UGC NET June 2023 Evening Shift
1) The following lines are from one of the poems of D. H. Lawrence. Identify the poem?
“And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life. And I have something to expiate; A pettiness.”
1) Bat
2) Snake
3) Mosquito
4) Cypresses
Answer:2
2) Match List I with List II
LIST I
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Pratap Sharma
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Asif Currimbhoy
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Gucharan Das
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Nissim Ezekiel
LIST II
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Sleepwalkers
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Mira
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A Touch of Brightness
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The Hungry Ones
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: 4
3) Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticized speech in bourgeois society?
1) Louis Althusser
2) Michel Foucault
3) Richard Hoggart
4) Roland Barthes
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Roland Barthes, especially in Mythologies (1957), argues that modern myths turn historically produced social meanings into something natural and self-evident. In bourgeois society, myth works as depoliticized speech: it hides ideology by presenting cultural values, power relations, and class interests as common sense.
4) In the context of the ‘nature-nurture’ debate in Linguistics, there is a view that there must be an innate core of abstract knowledge about language form, which pre-specifies a framework for all natural human languages and is currently known as ‘Universal Grammar. Among the following, who is the linguist proposing this view?
1) Claude Levi-Strauss
2) Noam Chomsky
3) Roland Barthes
4) Richard Rorty
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Noam Chomsky. He proposed Universal Grammar, the idea that humans are born with an innate mental framework for language acquisition, which explains how children rapidly learn complex grammar from limited input.
5) Which among the following was not recognized as a major dialogue of Plato?
1) Crito
2) Phaedo
3) Symposium
4) Metaphysics
Answer:4
6) Which of these did Macaulay’s 1835 Minutes on Indian Education want to create?
1) A class of people Eurasian by blood but European by taste
2) A class of people, Indian by blood but English by taste
3) A class of people, Indian by blood but multinational in identity
4) A class of people European by blood but Oriental by taste
Answer:2
Quick Insight:
Macaulay’s 1835 Minute on Indian Education aimed to create “a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” It reflects the colonial policy of producing intermediaries who would serve British administration through English education.
7) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country round appeared like a continued garden, and the inclosed fields, which were generally forty-foot square, resembled so many beds of flowers.
B. There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
C. Having to no purpose used all peaceable endeavors, the collected part of the semen, raised and inflamed, became adult, converted to choler, turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain.
D. Sweeping from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood.
LIST II
I. A Description of a City Shower
II. Gulliver’s Travels
III. A Modest Proposal
IV. A Tale of Tub
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
3) A I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 2
8) Which of the following explains the difference between Conceptual Research and Empirical Research?
1) The former of the two is related to some abstract idea(s) or theory, and the latter relies on experience and observation alone
2) The former of the two is based on the measurement of quantity or amount, and the latter is concerned with qualitative phenomena.
3) The former of the two includes surveys and fact-finding enquiries, and the latter uses information already available to make a critical evaluation of the material
4) The former aims at finding a solution for an immediate problem, and the latter is concerned mainly with generalizations and the formulation of theory.
Answer:1
Quick Insight:
Conceptual research deals with ideas, models, and theoretical frameworks, often through analysis and interpretation. Empirical research depends on observable evidence—data gathered through experience, experiment, or systematic observation. The distinction is essentially theory-oriented versus evidence-oriented inquiry.
9) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Culture and Environment
B. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
C. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983- 1998
D. The Uses of Literacy
LIST II
I. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
II. FR Leavis and D Thompson
III. Fredric Jameson
IV. Richard Hoggart
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 2
10) Who among the following is the author of the novel titled Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?
1) Walt Whitman
2) Herman Melville
3) Mark Twain
4) Tennessee Williams
Answer: 2
11) Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
A) Reflections on the Revolution in France
B) Preface to Shakespeare
C) The Social Contract
D) Treatise on Human Nature
E) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Choose the correct answer from the following options:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) C, A, B, E, D
3) D. E, C, B. A
4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (D–E–C–B–A) follows publication chronology: Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Rousseau’s The Social Contract (1762), Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare (1765), and Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). It traces Enlightenment philosophy into literary criticism and political thought.
12) Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism.
Reason (R): Poststructuralism continues structuralism’s strongly humanist perspective, and it closely follows structuralism in its belief that language is not the key to our understanding of ourselves and the world.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1) Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect.
3) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
4) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Poststructuralism emerges from and critiques structuralism, so the Assertion is true. The Reason is false because poststructuralism does not continue a strongly humanist perspective; instead, it questions stable subjectivity and places language at the center of how meaning and identity are formed.
13) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Deconstruction
B. Hegemony
C. Habitus
D. Interpellation
LIST II
I. Jacques Derrida
II. Antonio Gramsci
III. Louis Althusser
IV. Pierre Bourdieu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 1
14) From which poem are the following lines extracted?
“Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, and some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit, these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defense.”
1) Mac Flecknoe
2) Hudibras
3) An Essay on Criticism
4) An Essay on Dramatick Poesy
Answer:3
15) Of which of the following was Charles Dickens the founding editor?
A) North and South
B) The Newcomes
C) Household Words
D) The Way We Live Now
E) All the Year Round
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and D
3) C and E
4) D and E
Answer:3
16) Which of these are part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy?
A) Agamemnon
B) The Libation Bearers
C) Antigone
D) Oedipus at Colonus
E) Electra
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) C and D
4) D and A
Answer:1
Quick Insight:
Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy consists of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers (Choephori), and The Eumenides. The trilogy traces the curse on the House of Atreus—from Agamemnon’s murder, to Orestes’ revenge, to the transformation of private blood vengeance into public legal justice. Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus are by Sophocles, while Electra belongs to later treatments of the same myth.
17) Name the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century.
1) A Sinfield
2) K Peacock
3) R Hayman
4) JR Taylor
Answer:1
18) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Althusser’s theory of “interpellation” implies the act of hailing like “Hey, you!” and thereby turning individuals into ideological, consenting subjects.
Statement II: Althusser’s theory of interpellation is very much similar to the concept of Derrida’s theory of deconstruction.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
3) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false.
4) Statement I is false, but Statement II is true.
Answer:3
Quick Insight:
The correct answer is 3. Statement I is true: Althusser uses “interpellation” to describe how ideology “hails” individuals and constitutes them as subjects who recognize themselves within social systems. Statement II is false because this concept belongs to Marxist ideology theory and is not equivalent to Derrida’s deconstruction, which analyzes instability and difference in meaning.
19) Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?
1) Matthew Arnold
2) Charles Darwin
3) John Henry Newman
4) John Stuart Mill
Answer:2
20) Which of the following are true in the context of Jonathan Swift?
A) He was born in Dublin and studied at Kilkenny Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin
B) He co-authored a book with Samuel Johnson
C) He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1695
D) He was a member of the Kit-Kat Club
E) He wrote the sensational novel Lady Audley’s Secret
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and D
2) B and C
3) C and D
4) A and C
Answer: 4
21) Which of the following points are correct regarding the Direct Method of teaching English in a classroom scenario?
A) There is no interference with the mother tongue
B) There is a direct connection with the target language (English). Learners think in the target language and express themselves in the target language.
C) The teaching learning process is earned out in English.
D) This method is useful in an overcrowded classroom situation.
E) This method is based on the principle of “Doing by Learning.”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C
2) B, D, E
3) C, D, E
4) D, E, A
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct set is A, B, and C. The Direct Method avoids use of the mother tongue, teaches through the target language itself, and encourages learners to think and communicate directly in English. It is generally less suited to overcrowded classrooms, and its principle is closer to learning by doing, not “doing by learning.”
22) Who, among the following has written Lear (a play), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear?
1) Edward Bond
2) Arthur Miller
3) Steven Berkoff
4) Virginia Woolf
Answer: 1
23) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Peter Middleton
B. Patricia Waugh
C. David Kennedy
D. Edward Larrissy
LIST II
I. New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980—1994
II. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
III. Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects
IV. The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960-1990
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 3
24) Who among the following, as the proprietor of the Rose theatre, repaired it in 1592 and in 1595, and spent substantial sums on renovating and expanding his theatre?
1) James Burbage
2) Philip Henslowe
3) Richard Burbage
4) Francis Langley
Answer:2
25) Who among the following are the writers of Secular prose in the 14th century?
A) John of Trevisa
B) Julian of Norwich
C) John Mandeville
D) Bernard of Clairvaux
E) Walter Hilton
Choose the Correct answer from the options given below
1) A and B
2) B and D
3) A and C
4) D and E
Answer:3
26) Find the chronological order of Thomas Hardy’s poetry publications:
A) “Channel Firing”
B) “The Darkling Thrush”
C) “In Time of the Breaking of Nations”
D) “He Never Expected Much”
E) “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B, E, A, C, D
3) C, D, E, B. A
4) D, B, C, A, E
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order (B–E–A–C–D) follows publication chronology: “The Darkling Thrush” (1900), “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy” (1902), “Channel Firing” (1914), “In Time of the Breaking of Nations” (1915), and “He Never Expected Much” (late Hardy collections, 1920s). It traces Hardy’s shift from fin-de-siècle pessimism to war-time reflection and late stoic wisdom.
27) What is the standard format for citing a book as per the requirements of the MLA Handbook Eighth Edition?
1) Surname, First name. Title of the Book in italics. Place of Publication: Name of the Publishing House, Year of publication.
2) Surname, First name in initials (Year of Publication). Title of the Book. Place of Publication. Name of the Publishing House.
3) Surname. First name. Title of the Book in italics. Name of the Publishing House, Year of publication.
4) Surname, First name. Title of the Book in italics. Place of Publication: Name of the Publishing House, Year of publication. Print.
Answer:3
28) Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): James Ellroy started writing crime fiction, commencing with Brown’s Requiem (1981)
Reason (R): James Ellroy’s mother was murdered in 1958.
In the context of the statements above, choose the most appropriate answer from among the options below:
1) Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)
3) (A) is correct, but (R) is not correct
4) (A) is not correct, but (R) is correct
Answer:2
29) Who, along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought now known as British Cultural Studies?
1) Raymond Williams
2) Walter Benjamin
3) Stephen Greenblatt
4) Helen Tiffin
Answer:1
30) Who among the following displays an influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays?
1) Vijay Tendulkar
2) Girish Karnad
3) Badal Sircar
4) Utpal Dutt
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Girish Karnad shows the influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition, especially in his use of masks, music, stylized narration, and mythic material. His theatre often blends indigenous performance forms with modern dramatic concerns.
31) Arrange the publication of the following books in chronological order.
A) The Location of Culture
B) The Future of the Race
C) Black Literature and Literary Theory
D) The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
E) Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, C, D, B, and E
2) E, C, B, A, and D
3) D, E, B, A, and C
4) C, E, D, A, and B
Answer:4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–E–D–A–B) follows publication chronology: Black Literature and Literary Theory (1984), Reconstructing Womanhood (1987), Gates’s The Signifying Monkey (1988), Bhabha’s The Location of Culture (1994), and The Future of the Race (1996). The sequence traces Black literary theory, feminist recovery, signification theory, postcolonial hybridity, and race debates.
32) Arrange the following writers chronologically in accordance with their years of birth:
A) James Boswell
B) Edward Gibbon
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Edmund Burke
E) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Choose the correct answer from the following options:
1) C, D, B, A, E.
2) C, A, B, E, D
3) A, C, B, D, E
4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer:1
33) Who is the writer of “The Flies”, an adaptation of the Electra myth?
1) Jean-Paul Sartre
2) Edward Bond
3) Albert Camus
4) TS Eliot
Answer:1
Quick Insight:
Jean-Paul Sartre, whose The Flies (Les Mouches, 1943) reworks the Electra/Orestes myth. The Electra myth comes from the House of Atreus cycle: Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus murder Agamemnon; later his children Electra and Orestes seek revenge by killing their mother and Aegisthus. Greek tragedians used it to explore justice, guilt, revenge, fate, and the shift from blood vengeance to law. Sartre turns it into an existential drama about freedom, choice, and resistance to tyranny.
34) Spenser’s The Shepherd’s Calendar, published in 1579, was dedicated to
1) Wyatt
2) Surrey
3) Sidney
4) Bacon
Answer: 3
35) Who among the following acknowledged that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose; the difference lies in the different combination of these elements and the difference of purpose?
1) John Dryden
2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3) Alexander Pope
4) Philip Sydney
Answer: 2
36) Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following poems of Louis McNeice were published:
A) “Sunday Morning”
B) “Bagpipe Music”
C) “Star-Gazer”
D) “Entirely”
E) “Prayer Before Birth”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, E, C
2) B, E, A, C, D
3) C, D, E, B. A
4) D, B, C, A, E
Answer:1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (A–B–D–E–C) follows McNeice’s poetic development: “Sunday Morning” and “Bagpipe Music” belong to his 1930s socially alert phase, “Entirely” follows in the same mature period, “Prayer Before Birth” emerges from World War II anxieties, and “Star-Gazer” belongs to his later reflective poetry. The sequence moves from urban irony to wartime urgency and late contemplation.
37) Which of these plays features the rehearsal of a play within the body of the main play?
A) William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
B) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
C) Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
D) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
E) Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1)A and D
2) B and E
3) A and C
4) C and D
Answer: 2
38) Which among the following are correct?
A) Philip Roth – USA
B) Shirley Jackson – Australia
C) Henry James – Canada
D) Ruskin Bond – India
E) Ali Cobby Eckermann – Australia
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D, and E
2) A, C, and D
3) A, D, and E
4) B, C, and D
Answer:3
39) Arrange in chronological order the publication of the following anthologies of poetry by Nissim Ezekiel:
A) The Exact Name
B) Latter-Day Psalms
C) Sixty Poems
D) The Unfinished Man
E) A Time to Change
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C, D, A, and E
2) E, C, D, A, and B
3) D, E, C, B, and A
4) A, D, B, E, and C
Answer:2
Quick Insight:
The correct order (E–C–D–A–B) follows Ezekiel’s poetic career: A Time to Change (1952), Sixty Poems (1953), The Unfinished Man (1960), The Exact Name (1965), and Latter-Day Psalms (1982). The sequence traces his growth from early modern Indian English verse to mature irony, self-scrutiny, and spiritual satire.
40) Which famous English poet, at an early age announcing his admiration for D. H. Lawrence, excitedly wrote to his friend, “I have been reading Sons and Lovers and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing that book, he’d still be England’s greatest novelist”?
1) Virginia Woolf
2) W.H. Auden
3) Dylan Thomas
4) Philip Larkin
Answer:4
41) Who among the following translated Aristotle’s Poetics into Latin?
1) Giorgio Valla
2) Pierre Corneille
3) Hugh Tredennick
4) W. Hamilton Fyfe
Answer:1
42) Arrange the following works in chronological order of their publication:
A) Tara
B) Mister Behram
C) Goa
D) Marriage-Poem
E) The Dumb Dancer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, D, C, A, E
2) D, E, C, A, B
3) D, C, E, A, B
4) A, C, B, E, D
Answer:3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (D–C–E–A–B) follows publication chronology across Indian English drama and poetry: Marriage-Poem appears earliest, followed by Goa, then The Dumb Dancer, Tara, and finally Mister Behram. The question tests recognition of modern Indian English literary texts across genres rather than a single author’s oeuvre.
43) Which of the following plays may be considered as a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear?
1) G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion
2) Luigi Pirandello’s Bellavita
3) August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death
4) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
Answer:4
44) Find the chronological sequence of John Milton’s publications:
A) “Paradise Lost”
B) “Lycidas”
C) “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”
D) “On Shakespeare”
E) “Paradise Regained”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B, D, E, C, A
3) C, D, E, B, A
4) C, D, B, A, E
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–D–B–A–E) follows Milton’s poetic career: “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” (1629), “On Shakespeare” (1630), Lycidas (1637), Paradise Lost (1667), and Paradise Regained (1671). It moves from early occasional verse to his major epic and late biblical sequel.
45) Who composed the poem “Address to a Steamvessel”?
1) Maria Edgeworth
2) Joanna Baillie
3) Catherine Mansfield
4) John Millington Synge
Answer:2
46) Arrange the following in accordance with their dates of first publication:
A) Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
B) Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
C) TS Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture
D) Raymond Williams, Keywords
E) Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel
Choose the correct answer from the following options:
1) C, E, D, A, B
2) D, B, E, A, C
3) B, D, A, E, C
4) A, E, B, D, C
Answer:1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–E–D–A–B) follows publication chronology: Eliot’s Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), Watt’s The Rise of the Novel (1957), Williams’s Keywords (1976), Said’s Orientalism (1978), and Jameson’s The Political Unconscious (1981). The sequence tracks postwar debates on culture, genre, language, empire, and ideology
47) Who among the following is the author of the collection of stories named Reginald in Russia?
1) Hector Hugh Munro ‘Saki’
2) Leo Tolstoy
3) Oscar Wilde
4) William Carlos Williams
Answer: 1
48) Which of these are plays written by Bertolt Brecht?
A) The Caucasian Chalk Circle
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Archimedes
E) Man Equals Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, and C
2) B, C, and D
3) A, B, and E
4) B, C, and D
Answer:3
49) Arrange the following chronologically in accordance with their date of birth:
A) Goethe
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Bertolt Brecht
D) Eugene O’Neill
E) Moliere
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, C, E
2) B, E, A, C, D
3) C, D, A, B, E
4) E, A, B, D, C
Answer:4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (E–A–B–D–C) follows birth years: Molière (1622), Goethe (1749), Oscar Wilde (1854), Eugene O’Neill (1888), and Bertolt Brecht (1898). The sequence spans classical French comedy to modern European and American drama.
50) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Invisible Man, published in 1952, is a novel by American writer Ralph Ellison
Statement II: It is a surreal and claustrophobic novel that describes the experiences of a young African American in New York.
In the context of the statements above, choose the correct answer from among the following:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false, but Statement II is true
Answer:1
51) Who does Achitophel represent in John Dryden’s allegorical poem Absalom and Achitophel?
1) First Earl of Shaftesbury
2) First Duke of Monmouth
3) First Duke of Buckingham
4) First Duke of York
Answer: 1
52) Identify the two previous titles of the poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” as Walt Whitman continued to revise it until it reached the present form in the “Sea-Drift” section of the 1881 edition.
A) “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”
B) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
C) “A Child’s Reminiscence”
D) “The Wound-Dresser”
E) “A Word Out of the Sea”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C and E
2) D and B
3) A and D
4) B and E
Answer:1
53) Penguin Books were prosecuted for obscenity and later acquitted for publishing a novel of D. H. Lawrence that makes a frank description of sex and an uncompromising use of four-letter words. Which of the following is the title of the novel?
1) Sons and Lovers
2) The White Peacock
3) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
4) Women in Love
Answer:3
54) Which of the following does Roland Barthes contend in “From Work to Text”?
A) The work is a methodological field
B) The text must be understood as a computable object
C) The Text is plural
D) The work is never caught up in a process of filiation
E) The work is ordinarily the object of consumption
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and D
3) C and E
4) B and E
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct pair is C and E. In “From Work to Text,” Barthes argues that the Text is plural, open to multiple meanings and interwoven codes, while the work is traditionally treated as an object to be consumed. He contrasts the fixed, bounded “work” with the active, productive, open-ended “Text.”
55) According to Andrew Milner in Re-Imagining Cultural Studies, of the four important kinds of meanings that Raymond Williams attaches to the word ‘culture’ in his early work, which three remain in play in Keywords?
A) an individual habit of mind
B) the state of intellectual development of a whole society
C) the arts as a whole
D) the way of life of a group or people
E) elitism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, and C
2) B, C, and D
3) C, D, and A
4) D, A, and B
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct set is B, C, and D. In Williams’s later Keywords, culture continues to signify the intellectual development of society, the arts, and a whole way of life. These meanings move beyond older notions of culture as merely individual refinement or elitist taste.
56) “My man, my sons, formed the axis while I, wife and mother, insignificant as a fly climbed the glass panes of their eyes.”
Identify the poem written by Kamala Das from which the above lines have been taken.
1) The Latest Toy’
2) ‘The Old Playhouse’
3) An Introduction’
4) A Widow’s Lament
Answer:4
57) In which year was Edmund Burke’s Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful published?
1) 1742
2) 1744
3) 1750
4) 1757
Answer: 4
58) Who among the following was NOT one of the original members of Johnson’s Literary Club?
1) Oliver Goldsmith
2) John Dryden
3) Edmund Burke
4) John Hawkins
Answer:2
59) Which poetry anthologies have NOT been written by Philip Larkin?
A) The North Ship
B) The Less Deceived
C) The Whitsun Weddings
D) Death of a Naturalist
E) Responsibilities
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) C and A
4) D and E
Answer:4
60) Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock?
A) Headlong Hall
B) Nightmare Abbey
C) Imaginary Conversations
D) The Spirit of the Age
E) Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
Choose the Correct answer from the options given below
1) A and B
2) B and D
3) C and D
4) D and E
Answer:1
61) Who among the following was famous as a diarist? Who among the following was famous as a diarist?
1) John Evelyn
2) John Bunyan
3) Earl of Rochester
4) Robert Walker
Answer:1
62) Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
A) Jane Eyre
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Middlemarch
D) The Return of the Native
E) The Newcomes
Choose the correct answer from the following options:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) A, E, B, C, D
3) B, A, C, E, D
4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer:2
63) Which influential cultural theorist stated the following regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies?
“What is important are the significant breaks – where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes.”
1) Richard Hoggart
2) Stuart Hall
3) Raymond Williams
4) Alan Sinfield
Answer:2
64) Who composed Lucasta: Posthume Poems, published posthumously?
1) George Herbert
2) Thomas Carew
3) Richard Lovelace
4) Sir John Suckling
Answer:3
65) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Hazlitt
C. Walter SavageLandor
D. Thomas Love Peacock
LIST II
I. Imaginary Conversations
II. Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
III. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
IV. Gryll Grange
1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Answer:3
66) Who was the author of Novum Organum?
1) Robert Burton
2) Francis Bacon
3) Thomas Browne
4) Montaigne
Answer:2
67) Name the playwright who has written Gallathea?
1) Robert Greene
2) Thomas Lodge
3) Thomas Nashe
4) John Lyly
Answer: 4
68) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Purushottam Lal
B. Adil Jussawalla
C. A.K. Ramanujan
D. R. Parthasarathy
LIST II
I. Speaking of Siva
II. The Man of Dharma and the Rasa of Silence
III. Rough Passage
IV. Missing Person
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
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:4
69) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. David Hume
B. Edward Gibbon
C. William Godwin
D. Tobias Smollett
LIST II
I. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
II. A Complete History of England
III. Treatise on Human Nature
IV. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Answer:1
70) Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Unlike Plato, Aristotle considers that poetry at its best requires great skill, and also differentiates between good and bad poetry on clear and systematic aesthetic grounds.
Statement II: Aristotle accepts Plato’s insight that the emotions are important to poetry, but rejects Plato’s distrust of the emotions.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false, but Statement II is true
Answer:1
71) Which of the following is the first novel of Beryl Bainbridge?
1) The Bottle Factory Outing
2) A Weekend with Claude
3) Harriet Said
4) Filthy Lucre
Answer:2
72) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Christopher Hill
B. Catherine Belsey
C. E. M. W. Tillyard
D. Thomas N Corns
LIST II
I. Milton
II. Milton’s Language
III. John Milton: Language, Gender, Power
IV. Milton and the English Revolution
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer:1
73) Which of these do M K Naik and Shyamala Narayan claim about Indian English Drama in Indian English Literature: 1980-2000: A Critical Survey?
1) It is a dynamic genre
2) It is the sick man of Indian English literature
3) It is deeply rooted in the Indian folk tradition
4) It is essentially a diasporic phenomenon
Answer:2
74) Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication:
A) Jude the Obscure
B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C) Under the Greenwood Tree
D) A Pair of Blue Eyes
E) Far From the Madding Crowd
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D, E, B, and A
2) D, E, A, C, and B
3) E, A, C, D, and B
4) A, B, C, D, and E
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–D–E–B–A) follows Hardy’s career from pastoral fiction to tragic realism: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). The sequence shows his shift from rural comedy toward darker social critique and fatalism.
75) Which of the novelists have been correctly matched with their works?
A) Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native
B) Charles Dickens – The History of Henry Esmond
C) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
D) George Eliot – Northanger Abbey
E) Charlotte Brontë – The Professor
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D, and B
2) A, C, and E
3) B, C, and D
4) C, D, and E
Answer: 2
76) Which of the following poems are written by the American poet. Robert Lowell?
A) “Anecdote of the Jar”
B) “Skunk Hour”
C) “Howl”
D) “Night Swe”
E) “A Gift Outright”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and D
3) C and E
4) E and A
Answer:2
77) In a novel of Charles Dickens, a high-spirited boy of 19 is left penniless along with his mother and sister Kate on the death of his father. Which of the following is the novel?
1) Oliver Twist
2) David Copperfield
3) Nicholas Nickleby
4) Hard Times
Answer:3
78) Who was the writer of A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature?
1) M K Naik
2) Shyamala Narayan
3) EF Oaten
4) KR Srinivasa Iyengar
Answer:3
79) Which of the following two plays have been written by Arthur Miller?
A) They Too Arise
B) The Real Thing
C) Some Kind of Love Story
D) Tiny Alice
E) The Crying of Lot 49
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and E
3) C and E
4) B and D
Answer:1
80) Who among the following had observed in the pamphlet titled ‘Plays Confuted in Five Actions’ (1582), “I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that… bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked to furnish the playhouses in London.”
1) Ben Jonson
2) George Gascoigne
3) Stephen Gosson
4) George Farquhar
Answer: 3
81) Which of the following books were published in the year 1791?
A) Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
B) James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson
C) Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
D) Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents E. Paine’s The Rights of Man
Choose the Correct answer from the options given below
1) A and C
2) B and E
3) C and D
4) D and E
Answer:2
82) Joseph Addison was associated with which of the following?
A) The London Magazine
B) The Spectator
C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
D) The Tatler
E) The Rambler
Choose the Correct answer from the options given below
1) A and D
2) B and D
3) C and E
4) D and E
Answer:2
83) Which of the following books is NOT written by Raymond Williams?
1) Keywords
2) Culture and Society: 1780-1950
3) Culture and Imperialism
4) The Country and the City
Answer: 3
84) Which of the following novels are written by Wilkie Collins?
A) Basil
B) A Tale of a Tub
C) The Woman in White
D) Lapsing
E) A School for Lovers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) C and D
3) A and C
4) B, C, and D
Answer: 3
85) Which among the following was NOT written by Thomas Carlyle?
1) ‘Signs of the Times’
2) Sartor Resartus
3) The Stones of Venice
4) The Life of John Sterling
Answer:3
86) Match List I with List II
LIST I
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. William Faulkner
C. Herman Melville
D. Mark Twain
LIST II
I. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
II. Light in August
III. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
IV. Across The River And Into The Trees
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3) A-I. B-III, C-II, D-IV
4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 1 A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
87) According to Stuart Hall, which of these is generally accepted to be true of Cultural Studies as it was practised at the University of Birmingham in the UK?
A) It sought to strengthen the barrier between high culture and low culture
B) It sought to privilege the study of the text at the cost of context
C) It could accommodate the study of the lives of working-class people
D) It sought to promote readings based on social and political contexts
E) It was essentially apolitical
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) C and D
3) A and E
4) B and E
Answer:2
Quick Insight:
The correct pair is C and D. Birmingham Cultural Studies, associated with Stuart Hall, focused on everyday life, popular culture, and the experiences of working-class people while insisting that texts be read through their social, historical, and political contexts. It challenged elite culture divisions and was explicitly political rather than neutral.
88) Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of T. S. Eliot were first published:
A) The Sacred Wood
B) Notes towards the Definition of Culture
C) The Metaphysical Poets
D) The Function of Criticism
E) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D, A, E, B
2) D, C, A, B, E
3) A, C, D, E, B
4) B. A, C, D, E
Answer:3
89) Which poems have NOT been composed by Adrienne Rich?
A) “Driving into the Wreck”
B) “Transcendental Etude”
C) “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
D) “The Applicant”
E) “Ripples on the Surface”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) A and C
4) D and E
Answer: 4
90) Which two plays of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
A) A Marriage Proposal
B) Three Sisters
C) The Cherry Orchard
D) Uncle Vanya
E) The Seagull
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and D
2) C and E
3) B and D
4) B and E
Answer:4
Read the following poem and answer the questions from 91-95
Apostrophe to Man Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out. Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes; Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade: Convert again into
explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose; Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies The hopeful bodies of the young: exhort, Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed: Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize Bacteria harmful to human tissue, Put death on
the market: Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
91) What is the meaning of the word “putrescent”?
1) Decomposed
2) Essential
3) Vitalistic
4) Efflorescent
Answer: 1
92) What one of the following statements is true?
1) The poem is concerned about unmasking racial discrimination.
2) The poem is concerned about humans’ propensity to go to war despite all the catastrophes it creates in its wake.
3) The poem is pro-war, eulogizing humans’ heroic capacity to attain martyrdom for the sake of their nation
4) The poem is affirmative in its overall tenor.
Answer:2
93) The title of the poem “Apostrophe to Man” is in the context of the overall content.
1) Befitting and relevant
2) Ironic and satirical
3) Personal and affective
4) A eulogy and ode to homo sapiens
Answer:2
94) The last line – “Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out” has the figurative device termed:
1) Synecdoche
2) Spoonerism
3) Alliteration
4) Palindrome
Answer:3
95) What is the meaning of the word “detestable” in the context of the poem?
1) Ebullient
2) Contemptible
3) Magnanimous
4) Redoubtable
Answer:2
Read the following passage and answer the questions from 96-100
Emergent in the wake of industrialization, studies of everyday life endeavor to bring into visibility and somehow make sense of our humble, taken-for-granted, seemingly unremarkable experience of the quotidian. The project has meant subjecting modern Western individuals to the kind of anthropological scrutiny more often reserved for non-Western peoples. The goal has been to explore patterns of behavior not because they are foreign but because they are so familiar as to fall beneath our notice. Artists as well as social theorists in this tradition set out to register and evaluate the neglected minutiae of our daily lives: the ways we sleep and ambulate, ingest and eliminate, work and recreate, care for ourselves and others, slip in and out of self- awareness, and interact with people, objects, and our surroundings. Generally speaking, everyday life studies is a science of the “small.” Though usually framed in relation to larger social structures, the objects of attention are micro-moments and micro-actions – turning a street corner, stirring a pot, feeding an infant. They are actions that take place without rising to the status of “event.” They are moments in time that leave no historical mark (at least as “history” has traditionally been understood). As these examples suggest, such practices are “everyday” not only because they are “ordinary” but also because they typically occur every day, perhaps even every few hours. Whether tied to bodily rhythms or the rigors of wage work, the non-events of everyday life are almost always characterized by patterns of repetition. Theorists of the everyday, focusing on the effects of modernity, have taken various stances on the political implications of our daily routines. Some have tied their repetitive nature to the mechanization and alienation of labor in a capitalist society. For Michel Foucault, domination is not restricted to the factory floor; the workings of power are more diffuse and insidious than this, operating in the very interstices of our seemingly private lives. For Michel de Certeau, the quotidian is a site not of forcible conformity but of micro-opportunities to defy the dominant order.
96) What is the meaning of the word “quotidian”?
1) Extraordinary situation
2) Quotation-worthy phrase
3) Daily practices
4) Post-millennial epoch
Answer: 3
97) What is not related to the meaning of “interstice”?
1) Monolithic
2) In-betweenness
3) Ambivalence
4) Slippage
Answer:1
98) “Everyday life” as a theory deals with –
1) Events of gargantuan magnitude
2) Events that are mundane and steeped in banality
3) Events that are part of history’s grand narratives
4) Events that are epochal to the life of a community or nation
Answer: 2
99. Why are everyday life studies regarded as a science of the “small” in the passage?
1) Because it deals only and exclusively with the lives of disenfranchised subjects.
2) Because it is anthropological in methodology, and therefore a “small” science.
3) Because it does not accommodate social sciences within its epistemological framework.
4) Because it deals with events that are a part of our mundane processes and practices.
Answer:4
100) In the context of the passage, Michel de Certeau’s theory of “everyday life” offers a site of the dominant.
1) Acquiescing
2) Resisting
3) Theorizing
4) Imagining
Answer: 2
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