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Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2020 Previous Year Question Paper With Answer Key

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DUET Last 10 Years 2011-2021 Question Papers With Answer Key || Delhi University Entrance Test conducted by the NTA

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Name the only dramatist who was awarded both the Nobel Prize and the Oscar?
1. George Bernard Shaw
2. Arthur Miller
3. Tennessee Williams
4. None of these
Correct Answer :- George Bernard Shaw
The statement "character is destiny" is predominantly associated with
1. Heraclitus
2. Shakespearean tragedy
3. Aeschylus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A only
2. B only
3. C only
4. Both A and B
Correct Answer :- Both A and B
Pick the odd one out among the following
1. Malgudi
2. Yoknapatawpha County
3. Barsetshire
4. Middlemarch
Correct Answer :- Malgudi

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Identify the correct statement(s):
1. A Doll's House is a play by Henrik Ibsen
2. 'The Doll's House' is a short story by Katherine Mansfield.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, only
2. B only
3. A and B only
4. None of these
Correct Answer :-
Which of these is a type of content word?
1. Nouns
2. Demonstrative Pronouns
3. Interrogative pronouns
4. Prepositions
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. C only
2. A only
3. B and C only
4. A and D only
Correct Answer :- A only

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The tragic hero is not depraved or vicious, but he is also not perfect, and his misfortune is brought upon him by his own
1. Peripeteia
2. Anagnorisis
3. Hamartia
4. Catharsis
Correct Answer :- Hamartia
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________ was initially a literary and philosophical movement, it is a school of thought premised on the idea of language as an opaque medium that does not connect an actor with an "outside" truth but to a structure with parts whose meaning is culled from the parts' contrasts with each other
1. Dialogism
2. Psychoanalysis
3. Post-structuralism
4. Formalism
Correct Answer :- Post-structuralism
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red."
The above lines are an example of:
1. Oxymoron
2. Alliteration
3. Synecdoche
4. Hyperbole
Correct Answer :- Hyperbole
Arrange the following sentences in the proper order and choose the correct answer from the given options.
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1. also the changes it may have suffered
2. in physical conditions over the years
3. the work of art includes
4. the changes in its ownership,
1. A, B, D and C
2. C, D, A and B
3. A, B, C and D
4. B, A, C and D
Correct Answer :- C, D, A and B

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Which of the following statements is incorrect in context to Magical Realism?
1. Magic realism is chiefly a North-American narrative strategy that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction.
2. It is a natural outcome of postcolonial writing, which must make sense of at least two separate realities-the reality of the conquerors as well as that of the conquered.
3. There is a distortion effect in the very fibre of the prose that forces the reader to question what is real and often opens up avenues of reality we may not have thought possible before reading the story.
4. Prominent among the magic realists are Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and Isabel Allende.
Correct Answer :- Magic realism is chiefly a North-American narrative strategy that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction.
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Arrange the following sentences in the proper order and choose the correct answer from the codesgiven below:
1. I secretly hoped he'd spend the rest of his life with us and planned to do my best to persuade him.
2. All except Hanuman, to whom we were greatly attached - Ram, Lakshman and I, each having our reasons for he'd saved us all in different ways.
3. We requested him to accompany us to Ayodhya and be with us for Ram's long deferred coronation.
4. Over the next three days, Ram and I gave many gifts to the monkey soldiers - jewels and armour and rare fruits from Ravan's gardens - and sent them off to their homes.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. D, B. C and A
2. A,B,C and D
3. B, C D and A
4. C, D, A and B
Correct Answer :- D, B. C and A
Identify the kind of narrator reflected through the following excerpt "At six minutes past midnight, Tuesday morning, on the way home from a late rehearsal of her new stage show, Tina Evans saw her son, Danny, in a stranger's car. But Danny had been dead more than a year."
1. First person narrator
2. Second person narrator
3. Third person narrator
4. Fallible narrator
Correct Answer :- Third person narrator
Arrange the sentences P,Q,R,S in the order they should come in between S1 and S6.
S1: While still a child Narendra practised meditation with a friend before the image of Siva.

S2:
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S3:

S4:

S5:

S6: The apparition was about to say something when Naren became frightened and left the room. He thought later that this had been a vision of Buddha
1. He had heard that the holy men of ancient India would become so absorbed in contemplation of God that their hair would grow and gradually enter into the earth, like the roots of the banyan tree.
2. While meditating, therefore, he would open his eyes, now and then, to see if his own hair had entered into the earth.
3. Even so, during meditation, he often became unconscious of the world.
4. he saw in a vision a luminous person of serene countenance who was carrying the staff and water-bowl of a monk.
1. PQRS
2. QRSP
3. RSPQ
4. SPQR
Correct Answer :- QRSP
Which of the following assertions are correct?
1. Lines of iambic pentameter rhyming in pairs form heroic couplet.
2. Rhythmic pattern in a free verse is not organized into a regular metrical form.
3. Haiku is an Italian poetic form of sixteen syllables arranged into three lines of five, six and five syllables.
4. In Pindar's Ode the chorus chants strophe while moving in a dance rhythm to the right
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. A and B
2. B and C
3. C and D
4. D and A
Correct Answer :- A and B

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A ________ is a five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description.
1. Villanelle
2. Haiku
3. Limerick
4. Ode
Correct Answer :- Limerick
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A foot composed of two successive syllables with approximately equal light stresses is ________.
1. Dactylic
2. Pyrrhic
Correct Answer :- Pyrrhic

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The term "dissociation of sensibility" to describe the aesthetic frame of mind was first used by
1. T.S. Eliot
2. Joseph Addison
3. Henry Home
4. Lord Kames
Correct Answer :- T.S. Eliot
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Which of the following plays use Chorus as a dramatic feature?
Choose from the given codes
1. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
2. The White Devil by John Webster
3. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
4. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. A and B
2. B and C
3. C and D
4. A and D
Correct Answer :- A and D

Match the lines in List I with the poems in which these occur in List II and choose the correct answer from the given codes:

List I	List II
A. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,	I. "Ode to the West Wind
B.Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; and preserver; hear, oh hear!	II. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality
C. Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.	III. "Ode to a Nightingale
D. Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth?	IV. "An Ode to Himself

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

A-I, B-II, C - III, D - IV

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A-II, B-I, C - III, D - IV
A III, BI, C-II, DIV
AIV, BI, C-III, D-II

Correct Answer :- A-II, B-I, C - III, D - IV

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Identify the key features of a Brechtian Theatre and choose the correct answer from the given codes:
1. Montage
2. Explanatory caption
3. Anti-illusive technique
4. Catharsis
5. Compact plot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. A, B and C
2. B,C and D
3. C, D, and E
4. B and D
Correct Answer :- A, B and C
Geniuses of countless nations Have told their love for generations Till all their memorable phrases Are common as goldenrod or daisies.
The above lines are written in
1. Tetrasyllabic Couplet
2. Decasyllabic Couplet
3. Pentasyllabic Couplet
4. Octosyllabic Couplet
Correct Answer :- Octosyllabic Couplet

Match the literary works in List I with their authors in List II and choose the correct answer from the given codes:

List I	List II
A. Pale Fire	I. Thomas Hardy
B.The Sound and the Fury	II. Somerset Maugham
C.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	III William Faulkner
D.Martin Eden	IV. Tom Stoppard
E. Cakes and Ale	V. Vladimir Nabokov

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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AV, B-IV, C - III, DI, E- II
A IV, B-V, C-II, D-III, E - I
A -V, B-III, C-IV, D-I, E- II
A III, B-IV, C-II, DV, E -I

Correct Answer :- A-V, B-III, C-IV, D -I, E- II

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________ was written to be recited rather than acted; but to English playwrights, who thought these tragedies had been intended for the stage, they provided the model for an organized five-act play with a complex plot and elaborately formal style of dialogue.
1. Revenge tragedy
2. Senecan Tragedy
3. Tragicomedy
4. Domestic Tragedy
Correct Answer :- Senecan Tragedy
Anthropomorphism is
1. A) The shaping of something in material form or terms
2. B) The attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings
3. C) A way of expressing the grief on the occasion of the death of a person
4. D) Both A & B
Correct Answer :- B) The attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings
Which among the following statements is not true about New Critics?
1. Their function is to analyse, interpret and evaluate a work of art
2. They are anti- impressionistic
3. They opposed both to historical and comparative method of criticism
4. Their approach is dogmatic and narrow
Correct Answer :- Their approach is dogmatic and narrow
Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 2007. The writer of the novel is
1. Alexander Pushkin
2. Vladimir Nabokov
3. Mikhail Bulgakov
4. Nikolai Gogoi
Correct Answer :- Vladimir Nabokov

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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare does not contain any Shakespearean sonnet?
1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Henry V
3. Love's Labour Lost
4. Troilus and Cressida
Correct Answer :- Troilus and Cressida
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Which of the following statements are correct in context to Surrealism? Choose from the codes given below:
1. It was originally a French movement.
2. It was influenced by Surrealist painting, that uses surprising images and transitions to play off of formal expectations and depict the unconscious rather than conscious mind.
3. The term "Surrealism" is said to have been coined by Guillaume Apollinaire as early as 1917.
4. Surrealists expressed their rejection of capitalism in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. A and D
2. A, C and D
3. B and D
4. A, B and C
Correct Answer :- A, B and C
________ had an influence on innovative literary, artistic, and intellectual developments in the two decades after the First World War. The members of this group opposed the narrow post-Victorian restrictions in both the arts and morality
1. Lake Poets
2. Bloomsbury Group
3. Cavalier Poets
4. Metaphysical Poets
Correct Answer :- Bloomsbury Group
Saadat Hasan Manto was charged for obscenity for writing
1. A) Thanda Gosht'
2. B) 'Angarey'
3. C) 'Lihaaf'
4. D) Both A & C
Correct Answer :- A) Thanda Gosht'
"Each name, an ecstasy of parting, is a brand that sears rather than soothes anymore." Identify the figure of speech used in this extract
1. Simile
2. Oxymoron
3. Antithesis
4. Paradox
Correct Answer :- Oxymoron

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Which of the following statements is true about Chicago School
1. It was a reaction to New Criticism
2. It valued the structure or form of literary work as a whole
3. It was interested in plot and design of literary work as a whole
4. All of these
Correct Answer :- All of these
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Which feminist writer created Judith Shakespeare, the imaginary sister of William Shakespeare, to advance her arguments of gender inequality?
1. Judith Butler
2. Stephen Greenbelt
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Simone de Beauvoir
Correct Answer :- Virginia Woolf
Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is written in form of a/an ________.
1. Epic Satire
2. Medieval Estate Satire
3. Romantic Comedy
4. Medieval Romance
Correct Answer :- Medieval Estate Satire
________ is the author of Persepolis, a coming-of-age visual memoir documenting childhood of a little girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution
1. Marjane Satrapi
2. Azar Nafisi
3. Fatima Mernissi
4. Saba Mehmood
Correct Answer :- Marjane Satrapi
Which of the following texts deals with the life of Anjum, a Hijra from the old Delhi?
1. Me Laxmi, Me Hijra by Laxmi
2. The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi
3. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
4. Delhi by Khushwant Singh
Correct Answer :- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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Read the following and answer the question:
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

What kind of poem does the above lines represent?
1. Satire
2. Sonnet
3. Villanelle
4. Dirge
Correct Answer :- Sonnet
Read the following and answer the question:
And now too soon for us the circling hours This dreaded time has compast, wherein we

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