UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS -JUNE 2011 M.Phil, TRANSLATION STUDIES
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I. I was quite after a hard day oflabour.
A. Wary
B. Weary
C. Worry
D. Weird
2. I'm afraid I must -'myselffrom having another piece ofeake; trying to lose weight.
A. Refrain
B. Reduee
C. Restrain
D. Retain
3. Please be of strange.. who ask for help; you never know if they are going to lure
you into a compromising situation.
A. Weary
B. Wary
C. Strange
D. Happy
4. I need to expand my food siek ofeating hamburgers all the time!
A. Palate
B. Palette
C. Plate
D. Pluek
5. She bas certainly proven her in the debate; her rebuttals were intelligent and well­thought out.
A. Medal
B. Meddle
C. Mettle
D. Mile
6. The weather was quite yesterday; I bad a T-shirt and shorts on.
A. Summery
B. Summary
C. Wintery
D. Rainy
7. Ifa plane crashes on the Italian/Swiss border, where do you bury the survivors?
A. Italy
B. Sweden
C. Switzerland
D. No need to bury survivors
8. A farmer bas 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he bave left?
A. 8
B.7
C. 10
D. 0
9. Ifa red house is made ofred bricks, and 11 blue house is made ofblue bricks, what is a green house made of?
A. Glass
D. Green brick
C. White brick
D. Blue and yellow brick
10. She bas a sunny disposition. Here .sunny disposition' is an exampleof
A. Oxymoron
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Pun
II. 'Cunningly simple' is an example of
A. Epigram
B. Oxymoron
C. Epithet
D. Euphemism
12. The present perfect form of write poems' is
A. I have written poems.
B. I am writing poems
C. I had written poems.
D. I would have been writing poems.
13. Identify the word that is not properly spell
A. Inconvenience
B. Committee


C. Written
D. Statutory
14. The word assassination is used to denote:
A. Any murder
B. Politica! murder
C. Murder of a king
D. Murder ofa thief
15. Bihu songs belong to the cultural tradition of
A. West Bengal
B. Orissa
C. Assam
D. Manipur
16. Ambedkar helped the Mahar Community to convert to
A. Buddhism
B. Christianiry
C. Hinduism
D. Islam
17. The "Two Nation" theory is connected to the
A. Reconciliation ofEast and West Germany
B. Partition oflndia in 1947
C. PartitionofPakistan and Bangladesh
D. Telcngana Movement
18. G. N. Dery is a renowned
A. Journalist
B. Politician
C. Playwright
D. Literary Critic
19. The Indian Government has takcn an initiative to promote transfation through
A. National Tribal Mission
B. National Translation Mission
C. National Knowledge Commission
D. All India Committee for Translation Promotion
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20. The Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution recognizes languages as official languages of India.
A.22
B. 20
C. 21
D.23
21. Choose the word or group ofwords that is most similar in meaning to the word in capital lelters: GARISH
A. Bcautiful1)' decorntcd
B. Boldly arranged
C. Carefully prepared
D. Unpleasantly gaudy
22. Which ofthe following is an eXdmple ofoxymoron?
A. Man versus self; man versus nature
B. 'Crown' for monan:hy; for judge
C. for country, for crew
D. Cruel kindness; living death
23. Gabriel Garcia Marques' famous novel is: One Hundred Years of
A. Madness
B. Solitude
C. Enmity
D. Peace
24. The Alchemisl is one ofthc most famous novels written by
A. Paulo Coelho
B. George Washington
C. Jorge Luis Borges
D. Barbora Godard
25. Which ofthe following novels is written by Emily Bronte?
A. WUlhering Heighls
B. Gone wilh Ihe Wind
C. For Whom Ihe Bell Tolls
D. The Lord oflhe Rings
26. Miss Jane Marple is a famous character created by
A. Arthur Conan Doyle
B. Agatha Christie
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C. Enid Blyton
D. J. K. Rowling
27. Ccrvantes is the author of
A. Don Giovanni
B. DonJuan
C. Don Quixote
D. Donnie Braseo
28. "The apparition of these faecs in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough" is an by Ezra Pound.
A. Impressionist
B. Imagist
C. Expressionist
D. Occult
29. The Lebanese American poct, writer, mystic and artist who wrote The Prophet is
A. Khalil Gibran
B. Ghalih
C. Edward Said
D. Franz Fanon
30. Which ofthese novels is written by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale a/Two Cities
B. Forfrom the Madding Crowd
C. Animal Farm
D. Crime and Punishment
31. In which work do you read: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?
A. Adonis
B. Ode to a Grecian Urn
C. Bright Star
D. Thc Last Ride Together
32. A Japanese poem that is trnditionally printed in a single vertical line and tends to take aspects ofthe natural world as their subjcct matler is known as,
A. Sonnet
B. Ballad
C. Haiku
D. Lyric
33. My Experiments with Truth is written by
A. M. K. Glll1dhi
B. Kamala Nehru
C. Feroz Glll1dhi
D. Bal Gl1IIgadhar Tilak
34. Zindaginama is a novel written by
A. Krishna Sobli
B. Ismat Chugali
C. Quarattu1in Hyder
D. Bapsi Sidhwa
35. The novellhat denotes the relationship between Ml1II and Nation is
A. The First Promise
B. Gora
C. Godan
D. Chemmill
36. Mccra Syal's novel Anita and Me deals with
A. Partition
B. Diaspora
C. Musie
D. Travel
37. The Bengali Gitanjali was translated into English by
A. William Jones
B. W. B. Yeats
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. P. B. Shelley
38. Ashapurna Devi is a
A. Bengali author
B. Maithili author
C. Oriya author
D. Assame50 author
39. Whieh ofthese is written by noble laureate Amartya Sen?
A. Argumentative Indians
B. Wings ofFire
C. Ignited Minds
D. Eternal Quest
40. Kaviraja Madhava Kandali's (14th century) Ramayana was the first Ramayana to be written in one ofthe modem Indian Innguages. The Innguage is
A. Kannada
B. Assamese
C. Gujarati
D. Punjabi
41. Madhushala (1935) is a famous work by
A. Omar Khayyam
B. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
C. Harivansh RJli Rachchnn
D. Mirza Ghalib
42. Midnight's Children is a novel \fitten by
A. U R Ananthamurthy
B. V S Naipaul
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Salman Rushdic
43. Train to Pakistan is written by
A. Kelaki Kushari Dyson
B. Sadat Hasan Mnnto
C. Khuswant Singh
D. Mnnu Bhandari
44. Lamabam Kamal Singh's Madhavi 1930) is considered as the first modern novel in
A. Manipuri
B. Maithili
C. Punjabi
D. Bhojpuri
45. The notion of 'women-writing' means
A. Writing on women
B. Writing by women
C. Writing about feminine subjects
D. Feminist writing
46. is not a modem Indian language.
A. Sanskrit
B. Bangia





C. Oriya
D. Gujarati
47. Who among the four mentioned below is the famous, award winning writer from Assam?
A. Priyamvada Gopal
B. Tejaswini Niranjana
C. M3moni Raisom Goswami
D. Prativa Roy
48. Sarala Mahabharata is retelling of tile Indian epic Mahabharata In langu3ge.
A. Bengali
B. Oriya
C. Tamil
D. Kannada
49. The number ofrasas in Sanskrit """tics is:
A. Twelve
B. Ten
C. Eight
D. Nine
50. Gila Govindam isa work by
A. Mccm
B. Jayadeva
C. Chandidasa
D. Shankaracharya
51. Contemporary Indian literature means
A. Indian literature ofour time
B. Indian literature ofthe past
C. Indian literature oftcmporary value
D. Indian literature ofeducated classes
52. Kanyasullcam is a play.
A. Tamil
B. Telugu
C. Malayalam
D. Kannada

53. is ajoumaJ published by Sahitya Akademi.
A. Adan Pradan
B. Indian Linguistics
C. Indian Literature
D. New Quest
54. Who among the four is not a translation theorist?
A. Itemar Even -Zobar
B. Roman Jakobson
C. Milan Kundera
D. Susan Bassnett
55. 'Translation as Discovery' is a book wriuell by
A. Meenakshi Mukherjee
B. Sujit MukheJjee
C. Harish Trivedi
D. Susan BhSsnett
56. The disciplines Translation Studies and Culture Studies are 10 each other.
A. Complimentary
B. Contradictory
C. Ambiguous
D. Complementary
57. Ooe ofthe following is a widely coosulted book in Translation Studies. Identify it:
A. Mona Baker: In Other Words
B. E. P. Thompson: The Poverty ofTheory
C. Stephen Spender: Th. Struggle ofthe Modern
D. Peter Wildeblood, Against the Law
58. Canonical literature means
A. Message or moral contained in literature
B. Any writing that has been banned by the establishment/authorities
C. Anywritingthatstandsthetest oftimeandthereforeworthy ofstudy
D. Religious literature
isa non-profitNGO that works inthe area ofTranslation.
A. Katha
B. Sahitya Akademi
C. National Book Trust
D. Permanent Black
60. If a researcher does not want to seek a single meaning in a text and instead tries to uncover multiplicity ofmeanings, often unacknowledged in a text, then she is a
A. Posunodcmist
B. Deconstructionist
C. Post colonialist
D. Feminist
61. Which of the following writers is not a credited with employing the 'stream of
consciousness· technique in writing?
A. James Joyce
B. Quarallulin Hyder
C. Jules Vemes
D. Virginia Woolf
62. Literature has been dcrmed as
A. Non-discursive, non referential writing
B. Poetry, prose and drama
C. What has been wrillen on a particular subject
D. All ofthe above
63. The 19th century literary movement that promotcd art for the sake of its beauty alone or believed in "Art for Art's Sake" is called
A. Aestheticism
B. Liberalism
C. Modernism
D. Structuralism
64. 'Last Words on Translating Homer' (1862) is a collection of lectures on translation policies by a renowned poet and literary critic ofthe Victorian era The famous poet was
A. Matthew Arnold
B. Robert Browning
C. Robert Frost
D. Elizabeth Browning
65. '1947 Earth', the movic directed by Deepa Mehta, is based on the famous novel 'lee-Candy Man' by Bapsi Sidhwa. This is an example of
A. Interpretation
Inter-semiotic Translation

C. Free Translation
D. Intra-lingual Translation
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66. The actoftranslating one'sown writings orthe results ofsuchundertaking is known as
A. Adaptation
B. Simultaneous translation
C. Self-translation
D. Bi-Iingual translation
67. Beowulfis epic.
A. Anglo -Saxon
B. Chinese
C. Tibetan
D. Cuban
68. Eugene Nida is a
A. Marine Biologist
B. Physicist
C. Sculplor
D. Linguist and Translation Theorist
69. Many times, in the process oftranslation, new words are coined. This process is called
A. Synonym
B. Hyponym
C. Neologism
D. Antonym
70. Pick the odd one out:
A. Harish Trivedi
B. Susan Bassnett
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Andrew Chesterman
Rcad the following passage very carefully and answer the following questions. All your anSWCIS are there in the pas.age itself.
One of the favourite theme for Western Literature has been studies of Myths, be it Classical or Biblical. Tracing of classical figures, events, and themes utilizing classical mythology remained a preferred choice of literary stalwarts like Petrarch, Boccacio, Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Keats, and Shelley, and then down to Joyce, Eliot, Gide, Coctcau, Anouilh, and Eugene O'Neill. The same has commonly been done for biblical myths. Both groups of myths have alternatively been read literally, been read symbolically, been rearranged. and been outright recreated. Freud used the figures Oedipus and Electra to name the


most fundamental hwnan drives, and he took the figure Narcissus to name self-love in psychiatry.
The pervasiveness of classical, or pagan, mythology is even more of a feat than that of biblical mythology, for classical mythology has survived the demise of the religioa of which, two thousand years ago, it was originally a part. By contrast, biblical mythology has been sustained by the near-monolithic presence of the religion of which it remains a part. Indeed, classical mythology has beenpreserved by the culture tied to the religion thatkilled'offclassical religion.
The derivation of Iitemture from myth is an appro3Ch that has been pioneered by Jane Harrison and her fellow classicists Gilbert Murray and F. M. Comford. Let's see on example of this approach.
In From RilUa/lo Romance the English medievalist Jessie Weston (1850-1928) applied myth­ritualist version to the Gmil legend. Sho maintains that for ancients and primitives alike the fertilityofthe landdepended onthefertility oftheirking, inwhomresidedthegod ofvegetation. Weston brings an ethereal, spiritual dimension of understanding to this myth. She shows that the aim ofthe quest turns out to have been mystical oneness with god and not just food from god. It is this spiritual dimension of the legend that inspired T. S. Eliot to use Weston in 'The Waste Land'. Weston is not reducing the Gmil legend to primitive myth and ritual but merely tmeing the legend back to primitive myth and ritual. The legend itselfis litcmture. not myth.
71. Freud used the classical figure of Narcissus to name self-love in
A. Philosophy .
B. Psychiatry
C. History
D. Anthropology
72. "Indeed, classical mythology has been preserved by the culture tied to the religion that killed offclassical religion." This means that classical mythology has been presm,ed by
A. Classical religion
B. Classical culture
C. Biblical religion
D. Biblical culture
73. According to the Grail legend, the god ofvegetation resided in
A. The land
B. Among the people
C. In the king
D. In the Supreme One
74. The poet who used the spiritual dimension orthe Grail legend in 'The Waste Land' is
A. E.E. Cummins
B. Ezra Pound
C. Robert Frost
D. T.S. Eliot
75. Literary stalwarts like Petrareh, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, and then down to Joyce, Eliot, etc. have traced classical figures, events, and themes utilizing
A. Cla<sicalliterature
B. Biblical references
C. Classical myths
D. Biblical myths