GUJARATH SET ENGLISH NOVEMBER 2025
Q.1 In "The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock", the narrator is best described as
(A) A confident romantic hero
(B) A rebellious, self-conscious
leader
(C) An anxious, self-conscious
modern man
(D) A war-hardened soldier
Q.2 Who said to Sarojini Naidu,
"Do you know, I feel that an abiding sadness underlies all that unfailing
brightness of yours"?
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Tagore
(C) Edmund Gosse
(D) Aurobindo
Q.3 To which of the poems do the
following lines belong?
"When the stars threw down
their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to
see"?
(A) "The Daffodils"
(B) "The Tyger"
(C) "Kubla Khan"
(D) "Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard"
Q.4 In the Preface to Lyrical
Ballads, Wordsworth argues that poetry should be written in
(A) Highly ornate and classical
language
(B) Everyday language of common
people
(C) Formal diction of the aristocracy
(D) Experimental and fragmented
syntax
Q.5 In which year was Arun
Kolatkar's poem, Jejuri published?
(A) 1974
(B) 1964
(C) 1976
(D) 1980
Q.6 Which of the following can be
considered as the most significant characteristic of the Romantic Age?
(A) Emphasis on reason and satire
(B) Celebration of nature, emotion
and imagination
(C) Focus on industrial and social
realism
(D) Use of fragmented narrative
structures
Q.7 Which of the following poems
was NOT written by Algernon Charles Swinburne?
(A) "A Leaven Taking"
(B) "A Forsaken Garden"
(C) "Summer Dawn"
(D) "The Garden of
Proserpine"
Q.8 What is the primary theme of
Horace's "The Wife of Balbus" Tale?
(A) The importance of chivalry
(B) The power of fate
(C) Women's mastery over men
(D) The dangers of greed
Q.9 The final section of T. S.
Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" is named as
(A) The Burial of the Dead
(B) A Game of Chess
(C) The Fire Sermon
(D) What the Thunder Said
Q.10 To which of the following
literary styles does Piers Plowman belong?
(A) Heroic couplets
(B) Alliterative verse
(C) Blank verse
(D) Sonnet sequence
Q.11 Ben Jonson's Every Man in His
Humour is set in ………….
(A) London
(B) Somerset
(C) Florence
(D) Venice
Q.12 ……………….. is NOT a
post-Shakespearean dramatist.
(A) George Chapman
(B) John Webster
(C) James Shirley
(D) Christopher Marlowe
Q.13 Kitchen-sink drama blends
naturalism with
(A) A state of political affairs
(B) Lack of ethics
(C) A state of mind
(D) Lack of education
Q.14 Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's
House Catiline deals with
(A) Political freedom
(B) Social rights
(C) Cultural rights
(D) Personal freedom
Q.15 The text Complete Plays of
Bhasa, was translated from Sanskrit into English by
(A) K. P. A. Menon
(B) W. H. Wilson
(C) Hindey Mangeshkar
(D) K. P. S. Srinivasa Iyengar
Q.16 Which of the following is NOT
written by Samuel Beckett?
(A) Waiting for Godot
(B) Endgame
(C) Largo Desolato
(D) Malone Dies
Q.17. Who among the following is a
renowned American dramatist?
(A) William Faulkner
(B) Eugine O'Neill
(C) Thomas Wolfe
(D) John Steinbeck
Q.18. Who is the author of the
book The English Folk Play?
(A) J. C. Dick
(B) Cecil J. Sharp
(C) Edmund K. Chambers
(D) Vladimir Propp
Q.19. Mrs. Malaprop, on whose name
the term 'malapropism' came into literary discussions, occurs in the comedy
(A) A School for Scandal
(B) The Rivals
(C) The Country Wife
(D) The Way of the World
Q.20. The emergence of 'the comedy
of manners' can be historically arranged as
1. Menander
2. Aristophanes
3. Plautus
4. Congreve
(A) 2-1-3-4
(B) 1-2-3-4
(C) 3-1-2-4
(D) 2-3-1-4
Q.21. Which of the following
novels by D.H. Lawrence speaks about Mexican life and typically emphasizes on
the values of the primitive as opposed to the civilized?
(A) Women in Love
(B) Sons and Lovers
(C) The Plumed Serpent
(D) Lady Chatterley's Lover
Q.22. What is the central theme of
Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope?
(A) The political struggles of
colonial India
(B) The pursuit of spiritual truth
and the clash of Eastern and Western traditions
(C) The life of a warrior in
medieval India
(D) A detective's journey to solve
a mystery
Q.23. How many years did James
Joyce take to complete his novel Finnegan's Wake?
(A) Five years
(C) Ten years
(B) Seven years
(D) Fifteen years
Q24 What makes Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn significant in American literature?
(A) It was the first book written
for children.
(B) It introduced realism through
dialect and social criticism.
(C) It glorified the Southern
plantation lifestyle.
(D) It primarily focused on comic
adventures.
Q.25 Which among the following
novels portrays the character of Squire Alworthy?
(A) Tom Jones
(B) Amelia
(C) Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela
Q.26 What drives Raskolnikov to
commit murder in Crime and Punishment?
(A) Jealousy over a lover
(B) Desire for revenge
(C) A philosophical belief in the
"extraordinary man" theory
(D) Pressure from criminal
associates
Q.27 My Animal Life is a memoir
written by
(A) Ken Follett
(B) Maggie Mary Gee
(C) J K Rowling
(D) Neil Gaiman
Q.28 What is the subtitle of
Frances Burney's famous novel Evelina?
(A) The History of a Young Lady's
Entrance into the World
(B) Virtue Rewarded
(C) The Sorrows of Young Werther
(D) Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Q.29 Which pair amongst the
following is incorrect?
(A) J. R. R. Tolkien and The
Hobbit
(B) H. P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu
Mythos
(C) C. S. Lewis and The Chronicles
of Narnia
(D) Isaac Asimov and A Song of Ice
and Fire
Q.30 Which of the following major
themes does Margaret Atwood's Surfacing explore?
(A) Colonial conquest and violence
(B) The loss of personal and
national identity
(C) Artificial intelligence
(D) Urban alienation
Q.31 The first complete version of
the Bible in English by Wycliffe was released in the year
(A) 1325
(B) 1335
(C) 1382
(D) 1395
Q32 Who claimed that he “brought
philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in
clubs, assemblies, at tables and coffee-houses?
(A) Joseph Addison
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Charles Lamb
Q.33 Sir Richard Steele did NOT
himself start
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The London Gazette
(D) The Guardian
Q.34 Which of the following
literary genre deals primarily NOT with the author's developing self but with
the people and events known and witnessed by him?
(A) Autobiography
(B) Memoir
(C) Diary
(D) Journal
Q.35 Which of the following
countries is described in V. S. Naipaul's travelogue, Among the Believers?
(A) India
(B) Saudi Arabia
(C) Indonesia
(D) Egypt
Q.36 Nirad C Chaudhuri’s The
Continent of Circe refers to
1. China
2. India
3. Iran
4. England
Q.37 M C Chagla’s autobiography
Roses in December does NOT narrate about his role as ________
1. A Judge
2. A diplomat
3. A Journalist
4. A political activist
Q.38 Salaman Rashdie has written
his memoir Joseph Anton in
1. Third person narrative
2. First person narrative
3. Partly in first and partly in
the third person narrative
4. Neither in first nor in the
third person narrative.
Q.39 Which of the following titles
is most commonly associated with Sarojini Naidu?
(A) The Iron Lady of India
(B) The Nightingale of India
(C) The Queen of Indian Literature
(D) The Voice of Indian Revolution
Q.40. Irving Stone's Lust for Life
is a biographical narrative based on the life of
(A) Michaelangelo
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Vincent Van Gogh
(D) John Noble
Q.41. Which British administrator
passed the resolution to "promote European literature and science among
the natives of India"?
(A) Lord Hastings
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Bentinck
(D) Lord Hardinge
Q.42. In which year did Thomas
Macaulay present his famous Minutes on Education, advocating English education
in India?
(A) 1825
(B) 1835
(C) 1854
(D) 1882
Q.43. What was known as
"Butler English"?
(A) A dialect of Anglo-Indians
(B) Pidgin English spoken by South
Asians in Europe
(C) Pidgin-like English that
emerged in Madras Presidency during colonial times
(D) Any non-grammatical English
variety used by servants
Q.44. Which language replaced
Persian as the official language of the East India Company in 1835?
(A) Arabic
(C) English
(B) Urdu
(D) Hindi
Q.45. Which dance-drama written by
Rabindranath Tagore in 1938 addresses the issues of caste discrimination
through a Buddhist legend?
(A) Tiger-Claw
(B) Chandalika
(C) A Touch of Brightness
(D) Image Breakers
Q.46. Which Indian English novel,
as per Meenakshi Mukherjee, was written for the colonial administrator and a
British readership?
(A) Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
(B) The Great Indian Novel by
Shashi Tharoor
(C) Early Indian English novels
such as Rajmohan's Wife
(D) A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin
Bond
Q.47. Who wrote Bianca Or The
Young Spanish Maiden?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Toru Dutt
(C) Ruth Prawar Jhabvala
(D) Kamala Markandaya
Q.48. Which author translated the
entire Mahabharata into English, a unique feat for an Indian translator?
(A) A. K. Ramanujan
(B) Kisari Mohan Ganguli
(C) P. Lal
(D) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Q.49. Which autobiography begins
with, "I was born à Dalit and shall die a Dalit"?
(A) Baluta
(B) Karukku
(C) Joothan
(D) The Prisons We Broke
Q.50. Who wrote the short story
(originally in Telegu) titled Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small
Basket, But.....?
(A) Bama
(C) Urmila Pawar
(B) Gogu Shyamala
(D) Meena Kandasamy
Q.51 “Morpheme” refers to
(A) The smallest unit of sound
(B) The smallest meaningful unit
of grammar
(C) A type of sentence structure
(D) A part of speech
Q.52 Which one of the following is
a diphthong?
(A) /i:/
(B) /æ/
(C) /ai/
(D) /t/
Q.53 Who coined the terms
“competence” and “performance” in linguistics?
(A) Ferdinand de Saussure
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Roman Jakobson
(D) Harold Barnes
Q.54 According to Vygotsky,
learning occurs most effectively in the
(A) Zone of Proximal Development
(B) Critical period
(C) Silent period
(D) Language Acquisition Device
Q.55 Which method uses L1 as a
bridge to teach L2?
(A) Direct Method
(B) Grammar-Translation Method
(C) Audio-Lingual Method
(D) Natural Approach
Q.56 Who proposed the Monitor
Model in Second Language Learning?
(A) Stephen Krashen
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) B. F. Skinner
(D) Jim Cummins
Q.57 Interlanguage is a state in
which the learner
(A) Knows only the native language
(B) Has fully learnt the target
language
(C) Is in a dynamic and
transitional state between L1 and L2
(D) Has learnt a fictional dialect
Q.58 Which learning theory
emphasizes imitation and reinforcement in language learning?
(A) Nativist
(B) Behaviorist
(C) Interactionist
(D) Constructivist
Q.59 Functionalism in linguistics
is primarily concerned with
(A) The classification of
languages into families
(B) The historical development of
languages
(C) How language is used in
real-life communication
(D) The innate structures
governing language use
Q.60 Which of the following best
exemplifies a perlocutionary act?
(A) A command given by a teacher
(B) The speaker stating a fact
(C) The listener's reaction to a
command
(D) The speaker's formulation of a
request
Q.61 Who among the following is
NOT associated with the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies?
(A) Stuart Hall
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Richard Johnson
(D) Pierre Bourdieu
Q.62 With which theorist is the
term "hegemony" in Cultural Studies most closely associated?
(A) Antonio Gramsci
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Louis Althusser
Q.63 The author of Totalitarian
Culture is
(A) Paul Willis
(B) Richard Johnson
(C) Angela McRobbie
(D) Raymond Williams
Q.64 What brought Knowledge and
Intellectual Labour into limelight and established the notion of culture as the
improvement of the individual’s mind through education?
(A) Industrial Revolution
(B) Enlightenment Movement
(C) Anti-colonial Movement
(D) French Revolution
Q.65 Paul Gilroy's famous book is
(A) Tensions, Anxieties and
Cultural Studies
(B) The Evil of No Black in the
Union Jack
(C) The Feminist, the Housewife
and the Soap Opera
(D) Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars
and Society
Q.66 Cultural hybridity is a
consequence of
(A) Global terrorism
(B) Economic imperialism
(C) Global communication
(D) Economic disparity
Q.67 The term 'culture industry'
was coined by
(A) Gilles Deleuze and Felix
Guattari
(B) Michel Foucault and Jacques
Derrida
(C) Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy
(D) Max Horkheimer and Theodore
Adorno
Q.68 Introducing Cultural Studies
is authored by
(A) Ziauddin Sardar
(B) Arther Bitat
(C) Andrew Edgar
(D) Lawrence Grossberg
Q.69 What does 'encoding/decoding'
refer to in Culture Studies?
(A) Literary techniques
(B) Media production processes
(C) Mode of communication proposed
by Stuart Hall
(D) Cyber communication theory
Q.70 Which of the following
theorist has developed the concept , “Structure of Feeling”?
(A) Michel de Certeau
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Judith Butler
(D) Homi Bhabha
Q.71 According to Plato, what is
the primary function of art, particularly poetry?
(A) To influence the beliefs of
the masses
(B) To provide moral guidance and
instruction
(C) To evoke strong emotions
(D) To represent the world as it
is
Q.72 Which of the following is NOT
a key element of Aristotle's definition of tragedy?
(A) Plot
(B) Character
(C) Thought
(D) Setting
Q.73 Who wrote "Never did a
slave become an orator"?
(A) Plato
(B) Longinus
(C) Socrates
(D) Menander
Q.74 Dryden in his "Preface
to Ovid's Epistles" distinguished between three types of translation: the
paraphrase, paraphrase and free imitation. Which of the following means turning
an author word by word, and line by line, from one language to another?
(A) Paraphrase
(B) Metaphrase
(C) Imitation
(D) None of the above
Q.75 ‘Peri Bathous’ parodies
Longinus, Peri Hupsous, or On the Sublimee. Who wrote it"?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) John Locke
Q.75 Who calls Shakespeare's characters
as "genuine progeny of common humanity"?
(A) Harold Bloom
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) A. C. Bradley
Q.76 Who wrote The Uses of Poetry
and the Uses of Criticism?
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) David Daiches
(D) Northrop Frye
Q.78 In which chapter of
Biographia Literaria Coleridge discusses the distinction between imagination
and fancy?
(A) Chapter 17
(B) Chapter 19
(C) Chapter 15
(D) Chapter 19
Q.79 Who coined the term
"feminism"?
(A) Charles Fourier
(B) Teresa de Lauretis
(C) Arnold J. Toynbee
(D) Helene Cixous
Q.80. According to Walter
Benjamin, what is lost in the mechanical reproduction of art ?
(A) Aesthetic value
(B) Political meaning
(C) The aura of authenticity
(D) The artist's intention
Q.81. What is negative dialectics
as proposed by Theodor Adorno?
(A) A form of dialectical
materialism
(B) A totalizing method of
critique
(C) A rejection of all
contradictions
(D) A dialectical approach that
resists synthesis and closure
Q.82. Jürgen Habermas
distinguishes between instrumental rationality and
(A) Revolutionary rationality
(C) Theoretical rationality
(B) Communicative rationality
(D) Transcendental rationality
Q.83. Of the following theorists
identify the one who has examined the narrative constructions of history.
(A) Talal Asad
(C) Hayden White
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(D) Stephen Greenblatt
Q.84. How many chapters does
Natyashastra contain?
(A) 32
(B) 34
(C) 36
(D) 38
Q.85. Which of the following is
NOT a part of Abhinaya (representation) according to Natyashastra ?
(A) Angika (body movements)
(C) Aharya (costumes and make-up)
(B) Vachika (speech)
(D) Sattvika (emotions)
Q.86. In One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse
critiques modern society for
(A) Encouraging revolutionary
subjectivity
(B) Eliminating individuality and
critical thought
(C) Promoting democratic
participation
(D) Supporting artistic freedom
Q.87. Who amongst the following
speaks of the six factors that determine different functions of language?
(A) Claude Levi-Strauss
(C) Ferdinand de Saussure
(B) Roman Jakobson
(D) Julia Kristeva
Q.88 New Criticism emphasizes the
text as a
(A) Historical document.
(B) Self-contained, autotelic
object.
(C) Linguistic entity.
(D) Cultural construct.
Q.89 Post-structuralism as a
movement developed in
(A) England
(B) Italy
(C) France
(D) America
Q.90 Who among the following is
NOT a Third World Ecofeminist?
(A) Bina Agarwal
(B) Maria Mies
(C) Vandana Shiva
(D) Carolyn Merchant
Q.91 What is the primary purpose
of research?
(A) To follow past practices
without questioning
(B) To create confusion among
scholars
(C) To theorize existing theories
(D) To discover new information
and reach new understandings
Q.92 What is the key difference
between discovery and invention?
(A) There is no difference between
the two
(B) Discoveries create new things,
while inventions reveal old things
(C) Inventions create new things,
while discoveries reveal existing but unknown things
(D) Inventions and discoveries
both happen randomly
Q.93 Which of the following
statements is true about research?
(A) Research is only useful for
scientists
(B) Research does not contribute
to knowledge development
(C) It is a systematic and
scientific inquiry into the identified problems
(D) It is based on assumptions
without any investigation
Q.94 The research in social
sciences primarily deals with
(A) The study of planetary
movements
(B) The evolution of different
animal species
(C) Human behavior and societal
patterns
(D) The chemical properties of
metals
Q.95 In educational research,
which of the following methods can be used to test the effectiveness of
teaching aids?
(A) Avoiding the use of any
technology
(B) Dividing students into control
and experimental groups
(C) Guessing which teaching aid
works best
(D) Asking students which method
they prefer
Q.96 What is one of the main
objectives of research in literature?
(A) To memorize facts from novels
and plays
(B) To summarize literary texts
without analysis
(C) To avoid questioning any
literary work
(D) To analyze and interpret texts
through different theoretical perspectives
Q.97 What is the main goal of
research according to the National Education Policy 2020?
(A) To promote systematic inquiry
and knowledge creation
(B) To avoid critical thinking
(C) To rewrite historical facts
(D) To eliminate traditional
studies
Q.98 Textual research mainly
involves
(A) Memorizing literary theories
(B) Comparing different versions
of a novel
(C) Conducting interviews with
authors
(D) Close analysis of a text's meaning,
structure and cultural assumptions
Q.99 What is the key difference
between research methods and methodology?
(A) Methods include only
experiments, while methodology is about interviews
(B) Methodology is focused only on
statistics, while methods focus on experiments
(C) Methods are specific
techniques, while methodology is the overall research approach
(D) Methods determine the truth,
while methodology ignores facts
Q.100 Experimental research in
Language studies is primarily used for
(A) Writing biographies of authors
(B) Ignoring scientific methods
(C) Investigating language
learning and teaching methods
(D) Analyzing fictional characters
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