Exam Details
Subject | comparative literature | |
Paper | ||
Exam / Course | ma | |
Department | ||
Organization | central university | |
Position | ||
Exam Date | 2017 | |
City, State | telangana, hyderabad |
Question Paper
Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Class take preparation I without cannot"
Preparation I cannot take without class.
Without class I cannot take preparation.
I cannot take class without preparation.
I cannot take preparation without class.
Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Asked/I/you/lend/me/to /money/some/purpose/any/for"
Never I asked you for any purpose lend me some money.
I never asked you to lend me some money for any purpose.
I never lend you to ask for any purpose some money.
Some money for any purpose I lend you never to ask.
Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Wonderful/what it a garden is!
A wonderful garden it is what!
What a garden it is wonderful!
A garden is it what a wonderful!
What a wonderful garden it is!
Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?
Pulp
Seeds
Core
Slice
Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?
Avoid
Duck
Dodge
Flee
Rajeshwer, Rameshwer and Vandana are three astronauts. Rajeshwer is Rameshwer's brother. Rameshwer is Vandana's brother. Vandana is not Rajeshwer's brother. Therefore, Vandana is Rajeshwer's sister.
Should be false
Should be true
May be false
Cannot be determined
To complete the pattern given below, identify the correct number of the appropriate symbol, from the four given in the second line, which should replace the question mark?
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1
Joe is younger than Kathy. Mark was born after Joe. Kathy is older than Mark. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
True
False
Uncertain
Neither
Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete pattern: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60,
10) Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete the pattern: 11, 17.
15
14
13
12
11) Find the odd one out of the following:
Sheep: Bleat
Horse: Neigh
Ass: Grunt
Owl: Hoot
12) Find the odd one out of the following: Whale: Mammal Snake: Reptile Salamander: Insect Frog: Amphibian
13) Choose the correct combination to complete the pattern: CD, OHI, UVWXY.
LMNO
MNO
MNOP
NOPQ
14) Fill the blank with the correct combination to complete the sequence:
ATTRIBUTION, TTRIBUTIO, RIBUTIO, IBUTI,
(a)IBU
UTI
BUT
15) If S is the brother of the sister of N is the brother of P is J and the daughter of S is then who is the uncle of
16) If cushion is called pillow, pillow is called mat, mat is called bedsheet and bedsheet is called cover, which will be spread on the floor?
Cover
Bedsheet
Mat
Pillow
17) He took a new job.
(c)Off
18) Not even one of the candidates who attended the interview suitable for the post.
Were
Was
Had been
Being
19) "She sells seashells by the sea shore" is an example of_.
Simile
Aphorism
Metaphor
Alliteration
20) "We are indebted to Mother-India" is an example of_.
Hyperbole
Cliche
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Read the data given below and answer the questions 21-25:
Dinesh and Raju can play cricket and basketball. Dinesh and Mohan can play cricket and lawn tennis. Raju and Praveen can play volleyball and basketball. Mohan and Praveen can play volleyball and lawn tennis.
21) Name the player who can play basketball, volleyball and lawn tennis:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
22) Name the player who can play volleyball, basketball and cricket:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
23) Name the player who does not play cricket:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
24) Name the player who does not play basketball:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
25) Name the player who does not play lawn tennis:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
26) The anti-Hindi agitation was first launched in 1937 against the imposition of Hindi in schools in the-then Madras Presidency, This movement was supported by_.
C.Rajagopalachari
The Indian National Congress
E.V. Ramasamy Periyar
All of the above
27) India was reorganized into linguistic states
1950
1954
1952
1956
28) British intervention in Indian languages such as translating the Bible and other European texts into Indian languages, producing dictionaries and grammar books in Indian languages can be described as a process of
Modernization
Sanskritization
Indianization
None of the above
29) Tagore's short story "Kabuliwala" was made into a Hindi film in the year_,
1960
1961
1963
1964
30) On which story did Satyajit Ray base his film Charulata?
"Bhikharini"
"Atithi"
"Haimanti"
"Nastanirh"
31) Sunil Gangopadhyay, the poet and novelist, was born in Faridpur which is now in_.
Pakistan
Kajakistan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
32) The Bengali movie, Sudhu Nirar Jonno is based on a
Novel
Short story
Long story
Drama
33) Who among the following is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Regan
Cornelia
Cordelia
Goneril
34) The Tripitaka, a collection ofBuddhistteachings, was written in
The third century BC
The fourth century BC
The fifth century BC
The sixth century BC
35) Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement?
Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw.
Lady Gregory. W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge.
W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw.
W .B. Yeats, Patric J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney
36) Who among the following Greek Philosophers hailed Sappho as "the tenth muse"?
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Plutarch
Plato
37) Which of the following villages is known for weaving in Nalgonda district of Telangana State?
Kavadipally
Pochampally
Madanapally
Kothapally
38) Dogri speakers are called
Dugras
Dogras
Duggars
Dogris
39) Meri Aawaz Suno, an Indian film released in 1981, is directed by
S.V. Rajendra Singh
Shakti Kapoor
Jeetendra
Pinchoo Kapoor
40) Who among the following introduced Polysystem Theory?
Jermy Mundy
Andre Lefvre
Itamar Evan-Zohar
Lawrence Venuti
Read the following passage and answer questions 41-45:
Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term 'aesthetic' has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a kind of attitude, a kind of experience, and a kind of value. For the most part, aesthetic theories have divided over questions particular to one or another of these designations: whether artworks are necessarily aesthetic objects; how to square the allegedly perceptual basis of aesthetic judgments with the fact that we give reasons in support of them; how best to capture the elusive contrast between an aesthetic attitude and a practical one; whether to define aesthetic experience according to its phenomenological or representational content; how best to understand the relation between aesthetic value and aesthetic experience. But questions of more general nature have lately arisen, and these have tended to have a skeptical cast: whether any use of 'aesthetic' may be explicated without appeal to some other; whether agreement respecting any use is sufficient to ground meaningful theoretical agreement or disagreement; whether the term ultimately answers to any legitimate philosophical purpose that justifies its inclusion in the lexicon. The skepticism expressed by such general questions did not begin to take hold until the later part of the 20th century, and this fact prompts the question whether the concept of the aesthetic is inherently problematic and it is only recently that we have managed to see that it is, or the concept is fine and it is only recently that we have become muddled enough to imagine otherwise. Adjudicating between these possibilities requires a vantage from which to take in both early and late theorizing on aesthetic matters.
41) The passage talks about
Theory of Philosophy
Problem of Aesthetics
Phenomenological Issues
Philosophical disagreements
42) Aesthetic theories have divided over
Artworks as objects
Questions of designation
Phenomenological questions
Representational questions
43) The possibilities for aesthetic adjudication include
The aesthetic concept is inherently problematic.
The aesthetic concept is fine but understood differently.
Both A
None of the above.
44) Why is the term "aesthetic" under a skeptical cast?
For philosophic discussion
For inclusion in lexicon
For aesthetic evaluation
None of the above
45) Aesthetic experience is
A phenomenal experience
A spiritual experience
A perceptual experience
All of the above
Read the following poem and answer questions 46-50:
Daylight would die. Darkness would reign.
We at our hut's door. No single light inside.
Lights burning in houses around.
Kitchen-fires too. Bhakris beaten out.
Vegetables, gruels cooked.
In our nostrils, the smell of food. In our stomachs, darkness.
From our eyes, welling up, streams of tears.
Slicing darkness, a shadow heavily draws near.
On her head, a burden. Her legs a-totter.
Thin, dark of body .... my mother.
All day she combs the forest for firewood.
We wait her return.
When she brings no firewood to sell we go to bed hungry.
One day something happens. How we don't know.
Mother comes home leg bandaged, bleeding.
A large black snake bit her, say two women.
He raised his hood. He struck her. He slithered away.
Mother fell to the ground.
We try charms. We try spells. The medicine man comes.
The day ends. So does her life.
We burst into grief. Our grief melts into air.
Mother is gone. We, her brood, thrown to the winds.
Even now my eyes search for mother. My sadness grows.
When I see a thin woman with firewood on her head,
I go and buy all her firewood.
46) The poem depicts
Mother's grief
Poverty of a family
Daylight and darkness
None of the above
47) Mother passes away
Due to sadness
Due to kitchen fire
Due to snake bite
Due to poverty
48) Who is the "He" in the poem?
Mother's husband
Mother's father
Mother's uncle
Black Snake
49) What does "brood" mean in the poem?
Offspring
Deep thought
Firewood
Charm and spell
50) What does "a burden" mean in the poem?
Slicing darkness
Bundle of firewood
Smell of food
Stream of tears
Read the following passage and answer questions 51-55:
The focus on Indian literature within the discipline of Comparative Literature led to the opening up of many areas of engagement. Older definitions of Indian literature often with only Sanskrit at the Centre, with the focus on a few canonical texts to the neglect of others, particularly oral and performative traditions, had to be abandoned. One also had to take a more inclusive look at histories of literature in different languages of India which were discrete histories based on language and did not do justice to the overlap between social formations, histories and languages, and to the multilingualism that formed the very core of Indian literature. The task, comparatists realized was, as so aptly voiced by Aijaz Ahmad, to trace "the dialectic of unity and difference -through systematic periodization of multiple linguistic overlaps, and by grounding that dialectic in the history of material productions, ideological struggles, competing conceptions of class and community and gender, elite offensives and popular resistances, overlaps of cultural vocabularies and performative genres, and histories of orality and writing and print."
Comparatists dealing with Indian literature also necessarily had to look at the interplay between the mainstream and the popular, the elite and the marginalized and also to some extent foreground intermedial perspectives as different forms existed together in a composite manner, particularly in earlier periods in which textual and performative traditions existed simultaneously. Dealing with Indian literature from a comparative perspective also meant looking at the interactions taking place with literatures in regions beyond the geo-political boundaries of the nation state. All this would necessarily take up a long period of time. The beginning of the process was seen in the comprehensive and integrative three-volume histories of Indian literature, where Indian literatures were studied not as discrete units but in dialogue with one another, brought out by Sisir Kumar Das, a faculty member at the department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, with support from other members of the department and the Sahitya Akademi.
51) The basis for Indian literature is_.
Ideological overlaps
Linguistic overlaps
Cultural overlaps
All of the above
52) Oral tradition in Indian literature in the past was
Exclusive
Inclusive
Prerogative
Affirmative
53) Comparative Literature came into being as a result of_.
A study of only two literatures.
A study of literatures only within a region.
A study of interrelationships beyond territorial limits.
None of the above.
54) Indian literatures should ideally be studied from a perspective.
Cultural
Linguistic
Comparative
Social
55) The first comprehensive history of Indian literature is credited to
Aijaz Ahmad
Amiya Dev
Sisir Kumar Das
Ramachandra Guha
56) The term "Fourth World" first came into wide use in
1972
1973
1974
1976
57) The translator of Mahasweta Devi' s Mother of 1048 is
Pritam Bhattacharya
Samik Bandopadyaya
Gayatri Spivak
Sharadindu Bandopadyaya
58) Who is the director of the film Bride and Prejudice?
Mira Nair
Deepa Mehta
GurinderChadha
Shekhar Kapoor
59) Who is the author of White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text ofPhilosophy?
Frantz Fanon
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Stuart Hall
60) D.N. Nagaraj, the author of the Flaming Feet, hails from_.
Kerala
Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
61) Name Nelson Mandel's jailer who claimed "[Mandela] was my prisoner, but he was my father"?
Desmond Tutu
Christo Brand
James Gregory
Andrew Meldrum
62) Comparative Literature in an Age ofGlobalization is a famous book edited by
Haun Saussy
Totosy Zepetnek
David Damrosch
Charles Bernheimer
63) Which of the following is a famous Urdu Journal?
Sahitya
Kallol
Parimal
Angare
64) The term "diaspora" was originally applied to the following ethnic group:
Muslims
Aborigines
Jews
Hindus
65) Who among the following is not a modem poet in Malayalam?
M. Govindan
Rajasekharam
Ayyappan
Kunchan Nambiar
66) Theru Koothu is a folk-art form of_.
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kamataka
67) The concept "Literary History from Below" was first enunciated by
Partha Chatterjee
Sisir Kumar Das
Chandra Mohan
Amiya Dev
68) Who among the following is NOT a Dalit Writer?
Namdeo Dhasal
P. Shivakami
Premchand
Sharan Kumar Limhale
69) Which of the following is primarily a solo performance?
Odissi
Yakshagana
Ottan Thullal
Kuchpudi
70) LAN means:
Least Area Network
Local Area Network
Large Area Network
Light Area Network
71) What does HTTP stand for?
Head Tail Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Plot
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Plotter
72) A website's main page is called_.
Browser page
Search page
Home page
Bookmark
73) Which of the following states opened India's first transgender school "Sahaj International"?
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
74) Towards an Aesthetics ofDalit Literature is written by_.
Baburao Bagul
Manohar Biswas
Waman Nimbalkar
Sharan Kumar Limbale
75) is a-Malayalam Dalit writer.
C. Ayyappan
Imayam
Bama
Aravind Malagatti
76) A Suitable Boy is a novel written by
Karan Johar
Vikram Seth
Carol Burnside
Michael J. Malone
77) Riddles ofHinduism is written by
Kancha Ilaiah
Pandita Ramabai
E.V. Ramasami Naicker
B. R. Ambedkar
78) Gitanjali is a collection of poems by
Gudipati Venkatachalam
Mani Ratnam
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali
79) One of the following Bhakti poet is a Rajput princess:
Ratanbai
Rami
Atukuri Molla
Mirabai
80) The concept ofthe death ofthe author is proclaimed and celebrated by
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
Stephen Greenblatt
Horace
81) is a biography written by the subject about himself or herself.
Memoir
Diary
Autobiography
Journal
82) was the principal architect of English education in India.
William Bentick
Thomas Macaulay
James Stuart Mill
William Adams
83) In which year did Telangana achieve its statehood?
2013
2014
2015
2012
84) How many syllables does a Haiku have?
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
85) Which state of the current North-East India was the last to join the Indian Union in 1975?
Mizoram
Sikkim
Nagaland
Manipur
86) 'Negritude' is a term put forth by the African intellectual_.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Chinua Achebe
Frantz Fanon
Wole Soyinka
87) Literature/art as propaganda was an idea propagated by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sharan Kumar Limbale
Alan Locke
None of the above
88) Arthur Miller's idea of tragedy is
Aristetolian
Anti-Aristetolian
Elizabethan
Senecan
89) What was the last word of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart ofDarkness?
Savage
Horror
Congo
None of the above
90) Ahom was a ruling dynasty of which present state of India?
Arunchal Pradesh
Assam
Tripura
Gujarat
91) When was Sangeet Natak Akademi established?
1952
1953
1954
1955
92) Ngugi wa Thiong'o's last work in English was_.
Decolonisng the Mind
Weep Not, Child
The Grain of Wheat
None of the above
93) Nil Darpan, or The Indigo Mirror is a play by
Dinabandu Mitra
Michael Madhusudan Dart
Rabindranath Tagore
None of the above
94) Annihilation of Caste by Ambedkar was first published in which year?
1934
1935
1936
1937
95) Postmodernism as a term was first used by
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Michel Foucault
Jean Baudrillard
96) 'Operation the code name for police action, was for which Indian city's merger to the Indian Union?
Hyderabad
Mumbai
Chennai
Travancore
97) Which book of Plato's Republic is devoted to art?
IX
VIII
VII
X
98) Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities was first published in which year?
1981
1982
1983
1984
99) How many Indian languages are listed in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
100) Who said "Study the historian before you begin to study the facts"?
Eric Hobsbawm
E.H. Carr
Romila Thapar
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Preparation I cannot take without class.
Without class I cannot take preparation.
I cannot take class without preparation.
I cannot take preparation without class.
Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Asked/I/you/lend/me/to /money/some/purpose/any/for"
Never I asked you for any purpose lend me some money.
I never asked you to lend me some money for any purpose.
I never lend you to ask for any purpose some money.
Some money for any purpose I lend you never to ask.
Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Wonderful/what it a garden is!
A wonderful garden it is what!
What a garden it is wonderful!
A garden is it what a wonderful!
What a wonderful garden it is!
Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?
Pulp
Seeds
Core
Slice
Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?
Avoid
Duck
Dodge
Flee
Rajeshwer, Rameshwer and Vandana are three astronauts. Rajeshwer is Rameshwer's brother. Rameshwer is Vandana's brother. Vandana is not Rajeshwer's brother. Therefore, Vandana is Rajeshwer's sister.
Should be false
Should be true
May be false
Cannot be determined
To complete the pattern given below, identify the correct number of the appropriate symbol, from the four given in the second line, which should replace the question mark?
<img src='./qimages/15981-7.jpg'>
1
Joe is younger than Kathy. Mark was born after Joe. Kathy is older than Mark. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
True
False
Uncertain
Neither
Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete pattern: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60,
10) Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete the pattern: 11, 17.
15
14
13
12
11) Find the odd one out of the following:
Sheep: Bleat
Horse: Neigh
Ass: Grunt
Owl: Hoot
12) Find the odd one out of the following: Whale: Mammal Snake: Reptile Salamander: Insect Frog: Amphibian
13) Choose the correct combination to complete the pattern: CD, OHI, UVWXY.
LMNO
MNO
MNOP
NOPQ
14) Fill the blank with the correct combination to complete the sequence:
ATTRIBUTION, TTRIBUTIO, RIBUTIO, IBUTI,
(a)IBU
UTI
BUT
15) If S is the brother of the sister of N is the brother of P is J and the daughter of S is then who is the uncle of
16) If cushion is called pillow, pillow is called mat, mat is called bedsheet and bedsheet is called cover, which will be spread on the floor?
Cover
Bedsheet
Mat
Pillow
17) He took a new job.
(c)Off
18) Not even one of the candidates who attended the interview suitable for the post.
Were
Was
Had been
Being
19) "She sells seashells by the sea shore" is an example of_.
Simile
Aphorism
Metaphor
Alliteration
20) "We are indebted to Mother-India" is an example of_.
Hyperbole
Cliche
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Read the data given below and answer the questions 21-25:
Dinesh and Raju can play cricket and basketball. Dinesh and Mohan can play cricket and lawn tennis. Raju and Praveen can play volleyball and basketball. Mohan and Praveen can play volleyball and lawn tennis.
21) Name the player who can play basketball, volleyball and lawn tennis:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
22) Name the player who can play volleyball, basketball and cricket:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
23) Name the player who does not play cricket:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
24) Name the player who does not play basketball:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
25) Name the player who does not play lawn tennis:
Dinesh
Raju
Mohan
Praveen
26) The anti-Hindi agitation was first launched in 1937 against the imposition of Hindi in schools in the-then Madras Presidency, This movement was supported by_.
C.Rajagopalachari
The Indian National Congress
E.V. Ramasamy Periyar
All of the above
27) India was reorganized into linguistic states
1950
1954
1952
1956
28) British intervention in Indian languages such as translating the Bible and other European texts into Indian languages, producing dictionaries and grammar books in Indian languages can be described as a process of
Modernization
Sanskritization
Indianization
None of the above
29) Tagore's short story "Kabuliwala" was made into a Hindi film in the year_,
1960
1961
1963
1964
30) On which story did Satyajit Ray base his film Charulata?
"Bhikharini"
"Atithi"
"Haimanti"
"Nastanirh"
31) Sunil Gangopadhyay, the poet and novelist, was born in Faridpur which is now in_.
Pakistan
Kajakistan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
32) The Bengali movie, Sudhu Nirar Jonno is based on a
Novel
Short story
Long story
Drama
33) Who among the following is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Regan
Cornelia
Cordelia
Goneril
34) The Tripitaka, a collection ofBuddhistteachings, was written in
The third century BC
The fourth century BC
The fifth century BC
The sixth century BC
35) Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement?
Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw.
Lady Gregory. W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge.
W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw.
W .B. Yeats, Patric J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney
36) Who among the following Greek Philosophers hailed Sappho as "the tenth muse"?
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Plutarch
Plato
37) Which of the following villages is known for weaving in Nalgonda district of Telangana State?
Kavadipally
Pochampally
Madanapally
Kothapally
38) Dogri speakers are called
Dugras
Dogras
Duggars
Dogris
39) Meri Aawaz Suno, an Indian film released in 1981, is directed by
S.V. Rajendra Singh
Shakti Kapoor
Jeetendra
Pinchoo Kapoor
40) Who among the following introduced Polysystem Theory?
Jermy Mundy
Andre Lefvre
Itamar Evan-Zohar
Lawrence Venuti
Read the following passage and answer questions 41-45:
Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term 'aesthetic' has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a kind of attitude, a kind of experience, and a kind of value. For the most part, aesthetic theories have divided over questions particular to one or another of these designations: whether artworks are necessarily aesthetic objects; how to square the allegedly perceptual basis of aesthetic judgments with the fact that we give reasons in support of them; how best to capture the elusive contrast between an aesthetic attitude and a practical one; whether to define aesthetic experience according to its phenomenological or representational content; how best to understand the relation between aesthetic value and aesthetic experience. But questions of more general nature have lately arisen, and these have tended to have a skeptical cast: whether any use of 'aesthetic' may be explicated without appeal to some other; whether agreement respecting any use is sufficient to ground meaningful theoretical agreement or disagreement; whether the term ultimately answers to any legitimate philosophical purpose that justifies its inclusion in the lexicon. The skepticism expressed by such general questions did not begin to take hold until the later part of the 20th century, and this fact prompts the question whether the concept of the aesthetic is inherently problematic and it is only recently that we have managed to see that it is, or the concept is fine and it is only recently that we have become muddled enough to imagine otherwise. Adjudicating between these possibilities requires a vantage from which to take in both early and late theorizing on aesthetic matters.
41) The passage talks about
Theory of Philosophy
Problem of Aesthetics
Phenomenological Issues
Philosophical disagreements
42) Aesthetic theories have divided over
Artworks as objects
Questions of designation
Phenomenological questions
Representational questions
43) The possibilities for aesthetic adjudication include
The aesthetic concept is inherently problematic.
The aesthetic concept is fine but understood differently.
Both A
None of the above.
44) Why is the term "aesthetic" under a skeptical cast?
For philosophic discussion
For inclusion in lexicon
For aesthetic evaluation
None of the above
45) Aesthetic experience is
A phenomenal experience
A spiritual experience
A perceptual experience
All of the above
Read the following poem and answer questions 46-50:
Daylight would die. Darkness would reign.
We at our hut's door. No single light inside.
Lights burning in houses around.
Kitchen-fires too. Bhakris beaten out.
Vegetables, gruels cooked.
In our nostrils, the smell of food. In our stomachs, darkness.
From our eyes, welling up, streams of tears.
Slicing darkness, a shadow heavily draws near.
On her head, a burden. Her legs a-totter.
Thin, dark of body .... my mother.
All day she combs the forest for firewood.
We wait her return.
When she brings no firewood to sell we go to bed hungry.
One day something happens. How we don't know.
Mother comes home leg bandaged, bleeding.
A large black snake bit her, say two women.
He raised his hood. He struck her. He slithered away.
Mother fell to the ground.
We try charms. We try spells. The medicine man comes.
The day ends. So does her life.
We burst into grief. Our grief melts into air.
Mother is gone. We, her brood, thrown to the winds.
Even now my eyes search for mother. My sadness grows.
When I see a thin woman with firewood on her head,
I go and buy all her firewood.
46) The poem depicts
Mother's grief
Poverty of a family
Daylight and darkness
None of the above
47) Mother passes away
Due to sadness
Due to kitchen fire
Due to snake bite
Due to poverty
48) Who is the "He" in the poem?
Mother's husband
Mother's father
Mother's uncle
Black Snake
49) What does "brood" mean in the poem?
Offspring
Deep thought
Firewood
Charm and spell
50) What does "a burden" mean in the poem?
Slicing darkness
Bundle of firewood
Smell of food
Stream of tears
Read the following passage and answer questions 51-55:
The focus on Indian literature within the discipline of Comparative Literature led to the opening up of many areas of engagement. Older definitions of Indian literature often with only Sanskrit at the Centre, with the focus on a few canonical texts to the neglect of others, particularly oral and performative traditions, had to be abandoned. One also had to take a more inclusive look at histories of literature in different languages of India which were discrete histories based on language and did not do justice to the overlap between social formations, histories and languages, and to the multilingualism that formed the very core of Indian literature. The task, comparatists realized was, as so aptly voiced by Aijaz Ahmad, to trace "the dialectic of unity and difference -through systematic periodization of multiple linguistic overlaps, and by grounding that dialectic in the history of material productions, ideological struggles, competing conceptions of class and community and gender, elite offensives and popular resistances, overlaps of cultural vocabularies and performative genres, and histories of orality and writing and print."
Comparatists dealing with Indian literature also necessarily had to look at the interplay between the mainstream and the popular, the elite and the marginalized and also to some extent foreground intermedial perspectives as different forms existed together in a composite manner, particularly in earlier periods in which textual and performative traditions existed simultaneously. Dealing with Indian literature from a comparative perspective also meant looking at the interactions taking place with literatures in regions beyond the geo-political boundaries of the nation state. All this would necessarily take up a long period of time. The beginning of the process was seen in the comprehensive and integrative three-volume histories of Indian literature, where Indian literatures were studied not as discrete units but in dialogue with one another, brought out by Sisir Kumar Das, a faculty member at the department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, with support from other members of the department and the Sahitya Akademi.
51) The basis for Indian literature is_.
Ideological overlaps
Linguistic overlaps
Cultural overlaps
All of the above
52) Oral tradition in Indian literature in the past was
Exclusive
Inclusive
Prerogative
Affirmative
53) Comparative Literature came into being as a result of_.
A study of only two literatures.
A study of literatures only within a region.
A study of interrelationships beyond territorial limits.
None of the above.
54) Indian literatures should ideally be studied from a perspective.
Cultural
Linguistic
Comparative
Social
55) The first comprehensive history of Indian literature is credited to
Aijaz Ahmad
Amiya Dev
Sisir Kumar Das
Ramachandra Guha
56) The term "Fourth World" first came into wide use in
1972
1973
1974
1976
57) The translator of Mahasweta Devi' s Mother of 1048 is
Pritam Bhattacharya
Samik Bandopadyaya
Gayatri Spivak
Sharadindu Bandopadyaya
58) Who is the director of the film Bride and Prejudice?
Mira Nair
Deepa Mehta
GurinderChadha
Shekhar Kapoor
59) Who is the author of White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text ofPhilosophy?
Frantz Fanon
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Stuart Hall
60) D.N. Nagaraj, the author of the Flaming Feet, hails from_.
Kerala
Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
61) Name Nelson Mandel's jailer who claimed "[Mandela] was my prisoner, but he was my father"?
Desmond Tutu
Christo Brand
James Gregory
Andrew Meldrum
62) Comparative Literature in an Age ofGlobalization is a famous book edited by
Haun Saussy
Totosy Zepetnek
David Damrosch
Charles Bernheimer
63) Which of the following is a famous Urdu Journal?
Sahitya
Kallol
Parimal
Angare
64) The term "diaspora" was originally applied to the following ethnic group:
Muslims
Aborigines
Jews
Hindus
65) Who among the following is not a modem poet in Malayalam?
M. Govindan
Rajasekharam
Ayyappan
Kunchan Nambiar
66) Theru Koothu is a folk-art form of_.
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kamataka
67) The concept "Literary History from Below" was first enunciated by
Partha Chatterjee
Sisir Kumar Das
Chandra Mohan
Amiya Dev
68) Who among the following is NOT a Dalit Writer?
Namdeo Dhasal
P. Shivakami
Premchand
Sharan Kumar Limhale
69) Which of the following is primarily a solo performance?
Odissi
Yakshagana
Ottan Thullal
Kuchpudi
70) LAN means:
Least Area Network
Local Area Network
Large Area Network
Light Area Network
71) What does HTTP stand for?
Head Tail Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Plot
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Plotter
72) A website's main page is called_.
Browser page
Search page
Home page
Bookmark
73) Which of the following states opened India's first transgender school "Sahaj International"?
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
74) Towards an Aesthetics ofDalit Literature is written by_.
Baburao Bagul
Manohar Biswas
Waman Nimbalkar
Sharan Kumar Limbale
75) is a-Malayalam Dalit writer.
C. Ayyappan
Imayam
Bama
Aravind Malagatti
76) A Suitable Boy is a novel written by
Karan Johar
Vikram Seth
Carol Burnside
Michael J. Malone
77) Riddles ofHinduism is written by
Kancha Ilaiah
Pandita Ramabai
E.V. Ramasami Naicker
B. R. Ambedkar
78) Gitanjali is a collection of poems by
Gudipati Venkatachalam
Mani Ratnam
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali
79) One of the following Bhakti poet is a Rajput princess:
Ratanbai
Rami
Atukuri Molla
Mirabai
80) The concept ofthe death ofthe author is proclaimed and celebrated by
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
Stephen Greenblatt
Horace
81) is a biography written by the subject about himself or herself.
Memoir
Diary
Autobiography
Journal
82) was the principal architect of English education in India.
William Bentick
Thomas Macaulay
James Stuart Mill
William Adams
83) In which year did Telangana achieve its statehood?
2013
2014
2015
2012
84) How many syllables does a Haiku have?
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
85) Which state of the current North-East India was the last to join the Indian Union in 1975?
Mizoram
Sikkim
Nagaland
Manipur
86) 'Negritude' is a term put forth by the African intellectual_.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Chinua Achebe
Frantz Fanon
Wole Soyinka
87) Literature/art as propaganda was an idea propagated by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sharan Kumar Limbale
Alan Locke
None of the above
88) Arthur Miller's idea of tragedy is
Aristetolian
Anti-Aristetolian
Elizabethan
Senecan
89) What was the last word of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart ofDarkness?
Savage
Horror
Congo
None of the above
90) Ahom was a ruling dynasty of which present state of India?
Arunchal Pradesh
Assam
Tripura
Gujarat
91) When was Sangeet Natak Akademi established?
1952
1953
1954
1955
92) Ngugi wa Thiong'o's last work in English was_.
Decolonisng the Mind
Weep Not, Child
The Grain of Wheat
None of the above
93) Nil Darpan, or The Indigo Mirror is a play by
Dinabandu Mitra
Michael Madhusudan Dart
Rabindranath Tagore
None of the above
94) Annihilation of Caste by Ambedkar was first published in which year?
1934
1935
1936
1937
95) Postmodernism as a term was first used by
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Michel Foucault
Jean Baudrillard
96) 'Operation the code name for police action, was for which Indian city's merger to the Indian Union?
Hyderabad
Mumbai
Chennai
Travancore
97) Which book of Plato's Republic is devoted to art?
IX
VIII
VII
X
98) Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities was first published in which year?
1981
1982
1983
1984
99) How many Indian languages are listed in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
100) Who said "Study the historian before you begin to study the facts"?
Eric Hobsbawm
E.H. Carr
Romila Thapar
Dipesh Chakrabarty
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