UGC NET December 2024
1. Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Nation and Narration
B. The Dialogic Imagination
C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
D. Discourse on Colonialism
E. Orientalism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, C, E, A, B
2. D, C, B, A, E
3. C, E, B, A, D
4. A, B, C, D, E
Ans: Dropped
2. Which of the following statements are true about A. K. Ramanujan?
A. He is a poet of the sixties.
B. His poetry draws his sustenance from his awareness of Hindu heritage.
C. He has poor sense of rhythm.
D. His verse poorly utilises Akam constructed techniques.
E. He utilises Akam constructed techniques in his poetry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. C, D and E only
2. A, B and E only
3. B, C and D only
4. B, D and E only
Ans: 2
3. Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Advancement of Learning
B. De Augmentis Scientiarum
C. Novum Organum
D. The New Atlantis
E. History of Henry VII
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C, E, B, D
2. C, A, B, E, D
3. A, B, E, D, C
4. E, D, C, A, B
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–C–E–B–D) follows Bacon’s major intellectual works: The Advancement of Learning (1605), Novum Organum (1620), History of Henry VII (1622), De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623), and The New Atlantis (published posthumously in 1626/1627). It traces his movement from educational reform to scientific method and utopian vision.
4. When was ‘International Phonetic Alphabet’ (IPA) developed and promulgated?
1. 1868
2. 1878
3. 1888
4. 1978
Ans: 3
5. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Author)
A. Basudev Sunani
B. Om Prakash Valmiki
C. Bama
D. Urmila Pawar
LIST-II (Text)
I. Karukku
II. Weave of My Life
III. Cast Out
IV. Joothan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Ans: 2
6. An ideal research paper should include:
A. A statement that establishes the problem or controversial issue that the paper intends to examine.
B. Background information to establish past theories and current ideas on the topic.
C. Summarizing and paraphrasing
D. Glorification of the paper writer himself.
E. A thesis to establish one’s position.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C and D only
2. A and D only
3. C and D only
4. A, B and E only
Ans: 4
7. The Grammar Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on:
1. Fluency
2. Accuracy
3. Appropriateness
4. Listening Skill
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
The Grammar Translation Method emphasizes grammatical correctness, memorization of rules, and accurate translation rather than speaking fluency or listening skills. Precision in form is its central aim.
8. Identify the correct statement on about ‘Langue’ and ‘Parole’ below:
A. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
B. Parole is the language actually produced by its users following Langue.
C. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following Parole.
D. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
E. Langue and Parole are not related to one language as concepts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A and C only
3. B and C only
4. D and E only
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
Saussure defines langue as the shared abstract system of rules and conventions of a language, while parole is the actual speech or language use produced by individual speakers based on that system.
9. Choose the correct sequence of the following works of Pablo Neruda in chronological order:-
A. Spain in the Heart
B. Works and Book of Twilights
C. The Inhabitant and His Hope
D. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
E. The Trying of Infinite Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. E, C, D, B, A
2. A, B, C, D, E
3. E, D, B, C, A
4. B, D, E, C, A
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–D–E–C–A) follows Neruda’s early poetic development: Works and Twilight, then Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, followed by The Inhabitant and His Hope, Spain in the Heart, and later The Trying of Infinite Man. The sequence traces his movement from youthful lyricism to political commitment.
10. Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication.
A. Deconstruction and Criticism
B. Multiculturalism : Roots and Realities
C. Literary Theory and the Claims of History
D. The Western Canon
E. An Appetite for Poetry
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, C, E, B, A
2. A, E, D, C, B
3. A, B, C, D, E
4. C, D, B, A, E
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–E–D–C–B) follows publication chronology: Deconstruction and Criticism (1979), An Appetite for Poetry (1989), The Western Canon (1994), Literary Theory and the Claims of History (1996), and Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities (1996/late 1990s depending edition). The sequence reflects debates moving from theory to canon and then multiculturalism.
11. Which of the following are correct according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition?
A. One inch margin on all sides is compulsory in a research page.
B. Co-ordinating conjunctions are written in bold letters in the title of a research paper.
C. Slash is used between two nouns paired as opposites.
D. ‘Hanging indent’ in the work cited entry is ½ inches.
E. Subordinating conjunctions are not written in bold letters in the title of the research paper
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C and D only
2. B, D and A only
3. C, D and E only
4. B, C and E only
Ans: 1
12. Who among the following illustrated the works of Thomas Gray and Robert Blair?
1. Thomas Percy
2. William Blake
3. Robert Burns
4. William Cowper
Ans: 2
13. Identify the statements which are correct.
A. The term ‘Flaneur’ is often associated with the poetry of Baudelaire.
B. The term ‘Habitus’ is associated with Pierre Bourdieu.
C. Michael Foucault is associated with the concept of ‘Modernity : An Unfinished Project’
D. Frantz Fanon is associated with the term ‘Imagined Community’
E. The term ‘Thick Description’ is associated with Clifford Mentz.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. C and D only
4. A and E only
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
Flâneur is linked to Baudelaire as the urban stroller-observer of modern city life, and habitus is Bourdieu’s term for socially formed dispositions shaping taste and behavior. C is false because “Modernity: An Unfinished Project” is associated with Jürgen Habermas, not Foucault. D is false because Imagined Communities is by Benedict Anderson, not Fanon. E is false because thick description is associated with Clifford Geertz, not “Mentz.”
14. Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order of their year of publication:-
A. Women in Love
B. The White Peacock
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Rainbow
E. The Trespasser
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. E, C, D, A, B
3. B, E, C, D, A
4. C, A, E, D, B
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–E–C–D–A) follows Lawrence’s publication timeline: The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920). It traces his development from early fiction to his major modernist novels on relationships and industrial society.
15. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
1. Seamus Heaney : “Digging”
2. Audre Lorde : “Coal”
3. Dom Moraes : “Kanheri Caves”
4. John Updike : “The Swan”
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
Option 4 is incorrect because “The Swan” is famously associated with W. B. Yeats (Leda and the Swan), not John Updike. The other pairings correctly match poets with well-known works: Heaney’s “Digging,” Lorde’s “Coal,” and Dom Moraes’s “Kanheri Caves.”
16. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Text) LIST-II (Author)
A. Bodies that Matter I. Barbara Johnson
B. A World of Difference II. Judith Butler
C. A Literature of their Own III. Camille Paglia
D. Vamps and Tramps IV. Elaine Showalter
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Ans: 3
17. In which of the texts, the following lines occur?
“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never failing vice of fools.
1. An Essay on Criticism
2. The Rape of the Lock
3. An Essay on Man
4. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Ans: 1
18. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. S. Menon Marath’s The Wound of Spring
B. Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers
C. Anand Lall’s The House of Adampur
D. Sudhindra N. Ghose’s The Vermillion Boat
E. Ved Mehta’s Delinquent Chacha
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. E, D, C, B, A
2. B, D, C, A, E
3. A, B, C, D, E
4. D, C, B, A, E
Ans: 2
19. Who among the following is credited with ending the system of patronage with his “Letter to Lord Chesterfield"?
1. Bishop Berkeley
2. Samuel Johnson
3. Edmund Burke
4. Horace Walpole
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
Samuel Johnson is credited with symbolically ending literary patronage through his “Letter to Lord Chesterfield” (1755). When Chesterfield tried to claim support for Johnson’s Dictionary after ignoring him for years, Johnson rejected the gesture and asserted the writer’s independence from aristocratic patrons.
20. From the statements given below, what is true about the Gothic Novel?
A. It appeared in 14th Century American Literature.
B. It often uses the medieval form of architecture as setting.
C. It is a form of baroque art.
D. It represents a style of mosaic and fresco wall painting.
E. It aims at evoking chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and D only
2. C and E only
3. B and D only
4. B and E only
Ans: 4
21. From which poem are the following lines extracted?
“Once more the storm is hauling and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid,
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle.
But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill.”
1. “The Second Coming”
2. “The Cold Heaven”
3. “A Prayer for My Daughter”
4. “Among School Children”
Ans: 3
22. “Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”
Who has composed the above lines?
1. Christiana Rossetti
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Emily Dickinson
4. Mathew Arnold
Ans: 3
23. Who is the critic associated with the term ‘Blue Humanities’?
1. Hannah Arendt
2. Stephan Hertz
3. Thomas R. Cole
4. Nathan Carlin
Ans: Dropped
24. The line “Thou still unravished bride of quietness” presents which of the following rhetorical figures?
1. Anastrophe
2. Apostrophe
3. Anaphora
4. Chiasmus
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
The line addresses an inanimate object (the Grecian urn) directly as if it could hear or respond. That direct address to a non-human or absent entity is the figure of apostrophe.
25. Which of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
A. Purple Hibiscus
B. July’s People
C. Cry, the Beloved Country
D. The Mimic Men
E. My Son’s Story
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. C and E only
2. A, C and D only
3. B, C and E only
4. A and B only
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
B, C, and E are correct because July’s People (Nadine Gordimer), Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton), and My Son’s Story (Nadine Gordimer) directly engage with South African apartheid and its racial, political, and moral consequences. Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria, and The Mimic Men deals with postcolonial identity, not apartheid.
26. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Novel) LIST-II (Novelist)
A. The Childhood of Jesus I. L. P. Hartley
B. The Go-Between II. Evelyn Waugh
C. Brideshead Revisited III. J. M. Coetzee
D. The Catcher in the Rye IV. J. D. Salinger
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
2. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Ans: 2
27. What is ‘Practical Criticism’?
1. The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political meaning.
2. A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant.
3. The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information.
4. The study of ambiguity.
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
Practical Criticism, associated with I. A. Richards, means close reading of literary texts—especially poems—without relying on author biography, historical background, or other external information. It focuses on how meaning is produced within the text itself.
28. Who is the author of English in India: Its Present and Future published in 1964?
1. G. T. Garratt
2. Rameshwar Gupta
3. V. K. Gokak
4. A. R. Chide
Ans: 3
29. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Text) LIST-II (Author)
A. The Golden Light I. Toru Dutt
B. The Lotus II. Sarojini Naidu
C. Indian Dancers III. Henry Derozio
D. The Harp of India IV. Sri Aurobindo
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Ans: 4
30. Match the following concepts with the theorists:
LIST-I LIST-II
A. Defamiliarization I. Girgio Agamben
B. Uncanny II. Bruno Latour
C. Actor Network Theory III. Viktor Shlovsky
D. Homo Sacer IV. Sigmund Freud
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
2. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
Defamiliarization is linked to Viktor Shklovsky (A–III), who argued art makes the familiar seem strange. The Uncanny is Freud’s concept (B–IV) for something strangely familiar yet disturbing. Actor-Network Theory is associated with Bruno Latour (C–II). Homo Sacer is Giorgio Agamben’s concept (D–I) about bare life excluded from legal protection.
31. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Author) LIST-II (Text)
A. Manohar Malgaonkar I. The Weird Dance and Other Stories
B. Chaman Nahal II. The Survivor
C. Ruskin Bond III. Rumble Tumble
D. Arun Joshi IV. Neighbour’s Wife and Other Stories
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-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Ans: 1
32. Who amongst the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group?
1. Virginia Woolf
2. E. M. Forster
3. Lytton Strachey
4. W. B. Yeats
Ans: 4
33. The first folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in:
1. 1664
2. 1650
3. 1631
4. 1623
Ans: 4
34. Chronologically arrange the following works according to the year of publication.
A. Gauri Viswanathan’s Masks of Conquests.
B. Meenakshi Mukherjee’s The Twice Born Fiction.
C. G. N. Devy’s After Amnesia
D. M. K. Naik’s A History of Indian English Literature
E. Harish Trivedi’s Colonial Transactions
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. E, D, C, B, A
3. C, A, D, B, A
4. B, D, A, C, E
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–D–A–C–E) follows publication history: Meenakshi Mukherjee’s The Twice Born Fiction (1971), M. K. Naik’s A History of Indian English Literature (1982), Gauri Viswanathan’s Masks of Conquest (1989), G. N. Devy’s After Amnesia (1992), and Harish Trivedi’s Colonial Transactions (1993). It traces the shift from literary history to postcolonial critique.
35. Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve’s The Way of the World?
1. Fainall
2. Mirabell
3. Waitwell
4. Peachum
Ans: 4
36. Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley?
1. The Lost Woman
2. Frankenstein
3. Faulkner
4. The Last Man
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
The Lost Woman is a 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence. It tells the story of Alvina Houghton, who leaves industrial England with a travelling performer, seeking freedom from restrictive middle-class life. The novel explores themes of sexuality, self-discovery, escape from modern industrial society, and Lawrence’s recurring contrast between mechanized civilization and instinctive vitality
37. Who said “The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it”?
1. Frantz Fanon
2. Leopold Senghor
3. Sri Aurobindo
4. M. K. Gandhi
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
This statement is attributed to M. K. Gandhi, reflecting his belief that cultural contact with outsiders need not weaken a nation if the society retains moral and civilizational confidence. He often argued for openness without cultural surrender.
38. The famous short poem “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” appears in which one of the following eighteenth-century novels?
1. Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
2. Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
3. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
4. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Ans: 3
39. Arrange the following works in the chronological sequence of their year of publication:
A. Mathews Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
B. Thomas Browne’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
C. P. B. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
D. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
E. Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. D, C, B, A, E
3. B, C, E, A, D
4. B, D, C, A, E
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–D–C–A–E) is based on publication dates: Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651), Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry (1840, posthumous publication), Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy (1869), and Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873). It traces major prose works from early modern thought to Victorian cultural criticism.
40. Arrange the following steps of ‘Decision making’ in the research process:
A. The choice of a research topic or theme.
B. Data collection
C. Analysis and interpretation of data.
D. Formulating the research problem.
E. Conceptualization and operationalization.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, D, C, B
2. A, B, C, D, E
3. D, C, A, B, E
4. A, D, E, B, C
Ans: 4
41. Which of the following texts has been written by Rabindranath
Tagore?
1. Tiger-Claw
2. Chandalika
3. A Touch of Brightness
4. Image Breakers
Ans: 2
42. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Poet) LIST-II (Poem)
A. Edmund Spenser I. “Whose List to Hunt”
B. Philip Sidney II. “So Cruel Prison how could Betide”
C. Thomas Wyatt III. “The Faerie Queene”
D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey IV. “The Defense of Poesy”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
4. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind uses terza rima, an interlocking rhyme scheme traditionally arranged aba bcb cdc, derived from Dante. Shelley adapts this pattern to create forward movement and intensity suited to the poem’s storm-like energy.
43. Which of the following poems uses ‘terza rima’?
1. John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”
2. P. B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
3. William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
4. Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Ans: 2
44. Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. “The Tyger”
B. “The Solitary Reaper”
C. “Adonais”
D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
E. “Ode to Autumn”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C, D, E, A
2. C, D, E, A, B
3. A, D, B, E, C
4. D, A, E, B, C
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–D–B–E–C) follows publication chronology: Blake’s “The Tyger” (1794), Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper” (1807), Keats’s “To Autumn” (1820), and Shelley’s Adonais (1821). It tracks the movement from early Romanticism to its later phase.
45. “There is nothing outside the text” is a statement by:
1. Victor Shklovsky
2. Jacques Derrida
3. Roland Barthes
4. Ferdinand de Saussure
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
Derrida’s phrase “There is nothing outside the text” (il n’y a pas de hors-texte), from Of Grammatology (1967), does not mean that reality does not exist. It means we never access reality in a pure, unmediated way; meaning always comes through language, signs, context, and interpretation. There is no viewpoint outside systems of representation from which final truth can be directly grasped.
46. Which of the following is not an autobiography?
1. Patrick White: A Life
2. Long Walk to Freedom
3. My Experiments with Truth
4. Akkarmashi (The Outcaste)
Ans: 1
47. Which of the following novelists did not employ “Stream of Consciousness” technique?
1. Virginia Woolf
2. James Joyce
3. Dorothy Richardson
4. Graham Greene
Ans: 4
48. Which of the following statements are true about Modernism?
A. Modernism marked a break with formal conventions
B. Old ways of thought underwent cultural shift
C. Decline of liberal humanism
D. Modernism revived classical scholarship
E. Modernism promoted logocentric way of thoughts
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. C, D and E only
2. B, C and D only
3. A, B and C only
4. A, D, and E only
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
A, B, and C are correct. Modernism broke with inherited literary forms, reflected major cultural and intellectual shifts, and questioned older certainties such as liberal humanist faith in stable reason and progress. D is incorrect because Modernism was innovative rather than a revival of classical scholarship, and E is wrong since logocentrism is more often critiqued than promoted.
49. Who has written The Life Divine?
1. Dante
2. Emerson
3. Sri Aurobindo
4. Jayant Mahapatra
Ans: 3
50. Which of the statements given below are true?
A. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was established in Berkley in 1960.
B. Jurgen Habermas traces the rise of the public sphere to the rise of print culture.
C. Paul Gilroy introduced the concept of the Black Atlantic.
D. Adorno praises the alien nature of avant-garde modernist art such as the atonal music of Schoenberg.
E. Chuttnication was a term used by Edward Soja
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and D only
3. C, D and E only
4. A, B and D only
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
B, C, and D are correct. Habermas links the public sphere to the growth of print culture; Paul Gilroy introduced the idea of the Black Atlantic to describe transnational Black identity; and Adorno valued avant-garde modernism for resisting mass culture. A is wrong because the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was founded at Birmingham, not Berkeley, and E is incorrect because “chutnification” is associated with Salman Rushdie, not Edward Soja.
51. Who among the following has written the poem, “Jejuri”?
1. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
2. Kamla Das
3. Arun Kolatkar
4. Toru Dutt
Ans: 3
52. Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife who died in 1617?
1. “Death be not Proud”
2. “Thou Hast Made Me”
3. “Holy Sonnet 17”
4. “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
Ans: 3
53. What does deductive method of reasoning refer to?
1. From general to particular
2. From particular to general
3. From linear to circular
4. From circular to linear
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
Deductive reasoning moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion. It applies established rules or premises to particular cases.
54. Which among the following is the last novel of George Eliot?
1. Middlemarch
2. Daniel Deronda
3. Silas Marner
4. The Mill on the Floss
Ans: 2
55. Which of the following is a Dramatic Monologue?
1. “The Cannonization”
2. “Tintern Abbey”
3. “Andrea de Sarto”
4. “The Flea”
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker addresses a silent listener in a specific dramatic situation, revealing character, motives, and psychology through the speech. The poet does not speak directly; the speaker’s own words expose them. It is strongly associated with Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson. Famous examples include Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Tennyson’s “Ulysses.”
56. Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a:
1. Tragi Comedy
2. Romantic Comedy
3. Pastoral Play
4. History Play
Ans: 2
57. Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Fraser’s Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Westminster Review
D. The Quarterly Review
E. Edinburg Review
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. C, D, E, A, B
3. E, D, C, B, A
4. D, C, A, B, E
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (E–D–C–B–A) follows the rise of major British periodicals: Edinburgh Review (1802), The Quarterly Review (1809), The Westminster Review (1824), The Spectator (revived nineteenth-century publication context in this question), and Fraser’s Magazine (1830). The question tests familiarity with literary-public sphere journals and review culture.
58. Arrange the plays of William Shakespeare in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. The Tempest
B. Love’s Labour Lost
C. Twelfth Night
D. Much Ado About Nothing
E. A Mid Summer Night’s Dream
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, E, D, C, A
2. E, A, D, C, B
3. A, B, C, D, E
4. A, C, D, B, E
Ans: 1
59. In which year was Raja Rao’s Kanthapura published?
1. 1938
2. 1960
3. 1965
4. 1947
Ans: 1
60. Arrange the following texts in chronological order of their year of publication:
A. Coolie
B. The Big Heart
C. The Village
D. Two Leaves and a Bud
E. Seven Summers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, C, B, A, E
2. E, A, B, C, D
3. A, B, C, D, E
4. A, D, C, B, E
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–D–C–B–E) follows Mulk Raj Anand’s publication timeline: Coolie (1936), Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), The Village (1939), The Big Heart (1945), and Seven Summers (1951). The question tests familiarity with Anand’s evolving career from social protest fiction to autobiographical writing.
61. Identify the one who was not a ‘New Critic’:
1. Allen Tate
2. Robert Penn Warren
3. Cleanth Brooks
4. Claude Levi-Strauss
Ans: 4
62. Identify the correct options from the following statements:
A. Ecocriticism has often explained the ‘human and non-human webs of interrelation.’
B. In Ecocriticism, human accountability to the environment is part of the text’s ethical orientation.
C. Ecocriticism foregrounds the notion of an interplay between environment and the body.
D. There is only one wave of Ecocriticism.
E. Ecocriticism has not tackled the issue of gender.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C only
2. B, C, D only
3. A, C, D only
4. A, B, D, E only
Ans: 1
63. Which of the following statements are correct about ‘Litotes’?
A. It contains an understatement for emphasis.
B. It is not opposite of hyperbole.
C. It is used with laconic intentions.
D. It is used with ironic intentions.
E. It is used in dramatic context.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C and D only
2. C, D and E only
3. A, D and E only
4. A, C and D only
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
A, C, and D are correct. Litotes is understatement used for emphasis, often by expressing an affirmative through negation (e.g., “not bad”). It can create restrained, concise (laconic) or ironic effects, rather than depending on dramatic context
64. Identify the statements which are true for Psychoanalytic Criticism:
A. The premises and procedures were established by Sigmund Freud.
B. Freud posited that artists are like neurotic patients.
C. Freud posited that ‘Psychoanalysis’ can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization.
D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
E. Freud proposed that literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and D only
2. A, B and C only
3. B, A and D only
4. A, C and E only
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
A, C, and E are correct. Psychoanalytic criticism begins with Freud, who extended psychoanalysis beyond medicine to culture and civilization, and argued that literature can express repressed unconscious desires and conflicts. D is false because repressed wishes often return as fantasy, while B is too simplified as a general claim.
65. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Author) LIST-II (Text)
A. Kamla Markandeya I. The Grip of Change
B. P. Sivakami II. The Enchanted Fruit
C. Anita Desai III. Possession
D. Raj Lakshmi Debi IV. Cry, the Peacock
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-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Ans: 1
66. Which among the following does not fall in the category of a Revenge Tragedy?
1. The Spanish Tragedy
2. The Jew of Malta
3. Hamlet
4. Cymbeline
Ans: 4
67. Identify all the Australian Aboriginal writers out of the following:
A. Kim Scott
B. Peter Carey
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Kevin Gilbert
E. Derek Walcott
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C and D only
2. C, D and E only
3. A, C and D only
4. B, A and E only
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
A, C, and D are Australian Aboriginal writers: Kim Scott, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and Kevin Gilbert. Peter Carey is a non-Indigenous Australian novelist, while Derek Walcott is a Caribbean
68. Which of the following options are true about the epistemological dimension of research?
A. Scientific realism
B. The search for truth
C. Critical theory
D. Certain and indubitable knowledge
E. Mechanism of social control
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. B and D only
3. D and A only
4. C, D and E only
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct options are B and D. The epistemological dimension of research deals with the nature, validity, and certainty of knowledge—hence concerns like the search for truth and certain or indubitable knowledge. A and C are broader philosophical positions, while E relates to sociology or governance rather than epistemology itself.
69. Langston Hughes’ poem “I too Sing America” is a response to which of the following poets?
1. Herman Melville
2. Walt Whitman
3. Henry David Thoreau
4. Emily Dickinson
Ans: 2
70. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I LIST-II
A. Nala and Damayanti I. Sri Aurobindo
B. Jayadeva II. Vasudeva Rao
C. The Viziers of Bassora III. P. A. Krishnaswamy
D. The Flute of Krishna IV. Harindranath
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
2. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4. A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Ans: 2
71. Which of the given statements are correct?
A. Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan is a novel.
B. Joothan represents the Dalit Valmiki community in critical light.
C. Joothan enumerates the difficulties of being a Dalit in independent India.
D. Joothan was translated into English by Arun Prabha Das.
E. Joothan critiques the upper castes.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, D and E only
3. B, C and E only
4. C, D and E only
Ans: 3
72. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Author) LIST-II (Text)
A. Henry Miller I. The Grapes of Wrath
B. John Steinbeck II. No Name in the Streets
C. James Jones III. Tropic of Cancer
D. James Baldwin IV. From Here to Eternity
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-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Ans: 2
73. Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to the:
1. Comprehensive Approach
2. Grammar Translation Method
3. Functional Approach
4. Structural Approach
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The Functional Communicative Approach emphasizes using language for real communication—requesting, informing, persuading, interacting—rather than mastering sentence patterns. It emerged in opposition to the Structural Approach, which focused mainly on grammatical forms and drills instead of communicative competence.
74. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of their year of publication:
A. “Adam’s Curse”
B. “Among School Children”
C. “The Second Coming”
D. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
E. “Under Ben Bulben”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. C, D, B, A, E
3. E, B, D, C, A
4. A, D, C, B, E
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–D–C–B–E) follows Yeats’s poetic career: “Adam’s Curse” (early phase), “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “The Second Coming” (post-war visionary phase), “Among School Children,” and finally “Under Ben Bulben,” one of his late poems. It reflects Yeats’s progression from lyrical reflection to symbolic and philosophical intensity.
75. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Term) LIST-II (Meaning)
A. Antonomasia I. Writings or statements of doubtful or spurious Authorship.
B. Antiphrasis II. A gure of speech in which some defining word or phrase is substituted for a person’s proper name.
C. Apocrypha III. A narrative of miraculous deeds of God or Hero.
D. Aretalogy IV. Ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
3. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
4. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Ans: 1
Quick Insight:
Antonomasia is replacing a proper name with a descriptive title (A–II), such as “the Bard” for Shakespeare. Antiphrasis means using words ironically in the opposite sense (B–IV). Apocrypha refers to writings of doubtful or disputed authorship (C–I). Aretalogy is a narrative praising miraculous deeds of a god or hero (D–III).
76. The incorrect works cited entries according to MLA Handbook, 9th edition are:
A. Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Destruction. Oxford UP, 2011.
B. Charon, Rita, et al. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine. Oxford UP, London, 2017.
C. Saban, Ann. “The Perils of Ownership”. American Review, vol.10, no.2, 2007, pp.1-27.
D. Riddle, Julie. “Shadow Animals.” The Georgia Review, 67.3, pp. 424-47.
E. Copeland, Edward. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austin. Cambridge UP, 1997. 131-48.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and D only
3. B, D and E only
4. D, E and A only
Ans: 3
77. Arrange the following works of literature chronologically based on their year of publication:
A. The English Patient
B. The Swinging Bridge
C. Lives of Girls and Women
D. Family Matters
E. Birnam Wood
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, B, A, C, E
2. B, A, D, C, E
3. C, B, D, A, E
4. C, A, D, B, E
Ans: 4
78. “O Sir, content you’,
I follow him to serve my turn upon him.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.”
The above lines were spoken by which of the following characters?
1. Roderigo
2. Iago
3. Caliban
4. Cassio
Ans: 2
79. Which of the following is not matched correctly?
1. Ira De: The Hunt and Other Poems
2. Margaret Chatterjee: The Spring and the Spectacle
3. Tapati Mookerji: The Golden Road to Samarkhand
4. Tilottama Ranjan: Poems of Govindagraj
Ans: 4
Quick Insight:
Poems of Govindagraj was translated by Sanjivani Marathe, not Tilottama Ranjan. “Govindagraj” was the pen name of the Marathi poet-dramatist Ram Ganesh Gadkari. The question tests knowledge of Indian literary translation and pseudonymous authorship, not just title recognition.
80. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I LIST-II
A. Mikhail Bakhtin I. “Archeology of the Human Sciences”
B. Michael Foucault II. “Text can be either readerly or writerly”
C. Roland Barthes III. “Dialogue as the intrinsic feature of language”
D. Sigmund Freud IV. “Dreams and the unconscious”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
3. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
4. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
This key appears misprinted, because the correct matches should be: Bakhtin—dialogue as intrinsic to language (A–III), Foucault—The Archaeology of the Human Sciences / The Order of Things (B–I), Barthes—readerly/writerly text (C–II), and Freud—dreams and the unconscious (D–IV). The question tests association of theorists with signature concepts.
81. Which of the following works of R. K. Narayan was published after independence?
A. The Dark Room
B. The English Teacher
C. The Financial Expert
D. Swami and Friends
E. The Guide
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and D only
3. C and E only
4. A and D only
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct pair is C and E because The Financial Expert (1952) and The Guide (1958) were published after Indian independence (1947). Swami and Friends, The Dark Room, and The English Teacher were all published in the pre-independence period.
82. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Text) LIST-II (Author)
A. My Days with Gandhi I. D. K. Roy
B. Among the Great II. N. K. Basu
C. Life of Sri Aurobindo III. Krishna Kripalani
D. Rabindranath Tagore IV. A. B. Purani
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Ans: 4
83. Identify the poet who has composed the following lines:
“Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The Jungle crouched, humped in silence.”
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. T. S. Eliot
3. Emily Dickinson
4. Sri Aurobindo
Ans: 2
84. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Text) LIST-II (Author)
A. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian I. Dom Moraes
B. My Son’s Father II. A. S. Iyenger
C. All through the Gandhian Era III. Sasthi Brata
D. My God Died Young IV. Nirad C. Chaudhary
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-I
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Ans: 3
85. Arrange the following works in the chronological order their year of publication:
A. Orientalism
B. Black Skin, White Masks
C. Masks of Conquest
D. The Wretched of the Earth
E. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, D, A, C, E
2. D, B, A, E, C
3. C, B, D, A, E
4. A, C, B, E, A
Ans: Dropped
86. Identify the correct statements concerning the respective genre:
A. An epistle is a literary genre in the form of letter.
B. Epigraph is an inscription on funeral monument.
C. Epigram is a short, pithy poem wittily expressed.
D. Epitaph is a formal statement in the beginning of a literary work
E. Epyllion is a short poem in the meter of an epic poetry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and C only
2. B, D and A only
3. A, C and E only
4. D, C and E only
Ans: 3
Quick Insight:
A, C, and E are correct. An epistle is a letter-form literary work; an epigram is a brief witty poem or saying; and an epyllion is a short narrative poem in epic style or meter. B is wrong because an epigraph is an inscription or quotation placed at the start of a work, while D is wrong because that describes an epigraph, not an epitaph.
87. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II:
LIST-I (Author) LIST-II (Text)
A. Paul Ehrlich I. The Environmental Imagination (1995)
B. Lawrence Buell II. On the Beach (1957)
C. Nevil Shute III. Silent Spring (1962)
D. Rachel Carson IV. The Population Bomb (1972)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
2. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Ans: 2
88. Identify the ones which are matched correctly:
A. Barbara Christian : “The Race for Theory”
B. Alfred W. Crosby : “Unhiding the Hidden”
C. Paul Carter : “Naming Place”
D. Graham Huggan : “Ecological Imperialism”
E. Thomas B Macaulay : “Minutes on Indian Education”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A, C and E only
3. C and D only
4. D and E only
Ans: 2
89. The author of “The Politics of Translation” and translator of Mahasweta Devi’s “Stanadyini” is:
1. Homi Bhabha
2. Jhumpa Lahiri
3. Gayatri C. Spivak
4. Tejaswini Niranjana
Ans: 3
90. Who is the best known gure amongst the following for articulating the concept of ‘Negritude’?
1. Edward Said
2. Aime Cesaire
3. William Jones
4. Anna Rutherford
Ans: 2
Quick Insight:
Aimé Césaire, best-known figure associated with Negritude, the Francophone Black literary and political movement affirming African heritage, Black identity, and anti-colonial resistance. He also helped popularize the term in works like Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939).
[Read the following Passage and answer the questions from 91-95]
One key development in the evolving discussion surrounding popular culture which occurred during the early twentieth century was the association of popular culture with the United States of America. Through Hollywood and associated modes of popular entertainment, the USA was beginning to exercise international cultural inuence. The term ‘Mass culture’ is particularly relevant in this context as it refers to both the effects of American culture as well as to a specic theoretical debate that emerged in America during the post-war period. Dominic Strinati contends in his An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (1995) that ‘mass culture refers to popular culture which is produced by the industrial techniques of mass production, and marketed for proto to a mass public of consumers.’ Such a view of popular culture argues that the industrial revolution produces a series of atomised individuals who had not only lost touch with the communities of shared interest to which they once belonged but that they had also been subjected to the process of mechanisation and alienation. This rendered them ripe for systematic cultural manipulation through uniform, mass produced formulae designed to evoke standardised escapist and superficial pleasures.
91. What is the meaning of ‘Atomised individuals’ in the above paragraph?
1. Mechanised individuals
2. Organic individuals
3. Scientific individuals
4. Both mechanised and alienated individual
Ans: 4
92. Systematic culture manipulation takes place through:
1. Mass production of goods
2. Mass production of culture
3. Mass production of food
4. Technological production
Ans: 2
93. “Mass Culture” refers to:
1. Only the effects of American culture
2. Specific theoretical debate in America during post-war period.
3. Theoretical debates in America during pre-war period.
4. Both the effects of American culture and theoretical debates during post war period.
Ans: 3
94. What is the core issue discussed in the above paragraph?
1. Mass culture
2. Elite culture
3. High culture
4. Low culture
Ans: 1
95. When did popular culture get associated with the U.S.A.?
1. 19th Century
2. 20th Century
3. Early 20th Century
4. Early 21st Century
Ans: 3
[Read the following poem and answer the questions from 96-100]
In all my wand’rings round this world of care,
In all my griefs-and God has giv’n my share
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bow’rs to lay me down;
To husband out life’s taper at the close,
And keep the ame from wasting by repose:
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to show my book learn’d skill,
Around my re an ev’ning group to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw.
96. What is the mood of the poem?
1. Pessimistic
2. Optimistic and resolute
3. Jovial
4. Envious
Ans: 2
97. What does the poem say about the nature of the world?
1. It’s full of joy
2. It’s full of care and hope
3. It’s full of desertion
4. It’s full of wonders
Ans: 2
98. Identify the meter in the poem.
1. Iambic trimeter
2. Iambic tetrameter
3. Iambic pentameter
4. Iambic hexameter
Ans: 3
QI
99. What does the poet intend to do in life?
1. To showcase his talent in singing
2. To complain to God about his misery
3. To complain to the king about injustice
4. To share his life experience
Ans: 4
100. Identify the rhyme scheme in the poem.
1. aa bb cc dd ee
2. abcd abcd ee
3. aaab abca aa
4. abcd ef ef gg
Ans: 1
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