Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2019 MPhil PhD in English Previous Queston Papers
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1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
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Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
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2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
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2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
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2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
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1)
2)
1)
DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
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2)
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DU MPhil PhD in English
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
6)
7)
1)
1. Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36905]
2. Henry V and Henry VIII [Option ID = 36903]
3. Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
4. Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36904]
Correct Answer :-
Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
Franz Fanon?s The Wretched of the Earth is significant ________ .
[Question ID = 24224]
1. for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
2. for configuring the relationship between nation, national consciousness and national culture [Option ID =
36895]
3. for articulating the role of the ?native intellectual? in the struggle for national independence [Option ID =
36896]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36897]
Correct Answer :-
for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
The term ?counter-discourse? suggest(s) _________ .
I. the theory and practice of symbolic resistance
II. the confrontation between constituted reality and its subversion
Codes:
[Question ID = 24225]
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36900]
2. None of these [Option ID = 36901]
3. I [Option ID = 36898]
4. II [Option ID = 36899]
Correct Answer :-
I [Option ID = 36898]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T9
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The passage carries the theme of _______ .
[Question ID = 24231]
1. Industrialization [Option ID = 36923]
2. Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
3. Essentialism [Option ID = 36925]
4. Racism [Option ID = 36924]
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2)
1)
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Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
6)
7)
1)
1. Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36905]
2. Henry V and Henry VIII [Option ID = 36903]
3. Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
4. Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36904]
Correct Answer :-
Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
Franz Fanon?s The Wretched of the Earth is significant ________ .
[Question ID = 24224]
1. for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
2. for configuring the relationship between nation, national consciousness and national culture [Option ID =
36895]
3. for articulating the role of the ?native intellectual? in the struggle for national independence [Option ID =
36896]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36897]
Correct Answer :-
for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
The term ?counter-discourse? suggest(s) _________ .
I. the theory and practice of symbolic resistance
II. the confrontation between constituted reality and its subversion
Codes:
[Question ID = 24225]
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36900]
2. None of these [Option ID = 36901]
3. I [Option ID = 36898]
4. II [Option ID = 36899]
Correct Answer :-
I [Option ID = 36898]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T9
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The passage carries the theme of _______ .
[Question ID = 24231]
1. Industrialization [Option ID = 36923]
2. Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
3. Essentialism [Option ID = 36925]
4. Racism [Option ID = 36924]
2)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The expression ?inability to feel? means __________ .
[Question ID = 24230]
1. economic crisis [Option ID = 36919]
2. breakdown of the Commonwealth [Option ID = 36920]
3. emotional diffidence [Option ID = 36921]
4. post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Correct Answer :-
post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T10
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
The "creative society" is defined by the author as _______
I. a society where diverse art forms and literary writings seek incentive.
II. a society where social inequalities are accepted as the norm.
III. a society where a large number of contradictions are recognised.
IV. a society where the exploited and the oppressed groups grow conscious of their human rights
and upliftment.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24233]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36932]
2. II & IV [Option ID = 36933]
3. Only IV [Option ID = 36931]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
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Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
6)
7)
1)
1. Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36905]
2. Henry V and Henry VIII [Option ID = 36903]
3. Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
4. Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36904]
Correct Answer :-
Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
Franz Fanon?s The Wretched of the Earth is significant ________ .
[Question ID = 24224]
1. for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
2. for configuring the relationship between nation, national consciousness and national culture [Option ID =
36895]
3. for articulating the role of the ?native intellectual? in the struggle for national independence [Option ID =
36896]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36897]
Correct Answer :-
for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
The term ?counter-discourse? suggest(s) _________ .
I. the theory and practice of symbolic resistance
II. the confrontation between constituted reality and its subversion
Codes:
[Question ID = 24225]
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36900]
2. None of these [Option ID = 36901]
3. I [Option ID = 36898]
4. II [Option ID = 36899]
Correct Answer :-
I [Option ID = 36898]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T9
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The passage carries the theme of _______ .
[Question ID = 24231]
1. Industrialization [Option ID = 36923]
2. Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
3. Essentialism [Option ID = 36925]
4. Racism [Option ID = 36924]
2)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The expression ?inability to feel? means __________ .
[Question ID = 24230]
1. economic crisis [Option ID = 36919]
2. breakdown of the Commonwealth [Option ID = 36920]
3. emotional diffidence [Option ID = 36921]
4. post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Correct Answer :-
post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T10
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
The "creative society" is defined by the author as _______
I. a society where diverse art forms and literary writings seek incentive.
II. a society where social inequalities are accepted as the norm.
III. a society where a large number of contradictions are recognised.
IV. a society where the exploited and the oppressed groups grow conscious of their human rights
and upliftment.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24233]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36932]
2. II & IV [Option ID = 36933]
3. Only IV [Option ID = 36931]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
3)
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from the
choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
With reference to the passage which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
I. To be a creative society, it is essential to have a variety of social movements.
II. To be a creative society, it is imperative to have potential contradictions and conflicts.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24235]
1. Both I& II [Option ID = 36940]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36938]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36939]
4. None [Option ID = 36941]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36938]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
What according to the passage are the manifestations of social movements?
I. Aggressiveness and being incendiary.
II. Instigation by external forces.
III. Quest for social equality and individual freedom.
IV. Urge for granting privileges and self-respect to disparaged sections of the society.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24234]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36936]
2. II &IV [Option ID = 36935]
3. I & III [Option ID = 36934]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36937]
Correct Answer :-
I & III [Option ID = 36934]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T11
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Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
6)
7)
1)
1. Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36905]
2. Henry V and Henry VIII [Option ID = 36903]
3. Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
4. Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36904]
Correct Answer :-
Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
Franz Fanon?s The Wretched of the Earth is significant ________ .
[Question ID = 24224]
1. for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
2. for configuring the relationship between nation, national consciousness and national culture [Option ID =
36895]
3. for articulating the role of the ?native intellectual? in the struggle for national independence [Option ID =
36896]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36897]
Correct Answer :-
for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
The term ?counter-discourse? suggest(s) _________ .
I. the theory and practice of symbolic resistance
II. the confrontation between constituted reality and its subversion
Codes:
[Question ID = 24225]
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36900]
2. None of these [Option ID = 36901]
3. I [Option ID = 36898]
4. II [Option ID = 36899]
Correct Answer :-
I [Option ID = 36898]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T9
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The passage carries the theme of _______ .
[Question ID = 24231]
1. Industrialization [Option ID = 36923]
2. Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
3. Essentialism [Option ID = 36925]
4. Racism [Option ID = 36924]
2)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The expression ?inability to feel? means __________ .
[Question ID = 24230]
1. economic crisis [Option ID = 36919]
2. breakdown of the Commonwealth [Option ID = 36920]
3. emotional diffidence [Option ID = 36921]
4. post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Correct Answer :-
post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T10
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
The "creative society" is defined by the author as _______
I. a society where diverse art forms and literary writings seek incentive.
II. a society where social inequalities are accepted as the norm.
III. a society where a large number of contradictions are recognised.
IV. a society where the exploited and the oppressed groups grow conscious of their human rights
and upliftment.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24233]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36932]
2. II & IV [Option ID = 36933]
3. Only IV [Option ID = 36931]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
3)
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from the
choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
With reference to the passage which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
I. To be a creative society, it is essential to have a variety of social movements.
II. To be a creative society, it is imperative to have potential contradictions and conflicts.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24235]
1. Both I& II [Option ID = 36940]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36938]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36939]
4. None [Option ID = 36941]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36938]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
What according to the passage are the manifestations of social movements?
I. Aggressiveness and being incendiary.
II. Instigation by external forces.
III. Quest for social equality and individual freedom.
IV. Urge for granting privileges and self-respect to disparaged sections of the society.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24234]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36936]
2. II &IV [Option ID = 36935]
3. I & III [Option ID = 36934]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36937]
Correct Answer :-
I & III [Option ID = 36934]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T11
1)
2)
3)
4)
Dyscalculia is a learning disability associated with ________ .
[Question ID = 24316]
1. handwriting [Option ID = 37259]
2. reading [Option ID = 37263]
3. Mathematics [Option ID = 37261]
4. drawing [Option ID = 37265]
Correct Answer :-
handwriting [Option ID = 37259]
Which of the following work is not written by Amitav Ghosh?
[Question ID = 24321]
1. Half the Night is Gone [Option ID = 37287]
2. Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma [Option ID = 37289]
3. The Great Derangement [Option ID = 37285]
4. Gun Island [Option ID = 37282]
Correct Answer :-
Gun Island [Option ID = 37282]
Match the novels with the artists whose lives they portray:
List I List II
I. The Moon and Sixpence a. Gustav Klimt
II. Girl with a Pearl Earring b. Michelangelo
III. The Agony and the Ecstasy c. Johannes Vermeer
IV. The Lady in Gold d. Paul Gauguin
Code:
[Question ID = 24317]
1. I-c; II-b; III-d; IV-a [Option ID = 37270]
2. I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a [Option ID = 37268]
3. I-b; II-d; III-a; IV-c [Option ID = 37266]
4. I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c [Option ID = 37272]
Correct Answer :-
I-b; II-d; III-a; IV-c [Option ID = 37266]
Match the quotation with the Shakespeare play:
List I List II
I. After life?s fitful fever, he sleeps well. a. Troilus and Cressida
II. Perdition catch my soul/But I do love thee!
And when I love thee not/Chaos is come again. b. Macbeth
III. O, when degree is shak?d,/Which is the ladder
of all high designs,/The enterprise is sick. c. Twelfth Night
IV. She sat like Patience on a monument,
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Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T1
Which of the following statements about the theory of Deconstruction is not true?
I. Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text but a demonstration that it has
already dismantled itself.
II. Deconstruction is synonymous with destruction.
III. Deconstruction of a text proceeds by the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification
within the text itself.
IV. The tenets of Deconstruction were originated by Roland Barthes.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24177]
1. II & IV [Option ID = 36708]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36706]
3. I & IV [Option ID = 36709]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36707]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36706]
?Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost, all his actions
become senseless, absurd, useless.?
To which movement(s) in literature does/do this line allude to?
I. Absurdism
II. Transcendentalism
III. Romanticism
IV. None of these
Codes:
[Question ID = 24176]
1. Both I &II [Option ID = 36704]
2. Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
3. Only III [Option ID = 36705]
4. Only I [Option ID = 36703]
Correct Answer :-
Only IV [Option ID = 36702]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T2
2)
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the most
appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Which of the following statement(s) can be assumed from the passage?
I. Transnation is about the dramatic flow of people across national borders.
II. Transnation alludes to a much deeper destabilisation of the power of the nation state.
III. Transnation contests the rigidities of national doctrine within the boundaries of the nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24185]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36738]
2. Only II & III [Option ID = 36739]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36740]
4. None of these [Option ID = 36741]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36738]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
The idea of the transnation emerges when we distinguish the nation from the state. While the
political boundaries of the state appear to identify all citizens, and locate them in a relation with
other states, the actual circulation of people within the nation represents a subliminal flow of
agency that the state can never hope to control. This goes even further than the ethnic and
cultural division of groups within the state, such as Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and
Iraq. It also goes beyond the insurgent activity of oppressed minorities. The transnation
represents a constant realignment of contingent associations that transcend any political
orientation. It doesn?t necessarily involve any conscious position of separatism at all. It is the
flow of people in their ordinary lives.
Among the following statement(s) identify the statement(s) that could be a continuation of the
passage?
I. Transnation is the fluid, migrating outside of the state that begins within the nation.
II. So the concept of ?the? transnation I am proposing is composed not only of diasporas but of
the rhizomatic interplay of travelling subjects within as well as between nations.
III. The transnational is a hard concept to pin down since it seems to be a portmanteau term
now used to explain contemporary global mobility.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24184]
1)
2)
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36736]
2. Only III [Option ID = 36737]
3. Only I [Option ID = 36734]
4. Only II [Option ID = 36735]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36734]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T3
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
What does this passage indicate?
I. A city such as Bombay breaks the National/Global binary.
II. A city such as Bombay provides a case study of the emergence of the sub-national social
phenomenon.
III. A city such as Bombay indicates the birth of a new space called the postcolonial city beyond
the notions of state and nation.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24188]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36752]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36750]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36751]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36753]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36750]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following statement(s) best express(es) the significance of the expression ?an
ocean of stories??
I. It captures the multi-layered reality of a city space.
II. It captures the inevitability of the impact of migration on subjectivities.
3)
1)
III. It focuses only on the city?s absorption of the global diaspora.
IV. It focuses on the city?s absorption of both the global and internal diaspora.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24189]
1. Only I [Option ID = 36754]
2. Only I&II [Option ID = 36755]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36757]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36756]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36754]
Following question is based on the passage given below. Read the passage and choose the
most appropriate option:
Bombay was central and had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a
Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met
and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black
water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it
was the South. To the east lay India?s East and to the west, the world?s West. Bombay was
central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators,
and everybody talked at once.
Which of the following best represents Bombay?
[Question ID = 24187]
1. A diasporic space [Option ID = 36747]
2. A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36749]
4. A hybrid space [Option ID = 36748]
Correct Answer :-
A threshold space [Option ID = 36746]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T4
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank A.
[Question ID = 24191]
1. the Dialectic of Knowledge [Option ID = 36763]
2. repression-sublimation [Option ID = 36764]
3. master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
2)
3)
4)
4. primary and secondary identification [Option ID = 36765]
Correct Answer :-
master-signifier [Option ID = 36762]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank E.
[Question ID = 24195]
1. population growth [Option ID = 36779]
2. starvation [Option ID = 36778]
3. education [Option ID = 36780]
4. obesity [Option ID = 36781]
Correct Answer :-
starvation [Option ID = 36778]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank D.
[Question ID = 24194]
1. communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
2. information-theory [Option ID = 36777]
3. capitalistic-theory [Option ID = 36775]
4. language-theory [Option ID = 36776]
Correct Answer :-
communication-theory [Option ID = 36774]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
5)
1)
most appropriate option for the blank B.
[Question ID = 24192]
1. arborescence [Option ID = 36767]
2. pleasure principle [Option ID = 36768]
3. transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
4. rhizome [Option ID = 36769]
Correct Answer :-
transitivism [Option ID = 36766]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option from the choice given below:
Monologism is similar to the ???????(A) in Lacanian thought, and ??????(B) in
Deleuze. In politics, we might think of ????????..(C) as monologism: only what is
profitable is deemed significant. As Guattari observes, if we laugh or cry, if we fear old age or
death, if we are ?mad?, does not matter to capitalism ? it is ?noise?, in the ????????..(D)
sense. Even at a limit-case such as ???????(E), human need is irrelevant ? a poor person
may have a vital need for food, but they do not have effective market demand.
most appropriate option for the blank C.
[Question ID = 24193]
1. cinema [Option ID = 36772]
2. socialism [Option ID = 36771]
3. capitalism [Option ID = 36773]
4. democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Correct Answer :-
democracy [Option ID = 36770]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T5
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
2)
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
The tone of the lines ?Things won?t pick/themselves up, after all.? is _______ .
[Question ID = 24198]
1. sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
2. sorrowful [Option ID = 36793]
3. apathetic [Option ID = 36792]
4. sympathetic [Option ID = 36791]
Correct Answer :-
sarcastic [Option ID = 36790]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
3)
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
From the stanzas cited we can assume that the poet?s attitude toward war and its aftermaths is
one of __________ .
[Question ID = 24201]
1. hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
2. stupefaction [Option ID = 36805]
3. renunciation [Option ID = 36804]
4. indignation [Option ID = 36803]
Correct Answer :-
hopelessness [Option ID = 36802]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
4)
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
In the final stanza cited, the poet is writing about ______ .
[Question ID = 24200]
1. a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
2. a process of forgetting [Option ID = 36799]
3. a process of deliberate forgetting [Option ID = 36800]
4. a process of involuntary forgetting [Option ID = 36801]
Correct Answer :-
a process of remembering [Option ID = 36798]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
5)
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
?No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.?
The stanza above implies that wars are _______ .
[Question ID = 24199]
1. invisible events [Option ID = 36796]
2. sustained by spectacle [Option ID = 36795]
3. continuous events [Option ID = 36797]
4. long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Correct Answer :-
long-drawn out events [Option ID = 36794]
Given question is based on the following passage. Read the excerpt from the poem below and
choose the most appropriate answer for the question that follows
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won?t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
[...]
Someone has to lug the post
to prop the wall,
someone has to glaze the window,
set the door in its frame.
No sound bites, no photo opportunities,
and it takes years.
All the cameras have gone
to other wars.
The bridges need to be rebuilt,
the railroad stations, too.
Shirtsleeves will be rolled
to shreds.
Someone, broom in hand,
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
[...]
Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.
[...]
(Wislawa Szymborska, ?The End and the Beginning?)
We can assume from the passage that the aftermath of war involves ________ .
[Question ID = 24197]
1. hopeful work [Option ID = 36788]
2. repetitive work [Option ID = 36787]
3. tedious work [Option ID = 36789]
4. exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Correct Answer :-
exciting work [Option ID = 36786]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T6
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Which of the following statement(s) regarding the Trickster figure is/are true?
[Question ID = 24207]
1. In many Native American cultures the beast fable features Coyote as the central trickster. [Option ID =
36827]
2. Maria Campbell fits in the character of trickster in Halfbreed. [Option ID = 36828]
3. A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36829]
Correct Answer :-
A Trickster figure persistently uses his wiliness and gift of gab to achieve his ends by outwitting other
characters. [Option ID = 36826]
Which English novel, among the following, deals with characters from Dalit Chuhra
community in Pakistan?
[Question ID = 24209]
1. Kamila Shamsie?s Home Fire [Option ID = 36837]
2. Hanif Kureishi?s The Black Album [Option ID = 36836]
3. Mohammad Hanif?s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti [Option ID = 36835]
4. Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Correct Answer :-
Tehmina Durrani?s Blasphemy [Option ID = 36834]
Which English novel, among the following, has multiple endings?
[Question ID = 24212]
1. Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
2. John Fowles? French Lieutenant?s Woman [Option ID = 36849]
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera [Option ID = 36848]
4. Paul Scott?s Staying On [Option ID = 36847]
Correct Answer :-
Angus Wilson?s Late Call [Option ID = 36846]
Who, among the following playwrights, established the idea of Plastic Theatre?
[Question ID = 24215]
1. Tennessee Williams [Option ID = 36860]
2. Arthur Miller [Option ID = 36859]
3. Harold Pinter [Option ID = 36861]
4. John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
Correct Answer :-
John Osborne [Option ID = 36858]
In ????????, the speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public utterance
to decry modes of vice and error which are no less dangerous because they are ridiculous, and
6)
7)
8)
who undertakes to evoke from readers contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at
the aberrations of humanity.
[Question ID = 24204]
1. Horatian satire [Option ID = 36815]
2. Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
3. Indirect satire [Option ID = 36816]
4. Varronian satire [Option ID = 36817]
Correct Answer :-
Juvenilian satire [Option ID = 36814]
Match the theorist with the theoretical concept
I. Michel Foucault a. Heterotopia
II. Edward Soja b. Third Culture Kids
III. Zygmunt Bauman c. Liquid Modernity
IV. John and Ruth Hill Useem d. Third Space
Codes:
[Question ID = 24213]
1. I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d [Option ID = 36852]
2. I-a, II-d,III-c, IV-b [Option ID = 36853]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36851]
4. I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Correct Answer :-
I-d, II-b, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36850]
Match the following theorists/authors with their works:
I. Christian Metz a. Strangers to Ourselves
II. Frantz Fanon b. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
III. Julia Kristeva c. Black Skin, White Masks
IV. Giorgio Agamben d. The State of Exception
Codes:
[Question ID = 24211]
1. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c [Option ID = 36843]
2. I-b, II-c III-a, IV-d [Option ID = 36844]
3. I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
4. I-c, II-b, III-d, IV-a [Option ID = 36845]
Correct Answer :-
I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a [Option ID = 36842]
?????????- is a group, whose popularity rivalled that of British poets, both at home and
abroad. This group has a general adherence to poetic convention- standard forms, regular meter,
and rhymed stanza. The poets? primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology and they
wrote for the common people.
[Question ID = 24203]
9)
10)
11)
12)
1. Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
2. Movement poets [Option ID = 36813]
3. Fireside poets [Option ID = 36812]
4. Cavalier poets [Option ID = 36811]
Correct Answer :-
Lake poets [Option ID = 36810]
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an
island in the Pacific, received Australia?s richest literary award, ?Victorian Prize for Literature?
(2019) for his novel which he wrote using WhatsApp. Identify the novel.
[Question ID = 24210]
1. Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir [Option ID = 36841]
2. Affinity [Option ID = 36839]
3. The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
4. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison [Option ID = 36840]
Correct Answer :-
The Green Mile [Option ID = 36838]
The function of a new critic is __________ .
I. to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art independent of its context or authorship
II. to oppose both historical and comparative methods of criticism
III. to emphasise the moral concern of literature
IV. to be preoccupied with textual analysis
Codes:
[Question ID = 24208]
1. Only III [Option ID = 36831]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36830]
3. All of these [Option ID = 36833]
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36832]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36830]
The Black Panther Movement incorporates _________ .
[Question ID = 24206]
1. Both a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination & a social organisation that seeks to
combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36825]
2. a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination [Option ID = 36823]
3. a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
4. an influence on other social movements in India [Option ID = 36824]
Correct Answer :-
a socialist movement that sought to combat racial discrimination [Option ID = 36822]
13)
1)
2)
The Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the significant literary awards in India aimed at ?promoting
Indian literature throughout the world,? was recently conferred on _____ .
[Question ID = 24205]
1. Amitabha Bagchi?s The Householder [Option ID = 36820]
2. Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
3. None of these [Option ID = 36821]
4. Anees Salim?s The Blind Lady?s Descendants [Option ID = 36819]
Correct Answer :-
Mamang Dai?s The Black Hill [Option ID = 36818]
The Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is known for The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk and
Palace of Desire are two novels in the trilogy. Give the name of the third novel.
[Question ID = 24214]
1. White Tiger [Option ID = 36857]
2. Wolf Hall [Option ID = 36856]
3. Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
4. Palace of Illusions [Option ID = 36855]
Correct Answer :-
Sugar Street [Option ID = 36854]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T7
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
The idea of postmemory was demonstrated by the author in The Generation of Postmemory
through the historical framework of _________ .
[Question ID = 24218]
1. the Great Depression [Option ID = 36872]
2. the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
3. World War I [Option ID = 36873]
4. Irish Famine [Option ID = 36871]
Correct Answer :-
the Holocaust [Option ID = 36870]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author uses _____________ as a primary medium of
transgenerational transmission of trauma. Fill up the bank with the correct option.
[Question ID = 24219]
1. autobiography [Option ID = 36876]
3)
4)
1)
2. cartography [Option ID = 36874]
3. hetrobiography [Option ID = 36877]
4. photography [Option ID = 36875]
Correct Answer :-
cartography [Option ID = 36874]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
In the above-mentioned work, the author also examines the role of the _________as a space of
transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Fill up the blank.
[Question ID = 24220]
1. family [Option ID = 36879]
2. neighbourhood [Option ID = 36880]
3. brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
4. local culture [Option ID = 36881]
Correct Answer :-
brainstem glioma [Option ID = 36878]
Given question is based on the following passage:
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic,
experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply
as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Who, among the following, first introduced the term postmemory?
[Question ID = 24217]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 36868]
2. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 36869]
3. Marianne Hirsch [Option ID = 36867]
4. Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Correct Answer :-
Jonathan Culler [Option ID = 36866]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T8
Which of the following statements are correct about Plato?s The Symposium?
I. It describes a banquet.
II. It distinguishes three forms of emotions.
III. It propounds the convention of courtly love.
IV. It identifies love with a quest for the highest form of spiritual experience.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24222]
1. II, III & IV [Option ID = 36887]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36889]
3. I, III & IV [Option ID = 36888]
2)
3)
4)
5)
4. I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & IV [Option ID = 36886]
Which of the following statements are true about Ben Jonson?s comedies?
I. The dramatic world of Jonson deserves and demands harsh ethics.
II. In the dramatic world of Jonson understanding appears to be pervasive.
III. Jonson?s comedies are bitter and satiric.
IV. Jonson's comedies don?t depict loving relationships.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24227]
1. II, III& IV [Option ID = 36907]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36909]
3. I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
4. I, III& IV [Option ID = 36908]
Correct Answer :-
I, II& IV [Option ID = 36906]
Which of the following are true about Dadaism?
I.It was a movement in Art and Literature.
II. Its aim was nihilistic.
III. It was the precursor of Surrealist movement.
IV. It emerged out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the World Wars.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24223]
1. II, III&IV [Option ID = 36891]
2. All of these [Option ID = 36893]
3. I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
4. I, III&IV [Option ID = 36892]
Correct Answer :-
I, II&III [Option ID = 36890]
Which of the following is incorrect about Heroic Drama?
[Question ID = 24228]
1. It is written in heroic couplets. [Option ID = 36913]
2. The characters converse in plain and rude manner. [Option ID = 36912]
3. The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
4. The central conflict revolves around love and valour. [Option ID = 36911]
Correct Answer :-
The form is mainly specific to Restoration Period. [Option ID = 36910]
Which of Shakespeare?s history plays are commonly believed to make up the Henriad?
[Question ID = 24226]
6)
7)
1)
1. Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36905]
2. Henry V and Henry VIII [Option ID = 36903]
3. Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
4. Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V [Option ID = 36904]
Correct Answer :-
Richard II, Henry V and Richard III [Option ID = 36902]
Franz Fanon?s The Wretched of the Earth is significant ________ .
[Question ID = 24224]
1. for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
2. for configuring the relationship between nation, national consciousness and national culture [Option ID =
36895]
3. for articulating the role of the ?native intellectual? in the struggle for national independence [Option ID =
36896]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36897]
Correct Answer :-
for conceptualising the construction of identity under colonialism [Option ID = 36894]
The term ?counter-discourse? suggest(s) _________ .
I. the theory and practice of symbolic resistance
II. the confrontation between constituted reality and its subversion
Codes:
[Question ID = 24225]
1. Both I & II [Option ID = 36900]
2. None of these [Option ID = 36901]
3. I [Option ID = 36898]
4. II [Option ID = 36899]
Correct Answer :-
I [Option ID = 36898]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T9
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The passage carries the theme of _______ .
[Question ID = 24231]
1. Industrialization [Option ID = 36923]
2. Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
3. Essentialism [Option ID = 36925]
4. Racism [Option ID = 36924]
2)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Dystopia [Option ID = 36922]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The problem wasn?t only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There
was nothing for them anymore . . . I?m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex
was too easy. . . You know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel. Men
were turning off on sex, even. They were turning off on marriage.
The expression ?inability to feel? means __________ .
[Question ID = 24230]
1. economic crisis [Option ID = 36919]
2. breakdown of the Commonwealth [Option ID = 36920]
3. emotional diffidence [Option ID = 36921]
4. post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Correct Answer :-
post-modern fragmentation [Option ID = 36918]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T10
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
The "creative society" is defined by the author as _______
I. a society where diverse art forms and literary writings seek incentive.
II. a society where social inequalities are accepted as the norm.
III. a society where a large number of contradictions are recognised.
IV. a society where the exploited and the oppressed groups grow conscious of their human rights
and upliftment.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24233]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36932]
2. II & IV [Option ID = 36933]
3. Only IV [Option ID = 36931]
4. I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
Correct Answer :-
I, II & III [Option ID = 36930]
3)
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from the
choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
With reference to the passage which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
I. To be a creative society, it is essential to have a variety of social movements.
II. To be a creative society, it is imperative to have potential contradictions and conflicts.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24235]
1. Both I& II [Option ID = 36940]
2. Only I [Option ID = 36938]
3. Only II [Option ID = 36939]
4. None [Option ID = 36941]
Correct Answer :-
Only I [Option ID = 36938]
Given question is based on the following passage. Choose the most appropriate option from
the choices given below:
The concept of 'creative society' refers to a phase of development of a society in which a large
number of potential contradictions become articulate and active. This is most evident when
oppressed social groups get politically mobilised and demand their rights. The upsurge of the
peasants and tribals, the movements for regional autonomy and self-determination, the
environmental movements, and the women's movements in the developing countries are signs of
emergence of creative society in contemporary times. The forms of social movements and their
intensity may vary from country to country and place to place within a country. But the very
presence of movements for social transformation in various spheres of a society indicates the
emergence of a creative society in a country.
What according to the passage are the manifestations of social movements?
I. Aggressiveness and being incendiary.
II. Instigation by external forces.
III. Quest for social equality and individual freedom.
IV. Urge for granting privileges and self-respect to disparaged sections of the society.
Codes:
[Question ID = 24234]
1. III & IV [Option ID = 36936]
2. II &IV [Option ID = 36935]
3. I & III [Option ID = 36934]
4. All of these [Option ID = 36937]
Correct Answer :-
I & III [Option ID = 36934]
Topic:- MPHIL_ENG_T11
1)
2)
3)
4)
Dyscalculia is a learning disability associated with ________ .
[Question ID = 24316]
1. handwriting [Option ID = 37259]
2. reading [Option ID = 37263]
3. Mathematics [Option ID = 37261]
4. drawing [Option ID = 37265]
Correct Answer :-
handwriting [Option ID = 37259]
Which of the following work is not written by Amitav Ghosh?
[Question ID = 24321]
1. Half the Night is Gone [Option ID = 37287]
2. Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma [Option ID = 37289]
3. The Great Derangement [Option ID = 37285]
4. Gun Island [Option ID = 37282]
Correct Answer :-
Gun Island [Option ID = 37282]
Match the novels with the artists whose lives they portray:
List I List II
I. The Moon and Sixpence a. Gustav Klimt
II. Girl with a Pearl Earring b. Michelangelo
III. The Agony and the Ecstasy c. Johannes Vermeer
IV. The Lady in Gold d. Paul Gauguin
Code:
[Question ID = 24317]
1. I-c; II-b; III-d; IV-a [Option ID = 37270]
2. I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a [Option ID = 37268]
3. I-b; II-d; III-a; IV-c [Option ID = 37266]
4. I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c [Option ID = 37272]
Correct Answer :-
I-b; II-d; III-a; IV-c [Option ID = 37266]
Match the quotation with the Shakespeare play:
List I List II
I. After life?s fitful fever, he sleeps well. a. Troilus and Cressida
II. Perdition catch my soul/But I do love thee!
And when I love thee not/Chaos is come again. b. Macbeth
III. O, when degree is shak?d,/Which is the ladder
of all high designs,/The enterprise is sick. c. Twelfth Night
IV. She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. d. Othello
Codes:
[Question ID = 24320]
1. I-c; II-a; III-d; IV-b [Option ID = 37276]
2. I-b; II-c; III-a; IV-d [Option ID = 37275]
3. I-b; II-d; III-a; IV-c [Option ID = 37278]
4. I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c [Option ID = 37280]
Correct Answer :-
I-b; II-c; III-a; IV-d [Option ID = 37275]
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