What number should fill the blank in the series: U32, V29, X23, Y20.

W26

WI7

ZI7

Z26

Which does not belong with the others:

Inch.

Ounce

Centimeter

Yard

Identify the appropriate course(s) of action if a large number of people die every year due to drinking polluted water during the summer:

The government should make adequate arrangements to provide safe drinking water.

II) The people should be educated about the dangers of drinking polluted water.

Only I

Only II

Neither I nor II

Both I II

Three pencils cost the same as two erasers. Four erasers cost the same as one ruler. Pencils are more expensive than rulers. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is_.

True

False

Uncertain

Unknown

A jar of jelly beans contains more red beans than green. There are more yellow beans than red. The jar contains fewer yellow beans than green ones. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

True

False

Uncertain

Unknown

Choose a term that best suits the following statements to answer questions 6 to 14:

The structure of a story; the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story; the structure of a five-act play often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution:

Pathetic Fallacy

Verisimilitude

Allusion

Plot

A statement which can contain two or more meanings:

Ambiguity

Anecdote

Epigraph

Foil

The contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant.

Oxymoron

Analogy

Verbal Irony

Juxtaposition

The use of angry and insulting language:

Jargon

Invective

Malapropism

Mood

10) A device in literature where an object represents an idea:

Narrator

Parody

Symbolism

Theme

11) A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant:

Verisimilitude

Understatement

Colloquialism

Hyperbole

12) A purification of emotions in literature or art:

Catharsis

Colloquialism

Vernacular

Foil

13) Unintentional use of an inappropriate word similar in sound to the appropriate word, often with humorous effect:

Naturalism

Modernism

Malapropism

Postmodernism

14) A play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time:

Pun

Satire

Hyperbole

Paradox

15-19

Read the following passage and answer questions 15-19:

A metaphor is a poetic device that deals with comparison. It compares similar qualities of two dissimilar objects. With a simple metaphor, one object becomes the other: Love is a rose. Although this does not sound like a particularly rich image, a metaphor can communicate so much about a particular image that poets use them more than any other type of figurative language. The reason for this is that poets compose their poetry to express what they are experiencing emotionally at that moment. Consequently, what the poet imagines love to be may or may not be our perception of love. Therefore, the poet's job is to enable us to experience it, to feel it the same way that the poet does. We should be able to nod in agreement and say, "Yes, that's it! I understand precisely where this person is coming from." Let's analyze this remarkably unsophisticated metaphor concerning love and the rose to see what it offers. Because the poet uses a comparison with a rose, first we must examine the characteristics of that flower. A rose is spectacular in its beauty, its petals are velvety soft, and its aroma is soothing and pleasing. It's possible to say that a rose is actually a veritable feast to the senses: the visual, the tactile, and the aural [more commonly known as the senses of sight, touch, and sound]. The rose's appearance seems to border on perfection, each petal seemingly symmetrical in form. Isn't this the way one's love should be? A loved one should be a delight to one's senses and seem perfect. However, there is another dimension added to the comparison by using a rose. Roses have thorns. This is the comprehensive image the poet wants to communicate; otherwise, a daisy or a chrysanthemum would have been presented to the audience as the ultimate representation of love -but the poet didn't, instead conveying the idea that roses can be treacherous. So can love, the metaphor tells us. When one reaches out with absolute trust to touch the object of his or her affection, ouch, a thorn can cause great harm! "Be careful," the metaphor admonishes: Love is a feast to the senses, but it can overwhelm us, and it can also hurt us. It can prick us and cause acute suffering. This is the poet's perception of love -an admonition. What is the point? Just this: It took almost 14 sentences to clarify what a simple metaphor communicates in only five words! That is the artistry and the joy of the simple metaphor.

15) The main idea of this passage is:

Poetic devices are necessary for poets.

Poetry must never cater to the senses.

Always use words that create one specific image.

The metaphor is a great poetic device.

16) It can be inferred that a metaphor is:

A type of figurative language.

The only poetic device.

Not precise enough.

A type of flower in a poem.

17) According to the passage, thorns

Protect the rose from harm.

Reduce the ability to love another.

Add a new element to the image of love.

Are just more images to compare to a rose.

18) It can be inferred that the true meaning of the love is a rose metaphor is that:

Love is a true joy.

Love comes only once in a lifetime.

Love is never permanent.

Love is a combination of good and bad experiences.

19) According to the passage, the poet's intention is_.

To release anger.

To announce heartache.

To enable you to experience the poet's point of view.

To reward the senses.

20-25

Read the following passage and answer questions 20-25:

Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, taught that the things of the world around us are merely copies or "shadows" of greater, eternal realities. He used a metaphor of people living inside a cave to convey his ideas. The people inside the cave could not see the world outside the cave, they could only see shadows of people and animals as they passed by. Plato was suggesting that the shadows would seem very real and alive to the people inside the cave, because that was all they had ever seen of the outside world. But these shadows were not the real, living creatures of the outside world, they were merely reflections of them. Plato's point was that this temporal world is a of some greater, eternal reality.

20) The word that would most accurately fits the blank at the end of the second paragraph is:

Picture

Contradiction

Corruption

Reversal

21) The underlined word convey, as used in this passage, most accurately means_.

Give birth to

Rationalize

Experiment

Explain

22) What is the main idea of Plato's cave analogy?

This world is not all there is.

Mankind cannot hope to see the truth.

Humans are stupid.

Real things cast shadows.

23) The author's purpose in this passage is to:

Refute Plato's philosophy.

Explain Plato's philosophy.

Convince the reader that life is like a cave.

Entertain the reader.

24) Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

Life in a Cave

Plato's Cave Analogy

Making Shadow Puppets

Is There Life After Death?

25) The underlined word temporal, as used in the passage, most nearly means:

Hot

Right-handed

Old-fashioned

Temporary

26-29

Read the following passage and answer questions 26-29:

"Materialist Aesthetics of Dalit Literature" In formulating the aesthetics of Dalit literature, it will be necessary, first of all, to explicate beauty. Is such an explication possible? It is not possible to do so on the basis of imagination, and conventions. The traditional theory of beauty seems abstruse and spiritualistic. According to this theory, the beauty of an artistic creation lies in its expression of world consciousness or other worldliness. This traditional theory is universalistic and spiritualistic. The aesthetics, which proposes that the beauty of a work of art is its artistic rendering of reality, is materialist. Dalit literature rejects spiritualism and abstraction, its aesthetics is materialist rather than spiritualist. Are human beings only beauty-mad? Do they only want pleasure? The answer to both questions is no, because hundreds of thousands of people appear to be passionate about freedom, love, justice and equality. They have sacrificed themselves for these ideals. This implies that for them social values are at least as dear to their lives as, if not dearer than, values of art. Equality, freedom, justice and love are the basic sentiments of people and society. They are many times more important than pleasure and beauty.

26) According to the passage, traditional theory of beauty is

Materialistic

Spiritualistic

Utopian

Utilitarian

27) Traditional theory espouses 'beauty' based on_.

Experience

Materialism

Other worldliness

Social consciousness

28) What among the following is not a basic sentiment of people and society?

Freedom

Pleasure

Love

Equality

29) Dalit Literature according to the author values art based on

Aesthetic values

Traditional values

Social values

Pleasure

30-34

Read the following excerpt from the poem Vantillu (Kitchen) and answer questions 30-34:

My mother was queen of the kitchen,
but the name engraved on the pots and pans is Father's.

Luck, they say, landed me in my great kitchen,
gas stove, grinder, sink, and tiles.

I make cakes and puddings,
not old-fashioned snacks as my mother did.
But the name engraved on the pots and pans is my husband's.

My kitchen wakes
to the whistle of the pressure cooker,
the whirr of the electric grinder.
I am a well-appointed kitchen myself,
turning round like a mechanical doll.
My kitchen is a workshop, a clattering,
busy butcher stall, where I cook
and serve, and clean, and cook again.

In dreams,
my kitchen haunts me, my artistic kitchen dreams,
the smell of seasonings even in the jasmine.

Damn all kitchens. May they bum to cinders,
the kitchens that steal our dreams, drain
our lives, eat our days -like some enormous vulture.
Let us destroy those kitchens
that turned us into serving spoons.
Let us remove the names engraved on the pots and pans.
Come, let us tear out these private stoves,
before our daughters must step
solitary into these kitchens.
For our children's sakes,
Let us destroy these lonely kitchens.

30) The tone employed in the first two lines of the poem is .

Romantic

Comic

Sarcastic

Tragic

31) What have modem kitchen gadgets made a woman?

An efficient cook

A mechanical doll

A multi-tasker

A butcher

32) Who owns the kitchen in which the woman is the worker-queen?

The woman and her daughter

Father and husband

Husband and son

Father and mother

33) Kitchens, traditional or modem, have turned women into

Wonderful cooks

Owners of kitchen

Decision makers

Serving spoons

34) The poet wants to burn all kitchens because

Daughters will not enter solitarily into the kitchen.

Daughters will have a gleaming new kitchen.

Sons will then eat out.

None of the above.

35-38

Read the passage from Tagore's "Visva Sahitva" and answer questions 35-38:

Do not so much as imagine that I will show you the way to such a world literature. Each of us must make his way forward according to his own means and abilities. All I have wanted to say is that just as the world is not merely the sum of your plough field, plus my plough field, plus his plough field -because to know the world that way is only to know it with a yokel -like parochialism -similarly world literature is not merely the sum of your writings, plus my writing, plus his writings. We generally see literature in this limited, provincial manner. To free oneself of that regional narrowness and resolve to see the universal being in world literature, to apprehend such totality in every writer's work, and to see its interconnectedness with every man's attempt at self-expression, that is the objective we need to pledge ourselves to.

35) World Literature can be perceived

By everyone according to their own means and abilities.

Only by literary scholars.

By ones who are proficient in more than two literatures.

By academicians in Universities.

36) World literature is

Comparing two literatures

The sum of different literatures

Comparing two cultures through literature

All of the above

37) Interconnectedness:

Helps see the totality in literature

Is not universal

Breaks down specificities of literature

None of the above

38) Literature is everybody's attempt at_.

Philosophizing life

Self-Expression

Theorizing life

Representing life

39) Your purchases add

Total to Rs. 550.

Up

Above

Below

40) I need to figure what exactly is Comparative Literature!

Up

In

Out

On

41) In Quran, the God's word is bestowed to humans in

Persian

Arabic

Hebrew

Urdu

42) In the high-textual tradition of India, name two texts that have been transformed into many versions through translations in many languages.

Upanishads and Vedas

Mahabharata and Manusmriti

Ramayana and Mahabharata

Ramayana and Manusmriti

43) Which is the most translated text in the world?

Arabian Nights

Bible

Gita

Quran

44) NTM, a Government of India sponsored project, is in its expanded form:

National Transformation Movement

National Translation Mission

National and Transnational Migrations

National Treasure and Monuments

45) Which of the following statements are agreeable?

Translating Dalit Literatures into English gives it wider visibility.

Translating Dalit Literatures into English homogenizes differences.

Translating Dalit Literatures into English gives it a certain power.

All of the above.

46) Amir Khusrow, the famous medieval poet wrote in

Hindi

Urdu

Persian

Arabic

47) Lal Ded, one of the most famous women mystic poets of medieval period is from_.

Kashmir

Haryana

Rajasthan

Uttar Pradesh

48) Post-colonialism largely drew from Edward Said's seminal work_.

Nation and Narration

Orientalism

The Wretched of the Earth

Colonial Imagination

49) "One is not born a woman" is the famous line from

The Second Sex

A Room of One's Own

The Feminine Mystique

The Colour Purple

50) "Womanism," an alternate to dominant white feminism was a concept put forward by:

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker

Maya Angelou

Angela Davies

51) The Rasa theory is taken from .

Abhinava Bharathi

Abhinaya Darpana

Dhvanyaloka

Natya Shastra

52) What best defines "Indian Literature"?

Indian English Literature.

Literatures in Sanskrit and Hindi.

Literatures in all languages of India including English.

Literatures in all languages excluding English.

53) The collective "Subaltern Studies" attempts to write history

From above

From below

Of Europe

Of the world

54) Whose English translation of Omar Khayyam' s Rubaiyat is quite famous?

A.F. Andrews

Marshal McLuhan

Edward Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

55) "Stri Purush Tulana" is a treatise by

Savitri Bai Phule

Mukuta Bai

Tara Bai Shinde

Pandita Ramabai

56) According to Sanskrit poetics, Sahrdaya means

The refined performer

The good-natured one

The tolerant reader

The ideal reader

57) VIRASAM is an organization of_ writers.

Progressive

Dalit

Feminist

Revolutionary

58) UGC stands for

University Grand Commission

University Grants Commission

University Great Commission

Universal Grant Commission

59) Sangam Literature belongs to

Ancient Tamil period

Medieval Tamil period

Contemporary Tamil Period

None of the above

60) Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Ma, the movie, is based on a novel written by

Girish Karnad

Prem Chand

Mahasweta Devi

Rabindranath Tagore

61) The first elected fellow of Sahitya Akademi was

Jawaharlal Nehru

Sardar V. Patel

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

None of the above

62) To whom is Panchatantra's authorship credited to?

Valmiki

Vishnu Sharma

Tulsi Das

Shiv Sharma

63) Which one of the following does not belong to the genre of film?

Documentary films

Horror films

Feature films

Universal films

64) Temsula Ao writes largely about life in_.

Arunachal Pradesh

Nagaland

Meghalaya

Mizoram

65) IPTA is .

Indian Public Theatre Association

Indian People's Theatre Art

Indian Performance and Theatre Association

Indian People's Theatre Association

66) The institutionalization of Cultural Studies as a discipline can be traced to

Britain

France

America

Australia

67) The ancient Sanskrit play Mricchakatika was authored by

Sudraka

Kalidasa

Vishnu Sharma

None of the above

68) "Inter-literariness" is an idea expounded most by this Indian Comparatist?

Swapan Majumdar

Sisir Kumar Das

Amiya Dev

Sujit Mukherjee

69) Which of the following are the terms coined by Sheldon Pollock in relation to the writing of languages?

Vemacularisation and Scripting

Literisation and Vemacularisation

Scripting and Literisation

Literisation and Literarisation

70) Frederic Jameson's idea of"national allegory" largely meant_.

All first world literatures can be understood only as national allegories.

All third world literatures can be understood only as marginalized literatures.

All first world literatures can be understood only as literature of the colonizer.

All third world literatures can be understood only as national allegories.

71) "The Black Atalntic" is a term associated with_.

Paul Gilroy

Stuart Hall

Germaine Greer

Toni Morrison

72) A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome:

Classicism

Romanticism

Surrealism

Magical Realism

73) A philosophy that calls for the destruction of existing traditions, customs, beliefs, and institutions and requires its adherents to reject all values, including religious and aesthetic principles, in favour of belief in nothing:

Modernism

Nihilism

Feminism

Marxism

74) According to Aristotle, the least important element in tragedy is_.

Plot

Character

Song

Spectacle

75) According to the New Critics, the complexity of a work was due to its_.

Linguistic unity

Linguistic complexity

Organic unity

Multiplicity of its imagery

76) Identify one of the following statements as TRUE.

Structuralism is only concerned with interpreting individual texts.

Structuralism is only concerned with the reader's responses.

Structuralism is concerned with how meanings are created.

Structuralism is concerned about judging whether a work is good or bad.

77) Which of the following would NOT be invoked to describe a form of New Historicist Criticism?

Cultural materialism.

Archeology of social constructs.

Post-structural recovery of authorial intent.

Genealogy of patriarchal discourse.

78) What would be the best interpretation of Derrida's statement: "there is no outside-text"?

What is outside a text is irrelevant to the critic.

Any given text always-already contains all reality.

There is no meaning outside of textual signification.

All texts are to be interpreted inter-textually and contextually.

79) The Jataka Tales are related to the previous lives of_.

Krishna

Buddha

Shiva

Guru Nanak

80) The first travelogue in English by an Indian is

The Travels of Dean Mahomet

A Brahmin in a Foreign Land

Rajmohan's Wife

None of the above