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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
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DU MA English
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
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8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
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12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
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3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
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Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
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28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
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DU MA English
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
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2)
3)
4)
5)
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
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28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
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3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2)
3)
4)
The poem is an example of
i.Elegy
ii.Epitaph
iii.Ode
[Question ID = 6451]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 25797]
2. Only ii [Option ID = 25798]
3. Only i [Option ID = 25795]
4. Only i & ii [Option ID = 25796]
Correct Answer :-
Only i [Option ID = 25795]
Equilibrium in the extract stands for?
[Question ID = 6448]
1. new life [Option ID = 25783]
2. none of these [Option ID = 25786]
3. death [Option ID = 25785]
4. both new life & death [Option ID = 25784]
Correct Answer :-
death [Option ID = 25785]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2)
3)
4)
The poem is an example of
i.Elegy
ii.Epitaph
iii.Ode
[Question ID = 6451]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 25797]
2. Only ii [Option ID = 25798]
3. Only i [Option ID = 25795]
4. Only i & ii [Option ID = 25796]
Correct Answer :-
Only i [Option ID = 25795]
Equilibrium in the extract stands for?
[Question ID = 6448]
1. new life [Option ID = 25783]
2. none of these [Option ID = 25786]
3. death [Option ID = 25785]
4. both new life & death [Option ID = 25784]
Correct Answer :-
death [Option ID = 25785]
5)
1)
In these lines the speaker is predominantly using ?
[Question ID = 6450]
1. juxtaposition [Option ID = 25791]
2. contradiction [Option ID = 25793]
3. tragedy [Option ID = 25792]
4. both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Correct Answer :-
both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Who is the ?He? the speaker is referring to?
[Question ID = 6449]
1. Mother [Option ID = 25788]
2. Mother and Father [Option ID = 25789]
3. Friend [Option ID = 25787]
4. Father [Option ID = 25790]
Correct Answer :-
Father [Option ID = 25790]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic17
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
27)
28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2)
3)
4)
The poem is an example of
i.Elegy
ii.Epitaph
iii.Ode
[Question ID = 6451]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 25797]
2. Only ii [Option ID = 25798]
3. Only i [Option ID = 25795]
4. Only i & ii [Option ID = 25796]
Correct Answer :-
Only i [Option ID = 25795]
Equilibrium in the extract stands for?
[Question ID = 6448]
1. new life [Option ID = 25783]
2. none of these [Option ID = 25786]
3. death [Option ID = 25785]
4. both new life & death [Option ID = 25784]
Correct Answer :-
death [Option ID = 25785]
5)
1)
In these lines the speaker is predominantly using ?
[Question ID = 6450]
1. juxtaposition [Option ID = 25791]
2. contradiction [Option ID = 25793]
3. tragedy [Option ID = 25792]
4. both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Correct Answer :-
both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Who is the ?He? the speaker is referring to?
[Question ID = 6449]
1. Mother [Option ID = 25788]
2. Mother and Father [Option ID = 25789]
3. Friend [Option ID = 25787]
4. Father [Option ID = 25790]
Correct Answer :-
Father [Option ID = 25790]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic17
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
2)
3)
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The final action of the traveller testifies to the poet's __________________
[Question ID = 6459]
1. approval [Option ID = 25830]
2. disgust [Option ID = 25827]
3. tolerance [Option ID = 25828]
4. compassion [Option ID = 25829]
Correct Answer :-
approval [Option ID = 25830]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The above lines may be described as a _____________
[Question ID = 6457]
1. pun [Option ID = 25819]
2. metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
3. paradox [Option ID = 25822]
4. parallelism [Option ID = 25821]
Correct Answer :-
metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
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DU MA English
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
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28)
29)
30)
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
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32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2)
3)
4)
The poem is an example of
i.Elegy
ii.Epitaph
iii.Ode
[Question ID = 6451]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 25797]
2. Only ii [Option ID = 25798]
3. Only i [Option ID = 25795]
4. Only i & ii [Option ID = 25796]
Correct Answer :-
Only i [Option ID = 25795]
Equilibrium in the extract stands for?
[Question ID = 6448]
1. new life [Option ID = 25783]
2. none of these [Option ID = 25786]
3. death [Option ID = 25785]
4. both new life & death [Option ID = 25784]
Correct Answer :-
death [Option ID = 25785]
5)
1)
In these lines the speaker is predominantly using ?
[Question ID = 6450]
1. juxtaposition [Option ID = 25791]
2. contradiction [Option ID = 25793]
3. tragedy [Option ID = 25792]
4. both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Correct Answer :-
both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Who is the ?He? the speaker is referring to?
[Question ID = 6449]
1. Mother [Option ID = 25788]
2. Mother and Father [Option ID = 25789]
3. Friend [Option ID = 25787]
4. Father [Option ID = 25790]
Correct Answer :-
Father [Option ID = 25790]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic17
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
2)
3)
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The final action of the traveller testifies to the poet's __________________
[Question ID = 6459]
1. approval [Option ID = 25830]
2. disgust [Option ID = 25827]
3. tolerance [Option ID = 25828]
4. compassion [Option ID = 25829]
Correct Answer :-
approval [Option ID = 25830]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The above lines may be described as a _____________
[Question ID = 6457]
1. pun [Option ID = 25819]
2. metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
3. paradox [Option ID = 25822]
4. parallelism [Option ID = 25821]
Correct Answer :-
metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
1)
2)
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The poem may be read as a cautionary tale that warns against ______________
[Question ID = 6458]
1. greed [Option ID = 25826]
2. anger [Option ID = 25823]
3. competitiveness [Option ID = 25825]
4. fear [Option ID = 25824]
Correct Answer :-
competitiveness [Option ID = 25825]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic18
The worst part was not the hunger or the thirst. It was to sit here, helpless, and listen to the policemen making their
announcements, hearing them say that our lives, our existence, were worth less than dirt or dust. ?This island has to be saved for its
trees, it has to be saved for its animals, it is part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people
from all around the world.? Every day, sitting here with hunger gnawing at out bellies, we would listen to these words over and over
again. Who are these people, I wondered, who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them? Do they know what is
being done in their name?As I thought of these things, it seemed to me that this whole world had become a place of animals . . .
The character is expressing her resentment that people like her are being treated as.........
[Question ID = 6462]
1. unwelcome guests. [Option ID = 25842]
2. perpetual outsiders and foreigners. [Option ID = 25840]
3. disposable human beings that don?t matter?a form of ?human waste.? [Option ID = 25839]
4. illegal migrants who don?t belong. [Option ID = 25841]
Correct Answer :-
disposable human beings that don?t matter?a form of ?human waste.? [Option ID = 25839]
The worst part was not the hunger or the thirst. It was to sit here, helpless, and listen to the policemen making their announcements,
hearing them say that our lives, our existence, were worth less than dirt or dust. ?This island has to be saved for its trees, it has to be
saved for its animals, it is part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people from all around the
world.? Every day, sitting here with hunger gnawing at out bellies, we would listen to these words over and over again. Who are these
people, I wondered, who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them? Do they know what is being done in their name?
As I thought of these things, it seemed to me that this whole world had become a place of animals . . .
The character in this passage is providing an eloquent critique of.....
[Question ID = 6461]
1. racism. [Option ID = 25838]
2. colonialism and its aftermath. [Option ID = 25835]
3. environmental conservation policies that are undertaken at the expense of poor and marginal human beings. [Option ID = 25837]
4. Neo-liberal policies that take advantage of the poor. [Option ID = 25836]
Correct Answer :-
environmental conservation policies that are undertaken at the expense of poor and marginal human beings. [Option ID = 25837]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic19
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Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic01
Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s Problem Plays?
i. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.
ii. They deal with some moral problem.
iii. They challenge generic categorisation.
iv. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
[Question ID = 5561]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]
3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22238]
Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare?s major tragic characters ?
i. Complex and capable of surprising us
ii. Develop throughout the play
iii. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
iv. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
[Question ID = 5560]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22234]
A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
Correct Answer :-
rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
Identify the wrong combination of author and book.
[Question ID = 5576]
1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]
4. The Inheritance of Loss ? Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
Correct Answer :-
White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare?s tragedies is their verbosity, because:
i. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
ii. Its characters struggle for meaning
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
iii. The characters are charismatic speakers
iv. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22230]
In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
i. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
ii. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
iii. A historical figure
iv. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]
1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
Correct Answer :-
i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
Correct Answer :-
It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over.
[Option ID = 22268]
What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
Correct Answer :-
Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
Realism stands for...
i. A literary movement in 19th C
ii. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
iii. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
iv. The depiction of life as it really is
[Question ID = 5566]
1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
Correct Answer :-
i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
i. Renaissance
ii. Medieval
iii. Baroque
iv. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
11)
12)
13)
1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]
3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Correct Answer :-
ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse
drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry.
[Question ID = 5548]
1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]
2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
Correct Answer :-
Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that...
[Question ID = 5553]
1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
Correct Answer :-
everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
[Question ID = 5574]
1. [Option ID = 22290]
2. [Option ID = 22289]
3. [Option ID = 22287]
4. [Option ID = 22288]
Correct Answer :-
14)
15)
16)
[Option ID = 22289]
[Question ID = 5565]
1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
Correct Answer :-
Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
[Question ID = 5549]
1. [Option ID = 22189]
2. [Option ID = 22190]
3. [Option ID = 22188]
4. [Option ID = 22187]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22188]
[Question ID = 5564]
17)
18)
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22248]
2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22247]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22249]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? b, iv ? c [Option ID = 22250]
[Question ID = 5546]
1. [Option ID = 22177]
2. [Option ID = 22178]
3. [Option ID = 22175]
4. [Option ID = 22176]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22178]
[Question ID = 5552]
1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]
4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
Correct Answer :-
Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19)
20)
[Question ID = 5545]
1. [Option ID = 22174]
2. [Option ID = 22173]
3. [Option ID = 22171]
4. [Option ID = 22172]
Correct Answer :-
[Option ID = 22171]
[Question ID = 5547]
1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
2. ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
21)
22)
23)
4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]
Correct Answer :-
ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
[Question ID = 5555]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
Correct Answer :-
QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
[Question ID = 5551]
1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
Correct Answer :-
QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
24)
25)
26)
The speaker is implying that:
[Question ID = 5567]
1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]
4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
Correct Answer :-
Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
[Question ID = 5556]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]
4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
Correct Answer :-
iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
[Question ID = 5575]
1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]
3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
Correct Answer :-
parable [Option ID = 22292]
[Question ID = 5554]
1. i ? a, ii ? b, iii ? c, iv ? d [Option ID = 22208]
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28)
29)
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2. i ? c, ii ? b, iii ? d, iv ? a [Option ID = 22207]
3. i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
4. i ? d, ii ? a, iii ? c, iv ? b [Option ID = 22210]
Correct Answer :-
i ? d, ii ? c, iii ? b, iv ? a [Option ID = 22209]
[Question ID = 5550]
1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]
2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
Correct Answer :-
iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
What is used as ?vehicle? in the sentence ?The camel is the ship of the desert.?
[Question ID = 5573]
1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]
2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
Correct Answer :-
Ship [Option ID = 22284]
In Shakespeare?s Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
i. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them
ii. parody the main plot
iii. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
iv. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
[Question ID = 5557]
1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]
3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22222]
Which of the following are the substance of ?Shakespearean Tragedy??
i. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
ii. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.
31)
32)
1)
iii. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
iv. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 22226]
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
______________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for
what we now call ?horror stories.? Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this
genre.
[Question ID = 5563]
1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]
3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
Correct Answer :-
Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
___________________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the
individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and
Henry David Thoreau?s ?Walden? are famous works of this movement.
[Question ID = 5568]
1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]
2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
Correct Answer :-
Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic02
2)
3)
Who is the speaker in the poem? [Question ID = 5578]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22303]
2. Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
3. Cannot be determined [Option ID = 22305]
4. Saqi [Option ID = 22306]
Correct Answer :-
Chanda [Option ID = 22304]
Pick the odd one out [Question ID = 5581]
1. Bulbul [Option ID = 22315]
2. Bud [Option ID = 22316]
3. Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
4. Chanda [Option ID = 22318]
Correct Answer :-
Saqi [Option ID = 22317]
What is the central theme of the poem? [Question ID = 5580]
1. Death [Option ID = 22312]
2. None of these [Option ID = 22314]
3. Beginning [Option ID = 22313]
4. Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
4)
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Unrequited love [Option ID = 22311]
Identify the genre of the poem from the following features
(i) The presence of couplets
(ii) The address to a lover
(iii) The presence of bulbul and gul
(iv) The reference to the nom de plume
[Question ID = 5579]
1. Ode [Option ID = 22310]
2. Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
3. Sonnet [Option ID = 22307]
4. Lyric [Option ID = 22308]
Correct Answer :-
Ghazal [Option ID = 22309]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic03
Which of the following novels are influenced by Gandhian Philosophy?
(i) Kanthapura
(ii) Waiting for the Mahatma
(iii) Gora
(iv) Untouchable
[Question ID = 5737]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22939]
2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22943]
3. All of these [Option ID = 22945]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
Correct Answer :-
ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22941]
3)
A knowledge and display of Western Classical literature by the English novelists ___________ [Question ID = 5733]
1. Brought them closer to the British in India. [Option ID = 22926]
2. Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
3. Upgraded their workspace status. [Option ID = 22928]
4. Helped them climb the social ladder. [Option ID = 22929]
Correct Answer :-
Afforded them better acceptability amongst the English readers. [Option ID = 22924]
The expression 'markers of power' can be best substituted by _________________. [Question ID = 5728]
1. Superiority of skin-color. [Option ID = 22905]
2. Political power. [Option ID = 22902]
3. Knowledge. [Option ID = 22904]
4. Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
4)
5)
Correct Answer :-
Positions of Dominance. [Option ID = 22900]
The Indian novelists in English and those writing in the Indian languages shared a commonality in that ________________________.
[Question ID = 5732]
1. They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
2. They were influenced by the Indian classics. [Option ID = 22921]
3. Their attitude towards the English language was the same. [Option ID = 22918]
4. They chose the same themes for their works. [Option ID = 22916]
Correct Answer :-
They were products of the same educational system. [Option ID = 22920]
The language in which the 'early writers' chose to write in was_________________. [Question ID = 5729]
6)
1)
2)
1. Mother-tongue. [Option ID = 22910]
2. Colloquial language. [Option ID = 22914]
3. Hindi. [Option ID = 22907]
4. English. [Option ID = 22912]
Correct Answer :-
English. [Option ID = 22912]
Writers whose works were frequently used by the English novelists in India are ______________. [Question ID = 5736]
1. Corelli, Reynolds, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22935]
2. Byron, Scott, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22932]
3. Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
4. Shakespeare, Collins, Disraeli. [Option ID = 22934]
Correct Answer :-
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Byron. [Option ID = 22937]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic04
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (A):
[Question ID = 5743]
1. elementary [Option ID = 22966]
2. perfunctory [Option ID = 22965]
3. rudimentary [Option ID = 22963]
4. obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Correct Answer :-
obligatory [Option ID = 22964]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
3)
4)
5)
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (B) :
[Question ID = 5744]
1. difficulty [Option ID = 22970]
2. nexus [Option ID = 22968]
3. conspiracy [Option ID = 22969]
4. consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Correct Answer :-
consensus [Option ID = 22967]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (D) :
[Question ID = 5746]
1. prevarications [Option ID = 22976]
2. intentions [Option ID = 22977]
3. interactions [Option ID = 22975]
4. premonitions [Option ID = 22978]
Correct Answer :-
interactions [Option ID = 22975]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (C) :
[Question ID = 5745]
1. condition [Option ID = 22972]
2. circle [Option ID = 22971]
3. field [Option ID = 22974]
4. subject [Option ID = 22973]
Correct Answer :-
field [Option ID = 22974]
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below:
Recourse to a neutralized language is (A) ____________ whenever it is a matter of establishing a practical (B)
____________between agents or groups of agents having partially or totally different interests. This is the case, of course, first
and foremost in the (C) ____________of legitimate political struggle, but also in the transactions and (D) ____________of
1)
2)
everyday life. Communication between classes (or, in colonial or semi-colonial societies, between ethnic groups) always (E)
____________a critical situation for the language that is used, whichever it may be.
List for (E) :
[Question ID = 5747]
1. encodes [Option ID = 22980]
2. reproduces [Option ID = 22981]
3. represents [Option ID = 22982]
4. entails [Option ID = 22979]
Correct Answer :-
entails [Option ID = 22979]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic05
What is the essence of the passage? [Question ID = 5750]
1. It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text. [Option
ID = 22991]
2. It criticizes Balzac for demeaning women for their irrational, scared and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22992]
3. The passage praises Balzac for dignifying women for their daring, brave and delicate personality. [Option ID = 22994]
4. It supports long-established criticism tradition of integrating the intentions and biographical context of an author in the interpretation of a text. [Option ID
= 22993]
Correct Answer :-
It argues against traditional criticism practices of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text.
[Option ID = 22991]
1)
2)
3)
This passage marks a shift from
[Question ID = 5749]
1. Historicism to New Historicism [Option ID = 22989]
2. Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
3. Formalism to New criticism [Option ID = 22988]
4. None of these [Option ID = 22990]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism to Post-structuralism [Option ID = 22987]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic06
Which one of the following statements is incorrect.
[Question ID = 5754]
1. Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
2. In New Criticism the role of the critic is to resolve the contradictions to find the right meaning. [Option ID = 23008]
3. Marxist Theory uses traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinates aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.
[Option ID = 23009]
4. Cultural Critics always look at a work as a construct of the society that created it. [Option ID = 23007]
Correct Answer :-
Structuralism argues that every piece of writing has some origin, and that authors do not inhabit pre-existing structures that enable them to make any
particular sentence or story. [Option ID = 23010]
Which one of the following is true about New Criticism.
[Question ID = 5753]
1. Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
2. (a) This is a closed system in that the relationship between the text and meaning is autonomous. [Option ID = 23003]
3. (b) This theory dismisses authorial intent and instead derives meaning from the text itself. [Option ID = 23004]
4. Neither (a) nor (b) [Option ID = 23006]
Correct Answer :-
Both (a) & (b) [Option ID = 23005]
The central theme of the passage is:
[Question ID = 5752]
1. Praising traditional methods of literary criticism for analyzing a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23002]
2. Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID = 23000]
3. Appreciating Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky for their artistic skills [Option ID = 23001]
4. Criticism of the failures of Baudelaire, Van Gogh and Tchaikosky as artists [Option ID = 22999]
Correct Answer :-
Opposition to the classical literary criticism that analyses a literary work within the biographical and personal context of the author [Option ID =
23000]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic07
1)
2)
3)
The passage suggests that the ?basic distinction between East and West? is [Question ID = 5757]
1. Sustained through literature alone [Option ID = 23021]
2. Ephemeral [Option ID = 23022]
3. Historically produced [Option ID = 23020]
4. Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Correct Answer :-
Natural [Option ID = 23019]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is a
[Question ID = 5756]
1. Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
2. Collection of prejudices [Option ID = 23015]
3. Bunch of rituals [Option ID = 23018]
4. Set of novels and epics [Option ID = 23017]
Correct Answer :-
Discursive construction [Option ID = 23016]
Orientalism, according to this passage, is too vast yet effective because
[Question ID = 5758]
1. it is natural [Option ID = 23025]
2. it cannot be resisted [Option ID = 23024]
3. it was supported by great authors [Option ID = 23026]
4. it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
Correct Answer :-
it represents a style of thought naturalized over the centuries [Option ID = 23023]
4)
1)
2)
3)
The theory of objective correlative was conceived by ____________
[Question ID = 5760]
1. Wordsworth [Option ID = 23031]
2. T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
3. Byron [Option ID = 23032]
4. Arnold [Option ID = 23034]
Correct Answer :-
T. S. Eliot [Option ID = 23033]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic08
Pick the odd one out
[Question ID = 5766]
1. Kiran Desai [Option ID = 23056]
2. Michael Ondaatje [Option ID = 23057]
3. Ben Okri [Option ID = 23058]
4. Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Correct Answer :-
Bob Dylan [Option ID = 23055]
Identify the minimum number of characters required to be present on the stage while the above speech is delivered. [Question ID =
5762]
1. Two men and two women [Option ID = 23042]
2. Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
3. One man and two women [Option ID = 23039]
4. One man and one woman [Option ID = 23040]
Correct Answer :-
Two men and one woman [Option ID = 23041]
4)
5)
1)
The above extract is an example of [Question ID = 5763]
1. Horizontal communication [Option ID = 23046]
2. Diagonal communication [Option ID = 23045]
3. Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
4. Downward communication [Option ID = 23043]
Correct Answer :-
Upward communication [Option ID = 23044]
The above extract reflects a: [Question ID = 5764]
1. Optimistic tone [Option ID = 23049]
2. Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
3. Haughty tone [Option ID = 23050]
4. Pessimistic tone [Option ID = 23047]
Correct Answer :-
Conversational tone [Option ID = 23048]
The speaker of the given speech is in [Question ID = 5765]
1. Apathetic mood [Option ID = 23054]
2. Offensive mood [Option ID = 23052]
3. Annoyed mood [Option ID = 23053]
4. Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Correct Answer :-
Defensive mood [Option ID = 23051]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic09
2)
3)
4)
The difficulty with memorials (according to the extract) is that [Question ID = 5770]
1. they are based on a misunderstanding of the past [Option ID = 23073]
2. they are based on a glorification of the past [Option ID = 23071]
3. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the present [Option ID = 23072]
4. they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
Correct Answer :-
they are based on competing ways of reading the past and the future [Option ID = 23074]
The extract places Gray?s poem as an exercise based primarily on a pattern of [Question ID = 5768]
1. parable and parallelism [Option ID = 23064]
2. structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
3. structured binary paradox [Option ID = 23066]
4. parable and paradox [Option ID = 23063]
Correct Answer :-
structured binary oppositions [Option ID = 23065]
The extract prioritises the following theme as central to Gray?s elegy [Question ID = 5769]
1. individual and collective psychoscape [Option ID = 23069]
2. individual and collective social consciousness [Option ID = 23070]
3. individual and collective loss [Option ID = 23068]
4. individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
Correct Answer :-
individual and collective memory [Option ID = 23067]
1)
2)
The role of the poet (as envisaged in the extract) approximates to that of
[Question ID = 5771]
1. a social and cultural commentator [Option ID = 23075]
2. a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
3. a social and cultural analyst [Option ID = 23076]
4. a social and cultural negotiator [Option ID = 23077]
Correct Answer :-
a social and cultural mediator [Option ID = 23078]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic10
The expression 'mark out who by characters are meant' means that: [Question ID = 5775]
1. All of these [Option ID = 23094]
2. Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
3. Some critics categorize the characters of the play within a particular mark set by them [Option ID = 23093]
4. Some critics mark the characters of the play to copy for their own plays [Option ID = 23092]
Correct Answer :-
Some critics search for real-life people in the characters of the play [Option ID = 23091]
According to the passage, who are responsible for turning a satire in libel? [Question ID = 5774]
1. The writer who is writing the satire [Option ID = 23087]
2. The characters within the play [Option ID = 23089]
3. The audience who watch the play with flattering intentions [Option ID = 23090]
4. The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Correct Answer :-
3)
1)
The audience who watch the play with slanderous objectives [Option ID = 23088]
Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?
[Question ID = 5773]
1. Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious. [Option ID = 23084]
2. Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
3. Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews lest they be charged with libel. [Option ID = 23083]
4. Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character of the play. [Option ID = 23086]
Correct Answer :-
Critics should not look for portraits of real people in the play's characters and remember that the play is a social satire. [Option ID = 23085]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic11
Identify the meter of the above poetic lines: [Question ID = 5777]
1. Trochaic inversion [Option ID = 23102]
2. Iambic Pentameter [Option ID = 23100]
3. Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
4. Heroic couplet [Option ID = 23099]
Correct Answer :-
2)
3)
Blank verse [Option ID = 23101]
What is the possible mood/tone of the lines:
[Question ID = 5778]
1. Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
2. Satirical [Option ID = 23103]
3. Shifting tone from sardonic to hopeful [Option ID = 23104]
4. Shifting tone from comic to tragic [Option ID = 23105]
Correct Answer :-
Pessimistic [Option ID = 23106]
1)
2)
What is the most recurrent symbol in the above lines:
[Question ID = 5779]
1. Women [Option ID = 23110]
2. Dreams [Option ID = 23107]
3. Birds [Option ID = 23108]
4. River [Option ID = 23109]
Correct Answer :-
Birds [Option ID = 23108]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic12
Which of the following statements are correct about the Literature of the Absurd:
(i) The Human condition is essentially absurd
(ii) Human beings may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat
(iii) It is influenced by existential philosophy
(iv) The human world possesses no inherent truth, value and meaning
[Question ID = 5785]
1. i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 23131]
3. All of these [Option ID = 23134]
4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 23133]
Correct Answer :-
i, iii & iv [Option ID = 23132]
3)
The ?church? and the ?watchman? are details that serve to: [Question ID = 5782]
1. influence action [Option ID = 23119]
2. establish setting [Option ID = 23122]
3. build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4. develop characters [Option ID = 23121]
Correct Answer :-
build tension [Option ID = 23120]
4)
The woman?s ?sleeplessness? and ?palpitations? most clearly indicate __________ [Question ID = 5783]
1. desire [Option ID = 23124]
2. too much caffeine [Option ID = 23123]
3. the onset of sickness [Option ID = 23125]
4. guilt [Option ID = 23126]
Correct Answer :-
guilt [Option ID = 23126]
5)
In the first paragraph, the sea is viewed as [Question ID = 5781]
1. an escape [Option ID = 23115]
2. leisurely [Option ID = 23116]
3. purifying [Option ID = 23117]
4. eternal [Option ID = 23118]
Correct Answer :-
eternal [Option ID = 23118]
1)
The description of "the hollow roar of the sea" serves to underscore the
[Question ID = 5784]
1. nobility of life [Option ID = 23128]
2. man?s pride [Option ID = 23130]
3. jealous husband [Option ID = 23127]
4. their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Correct Answer :-
their affair?s ephemeral nature [Option ID = 23129]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic13
2)
3)
Mercedes is
[Question ID = 6435]
1. mother of the person in question [Option ID = 25734]
2. Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
3. an Opera [Option ID = 25731]
4. a car [Option ID = 25733]
Correct Answer :-
Mother Mary [Option ID = 25732]
What does this passage depict ?
[Question ID = 6433]
1. State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
2. None of these [Option ID = 25726]
3. The unsynchronised chiding of an insane mind wondering over the shades of life [Option ID = 25725]
4. The reciting of a gothic passage [Option ID = 25723]
Correct Answer :-
State of mind of a teenager having a vague conception of a world of images [Option ID = 25724]
This passage is an example of: [Question ID = 6434]
1. Epiphany [Option ID = 25727]
1)
2)
2. Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
3. Irony [Option ID = 25729]
4. Dream Sequence [Option ID = 25728]
Correct Answer :-
Stream of Consciousness [Option ID = 25730]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic14
?Guerrillas? are
[Question ID = 6440]
1. soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
2. monkeys [Option ID = 25751]
3. gorillas [Option ID = 25752]
4. unidentified men [Option ID = 25753]
Correct Answer :-
soldiers [Option ID = 25754]
3)
4)
The poem makes a contrast between
[Question ID = 6439]
1. Orion and the Moon [Option ID = 25748]
2. Peacocks and Owls [Option ID = 25747]
3. leaves and witches [Option ID = 25750]
4. war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
Correct Answer :-
war and peace [Option ID = 25749]
?Moon?s light, thick as Witches Butter? is an example of [Question ID = 6438]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25744]
2. Metonymy [Option ID = 25745]
3. Synecdoche [Option ID = 25746]
4. Simile [Option ID = 25743]
Correct Answer :-
Simile [Option ID = 25743]
5)
1)
The verse form of the poem can be best described as [Question ID = 6441]
1. Hexameter [Option ID = 25756]
2. Tetrameter [Option ID = 25757]
3. Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
4. Iambic pentameter [Option ID = 25755]
Correct Answer :-
Free verse [Option ID = 25758]
?Husking, hushing, hosting? is an example of [Question ID = 6437]
1. Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
2. Repetition [Option ID = 25739]
3. Harvest [Option ID = 25742]
4. Nonsensical repetition [Option ID = 25741]
Correct Answer :-
Alliteration [Option ID = 25740]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic15
2)
Homeric epics were valuable for the Greeks because ___________________.
[Question ID = 6444]
1. they praised Gods and Goddesses [Option ID = 25768]
2. they consisted of appealing poetry [Option ID = 25767]
3. they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
4. they told interesting tales [Option ID = 25770]
Correct Answer :-
they contained myths concerning the origins of their society [Option ID = 25769]
History is to be viewed as _____________________.
[Question ID = 6443]
1. intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
2. only in relation to social sciences [Option ID = 25764]
3. only an independent discipline [Option ID = 25763]
4. only providing an account of the past [Option ID = 25766]
3)
1)
Correct Answer :-
intersecting with areas such as poetry and philosophy [Option ID = 25765]
Historiography is ______________________.
[Question ID = 6445]
1. the science of history. [Option ID = 25771]
2. a mirror to the society. [Option ID = 25774]
3. a recollection of the past. [Option ID = 25773]
4. a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Correct Answer :-
a strategy using literature as a guide to understanding historical phenomena. [Option ID = 25772]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic16
The poem depicts? [Question ID = 6447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2. tragic scene [Option ID = 25781]
3. domestic scene [Option ID = 25779]
4. reminiscence of the poet [Option ID = 25780]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 25782]
2)
3)
4)
The poem is an example of
i.Elegy
ii.Epitaph
iii.Ode
[Question ID = 6451]
1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 25797]
2. Only ii [Option ID = 25798]
3. Only i [Option ID = 25795]
4. Only i & ii [Option ID = 25796]
Correct Answer :-
Only i [Option ID = 25795]
Equilibrium in the extract stands for?
[Question ID = 6448]
1. new life [Option ID = 25783]
2. none of these [Option ID = 25786]
3. death [Option ID = 25785]
4. both new life & death [Option ID = 25784]
Correct Answer :-
death [Option ID = 25785]
5)
1)
In these lines the speaker is predominantly using ?
[Question ID = 6450]
1. juxtaposition [Option ID = 25791]
2. contradiction [Option ID = 25793]
3. tragedy [Option ID = 25792]
4. both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Correct Answer :-
both juxtaposition & tragedy [Option ID = 25794]
Who is the ?He? the speaker is referring to?
[Question ID = 6449]
1. Mother [Option ID = 25788]
2. Mother and Father [Option ID = 25789]
3. Friend [Option ID = 25787]
4. Father [Option ID = 25790]
Correct Answer :-
Father [Option ID = 25790]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic17
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
2)
3)
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The final action of the traveller testifies to the poet's __________________
[Question ID = 6459]
1. approval [Option ID = 25830]
2. disgust [Option ID = 25827]
3. tolerance [Option ID = 25828]
4. compassion [Option ID = 25829]
Correct Answer :-
approval [Option ID = 25830]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The above lines may be described as a _____________
[Question ID = 6457]
1. pun [Option ID = 25819]
2. metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
3. paradox [Option ID = 25822]
4. parallelism [Option ID = 25821]
Correct Answer :-
metaphor [Option ID = 25820]
Traveling, a man met a tiger, so..
He ran. And the tiger ran after him
Thinking: How fast I run.. But
The road thought: How long I am.. Then,
They came to a cliff, yes, the man
Grabbed at an ash root and swung down
1)
2)
Over its edge. Above his knuckles, the tiger..
At the foot of the cliff, its mate. Two mice,
One black, one white, began to gnaw the root.
And by the traveler?s head grew one
Juicy strawberry, so..hugging the root
The man reached out and plucked the fruit.
Hot sweet it tasted!
The poem may be read as a cautionary tale that warns against ______________
[Question ID = 6458]
1. greed [Option ID = 25826]
2. anger [Option ID = 25823]
3. competitiveness [Option ID = 25825]
4. fear [Option ID = 25824]
Correct Answer :-
competitiveness [Option ID = 25825]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic18
The worst part was not the hunger or the thirst. It was to sit here, helpless, and listen to the policemen making their
announcements, hearing them say that our lives, our existence, were worth less than dirt or dust. ?This island has to be saved for its
trees, it has to be saved for its animals, it is part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people
from all around the world.? Every day, sitting here with hunger gnawing at out bellies, we would listen to these words over and over
again. Who are these people, I wondered, who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them? Do they know what is
being done in their name?As I thought of these things, it seemed to me that this whole world had become a place of animals . . .
The character is expressing her resentment that people like her are being treated as.........
[Question ID = 6462]
1. unwelcome guests. [Option ID = 25842]
2. perpetual outsiders and foreigners. [Option ID = 25840]
3. disposable human beings that don?t matter?a form of ?human waste.? [Option ID = 25839]
4. illegal migrants who don?t belong. [Option ID = 25841]
Correct Answer :-
disposable human beings that don?t matter?a form of ?human waste.? [Option ID = 25839]
The worst part was not the hunger or the thirst. It was to sit here, helpless, and listen to the policemen making their announcements,
hearing them say that our lives, our existence, were worth less than dirt or dust. ?This island has to be saved for its trees, it has to be
saved for its animals, it is part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people from all around the
world.? Every day, sitting here with hunger gnawing at out bellies, we would listen to these words over and over again. Who are these
people, I wondered, who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them? Do they know what is being done in their name?
As I thought of these things, it seemed to me that this whole world had become a place of animals . . .
The character in this passage is providing an eloquent critique of.....
[Question ID = 6461]
1. racism. [Option ID = 25838]
2. colonialism and its aftermath. [Option ID = 25835]
3. environmental conservation policies that are undertaken at the expense of poor and marginal human beings. [Option ID = 25837]
4. Neo-liberal policies that take advantage of the poor. [Option ID = 25836]
Correct Answer :-
environmental conservation policies that are undertaken at the expense of poor and marginal human beings. [Option ID = 25837]
Topic:- DU_J18_MA_ENG_Topic19
1)
2)
3)
?Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as
intimate as a lullaby, Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free??
The character mentioned in this passage is said to have escaped from slavery, but is still not ?free?. What is the freedom referred to in this
passage?
[Question ID = 6466]
1. Freedom to die [Option ID = 25858]
2. Freedom from an oppressive situation [Option ID = 25857]
3. Freedom from Chattel Slavery [Option ID = 25855]
4. Freedom from hunger [Option ID = 25856]
Correct Answer :-
Freedom from Chattel Slavery [Option ID = 25855]
?Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as
intimate as a lullaby, Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free??
Whose ?Slavery? is referred to in the above passage?
[Question ID = 6464]
1. The slavery forced on the Native Americans in the US [Option ID = 25850]
2. The slavery of Africans brought to work on the plantations in America. [Option ID = 25849]
3. The slavery of the Israelites in Egypt, which is referred to in the Holy Bible [Option ID = 25847]
4. The slavery of the bonded labourers in the brick kilns of Haryana [Option ID = 25848]
Correct Answer :-
The slavery of Africans brought to work on the plantations in America. [Option ID = 25849]
?Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as
intimate as a lullaby, Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free??
What is the exodus referred to in the passage?
[Question ID = 6465]
1. The exodus of the Israelites, led by Moses, from Egypt, which is referred to in the Holy Bible. [Option ID = 25852]
2. The exodus of Hindus from Pakistan and Muslims from India after Partition [Option ID = 25851]
3. The exodus of Jews from Holocaust hit Germany [Option ID = 25853]
4. The exodus of Tamils from Sri Lanka in the wake of the civil war. [Option ID = 25854]
Correct Answer :-
The exodus of the Israelites, led by Moses, from Egypt, which is referred to in the Holy Bible. [Option ID = 25852]
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