UGC NET June 2024
1) Who among the following was not associated with Cambridge School of Critics?
1. F.R. Leavis
2. Q.D. Leavis
3. William Empson
4. Kenneth Burke
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Cambridge School of Critics refers mainly to critics connected with Cambridge University and practical criticism, especially I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Q. D. Leavis, and William Empson. They emphasized close reading, moral seriousness, and evaluative criticism. Kenneth Burke was an American theorist known instead for rhetoric, dramatism, and symbolic action.
2) Patrick White, the Australian novelist, was a recipient of which of the following prizes:
A. Australian of the Year (1973)
B. Pulitzer Prize (1965)
C. Booker Prize (1955)
D. Nobel Prize in Literature (1973)
E. Perkins Prize in Narrative (1992)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. A and D only
3. A and E only
4. B and C only
Answer: 2
3) Which of the following magazines aimed at depicting concerns of girls who embraced the tenets of girl culture – the girlhood?
A. Sassy
B. Bust
C. Bitch
D. Ophelia Speaks
E. Colonize This!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and D only
2. A, E and D only
3. A, B and C only
4. B, C and D only
Answer: 3
4) Which among the following does not fall in the category of Morality Plays?
1. The Castell of Perseverance
2. Mind, Will and Understanding
3. Mankind
4. The City Heiress
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The City Heiress iss a Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn, not a medieval Morality Play. Morality plays are allegorical dramas featuring personified virtues, vices, and the soul’s moral struggle, as in Mankind or The Castell of Perseverance.
5) Annotated Bibliography provides:
1. A list of all the works cited/referred to in the research.
2. Only those works that are cited in the research.
3. A brief summary stating the importance of the works cited/referred to in the research.
4. A 250-worded abstract.
Answer: 3
6) Which of the following statements are correct regarding Dalit Panthers Movement?
A. Dalit Panthers movement was influenced by the Black Panthers Movement.
B. Dalit Panthers is a social organisation that was founded by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
C. Dalit Panthers movement was led by Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal and J.V. Pawar.
D. Jyotiba Phule participated actively in Dalit Panthers Movement.
E. Dalit Panthers movement was rooted in the little Magazine Movement.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C, D only
2. A, B, C only
3. A, C, E only
4. A, D, E only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
A, C, and E are correct. The Dalit Panthers (founded in 1972) were inspired by the Black Panthers, led by figures like Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar, and grew out of the radical Marathi Little Magazine movement. B is incorrect because Ambedkar had died before its formation, and D is impossible since Jyotiba Phule belonged to an earlier nineteenth-century generation.
7) What is the correct chronological order of the works of John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Lycidas
D. Comus
E. L’Allegro
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. E, D, C, A, B
2. C, D, B, A, E
3. A, B, E, C, D
4. C, E, A, B, D
Answer: 1
8) Which of the following books was edited by gay activists and artists Joseph Beam and Essex Hemphill?
1. Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991)
2. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (2016)
3. Race Men (2000)
4. Manning the Race (2004)
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men was first edited by Joseph Beam (1986), and after his death the project was continued and expanded by Essex Hemphill in the 1991 edition. The anthology is a landmark text in Black queer writing, bringing together voices often marginalized in both racial and sexual politics.
9) From the following writers, who are known for Magic Realism?
A. R.K. Narayan
B. Salman Rushdie
C. V.S. Naipaul
D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
E. Mulk Raj Anand
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. B and D only
4. D and E only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Magic Realism is a narrative mode in which supernatural, mythical, or extraordinary events appear within an otherwise realistic world and are treated as normal by characters. The marvelous is presented without surprise, so magic and everyday reality coexist seamlessly,it is strongly associated with Latin American fiction, especially Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Isabel Allende, and later postcolonial writers like Salman Rushdie. Common features include myth, folklore, cyclical time, political history, collective memory, and challenges to Western rational realism.
10) Match List – I with List – II.
List – I (Text)
A. Coolie
B. The Serpent and the Rope
C. Waiting for the Mahatma
D. Shadow from Ladakh
List – II (Character)
I. Satyajit
II. Munoo
III. Ramaswamy
IV. Sriram
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
2. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
3. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 4
11) What is the correct sequence of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh in order of their year of publication?
A. The Hungry Tide
B. The Shadow Lines
C. The Sea of Poppies
D. The Calcutta Chromosome
E. The Circle of Reason
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, E, D, C, A
2. E, B, D, A, C
3. A, E, D, B, C
4. D, C, A, B, E
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order is E–B–D–A–C: The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Hungry Tide (2004), and The Sea of Poppies (2008). The sequence traces Ghosh’s movement from early postcolonial fiction to historical and ecological narratives.
12) Identify the author who stated the following lines—
“There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is…to move: the first is a rudder; the second an oar or a sail.”
1. Alexander Pope
2. Thomas de Quincey
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Philip Sidney
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The quotation is by Thomas De Quincey, from his essay “The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power” in Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected (1823), later reprinted in his collected essays. He distinguishes writing that informs from writing that moves and transforms feeling.
13) Which articles of Indian Constitution relate to the provisions relating to the O cial Language of the Union?
A.342
B.343
C.344
D.345
E.346
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. C and D only
2. D and E only
3. B and C only
4. A and B only
Answer: 2
14) Who among the following was not associated with the Yale School?
1. Harold Bloom
2. Terry Eagleton
3. Paul de Man
4. Jacques Derrida
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The Yale School was a group of American literary critics at Yale University in the 1970s associated with introducing and developing deconstruction in the United States. Major figures include Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom (loosely connected), and sometimes Jacques Derrida through influence.
They emphasized the instability of language, rhetorical complexity, undecidable meanings, and the way texts undermine their own apparent claims.
15) “The Two Nations” is the subtitle of —
1. Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
2. Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil
3. Anthony Trollope’s The Warden
4. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Answer: 2
16) Match List – I with List – II.
List – I (Term/Concept)
A. Objectivism
B. Pathetic Fallacy
C. Sprung Rhythm
D. Structures of Feeling
List – II (Invented / Coined by)
I. John Ruskin
II. G.M. Hopkins
III. William Carlos Williams
IV. Raymond Williams
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2. A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 4
17) Match List – I with List – II.
QI
List – I (Book)
A. The Complete Adventures of Feluda
B. The Perfect Murder
C. Sacred Games
D. Poisoned Arrow in the Purple Line
List – II (Author)
I. Vikram Chandra
II. Ruskin Bond
III. Shashi Deshpande
IV. Satyajit Ray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
3. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: 2
18) Who among the following used ‘untranslatableness’ in his famous work?
1. William Wordsworth in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads
2. Philip Sidney in Defense of Poesie
3. S.T Coleridge in Biographia Literaria
4. Mathew Arnold in The Study of Poetry
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The term “untranslatableness” is associated with S. T. Coleridge in Biographia Literaria. Coleridge uses it to suggest that true poetic language cannot be paraphrased into different words without losing its force, rhythm, or precise meaning. For him, the wording of poetry is inseparable from its effect.
19) What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Dalit Women Writers in order of their birth?
A. Urmila Pawar
B. Bama
C. Meena Kandasamy
D. Gogu Shyamala
E. Kumud Pawde
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. E, A, B, C, D
2. E, A, B, D, C
3. C, D, B, A, E
4. E, A, C, B, D
Answer: 2
20) What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Indian writers in order of their birth?
A. Manohar Malgonkar
B. Mulk Raj Anand
C. Toru Dutt
D. Kushwant Singh
E. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C, E, D, A
2. A, C, D, E, B
3. E, C, B, A, D
4. D, B, C, E, A
Answer: 3
21) Which of the following statements are correct about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste and concerns dealt within it?
A. It is an undelivered speech written in 1936.
B. It focuses on the need to create a society where individuals are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their caste.
C. There will be outcastes even if the caste system is completely destroyed.
D. Ideal society will always have a strong caste system even if it is based on liberty, equality and fraternity.
E. This is a fictitious novel.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A and B only
(2) B and E only
(3) E and D only
(4) C and A only
Answer: 1
22) Arrange the following films on disability concerns in the order of their year of release.
A. Paa
B. Khamoshi
C. Iqbal
D. Margarita with a Straw
E. Fanaa
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) E, D, C, B, A
(3) B, C, E, A, D
(4) B, C, A, E, D
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order is: Khamoshi (1996), Iqbal (2005), Fanaa (2006), Paa (2009), and Margarita with a Straw (2014). The sequence traces Hindi cinema’s evolving engagement with disability—from sensory impairment and communication to neurodiversity and physical disability with greater complexity.
23) Match List I with List II:
List I (Term)
A. Apodosis
B. Protasis
C. Collocation
D. Copular verb
List II (Definition)
I. Clause expressing the condition
II. Clause expressing the consequence
III. Links the subject of a sentence with a complement
IV. A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 4
24) What is the correct sequence of various periods of English Literature?
A. Caroline Age
B. Jacobean Age
C. Restoration Age
D. Commonwealth Period
E. Augustan Age
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) D, B, A, E, C
(2) A, E, B, C, D
(3) B, A, D, C, E
(4) E, C, A, D, B
Answer: 3
25) The line – “He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail,” occurs in:
(A) Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society
(B) Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language
(C) Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
(D) Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
Answer: 3
26) Match List I with List II:
List I (Concept / Term)
A. Chora
B. Carnivalization
C. Contrapuntal Reading
D. Ecriture Féminine
List II (Developed / Coined by)
I. Helene Cixous
II. Julia Kristeva
III. Mikhail Bakhtin
IV. Edward W. Said
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
(3) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(4) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct matches are A–II, B–III, C–IV, D–I. Chora is Kristeva’s semiotic concept of pre-symbolic space; Carnivalization comes from Bakhtin’s theory of subversive popular culture; Contrapuntal Reading is Said’s postcolonial method of reading imperial and colonized histories together; and Écriture féminine is Cixous’s call for a specifically feminine mode of writing.
27) Who among the following was not associated with the Cockney School of Poetry?
(1) John Keats
(2) P.B. Shelley
(3) Leigh Hunt
(4) William Blake
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Cockney School of Poetry was a hostile label coined by conservative critics in Blackwood’s Magazine (especially John Gibson Lockhart) for a group of early nineteenth-century London writers associated with Leigh Hunt, and by extension John Keats and sometimes Hazlitt.
“Cockney” implied lower-middle-class London origins, vulgar taste, and lack of classical refinement. The term was used to attack their politics, social background, and poetic style rather than to describe a formal movement. Today it is remembered mainly as a class-based critical insult directed at Romantic writers.
28) Identify the text from which the following lines have been taken.
“Therefore, compare we the poet with the historian and with the moral philosopher; and if he go beyond them both, no other skill can match him:”
(1) Preface to Shakespeare
(2) An Essay on Man
(3) An Essay on Criticism
(4) Defense of Poesie
Answer: 4
29) What is the correct sequence of five stages of action in order of occurrence as described by Dhananjaya in Dasharupaka?
A. Prayatna (Prospect of success)
B. Aarambh (Beginning)
C. Niyatapti (Certainty of success)
D. Phala (Effort)
E. Phalagama (Attainment of the result)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, D, C, E
(2) D, A, B, C, E
(3) C, D, A, B, E
(4) B, D, A, C, E
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct sequence is B–D–A–C–E: Ārambha (Beginning), Prayatna (Effort), Prāptyāśā / prospect of success (listed here as A), Niyatāpti (Certainty of success), and Phalāgama (Attainment of result). In Daśarūpaka, these stages describe the progressive development of dramatic action toward fulfillment.
30) Who among the following was not a leading figure of New Criticism?
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(2) Allen Tate
(3) I.A. Richards
(4) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: 4
31) Who among the following was not associated with the Movement Poetry?
(1) Charles Kingsley
(2) Donald Davie
(3) Elizabeth Jennings
(4) John Wain
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Movement Poetry refers to a group of 1950s British poets associated with a reaction against modernist obscurity and neo-Romantic emotionalism. Linked figures include Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, and Robert Conquest (whose anthology New Lines, 1956, helped define the group).
Its main features are clarity of language, formal control, irony, restraint, skepticism, ordinary subjects, colloquial tone, and preference for rational intelligibility over symbolism or grand emotion. The poetry often focuses on everyday English life, social realism, and anti-idealism
32) Which is the latest edition of Chicago Manual of Style?
(1) 18th edition
(2) 16th edition
(3) 17th edition
(4) 15th edition
Answer: 3
33) Name the British poet who wrote Sohrab and Rustum:
(1) Mary Shelley
(2) Edward Fitzgerald
(3) Matthew Arnold
(4) Alfred Tennyson
Answer: 3
34) Which work of John Keats is dedicated to Thomas Chatterton?
(1) Lamia
(2) Endymion
(3) Hyperion
(4) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
Keats dedicated Endymion(1818) “to the memory of Thomas Chatterton” because he deeply admired Chatterton as a gifted young poetic genius who died tragically at seventeen. Keats saw in him a precursor of misunderstood youthful creativity and a martyr to poetry, reflecting his own anxieties about fame, criticism, and poetic vocation.
35) Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order of their emergence:
A. Imagism
B. Impressionism
C. Absurdism
D. Futurism
E. Pre-Raphaeliticism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, C, D, E, B
(2) B, D, C, E, A
(3) D, A, B, C, E
(4) E, B, D, A, C
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Pre-Raphaeliticism (1848 onward): Founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais; literary links include Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Swinburne. It revived medievalism, spiritual intensity, rich sensual imagery, craftsmanship, and beauty against industrial ugliness and academic convention.
Impressionism (1870s): Major painters Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro; literary affinities in Pater, Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. It focuses on fleeting moments, light, atmosphere, subjective perception, and immediate sensory experience.
Futurism (1909): Led by F. T. Marinetti; linked figures Boccioni, Russolo. It glorified speed, machines, war, youth, cities, technology, and destruction of the past.
Imagism (1910s): Main poets Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell. It advocated precise images, concise language, musical free verse, and direct treatment of the thing.
Absurdism (1950s): Major dramatists Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter (often linked). It presents alienation, breakdown of communication, circular action, and the search for meaning in a purposeless world.
36) Match List I with List II:
List I (Work)
A. Language as Paradox
B. Against Interpretation
C. Realism and the Contemporary Novel
D. Politics and the English Language
List II (Writer)
I. Raymond Williams
II. Cleanth Brooks
III. George Orwell
IV. Susan Sontag
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
(3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Answer: 3
37) What is the correct chronological sequence of the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya in order of their publication?
A. A Goddess Named Gold
B. Music for Mohini
C. Shadow from Ladakh
D. So Many Hungers
E. He Who Rides a Tiger
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) D, B, E, A, C
(2) A, D, C, B, E
(3) E, C, D, B, A
(4) B, A, C, E, D
Answer: 1
38) Which of the following statements is not true about Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea?
(1) It was published in 1966.
(2) It takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
(3) The action of the novel takes place in South Africa.
(4) The name of Antoinette’s mother is Annette.
Answer: 3
39) Under whose presidency was PEN (an international association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists) founded by Mrs. Dawson- Scott in 1921?
(1) John Galsworthy
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) W.B. Yeats
(4) Ezra Pound
Answer: 1
40) Out of the following, which bibliographical entry follows the style prescribed in MLA Handbook (8th edition)?
(1) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
(2) M.A.R. Habib. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi: Blackwell Publishing, 2008
(3) (2008) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi: Blackwell Publishing
(4) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. New Delhi: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Answer: 1
41) What is the correct chronological sequence of British poets in order of their birth?
A. Andrew Marvell
B. John Milton
C. John Donne
D. Thomas Carew
E. Richard Lovelace
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) C, E, B, D, A
(2) D, B, C, A, E
(3) B, C, D, E, A
(4) A, D, E, C, B
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–E–B–D–A) follows birth years: John Donne (1572), Richard Lovelace (1617), John Milton (1608), Thomas Carew (1595), and Andrew Marvell (1621). However, this key appears flawed. The actual chronological birth order should be C–D–B–E–A: Donne (1572), Carew (1595), Milton (1608), Lovelace (1617), Marvell (1621). The question likely contains a misprint in the answer key.
42) Who among the following refers to Byron’s works as “monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and imposture”?
(1) Charles Lamb
(2) Robert Southey
(3) Mary Shelley
(4) Leigh Hunt
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The remark is by Robert Southey, made in the context of his attacks on the so-called “Satanic School” of poetry in the Preface to A Vision of Judgement (1821). Southey used it to condemn Byron and Shelley for what he saw as moral irreverence, sensationalism, and corrupt influence.
43) Which out of the following will allow you to avoid plagiarism?
(1) Using paraphrases or quotes by other sources in your name.
(2) Not using a plagiarism checker software before submitting the assignment.
(3) Giving credit to the original author in an in-text citation and in the list of works cited.
(4) Not keeping proper documentation of references used.
Answer: 3
44) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Author)
A. Richard Hoggart
B. Ashish Nandy
C. Raymond Williams
D. E.P. Thompson
List – II (Text)
I. The Secret Politics of Our Desires
II. The Making of the English Working Class
III. The Uses of Literacy
IV. The Long Revolution
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2. A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
3. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
4. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Answer: 1
45) Which among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as defined by I.A. Richards in Practical Criticism?
1. Feeling
2. Form
3. Tone
4. Intention
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
In I. A. Richards’ Practical Criticism (1929), he identifies four kinds of meaning in language/poetry: sense (literal content), feeling (emotional attitude), tone (speaker’s attitude toward the audience), and intention (the aim or purpose of the utterance). Form is important in poetry, but it is not one of Richards’ four categories of meaning.
46) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Text)
A. Dhvanyaloka
B. Kavyadarsa
C. Vakyapadiya
D. Dasrupa
List – II (Author)
I. Dandin
II. Dhananjay
III. Anandavardhan
IV. Bhartrhari
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
4. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Answer: 3
47) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Original Name)
A. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
B. Mary Ann Evans
C. Eric Arthur Blair
D. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
List – II (Penname / Pseudonym)
I. George Eliot
II. Mark Twain
III. George Orwell
IV. Lewis Carroll
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
2. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
3. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4. A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
Answer: 1
48) Which of the following popular Indian words have been incorporated in Oxford Dictionary in the recent past?
A. Chai
B. Bhajan
C. Jugaad
D. Kamal
E. Namaste
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, D only
2. A, C, E only
3. B, C, D only
4. C, D, E only
Answer: 2
49) Who among the following African writers observed that “O my body, make of me always a man who questions”?
1. Chinua Achebe
2. Frantz Fanon
3. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
4. Toni Morrison
Answer: 2
50) Barbara Smith, in her essay, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”, raises concerns for:
A. Only Black women
B. Black lesbian women
C. Black women in the White world only
D. Black lesbian women among black women vis-a-vis the White women.
E. Black and White women, but together they have universal concerns.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B and D only
2. C and D only
3. B and E only
4. A and C only
Answer: 4
51) Which among the following writers once remarked that “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”?
1. Charles Lamb
2. P.B. Shelley
3. Lord Byron
4. John Keats
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Lord Byro famously wrote, “I awoke one morning and found myself famous,” after the huge success of the first cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812), which made him an instant literary celebrity.
52) Which among the following chapters is the distinct feature of the latest edition of MLA Handbook?
1. Mechanics of Prose
2. Principles of Inclusive Language
3. Documenting Sources: An Overview
4. Formatting your Research Project
Answer: 3
53) Which day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day?
1. February 21
2. September 14
3. September 23
4. March 8
Answer: 1
54). Which of the following statements are correct about Prosody?
A. In the study of novels, it concerns narrative technique.
B. In the study of poetry, it concerns meter and other techniques of versi cation.
C. In the study of drama, it concerns theatrical devices.
D. In the study of spoken sounds, it concerns intonation, pitch, stress, rhythm etc.
E. In the study of discourse, it concerns the content and delivery.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. B and D only
3. A and E only
4. C and E only
Answer: 2
55) What is the full form of APA?
1. Psychological Association of America
2. American Psychological Association
3. Association of America for Psychology
4. Association of Psychology for America
Answer: 2
56) Which of the following writers pioneered the Australian Aboriginal Movement?
A. David Malouf
B. Kevin Gilbert
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Jack Davis
E. Judith Wright
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, E only
2. B, C, D only
3. E, D, A only
4. A, B, D only
Answer: 2
57) What is the correct chronological sequence of the following books of D.H. Lawrence?
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Sons and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. The White Peacock
E. The Plumed Serpent
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B, D, C, E
2. D, B, C, E, A
3. B, D, E, C, A
4. E, A, B, C, D
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order is D–B–C–E–A: The White Peacock (1911), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), The Plumed Serpent (1926), and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). The sequence traces Lawrence’s development from early autobiographical realism to later explorations of sexuality, power, and modern civilization.
58) What is the correct chronological sequence of famous dramatists in order of their birth?
A. William Congreve
B. John Dryden
C. William Wycherley
D. George Bernard Shaw
E. John Millington Synge
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, C, A, D, E
2. A, C, B, E, D
3. C, B, A, D, E
4. E, B, C, A, D
Answer: 1
59) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Poem)
A. To His Coy Mistress
B. The Scholar Gipsy
C. Still, I Rise
D. If
List – II (Poet)
I. Rudyard Kipling
II. Andrew Marvell
III. Matthew Arnold
IV. Maya Angelou
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
2. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
3. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
4. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Answer: 1
60) The term ‘negritude’, coined by Aime Cesaire, was appreciated as well as criticised by critics and thinkers. Select the correct responses that this term received.
A. Senegal Senghor considered this term to be derogatory.
B. Leon Damas didn’t participate in the negritude movement.
C. Wole Soyinka criticised it for its mimetic look.
D. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka considered ‘negritude’ as an unhealthy fetishism of the ‘native’
E. Frantz Fanon was extremely critical of the term ‘negritude’ and never used it.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. E and D only
4. C and D only
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
Negritude was a 1930s Francophone Black intellectual and literary movement that affirmed Black identity, African heritage, and anti-colonial pride against French racism and assimilationism. It emerged mainly among African and Caribbean students in Paris.
Major figure include Aimé Césaire (coined the term), Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas.
61) The poetic line ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’ appears in:
1. S.T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
2. Alfred Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
3. Shakespeare’s “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”
4. Mathew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”
Answer: 2
62) Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth:
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, D, E, A, C
2. C, B, A, E, D
3. A, E, B, D, C
4. D, C, B, A, E
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is B–D–E–A–C: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Walt Whitman (1819), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Robert Frost (1874). The sequence moves from Transcendentalist thinkers to major nineteenth-century lyric voices and then a modern American poet.
63) P.B. Shelley’s Adonais laments the death of:
1. John Keats
2. Mary Shelley
3. Robert Byron
4. Leigh Hunt
Answer: 1
64) Arrange the following literary theories/movements in chronological order of their emergence:
A. Cultural Studies
B. Postmodernism
C. Feminism
D. Surrealism
E. Reception Theory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, C, B, D, E
2. C, D, A, B, E
3. E, A, B, D, C
4. D, A, C, E, B
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is C–D–A–E–B: Feminism (organized modern first-wave emergence in the nineteenth century), Surrealism (1920s), Cultural Studies (1950s–60s), Reception Theory (1960s–70s), and Postmodernism (late twentieth century prominence). The sequence moves from political reform movements to modernist aesthetics and then contemporary theory.
65) Who coined the term “Phallogocentric”?
1. Luce Irigaray
2. Jacques Derrida
3. Jacques Lacan
4. Sigmund Freud
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The term “phallogocentric” was coined by Jacques Derrida, combining phallocentrism (male-centered structures of power) and logocentrism (privileging fixed presence, reason, or authoritative meaning). It critiques how Western thought often links masculine authority with claims to rational truth.
66) Arrange the following works in order of their year of publication:
A. Orientalism
B. Nation and Narration
C. Black Skin White Masks
D. Decolonising the Mind
E. The Location of Culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, E, A, C, D
2. D, C, E, A, B
3. A, D, C, E, B
4. C, A, D, B, E
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The correct order (C–A–D–B–E) follows publication chronology: Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Said’s Orientalism (1978), Ngũgĩ’s Decolonising the Mind (1986), Bhabha’s Nation and Narration (1990), and The Location of Culture (1994). It traces postcolonial thought from anti-colonial psychology to discourse and hybridity.
67) A brief reference in the text that indicates the source of the idea or quotation consulted by the author is:
1. In-text citation
2. Sectional heading
3. Hypothetical statement
4. Objective
Answer: 1
68) Choose the correct statements with regard to the binary pair Langue and Parole introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure:
A. Langue is translated as speech and parole as language.
B. Langue is the internal structure of a language; not language itself.
C. Parole is the event of language.
D. Parole and language are a set of vocabulary only.
E. There is no distinction between Parole and Langue.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. A and E only
3. C and B only
4. A and D only
Answer: 3
69) Who among the following were associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt
3. John Everett Millais and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Leigh Hunt
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was an English artistic and literary group founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais. They believed art after Raphael had become artificial and academic, so they sought a return to the vivid detail, sincerity, spirituality, and craftsmanship of earlier Italian art.
Associated literary figures include Christina Rossetti and later William Morris. Major themes are medievalism, beauty, symbolism, intense color imagery, nature, and the union of art with moral or emotional seriousness. In literature, think sensuous description, romance, and decorative lyricism.
70) Which of the following definitions of linguistic terms are correct?
A. Orthoepy is the study of correct grammar in conformity with established regional patterns.
B. Philology is the study of phonemes and other characteristics of the systems of speech sounds in individual languages.
C. Synchronic study pertains to the study of language at a specific historical point.
D. Diachronic study pertains to historical dimensions of language i.e., linguistic change over the period of time.
E. Phonology is the study of language in its cultural and social contexts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and B only
2. B and E only
3. C and D only
4. A and E only
Answer: 3
71) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Text)
A. Kena, Isa, Katha and Mundaka Upanishads (1830s)
B. Ramayana (1870s)
C. The Bhagavat Gita (1895)
D. The Bhagvat Geeta (1785)
List – II (Translated by)
I. Ralph T.H. Gri th
II. Manmatha Nath Dutt
III. Charles Wilkins
IV. Ram Mohan Roy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
Answer: 2
72) Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Term)
A. Anaphoric word
B. Morpheme
C. Antecedent
D. Periphrasis
List – II (Definition)
I. A unit of language that cannot be analysed into smaller units.
II. Refers back to a word or phrase previously used in a text/conversation.
III. Use of two or more words to express a meaning which could otherwise be expressed in a single word.
IV. A word or phrase that is referred back to by a pronoun or other proform.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
2. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
3. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Answer: 3
73) Match List-I with List-II:
List-I (Term)
A. Aporia
B. Econce
C. Encomium
D. Hagiography
List-II (Definition)
I. Technical term in structuralist theory that implies ‘utterance’
II. Formal eulogy in prose or verse to glorify people, objects, or ideas
III. The writing or study of lives of the saints
IV. A term used in theory/deconstruction to indicate conflict between rhetoric and thought
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
(2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
(3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
(4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Answer: 3
74) Who among the following observed that “Nothing can please many, and please long, but representations of general nature”?
(1) Philip Sidney
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) S.T. Coleridge
(4) William Wordsworth
Answer: 2
75) In the 1985 essay, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”, Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject. Which of the texts referred to in the title is/are by a male author?
(1) The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
(2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(3) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
(4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(5) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, and D only
(2) C, D, and A only
(3) A, B, and C only
(4) E, B, and D only
Answer: 3
76) Which among the following is not a work of Samuel Johnson?
(1) The Rambler
(2) The Idler
(3) The Journal of Stella
(4) The Perpetual Effects of Reverie
Answer: 3
77) Which of the following texts deals with the theme of colonization?
(1) My Son’s Story
(2) Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
(3) Things Fall Apart
(4) Wide Sargasso Sea
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
Wide Sargasso Sea deals strongly with creolisation through its Caribbean setting, mixed cultural identities, and tensions between European and colonial worlds. Jean Rhys explores how language, race, and identity are formed through cultural blending rather than fixed origins.
78) Chronologically arrange the following texts in order of publication.
A. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
B. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
C. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
D. Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch
E. Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) C, B, A, D, E
(3) D, C, B, A, E
(4) B, C, A, D, E
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct chronological order is C–B–A–D–E: Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929), Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949), Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963), Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970), and Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (1976). The sequence traces feminist thought from literary space and economic independence to existential, domestic, sexual, and maternal critiques.
79) Match List-I with List-II:
List-I (Term/Concept)
A. Third Space
B. Welt-literature
C. Post-Impressionism
D. Simulacra
List-II (Invented/Coined by)
I. Jean Baudrillard
II. Goethe
III. Homi Bhabha
IV. Roger Fry
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
(2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(3) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
(4) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 1
Quick Insight:
Third Space (Homi Bhabha) names the hybrid cultural space where identities are negotiated beyond fixed binaries of colonizer/colonized. Welt-literature or World Literature (Goethe) imagines literature circulating beyond national boundaries through translation and exchange. Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry) was coined to describe painters like Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin moving beyond Impressionism toward structure, symbolism, and expressive form. Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard) refers to copies or signs that no longer point to an original reality, producing hyperreality.
80) Which of the following works is not written by Chinua Achebe?
(1) Arrow of God
(2) No Longer at Ease
(3) An Image of Africa
(4) Weep not, Child
Answer: 4
81) Literature review provides:
(1) Citation details
(2) Discussion of works already researched in a relevant subject area
(3) A list of primary sources
(4) Provides hypothesis of the research undertaken
Answer: 2
82) What is the correct chronological sequence of the following works in order of their publication?
A. Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
B. Ved Mehta’s Face to Face
C. Khushwant Singh’s I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
D. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’s Inquilab
E. G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, D, A, C, E
(2) D, B, C, A, E
(3) E, D, B, C, A
(4) A, C, D, E, B
Answer: 3
Quick Insight:
The correct order (E–D–B–C–A) follows publication dates: G. V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’s Inqilab (1955), Ved Mehta’s Face to Face (1957), Khushwant Singh’s I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959), and Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner (1968). It maps post-independence Indian English prose across satire, politics, memoir, and existential fiction.
83) Who among the following was not a proponent of the Oxford Movement?
(1) John Henry Newman
(2) Richard Hurrell Froude
(3) Edward Bouverie Pusey
(4) Charles Kingsley
Answer: 4
Quick Insight:
The Oxford Movement was a nineteenth-century religious movement within the Church of England, beginning in the 1830s at Oxford University. It sought to restore Catholic traditions, apostolic authority, ritual, and spiritual seriousness against growing secularism and state interference in the church.
Major figures include John Henry Newman, John Keble, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and Richard Hurrell Froude. Its ideas were spread through the Tracts for the Times, so members were often called Tractarians.
84) Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
A. Vicar of Wakefield
B. Life of Johnson
C. Johnson’s Dictionary
D. The Life of Nelson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A, E, B, C, D
(2) C, A, D, B, E
(3) B, A, E, C, D
(4) C, B, A, E, D
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct order is A–C–B–D: Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755—though earlier chronologically, often paired separately in such questions), Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791), and Southey’s The Life of Nelson (1813). If strict dates are followed, the true chronological order is C–A–B–D. The question commonly tests eighteenth-century prose landmarks.
85) Which of the following writers remarked that “You are your best thing”?
(1) Toni Morrison in Beloved
(2) George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss
(3) Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things
(4) Emile Bronte in Wuthering Heights
Answer: 1
86) Match List-I with List-II:
List-I (Dramatist)
A. Martin Esslin
B. Bertolt Brecht
C. Antonin Artaud
D. August Strindberg
List-II (Theatrical form/Technique)
I. The Theatre of Cruelty
II. Dream Play
III. Estrangement-effect
IV. The Theatre of the Absurd
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
(3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(4) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
Answer: 3
87) Which of the following works were edited by gay activists, writers, or artists:
A. Are We Not Men? by Philip Brian Harper
B. Charisma by Erica Edward
C. Extravagant Abjection by Dariek Scott
D. Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism by Henry Louis Gates
E. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) B, C, D only
(2) A, B, C only
(3) A, D, E only
(4) E, C, D only
Answer: 2
Quick Insight:
The correct set is A, B, and C because Philip Brian Harper, Erica Edwards, and Darieck Scott are associated with queer/gay scholarship and activism, and their works engage questions of race, gender, and sexuality. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Toni Morrison are major African American critics/writers, but they are not identified in this context as gay activists or artists.
88) What is the correct chronological sequence of periods of American Literature?
A. Early National Period
B. Revolutionary Age
C. Naturalistic Period
D. Romantic Period in America/Age of Transcendentalism
E. Realistic Period
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) C, D, A, B, E
(2) B, A, D, E, C
(3) E, B, C, D, A
(4) A, C, B, E, D
Answer: 2
89) What is the correct sequence of the following plays of Girish Karnad in order of their year of publication?
A. Hayavadana
B. Nagamandala
C. Tughlaq
D. Yayati
E. Bali, The Sacrifice
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) D, A, E, B, C
(2) C, D, A, E, B
(3) D, C, A, E, B
(4) C, A, D, E, B
Answer: 3
90) The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is a tribute to:
(1) Abraham Lincoln
(2) Emily Dickinson
(3) George Washington
(4) Walt Whitman’s Brother
Answer: 1
Direction for 91 to 95:
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the oor – Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark,
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
‘Cause you nds it’s kinder hard,
Don’t you fall now –
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t no crystal stair.
91) Which colloquial form of English is used in the poem?
(1) American English
(2) Indian English
(3) Australian English
(4) African-American English
Answer: 4
92) Which one of the following is an ‘extended metaphor’ in the poem?
(1) Tacks
(2) Splinters
(3) Staircase
(4) Bare floor
Answer: 3
93) Which rhetorical device has been used by the poet by repeating “And” at the beginning of many lines in the poem?
(1) Alliteration
(2) Hyperbole
(3) Anaphora
(4) Amplifier
Answer: 3
94) What kind of life does the line, “life for me … no crystal stair” signify?
(1) A life devoid of pain
(2) A life full of hardships and struggles
(3) An ideal and perfect life
(4) A life full of miracles and blessings
Answer: 2
95) What advice does the speaker give to his/her son in the poem?
(1) Stay strong and never give up in life
(2) Eat, drink, and be merry
(3) Never take risks in life
(4) Aim and wait for good fortune
Answer: 1
Read the passage and answer the questions on the basis of your comprehension: (96 to 100)
The most important distinction between the animal man and others is, that the animal is very soon satisfied and retires within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its earnings being necessary for its own preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shop keeper, it has no large profit from its commerce. But man, if the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying the interest to its bank. Most of its earnings are employed in mere endeavours to live. But man, if it's commerce, is a big merchant: he does a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore, there is a vast excess of earnings in man‘s life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends to themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for use, in the service of their life. But there they stop. They must know their surroundings in order to be able to procure shelter and seek their food, some properties of things in order to build their dwellings, some signs of different seasons to be able to get ready to adapt themselves to the changes. Man also must have these in order to live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is freed. With man, knowledge is freed. Here he has the pure employment of his knowledge because their knowledge is freed from the necessity of life. Thus, this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
96) At what stage does knowledge become freedom for man?
(1) Where man uses the knowledge to gain power
(2) Where man uses the knowledge to supersede animal
(3) Where man engages with knowledge for the material growth
(4) Where man acquires a surplus of knowledge beyond primary necessities of life
Answer: 4
97) What gives man the freedom to be useless and irresponsible?
(1) Knowledge
(2) Artistic taste
(3) Abundance of wealth in life
(4) Selfishness
Answer: 1
98) What, according to the writer, is the basic difference between animal and man?
(1) Animals are preoccupied with self-sustenance while man aspires for attainment of freedom through knowledge.
(2) Animals work beyond the limits of necessity while man maintains austerity.
(3) Animals work for profit while man works selflessly.
(4) Animals seek freedom at any cost while man is bound to one’s physical needs.
Answer: 1
99) What does the author mean by “Man also must know because he must live”?
(1) Knowledge is the essence of man’s life
(2) Knowledge makes one pragmatic
(3) Knowledge enables one to acquire wealth
(4) Knowledge is vital for countering animals
Answer: 1
100) What does the metaphor “a big merchant” stand for?
(1) A philanthropist
(2) A good Samaritan
(3) A voracious accumulator of knowledge
(4) A mercenary
Answer: 3
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