AP SET English Paper-II (2024)
Questions with Answers & Explanations
Q.1 Who introduced the term 'Weltliteratur' ?
1. Andre
Paul Guillaume Gide
2. Rene
Wellek
3. Thomas
Mann
4. Von
Goethe
Answer: 4
Explanation: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe coined the term
'Weltliteratur' (world literature) in the early 19th century to describe the
emerging global exchange of literary works.
Q.2 Death of a Discipline is a text on Comparative
Literature written by
1. Robert
Penn Warren
2. Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak
3. Mme de
Stael
4. Alexander
Pushkin
Answer: 2
Explanation: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a
Discipline (2003) critiques traditional comparative literature and advocates
for a new planetary approach.
Q.3 Who among the following writers was influenced by German
Gothic fiction ?
1. Edgar
Allen Poe
2. M. G.
Lewis
3. C. S.
Lewis
4. Hoffman
Answer: 1
Explanation: Edgar Allan Poe drew heavily from German Gothic
traditions (e.g., E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Schauerroman) in tales like “The Fall
of the House of Usher.”
Q.4 The term 'Lost Generation' was coined by
1. Virginia
Woolf
2. Dorothy
Richardson
3. Gertrude
Stein
4. W. H.
Auden
Answer: 3
Explanation: Gertrude Stein famously remarked to Ernest
Hemingway, “You are all a lost generation,” which he later used as an epigraph
in The Sun Also Rises.
Q.5 Name the Roman theoretician who wrote "Institutio
Oratoria".
1. Horace
2. Cicero
3. Quintilian
4. Longinus
Answer: 3
Explanation: Marcus Fabius Quintilian authored Institutio
Oratoria, the most comprehensive Roman treatise on rhetoric and education.
Q.6 Which of the following writers suggested
"Imitation" also as a method in Translation ?
1. Dryden
2. Pope
3. Dr.
Johnson
4. Tytler
Answer: 1
Explanation: John Dryden, in his “Preface to Ovid’s
Epistles,” classified translation into three types: metaphrase, paraphrase, and
imitation.
Q.7 The method of replacing one-word class with another
without changing the meaning of the message is called
1. Modulation
2. Calque
3. Loan
words
4. Transposition
Answer: 4
Explanation: Transposition (or shift) involves changing word
class (e.g., noun to verb) while preserving the original meaning, as defined in
translation studies by Catford.
Q.8 The Skopos theory was introduced by
1. Goethe
2. Jorge
Luis Borges
3. Hans J.
Vermeer
4. George
Steiner
Answer: 3
Explanation: Hans J. Vermeer proposed Skopos theory in the
1970s, emphasizing that the purpose (skopos) of the target text determines the
translation strategy.
Q.9 Icarus disobeying his father and flying close to the sun
only to have his wings of wax melted, can be termed as
1. Harangue
2. Hyperbole
3. Hyperbaton
4. Hubris
Answer: 4
Explanation: Hubris refers to excessive pride or
overconfidence that leads to downfall, exactly as shown in the Icarus myth.
Q.10 Lamb's first essay appeared in
1. The
Monarch
2. The
London Magazine
3. The
Little Swan
4. The
Oxford Journal
Answer: 2
Explanation: Charles Lamb’s first Elia essay, “Recollections
of the South Sea House,” was published in The London Magazine in August 1820.
Q.11 That part of linguistics which traces the origin of
words is known as
1. epistemology
2. etymology
3. ornithology
4. ontology
Answer: 2
Explanation: Etymology is the study of the origin and
historical development of words.
Q.12 Soft and hard palates are parts of the
1. vocal
organs
2. tongue
3. roof of
the mouth
4. oral
cavity
Answer: 3
Explanation: The soft palate (velum) and hard palate
together form the roof of the mouth and play a key role in speech articulation.
Q.13 Who among the following uses chorus as part of the
whole and assumes a share in the action ?
1. Euripedes
2. Pericles
3. Sophocles
4. Aeschylus
Answer: 4
Explanation: In Aeschylus’s tragedies, the chorus is deeply
integrated into the dramatic action and often participates as a character.
Q.14 Who said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a
scoundrel" ?
1. Boswell
2. Hazlitt
3. Samuel
Johnson
4. S. T.
Coleridge
Answer: 3
Explanation: Samuel Johnson made this famous remark in 1775,
recorded by James Boswell.
Q.15 The name of ______ is associated with Immediate
Constituent Analysis.
1. Leonard
Bloomfield
2. Noam
Chomsky
3. Saussure
4. Sigmund
Freud
Answer: 1
Explanation: Leonard Bloomfield developed Immediate
Constituent (IC) Analysis as a key method in structural linguistics.
Q.16 B. F. Skinner was the pioneer of
1. Behaviourism
2. Cognitivism
3. Empiricism
4. Logical
positivism
Answer: 1
Explanation: B.F. Skinner is the chief exponent of radical
behaviourism and operant conditioning in psychology.
Q.17 ______ is an informal, non-standard word or expression.
1. langue
2. creole
3. pidgin
4. slang
Answer: 4
Explanation: Slang consists of informal, non-standard
vocabulary used in casual speech.
Q.18 Derrida's 'differance' means
1. deferring
and referring
2. differing
and referring
3. differing
and deferring
4. differing
and inferring
Answer: 3
Explanation: Derrida’s neologism “différance” combines “to
differ” and “to defer,” highlighting the endless postponement of meaning.
Q.19 The science of studying languages by grouping them into
families is known as
1. etymology
2. pragmatics
3. philology
4. philosophy
Answer: 3
Explanation: Philology (comparative philology) classifies
languages into families based on historical relationships.
Q.20 Orwell's Animal Farm portrays
1. the
deformation of political ideas
2. the
dehumanization of human values
3. the
degeneration of communist ideals into dictatorship
4. the
success of capitalism
Answer: 3
Explanation: Animal Farm is a satirical allegory showing how
the Russian Revolution’s ideals degenerated into Stalinist totalitarianism.
Q.21 Who among the following won the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction in 1998 ?
1. Saul
Bellow
2. Toni
Morrison
3. Philip
Roth
4. Doris
Lessing
Answer: 3
Explanation: Philip Roth won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction for his novel American Pastoral.
Q.22 Who wrote the novel The Mistress of the Spices ?
1. Anita
Desai
2. Chitra
Banerjee Divakaruni
3. Kiran
Desai
4. Ruth
Prawer Jhavala
Answer: 2
Explanation: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of
Spices (1997) blends magical realism with the immigrant experience.
Q.23 Which novel of the following is not authored by Ernest
Hemingway ?
1. For Whom
the Bell Tolls
2. The Sun
Also Rises
3. A
Farewell to Arms
4. Judgement
Day
Answer: 4
Explanation: Judgment Day is not a work by Hemingway; the
others are among his major novels.
Q.24 Which play of Shakespeare was written for a Christmas
celebration ?
1. Twelfth
Night
2. Antony
and Cleopatra
3. A
Midsummer Night's Dream
4. All's
Well That Ends Well
Answer: 1
Explanation: Twelfth Night (or What You Will) was written
for performance on the Twelfth Night festival (Epiphany).
Q.25 Which of the following novels uses stream of
consciousness technique ?
1. Orwell's
Animal Farm
2. Aldous
Huxley's The Brave New World
3. H. G.
Wells' The Time Machine
4. Virginia
Woolf's The Waves
Answer: 4
Explanation: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a classic example
of the stream-of-consciousness technique.
Q.26 Rushdie's 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' is his first
attempt to deal with the theme of
1. religion
2. love
3. politics
4. fantasy
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) is Salman
Rushdie’s first major novel to centre on the theme of love set against a
rock-music backdrop.
Q.27 Oliver Goldsmith's only novel is
1. She
Stoops to Conquer
2. The
Traveler
3. The Vicar
of Wakefield
4. The
Citizen of the World
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) is Oliver
Goldsmith’s sole novel.
Q.28 Bram Stoker is the author of the popular
1. romances
2. gothic
horror
3. detective
stories
4. historical
fiction
Answer: 2
Explanation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is a landmark work
of Gothic horror.
Q.29 "Men fear death as children fear to go in the
dark". In which essay of Bacon this striking opening appears ?
1. Of
Revenge
2. Of
Studies
3. Of Garden
4. Of Death
Answer: 4
Explanation: The famous opening line appears in Francis
Bacon’s essay “Of Death.”
Q.30 The Feminine Mystique was authored by
1. Judith
Butler
2. Simone de
Beauvoir
3. Betty
Friedan
4. Virginia
Woolf
Answer: 3
Explanation: Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) is
a foundational text of second-wave feminism.
Q.31 What is concrete poetry ?
1. poems of
lamentation
2. a kind of
picture made out of printed type
3. confessional
poetry
4. digital
poems
Answer: 2
Explanation: Concrete poetry arranges words and letters
visually to form a picture or shape that reflects the poem’s meaning.
Q.32 Kitchen-sink-drama depicts
1. the
family lives of aristocratic class
2. the
family lives of middle class
3. the
family lives of working class
4. the
family lives of feudal class
Answer: 3
Explanation: Kitchen-sink drama (1950s–60s Britain)
realistically portrays the everyday lives of the working class.
Q.33 Fiction that openly comments on its own fictional
status is called
1. metafiction
2. memoir
novel
3. meta
criticism
4. cli-fi
Answer: 1
Explanation: Metafiction is self-referential fiction that
draws attention to its own constructed nature.
Q.34 The immediate cause of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was
the
1. Income
Tax
2. Professional
Tax
3. Poll Tax
4. Toll Gate
Tax
Answer: 3
Explanation: The third Poll Tax of 1381 triggered the
Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler.
Q.35 The general prologue of The Canterbury Tales begins
with a memorable description of
1. Summer
2. Winter
3. Spring
4. Autumn
Answer: 3
Explanation: Chaucer opens with the famous “Whan that Aprill
with his shoures soote” – a celebration of spring.
Q.36 Who among the following is a Cavalier poet?
1. Robert
Browning
2. Henry
Vaughan
3. George
Herbert
4. Sir John
Suckling
Answer: 4
Explanation: Sir John Suckling is a classic Cavalier poet
known for light, witty, courtly verse.
Q.37 Lycidas is a pastoral poem by Milton in memory of his
friend
1. Edward
King
2. Edward
Young
3. Edward I
4. Edward II
Answer: 1
Explanation: Milton wrote Lycidas as a pastoral elegy for
his Cambridge friend Edward King, who drowned in 1637.
Q.38 The poet who was known as a saint in the metaphysical
school is
1. Robert
Herrick
2. Henry
Vaughan
3. George
Herbert
4. Sir John
Suckling
Answer: 3
Explanation: George Herbert is often called the “saint” of
the Metaphysical poets for his devotional poetry.
Q.39 The poem "Elegy" written in a Country
Churchyard is written by
1. William
Collins
2. Samuel
Grant
3. Mathew
Prior
4. Thomas
Gray
Answer: 4
Explanation: Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard” (1751) is one of the most famous elegies in English.
Q.40 The extracts,
"A spring of Love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware;
And from my neck so free ....
The Albatross fell off ..."
indicates
1. Spiritual
recovery
2. Physical
recovery
3. Financial
recovery
4. Goods
recovery
Answer: 1
Explanation: These lines from Coleridge’s The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner mark the Mariner’s moment of spiritual redemption.
Q.41 The Faerie Queen contains ___ books.
1. 5
2. 6
3. 7
4. 4
Answer: 2
Explanation: Edmund Spenser completed six books of The
Faerie Queene; a seventh (Mutabilitie Cantos) was published posthumously.
Q.42 The famous line, “O brave new world” occurs in
1. The
Tempest
2. As You
Like it
3. Much Ado
About Nothing
4. Measure
for Measure
Answer: 1
Explanation: Miranda exclaims “O brave new world” in
Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Act V, Scene I).
Q.43 Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is set
in
1. London
2. Sidney
3. Dublin
4. New York
Answer: 3
Explanation: The novel is a semi-autobiographical depiction
of Stephen Dedalus’s youth in Dublin.
Q.44 Doris Lessing was awarded the Noble Prize for
Literature in
1. 2004
2. 2005
3. 2007
4. 2008
Answer: 3
Explanation: Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 2007.
Q.45 Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan is about the
1. freedom
movement
2. Indo-Pak
war
3. religious
strives
4. partition
of India
Answer: 4
Explanation: Train to Pakistan is a classic novel on the
Partition of India in 1947 and the communal violence that followed.
Q.46 Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary was later
revised by
1. Michael
West
2. A. S.
Hornby
3. A. C.
Gimson
4. Noam
Chomsky
Answer: 3
Explanation: A.C. Gimson revised and updated Daniel Jones’s
English Pronouncing Dictionary for many editions.
Q.47 Although there are ______ outbursts of gunfire, we can
report that the major rebellion has been suppressed.
1. bitter
2. heinous
3. meagre
4. sporadic
Answer: 4
Explanation: “Sporadic” means occurring at irregular
intervals – the only word that fits the context of occasional gunfire.
Q.48 Who is the narrator of The Midnight Children?
1. Rushdie
2. Saleem
Sinai
3. Alia
4. Padma
Mangroli
Answer: 2
Explanation: Saleem Sinai is the first-person narrator and
protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
Q.49 Sylvia Plath's only novel is
1. The Bell
Jar
2. The Old
Devils
3. Offshore
4. Possession
Answer: 1
Explanation: The Bell Jar (1963) is Sylvia Plath’s only
novel, published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.
Q.50 Which novel of R. K. Narayan's won the Sahitya Academy
award?
1. Swami and
Friends
2. The Guide
3. The
Bachelors of Arts
4. The
Vendor of Sweets
Answer: 2
Explanation: R.K. Narayan’s The Guide won the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1960.
Q.51 Which novel of Taslima Nasrin is found blasphemous ?
1. Grimus
2. The
Midnight's Children
3. Shodh
4. Lajja
Answer: 4
Explanation: Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja (1993) was banned and
declared blasphemous in Bangladesh for its critique of religious
fundamentalism.
Q.52 What are the two cities portrayed by Dickens in 'A Tale
of Two Cities'?
1. Paris and
New York
2. Paris and
London
3. Sidney
and London
4. Moscow
and Paris
Answer: 2
Explanation: Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
contrasts revolutionary Paris and London.
Q.53 What does the scarlet letter mean in Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter?
1. Goddess
2. Traitor
3. Adulteress
4. Priestess
Answer: 3
Explanation: The scarlet letter “A” stands for “Adulteress”
worn by Hester Prynne.
Q.54 Which one of the following works of Tagore is his novel
?
1. Chitra
2. The
Golden Boat
3. Gora
4. Late
Harvest
Answer: 3
Explanation: Gora (1910) is Rabindranath Tagore’s famous
novel exploring nationalism and identity.
Q.55 The 'Hundred Years War' was fought between
1. Germany
and France
2. England
and France
3. England
and Ireland
4. Germany
and Austria
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) was a series
of conflicts between England and France.
Q.56 Who is the author of "The Making of the English
Working Class", which seeks to encourage the culture of the marginalized ?
1. Raymond
Williams
2. E. P.
Thompson
3. Alan
Sinfield
4. Stephen
Greenblatt
Answer: 2
Explanation: E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English
Working Class (1963) is a landmark Marxist history from below.
Q.57 Which of the following critic created the term
'Metaphysical Poets' ?
1. John
Dryden
2. Samuel
Johnson
3. John
Donne
4. Andrew
Marvel
Answer: 2
Explanation: Samuel Johnson first used the term
“Metaphysical Poets” in his Lives of the Poets.
Q.58 Who was the first critic to use the term 'ecocriticism'
in 1978 ?
1. Michel
Foucault
2. William
Faulkner
3. Salman
Rushdie
4. William
Rueckert
Answer: 4
Explanation: William Rueckert coined the term “ecocriticism”
in his 1978 essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.”
Q.59 Sonnet 6 of Shakespeare juxtaposes
1. Life and
death
2. Narcissism
and death
3. Beauty
and death
4. Truth and
falsehood
Answer: 2
Explanation: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 6 contrasts self-love
(narcissism) with the inevitability of death and the need for procreation.
Q.60 Surrey referred to love in "The Fancy of a Wearied
Lover" as
1. Fancy
2. Imagination
3. Suffering
4. Life
Answer: 1
Explanation: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, uses “fancy” to
mean romantic love or desire in the poem.
Q.61 According to Bacon, Revenge is a kind of
1. apt
justice
2. cruel
justice
3. wild
justice
4. fearful
justice
Answer: 3
Explanation: Francis Bacon calls revenge “a kind of wild
justice” in his essay “Of Revenge.”
Q.62 How many pilgrims are there in 'The Canterbury Tales' ?
1. 27
2. 28
3. 29
4. 30
Answer: 3
Explanation: Chaucer describes 29 pilgrims (plus the
narrator makes 30) who meet at the Tabard Inn.
Q.63 The key British poet who popularized Tagore in the West
was
1. T. S.
Eliot
2. W. B.
Yeats
3. Philip
Larkin
4. Ted
Hughes
Answer: 2
Explanation: W.B. Yeats wrote the famous introduction to
Tagore’s Gitanjali and played a major role in introducing him to the West.
Q.64 Bakha is the central character in Mulk Raj Anand's
1. Untouchable
2. The Road
3. The
Bubble
4. Coolie
Answer: 1
Explanation: Bakha is the young sweeper protagonist of Mulk
Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935).
Q.65 Mahesh Dattani got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1998
for his famous play
1. Final
Solutions
2. Do the
Needful
3. Tara
4. Dance
like a Man
Answer: 4
Explanation: Mahesh Dattani received the Sahitya Akademi
Award in 1998 for his play Dance Like a Man.
Q.66 Who is the author of the work 'The Birth of Tragedy' ?
1. George
Steiner
2. Wilson
Knight
3. Nietzsche
4. Jean Paul
Sartre
Answer: 3
Explanation: Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
(1872) explores Greek drama and the Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy.
Q.67 Who uttered "The rest is Silence" before his
death ?
1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. Lear
4. Othello
Answer: 1
Explanation: These are Hamlet’s dying words in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet.
Q.68 Who is called the father of Imagism in English poetry ?
1. T. E.
Hulme
2. Osbert
Sitwell
3. Ezra
Pound
4. W. B.
Yeats
Answer: 3
Explanation: Ezra Pound is widely regarded as the father of
the Imagist movement.
Q.69 'Sprung Rhythm' is a term associated with the poetry
1. G. M.
Hopkins
2. Dylan
Thomas
3. T. S.
Eliot
4. Ted
Hughes
Answer: 1
Explanation: Gerard Manley Hopkins invented “sprung rhythm”
to capture the natural stress patterns of speech.
Q.70 Which play was Abraham Lincoln watching while he was
shot dead in Ford Theatre ?
1. Our
American Cousin
2. American
Dream
3. Arms and
the Man
4. Hamlet
Answer: 1
Explanation: President Lincoln was assassinated while
watching Tom Taylor’s comedy Our American Cousin.
Q.71 Who was described by Tagore as the inaugurator of
modern age in India ?
1. Gandhiji
2. Raja Ram
Mohan Roy
3. Ambedkar
4. Vivekananda
Answer: 2
Explanation: Rabindranath Tagore called Raja Ram Mohan Roy
“the inaugurator of the modern age in India.”
Q.72 Which play of Girish Karnad is modelled after Thomas
Mann's The Transposed Heads ?
1. Tughlaq
2. Nagamandala
3. Hayavadana
4. Yayati
Answer: 3
Explanation: Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana is based on Thomas
Mann’s novella The Transposed Heads.
Q.73 Lucky Jim is an interesting campus novel written by
1. Zadie
Smith
2. Charles
Kingsley
3. Kingsley
Amis
4. Philip
Roth
Answer: 3
Explanation: Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1954) is a seminal
campus novel satirising British academia.
Q.74 Who is the author of the work Karukku ?
1. Sivakami
2. Bama
3. Imayam
4. Mahasweta
Devi
Answer: 2
Explanation: Bama Faustina’s Karukku (1992) is a landmark
Dalit autobiography in Tamil.
Q.75 Which novel of James Joyce chronicles the events of one
single day in the life of the protagonist ?
1. A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Dubliners
3. Ulysses
4. Finnegans
Wake
Answer: 3
Explanation: Ulysses records the events of a single day (16
June 1904) in the lives of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom.
Q.76 Paul De Man belongs to the
1. French
school of structuralism
2. Russian
school of formalism
3. Yale
school of deconstruction
4. American
school of comparative studies
Answer: 3
Explanation: Paul de Man was a leading figure of the Yale
School of Deconstruction.
Q.77 The essay "The Resistance to Theory" was
published in the year
1. 1981
2. 1982
3. 1990
4. 1987
Answer: 4
Explanation: Paul de Man’s influential essay “The Resistance
to Theory” was published in 1987 (posthumously).
Q.78 Who is the author of the 'Untouchable Spring' ?
1. G.
Kalyana Rao
2. Gaddar
3. Kathi
Padmarao
4. Sivasagar
Answer: 1
Explanation: G. Kalyana Rao’s Untouchable Spring is a
celebrated Telugu Dalit novel.
Q.79 Edward Said's book Culture and Imperialism was
published in the year
1. 1993
2. 1994
3. 1995
4. 1996
Answer: 1
Explanation: Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism was
published in 1993.
Q.80 Which play has the following often quoted line
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of
death but once" ?
1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. Julius
Caesar
4. Othello
Answer: 3
Explanation: The lines are spoken by Julius Caesar in
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Q.81 Which, according to Foucault, try to control
'discourse' through the very gesture of giving it a place ?
1. Criticisms
2. Institutions
3. Factories
4. Associations
Answer: 2
Explanation: Foucault argues that institutions (such as
schools, prisons, and asylums) control discourse by authorising and delimiting
what can be said.
Q.82 Edward Said defines 'Imperialism' as the practice, the
theory and the attitude of
1. Third-world
nations
2. Postcolonial
territories
3. Decentralized
institutions
4. Dominating
Metropolitan centre
Answer: 4
Explanation: Said defines imperialism as “the practice, the
theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant
territory.”
Q.83 'Discourse', in the words of Foucault is not only a
medium, but also an
1. Object of
desire
2. Object of
rejection
3. Object of
reflection
4. Object of
resemblance
Answer: 1
Explanation: Foucault describes discourse as both an
instrument and an object of desire – something that is struggled for and
controlled.
Q.84 According to Shakespeare, where can love still shine
bright ?
1. Blue ink
2. White
sheet
3. Black ink
4. Green
leaves
Answer: 3
Explanation: In Sonnet 65, Shakespeare asks how love’s
“bright” can “shine bright” in “black ink.”
Q.85 Which story does Swami Vivekananda tell the Americans
to highlight the source of disagreement among human beings ?
1. The cat
and mouse
2. Crabs in
a bowel
3. Frogs in
the well
4. Fox in
the forest
Answer: 3
Explanation: Vivekananda used the parable of the frogs in
the well to illustrate narrow-mindedness and the source of human disagreement.
Q.86 Who is the author of 'The James Bond Novels' ?
1. John
LeCarre
2. Graham
Greene
3. Ian
Fleming
4. W.
Somerset Maugham
Answer: 3
Explanation: Ian Fleming created the James Bond series.
Q.87 The central character of Amitav Ghosh's novel 'The Sea
of Poppies' is
1. Neetu
2. Deeti
3. Sravanti
4. Nalini
Answer: 2
Explanation: Deeti is the central female protagonist in Sea
of Poppies, the first novel of the Ibis Trilogy.
Q.88 ______ is a famous book of George Manuel shedding light
on 'Fourth World Literature'.
1. The Idea
of World Literature
2. The World
of Ideas
3. The
Fourth World : An Indian Reality
4. Mapping
World Literature
Answer: 3
Explanation: George Manuel’s The Fourth World: An Indian
Reality (1974) is a foundational text on Fourth World (indigenous) literature.
Q.89 The essay "Kindly adjust to our English" is
written by
1. Shashi
Tharoor
2. Salman
Rushdie
3. Arundhati
Roy
4. Aravind
Adiga
Answer: 1
Explanation: Shashi Tharoor’s essay “Kindly Adjust to Our
English” humorously discusses Indian English.
Q.90 T. P. Kailasam is a prominent Indo-Anglian
1. Playwright
2. Critic
3. Novelist
4. Poet
Answer: 1
Explanation: T.P. Kailasam is one of the pioneers of modern
Indian English drama.
Q.91 The first English woman to earn her living as a
playwright was
1. Aphra
Behn
2. Nell
Gwynn
3. Lady
Teazle
4. Ann
Hathaway
Answer: 1
Explanation: Aphra Behn (1640–1689) was the first
professional female playwright in England.
Q.92 Which among the following poets wrote "Holy
Sonnets" ?
1. Shakespeare
2. Edmund
Spenser
3. John
Milton
4. John
Donne
Answer: 4
Explanation: John Donne wrote the Holy Sonnets, a series of
19 devotional poems.
Q.93 M. H. Abrams characterizes the recent history of
literary criticism as the triumph of
1. Age of
reading over the age of criticism
2. Age of
reasoning over the age of superstition
3. Age of
science over the age of religion
4. Age of
industrialism over the age of feudalism
Answer: 1
Explanation: M.H. Abrams described the 20th century as the
triumph of the “age of reading” over the “age of criticism.”
Q.94 Whose political novels have been referred to as
Palliser novels ?
1. Bernard
Shaw
2. Anthony
Trollope
3. George
Orwell
4. John
Updike
Answer: 2
Explanation: Anthony Trollope’s six Palliser novels form a
political series centred on Plantagenet Palliser.
Q.95 Who called The Waste Land 'a music of ideas' ?
1. Allen
Tate
2. J. C.
Ransom
3. I. A.
Richards
4. F. R.
Leavis
Answer: 3
Explanation: I.A. Richards described The Waste Land as “a
music of ideas” in his critical writings.
Q.96 Who was the first to expound the 'alienation effect' in
theatre ?
1. Arthur
Miller
2. Henrik
Ibsen
3. Emile
Zola
4. Bertolt
Brecht
Answer: 4
Explanation: Bertolt Brecht developed and theorised the
“alienation effect” (Verfremdungseffekt) in epic theatre.
Q.97 Who is the author of the play The Dumb Dancer ?
1. Vijay
Tendulkar
2. Asif
Currimbhoy
3. Badal
Sircar
4. Girish
Karnad
Answer: 2
Explanation: Asif Currimbhoy wrote The Dumb Dancer.
Q.98 Who is the architect of the "Theatre of
cruelty" ?
1. Grotowski
2. Stanislavski
3. Eugene
O'neill
4. Antonin
Artaud
Answer: 4
Explanation: Antonin Artaud formulated the Theatre of
Cruelty.
Q.99 Who established the "theatre of the
oppressed" in the west ?
1. Bertolt
Brecht
2. Alfred
Jarry
3. Jean
Cocteau
4. Augusto
Boal
Answer: 4
Explanation: Augusto Boal founded the Theatre of the
Oppressed.
Q.100 Which of the following play is considered as the first
of the genre 'Kitchen sink realism' ?
1. All My
Sons
2. Look Back
in Anger
3. The Glass
Menagerie
4. Doll's
House
Answer: 2
Explanation: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956) is
regarded as the first major “kitchen-sink” play.
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