JAMMU & KASHMIR SET ENGLISH 2023

1. Who made the remark that the “unconscious is structured like a language” ?

 

(A) Ferdinand de Saussure

 

(B) Jacques Lacan

 

(C) Sigmund Freud

 

(D) Carl Jung

 

2. Who got the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for her/his debut novel The Sympathizer ?

 

(A) Anthony Doerr

 

(B) Henry Holzer

 

(C) Viet Thanh Nguyen

 

(D) T.C. Boyle

 

3. Who of the following started with the pen name ‘Boz’ earlier in his career ?

 

(A) Thomas Hardy

 

(B) D.H. Lawrence

 

(C) Charles Dickens

 

(D) F. Scot Fitzgerald

 

4. Who is the writer of famous cultural essay ‘Arts of the Contact Zone’ ?

 

(A) Homi Bhabha

 

(B) Jacques Derrida

 

(C) Gayatri Spivak

 

(D) Mary Pratt

 

5. Namita Gokhale won 2021 Sahitya Akademi award for which of her book ?

 

(A) Things to Leave Behind

 

(B) Paro

 

(C) Betrayed By Hope

 

(D) Lost in Time

 

6. Who made the following statement : “The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients ?”

 

(A) Matthew Arnold

 

(B) Samuel Johnson

 

(C) T.S. Eliot

 

(D) Thomas Carlyle

 

7. The term avant garde, taken from French military terminology, in literature means ?

 

(A) Absurd literature

 

(B) Experimental literature

 

(C) Stream of conscious narration

 

(D) A critical tool

 

8. “Return of the margin” is one of the major traits of which literary age ?

 

(A) Postmodern

 

(B) Modern

 

(C) Victorian

 

(D) Romantic

 

9. The father of famous early Indian English poetry Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was of which descent?

 

(A) Portuguese

 

(B) Spanish

 

(C) French

 

(D) English

 

10. Which of the following is an active articulator ?

 

(A) Lower Lip

 

(B) Upper Teeth

 

(C) Soft Palate

 

(D) Alveolar ridge

 

Answer question from 11 to 15 based on the following poem.

 

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,

Let it not be among the jumbled heap

Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep, –

Nature’s observatory – whence the dell,

Its flowery slopes, its river’s crystal swell,

May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep

'Mongst boughs pavillion'd, where the deer's swift leap

Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell.

But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee,

Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,

Whose words are images of thoughts refin'd,

Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be

Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,

When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.

 

11. The poem can be best described as which type of Sonnet ?

 

(A) A Romantic Sonnet

 

(B) A Petrarchan Sonnet

 

(C) A Shakespearean Sonnet

 

(D) A Miltonic Sonnet

 

12. The most appropriate theme of the above poem can be

 

(A) Living in Solitude

 

(B) Pleasures of Nature

 

(C) Unrequited Love

 

(D) Carefree Life

 

13. Who is the poet ?

 

(A) Wyatt and Surrey

 

(B) Edmund Spenser

 

(C) William Shakespeare

 

(D) John Keats

 

14. Which tool out of the following has not been used by the poet in the given poem ?

 

(A) Apostrophe

 

(B) Ekphrasis

 

(C) Juxtaposition

 

(D) Enjambment

 

15. What is the underlying tone of the poem ?

 

(A) Sad but settled

 

(B) Happy and enjoying

 

(C) Pensive and thoughtful

 

(D) Nostalgic and gloomy

 

16. Roderick A. Jacobs and Peter S. Rosenbaum are

 

(A) Critics

 

(B) Dramatists

 

(C) Novelists

 

(D) Linguists

 

17. A bit of land, a woman and a child or two

Accommodated to their needs and changing moods,

Practising a singing and a talking voice

Is all the creed a man of God requires.

The above lines occur in which of the following poems ?

 

(A) Feroza Jussawalla's "The Life and Death of a Death Mask"

 

(B) Keki N. Daruwala's "The Fortified Family"

 

(C) Jayant Mahapatra's "Hunger"

 

(D) Nissim Ezekiel "A Time to Change"

 

18. Who set up the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies ?

 

(A) Stuart Hall

 

(B) Raymond Williams

 

(C) Richard Hoggart

 

(D) Anthony Burgess

 

19. Who said that reality exists outside language, but is constantly mediated by and through language, making the claim that "what we can know and say has to be produced in and through discourse" ?

 

(A) Jacques Lacan

 

(B) Stuart Hall

 

(C) Noam Chomsky

 

(D) Louis Althusser

 

20. Who expanded Saussure's linguistic theories into a full-fledged model of semiology, which he then applied to the use of mythology in culture ?

 

(A) Roland Barthes

 

(B) Claude Levi-Strauss

 

(C) Snoop Dogg

 

(D) Noam Chomsky

 

Read the passage and answer questions from 21 to 25.

 

Harold a professional man who had worked in an office for many years had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug-like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. The people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became the nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Harold suddenly realised that he himself was covered with these things, and he woke up screaming. In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatised for Harold what he had never been able to put into words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired. He later threw off the "security bug" and took up freelance work.

 

21. The passage can be best described as

 

(A) Allegoric

 

(B) Satirical

 

(C) Grotesque

 

(D) Tragic

 

22. In his dream Harold found the loathsome creatures

 

(A) in his village

 

(B) in his own house

 

(C) in an alien land

 

(D) in his office

 

23. Which one of the following phrases best helps to bring out the precise meaning of 'loathsome creatures' ?

 

(A) Security bug and slimy tentacles

 

(B) Fearful dream and slug-like animals

 

(C) Slimy tentacles and slug-like animals

 

(D) Slug-like animals and security bug

 

24. The statement that 'he later threw off the security bug' means that

 

(A) Harold succeeded in overcoming the need for security

 

(B) Harold stopped giving much importance to dreams

 

(C) Harold started tolerating social victimisation

 

(D) Harold killed all the bugs that troubled him

 

25. Harold's dream was fearful because

 

(A) it brought him face to face with reality

 

(B) it was full of vivid pictures of snakes

 

(C) he saw huge elephant in it

 

(D) in it he saw slimy creatures feeding on people's bodies

 

26. In which of the following essays, we find a discussion of an Indian Sati ?

 

(A) Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

 

(B) Nietzsche's "God is Dead"

 

(C) Tasleema Nasrin's "Lajja"

 

(D) Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"

 

27. Based on Renaissance's strain on ideas built around Humanism, of late which of the following theories and praxis have come up in currency ?

 

(A) Post Humanism

 

(B) Digital Humanities

 

(C) Humanitarianism

 

(D) Ecofeminism

 

28. The essay "The Praise of Folly" was written by

 

(A) Thomas Eliot

 

(B) Desiderius Erasmus

 

(C) Richard Tottel

 

(D) Henry Howard

 

29. Who has to his credit the making of the English Dictionary ?

 

(A) Joseph Addison

 

(B) Richard Steele

 

(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson

 

(D) Matthew Arnold

 

30. Who gave the famous Indian ancient concept of Vakrokti ?

 

(A) Abhinav Gupta

 

(B) Vaman

 

(C) Panini

 

(D) Kuntaka

 

31. Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote Descartes's dictum: "I think therefore I am" as "I am not where I think, and I think where I am not" ?

 

(A) Lacan

 

(B) Freud

 

(C) Jung

 

(D) Cixous

 

32. "England for the English and France for the French". The first idea of nationalism in Western hemisphere, gets reflect in which of the following works in English ?

 

(A) Greg Johnson : Towards a New Nationalism

 

(B) Henry James : Bostonians

 

(C) G.B. Shaw : Saint Joan

 

(D) Homi Bhabha : Nation and Narration

 

33. Which of the following best defines "un-rhymed iambic pentameter" ?

 

(A) Free Verse

 

(B) Blank Verse

 

(C) Haiku

 

(D) Ottava Rima

 

34. When words echo the sense, it is called

 

(A) Onomatopoeia

 

(B) Blending

 

(C) Reduplication

 

(D) Conversion

 

35. Who is the winner of Nobel prize in Literature 2021 ?

 

(A) Abdulrazak Gurnah

 

(B) Louise Gluck

 

(C) Peter Handke

 

(D) Olga Tokarczuk

 

36. The novel Six Acres and a Third was originally written in

 

(A) Odia

 

(B) Bangla

 

(C) Asamese

 

(D) Marathi

 

37. Which of the following authors was the winner of prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for a travelogue on river Narmada ?

 

(A) Andrew Schelling

 

(B) Medha Patkar

 

(C) Amritlal Vegad

 

(D) G.N. Devy

 

38. Which of the following Indian Texts is based on the Mahabharata ?

 

(A) Raag Darbari

 

(B) Zindaginama

 

(C) Andha Yug

 

(D) Nachyo Bahut Gopal

 

39. Karnad's Tughlaq is a political Allegory of

 

(A) India's Partition

 

(B) Nehruvian Regime

 

(C) 1971 Indo-Pak war

 

(D) 1977 Emergency

 

40. Which of the following texts is not based on the plight of the tribals ?

 

(A) Ek Chaadar Maili Si

 

(B) Alma Kabutari

 

(C) The Branded

 

(D) Laburnum for My Head

 

41. Name the Artistic movement that originated in Italy in the early 1900's

 

(A) Functionalism

 

(B) Futurism

 

(C) Fundamentalism

 

(D) Formalism

 

42. A style of literature which “integrates a realist mode of writing with fantastical or marvellous events treated as ordinary occurrences” is called

 

(A) Magical Realism

 

(B) Social Realism

 

(C) Expressionism

 

(D) Realism

 

43. IC in structural Linguistics means

 

(A) Intermediate Constituents

 

(B) Immediate Constituents

 

(C) Inconsistent Constituents

 

(D) Incorrect Constituents

 

44. Accusative or the accusative case is the case used for

 

(A) a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some preposition

 

(B) an adjective when it is the direct object of a verb

 

(C) both (A) and (B)

 

(D) none of the above

 

45. The word ‘shines’ in The Sun Shines is

 

(A) Transitive verb

 

(B) Intransitive verb

 

(C) Helping verb

 

(D) Linking verb

 

46. “Literature creates a vision of the object instead of serving as a means for knowing it”. Name the critic who made the above statement.

 

(A) Viktor Shklovsky

 

(B) Osip Brik

 

(C) Vladimir Todorov

 

(D) Mikhail Bhaktin

 

47. The term “Malapropism” takes its origin in one of the characters from

 

(A) The Rivals

 

(B) The School for Scandal

 

(C) The Way of the World

 

(D) The Old Bachelor

 

48. For whom did Dr. Johnson write the following lines ?

 

“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had”.

 

(A) William Shakespeare

 

(B) Ben Jonson

 

(C) Oliver Goldsmith

 

(D) Henry Fielding

 

49. Where do the two characters in Poile Sengupta’s Thus Spake Surpanakha so said Shakuni meet?

 

(A) Bus Stand

 

(B) Hotel

 

(C) Airport

 

(D) Railway station

 

50. Which of the following is not a play by Vijay Tendulkar ?

 

(A) Sakharam Binder

 

(B) Silence the Court is in Session

 

(C) Kamala

 

(D) Final Solutions

 

51. Which play of John Galsworthy depicts how law discriminates between the rich and the poor ?

 

(A) Justice

 

(B) Loyalties

 

(C) The Silver Box

 

(D) Strife

 

52. “Anthropocene” is a term taken from geology and is used frequently in which of the following literary theories ?

 

(A) Feminism

 

(B) Postmodernism

 

(C) Diaspora

 

(D) Ecocriticism

 

53. The term Plagiarism has etymology in

 

(A) Latin Plagiarius meaning kidnapping

 

(B) Greek plagirius meaning stealing

 

(C) Old English plai meaning doing casually

 

(D) German plagus meaning plague or sickness

 

54. The title of Thomas Heywood’s Women Killed with Kindness is taken from which work of Shakespeare ?

 

(A) The Tempest

 

(B) King Lear

 

(C) The Taming of the Shrew

 

(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

55. Which of the following plays is not written by Aphra Behn ?

 

(A) The Dutch Lover

 

(B) The Rover

 

(C) The City Heiress

 

(D) She Would if She Could

 

56. Which of the following text(s) employ(s) more than one narrator ?

 

i. The sound and the fury

 

ii. Kanthapura

 

iii. Whuthering Heights

 

iv. Jude the Obscure

 

(A) i, ii, iii and iv

 

(B) i and iii

 

(C) i and ii

 

(D) i, ii and iii

 

57. Who declared in one of his essays that his purpose is "to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality" ?

 

(A) Francis Bacon

 

(B) Joseph Addison

 

(C) Montaigne

 

(D) Charles Lamb

 

58. Who is the author of the essay "Why I am not a Hindu ?" ?

 

(A) Om Prakash Valmiki

 

(B) Bhagat Singh

 

(C) Kancha Ilaiah

 

(D) B.R. Ambedkar

 

59. Which of the following books was translated by Mahatma Gandhi in Gujarati as Sarvodaya ?

 

(A) Unto this Last

 

(B) War and Peace

 

(C) Gitanjali

 

(D) Sartor Resartus

 

60. The protagonist of Gurdial Singh's Marhi Da Deeva is

 

(A) Bakha

 

(B) Rashida

 

(C) Basheer

 

(D) Jagseer

 

61. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was written by

 

(A) Rober Southey

 

(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

(C) Thomas De Quincey

 

(D) Richard Baxter

 

62. Who among the following used New England as background of his poetic oeuvre ?

 

(A) Robert Burns

 

(B) Seamus Heaney

 

(C) Robert Frost

 

(D) Sylvia Plath

 

63. The term “Negritude” was coined by

 

(A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha

 

(B) Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka

 

(C) Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor

 

(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe

 

64. According to Derrida, what colour is metaphysics ?

 

(A) White

 

(B) Sky

 

(C) Green

 

(D) Black

 

65. Who among the following critics observed that The Faerie Queene is “downright flattery-gross, shameless, lying ?”

 

(A) Dean Church

 

(B) I.A. Richards

 

(C) F.R. Leavis

 

(D) T.S. Eliot

 

66. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?

 

(A) Monica Wittig

 

(B) Helene Cixous

 

(C) Simone De Beauvoir

 

(D) Luce Irigaray

 

67. Philip Sydney’s Defense of Poesy was written in response to

 

(A) Plato’s Republic

 

(B) Horace’s Ars Poetica

 

(C) Aristotle’s Poetics

 

(D) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse

 

68. Who among the following doesn’t belong to the Oxford Group of poets ?

 

(A) Stephen Spender

 

(B) W.B. Yeats

 

(C) W.H. Auden

 

(D) C.D. Lewis

 

69. Which among the following Periodicals was started by Samuel Johnson ?

 

(A) The Tatler

 

(B) The Guardian

 

(C) The Rambler

 

(D) The Review

 

70. Which modern novelist in preface of a novel claims that “The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million” ?

 

(A) Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady

 

(B) James Joyce in Ulysses

 

(C) Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway

 

(D) Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury

 

71. The meaning of the title of Spenser's Epithalmion connotes most appropriately to

 

(A) Engagement

 

(B) Marriage

 

(C) Divorce

 

(D) Sunset

 

72. In which poem by W.B. Yeats do the following lines occur ?

 

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower

 

And Agamemnon dead

 

(A) “Among School Children”

 

(B) “Leda and the Swan”

 

(C) “A Prayer for my Daughter”

 

(D) “Wild Swans at Coole”

 

73. Match the following.

 

i. On his Twenty Third Birthday

 

a. Samuel Johnson

 

ii. Vanity of Human Wishes

 

b. John Dryden

 

iii. The Deserted Village

 

c. Oliver Goldsmith

 

iv. Shadwell

 

d. John Milton

 

(A) i-a, ii-c, iii-d, iv-b

 

(B) i-b, ii-c, iii-a, iv-d

 

(C) i-d, ii-a, iii-c, iv-b

 

(D) i-a, ii-b, iii-c, iv-d

 

74. Which poem opens on the line “Let us go then, you and I” ?

 

(A) “Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

 

(B) “The Last Ride Together”

 

(C) “Love poem for a wife”

 

(D) “The waste land”

 

75. Which character from Prologue to Canterbury Tales is being described in the following line ?

 

“That if gold ruste, what shall iren doo ?”

 

(A) Monk

 

(B) Ploughman

 

(C) Parson

 

(D) The wife of Bath

 

76. “It’s certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat,” Who was the poet blamed as misogynist because he wrote the above quoted lines in one of his most successful poem ?

 

(A) John Keats

 

(B) W. B. Yeats

 

(C) W. H. Auden

 

(D) John Donne

 

77. In which of the following plays there is a reference of “Unicorn” ?

 

(A) Ionesco’s Chairs

 

(B) Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie

 

(C) Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story

 

(D) Arthur Miller’s After the Fall

 

78. A short story titled “A Very Short Story” has been written by which of the following writers ?

 

(A) W. Somerset Maugham

 

(B) Guy De Maupassant

 

(C) Anton Chekhov

 

(D) Ernest Hemingway

 

79. Which is the latest edition of MLA style sheet, use for formatting, citation and other research writing in English Language and Literature ?

 

(A) 10th

 

(B) 9th

 

(C) 8th

 

(D) 7th

 

80. Which of the following is the accepted standard dictionary for Received Pronunciation (RP) English ?

 

(A) A.S. Hornby’s Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

 

(B) Cambridge’s Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

 

(C) Daniel Jone’s English Pronouncing Dictionary

 

(D) Macmillan Queen’s English Pronunciation Dictionary

 

81. “O wind ! if winter comes, can spring be far behind” is an example of

 

(A) Synecdoche

 

(B) Metonymy

 

(C) Rhetorical Question

 

(D) Personification

 

82. The term ‘Ecological Imperialism’ was coined by

 

(A) Vandana Shiva

 

(B) Laurence Buell

 

(C) Paulo Freire

 

(D) Alfred Crosby

 

83. I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees

 

Above lines occur in which of the following poems ?

 

(A) Robert Burns “A Red, Red Rose”

 

(B) John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”

 

(C) Robert Browning “The Last Ride Together”

 

(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

 

84. The term ‘American Renaissance’ was first used by

 

(A) Leo Marx

 

(B) Richard Chase

 

(C) R.W. B. Lewis

 

(D) F.O. Matthiessen

 

85. Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends, Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Who is being described in the above lines ?

 

(A) Portia in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"

 

(B) Fanny Browne in Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

 

(C) Belinda in Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"

 

(D) Maud Gonne in Yeats "A Prayer for My Daughter"

 

86. IC analysis is typically analytic and was evolved to find out the basic

 

(A) Linguistic Units

 

(B) Phonemic Units

 

(C) Structural Units

 

(D) Traditional Units

 

87. The Author of The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory is

 

(A) Zellig Harris

 

(B) Noam Chomsky

 

(C) B.F. Skinner

 

(D) Robert Lees

 

88. Which of the following is not a prosodic feature ?

 

(A) Stress

 

(B) Pitch

 

(C) Intonation

 

(D) Noun Clause

 

89. Stress the intensity or prominence is given to a

 

(A) Phase

 

(B) Clause

 

(C) Word

 

(D) Syllable

 

90. Positional variants of Phonemes are known as

 

(A) Morphemes

 

(B) Allophones

 

(C) Vowels

 

(D) Consonants

 

91. The term "Diaspora" has been brought into Literary/Cultural studies from the domain of

 

(A) Botany

 

(B) Zoology

 

(C) Physics

 

(D) Chemistry

 

92. Hemingway's famous novel The Old Man and the Sea is Set in

 

(A) Italy

 

(B) Cuba

 

(C) Spain

 

(D) Austria

 

93. John Osborne's Look Back in Anger is set in

 

(A) Multi-storey building

 

(B) Beach-house

 

(C) One-room attic apartment

 

(D) Studio apartment

 

94. "Cross the Border, Close the Gap" is the title of

 

(A) Novel

 

(B) Poem

 

(C) Critical Essay

 

(D) Drama

 

95. "Deconstruction" is specifically (not generally) a tool of

 

(A) Structuralism

 

(B) Poststructuralism

 

(C) Postcolonialism

 

(D) Feminism

 

96. Which of the following stanza forms uses an alexandrine ?

 

(A) Chaucerian Stanza

 

(B) Spenserian Stanza

 

(C) Royal Rima

 

(D) Terza Rima

 

97. Which of the following titles is taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ?

 

(A) Jhumpa Lahiri's The Unaccustomed Earth

 

(B) Monika Ali's Brick Lane

 

(C) Khalid Hosseini's The Kite Runner

 

(D) Chinna Achebe's Things Fall Apart

 

98. Which Novel is not written by Manju Kapur ?

 

(A) The Married Women

 

(B) Difficult Daughters

 

(C) Custody

 

(D) The Binding Vine

 

99. In which novel do we come across the following opening line ? "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... ?"

 

(A) Hard Times

 

(B) A Tale of Two Cities

 

(C) Oliver Twist

 

(D) Great Expectations

 

100. Which of these novels does not reflect partition of India ?

 

(A) Train to Pakistan

 

(B) A Bend in the Ganges

 

(C) The Shadow Lines

 

(D) Nectar in a Sieve