), (C).
Correct answer: 3
34. The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travails of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of
the picaresque form?
(A). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
(B). Vanity Fair (1848)
(C). Don Quixote (1605)
(D). Moll Flanders (1722)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B) and (D) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (B), (C) and (D) only
Correct answer: 3
35. Which novelist has had the rare honour of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for his/her non-fiction writings?
1. Isaac Singer
2. Svetlana Alexievich
3. Patrick Modiano
4. Octavio Paz
Correct answer: 2
36. In which elegy would you find these famous lines:
"I hold it true, whate'er befall:
I feel it when I sorrow most
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Then never to have loved at all."
1. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. Lycidas
3. In Memoriam A.H.H.
4. Pearl
Correct answer: 3
37. V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:
1. In a Free State
2. Miguel Street
3. A House for Mr. Biswas
4. The Enigma of Arrival
Correct answer: 1
38. Arrange the following novels of Stephen King in the chronological order of their
publication. (oldest first)
(A). Carrie
(B). Joyland
(C). Misery
(D). The Shining
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (B). (A), (C), (D).
2. (A), (D), (C), (B).
3. (A), (C), (D). (B).
4. (C). (B). (D). (A).
Correct answer: 2
39. Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance.
(oldest first)
(A). Byomkesh Bakshi
(B). Sherlock Holmes
(C). Hercules Poirot
(D). Dupont
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (B), (A), (C), (D).
2. (B). (C), (A). (D).
3. (D), (B), (A), (C).
4. (D), (B), (C), (A).
Correct answer: 4
40. Identify the author, who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi.
1. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
2. Devakinandan Khatri
3. Munshi Premchand
4. Bhartendu Harishchandra
Correct answer: 2
41. Identify the author-translator duo who are correctly matched.
(A). Abdulrazak Gurnah Simon Bruni
(B). Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein
(C). Han Kang Deborah Smith
(D). Olga Tokarczuk - Jennifer Croft
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), and (D) only
2. (A), (B), and (C) only
3. (A), (C), and (D) only
4. (B), (C), and (D) only
Correct answer: 4
42. Arrange the following Gothic novels in ascending chronological order (oldest first):
(A). Bram Stoker's Dracula
(B). Matthew Lewis' The Monk
(C). Ann Radclidffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D). Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C), (D).
2. (D). (C), (B), (A).
3. (B), (A). (D), (C).
4. (C), (B), (D), (A).
Correct answer: 2
43.Match List I with List II
LIST I (Literary Retellings)
A. Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed
B. Colleen Oakes Queen of Hearts
C. Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
D. Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls
LIST II (Original Versions)
1. Alice in Wonderland
11. Tempest
III. The Imad
IV. Antigone
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)(IV), (B) (II), (C) (III). (D) - (I)
2. (A)-(I), (B) - (III). (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (А)-(II). (Β) (I), (C)-(IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) (III), (B)-(IV), (C) (1). (D) (II)
Correct answer: 3
44. Set in Darlington Hall, this Booker-winning novel is a story about post-war Britain and the influence of Nazis on British gentlemen but is ultimately about unspoken love. Identify the novel.
1. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
2. Maggie Joel's The Second Last Woman in England
3. Bernhard Schlink's The Reader
4. Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
Correct answer:1
45. The first Progressive Writers' Conference was held in Lucknow on this date.
Identify the date.
1. 10th April 1936
2. 10th April 1946
3. 10th April 1966
4. 10th April 1956
Correct answer: 1
46. Identify the writer(s) associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
(A). Claude McKay
(B). Zora Neale Hurston
(C). William Faulkner
(D). Langston Hughes
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), and (D) only
2. (A), (B). and (C) only
3. (B). (C), and (D) only
4. (A), (C), and (D) only
Correct answer: Drop
47. Arrange the Shakespearean tragedies in the ascending order of the period in which they were published (oldest first):
(A). Julius Caesar
(B). Coriolanus
(C). Othello
(D). Titus Andronicus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C). (D).
2. (D). (B), (C), (A).
3. (D), (A), (C), (B).
4. (C), (B), (D), (A).
Correct answer: 3
48. To which famous Indian playwright can the following plays be attributed?
Pagla Ghoda, Basi Khabar, Pralap
1. Habib Tanvir
2. Badal Sircar
3. Vijay Tendulkar
4. Kiran Nagarkar
Correct answer: 2
49. Select examples of 'Speculative Fiction' from the following:
(A). Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
(B). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
(C). Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
(D). The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (A), and (B) only
Correct answer: 1
50. Which of the following are the characteristics of figures of speech?
(A) Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the literal usage of language.
(B) Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the figurative usage of language.
(C) Anecdote, antagonist, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
(D) Figures of speech rely on connotation for their impact.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (B) and (D) only
2. (B), (C), and (D) only
3. (B) only
4. (D) only
Correct answer: 1
51. Which of the following D.H. Lawrence's novels written in Italy and published in 1928 was banned in England for its sexual content?
1. The Rainbow
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover
3. Women in Love
4. Sons and Lovers
Correct answer: 2
52. Match List I with List II
LIST I (Book)
A. The Well of Loneliness
B. Mary Olivier A Life
C. The Garden Party and Other Stories
D. Dubliners
LIST II
I. May Sinclair
II. Katherine Mansfield
III. Radclyffe Hall
IV. James Joyce
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)(I). (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) (I), (B) (III), (C) (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) (III). (B) (1). (C) (II). (D) - (IV)
4. (А) (III). (В) (IV), (C) (1), (D) - (II)Correct answer: 3
53. Arrange the following events in the order of their occurrence in Charlotte Bronte's
Jane Eyre:
(A). Jane meets Mr. Rochester
(B). Jane attends Lowood school.
(C). Mr. Briggs, a solicitor from London arrives with a letter from Richard Mason
about Bertha Mason.
(D). Jane is taken to the red-room by Miss Abbott and Bessie Lee
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (B). (D). (A). (C).
2. (D), (B). (A), (C).
3. (C), (B), (D), (A).
4. (C), (D), (B), (A).
Correct answer: 2
54. Arrange the following works in the order of their publication, from the earliest to
the latest:
(A). "The Well Wrought Urn" by Cleanth Brooks
(B). "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard
(C). "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud
(D). "Of Grammatology" by Jacques Derrida
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), (C), (D).
2. (A), (C), (B), (D).
3. (B), (A), (D), (C),
4. (C). (B). (D), (Α).
Correct answer: Drop
55. Which of the following Comparative Literature concepts signify literary similarity between at least two works that cannot be explained by contact?
1. Comparative poetics
2. Genetic contact
3. Typological affinity
4. Intermediality
Correct answer: 3
56. The publication and performance of which work made Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o believe that his theater work attracted censorship because of its use of the local language and its capability to sway a larger number of people to political action?
1. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
2. I Will Marry When I Want
3. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
4. The Black Hermit
Correct answer: 2
57. Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I (Literary Term)
A Dramatic Irony
B. Anthropomorphism
C. Epic Simile
D. Bildungsroman
LIST II (Literary Text)
1. Oedipus Rex
II The Odyssey
III. Animal Farm
IV. Jane Eyre
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (I), (B) (II), (C) (III). (D) - (IV)
2. (A)(I), (B) (III). (C) (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(II), (B) (III), (C) (I), (D) - (IV)
4. (A) (III). (B) (IV), (C) (I). (D) - (II)
Correct answer: 2
58.Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I (Rasa)
A. Sringara
B. Hasa
C. Shoka
D. Utsah
LIST II (Bhava)
I. Karuna'
II. Rati
III. Veera'
IV. Hasya
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (II), (B) - (IV), (C) (III), (D) - (1)
2. (A)(1), (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (III)
3. (A) (I), (B) (II), (C) (III), (D) - (IV)
4. (A) (II), (B) (IV), (C) (I), (D) - (III)
Correct answer: 4
59. Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST 1 (Jane Austen Novel)
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Persuasion
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Mansfield Park
LIST II
(Primary Female Character)
I. Catherine Morland
II. Elizabeth Bennet
III. Fanny Price
IV. Anne Elliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1.(A)(II). (B) (I), (C) (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A)(II). (B) (IV), (C) - (III), (D) - (1)
3. (A)(II). (B) (IV), (C) (1), (D) - (III)
4. (A)(II), (B)-(III), (C) (1), (D) - (IV)
Correct answer: 3
60. Which of the following is true for masque performances?
(A). Masques were important theatrical forms during the reigns of James I and Charles L.
(B). They were performed in private royal halls.
(C). They were inexpensive to mount and had simple costumes and minimal stage
designs.
(D). The designer of the most successful masques was Inigo Jones.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B), and (C) only
2. (B) and (D) only
3. (A), (B), and (D) only
4. (B), (C), and (D) only
Correct answer: 3
61. Which of the following works is attributed to Ben Jonson?
1. "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: And
What He Hath Left Us"
2. The Changeling
3. "The Sun Rising"
4. The Duchess of Malfi
Correct answer: 1
62. In the following lines from John Donne's sonnet "Death. Be Not Proud", when the speaker proclaims "Death, thou shalt die", what figure of speech is being employed?
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die."
1. Antithesis
2. Paradox
3. Oxymoron
4. Metaphor
Correct answer: 2
63. Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I (Book)
A. Desirable Daughters
B. That Long Silence
C. The Inheritance of Loss
D. The Artist of Disappearance
LIST II
1 Kiran Desai
II. Anita Desai
III. Bharati Mukherjee
IV. Shashi Deshpande
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)(I). (B) (II), (C) (III). (D) - (IV)
2. (A)-(I). (B) (III). (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(I). (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (А) (III), (В) - (IV), (C) (1), (D) - (II)
Correct answer: 4
64.Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I (Literary Award)
A. Booker Prize
B. Hugo Award
C. Pulitzer Prize
D. Nobel Prize in Literature
LIST II (Description)
I. Recognizes outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy literature
II. Awarded annually for the best novel written in II. English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland
III. Honours exceptional work in the field of journalism, literature, and musical composition.
IV. Recognizes authors, regardless of nationality, who have produced "in the field of literature the most distinguished work in an idealistic direction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A) (I), (B) (II), (C) (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) (II), (B) (I), (C) (III), (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(I), (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D)(III)
4. (А) (III), (В) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)
Correct answer: 2
65. Match LIST I with LIST II
LIST I
African Novels
A. Things Fall Apart
B. Nervous Conditions
C. Half of a Yellow Sun
D. Season of Migration to the North
LIST II
Authors
1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
II. Taveb Salih
III. Chinua Achebe
IV. Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A)(II). (B) - (III), (C) (IV), (D) - (1)
2. (A) (III), (B) (I), (C) (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A)(I). (B) (II), (C) (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) (III), (B)-(IV). (C) - (I). (D) - (II)
Correct answer: 4
66. Which of the following is a part of Anthony Burgess' Malayan trilogy?
(A). A Clockwork Orange
(B). Time for a Tiger
(C). The Enemy in the Blanket
(D). Beds in the East
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B) and (C) only.
2. (A), (B) and (D) only.
3. (A), (C) and (D) only.
4. (B), (C) and (D) only.
Correct answer: 4
67. Which of the following are the features of the MAT Project in India known as the 'MANTRA Machine Translation System"?
(A). Translates English texts to Hindi in specific domains of public administration, gazette notifications, office orders and memos, and circulars.
(B). Project MANTRA-Rajbhasha based on this technology, developed by C-DAC, received funding by the Dept. of Official Languages. Ministry of Home Affairs, Gol.
(C). Jointly being developed by Carnegie Mellon Univ, USA. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and International Institute of Information Technology. Hyderabad.
(D). Inducted into "The 1999 Innovation Collection" on Info-Tech at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Washington DC, USA
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. (A), (B) and (D) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (A), (C) and (D) only
Correct answer: 1
Question Numbers: (68 to 71)
Question Label: Comprehension
I Shall Return to This Bengal by Jibanananda Das I shall return to this Bengal, to the Dhansiri's bank: Perhaps not as a man, but myna or fishing kite:
Or dawn crow, floating on the mist's bosom to alight In the shade of this jackfruit tree, in this autumn harvest-land. Or maybe a duck- a young girl's- bells on my red feet. Drifting on kalmi-scented waters all the day: For love of Bengal's rivers, fields, crops. I'll come this way To this sad green shore of Bengal, drenched by the Jalangi's waves
Perhaps you'll see a glass-fly ride the evening breeze, Or hear a barn owl call from the silk-cotton tree: A little child toss rice-grains on the courtyard grass, Or a boy on the Rupsa's turgid stream
steer a dinghy With torn white sail-white egrets swimming through red clouds To their home in the dark. You will find me among their crowd.
68. Identify the figure of speech in "floating on the mist's bosom to alight".
1. Alliteration
2. Simile
3. Oxymoron
4. Personification
Correct answer: 4
69. Which of the following is not true about the above poem?
1. It celebrates the flora and fauna of Bengal.
2. It underlines the theme of forced migration.
3. It is about the poet's ecological concerns.
4. It represents the poet's response to the Partition.
Correct answer: 3
70. What does the poet imply when he says that he might not return as a man?
1. He knows he will be reincarnated as a myna or a fishing kite.
2. He wants to remain close to the Dhansiri's bank.
3. Humans are bound by geo-political borders.
4. He possesses a special fondness for flora and fauna.
Correct answer: 3
71. Why does the poet refer to the shore of Bengal as sad?
1. It has become green and mossy.
2. Many of Bengal's inhabitants have left the place.
3. It is drenched by the waves of Jalangi.
4. The ecology of Bengal is deteriorating.
Correct answer: 2
Question number 72-75
Read the following passage and answer the question that follow:
The perennial debate over gender differences threatens to remain inconclusive. Stereotypes pertaining to male superiority and female submissiveness could be traced to earlier ages where assigned roles were needed as survival measures. But can we today see a swing away from these stereotypes, or have they established a stranglehold on our perceptions? In this gendered world, we continue to live with notions that one's gender determines one's skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choices. So the girl child will be presented with a Barbie doll. while the boy child will receive a Lego set.
Does that mean that our brains are different? This myth has been exploded by a British professor of cognitive neuroimaging. Her research attempts to establish how these stereotypes mould our ideas of ourselves. She examines how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions, instead of challenging the status quo. She urges us to move beyond a binary view of people's brains and instead to see these as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable, and full of unbounded potential. Her conclusive findings establish that no brain differences can be found that are solely gender. related. In other words, modern neuroscientists have identified no decisive category-defining differences between the brains of men and women.
As a result of these. findings we owe it to ourselves to dump the myths and look at ourselves afresh. We need to recognise that the male and female brain debate is a distraction, besides being based on inaccuracies. It is possibly harmful too, because it can be used as a hook to justify saying there is no point in girls doing science because they do not have a science brain: or compelling boys to apt for science because their brains are shaped for that subject. It can also condemn boys for being emotional, as this is seen as a feminine trait. And, most dangerous of all, to proclaim that boys, not girls, are meant to lead.
Sub questions
72. The research of a British professor of cognitive neuroimaging has succeeded in establishing that
(A) the brains of men and women are like.
(B) science needs to challenge the status quo.
(C) society must break away from attempts at stereotyping gender issues.
(D) the potential of a human brain is not directly linked to gender.
1. (A) only
2. (A) and (B) only
3. (C) only
4. (D) only
Correct answer: 3 and 4
73. The synonym for 'stranglehold' (Para 1) is
(A) asphyxiation
(B) containment
(C) prohibiting entry
(D) overwhelming control
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
Correct answer: 2 and 4
74. By referring to word as "gendered" the write wants to convey that
(A) gender differences can be detected right from childhood.
(B) society continues to be fixated on gender stereotypes.
(C) one's gender is bound to determine one's abilities.
(D) the debate on gender differences will never be resolved.
1. (D) only
2. (B) only
3. (C) only
4. (A) only
Correct answer: 1 and 2
75. The writer of this passage wants to emphasize the need to
(A) use new insights provided by scientific research for a better understanding of human abilities.
(B) continuously debate issues of gender differences to achieve human progress.
(C) question the findings of scientific inquiry into the functioning of the human brain.
(D) accept gender differences as essential to the survival of the human species.
1. (A) only
2. (B) only
3. (C) only
4. (D) only
Correct answer: 1
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