RP-QP – 08 *RPQP08* -4- PART – A Questions 1 – 10 : Choose the most grammatically correct and meaningful option from those provided at the end of each sentence: 1. To create and perform something on the spur of the moment is to A) reflect B) improvise C) intellect D) explore 2. An ‘honorary’ job is one that is A) praiseworthy C) unremunerated B) unrecognised D) excellent 3. Everyone in the department is required to ___________ with the official rules and regulations. A) compliance B) complied C) complying D) comply 4. Nobody wanted ___________ of the lavish desserts after the very satisfying dinner. A) any B) many C) nothing D) so much 5. Last winter was one of the ___________ I have experienced in my whole life. A) severer B) more severest C) most severer D) severest 6. If I ___________ you, I would first verify the details before taking any step. A) am B) was C) were D) had been 7. No one was in a mood to leave early, ___________ ? A) wasn’t it B) isn’t it C) were they D) was he 8. We think someone ___________ him on the head to make him unconscious before robbing him. A) striked B) struck C) stricken D) stroke 9. The worst aspect of malnutrition is that it can cause permanent _______ to the brain. A) destruction B) deformation C) declamation D) damage 10. ___________ of you would like to accompany me to the party ? A) Which B) What C) Two D) Whichever 11. Choose the appropriate answer for the following : Tuberculosis : Lungs : : Cataract : ? A) Ear B) Throat C) Skin D) Eye 12. Which number will come in the blank space ? 6, 11, 21, 36, 56, ___________ A) 42 B) 51 C) 81 D) 91 13. A girl introduced a boy as the son of the daughter of the father of her uncle. The boy is girl’s A) Brother B) Son C) Uncle D) Son-In-law *RPQP08* RP-QP – 08 -5- 14. In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer. If he attempts all 75 questions and secures 125 marks, the number of questions he attempts correctly is A) 35 B) 40 C) 42 D) 46 15. How many triangles are there in the following figure ? A) 9 B) 10 C) 11 D) 12 16. Select the most suitable synonym for HECTIC A) organised B) clumsy C) frantic D) thrilling 17. Select the most suitable antonym for TRUNCATE A) lengthen B) split C) digress D) enervate 18. Identify the meaning of idiom “A bird’s eye view” A) without care B) within the walls C) an overall view D) out of place 19. Select the pair which shows the same relationship as the capitalized pair of words SUN : SUNLIGHT A) Moon : moonlight B) Bee-hive : honey C) Tap : water D) Flower : fragrance 20. Choose the correct option (3000 + 6160 )/ 28 = ? A) 3200 B) 3320 C) 3350 D) None of these 21. The average of first five multiples of 3 is A) 3 B) 9 C) 12 D) 15 22. 3.5 can be expressed in terms of percentage with respect to 1000 as A) 0.35% B) 3.5% C) 35% D) 350% 23. A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs. 2,090.42. Approximately, what will be the percentage profit if he sold that article for Rs. 2,602.58 ? A) 15% B) 20% C) 25% D) 30% 24. If A : B = 3 : 4 and B : C = 8 : 9, then A : C is A) 1 : 3 B) 3 : 2 C) 2 : 3 D) 1 : 2 25. A man can do a job in 15 days. His father takes 20 days and his son finishes it in 25 days. How long will they take to complete the job if they all work together ? A) Less than 6 days B) Exactly 6 days C) Approximately 6.4 days D) More than 10 days RP-QP – 08 -6- *RPQP08* PART – B 26. Match the books with their themes: a. Meghaduta 1. Courtship of Shiva and Parvati b. Raghuvamsham 2. Message from the love-lornYaksha to his wife c. Kumarasambhav 3. Victories of Rama d. Ritusamhara 4. Description of six seasons in relation to Shringara Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 2 3 1 4 C) 3 1 4 2 D) 4 2 1 3 27. The two earlier Indian novels by women, i.e. Kamala, A Story of Hindu Life and Shaguna, a Story of Native Christian Life were written by A) Balamani Amma B) Krupabai Sattahianadhan C) Binodini Devi D) Girijabai Madhav Kelkar 28. In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of consciousness raising? A) Mulkraj Anand’s Coolie B) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura C) Girish Karnard’s Nagamandala D) U. R. Ananthmurthy’s Samskara 29. Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English? A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura B) G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor 30. Arrange the following novels in the chronological order of their publication: a. Murugan, the Tiller b. Rajmohan’s Wife c. So Many Hungers A) badc B) abcd d. Untouchable C) bcad D) bdac 31. Which of the following play by Girish Karnad is based on Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads? A) Naga-Mandala B) Hayavadana C) Yayati D) Tughlaq *RPQP08* -7- RP-QP – 08 32. The preface to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is written by A) M.K. Gandhi B) W.B. Yeats C) Graham Greene D) None of them 33. In which prize winning Indian novel do we come cross the following ‘thoughts’? “As … stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone, and b) It is best to be prepared.” A) The White Tiger B) The God of Small Things C) The Inheritance of Loss D) Train to Pakistan 34. Which of the following standards, according to Sharankumar Limbale, a Dalit critic, can be set down for the evaluation of Dalit literature? a) Artist must be motivated by their experience. b) Artists must socialize their experiences. c) Artists’ experiences must have the strength to cross provincial boundaries. d) Artists’ experiences must seem relevant to all time. A) (a), (b) & (c) B) (a), (c) & (d) C) (b), (c) & (d) D) All the above 35. Match the characters and the works in which they appear : a. Willy Loman 1. Moby-Dick b. Humbert 2. Death of a Salesman c. Amanda Wingfield 3. Lolita d. Captain Ahab 4. The Glass Menagerie Codes : a b c d A) 2 3 4 1 B) 1 2 3 4 C) 4 3 2 1 D) 3 1 4 2 36. Match the men of letters and the titles Emerson gave them: a. Plato 1. Poet b. Swedenborg 2. Philosopher c. Montaigne 3. Skeptic d. Shakespeare 4. Mystic Codes : a b c d A) 2 4 3 1 B) 1 3 4 2 C) 3 2 1 4 D) 4 1 2 3 RP-QP – 08 -8- *RPQP08* 37. Who said, “Nature is a greater and more perfect art”? A) Emerson B) Thoreau C) Walt Whitman D) Wallace Stevens 38. Match the characters and the novels in which they appear: a. Jake Barnes 1. Farewell to Arms b. Catherine Barbley c. Robert Jordan d. Santiago Codes : a b A) 3 1 B) 1 2 C) 4 3 D) 2 4 2. The Old Man and the Sea 3. The Sun Also Rises 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls c 4 3 2 1 d 2 4 1 3 39. Who said, “All modern American literature came from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”? A) Wallace Stevens B) Ernest Hemingway C) Walt Whitman D) Langston Hughes 40. Who among the following is known as the leader of the Beats? A) Allen Ginsberg B) Robert Lowell C) E.E. Cummings D) Randall Jarrell 41. Which of these is an important theme in American Romanticism? A) Emotions B) Rationality C) Science D) Industrialization 42. Which poet is credited with the following expression? “America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” A) Alice Walker B) Robert Frost C) Walt Whitman D) Allen Ginsburg 43. Which poet says the following regarding poetry and poems? “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.” A) Langston Hughes B) Seamus Heaney C) Sylvia Plath D) Emily Dickenson *RPQP08* RP-QP – 08 -9- 44. In which of her novels Toni Morrison writes: “The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” A) Beloved B) Bluest Eyes C) Sula D) Tar Baby 45. Identify the predominant meter in the following poetic stanza by Emily Dickinson : Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality A) Iambic tetrameter B) Iambic pentameter C) Iambic trimeter D) Iambic heptameter 46. Match the following a. Metonymy b. Synecdoche c. Irony d. Trope Codes : a b A) 3 4 B) 1 2 C) 4 3 D) 2 4 1. 2. 3. 4. c 2 3 2 1 Turn or conversion Dissembling Change of Name Taking together d 1 4 1 3 47. Plato censured poetry because he believed that A) It eliminates the ego B) It promotes sensuality C) It cripples the imagination D) It distorts reality 48. “Anagnorisis,” a term used by Aristotle, means A) The convergence of the main plot and the sub plot B) The happy resolution of the plot C) The reversal of fortune for the protagonist D) The moment of discovery by the protagonist 49. “ Horatio, I am dead” is an example of A) protasis B) prolepsis C) anacrusis D) pun 50. By ‘Esemplastic’ Coleridge meant A) Flexible B) Plasticity C) Fancy D) Shaping power RP-QP – 08 *RPQP08* -10- 51. The term Objective Correlative was first used by A) Washington Allston B) T.S. Eliot C) I.A. Richardson D) Cleanthes Brooks 52. Which one of the following is not a metaphysical characteristic? A) Wit B) Striking opening of the poem C) Optimism D) Far-fetched metaphors 53. Paradise Lost by Milton runs into how many books? A) 14 B) 12 C) 18 D) 10 54. Which one of the Shakespeare’s plays ends with the following dialogue? “The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.” A) Hamlet B) Macbeth C) Othello D) King Lear 55. Which one of the Shakespeare’s plays begins with the following dialogue? “Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home : Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a labouring day without the sign Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou ?” A) Julius Caesar B) Anthony and Cleopatra C) Midsummer Night’s Dream D) Merchant of Venice 56. Who addresses whom in the following dialogue in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest? “Go make thyself like a nymph o’ the sea: be subject To no sight but thine and mine, invisible To every eyeball else. Go take this shape And hither come in’t: go, hence with diligence” A) Miranda to Aerial B) Prospero to Aerial C) Prospero to Caliban D) None of the above is true *RPQP08* RP-QP – 08 -11- 57. Who is addressing whom in the following dialogue in Shakespeare’s Hamlet? There are more things in heaven and earth …. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. A) Horatio to Hamlet B) The Ghost to Hamlet C) Hamlet to Ophelia D) Hamlet to Horatio 58. Match the following (a) Antony and Cleopatra (b) As You Like It (c) Othello (d) Measure for Measure Codes : a b c A) 2 3 4 B) 1 2 3 C) 4 3 2 D) 3 4 1 1. 2. 3. 4. Promos and Cassandra Plutarch’s Lives Rosalynde Hecatommithi d 1 4 1 2 59. Who is said to have sold his soul to devil ? A) Beowolf B) Dracula C) Faust 60. Thomas Kyd was the founder of A) Romantic Comedy C) Satire D) Frankenstien B) Romantic tragedy D) Dramatic romance 61. In which play does Shaw propound his philosophy of ‘Life Force’? A) The Devil’s Disciple B) Major Barbara C) Ceaser and Cleopatra D) Man and Superman 62. Who said, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” ? A) Francis Bacon B) Samuel Johnson C) John Dryden D) Ben Johnson 63. Who tells the last tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales? A) The Monk B) The Prioress C) The Nun D) The Parson 64. What is true about Augustan poetry? 1. It flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome 2. It includes the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. 3. In English literature, it refers to the poetry of the eighteenth-century, specifically the first half of the century. 4. It was political, satirical, and marked by the central philosophical problem of whether the individual or society took precedence as the subject of verse. A) Only 2 & 3 B) Only 3 & 4 C) Only 2, 3 & 4 D) All the four statements are true RP-QP – 08 *RPQP08* -12- 65. What is the main feature of the Victorian age? A) Ethical Literature B) Influence of Science C) Attack on materialism D) All of the above 66. Which novel begins with the sentence, “It is trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts”? A) Pamela B) Joseph Andrews C) Tristram Shandy D) Humphery Clinker 67. “To Daffodils” is a poem by A) Robert Herrick C) Robert Frost B) William Wordsworth D) P.B. Shelley 68. A Byronic hero is he who is A) Vain and melancholy B) Cynical C) Finds no good in life or love or anything D) All of the above 69. Which poet is credited with the following lines? The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? A) William Blake B) T.S. Eliot C) William Butler Yeats D) Nissim Ezekiel 70. Who among the following was not a part of ‘Bloomsbury Group’? A) Virginia Woolf B) Lytton Strachey C) W.B. Yeats D) Clive Bell 71. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group? A) Angus Wilson B) David Lodge C) Anthony Powell D) Malcolm Bradbury 72. Who is not a war poet? A) John Masefield C) Siegfried Sasoon B) Rupert Brooke D) Wilfred Owen 73. Who is known as “a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”? A) G. B. Shaw B) T.S. Eliot C) Virginia Woolf D) Thomas Hardy *RPQP08* -13- 74. Match the following : a. James Joyce 1) His novels reflect on the dehumanizing effect of modern society 2) Uses stream of consciousness instead of conventional forms 3) Mostly experimental, abandoned accepted notions of plot, setting and characters 4) In Good Soldier examines the negative effects of wars b. D. H. Lawrence c. Virginia Woolf d. Ford Madox Ford Codes : A) B) C) D) a 3 2 2 4 b 1 3 1 2 RP-QP – 08 c 2 4 4 1 d 4 1 3 3 75. Which of the following philosophers provides the basis of modern Linguistics ? A) Claude Levi-Strauss B) Noam Chomsky C) Roman Jacobson D) Ferdinand de Saussure 76. Discourse in post-structuralism A) Constitutes authority and knowledge B) Means that the link between knowledge and power is mutually constitutive C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B 77. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis ? A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe B) Language is a guide to social reality C) One adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language D) A language and the society that uses it interlock 78. Who said that the “language of poetry is a language of paradox” ? A) Allen Tate B) John Crowe Ransom C ) Cleanth Brooks D) W. K. Wimsatt 79. Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following : A) T.S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley B) Monroe C. Beardsley, T.S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt C) John Crowe Ransom, Monroe C. Beardsley, T.S. Eliot, William K. Wimsatt D) William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom RP-QP – 08 -14- *RPQP08* 80. Match the literary movement with its avowed claim: a. Formalism 1. Aims to uncover the ‘deep structure’ beneath the text b. Structuralism 2. Aims to demonstrate how oppositions that deep structures depend on break down c. Post Structuralism 3. Aims to explicate the formal properties of the artwork d. Feminism 4. Aims to invert patriarchal system Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 3 1 2 4 C) 2 3 1 4 D) 4 1 2 3 81. What is true about Archetypal/Myth criticism? 1. It is a form of criticism that is largely based on the works of C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell. 2. Some of its major exponents include Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson, Philip Wheelwright, Leslie Fiedler, Northrop Frye, Maud Bodkin, and G. Wilson Knight 3. These critics view the genres and individual plot patterns of literature, including highly sophisticated and realistic works, as recurrences of certain archetypes and essential mythic formulae. 4. Archetypes, according to Jung, are “primordial images”; the “psychic residue” of repeated types of experience in the lives of very ancient ancestors which are inherited in the “collective unconscious” of the human race and are expressed in myths, religion, dreams, and private fantasies, as well as in the works of literature A) Only 1, 2 & 3 B) Only 1, 3 & 4 C) Only 1, 2 & 4 D) All the four statements are true *RPQP08* -15- 82. Match the following a) Kant 1. to be to know to do and hope in universal ways 2. to interrogate and historicise the contingency 3. the myth of pure origins and the emancipator myth of progress and teleology 4. the self- affirming ego through a simple inquiry into the things we know for certain b) Foucault c) Nietzsche d) Decarte Codes : A) B) C) D) a 2 1 4 3 b 3 2 3 4 RP-QP – 08 c 4 3 2 1 d 1 4 1 2 83. Match the concepts with their explanations: a. Commodification 1. an attitude of valuing things not for their utility but for their power to impress others or for their resale possibilities” b. Dialectical Materialism 2. a theory that history develops neither in a random fashion nor in a linear one but instead as struggle between contradictions that ultimately find resolution in a synthesis of the two sides. For example, class conflicts lead to new social systems c. Reflectionism 3. a theory that the superstructure of a society mirrors its economic base and, by extension, that a text reflects the society that produced it d. Superstructure 4. social, political, and ideological systems and institutions — for example, the values, art, and legal processes of a society — that are generated by the base Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 2 3 1 4 C) 3 1 4 2 D) 4 2 1 3 RP-QP – 08 -16- *RPQP08* 84. Match the concepts with their explanations: a. Anima 1. the stage marking a child’s entry into the language b. Symbolic 2. the inner feminine part of the male personality or man’s image of a woman c. Persona 3. Lack of identification with some part of one’s personality d. Alterity 4. The image we present to the world Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 2 1 4 3 C) 3 1 4 2 D) 4 2 1 3 85. Match the following: a. Existentialism 1. To make choices based on an individual code of ethics (commitment) rather than because of societal pressures. b. Authenticity 2. The idea that faith requires an act of commitment c. Leap of Faith 3. A term used to describe existence – a world without inherent value or truth d. Absurd 4. A philosophy that each person is an isolated being who is cast into an alien universe, and conceives the world as possessing no inherent human value or meaning Codes : a b c d A) 3 2 1 4 B) 3 4 2 1 C) 4 1 2 3 D) 4 2 1 3 *RPQP08* -17- RP-QP – 08 86. What is correct in the context of Hybridity? 1. It refers to the integration or mingling of cultural signs and practices from the colonizing and the colonized cultures 2. The assimilation and adaptation of cultural practices, the cross-fertilization of cultures, can be seen as positive, enriching, and dynamic, as well as oppressive 3. It is an important concept in post-colonial theory 4. Integration may be too orderly a word to represent the variety of stratagems, desperate or cunning or good-willed, by which people adapt themselves to the necessities and the opportunities of more or less oppressive or invasive cultural impositions, live into alien cultural patterns through their own structures of understanding, thus producing something familiar but new A) Only 1, 2 & 3 are correct B) Only 2, 3 & 4 are correct C) Only 1, 3 & 4 are correct D) All the four statements are correct 87. Match the books with their authors: a. Terry Eagleton 1. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature b. Raymond Williams 2. Anatomy of Criticism c. Northrop Frye 3. Marxism and Literature d. Jonathan Culler 4. Literary Theory: An Introduction Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 3 4 2 1 C) 4 2 3 1 D) 4 3 2 1 88. Give the correct chronological sequence of the following: A) Validity in Interpretation, The Affective Fallacy, Verbal Icon, The Intentional Fallacy B) The Intentional Fallacy, The Affective Fallacy, Verbal Icon, Validity in Interpretation C) The affective Fallacy, Validity in Interpretation, the Intentional Fallacy, Verbal Icon D) Verbal Icon, Validity in Interpretation, The Affective Fallacy, The Intentional Fallacy 89. Which among the following does not gel with the concept of postmodernism? A) Play B) Anti-authoritarianism C) Chance D) Design RP-QP – 08 -18- 90. Match the author with their books a. Betty Friedan b. Kate Millet c. Elaine Showalter d. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar Codes : a b c d A) 1 2 3 4 B) 1 4 2 3 C) 4 2 3 1 D) 4 3 2 1 91. Match the critic and the term a. Hélène Cixous b. Wolfgang Iser c. Elaine Showalter d. Clifford Geertz Codes : a b c A) 1 2 3 B) 1 4 2 C) 2 3 1 D) 4 3 2 1. 2. 3. 4. *RPQP08* The Feminist Mystique Sexual Politics A Literature of Their Own The Madwoman in the Attic he/she supposedly coined : 1. Gynocentricism 2. Écriture féminine 3. Implied reader 4. Thick description d 4 3 4 1 92. Which among the following statement does not capture the idea and intent of structuralism? A) At its simplest, structuralism claims that the nature of every element in any given situation has no significance by itself; it is determined by all the other elements involved in that situation. B) Structuralists believe that all human activities are natural or essential C) All activities take place within a system of differences and have meaning only in its relation to other possible activities within that system D) Its major figures include Claude Lévi-Strauss, A. J. Greimas, Jonathan Culler, Roland Barthes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Vladimir Propp, and Terence Hawkes. 93. Which of the following chapters does not form a part of Aijaz Ahmad’s book, In Theory A) Literary Theory and “Third World Literature” B) Dialects of Class, Ideologies of Immigration C) Indian Literature: Notes toward the Definition of a Category D) Three Worlds Theory: End of a Debate *RPQP08* RP-QP – 08 -19- 94. Henrik Ibsen (1928-1906) was a __________________ dramatist. A) Norwegian B) Swedish C) Russian D) German 95. Match the following Nobel Laureates with their country: a. Svetlana Alexievich 1. Canada b. Patrick Modiano 2. China c. Alice Munro 3. Belarus d. Mo Yan 4. France Codes : a b c d A) 4 1 2 3 B) 3 2 4 1 C) 2 1 4 3 D) 3 4 1 2 96. The following lines comprise the beginning of a well known poem by Pablo Neruda. Choose the poem : The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea. A) A Song of Despair B) Tonight I can Write C) First of the Twenty Love Poems D) None of the Above 97. Which of the following essays is not written by Salman Rushdie? A) Imaginary Homelands B) Commonwealth Literature, Exist C) Outside the Whale D) In God We Trust 98. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was published in A) 1957 B) 1948 C) 1958 D) 1947 99. Schindler’s Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist A) Thomas Keneally B) Simon Haynes C) Wendy James D) Paul Jennings 100. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) is written as a “prequel” to A) Jane Eyre B) Pride and Prejudice C) Hard Times D) Mill on the Floss ______________ RP-QP – 08 -20- SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK *RPQP08*
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