JAMMU & KASHMIR SET ENGLISH -2024

1. According to the Orientalists, the expression 'learned natives' could mean persons cultivating knowledge of language and literature in ............ .

(A) English, Sanskrit and Persian

(B) English, Sanskrit and Arabic

(D) Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic

2. The Nutbrown Maid and Chevy Chase are the most popular ...dating from the Fifteenth Century.

(A) Sonnets

(B) Elegy

(D) Ballads

3. Which of the following type of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

(A) Nonsense

(B) Epics

(D) Nature

4. All of the following together drafted the first blueprint on English education except ............ .

(A) William Wilberforce

(B) Thomas Macaulay

(D) Charles Grant

5. Charles Grant's support for English education in India was influenced by his belief that it would :

(A) Preserve traditional Indian languages

(B) Facilitate cultural assimilation

(D) Strengthen the Indian independence movement

6. Which one from the following is an allegorical novella by Salman Rushdie?

(A) Moor's Last Sigh

(B) Satanic Verses

(D) Luka and the Fire of Life

7. Which of the following novels was not written by Chinua Achebe?

(A) Things Fall Apart

(B) Arrow of God

(D) No Longer at Ease

8. Who is the author of the book titled "The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom"?

(A) Jean Piaget

(B) Stephen Krashen

(D) Noam Chomsky

9. General Service List of English words, 1953 was compiled by ............ .

(A) Michael West

(B) Michael Halliday

(D) Larry West

10. Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase "To make the stones stonier"?

(A) Humanism

(B) Formalism

(D) Poststructuralism

11. The following is a list of key critical terms. What is the right chronological order of their formulation ?

(A) Langue- the unconscious- difference- heresy of paraphrase

(B) The unconscious- langue- heresy of paraphrase-difference

(D) Langue-differance- the unconscious- heresy of paraphrase

12. What is common in Levi-Strauss, Foucault and Kristeva?

(A) They were key practitioners of semiotics and structuralism

(B) They exposed Lacan's theory of language

(D) They were all born in Bulgaria

13. Louis Althusser's essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" is found in his book titled ............ .

(A) For Marx

(B) On the Reproduction of Capitalism

(D) Essays in Self-criticism

14. In the Indian Literary theory, what refers to a suggested or implied meaning of Literature?

(A) Vakrokti

(B) Dhvani

(D) Abhidha

15. Who among the following proposed that the English language is "man made", not "woman made"?

(A) Mary Haas

(B) Dorothy L. Sayers

(D) Carol Chomsky

16. ............ wrote 'We all – all of us readers – come after theory.'

(A) Jonathan Bate

(B) Valentine Cunningham

(D) Fredric Jameson

17. "By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness" This occurs in:

(A) On the Principle of Utility

(B) El Panoptico

(D) John von Neumann

18. In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them represents Dryden's views?

(A) Neander

(B) Lisideius

(D) Crites

19. Why does Walter Benjamin write: “Kafka is the figure of failure”?

Choose the incorrect answer:

(A) Kafka explores themes of alienation and absurdity

(B) Kafka reflects the difficulties and challenges of modern life

(D) Kafka fails as a writer

20. According to Coleridge, Esemplastic imagination has the ability:

(A) To create and visualize mental images

(B) To construct and follow narratives

(D) To mentally manipulate objects

21. Who made the distinction between Mimesis and Diegesis?

(A) Plato

(B) Robert Taylor

(D) Socrates

22. Juliana, Elene, Christ, and The Fates of the Apostles are poems of the :

(A) The Cynewulf Group

(B) The Elegies

(D) Beowulf

23. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List-I

P.The Vision of Piers the Plowman

Q. Holy Sonnets

R. Hudibras

S. The Everlasting Gospel

List-II

(i) Samuel Butler

(ii)| William Blake

(iii)| William Langland

(iv) John Donne

Code : P Q R S

(A) (ii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

24. Which of the following expressions does not appear in the Introduction to Tennyson’s *In Memoriam*?

(A) Let knowledge grow from more to more

(B) Strong son of God, immortal love

(D) Thy roots are waft about the bones

25. Almost the whole of the Modern English Poetry has been dominated by:

(A) Iambic hexameter

(B) Iambic tetrameter

(D) Iambic heptameter

26. Alexander Pope completed his translation of ............ in 1720.

(A) *Iliad*

(B) *Odyssey*

(D) *Telegony*

27. Malcolm Bradbury's *The History Man* is a .................... novel.

(A) Sci-Fi

(B) Graphic

(D) Campus

28. Which of the following novels opens with these lines?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

(A) Waverley

(B) The Waves

(D) Pride and Prejudice

29. Which of the following novels does not have epistolary form of narrative at all ?

(A) Brave New World

(B) Carrie

(D) The White Tiger

30. The character 'Azaro' appears in the work by which author?

(A) Gunter Grass

(B) Chinua Achebe

(D) Ngugi wa Thiong'o

31. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code:

(i) Great Expectations

(ii) Hard Times

(iii) Bleak House

(iv) A Tale of Two Cities

Code :

(A) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i)

(B) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)

(D) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)

32. .................... gave the idea of three concentric circles of the spread and use of English.

(A) M.L. Tickoo

(B) N.S. Prabhu

(D) B.B. Kachru

33. The Swiss linguist who gave the terms 'Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic' is ............ .

(A) Karl Jaberg

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(D) Roman Jakobson

34. Variants of the same sound that occur in contrastive or free distribution, are called .................... .

(A) Phones

(B) Phonemes

(D) Phonemic

35. Where do you find the following statement?

"He had all the wrong dream... He never knew who he was".

(A) Arthur Miller's *Death of a Salesman*

(B) Tennessee Williams' *The Glass Menagerie*

(D) Eugene O'Neill's *The Hairy Ape*

36. Lady Wishfort is a character whom Mirabell deceives into believing that he loves her. She appears in William Congreve's play :

(A) The Way of the World

(B) Love for Love

(D) The Double Dealer

37. The 'Theatre of Cruelty' was founded by Antonin Artaud in ............ .

(A) 1935

(B) 1932

(D) 1933

38. The Three Language Formula was introduced by the Indian Parliament in .................... .

(A) 1947

(B) 1962

(D) 1968

39. Which among the following is the major argument of Lyotard's essay "Defining the Postmodern"?

(A) Incredulity towards the metanarratives

(B) Metanarratives are grand narratives

(D) Language is not a mirror of nature

40. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List-I

P. Post-structuralist psychoanalysis

Q. Hegemony

R. Metafiction

S. Hybridity

List-II

(i) Linda Hutcheon

(ii) Jacques Lacan

(iii) Antonio Gramsci

(iv) Homi Bhabha

Code : P Q R S

(A) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (i) |

(B) | (i) | (iii) | (iv) | (ii) |

(D) | (ii) | (iv) | (i) | (iii) |

41. When a student learns a second language at the expense of their first language, it is called ............ bilingualism.

(A) Co-ordinated

(B) Compound

(D) Additive

42. Who is known as the father of Modern education in India?

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Thomas Macaulay

(D) Charles Grant

43. Who among the following playwrights recreates the life of the Yurba Community?

(A) Derek Walcott

(B) Chinua Achebe

(D) Wole Soyinka

44. Which of the plays by Habib Tanvir won the Fringe Firsts Award at Edinburgh International Drama Festival in 1982 and in the Hindustan Times list of India's 60 Best works since Independence ?

(A) Charandas Chor

(B) Agra Bazar

(D) Gaon Ke Naon Sasural, Mor Naon Damaad

45. Which of the following is not an example of closet drama?

(A) Milton's Samson Agonistes

(B) Byron's Manfred

(D) Hyperion

46. Who is the author of the book "An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India"?

(A) Pankaj Mishra

(B) Arundhati Roy

(D) Romila Thapar

47. Who is the author of the book Rethinking English: Essays in Literature, Language, History?

(A) Svati Joshi

(B) P. Lal

(D) Gopi Kattoor

48. The meter adopted in the poem is ............

(A) Blank verse

(B) Iambic pentameter

(D) Iambic tetrameter

49. The above poem follows the structure of ............

(A) Petrarchan sonnet

(B) Shakespearean sonnet

(D) Spenserian sonnet

50. The literary device used in the line "And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet" is ............

(A) Parallelism

(B) Metaphor

(D) Simile

51. The poem deals with all the following ideas except ............

(A) Critiquing chaining of Andromeda

(B) Lamenting the death of originality in poetry

(D) An appeal for freedom of thought and expression in writing sonnets

52. Which of the following theorists is associated with defamiliarization?

(A) Viktor Shklovsky

(B) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Judith Butler

53. "Post-structuralist seeks to show that the text is characterized by disunity rather than unity". ........ made this statement.

(A) David Lodge

(B) Peter Barry

(D) M.H. Abrams

54. Literary Labs may serve as a paradigm case for:

(A) Health humanities

(B) Digital humanities

(D) Computational stylistics

55. "Blues Geographies' is a complex mapping of Afro-American literary, artistic and theoretical culture". Who do we owe the term blues geographies?

(A) Houston A. Baker Jr.

(B) Sandra Adell

(D) Michael Holquist

56. Which was the first novel of Thomas Hardy published in 1871?

(A) The Return of the Native

(B) Desperate Remedies

(D) Return of the Native

57. What does CALL stand for?

(A) Computerized Advanced Language Learning

(B) Computer Assisted Language Learning

(D) Computer Associated Language Learning

58. Which of the following are the three factors that greatly influenced the notion of 'Indian English':

(i) Nationalist sentiments that favoured linguistic nationalism and the recognition for our variety of English.

(ii) The strong justification of a distinctive variety of English advocated and used by Indian Litterateurs.

(iii) The growth of structural linguistics and its branch, dialectology, which supported the notion that dialects should also be given recognition.

(iv) The growing number of users of English in India and their desire to get it recognized by the West.

Code :

(A) (i), (ii), (iii)

(B) (i), (ii), (iv)

(D) (ii), (iii), (iv)

59. Two figures of special importance to the emergence of queer theory are:

(A) Monique Wittig and Catharine Stimpson

(B) Mandy Merck and Bonnie Zimmerman

(D) Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

60. The concept of 'compulsory heterosexuality' was first articulated by:

(A) Gayle Rubin

(B) Judith Butler

(D) Gloria Anzaldúa

61. Who is the author of the novel *The Name of the Rose*?

(A) Italo Calvino

(B) Thomas Pynchon

(D) Umberto Eco

62. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List-I

P. Mrs. Morel

Q. Casaubon

R. Becky Sharp

S. John Yossarian

List-II

(i) Middlemarch

(ii) Sons and Lovers

(iii) Catch-22

(iv) Vanity Fair

Code : P Q R S

(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)

63. Who wrote the first Gothic novel?

(A) Mary Shelley

(B) P. B. Shelley

(D) Jane Austen

64. ............ is NOT written by Edward Said.

(A) Location of Culture

(B) Orientalism

(D) Culture and Imperialism

65. Areopagitica, the most significant plea in English for the freedom of the press has been written by ............ .

(A) John Milton

(B) Francis Bacon

(D) Thomas More

66. Who is the author of *On Translating Homer* (1861)?

(A) John Dryden

(B) Matthew Arnold

(D) Walter Pater

67. The *Journal to Stella* and *Drapier's Letters* were written by :

(A) Samuel Johnson

(B) Jonathan Swift

(D) Richard Steele

68. Which of these statement is not true about Francis Bacon's *The New Atlantis*?

(A) It is written in simple prose

(B) It is inspired by the happy and informal intimacy of Montaigne

(D) It is an unfinished narrative

69. In which century Biography and Autobiography established new traditions . This was the time when Lytton Strachey lived and wrote :

(A) The Seventeenth Century

(B) The Eighteenth Century

(D) The Twentieth Century

70. Whose device of logic has been rejected by Bacon in *Novum Organum*?

(A) Aristotle

(B) Plato

(D) Socrates

71. The name “Cultural Studies” derives from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCS) in 1972. Where was the centre located?

(A) University of Birmingham

(B) University of Edinburgh

(D) University of Manchester

72. Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist and educationist is one of the most prominent exponents of :

(A) American Cultural Studies

(B) Australian Cultural Studies

(D) South Asian Cultural Studies

73. The concept of ‘culture industry’ was introduced by ............ .

(A) Stuart Hall

(B) F.R Leavis and T.S. Eliot

(D) Tony Bennet

74. The theory of cultural consumption as involving simulation was proposed by ............ .

(A) Stephen Greenblatt

(B) Pierre Bourdieu

(D) Jean Baudrillard

75. MLA is a referencing method developed by ............ .

(A) The Modern Literary Association

(B) The Modern Language Association

(D) The Modern Library Association

76. Which among the following is not a type of qualitative research?

(A) Ethnography

(B) Grounded Theory

(D) Experimental Research

77. Of the five conditions of the Sublime, according to Longinus, the most important condition is :

(A) Vigorous treatment of passions

(B) Majesty of the structure

(D) A wide range of thoughts

78. “Heteroglossia” refers to ............ .

(A) The multiple readings of a text

(B) The juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text

(D) The commentary relating to a text

79. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (a) and the other labelled as Reason (r). Read the statements and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

**Assertion (a):** Some basic computational and statistical procedures and techniques may be useful for literary Research.

**Reason (r):** The virtual absence of statistical techniques and quantitative methods must be avoided.

(A) Both (a) and (r) are true and (r) is correct explanation of (a).

(B) Both (a) and (r) are true but (r) is not correct explanation of (a).

(D) (a) is false, but (r) is true.

80. Which among the following plays has not been written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o?

(A) *Devil on the Cross*

(B) *Weep Not, Child*

(D) *The Lion and the Jewel*

81. About which British dramatist Goethe made the following observation:

“I do not remember that any book or person or event in my life ever made so great an impression upon me as the plays”

(A) John Webster

(B) John Dryden

(D) William Shakespeare

82. Tom Stoppard's *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* (1967) makes an attempt to show the 'true' story of two minor characters from Shakespeare's play. Select the play among the following :

(A) *Macbeth*

(B) *King Lear*

(D) *Othello*

83. *Halfway House* is a ............ play translated into English.

(A) Gujarati

(B) Marathi

(D) Hindi

84. "It was a dark and stormy night" is a famous opening line from which Bulwer-Lytton novel?

(A) *The Last Days of Pompeii*

(B) *Paul Clifford*

(D) *Zanoni*

85. Mystery plays deal with ............

(A) The life and deeds of Saints

(B) Biblical Themes

(D) Moral Values

86. Abbey Theatre had been founded by W.B. Yeats in association with ............

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Sean O' Casey

(D) John Millington Synge

87. Shakespeare's *Antony and Cleopatra* has been adapted by John Dryden as :

(A) *All for Love*

(B) *The Indian Queen*

(D) *Oedipus*

88. Who among the following may be called as the greatest Shakespeare's predecessors?

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) Thomas Kyd

(D) Robert Greene

89. For collecting data in respect of attitude of school teachers towards the new curriculum, which of the following scales will use summated rating scores as an indicator?

(A) Thurstone scale

(B) Guttman scale

(D) Likert scale

90. What is the purpose of theory building?

(A) Survey research

(B) Applied research

(D) Fundamental research

91. Which one of the following purpose demand action research ?

(A) Developing theory

(B) Writing a thesis

(D) Testing a theory

92. Given below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (a) and the other is labelled as Reason (r) :

**Assertion (a)**: Many modern British writers infused their works with an entrance sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.

**Reason (r)**: The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.

In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:

(A) Both (a) and (r) are true and (r) is the correct explanation of (a).

(B) Both (a) and (r) are true but (r) is not the correct explanation of (a).

(D) (a) is false, but (r) is true.

93. Identify the journal which was first published in 1701 featuring 'cultivated essays on contemporary manners and society' :

(A) Spectator

(B) The Tatler

(D) Citizen of the World

94. The autobiography published in 1969 that deals with identity, rape, racism and literature of women's lives in a male-dominated society is :

(A) *Betsey Brown* by Ntozake Shange

(B) *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* by Maya Angelou

(D) *Playing in the Dark* by Toni Morrison

95. Which theory basis its core on the dictum "an author attains posterity only by killing himself"?

(A) Postmodernism

(B) Reader Response Criticism

(D) Structuralism

96. ............ is the author of *Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives*.

(A) Sudha Murthy

(B) Rashmi Bansal

(D) Anju Saha

97. *Fighter ki Diary* by Maitreyi Pushpa presents the first person narratives of :

(A) A Dalit Women

(B) A Tribal Women

(D) Women in Prison

98. The prose of the Authorised Version of the Bible has a great influence on the ...century prose.

(A) Seventeen

(B) Fifteen

(D) Eighteen

99. Who is the author of the "Turkish Embassy Letters"?

(A) Margery Kempe

(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(D) Marianne North

100. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List-I

(Official Name of the Commission)

P. The University Education Commission, 1948-49

Q. The Secondary Education Commission, 1952-53

R. The Education Commission

S. The Study Group Report on the Teaching of English, 1969-71

List-II

(Popular Name of the Commission)

(i) The Gokak Committee Report

(ii) The Kothari Commission

(iii) The Mudaliar Commission

(iv) The Radhakrishnan Commission

Code : P Q R S

(A) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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