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Q1. Match the following prose works with their authors’ names and choose the correct option –
(1) John Lyly – (a) The Anatomy of Wit
(2) Sir Philip Sidney – (b) Arcadia
(3) Thomas Lodge – (c) Rosalynde
(4) Thomas Nashe – (d) Unfortunate Traveller
(1) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d
(2) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
(3) 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-c
(4) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d ✅
Answer:- (4) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d ✅
Explanation:- John Lyly authored The Anatomy of Wit, Sidney wrote Arcadia, Lodge penned Rosalynde, and Thomas Nashe wrote The Unfortunate Traveller.
Q2. Which of the following statement regarding Lord Byron are true?
- The heroes of his romances are pirates, outlaws etc.
- The word Byronism denotes spirit of gloom, satiety and unrest.
- Byron compares poetry of 18th century to a Greek Temple and of his own time to a barbarous Turkish mosque.
(1) A & C
(2) B & C
(3) A, B & C ✅
(4) A & B
Answer:- (3) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- All three reflect Lord Byron’s themes and criticism, with A and B illustrating Byronism and C reflecting his critical view of contemporary poetry.
Q3. Who among the following refused to publish Animal Farm?
(1) William Faulkner
(2) Wallace Stevens
(3) T.S. Eliot ✅
(4) Ezra Pound
Answer:- (3) T.S. Eliot ✅
Explanation:- T.S. Eliot, then an editor at Faber & Faber, declined to publish Orwell’s Animal Farm, citing political concerns.
Q4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a descendant of a Puritan family, spent several months with the Brook Farm community and chose to write his experience in the novel titled –
(1) The Scarlet Letter
(2) The House of Seven Gables
(3) Fanshawe
(4) The Blithedale Romance ✅
Answer:- (4) The Blithedale Romance ✅
Explanation:- The Blithedale Romance is based on Hawthorne’s experiences at the utopian community of Brook Farm.
Q5. Which among the following is an autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston?
(1) Dust Tracks on a Road ✅
(2) Jonah’s Gourd Vine
(3) Moses, Man of the Mountain
(4) Their Eyes Were Watching God
Answer:- (1) Dust Tracks on a Road ✅
Explanation:- Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurston’s autobiography, detailing her life and career as an African-American writer.
Q6. According to Asiatic Researches where colonial aesthetes, historians and critics documented and offered detailed commentaries on native styles, ‘colonial cultures’ was not a conjunction of –
(1) a detailed administrative appropriation of such studies for policy making
(2) a determined set of institutional structures to implement the policies
(3) euro-centric perspective of eulogising the native culture from a post-colonial vantage point ✅
(4) a thorough study of various aspects of native cultures
Answer:- (3) euro-centric perspective of eulogising the native culture from a post-colonial vantage point ✅
Explanation:- The Asiatic Researches embodied colonial scholarship, but not from a postcolonial or celebratory perspective.
Q7. In Dennis Brutus’ poem I am the Tree, what has been the collective suffering of the oppressed people compared to?
(1) tree, sheet of tin and voice ✅
(2) sheet, voice and night
(3) night and the wind
(4) tree, wind and tin
Answer:- (1) tree, sheet of tin and voice ✅
Explanation:- Brutus uses these metaphors to represent the enduring pain and silenced voices of the oppressed.
Q8. In which of the following novels written by Rushdie are Murtaza Ali Bhutto and Zia-ul-Haq represented by pseudonymous caricatures under the names of Iskandar Harappa and Raza Hyder respectively?
(1) Shame ✅
(2) Fury
(3) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(4) Midnight’s Children
Answer:- (1) Shame ✅
Explanation:- In Shame, Rushdie critiques Pakistani politics through fictional portrayals of real leaders.
Q9.
“Joyne lip to lip, and try;
Each suck others breath,
And whilst our tongues perplexed lie,
Let who will think us dead, or wish our death.”
Identify the poet –
(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne ✅
(3) Ben Jonson
(4) Andrew Marvell
Answer:- (2) John Donne ✅
Explanation:- These sensual metaphysical lines are characteristic of Donne’s poetic style, especially in his love poetry.
Q10. In which of the following texts does T.S. Eliot examine the relations of culture and society?
(1) After Strange Gods ✅
(2) The Confidential Clerk
(3) The Rock
(4) Murder in the Cathedral
Answer:- (1) After Strange Gods ✅
Explanation:- After Strange Gods is a collection of lectures where Eliot discusses cultural and societal issues.
Q11. Which poem “came upon” him, Browning writes, “as a kind of dream”?
(1) Childe Roland ✅
(2) Andrea del Sarto
(3) Caliban upon Setebos
(4) Fra Lippo Lippi
Answer:- (1) Childe Roland ✅
Explanation:- Browning described Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came as having come to him almost like a dream—intuitively and spontaneously.
Q12. Which of the following statements regarding Savitri are correct?
(A) It depicts the soul’s journey from earth to heaven.
(B) It depicts the heroine figure as “a golden bowl fitted upon a table of the gods.”
(C) Savitri enacts what T.S. Eliot misses most in modern life and literature: “the primacy of the supernatural.”
(1) (A) & (B)
(2) (A), (B) & (C) ✅
(3) (A) & (C)
(4) (B) & (C)
Answer:- (2) (A), (B) & (C) ✅
Explanation:- Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri blends spiritual allegory and metaphysical philosophy, depicting divine transformation and the role of the soul.
Q13. “Motivated by (his) belief that writing in the language of the colonizer alienated Africans from their own culture.”
Which of the following writers stopped writing in English and changed his name too?
(1) Chinua Achebe
(2) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ✅
(3) Noémia de Sousa
(4) Gabriel Okara
Answer:- (2) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ✅
Explanation:- Ngũgĩ rejected English as the medium of African expression and returned to writing in Gikuyu. He also dropped his colonial name James.
Q14. Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the poem River by A.K. Ramanujan?
(1) The poem is about the five elements. ✅
(2) The poet gives a complete picture of the river as preserver as well as destroyer.
(3) The poet sings of the death of a pregnant woman.
(4) The poet is sarcastic about the poets of the past.
Answer:- (1) The poem is about the five elements. ✅
Explanation:- River critiques poetic romanticism by highlighting the suffering ignored by earlier poets. It’s not focused on five elements.
Q15. Identify the other name of Prince ‘Hal’ in Shakespeare –
(1) Hamlet
(2) John Holland
(3) Henry V ✅
(4) Henry IV
Answer:- (3) Henry V ✅
Explanation:- Prince Hal is the young Henry, Prince of Wales, who becomes King Henry V in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V plays.
Q16. “I am a venereal sore in the private part of language!”
To which poem of Namdeo Dhasal does this opening line belong?
(1) Speculations on a Shirt
(2) The Day She was Gone
(3) Man, You Should Explode
(4) Cruelty ✅
Answer:- (4) Cruelty ✅
Explanation:- This stark metaphor opens Dhasal’s seminal poem Cruelty, expressing rage against caste oppression and linguistic alienation.
Q17. Match the following novels with their respective themes:
(a) My Story – (i) writing and creativity as a solution to bodily and mental problems
(b) Anowa – (ii) breaking of the tradition and woman’s body commanded by patriarchal society
(c) My Feudal Lord – (iii) power of Muslim family and its men over a woman’s body
(d) Nervous Conditions – (iv) madness and body ailments signifying gendered social injustice
(1) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
(2) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
(3) a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
(4) a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv ✅
Answer:- (4) a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv ✅
Explanation:- Each novel critiques gender injustice and social constraints through distinct feminist perspectives, reflecting lived and bodily experiences.
Q18. In which paper does Anand Teltumbde write a monthly column and what is it called?
(1) Alternative Politics; Economic and Political Weekly
(2) Margin Speak; Economic and Political Weekly ✅
(3) Dalits; Past, Present and Future; Harijan
(4) Voice in the River; The Untouchables
Answer:- (2) Margin Speak; Economic and Political Weekly ✅
Explanation:- Teltumbde’s Margin Speak column critically examines caste, class, and inequality in Indian society.
Q19. The slogan “make it new” was given by –
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Ezra Pound ✅
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) James Joyce
Answer:- (2) Ezra Pound ✅
Explanation:- “Make it new” was Ezra Pound’s call for modernist innovation and rejection of outdated literary forms.
Q20. “Some truth there was, but dash’d and brew’d with lies;
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.”
The above lines occur in –
(1) Essay on Criticism
(2) Essay on Man
(3) Absalom and Achitophel ✅
(4) Mac Flecknoe
Answer:- (3) Absalom and Achitophel ✅
Explanation:- These lines by Dryden reflect his satirical style in Absalom and Achitophel, commenting on political manipulation and populism.
Q21. The first Dalit novel, arguably, to be written in any Indian language is –
(1) Angaliyat ✅
(2) Untouchable
(3) Karukku
(4) Akkarmashi
Answer:- (1) Angaliyat ✅
Explanation:- Joseph Macwan’s Angaliyat (Gujarati, 1986) is considered one of the first Dalit novels in any Indian language, portraying caste-based oppression.
Q22. Which of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh is set in the countries: India, Yemen, Egypt and Algeria?
(1) In An Antique Land
(2) The Shadow Lines
(3) The Circle of Reason ✅
(4) The Hungry Tide
Answer:- (3) The Circle of Reason ✅
Explanation:- The Circle of Reason follows the journey of Alu, traversing India, the Middle East, and North Africa, reflecting Ghosh’s diasporic themes.
Q23. Who of the following in The God of Small Things, is a first-generation convert to Christianity?
(1) Kuttappan
(2) Velutha
(3) Kelan ✅
(4) Vellya Paapen
Answer:- (3) Kelan ✅
Explanation:- Kelan, Velutha’s grandfather, is portrayed as the first to convert to Christianity in Arundhati Roy’s novel, highlighting caste and religious dynamics.
Q24. In which of the following novels of Nayantara Sahgal does the male protagonist, Ram Swarup, consider love as merely fun and indulge in extra-marital affairs despite having two wives?
(1) Rich Like Us ✅
(2) The Day in Shadow
(3) A Situation in Delhi
(4) Storm in Chandigarh
Answer:- (1) Rich Like Us ✅
Explanation:- Rich Like Us explores patriarchy and power through Ram Swarup, who treats relationships lightly, showcasing gender inequality in upper-class India.
Q25. Which of the following poems by Les Murray expresses, through rich visual imagination, the Australian bush and the ideals and values of pioneer settlers?
(1) The Wilderness ✅
(2) Clock and Heart
(3) Typists in the Phoenix Building
(4) Burning the Effects
Answer:- (1) The Wilderness ✅
Explanation:- The Wilderness reflects Les Murray’s rural background and portrays the spiritual and cultural landscape of pioneering Australian life.
Q26. How does the concept of “Orientalism” as described by Edward Said influence the depiction of Indian society in colonial literature?
(1) It accurately depicts the complexities of Indian culture.
(2) It romanticizes and exoticizes Indian society while reinforcing colonial stereotypes. ✅
(3) It ignores Indian society completely.
(4) It portrays Indian society as superior to British society.
Answer:- (2) It romanticizes and exoticizes Indian society while reinforcing colonial stereotypes. ✅
Explanation:- Edward Said’s Orientalism argues that colonial texts constructed a distorted image of the East to justify imperial rule.
Q27. Which among the following is not one of the seven autobiographies written by Maya Angelou?
(1) In Search of My Mother’s Garden ✅
(2) A Song Flung Up to Heaven
(3) All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
(4) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Answer:- (1) In Search of My Mother’s Garden ✅
Explanation:- The book In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens was written by Alice Walker, not Maya Angelou. Angelou wrote seven autobiographies.
Q28. What is the subtitle of Love’s Last Shift by Colley Cibber?
(1) Love Makes a Man
(2) The Fool in Fashion ✅
(3) The Sentimental Fool
(4) Fool in Vogue
Answer:- (2) The Fool in Fashion ✅
Explanation:- Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is a Restoration comedy emphasizing reformation and forgiveness.
Q29. Match the following poetic works with their poets and choose the correct option –
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – (a) Christopher Marlowe
(2) Epithalamion – (b) Spenser
(3) Hero and Leander – (c) John Gower
(4) Confessio Amantis – (d) G. Chaucer
(1) 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a
(2) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c
(3) 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a
(4) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c ✅
Answer:- (4) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c ✅
Explanation:- Chaucer wrote Troilus and Criseyde, Spenser wrote Epithalamion, Marlowe wrote Hero and Leander, and Gower wrote Confessio Amantis.
Q30. Buchi Emecheta’s autobiography is titled –
(1) Second-Class Citizen
(2) In the Ditch
(3) The Family
(4) Head Above Water ✅
Answer:- (4) Head Above Water ✅
Explanation:- Head Above Water (1986) is a memoir by Buchi Emecheta detailing her struggles as a Nigerian immigrant and single mother in the UK.
Q31. The acts/scenes in Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel are named according to –
(1) time of the day ✅
(2) the seasons
(3) Yoruba deities
(4) the days of the week
Answer:- (1) time of the day ✅
Explanation:- The Lion and the Jewel is divided into three parts: Morning, Noon, and Night, symbolizing the passage of time and dramatic progression.
Q32. “Happy those early days when I / Shined in my angel infancy!”
Which of the following poems opens with the above lines? Who is the poet?
(1) On Receipt of My Mother’s Picture; William Cowper
(2) The Garden; Andrew Marvell
(3) The Retreat; Henry Vaughan ✅
(4) In Memoriam; Alfred Tennyson
Answer:- (3) The Retreat; Henry Vaughan ✅
Explanation:- The Retreat reflects Vaughan’s metaphysical longing for spiritual innocence and purity before the soul’s descent into the world.
Q33. Miracle plays in 15th century often dealt with –
(1) Miracles performed by King Arthur
(2) The Christian version of the history of the world ✅
(3) Miracles performed by James I
(4) Expeditions of monks and friars
Answer:- (2) The Christian version of the history of the world ✅
Explanation:- Miracle plays depicted Biblical stories and saints’ lives to educate and entertain largely illiterate medieval audiences.
Q34. Matthew Arnold’s famous lines paid homage to which writer?
“Others abide our question. Thou art free,
We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still.”
(1) Shakespeare ✅
(2) Ben Jonson
(3) Marlowe
(4) Milton
Answer:- (1) Shakespeare ✅
Explanation:- Arnold’s sonnet Shakespeare admires the bard’s genius and mystery, suggesting that Shakespeare surpasses all analysis.
Q35. Match the following writers with their works –
(A) Kancha Ilaiah – (i) Heuristic Explorations
(B) Barbara Joshi – (ii) From Untouchable to Dalit
(C) Eleanor Zelliot – (iii) Why I Am Not a Hindu
(D) Arvind Nirmal – (iv) Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement
(1) A-ii, B-iii, C-iv, D-i
(2) A-iii, B-i, C-i, D-iv
(3) A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii
(4) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii, D-i ✅
Answer:- (4) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii, D-i ✅
Explanation:- Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I Am Not a Hindu critiques casteism; Zelliot wrote on Dalit movements; Arvind Nirmal used heuristic methods.
Q36. In which of the following stories by Mahasweta Devi is the character of Somari, a dumb girl, portrayed who is suffering from triple marginalization?
(1) The Witch ✅
(2) Breast Giver
(3) The Little Ones
(4) Draupadi
Answer:- (1) The Witch ✅
Explanation:- In The Witch, Somari’s character embodies marginalization based on caste, class, and gender, typical of Mahasweta Devi’s political storytelling.
Q37. “I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the betrayed…”
These lines are from which famous poem by Kamala Das?
(1) The Invitation
(2) An Introduction ✅
(3) In Love
(4) A Losing Battle
Answer:- (2) An Introduction ✅
Explanation:- An Introduction is a confessional feminist poem asserting identity, agency, and resistance against societal norms.
Q38. In which one of the following poems of Robert Frost is the last but one line repeated at the end?
(1) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ✅
(2) The Road Not Taken
(3) Birches
(4) After Apple Picking
Answer:- (1) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ✅
Explanation:- The final lines—“And miles to go before I sleep”—are repeated to emphasize responsibility and contemplation.
Q39. The essay Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse is considered one of the foundational texts of Postcolonial Feminism. Who wrote this essay?
(1) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(2) Alice Walker
(3) Ketu H. Katrak
(4) Chandra Talpade Mohanty ✅
Answer:- (4) Chandra Talpade Mohanty ✅
Explanation:- Mohanty critiques Western feminism’s universalization of “Third World women” and advocates for context-based feminist discourse.
Q40.
“You cannot break me with your poignant envy,
You cannot slay me with your subtle hate…”
Where are these lines taken from?
(1) Our Casuarina Tree, Toru Dutt
(2) A Hot Noon in Malabar, Kamala Das
(3) The Young Captive, Toru Dutt
(4) A Challenge to Fate, Sarojini Naidu ✅
Answer:- (4) A Challenge to Fate, Sarojini Naidu ✅
Explanation:- These lines from Naidu’s poem celebrate inner strength and defiance against adversity, affirming agency and resilience.
Q41. Which diasporic writer reworks the English country-house poem made famous by Ben Jonson’s To Penshurst and Andrew Marvell’s Upon Appleton House?
(1) A.D. Hope in The Gateway
(2) Kamala Das in My Grandmother’s House
(3) Derek Walcott in Ruins of a Great House ✅
(4) Agha Shahid Ali in Homesick
Answer:- (3) Derek Walcott in Ruins of a Great House ✅
Explanation:- Walcott critiques colonial legacies by invoking the tradition of English country-house poetry while situating it in the Caribbean context.
Q42. In The Poetics of Relation, Caribbean critic Édouard Glissant, juxtaposing originary exile with postcolonial diasporic one, gives rise to the concept of ________, suggesting not so much loss as wandering and discovery.
(1) “errantry” ✅
(2) “stalking”
(3) “tracing”
(4) “picaresque”
Answer:- (1) “errantry” ✅
Explanation:- “Errantry” in Glissant’s theory signifies a non-linear, open-ended movement, resisting fixed identities in favor of relational identity.
Q43. In which poem of Christopher Okigbo do the lines occur:
“And the flower weeps / Unbruised, / Lacrimae Christi”?
(1) Transition
(2) Sacrifice
(3) Love Apart
(4) Passion Flower ✅
Answer:- (4) Passion Flower ✅
Explanation:- The poem evokes Christian imagery and themes of suffering, using the Latin phrase “Tears of Christ” (Lacrimae Christi).
Q44. Why did the midwife say that Mr. Biswas was born “in the wrong way”? (A House for Mr. Biswas)
(1) Because of his father Raghu’s miserliness
(2) Because it was midnight, the inauspicious hour
(3) Because of the poverty of Raghu, Mr. Biswas’ father
(4) Because he was six-fingered ✅
Answer:- (4) Because he was six-fingered ✅
Explanation:- Mr. Biswas’ extra finger is seen as a bad omen at birth, foretelling hardship and ill-fate, setting the tone for his life’s struggles.
Q45. Which of the following statements regarding “a broadside ballad” are true?
- It was printed on one side of a single sheet.
- It was sung to a well-known tune.
- It dealt with historical events.
(1) A, B & C
(2) A & B ✅
(3) A & C
(4) B & C
Answer:- (2) A & B ✅
Explanation:- Broadsides were cheap printed ballads often sung to familiar tunes. Though some dealt with news or events, not all were historical.
Q46.
“’Tis eight o’clock, – a clear March night,
The moon is up, – the sky is blue,
The owlet, in the moonlight air,
Shouts from nobody knows where…”
Who is the writer and what is the name of the poem?
(1) Blake – How Sweet I Roam’d
(2) Byron – She Walks in Beauty
(3) Wordsworth – The Idiot Boy ✅
(4) Coleridge – Frost at Midnight
Answer:- (3) Wordsworth – The Idiot Boy ✅
Explanation:- The lines capture Wordsworth’s focus on rural life and nature, emphasizing simplicity and mental disability.
Q47. Colin Clouts Come Home Again is a pastoral poem –
(1) Written by Sir Walter Raleigh dedicated to Edmund Spenser
(2) Written by Sir Walter Raleigh dedicated to William Tyndale
(3) Written by Edmund Spenser dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh ✅
(4) Written by Edmund Spenser dedicated to William Tyndale
Answer:- (3) Written by Edmund Spenser dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh ✅
Explanation:- This allegorical poem recounts Spenser’s visit to London and reflects his return to a simpler, rustic poetic identity.
Q48. Which figure of speech is used in the following underlined phrase:
“Love you ten years before the flood”?
(1) Pun
(2) Transferred Epithet
(3) Metaphor
(4) Allusion ✅
Answer:- (4) Allusion ✅
Explanation:- The phrase refers to the Biblical flood, making it a literary and historical allusion used to dramatize timeless love.
Q49. Which of the following poems is written by John Webster?
(1) Elegy Over a Tomb
(2) To Electra
(3) Call for the Robin-Redbreast and the Wren ✅
(4) To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
Answer:- (3) Call for the Robin-Redbreast and the Wren ✅
Explanation:- This is one of Webster’s few lyrical poems, known for its melancholic tone, often included in The White Devil.
Q50. Which of the following statements on Dalit Literature is NOT correct?
(1) The period from 1920 to 1956 is called the Renaissance phase in the history of the Dalit movements.
(2) These colleges served as catalysts to promote young generation writings.
(3) Phule founded Milind College in Aurangabad in 1947. ✅
(4) Ambedkar founded Siddhartha College in Mumbai in 1946.
Answer:- (3) Phule founded Milind College in Aurangabad in 1947. ✅
Explanation:- This is incorrect. Mahatma Phule did not found Milind College. The credit goes to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and his followers post-independence.
Q51. The major theme of Nadine Gordimer’s works is –
(1) Nature
(2) Pantheism
(3) Religion
(4) Exile and alienation ✅
Answer:- (4) Exile and alienation ✅
Explanation:- Nadine Gordimer often explored themes of apartheid, identity, and alienation in South African society, particularly the sense of exile and emotional displacement.
Q52. The Sketch Book containing ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ by Washington Irving was written under the pseudonym –
(1) Geoffrey Crayon ✅
(2) Lemony Snicket
(3) Aaron Wolfe
(4) Dutch Knickerbocker
Answer:- (1) Geoffrey Crayon ✅
Explanation:- Washington Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon for his collection “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”
Q53. In Ben Jonson’s play ‘The Alchemist’, Lovewit leaves his house under the sole charge of his scheming servant. What is the name of his servant?
(1) Dapper
(2) Subtle
(3) Face ✅
(4) Dol
Answer:- (3) Face ✅
Explanation:- Face is the servant who, along with Subtle and Dol Common, runs the fraudulent scheme in Lovewit’s absence.
Q54. Which of the following statements regarding the difficulties encountered by Christopher Marlowe in writing of Dr. Faustus is NOT correct?
(1) The passages in Tamburlaine show a shift in tempo and rise and fall in emotion more effectively than in Dr. Faustus. ✅
(2) Marlowe could achieve effective dramatic verse only in moments of crisis.
(3) Marlowe did not have the confidence which Milton and Shaw were to exhibit later in their ideas as representing ultimate understanding.
(4) Marlowe was at a loss to illustrate super human knowledge and power in concrete dramatic situations.
Answer:- (1) The passages in Tamburlaine show a shift in tempo and rise and fall in emotion more effectively than in Dr. Faustus. ✅
Explanation:- This is not a difficulty in Dr. Faustus but rather a comparison with Tamburlaine, hence not a correct statement about difficulties in Dr. Faustus.
Q55. “The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge / In Israel’s courts never sat an Abbethdin” — Who is referred to as ‘Abbethdin’ in the above lines of ‘Absalom and Achitophel’?
(1) Zimri
(2) David
(3) Achitophel ✅
(4) Absalom
Answer:- (3) Achitophel ✅
Explanation:- In Dryden’s satire, Achitophel is depicted as a cunning politician and ‘Abbethdin’ here ironically refers to him as a judge.
Q56. Who among the following is the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X?
(1) Alex Haley ✅
(2) Richard Haggard
(3) Stuart Hall
(4) Wole Soyinka
Answer:- (1) Alex Haley ✅
Explanation:- Alex Haley wrote the autobiography based on a series of interviews with Malcolm X.
Q57. These novels exploring the life of three generations were originally conceived as a single novel to be called ‘The Sisters’ by D.H. Lawrence –
(1) The Rainbow and Women in Love ✅
(2) The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley’s Lovers
(3) Sons and Lovers and Women in Love
(4) Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lovers
Answer:- (1) The Rainbow and Women in Love ✅
Explanation:- D.H. Lawrence originally conceived these two novels as one work titled The Sisters, focusing on generational change.
Q58. The title of Alistair MacLeod’s only novel is –
(1) Island
(2) No Great Mischief ✅
(3) The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
(4) To Everything There is a Season
Answer:- (2) No Great Mischief ✅
Explanation:- No Great Mischief is MacLeod’s only novel, which deals with themes of memory, loss, and identity.
Q59. In which of the following books does Toni Morrison discuss the concept of ‘writerly reading’?
(1) Playing in the Dark ✅
(2) Ain’t I a Woman!
(3) Feminist Theory: Margin to Centre
(4) Diaspora’s Daughters
Answer:- (1) Playing in the Dark ✅
Explanation:- In Playing in the Dark, Morrison explores the role of race in American literature and the reader’s active role.
Q60. Which of the following critics said—“Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time, and only fully realize their horizons in the mind’s eye”?
(1) Benita Parry
(2) Partha Chatterjee
(3) Homi K. Bhabha ✅
(4) Salman Rushdie
Answer:- (3) Homi K. Bhabha ✅
Explanation:- This quote is from Bhabha’s work on postcolonial theory, illustrating the constructed nature of nationhood.
Q61. Who remarked: the modern Indian drama “owed its first, flowering to foreign grafting”?
(1) Rabindranath Tagore
(2) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(3) Krishna Kriplani ✅
(4) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Answer:- (3) Krishna Kriplani ✅
Explanation:- Krishna Kriplani highlighted the influence of Western literary models on the early growth of modern Indian drama.
Q62. Which of the following novels is not a political-history in which its author has transmuted facts of history into a great work of art?
(1) Train to Pakistan
(2) Waiting for the Mahatma ✅
(3) Midnight’s Children
(4) Azadi
Answer:- (2) Waiting for the Mahatma ✅
Explanation:- While Waiting for the Mahatma includes political themes, it is more of a personal and romantic narrative than a direct political-historical novel.
Q63. In which of the following plays of Mahesh Dattani is the identity of a woman changed from “Daksha” to “Hardika”?
(1) Tara
(2) Thirty Days in September
(3) Final Solutions ✅
(4) Dance Like a Man
Answer:- (3) Final Solutions ✅
Explanation:- In Final Solutions, Hardika is the older version of Daksha, whose youthful trauma continues to affect her.
Q64. Match the following soliloquies with the Shakespearean plays they occur in, and choose the correct option:
(1) To be or not to be – (a) Macbeth
(2) If it were done when ‘tis done – (b) Othello
(3) Thou, nature, art my goddess – (c) King Lear
(4) And what’s he then that says I play the villain – (d) Hamlet
(1) I-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a
(2) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c
(3) 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b ✅
(4) 1-d, 2-b, 3-c, 4-a
Answer:- (3) 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b ✅
Explanation:- The soliloquies are respectively from Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello.
Q65. In which of Hardy’s novels “Justice was done and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess”?
(1) Henchard
(2) Jude
(3) Eustacia
(4) Tess ✅
Answer:- (4) Tess ✅
Explanation:- This line appears in the concluding chapter of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, referring to her tragic fate.
Q66. Match the following authors with their writings and choose the correct option –
(1) Henry Thomas Buckle – (a) History of the Civilization in England
(2) Robert Louis Stevenson – (b) The History of the Norman Conquest
(3) John Addington Symonds – (c) Memoirs and Portraits
(4) Edward Augustus Freeman – (d) The Renaissance in Italy
(1) 1-d, 2-b, 3-c, 4-a
(2) 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-c
(3) 1-b, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a
(4) 1-a, 2-c, 3-d, 4-b ✅
Answer:- (4) 1-a, 2-c, 3-d, 4-b ✅
Explanation:- The match correctly pairs each author with their notable work.
Q67. Which of the following plays by Tennessee Williams is about sexual repression, violence and aberration; wherein Blanche DuBois’s fantasies of refinement are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law?
(1) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(2) The Rose Tattoo
(3) The Glass Menagerie
(4) A Streetcar Named Desire ✅
Answer:- (4) A Streetcar Named Desire ✅
Explanation:- Blanche’s psychological decline and conflict with Stanley are central to A Streetcar Named Desire.
Q68. Which of the poets does NOT belong to Harlem Renaissance?
(1) Langston Hughes
(2) Christopher Okigbo ✅
(3) Claude McKay
(4) Jean Toomer
Answer:- (2) Christopher Okigbo ✅
Explanation:- Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, not associated with the Harlem Renaissance, which was centered in the U.S.
Q69. “In this way the past mingles with the present, and the gods mingle with men to make the repertory of your grandmother always bright.”
Where does this line occur?
(1) At the end of The Serpent and the Rope
(2) In the Foreword of Kanthapura ✅
(3) In the beginning of The Serpent and the Rope
(4) At the end of Kanthapura
Answer:- (2) In the Foreword of Kanthapura ✅
Explanation:- The line appears in the Foreword of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, emphasizing oral tradition and storytelling.
Q70. Alice Munro charts the lives of women from childhood through adolescence to maturity and death. Match the works in List A with the phases of life in List B.
| List A | List B |
| (i) Lives of Girls and Women | (b) childhood/adolescence |
| (ii) Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You | (c) more mature female narrative varies |
| (iii) The Moons of Jupiter | (d) middle-aged women |
| (iv) The Love of a Good Woman | (a) older life – illness/death |
Correct Match:
(1) (i) c, (ii) d, (iii) a, (iv) b
(2) (i) a, (ii) d, (iii) c, (iv) b
(3) (i) a, (ii) b, (iii) c, (iv) d
(4) (i) b, (ii) c, (iii) d, (iv) a ✅
Answer:- (4) (i) b, (ii) c, (iii) d, (iv) a ✅
Explanation:- Munro’s stories span all phases of a woman’s life, with each work reflecting a particular stage.
Q71. In which of the following novels does Chinua Achebe describe a precolonial Igboland which is evolving at its own pace, a society with legal, religious and social structures which are unrecognized by the newly arrived colonial powers?
(1) A Man of the People
(2) Things Fall Apart ✅
(3) Hopes and Impediments
(4) No Longer at Ease
Answer:- (2) Things Fall Apart ✅
Explanation:- Things Fall Apart explores precolonial Igbo society and its eventual clash with European colonialism.
Q72. Who wrote in the first issue of Harijan, “The outcaste is a by-product of the caste system… Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system”?
(1) Mohandas Gandhi
(2) B.R. Ambedkar ✅
(3) Jyotiba Phule
(4) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:- (2) B.R. Ambedkar ✅
Explanation:- Ambedkar, a fierce critic of caste, made this statement emphasizing structural reform.
Q73. From which essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson have these lines been taken?
“…Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.”
(1) “The American Scholar” ✅
(2) “Nature”
(3) “Self-Reliance”
(4) “Idealism”
Answer:- (1) “The American Scholar” ✅
Explanation:- This essay calls for American intellectual independence and was delivered at Harvard in 1837.
Q74. Match the following authors in Column A with their works in Column B –
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Edgar Allan Poe | (b) The Fall of the House of Usher |
| (ii) Ezra Pound | (c) “A Retrospect” and “A Few Don’ts” |
| (iii) William Faulkner | (d) As I Lay Dying |
| (iv) Wallace Stevens | (a) “Of Modern Poetry” |
Correct Option:
(4) (i-b), (ii-c), (iii-d), (iv-a) ✅
Answer:- (4) (i-b), (ii-c), (iii-d), (iv-a) ✅
Explanation:- This option correctly matches each writer with their renowned work.
Q75. Why does Northrop Frye regard Blake as an ultrasubjective primitive in his book Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake?
(1) Blake’s work involuntarily reflected his immediate mood ✅
(2) Blake’s work reflected his scientific vision
(3) Blake was a religious seeker
(4) Blake loved the world of the spirit and abominated institutionalized religion
Answer:- (1) Blake’s work involuntarily reflected his immediate mood ✅
Explanation:- Frye describes Blake as being deeply influenced by internal, personal emotion in his art.
Q76. What are the three phases that Frantz Fanon describes in order, in response to colonialism?
(1) revolution, rejection, assimilation
(2) rejection, assimilation, revolution
(3) assimilation, revolution, rejection ✅
(4) assimilation, rejection, revolution
Answer:- (3) assimilation, revolution, rejection ✅
Explanation:- Fanon outlines the progression of a colonized intellectual: first assimilation, then revolution, followed by rejection of the colonizer’s values.
Q77. Along with Aimé Césaire and Léon G. Damas, Léopold S. Senghor was one of the originators in the 1930s and 40s of the concept of…….. ., a literary and artistic expression.
Fill in the blank:
(1) Objectification
(2) Negritude ✅
(3) Blackness
(4) Thingification
Answer:- (2) Negritude ✅
Explanation:- Negritude was a literary and cultural movement celebrating Black identity and heritage.
Q78. Match the author with his/her book –
| List I | List II |
| (A) Sujatha Gidla | (ii) Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family |
| (B) Baby Kamble | (iii) Jina Amucha: The Prison We Broke |
| (C) Perumal Murugan | (iv) The Goat Thief |
| (D) Sumit Guha | (i) Beyond Caste in South Asia: Identity and Power |
Correct Option:
(1) (A-ii), (B-iii), (C-iv), (D-i) ✅
Answer:- (1) (A-ii), (B-iii), (C-iv), (D-i) ✅
Explanation:- These are the correct author-book pairings from Indian Dalit and regional literature.
Q79. Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
(1) Satyashodhak Samaj – Jyotiba Phule
(2) Bahishkrit Bharat – B.R. Ambedkar
(3) Sadharan Brahmo Samaj – Pandit Shivnath Shastri
(4) S.N.D.P. Yogam – Periyar Ramaswamy Naikar ✅
Answer:- (4) S.N.D.P. Yogam – Periyar Ramaswamy Naikar ✅
Explanation:- S.N.D.P. Yogam was founded by Sri Narayana Guru, not Periyar.
Q80. Whom does Wordsworth eulogize in his poem London 1802?
(1) Milton ✅
(2) Coleridge
(3) Chaucer
(4) Shakespeare
Answer:- (1) Milton ✅
Explanation:- Wordsworth longs for the moral power and voice of John Milton in his sonnet London 1802.
Q81. The vision of the future of Britain absorbed into a totalitarian super state ‘Oceania’ is the subject of the following:
(1) William Golding’s The Inheritors
(2) William Golding’s The Spire
(3) George Orwell’s Animal Farm
(4) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ✅
Answer:- (4) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ✅
Explanation:- Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a dystopian future ruled by totalitarian surveillance under the regime of Big Brother.
Q82. From 1960 to 1964 Soyinka was the co-editor of ………., an important literary journal.
(1) Black Orpheus ✅
(2) Fiery Scribe Review
(3) Lunaris
(4) New Contrast
Answer:- (1) Black Orpheus ✅
Explanation:- Wole Soyinka co-edited Black Orpheus, a literary magazine instrumental in promoting African literature.
Q83. “Modern Indians see themselves as global citizens… while they retain a sense of affiliation and companionship with India and Indians.”
Amartya Sen makes this statement in –
(1) The Idea of Justice
(2) The Argumentative Indian ✅
(3) Development as Freedom
(4) Identity and Violence
Answer:- (2) The Argumentative Indian ✅
Explanation:- This quote is from The Argumentative Indian, where Sen examines India’s cultural and intellectual traditions.
Q84. Which of the following characters in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar boasts of being associated with “The Progressive Dalit Literature Circle” and publishes an autobiographical novel with the help of this association?
(1) Leena Benare in Silence! The Court is in Session
(2) Arun Athawale in Kanyadaan ✅
(3) Jai Singh in Kamala
(4) Sakharam in Sakharam Binder
Answer:- (2) Arun Athawale in Kanyadaan ✅
Explanation:- Arun Athawale in Kanyadaan represents the angry Dalit writer-politician with radical ideals.
Q85. Which of the following statements about Lycidas is NOT correct?
(1) It is about Edward King, a fellow student of Milton at Cambridge.
(2) It is about the general question of premature death in talented and dedicated young men.
(3) Milton delineates himself as ‘Lycidas’. ✅
(4) It first appeared signed – Simply I.M.
Answer:- (3) Milton delineates himself as ‘Lycidas’. ✅
Explanation:- ‘Lycidas’ is a pastoral elegy for Edward King, not a self-representation of Milton.
Q86. Keats uses the phrase ‘negative capability’ to mean –
- A state of being in uncertainties, doubts etc. without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
- A sense of beauty which obliterates all considerations for a poet.
- Inflicting the human soul with self-created indulgence in gloom.
(1) B & C
(2) A & B ✅
(3) A & C
(4) A, B & C
Answer:- (2) A & B ✅
Explanation:- Keats’s ‘negative capability’ means embracing uncertainty and beauty without seeking rational explanations.
Q87. Chaucer’s chief rival in poetry was –
(1) John Gower ✅
(2) Edmund Spenser
(3) John Barbour
(4) William Langland
Answer:- (1) John Gower ✅
Explanation:- John Gower was a contemporary and literary rival of Chaucer, writing in Latin, French, and English.
Q88. The statement “All diasporas are unhappy but every diaspora is unhappy in its own way,” – a statement made by Vijay Mishra is a playful mimicry of the famous opening sentence from –
(1) Anna Karenina ✅
(2) Far from the Madding Crowd
(3) The Brothers Karamazov
(4) Hard Times
Answer:- (1) Anna Karenina ✅
Explanation:- Mishra plays on the famous line: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Q89. The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs by Urmila Pawar is translated from Marathi by –
(1) Daisy Rockwell
(2) Lakshmi Holmström
(3) Maya Pandit ✅
(4) Shanta Gokhale
Answer:- (3) Maya Pandit ✅
Explanation:- Maya Pandit translated this important Dalit feminist text from Marathi into English.
Q90. Which myth is used by Flora Nwapa as a plot device in her novel Idu? The myth of…..
(1) Sisyphus
(2) Osiris
(3) Theseus
(4) Uhamiri ✅
Answer:- (4) Uhamiri ✅
Explanation:- Uhamiri, the Igbo river goddess, is used by Nwapa as a metaphor for female strength and mystery in Idu.
Q91. A new literary genre heralded in Australia in 1995 which attempted to promote the fictional or semi-autobiographical writing of the young dissatisfied and disenfranchised was called –
(1) grudge literature
(2) grit literature
(3) grunt literature
(4) grunge literature ✅
Answer:- (4) grunge literature ✅
Explanation:- Grunge literature emerged in 1990s Australia, highlighting the disillusionment of urban youth through gritty, raw narratives.
Q92. Talking of the history of the strife of his people, who says?
“He would not Africanize America… He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American…”
(1) Zora Neale Hurston in How It Feels To Be Coloured Me
(2) W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk ✅
(3) Langston Hughes in Let America Be America Again
(4) Claude McKay in Home to Harlem
Answer:- (2) W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk ✅
Explanation:- This powerful quote captures Du Bois’s advocacy for dual identity and cultural pride in the African American experience.
Q93. While thinking of murdering King Duncan, Lady Macbeth calls on spirits to ……… [Macbeth, Act I, Scene V]
(1) unsex her ✅
(2) forgive her
(3) forgive Macbeth
(4) let her forget Duncan’s generosity
Answer:- (1) unsex her ✅
Explanation:- Lady Macbeth invokes spirits to “unsex” her—remove her femininity—to carry out the murder without remorse.
Q94. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan delivered a lecture on a ‘Master Mind’ at British Academy on 28 June, 1938. The lecture was about –
(1) Bhagavad Gita
(2) Brahma Sutra
(3) Gautam, the Buddha ✅
(4) Eastern Religion and Western Thought
Answer:- (3) Gautam, the Buddha ✅
Explanation:- In this landmark lecture, Radhakrishnan examined the philosophical and ethical teachings of the Buddha.
Q95. “No longer a historian but a man without histories let me be!” explains the protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s Fury. Which hybrid omnivorous power does he describe as transforming him?
(1) “Subjugating Condensation”
(2) “Imperial Cosmopolitanism” ✅
(3) “Extended Hybridization”
(4) “Reversal Relocation”
Answer:- (2) “Imperial Cosmopolitanism” ✅
Explanation:- The phrase captures the protagonist’s fragmented, globalized identity in Fury, shaped by colonial and diasporic experiences.
Q96. This final stanza is from Emily Dickinson’s poem:
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down –
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing – then –
(1) I felt a Funeral in my Brain ✅
(2) A Bird came down the Walk
(3) There’s a certain Slant of light
(4) I heard a Fly buzz – when I died
Answer:- (1) I felt a Funeral in my Brain ✅
Explanation:- The stanza portrays a mental breakdown, symbolizing the collapse of reason and descent into madness.
Q97. Who is the English patient according to Caravaggio? (The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje)
(1) Almasy ✅
(2) Clifton
(3) Lord Suffolk
(4) Patrick
Answer:- (1) Almasy ✅
Explanation:- Almasy is the mysterious burn victim identified by Caravaggio as “The English Patient.”
Q98. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is –
(1) A Tale of Sussex life
(2) A Tale of Westminster life
(3) A Tale of Webster life
(4) A Tale of Manchester life ✅
Answer:- (4) A Tale of Manchester life ✅
Explanation:- The novel explores class conflict and industrial hardship in Manchester during the 1840s.
Q99. Which of the following plays is based on a true story published in Gandhi’s Harijan?
(1) The Well of the People ✅
(2) Two Women
(3) The Torture
(4) The Vow
Answer:- (1) The Well of the People ✅
Explanation:- The Well of the People by Gandhi is based on a real-life story narrated in Harijan, reflecting his social concerns.
Q100. A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, in an epistolary form addressed to her friend “Ijeawele”, is written by –
(1) Flora Nwapa
(2) Bessie Head
(3) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ✅
(4) Buchi Emecheta
Answer:- (3) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ✅
Explanation:- Adichie’s manifesto offers practical feminist advice in the form of a letter to a new mother.
Q101. The title of the novel “The Tree of Man” by Patrick White is borrowed from ……….. poem by A.E Housman.
(1) “A Shropshire Lad” ✅
(2) “To an Athlete Dying Young”
(3) “Is My Team Ploughing”
(4) “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry”
Answer:- (1) “A Shropshire Lad” ✅
Explanation:- Patrick White derived the title of his novel from a poem in A.E. Housman’s famous collection A Shropshire Lad, reflecting on the elemental nature of human existence.
Q102. In which of the following novels of Mulk Raj Anand, Priest Kali Nath is attracted towards Sohini, a low-caste girl?
(1) Untouchable ✅
(2) Across the Black Waters
(3) Two Leaves and a Bud
(4) Coolie
Answer:- (1) Untouchable ✅
Explanation:- In Untouchable, Kali Nath’s attraction to Sohini highlights the hypocrisy of caste and religious authority in Indian society.
Q103. The ‘Leatherstocking Tales’ were written by –
(1) Thomas Bangs Thorpe
(2) Washington Irving
(3) James Fenimore Cooper ✅
(4) William Cullen Bryant
Answer:- (3) James Fenimore Cooper ✅
Explanation:- The Leatherstocking Tales are a series of novels by Cooper featuring the character Natty Bumppo.
Q104. In the play Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy, which among the following is NOT the self of Sarah?
(1) Queen Elizabeth ✅
(2) Jesus
(3) Duchess of Hapsburg
(4) Patrice Lumumba
Answer:- (1) Queen Elizabeth ✅
Explanation:- While Sarah’s fragmented selves include figures like Patrice Lumumba and Jesus, Queen Elizabeth is not one of them.
Q105. Which of the following poets were translated by Vikram Seth in Three Chinese Poets?
(1) Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Fu
(2) Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei ✅
(3) Li Qingzhao, Du Fu, Li Bai
(4) Bai Juyi, Li Bai, Du Fu
Answer:- (2) Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei ✅
Explanation:- Vikram Seth translated poems by these three Tang dynasty poets in his book Three Chinese Poets.
Q106. James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time contains the essay “My Dungeon Shook”. It was written to commemorate –
(1) One Hundredth Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance
(2) One Hundredth Anniversary of the March on Washington
(3) One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation ✅
(4) One Hundredth Anniversary of Slave Trade
Answer:- (3) One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation ✅
Explanation:- “My Dungeon Shook” was written as a letter to Baldwin’s nephew, reflecting on 100 years since the Emancipation Proclamation.
Q107. Who is the narrator in the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams?
(1) Amanda
(2) Laura
(3) Jim
(4) Tom ✅
Answer:- (4) Tom ✅
Explanation:- Tom, the son, serves as both a character and the narrator in the play, recounting his memories of the family.
Q108. Who reacted to The Waste Land as ‘a catastrophe to our letters’, which ‘gave the poem back to the academics’?
(1) Hart Crane
(2) William Carlos Williams ✅
(3) James Joyce
(4) Ezra Pound
Answer:- (2) William Carlos Williams ✅
Explanation:- Williams felt The Waste Land was too intellectual and inaccessible, returning poetry to academic circles.
Q109. Who wrote the poem “They Flee from me that sometime did me seek”?
(1) Thomas Lodge
(2) Henry Howard
(3) George Peele
(4) Sir Thomas Wyatt ✅
Answer:- (4) Sir Thomas Wyatt ✅
Explanation:- This poem is a classic of English Renaissance poetry, written by Wyatt with themes of courtly love and betrayal.
Q110. In which of the following plays by Derek Walcott does the central character, Makak, attempt to rediscover the continuous links between the multiplicity of West Indian culture?
(1) Dream on Monkey Mountain ✅
(2) The Odyssey
(3) Pantomime
(4) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Answer:- (1) Dream on Monkey Mountain ✅
Explanation:- Makak’s spiritual and cultural journey in Dream on Monkey Mountain reflects Walcott’s exploration of identity in the Caribbean.
Q111. In these lines from The Schooner Flight, the Odyssean figure of Shabine expresses…
I’m just a red nigger who love the sea
I had a sound colonial education
I have Dutch nigger and English in me and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.
Fill in the blank with the name of the writer:
(1) Paul Marshall
(2) George Lamming
(3) Tiphanie Yanique
(4) Derek Walcott ✅
Answer:- (4) Derek Walcott ✅
Explanation:- These lines are from Derek Walcott’s poem The Schooner Flight, where the narrator reflects on postcolonial identity and mixed heritage.
Q112. Sharon Pollock’s play The Komagata Maru Incident is about –
(1) Reil Rebellion
(2) Racial injustice done to the Sikhs in the 1914 incident ✅
(3) New Westminster Maximum Security Prison in the 70s
(4) Injustice done to the Sioux Nation in 1877-1881
Answer:- (2) Racial injustice done to the Sikhs in the 1914 incident ✅
Explanation:- The play dramatizes the 1914 incident where a ship carrying Sikh passengers was denied entry into Canada, highlighting racial discrimination.
Q113. ‘Creolization’ was first manifested in the fifteenth century when the African cultures interacted with –
(1) English culture
(2) French culture
(3) Spanish culture
(4) Portuguese culture ✅
Answer:- (4) Portuguese culture ✅
Explanation:- Creolization began with the contact between African and Portuguese cultures during early colonial explorations in the 15th century.
Q114. Which one of these poets has affinity with the metaphysical poets in terms of wit and elliptical metaphor?
(1) Emily Dickinson ✅
(2) Walt Whitman
(3) William Wordsworth
(4) Robert Frost
Answer:- (1) Emily Dickinson ✅
Explanation:- Dickinson’s use of paradox, elliptical phrasing, and intellectual wit aligns her with the metaphysical poetic tradition.
Q115. Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir written by Yashica Dutt is about –
(1) Exhausting burden of living with a secret ✅
(2) National campaign on Dalit human rights
(3) Tragic suicide of Dalit students
(4) Caste-based discrimination in universities in India
Answer:- (1) Exhausting burden of living with a secret ✅
Explanation:- The memoir details the author’s experience of hiding her Dalit identity and eventually embracing it publicly.
Q116. Diaspora writer and critic Meena Alexander refers to the act of literary creation as –
(1) Inescapable link with the history of the past
(2) Reclamation of the past
(3) “Writing in search of a homeland” ✅
(4) The nostalgia for a lost world
Answer:- (3) “Writing in search of a homeland” ✅
Explanation:- Meena Alexander famously described diaspora writing as a way of searching for belonging and identity.
Q117. Which of the following authors/critics argues that the “Amerindian mythology reveals values and perspectives as complex and mysterious as any originating from the Graeco-Roman or Judaeo-Christian traditions”?
(1) Caryl Phillips
(2) Peter Carey
(3) Wilson Harris ✅
(4) Chinua Achebe
Answer:- (3) Wilson Harris ✅
Explanation:- Wilson Harris emphasized the significance of Amerindian mythology in postcolonial thought and literature.
Q118. Match the following writers with their books –
(a) Azar Nafisi – (i) The Kite Runner
(b) Marjane Satrapi – (ii) Brick Lane
(c) Khaled Hosseini – (iii) Reading Lolita in Tehran
(d) Monica Ali – (iv) Persepolis
(1) (a-ii), (b-iv), (c-i), (d-iii)
(2) (a-iii), (b-iv), (c-i), (d-ii) ✅
(3) (a-iv), (b-iii), (c-i), (d-i)
(4) (a-i), (b-ii), (c-ii), (d-iv)
Answer:- (2) (a-iii), (b-iv), (c-i), (d-ii) ✅
Explanation:- This option correctly matches the authors to their works: Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), Satrapi (Persepolis), Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Ali (Brick Lane).
Q119. Every Man in His Humour was first set in –
(1) Italy ✅
(2) England
(3) France
(4) Spain
Answer:- (1) Italy ✅
Explanation:- Ben Jonson’s comedy Every Man in His Humour was initially set in Italy, though later performances adapted it to an English setting.
Q120. Match the following on the basis of Rape of the Lock and choose the correct option –
(1) Ariel – (a) Lapdog
(2) Betty – (b) Guardian Angel
(3) Shock – (c) Suitor
(4) Baron – (d) Personal maid
(1) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a
(2) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d
(3) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c ✅
(4) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
Answer:- (3) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c ✅
Explanation:- Ariel is Belinda’s guardian sylph (angel), Betty is her maid, Shock is the lapdog, and the Baron is the suitor who cuts the lock.
Q121. The following lines are from –
“I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans……”
(1) Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers ✅
(2) James Weldon Johnson, O Black and Unknown Bards
(3) Jean Toomer, Song of the Son
(4) Claude McKay, If We Must Die
Answer:- (1) Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers ✅
Explanation:- These lines are from Langston Hughes’ iconic poem, celebrating the depth of African-American history and identity.
Q122. Who recommended “ignoring the Homeric parallel” in the reading of Joyce’s Ulysses?
(1) Ezra Pound ✅
(2) D.H. Lawrence
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) Virginia Woolf
Answer:- (1) Ezra Pound ✅
Explanation:- Ezra Pound, while editing Ulysses, advised readers not to rely too heavily on the Homeric parallels and to focus more on the text’s innovations.
Q123. Identify the group that contains only Australian writers/poets –
(1) Les Murray, Morris West, Peter Carey ✅
(2) Paul Dunbar, Ben Okri, Flora Nwapa
(3) Earl Lovelace, Alexia Arthurs, Una Marson
(4) Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens
Answer:- (1) Les Murray, Morris West, Peter Carey ✅
Explanation:- All three are well-known Australian authors, with Peter Carey being a two-time Booker Prize winner.
Q124. Migrant and diasporic cinema is characterized by a distinctive aesthetic approach, which reflects –
(A) ‘double occupancy’
(B) ‘double consciousness’
(C) ‘diasporic optic’
(1) A & C
(2) B & C
(3) A, B & C ✅
(4) A & B
Answer:- (3) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- These terms describe the layered and hybrid identity representations in diasporic cinema.
Q125. Which of the following novels by James Baldwin deals with both homosexuality and the situation of African Americans?
(1) The Fire Next Time
(2) Go Tell It on the Mountain
(3) Blues for Mister Charlie
(4) Giovanni’s Room ✅
Answer:- (4) Giovanni’s Room ✅
Explanation:- Giovanni’s Room explores themes of identity, love, and sexuality in a deeply personal and social context.
Q126. Which novelist wrote: “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on”?
(1) Charlotte Brontë
(2) Mary Wollstonecraft
(3) Elizabeth Gaskell
(4) Jane Austen ✅
Answer:- (4) Jane Austen ✅
Explanation:- Jane Austen famously stated this as a guideline for writing, reflecting her focus on social manners in rural England.
Q127.
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
These lines are from the play –
(1) Twelfth Night
(2) Measure for Measure
(3) Romeo and Juliet
(4) As You Like It ✅
Answer:- (4) As You Like It ✅
Explanation:- These lines are spoken by Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, commenting wittily on love and marriage.
Q128. Which of the following novels of Salman Rushdie is “a cutting satire on the state of migration in the United Kingdom and a vivid and compelling exploration of good and evil, religious faith…”?
(1) Grimus
(2) Midnight’s Children
(3) Fury
(4) The Satanic Verses ✅
Answer:- (4) The Satanic Verses ✅
Explanation:- The Satanic Verses deals with migration, identity crises, and spiritual dilemmas of South Asians in Britain.
Q129. Which of the following novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was critically acclaimed for its emotional and realistic description of life during the Nigerian Civil War?
(1) The Thing Around Your Neck
(2) Half of a Yellow Sun ✅
(3) Purple Hibiscus
(4) Americanah
Answer:- (2) Half of a Yellow Sun ✅
Explanation:- The novel depicts the impact of the Biafran War on civilian lives through powerful and emotional narratives.
Q130.
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
The title page of which 19th-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost?
(1) Frankenstein ✅
(2) The Mortal Immortal
(3) The Last Man
(4) Mathilda
Answer:- (1) Frankenstein ✅
Explanation:- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein includes this epigraph from Milton’s Paradise Lost, capturing the creature’s anguish and rejection.
Q131. Which of the following plays of Girish Karnad is based on the Katha-sarit-sagara tale that Thomas Mann used for his short novel The Transposed Heads?
(1) The Fire and the Rain
(2) Hayavadana ✅
(3) Yayati
(4) Nagamandala
Answer:- (2) Hayavadana ✅
Explanation:- Hayavadana is inspired by an ancient tale of transposed heads, exploring identity and completeness.
Q132. Which of the following statements regarding Delarivier Manley’s The New Atlantis (1709) are correct?
- It was a sensational allegory not far removed from Swift.
- It was described by later moralists as “the most objectionable of novels”.
- It is a story of an ageing Duchess attracted to a young count.
(1) A & C
(2) B & C
(3) A & B
(4) A, B & C ✅
Answer:- (4) A, B & C ✅
Explanation:- All three points accurately describe the controversial content and reception of Manley’s satirical novel.
Q133. In the play She Stoops to Conquer, Mr. Hardcastle plans to marry his daughter Kate to –
(1) Tony Lumpkin
(2) Constance
(3) Charles Marlow ✅
(4) George Hastings
Answer:- (3) Charles Marlow ✅
Explanation:- Mr. Hardcastle arranges for Kate to marry Charles Marlow, who ironically is shy around upper-class women but flirty with servants.
Q134. Which novel of George Eliot is called A Study of Provincial Life?
(1) The Mill on the Floss
(2) Romola
(3) Middlemarch ✅
(4) Daniel Deronda
Answer:- (3) Middlemarch ✅
Explanation:- Middlemarch carries the subtitle “A Study of Provincial Life” and is known for its panoramic view of 19th-century English society.
Q135. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has been branded as “the most elemental and primeval” by Swinburne?
(1) Macbeth
(2) Othello
(3) King Lear ✅
(4) Hamlet
Answer:- (3) King Lear ✅
Explanation:- Swinburne admired King Lear for its raw emotional power and exploration of human suffering.
Q136. Local histories of African, Asian people produced throughout the nineteenth century in great numbers were best exemplified by James Mill’s –
(1) History of British India ✅
(2) Principles of Political Economy
(3) On Liberty
(4) The Subjection of Women
Answer:- (1) History of British India ✅
Explanation:- Mill’s influential and Eurocentric History of British India shaped British colonial policy and perceptions of India.
Q137. Which of the following statements about Thomas Elyot is NOT correct?
(1) He was an ancestor of T.S. Eliot.
(2) He prepared one of the most significant Latin-English dictionaries.
(3) He was one of the first authors to write almost entirely in English.
(4) He suggested that poetry and dance should be more emphasized than history and politics. ✅
Answer:- (4) He suggested that poetry and dance should be more emphasized than history and politics. ✅
Explanation:- Elyot emphasized classical education and moral philosophy, not poetry and dance over politics or history.
Q138. How does Act I, Scene I of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare open?
(1) Brutus, unable to sleep, reasons about Caesar’s ambitious nature
(2) Flavius and Marullus talk to some commoners ✅
(3) Casca and Cicero talk about the effects of thunder and lightning
(4) Caesar talking to his wife Calpurnia and Antony in the presence of Brutus and Cassius
Answer:- (2) Flavius and Marullus talk to some commoners ✅
Explanation:- The play opens with tribunes Flavius and Marullus confronting Roman citizens celebrating Caesar’s return.
Q139.
“Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations…”
Who eulogizes American poets in this 1855 preface to a seminal work?
(1) Nathaniel Hawthorne – The House of the Seven Gables
(2) Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass ✅
(3) Ralph Waldo Emerson – The American Scholar
(4) Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Answer:- (2) Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass ✅
Explanation:- These words are from Whitman’s 1855 Preface, praising the democratic and diverse soul of American poetry.
Q140. He “outlived his places, his schemes, his wife, his income, his health and almost everything but his kind heart.”
This comment of Thackeray is directed towards –
(1) Steele ✅
(2) Addison
(3) Defoe
(4) Swift
Answer:- (1) Steele ✅
Explanation:- Thackeray’s remark honors the amiable and generous personality of Sir Richard Steele, despite his misfortunes.
Q141. Which of the following poems is NOT written by Sri Aurobindo?
(1) “The Pilgrim of the Night”
(2) “Indian Women” ✅
(3) “The Stone Goddess”
(4) “Despair on the Staircase”
Answer:- (2) “Indian Women” ✅
Explanation:- “Indian Women” is written by Sarojini Naidu, not Sri Aurobindo, who is known for spiritual and philosophical poetry.
Q142. Match the following Journals with their editors –
- The Tatler – (i) Addison
- The Spectator – (ii) Steele
- The Review – (iii) Dr. Johnson
- The Gentleman’s Magazine – (iv) Daniel Defoe
(1) A–ii, B–i, C–iv, D–iii ✅
(2) A–i, B–ii, C–i, D–iv
(3) A–i, B–ii, C–iv, D–iii
(4) A–ii, B–i, C–iii, D–iv
Answer:- (1) A–ii, B–i, C–iv, D–iii ✅
Explanation:- Steele founded The Tatler, Addison contributed heavily to The Spectator, The Review was edited by Defoe, and The Gentleman’s Magazine by Johnson.
Q143. Which of the following statements are true?
(a) Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(b) Mark Twain is the father of American Literature.
(c) Herman Melville belongs to the American Renaissance Period.
(d) Henry James agrees with Walter Besant’s views about conscious moral purpose of art.
(1) a & d are true
(2) a & c are true
(3) a, b & c are true ✅
(4) b & d are true
Answer:- (3) a, b & c are true ✅
Explanation:- Statements a, b, and c are correct. Henry James actually disagreed with Besant’s moralistic view.
Q144. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an autobiography published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was written by –
(1) Harriet Jacobs ✅
(2) Harriet Tubman
(3) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(4) Harriet E. Wilson
Answer:- (1) Harriet Jacobs ✅
Explanation:- Harriet Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent to describe her harrowing life as an enslaved woman in America.
Q145. Language and the Destiny of Man and The Novelist as Teacher – two seminal essays by Chinua Achebe are part of his monumental work –
(1) Home and Exile
(2) Morning Yet on Creation Day
(3) Hopes and Impediments ✅
(4) The Trouble with Nigeria
Answer:- (3) Hopes and Impediments ✅
Explanation:- These essays are included in Hopes and Impediments, a critical collection that addresses colonial and postcolonial identity.
Q146.
“Its life adjusted to the lenses
of cameras that, perniciously elegiac,
took shots of passing things…”
Identify the poem written by Derek Walcott –
(1) Sea Grapes
(2) Omeros ✅
(3) The Fortunate Traveller
(4) Midsummer
Answer:- (2) Omeros ✅
Explanation:- These lines are from Omeros, Walcott’s epic poem that interweaves classical mythology with Caribbean life.
Q147. Who among the following Indian writers wrote the book Aryan Witness in which he tried to prove that the Prajapati of the Vedas is Jesus Christ?
(1) Rammohan Roy
(2) Venkata Ramaswami
(3) Henry Derozio
(4) Krishna Mohan Banerjee ✅
Answer:- (4) Krishna Mohan Banerjee ✅
Explanation:- In Aryan Witness, Banerjee attempted to reconcile Christian theology with Vedic scriptures.
Q148. The “Subaltern Studies Group” (SSG) at Oxford was formed under the leadership of –
(1) Ranajit Guha ✅
(2) Sudipta Kaviraj
(3) Annabhau Sathe
(4) Sumit Sarkar
Answer:- (1) Ranajit Guha ✅
Explanation:- Ranajit Guha was the founding figure of the Subaltern Studies Group, which reinterpreted Indian history from the perspective of the marginalized.
Q149. Which of the following statements is true regarding the novel The Bluest Eye?
(1) It is the story of a runaway slave who kills her daughter.
(2) It is a piece of literary criticism.
(3) It recounts a year in the life of Pecola Breedlove, a victim of rape by her father. ✅
(4) It is a story of two young black girls; one of them leaves the country and returns 10 years later.
Answer:- (3) It recounts a year in the life of Pecola Breedlove, a victim of rape by her father. ✅
Explanation:- Toni Morrison’s debut novel The Bluest Eye tells the tragic story of Pecola, a young black girl dealing with racism and abuse.
Q150. The term objective correlative was coined by –
(1) Ezra Pound
(2) Washington Allston ✅
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) Robert W. Stallman
Answer:- (2) Washington Allston ✅
Explanation:- Though popularized by T.S. Eliot, the term objective correlative was originally coined by painter and writer Washington Allston.
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