1. Ever since I arrived at the college last week, I've been shocked by the poor behaviour of the students. The student population is completely lacking in proper social skills.

Which of the following, if true,would weaken the above conclusion?

The college numbers over 50,000 students.

Students who are a way from their parents often exhibit rude behavior.

The narrator is a student and has interacted with many students.

Social skills should not be expected of college students.

2. Studies of fatal auto mobile accidents reveal that, in the majority of cases in which one occupant of an auto mobile is killed while another survives, it is the passenger, not the driver, who is killed. It is ironic that the innocent passenger should suffer for the driver's carelessness, while the driver often suffers only minor injuries or none at all.

Which of the following is an assumption underlying the reasoning in the passage above?

Drivers of auto mobiles are rarely killed in auto accidents.

In most fatal auto mobile accidents, the driver of a car in which an occupant is killed is at fault.

Most deaths in fatal auto mobile accidents are suffered by occupants of cars rather than by pedestrians. Auto safety experts should increase their efforts to provide protection for those in the passenger seats of auto mobiles.

3. The crux of creativity resides in the ability to manufacture variations on a theme. If we look at the history of science, for instance, we see that every idea is built upon a thousand related ideas. Careful analysis leads us to understand that what we choose to call a new theme or a new discovery is itself always and without exception some sort of variation, on a deep level, of previous themes.

If all of the statements in the passage are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT:

A lack of ability to manufacture a variation on a previous theme connotes a lack of creativity.

No scientific idea is entirely independent of all other ideas.

Some new scientific discoveries do not represent, on a deep level, a variation on previous themes.

CarefUl analysis of a specific variation can reveal previous themes of which it is a variation.

4. No national productivity measures are available for underground industries that may exist but remain unreported. On the other hand, at least some industries that are run entIrely by self-employed industrialists are included in national productivity measures.

From the information given above, it can be validly concluded that

there are at least some industries run entirely by self-employed industrialists that are underground industries.

no industries that tire run entirely by self-employed industrialists operate underground

there are at least some underground industries for which national productivity measures are available.

there are at least some industries other than those run entirely by self-employed industrialists that are underground industries.

5. A study of native born residents in New land found that two-thirds of the children developed considerable levels of near sightedness after starting school, while their illiterate parents and grandparents, who had no opportunity for formal schooling, showed no signs of this disability.

If the above statements are true, which of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by them?

Only people who have the opportunity for formal schooling develop near sightedness.

People who are illiterate do not suffer from near sightedness.

Only literate people are near sighted.

The near sightedness in the children is caused by the visual stress required by reading and
other class work.

6. Longinus is the author of

Poetics

Ars Poetica

On the Sublime

The Republic

7. -The English translation "old pond ... a frog leaps in water's sound" isofMatsuo Basho's famous

Hymn

Haiku

C)Ode

Elegy

8. Of Grammatology is by

Jean Genet

Jean Jacques

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Derrida

9. Helene Cixous is the author of

The Second Sex

A Room of One's Own

The Female Eunuch

The Laugh of the Medusa

10. Indian Cinema in the Time ofCelluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency is by

Ashis Nandy

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

M.S.S. Pandian

Ravi Vasudev

11. Archetypal Criticism is associated with-

Christopher Fry

Christopher Caudwell

Northrop Frye

Northrop Christopher

12. comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization is elaborated by

Rene Wellek

Dionyz Durisin

Haun Saussy

Rene Etiemble

13. Annihilation of Caste is by-

B.R. Ambedkar

Narayana Guru

Jyotibha Phule

E.V. Ramaswami Naicker

14. 'Polysystem Theory" in Translations Studies was developed by

Andre Lefbvre

Eugene Nida

Itamar Evan-Zohar

Lawrence Venuti

15. Literary cultures in History: Reconstructions from south Asia is edited
by of the University of Chicago.

Sheldon Pollock

Stuart Blackburn

Vasudha Dalmia


Dipesh Chakrabarty

16. In 2004, Rahman Rahi became the .first -writer to win the Jnanpith award.

Kannada

Konkani

Christopher Caudwell

Northrop Christopher

17. "Planetarity" is a concept used in Death of a Disciptine by

Susie Tharu

Gauri Viswanathan

Meenakshi Mukhedee

Gayatri Spivak

18. Kuntaka is generally accepted as the originator of school of sanskrit literary theory which perceives poetry essentially in terms of the language of expression.

Rasa

Bhava

Vakrokti

Bhakti

19. While the first report to the American Comparative Literature Association
was the Levin Report of 1965 and the second, the Greene Report of 1975,
the next report made public in 1993 is known as the Report.-()

Appiah

Bernheimer

C)Riffaterre

Bassnett

20. Terry Eagleton wrote: "Some radical critics may have forgotten
about Marxism, but Marxism ... has not forgotten about them,"
in praise of In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by

E.M.S. Nampoodiripad

AijazAhmad

Sumit Sarkar

K.N.Panikkar

21. Which comparatist popularized the concept "secular criticism"? .

J. W. von Goethe

Erich Auerbach

Edward Said

Gayatri C. Spivak

22. A BriefHistory ofTime is a popular science book by

Bill Bryson

Samuel Huntington

Stephen Hawking

1. Bronowski

23. Among the following, who is considered to be a New Historicist?

Stanley Fish

Colin McCabe

Roland Barthes

Stephen Greenblatt

24. Identify the distinguished Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist who visited Indian recently; he wrote Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan ... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock.

Giorgio Agamben

Slavoj Zizek

Etienne Balibar

Emesto Laclau

25. Which critic of society and culture uses the term "habitus" to explore
the dynamics of power relations in social life

Michel Foucault

Emile Durkheim

Pierre Bourdieu

Edmund Husser!


26. Film and Society

27. Internet and Everyday Life

28. Dalit Literature

29. L Indian Short Story

30. Theatre in India

31. Modernism in regional literature/s

32. Translation and Indian Literatures

33. Early Publications in any vernacular language

34. Literature and the Margins

35. Future(s) of Comparative Literature in India

36. Translate the following passage into a modern Indian language:

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
"We've got father and mother and each other," said Beth, contentedly, from her corner.
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly­
"We haven't got father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of father far away, where the fighting was.
The four sisters sat knitting away in the twilight. It was a comfortable old room, though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain; for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, flowers bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home-peace pervaded it.