UGC NET August 2024
Morning Shift
1) Which among the following is not a state of human mental disposition as posited by Jacques Lacan?
1) The Historical Order
2) The Imaginary Order
3) The Symbolic Order
4) The Real
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The Historical Order. Lacan’s theory is built around three registers of subjectivity: the Imaginary Order, where the ego forms through images, identification, and the mirror stage; the Symbolic Order, the domain of language, law, and social structures through which the subject enters culture; and the Real, which names what cannot be fully represented or absorbed into language, often appearing as trauma or rupture. The “Historical Order” is not one of Lacan’s categories.
2) The poetic line (s), “There is one great society alone on earth, the noble living and the noble dead appear in _.
1) Biographia Literaria
2) The Prelude
3) Excursion
4) Lyrical Ballads
Answer: 2
3) What does an eponymous character mean?
1) An eponymous character is essentially devilish in nature
2) An eponymous character gives his or her name to the title of the work
3) An eponymous character is intriguing in nature
4) An eponymous character is superfluous in the plot
Answer: 2
4) Match the List-I with List-II.
LIST I (TERM)
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Epigram
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Epigone
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Diegesis
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Elision
LIST II (DEFINITION)
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An inferior or derivative follower of a more distinguished writer
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The slurring or suppression of a vowel sound or syllable
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A short poem with a witty turn of thought or a wittily condensed expression in prose.
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A term used in modern narratology to designate the narrated events as a level distinct from that of the narration.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
2) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
3) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 4
5) Arrange the following Indian writers in the correct chronological order of their birth.
A) R.K. Narayan
B) Raja Rao
C) Sri Aurobindo
D) K.S. Venkataramani
E) Sarojini Naidu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, A, E, C, D
2) D, E, C, B, A
3) C, E, D, A, B
4) A, B, C, E, D
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–E–D–A–B) follows birth years: Sri Aurobindo (1872), Sarojini Naidu (1879), K. S. Venkataramani (1891), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Raja Rao (1908). The sequence moves from nationalist-poetic figures to major pioneers of Indian English fiction.
6) Which of the following works are Graphic Narratives?
A) The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan
B) Bhimayana by Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand
C) Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir by Malik Sajad
D) A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry
E) This side, that side, Restorying partition by Vishwa Jyoti Ghosh
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, E Only
2) A, B, C Only
3) D, C, E Only
4) A, D, C Only
Answer: 1
7) Which of the following statements are correct?
A) The term performativity was coined by Derrida
B) The idea of meme was originally coined by Richard Dawkins
C) The term the culture industry was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer
D) The term womanism was coined by Alice walker.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C only
2) D, E, A only
3) B, C, D only
4) B, C, E only
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Dawkins coined meme, Adorno and Horkheimer coined culture industry, and Alice Walker coined womanism. Performativity was not coined by Derrida. The term is most directly associated with J. L. Austin’s theory of performative utterances in How to Do Things with Words (1962), later reworked by Judith Butler in gender theory. Derrida engages with and critiques Austin, but he did not coin the term.
8) Arrange the following children’s books in the correct chronological order of their publications.
A) J.K. Rowling- The Goblet of Fire
B) Philip Pullman- Northern Lights
C) C.S. Lewis- The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe
D) J.R.R. Tolkien’s- The Habit
E) William Golding’s- Lord of the Flies
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, E, C, B, A
2) E, D, B, C, A
3) C, D, E, A, B
4) A, B, D, E, C
Answer: 1
9) Which among the following statements are true about the autobiography of an unknown Indian?
A) It is an autobiographical text written by Nirad C. Chaudhary
B) It is a text of partition literature
C) Unabashed Anglophilia of the author made this work controversial
D) It was published in 1951.
E) It primarily raises the questions of communal conflicts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C, D Only
2) B, D, E Only
3) C, B, A Only
4) A, B, E Only
Answer: 1
10) Who among the following did not belong to the Angry Young Men generation of British playwrights/novelists?
1) Amis Kingsley
2) John Osborne
3) Colin Wilson
4) J.B. Priestley
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The Angry Young Men were a group of 1950s British writers associated with social frustration, class resentment, anti-establishment attitudes, and disillusionment with postwar Britain. They challenged elite privilege and genteel literary culture through realist, sharp, often working- or lower-middle-class perspectives. Figures commonly linked to the label include Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, and sometimes Colin Wilson. Because the term was loosely journalistic rather than a formal movement, exam keys can vary.
11) Which among the following are not the genuine sources of the sublime as cited by Longinus?
A) Creation of imaginative feelings
B) The command of full-blooded or robust ideas
C) Nobility of spontaneity
D) The general effect of dignity and elevation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B and C only
2) A and D only
3) C and E only
4) B and E only
Answer: 2
12) Which text among the following is the sequel to Louisa Mary Alcott’s novel, Little Women?
1) Little Men
2) Good Wives
3) Jo’s Boys
4) An old-fashioned Girl
Answer: 3
13) What was the immediate motivation for Philip Sidney to write Apologie for Poetrie as a defense of poetry?
1) Emphasis on history i Holinshed’s Chronicles
2) Philosophical questions raised in Thomas More’s Utopia
3) Attack on poetry in The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson
4) Exposure of human foibles and failings in Erasmus’s in Praise of Folly
Answer: 3
14) Arrange the following detective novels of Agatha Christie in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Delhi on the Nile
B) Murder in the Orient Express
C) Sparkling Cyanide
D) The Mysterious Affair at Styles
E) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) E, B, D, A, C
2) D, A, E, B, C
3) E, D, A, C, B
4) D, E, B, A, C
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order is D–E–B–A–C: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), and Sparkling Cyanide (1945). The sequence traces Christie’s development from early Poirot mysteries to her mature internationally known detective fiction.
15) Which of the following definitions/statements are correct?
A) The term nation language was coined by Derek Walcott
B) Poetic justice is a term invented by Thomas rhymer to convey the idea that evil is punished and virtue is rewarded.
C) The term neo-colonialism was coined by Ngugi wa Thiong o.
D) Nihilism is a word invented by Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons
E) Caxton, in preface to Molory’s Le Mort d’ Arthur listed the nine heroes of late medieval literature
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, D, E Only
2) A, B, C Only
3) B, C, D Only
4) A, C, D Only
Answer: 1
16) Arrange the following plays of G.B. Shaw in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Pygmalion
B) Man, and Superman
C) Arms and the Man
D) Too True to be Good
E) Saint Joan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, A, E, D
2) C, B, A, E, D
3) A, C, B, E, D
4) B, A, C, D, E
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is C–B–A–E–D: Arms and the Man (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1912/1913), Saint Joan (1923), and Too True to Be Good (1931). The sequence traces Shaw’s movement from early social comedy to mature philosophical and historical drama.
17) Which statements are true about Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
A) The General prologue describes the meeting of twenty-nine pilgrims in the Tabard Inn.
B) The parson’s tale is the introductory tale that deals with seven virtues
C) The Canterbury tales is written in prose and verse of various metres
D) Only twenty-three pilgrims tell stories and there are only twenty – four stories told altogether.
E) The prioress tale tells about the murder of a mother by a child.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, D, E Only
2) A, C, D Only
3) A, D, E Only
4) A, B, E Only
Answer: 2
18) Which of the following statements are correct?
A) Diegesis is a term used by Plato to mean statement and by Aristotle to mean narration
B) Foucault’s term biopolitics refers to the attempts of the government to rationalize the problems.
C) Hypertext is a term that refers to second-degree literature made up of works which allude to or derive from hypotext.
D) Desiring machines is a concept introduced by Antonio Gramsci
E) Dream Work is a psychoanalytical term to describe the mechanism that transforms raw material of a dream to its manifest content.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, D only
2) B, C, D only
3) C, D, E only
4) B, C, E only
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
A, B, and E are correct. Diegesis relates to narration in Plato and Aristotle; Foucault’s biopolitics concerns governmental management of populations and life processes; and Freud’s dream-work explains how latent dream material is transformed into manifest content. C is incorrect because that definition belongs to hypertextuality in Genette’s theory, not ordinary digital “hypertext,” and D is wrong because “desiring-machines” is a concept of Deleuze and Guattari, not Gramsci.
19) Which among the following is not a novel written by Jean Rhys?
1) Quartet
2) Good morning, Midnight
3) Voyage in the Dark
4) Golden Child
Answer: 4
20) Alexander Pope’s famous quote, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. appears in which one of the following works?
1) Essay on Criticism
2) The Dunciad
3) Essay on Man
4) The Rape of the Lock
Answer: 1
21) Who among the following friends of Everyman, the main protagonist of the best-known morality play, Everyman, stays with him when he leaves the world to face Death?
1) Beauty
2) Knowledge
3) Good Deeds
4) Strength
Answer: 3
22) Who among the following was not associated with Lake School of poetry?
1) S.T. Coleridge
2) Robert Southey
3) William Blake
4) William Wordsworth
Answer: 3
23) The first regular English tragedy Gorboduc contains 5 acts, while the first 3 acts were written by Thomas Norton, identifying the author who wrote the remaining 2 acts.
1) Thomas Kyd
2) John Lyly
3) Thomas Sackville
4) Nicholas Udall
Answer: 3
24) Which statement among the following is rightly an invective?
1) Denunciatory, abusive or vituperative speech or writing
2) Eulogizing speech, writing or act of a person
3) Speech or writing that establishes the belief in God
4) Speech or writing that is essentially appreciative of a person
Answer: 1
25) Which statement among the following rightly defines an epithet?
1) An adjective / adjectival phrase that condemns the protagonist of a story/novel
2) An adjective/adjectival phrase used to define a characteristics quality or attribute of some person or thing
3) An adjective/ adjectival phrase suited for inscription on a tomb or memorial
4) A rhetorical figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive lines.
Answer: 2
26) Which statements rightly define or describe utopia and dystopia
A) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is an essay in four books
B) Sir Thomas more was the first to apply Utopia to literary genre when he named his imaginary republic utopia
C) Thomas More’s utopia was originally written in English
D) Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and Aldous Huxley’s brave new world are dystopian/antitopian texts.
E) More’s Utopia was translated into French, German and Spanish by Ralph Robinson.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C and D only
2) C and E Only
3) B and D Only
4) D and E Only
Answer: 3
27) In his work, the postmodern condition, Jean francois lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives and sought to declare the death of.
1) Keynesian Equilibrium
2) Christian Redemption
3) Classical Socialism
4) Hegelian spirit
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct answer is Classical Socialism. Lyotard says faith in grand narratives had collapsed. Keynesian Equilibrium: state-managed economic balance. Christian Redemption: salvation through Christ. Classical Socialism: history moving toward classless society. Hegelian Spirit: history as the unfolding of reason/freedom.
28) Who among the following called John Dryden as the father of English Criticism and affirmed that modern English prose began with Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
1) Alexander Pope
2) Jonathan Swift
3) Samuel Johnson
4) Charles Lamb
Answer: 3
29) Arrange the following philosophers / theorists in the correct chronological order of their birth.
A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Walter Benjamin
C) Jean Baudrillard
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
E) Roland Barthes
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, D, A, E, C
2) A, B, E, C, D
3) D, A, B, C, E
4) E, C, A, B, D
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–D–A–E–C) follows birth years: Walter Benjamin (1892), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Roland Barthes (1915), and Jean Baudrillard (1929). The sequence moves from early twentieth-century critical thought to later structuralist and postmodern theory.
30) Arrange the following works in the correct chronological order of their publications.
A) Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
B) Chaman Nahal’s Azadi
C) Manohar Malgaonkar’s Distant Dream
D) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
E) K.A. Abbas’ tomorrow is Ours: A Novel of the India of Today
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, A, E, C, B
2) A, C, B, E, D
3) D, B, C, A, E
4) E, A, D, B, C
Answer: 1
31) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (Post Colonial Writer)
A. Ngugi Wa Thiong’ O
B. Aime Cesaire
C. Frantz Fanon
D. Chinua Achebe
LIST-II (Text)
I. Toward the African Revolution
II. There Was a Country
III. The Language of Languages
IV. Discourse on Colonialism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
2) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 2
32) While documenting, when is a block quotation used in prose?
1) If a quotation runs in more than four lines.
2) If a quotation runs in more than five lines.
3) If a quotation runs in more than three lines.
4) If a quotation runs in more than two lines.
Answer: 1
33) Who among the following was not associated with Bloomsbury Group?
1) Virginia Woolf
2) John Maynard Keynes
3) Lytton Strachey
4) Edmund Husserl
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Bloomsbury Group was an early twentieth-century circle of British writers, artists, and thinkers centered in London. They valued intellectual freedom, modern art, personal relationships, pacifism, and skepticism toward Victorian social conventions. Major figures included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and Vanessa Bell. Husserl was a German philosopher, not part of the group.
34) According to Dhananjaya, there are five elements of the plot, parallel with the five stages of the action, from these respectively arise the five junctures (samdhi). What is the correct sequence of these junctures?
A) Avamarsa
B) Mukha
C) Pratimukha
D) Upasamhriti
E) Gurbha
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) D, B, A, E, C
2) B, C, E, A, D
3) A, E, D, B, C
4) C, D, B, A, E
Answer: 2
35) Sir Thomas Brown’s longest work, Vulgar Errors, is about-
1) The mistaken beliefs of the poorly educated
2) Vulgarity prevailing in Aristocratic class
3) Vulgar Beliefs and practices of the time
4) Use of vulgar language in literary works
Answer: 1
36) Which of the following writers fall under the category of LGBTQ+?
A) Making is connecting by David Gauntlett
B) Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peter
C) Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
D) Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
E) Safe space by Alyssa Huynh
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C Only
2) B, C, D Only
3) C, D, E Only
4) E, D, A Only
Answer: 2
37) Who among the following are the recipients of the Nobel prize in Literature?
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Somerset Maugham
C) Harold Pinter
D) Margaret Atwood
E) Herta Muller
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C only
2) A, C, D only
3) C, D, E only
4) A, C, E only
Answer: 4
38) Arrange the following works by South Asia writers in the correct chronological order of their publications.
A) Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
B) The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
C) The last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
D) Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
E) The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) A, C, B, E, D
3) E, D, C, A, B
4) A, D, B, E, C
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–D–B–E–C) is based on publication dates: Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography (2002), Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters (2002, later in the year/commonly placed after A in such keys), Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003), Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Last Queen (2021). The sequence spans early twenty-first-century South Asian diasporic fiction to recent historical retelling.
39) Arrange the following texts in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) The Pilgrim’s progress
B) Beowulf
C) Endymion
D) The Faerie Queene
E) Paradise Lost
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, D, C, E
2) B, D, A, E, C
3) B, D, E, A, C
4) D, B, E, A, C
Answer: 3
40) A palindrome is.
1) A recantation is song or verse
2) A play on words by alteration of letters
3) A word or sentence which reads the same both ways
4) A sequence of clauses or sentences which have a symmetrical structure
Answer: 3
41) Arrange the following works of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Mr. Gandhi and Emancipation of Untouchables
B) The annihilation of caste
C) The problem of the rupee: Its origin and its solution
D) Federation versus freedom
E) Buddha and his Dharma
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, D, E, C
2) C, B, A, D, E
3) C, B, D, A, E
4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–B–D–A–E) follows Ambedkar’s intellectual and political writings: The Problem of the Rupee (1923), Annihilation of Caste (1936), Federation Versus Freedom (1939), Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of Untouchables (1943), and The Buddha and His Dhamma (posthumously 1957). The sequence moves from economics to caste politics and finally Buddhist philosophy.
42) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I
(Books/Collection of Poems)
A. The Idylls of the king
B. Dramatic Lyrics
C. Sonnets from the Portuguese
D. Poems and Ballads
LIST-II
(Poet)
I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
II. A.C. Swinburne
III. Alfred Tennyson
IV. Robert Browning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Answer: 3
43) Match the List –I with List-II
LIST-I (TERM)
A. Culture Industry
B. Anxiety of Influence
C. Cultural Materialism
D. Dialogism
LIST-II (CRITIC/THEORIST)
I. Raymond Williams
II. Adorno and Horkheimer
III. Mikhail Bakhtin
IV. Harold Bloom
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Culture Industry critiques mass-produced culture that standardizes taste and supports capitalist conformity. Anxiety of Influence explains how poets struggle creatively against powerful predecessors. Cultural Materialism studies literature through power, ideology, and historical material conditions. Dialogism sees language and texts as shaped by multiple interacting voices rather than a single fixed meaning.
44) How are words from a language other than English written in a research paper?
1) Bold letters
2) In Italics
3) Underlined
4) Capital Letters
Answer: 2
45) What was the name of the first ship to transport indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago in 1845?
1) Duchess of Argyle
2) Futtle Rozack
3) Bangalore
4) Duke of Bedford
Answer: 2
46) Match the List-I with List-II.
LIST-I (Quote)
A. Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
B. Be still when you have nothing to say,when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
C. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
D. Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.
LIST-II (Novelist)
I. D.H. Lawrence
II. Charles Dickens
III. Thomas Hardy
IV. Graham Greene
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
2) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
3) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
4) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
Answer: 3
47) Who among the following is the author of I know why the caged bird sings?
1) Toni Morrison
2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3) Ama Ata Aidoo
4) Maya Angelou
Answer: 4
48) Match the List-I with List-II.
LIST-I
A. The Man of Mode
B. The Country Wife
C. The Old Bachelor
D. The Provoked Wife
LIST-II
I. Sir John Vanbrugh
II. William Congreve
III. William Wycherley
IV. Sir George Etherege
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 2
49) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (PRIZE/RECOGNITION)
A. BOOKER PRIZE
B. PULITZER PRIZE
C. NOBEL PRIZE
D. POET LAUREATE
LIST-II (OFFICIALLY STARTED IN THE YEAR)
I.1917
II.1901
III.1668
IV.1968
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-I, C-II, D-III
Answer: 4
50) Which of the following parameters are emphasized in MLA Handbook’s (9th Edition) chapter titled, Principles of Inclusive Language?
A) Avoid negatively judging other’s experiences.
B) Use a dictionary to check for offensive terms
C) Extensive use of pronouns
D) Any format for capitalization and styling
E) Make reference to identify relevant sources
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C, D and E only
2) B, C and A only
3) A, B and E only
4) A, D and E only
Answer: 3
51) Who among the following stated that “True philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty. Which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both?
1) Edgar Allan Poe
2) Philip Sidney
3) Ralph Waldo Emerson
4) John Keats
Answer: 3
52) Which among the following novelists remarked that falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult? Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings?”
1) Charles Dickens
2) George Eliot
3) William Makepeace Thackeray
4) Thomas Carlyle
Answer: 2
53) Which among the following critics stated that, “The object of study in literary science is not literature but ‘literariness’, that is, what makes a given work a literary work?
1) Viktor Shklovsky
2) Roman Jakobson
3) Cleanth Brook
4) Allen Tate
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Literariness means the qualities that make a text distinctly literary rather than merely informative or ordinary language. The term is strongly associated with Russian Formalism (especially Jakobson and Shklovsky), who asked not “what is literature?” but “what makes language literary?” They pointed to devices such as patterning, ambiguity, rhythm, imagery, narrative technique, and defamiliarization—language made strange so we notice it anew.
54) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (Woman Novelist)
A. Fanny Burney
B. Anne Bronte
C. Pearl Buck
D. Nadine Gordimer
LIST-II (Novel)
I. Agnes Grey
II. The Good Earth
III. My Son’s Story
IV. Evelina
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
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
55) Arrange the following novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) So Many Hungers
B) All About H. Hatter
C) Music for Mohini
D) Waiting for the Mahatama
E) Kanthapura
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, E, D, C, A
2) A, D, B, E, C
3) E, A, B, C, D
4) C, D, A, B, E
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (E–A–B–C–D) follows publication chronology: Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938), Bhabani Bhattacharya’s So Many Hungers! (1947), G. V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948), Kamala Markandaya’s Music for Mohini (1952), and R. K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma (1955). The sequence traces Indian English fiction from nationalist struggle to post-independence social concerns.
56) Which among the following statements are true about Panchtantra?
A) Panchtantra is a descendant of Hitopdesha.
B) It is a manual for the instructions of the sons of a king in the principles of good conduct.
C) The first book deals with the adventures of a tortoise, deer and a cow
D) Tantrakhyayika is one of the oldest redactions of Panchtantra.
E) Panchtantra is divided into five parts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C Only
2) A, C, D Only
3) B, D, E Only
4) A, C, E Only
Answer: 2
57) Which of the following stories deal with the theme of partition?
A) Thanda Gosht
B) Gharwali
C) Jila-Watan
D) Lajwanti
E) Rudali
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B and D Only
2) B, C and E Only
3) A, C and D Only
4) A, C and E Only
Answer: 3
58) Who among the following writers were associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
A) Leslie Janison
B) Stephan King
C) Alain Locke
D) Langston Hughes
E) Zora Neale Hurston
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, B, C Only
2) B, C, D Only
3) C, D, E Only
4) D, A, E Only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The Harlem Renaissance was a 1920s–30s African American cultural movement centered in Harlem that celebrated Black art, identity, folklore, and modern urban experience. Alain Locke was a key intellectual voice, Langston Hughes its major poet, and Zora Neale Hurston a central novelist-anthropologist. The other names are unrelated to the movement.
59) Which among the following is not a play written by Eugene O’Neill?
1) Anna Christie
2) Strange Interlude
3) The Plough and the Stars
4) All God’s Chillum Got Wing
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The Plough and the Stars, which was written by Seán O’Casey, the Irish dramatist known for politically charged Dublin plays. It is part of his Dublin Trilogy and deals with the Easter Rising of 1916 and its effects on ordinary people.
60) Identify the historical plays not written by Shakespeare.
A) Henry the Third
B) Richard the Third
C) Richard the Second
D) Henry the Fifth
E) Richard the Fifth
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A and C Only
2) C and E Only
3) D and B Only
4) A and E Only
Answer: 4
61) Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Keywords
B) Culture and Society
C) The Long Revolution
D) The Country and the City
E) Modern Tragedy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C, B, E, D
2) B, C, E, D, A
3) C, B, D, A, E
4) E, A, D, B, C
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–C–E–D–A) follows Raymond Williams’s major intellectual trajectory: Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution (1961), Modern Tragedy (1966), The Country and the City (1973), and Keywords (1976). It shows his movement from cultural history to politics, literature, space, and finally the vocabulary of culture itself.
62) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST I (Linguistic/Grammatical term)
A. Portmanteau word
B. Philology
C. Phatic Language
D. Phantom word
LIST-II (Meaning/Definition)
I. Study of the historical development of languages over time.
II. Used for establishing an atmosphere and the communication of feelings rather than of ideas
III. A word formed by combining two or more words
IV. A word that exists through the error of scribe, printer or lexicographer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
3) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
4) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 2
63) Who among the following coined the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’?
1) Virginia Woolf
2) Marcel Proust
3) May Sinclair
4) James Joyce
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The term stream of consciousness was coined by William James in The Principles of Psychology (1890) to describe the continuous flow of thought. In literary criticism, May Sinclair is often credited with applying the term to fiction, especially in discussing Dorothy Richardson’s novels.
64) Which of the following statements are true about Bhavabhuti’s Uttararmacharita?
A) The time-space of the play is divided into two broad sections/acts.
B) The first act of the play deals only with the birth and childhood of Rama.
C) It is a play based on the Ramayana.
D) Its theme has been derived from the last canto of the Ramayana.
E) In the second act of the play, Sita takes refuge in the hermitage of the sage, Visvamitra.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, E, E only
2) A, B, E only
3) B, C, D only
4) A, C, D only
Answer: 4
65) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (Retellings)
A. Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata
B. War of Lanka
C. Ahalya’s Awakening
D. Ajaya: Epic of the Kaurava Clan
LIST-II (Author)
I. Anand Neelakantan
II. Kavita Kane
III. Devdutt Pattanaik
IV. Amish Tripathi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Answer: 2
66) Who among the following defined taste as “that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike?”
1) Joseph Addison
2) Samuel Johnson
3) Richard Steele
4) Daniel Defore
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The statement is attributed to Samuel Johnson, appearing in The Rambler essays (especially mid-eighteenth-century discussions of criticism and taste). Johnson treats taste as cultivated judgment—the ability to recognize literary excellence and faults through disciplined sensibility rather than mere personal preference.
67) How many Knights feature in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene?
1) 10
2) 12
3) 13
4) 11
Answer: 2
68) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (AUTHOR) LIST-II (TEXT)
A. Sally-Morgan I. Karobran
B. Monica Clare II. Caprice-A Stockman’s Daughter
C. Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) III. My Place
D. Alexis Wright IV. Plains of Promise
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-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 2
69) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (Cultural Critic/Theorist)
A. Raymond Williams
B. Herbert Marcuse
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Richard Hoggart
LIST-II (Work)
I. Postmodernism, or the cultural Logic of Late capitalism
II. Preface to Film
III. One Dimensional Man
IV. The Uses of Literacy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Answer: 3
70) According to MLA Handbook, the mechanics of prose refers to technical questions that writers must follow. These include.
1) Spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization
2) Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, style of numbering
3) Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, content
4) Spelling, capitalization, style of numbering, linguistics
Answer: 1
71) Arrange the following campus novels in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
B) Macolm Bradbury’s The History Man
C) Mary McCarthy’s the Groves of Academe
D) Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
E) Philip Roth’s The Human Stain
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) E, B, C, D, A
2) D, C, B, A, E
3) A, D, E, C, B
4) B, A, D, E, C
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order (D–C–B–A–E) follows publication chronology: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945), McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe (1952), Bradbury’s The History Man (1975), Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), and Roth’s The Human Stain (2000). It traces the campus novel from postwar satire to late twentieth-century critiques of academic and social power.
72) The Poem “France ” An Ode’ is written by.
1) William Wordsworth
2) S.T. Coleridge
3) William Blake
4) Robert Southey
Answer: 2
73) Arrange the following texts of critical theory in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Michel Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge
B) Roland Barthes’ Mythologies
C) Jacques Derrida’s of Grammatology
D) Jacques Lacan’s Ecrits
E) Jean-Francois Lyotard’s – The postmodern condition-A report on knowledge.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, E, B, C, A
2) A, B, C, D, E
3) B, D, C, A, E
4) B, C, D, E, A
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order is B–D–C–A–E: Barthes’ Mythologies (1957), Lacan’s Écrits (1966), Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1967), Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), and Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition (1979). The sequence traces the shift from structuralism to poststructuralism and then postmodern theory.
74) Which of the following works are categorised under science-fiction?
A) Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
B) Wendy Mass’s Mango-Shaped Space
C) Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyper Reality
D) Frank Schwatzing’s the Swarm
E) Kuzuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me go
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, C, E only
2) B, C, D only
3) B, C, E only
4) A, B, C only
Answer: 3
75) Who among the following published a series of essays titled The New Criticism?
1) John Crowe Ransom
2) William K. Wimsatt jr.
3) Monroe C. Beardsley
4) Allen Tate
Answer: 1
76) Which of the following citations of an article published in a journal is in the correct format according to MLA Handbook (9th Edition)?
1) 2016 Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery. American periodicals, vol 26 no. 2, 2016 pp. 14-66
2) Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery. American periodicals, vol. 26 no. 2, 2016 p. 149-66.
3) Boggs, Colleen Glenney, American Periodicals, Public Reading, and the civil war draft lottery. Vol. 26 no. 2, 2016, P. 149-66.
4) Boggs, Colleen Glenney. Public reading and the civil war draft lottery. American periodicals, vol. 26 no. 2, 2016, pp. 149-66.
Answer: 4
77) Who among the following is the author of The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading?
1) Roland Barthes
2) Wolfgang Iser
3) Stanley Fish
4) Hans Robert Jauss
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
In The Implied Reader (1974) and The Act of Reading (1978), Iser develops reader-response theory, arguing that meaning is not fully contained in the text or solely in the reader, but emerges through the interaction between them. The implied reader is the role or position a text invites its reader to occupy, while reading itself is an active process of filling textual “gaps” and constructing coherence.
78) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST- I (Theatre) LIST-II (Leading figure/Founder)
A. Abbey Theatre I. Martin Esslin
B. Theatre of the Absurd II. W.B. Yeats
C. Hope Theatre III. Jean Jacques Barnard
D. Theatre of Silence IV. Philip Henslowe
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Theatre of the Absurd (term popularized by Martin Esslin in 1961) describes post–World War II drama by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Harold Pinter. These plays present a world without clear meaning, where communication breaks down, action becomes circular or repetitive, and characters face existential uncertainty. Famous examples include Waiting for Godot and The Bald Soprano.
Theatre of Silence is associated with Jean-Jacques Bernard and drama that relies on pauses, gesture, mood, and what remains unspoken. Meaning emerges through silence, subtext, hesitation, and psychological tension rather than elaborate speech. It influenced later modern drama, especially Pinteresque pauses.
Abbey Theatre was founded in Dublin (1904) by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and others as Ireland’s national theatre. It became central to the Irish Literary Revival and staged works by Yeats, J. M. Synge, Sean O’Casey, promoting Irish identity through drama.
Hope Theatre was a London playhouse built in 1614 by Philip Henslowe and Jacob Meade. It hosted plays as well as animal baiting, showing the commercial entertainment culture of early modern England. Writers connected to Henslowe’s theatrical world include Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and Christopher Marlowe (through earlier Henslowe enterprises).
79) Who among the following invented ‘inscape’ and ‘instress’?
1) I.A. Richards
2) W.K. Wimsatt
3) William Faulkner
4) G.M. Hopkins
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Hopkins coined inscape to mean the unique inner design or distinctive essence of a thing, and instress to mean the force or energy by which that uniqueness is perceived or held together. These ideas are central to his religious and poetic vision.
80) Match the List-I with List-II
List I List II
A. Vikram Seth I. Knife
B. V.S.Naipaul II. The Lowland
C. Salman Rushdie III. The Mosque of Africa
D. Jhumpa Lahiri IV. From Heaven Lake
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-IV, B-II, D-III
2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
4) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Answer: 4
81) What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft’s autobiographical novel?
1) Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman
2) Mary: A Fiction
3) Wives and Daughters
4) The well of Loneliness
Answer: 2
82) Who among the following English transports of the Bible was burnt to death for his beliefs, however, he is remembered for his careful and important work on translation?
1) John Wycliffe
2) William Tyndale
3) Miles Coverdale
4) King James
Answer: 3
83) Which periodical was started by Joseph Addison and Richard Stelle after closing of the spectator.
1) Tatler
2) Guardian
3) Gentleman’s Magazine
4) Athenian Mercury
Answer: 2
84) Who among the following was known as ‘The Lady of Christ's during his college days at Cambridge?
1) Richard Lovelace
2) Alexander Pope
3) John Milton
4) Sir John Suckling
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
John Milton was nicknamed “The Lady of Christ’s” during his time at Christ’s College, Cambridge because of his youthful beauty, delicate features, refined manners, and long hair. The nickname also hints at his scholarly reserve and elegance, distinguishing him from rougher masculine ideals of the period
85) Arrange the following works of ‘Black British’ writers in the correct chronological order of their publication.
A) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s No place Like Home
B) Mike Philips’s London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain
C) Ekow Eshun’s Black Golf of the sun: Searching for home in England and Africa
D) George Lamming’s The pleasures of Exile
E) Caryl Phillips’s the European Trib
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) D, A, E, C, B
2) D, E, A, B, C
3) A, B, C, D, E
4) B, C, A, E, D
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is D–E–A–B–C: George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (1960), Caryl Phillips’s The European Tribe (1987), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s No Place Like Home (1995), Mike Phillips’s London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001), and Ekow Eshun’s Black Gold of the Sun (2005). The sequence maps Black British writing from exile and identity to history, migration, and transnational belonging.
86) Identify the plays that John Fletcher wrote in collaboration with Francis Beaumont.
A) The Faithful Shepherdess
B) The Loyal Subject
C) Cupid’s Revenge
D) The Pilgrim
E) The Maid’s Tragedy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) C and E only
2) A and D only
3) B and C only
4) D and E only
Answer: 1
87) Who among the following writers have played a significant role in the Australian Aboriginal Movements?
A) Judith Wright
B) Oodgeroo Noonuccal
C) Jack Davis
D) David Malouf
E) Kevin Gilbert
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) B, C, E Only
2) A, B, C Only
3) B, C, D Only
4) D, E, B Only
Answer: 1
88) Who among the following observed that "The artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antimuonium always”?
1) Walter Pater
2) Oscar Wilde
3) Edgar Allan Poe
4) E.M. Forster
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The quotation is by Oscar Wilde, from “The Critic as Artist” (1891). Wilde argues that the true critic is imaginative, individual, and resistant to conformity—treating criticism itself as a creative art rather than secondary judgment.
89) Which of the nineteenth century novels portray disabled characters in them?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
B) Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
C) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
D) Chrles Dickens’s Christmas Carol
E) Melville’s Moby-Dick
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A, D, E Only
2) B, D, E Only
3) C, B, E Only
4) A, D, B Only
Answer: 2
90) Match the List-I with List-II
LIST-I (Dalit Writer)
A. Lal Singh Dil
B. Urmila Pawar
C. Tulsi Ram
D. Devanur Mahadeva
LIST-II (Language)
I. Hindi
II. Kannada
III. Punjab
IV. Marathi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
2) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
3) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 3
Read the following passage and answer the questions from 91-95
All round me are words, and words and words, they grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow growing from within, But I tell myself, words Are a nuisance, beware of them, they Can be so many things, a Chasm where running feet must pause, to Look, a sea with paralyzing waves, A blast of burning air or, A knife most willing to cut your best Friend’s throat… words are a nuisance, but. They grow on me like leaves on a tree, they never run to stop their coming,
From a silence, somewhere deep within…
91) Which one of the following is not a metaphor employed in the poem?
1) a knife
2) a sea
3) a tree
4) a throat
Answer: 4
92) A major theme of the poem can best be summarized as.
1) Words may exist independent of human existence
2) The growth/flow of words cannot be restricted
3) Words can grow on trees
4) Words originate from nature
Answer: 2
93) Which one of the following lines indicates the destructive character of words?
1) Seem to stop their slow growing
2) A blast of burning air or,
3) They grow on me like leaves on a tree
4) From a silence, somewhere deep within
Answer: 2
94) Which one of the following poetic devices is used in the opening line of the poem?
1) Foregrounding
2) Anaphora
3) Metonomy
4) Hyperbole
Answer: 2
95) The poem is most similar in style and form to.
1) Occasional verse
2) Open verse
3) Sonnet
4) Ode
Answer: 2
Read the following passage and answer the questions from 96-100
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of truth and the law of love. And believe me, from my experience of hundreds I was going to say thousands- of children. I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learn wisdom from them. I have learned this one lesson- that what is impossible with man is child’s play with God and if we have faith in that Divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavor to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children, and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle, we won’t have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
96) Which phrase rightly encapsulates the central message of the passage?
1) Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
2) For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children
3) It is a wise child that knows its father
4) A burnt child dreads the fire.
Answer: 2
97) What does a real war signify in the phrase a real war against war.
1) A war with your elders and parents
2) A socio-cultural war
3) A political war
4) A war against self-conceit and prejudices
Answer: 4
98) What according to the passage, is needed to spread peace and love in the world?
1) Society should be socially disciplined
2) Preservation of natural innocence
3) Organize multi-lateral conferences and seminars on peace and love across the world
4) Studies on peace and love should be introduced at school and college.
Answer: 2
99) What kind of a passage is this?
1) Expository
2) Persuasive
3) Descriptive
4) Analytical
Answer: 2
100) Which will of God is the author referring to in the line, I believe and pass my time and endeavor to obey His will?
1) To stoop before the grown-ups and they learned me for guidance.
2) To have faith in the Divinity and follow the commandments blindly as laid down in the scriptures.
3) To believe and spend time praying and following rituals properly
4) To turn towards children in humility and innocence to learn wisdom.
Answer: 4
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