Time: 2 Houn Max. Ma..... 100
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iNSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES
1. Tbe qu..tiou paper (in 9 pages) consis" of two pam: Part A and Part B.
2. Part A is of objective type and bas to be answered in tbe question paper illelf.
Tb..e are multiple cboice questions. Eacb question bas a cboice of four auswen.
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Tbere is negative marking in this part. Y...rd (0.33) will be deducted for eacb
wrong answer.
No mark will be deducted for au unanswered bit.
3. Part B contains questions of a descriptive nature and bas to be answered in tbe answer
book provided by tbe Univenity.
4. Part B of tbe question paper is to be fastened to lhe answer book.
5. Rough work, if any, bas to be done on tbe last page of tbe answer book.
6. AU answen, except Part B In tran.lation, bave to be written in Englisb.

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M.A. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) JUNE 2011
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Part-A (SO Marks)
ChOOIe the mOlt appropriate lUUWer and enter the letter iD the bncket.
1. Which epics tell us about the ancient culture of warfare and politics?
Ramayana &. Mahabharata Mahabharata &. Meghadutam
Ramayana &. MahapaJdstana Raghuvamsa &. Meghadutam
2. Who wrote the original Panchatantra?A)
Samudragupta
Vishnu Shanna
Kalidasa
Tulsidas

3. Who is the lazy good-for-nothing heroic boy in The Thousand and One Nights?
Ali Baba Aladdin
Tookie Abdul
4. What was the name ofthe woman from Florence who inspired Dante?
Beatrice Portinari Isabella Funderella
Sophia Ponte Roberta Pasta
5. Don Juan is a major character of what origin?
French Russian
Spanish Italian .
6. In European literature. who is said to have sold his soul to the devil?
Beowulf Faust
Mordred GustafBromberg, Jr.
7. Sir John Falstaff appears in which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet Richard III
Taming ofrhe Shrew Henry IV
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8. Who is the Nobel Prize winning author of My Name is Red?
Karl Marx Victor Hugo
Orhaq,Pamuk Ernest Hemingway
9. Who is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Pearl S. Buck Nadine Gordimer
Simone de Beauvoir Tony Morrison
10. The Pied Piper is a character in which-country's legend?
United States Cuba
Germany Norway
n. Who in folklore is also known as Robin Goodfellow?
Puck Robin Hood
Rob Roy .Ivanhoe
12. How many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep?
20 50
C)IOO 1000
13. 'Sancho Panza' is whose companion?
Oberon Shylock
Zorro Don Quixote
14. Who wrote Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov?
Fyodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy
George Bernard Shaw Aleksandr Pushkin
IS. Who is the hero of Great Expectations?
Clara Peggotty
Uriah Heep
Pip
David

16. In Gulliver's Travels, where are the residents like horses?
Brobdingnag Lilliput
Laputa Houyhnhnms

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17. According to Robert de Boron which war leader came to power after drawing
a sword out ofthe anvil?
Napoleon Arthur
Achilles Julius Ceasar
18. Which institution of higher learning did Harry Potter attend?
Oxbridge Harvard
Hogwarts Twin TowelS
19. Who wears a black mask and patched costunle in Italian literature?
Harlequin Gypsy King
Monte Cristo Maria Ragu
20. Cbimanada Ngozi Adichie's famous debut novel is
Things Fall Apart Purple Hibiscus
Halfafthe Yellow Sun The Glass Menagerie
21. Who wrote Devdas
Rabindranath Tagore
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Bibhutibbusan Bandyopadhyay
Nirad C. Choudhury

22. "Kafan" is the short story by which famous writer?
MWlShi Premchand Sadat Hasan Manto
Maithili Sharan Gupt Harivansh Rai Bachhan

23. Which of the following work of Gunturu Seshendra Sarma was nominated for
2004 Nobel Prize ill Literature?
Shodasi Swarna Hamsa
Kaa1a Rekha Naa Desam, Naa Pmjaalu
24. Which Indian king was called Sandmcottus by the Greeks?
Rana Pmtap Porus
Chandragupta Samudragupta
25. Who was the first Jnanpith Awardee for Malayalam literature?
Kumaranasan Vallathol
G. Sankara Kurup 0 N V Kurup




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16. Who is the author of the classic study titled TM Feminine Mystique?
Virginia Woolf Germaine G=r
Simone de Beauvoir Betty Friedan
27. The first ever self narrative ofa domestic worker is written by
Baby Halder Baby Kamble
PannaBai C. K. Janu
28. TM Grip afChange is the translation ofa Tamil story on dalit women's lives
written by
Barna P. Sivakami
Madara Chennaiah Abirnani
29. Raghupati Sahay is better known by his pen name as
Gulzar Pushpak
Firaq Gorakhpuri Aflab
30. __wrote poignant lyrics on his imprisonment and transportation to Rangoon.
Ghalib Amir Khusro
Bhadur Shah Zafar Chand Bardai
31. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in Modem literature?
free association stream of consciousness
stream ofmemory free flow of ideas
32. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is Sigmund Freud
associated?
eugertics psychoanalysis
phrenology anarchism
33. Who of the following would be considered a postcolonial novelist, defined as coming
historically after the era of England's large-kale imperialism?
Salman Rushdie Joseph Conrad
E.M. Forster Rudyard Kipling
34. One archetype in literature is the 'scapegoat'. Which of the following literary characters
serves th8t purpose?
Captain Ahab Billy Budd
Hamlet Dr. Mumau
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35. diIected Sonar Kel/a. Who wrote the book?
Pramatha Kumar Das Satyajit Ray
Buddbadcva Bose Sukumar Ray
36. Which of the following is not among the Telugu Pancha Kavyas
(the five great books ofTelugu Literature)
V"ljayavilasamll Vanivilasam
VQSIl Charitra Panduranga· MahaJyam




37. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen yean
ofthe twentieth century?
wireless communication invention of the airplane
invention of the internet mass production ofcars
38. Which ofthe following was not written by Gurram Joshua?
Gudiselll Kaalipothllnnaayi BaapoQjee
Gabbilam Aandhra Bhojlldll
39. Which ofthe following writers did not come from Ireland?
W.B. Yeats Seamus Heaney
James Joyce Robert Bums




40. Whieh of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?
free indirect style irresolute open endings
the mythical method narrative realism
41. J. RR. Tolkien is to Rings as Golding is
Dance Weed
Lion Flies
42. R.K. Narayan is to Malgudi as U.R. Ananthamurthy is to
Bharathipura Kanthapura
Tungabhadra Ayemanam
43. Guava Garden is to Kiran Desai as Binding Vine is to
Ruth Prawer Jhabwala Sashi Deshpande
Namita Gokhale Anita Desai






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44. 'Bhuvan' is to Lagaan as 'Sbambhu' is to·
Bees Saal Baad Peepli Live
Do Bigha Zomeen Garam Hawa
45. Meerabai is to Rajasthan as Lal Dedh is to
Karnataka Kashmir
Gujarat Maharashtra




46. In most societies, works of art aod architecture generally serve to
satisfy the needs of the leaders indicate the influence of religion
reflect the values ofthat society express political opposition
47. Which statement best describes the status ofwomen in most traditional Asiao societies?

women are encouraged to obtaio an education
women are expected to run for political office
women are expected to dedicate their lives to their families
women are encouraged to work outside the home
48. The study of culture primarily involves
observing the physical environment of people
learning why various peoples live as they do
understanding the technology of modern machinery
analyzing the personalities of children in the same family

49. Which term is used to describe the spread of Buddhism from India through
Southeast Asia?
ethnocentrism isolation
imperialism cultural diffusion
SO. Which conclusion is best supported by these quotations?
"From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." --Daote
"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.
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M.A. (COMPARATIVE LlTERATURE)-JUNE 2011
P.rt B (SO Marks)
L ADrw.r eitb.r IA IB. (15 marka)
I. A. Read the poem ud .......r the qoatioDJ that foU_ by .Dteml the .ppropriate
Jetter ofyour choi.. ill the hracket. s 3 15 m......)
1 remember tbe night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
ofsteady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack ofri...
parting with his poison -flash
ofdiabolic tail in the dark room He
risked the rain again.
The peasants came like swanns of flies
And buzzed the name of God a hundred times
To paralyze the Evil One
With Candles and lanterns
Throwing giant scorpion shadows
On the mud baked walls
They searched for him: he was not found
They clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made
his poison moved in Mother's bl<ql they said ...
I. When was Mother stung by the scorpion?
night evening
dawn
2. What figure ofspeech is the following expression: "diabolic tail"
alliteration synecdoche
simile metaphor




3. ·Poison- flash" in the context of the poem signifies__
sudden bite ofthe scorpion poison moving through mother's blood
the flash of thunder medicines brought by the peasants
4. 'The Evil One' in the context of the poem connotes
a swarm of flies poison
torrential rain the devil in the shape of a scorpion
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S. Where did the scorpion hide after it had bitten Mother?
in the rain soaked fields in the shadow of the candles and lanterns
beneath a sack ofrice in the peasants' cottages.
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LB. Write short notes on any ofthe following:
a. Regional cinema
b. "Super Hero" in Bollywood films
c. Social relevance of Facebook and Twitter
d. Fairy tales
(7.5 x 1 15)
IL Write an essay on any ofthe following: (10 Marks)
a. Modern Indian theatre
b. Discuss the statement: 'Indian literature is one a1thougb written in many languages.'
c. Elaborate: judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
d. The importance oftranslation in a multilingual society.
m. Translate the following passage into any language other than English:
(Note: Mention the language)
"Nyadosh, tbe Incredible Cow"
(15 Marks)
In cock and bull stories, cows climb trees; but my mother's cow actually climbed all the
way up to the first floor and loved eating fish and meat.
The lady who brougbt up my mother, her Moni Mashi and our Moni didima, is now
ninety three and still alive.
She lives at Deegbar with a few cows. Her cows drink tea in the winter and eat rice the
whole year througb. When it gets cold, they don coats made from the blankets. Maybe, that's
where ma inherited her own love for cows from. Even now rna has a cow. None ofus has seen it.
That's because the cow grazes in Patal Babu's garden, delivers her calves at Menoka's place and
is milked by Punni's mother, who drinks the wilko
For my mother's sake, my baba keeps buying hay, husk and oil cake for this cow. Jatin
comes to look after her, a1thougb as I have already mentioned nobody in the house has ever
seen her.
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