1. Who among the following is the author of the Tamil epic Civaka Cintamani?

Tirutakkatevar

Agastya

Thiruvalluan

Adigal

2. Jayadeva, a Sanskrit poet, belongs to

1200 AD

1100 AD

1300 AD

1500 AD

3. Janabai is associated with what specific form of poetry

doha

muktaka

abhang

khyal

4. Fakir Mohan Senapati is a writer

Urdu

Sindhi

BangIa

Oriya

5. Who delivered the lecture on Viswasahitya

Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay

Swami Vivekananda

Munshi Premchand

Rabindranath Tagore

6. Who is the author of Ooru Keri

NamdeoDhasal

P. Shivakami

SharankumarLimbale

Siddhalingaiah

7. The formulation of Sanskrit morphology Ashtadhyayi is credited to

Asvaghosha

Patanjali

Panini

Anandavardhana

8. Kathasaritsagara may be an adaptation ofBrihatkatha written by the legendary writer

Somadeva

Udayana

Gunadhya

Vatsayana

9. Comparison is right reason for us because we are:

Multicultural

Multilingual

Third World

All of the above

10. "Our journey is not from comparative literature to comparative Indian literature, but from
Comparative Indian Literature to comparative literature" is associated with:

Amiya Dev

Sisir Kumar Das

Gurbhagat Singh

Ayyappa Paniker

11. Agha Shahid Ali, an eminent poet, hails from:

Kashmir

Uttar Pradesh

Kerala

Arunachal Pradesh

12. Amukta Malyada was written by:

Nannaiah

Ksetrayya

Sri Krishnadevaraya

Muddupalani

13. Who said "India is one and indivisible while her children speak with many languages"

S. Radhakrishnan

Sarojini Naidu

Rabindranath Tagore

Jawaharlal Nehru

14. Tagore's short story "Kabuliwala" was made into a Hindi film in the year:

1960

1961

1963

1964

15. Dakkali community exists in the state of

Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh

Telangana

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

16. The author of 'Toward an Aesthetic ofDalit Literature' is

Oomen T.K

V.T Rajashekar

Sharan Kumar Limbale

Arjun Dangle

17. Anasuya Shanker, a Kannada short story writer, is known as

Kaveri

Triveni

Dwivedi

Krishnaveni

18. In Ramayana, who from the following beheaded Sambuka?

Dasharatha

Rama

Ravana

Janaka

19. Name the director of the Hindi movie Do Bigha Zameen is

Mahbub Khan

Bimal Roy

Hemen Gupta

Raj Kapoor

20. Who composed the poem "khub larri mardani woh to Jhansi wali Rani thi"

Harivansh Rai Bachhan

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

Mahadevi Varma

21. The famous play Shanthata! Court Chalu Ahe is authored by

Mohan Rakesh

Mahesh Elkunchwar

Vijay Tendulakar

Girish Karnad

22. In colonial India, the first major newspaper in English started in the year

1780

1800

1817

1835

23. Meghnad Badh Kavya is written by

SaratchandaChattopadhyay

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

IswarchandraVidyasagar

Sri Aurobindo

24. Who among the following is not a Dalit Writer?

NamdeoDhasal

P. Shivakami

SharankumarLimbale

Premchand

25. Jambapuranam, a caste myth, is associated with Andhra Pradesh.

Masti community

Madiga community

Mala community

Matangi community

26. Which company manufactured the new breach loading rifles whose greased cartridges provoked the outbreak of Sipahi.Revolt in 1857

Colt

Enfield

Winchester

Webley Scott

27. One who has completely memorized the Qur'an is bestowed the title

Kazi

Haji

Hafiz

Al Hakim

28. The founder of Dalit Panthers Movement in Maharashtra is

Sharan Kumar Limbale

Namdeo Dhasal

B.R. Ambedkar

Baby Kamble

29. 'Bengal Sati Regulation Act' was promulgated in which year

1800

1819

1829

1849

30. Which medieval empire was founded the brothers Harihara and Bukka in 1336 AD

Harappa and Mohenjodaro

Maurya Empire

Chalukya Empire

Vijayanagar Empire

31. A History ofIndian Literature: 1800-1910 is written by

Sisir Kumar Das

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Amiya Dev

Buddhadev Bose

32. Who translated the novel Aag ka Dariya as 'River of Fire'

Khushwant Singh

Shiv K. Kumar

Qurratulain Hyder

Tarannum Riyaz

33. The author ofLajja hails from ...

Sweden

Bangladesh

Nepal

Sri Lanka

34. Sunlight on a Broken Column is written by

Monica Ali

Ishmat Chugtai

Attia Rosain

Bapsi Sidhwa

35. The Sahitya Akademi plaque awarded to Winners was designed by

Satyajit Ray

Ramkinkar Baij

Nandalal Bose

M.F. Hussain

36. First Asian to receive Nobel Prize in literature was

C.V Raman

Sarojini Naidu

Mother Teresa

Rabindranath Tagore

37. Rubai, a poetic form, consists of

Two lines

Three lines

Four Lines

Five lines

38. Name the translator of Omar Khayyam's Rubiyaat:

W.B Yeats

T.S Eliot

Seamus Heaney

Edward Fitzgerald

39. According to tradition, if a Hindusthani classical raga has the prefix Miya ki ... then who is
the composer

Ghalib

Tansen

Anonymous

None of the above

40. What name does Bible give the final battle between Good and Evil at the end

Babel

Pandemonium

Apocalypse

Armageddon of the world

41. Aditta Sutta or the Fire Sermon is in what language

Brahmi

Apabhramsa

Pali

Sanskrit

42. In which part ofIndia would one meet Jarawa and Sentinelese tribals

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Sunderbans

Lakshadweep Islands

Aminidivi Islands

43. First writer in English to be awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961

Raja Rao

Mulk Raj Anand

R.K. Narayan

Bhabani Bhattacharya

44. Who wrote the whimsical and complex novel All About H Hatterr

V.S. Naipaul

G.V. Desani

Dom Moraes

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

45. Name the author of the essay "The Politics of Translation"

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Harish Trivedi

Avdhesh Singh

Ashish Nandy

46. The famous personality who wrote the screenplay for Bimal Roy's film Madhumati is

Salil Chaudhuri

Bhisham Sahani

Ritwik Ghatak

Balraj Sahni

47. Who is the director of the film Bhaji on the Beach

Mira Nair

Deepa Mehta

Gurinder Chadha

Shekhar Kapur

48. What is the desi song and dance form extremely popular in Maharashtra called

Nautanki

Tamasha

Lavani

Gotipua

49. Hansa Wadkar's autobiography Saangtye Aika is Shyam Benegal's film titled

Manthan

Arohan

Ankur

Bhumika

50. Adoor Gopalakrishnan's film based on Vaikom Mohammad Basheer's prison diaries is

Kathapurusham

Mathilukal

Antharam

Vidheyan

51. Who from the following coined the term 'University

Ben Jonson

Robert Greene

Christopher Marlowe

George Saintsbury

52. In Shakespeare's play, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia are children of which monarch

Lear

Henry IV

Richard III

Hamlet

53. Who is the author of The Wretched ofthe Earth?

Chinua Achebe

Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Frantz Fanon

Albert Memmi

54. According to his Will, Napoleon wished to be buried on the banks of which river

Volga

Danube

Seine

Rhine

55. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice speaks to which animal first in French

Dormouse

March Hare

Cheshire Cat

Gryphon

56. Who from the following authored the noted dystopian work Nineteen Eighty Four?

Aldous Huxley

George Orwell

Leo Tolstoy

Margaret Atwood

57. Which work of fiction centres around the life ofJose Buendia and his descendants in the town of Macondo

Living to Tell the Tale

one Hundred years of solitude

Love in the Time of cholera

The Autumn of the patriarch

58. The term 'diaspora' was originally applied to the following ethnic group:

Living to Tell the Tale

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

The Autumn of the Patriarch

59. Which novel is the story ofthe gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza?

Decameron

Don Quixote

Tristan and Isolde

Morte de Arthur

60. Which fictional character is the narrator of the book Moby Dick

Ishmael

Captain Ahab

Harker

Captain Nemo

61. How many Bronte Sisters were there?

Two

Three

Four

Five

62. The British officer whose autobiography is titled Seven Pillars OF Wisdom is

Captain Maitland

Horatio Nelson

T.E. Lawrence

Warren Hastings

63. Who wrote these books: Book ofLaughter and Forgetting, The Joke, Immortality

Bohumil Hrabal

Jean Paul Satre

Milan Kundera

Paul Coelho

64. The author of the historical murder mystery The Name OF the Rose is

Umberto Eco

Italo Calvin

Albert Camus

Franz Kafka

65. Francis Ford Coppola film set in Vietnam inspired by Conrad's Heart of Darkness is

Killing Fields

Apocalypse Now

Rambo

Born on 4th of July

66. Bilbo Baggins is a character created by

Lewis Carrol

J.K. Rowling

J.R.R. Tolkien

Rudyard Kipling

67. A Study in Scarlet is written by

Agatha Christie

Arthur Conan Doyle

Edgar Allan Poe

P.D. James

68. Who said:"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Aristotle

Thomas Jefferson

Mohandas Gandhi

Winston Churchill

69. Who said this: "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

Mother Teresa

Maya Angelou

Aung San Suu Kyi

Florence Nightingale

70. Whose is the most inspirational speech of all times:"I have a dream... "

Nelsen Mandela

Che Guevara

Abraham Lincoln

Martin Luther King Jr.


71. Identify this figure of speech: "The company board was clearly confused and there was

a deafening silence."

Satire

Oxymoron

Simile

Metaphor

72. Identify this figure of speech: "Blind justice was not on his side."

Irony

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Personification

73. Identify the figure of speech: 'the humming 'the cackling 'buzzing saw'

Litotes

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Euphemism

74. Identify the figure of speech: err is human, to forgive divine."

Juxtaposition

Oxymoron

Antithesis

Catachresis

75. Which word means substituting a more offensive term with a milder one

Dysphemism

Euphemism

Orthophemism

Neologism

76. Kangaroo words carry two or more joey words. Identify the kangaroo word:

detox

smog

beautiful

relax

77. Select the suitable phrase: 'They live about here.

an hour of drive

a drive hour

a drive of an hour

an hour's drive

78. Select the suitable phrase: "She made a got the answer right.

regular exercise

right choice

wild guess

good idea

79. Select suitable phrase: 'Hold on a moment please, I'll the sales office.'

putting you through

put through

put through you

put you through

80. Select suitable phrase: of our products are made locally.

Merely

Almost

Quite

Rather

81. Select suitable phrase: 'The item was published ---despite the controversial theme.

actually

virtually

now

usually

82. Select suitable phrase: opposition and launched our product in record time.

broke into

broke out

broke away

broke through

83. Select the suitable idiom: have to him.'

Score an account

Settle a detail

Settle a score

Settle a matter

84. Select the suitable idiom: you were more proactive, this golden opportunity would not

Escaped your fingers

Slipped through your fingers

Slipped through your head

Escaped your hands

85. Select the suitable idiom: 'Whatever be the consequences I will not leave you to your fate. have
We shall ---together.

Sail

Work

Sink or swim

Live

86. Select the suitable idiom: said I could invest some money in a joint venture with him,
but as I was busy with my own projects I could only be a

Visiting partner

Half partner

Sleeping partner

Inactive partner

87. Select suitable idiom: he was too reluctant to put forward his case I had to ."

Speak for him

Talk for him

Act for him

None of these

88. Select the suitable idiom:'Since you have asked for my candid opinion, I

Talk my mind

Speak my mind

Reveal my mind

Disclose my mind

89. Select the suitable idiom: 'Are you telling the truth or just

Spinning a tale

Spinning a yarn

Spinning a story

None of these

90. Select the suitable idiom: 'His regular habit of saving difficult times.

Stood him his stand

Stood him in good stead

Stood him in good shape

Stood him in good condition

91. Select the suitable idiom: He raised several objections to my proposal but I

Stood my chance

Stood my position

Stood my ground

Stood my stand

92. Select the suitable idiom: 'Always --people who indulge in anti-social activities.'

Steer clear of

Stay away

Stick out of

Steer clear

93. Read the following excerpt carefully and select the correct answer:

When you are making multiple cuts on the same board, it is important to account for the width of the saw blade you use when taking measurements. Often, the width of a saw blade will be 1/16 of an inch, so, if this is not accounted for, your measurements will be off of an inch after four cuts or inch after eight. To correct for the width of the saw blade, simply mark each measurement 1/16 of an inch longer than its exact distance after your first measurement. has been marked. This paragraph is about: .

Measuring practices

Saw blade varieties

How to use tape measure

Working in a construction company

94. Read the following excerpt carefully and select the correct answer:
Buying used furniture can have many benefits. For example, old furniture may be made of sturdy wood as opposed to the weaker particle board widely used today. Also, one can find a unique style of furniture for his or her home that is not available in the new, trendy furniture stores and won't likely be found in his or her friends' houses either. Lastly, it costs only a fraction of the price to purchase and refinish old, used furniture when compared to the cost of new furniture. This paragraph is about: .

Benefits of old used furniture

Interior decorating

Staining furniture

Opting for new furniture

95. Read the following excerpt carefully and select the correct answer:
Reciprocity is important if one wants to have a life-long friend. If one has a friend who has given him/her a gift, a gift should be given in return at an appropriate time. If a favor has been received, one should determine a way to return it in a way that is most meaningful for the friend. Otherwise, the friend may eventually feel used and end the friendship. This paragraph is about: ...•.....

Returning favours and how to be a good friend

Birthday gifts

Angry and toxic friends

Using people for one's benefit

96. Read the following poem and answer the questions.
The grass so little has to do, A sphere of simple green,
With only butterflies to brood,! And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes, The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap/ And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,! And make itself so fine,
A duchess were too common! For such a noticing.
And even when it dies, to pass/ In odors so divine,
As lowly spices gone to sleep,! Or amulets of pine.
And then to dwell in sovereign barns,
And dream the days away,
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
Which is the best summary of this poem?

The grass does few things, so the poet wishes she were the grass (the hay).

The green grass has a lot to do.

When the grass (the hay) dies, it has a wonderful smell like spices or pines.

Hay dreams each day away, and so does the poet.

97. In the above poem, poet says the grasses stir in the breeze. How is used here?

"to mix"

"to move"

"to make a lot of noise"

"to notice"

98. In the above poem, what does the speaker compare the odor of dead grasses to

sunshine

butterflies

spheres of simple green

spices gone to sleep

99. In the above poem, what does the grass do at night

entertain the bees

hold the sunshine in its lap

thread the dews like pearls

bow to everything

100. Why does the poet probably wish she were the hay

She is a duchess.

She likes the smell of grass.

She has too many things to do.

She had a dream about the grass.