1. "Comparative Literature aims primarily … at studying the works of various literatures in their interrelationship." Identify the author of the statement.

Jean-Marie Carré

Ulrich Weisstein

Paul Van Tieghen

H. H. Remak
2. The scholar who laid out the basis of American Comparative Literature is

Henry H. Remak

Rene Wellek

Austin Warren

Harry Levin
3. To Weisstein, the most important criterion in deciding the nationality of a writer should be

historical

ethnic

political

linguistic
4. Name the comparatist who propounded the concept of 'Weltliteratur'.

Goethe

Fritz Strich

Sulpiz Boisseree

Zacharias Werner
5. Who considers the study of literary influences dangerous as it deals with intangibles

Fernand Baldensperger

Marius F. Guyard

Jean-Marie Carré

Paul Van Tieghen
6. What is New Literary History

A book

A periodical

A newspaper

An encyclopaedia
7. Who is of the view that 'Generation' is the spearhead of a period

Marcus Cunliffe

R. M. Meyer

H.P.H. Teesing

Robert Spiller
8. Imitation based on a poet, movement or period is

Rococo

Mannerism

Baroque

Stylization
9. The literary historian who defines history in terms of cyclic movement is

Émile Legouis

Robert Spiller

G. E. Lessing

Ifor Evans
10. The symbolist movement began with the works of

T. S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

Mallarmé

Baudelaire
11. The two literary genres that Aristotle discusses in his Poetics are

Novel and Drama

Prose and Poetry

Drama and Poetry

Epic and Drama
12. Which among the following is a novel written in verse

The Golden Gate

The Great Indian Novel

The God of Small Things

Satanic Verses
13. Who separated choric poetry from monodic poetry

The Spanish

The French

The Romans

The Greeks
14. Identify the epic from the following

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Canterbury Tales

Paradise Lost

Faerie Queene
15. How many divisions are there in Dante's Divine Comedy

Three

Twelve

Twenty-four

Nine
16. Who is the author of the book, Motif-Index of Folk Literature

Stith Thompson

E. M. Butler

L. Weinstein

Kate Hamburger
17. In Northrop Frye's classification of genres, tragedy is related to

Spring

Winter

Summer

Autumn
18. The English word 'Thematology' was coined by

Harry Levin

Elizabeth Frenzel

Raymond Trousson

E. M. Butler
19. An analysis of Chaman Nahal's Azadi and Kushwant Singh's A Train to Pakistan, with reference to partition theme, is an instance of

dialogic study

anachronic study

synchronic study

diachronic study
20. The comparatist who has identified thirty six situations in literature is

Wolfgang Kayser

Georges Polti

Ulrich Weisstein

Erich Auerbach
21. "Therukkuthu" is a folk-art form in

Kannada

Tamil

Telugu

Malayalam
22. Identify the modern Indian playwright who has written verse-drama

Girish Karnad

Rabindranath Tagore

Jai Shankar Prasad

Indira Parthasarathy
23. Raj Singh is a historical novel written by

Bibhutibhusan

Buddhadev Guha

Tarashankar

Bankim Chandra
24. 'Tamasha' is a folk-art form in drama written in

Bengali

Marathi

Tamil

Hindi
25. Name the Oriya writer who initiated new genres in their literature.

Ramakant Rath

Jayanta Mahapatra

Ganeswar Mishra

Fakir Mohan Senapati
26. The most important exponent of 'aucitya' is

Ksemendra

Bhamaha

Ananda Vardhana

Dandin
27. The author of 'Kavyadarsa" is

Bhamaha

Bhartrhari

Dandin

Ksemendra
28. The earliest definition of translation in Tamil Poetics was given by

Agathiyar

Tolkappiyar

Perunchithanar

Thiruvalluvar
29. The post-structuralist theory 'New historicism' was popularised by

Stephen Greenblatt

Stanley Fish

Raymond Williams

Michel Foucault
30. The Neo-Marxist who views literature in relation to ideology is

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Luce Irigaray

Louis Althusser

Helene Cixous
31. Which, according to J. T. Shaw, is a derogatory reference to literary influence

Source-hunting

Myth making

Genetic study

Deterministic reading
32. Imitation poking fun at literary models is

Caricature

Pastiche

Satire

Parody
33. A literary work which combines satire and parody is

Midnight's Children

A River Sutra

The God of Small Things

Interpreter of Maladies
34. Shakespeare's Cleopatra is an example of

burlesque

creative transmutation

creative treason

stylization
35. The impact of Ibsen's plays on George Bernard Shaw is an instance of

Reception

Imitation

Analogy

Influence
36. The history of translation in the West may be said to begin with

Septuagint

Tyndale's Bible

Jeromes' Vulgate

Caedmon's Bible
37. John Ciardi in his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy uses

terza rima

blank verse

a three line stanza

Latin Hexameter
38. Who is of the view that badly written book is only a blunder. A bad translation is a crime'

Theodore Savory

Gilbert Highet

J. C. Catford

Susan Bassnett
39. The mistranslation of Hermann Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel by Mervyn Savil is due to

cultural ignorance

sheer carelessness

religious ignorance

linguistic ignorance
40. The phrase "Thalai Deepavali" is an instance of

cultural untranslatability

linguistic untranslatability

phonemic untranslatability

metrical untranslatability
41. T. Janakiraman's renowned novel, Amma Vandaal has been rendered into English by

Lakshmi Holmstrom

A. K. Ramanujan

M. Krishnan

Iravadham
42. In his study of the relationship between literature and arts, Lessing compares

Quintilian and an architect

Longinus and a painter

Virgil and a sculptor

Homer and a musician
43. Music is used as a structural element in

Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting

Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Amitav Ghosh's Calcutta Chromosomes
44. On which art form is Hardy's Tess structured

Painting

Sculpture

Music

Architecture
45. The book that studies the relationship of literature to arts is

Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism

Calvin Brown's Music and Literature

Wellek's Theory of Literature

Goethe's Library of Liberal Arts
46. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below, based on your understanding of the passage

We should not fight shy of being eclectic in our analysis and description of literature. Needless to say that we can learn many things from our ancient Indian aestheticians. These scholars, it may be remembered, do not use the terminology of modern linguistics and stylistics, but their views on some of the crucial issues pertaining to literature are amazingly modern and increasingly relevant. It may also be noted that right from the beginning they took cognizance of linguistic aspects of literary composition. Their thinking on other issues also is of seminal nature. The findings of Indian Poetics are almost of universal validity, but the immediacy of its relevance and usefulness in the present Indian context, beset with confusion worst confounded, is undisputable, and several ticklish and mind-boggling questions bothering Indian critics can be sorted out if efforts are made to rely upon the great works by Indian aestheticians. Krishna Rayan, in a paper on "Literary Theory and Indian Critical Practice", has forcefully testified to the value of Indian Poetics. "No literary theory," he writes, "… is culture specific. Yet surely there is a sense in which a theory which originated in the Indian cultural matrix is necessarily specially powerful in respect of texts in Indian languages. Our search for an anchor would therefore have to begin, even if it does not end, with Sanskrit Poetics in particular with the Rasa-Dhvani theory."

46. What should be one's approach to analysis of literature

One should be analytical

One should be descriptive

One should be ecclesiastical

One should be all inclusive
47. Whose views are increasingly modern though they do not resort to modern terminology

Ancient aestheticians of India

Ancient Indian historians

Modern aestheticians of India

Ancient Indian linguists
48. The relevance of which is beset with confusion worst confounded

Indian stylistics

Indian aesthetics

Indian contexts

Indian poetics
49. What is the ultimate result of relying upon the works of Indian aesthetics

Indian aesthetics will be given due recognition.

Ticklish and mind boggling problems of India can be solved.

Many embarrassing queries of Indian critics can be answered.

Indian aestheticians will be brought to limelight.
50. What does the passage plead for

It pleads for a recognition of Sanskrit Poetics.

It recommends the relevance of cultural matrix.

It advocates the inclusion of modern linguistics and stylistics.

It pleads for a due place for Indian sensibility in literary appreciation.