Assistant-Professor-Sanskrit-Education-Department-English-Official-Question-Paper-1
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Q1. Who is the messenger of the poet?
(1) His friend
(2) His poem ✅
(3) Mæonides
(4) The wind
Answer:- (2) His poem ✅
Explanation:- The poet sends his words as messengers since he cannot physically travel “the way [he] shall not pass along.”
Q2. Why does the poet call the poem ‘an archaic song’?
(1) Because he presumes to live for a thousand years.
(2) Because his poem is a classical piece.
(3) Because he imagines that the poem will be received by the readers a thousand years hence. ✅
(4) Because he is an old man.
Answer:- (3) Because he imagines that the poem will be received by the readers a thousand years hence. ✅
Explanation:- The phrase “I who am dead a thousand years” implies a far-future reader receiving a very old poem.
Q3. The fourth stanza reflects on the idea –
(1) of vanquishing others in wars.
(2) of the fleeting nature of reality.
(3) whether humankind sustains the ideas put forth by Mæonides. ✅
(4) whether human race blindly follows the dead old traditions.
Answer:- (3) whether humankind sustains the ideas put forth by Mæonides. ✅
Explanation:- The stanza references Mæonides (Homer), suggesting a continuity of poetic and philosophical ideas.
Q4. ‘And prayers to them who sit above?’ Who is ‘them’ referred to in the above lines?
(1) Gods and Goddesses ✅
(2) Kings
(3) Prophets
(4) Saints
Answer:- (1) Gods and Goddesses ✅
Explanation:- “Them who sit above” refers to divine beings—i.e., Gods and Goddesses.
Q5. Choose the literary device used in the phrase ‘Cruel Sky’.
(1) Chiasmus
(2) Anti-thesis
(3) Synecdoche
(4) Personification ✅
Answer:- (4) Personification ✅
Explanation:- The phrase attributes human qualities (cruelty) to the sky, which is personification.
Q6. With whom does the poet compare himself?
(1) Mæonides ✅
(2) Fierce wind
(3) Unseen friend
(4) Student of English tongue
Answer:- (1) Mæonides ✅
Explanation:- He draws a parallel to the ancient blind poet Mæonides, implying a poetic lineage.
Q7. “But have you wine and music still And statues and a bright-eyed love” — In the above lines the poet –
(1) is pained at the frivolous merry-making of youth.
(2) is bothered about the physical aspect of life.
(3) wonders if the aesthetic aspects of life have endured. ✅
(4) wishes to do away with wine, music and love.
Answer:- (3) wonders if the aesthetic aspects of life have endured. ✅
Explanation:- The poet is reflecting on whether beauty, art, and love still persist over time.
Q8. Find out the synonym of the word ‘Consummate’ from the given options.
(1) Cumbersome
(2) Obtrusive
(3) Faultless ✅
(4) Mighty
Answer:- (3) Faultless ✅
Explanation:- ‘Consummate’ means complete or perfect in every way — synonymously, ‘faultless.’
Q9. “I send my soul through time and space” — The above line expresses:
(1) Ephemeral nature of poet’s words.
(2) The mortality of the poet.
(3) Condescending attitude of the poet.
(4) Reaching out to future readers. ✅
Answer:- (4) Reaching out to future readers. ✅
Explanation:- The poet speaks directly to a future reader, transcending time.
Q10. The poet in the poem concerns himself –
(1) with the progress in understanding the meaning of life. ✅
(2) with the physical constructs of the world.
(3) with the technological advancements.
(4) with the need of vanquishing others.
Answer:- (1) with the progress in understanding the meaning of life. ✅
Explanation:- The poet’s concern is not material, but with philosophical and aesthetic endurance.
Q11. The basic sentence pattern of the following sentence is –
“The children left the little puppy on the road.”
(1) S V O A ✅
(2) S V O C
(3) S V O O
(4) SVC
Answer:- (1) S V O A ✅
Explanation:- Subject = “The children”, Verb = “left”, Object = “the little puppy”, Adjunct (Adverbial) = “on the road”.
Q12. Change into a compound sentence:
“He ate a fungus by mistake which made him sick.”
(1) Sick he was made by a fungus which he ate.
(2) Eating a fungus by mistake he was made sick.
(3) He ate a fungus by mistake and it made him sick. ✅
(4) By mistaking a fungus for food he was made sick.
Answer:- (3) He ate a fungus by mistake and it made him sick. ✅
Explanation:- It joins two independent clauses with “and”, forming a compound sentence.
Q13. Choose the grammatically correct sequence of tenses and mark the sentence which is incorrect.
(1) Have you been waiting long?
(2) Only have I had known, I wouldn’t had waited. ✅
(3) What have you been doing lately?
(4) You’ve been playing on the computer since Seven O’clock.
Answer:- (2) Only have I had known, I wouldn’t had waited. ✅
Explanation:- Correct form should be: “If only I had known, I wouldn’t have waited.”
Q14. Change into a compound sentence –
“He is a man of integrity whom we all respect.”
(1) Being a man of integrity we all respect him.
(2) He is a man of integrity and we all respect him. ✅
(3) To integrate all being his virtue he is respected.
(4) He is integrative though we all respect him.
Answer:- (2) He is a man of integrity and we all respect him. ✅
Explanation:- This forms a compound sentence with two independent clauses.
Q15. Tick the correct option for the given blanks –
“She had ___ covered a couple of kilometres ___ car broke down.”
(1) so, that
(2) but also, only
(3) as, when
(4) hardly, when ✅
Answer:- (4) hardly, when ✅
Explanation:- “Hardly… when” is the correct correlative pair for such contexts.
Q16. Fill in the blank with the correct modal –
“You ___ indulge in plagiarism.”
(1) nayn’t
(2) shant riot
(3) used not
(4) ought not ✅
Answer:- (4) ought not ✅
Explanation:- “Ought not” is the correct modal to express moral prohibition.
Q17. Fill in the blanks using the correct form of tense –
“In the evenings, I often play chess with my next door neighbour. I ___ (play) chess with him ever since I ___ (come) to live here ten years ago.”
(1) had played; come
(2) have played; came ✅
(3) will play; will came
(4) play; come
Answer:- (2) have played; came ✅
Explanation:- “Have played” (present perfect) is used for an action continuing till now; “came” (simple past) indicates the point of beginning.
Q18. Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb in agreement with its subject –
“The captain, as well as the other players, ___ tired.”
(1) was ✅
(2) are
(3) have
(4) were
Answer:- (1) was ✅
Explanation:- The subject “The captain” is singular; the phrase “as well as…” is parenthetical.
Q19. Fill in the blank with correct preposition –
“UAE stands ___ United Arab Emirates.”
(1) for ✅
(2) with
(3) about
(4) in
Answer:- (1) for ✅
Explanation:- “Stands for” is the correct phrasal verb meaning “represents.”
Q20. Change into a complex sentence by joining the two simple sentences –
“I worked hard. She was never satisfied.”
(1) I worked hard than she was not satisfied.
(2) Working hard by me never was she satisfied.
(3) However hard I worked, she was never satisfied. ✅
(4) I worked hard but she was never satisfied.
Answer:- (3) However hard I worked, she was never satisfied. ✅
Explanation:- “However hard I worked” is a subordinate clause making this a complex sentence.
Q21. Identify the structure pattern of the sentence given below from the options.
“He could neither help Ramesh nor me.”
(1) Simple
(2) Complex
(3) Compound ✅
(4) Complex-Compound
Answer:- (3) Compound ✅
Explanation:- The sentence contains two clauses joined by “neither… nor”, making it a compound sentence.
Q22. Which of the following idiom means ‘make peace’?
(1) To bury the hatchet ✅
(2) Take up the cudgels
(3) To talk shop
(4) To break the ice
Answer:- (1) To bury the hatchet ✅
Explanation:- “To bury the hatchet” is an idiom that means to make peace or end a conflict.
Q23. Fill in the blank with the correct tense.
“He ___, and will now have to look for another job.”
(1) will be resigned
(2) has resigned ✅
(3) has been resigned
(4) would resign
Answer:- (2) has resigned ✅
Explanation:- “Has resigned” (present perfect) is the correct form to indicate a recent past action relevant to the present.
Q24. Fill in the blank with the correct form of verb.
“You had better turn that music down before your mother ___.”
(1) gets ✅
(2) got
(3) get
(4) had gotten
Answer:- (1) gets ✅
Explanation:- In “had better” constructions, the present simple tense is used after “before”.
Q25. Fill in the blank with the correct tense form.
“The jury ___ the prisoner guilty.”
(1) founded
(2) fined
(3) found ✅
(4) finded
Answer:- (3) found ✅
Explanation:- “Found” is the correct past tense of “find” and fits grammatically.
Q26. When the new Professor joined the English department in 2018, Professor Das ___ five years.
(1) had already been teaching ✅
(2) has already taught
(3) has already been teaching
(4) will already teach
Answer:- (1) had already been teaching ✅
Explanation:- Past perfect continuous is used to indicate an action that began before another past action.
Q27. Fill in the blank with the correct phrasal verb.
“You were ___ to be a teacher.”
(1) cut out ✅
(2) cut down
(3) cut off
(4) cut up
Answer:- (1) cut out ✅
Explanation:- “Cut out for” means to be suited for a particular purpose or role.
Q28. Fill in the blanks with correct set of articles from the given options.
“A great deal of illness originates in ___ mind.”
(1) The, the
(2) A, zero
(3) The, a
(4) A, the ✅
Answer:- (4) A, the ✅
Explanation:- “A great deal” is a general expression; “the mind” refers to the specific concept of the human mind.
Q29. Change the following sentence into passive –
“The members of the jury choose Falosity to be crowned the queen of the carnival.”
(1) Falosity was chosen to be crowned to be the queen of carnival by the member of the jury. ✅
(2) Falosity was crowned in the carnival by the queen and the member of the jury.
(3) Crowning of Falosity on the queen of carnival was done by the member of jury.
(4) Crowned to be the queen of the carnival by the member of the jury Falosity was choosed.
Answer:- (1) Falosity was chosen to be crowned to be the queen of carnival by the member of the jury. ✅
Explanation:- Passive voice: Subject (Falosity) + was chosen + to be crowned (infinitive construction).
Q30. Choose the correct determiner to fill in the blank.
“___ monkey in man still survives.”
(1) Little
(2) The
(3) Any
(4) A ✅
Answer:- (4) A ✅
Explanation:- “A monkey in man” refers to a certain primitive instinct; “a” is used to refer to any one unspecified instance.
Q31. Fill in the blank with the grammatically correct option.
“He thanked me for what I __________.”
(1) done
(2) doing
(3) have done ✅
(4) have did
Answer:- (3) have done ✅
Explanation:- The present perfect tense “have done” correctly expresses a completed action relevant to the present.
Q32. The sentence pattern of the following sentence is –
“Your memory’s at fault.”
(1) S V O
(2) S V C (Adverbial) ✅
(3) S V A O
(4) SV
Answer:- (2) S V C (Adverbial) ✅
Explanation:- “At fault” is an adverbial complement describing the subject’s condition.
Q33. Fill in the blank with suitable idiom –
“His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has __________.”
(excited the hostility or adverse criticism of a large number of people)
(1) stirred up a hornet’s nest ✅
(2) made his mark
(3) buried the hatchet
(4) put his foot down
Answer:- (1) stirred up a hornet’s nest ✅
Explanation:- “To stir up a hornet’s nest” means to provoke trouble or controversy.
Q34. Fill in the blank space with correct modal auxiliary from the options.
“I wish people __________ not talk so much.”
(1) would ✅
(2) can
(3) need
(4) shall
Answer:- (1) would ✅
Explanation:- “Would” is used to express a wish or desire about others’ behavior.
Q35. Fill in the blank with the correct determiner.
“He was tall __________ to reach the shelf.”
(1) too
(2) quite
(3) much
(4) enough ✅
Answer:- (4) enough ✅
Explanation:- “Enough” is used to show sufficient height for a purpose.
Q36. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.
“He was overwhelmed __________ grief.”
(1) with ✅
(2) in
(3) by
(4) of
Answer:- (1) with ✅
Explanation:- “Overwhelmed with grief” is the correct collocation.
Q37. Fill in the blank by choosing appropriate question tag from the options given below.
“See that she gets safely back, __________?”
(1) isn’t she
(2) does she
(3) won’t you ✅
(4) will you
Answer:- (3) won’t you ✅
Explanation:- “See that…” is an imperative; the polite tag is “won’t you?”
Q38. Choose the grammatically correct statement from the options.
(1) That was the most delicious meal that I’ve ever eaten. ✅
(2) The steak is the most expensive than the fish.
(3) This restaurant is nice than Pizza House.
(4) Michael Jackson is one of the more famous pop singers ever.
Answer:- (1) That was the most delicious meal that I’ve ever eaten. ✅
Explanation:- This is the only grammatically correct and well-formed sentence among the options.
Q39. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
“They saw a flower fall.”
(1) A flower was seen to fall. ✅
(2) A flower had been seen falling.
(3) A flower was seen to be fallen.
(4) A flower had been seen to fall.
Answer:- (1) A flower was seen to fall. ✅
Explanation:- This is the correct passive form for perception verbs like “see”.
Q40. I can no longer __________ with her insolence. (tolerate)
(1) put up with ✅
(2) put off
(3) put down
(4) put out with
Answer:- (1) put up with ✅
Explanation:- “Put up with” is a phrasal verb that means to tolerate or endure.
Q41. In which one of the following sentences, the use of tense is NOT correct?
(1) He had been ill for two days when the doctor was sent for.
(2) He will write to his friend before he went to school. ✅
(3) The rain had stopped when she arrived.
(4) I had done my work when my friend came to see me.
Answer:- (2) He will write to his friend before he went to school. ✅
Explanation:- The tense usage is incorrect because “will write” (future) doesn’t match “went” (past). It should be “before he goes to school.”
Q42. In which one of the following tenses, there is an error? (of tense)
(1) I have not written the letter yet.
(2) The old man died of cold last night.
(3) The boy did not reply when called.
(4) The boy had not replied when called. ✅
Answer:- (4) The boy had not replied when called. ✅
Explanation:- The use of past perfect (“had not replied”) is unnecessary here as there’s no subsequent past action; simple past is preferred.
Q43. Fill in the blank with the correct modal.
“The money has disappeared — who __________ have taken it?”
(1) could ✅
(2) shall
(3) will
(4) can’t
Answer:- (1) could ✅
Explanation:- “Could” expresses possibility in the past and is suitable for speculative questions.
Q44. Yesterday the children went __________ a walk and didn’t get back __________ 10 p.m.
(1) to; since
(2) at; in
(3) for; till ✅
(4) on; at
Answer:- (3) for; till ✅
Explanation:- The correct preposition pair is “for a walk” and “till 10 p.m.”
Q45. Which one of the following sentences is correct?
(1) Every of the boys was given a fountain pen.
(2) Each of the boys were given a fountain pen.
(3) Each of the boys was given a fountain pen. ✅
(4) Many of the boys was given a fountain pen.
Answer:- (3) Each of the boys was given a fountain pen. ✅
Explanation:- “Each” is singular, so it takes the singular verb “was.”
Q46. Which one of the following sentences has errors? (of articles)
(1) I bought a dozen oranges.
(2) Everest is the highest peak in the world.
(3) The fog was so thick that we couldn’t see the side of the road.
(4) A bird in hand is worth to in the bush. ✅
Answer:- (4) A bird in hand is worth to in the bush. ✅
Explanation:- The phrase should be “worth two in the bush,” not “to.”
Q47. In which one of the following sentences, the use of ‘modals’ is NOT correct?
(1) He must have reached home by this time.
(2) You must be hungry after a long walk.
(3) We shall sing and dance.
(4) We can obey the laws of the country. ✅
Answer:- (4) We can obey the laws of the country. ✅
Explanation:- “Can” indicates ability, but here obligation (“must/should”) is more appropriate.
Q48. Fill in the blank with a modal that expresses occasional possibility.
“Sometimes he __________ be very unreasonable.”
(1) ought
(2) need
(3) could ✅
(4) must
Answer:- (3) could ✅
Explanation:- “Could” expresses possibility, especially occasional or uncertain one.
Q49. Choose the correct phrasal verb for the given blank.
“She thinks her neighbours __________ on her a bit because she’s never been abroad.”
(1) look up
(2) look down ✅
(3) look for
(4) look round
Answer:- (2) look down ✅
Explanation:- “Look down on” means to regard someone with contempt or as inferior.
Q50. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.
“He would think it __________ him to tell a lie.”
(1) beneath ✅
(2) above
(3) beside
(4) under
Answer:- (1) beneath ✅
Explanation:- “Beneath” here means below one’s dignity, which is the correct sense.
Q51. Which one of the following sentences has an error? (of tense)
(1) She has written letters for sometime before the postman came. ✅
(2) Had he not been misappropriating funds for a long time before he was dismissed?
(3) She had been working in this office for two years before her father returned from America.
(4) Had the students been talking for fifteen minutes when the teacher came?
Answer: (1) She has written letters for sometime before the postman came. ✅
Explanation: The present perfect (“has written”) shouldn’t be used with “before the postman came” – simple past is needed.
Q52. In which one of the following sentences, the use of ‘may’ is NOT correct? (concept expressed… PURPOSE)
(1) Obey your parents so that you may prosper in life.
(2) May you prosper in all that you do!
(3) Use fertilizers so that you may have a rich harvest.
(4) Eat that you may live: don’t live that you may eat. ✅
Answer: (2) May you prosper in all that you do! ✅
Explanation: Here “may” expresses a wish, not purpose, so it doesn’t fit the purpose construction criterion.
Q53. Identify the sentence with an erroneous use of determiner:
(1) He has hardly any money.
(2) All I ask for is the little help from you. ✅
(3) He has to take medicine every four hours.
(4) Any option is feasible.
Answer: (2) All I ask for is the little help from you. ✅
Explanation: “the little help” isn’t correct – it should be “a little help.”
Q54. Which one of the following sentences is NOT correct? (use of modals)
(1) The weather has been excellent, so we may expect a good harvest.
(2) He can speak German well when he was young, but he has forgotten most of it now. ✅
(3) I can outdo every competitor.
(4) A plan of the new housing estate may be seen at the offices of the town council.
Answer: (2) He can speak German well when he was young… ✅
Explanation: “can” isn’t correct for a past ability – “could” is needed for past reference.
Q55. The correct meaning of the underlined idiom in „I expect he will come round within a week.‟
(1) Recover ✅
(2) Quarrel
(3) Agreed
(4) Get his dues
Answer: (1) Recover ✅
Explanation: “Come round” here means to regain consciousness or recover.
Q56. Sentence pattern – “The trouble is that we are short of money.”
(1) SVAA
(2) SVOA
(3) SVC ✅
(4) SVO
Answer: (3) SVC ✅
Explanation: “The trouble” (subject) + “is” (verb) + “that…” (complement).
Q57. Sentence pattern – “I explained to him the impossibility of granting his request.”
(1) SVOC
(2) SVAA
(3) SVOA
(4) SVOO ✅
Answer: (4) SVOO ✅
Explanation: “I” (S) + “explained” (V) + “to him” (IO) + “the impossibility…” (DO).
Q58. Sentence pattern – “The governor set the prisoner free.”
(1) SVOO
(2) SVA
(3) SVOC ✅
(4) SVOAA
Answer: (3) SVOC ✅
Explanation: “free” here is an object complement, describing the prisoner.
Q59. Convert passive to active – “The hostages were made to lie down (by the terrorists).”
(1) The terrorists asked the hostages to lie down.
(2) The terrorists made the hostages lie down. ✅
(3) The hostages were laid down by the terrorists.
(4) The hostages were asked to lie down (by the terrorists).
Answer: (2) The terrorists made the hostages lie down. ✅
Explanation: Direct active conversion of the passive structure.
Q60. Convert to simple sentence – “If I make a promise, I keep it.”
(1) I make a promise only to keep it.
(2) When I make a promise, I keep it.
(3) I make a promise and I keep it. ✅
(4) I make a promise so that I keep it.
Answer: (3) I make a promise and I keep it. ✅
Explanation: A compound sentence that directly conveys the condition and result simply.
Q61. Change the following sentence into passive voice:
They say he is a dacoit.
(1) He was said to have been a dacoit.
(2) He is said to have been a dacoit.
(3) He is said to be a dacoit. ✅
(4) He was said to be a dacoit.
Answer:- (3) He is said to be a dacoit. ✅
Explanation:- The verb “say” changes to “is said,” and “he is a dacoit” remains present simple passive – “he is said to be a dacoit.”
Q62. Transform into complex sentence:
The boy was too weak to walk.
(1) The boy was very weak and so he could not walk.
(2) He was weak enough to walk.
(3) The boy was so weak that he could not walk. ✅
(4) The boy was weak therefore he could not walk.
Answer:- (3) The boy was so weak that he could not walk. ✅
Explanation:- “Too…to” is transformed into a complex structure using “so…that.”
Q63. Convert to compound sentence:
Unless you do as I tell you, you will regret it.
(1) Do as I tell you, or you will regret it. ✅
(2) When you do what I tell you and you will regret it.
(3) If you don’t do what I tell, you will regret it.
(4) Without doing what I tell, you will regret it.
Answer:- (1) Do as I tell you, or you will regret it. ✅
Explanation:- “Unless” is a conditional negative; equivalent compound form uses “or.”
Q64. Change into active voice:
We were alarmed at the news.
(1) The news alarmed us. ✅
(2) The news had alarmed at us.
(3) The news has alarmed us.
(4) The news alarm us.
Answer:- (1) The news alarmed us. ✅
Explanation:- Passive structure “were alarmed” becomes “alarmed us” in active.
Q65. Change into negative statement:
Only a stupid person would do this.
(1) No stupid person would do this.
(2) None but a stupid person would do this. ✅
(3) A stupid person would not do this.
(4) A stupid person does not do this.
Answer:- (2) None but a stupid person would do this. ✅
Explanation:- “Only” in affirmative transforms into “none but” in negative form.
Q66. Change to indirect speech:
She says, “I am happy to be here this evening.”
(1) She says she is happy to be here this evening. ✅
(2) She said she is happy to be here this evening.
(3) She said she was happy to be there that evening.
(4) She says she was happy to be there that evening.
Answer:- (1) She says she is happy to be here this evening. ✅
Explanation:- Present reporting verb “says” keeps the reported speech in present tense.
Q67. Indirect speech conversion:
“Do you know when he will buy a car?” I said to her.
(1) I asked her when he would buy a car.
(2) I asked her if he had known when he would buy a car.
(3) I asked her if he know when she would buy a car.
(4) I asked her if she knew when he would buy a car. ✅
Answer:- (4) I asked her if she knew when he would buy a car. ✅
Explanation:- Question converted with appropriate backshifting and indirect format.
Q68. Change to negative interrogative:
Do you like my new dress?
(1) Why don’t you like my new dress?
(2) Can’t you like my new dress?
(3) Didn’t you liked my new dress?
(4) Don’t you like my new dress? ✅
Answer:- (4) Don’t you like my new dress? ✅
Explanation:- Negative interrogative in present simple is formed with “Don’t you…”
Q69. Change into direct speech:
My friend welcomed us.
(1) My friend said to welcome us.
(2) “I welcomed you”, said my friend.
(3) My friend said, “Welcome!” ✅
(4) My friend said, “We are welcome?”
Answer:- (3) My friend said, “Welcome!” ✅
Explanation:- The verb “welcomed” changes into an exclamatory greeting.
Q70. Change into interrogative sentence:
She has enough money.
(1) Does she have enough money? ✅
(2) Has she have enough money?
(3) Does she has enough money?
(4) Do she has enough money?
Answer:- (1) Does she have enough money? ✅
Explanation:- Present simple interrogative uses “does + subject + base verb.”
Q71. Who proposed a “genealogical” or “archaeological” analysis of discourse?
(1) Guattari
(2) Barthes
(3) Lacan
(4) Foucault ✅
Answer:- (4) Foucault ✅
Explanation:- Michel Foucault developed the concepts of “archaeology” and “genealogy” as methods to analyze discourse and historical knowledge formations.
Q72. According to Elaine Showalter the subjects of ______ are “the history, styles, themes, genres and structures of writing by women.”
(1) Gynocriticism ✅
(2) Misandry
(3) Phallocentrism
(4) Kyriarchy
Answer:- (1) Gynocriticism ✅
Explanation:- Gynocriticism is a term coined by Showalter focusing on female literary tradition and authorship.
Q73. Who cast New Historicism as “an empirical means of representation rather than a dogmatic theory”?
(1) D.G. Myers and Patricia Waugh
(2) Camille Paglia and Neema Parvini
(3) Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher ✅
(4) Clifford Geertz and Michel Foucault
Answer:- (3) Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher ✅
Explanation:- Greenblatt and Gallagher described New Historicism as interpretative rather than prescriptive.
Q74. Dryden’s A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire was published as a preface to the translation of –
(1) Ovid and Catullus
(2) Horace and Virgil
(3) The Satires of Juvenal ✅
(4) Homer and Hesiod
Answer:- (3) The Satires of Juvenal ✅
Explanation:- Dryden wrote this essay as a preface to his translation of Juvenal’s satires, establishing critical standards for satire.
Q75. While earlier critics expressed concern for the ‘writer’, Joseph Addison’s concern was for the ‘reader’ as to –
(1) Provide the reader understanding of literature at Clubs & Pubs.
(2) Provide the readers an opportunity to meet great masters at coffee houses.
(3) What books he should like and how he should like them. ✅
(4) Facilitate the readers with moving Libraries near the coffee houses.
Answer:- (3) What books he should like and how he should like them. ✅
Explanation:- Addison’s essays in The Spectator aimed at cultivating readers’ taste and literary sensibility.
Q76. Who among the following poets belonged to the ‘Pre-Raphaelite Movement’ and believed in L’art pour L’art?
(a) D.G. Rossetti
(b) Edward Burne-Jones
(c) A.C. Swinburne
(d) William Morris
(1) a, b and d
(2) a and b
(3) a, b and c ✅
(4) a and c
Answer:- (3) a, b and c ✅
Explanation:- The Pre-Raphaelites included artists like Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Swinburne, who believed in aestheticism (art for art’s sake).
Q77. Who coined the term écriture féminine and in which work?
(1) Hélène Cixous in The Laugh of the Medusa ✅
(2) Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex
(3) Kate Millett in Sexual Politics
(4) Virginia Woolf in The Three Guineas
Answer:- (1) Hélène Cixous in The Laugh of the Medusa ✅
Explanation:- Cixous introduced écriture féminine as a way of expressing female experience in language.
Q78. Which critical theory argues that literature is not a timeless reflection of universal truths but rather a product of historical and cultural contexts?
(1) Structuralism
(2) New Historicism ✅
(3) Deconstruction
(4) New Criticism
Answer:- (2) New Historicism ✅
Explanation:- New Historicism insists on the importance of historical and cultural context in interpreting texts.
Q79. Derrida uses the term Phonocentrism to describe –
(1) The privileging of speech over writing ✅
(2) Difference and differment
(3) The privileging of writing over speech
(4) The centre
Answer:- (1) The privileging of speech over writing ✅
Explanation:- Derrida critiques Western thought’s tendency to prioritize speech as more immediate and authentic than writing.
Q80. Who developed the thesis that language is ‘masculine’ and the female writer suffers using a male-structured medium?
(1) Hélène Cixous – The Laugh of the Medusa
(2) Elaine Showalter – Écriture Féminine
(3) Dale Spender – Man Made Language ✅
(4) Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar – Sexual Linguistics
Answer:- (3) Dale Spender – Man Made Language ✅
Explanation:- Spender argued that language systems are constructed in a male-centric way, making it challenging for women to express themselves authentically.
Q81. According to Lacan, before the self emerges, the young child exists in a realm called the Imaginary. Between six and eighteen months comes the ______ when the child conceives of itself as separate from the world.
(1) dream stage
(2) Oedipal stage
(3) id-stage
(4) mirror-stage ✅
Answer:- (4) mirror-stage ✅
Explanation:- Lacan’s mirror stage marks the point when an infant recognizes their reflection as themselves, initiating identity formation and separation from others.
Q82. In his Discoveries, Ben Jonson’s approach to plot in drama was characterized by –
(1) adherence to the unities of time, place and action ✅
(2) emphasis on the absurd and irrational
(3) deep psychological complexity
(4) distinction between single & multi-plots
Answer:- (1) adherence to the unities of time, place and action ✅
Explanation:- Jonson advocated classical unities in dramatic structure, reflecting his neoclassical orientation.
Q83. ‘Organic form’, the concept promoted by S.T. Coleridge, argues that –
(a) In an artistic work, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
(b) ‘Form’ and ‘content’ fuse indivisibly.
(c) It tends to be hostile to genre and convention.
(d) It combines contradictory terms yoked by force.
Correct Option:
(1) a, b and c ✅
(2) a and b
(3) a and d
(4) a and c
Answer:- (1) a, b and c ✅
Explanation:- Coleridge believed that art should grow naturally like an organism, not be shaped by external rules, hence rejecting rigid genre norms.
Q84. Which one of the following pairs refers to language as a set of impersonal rules and conventions; and language actually manifested and concretized?
(1) Synchrony and Diachrony
(2) Signified and Signifier
(3) Langue and Parole ✅
(4) Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
Answer:- (3) Langue and Parole ✅
Explanation:- In Saussurean linguistics, langue is the structured system of language, and parole is its individual use.
Q85. Lord Byron wrote in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers:
“I shall publish, right or wrong
Fools are my theme, let Satire be my song”
Which two Romantic poets did he lampoon as ‘simple’ and ‘turgid’?
(1) Wordsworth and Coleridge ✅
(2) Keats and Shelley
(3) Walter Scott and Robert Southey
(4) Blake and Burns
Answer:- (1) Wordsworth and Coleridge ✅
Explanation:- Byron mocked the simplicity and emotional excess of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s poetry in this satirical work.
Q86. Which of the following statements regarding Descartes is NOT correct?
(1) He is universally acknowledged as one of the chief architects of modernity.
(2) He was an inspiration for the famous Dutch mathematician Isaac Beeckman. ❌
(3) He was educated by the Jesuits and received a firm grounding in Scholastic philosophy.
(4) His intellectual autobiography is notable for its rejection of authority and preconceived opinion.
Answer:- (2) He was an inspiration for the famous Dutch mathematician Isaac Beeckman. ✅
Explanation:- The reverse is true—Descartes was inspired by Beeckman. Hence, this statement is incorrect.
Q87. The two chronologically distinct types of colonialism as pointed out by Ashis Nandy are –
(1) the Occidental and the Oriental
(2) the African and the Asian
(3) pre-colonial and post-colonial
(4) physical conquest of territories and mental, cultural conquest/colonization ✅
Answer:- (4) physical conquest of territories and mental, cultural conquest/colonization ✅
Explanation:- Nandy distinguishes between external domination and the internalization of colonial values by the colonized.
Q88. “The ______ is that proper placing of things in such a manner that it is perfect to arouse Rasa and to avoid certain things that are not suitable to provoke Rasa.”
(1) Anukaran
(2) Auchitya ✅
(3) Dhvani
(4) Sparsh
Answer:- (2) Auchitya ✅
Explanation:- Auchitya in Sanskrit poetics refers to appropriateness or propriety in literary expression to evoke aesthetic pleasure or rasa.
Q89. American New Historicists have been largely influenced by –
(1) Stanley Fish
(2) Raymond Williams
(3) Michel Foucault ✅
(4) Alan Sinfield
Answer:- (3) Michel Foucault ✅
Explanation:- Foucault’s theories on power, discourse, and historical knowledge deeply influenced New Historicism.
Q90. An important modernist narrative technique that ignored orderly sentence structure and incorporated fragments of thought in an attempt to capture the flow of characters’ mental processes was termed –
(1) Pastiche
(2) Metanarrative
(3) Stream of consciousness ✅
(4) Chronotopia
Answer:- (3) Stream of consciousness ✅
Explanation:- Stream of consciousness is a modernist literary technique portraying characters’ interior monologues and fragmented thought flow.
Q91. Which romantic critic is said to have used Platonic ideas to escape from the Platonic dilemma?
(1) Shelley ✅
(2) Keats
(3) Coleridge
(4) Wordsworth
Answer:- (1) Shelley ✅
Explanation:- Percy Bysshe Shelley, in A Defence of Poetry, used Platonic concepts like the Ideal and Forms to argue that poetry transcends time and reason, thus resolving the tension inherent in Plato’s skepticism about poets.
Q92. In which seminal book of his does Roland Barthes propose the five codes of literary analysis – proairetic, hermeneutic, cultural, semic, and symbolic?
(1) The Semiotic Challenge
(2) S/Z ✅
(3) The Pleasures of the Text
(4) Death of the Author
Answer:- (2) S/Z ✅
Explanation:- In S/Z, Barthes developed five narrative codes for interpreting texts, applying them to Balzac’s story “Sarrasine.”
Q93. Which of the following authors has described diaspora as “Colonialism in reverse”?
(1) Derek Walcott
(2) V.S. Naipaul
(3) Salman Rushdie
(4) Gordon Lewis ✅
Answer:- (4) Gordon Lewis ✅
Explanation:- Gordon K. Lewis used the phrase “colonialism in reverse” to describe post-colonial migration patterns, especially in the Caribbean context.
Q94. Match the writers with their works –
(A) Anandavardhana – (i) Dhvanyaloka
(B) Abhinavagupta – (ii) Locana
(C) Kuntaka – (iii) Vakroktijivita
(D) Dandin – (iv) Kavyadarsa
Correct Matching:
(2) (A-i) (B-ii) (C-iii) (D-iv) ✅
Answer:- (2) (A-i) (B-ii) (C-iii) (D-iv) ✅
Explanation:- This is the standard alignment in Indian poetics, associating each major figure with their respective influential texts.
Q95. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism is NOT modelled on –
(1) Vida’s De Arte Poetica
(2) Horace’s Ars Poetica
(3) Granville’s Unnatural Flights ✅
(4) Boileau’s L’Art Poétique
Answer:- (3) Granville’s Unnatural Flights ✅
Explanation:- Pope’s essay draws on classical and neoclassical sources. Granville’s work is a satire, not a model for Pope’s theoretical essay.
Q96. Pope’s Essay on Criticism is about –
(1) A just and lively image of human nature.
(2) A generalisation about good taste. ✅
(3) An inquiry into the nature and value of poetry.
(4) Didactic function of poetry.
Answer:- (2) A generalisation about good taste. ✅
Explanation:- Pope discusses the principles of literary taste, moderation, and judgment in criticism, rather than specific poetic theories.
Q97. Who wrote – “They take on a more than mortal size in memory” as a tribute to Thomas Hardy’s characters?
(1) E.M. Forster
(2) Lytton Strachey
(3) Henry James
(4) Virginia Woolf ✅
Answer:- (4) Virginia Woolf ✅
Explanation:- Virginia Woolf praised Hardy’s ability to create characters who live vividly in the reader’s memory, enlarging beyond real life.
Q98. Horace lays down two conditions for incorporating ‘chorus’ in a tragedy, viz.
(a) It should form an integral part of the poem.
(b) Its comments should be directed to a noble end.
(c) It should be introduced in the beginning, middle, and at the end.
(d) It should speak only lyrically.
Correct option:
(4) a and b ✅
Answer:- (4) a and b ✅
Explanation:- In Ars Poetica, Horace emphasizes that the chorus must serve the moral and structural unity of the tragedy.
Q99. In his Apology for Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney argues that poetry is superior to –
(1) Music and Painting
(2) Drama
(3) History and Philosophy ✅
(4) Novels
Answer:- (3) History and Philosophy ✅
Explanation:- Sidney claims poetry combines the instructive nature of philosophy and the illustrative power of history, making it the superior form.
Q100. Which of the following are reasons for the absence of serious theatre in the early Victorian age?
(A) The popularity of the novel
(B) Theatre-shy middle class
(C) Only two serious theatres for more than a century
Correct Option:
(2) A, B & C ✅
Answer:- (2) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- Early Victorian England saw a decline in serious drama due to the rise of novels, a conservative audience, and limited venues.
Q101. Which of the following writers distinguishes the ‘dissident’ from the ‘subversive’ and argues that text can overcome such containment and thus challenge dominant discourses?
(1) Alan Sinfield ✅
(2) Clifford Geertz
(3) Hayden White
(4) Anthony Giddens
Answer:- (1) Alan Sinfield ✅
Explanation:- Alan Sinfield, in his cultural materialist approach, makes a distinction between ‘dissidence’ and ‘subversion’, emphasizing the political potential of literature to challenge dominant ideologies through textual strategies.
Q102. In the second book of ‘Advancement of Learning’, Bacon differentiates among three segments of human understanding. Which one of the following is NOT attributed to him?
(1) Reason which relates to Philosophy
(2) Imagination which relates to Poetry
(3) Action which relate to Psychology ✅
(4) Memory which relates to History
Answer:- (3) Action which relate to Psychology ✅
Explanation:- Francis Bacon divides knowledge into three faculties: memory (history), reason (philosophy), and imagination (poetry). Action related to psychology does not feature in his classification.
Q103. “What a piece of work is man…” These lines in Hamlet are a fine example of –
(1) Realism
(2) Humour
(3) Egoism
(4) Humanism ✅
Answer:- (4) Humanism ✅
Explanation:- The quoted lines from Hamlet reflect Renaissance humanism, celebrating human reason, physical grace, and intellectual capacity—even while Hamlet himself expresses irony and disillusionment.
Q104. “Literature versus Ecriture” is an essay by –
(1) Murray Krieger ✅
(2) E.D. Hirsch
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jacques Lacan
Answer:- (1) Murray Krieger ✅
Explanation:- In his essay “Literature versus Ecriture,” Murray Krieger contrasts traditional views of literature with poststructuralist notions of language and textuality, questioning fixed meanings in texts.
Q105. The Dickens World by Humphry House is an admirable example of –
(1) Practical Criticism
(2) Natural Criticism
(3) Sociological Criticism ✅
(4) Psychological Criticism
Answer:- (3) Sociological Criticism ✅
Explanation:- The Dickens World offers an insightful exploration of the social and political context of Dickens’s novels, making it a landmark in sociological literary criticism.
Q106. As a tirade to ‘Art for Art’s sake’ movement, who among the following authors said – “for arts’ sake, I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”?
(1) Henry James
(2) F.R. Leavis
(3) Ezra Pound
(4) G.B. Shaw ✅
Answer:- (4) G.B. Shaw ✅
Explanation:- George Bernard Shaw believed in the moral and social function of art, strongly opposing the ‘Art for Art’s sake’ philosophy. This quote underscores his utilitarian view of art.
Q107. Which one of these critics combines the theory of tropes, Freudian psychology and cabbalistic mysticism to explain “misreading” and “anxiety of influence”?
(1) Gilles Deleuze
(2) Julia Kristeva
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Harold Bloom ✅
Answer:- (4) Harold Bloom ✅
Explanation:- Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence uses tropological analysis and psychoanalytic theory to argue how poets “misread” their precursors as a form of creative anxiety.
Q108. Who is the author of the interview “Woman can never be defined” which is now a part of New French Feminisms?
(1) Hélène Cixous
(2) Luce Irigaray
(3) Julia Kristeva ✅
(4) Louise Dupin
Answer:- (3) Julia Kristeva ✅
Explanation:- Julia Kristeva, a key figure in French feminism and poststructuralist theory, explores language, psychoanalysis, and identity. In the interview, she famously declares that “woman can never be defined.”
Q109. A position of in-betweenness, of hybridity, is created according to Bhabha when the postcolonial is juxtaposed between the ‘adopted’ Englishness and the ‘original’ native condition or identity.
(1) mimicry
(2) mockery
(3) third space ✅
(4) appropriation
Answer:- (3) third space ✅
Explanation:- Homi Bhabha’s concept of the “Third Space” refers to the hybrid cultural space where the colonizer and colonized meet, creating new identities beyond binary opposition.
Q110. Mikhail Bakhtin’s structuralist principle of ‘dialogism’ consisted of key tenets comprising: Polyphony, Chronotopy, Carnivalesque and –
(1) Proaireticism
(2) Heteroglossia ✅
(3) Architextuality
(4) Parole
Answer:- (2) Heteroglossia ✅
Explanation:- Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia refers to the coexistence of multiple voices and perspectives within a text, central to his theory of dialogism.
Q111. William Empson says, “Uncertainty, or overlap of meanings in the use of a word could be an enrichment of poetry rather than a fault.” From which of his critical texts is the quote taken?
(1) Some Versions of Pastoral
(2) The Structure of Complex Words
(3) Milton’s God
(4) Seven Types of Ambiguity ✅
Answer:- (4) Seven Types of Ambiguity ✅
Explanation:- Empson’s landmark work Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) explores how ambiguity enriches poetic meaning rather than undermining it, arguing for multiplicity of interpretations in literature.
Q112. According to New Historicists the past is “thrice processed” — first through ideology, then through discursive practices of our own time and lastly through ………… which is remade.
(1) language ✅
(2) tenets
(3) gendering
(4) surveillance
Answer:- (1) language ✅
Explanation:- New Historicists believe that history is constructed through ideological and discursive filters, and is ultimately remade through language, not simply recovered objectively.
Q113. Which among the following is NOT written by the psychologist Erik Erikson?
(1) Young Man Luther
(2) Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet ✅
(3) The Life Cycle Completed: A Review
(4) Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
Answer:- (2) Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet ✅
Explanation:- The second text is by Jacques Lacan, not Erikson. Erikson was a developmental psychologist known for psychosocial theory and influential biographical analyses.
Q114. Who wrote in which text: “The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted… is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions…”
(1) Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare ✅
(2) John Dennis: The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
(3) Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
(4) John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Answer:- (1) Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare ✅
Explanation:- This famous assertion about tradition and respect for classical texts appears in Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare, highlighting his reverence for literary heritage.
Q115. In the later half of 16th century, a literary circle was formed at the house of Earl of Leicester which aimed at reforming English verse by adopting classical prosody. What was this literary circle called?
(1) Areopagus ✅
(2) English Delia
(3) Meta Oratorio
(4) Hyperbaton
Answer:- (1) Areopagus ✅
Explanation:- The Areopagus was a literary circle including figures like Sidney and Spenser who sought to model English verse on Greek and Latin prosody.
Q116. Bishop Hurd in his Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) argues that Faerie Queene must be read as a –
(1) Romantic poem
(2) Gothic poem ✅
(3) Neo-classical poem
(4) Classical poem
Answer:- (2) Gothic poem ✅
Explanation:- Bishop Hurd classified The Faerie Queene as a Gothic poem, focusing on its medieval themes and romantic imagination rather than classical forms.
Q117. Matthew Arnold talks of three kinds of comparative methods to judge the works of art. Which one among the following is NOT correct?
(1) Real
(2) Personal
(3) Organic ✅
(4) Historic
Answer:- (3) Organic ✅
Explanation:- Arnold used the real, personal, and historical methods of comparison but did not classify “organic” as one of his formal methods of criticism.
Q118. With the incoming of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Freud’s ideas, the intellectual universe became relativistic. This apocalyptic turn of post-structuralist criticism was called –
(1) Deconstruction ✅
(2) Phenomenology
(3) Speculations
(4) Existentialism
Answer:- (1) Deconstruction ✅
Explanation:- Deconstruction, associated with Derrida, reflects a turn away from fixed meanings, emphasizing the instability of language and interpretation—an idea influenced by Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Q119. The term ‘denouement’ in Aristotle’s Poetics means –
(1) Plot’s beginning from where the action requires nothing to be known of the earlier occurrence.
(2) Plot’s unravelling or its action taking the turning point to the end for good or ill. ✅
(3) Plot’s complication in the rising action of the tragedy.
(4) Plot’s juncture where the ‘discovery’ is left upon supernatural to be revealed.
Answer:- (2) Plot’s unravelling or its action taking the turning point to the end for good or ill. ✅
Explanation:- ‘Denouement’ refers to the final resolution or untying of the plot, following the climax, in Aristotelian tragedy.
Q120. Who is defining criticism when he says that it reflects movements within and without: “Centripetal when it moves inwardly, towards the structure of a text, …… centrifugal when it moves outwardly away from the text and towards society and the outer world”?
(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) Allen Tate
(3) Northrop Frye ✅
(4) T.S. Eliot
Answer:- (3) Northrop Frye ✅
Explanation:- Northrop Frye made the centripetal/centrifugal distinction in literary criticism, combining structural focus with cultural and historical analysis in Anatomy of Criticism.
Q121. All of Freud’s work depends upon the notion of the ‘unconscious’, linked with this is the idea of “repression” and thirdly…….
(1) sublimation ✅
(2) standardization
(3) simulation
(4) symbolization
Answer:- (1) sublimation ✅
Explanation:- Freud’s psychoanalysis is built on the concepts of the unconscious, repression, and sublimation — the process of channeling unconscious impulses into socially acceptable forms.
Q122. Jean-Francois Lyotard’s essay “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?” was published in his book –
(1) The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
(2) The System of Objects
(3) The Postmodern Condition (A Report on Knowledge) ✅
(4) Postmodernism
Answer:- (3) The Postmodern Condition (A Report on Knowledge) ✅
Explanation:- In The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard discusses knowledge in postmodern societies, including the rejection of metanarratives.
Q123. Which of the following plays is not an example of Burlesque?
(1) Merry Wives of Windsor ✅
(2) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(3) The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(4) The Rehearsal
Answer:- (1) Merry Wives of Windsor ✅
Explanation:- Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy but not a burlesque. Burlesque is a form of satire that exaggerates style or subject.
Q124. Which of the following statements regarding the Pre-Raphaelite Movement are correct?
(A) It was initially a movement of painters against then artistic conventions.
(B) The Pre-Raphaelite poets were considerably under the influence of Spenser.
(C) They were dubbed as “The fleshy school of poetry”.
(1) B & C
(2) A & C
(3) A, B & C ✅
(4) A & B
Answer:- (3) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a visual arts movement and expanded into poetry. Their themes were sensuous, medieval, and often inspired by Spenser.
Q125. In which of the following books did John Ruskin invent the phrase “Pathetic Fallacy”?
(1) Modern Painters – III ✅
(2) Unto This Last
(3) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(4) Fors Clavigera
Answer:- (1) Modern Painters – III ✅
Explanation:- Ruskin coined “Pathetic Fallacy” in Modern Painters to criticize the attribution of human feelings to nature in poetry.
Q126. In which text does a ‘New Critic’ say: “We are now dealing with the imaginative, and not the existential… no work of literature is better by virtue of what it says than any other work”?
(1) I.A. Richards – Principles of Literary Criticism
(2) Northrop Frye – The Well-Tempered Critic ✅
(3) John Crowe Ransom – The New Criticism
(4) Cleanth Brooks – The Well Wrought Urn
Answer:- (2) Northrop Frye – The Well-Tempered Critic ✅
Explanation:- Frye emphasizes the autonomy of literature and its imaginative realm, rejecting didactic interpretations based on content alone.
Q127. According to Freud, Hamlet has a repressed desire for his own mother and thus suffers from –
(1) Cassandra Complex
(2) Adonis Complex
(3) Electra Complex
(4) Oedipus Complex ✅
Answer:- (4) Oedipus Complex ✅
Explanation:- Freud interpreted Hamlet’s hesitation to kill Claudius as rooted in the Oedipus Complex — an unconscious desire to kill the father and possess the mother.
Q128. Which of the following statements about S.T. Coleridge are correct?
- He along with Southey advocated a Utopian, Egalitarian polity called ‘Pantisocracy’.
- He introduced into Britain the Kantian and the post-Kantian Romantic Philosophy.
- He turned to Cambridge Platonists for an alternative to the materialism and utilitarianism of his time.
(1) A & C
(2) A & B
(3) A, B & C ✅
(4) B & C
Answer:- (3) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- Coleridge was deeply involved in early utopian politics (Pantisocracy), brought German idealism to English thought, and rejected Enlightenment materialism.
Q129. Criticising Pope’s definition of ‘true wit’ — “What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed” — which critic called this statement “both false and foolish”?
(1) Eliot
(2) Dryden
(3) Dr. Johnson ✅
(4) Arnold
Answer:- (3) Dr. Johnson ✅
Explanation:- Though often appreciative of Pope, Johnson criticized this particular aphorism as lacking substance, asserting wit involves novelty of thought as well as expression.
Q130. Which of the following plays parades a variety of characters dominated by particular ‘humours’ or obsessive quirks of disposition?
(1) Every Man Out of His Humour ✅
(2) A School for Scandal
(3) The Divine Comedy
(4) Comedy of Errors
Answer:- (1) Every Man Out of His Humour ✅
Explanation:- Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour is a classic “comedy of humours,” where characters are driven by one dominant personality trait.
Q131. Which of the following statements about masque is not correct?
(1) It combined poetic drama, song, dance & music.
(2) It was first produced in England. ✅
(3) It was a fairly elaborate form of courtly entertainment.
(4) It was popular in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Answer:- (2) It was first produced in England. ✅
Explanation:- Masques originated in Italy and France and were later popularized in England. Hence, the claim that they were first produced in England is incorrect.
Q132. On the basis of the following statements on Elizabethan poetry, find out the option which is Not correct:
(1) Wit and play of mind, argumentation and logical development were not foreign to it.
(2) It was fit for a certain kind of directness, economy and concentration. ✅
(3) It was primarily not the spontaneous outpouring of emotion.
(4) It was a conscious art, rhetorical in method.
Answer:- (2) It was fit for a certain kind of directness, economy and concentration. ✅
Explanation:- Elizabethan poetry is marked more by ornamentation and rhetorical flourish than by economy or directness.
Q133. Which of the following critics is known for the statement — “true end of satire is amendment of vices by correction”?
(1) John Dryden ✅
(2) Jonathan Swift
(3) Dr. Johnson
(4) Alexander Pope
Answer:- (1) John Dryden ✅
Explanation:- Dryden articulated this classical purpose of satire: not merely to mock but to morally correct and reform societal vices.
Q134. For Susan Faludi, post-feminism is the…….. and its triumph lies in its ability to define itself as an ironic, pseudo-intellectual critique on the feminist movement, rather than an overtly hostile response to it.
(1) ‘backlash’ ✅
(2) ‘kickback’
(3) ‘revulsion’
(4) ‘recoiling’
Answer:- (1) ‘backlash’ ✅
Explanation:- In Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi characterizes post-feminism as a backlash against the gains of the feminist movement.
Q135. According to which structuralist the word (or ‘signifier’) is connected to the meaning or concept (the ‘signified’) in a purely arbitrary relationship — together the signifier and signified constitute a ‘Sign’?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Tzvetan Todorov
(3) Vladimir Propp
(4) Ferdinand de Saussure ✅
Answer:- (4) Ferdinand de Saussure ✅
Explanation:- Saussure’s structural linguistics introduced the concept of the arbitrary link between signifier and signified, forming the basis of semiotics.
Q136. Which of the following is NOT a key tenet of modernism?
(1) A liking for fragmented forms
(2) A blurring of the distinctions between genres
(3) Emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity
(4) An inclination for hermeneutics ✅
Answer:- (4) An inclination for hermeneutics ✅
Explanation:- Modernism leans toward innovation and formal experimentation. Hermeneutics, or interpretative tradition, is more aligned with philosophical and critical traditions, not modernist aesthetics per se.
Q137. Aimé Césaire’s Negritude means all of the following, except —
(1) It was the cultural response of the native to the onslaught by colonialism’s culture.
(2) It did not involve cultural separatism and the rejection of assimilation of colonial culture by Africans. ✅
(3) It involves battling the rejection of native cultures.
(4) It is the black colonized people’s salvaging of their own identity and consciousness from colonialism.
Answer:- (2) It did not involve cultural separatism and the rejection of assimilation of colonial culture by Africans. ✅
Explanation:- Negritude did involve cultural separatism and a clear rejection of assimilation to colonial cultures, making this statement incorrect.
Q138. What term does Eliot use for separation of intellectual thought from the experience of feeling in poetry?
(1) Objective Correlative
(2) Negative Capability
(3) Texture
(4) Dissociation of Sensibility ✅
Answer:- (4) Dissociation of Sensibility ✅
Explanation:- T.S. Eliot coined “Dissociation of Sensibility” to describe how modern poets lost the unified sensibility found in metaphysical poetry, dividing intellect and emotion.
Q139. Matthew Arnold used the term ‘Philistinism’ in his Culture and Anarchy for —
(1) Anachronism
(2) Lack of Culture ✅
(3) Fundamental Excellence
(4) Solidarity of Culture
Answer:- (2) Lack of Culture ✅
Explanation:- Arnold used “Philistinism” to criticize the middle class’s materialism and lack of appreciation for art and culture.
Q140. Robert Conquest’s anthology New Lines set the agenda for which school in modern poetry?
(1) Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
(2) Vorticism
(3) Imagism
(4) The Movement Poets ✅
Answer:- (4) The Movement Poets ✅
Explanation:- New Lines (1956) introduced “The Movement” — a group of British poets like Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis who favored traditional form and anti-romantic realism.
Q141. Which of the following statements is Not correct regarding the “Theatre of the Absurd”?
(1) The term was invented by Spanish born dramatist Fernando Arrabal. ✅
(2) It emphasizes the difficulty of communicating.
(3) It depicts human beings struggling with irrationality of experience.
(4) It portrays characters without apparent purpose.
Answer:- (1) The term was invented by Spanish born dramatist Fernando Arrabal. ✅
Explanation:- The term “Theatre of the Absurd” was coined by Martin Esslin, not Fernando Arrabal. Arrabal was associated with the movement, but did not name it.
Q142. Which of the following statements is correct about Mary Wollstonecraft’s book A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
(1) It discusses portrayal of women in the novels of D.H. Lawrence.
(2) It elaborates on women writers who could not publish their works.
(3) Male writers like Milton, Pope and Rousseau are discussed. ✅
(4) It portrays unequal treatment given to women seeking education and alternatives to marriage.
Answer:- (3) Male writers like Milton, Pope and Rousseau are discussed. ✅
Explanation:- Wollstonecraft critiques views held by male thinkers such as Rousseau, Milton, and Pope that contributed to women’s subordination.
Q143. Which among the following have written the book Empire (2000) which offers insights into new forms of colonial domination that emerge since the 1980s?
(1) Aijaz Ahmad
(2) Arif Dirlik
(3) Arjun Appadurai
(4) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ✅
Answer:- (4) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ✅
Explanation:- Empire analyzes globalization and the changing structure of sovereignty. It’s a key text in postcolonial and political theory.
Q144. Match the following correctly –
(a) Lyotard – (iii) Rejection of Grand Narratives
(b) Baudrillard – (iv) Simulation and Simulacra
(c) Eagleton – (ii) Relation between Ideology and Literary forms
(d) Deleuze & Guattari – (i) Rhizomatic Self
(1) (a-iii), (b-i), (c-iv), (d-ii)
(2) (a-iv), (b-ii), (c-i), (d-ii)
(3) (a-iii), (b-iv), (c-ii), (d-i) ✅
(4) (a-i), (b-ii), (c-iii), (d-iv)
Answer:- (3) (a-iii), (b-iv), (c-ii), (d-i) ✅
Explanation:- These thinkers are correctly matched with their key theoretical contributions.
Q145. Said discerns two forms of Orientalism — the latent which is an unconscious set of views about the orient full of stereotypes, fantasies and fears, and the ………. which is Said’s term for the stated and articulated views about oriental society in history and literature.
(1) present
(2) surface
(3) superficial
(4) manifest ✅
Answer:- (4) manifest ✅
Explanation:- Edward Said distinguished between latent (unspoken assumptions) and manifest (explicit expressions) forms of Orientalism.
Q146. Match the statements with their writers, regarding their views on Paradise Lost –
- Coleridge – (iii) The character of Satan is pride and sensual indulgence, finding in self the sole motive of action.
- Byron – (iv) If Cain be blasphemous, Paradise Lost is blasphemous.
- Shelley – (i) Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan in Paradise Lost.
- Empson – (ii) The poem is so good because it makes God so bad.
(1) (A-iv), (B-ii), (C-iii), (D-i)
(2) (A-ii), (B-i), (C-iv), (D-iii)
(3) (A-i), (B-ii), (C-ii), (D-iv)
(4) (A-iii), (B-iv), (C-i), (D-ii) ✅
Answer:- (4) (A-iii), (B-iv), (C-i), (D-ii) ✅
Explanation:- The matched views correspond with their critical perspectives on Paradise Lost, particularly regarding the figure of Satan and Milton’s portrayal of divinity.
Q147. The division of five kinds of cognition into ‘klista’ and ‘aklishta’ by the ‘rasa’ theorists is based on which school of philosophy?
(1) Vaishashik
(2) Mimansa
(3) Samkhya
(4) Yoga ✅
Answer:- (4) Yoga ✅
Explanation:- The distinction of cognition into ‘klista’ (afflicted) and ‘aklishta’ (non-afflicted) originates from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and influences Indian aesthetics.
Q148. Match the following Aristotelian terms and choose the correct option –
(1) Peripeteia – (c) Reversal of situation
(2) Anagnorisis – (a) Change from ignorance to knowledge
(3) Hamartia – (b) A fatal flaw in the protagonist
(4) Catharsis – (d) Purification of emotion
(1) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d
(2) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d
(3) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c
(4) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d ✅
Answer:- (4) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d ✅
Explanation:- These match the standard interpretations of Aristotle’s key concepts in Poetics.
Q149. Which one of the following statements is Not correct about “Intentional fallacy”?
(1) Modern exponents of objective criticism have adopted this concept.
(2) Intentional fallacy is basically about the error of interpreting a text by the authorial intention.
(3) This term was first used by Beardsley and Wimsatt.
(4) It is synonymous with affective fallacy and advocates the study of the author’s intention in interpreting the text. ✅
Answer:- (4) It is synonymous with affective fallacy and advocates the study of the author’s intention in interpreting the text. ✅
Explanation:- Intentional fallacy and affective fallacy are two distinct errors. Also, neither supports studying the author’s intention; both reject it.
Q150. Which Shakespearean play closely follows Aristotle’s basic concepts of the tragic hero and plot?
(1) Hamlet
(2) Lear
(3) Macbeth
(4) Othello ✅
Answer:- (4) Othello ✅
Explanation:- Othello fits Aristotle’s tragic model best, with a noble hero whose downfall is caused by a tragic flaw (hamartia) and reversal (peripeteia).
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