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DU MA Comparative Indian Literature

Topic:- DU_J18_MA_CIL_Topic01

Jataka tales tell the many births of-------- [Question ID = 19689]
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1. Veda Vyasa [Option ID = 48750]
2. Gautama Buddha [Option ID = 48751]
3. Maha Vishnu [Option ID = 48748]
4. Mahavira [Option ID = 48749]
Correct Answer :- Gautama Buddha [Option ID = 48751]
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Akira Kurosawa made a film titled in English as "Throne of Blood", the film is an adaptation of the play -------- by William Shakespeare. [Question ID = 19700]
1. Romeo and Juliet [Option ID = 48792]
2. Macbeth [Option ID = 48794]
3. Hamlet [Option ID = 48795]
4. King Lear [Option ID = 48793]
Correct Answer :- Macbeth [Option ID = 48794]
A political theory which combines preservation of nature with feminism is termed as ------- [Question ID = 19690]
1. Environmental Feminism [Option ID = 48752]
2. Ecofeminism [Option ID = 48753]
3. Radical Feminism [Option ID = 48754]
4. Indian Feminism [Option ID = 48755]
Correct Answer :- Ecofeminism [Option ID = 48753]

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The stage manager and director of Sanskrit drama are named as------ [Question ID = 19729]
1. Acharya [Option ID = 48908]
2. Sutradhara [Option ID = 48910]
3. Vidushaka [Option ID = 48911]
4. Kaviraj [Option ID = 48909]
Correct Answer :- Sutradhara [Option ID = 48910]
The social theory "Womanism" is associated with the writer, activist -------- [Question ID = 19669]
1. Julia Kristeva [Option ID = 48668]
2. Simone de Beauvoir [Option ID = 48671]
3. Judith Butler [Option ID = 48669]
4. Alice Walker [Option ID = 48670]
Correct Answer :- Alice Walker [Option ID = 48670]
The Vyakarana Mahabhashya is attributed to -------- [Question ID = 19699]
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1. Banabhatta [Option ID = 48788]
2. Veda Vyasa [Option ID = 48789]
3. Patanjali [Option ID = 48790]
4. Bhasa [Option ID = 48791]
Correct Answer :- Patanjali [Option ID = 48790]
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The film based on a novel of Rabindranath Tagore was directed by the film maker Rituparno Ghosh in the year of 2003, the title of the film is: [Question ID = 19701]
1. Chokher Bali [Option ID = 48798]
2. Charulata [Option ID = 48797]
3. Ghare-Baire [Option ID = 48799]
4. Dahan [Option ID = 48796]
Correct Answer :- Chokher Bali [Option ID = 48798]
The book Course in General Linguistics was compiled from the lectures of ---------. [Question ID = 19728]
1. Roland Barthes [Option ID = 48905]
2. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 48907]
3. Ferdinand de Saussure [Option ID = 48906]
4. Émile Durkheim [Option ID = 48904]
Correct Answer :- Ferdinand de Saussure [Option ID = 48906]

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The national song of India is a poem from the novel------------ [Question ID = 19714]
1. Anandamath [Option ID = 48849]
2. Durgeshnandini [Option ID = 48850]
3. Kapalkundala [Option ID = 48848]
4. Devi Chaudhurani [Option ID = 48851]
Correct Answer :- Anandamath [Option ID = 48849]
The Sanskrit text on Indian music Sangita-Ratnakara was composed by ---------. [Question ID = 19732]
1. Sarangadeva [Option ID = 48921]
2. Tansen [Option ID = 48922]
3. Narada [Option ID = 48923]
4. Jayadeva [Option ID = 48920]
Correct Answer :- • Sarangadeva [Option ID = 48921]
The film Pather Panchali of Satyajit Ray is based on the novel of ---------. [Question ID = 19730]
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1. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay [Option ID = 48912]
2. Sunil Gangopadhyay [Option ID = 48913]
3. Manik Bandopadhyay [Option ID = 48914]
4. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Option ID = 48915]
Correct Answer : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Option ID = 48915]
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The notion of Justice according to Indian Constitution includes these three forms: [Question ID = 19666]
1. Social, Economic and Political [Option ID = 48657]
2. Socialism, Secularism and Democracy [Option ID = 48659]
3. Expression, Belief and Faith [Option ID = 48656]
4. Individual, Rights and Duties [Option ID = 48658]
Correct Answer :- • Social, Economic and Political [Option ID = 48657]
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, a leader of rationalist movement of Tamil Nadu is acclaimed for his work to secure -------- [Question ID = 19678]
1. Right to education [Option ID = 48705]
2. Temple entry [Option ID = 48707]
3. Social Justice [Option ID = 48704]
4. Civil liberties [Option ID = 48706]
Correct Answer :- Social Justice [Option ID = 48704]

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Doctrine of Adi Sankara is termed as---------- [Question ID = 19653]
1. Visistadvaita Vedanta [Option ID = 48606]
2. Advaita Vedanta [Option ID = 48605]
3. Dvaita Vedanta [Option ID = 48604]
4. Purvamimamsa [Option ID = 48607]
Correct Answer :- Advaita Vedanta [Option ID = 48605]
Ludwig van Beethoven, a Germen composer is much celebrated for his------ [Question ID = 19681]
1. Five Plays [Option ID = 48717]
2. Grand Piano [Option ID = 48719]
3. Nine Symphonies [Option ID = 48716]
4. Six Operas [Option ID = 48718]
Correct Answer :- • Nine Symphonies [Option ID = 48716]
Ilaiyaraja, a music composer for film has also composed -------- performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. [Question ID = 19683]
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1. a concert [Option ID = 48727]
2. a full symphony [Option ID = 48724]
3. a background score [Option ID = 48725]
4. a chorus [Option ID = 48726]
Correct Answer :- a full symphony [Option ID = 48724]
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It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to develop the ---------, humanism and the-------- and reform as proposed by our constitution. [Question ID = 19675]
1. artistic temper, spirit of history [Option ID = 48693]
2. national spirit, spirit of ethics [Option ID = 48695]
3. scientific spirit, scientific inquiry [Option ID = 48694]
4. scientific temper, spirit of inquiry [Option ID = 48692]
Correct Answer :- scientific spirit, scientific inquiry [Option ID = 48694]
Dalit literature is a part of Indian literature which represents the life and politics of the people who are oppressed under the ---------. [Question ID = 19691]
1. Indian caste system and untouchability [Option ID = 48756]
2. Indian feudal system and village law [Option ID = 48758]
3. Indian religious system and economy [Option ID = 48757]
4. Indian class system and agriculture [Option ID = 48759]
Correct Answer :- Indian caste system and untouchability [Option ID = 48756]

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Who is author of the essay Can the Subaltern Speak? [Question ID = 19651]
1. Edward Said [Option ID = 48596]
2. Susan Bassnett [Option ID = 48597]
3. Homi K. Bhabha [Option ID = 48599]
4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak [Option ID = 48598]
Correct Answer :- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak [Option ID = 48598]
Who is the exponent of the theoretical practice termed as Deconstruction? [Question ID = 19707]
1. Jacques Lacan [Option ID = 48820]
2. Jacques Derrida [Option ID = 48821]
3. Jean Francois Lyotard [Option ID = 48823]
4. Jean Baudrillard [Option ID = 48822]
Correct Answer :- • Jacques Derrida [Option ID = 48821]
Who was the director- producer of the first full length Indian film Raja Harishchandra? [Question ID = 19698]
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1. Sudhir Phadke [Option ID = 48786]
2. V. Shantaram [Option ID = 48787]
3. R. Nataraja Mudaliar [Option ID = 48784]
4. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke [Option ID = 48785]
Correct Answer :- • Dhundiraj Govind Phalke [Option ID = 48785]
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Who is the author the book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious? [Question ID = 19647]
1. Sudhir Kakar [Option ID = 48582]
2. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 48583]
3. John Stuart Mill [Option ID = 48581]
4. Carl Gustav Jung [Option ID = 48580]
Correct Answer :- Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 48583]
Who is the author the book 'Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development?
1. D. D. Kosambi [Option ID = 48826]
2. Romila Thapar [Option ID = 48827]
3. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan [Option ID = 48824]
4. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar [Option ID = 48825]
Correct Answer :- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar [Option ID = 48825]

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Who is the author of the book A Theory of Literary Production? [Question ID = 19715]
1. Roland Barthes [Option ID = 48853]
2. Pierre Macherey [Option ID = 48855]
3. Walter Benjamin [Option ID = 48854]
4. Louis Althusser [Option ID = 48852]
Correct Answer :- Pierre Macherey [Option ID = 48855]
Who is the author of the book "The Kingdom of God is Within You"? [Question ID = 19638]
1. John Stuart Mill [Option ID = 48546]
2. Ivan Turgenev [Option ID = 48547]
3. Walt Whitman [Option ID = 48544]
4. Leo Tolstoy [Option ID = 48545]
Correct Answer :- Leo Tolstoy [Option ID = 48545]
Who is the author of the novel No Longer at Ease? [Question ID = 19656]
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1. Chinua Achebe [Option ID = 48617]
2. Toni Morrison [Option ID = 48618]
3. Wole Soyinka [Option ID = 48616]
4. Alice Walker [Option ID = 48619]
Correct Answer :- Chinua Achebe [Option ID = 48617]
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Who is the author of the novel The Taming of Women, a translation from Tamil? [Question ID = 19657]
1. P. Sivakami [Option ID = 48621]
2. Bama [Option ID = 48620]
3. Ambai [Option ID = 48622]
4. Lakshmi Holmstrom [Option ID = 48623]
Correct Answer :- P. Sivakami [Option ID = 48621]
Who is the author of the novel The Brothers Karamazov? [Question ID = 19710]
1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Option ID = 48833]
2. Anton Chekhov [Option ID = 48835]
3. Albert Camus [Option ID = 48834]
4. Franz Kafka [Option ID = 48832]
Correct Answer :- • Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Option ID = 48833]

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Who is the author of Buddhacharita, a Mahakavya? [Question ID = 19719]
1. Asvaghosa [Option ID = 48871]
2. Bhavabhuti [Option ID = 48869]
3. Harshavardhana [Option ID = 48870]
4. Panini [Option ID = 48868]
Correct Answer :- Asvaghosa [Option ID = 48871]
Who is the author of the historical novel Train to Pakistan? [Question ID = 19676]
1. Mulk Raj Anand [Option ID = 48697]
2. Saadat Hasan Manto [Option ID = 48696]
3. Khushwant Singh [Option ID = 48699]
4. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 48698]
Correct Answer :- Khushwant Singh [Option ID = 48699]
Who is the author of the article Three Hundred Ramayanas? [Question ID = 19725]
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1. U.R. Ananthamurthy [Option ID = 48895]
2. A. K. Ramanujan [Option ID = 48894]
3. C. Rajagopalachari [Option ID = 48893]
4. R.K. Narayan [Option ID = 48892]
Correct Answer :- • A. K. Ramanujan [Option ID = 48894]
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Who is the author of the collection of fictions Labyrinths? [Question ID = 19731]
1. Gabriel García Márquez [Option ID = 48919]
2. Mario Vargas Llosa [Option ID = 48916]
3. Jorge Luis Borges [Option ID = 48917]
4. Carlos Fuentes [Option ID = 48918]
Correct Answer :- • Jorge Luis Borges [Option ID = 48917]
Who was founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj in Maharashtra? [Question ID = 19673]
1. V.S. Khandekar [Option ID = 48687]
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak [Option ID = 48686]
3. V.D. Savarkar [Option ID = 48684]
4. Jyotiba Phule [Option ID = 48685]
Correct Answer :- Jyotiba Phule [Option ID = 48685]

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Max Müller edited the 50 volumes of ---------. [Question ID = 19658]
1. The Story of the World [Option ID = 48626]
2. A History of India [Option ID = 48624]
3. The Sacred books Hindus [Option ID = 48627]
4. The Sacred books the East [Option ID = 48625]
Correct Answer :- The Sacred books the East [Option ID = 48625]
A -------- country recognizes more than three languages [Question ID = 19641]
1. Bilingual [Option ID = 48556]
2. Multilingual [Option ID = 48558]
3. Trilingual [Option ID = 48557]
4. Monolingual [Option ID = 48559]
Correct Answer :- • Multilingual [Option ID = 48558]
This play demonstrates "Theater of the Absurd" as a text and a performance: [Question ID = 19718]
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1. Ghashiram Kotwal [Option ID = 48867]
2. Life of Galileo [Option ID = 48866]
3. Waiting for Godot [Option ID = 48865]
4. A Doll's House [Option ID = 48864]
Correct Answer :- Waiting for Godot [Option ID = 48865]
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Guernica, a painting by Pablo Picasso is a visual expression of the------- [Question ID = 19682]
1. patriotism and nationalism [Option ID = 48721]
2. animals and plants [Option ID = 48723]
3. glory of war [Option ID = 48720]
4. suffering and devastation of war [Option ID = 48722]
Correct Answer :- • suffering and devastation of war [Option ID = 48722]
Kathak, the Indian classical dance is associated with the tradition of ---------. [Question ID = 19662]
1. Kathaasaptasati [Option ID = 48643]
2. Kathasaritha Sagara [Option ID = 48642]
3. Kathakars the storytellers [Option ID = 48641]
4. Story of Sufis [Option ID = 48640]
Correct Answer :- Kathakars the storytellers [Option ID = 48641]

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Six Acres and a Third is a novel authored by ---------, originally written in ---------. [Question ID = 19711]
1. Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali [Option ID = 48837]
2. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Odia [Option ID = 48839]
3. Fakir Mohan Senapati, Bengali [Option ID = 48838]
4. Fakir Mohan Senapati, Odia [Option ID = 48836]
Correct Answer :- Fakir Mohan Senapati, Bengali [Option ID = 48838]
A Theory of Semiotics (1975) was authored by ---------, an acclaimed Italian writer. [Question ID = 19652]
1. Charles Sanders Peirce [Option ID = 48602]
2. Umberto Eco [Option ID = 48601]
3. Roland Barthes [Option ID = 48600]
4. Jean Baudrillard [Option ID = 48603]
Correct Answer :- Umberto Eco [Option ID = 48601]
Andha Yug, the verse play of Dharamvir Bharati is an allegory to the---------- [Question ID = 19672]
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1. violence of civil war [Option ID = 48683]
2. violence of feudal system [Option ID = 48681]
3. violence of colonization [Option ID = 48680]
4. violence during partition of India [Option ID = 48682]
Correct Answer :- violence during partition of India [Option ID = 48682]
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"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world", Find the author of the statement. [Question ID = 19733]
1. Toni Morrison [Option ID = 48925]
2. Jane Austen [Option ID = 48927]
3. Virginia Woolf [Option ID = 48926]
4. Alice Walker [Option ID = 48924]
Correct Answer :- • Virginia Woolf [Option ID = 48926]
The Republic of Plato discusses the themes of -------- and ---------. [Question ID = 19736]
1. justice, city state [Option ID = 48938]
2. law, kingdom [Option ID = 48937]
3. war, peace [Option ID = 48939]
4. poetry, epic [Option ID = 48936]
Correct Answer :- • justice, city state [Option ID = 48938]

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Koodiyattam, a traditional performance of Kerala is a form of ---------. [Question ID = 19684]
1. Folk Drama [Option ID = 48728]
2. Tribal Drama [Option ID = 48731]
3. Sanskrit Drama [Option ID = 48729]
4. Ritual Play [Option ID = 48730]
Correct Answer :- Sanskrit Drama [Option ID = 48729]
Ashtadasa varnana is a term related to: [Question ID = 19720]
1. Kavya [Option ID = 48874]
2. Carita [Option ID = 48875]
3. Upanishad [Option ID = 48873]
4. Veda [Option ID = 48872]
Correct Answer :- Kavya [Option ID = 48874]
Long walk to freedom is the autobiography of -------- [Question ID = 19722]
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1. Martin Luther King, Jr [Option ID = 48881]
2. Abraham Lincoln [Option ID = 48882]
3. Nelson Mandela [Option ID = 48883]
4. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 48880]
Correct Answer :- Nelson Mandela [Option ID = 48883]
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Padma Purana is one of the Ramayana composed by a Jain teacher -------- [Question ID = 19664]
1. Vimala Suri [Option ID = 48648]
2. Ravisena [Option ID = 48651]
3. Sanghadasa [Option ID = 48649]
4. Harisena [Option ID = 48650]
Correct Answer :- Ravisena [Option ID = 48651]
Dasarupaka is a classification of ---------, as expound in ---------. [Question ID = 19655]
1. Poems, kavyadarsa [Option ID = 48612]
2. Dramatic forms, Natyasastra [Option ID = 48614]
3. Grammar, Ashtadhyayi [Option ID = 48613]
4. Emotions, Natyasastra [Option ID = 48615]
Correct Answer :- Dramatic forms, Natyasastra [Option ID = 48614]

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Yakshagana is a-------- form of ---------. [Question ID = 19705]
1. folk theatre, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana [Option ID = 48813]
2. classical music, Kerala [Option ID = 48812]
3. classical theatre, Tamilnadu [Option ID = 48815]
4. traditional theatre, Karnataka [Option ID = 48814]
Correct Answer :- traditional theatre, Karnataka [Option ID = 48814]
Dhvanyaloka a book on Sanskrit poetics is accredited to [Question ID = 19648]
1. Abhinavagupta [Option ID = 48584]
2. Asvagosha [Option ID = 48587]
3. Anandavardhana [Option ID = 48585]
4. Bhartruhari [Option ID = 48586]
Correct Answer :- Anandavardhana [Option ID = 48585]
Terukkuttu is a traditional theatre from ---------. [Question ID = 19704]
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1. Kerala [Option ID = 48808]
2. Karnataka [Option ID = 48809]
3. Andhra Pradesh [Option ID = 48810]
4. Tamil Nadu [Option ID = 48811]

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"I Have a Dream" is a historical speech delivered by---------. [Question ID = 19686]
1. Martin Luther King, Jr [Option ID = 48737]
2. Abraham Lincoln [Option ID = 48736]
3. Nelson Mandela [Option ID = 48739]
4. Frantz Fanon [Option ID = 48738]
Correct Answer :- Martin Luther King, Jr [Option ID = 48737]
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is one of the autobiographies of ---------. [Question ID = 19679]
1. Toni Morrison [Option ID = 48709]
2. Maya Angelou [Option ID = 48710]
3. Virginia Woolf [Option ID = 48711]
4. Alice Walker [Option ID = 48708]
Correct Answer :- Maya Angelou [Option ID = 48710]
Brihat Katha attributed to Gunadhya is
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