UGC NET August 2024
Evening Shift
1) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I LIST II
A. Langue I. Meaning conveyed
B. Parole II. Socially shared language
C. Signifier III. Speech
D. Signified IV. Word
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 1
2) Which of the following assertions is not true with respect to cultural intermediaries?
1) The term cultural intermediaries was introduced by the French cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu.
2) Cultural intermediaries mediate between the production of cultural events and its consumers
3) Promotional materials do not constitute cultural intermediaries
4) Fan clubs are cultural intermediaries
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The statement not true is 3. Promotional materials (advertising, publicity, reviews, branding, marketing discourse) often function as cultural intermediaries because they shape how cultural goods are presented, valued, and consumed. Bourdieu uses the term for agents and institutions that mediate taste between producers and consumers.
3) The Birth of Tragedy from the spirit of music by Friedrich Nietzsche.
A) Examines the origins and development of poetry, specifically Greek tragedy.
B) Argues the Socratic rationalism and optimism led to the death of Greek tragedy.
C) Examines the origin of music and dance in ancient Greece
D) Argue that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusion of Apollonian and Dionysian elements.
E) Argues that the music is the spirit of tragedy.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, D only
2) A, C, E only
3) B, D, E only
4) B, C, D only
Answer: 3
4) Arrange the works of Toni Morrison in the order of chronology of their publication.
A) Jazz
B) Beloved
C) In Bluest Eye
D) Song of Solomon
E) Tar Baby
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, E, C, D, B
2) D, C, E, B, A
3) C, D, E, B, A
4) E, D, A, B, C
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is C–D–E–B–A: The Bluest Eye (1970), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987), and Jazz (1992). The sequence traces Morrison’s movement from racialized beauty and identity to memory, history, and Black urban modernity.
5) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Concept/Theory)
A. Polysystem Theory
B. Relevance Theory
C. Skopos Theory
D. Covert Translation
LIST II (Developed By)
I. Ernest August Gutt
II. Hans J. Vermeer
III. Itamar Enen Zohar
IV. Juliane House
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
3) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
4) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct match is A–III, B–I, C–II, D–IV (Option 2). Polysystem Theory views literature/translation within interacting cultural systems (Even-Zohar); Relevance Theory applies inferential communication to translation (Gutt); Skopos Theory emphasizes purpose or function of translation (Vermeer); Covert Translation is House’s term for translations adapted to function naturally in the target culture.
6) Chronologically arrange the Rudiom playwrights in order of their birth.
A) Asif Currimbhoy
B) Nissim Ezekiel
C) Cyrus Mistry
D) Mahesh Dattani
E) Gurcharan Das
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, D, E, C, B
2) D, B, C, E, A
3) A, E, D, B, C
4) B, A, E, C, D
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–A–E–C–D) follows birth years: Nissim Ezekiel (1924), Asif Currimbhoy (1928), Gurcharan Das (1943), Cyrus Mistry (1956), and Mahesh Dattani (1958). The sequence traces post-independence Indian English drama from early urban modern voices to later contemporary theatre.
7) Which text is considered to be the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal author?
1) Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
2) David Unaipon’s Native Legends
3) Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s We are going
4) Doris Pilkington Garimara’s Caprice; A stockman’s daughter
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s We Are Going (1964) is widely recognized as the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal Australian author. It was a landmark text that brought Indigenous experience, protest, identity, and dispossession into mainstream Australian literature.
8) Which of the following is not a Dalit narrative written by Perumal Murugan?
1) Tirukkural: The Book of Desire
2) Poonachi
3) One Part Woman
4) Pyre
Answer: 1
9) Friendship’s Garland is a sequel to one of the following works by Mathew Arnold?
1) Culture and Anarchy
2) Essays in Criticism
3) One the study of Celtic Literature
4) Literature and Dogma
Answer: 1
10) Who among the following were not associated with the Kit-Cat Club?
A) George Etherege
B) Richard Steele
C) Samuel Johnson
D) William Congreve
E) Joseph Addison
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B and D only
2) B and E only
3) A and C only
4) D and E only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct pair is A and C. The Kit-Cat Club was an early eighteenth-century Whig social and literary-political club associated with figures like Addison, Steele, Congreve, and other Whig writers and statesmen. George Etherege belonged to an earlier Restoration generation, while Samuel Johnson belonged to a later eighteenth-century literary circle, so neither is properly linked with the club.
11) Phonetics refers to.
A) Production of speech sounds
B) Reception of speech sounds
C) Transmission of speech sounds
D) Pattern of speech sounds
E) Word Formation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C only
2) B and D only
3) D and E only
4) A and D only
Answer: 1
12) Place the following works in ascending order of their publication year.
A) Diamond Dust by Anita Desai
B) Breast-Giver by Mahashweta Devi
C) Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
D) Dream and Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott
E) Exile and the kingdom by Albert Camus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) E, D, C, B, A
3) D, B, C, A, E
4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer: 2
13) Neo-Platonism was founded by.
A) Plato
B) Plotinus
C) Porphyry
D) Aristotle
E) Pythagoras
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and B only
2) C and D only
3) B and C only
4) D and E only
Answer: 3
14) Who among the following wrote “Plan of a novel”?
1) E.M. Forster
2) D.H. Lawrance
3) Jane Austen
4) Thomas Hardy
Answer: 3
15) Who wrote the poem “Poem in Praise of Menstruation”?
1) Gloria Steinem
2) Seamus Heaney
3) Francis Thompson
4) Lucille Clifton
Answer: 4
16) Three satirical stories by W.M. Thackeray portraying unhappy marriage and exploitation of one partner by the order, are titled as.
1) Men’s Wives
2) Wives’ Husbands
3) Wife and Husband
4) Wife without a Husband
Answer: 1
17) In the postmodern condition Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives. The one whose death he above all sought to declare was…
1) Hegelian spirit
2) Christian Redemption
3) Keynesian Equilibrium
4) Classical Socialism
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
In The Postmodern Condition (1979), Lyotard argues that modernity depended on grand narratives—large stories promising universal emancipation or historical destiny. Among the most important was the Marxist/socialist narrative that history moves through class struggle toward liberation. Lyotard claims such totalizing narratives had lost credibility in the postmodern age.
18) Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of R.K. Narayan in order of their publication?
A) The Vendor of Sweets
B) The Bachelor of Arts
C) The English Teacher
D) The Guide
E) The Financial Expert
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, D, B, E, C
2) C, B, D, A, E
3) B, C, E, D, A
4) E, A, B, C, D
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is B–C–E–D–A: The Bachelor of Arts (1937), The English Teacher (1945), The Financial Expert (1952), The Guide (1958), and The Vendor of Sweets (1967). The sequence traces Narayan’s movement from youthful social comedy to mature moral and psychological fiction set in Malgudi.
19) Arrange the following plays in order of their publication.
A) Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
B) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
C) Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf? By Edward Albee
D) The iceman cometh by Eugene O’Neil
E) Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, D, E, B, C
2) A, C, B, E, D
3) D, C, B, A, E
4) D, B, A, E, C
Answer: 4
20) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Australian Aboriginal Text)
A. Wahngin Country
B. Plains of Promise
C. My Place
D. Not Meeting Mr. Right
LIST II (Author)
I. Alexis Wright
II. Jack Davis
III. Anita Heis
IV. Sally Morgan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
3) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Answer: 3
21) A manuscript having an overlap with earlier papers by the same authors or by some of the present authors is termed as.
1) Plagiarism
2) Self-Plagiarism
3) Intersexuality
4) Multiple references
Answer: 2
22) Chronologically arrange the financial writings of Margaret Atwood?
A) Edible Woman
B) The Handmaid’s Tale
C) The Blind Assassin
D) Lady Oracle
E) The Robbers Bride
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, A, E, D
2) D, B, C, A, E
3) E, A, D, C, B
4) A, D, B, E, C
Answer: 4
23) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Event)
A. International year of the World’s Indigenous People
B. Australian Parliament formally apologized to the stolen generation
C. Formal end of white Australian policy
D. The first National Sorry Day
LIST II (Year)
I.1998
II.1993
III.1973
IV.2008
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
4) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
Answer: 2
24) Wittgenstein’s statement, Limits of language defines limits of thought me
A) The structure of language defines its meaning
B) Intended meaning defines structure of language
C) That which can be defined meaningfully can be thought
D) Structure and meaning are independent of each other
E) Thought precedes language
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C only
2) A and B only
3) D and E only
4) C and D only
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The statement reflects Wittgenstein’s early view that language sets the boundaries of what can be meaningfully thought or expressed. Hence A and C fit best: meaning depends on the logical structure of language, and what can be clearly formulated in language can be thought. It rejects the idea that thought freely exceeds linguistic form.
25) The Latin epic Aeneid by Virgil?
A) Incorporates various legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness.
B) Relates the story of the legendary founding of Rome.
C) Relates the story of the legendary founding of Lavinium
D) Recounts the story of Aeneas journey in the first 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are patterned after Homer’s Odyssey
E) Recounts the story of Aeneas journey in the last 6 books of the epic, and these 6 books are patterned after Homer’s Odyssey
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C and D only
2) A, B and D only
3) A, D and E only
4) A, C and E only
Answer: 2
26) Who among the following women writers wrote the first female Dalit autobiography?
1) Sharmila Rege
2) Urmila Pawar
3) Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble
4) Meena Kandasamy
Answer: 3
27) Which of the following assumptions is not true with regard to Lacan’s concept/theory of standpoint?
A) It assumes that social position can provide privileged perspective on some relation and knowledge.
B) It argues that those who are marginalised or oppressed may have access to insights and perceptions that dominant group lacks
C) It refers to a situation in which the oppressed class is destined to lose the class consciousness.
D) It suggests that the perspectives of those on the margins of society cannot help to understand social dynamics.
E) The theory is based on the idea that social contradictions and political struggle can shape counter-hegemonic norms.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C only
2) D and E only
3) B and C only
4) C and D only
Answer: 4
28) The key principles of research design brought together in material on measurement principles, sampling and case study, survey and experimentation is termed as.
1) Research Methodology
2) Research Methods
3) Research Techniques
4) Research Designs
Answer: 2
29) The term post-modernism was used in 1917 by German philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz to describe.
1) Nihilism of 20th century’s western culture
2) Communism as system of Governance
3) Decline of Oligarchies
4) Epistemic Violence
Answer: 1
30) Which one of the following statements about the Booker Prize is not correct?
1) A prestigious British award given annually to a full-length novel
2) Eligible writers shall belong to the United Kingdom and the commonwealth countries
3) It was established in 1968 by booker McDonald, a multinational company
4) It was established to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France.
Answer: 3
31) The term abstract poem.
A) was coined by Edith Sitwell
B) refers to a poem in which words are chosen for their aural quality
C) refers to a poem in which words are chosen for imagery and symbolism
D) was coined by W.H. Auden
E) refers to a poem in which words are not specifically used for their sense/meaning.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, D only
2) A, B, E, only
3) A, C, E only
4) C, D, E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
An abstract poem is associated with Edith Sitwell, who emphasized sound, rhythm, and verbal texture over straightforward semantic meaning. In such poetry, words may function musically rather than primarily as vehicles of logical sense, making auditory effect more important than narrative clarity.
32) Women in love is a sequel to one of the following novels by D.H. Lawrance?
1) Lady chatter’s lover
2) The White Peacock
3) Sons and Lovers
4) The Rainbow
Answer: 4
33) Chronologically arrange the Anglo-Indian writers in order of their birth?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Michael Madhusudan Dutta
C) Manmohan Ghose
D) Henry Derezio
E) Toru Dutt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C, E, A, B, D
2) D, B, E, C, A
3) B, D, C, E, A
4) A, E, B, D, E
Answer: 2
34) Chronologically arrange the novels of Salman Rushdie in order of publication?
A) Fury
B) Midnight’s children
C) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
D) The Moor’s Last Sigh
E) Grimus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, A, D, E
2) E, B, D, C, A
3) A, E, B, C, D
4) D, B, C, E, A
Answer: 2
35) M.H. Abram’s The Mirror and the Lamp, Romantic theory and the Critical Tradition.
A) describe 18th century English Literature as mirror
B) describe 19th century English Literature as Lamp
C) describe 19th century English Literature as mirror
D) the metaphor of mirror is used to describe literature as a cool intellectual reflection of outward realities.
E) the metaphor of mirror is used to describe literature as an illumination shed by artists upon their inner and outer worlds.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C, D, E only
2) C, D, A only
3) A, B, D only
4) A, B, E only
Answer: 3
36) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I Author
A. Wole Soyinka
B. Nadine Gordimer
C. Derek Walcott
D. J.M. Coetzee
LIST II (Nobel Prize Year)
I.1991
II.1993
III.2003
IV.1986
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
2) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 3
37 Absalom, Absalom! is.
1) a novel by William Faulkner
2) a satirical poem by John Dryden
3) a drama by G.B Shaw
4) a poem by P.B Shelley
Answer: 1
38) Identify the name of the essayist who made the following assertion.
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
1) Richard Hooker
2) Sir Francis Bacon
3) Sir Richard Steele
4) Joseph Addison
Answer: 2
39) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Novel)
A. Delinquent Chacha
B. Tales from Firozsha Baag
C. Beethoven Among the Cows
D. A thousand faces of night
LIST II (Novelist)
I. Rohinton Mistry
II. Ved Prakash Mehta
III. Gita Hariharan
IV. Rukun Advani
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
2) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: 2
40) In his work, The dialogic imagination Mikhail Bakhtin.
A) develops theory of polyphony.
B) postulates that language is imaginary
C) postulates that language evolves dynamically
D) argues that languages get affected by the culture that produces it as it helps to shape that culture
E) develops theory of imaginative language.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, D, E only
2) A, C, D only
3) A, B, D only
4) C, D, E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
In The Dialogic Imagination, Bakhtin treats language as dynamic, social, and historically changing, shaped by the cultures that use it while also shaping those cultures. The text is also linked to his broader ideas of polyphony and multiple voices, though that concept is most directly developed through his study of Dostoevsky.
41) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Disability Narrative)
A. A Room Called Earth
B. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
C. A Time to Dance
D. Almond: A Novel
LIST II (Writer)
I. Won Pyung Sohn
II. Padma Venkaraman
III. Medeleine Ryan
IV. Gabrielle Zevin
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
3) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
4) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 3
42) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Particulate Matter Terms)
A. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
B. Wee Willie Winkie
C. Mary had a little lamb
D. Old Mother Hubbard
LIST II (Explanation)
I. William Miller
II. Jane and Ann Taylor
III. Sarah Catherine Martin
IV. Sarah Josepha Hale
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
2) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 4
43) John Dryden’s of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay is written in the form of a dialogue between Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents.
1) Alexander Pope
2) John Dryden
3) Sir Robert Howard
4) Charles Sackville
Answer: 2
44) In the Long Revolution, Raymond Williams conducted a long-range study of 350 canonical writers drawn from the Oxford introduction to English literature for the period.
1) 1789-1950
2) 1764-1939
3) 1450-1914
4) 1470-1920
Answer: 4
45) Which one of the following is not a screen adaption of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors?
1) The boys from Syracuse
2) Angoor
3) Do Dooni Char
4) Love in a Wood
Answer: 4
46) Which among the following is said to be the first fiction magazine (created by Hugo Gernsback)?
1) Time and the Conways
2) Henceforward
3) New Worlds
4) Amazing Stories
Answer: 4
47) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I
A. Heteroglossia
B. Homosociality
C. Mathnavi
D. Morology
LIST II
I. Deliberate foolishness / nonsense for effect
II. Diversity of languages used in Epics
III. Same-sex relationships which are not necessarily sexual.
IV. long narrative epic or heroic poem in rhyming couplets
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
2) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Heteroglossia refers to the coexistence of multiple voices or language varieties within a text, especially associated with epic or novelistic plurality. Homosociality means same-sex social bonds not necessarily erotic. Mathnavi (Masnavi) is a long narrative poem in rhyming couplets common in Persian tradition. Morology denotes cultivated foolishness or nonsense used deliberately for comic or satiric effect.
48) Who among the following wrote that:
“Poetry is not a branch of authorship, it is the stuff of which one life is made. The rest is mere oblivion, a dead letter, for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
1) Mary Shelley
2) Charles Lamb
3) William Hazlitt
4) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: 3
49) Who among the following is not associated with lesbian and gay studies?
A) Jane Rule
B) Jonathan Dollimore
C) John Wain
D) Elizabeth Jennings
E) Richard Dyer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and E only
2) C and D only
3) B and C only
4) D and E only
Answer: 2
50) Greek word polis refers to.
A) Social Structure
B) Political Structure
C) Legal Structure
D) City State
E) Barbarians
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B and D only
2) A and B only
3) B and C only
4) D and E only
Answer: 1
51) Arrange the following Black American writers chronologically (in order of their birth)?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Langston Hughes
E) James Baldwin
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, A, E, C, B
2) D, E, A, B, C
3) E, A, D, B, C
4) E, A, B, C, D
Answer: 2
52) Akkarmashi (The outcaste) is an autobiography of which one of the following Dalit writers?
1) Annabhau Sathe
2) Sharankumar Limbale
3) Anand Teltumde
4) Baby Kamble
Answer: 2
53) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I
A. The Language Instinct
B. Reflection of Language
C. Variety of language serving a specialized function in a multilingual community
D. Existence of a common variety of language for people from different cultures
LIST II
I. Steven Pinker
II. Noam Chomsky
III. Creole/Creolization
IV. Diglossia
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
3) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Answer: 1
54) Plato viewed poetry as.
A) an limitation of reality
B) self-subsistent entity
C) distant from reality
D) manifestation of reality
E) life as experience in reality
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C only
2) B and D only
3) D and E only
4) A and E only
Answer: 1
55) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I
A. On a Muggy night in Mumbai
B. The Golden Gate
C. The Boyfriend
D. Love and Longing in Bombay
LIST II
I. R. Raj Rao
II. Mahesh Duttani
III. Vikram Chandra
IV. Vikram Seth
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 1
56) Which of the following assertions/assumptions are not true regarding cultures of space?
A) Space is about power to control access, representation and use.
B) Space is simply land or built-up area
C) The Space influences social relations and communities
D) Space is socially constructed through social relations
E) Space has nothing to do with everyday activities of people
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B and C only
2) E and D only
3) B and E only
4) A and E only
Answer: 3
57) Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in order of their production / publication.
A) Twelfth Night
B) The Taming of the shrew
C) Much Ado About Nothing
D) Romeo and Juliet
E) The Winter’s Tale
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, C, B, A, E
2) B, D, A, E, C
3) A, D, C, B, E
4) B, D, C, A, E
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is : The Taming of the Shrew (early 1590s), Romeo and Juliet (1595–96), Much Ado About Nothing (1598–99), Twelfth Night (1601–02), and The Winter’s Tale (1610–11). The sequence moves from early comedy to mature romance.
58) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Postcolonial term)
A. Othering
B. Ecological imperialism
C. Colonial Desire
D. Third Space
LIST II (Coined/Employed by)
I. The term employed by Robert Young
II. Coined by Gayatri Spivak
III. Coined by Alfred W. Crosby
IV. Coined by Homi K Bhabha
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-III, C-II, D-IV
4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Answer: 4
59) Arrange the following novels by Chinua Achebe in order of their publication.
A) A Man of the People
B) Things Fall Apart
C) Arrow of God
D) Anthills of Savannah
E) No Longer at Ease
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C, B, E, D, A
2) B, C, E, A, D
3) B, E, C, A, D
4) A, B, D, E, C
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is B–E–C–A–D: Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). The sequence traces Achebe’s movement from colonial encounter narratives to postcolonial political critique.
Answer: 4
60) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Text)
A. Critique of Judgements
B. The Phenomenology of Spirit
C. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
D. The role of the university in the New Reich
LIST II (Author)
I. Martin Heidegger
II. Sigmund Freud
III. Immanuel Kant
IV. G.W.F. Hegel
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-1
Answer: 4
61) Big Daddy is a fictional character in.
1) The novel Ninety Eighty-four by George Orwell
2) The play cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee William
3) The play look back in Anger by John Osborne
4) The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Answer: 2
62) Which research treats the physical and social world as objects based on standardized data?
1) Empirical
2) Action
3) Quantitative
4) Qualitative
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Quantitative research treats the physical and social world as measurable objects through standardized data such as numbers, surveys, variables, and statistical analysis. It emphasizes objectivity, comparison, and generalizable patterns rather than subjective interpretation.
63) Term Social fact and collective consciousness in the context of language were used by.
A) Franz Boas
B) Bloomfield
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Noam Chomsky
E) Saussure
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C and E only
2) A and B only
3) B and C only
4) D and B only
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Durkheim originally developed the concepts of social fact and collective consciousness in sociology, while Saussure applies the same social framework to language, treating it as a collective system existing beyond individual speakers.
64) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Term)
A. Catastrophe
B. Epitasis
C. Protasis
D. Catastasis
LIST II (Meaning)
I. The introductory part of a play or narrative poem
II. The final action that completes the unraveling of the plot in a play, especially a tragedy.
III. The dramatic complication that immediately precedes the climax of the play
IV. The part of the play that develops the main action and that lends to the catastrophe.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Protasis is the introductory section setting up the action; Epitasis develops and intensifies the main action; Catastasis is the stage of complication just before climax; and Catastrophe is the final resolution or tragic unraveling of the plot.
65) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Poem)
A. Night of the Scorpion
B. Unfinished Poem
C. The Looking Glass
D. To a Friend Far away
LIST II (Indian Poet)
I. Kamala Das
II. A.K. Ramanujan
III. Eunice De Souza
IV. Nissim Ezekiel
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
4) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Answer: 3
66) Who said that an author has no claim to original thought but only to apt presentation of what was already being thought by others?
1) Alexander Pope
2) Ezra Pound
3) Max Muller
4) Harold Bloom
Answer: 1
67) Who among the following are writers of wordless graphic narratives?
A) Roy Fuller
B) Orijit Sen
C) Anthony Hecht
D) George Mathew Appupen
D) George Monbiot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C only
2) B and C only
3) B and D only
4) D and E only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Orijit Sen and George Mathen/Appupen are Indian graphic storytellers associated with visual narrative forms, including works where image carries meaning with minimal or no verbal text. Orijit Sen is known for River of Stories (1994), often cited as India’s first graphic novel, along with later comics and visual activism. Appupen is known for highly visual, often dystopian graphic works such as Moonward, Legends of Halahala, Aspyrus, and The Snake and the Lotus. Their work uses sequential art to tell social, political, and imaginative stories beyond conventional prose narrative.
68) Chronologically arrange the following works in order of their publication.
A) Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
B) Martin Luther King’s 95 theses at Wittenberg
C) The first Book of common prayer by Thomas Crammer
D) Thomas More’s Utopia
E) Machiavelli the Prince
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) E, D, B, A, C
2) A, C, B, E, D
3) E, B, C, A, D
4) D, A, B, C, E
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is B–D–E–A–C: Luther’s 95 Theses (1517), More’s Utopia (1516, often placed early depending Latin/English edition context), Machiavelli’s The Prince (written 1513, published 1532), Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516; revised later), and Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer (1549). Several texts have composition/revision vs publication-date complexities, so exam keys may vary slightly.
69) Chronologically arrange the following in order of their publication / occurrence?
A) Caxton printed Malory’s Morte D’Arthur
B) Establishment of Caxton’s printing press
C) Gutenberg printed Bible in Mainz, Germany
D) Caxton’s History of Troy, first book printed in English
E) First translation of the Christian Bible into English by John Wycliff.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, E, D, C, A
2) C, B, E, A, D
3) E, C, D, B, A
4) D, A, B, C, E
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is E–C–B–D–A: Wycliffe’s English Bible translation (1380s), Gutenberg Bible at Mainz (1450s), Caxton’s printing press in England (1476), Caxton’s History of Troy as the first book printed in English (1473/74 abroad, often grouped with his printing career), and Caxton’s printing of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (1485). Because Caxton’s History of Troy predates his English press, exam keys may vary depending whether they treat printing in English or printing in England.
70) Who wrote the book The History of European Languages?
1) Alexander Murrey
2) A.S. Diamond
3) William Jones
4) Bloomfield
Answer: 1
71) From which book of John Milton’s poem paradise lost the epigraph of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein taken when Adam asks God. Did I request thee, maker from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee, from frankness to promote me?
1) Book I
2) Book II
3) Book X
4) Book XII
Answer: 3
72) The term Collective unconsciousness.
A) was introduced by Sigmund Freud
B) was introduced by Carl Jung
C) Contains archetypes or universal primordial images and ideas
D) contains stereotypes and individual experiences stored in the unconscious.
E) is used to describe the unconscious common to humanity as a whole that originates in the inherited structure of the brain.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C, E only
2) B, C, E only
3) B, D, E only
4) C, D, E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct option is B, C, and E only. The concept of the collective unconscious was introduced by Carl Jung, not Freud. Jung describes it as a universal psychic layer shared by humanity, containing inherited archetypes or primordial images rather than personal memories or stereotypes based on individual experience.
73) Which one of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen was described as an open sewer?
1) A Doll’s House
2) An Enemy of the people
3) Ghosts
4) The Wild Duck
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The play Ghosts (1881) called “an open sewer” by hostile Victorian critics because it openly dealt with taboo subjects such as venereal disease, inherited corruption, adultery, hypocrisy, incestuous implication, and the moral decay hidden inside respectable families. Ibsen exposed the darkness beneath bourgeois respectability, which scandalized contemporary audiences.
74) The salient tendencies of Hellenistic philosophy are.
A) Cynicism
B) Epicureanism
C) Stoicism
D) Surrealism
E) Expressionism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, and D only
2) A, B and C only
3) A, D and E only
4) A, B and E only
Answer: 2
75) Who said that language is a system of signs whose parts must be considered in their synchronic solidarity?
1) Saussure
2) Bloomfield
3) Roman Jakobson
4) Sigmund Freud
Answer: 1
76) The property of research to replicate the same results using the same technique is termed as.
1) Validity
2) Reliability
3) Relevance
4) Coherence
Answer: 2
77) Which one of the following novels by E.M. Forster is about homosexual love?
1) Howards End
2) A Room with a view
3) Maurice
4) Where Angels Fear to Tread
Answer: 3
78) Hypothesis made during or after the research work is over, is known as.
1) Inductive hypothesis
2) Deductive Hypothesis
3) Null Hypothesis
4) Internal Hypothesis
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct answer is Inductive hypothesis. An inductive hypothesis is formulated from observations or findings that emerge during or after research, moving from specific data to a broader generalization. It contrasts with a deductive hypothesis, which is framed before research and then tested.
79) Sequence the following works of Dostoyevsky in the order of their publication.
A) Notes from Underground
B) Crime and Punishment
C) The Idiot
D) The Brothers Karamazov
E) Poor Folk
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, E, A, D
2) E, A, B, C, D
3) A, B, C, D, E
4) C, A, D, B, E
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is E–A–B–C–D: Poor Folk (1846), Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–69), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879–80). The sequence traces Dostoevsky’s movement from early social realism to major psychological and philosophical novels.
80) Who among the following American writers was the first Black American to become the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress?
1) Kyra Davis
2) Meri Nana-Ama Domquah
3) Rita Francis Dove
4) Lucille Clifton
Answer: 3
81) Which of the following is considered to be the first Indian novel in English?
1) Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Rajamohan’s Wife
2) Toru Dutt’s The Young Zamindar
3) K.K. Sinha’s Samjogita
4) K.K. Sinha’s The Star of Sikri
Answer: 1
82) Arrange the following partition-based film in order of their release/production.
A) Garm Hawa
B) Tamas
C) Khamosh Pani
D) Chinnamul
E) Subarnarekha
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, E, A, B, C
2) E, D, B, A, C
3) A, B, D, E, C
4) A, D, E, B, C
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is D–E–A–B–C: Chinnamul (1950), Subarnarekha (1962/1965 release context), Garm Hawa (1973), Tamas (1987–88), and Khamosh Pani (2003). The sequence traces cinematic responses to Partition from immediate displacement narratives to later memory, trauma, and cross-border identity.
83) Who made the following statements in defense of Santarasa the eight rasas are like eight gods, and the sant is like their highest entre Siva?
1) Bharat
2) Anandavardhan
3) Dandin
4) Abhinavgupta
Answer: 4
84) Kai Po Che! is the screen adaptation of which one of the following novels by Chetan Bhagat?
1) The 3 Mistakes of My life
2) Five point someone
3) Half Girlfriend
4) Two States
Answer: 1
85) Which among the following texts are not written by Mary Wollstonecraft?
A) The Wrongs of Man
B) Vindication of the Rights of Man
C) Thoughts on the Education of Sons
D) Vindication of the rights of woman
E) The Wrongs of woman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B and D only
2) B and E only
3) D and E only
4) A and C only
Answer: 4
86) Things as they are or the adventure of Caleb Williams was written as a call to end.
1) The abuse of workers by the industrialists
2) The abuse of masses by the Church
3) The abuse of power by a tyrannical government
4) The abuse of tenants by the landlords
Answer: 3
87) Which one of the following English novels received Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2023?
1) Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gaur
2) All the lives we never lived by Anuradha Roy
3) The Blind lady’s descendants y Anees Salim
4) Chronicles of a corpse bearer by Cyrus Mistry
Answer: 1
88) Sherlock Holmes, the greatest of all financial detectives, made his first appearance in one of the following novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
1) Strand Magazine
2) A study in Scarlet
3) The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
4) The case-book of Sherlock Holmes
Answer: 2
89) Who among the following were associated with Metaphysical society founded in 1869 by Sir James Knowles?
A) Robert Browning
B) T.H. Huxley
C) Alfred Tennyson
D) Mathew Arnold
E) William Gladstone
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B and C only
2) B, D and E only
3) C, D and E only
4) B, C and E only
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Metaphysical Society (1869–1880), founded by Sir James Knowles, was a Victorian debating society where theologians, scientists, politicians, and writers discussed religion, science, ethics, and belief in an age of doubt. Among the names listed, those associated with it were Robert Browning, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and William Gladstone—so effectively all five. It brought together opposing voices such as agnostics and churchmen for elite intellectual debate.
90) Which one of the following plays mock the Restoration drama of Dryden and Thomas Otway?
1) The Beggar’s opera by john gay
2) Tom Thumb by henry fielding
3) The critic by R.B Sheridan
4) The Rehearsal by George Villiers
Answer: 4
Comprehension: 91-95
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes.
There is the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames its aims turning a drowning man’s.
I send out red signals across your absent eyes
that smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.
You keep only darkness, my distant female
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.
Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad nets to that sea that thrashed by your oceanic eyes The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you The night gallops on its shadowy mare shedding blue tassels over the land
91) Identify the type of imagery used in the poem?
1) Natural Imagery
2) War Imagery
3) Urban Imagery
4) Metaphysical Imagery
Answer: 1
92) What is the central theme of the poem?
1) Search for self
2) Love and longing
3) Self-fulfilment
4) Fate and destiny
Answer: 2
93) Identify the mood of the poem.
1) Sombre
2) Sarcastic
3) Exhilarating
4) Nostalgic
Answer: 1
94) The phrases oceanic eyes and absent eyes are examples of.
1) Parallelism
2) Consonance
3) Anaphora
4) Dissonance
Answer: 1
95) What does the phrase red signals sent out signify?
1) Passion/zest for life
2) Distress and desperation of speaker
3) Threatening signals
4) Hopefulness and warmth
Answer: 2
Comprehension: – (96-100)
Suspicion amongst thoughts is like bat amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly, they are to be repressed, or at the least well-guarded: for they cloud the mind, they lease friends. And they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealously, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain, for they take place in the stoutest natures, as in the example of Henry the seventh of England. There was not a more suspicious man, nor a more stout. And in such a composition they do small hurt. For commonly they are not admitted. But with examination, whether they be likely or not. But in fearful natures they gain ground too fast. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. What would men have? Do they not think they will have their own ends, and be truer to themselves than to them? Therefore, there is no better way to moderate suspicions, than to account upon such suspicions as true, and yet to bridle them as false. For so far, a man ought to make use of suspicions, as to provide, as if that should true that he suspects, yet it may do him no hurt. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes, but suspicions, that are artificially nourished, and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of other, have strings. Certainly, the best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicion, is frankly to communicate them with the party that he suspects.
96) Which among the following is true in the context of given paragraph?
1) Henry the Seventh ruled ruthlessly for long time
2) Suspicion is a stepping stone to faith
3) Suspicion kills the layer of human spirit
4) Rulers should suppress suspicion of all forms.
Answer: 2
97) What helps in eliminating suspicion?
1) Stout physique
2) Discussion and knowledge
3) Observation
4) Eternal alliance
Answer: 2
98) What does the word guarded signify?
1) To protect
2) To possess
3) To keep under control
4) militaristic exercise
Answer: 3
99) What is the primary theme of the paragraph?
1) the challenges of maintaining supremacy
2) the importance of personal relationships
3) perspectivising suspicion
4) to contrast between fearful and stout people
Answer: 3
100) What tone does the passage predominantly convey?
1) Nostalgic and sentimental
2) Urgent and alarmed
3) Detached and reflective
4) Suspenseful and dramatic
Answer: 3
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