JAMMU & KASHMIR SET ENGLISH-2025

(HELD ON 07.09.2025)

1. "To see it in this twentieth century is like finding an apartment appointed with steel furniture hung with a faded tapestry..." Who said this about the *Faerie Queene*?

(A) Edward Albert

(B) Ifor Evans

(D) David Lodge

2. English was introduced as the language of public business in all the departments of EIC through a renewal of its Charter in the year ______.

(A) 1813

(B) 1830

(D) 1835

3. A syllabus which keeps the learner engaged in the process of learning is all except:

(A) Structural

(B) Notional functional

(D) Learner centered

4. An assertion is given below. Which one of the reasons given is not correct?

**Assertion-** A literary work is not an object which stands by itself and which offers the same face to each reader in each period.

**Reason-**

(A) A literary work is not a static or unchanging entity.

(B) Readers bring their own experiences, beliefs, and emotions to the interpretation of a literary work.

(D) The interpretation of a work can also evolve with a change in the literary theory.

5. Which of the following approaches to literary criticism emphasizes the historical context of a work?

(A) Formalism

(B) New criticism

(D) Feminist criticism

6. Who wrote the foreword of Frantz Fanon's *The Wretched of the Earth*?

(A) Jean Paul Sartre

(B) Nigel Gibson

(D) Hamid Dabashi

7. What is the term used to describe the method of acquiring a second language by surrounding learners in an environment where the target language is spoken?

(A) Direct Method

(B) Indirect Method

(D) Grammar Translation Method

8. Scanning and skimming are techniques of ______.

(A) Teaching Grammar

(B) Reading

(D) Listening

9. In the essay 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism', Spivak focuses on:

(A) Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein.

(B) Jane Eyre, The Awakening, A Room of One's Own.

(D) Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, The Awakening

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

List-I (Characters)

P. Mrs. Malaprop

Q. Viola

R. Desdemona

S. Portia

List-II (Works)

1. The Merchant of Venice

2. Othello

3. Twelfth Night

4. She Stoops to Conquer

Codes:

(A) P-4 Q-3 R-2 S-1

(B) P-3 Q-1 R-4 S-2

(D) P-2 Q-1 R-3 S-4

11. Which among the following novels by Amitav Ghosh explores the remarkable history of opium poppy?

(A) Smoke and Ashes

(B) The Hungry Tide

(D) The Shadow Lines

12. Which novel bears the subtitle Moeurs de Province?

(A) Gustave Flaubert's Madam Bovary

(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude

(D) Albert Camus' The Last Man

13. Which of the following works is authored by Geoffrey Chaucer?

(A) Piers Plowman

(B) The Canterbury Tales

(D) Paradise Lost

14. Which character in King Lear disguises himself as "Poor Tom"?

(A) Edgar

(B) Edmund

(D) Gloucester

15. 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)

1. The Gokak Committee Report

2. The Kothari Commission

3. The Mudaliar Commission

4. The Radhakrishnan Commission

Codes:

(A) P-2 Q-4 R-3 S-1

(B) P-4 Q-3 R-2 S-1

(D) P-1 Q-2 R-3 S-4

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

List-I

P. Judith Fetterley

Q. Judith Butler

R. Umberto Eco

S. Tim Woods

List-II

1. Beginning Postmodernism

2. Travels in Hyper Reality

3. Bodies that Matter

4. The Resisting Reader

Codes:

(A) P-4 Q-3 R-2 S-1

(B) P-3 Q-2 R-1 S-4

(D) P-2 Q-4 R-3 S-1

17. The essay 'The Death of the Author' begins with the interpretation of which famous writer?

(A) Lacan

(B) Freud

(D) Balzac

18. According to Ferdinand de Saussure language is:

I. An interlocking Structure

II. A System of constant change

III. A system of signs

IV. A self-standing formation

(A) I and II only

(B) I and III only

(D) III and IV only

19. George Eliot's *The Mill on the Floss* is a ______.

(A) Historical Novel

(B) Autobiographical Novel

(D) Picaresque Novel

20. "The Spleen", a Pindaric ode was written by:

(A) Anee Finch

(B) Matthew Prior

(D) Thomas Parnell

21. 'Between extremities, Man runs his course' is the opening line of W.B. Yeats':

(A) 'Vacillation'

(B) 'The Tower'

(D) 'The Second Coming'

22. What is the term used to describe the process of identifying the expectations of learners?

(A) Content Selection

(B) Need Analysis

(D) Evaluating Content

23. Who among the following British dramatists under James I wrote the play *The Duchess of Malfi*?

(A) Thomas Middleton

(B) Thomas Heywood

(D) R. B. Sheridan

24. The following is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that deals with the themes of mortality, cultural and political lives:

(A) Dubliners

(B) Finnegans Wake

(D) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

25. The term 'ecological imperialism' was coined by

(A) Vandana Shiva

(B) Laurence Buell

(D) Alfred Crosby

26. Which of the following is NOT an example of the use of syllabic consonants?

(A) Rhythm

(B) Button

(D) Judges

27. Which of the following novels depicts a dystopian society where 'big brother' watches over everyone?

(A) Edible woman

(B) 1984

(D) I, Robot

28. Dan Kavanagh is the pseudonym of ________.

(A) Thomas Pynchon

(B) Doris Lessing

(D) Julian Barne

29. "Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious."

Whose prose has been praised by Dr. Johnson in the above quoted sentence?

(A) John Milton

(B) James Boswell

(D) John Dryden

30. Given below are two statements:

Statement - I: In the 1950s, Noam Chomsky introduced into linguistics the notion of a generative grammar, which has proved to be very influential.

Statement - II: Noam Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviourism, and was a follower of the works of B. F. Skinner.

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

(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.

(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

(D) Statement I is incorrect and Statement II is correct.

31. In Europe, as in Greece, the drama had a distinctly ______.

(A) Historical Origin

(B) Religious Origin

(D) Cultural Origin

32. Which two concepts developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, have become increasingly influential in cultural studies?

I. Dissemination

II. Gynesis

III. Cultural capital

IV. Habitus

Choose the correct option:

(A) I and III

(B) II and III

(D) II and IV

33. Who among the following is associated with Russian Formalism?

(A) I. A. Richards

(B) Victor Shlovsky

(D) John Dryden

34. When the same speaker uses two different varieties of the same language in two distinct situations, it is called ______.

(A) Diglossia

(B) Ideolect

(D) Jargon

35. In *Seven Types of Ambiguity*, what is the seventh type of Ambiguity?

(A) Intrinsic Ambiguity

(B) Ambiguity of Composition

(D) Syntactic Ambiguity

36. A postcolonial, feminist novel written by one of the following Dominican-British novelist that explores the power relationship between women and race:

(A) V.S. Naipaul

(B) Jean Rhys

(D) Miguel Algerin

37. Which of the following Chaucer's tales in Canterbury Tales is in prose?

(A) The Prioress's tale

(B) The Pardoner's tale

(D) The Wife of Bath's tale

38. Who said, Hamlet is the Monalisa of literature?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Ezra Pound

(D) T. E. Hulme

39. If in a ballad, a line or stanza is repeated, but with an addition that advances the story, it is called:

(A) Referential Repetition

(B) Incremental Repetition

(D) Refrain

40. English is a ______ language.

(A) syllable timed

(B) stress timed

(D) stress and syllable timed

41. Which of the following features is prominent in Samuel Beckett's waiting for Godot characterized by minimal plot and repetitive dialogue?

(A) Realism

(B) Symbolism

(D) Surrealism

42. Who coined the term 'Deconstruction'?

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Derrida

(D) Jacques Lacan

43. "Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

In which of the following plays the above cited lines occur?

(A) The Family Reunion

(B) Writing for Godot

(D) The Doctor's Dilemma

44. The character Hester Prynne appears in the novel written by ________.

(A) Louisa May Alcott

(B) Harper Lee

(D) Nathaniel Hawthorne

45. Choose the correct pair:

(A) Terry Eagleton — The Common Pursuit

(B) Wayne C. Booth — The Rhetoric of Fiction

(D) F. R. Leavis — Literary Theory: An Introduction

46. The term 'Chick-Lit' was first used by:

(A) Suzzane Ferris

(B) Chris Mazza

(D) Lauren Weisberger

47. Which of these novels borrows its title from the poem 'The Second Coming'?

(A) Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

(B) Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

(D) Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

48. In *One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Marquez, which narrative style is predominately used ______.

(A) Realism

(B) Naturalism

(D) Magic Realism

49. When the Charter of EIC was renewed in 1813, which of the following was facilitated:

(A) Education was made the responsibility of EIC

(B) EIC was allowed to spread Christianity

(D) Imparting religious education in Indian schools

50. Which two of the following are works by I.A Richards?

I. Concepts of Criticism

II. Science and Poetry

III. The Philosophy of Rhetoric

IV. English Literature In Our Time and the University

(A) I and II only

(B) I and IV only

(D) II and IV only

51. "Freedom is more than a word, more than the base coinage of Statesmen." Who wrote this?

(A) Rupert Brooke

(B) W.H. Auden

(D) Walter De La Mare

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

(A) Viktor Shklovsky

(B) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Judith Butler

53. In Toni Morrison's *Beloved* the character of Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her dead child, symbolizing.

(A) the inevitability of death

(B) guilt and unresolved personal conflicts

(D) the historical trauma of slavery

54. Who has authored the famous text 'Karukku'?

(A) Sharan Kumar Limbale

(B) P. Shivakani

(D) Daya Pawar

55. What is an alternative name for the Direct Method in English Language Teaching?

(A) Grammar Translation Method

(B) Natural Method

(D) Audio Lingual Method

56. In which of the following plays of Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare acted one of the parts?

(A) Every Man in his Humour

(B) Volpone or the fox

(D) The Alchemist

57. From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?

(A) Sophocles The oedipus Rex

(B) Euripides

(D) Thomas More

58. Haiku is a Poetic form that contains three sections in a ______ pattern.

(A) 5-7-5

(B) 5-6-5

(D) 5-4-5

59. A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable is :

(A) Lamb

(B) Dactyl

(D) Anapest

60. Which of the following years marked the appearance of Loraine Hansberry's *A Raisin in the Sun*, the first play written by black woman to reach Broadway, which has been hailed as the beginning of a successful black theatre?

(A) 1959

(B) 1960

(D) 1965

61. "For the Black man, there is one destiny and that is white." This quote is taken from:

(A) *Wretched of the Earth*

(B) *The Fact of Blackness*

(D) *A Dying Colonialism*

62. Which among the following does not belong to the Indo-European language family?

(A) English

(B) German

(D) French

63. What does the term 'Intertextuality' refer to in literary studies?

(A) The analysis of a single text's structure

(B) The historical context of a text

(D) The emotional response of readers to a text

64. Agha Shahid Ali is renowned for popularizing which poetic form in contemporary English literature?

(A) Haiku

(B) Ghazal

(D) Elegy

65. In which year did Mahesh Dattani get the central Sahitya Academy Award for his book *Final Solutions and Other Plays*?

(A) 1990

(B) 1998

(D) 1999

66. In *Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad, what does the journey up the Congo river symbolize?

(A) A journey toward civilization

(B) The growth of European imperial power

(D) A descent into madness and primitive nature of humanity

67. Which of the following novelists wrote *Orlando*?

(A) James Joyce

(B) Virginia Woolf

(D) D.H. Lawrence

68. The epigraph 'Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed Shall lodge thee' in *Tess of the d'Urbervilles* has been sourced from:

(A) Shakespeare's *Two Gentlemen of Verona*

(B) A.J. Cronin's *Two Gentlemen of Verona*

(D) Alexander Pope's *The Rape of the Lock*

69. Which of the following Shakespeare plays feature a critique of Colonialism and true encounter between European and Indigenous cultures?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Hamlet

(D) Othello

70. "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide" Occurs in which poem?

(A) Last Poems

(B) When I was One-and-Twenty

(D) A Shropshire Lad

71. Carnivalization, polyphony and chronotope are some of the important concepts introduced by which literary theorist?

(A) Mikhail Bakhtin

(B) Michel Foucault

(D) Goerg Lukacs

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

List-I (Plays)

P. Waiting for Godot

Q. Birthday Party

R. A Doll's House

S. Murder in the Cathedral

List-II

1. T. S. Eliot

2. Henrik Ibsen

3. Harold Pinter

4. Samuel Beckett

Codes:

(A) P-4 Q-3 R-2 S-1

(B) P-3 Q-1 R-4 S-2

(D) P-3 Q-4 R-2 S-1

73. The terms competence and performance are ________ the concepts of langue and parole.

(A) translations of

(B) identical to

(D) same as

74. Which of the following is a short story collection by an Indian author?

(A) After the Quake

(B) Breast stories

(D) The Moons of Jupiter

75. Who was the first to coin the term 'intertextuality'?

(A) Wolfgang Iser

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(D) H. R. Hauss

76. The objective of a report is to ______ the findings of research.

(A) hide

(B) communicate

(D) support

77. 'Writing of report is the last step in a research study' means:

(A) Research report spoils the purpose of research.

(B) Research report is the conclusion of research.

(D) Research report is the least important step of research.

78. Given below is an Assertion and a Reason. Choose the correct reason:

**Assertion :** Research report is a major component of research study.

**Reason :**

(A) Research remains incomplete till the report has been presented.

(B) Research cannot begin till report is submitted.

(D) Report presents the hypothesis for a research

79. Identify the correct sentence :

(A) The internet is becoming accessible to a growing amount of people.

(B) The internet is becoming accessible to a growing amount of people.

(D) The internet are becoming accessible to a growing number of people.

80. Thomas Browne's *Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial*, was published in ______.

(A) 1600

(B) 1658

(D) 1650

81. In which of the following works did Thomas Carlyle say this: "Close thy Byron, open thy Goethe"?

(A) *Past and Present*

(B) *On Heroes and Hero-worship*

(D) *The French Revolution*

82. Who wrote *The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable*?

(A) Shashi Tharoor

(B) Pankaj Mishra

(D) Amitav Ghosh

83. The Hippie movement of the 1960's is an instance of ______.

(A) Counter culture

(B) National culture

(D) Folk culture

84. Which among the following plays established Edward Albee's reputation as a premier dramatist?

(A) *The Zoo Story (1959)*

(B) *Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962)*

(D) *The Sandbox (1959)*

85. Which of the following plays of George Bernard Shaw is an amusing satire on military heroes?

(A) The Devil's Disciple

(B) Arms and the Man

(D) Saint Joan

86. John Ruskin wrote Unto this last in order to ______.

(A) Attack the shabby commercialism of his age

(B) Champion the art of Turner

(D) Enlogize the Gothic

87. Leviathan is written by ______.

(A) Thomas Hobbes

(B) John Locke

(D) John Evelyn

88. Who wrote Anatomy of Melancholy?

(A) Robert Burton

(B) Nothrop Frye

(D) Robert Burns

89. Which among the following characterizes Dr. Johnson's The Rambler and The Idler?

(A) The periodical essay

(B) The formal essay

(D) Reflective essay

90. When was Raymond William's Culture and Society published?

(A) 1968

(B) 1958

(D) 1965

91. Which socio-literary movement used the slogan "the personal is political"?

(A) Subaltern Studies Group

(B) Feminism

(D) Disability Rights Group

92. Cheryll Glotfelty is associated with ______.

(A) Marxist feminism

(B) Medical Humanities

(D) Eco Criticism

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

List-I (Author)

P. Rita Kothari

Q. Probal Dasgupta

R. Braj B Kachru

S. Baljinder K. Mahal

List-II (Text)

1. The Queen's Hinglish

2. The Indianization of English

3. Translating India

4. The Otherness of English

Codes:

(A) P-3 Q-4 R-2 S-1

(B) P-3 Q-4 R-1 S-2

(D) P-4 Q-3 R-2 S-1

94. What among the following explains interdisciplinarity?

(A) The focus on a single discipline from different perspective

(B) The competition between different disciplines

(D) The combination of different academic disciplines in one activity

95. What is the primary goal of textual analysis in literary research?

(A) To summarize the plot of the text

(B) To compile bibliographic data about the author

(D) To conduct a survey of reader's opinions

96. Which of the following periods of English Society can be studied through important primary source of Samuel Pepys' "Diaries"?

(A) Restoration

(B) Jacobian

(D) Romantic

97. Which of these is not authored by Thomas Carlyle?

(A) Modern Painters

(B) The Stones of Venice

(D) Unto This Last

98. Which of the following is the most common type of plagiarism?

(A) Global plagiarism

(B) Self plagiarism

(D) Patchwork plagiarism

99. Who is often credited as the creator of the term 'graphic novel'?

(A) Alan Moore

(B) Neil Gaiman

(D) Stan Lee

100. In the Indian Literary theory what refers to a suggested or implied meaning of literature?

(A) Vakrokti

(B) Dhvani

(D) Abhidha

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