UGC NET December 2024
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
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Answer: 1
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 1
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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.
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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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
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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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
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Answer: 2
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
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Answer: 2
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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.
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 1
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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.
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Answer: 2
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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.
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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LIST-II (Text)
I. Toward the African Revolution
II. There Was a Country
III. The Language of Languages
IV. Discourse on Colonialism
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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
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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.
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 1
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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
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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LIST-II
(Poet)
I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
II. A.C. Swinburne
III. Alfred Tennyson
IV. Robert Browning
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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
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Answer: 3
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43) Match the List –I with List-II
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​LIST-I (TERM)
A. Culture Industry
B. Anxiety of Influence
C. Cultural Materialism
D. Dialogism
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LIST-II (CRITIC/THEORIST)
I. Raymond Williams
II. Adorno and Horkheimer
III. Mikhail Bakhtin
IV. Harold Bloom
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 2
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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.
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LIST-II (Novelist)
I. D.H. Lawrence
II. Charles Dickens
III. Thomas Hardy
IV. Graham Greene
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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
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Answer: 3
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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LIST-II
I. Sir John Vanbrugh
II. William Congreve
III. William Wycherley
IV. Sir George Etherege
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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
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Answer: 2
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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
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Answer: 4
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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.
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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
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LIST-II (Author)
I. Anand Neelakantan
II. Kavita Kane
III. Devdutt Pattanaik
IV. Amish Tripathi
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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
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
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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)
ARaymond Williams
BHerbert Marcuse
CFredric Jameson
DRichard 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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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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