RAJASTHAN ASST.PROF. ENGLISH (COLLEGE EDUCATION DEPT.) CAP- 2025

1. Samuel Butler's Hudibras is modeled on which of the following work? 

(1) Don Quixote 

(2) Faery Queen 

(3) Canterbury Tales 

(4) Piers Plowman 

 

 

2. From which work by Samuel Butler have the following lines been taken in which he attacks all species of follies in Human nature?

For Rhetorick he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a Trope:

And when he hapned to break off

I'th' middle of his speech, or cough,

H' had hard words, ready to show why?

And tell what rules he did it by. 

(1) Everyman in his Humour 

(2) Hudibras 

(3) In Praise of Follow 

(4) Dunciad 

 

 

3. Choose the correct match from the option that follow:

A. Rhymer I. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry

B. Mulgrave II. Essay on Unnatural Flights in Poetry

C. Dennis III. Essay upon Poetry

D. Granville IV. The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered 

A B C D 

(1) IV III I II 

(2) III IV II I 

(3) II I III IV 

(4) I III IV III 

 

 

4. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a rejoinder to Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution. What is its title? 

(1) A Vindication of the Rights of Women 

(2) A Vindication of the Rights of Men 

(3) The Vindictive Men 

(4) The Revolution that Failed 

 

 

5. Which of the below given work is written by Edward Gibbon? 

(1) Reflections on the Revolution in France 

(2) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

(3) The Rights of Man 

(4) A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. 

 

 

6. Which of the below given poem is not written by S.T. Coleridge? 

(1) 'Christabel' 

(2) 'Frost at Midnight' 

(3) 'Dejection: An Ode' 

(4) 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' 

 

 

7. "The Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" is a playful elegy by Thomas Gray. It depicts ______. 

(1) The Death of Horace Walpole's cat 

(2) The Death of Gray's Cat 

(3) The Death of Queen Ane's Cat 

(4) The Death of Collin's Cat 

 

 

8. Which of the following is a work by Charles Lamb? 

(1) The English Mail Coach 

(2) The Adventures of Ulysses 

(3) Table Talk 

(4) The Plain Speaker 

 

 

9. Fill in the blank and choose the correct option: Which critic talks of ________ in the following lines:

"reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image." 

(1) William Wordsworth; Diction 

(2) John Keats; Negative Capability 

(3) T.S. Eliot; Tradition and Individual talent 

(4) S.T. Coleridge; Imagination 

 

 

10. Who is the writer of the autobiographical account 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'? 

(1) William Hazlitt 

(2) Charles Lamb 

(3) Thomas de Quincey 

(4) Walter Savage Landor 

 

 

11. Fill in the blank with the correct option:

Walter Scott's nostalgia for romance and chivalry resulted in the creation of ________. 

(1) Emmeline 

(2) The Talisman 

(3) The Old Manor House 

(4) The French Woman 

 

 

12. Which of the following works is not by John Ruskin? 

(1) Fragment on Government 

(2) Seven Lamps of Architecture 

(3) Stones of Venice 

(4) Unto This Last 

 

 

13. Fill in the blank with the correct option: William Blake suggests in poem such as 'Chimney Sweeper' and 'Holy Thursday' that the whole idea of education and religion (commonly called culture) is to ________. 

(1) impose control over innocence 

(2) impose control over experience 

(3) impose control over the monarchy 

(4) eulogise the King and the Lords 

 

 

14. Who among the following called London 'that monstrous tuberosity of civilized life': 

(1) Thomas Carlyle 

(2) Charles Dickens 

(3) William Blake 

(4) Disraeli 

 

 

15. Which of the following is a poem written by D.G. Rossetti? 

(1) "The Blessed Damozel" 

(2) "The Haystack in the Floods" 

(3) "Signs of Change" 

(4) "The Growth of Love" 

 

 

16. Barchester Towers is a novel written by 

(1) Charles Dickens 

(2) D.H. Lawrence 

(3) William Goldsmith 

(4) Anthony Trollope 

 

 

17. Victorian era was a period of: 

(1) strong rational, industrial and democratic movements 

(2) conservatism and humanitarianism 

(3) supremacy of faith and emotions 

(4) blind adherence to the classics 

 

 

18. Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" is about eight fair women. Who out of the following is not included in this poem? 

(1) Helen of Troy 

(2) Joan of Arc 

(3) Cleopatra 

(4) Cressida  

 

 

19. The novel The Divine Fire is written by: 

(1) Thomas Hardy 

(2) George Eliot 

(3) Charlotte Bronte 

(4) May Sinclair 

 

 

20. The play, The Shadowy Waters, is written by 

(1) Lady Gregory 

(2) Katharine Tynan 

(3) W.B. Yeats 

(4) William Wordsworth 

 

 

21. Mathew Arnold is NOT known for – 

(1) His finding fault with Shakespeare as a genuine poet. 

(2) His warnings against 'philistinism'. 

(3) His dismissive opinion on P.B. Shelley. 

(4) His defence of cultural anarchy. 

 

 

22. The line ...... "these fragments I have shored against my ruins" is taken from the poem: 

(1) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 

(2) "Song of Myself" 

(3) "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night" 

(4) "The Wasteland" 

 

 

23. Choose the correct option: The experiences of Professor Ramsay and his wife are depicted in which of the following novels? 

(1) Sons and Lovers 

(2) The Waves 

(3) Orlando 

(4) To the Light House 

 

 

24. Which of the following is NOT a short story collection of D.H. Lawrence? 

(1) The Dove's Nest 

(2) The Prussian Officer 

(3) England, My England 

(4) The Woman Who Rode Away 

 

 

25. Choose the correct option: Who in the following list of writers wrote the poem 'Gunga Din'? 

(1) Lord Byron 

(2) Rudyard Kipling 

(3) Henry Vivian Louis Derozio 

(4) V.S. Naipaul 

 

 

26. Which of the following is the salient feature of the modernist work? 

(1) High degree of simplicity in structure. 

(2) The works are often linear (in fiction). 

(3) Works are intensely self-reflexive. 

(4) Emphasis is on the preaching of the Bible. 

 

 

27. Choose the work not written by Herman Melville: 

(1) Dick 

(2) Jypee 

(3) Omoo 

(4) Mardi 

 

 

28. Which work of his did Walt Whitman refer to as "a language experiment"? 

(1) Song of the Open Road 

(2) Leaves of Grass 

(3) O Captain ! My Captain ! 

(4) Song of Myself 

 

 

29. Which of the following poets is known as a war poet? 

(1) Rupert Brooke 

(2) Edward Marsh 

(3) Michael Drayton 

(4) Thomas Dylan 

 

 

30. Which essay of Judith Sargent Murray establishes her as one of the first American Feminists? 

(1) "On the Equality of the Sexes" 

(2) "On the Rights of the Whites" 

(3) "On the Rights of the Blacks" 

(4) "On the Equality of the Blacks" 

 

 

31. From which of the following poems of Emerson have the following lines been taken?

I hid in the solar glory,

I am dumb in the pealing song,

I rest on the pitch of the torrent;

In slumber I am strong. 

(1) Terminus 

(2) Brahma 

(3) Song of Nature 

(4) Earth Song 

 

 

32. Choose the correct option for the blanks below:

If Cooper was the founding father of ______ in literature, Edgar Allen Poe was the founding father of ______. 

(1) Eastern myth, Western myth 

(2) Northern myth, Southern myth 

(3) Western myth, Southern myth 

(4) Southern myth, Western myth 

 

 

33. Choose the correct option from the following:

A. For Whitman the poet is the equable man, arbiter of the diverse.

B. Turkey, Nippers and Ginger nut are characters in Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

C. According to Henry James a novel is a non-living thing, fragmented, unlike any organism, the parts unrelated. 

(1) Only 'C' is correct. 

(2) Only 'A' is correct. 

(3) Only 'A' and 'C' are correct. 

(4) Only 'B' is correct. 

 

 

34. The term 'Lost Generation' to describe the cynicism of American Expatriates in Europe after the First World War, was coined by which of the following authors? 

(1) Ernest Hemingway 

(2) Gertrude Stein 

(3) Hart Crane 

(4) F. Scott Fitzgerald 

 

 

35. In the poem, 'I felt a funeral in my brain', by Emily Dickinson, the 'funeral' specifically located 'in my brain', suggests that the conflict is 

(1) merely a physical space 

(2) moving over to an impersonal objectivity 

(3) intensely personal and psychological 

(4) symbolising the final rejuvenation of the consciousness 

 

 

36. In response to whose remarks did Henry James write The Art of Fiction? 

(1) Walter Besant 

(2) Walter Samuel 

(3) Walter Pater 

(4) Walter Scott 

 

 

37. Which of the following is Mark Twain's first great book about the Mississippi River of his youth? 

(1) The Gilded Age 

(2) Tom Sawyer 

(3) Huckleberry Finn 

(4) Life on the Mississippi 

 

 

38. "A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward or across, it still spells the same thing." This is a quote from which one of the following essays? 

(1) "Self Reliance" 

(2) "The Oversoul" 

(3) "The American Scholar" 

(4) "Civil Disobedience" 

 

 

39. Which one of the following works of William Falkner does not form a part of the unfolding history of Yoknapatawpha country, a mythical Mississippi community, which depicted the transformation and the decadence of the South? 

(1) The Sound and the Fury 

(2) The Hamlet 

(3) As I Lay Dying 

(4) Light in August 

 

 

40. The manifesto of 'Transcendentalism' can be found in which of the following essays by Emerson? 

(1) "Nature" 

(2) "Self-Reliance" 

(3) "Walden" 

(4) "Oversoul" 

 

 

41. Match the following correctly:

A. "Good fences make good neighbours" I. Nick Carraway

B. Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity pull down thy vanity II. Wallace Stevens

C. The narrator in "The Great Gatsby" III. Ezra Pound

D. Expression of Paganism IV. Frost 

A B C D 

(1) III IV I II 

(2) IV III II I 

(3) II I III IV 

(4) IV III I II 

 

 

42. Match the following:

Author                                Play

A. T.S. Eliot                        I. The Zoo Story

B. Tennessee Williams    II. A View From The Bridge

C. Arthur Miller                III. The Confidential Clerk

D. Edward Albee               IV. A Streetcar Named Desire 

A B C D 

(1) III I II IV 

(2) III IV II I 

(3) II III IV I 

(4) IV II I III 

 

 

43. Who among the following has authored the famous dark comedy Topdog/Underdog? 

(1) Suzan Lori Parks 

(2) Rita Dove 

(3) Lynn Nottage 

(4) Teju Cole 

 

 

44. Fill in the blank with the correct option: In Langston Hughes' poem "I too" "the kitchen" functions as a metaphor for ______. 

(1) Hope and optimism 

(2) Distinct white identity 

(3) Segregation and exclusion 

(4) Self-esteem and dignity 

 

 

45. Which of the following novels of Toni Morrison is about womanhood and examines (among other issues) the dynamics of friendship and expectations for conformity within the community? 

(1) The Bluest Eye 

(2) Song of Solomon 

(3) Sula 

(4) Tar Baby 

 

 

46. Which of the following with reference to Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain is/are correct?

A. It describes John Grimes' relationship with his stepfather Gabriel.

B. It critiques the positive and negative aspects of the Pentecostal church.

C. It has a linear structure.

D. Through its 3 parts, it provides access to the thoughts, reminiscences of John's father, mother and aunt. 

(1) A, B, C & D are correct. 

(2) Only C is correct. 

(3) Only A, B & D are correct. 

(4) Only B is correct. 

 

 

47. Which of the following has not been written by Zora Neale Hurston? 

(1) Jonah's Gourd Vine 

(2) Their Eyes were Watching God 

(3) Moses: Man of the Mountain 

(4) Not Without Laughter 

 

 

48. Who among the following was the first black American to be appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (later U.S. Poet Laureate)? 

(1) Robert Hayden 

(2) Gwendolyn Brooks 

(3) Langston Hughes 

(4) Claudo Mckay 

 

 

49. Who among the following, in his essay 'The Homosexual in Society', has compared the plight of the homosexuals with that of "African-American and Jews"? 

(1) Stanley Kunitz 

(2) Richard Wilbur 

(3) William Morris Meredith 

(4) Robert Ducan 

 

 

50. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth, a fictional autobiography is written by ________. 

(1) Richard Wright 

(2) Walter Mosley 

(3) James Baldwin 

(4) Langston Hughes 

 

 

51. Who of the following did not belong to the group of 'The Fugitive Poets'? 

(1) John Crowe Ransom 

(2) Maya Angelou 

(3) Robert Penn Warren 

(4) Allen Tate 

 

 

52. Which of the following characters in The Colour Purple has been delineated by Alice Walker "as a contemporary symbol of the ideal pattern of sexual and spiritual liberation and a rebuke of traditional Afro-American values and institutions"? 

(1) Celie 

(2) Nettie 

(3) Shug Avery 

(4) Sofia 

 

 

53. Leopold Sedar Senghor's essay "Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century" was first published in: 

(1) The American Review 

(2) The Afro-American Post 

(3) The Independent 

(4) The Africa Reader: Independent Africa 

 

 

54. Which novel has been called "The classic magical realist novel of West Africa"? Who is its author? 

(1) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

(2) Nervous Conditions by Isitsi Dangarembga 

(3) So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba 

(4) The Famished Road by Ben Okri 

 

 

55. Match the following authors with the works:

A. Kobena Eyi Acquah I. Verbal Art as Performance

B. Kofi Anyidoho II. The Man Who Died

C. Kofi Awoonor III. Guardians of the Sacred Word

D. Richard Bauman IV. Earth Child 

A B C D 

(1) III IV II I 

(2) II IV III I 

(3) I III II IV 

(4) IV I III II 

 

 

56. Who among the following was the first African laureate to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986? 

(1) Ngugi Wa Thiongo 

(2) Wole Soyinka 

(3) Chinua Achebe 

(4) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

 

 

57. The speaker in Dennis Brutus, "I am the Tree" compares the oppressed people to _______. 

(1) tree, night and the wind 

(2) cries, protests and voices of a tree 

(3) tree, obstinacy and twists 

(4) twisted tree, a sheet of tin and the anguished voice 

 

 

58. In which of his following novels Ngugi Wa Thiongo attacked the new leaders of independent Kenya, portraying them as an elite class who had betrayed ordinary Kenyans? 

(1) A Grain of Wheat 

(2) Petals of Blood 

(3) Weep Not, Child 

(4) River Between 

 

 

59. Which out of the following is not a characteristic of 'Menippean Novel'? 

(1) society remain unpredictable 

(2) current affairs are treated satirically 

(3) genres are mixed 

(4) an abject classification of poetry, sketches, parody, speeches etc. 

 

 

60. Which of the following novels written by Gurnah (Abdul Razak) traces the transition within an East African coastal community of Zanzibar from colonial period to independence? 

(1) After Lives 

(2) Paradise 

(3) Desertion 

(4) Pilgrims Way 

 

 

61. Which of the following statement(s) about the story of Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter is/are correct?

A. Rosa Burger was black and supported the overthrow of the government.

B. Rosa Burger was white and supported the overthrow of the apartheid government.

C. Bassie was Rosa's lover.

D. Bassie's real name was Zwelinzima Vulindlela. 

(1) A, B, C & D are true. 

(2) Only D is true. 

(3) Only B and D are true. 

(4) Only C is true. 

 

 

62. Which of the following statements given by John Reed and Clive Woke best defines negritude? 

(1) It is racialism and self negation. 

(2) It is the African personality. 

(3) It is rooting oneself in one self and self confirmation. 

(4) It is a word of English origin. 

 

 

63. The short story collection, A Bear Came Over the Mountain is by: 

(1) Sharon Pollock 

(2) Alice Munro 

(3) Margaret Atwood 

(4) Yann Martel 

 

 

64. Mordecai Richler, a Jewish writer from Montreal, was 

(1) opposed to the principles of mainstream Canadian culture. 

(2) an exponent of a Utopian vision of life. 

(3) shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. 

(4) nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980. 

 

 

65. Choose the correct option Identify which of these statements about Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale are correct:

A. The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel.

B. Its story is told by a woman Ofglen in the third person.

C. Its story is narrated by Offred in the first person. 

(1) A & B are correct. 

(2) A & C are correct. 

(3) B & C are correct. 

(4) A, B & C are correct. 

 

 

66. Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize winning novel The Testaments was a sequel to her novel ________. 

(1) The Blind Assassin 

(2) The Year of the Flood 

(3) Oryx and Crake 

(4) The Handmaid's Tale 

 

 

67. In the "Introduction" of which of his following novels George Lamming wrote

"In the desolate, frozen heart of London, at the age of twenty-three, I tried to reconstruct the world of my childhood and early adolescence. It was also the world of a whole Caribbean reality"? 

(1) The Emigrants 

(2) Of Age and Innocence 

(3) In the Castle of My Skin 

(4) Natives of My Person 

 

 

68. Match the following:

A. Jean Rhys I. The Lonely Londoners

B. Samuel Selvon II. The Farming of Bones

C. Edwidge Danticat III. Wide Sargasso Sea

D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez IV. One Hundred Years of Solitude 

A B C D 

(1) III I II IV 

(2) II III IV I 

(3) III II I IV 

(4) IV II III I 

 

 

69. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: In A Fine Balance by Rohington Mistry, Ishwar and Om later work for ________ as tailors. 

(1) Dina Dalal 

(2) The Beggar Master 

(3) Nusswan 

(4) Mr. Kohlah 

 

 

70. Which of the following Caribbean authors, a historian by profession and a poet by conviction, believes that 'West Indian poet and intellectual should achieve a sense of 'wholeness' by transcending colonial problems and healing it'? 

(1) Derek Walcott 

(2) Edward Brathwaite 

(3) V.S. Naipaul 

(4) John Figueroa 

 

 

71. Which of the following statements is incorrect? 

(1) After Leaving Mackenzie is a novel written by Jean Rhys. 

(2) Wide Sargasso Sea is set in Dominica and Jamaica. 

(3) Wide Sargasso Sea describes the life and marriage of Antoinet Cosway. 

(4) 'The Jean Rhys woman' – is rich and empowered woman. 

 

 

72. Derek Walcott's epic poem "Omeros" is a retelling of ________. 

(1) Homer's Iliad 

(2) Homer's Odyssey 

(3) Virgil's Aeneid 

(4) Milton's Paradise Lost 

 

 

73. In A.D. Hope's poem "As Well as They Can" "it", "he", and 'I' in the first, second and third stanza respectively refer to ______. 

(1) the poet, the speaker and the hooked fish 

(2) the hooked fish, the poet and the speaker. 

(3) the speaker, the hooked fish and the poet 

(4) the creative process 

 

 

74. Choose the correct option: In which one of the given poems do the following lines occur? "... yet the dignity of his weeping holds us back from his space, the hollow he makes about him in the midday light in his pentagram of sorrow." 

(1) C.J. Dennis' "The Circus" 

(2) Mary Gilmore's "Nationality" 

(3) Les Murray's "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" 

(4) Les Murray's "The Broad Bean Sermon" 

 

 

75. Who among the following is the author of the poem "Australia"? 

(1) Kenneth Slessor 

(2) Judith Wright 

(3) James Mcauley 

(4) A.D. Hope 

 

 

76. Choose the correct option: Which of the following is/are correct about the story in Patrick White's "The Tree of Man"?

A. Amy has a brief affair with Leo.

B. Ray Marries Lola and then Elsie.

C. Thelma marries Tom Armstrong.

D. Stan refuses to go to War in Europe. 

(1) A and B are correct. 

(2) C and A are correct. 

(3) Only A is correct. 

(4) Only D is correct. 

 

 

77. Match the following:

Author Play

A. Patrick White I. The Chapel Perilous

B. Dorothy Hewett II. The Playmaker

C. Thomas Keneally III. The Beautiful Game

D. Ben Elton IV. The Ham Funeral 

A B C D 

(1) II I III IV 

(2) IV II I III 

(3) IV I II III 

(4) III II I IV 

 

 

78. Which one of these concepts describes the ways in which dominant culture marginalizes subordinate groups? 

(1) Hegemony 

(2) Intersectionality 

(3) Hybridity 

(4) Othering 

 

 

79. Who said this about English language: "It is the language of our intellectual make-up – like Sanskrit and Persian was before – but not of our emotional make-up"? 

(1) Rabindranath Tagore 

(2) Raja Rao 

(3) R.K. Narayan 

(4) Salman Rushdie 

 

 

80. Homi Bhabha argued that colonial identity is never pure or fixed but always formed in-between in what he called the: 

(1) Third space 

(2) Second space 

(3) Outer space 

(4) Inner space 

 

 

81. Fill in the blank with the correct option: R. Parthasarathy has titled the different parts of his poem 'Rough Passage' as _______. 

(1) Exile and Homecoming 

(2) Trial and Homecoming 

(3) Exile and Trial 

(4) Exile, Trial and Homecoming 

 

 

82. "The language I speak, Becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness All mine, mine alone". Who wrote these lines? 

(1) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 

(2) Kamala Das 

(3) Robin S. Ngangom 

(4) Meena Alexander 

 

 

83. A.K. Ramanujan's poem 'A River' attempts to ironically draw a contrast between _______. 

(1) The old and the new Tamil poets 

(2) Poetry and prose of Malgudi writers 

(3) Poetry and drama of women writers 

(4) Poetry and story of hybrid groups 

 

 

84. Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli tells the story of which character's journey of carving out an identity in a new environment? 

(1) Bhagwant Singh 

(2) Sarju 

(3) Sangram Singh 

(4) Geeta 

 

 

85. The poem 'The Ghaghra in Spate' by Keki N. Daruwala describes the impact of flood on _______. 

(1) The Village 

(2) The City 

(3) The Town 

(4) The Metropolis 

 

 

86. In which novel of Kamala Markandya the Indo-British personal relationships are highlighted in Mira's love for Richards? 

(1) Some Inner Fury 

(2) Possession 

(3) The Coffer Dams 

(4) Nectar in a Sieve 

 

 

87. To whom does the number 1084 refer to in Mahasweta Devi's play Mother of 1084? 

(1) Bijit 

(2) Dibyansh 

(3) Somu 

(4) Brati 

 

 

88. Choose the correct option:

Not knowing who I am or what I want I roam the city walk into movies hurtle down a roller coaster till mirrors in a mirror shop break me up into how many I was show me in profile and fragment. The above lines show the multi-faceted personality of which of the following poets? 

(1) Nissim Ezekiel 

(2) A.K. Ramanujan 

(3) Kamala Das 

(4) Shobha Dey 

 

 

89. Match the following:

Author Autobiography

A. Savitri Devi Nanda I. An Inheritance

B. Brinda, Maharani of Kapurthala II. A City of Two Gateways

C. Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur III. A Princess Remembers

D. Dhanavantri Rama Rau IV. The Story of An Indian Princess 

A B C D 

(1) II IV III I 

(2) IV III I II 

(3) II III IV I 

(4) II IV I III 

 

 

90. Match the following:

A. Dom Moraes I. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

B. Ved Mehta II. I Write as I Feel C. Nirad

C. Chaudhuri III. Face to Face

D. K.A. Abbas IV. My Son's Father 

A B C D 

(1) IV I III II 

(2) II III I IV 

(3) IV III I II 

(4) III II IV I 

 

 

91. Who is the narrator in Raja Rao's Kanthapura? 

(1) Ramaswamy 

(2) Achakka 

(3) Pai 

(4) Moorthy 

 

 

92. Which era was followed by "the political mood of disillusionment" as reflected in Karnad's Tughlaq? 

(1) The era of first war of independence 

(2) The era of Gandhian movement 

(3) Partition of India 

(4) Nehru era of idealism 

 

 

93. Which central issue does Meenakshi Mukherjee address in her essay "The Anxiety of Indianness: Our Novels in English"? 

(1) The role of caste in Indian fiction. 

(2) The search for authentic Indian identity in English writing. 

(3) Gender bias in Indian literature. 

(4) Colonial politics in Indian poetry. 

 

 

94. What does the title of the poem 'Pilgrim of the Night' by Aurobindo signify? 

(1) Rebellious opposition 

(2) Spiritual struggle 

(3) Light hearted rebuff 

(4) Hopeless surrender 

 

 

95. An Unfinished Song by Swarnakumari Debi Ghosal begins with which poet's quotation, setting the tone of the novel? 

(1) Lord Byron 

(2) Wordsworth 

(3) Shelley 

(4) Coleridge 

 

 

96. What is the central question the novel A Passage to India by E.M. Forster explores? 

(1) The role of women in colonial India. 

(2) Whether British rule is justified. 

(3) Whether an Englishman and an Indian can ever be friends. 

(4) The outcome of the independence movement. 

 

 

97. As a reaction to which debate of the 19th century was Cornelia Sorabji's essay "Stray Thoughts of an Indian Girl" written? 

(1) India's first war of independence in 1857. 

(2) Indian child marriage and age of consent laws. 

(3) Status of women in relation to right to property. 

(4) Remarriage of widows. 

 

 

98. Who has written the long poem 'The Captive Ladie' based on the story of the Life of Prithviraj? 

(1) Kashiprasad Ghose 

(2) Rajnarain Dutt 

(3) Hurchunder Dutt 

(4) Michael Madhusudan Dutt 

 

 

99. What common idea connects Rabindranath Tagore's poem 'Heaven of Freedom' with Gandhi's approach? 

(1) Freedom as self rule 

(2) Rejection of English 

(3) Rejection of foreign goods 

(4) Embracing of Khadi 

 

 

100. Which of the following writers in his famous writing Aryan Witness seeks to prove that the Prajapati of the Vedas is Jesus Christ? 

(1) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 

(2) Krishna Mohan Banerji 

(3) Michael Madhusudan Dutt 

(4) Rammohan Roy 

 

 

101. Which character in The Home and the World embodies militant nationalism? 

(1) Nikhil 

(2) Sandip 

(3) Bimla 

(4) Panchu 

 

 

102. "Hyphenated Identities" in diasporic literature refers to ______. 

(1) Bilingual proficiency among migrants. 

(2) Conflicted cultural affiliations between homeland and host land. 

(3) Economic marginalisation of Indian workers abroad. 

(4) The literal use of the hyphen in Indo-American writing. 

 

 

103. Which of the following is not correct about Sri Aurobindo's Savitri? 

(1) It is an 'inner epic', an epic of the soul and the oversoul. 

(2) Its central thesis is in line with the modern thinking about the evolution of man and human consciousness.  

(3) It is an exciting and prophetic vision of a glorious future. 

(4) It is written in couplet form. 

 

 

104. In V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival, the arrival is most closely associated with ______. 

(1) Physical migration to London 

(2) A psychological awakening and self-realization 

(3) Colonial guilt and loss 

(4) A reunion with homeland traditions 

 

 

105. In Anita Desai's Bye-Bye Blackbird, the 'black-bird' metaphorically represents ______. 

(1) The transience of colonial culture 

(2) The death of Indian tradition 

(3) The return of the colonizer 

(4) The racial prejudice faced by Indian immigrants 

 

 

106. How does Vijay Mishra define the "new" Indian diaspora? 

(1) Descendants of indentured laborers. 

(2) Trans-national professionals with upward mobility. 

(3) Refugees from political unrest. 

(4) Tourists and temporary workers. 

 

 

107. Fill in the blank with the correct option: According to Salman Rushdie nostalgia idealizes the homeland by making it ______. 

(1) a real, lived place 

(2) the way it always truly existed 

(3) a place of instability 

(4) a mythic, imagined space 

 

 

108. In Joseph Anton: A Memoir, Rushdie describes the experience of the exile as one ______. 

(1) frozen in time 

(2) changed by political turmoil 

(3) who exists in reality 

(4) adapted to and changed by modernization 

 

 

109. 'Gibreel' and 'Chamcha' are two important characters from which of the following works of Salman Rushdie? 

(1) Imaginary Homelands 

(2) Fury 

(3) The Satanic Verses 

(4) Midnight's Children 

 

 

110. What is the significance of the "third space" in diaspora writing? 

(1) A literal third country 

(2) A metaphorical space of hybridity and negotiation of identity 

(3) Only a place of conflict 

(4) A political boundary 

 

 

111. Which of the following facts regarding Kiran Desai's novel 'The Inheritance of Loss' is not correct? 

(1) It is set in Kalimpong 

(2) It deals with the historical backdrop of the insurgency in the North-Eastern states of India. 

(3) It deals with events taking place in India, England and New York. 

(4) It highlights issues such as a globalisation and marginalisation. 

 

 

112. Which novel of Amitav Ghosh focuses on the political and historical events of colonial and post-colonial India? 

(1) In an Antique Land 

(2) The Great Derangement 

(3) The Circle of Reason 

(4) The Shadow Lines 

 

 

113. Bhabha uses the term "menace of mimicry" to describe the way mimicry ______. 

(1) Physically endangers the colonizer. 

(2) Challenges the fixity of colonial power and its knowledge. 

(3) Leads to open rebellion by the colonized 

(4) Exposes the economic flaws of colonialism 

 

 

114. Which novel by Bharati Mukherjee traces the perilous journey of a young widow from Punjab to United States? 

(1) The Tiger's Daughter 

(2) Jasmine 

(3) Desirable Daughters 

(4) Darkness 

 

 

115. Which of the following statements regarding Daya Pawar is not correct? 

(1) His Baluta is an autobiographical narrative. 

(2) His works reveal the horrors of caste system. 

(3) Baluta received negative responses from the Dalit community. 

(4) The educated upwardly mobile section of the Dalit community praised Baluta. 

 

 

116. Which of the following statements pertaining to Dalit literature is not correct? 

(1) It rejected the concept of 'art for art's sake'. 

(2) Mainstream Indian literature ignores caste as a lived reality. 

(3) Namdeo Dhasal's poetry uses violent and erotic imagery to shatter upper caste aesthetics. 

(4) In 'Man you Should Explode' Dhasal tries to mimic classical Marathi literary conventions. 

 

 

117. Fill in the blank with the correct option: The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble serves as a significant example of a genre within Dalit literature which is characterized by – 

(1) Theoretical essays on Dalit aesthetics. 

(2) Fictional narratives about Dalit struggles. 

(3) Powerful personal memories and testimonials, lived experiences. 

(4) Poetry and protest songs of the Dalit Panther movement. 

 

 

118. Who said in his autobiography "A new word 'Dalit', entered my vocabulary, a word that is not a substitute for 'Harijan', but an expression of rage of millions of untouchables"? 

(1) Y.B. Satyanarayana in My Father Baliah 

(2) Laxman Mane in Upara 

(3) Omprakash Valmiki in Joothan: A Dalit's Life 

(4) Daya Pawar in Baluta 

 

 

119. In which of the following languages did the Dalit Literary Movement start relatively later than in other languages? 

(1) Marathi 

(2) Hindi 

(3) Tamil 

(4) Punjabi 

 

 

120. Who, on reading Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste commented: 'When I first read it I felt as though somebody had walked into a dim room and opened the windows'. 

(1) M.K. Gandhi 

(2) Arundhati Roy 

(3) Anand Teltumbde 

(4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 

 

 

121. Who said "Dalit literature is not a literature of art, but of life"? 

(1) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar 

(2) Sharankumar Limbale 

(3) Namdeo Dhasal 

(4) Valmiki 

 

 

122. The organisation 'Dalit Panthers', a group of Marathi writer-activists, was inspired by a group called 'Black-Panthers' which was an organisation for - 

(1) African-Americans' Rights 

(2) Africans' Right 

(3) Native-Americans' Rights 

(4) Australian Aboriginals' Rights 

 

 

123. Which of the following statements regarding Limbale's Akkarmashi are correct?

A. He states that Akkarmashi is not an autobiography of the self but that of the community.

B. The word 'Akkarmashi' stands for untouchable.

C. He writes, "The span of my autobiography is My Childhood". 

(1) A & B are correct. 

(2) A & C are correct. 

(3) B & C are correct. 

(4) A, B & C are correct. 

 

 

124. The Branded: Uchalaya by Laxman Gaikwad is ______ 

(1) an autobiographical novel. 

(2) a biography. 

(3) a story in verse. 

(4) a memoir. 

 

 

125. Match the following Authors with their Books:

A. Limbale I. Karukku

B. Bama II. Baluta

C. Daya Pawar III. Joothan

D. Om Prakash Valmiki IV. Akkarmashi 

A B C D 

(1) III I IV II 

(2) IV II I III 

(3) III IV I II 

(4) IV I II III 

 

 

126. What is the tone of "Sangati" towards Dalit women's future? 

(1) Hopeless and depressing 

(2) Ambivalent 

(3) Hopeful and empowering, emphasizing strength and education 

(4) Indifferent 

 

 

127. Which issue is taken up by the story 'Nandanar Street' written by Vizhi Pa ldayaventhan? 

(1) The intercaste brawl between two zamindars. 

(2) A rewriting of the story of Jabala, a public woman. 

(3) Coercion and conversion of the marginalised. 

(4) Ironic handling of the issue of lack of toilet facility. 

 

 

128. Petrarch wrote sonnets to his ideal woman ______. 

(1) Beatrice Portinari 

(2) Laura 

(3) Queen Elizabeth 

(4) Isabella d' Este 

 

 

129. Who is associated with the birth of Protestantism? 

(1) Martin Luther 

(2) John Calvin 

(3) William Tyndale 

(4) Huldrych Zwingli 

 

 

130. Sir Thomas More was beheaded in 1535 because – 

(1) He was a Protestant. 

(2) He declined to acknowledge the Pope. 

(3) He was inclined towards the Church of England. 

(4) He refused to honour the 'Act of Supremacy', making Henry the head of the Church in England. 

 

 

131. "And as for ye Latin or greke tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none can do better: In the Englysh tonge contrary, everhinge in a manner, so meanly..." The above quote is taken from which of the following texts? 

(1) Taxophilus by Roger Ascham 

(2) Utopia by Thomas More 

(3) Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus 

(4) Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory 

 

 

132. Barabas is the central character in which of the following play? 

(1) Tamburlaine 

(2) Edward-II 

(3) Dr. Faustus 

(4) The Jew of Malta 

 

 

133. Which of the following is the main theme of The Poetaster? 

(1) To ridicule the humors of the city. 

(2) To satirize the humors of the court. 

(3) To satirize the humors of the countryside. 

(4) To highlight a quarrel of Jonson with his contemporaries. 

 

 

134. ______ translation of ______ fixed a standard of good English, and at the same time brought that standard not only to the scholars but to the homes of common people. Fill in the blanks with appropriate options: 

(1) Thomas More's; The Sadness of Christ 

(2) Voltaire's; Love Letters of Great Men 

(3) Tyndale's; New Testament 

(4) David Hume's; A Treatise of Human Nature 

 

 

135. The play Women Beware Women has been written by: 

(1) Thomas Dekker 

(2) John Webster 

(3) Thomas Middleton 

(4) Beaumont and Fletcher 

 

 

136. Which of the following works did finally put an end to the trend of bringing classical metres into English poetry? 

(1) Defence of Rhyme 

(2) Art of English Poetry 

(3) Apology for Poetry 

(4) School of Abuse 

 

 

137. View of the State of Ireland was written by: 

(1) Philip Sidney 

(2) Edmund Spenser 

(3) Dr. Johnson 

(4) W.B. Yeats 

 

 

138. For which Historical work is Sir Walter Raleigh known? 

(1) The History of Latin Literature. 

(2) The History of Nordic Literature. 

(3) The History of the World. 

(4) The History of England. 

 

 

139. "We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." The above quote is taken from __________, spoken by ________. 

(1) King Lear; Edgar 

(2) King Lear; Cordelia 

(3) Tempest; Prospero 

(4) Antony and Cleopatra; Cleopatra 

 

 

140. Which of the following plays contains the "play within the play" known as Pyramus and Thisbe? 

(1) Hamlet 

(2) A Midsummer Night's Dream 

(3) Love's Labour's Lost 

(4) Twelfth Night 

 

 

141. The Tragedy of Mariam has come to be celebrated critically as the first original dramatic work by a woman in England. Who wrote this? 

(1) Aphra Behn 

(2) Elizabeth Cary 

(3) Anne Locke 

(4) Mary Sidney 

 

 

142. Life of William Shakespeare was written by - 

(1) Ben Jonson 

(2) Sidney Lee 

(3) A.C. Bradley 

(4) Ernest Jones 

 

 

143. Who commented on John Donne that he was 'the first poet of the world in some things' but likely to perish 'for not being understood'? 

(1) Dr. Johnson 

(2) Ben Jonson 

(3) T.S. Eliot 

(4) S.T. Coleridge 

 

 

144. Which work believed to have been written by John Webster did not survive in written form? 

(1) The White Devil 

(2) The Tragedy of Duchesse of Malfy 

(3) Northward Ho ! 

(4) Lady Jane 

 

 

145. John Donne's "The Flea" is a classic example of a metaphysical conceit because it 

(1) Employs conventional love imagery to express passion. 

(2) Uses an extended metaphor connecting a trivial object to a serious theme. 

(3) Focuses on pastoral simplicity and nature. 

(4) Follows strict rhyme schemes and metre typical of Elizabethan poetry. 

 

 

146. Which of the following is least characteristic of metaphysical poetry? 

(1) Frequent use of conceits 

(2) Emphasis on emotional spontaneity over intellectual play 

(3) Lyricism 

(4) Elevated thoughts and feelings 

 

 

147. Choose the correct option: The Vanity of Human Wishes by Dr. Johnson is written in which of the following forms? 

(1) Terza Rima 

(2) Free Verse 

(3) Blank Verse 

(4) Heroic Couplet 

 

 

148. Who among the below given writers wrote the following lines? "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance As those move easiest who have learned to dance." 

(1) Jonathan Swift 

(2) Oliver Goldsmith 

(3) Alexander Pope 

(4) Samuel Butler 

 

 

149. Who among the below given writers has been called 'The Shakespeare of divines' and 'a kind of Spenser in a cassock'? 

(1) Richard Baxter 

(2) Jeremy Taylor 

(3) Izaak Walton 

(4) Thomas Fuller 

 

 

150. The Faithful Sheperdess is a play by: 

(1) Francis Beaumont 

(2) John Fletcher 

(3) John Marston 

(4) John Webster