UGC NET English Literature — December 2025

Q.1 Arrange the following list of the authors according to MLA Handbook 9th edition for parenthetical citations and works-cited-list entries:
Rita Charon, Sayantani Dasgupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edger Rivera Colon, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel

1. 1) Charon, Rita. and Dasgupta, et al.
2. 2) Charon, Rita, et al.
3. 3) Charon, Rita and Dasgupta, Hermann, Irvine, Marcus, Colon, Spencer, Spiegel.
4. 4) Rita Charon and others.

Q.2 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Author)
A. J. Fiske
B. R. Boothby
C. I. Ang
D. Q.D. Lewis

LIST-II (Work/Show)
I. Wracking Dallas
II. Fiction and the Reading Public
III. Television Culture
IV. Aust Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola

1. 1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
2. 2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3. 3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4. 4) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

Q.3 Which of the following titles/chapters appear in I A Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism?
A. Poetry for Poetry's Sake
B. Critical principles: The indemonstrability of values
C. On Looking at a Picture
D. The Theory of Interpretation
E. The Analysis of a Poem

1. 1) A, C and E Only
2. 2) A, B and C Only
3. 3) C, D and E Only
4. 4) B, C and D Only

Q.4 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Theme)
A. Disappointed lover becomes a Sadhu for a change
B. Discharged convict is taken for a Sadhu
C. True historical Mahatma
D. A scenario-writer imaginatively passes in review the possible history of Malgudi

LIST-II (R.K. Narayan's Novels)
I. The Guide
II. Waiting for the Mahatma
III. Mr. Sampath
IV. Bachelor of Arts

1. 1) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
2. 2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
3. 3) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
4. 4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Q.5 Which of the following descriptions of arbitrary nature of the sign given by Ferdinand de Saussure in his book Course in General Linguistics is incorrect?

1. 1) The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
2. 2) The linguistic sign is arbitrary.
3. 3) The word symbol has been used to designate the linguistic meaning or more specifically, the signified.
4. 4) Symbol is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified.

Q.6 Which of the following is not one of the conceptions of dalit aesthetics given by Sharankumar Limbale?

1. 1) Human being are first and foremost human — this is satyam.
2. 2) The liberation of human being is shivam.
3. 3) The humanity of human being is sundaram.
4. 4) The equality, liberty, justice and fraternity of human beings are satyam and sundaram.

Q.7 Which of the following seasons does Northrop Frye, in his Anatomy of Criticism, not indicate the correspondent genres?

1. 1) The mythos of spring: comedy
2. 2) The mythos of summer: romance
3. 3) The mythos of fall: tragedy
4. 4) The mythos of winter: satire

Q.8 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Author)
A. A. K. Ramanujan
B. Sharat Chandra
C. Jimmy Avissa
D. Nissim Ezekiel

LIST-II (Family)
I. Zoroastrian
II. Jew
III. Hindu Srivaisnava
IV. Lingayat

1. 1) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
2. 2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
3. 3) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. 4) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

Q.9 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Character)
A. SHEMUS RUA
B. ALEEL
C. OONA
D. MARY

LIST-II (Role)
I. Foster Mother of Countess Cathleen
II. Wife of Shemus Rua
III. A Peasant
IV. A Poet

1. 1) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. 2) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
3. 3) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
4. 4) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Q.10 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Character)
A. Marya Zelli
B. Julia Martin
C. Rosamund Stacey
D. Ruth Patchett

LIST-II (Novel)
I. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
II. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
III. Quartet
IV. The Millstone

1. 1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. 2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3. 3) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
4. 4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Q.11 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Term)
A. 'Text'
B. 'Grand Narrative'
C. 'Story'
D. 'Diegesis'

LIST-II (Meaning)
I. 'the way heterosexual males desire or sexualize scopophilic objects of heterosexual male desire'
II. 'The interior story as told or depicted specially in film.'
III. 'the big stories we use to map human history such as Humanism.'
IV. 'a strict halfway between domestic and wild'

1. 1) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
2. 2) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
3. 3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
4. 4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

Q.12 Arrange the following words in chronological order in terms of number of syllables in the particular word:
A. Demonstrate
B. Orange
C. Girl
D. Agriculture
E. Relativity

1. 1) B, E, C, D, A
2. 2) C, B, A, D, E
3. 3) C, B, E, D, A
4. 4) B, C, E, D, A

Q.13 Arrange the following Manner of Articulation of the consonants of English in the chronological order:
A. Close Approximation
B. Intermittent closure
C. Complete closure and sudden release
D. Complete closure and slow release
E. Open Approximation

1. 1) A, D, C, E, B
2. 2) C, D, A, E, B
3. 3) C, A, D, B, E
4. 4) A, D, C, B, E

Q.14 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Concept)
A. Aprastuta-Prasamsa
B. Vyajastuti
C. Nidarsanam
D. Sahokti

LIST-II (Meaning)
I. A statement conjunctively of the qualities and actions of things
II. Where a similar good or bad consequence is exhibited by connecting a thing with another object
III. Where the praise of an object with which one is not concerned is made
IV. Praise in the form of despair

1. 1) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
2. 2) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
3. 3) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
4. 4) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

Q.15 Arrange the following levels of obliquity (Vakrata) as conceived by Kuntaka in his treatise Vakrokti Jivitam:
A. Episodic
B. Compositional
C. Phonetic
D. Lexical
E. Grammatical

1. 1) A, B, C, D, E
2. 2) B, C, D, E, A
3. 3) C, D, E, A, B
4. 4) E, A, B, C, D

Q.16 Which of the following statements are correctly matched with the texts?
A. 'The poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher' — 'An Apology for Poetry'
B. 'This essay proposes to halt at the frontier of metaphysics or mysticism' — 'The Metaphysical Poet'
C. 'The invaluable works of our elder writers… are driven into neglect by frantic novels' — 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads'
D. 'Poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion' — 'The Study of Poetry'
E. 'A fool might once himself alone expose / Now one in verse makes many more in prose.' — 'Essay on Man'

1. 1) A, C and D Only
2. 2) A, B and D Only
3. 3) B, C and E Only
4. 4) C, D and E Only

Q.17 Empedocles on Etna is an example of

1. 1) Narrative Poem
2. 2) Comedy
3. 3) Tragi-comedy
4. 4) Closet Drama

Q.18 Johann Gottfried von Herder, Goethe, and Schiller experimented with new subjective modes of expression; which movement/circle did they belong to?

1. 1) Storm and Stress Movement
2. 2) Hermeneutic Circle
3. 3) French Revolution
4. 4) Religious Movement

Q.19 Who wrote the following about Rousseau? 'Like his favorite philosopher, Plato, Rousseau sought to discover and produce the moral man who would make the moral society, and a moral society that would foster the moral man'.

1. 1) J S Mill
2. 2) Mary Wollstonecraft
3. 3) Dr Johnson
4. 4) Peter Ory

Q.20 In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described 'three silent revolutions in England'. Identify the wrong option.

1. 1) When the Professions fell off from the Church
2. 2) When the fraternity fell off from the society
3. 3) When Literature fell off from the Professions
4. 4) When the Press fell off from Literature

Q.21 Identify the novelist who wrote the following lines, and to whom is it written? 'In delineating male character, I labour under disadvantages; intuition and theory will not adequately supply the place of observation and experience. When I write about women, I am sure of my ground—in the other case I am not so sure.'

1. 1) Charlotte Bronte wrote to James Taylor
2. 2) Jane Austen wrote to Elizabeth Serwell
3. 3) Margaret Oliphant wrote to Isabella Blackwood
4. 4) Charlotte Yonge wrote to Felicia Skene

Q.22 Who became known in the popular imagination as the notorious French postmodernist philosopher?

1. 1) Jean Baudrillard
2. 2) Derrida
3. 3) Lyotard
4. 4) Roman Rolland

Q.23 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is in many ways a seminal text of literary criticism.
Reason R: It represents the first synthesis in the English language of the various strands and concerns of Renaissance literary criticism, drawing on Aristotle, Horace, and more recent writers such as Boccaccio and Julius Caesar Seeliger.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.24 Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield define the term 'Cultural materialism' as designating a critical method having characteristics. Which of the following characteristics has not been included by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield?

1. 1) Historical context
2. 2) Theoretical method
3. 3) Political commitment
4. 4) Transcendental significance

Q.25 Arrange the following levels of obliquity (Vakrata) as conceived by Kuntaka in his treatise Vakrokti Jivitam:
A. Episodic
B. Compositional
C. Phonetic
D. Lexical
E. Grammatical

1. 1) A, B, C, D, E
2. 2) B, C, D, E, A
3. 3) C, D, E, A, B
4. 4) E, A, B, C, D

Q.26 Arrange the following works of criticism in chronological order:
A. T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
B. J.C. Smith, A Study of Wordsworth
C. D.G. James, Scepticism and Poetry
D. Marjorie L. Barstow, Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction
E. Josephine Miles, Pathetic Fallacy in the Nineteenth Century

1. 1) D, A, C, E, B
2. 2) A, B, D, C, E
3. 3) C, A, E, B, D
4. 4) A, C, D, E, B

Q.27 Which of the following have been written by I Ang?
A. 'Wanted: Audience'
B. 'Culture and Communication: Towards an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System'
C. 'The Photographic Message'
D. 'Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure'
E. 'On Popular Music'

1. 1) A, C and D Only
2. 2) A, B and E Only
3. 3) B, C and E Only
4. 4) A, B and D Only

Q.28 According to Will Wright, the Western has evolved through three stages: 'classic', 'transition theme' and 'professional'. Wright has identified in the professional Western, the binary oppositions which are reversed. Answer the correct option which expresses, with their corresponding binary oppositions, the right sequence and order, as reported by John Storey:
A. Hero – society
B. Outside society – inside society
C. Good – Bad
D. Weak – Strong
E. Wilderness – Civilization

1. 1) A, B, C, D, E
2. 2) A, C, B, D, E
3. 3) A, B, C, E, D
4. 4) E, A, B, C, D

Q.29 Arrange the following poetic lines chronologically in the order of the publication of the poems they appear in:
A. She is the Rose, the glorie of the day,
B. Resembles life what once was deem'd of light,
C. Away! The moor is dark beneath the moon
D. When I consider how my light is spent
E. When in the chronicle of wasted time / I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

1. 1) A, D, E, B, C
2. 2) A, B, D, C, E
3. 3) C, A, E, B, D
4. 4) A, C, D, E, B

Q.30 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I
A. 'Habitus'
B. 'Anaclisis'
C. 'Fetishism'
D. 'Hyperreality'

LIST-II
I. Pierre Bourdieu
II. Sigmund Freud
III. Alfred Binet
IV. Eco

1. 1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
2. 2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3. 3) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4. 4) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

Q.31 Which of the following description of characters from William Congreve's The Way of the World is incorrect?

1. 1) Fainall, in love with Mrs. Marwood
2. 2) Mirabell, in love with Mrs. Millamant
3. 3) Witwoud, follower of Mrs. Millamant
4. 4) Petulant, follower of Mrs. Marwood

Q.32 G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion dramatizes the ________ myth of a sculptor who fell in love with an ivory statue.

1. 1) Roman
2. 2) Greek
3. 3) Italian
4. 4) French

Q.33 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: All modern languages have some words with pronunciations that seem to echo naturally occurring sounds.
Reason R: When different objects flew by, making a car-car or coo-coo sound, the early human tried to imitate the sounds and then used them to refer to those objects even when they weren't present.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.34 Which of the following critical works of Matthew Arnold does preach that 'The Kingdom of God is within you'?

1. 1) Essays in Criticism
2. 2) Culture and Anxiety
3. 3) 'The Study of Poetry'
4. 4) Literature and Dogma

Q.35 Which of the following novels of E. M. Forster doesn't display the mentioned contrast?

1. 1) Contrast of East and West in A Passage to India
2. 2) Contrast of English and French culture in Where Angels Fear to Tread
3. 3) Contrast of English and Italian culture in A Room with a View
4. 4) Contrast of the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes families in Howards End

Q.36 According to Jeremy Hawthorn, which of the following can be said to 'have prepared the ground for the development of theories of the gaze'?

1. 1) John Berger's Ways of Seeing
2. 2) Michael Argyle and Mark Cook's Gaze and Mutual Gaze
3. 3) Sigmund Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
4. 4) Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Q.37 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Critical Essay)
A. 'Keats' Sylvan Historian: History without the Footnotes'
B. 'Tools for Reading Poetry'
C. 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism'
D. 'The Linguistic Foundation'

LIST-II (Writer)
I. Gayatri C. Spivak
II. Cleanth Brooks
III. Herman Rapaport
IV. Jonathan Culler

1. 1) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
2. 2) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. 3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4. 4) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I

Q.38 Fiona Tolan in 'Feminisms' says that if there is a single identifiable theme running through every feminist debate, it is the question of

1. 1) Eco-feminism
2. 2) Essentialism
3. 3) Radical Feminism
4. 4) Gynocriticism

Q.39 Which of the following settings of Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party is incorrect?

1. 1) ACT I — A morning in winter
2. 2) ACT I — A morning in summer
3. 3) ACT II — Evening of the same day
4. 4) ACT III — The next morning

Q.40 Arrange the following events in chronological order of their appearance related to George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man:
A. Arms and the Man was first performed at the Avenue Theatre.
B. There was a release of British film adaptation directed by Cecil Lewis.
C. A German film adaptation was released, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
D. Arms and the Man is set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war, which lasted fourteen days from 14 to 28 of November.
E. There was the famous London revival at The Old Vic starring Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier.

1. 1) D, A, E, C, B
2. 2) A, D, B, C, E
3. 3) A, D, C, E, B
4. 4) D, A, B, E, C

Q.41 Which of the following feminist has questioned the following? 'Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?'

1. 1) Virginia Woolf
2. 2) Kate Millett
3. 3) Elaine Showalter
4. 4) Jane Freedman

Q.42 In which of the following phases of modern women's literary development, according to Elaine Showalter, women writers insisted the dominant male traditions?

1. 1) The colonial-feminism phase
2. 2) The feminist phase
3. 3) The female phase
4. 4) The feminine phase

Q.43 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Work)
A. Sexual Politics
B. Orientalism
C. The Wretched of the Earth
D. In Other Worlds

LIST-II (Author)
I. Frantz Fanon
II. Gayatri Spivak
III. Kate Millett
IV. Edward Said

1. 1) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
2. 2) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. 3) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
4. 4) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

Q.44 In which novel of Anita Desai, the heroine, in her fifth pregnancy, leaves her husband in a mood of unease to seek peace in an island, Manori, off Bombay?

1. 1) Fire on the Mountain
2. 2) Clear Light of Day
3. 3) Where Shall We Go This Summer
4. 4) Bye-bye, Blackbird

Q.45 Which of the following is an example of Functional Morpheme?

1. 1) Teach
2. 2) And
3. 3) -er
4. 4) -ed

Q.46 The following lines are spoken by which character in Shakespeare's plays?
'Put out the light and then put out the light;
If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister,
I can again thy former light restore'

1. 1) King Lear
2. 2) Hamlet
3. 3) Othello
4. 4) Macbeth

Q.47 Arrange the following works of Thomas Hardy in order of their publication:
A. The Trumpet Major
B. The Hand of Ethelbert
C. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
D. The Woodlanders
E. The Return of the Native

1. 1) B, E, A, D, C
2. 2) E, D, A, B, C
3. 3) C, B, A, D, E
4. 4) D, B, E, A, C

Q.48 Arrange the following novels in chronological order of their publication:
A. The Handmaid's Tale
B. Lucky Jim
C. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
D. Things Fall Apart

1. 1) D, A, B, C
2. 2) B, D, C, A
3. 3) B, A, C, D
4. 4) D, B, A, C

Q.49 In English, if three consonants form a cluster at the beginning of a syllable, the first consonant will always be

1. 1) /s/
2. 2) /p/
3. 3) /ʃ/
4. 4) /n/

Q.50 Which of the following novels is not the part of Samuel Beckett's trilogy published together in London in 1959?

1. 1) Molloy
2. 2) Murphy
3. 3) Malone Dies
4. 4) The Unnamable

Q.51 Arrange the following famous lines of dramas in chronological order of their publication:
A. Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
B. All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players.
C. Come, violent death. / Serve for mandragora to make me sleep!
D. The last temptation is the greatest treason: / To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
E. Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

1. 1) B, C, E, D, A
2. 2) B, E, D, A, C
3. 3) C, B, E, A, D
4. 4) E, C, B, D, A

Q.52 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: Television is the popular cultural form of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Reason R: Meanings and messages are not simply 'transmitted', they are always produced: first by the encoder from the 'raw' material of everyday life; second by the audience in relation to its location in other discourses.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.53 Which of the following statements are correct about voiced and voiceless sounds?
A. All 20 vowel sounds of English are voiced.
B. When the vocal cords move away from each other, the speech sounds articulated in this situation is called voiceless sounds.
C. The rapid opening and closing of the vocal cords is called the Vibration and the sound produced is called voiceless sound.
D. Fifteen out of twenty four consonants of English are voiced.
E. The articulatory system consists of a few organs in our leg and hand.

1. 1) A, B, and D Only
2. 2) B, C, and D Only
3. 3) A, C, and E Only
4. 4) B, D, and E Only

Q.54 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: Bacon's position as an essayist is peculiar.
Reason R: He has no resemblance to Addison or Hazlitt.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.55 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: The years after 1945 saw changes in English poetry.
Reason R: Some poets, despite Modernism, continued Romantic traditions, writing deeply personal responses to the world and engaging with 'eternal', 'elemental' themes.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.56 Which of the following statements are correct about research methods?
A. Structuralism identifies structures in language, or systems of relationships with identities and meanings that shows us the ways in which we think.
B. Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of language systems distinguishes between la langue and la parole.
C. Sometimes called the 'school of London,' these new critics include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Tzvetan Todorov.
D. Shklovsky pointed out literature's constant tendency toward estrangement and defamiliarization to move readers away from habitual responses to ordinary experience.
E. Jonathan Culler and Robert Scholes helped to bring psychoanalysis to the English language.

1. 1) A, B, and D Only
2. 2) A, D, and E Only
3. 3) B, D, and E Only
4. 4) C, D, and E Only

Q.57 Arrange the following in chronological order of their appearance in the format of a thesis:
A. Bibliography
B. Introduction
C. Conclusion
D. Table of Contents
E. Preface

1. 1) E, D, B, C, A
2. 2) E, B, C, D, A
3. 3) D, B, C, A, E
4. 4) D, B, A, C, E

Q.58 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Critical Essay)
A. 'Tools for Reading Poetry'
B. 'Wanted: Audience'
C. 'The Metaphysical Poets'
D. 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'

LIST-II (Writer)
I. T.S. Eliot
II. Ien Ang
III. Herman Rapaport
IV. T.S. Eliot

1. 1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2. 2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3. 3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4. 4) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

Q.59 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: Poststructuralism and deconstruction are virtually synonymous.
Reason R: Deconstruction arises out of the structuralism of Roland Barthes as a reaction against the certainties of structuralism.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.60 Historians establish the essay film with its first theorization in writings of Sergei Eisenstein, Richter, Alexandre Astruc and others. Arrange the following Essay Films in the chronological order of their publication:
A. As You See
B. Notebooks on Cities and Clothes
C. 'The Film Essay: A New Type of Documentary Film'
D. 'The Camera Stylo'
E. 'Notes for a Film of Capital'

1. 1) A, B, C, D, E
2. 2) E, C, D, A, B
3. 3) A, B, E, C, D
4. 4) A, B, C, E, D

Q.61 Who amongst the following postcolonial critics did define colonialism 'as the conqueror and control of other people's land and goods'?

1. 1) Meenakshi Mukherjee
2. 2) Leela Gandhi
3. 3) Harish Trivedi
4. 4) Anita Loomba

Q.62 Arrange the following statements in the order of their appearance in the essay, 'Of Studies':
A. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring
B. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth
C. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them
D. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience
E. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend

1. 1) B, D, C, A, E
2. 2) A, B, D, C, E
3. 3) C, A, E, B, D
4. 4) A, C, D, E, B

Q.63 Whose poetry is redolent of the Orissa scene and the Jagannatha temple at Puri figures quite often in it?

1. 1) Jayanta Mahapatra
2. 2) Keki N. Daruwalla
3. 3) Shiv K. Kumar
4. 4) Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Q.64 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: The best-known cycles of miracle or mystery plays come from York, Wakefield, and Chester.
Reason R: King Alfred encouraged the use of the vernacular in the late ninth century, but he made it clear that this was very much second best, necessitated by the deplorably low standards of Latin learning in his kingdom.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.65 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Source)
A. Bartleby
B. Project Muse
C. WorldCat
D. Shodhganga

LIST-II (Types of Research Material)
I. World's largest bibliographic database
II. A repository of theses
III. A range of verse and fiction
IV. Full Text research article

1. 1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
2. 2) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
3. 3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
4. 4) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

Q.66 In which of the following novels of Charles Dickens is the city of London shown shrouded in fog in the opening chapter?

1. 1) Bleak House
2. 2) A Tale of Two Cities
3. 3) Oliver Twist
4. 4) David Copperfield

Q.67 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Genre)
A. Dub Poetry
B. Bucolic Poetry
C. Confessional Poetry
D. Topographical Poetry

LIST-II (Poem)
I. 'Tintern Abbey'
II. Ariel
III. The Dread Affair
IV. 'Eclogues'

1. 1) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
2. 2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
3. 3) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
4. 4) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

Q.68 According to whom, 'the interaction between introjection and projection helps to constitute the ego and the SUPEREGO and to lay the foundations for the OEDIPUS COMPLEX'?

1. 1) Sandor Ferenczi
2. 2) Robert Young
3. 3) Sigmund Freud
4. 4) Melanie Klein

Q.69 Which of the following statements about Geoffrey Chaucer are correct?
A. Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess, is a dream-poem on the death in 1368 of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, the wife of John of Gaunt.
B. In The House of Fame, it is the first time that Dante's epic — The Divine Comedy is echoed in English.
C. The Canterbury Tales absorbs literary, historical, religious, social, and moral concerns, and transcends them all.
D. In The Legend of Good Women, cupid and venus, passion and desire, innocence and knowledge, are all invoked.
E. The Miller's Tale is an old-fashioned fable, a story of deception in war, almost similar to The Knight's Tale.

1. 1) A, B, and C Only
2. 2) A, C, and D Only
3. 3) B, C, and E Only
4. 4) B, D, and E Only

Q.70 What do we call the space between the vocal folds?

1. 1) Larynx
2. 2) Glottis
3. 3) Velum
4. 4) Tongue

Q.71 Which of the following issues is not focused by Horace in his Ars Poetica?

1. 1) The detachment of a writer to his work, tradition, and custom
2. 2) The moral and social functions of poetry
3. 3) The contribution of an audience to the composition of poetry
4. 4) An awareness of literary history and historical change in language and genre

Q.72 Who has insisted that the power of the audience 'derives from the fact that meanings do not circulate in the cultural economy in the same way that wealth does in the financial'?

1. 1) Tamar Liebes
2. 2) Elihu Katz
3. 3) Ien Ang
4. 4) John Fiske

Q.73 Arrange the following universities in chronological order in terms of offering courses on Indian English Writing:
A. Central Institute of English, Hyderabad
B. University of Mysore
C. Karnataka University
D. Andhra University
E. Osmania University

1. 1) A, B, D, C, E
2. 2) C, D, B, E, A
3. 3) B, D, C, E, A
4. 4) D, B, A, C, E

Q.74 Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

LIST-I (Concept)
A. 'Defamiliarization'
B. 'Differance'
C. 'Heteroglossia'
D. 'Aporia'

LIST-II (Theorist)
I. Derrida
II. Bakhtin
III. Shklovsky
IV. Derrida

1. 1) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
2. 2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3. 3) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
4. 4) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV

Q.75 Which of the following works of Feminist criticism have been written by Toril Moi?
A. French Feminist thought: A Reader
B. Feminisms: A Reader
C. Feminist Literary Criticism
D. Sexual/Textual Politics
E. What is a Woman?

1. 1) A, D and E Only
2. 2) A, B and C Only
3. 3) C, D and E Only
4. 4) B, C and D Only

Q.76 Which of the following statements about the Kailyard School are correct?
A. In the 1890s there was a flowering of the Scottish provincial novel in a highly sentimental form known as the Kailyard School.
B. The kailyard was the cabbage patch at the back of a village house, designating small-town preoccupations.
C. Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel Peter Pan introduced the popular lower-class sleuth.
D. J.I.M. Stewart, a novelist of the school, writes Lament for a Maker with his friend Lord Peter Wimsey.
E. Barrie's A Window in Thrums, based on his home town of Kirriemuir, remains the best known of this short-lived burst.

1. 1) A, B, and E Only
2. 2) B, C, and D Only
3. 3) A, D, and E Only
4. 4) A, B, and C Only

Q.77 Which of the following novels is not an example of a dystopian novel?

1. 1) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four
2. 2) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
3. 3) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
4. 4) William Golding's Lord of the Flies

Q.78 Girish Karnad's Hayavadana and Thomas Mann's short novel, The Transposed Heads, are based on the tale of

1. 1) Hitopdesha
2. 2) Panchtantra
3. 3) Jataka Katha
4. 4) Katha-sarit-sagara

Q.79 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: A dozen or more distinct languages and literatures flourish today on the Indian literary scene, and most of these are distributed on a broadly regional basis.
Reason R: The Aryans brought Sanskrit to India; the Muslim rule led to the rise of Urdu; and the British rule made Indo-Anglian literature possible.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.80 Angela McRobbie identifies four strategies ('subcodes') through which Jackie magazine makes its appeal. Identify the correct strategies or subcodes:

1. 1) The code of Cinema, the code of personal/domestic life, the code of fashion and beauty and the code of pop music
2. 2) The code of romance, the code of personal/domestic life, the code of fashion and beauty and the code for Mall-Culture
3. 3) The code of romance, the code of personal/domestic life, the code of fashion and beauty and the code of pop music
4. 4) The code of cinema, the code of personal/domestic life, the code of cosmetics and beauty and the code of pop music

Q.81 According to Freud's example in his Interpretation of Dreams, the psychodynamic critic tends to associate symbols with images. Which of the following symbols is not correct in that context?

1. 1) Ponds as female or yonic symbols
2. 2) Flowers as female or yonic symbols
3. 3) Towers as symbols of sexual pleasure
4. 4) Lances as male or phallic symbols

Q.82 Arrange the following in order of their publication:
A. Religio Medici
B. The Terrors of the Night
C. Essays of Elia
D. Utopia
E. The Four Ages of Poetry

1. 1) D, B, C, A, E
2. 2) E, D, A, B, C
3. 3) C, B, A, D, E
4. 4) D, B, A, E, C

Q.83 Which of the following details about the Dramatis Personae of The Duchess of Malfi are correct?
A. FERDINAND [Duke of Calabria].
B. CARDINAL [Executioner].
C. ANTONIO [BOLOGNA, Steward of the Household to the Duchess].
D. DELIO [Court Officer].
E. DANIEL DE BOSOLA [Gentleman of the Horse to the Duchess].

1. 1) A, B, and D Only
2. 2) A, C, and E Only
3. 3) B, C, and D Only
4. 4) B, D, and E Only

Q.84 Who defined culture as 'one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language'?

1. 1) Raymond Williams
2. 2) John Storey
3. 3) Ben Agger
4. 4) Peter Goodall

Q.85 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: The defining event of the first part of the twenty-first century was the attack on American targets, including the Twin Towers in New York, on 11 September 2001.
Reason R: A novel by Christopher Brookmyre published two days before the attacks happened was astonishingly prescient about the violence and its roots.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.86 Which of the following definitions of various social variation in language is incorrect?

1. 1) Convergence is a speech style that attempts to reduce social distance.
2. 2) A register is a conventional way of using language appropriate in a specific context.
3. 3) Slang describes words or phrases used instead of more everyday terms among younger speakers.
4. 4) Jargon are words and phrases, often involving body parts, bodily functions and sexual acts, that people avoid for reasons related to religion, politeness and prohibited behavior.

Q.87 Which of the following statements are correct about Mulk Raj Anand?
A. Anand had his education at Lahore, London and Cambridge, and took a Doctorate in Philosophy.
B. He was associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement in India.
C. In Coolie, the evil appears as greed, selfishness and inhumanity in their hundred different forms.
D. In The Barber's Trade Union, Anand immortalizes Munoo the barber.
E. Anand's early novels come fresh from contact with the flesh and blood of everyday existence.

1. 1) A, B, and E Only
2. 2) B, C, and D Only
3. 3) A, C, and E Only
4. 4) B, D, and E Only

Q.88 Given below are two statements:
Assertion A: The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception.
Reason R: The process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.

1. 1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
2. 2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. 3) A is correct but R is not correct
4. 4) A is not correct but R is correct

Q.89 Which of the following in-text citations is incorrect?

1. 1) Others note that doctors have not yet adequately explained the effects climate change will have on human health (Lemery and Auerbach 4–5).
2. 2) According to Naomi Baron, reading is 'just half of literacy. The other half is writing' (Baron 194).
3. 3) According to Gao Xingjian, 'Literature in essence is divorced from utility' (7).
4. 4) The author knew Bureau de la Rivière, another of Charles V's executors (Christine 192).

Q.90 Which of the following books has an account of the 'Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization'?

1. 1) A Passage to England
2. 2) A Passage to India
3. 3) Timeless India
4. 4) Defence of India

Q.91 What did the lady repent for?

1. 1) For her rudeness and false pride.
2. 2) For breaking the heart of so many of her lovers.
3. 3) For not responding to her last lover.
4. 4) For not caring for the feelings of others.

Q.92 Why did the lady reject all the proposals?

1. 1) Because she loved someone else.
2. 2) Because she scorned them all.
3. 3) Because she was innocent.
4. 4) Because she was proud and arrogant.

Q.93 In the poem, why was the last lover 'proud' and 'victorious'?

1. 1) Because he was richer and more handsome than the lady.
2. 2) He was more virtuous and prouder than the lady.
3. 3) Because he was handsome and self confident.
4. 4) Because he did not succumb and submit to the lady.

Q.94 What does the line, 'When I was fair and young, then favor graced me', appear to connote?

1. 1) The lady had good fortune and was wealthy.
2. 2) She was very beautiful and young.
3. 3) She had many love-proposals.
4. 4) She had the favour of many of her lovers.

Q.95 What does the line, 'Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more', appear to stand for?

1. 1) Her reluctance to the lovers.
2. 2) Her arrogance and self-pride.
3. 3) Because she was not impressed with their pursuits.
4. 4) She was getting annoyed by their pursuits.

Q.96 What excuse does the author prefer to give for the ill-natured satirists and critics?

1. 1) That the satirical arrows are flying in dark
2. 2) That they are unintentional and impersonal
3. 3) That the wounds they give are only imaginary
4. 4) That the satirist is ill-natured

Q.97 What does trouble the author most?

1. 1) Talent of humour and ridicule is in the possession of ill-natured persons.
2. 2) Talent and wisdom in possession of enemies.
3. 3) Talent and wit in possession of ill-natured persons.
4. 4) Talent of wit and humour in possession of barbarous persons.

Q.98 According to the author, what is made the subject of ridicule and buffoonery?

1. 1) Virtue, merit, and what is praiseworthy
2. 2) Good-will persons
3. 3) New initiatives in society
4. 4) Privacy of the upper-middle class

Q.99 What does appear to be the danger of satire, according to the author?

1. 1) Giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation
2. 2) Wit and spirit which are like poisoned darts
3. 3) Bad and inhuman persons in society
4. 4) Witty and ill-natured persons

Q.100 In the passage, 'secret stabs' stands for:

1. 1) Treachery and backbiting
2. 2) Lampoons and satires
3. 3) Poisoned darts which prick and inflict
4. 4) Ridicules and Mockery