GUJARATH SET DEC-2021 ENGLISH Paper - II
1.
Hamlet's famous phrase "the readiness is all is spoken in the context of
2.
A country road. A tree. Evening. This is the famous setting of the play
3.
One of the following playwrights is not associated with 'Comedy of Menace'
4.
Match A (names of plays) with B (character in the plays):
5. Arrange the plays by T. S. Eliot chronologically beginning with the earliest to the latest:
6.
'Epic Drama' is a style developed by the playwright
7.
Find the dramatic device from the clues given below:
8. The first play in English written by an Indian was by
9. The National School of Drama (NSD) was established in the year
(A) 1955
(B) 1959
(C) 1961
(D) 1963
10.
Dina Mehta's BBC Award-winning play in 1993 is
(A) Brides are Meant for Burning
(B) Brides are Not for Burning
(C) The Brides Remain Only for Burning
(D) Burning Brides - Yesterday and Today
11.
Who among the following was not a Metaphysical poet?
12.
………………….. was the first American poet to have published a collection of poetry
in English.
13.
………………….. is a mock epic.
14.
Who among the following fought in the Greek War of Independence?
15.
"Somebody Blew Up America" is a poem by
16………………………..
was a poet of the Imagist school.
17.
Which of the following is a poem by T. S. Eliot ?
18.
"Next to Indira Gandhi" is a poem by
19.
…………… is a collection of poems by Carolyn Ann Duffy.
20.
Which of the following poet belongs to the 'Harlem Renaissance'?
21.
In Sons and Lovers the cause of Women's Rights is advocated by the character
(A)
Annie
(B)
Rosie
(C)
Mrs Morel
(D)
Clara Dawes
22.
Which one of the following is a work by Kazuo Ishiguro?
(A)
Kafka on the Shore
(B)
An Artist of the Floating World
(C)
Mandela's Ego
(D)
Half of a Yellow Sun
23.
The woman novelist who wrote the Scottish novels Thaddeus of Warsaw and The
Scottish Chiefs is
(A)
Jane Porter
(B)
Jane Austen
(C)
Susan Ferrier
(D)
Maria Edgeworth
24.
Poetic compounding is found in the works of the Modernist author
(A)
Henry James
(B)
E. M. Forster
(C)
Graham Greene
(D)
E. E. Cummings
25.
Roots is written by
(A)
Kunta Kinte
(B)
Alex Haley
(C)
Alice Walker
(D)
Toni Morrison
26.
The native American author who wrote Ceremony is
(A)
Leslie Marmon Silko
(B)
Shermon Alexie
(C)
Joy Harjo
(D)
James Welch
27.
Who among the following translated into English The Slave Gift of Agra?
(A)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(B)
Rabindranath Tagore
(C)
Nirad C. Chaudhury
(D)
Romesh Chunder Dutt
28.
Which modern novel ends with - "She walked rapidly in the thin June
sunlight towards the worst horror of all"?
(A)
The Last Enemy
(B)
Brighton Rock
(C)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
(D)
Free Fall
29.
Which novel by R. K. Narayan refers to the Bhasmasura myth ?
(A)
The English Teacher
(B)
The Financial Expert
(C)
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
(D)
Swami and Friends
30.
A novel by Harold Ladoo wherein he talks of his childhood in Trinidad is
(A)
No Pain Like This Body
(B)
Fireflies
(C)
Yesterdays
(D)
A House for Mr Biswas
31.
Which of the following statements is not true of Aeropagitica?
(A)
It argues for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
(B)
It was published in 1644.
(C)
It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
(D)
It pleads for British privileges regarding free trade.
32.
According to Coleridge, what is it that dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in
order to recreate and to unify?
(A)
Fancy
(B)
Secondary imagination
(C)
Epiphany
(D)
Sensibility
33.
Who is regarded as the first translator of the Bible into English?
(A)
John Wycliffe
(B)
William Tyndale
(C)
William Langland
(D)
Thomas More
34.
It is a first-person narration of socially significant experiences representing
others who have lived through similar situations.
(A)
Biography
(B)
Travelogue
(C)
Testimonio
(D)
Autobiography
35.
The term 'subaltern' was first used in a non-military sense by
(A)
Ranajit Guha
(B)
Antonio Gramsci
(C)
Gayatri Spivak
(D)
Karl Marx
36.
Translation as Recovery' was authored by
(A)
Sujit Mukherjee
(B)
Meenakshi Mukherjee
(C)
Susan Bassnett
(D)
J. C. Catford
37.
What genre do the Gospels most closely fit?
(A)
Apocalyptic literature
(B)
Greco-Roman autobiography
(C)
Short story
(D)
Greco-Roman biography
38.
This work proved instrumental in the formation of Cultural Studies as a
discipline
(A)
The Hero of a Thousand Faces
(B)
The Country and the City
(C)
Fiction and the Reading Public
(D)
Culture and Environment
39.
William Caxton set up a press at Westminster in the year
(A)
1476
(B)
1475
(C)
1473
(D)
1472
40.
Who wrote 'Chartism?
(A)
Edward Lucas
(B)
Thomas Carlyle
(C)
Charles Dickens
(D)
Charles Lamb
41.
Who among the following is associated with Social Constructivism?
(A)
Jean Piaget
(B)
Lev Vygotsky
(C)
M. A. K. Halliday
(D)
Paulo Freire
42.
In Pedagogy ………………… refers to giving students enough support in the early
stages of learning.
(A)
initiation
(B)
scaffolding
(C)
intensification
(D)
remediation
43.
The notion of 'free, voluntary reading' is associated with
(A)
Peter McLaren
(B)
Joe L. Kincheloe
(C)
Stephen Krashen
(D)
Barbara Smith
44.
Blank Verse refers to
(A)
unrhymed lambic Pentametre
(B)
lambic Hexametre
(C)
non-alliterative verse
(D)
non-rhyming verse
45.
………….. is a term used to denote a combination of words in a language that
happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance.
(A)
adjuncture
(B)
cohabitation
(C)
collocation
(D)
proximity
46.
Languages are not classified according to their
(A)
genetic relationship
(B)
structural properties
(C)
geographical location
(D)
political status
47.
The historic study of languages is called
(A)
Diachronic Linguistics
(B)
Synchronic Linguistics
(C)
Comparative Linguistics
(D)
Philology
48.
In Linguistics code mixing is the phenomenon of
(A)
mixing languages
(B)
mixing dialects
(C)
mixing registers
(D)
mixing structures
49.
Drilling for reinforcement is a procedure in the
(A)
Grammar Translation Method
(B)
Silent Method
(C)
Audiolingual Method
(D)
Communicative Method
50.
A sound change in which some phonemes change to become closer to other nearby
sounds is called
(A)
elision
(B)
inflection
(C)
approximation
(D)
assimilation
51.
Which college was set up by Lord Wellesley for training civil servants of the
East India Company in India?
(A)
East Indian College
(B)
Hindu College
(C)
Fort William College
(D)
Sanskrit College
52.
Who wrote "Observations in the State of Society Among the Asian Subjects
of Great Britain"?
(A)
Lord Macaulay
(B)
Charles Grant
(C)
Raja Rammohan Roy
(D)
Lord Amherst
53.
Who wrote the letter to Lord Amherst asking for introduction of English in
Indian Education?
(A)
Raja Rammohan Roy
(B)
Vidyasagar
(C)
Lord Bentinck
(D)
Lord Macaulay
54.
The year in which three Universities were established in Bombay, Madras and
Calcutta for higher education of Indians was
(A)
1835
(B)
1838
(C)
1857
(D)
1885
55.
Which document advocated that English should be the medium of instruction in
India at the college level?
(A)
Macaulay's Minutes
(B)
Wood's Despatch
(C)
Kachru's report
(D)
Kunzru Committee report
56.
Who developed the idea of 'three concentric circles of English'?
(A)
Braj Bihari Kachru
(B)
Charles Grant
(C)
Derozio
(D)
Krishnamurthy and Krishnaswami
57.
Which dialect was chosen as the Standard English Language?
(A)
Northumbrian
(B)
Southern
(C)
East Midland
(D)
Kentish
58.
The first English medium school established in India is
(A)
Hindu School, Calcutta
(B)
St. George's School, Madras
(C)
Christ Church School, Bombay
(D)
St. Paul's School, Darjeeling
59.
The first Indian novel written in English was
(A)
Folk Tales of Bengal
(B)
Govinda Samanta
(C)
Rajmohan's Wite
(D)
Bianca
60.
Which State in India has English as the official language?
(A)
Nagaland
(B)
Kerala
(C)
Himachal Pradesh
(D)
Tamil Nadu
61.
The Institute of Social Research is more famously known as
(A)
Chicago School
(B)
Frankfurt School
(C)
Vienna School
(D)
Black Mountain School
62.
Walter Benjamin famously declares in his essay ………. is coming to an end".
that "the art of storytelling
(A)
"The Art of Storytelling”
(B)
"The End of Storytelling"
(C)
"The Storyteller”
(D)
"The Dying Art"
63.
Michel Foucault's essay "What is an Author ?" investigates into
(A)
famous authors like Marx and Freud
(B)
famous works that are anonymous
(C)
the reputation of authors through the observations of famous philosophers
(D)
the author-function exceeding any author's own works
64.
The BCCCS was founded in the year
(A)
1964
(B)
1966
(C)
1968
(D)
1972
65.
'Sweetness and Light' is how ………… defines culture.
(A)
Matthew Arnold
(B)
T. S. Eliot
(C)
Christopher Caudwell
(D)
I. A. Richards
66.
"The Two Cultures", a controversial lecture delivered in Cambridge in
1959 was critically responded to by
(A)
George Orwell
(B)
William Empson
(C)
F. R. Leavis
(D)
Ezra Pound
67.
One of the following texts by Roland Barthes is now considered a precursor of
modern cultural studies
(A)
Writing Degree Zero
(B)
Mythologies
(C)
S/Z
(D)
Camera Lucida
68.
British Cultural Studies was inaugurated through the publication of the two
seminal texts in the same year: Culture and Society and
(A)
The Uses of Literacy
(B)
Television
(C)
Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
(D)
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
69.
A prominent endeavour in cultural studies is to subvert the distinctions
between
(A)
Popular Culture and Mass Culture
(B)
'High-brow' and 'Low-brow' Culture
(C)
Literature and the other arts
(D)
Production and distribution of cultural artifacts
70.
A significant theoretical component of Cultural Studies comes from
(A)
Postmodernism
(B)
Marxism
(C)
Modernism
(D)
Psychoanalysis
71.
As a radical thinker whose central notions were framed by the debates and
issues that arose directly out of the French Revolution of 1789, Mary
Wollstonecraft has not authored which of the following works?
(A)
Vindications of the Rights of Men
(B)
Vindications of the Rights of Women
(C)
Reflections on the Revolution of France
(D)
The Wrongs of Men
72.
Choose the correct option which matches writers with concepts/theories they put
forward:
A
1.
Stephane Mallarme
2.
Matthew Arnold
3.
Plotinus
4.
Ferdinand de Saussure
B
a.
Neo-Platonism
b.
Structuralism
c.
Symbolism
d.
New Humanism
(A)
1-c 2-d; 3-a; 4-b
(B)
1-b; 2-a; 3-d; 4-c
(C)
1-c 2-a 3-d; 4-b
(D)
1-a; 2-c 3-d; 4-b
73.
Who defined poetry as a 'fervid and exquisite invention' that 'proceeds from
the bosom of God'?
(A)
Giacopo Mazzoni
(B)
Giovanni Boccacio
(C)
Pierre de Ronsard
(D)
George Gascoigne
74.
Who wrote, 'Learn hence for the Ancient rules a just esteem/ To copy nature is
to copy them.'?
(A)
John Dryden
(B)
Alexander Pope
(C)
Aphra Behn
(D)
Samuel Johnson
75.
Rhetoric is a 'powerful instrument of error and deceit. Who said this?
(A)
John Locke
(B)
David Hume
(C)
Voltaire
(D)
Edmund Burke
76.
What is the central theme of Kant's essay, "What is Enlightenment'?
(A)
The assertion of only political freedom.
(B)
Freedom from immaturity.
(C)
The assertion of political and religious freedom.
(D)
Freedom from rationalism.
77.
Which of the following is a work from Northrop Frye?
(A)
Anatomy of Criticism
(B)
The Place of Meaning in Poetry
(C)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
(D)
Critique of Practical Reason
78.
As an influential work that laid the foundations for the formation of New
Criticism School, The Seven Types of Ambiguity was first published in the year
(A)
1932
(B)
1928
(C)
1930
(D)
1937
79.
Which work of G.W.F. Hegel was published posthumously?
(A)
Science of Logic
(B)
Lectures on Aesthetics
(C)
The Phenomenology of Spirit
(D)
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
80.
Who wrote Odes and Epodes?
(A)
Cicero
(B)
Longinus
(C)
Horace
(D)
Aristotle
81.
The Meaning of a Meaning was written by
(A)
C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards
(C)
C. K. Ogden and Henry James
(B)
I. A. Richards and M. H. Abrams
(D)
I. A. Richards and L. C. Knights
82.
The term 'glocalization' was coined by
(A)
Roland Robertson
(C)
John Urry
(B)
Francis Fukuyama
(D)
John Tomlinson
83.
Who among the following was a Movement poet?
(A)
Louis MacNeice
(B)
Sylvia Plath
(C)
Thom Gunn
(D)
E. E. Cummings
84.
Said identifies Orientalism as
(A)
a fact of nature rather than one of human production
(B)
a discourse dealing with the concept of the Body
(C)
a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made
between the Orient and the Occident
(D)
what an Orientalist does
85.
Who among the following is a Marxist critic?
(A)
Julia Kristeva
(B)
Georg Lukacs
(C)
Bill Ashcroft
(D)
I. A. Richards
86.
In Imagined Communities Anderson speaks of
(A)
The growth of a community
(B)
The psychological impact of being displaced
(C)
The origin and spread of nationalism
(D)
The concept of a masculine solidarity
87.
Who among the following is not a 'New Critic'?
(A)
Cleanth Brooks
(B)
Allen Tate
(C)
Robert Pen Warren
(D)
Roland Barthes
88.
The thinker who developed the concept of New Historicism was
(A)
Stephen J. Greenblatt
(B)
Franz Fanon
(C)
James Cummins
(D)
Mary Ellmann
89.
The critical school of thought influenced by Carl J. Yung was
(A)
Cultural Materialism
(B)
French Feminism
(C)
Post-structuralism
(D)
New Criticism
90.
The End of History and the Last Man deals with
(A)
Realization of communism
(B)
Power of ethnic loyalties
(C)
Remaking of the world order
(D)
End point of western liberal democracy
91.
Research in which independent variables have occurred is known as
(A)
Ex post facto research
(B)
Correlational search
(C)
Non experimental research
(D)
Experimental research
92.
Broadly research designs are categorized into …………… designs.
(A)
Descriptive and Diagnostic
(B)
Quantitative and Qualitative
(C)
Experimental and Explanatory
(D)
Survey and Review
93.
Presenting someone else's ideas or work as your own is known as
(A)
Reproducing
(B)
Citing
(C)
Plagiarism
(D)
Adducing
94.
Chicago, MLA, APA are names of
(A)
Cities
(B)
Citation Styles
(C)
Political positions
(D)
Research methods
95.
The problem of 'research ethics' is concerned with which aspect of research
activities ?
(A)
Defining the purpose of research.
(B)
Following the prescribed format of a thesis.
(C)
Data analysis through qualitative or quantitative techniques.
(D)
Evidence based research reporting.
96.
To enumerate, describe, summarize and objectively evaluate earlier research
work is part of the of research.
(A)
Hypotheses
(B)
Conclusion chapter
(C)
Literature Review
(D)
Budget for Research Grant
97.
A research proposal cannot accommodate
(A)
Objectives of research
(B)
Hypotheses
(C)
List of Primary Sources
(D)
Complete Bibliography
98.
"Literary research, then, is devoted, for one thing, to the enlightenment
of criticism... it seeks to illuminate the work of art as it really is..."
This important observation is made in the landmark text on literary research by
(A)
M. H. Abrams
(B)
Geoffrey Harpham
(C)
Catherine Belsey
(D)
Richard Altick
99.
Which one of the following is a research tool ?
(A)
Diagram
(C)
Questionnaire
(B)
Graph
(D)
Illustration
100.
"Research is an organized and systematic enquiry." This was the
definition given by
(A)
P. V. Young
(B)
Emory
(C)
Kerlinger
(D) Marshall
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