NTA NET DEC-2023 Paper-2 (English) held on 14th December 2023 -Shift-2

Q.51. Which among the following is not written by F.R. Leavis?

1. Education and the University (1943)

2. Culture and Practical Reason (1976)

3. English Literature in Our Time and the University (1969)

4. Revaluation (1936)

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Q.52. Which among the following texts is not based on the theme of disability?

1. Madeleine Ryan’s A Room Called Earth

2. Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

3. G.B. Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession

4. Julia Heaberlin’s We are All the Same in the Dark

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Q.53. Which statement among the following defines Pidgin?

1 A language that is used as a kind of lingua franca among speakers, though it is not a native language of anyone.

2. A language which has large number of varieties and dialects used across the world

3. An African language used by the natives to showcase their culture and customs

4. A language with structured grammar and sound system spoken in Australia

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Q.54. What is the appropriate term for the study of language across time (e.g. The history of the changes in a language)?

1. Diachronic

2. Synchronic

3. Syntagmatic

4. Paradigmatic

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Q.55. Which among the following nightly defines homonyms?

1. Morphemes which sound different but have the same meanings

2. Morphemes which sound the same but have different meanings

3. Morphemes which are added to other morphemes

4. Morphemes which sound the same but have different spellings

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Q.56. What among the following rightly defines Pragmatics?

1. Study of the units of meaning in a language and their pattern of occurrence

2. The study of meaning

3. The study of meaning in context

4. The study of the sounds

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Q.57. Which among the following does not relate to Universal Grammar?

1. It is based on the idea that certain aspects of syntactic structure are universal

2. It suggests that all languages possess the same set of categories and relations

3. Universal grammar is a theoretical concept proposed by Edward Sapir

4. It is based on the postulate that the human brain contains an innate mental grammar

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Q.58. Which statement among the following rightly defines inversion?

1. A structure in which an auxiliary or other verb comes at the end of the sentence.

2. A structure in which an auxiliary or other verb comes before its subject.

3. A structure in which an auxiliary may be omitted without affecting the meaning

4. A structure in which an auxiliary is considered essential

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Q.59. Which statement rightly defines split infinitive?

1. A structure in which an adverb comes between ‘to’ and the rest of the infinitive

2. A structure in which an adjective comes between ‘to’ and the rest of the infinitive

3. A structure in which an adjective comes before bare infinitive

4. A structure in which an adverb follows to-infinitive

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Q.60. Which statement among the following is not true about Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics?

1. It was published posthumously in 1915

2. It discusses the concepts of langue and parole

3. Langue denotes actual oral and written communication by members) of a particular speech community

4. Saussure advocated a synchronic examination of language

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61. Which of the following texts is not based on transgender issues?

1. Myself Mona Ahmed by Dayanita Singh

2. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

3. The Beast with Nine Billion Feet by Anil Menon

4. The Man Who Would be Queen by Hoshang Merchant

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Q.62. “Neo-colonialism is the worst form of imperialism for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for these who suffer from it, it means exploration without redress.” Identify the author.

1. Robert Young

2. Edward W. Said

3. Kwane Nkrumah

4. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

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Q.63. Which among the following statements is not true about NEP-2020

1. The Policy recommends establishment of Indian Institute of English Literature and interpretation

2. It recommends high quality programmes and degrees in Translation and interpretation

3. It recommends establishment of academies to each of the scheduled languages listed in the eighth schedule of the Constitution          

4. It recommends that proficiency in Indian languages be included as part of qualification parameters for employment opportunities

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Q.64. Who among the following wrote Art of Rhetoric?

1. Cleanth Brooks

2. Sir Thomas Wilson

3. Sir John Cheke

4. Raymond Williams

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Q.65. Identify the poet who has said that poetry has fallen from its pedestal as “the highest estimation of learning…. to be the laughingstock of children?

1. Wiam Wordsworth

2. Sir Philip Sidney     

3. William Blake

4. George Gascogne

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Q.66. What does ‘bricolage mean in the Derridean usage?

1. Borrowing concepts from different sources and reshaping them to suit one’s needs

2. Endless play of signifiers

2. Deconstructing the given concepts to arrive at truth

3. Difference

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Q.67.Paul J. Crutzen describes ‘Anthropocene’ as

1. A new world order

2. Post-political zeitgeist

3. Decisive human impact upon earth’s environment and biosphere

4. Aporia of grand narratives in the post-globalized world shaping human subjectivities

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Q.68. Who among the following is the recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2021?

1. Louise Gluck

2. Annie Ernauх

3. Abdulrazak Gurnah

4. Peter Handke

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Q.69. Who has defined defamiliarization (ostranenie) as an aesthetic technique implying the renewal of perception?

1. Viktor Shklovsky

2. Roman Jakobson

3. Jacques Derrida

4. Vladimir Propp

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Q.70. What is the thrust of lean Paul Sartre’s impassioned response to Camus’ The Rebel?

1. Rejection of spiritualistic elements

2. Renunciation of historical responsibility and commitment

3. Ethic of narrative

4. Problem of Bad Faith

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Q.71. Name the poet who has composed the following poems.

A. “A Hymn to God the Father”

B. “Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode”

C. “Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness”

D. “A Valediction of Weeping”

 

1. William Shakespeare

2. Christopher Marlowe

3. John Donne

4. Ben Jonson

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Q.72. Who among the following coined the term ‘Speculative Fiction?

1. Hugo Gernsback

2. Robert A Heinlein

3. Dan Bloom

4. John Stuart Mill

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Q.73. My love is of a birth as rare

As, tis, for object, strange and high

It was forgotten by despair

Upon impossibility (Andrew Marvell)

Name the poem from which these lines have been taken

1. “The Garden”

2. “The Horatian Ode”

3. “The Definition of Love”

4. “To His Coy Mistress”

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Q.74. Who is the author of the pandemic fiction ‘The Last Man’?

1. Mary Shelley

2. Jose Saramago

3. Ahmad Ali

4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Q.75. Who has composed “A Red Red Rose”?

1. Joanna Ballie

2. Robert Burns

3. William Wordsworth

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Q.76. in which year “She Walks in Beauty”, a poem by Lord Byron, was composed?

1. 1788

2. 1824

3. 1815

4. 1814

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Q.77. Who composed the poem “The Phoenix and the Turtle”?

1. Wiliam Blake

2. Wiliam Shakespeare

3. Wiliam Cowper

3. Robert Bums

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Q.78. ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ was written by Mary Wollstonecraft. Who wrote ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Man’?

1. J. S. Mill

2. Thomas Paine

3. John Braine

4. Amis Kingsley

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Q.79. Who said about Northrop Frye that he did not lock literature into an ivory tower, instead he emphasized its centrality to the development of a civilized humane society?

1. Philip Wheelwright

2. Margaret Atwood

3. Earnst Jones

4. Richard Chase

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Q.80. Which of the following is not included in the positive evils of Scott as a novelist?

1. His great haste in the composition of his stories

2. His haphazard financial methods which tended to over production

3. Haste in the construction of his plots

4. He had sensitive ear for rhythm and melody

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Q.81. According to Lev Manovich, “Cultural analytics” refers to

1. The study of culture to decipher the prevalent power relation in the society

2. The use of computational methods to examine contemporary digital media

3. Schizoanalysis of culture to locate the contestation among multiple ideological formations

4. Archeological approach to the study of power and knowledge

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Q.82. In Michel Foucault’s words “Panopticon’’ refers to:

1. The metaphor for the modern disciplinary society

2. The example of a totalitarian society

3. The metaphor for a pre-modem society marked by equality

4. The device for administering corporal punishment

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Q.83. The goal of Schizoanalysis is

1. To study schizophrenia in the light of neoliberal theories

2. To reassess the impact of materialist thought in human actions

3. To analyse the unconscious from a transcendentalist perspective

4. To scrutinize the specific nature of libidinal investments in the economic and political sphere

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Q.84.Which of the following is not correct about tribal narratives and the writers?

1. Escaping the Land is written by Mamang Dai

2. Kocharethi is written by Narayan

3. Amrutara Sanatana is written by Pratibha Ray

4. A Motherland Being Deserted is written by Salge Hansda

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Q.85. A little learning is dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” Which literary critic has expressed the above given thought?

1. De Quincey

2. Alexander Pope

3. William Shakespeare

4. Samuel Johnson

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Q.86. Who among the following denounced literary works as the works of devil?

1. F.R. Leavis

2. T.S. Elliot

3. Stephen Gosson

4. Wiliam Ponsonby

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Q.87.Who has defined a poet in the following words:

“The poet described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their worth and dignity”

1. Wiam Wordsworth

2. John Keats

3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4. P.B. Shelly

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Q.88.A modem philosophical tendency which stresses the perceiver’s role in determining meaning is known as-

1. Ontology

2. Epistemology

3. Phenomenology

4. Facticity

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Q.89. Who wrote the book ‘Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979)’?

1. Stephen Greenblatt

2. Stuart Hall

3. Dick Hebdige

4. Max Weber

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Q.90. The famous text ‘The Empire Writes Back’ came out in the year:

1. 1909

2. 1988

3. 1967

4. 1960

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Q.91. Which of the following statements are true in the context of Rudyard Kipling?

A. Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India

B. Kipling was awarded Nobel Prize in 1907

C. The Jungle Books consist of four collections of stories

D. Kipling originally used Shivalik hills as the background of The Jungle Book

E. The Jungle Book was published in 1894

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B and C only

2. B, C and D only

3. C, D and E only

5. A, B and E only

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Q.92.Which of the following statements are true about Ngugi wa Thiong’O’s “Decolonizing the Mind’?

A. The complete title of the text is Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

B. The text was originally published in 1886 while he was on a short visit to London to attend a conference

C. It discusses that the choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to people’s definition of themselves

D. Through this text the Nigerian author defends the use of English as a tool to progress

E Ngugi observed that in a school in a colonial setup the language of his education was no longer the language of his culture

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B and C only

2. B, C and D only

3. C, D and E only

4. A, C and E only

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Q.93. Which of the following statements are true with regard to Postcolonial theory and literature?

A. The Empire Whites Back is a non-fictional text on postcolonialism

B. Black Skin White Masks is a fictional text narrating multidisciplinary analysis of the effects of colonialism on the protagonist

C. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is a work written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

D. Edard W Said wrote his autobiography titled “In Place to reflect the love-hate relationship with the West”

E. Postcolonialism addresses those questions that emerge in the wake of the departure of colonial masters

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C and E only

2. B, C and D only

3. A, D and E only

4. C, D and E only

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Q.94. Which among the following is/are not true about Negritude?

A. The movement was started by French speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris

B. The movement aimed at examining western values critically and to reassess African culture

C. The movement was against British colonial rule and the policy of colonization

D. The leading figure of the movement was Leopold Sedar Senghor

E. The movement was influenced by the creed of Art for Art’s Sake

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. C and E only

4. D and E only

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Q.95. Which among the following are not be about Feminist Movement

A. Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman challenges the notion that women exist only to please men

B. Issue of women’s suffrage dominated international feminism for more than fifty years

C. The Female Eunuch was written and published by an Alican writer named Sarah Millin.

D. Kate Milet’s Sexual Politics broadened the term politics to include all power-structured relationships

E. The second wave of feminism was led by Generation Xers.

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. C and E only

4. D and E only

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Q.96. Which among the following are not true about the Booker Prize

A. The winner of The International Booker Prize 2023 is Tomb of Sand written by Geetanjali Shree, and translated by Daisy Rockwell

B. Each year, the Prize is awarded to the best sustained work of fiction written in English

C. The International Booker Prize was instituted in 2002

D. The Booker Prize is awarded to the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

E. The international Booker Prize is awarded for the finest single work of fiction translated into English, from around the world

 

Choose the correct answer than the options given below

1. B and D only

2. A and C only

3. C and E only

4. D and E only

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Q.97. Harten Renaissance manifests blossoming of African American culture. Which among the following are the key features of the movement?

A. It advocated freedom from Victorian moral values

B. The movement emerged in the early nineteenth century

C. The movement started from Harlem district of New York city

D. The magazines such as The Crisis, Opportunity and The Messengers were crucial for the movement

E. Harlen was formerly a Black resident district that gradually became virtually White city

 

Choose the correct at them the options given below

1. A, B and C only

2. B. C and D only

3. C, D and E only

4. A. C and D only

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98. Which among the following are not the slave narratives?

A. Black Boy by Richard Wright

B. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

C. Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley

D. The Nature of Blood by Caryl Philips

E. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. B and D only

2. C and E only

3. A and B only

4. B and C only

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Q.99. Which of the following definitions are wrong?

A. A fricative sound involves the close approximation of two articulators

B. Stops involve closure of the articulators to obstruct the air-stream

D. Raising of the front of the tongue to form a secondary articulation is called velarization.

D. A Trill occurs when an articulator is held loosely fairly close to another articulator so that it sets into vibration

E. Rasing of the back of the tongue while making another articulation elsewhere is called palatalization

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. C and E only

4. D and E only

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Q.100.Which among the following are the Australian Aboriginal texts?

A. Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston

B. Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

B. My Place by Sally Morgan

C. The Bandwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Bond

D. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A, B and C only

2. B, C and E only

3. C, D and E only

4. A. C and D only

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Q.101.Which among the following texts are not written by an Indian Diaspora Novelist?

A. Darkness

B. Moth Smoke

C. Whereabouts

D. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

E. Clear Light of Day

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. B and D only

4. D and E only

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Q.102.Which among the following are not true about The Defense of Poesie by Philip Sidney?

A. The text was published posthumously in 1595

B. It is also titled as An Apology for Poetry

C. Philip Sidney criticizes Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Spenser’s The Shepheard’s Calendar

D. The text Is the first major piece of literary criticism in English

E. The text defends Plato for his decision to ban poets from the ideal state as described in Republic

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and Conly

2. Cand Donly

4. C and E only

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Q.103.Which statements among the following are not relevant to Biographia Literaria?

A. The first volume of the text recounts the author’s friendship with Robert Southey and William Blake

B. Another edition of the text was published later in 1847 with his daughter Sara’s appended notes

B. It is a work by ST Coleridge in two volumes

C. In this work Coleridge discusses the difference between fancy and imagination

E. in the first volume, Coleridge acknowledges his teachers and philosophers including Aristotle and Plato

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. A and E only

4. D and E only

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Q.104.Wich among the following statements do note to William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity?

A. Empson uses the term ‘ambiguity’ to refer to any verbal nuance which may give room for alternative reaction to the same piece of literature.

B. The first type of ambiguity is simple metaphor which may be effective in several ways at once

C. The third type of ambiguity consists of two apparently disconnected meanings given simultaneously

D. Empson calls the fifth type of ambiguity as ‘unfortunate confusion’ with examples from Shelley and Swinburne

E. Seventh type of ambiguity refers to the division in the reader’s mind

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the option given below

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

4. C and D only

4. D and E only

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Q.105.Which of the following assumptions are not true with reference to post feminism?

A. Post-feminism is based on the postulates of feminism laid down by Elaine Showalter

B. A discourse popularized by the mass media in 1990s reflecting a reaction against the feminist theories of 1970s and 1980s

C. Post-feminism establishes the relevance of fender binary where man is essentially powerful

D. Post feminism is characterized by emphasis on femininity as well as on ‘the career woman’

E. Postfeminist discourse extends into other areas such as-eco-feminism and cyberfeminism

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. A and C only

2. B and C only

3. C and D only

4. D and E only

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Q.106.Which of these are true about New Historicism”

A. New Historicists do not use thick descriptions for the examination of cultural production

B. Literary works are not autonomous and timeless

C. History is always narrated. History is a matter of interpretation

D. All historical analysis is objective

E. History is neither progressive nor linear

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. A and E only

2. A and C only

3. C and E only

4. A and B only

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Q107.Which among the following assumptions are not true in the context of diasporic identities?

A. Migrancy constructs modes of existence and ways of seeing that go beyond actual journey between countries

B. Migrancy can expose the migrants and their children to displacement and fragmentation

C. The dominant narratives of belonging and identity can accommodate those who live in-between

D. Living In-between can be a pleasurable experience

E. Home is a problematic concept

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. C and A only

3. C and B only

4. C and D only

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Q.108.Which assertions are not true in the context of Cultural Studies?

A. Popular culture means the set of practices, beliefs and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system

B. Dominant culture signifies the invite aspects of our practices and tudes

C. Residual culture is that part of the old cultural practices that remain in traces in modem culture

D. The discipline is comparatively new and is opposed to rigid methods associated with traditional Marxist approaches

E. It discourages the audibility of women in public spaces

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. E and B only

2. A and E only

3. B and C only

4. C and E only

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Q.109.Which among the following is not true about E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the Working Class?

A. Studies the development of working class consciousness

B. Defines class as a relationship not as a social structure

C. It is the first systematic study of the history of working class

D. It critiques Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

E. Reinforces the idea that race and ethnicity are the forms of collective identity

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. A and B only

2. C and D only

3. E and D only

4. B and D only.

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Q.110. “Discordia Concors” a phrase used by Johnson in his Life of Cowley, implies:

A. A term used to refer to ironic inversion of residual ideology in a text

B. A combination of two philosophically similar discourses

C. A term used to refer to diminishing metaphor

D. A combination of dissimilar images

E. A combination of contradictory ideas and concepts

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

1. D and E only

2. C and D only

3. A and E only

4. B and D only

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Q.111.Which of the following option(s) cover the basic issues related to feminist literary criticism?

A. Women are caught up in a prison house of language that is male specific

B. Gender equality is just an idea and largely unachievable

D. Human society is largely entrenched in patriarchal ideology

D. Sex and Gender can not be treated as two distinct categories

E. One universal feminism will be the remedy to the historical subjugation

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. A and D only

3. A and E only

4. A and C only

5. B and D only

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Q.112.Choose two statements which aptly describe renaissance humanism

A. It prepared man for an eternal life

B. It was anthropocentric

C. It was a more theological philosophy

D. It rejected the distinction between neumenal and phenomenal world

E. It brought immense revival of interest in classical literature and thought

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. B and E only

2. A and B only

3. B and D only

3. C and E only

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Q.113.What statement(s) are true about liberal humanism?

A. Language is not constitutive

B. There is no fixed and absolute truth. No unalterable essences at all

C. Our mind is an empty state and all enquiry into the artistic phenomenon is objective

E. It is language that shapes the reality and not the other way round

E. Truth is not provisional

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. D and E only

2. C and D only

3. C and E only

4. A and E only

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Q.114.Which two of the following statements are true about concept of contrapuntal reading?

A. It locates the anxiety of influence in the text

B. It decodes the political unconscious of the author

C. It unveils how some literary texts are complicit in justifying the ideologies of imperialism

D. It shows how the author can consciously structure the meaning of the text

E. It decodes the intertextual elements in the text which shape the rendering of characters as heroes or villains

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. D and A only

2. C and E only

3. B and C only            

4, C and D only

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Q.115.Which of the following societal attributes are not accepted by feminist critics regarding objectification of woman’s body?

A. Beauty contests commodity the women’s body for the men’s gaze

B. All women suffer from penis-envy

C. Cosmetic surgery and body adornment become feminine modes

D. The country is itself imaged as a woman’s body that demands protection by men

E. Men have traditionally been projected as rational and women as irrational or emotional

 

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. D and E only            

2. B and E only

3. C and E only

4. B and D only

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Q.116.Match List I with List II

List (Author)

A. Nigel Dennis

B. George Orwell

C. Mark Schorer

D. Nietzsche

 

List II (Work)

I. Technique as Discovery

II. The Gay Science

III. Cards of identity

IV. Down and Out in Pans and London

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. (A)-(III) (B)-(IV), (C)-(I) (D)-(II)

2 (A)-(III), (B)-(IV) (C)-(II), (D)-(1)

3. (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II) (D)-(1)

4 (A)-(IV), (B)-(III) (C) (1), (D)-(II)

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Q.117.Match List I with List II

List (Work)

A. Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit

B. G.B. Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma

C. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of d’ Urbervilles

D. T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion

 

List II (Character)

I. Abraham Durbeyfield

II. Harry

III. Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington

IV. Mrs Gamp

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-1

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

3. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-V

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

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Q.118.Match List with List I

List I (Writer)

A. Hugo Gernsback

B. Edmund Husserl

C. J.C. Ransom

D. Michel Foucault

 

List II (Concept)

I. Biopolitics

II Phenomenology

III. Science Fiction Novel

IV. New Criticism

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-1

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

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

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

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Q.119.Match List I with List II

List (Author)

A. Ann Radcliff

B. Oliver Goldsmith

C. Swinburne

D. Lord Byron

 

List II (Work)

I. The Deserted Village

II. The Romance of the Forest

III. The Vision of Judgement

IV. The Sisters

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

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

2. A-III, B-V, C-I, D-II

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

4. A-II, B-1. C-IV, D-III

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.120.Match List I with List II

List 1 (Autobiography)

A. My Second Innings

B. Justice for the Judge: An Autobiography

C. My Country My Life

D. Through the Broken Glass

 

List II (Writer)

I. T.N. Seshan

II. LK Advani

III. Ranjan Gogoi

IV. Shanti Bhushan

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A-III, B-II, C-1, D-IV

2. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-1

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

4. A-I, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.121.Match List I with List II

List (Work)

A. Aadha Gaon (Half a Village)

B. Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire)

C. Sunlight on A Broken Column

D. Basthi

 

List II (Author)

I. Attia Hosain

II. Rahi Masoom Raza

III. Intizar Husain

IV. Qurrutulain Hyder

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-1

2. A-1, B-III, C-II, D-IV

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

4. A-III, B-1,C-IV, D-II

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.122.Match List I with List II

List I (Work)

A. The English Comic Writers

B. Essays Moral and Political

B. The Second Sex

C. The Pleasures of ignorance

 

List II (Author)

I. David Hume

II. William Hazlitt

III. Robert Wesen Lynd

IV. Simone de Beauvoir

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

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

2. A-1, B-III, C-II, D-IV

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

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

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.123.Match List with List II

List 1 (Movie)

A. Kai Po Che !

B. Stumdog Millionaire

B. Magbool

D. Ishaqzaade

 

List II (Inspired by/Adaptation of)

I. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

II. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

III. The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat

IV. Q & A by Vikas Swarup

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

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

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

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

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

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.124.Match List I with List II

List I (Work)

A. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

B. Victor City

C. A Time Outside This Time: A Novel

D. Translating Myself and Others

 

List II (Author)

I. Amitav Kumar

II. Amitav Ghosh

III. Jhumpa Lahin

IV. Salman Rushdie

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

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

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

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

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

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.125.Match List with List II

List 1 (Term/Concept)

A. Malbe ka Malik (“His Heap of Rubble”)

B. Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai (“We Have Arrived in Amritsar”)

C. Jadein (Roots”)

D. Lajwanti

 

List II (Definition)

I. Bhisham Sahni

II. Ismat Chughtai

III. Rajender Singh Bedi

IV. Moan Rakesh

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

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

2. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-1

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

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

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.126.Ananga the following texts chronologically on the basis of their publication

A. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter

B. In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker

C. The Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Imagination by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Guban

3. Sexual Politics by Kate Milett

4. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. ECBDA

2. ECBAD

3. EDBAC

4. EDBCA

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.127.Arrange the following critical texts chronologically on the basis of their publication

A. The Historical Novel (George Lukacs)

B. The New Criticism (TS Eliot)

C. The Business of Criticism (Helen Gardner)

D. The Political Unconscious (Frederic Jameson)

E. Essays on Ideology (Louis Althusser)

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. BEDAC

2. BCADE

3. BCDAE

4. BEADC

Answer:

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Q.128.Arrange the following texts chronologically on the basis of the date of publication:

A. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

B. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

C. Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft

D. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

E. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. CBADE

2. CAEDB

3. CBEAD

4. AEBCD

Answer:

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Q.129.Arrange the following in chronological order of the date/year of publication:

A. J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition

B. Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet

C. Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat

D. Francis Fukuyama’s End of History

E. William Gibson’s Neuromancer

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. CDBAE

2. AEDCB

3. ECDAB

4. DECBA

Answer:

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Q.130.Chronologicaly arrange the following works on literary criticism in order of their publication

A. An Apologie for Poetrie

B. The Art of Rhetorique

C. Preface to Lyrical Ballads

D. Essays in Criticism

E. The Metaphysical Poets

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. EABCD

2. BACDE

3. CDBAE

4. ACEDB

Answer:

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Q.131.Arrange the following philosophers/literary critics of Indian origin, chronologically

A. Bhoja

B. Lollata

C. Udbhata

C. Dandin

E. Bhamah

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. DCBAE

2. EDCBA

3. CABED

4. AECBD

Answer:

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Q.132.Identify the correct order of the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s works

A. Rainbow

B. Kangaroo

C. Women in Love

D. Sons and Lovers

E. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. DEACB

2. BCDEA

3. ABCDE

4. AECBD

Answer:

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Q.133.Choose the correct order of publication of Thomas Carlyle’s works

A. History of the French Revolution

B. Signs of the Times

C. Chartism

D. Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question

E. Heros and Hero Worship

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. DEBCA

2. BACED

3. BCDEA

4. ABCDE

Answer:

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Q.134.Arrange the following literary texts in the chronological sequence

A. Middlemarch

B. The Good Soldier

D. Night and Day

D. A Passage to India

E. Heart of Darkness

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. AEDBC

2. ACDBE

3. ABCDE

4. ADBCE

Answer:

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Q.135.Arrange the following works of V.S. Naipaul in the chronological sequence:

A. A House for Mr. Biswas

B. The Mimic Men

C. The Mystic Masseur

D. Half A Life

E. Magic Seeds

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. ADCBE

2. EBACD

3. CABDE

4. DEACB

Answer:

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Q.136.Given below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R

 

Assertion A. Marxism makes no claim to universality

 

Reason R. Postmodernism jettisons totalizing frameworks

 

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

1. Both A and R are correct and Ris the correct explanation of A

2. Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

3. A is correct but R is not correct

4. A is not correct but R is correct

Answer:

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Q.137.Geen below are statements one stable and the

 

Assertion A: Aphorism is a concise expression of doctrine conveyed in a pithy and memorable statement

 

Reason R: The term ‘aporia’ is gradually applied to any statement generally accepted as true, so that it is now roughly synonymous with maxim.

 

In the light of the above statements choose the more appropriate answer from the options given below

1. Both A and R are correct and Ris the correct explanation of A

2. Both A and R are correct but’s NOT the armed explanation of A

3. A is correct but R is not correct

4. A is not correct but R is correct

Answer:

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Q.138.Given below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R

 

Assertion A- Michel de Montaigne established the term essay as a new literary form in his text Essays

 

Reason R- Francis Bacon is generally considered as the father of English essay

 

In the light of the above statements choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

2. Both A and Rare true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

3. A is true but R is false

4. A is false but R is true

Answer:

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Q.139.Given below are two statements

 

Statement I: Doris Pilkngton’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on the experiences of the Stolen Generation

 

Statement II: Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story deals with coloured or mixed-race protagonists in the backdrop of apartheid

 

In the light of the above statements choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect

3 Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect

3. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

Answer:

Explanation:

 

Q.140.Given below are two statements

 

Statement I: Toni Morrison’s Beloved is based on true story of a black slave woman

 

Statement II: Beloved is a novel about the trauma of apartheid

 

In the light of the above statements, choose the corect answer from the options given below

1. Both Statement I and Statement Il are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer:

Explanation:

 

 

Q.141-145 Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions given below

Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert man can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth, to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plats, that need pruning, by study, and studies themselves do give about them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled water, fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man writes little, he had need have a great memory, if he confers little, he had need have a present wit and if he reads little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Question141. Why should a man read books?

1. To contradict and conflict

2. To weigh and consider

3. To find discourse

4. To take for granted

Answer:

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Q.142.How many categories the author has suggested for the purpose of reading?

1. One

2. Three

3. Four

4. Two

Answer:

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Q.143.What according to the author makes a man wise, witty subtie and morally and philosophically deep?

1. Thinking deep and loud

2. Contemplation

3. Interaction

4. Reading

Answer:

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Q.144.How does reading become perfect?

1. Through personal experience

2. Through social experience

3. Through practical experience

4. Through cultural experience

Answer:

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Q. 145.What are the advantages of studying books?

1. Delight

2. Ornament

3. Ability to success

4. Delight, ornament and ability

Answer:

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Q. 146-150. Comprehension: Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow:

When she rises in the morning

I linger to watch her

She spreads the bath cloth underneath the window

And the sunbeams catch her

Glistening white on the shoulders,

While down her sides the mellow

Golden shadow glows as

She stoops to the sponge, and her swung breasts

Sway like full-blown yellow

Gloire de Dijon roses.

She drips herself with water, and her shoulders

Glisten as silver, they crumble up

Like wet and falling roses, and I listen

For the sluicing of their rain-dishevelled petals.

In the window full of sunlight

Concentrates her golden shadow

Fold on fold, until it glows as

Mellow as the glory roses,

 

Question146. Which dominant rasa is there in the poem?

1. Karuna rasa

2. Adbhuta rasa

3. Shringara rasa

4. Hasya rasa

Answer:

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Q. 147.What is the central symbol in the poem?

1. Woman as morning

2. Woman as rose

3. Shoulders as sodden rose plants

4. Shadow as flower head

Answer:

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Q. 148.What is the woman doing in the poem?

1. She is watching in the looking glass

2. She is peeping out of the window of her room

3. She is taking bath

4. She is collecting roses in the morning

Answer:

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Q. 149.What are the objects which come in contact with the woman’s body?

1. Flower, Sunbeam, Shadow and water

2. Shadow and Sunbeams

3. Sunbeams, Shadow and water

4. Sunbeams, water and flower

Answer:

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Q. 150. The first two lines of the poem…..

1. Act as a framing device for the rest of the poem

2. Give the setting of the poem

3. Have confirmation of life

4. Show unceasing life

Answer:

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