Entrance Examination -February 2015 M.Phil. (Comparative Literature)
Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 75

INSTRUCTIONS
Write your Hall Ticket Number in the OMR Answer Sheet given to you. Also, write your Hall Ticket Number in the space provided above.
ii) There is NEGATIVE marking for ALL questions. Each wrong answer carries -0.33 mark. No mark will be deducted for an unanswered question.
iii) The Question paper, in 10 pages, consists of 75 objective questions in two parts for 75 marks. Marks obtained in Part A will be used to resolve any ties.
iv) Answers are to be marked on the OMR Answer Sheet, using bhick or blue ball point pen, as per other instructions provided thereon.
Please hand over the OMR Answer Sheet at the end of the examination to the Invigilator. You may take the Question paper after the examination is over.
vi) No additional sheet will be provided. Rough work can be done in the Question paper itself or in the space provided at the end of the Booklet.


PART A

1.Which ofthe following is not a Tamil epic Civaka Chintamani Manimekalai Valayapati Vipulakesi
2. Who is the author ofthe play Karnabhara Kalidasa Sudraka Asvaghosa Bhasa

3. Before the Royal Bengal Tiger, which was the national animal ofIndia Elephant Lion Peacock Gharial
'Satyameva Jayate' is borrowed from which Upanishad Brihadaranyaka Chandogya Mundaka Katha
5.
Tn Hindu mythology who is called 'Sahasraraksha' alluding to his thousand eyes Indra Surya Shiva Varona

6.
Which mystical movement takes its name from Arabic tradition ofwearing Bahai'ism Sufism Zoroastrianism Dervish


7.What name is given to the village Rai Bhoi di Talvandi where Guru Nanak was born Rai Saheb Amritsar Nankana Saheb Talvandi Saheb
8.
Which Sikh Guru compiled Guru Granth Sahib in 1604 A.D Guru Ramdas Janam Sakhis Guru Angad Guru Arjun

9.
What is the title of Mirza Ghalib's account of 1857 war in Delhi Dastanbu Chirag i Dair Qiyamah Qaid e Hayat

10.
Tolkappiyam talks ofwhich group ofpoetry

Alwars Nayanmars Bhakti Sangam

11.
Bijak is the compilation ofpoems ofwhich saint-poet ofIndia Surdas Chokhamela Namdev Kabirdas





12. In which ancient language were Jataka Tales written Brahmi Pali Sanskrit Paisachi
13. Lalleswari was a poet from which region Rajasthan Kashmir Bengal Himachal
14. 'Sphota Theory' is explained in the following book Yogasutra Ashtadhyayi Vakyapadiya Dhanyaloka
15. Which 'Navaratna' ofAkbar's court was called'Kavipriya' Birbal Tansen Abul Fazl Faizi
16. Which loth century Kannada poet called 'adikavi' created a style that served as the model for subsequent work in that language Pampa Sri Ponna Ranna Devendra Muni
17. Dimasa, Hajong, Kom, Kuki, Lushai, Mishing are names from which part ofIndia Ladakh North east Himalayan Tarai West frontier
18. Who wrote these books: Chinavar Srtota, Neelkanthi Braja, Adha lekha Dastabej Bidyut Prava Devi Gopinath Mohanty Indira Goswami Rajanikanta Bordoloi
19. Which Indian litterateur was conferred the title ofhonorary Commander ofthe British Empire in 1992 Salman Rushdie lawaharlal Nehru Shiva Naipaul Nirad C. Chaudhuri
20. Who from the following is not ofAnglo-Indian descent Allan Sealey Cliff Richards Derek O'Brien Ruskin Bond
21. Portuguese re-named the Konkan island ofGnarapuri on seeing its intricate artwork Diu Amandivi Elephanta Kalangute
22. The church built where St. Thomas is said to have been martyred is located Chennai Goa Mumbai Thiruchirapally


23.
By what name is the Urdu poet-lyricist Akhtar Hussain Razvi better known GuIzar Kaifi Azmi Zaved Akhtar Shahir Ludhianvi

24.
'Flowering' is the literal translation ofwhich style of embroidery chikankari naqashi phulkari bandhni


25.Festivalcommemoratingrecovery ofthepitcher ofNectarofImmortalityfromAsuras( Sangam mela Kumbha mela Char Dham Shiva ratri
26.
The producer for Shyam Benegal's Junoon and Aparna Sen's 36 Chowringhi Lane is( Raj Kapoor Jennifer Kendal Sashi Kapoor Geoffrey Kendal

27.
Girish Kamad's Utsav is adaptation ofwhose literary work

A.K. Ramanujan B) Kalidasa
Sudraka None of these


28.
Many rivers rise in Tibet. Indian name for the river called Yarlung Tsangpo is Sindhu Sutlej Ganga Brahmaputra

29.
The poet of the Hindi epic Kamayani is Jaishankar Prasad Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' Sachchidananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'

30.
Who began his creative career with the comic strip "The Little Men and the Large World"

in the Malayalam journal Matrubhumi in1969 Ayyappa Paniker O.V.Vijayan G. Aravindan Nandanar

31.
Who is the author of Kotta Gabbilam Gurram Joshua B.) Yendliri Sudhakar Kolakaluri Enoch Vemula Yellaiah

32.
"Tar Saptak" is an avant garde movement in Fiction Criticism Poetry Music

33.
'Third Theatre' is associated with Vijay Tendulkar B). SafdarHasmi Utpal Dutt Badal Sircar



34. H. Kanhailal, an eminent theatre personality, hails from Tripura B). Chattisgarh Manipur Uttar Pradesh
35. Manjula Padmanabhan's play Harvest revolves around Organic fanning Organ trade C). Fanners suicide Urban-Rural divide
36. From Heaven Lake is atravelogue by Vikram Seth Amit Chaudhuri Amitav Ghosh Upamanyu Chattetjee
37. To which musical gharana does Bismillah Khan belong Benares Meerut Patiala Dumraon
38. Where was British Viceroy Lord Mayo assassinated in 1862 Andaman Delhi C)Amritsar Bombay
39. Alarippu, Jatisvaram, Shabdam, Varnam, Tillana are parts ofwhich dance fonn Manipuri Odissi .C) Kathak Bharatanatyam
40. Mrinal Sen's Telugu:film Doka Oorie Katha is based on whose short story Sri Sri Gu1jadaAppaRao Premchand Vasireddy Seethadevi
41. Wllkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammet et al made which kind ofstories famous horror detective spy romance
42. The Salem witch trials provided the backdrop for which Arthur Miller play Allmysons B)After theJall The crucible Death ojasalesman
43. Inwhich creative wolk ofGeorge Otwell did the words 'newspeak' and 'doublespeak' originate AnimalFarm Nineteen Eighty-Jow Burmese Days The Roadto Wigan Pier
44. Centuries contains predictions ofwhich French apothecary and seer Nostmdamus Tnburtine Sybil Joachim ofFiore Savonarola
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45. Which fictional character is also known as 'VIad1he Impaler' Dracula Frnnkenstein The Monk Werewolf
46. Come Fly with Me is the story ofwhich fonner North Carolina andNBAstar Mohammed Ali Michael Jordan Le Bron James Kyrie Irving
47. Who describes Shelley as "abeautiful and ineffectual angel beating in1he void his luminous wings in vain" Samuel Taylor Coleridge FredericNietzsche MatthewArnold Thomas Hardy
48. The earliesttract onfeminism is The SecondSex Female EUJ1Ul:h B)A Room of One sOwn A Vindication o/the Rights o/Women
49. Samuel Johnson's The Vanityo/Hwnan WlSheS expresses Epicureanism Humanism Stoicism Cynicism
50. Who from 1he following belonged to 1he Arnerican Beat Movement Allan Ginsberg Marl<. Beard H.L Mencken Isaac McCaslih
51. "Imagined Communities" is a concept propounded by Homi Bhabha Benedict Anderson Partha Chattetjee Aijaz Ahmad
52. The author of Gender Trouble is Judi1h Butler Elaine Showalter Helene Cixous Luce Irigamy
53. The tenn 'ecritwefeminine' was first coined by Judith Butler Helene Cixous Elaine Showalter Luce Irigaray
54. Which of 1he following is not written by Margaret Atwood The BlindAssassin The Handmaids Tale The Edible Woman The Stone Angel
55. Thetenn "Theatre ofCruelty" was coined Augusto Boal Luigi Pirandello Antonin Artaud Robert Bmstein


56. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" is an essay by Karl Marx Raymond Williams Teny Eagleton Louis Althusser
57. The phrase ''willing suspensionofdisbelief' occurs Biographia Literaria Poetics In Defence ofPoetry Preface to LyricalBallads
58. The statement "Ithink, therefore I am" is by Plato Schopenhauer Descartes Spinoza
59. "Art for Art's Sake" became arallying cry for Aesthetes Symbolists Imagists Dadaists
60. To refer to unresolvable difficulties atext may 0PeIlup, Denidauses the tenn erasure differance aporia supplement
PARTB
61. Choose the correct statement: 'Forwhichjobwill ajackofall trades be best suited' abus driver a dealer in a casmo a teller in the bank a cmetaker in aschool
62 . Choose the suitable statement: "We started a business, but after awhile it was back to the drawing board" we made lotofmoney B)we couldn'tmakeprofit we needed more data we wanted to improve our drawing
63. Choose the suitable statement: ''WhenIheardthe poem, some ofthe lines rang a bell." some ofthem beat adnnn sounded very beautiful it hmt my sensibility thought Iheard them before
64. Choose the suitable statement: 'Before we couldtalk ttnkey aboutthe deal, we had to go to Turkey pay the money see the samples testthe proposal
65 Choose the suitable statement: was so snowed under today that Ihad to seeadoctor B)wearwannc1othes cancel ameeting turn on the heater
66. Which ofthe following is not a portmanteauword hmnongous malware party animal internet




67. Thebestdefinitionfor 'indigent' is
poor eager
homely polite

68. Thebestdefinitionfor 'inchoate' is accurate thoughtful motionless unorganized
69.Thebestdefinitionfor 'imprimatur'is
occasion approval immature
70. Readthe following passage and answerthe questions below. For centuries, people have been playing kicking games with a ball. The game of soccer developed from some ofthese early games. The English probably gave soccer its name and its first set ofrules. In European countries, soccer is called football or association football. Some people believe that the name "soccer" came from "assoc.," an abbreviation for the word association. Others believe that the name came from the high socks that the players wear. Organized soccer games began in 1863. In soccer, two teams ofeleven players try to kick or head the ball into their opponents' goal. The goalie, who tries to keep the ball out of the goal, is the only player on the field who is allowed to touch the ball with his or her hands. The other players must use their feet, heads, and bodies to control the ball. Every "four years, soccer teams around the world compete for the World Cup. The World Cup competition started in 1930. Brazil is the home ofmany great soccer players, including the most famous player ofall, Pele. With his fast footwork, dazzling speed, and great scoring ability, Pele played for many years in Brazil and then later in New York. During his 22 years in soccer, he scored 1,281 goals and held every major record for the sport. People in more than 140 countries around the
world play soccer. It is the national sport ofmost European and Latin American countries. Soccer is definitely the world's most popular sport!
What conclusion can you draw from this article? Sports are more popular in Brazil than elsewhere Most sports involve kicking the ball around Sports can be very dangerous The game ofsoccer and how it is played
71. With reference to the above passage, choose the right answer:
soccer is a game ofspeed soccer means completion soccer is synonymous with Pele soccer is played only in Brazil

72. Read the following poem and answer following questions. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I­
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Why does the poet call the wood
It was StIDSet the trees were of specific type
the time ofthe year was such the colour reflects the poet's mood

73.
With reference to the above poem, explain what the poetthinks cifhis choice hechoseawell-travelledpath he chose aless travelled path hehadtotakeone path anyway his choice was made inhaste

74.
Read the following passage and answerthe following questions. Problems ofcultural and linguistic incommensurability create barriers to translation. Besides this, there is the relationship between the author and translator which A.K. Ramanujan saw as essentially conflict-ridden. The translator might wish to create a poem out ofthe original but has to bow to the reader's wish for a literal translation; or the translator might want to create a poem of his own from the original which is in conflict with the reader's desire to see a replication ofthe original. The translator is thus caught between "transmission and expression". But Ramanujan says that a translator is "an artist on oath ...caught between the



need to express himself and the need to represent another, moving between the two halves of one brain, he has to use both to get close to 'the originals'" (120). The reader is also important in this process. The reader ofa translated poem expects the translation to be a reliable representation ofthe original text in terms of language and
,structure as well as its various cultural connotations. It also has to provide aesthetic pleasure. These are demands that can be met by various translation strategies at the translator's disposal, but how can he convey the vast network of cultural relationships? Dharwadker points out that Ramailjuan "argued that even as a translator carries over a particular text from one culture into another, he has to translate the reader from the second culture into the first one" (121). He thought this can be achieved through notes and prefaces written by the translator.
According to A.K.Ramanujan, the conflicts in the process oftranslation arise due to: cultural and linguistic barriers literal translation versus transcreation transferring aesthetic pleasure ofthe original. all of the above.
75. With reference to the above passage, what strategies.can a translator use: be faithful to the original balance Source Culture and Target Culture keep the 'reader' in mind all ofthe above