1. If you have only one match and you walk into a dark room. which would you light first?

Kerosene lamp

Wood burning stove

The oil burner

None of the above

2. Name the greatest of all inventors

Gertrude Stein

Albert Einstein

Accident

Alexander Graham Bell

3. "It is ridiculous to ban hand-guns because there always will be criminals breaking the law." What is such reasoning an example of

Red herring

Circumlocution

Deductive logic

Metaphor

4. Cordelia appears in a Shakespearean play called

Hamlet

King Lear

A Comedy of Errors

King Henry IV

5. Who wrote The Annihilation of Caste?

B.R. Ambedkar

M.K. Gandhi

Jyotiba Govindrao Phule

Ayyankali

6. The character Gora appears in a novel by

Saratchandra Chatterjee

Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay

Rabindranath Tagore

Rudyard Kipling

7. The Victorian novel where the "mad woman in the attic" appears

The Wide Sargasso Sea

Middlemarch

Dombey and Son

Jane Eyre

8. The High Caste Hindu Woman was written by

Shantibai Phule

Kashibai Kanitkar

Pandita Ramabai

Anandibai (Gopal) Joshi

9. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is by

Salman Rushdie

Homi Bhabha

Amitav Ghosh

Vikram Seth

10. Fakir Senapati's Cha Mana Atha Guntha (Six Acres and a Third) is mostly on

Warfare

Relationships

Wicked landlords

Disease

11. The killing of Abhimanyu occurs in an epic called

Ramayana

Beowulf

Iliad

Mahabharata

12. Mohandas Gandhi's first ashram in South Africa was called

Sabarmati

Phoenix

Tolstoy

Wardha

13. Captain Ahab is a character in a novel called

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Sound and Fury

The Great Gatsby

Moby Dick

14. Kanyashulkam is a Telugu play by

Gurajada Appaa Rao

Keshava Reddy

Rentala Ventaka Subba Rao

Volga

15. Sancho Panza is whose companion?

Oberon

Shylock

Zorro

Don Quixote

16. "Break,break/On thy cold gray stones" -Indicate the figure of speech

Alliteration

Synecdoche

Climax

Metonymy

17. A character in Dickens' Great Expectations is called

Clara Peggotty

Pip

Uriah Heep

David

18. Swami Vivekananda addressed a world parliament of religion in 1893 in

Chicago

Detroit

Tampa

New York

19. Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa are written in the form of

Diaries

Letters

Notes

Omniscient narration

20. Choose the correct option. "He played but lost anyway."

best

better

worse

worst

21. Namdeo Dhasal, a Marathi poet, is also the founder of an organization called

Dalit Panthers

Black Cats

Bahujan Samaj Party

Black Panthers

22. Choose the correct option. "How many children did

bear

beer

bier

bare

23. Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective is called

Hercule Poirot

John Watson

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Pym

24. Godan is a novel written by which famous writer?

Munshi Premchand

Sadat Hasan Manto

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Harivansh Rai Bachhan

25. Amar Chitra Katha series has been conceived by

Pandit Nehru

Publications Division, Govt.of India

Anant Pai

DC Comics

26. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a movie directed by

Martin Scorsese

Steven Spielberg

Chris Columbus

David Yates

27. Choose the correct option. "Do you money?"

knead

need

kneed

plead

28. Who is the author of the classic study A Room of One's Own?

Virginia Woolf

Germaine Greer

Simone de Beauvoir

Betty Friedan

29. Sandman series of graffic novels has been conceived by

Art Spiegelman

Neil Gaiman

Will Wisener

Herge (Georges Remi)

30. Who founded the Arya Samaj?

Raja Rammohan Roy

Dayananda Saraswati

Mahatma Gandhi

Annie Besant


31. Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session) is by

Priya Tendulkar

Mohan Rakesh

Girish Karnad

Vijay Tendulkar


32. Aligarh Muslim University was founded by

Syed Ahmed Khan

William Hunter

Rokeya Sakhawat Husein

Lord Curzon

33. Which writer is associated with the "stream of consciousness" mode?

James Joyce

George Eliot

Ernest Hemmingway

Charles Dickens

34. Sigmund Freud is associated with

Eugenics

Psychoanalysis

Phrenology

Anarchism

35. "She has a sunny disposition." Here "sunny disposition" is an example of

Oxymoron

Simile

Metaphor

Pun

36. The present perfect form of "I write poems' is

I have written poems

I am writing poems

I had written poems

I would have written poems

37. The female protagonist in R.K.Narayan's Guide is called

Daisy

Rosie

Kamala

Vimala

38. Which of the following is not written by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Hunting of the Snark

Jabberwocky

Laughable Lyrics

39. Who of the following is known as a British "war poet"?

Wilfred Owen

T.S. Eliot

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

40. One of the places,below was associated with Nazi concentration camps.

Odessa

Auschwitz

Berlin

Moscow

41. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland?

W.B. Yeats

Seamus Heaney

James Joyce

Robert Bums

42. J.R.R. Tolkien is to Rings as William Golding is

Dance

Weep

Lion

Flies

43. R.K. Narayan is to Malgudi as U.R Ananthamurthy is to

Bharathipura

Kanthapura

Tungabhadra

Ayemenem

44. The movie Dirty Picture is based on the life and times of

Divya Bharati

Smita Patil

Silk Smitha

Vidya Balan

45. Lalan Fakir is associated with

Baul

Sufi

Bhakti

Adi Dharmis

46. Which statement best describes women's status in traditional Asian societies?

Women are encouraged to obtain an education

Women are expected to dedicate their lives to their families

Women are expected to run for political office

Women are encouraged to work outside the home

47. Identify the correct word: "I was quite a hard day of labour."

wary

weary

worry

weird

48. "I need to expand sick of eating hamburgers all the time."

palate

palette

plate

plight

49. Which conclusion best supports the following quotations? "From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." -Dante. "Tall oaks from little acorns grow." -David Everett. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." -Lao-tzu.

All cultures are concerned with transportation and conservation

In all cultures, people make excuses for their mistakes

Geography is important for the development of all cultures

People from different cultures often view situations in similar ways

50. A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he have left?

08

07

10

15


51. Read the poem write the corresponding alphabet of the appropriate answer

In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women's hair
clogging the water gates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poets only sang of the floods.


He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carried off three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.

The new poets still quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
In verse of the pregnant woman drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls even before birth.


What clogs the water gates?

sand ribs

straw

women's hair

all of the above

ii) Madurai is the city of

cows

pregnant women

temples and poets

rivers

iii) Who kicks at "blank walls" in the context of the poem?

old poets

new poets

pregnant women

unborn twins

iv) Cows are called

Brinda

Gomata

Gopi

Brinda and Gopi

Wet stones are compared to

sleepy crocodiles

shaven water buffaloes

glistening snakes

the river

52. Cartoon movies

53. Information technology born in India

54. Anna Hazare and civil rights movements

55. Sports and the nation

56. Corruption and Resistance

57. The super hero in Indian cinema

58. Gemes in India

59. Elaborate: "translation is ethical"

60. Translate the following passage into any other modern Indian language. (Note: Mention the language)

Hullabaloo in Chandrakanta's Garden

There was still a glimmer of light in the garden where Chandrakanta was taking the air with her companions Chapla and Champa. A faint breeze stirred the evening air, carrying the scent of flowers-juhi, bela, motia and roses. The departing rays of the sun glanced off the mango trees on the west of the garden, lighting them up. The freshly watered flowerbeds were a splash of brilliant colour against the green of the clean, washed trees. The high walls of the palace and its turrets, silhouetted against the evening glow, made a dramatic backdrop. Chandrakanta's dearest friend Chapla, living up to her name, flitted about busily, plucking flowers and bringing them for Chandrakanta to admire. But the princess's delicate features were drawn and her normally sparkling eyes had deep shadows under them. Her friends had dragged her out into the garden but nothing seemed to lighten her gloom.