Question 1:

Match the Text (List-I) to the Genre/Type (List-II):

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

Question 2:

In T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, identify the figure of speech in the line: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

1. Metonymy
2. Paradox
3. Synecdoche
4. Alliteration

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) (A), (B), and (D) only
(B) (A), and (D) only
(C) (B), (C), and (D) only
(D) (C) and (D) only

Question 3:

Who out of the following are the seminal thinkers of the ‘Enlightenment Age’?

1. Julia Kristeva
2. Michel Foucault
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Rene Descartes

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) (C) only
2. (B) (C) and (D) only
3. (C) (A) and (D) only
4. (D) (B) and (C) only

Question 4:

Arrange these Comedies of William Shakespeare in their chronological order:

1.The Tempest
2. As You Like It
3. The Taming of the Shrew
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Question 5:

Select the traditional definition of the "ballad":

1. A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment.
2. A song transmitted orally that tells a story.
3. A poem written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines.
4. A short poem consisting of the utterance by a single speaker.

Question 6:

Match the Concept (List-I) to its Originator (List-II):

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

Question 7:

Which of the following is the correct rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet?

1. ABABCDCD EFEFGG
2. ABBAABBACDCDCD
3. ABBAABBA CDECDE
4. ABABCBCB CDECDE

Question 8:

Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:

1. The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
2. Emma (1816) by Jane Austen
3. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) by John Dryden
4. The Rover (1677–1681) by Aphra Behn

Question 9:

In the excerpt from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, what figure of speech is displayed in the line described as “poor fretful sea”?

1. Simile
2. Alliteration
3. Antithesis
4. Metaphor

Question 10:

What is parapraxis also known as?

1. Screen Memory
2. Defense Mechanism
3. Freudian Slip
4. Transference

Question 11:

Identify the thinker who is not associated with the Frankfurt School of Marxist Aesthetics established in 1923:

1. Walter Benjamin
2. Theodor Adorno
3. Herbert Marcuse
4. Karl Mannheim

Question 12:

“Then, looking about her with eyes that would not fail, a Circe with its hair in the coil, spoke: ‘You are taking what I would not give.’”

This is an excerpt from “The Lament of the Median.” Identify the statement that corresponds to the lines:

1. Women are visible for their bodies, while their deeds are buried within power struggles.
2. Women’s symbolic sacrifice makes space for those who will inherit power.
3. Women are invisible in the narrative and erased from history.
4. Women sacrifice their bodies as the invisible resources of the succession.

Question 13:

Identify the correct chronological order of the following theoretical movements:

1. Structuralism
2. New Criticism
3. Poststructuralism
4. Feminist Criticism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A.  (2), (1), (3), (4)

B.  (1), (2), (3), (4)

C.  (3), (1), (2), (4)

D.  (4), (3), (2), (1)

Question 14:

Arrange the following ideas in the order that reflects Freud’s argument about the unconscious:

1. Manifest representations of repressed dual experiences.
2. Recognition of symbols arising from feelings of repression.
3. Distinguishing the symbolic functions of dreams.
4. Manifest representations of surface fears and losses.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (1), (2), (3), (4)
2. (2), (3), (1), (4)
3. (3), (1), (2), (4)
4. (4), (1), (2), (3)

Question 15:

Identify the early feminist work that discusses male writers like Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth:

1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
2. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
3. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
4. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) (A), (B), and (D) only
(B) (A), (C), and (D) only
(C) (A), (B), and (C) only
(D) (B), (C), and (D) only

Question 16:

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts?

• Pamela
• The Castle of Otranto
• Humphry Clinker

1. They are all examples of Gothic Literature.
2. They were all published in the same decade.
3. All of them are in the epistolary mode.
4. They are all written in a quixotic mode.

Question 17:

Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):

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

Question 18:

Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?

A. Fledgling (2005)
B. Kindred (1979)
C. Parable of the Sower (1993)
D. The Word for World is Forest (1972)

Options:
(A) (A) and (B) only
(B) (B) and (C) only
(C) (C) and (D) only
(D) (A), (B), and (C) only

Question 19:

In which Absurdist play, written in French as Fin de Partie, would you find the characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?

1. Play (1963)
2. Endgame (Fin de Partie) (1957)
3. Waiting for Godot (1952)
4. Happy Days (1961)

Question 20:

Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk,” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

1. Nissim Ezekiel
2. A.K. Ramanujan
3. Kamala Das
4. Jayanta Mahapatra

Question 21:

Who is the author of the 2014 novel, The Black Hill?

1. Mamang Dai
2. Easterine Kire
3. Robin S. Ngangom
4. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Question 22:

Which famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children’s magazine Sandesh?

1. Sukumar Ray
2. Satyajit Ray
3. R.K. Narayan
4. Prafulla Roy

Question 23:

Identify the author of the anthropological text, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003):

1. Rupa Bajwa
2. Alan Hollinghurst
3. Michael Bailey
4. Parvati Sharma

Question 24:

Match the Indian writings in English (List I) with their respective authors (List II):

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

Question 25:

Arrange the publications of Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication:

1. Train to Pakistan (1956)
2. Delhi: A Novel (1990)
3. I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959)
4. The Company of Women (1999)

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

Question 26:

Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?

1. Dance Like a Man
2. Flowers in a Hill
3. Silence! The Court is in Session
4. Final Solutions

Question 27:

Which of the following works of "magical realism" can be accredited to the celebrated author Gabriel García Márquez?

1. Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
3. The House of the Spirits (1982)
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

Question 28:

Match the author (List-I) with the text (List-II):

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

Question 29:

Which of the following are the features of an 'idiolect'?

1. It is the pattern form of a language that is specific to a group of performers depending on their geographical location.
2. It is a language variety that emanates from the type of language used by a particular individual.
3. It is a distinctive feature that is habitual to an individual.
4. This term is mostly used by linguists when observing differences in speech from one person to another.

Options:
(A) (A) and (D) only
(B) (A), (B), and (C) only
(C) (B), (C), and (D) only
(D) (A), (B), and (D) only

Question 30:

The process of conversion from one language into another language on the phonological level without a translation is called:

1. Transference
2. Transliteration
3. Translation
4. Orthographical Translation

Question 31:

Which of the following works has been typologically similar to Anna Karenina?

1. War and Peace
2. Madame Bovary
3. The God of Small Things
4. Pride and Prejudice

Options:
(A) (A) and (B) only
(B) (B) and (C) only
(C) (B) and (D) only
(D) (A) and (C) only

Question 32:

Match the translation studies concept (List-I) with its definition (List-II):

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

Question 33:

Arrange the steps of the Translation Process in the correct order:

1. Analysis of the Source Language text in order to decode its meanings.
2. Transfer of the meanings from the Source Language text to the Target Language text without losing the integrity of the Source Language text.
3. Restructuring of the Source Language through recreation in the Target Language text.

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

Question 34:

The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travels of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of the picaresque novel?

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
2. Tom Jones (1749)
3. Don Quixote (1605)
4. Moll Flanders (1722)

Options:
(A) (A), (B), and (D) only
(B) (A), (B), and (C) only  
(C) (A), (C), and (D) only
(D) (B), (C), and (D) only

Question 35:

Which novelist has the rare honor of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for her non-fiction writings?

1. Isaac Singer
2. Svetlana Alexievich
3. Patrick Modiano
4. Octavio Paz

Question 36:

In which elegy would you find these famous lines: "I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

1. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. Lycidas
3. In Memoriam A.H.H.
4. Pied Beauty

Question 37:

V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:

1. In a Free State
2. A House for Mr. Biswas
3. A Bend in the River
4. The Enigma of Arrival

Question 38:

Arrange the following novels of Stephen King in the chronological order of their publication (oldest first):

1. Carrie
2. It
3. Misery
4. The Shining

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

Question 39:

Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance (oldest first):

1. Byomkesh Bakshi
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Hercule Poirot
4. Dupin

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

Question 40:

Identify the author who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi:

1. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
2. Devakinandan Khatri
3. Munshi Premchand
4. Bharatendu Harishchandra

Question 41:

Match the literary term (List I) with its representative textual example (List II):

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

Question 42:

Arrange the following Gothic novels in ascending chronological order (oldest first):

1. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
3. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
4. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

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

Question 43:

Match the following literary retellings (List-I) with their original versions (List-II):

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

Question 44:

Set in Dartington Hall, this Booker-winning novel is a story about post-war Britain and the influence of Nazis on British gentlemen. It is ultimately about redemption. Identify the novel:

1. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
2. Kamila Shamsie’s The Burnt Shadow
3. Bernard Schlink’s The Reader
4. Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

Question 45:

The first Progressive Writers’ Conference was held in Lucknow on this date:

1. 10th April 1936
2. 11th April 1936
3. 10th April 1946
4. 11th April 1946

Question 46:

Identify the writer(s) associated with the Harlem Renaissance:

1. Claude McKay
2. Zora Neale Hurston
3. W.E.B. Du Bois
4. Langston Hughes

Question 47:

Arrange the Shakespearean tragedies in the ascending order of their publication (oldest first):

1. Julius Caesar
2. Coriolanus
3. Othello
4. Titus Andronicus

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

Question 48:

To which famous Indian playwright can the following plays be attributed: Pagla Ghoda, Hatt Tikhhar Pratap?

1. Habib Tanvir
2. Badal Sircar
3. Vijay Tendulkar
4. Karnad Nagarkar

Question 49:

Select examples of "Speculative Fiction" from the following:

1. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
3. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
4. The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. (A) only
2. (A), (B), and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C), and (D)
4. (A) and (C) only

Question 50:

Which of the following are the characteristics of figures of speech?

1. Figures of speech are words or phrases related to the literal usage of language.
2. Figures of speech use words or phrases related to the figurative usage of language.
3. Anecdote, antithesis, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
4. Figures of speech do not constitute the literal usage of language.

1. (B) and (D) only
2. (B), (C), and (D) only
3. (A), (B), and (C) only
4. (A) only

Question 51:

Which of D.H. Lawrence’s novels, written in Italy and published in 1928, was banned in England for its sexual content?

1. The Rainbow
2. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3. Sons and Lovers
4. Women in Love

Question 52:

Match the book (List I) with its author (List II):

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

Question 53:

Arrange the following events in the order of their occurrence in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre:

1. Jane meets Mr. Rochester.
2. Jane’s studies at Lowood School.
3. Mr. Briggs, a solicitor, arrives with a letter about Bertha Mason.
4. Jane takes up the role of governess.

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

Question 54:

Arrange the following works in the order of their publication, from the earliest to the latest:

1. The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks
2. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
3. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
4. Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

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

Question 55:

Which of the following Comparative Literature concepts signify literary similarity between at least two works that cannot be explained by context?

1. Comparative Poetics
2. Genetic Contact
3. Typological Affinity
4. Intertextuality

1. (A) only
2. (A) and (B) only
3. (C) only
4. (C) and (D)

Question 56:

The publication and performance of which work made Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o believe that his theatre work reached censorship because of its use of the local language and its capability to sway a larger number of people to political action?

1. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
2. Devil on the Cross
3. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
4. The Black Hermit

Question 57:

Match the literary term (List I) with its representative textual example (List II):

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

Question 58:

Match the rasa (List I) with the bhava it evokes (List II):

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

Question 59:

Match the Jane Austen novels (List I) with their primary female character (List II):

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

Question 60:

Which of the following is true for masque performances?

1. Masques were important theatrical forms during the reigns of James I and Charles I.
2. They were performed in private royal halls.
3. They were expensive to mount and had simple costumes and minimal stage designs.
4. The designer of the most successful masques was Inigo Jones.

1. (A), (B), and (C) only
2. (A), (B), and (D) only
3. (A), (C), and (D) only
4. (B), (C), and (D) only

Question 61:

Which of the following works is attributed to Ben Jonson?

1. To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare
2. The Changeling
3. The Sun Rising
4. The Duchess of Malfi

Question 62:

In the following lines from John Donne’s sonnet "Death, Be Not Proud," what figure of speech is being employed? “Death, thou shalt die.”

1. Antithesis
2. Paradox
3. Oxymoron
4. Metaphor

Question 63:

Match the Indian Writings in English in List I with their respective authors in List II:

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

Question 64:

Match the literary awards in List I with their descriptions in List II:

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

Question 65:

Match the African novels in List I with their authors in List II:

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

Question 66:

Which of the following is a part of Anthony Burgess' Malayan Trilogy?

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Time for a Tiger
3. The Enemy in the Blanket
4. Beds in the East

1. (1) (B), (C), and (D) only
2. (2) (A), (B), and (C) only
3. (3) (A), (C), and (D) only
4. (4) (B), (C), and (D) only

Question 67:

Which of the following features pertain to the MANTRA (Machine Assisted Translation Tool) project in India?

1. Translates English to Hindi in domains like public administration, health, and education.
2. Provides tools for translation for museums and archives.
3. Supports MANTRA-Rajbhasha, funded by the Dept. of Official Languages.
4. Developed collaboratively by Carnegie Mellon University and Indian institutions.

1. (1) (A), (B), and (C) only
2. (2) (A), (B), and (D) only
3. (3) (B), (C), and (D) only
4. (4) (A), (C), and (D) only

Question 68:

In the poem "I Shall Return to This Bengal" by Jibanananda Das, identify the figure of speech in the line: "floating on the mist’s bosom to alight."

1. Alliteration
2. Simile
3. Oxymoron
4. Personification

Question 69:

Which of the following is NOT true about the poem "I Shall Return to This Bengal"?

1. It celebrates the flora and fauna of Bengal.
2. It underlines the theme of forced migration.
3. It is about the poet’s nostalgia.
4. It represents the poet’s response to the Partition.

Question 70:

What does the poet imply when he says that he might not return as a man?

1. He knows he will be reincarnated as a bird or a kite.
2. He wants to remain close to the Dhansiri’s bank.
3. Humans are bound by geo-political borders.
4. He possesses a special fondness for flora and fauna.

Question 71:

Why does the poet refer to the shore of Bengal as sad?

1. It has become green and mossy.
2. Many of Bengal’s inhabitants have left the place.
3. It is desolated by the waves of Halcyon.
4. The ecology of Bengal is deteriorating.

Question 72:

The research of a British professor of cognitive neuroimaging has succeeded in establishing that:

1. The brain of men and women are alike.
2. Science needs to challenge the status quo.
3. Society must break away from attempts at stereotyping gender issues.
4. The potential of a human brain is not directly linked to gender.

Question 73:

The synonym for the word "stranglehold" in the passage is:

1. Asphyxiation
2. Containment
3. Prohibiting entry
4. Overwhelming control

Question 74:

By referring to the world as “gendered,” the writer conveys that:

1. Gender differences can be detected right from childhood.
2. Society continues to be fixated on gender stereotypes.
3. One’s gender is bound to determine one’s abilities.
4. The debate on gender differences will never be resolved.

Question 75:

The writer of this passage wants to emphasize the need to:

1. Use new insights from scientific research for better understanding of human abilities.
2. Continuously debate gender differences to achieve human progress.
3. Question scientific findings on the brain’s functioning.
4. Accept gender differences as essential for survival.