1. Ice floats on water because

It is spongy

It is transparent

It melts easily

It weighs less than water of equal volume

2. Starting in 1985, all drivers had to wear helmets if they have to drive a two wheeler. From which of the following can this statement be properly inferred?

Some drivers may have worn helmets before 1985, but all two wheeler drivers were required to wear them beginning in 1985

No drivers had to wear helmets before 1985

Two wheelers drivers were the first to be required to wear helmets

Two wheelers drivers had to wear helmets prior to 1985

3. Find the missing number in the following series: 12, 48.

40

38

45

33

4. Joseph, Jackie and Ninda are three mountaineers. Joseph is Jackie's brother. Jackie is Ninda's brother. Ninda is not Joseph's brother. Therefore, Ninda is Joseph's sister.

Should be true

May be false

Should be false

Cannot be determined

5. At midnight, you heard the voices of several people shouting "fire." Which of the following would you do?

Continue to sleep till you are called for

Rush out of the room with buckets of water to extinguish the fire

Rush to the fire brigade station and inform the officials about the fire

Ensure where the fire had taken place and to what extent

6. "Mimicry," a strategic engagement with colonial discourse, was coined by

Aijaz Ahmad

Homi Bhabha

Aime Cesaire

Chinua Achebe

7. Mirat-ul Uroos is an Urdu novel by

Nazir Ahmad

Mir Amman

Rajab Ali Beg Suroor

Ratan Nath Sharshar

8. The 24,000-line symbolist epic Savitri is by

Manomohan Ghosh

Rabindranath Tagore

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

Sarojini Naidu


9. No Alphabet in Sight is a collection of translations from Dalit literature in

Tamil and Telugu

Marathi and Gujarati

Marathi and Malayalam

Tamil and Malayalam

10. "Hegemony" is a concept proposed by

Antonio Gramsci

Karl Marx

Louis Althusser

Jean Paul Sartre

11. The 2009 film Three Idiots is adapted from Five Point Someone by

Gulzar

Chetan Bhagat

Javed Akhtar

Anrag Kashyap

12. The first report to the American Comparative Literature Association is the Levin Report of 1965, and the third is the Bernheimer Report of 1993. The second report in 1975 is
known as the

Wellek

Warren

Greene

Greenblatt

13. Write the full name: William

Thacker

Thackeray

Thatcher

Thatcheray

14. a leader of anti-Brahmin movement in South India.

Annadurai

Sree Narayan Guru

M.G.Ramachandran

E.V.Ramaswami Naicker

15. Kuntaka is accepted as the originator of a school of Sanskrit literary theory which perceives poetry in terms of figurative expression.

Rasa

Bhava

Vakrokti

Bhakti

16. Jakobson considered Metaphor and as basic functions of the human brain.

Simile

Metonymy

Strophe

Malapropism

17. Akam and Puram are concepts in

Bhakti poetry

Sanskrit poetics

Vachana poetry

Tamil Sangam poetry


18. Partha Chatterjee is the author of

The Politics of the Governed

The Art of Not Being Governed

The Art of Being Governed

The Politics of the Un-Governed

19. The antonym of Hyperbole is

Exaggeration

Understatement

Overstatement

Tall Tale


20. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is edited by

Gayatri Spivak

Lawrence Venuti

Susan Bassnett

David Damrosch

21. Siddhartha is a German novel by

Thomas Mann

Franz Kafka

Hermann Hesse

Joseph Roth

22. A BriefHistory of Time is a popular science book by

Bill Bryson

Stephen King

Stephen Hawking

Billy Brown

23. The Battle of Books is a satire by

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

John Dryden

24. The 2005 film Mangal Pandey: The Rising is based on an event in

1947

1857

1847

1957

25. Indian Literature is a journal published by

Sahitya Akademi

Penguin India

Katha

Comparative Literature Association of India