1. Select the statement best supported by the given information.

The Pacific yew is an evergreen tree that grows in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific yew has a fleshy, poisonous fruit. Recently, taxol, a substance found in the bark ofthe Pacific yew, was discovered to be a promising new anticancer drug.

Taxol is poisonous when taken by healthy people

Taxol has cured people from various diseases

People shouldn't eat the fruit ofthe Pacific yew

Pacific yew was considered worthless until taxol was discovered.

2. Select the statement best supported by the given information.

Ten new television shows appeared during the month of September. Five of the shows were sitcoms, three were hour-long dramas, and two were news-magazine shows. By January, only seven ofthese new shows were still on the air. Five ofthe shows that remained were sitcoms.

Only one ofthe new-magazine shows remained on the air

Only one ofthe hour-long dramas remained on the air

At least one ofthe shows that was cancelled was an hour-long drama

Television viewers prefer sitcoms over hour-long dramas.

3. Select the statement best supported by the given information.

Georgia is older than her cousin Marsha. Marsha's brother Bart is older than Georgia. When Marsha and Bart are visiting with Georgia, all three like to playa game of Monopoly. Marsha wins more often than Georgia does.

When he plays Monopoly with Marsha and Georgia, Bart often loses.

Ofthe three Georgia is the oldest

Georgia hates to lose at Monopoly

Ofthe three Marsha is the youngest

4. Select the statement best supported by the given information.

Yoga has become a very popular type of exercise, but it may not be for everyone. Before you sign yourself up for a yoga class, you need to examine what it is you want from your fitness routine. If you're looking for a high-energy, fast-paced aerobic workout, a yoga class might not be your best choice.

Yoga is more popular than high-impact aerobics

Before embarking on the exercise regimen you should consider your needs and desires

Yoga is changing the world offitness in major ways

Yoga benefits both mind and body

5. Translate from an imaginary language into English. Then look for the word elements that appear both on the list and in the answer choices. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. malgauper means peach cobbler; malgaport means peach juice; moggagrop means apple jelly. Which word could mean "apple juice"?

Moggaport

malagaauper

gropport

moggaprop

6. The wise and witty 'Tenali Raman' was the companion of which king:

RajendraChola

Krishnadevaraya

Mahendravarman I

Vikramaditya VI

7. 'Ragamala Paintings' depict

amalgamation of scenes from India

amalgamation of many colours

amalgamation of art, poetry and music

histories of royal personages

8. Aranya, Kishkinda, Sundara are parts of which book

Silappathikaram

Ramayana

MaleyaMadeswara

Manimekalai

9. Mahabharata's first Persian translation Razmnamah was commissioned by

Humayun

Akbar

Jahangir

Dara Shikoh

10. Sikh Guru who developed the script ofPanjab is

Guru Nanak

Guru Ramdas

Guru Angad

Guru Arjun

11. Indian musical lore is said to be derived specifically from which Veda

Rig Veda

Sama Veda

Yajur Veda

Atharva Veda

12. 'Theory ofVakrokti' was propounded by which literary theorist

Patanjali

Kuntaka

Bhartrhari

Anandavardhana

13. Ratnavali, Priyadarshika, Nagananda are written by which monarch

Harshavardhana

Samudra Gupta

Rajaraja Chola

Ganapatideva

14. Which land reform movement in the 1950s was led by Vinayaka Narahari

Sarvodaya Movement

Shramdan

Green Revolution

Bhoodan

15. The following poem, translated by Dilip Chitre, is written by whom

"O Kamatipura Tucking all seasons under your armpit
You squat in the mud here
I go beyond all the pleasures and pains of whoring and wait For your lotus to bloom A lotus in the mud."

Vijay Tendulkar

Daya Pawar

Namdev Dhasal

Arjun Dangle

16. Which English language newspaper was launched by Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh in 1906 to advocate subversive struggle against the British

BandeMataram

New India

Friend of India

The Hircarrah

17. In India, the first television programme was telecast in the year

1959

1976

1965

1957

18. A Voicefor Freedom is a book written by

Corazon Aquino

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benazir Bhutto

Nayantara Sahgal

19. According to Tanika Sarkar, 'lekhika' or the woman writer in India emerged during-­

Bhakti Movement

early 20th century

late 19th century

post-Independence decades

20. Who won the Gyanpeeth Award for her book Yama

Mahadevi Varma

Ishmat Chugtai

Ashapurna Devi

Mahasweta Devi

21. Who said:"I disapprove ofwhat you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it"

Vladimir Lenin

George Bernard Shaw

Mohandas Gandhi

Voltaire

22. Which ofthe following is not written by Rabindranath Tagore

Muktodhara

Raktakarabi

Devi Chaudhurani

Chitrangada

23. The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel is a biography of

Albert Einstein

Fritzof Capra

C.V. Raman

Srinivasa Ramanujan

24. Lala Lajpat Rai is the author ofwhich book:

India Divided

Unhappy India

Mother India

Hind Swaraj

25. The following is an excerpt from the poetry of which poet from the North East:
"In the end the universe yields nothing except a dream of pennanence.
Peace is a falsity. A moment of rest comes after long combat. .."

Sharmila Chanu Irom

Mamang Dai

Mona Zote

TemsulaAo

26. Padma Sachdev, Shakti Sharma, Ved Kumari Ghai, Champa Sharma write in which language

Dogri

Nepali

Garo

Ho

27. Whose story on Brahlnin 011hodoxy was nlade into a film Ghatashraddha by Girish Kasaravalli in 1977

Masti Venkatesa Iyengar

U.R. Ananthamurthy

S.L. Bhyrappa

Kuvempu

28. Who said: "Your time is litnited so don't waste it living someone else's life."

Bill Gates

Ayrton Selma

Steve Jobs

Mark Zuckerberg

29. Who said: "A hero is sonleone who tmderstands the responsibility that comes with his freedOln."

Bob Marley

Bob Dylan

Jim Morrison

Robert Ingersoll

30. Whose relentless struggle against Sexual Harassment led to the formulation of the Vishakha Guide lines which has now evolved as 2013 Prevention of Sexual Harassment of WOmen at Workplace Act

Bhanwari Devi.

Phoolan Devi

Dopdi Majhen

'Nirbhaya'

31. Which Steven Spielberg directed film holds the record for most nmuber of Oscar nominations, eleven in all, without winning in a single category.

Lincoln

Schindler's List

Munich

The Color Purple

32. What new term for a subversive agent was coined by John le Carre in his novel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Rat

Snoop

Mole

Double agent

33. Who wrote these books: Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Path to the Spiders' Nests

Italo Calvino

Alberto Moravia

Umberto Eco

Orhan Pamuk

34. Wrote this book on medieval murder mystery: My Name is Red

Italo Calvino

Alberto Moravia

Umberto Eco

Orhan Pamuk

35. Which of the following is not written by Ganesh Devy

The Tribal Art of Middle India

A Nomad called Thief

In Another Tongue

Of Many Heroes

36. History at the Limit ofWorld-History is written by

Partha Chatterjee

Ranabir Samddar

SudiptaKaviraj

Ranajit Guha

37. The Translator's Invisibility: A History ofTranslation is theorized by

Itamar Even Zohar

Susan Bassnett

Lawrence Venuti

Edwin Gentzler

38. Who formulated the concept of 'Dialogic Imagination'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jacques Derrida

Mikhail Bakhtin

John Keats

39. Which comparativist's book is titled Death ofa Discipline

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Susan Bassnett

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

Haun Saussy

40. Who is promoting "distant reading because the opposite, close reading, can't uncover the true scope and nature of literature."

David Damrosch

Franco Moretti

Henry Remak

Charles Bernheimer

41. Kalyan Rao's Antaranivasantam is a

Play

Autobiography

Novel

Poetry

42. Who is the author of the Telugu poetry anthology titled Mahaprastanam?

Chalam

Srirangam Srinivasa Rao

Gurram Jashua

Viswanatha Satyanarayana

43. The concept of "Differential Multilogue" in Indian comparative literature is credited to:

Gurbhagat Singh

K.M. George

Sisir Kumar Das

Amiya Dev

44. Whose book titled Mythologies can be taken as a precursor to cultural studies methodology

Jacques Derrida

Cornel West

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Ronald Barthes

45.What is the scope of New Media as a branch of Digital Humanities

Alter the meaning of geographic distance.

Allow for a huge increase in volume and speed of conununication.

Provide opportunities for interactive, overlapping communication.

All of the above

46. Who challenged presumptions by stating: "The discovery of 'anon1aIies' during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms."

Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Thomas Kuhn

Marshall McLuhan

47. Who said: "Medium of language extends our thoughts from within our mind out to others."

Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Thomas Kuhn

Marshall McLuhan

48. Bombing of the Basque town of Guemica was the subject ofthe famous painting

Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali

Paul Cezanne

Marcel Duchamp

49. Ayn Rand's writing expresses what kind of philosophy

Art for Art's Sake

Objectivism

Materialism

Existentialism

50. Which playwright's plays represent the 'Theatre of Menace'

Samuel Beckett

Eugene Ionesco

Harold Pinter

Albert Camus

51. Select the suitable answer for the following premise:
Rajeshwer, Rameshwer and Vandana are three astronauts. Rajeshwer is Rameshwer's brother.
Rameshwer is Vandana's brother. Vandana is not Rajeshwer's brother. Therefore, Vandana is Rajeshwer's sister.

Should be false

May be false

Cannot be determined

Should be true

52. Find the missing number in the following series: 14, 28, 70.

71

81

95

93

53. Which is the earliest ofthe following four inventions

Diesel Engine

Hovercraft

Battery

Jeans

54. Linguistic diffusion is usually the result

conlmon origin

distance,decay

innovation

nligration and conquest

55. Language and religion are important components of which subsystem of culture?

technological

ideological

protological

sociological

56. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name. An eponym is a word derived from the proper name of a person or place. What term is used for a word that's derived from the same root as another word?

retronym

oronym

paronym

exonym

57. Morphemes are the

smallest distinctive sound unit

smallest unit that carries meaning

rules for sentence structure

second stage of language development

58. Jinuny does not know that Inuch about car combines and their profitability, so when asked which car company sells the most cars he simply bases his answer on which car company he knows the most about. This is an exanlple

Insight

Intuition

Availability heuristic

Algorithtn

59. Which of the following is associated with Translation:

The Eiffel Tower

The Rosetta Stone

The Egyptian Pyramids

The Indus Valley Script

60. The author of the famous essay "The Task ofThe Translator" is

Jacques Derrida

ROnlatl Jakobson

Walter Benjalnin

Jorge Luis Borges

61. The translation strategy that maintains linguistic and cultural difference of the original text in its translation in the receptor language is

Domestication

Foreignization

Transcreation

Manipulation

62. 'Equivalence' is not only a central concept in Translation Studies, but also a

Irrelevant

Important

Controversial

Trifling

63. Ellipsis, slangs, interruptions commonly occur during conversations among friends in a social setting. In Translation Studies, this kind of pmiicular usage of language is described as

Dialogism

Register

Tone

Mood

64. "Thou art the ruler of the minds ofall people, Dispenser of India's destiny" is the English translation of:

"Vande mataramJ Vande nlataranl!"

"Janani janmabhumischaswargadapigariyasi"

"Jayajayajayapriyabharathajanaitripriyadhatri"

"Jana gana mana adhinayaka, jaya he Bharata bhagya vidhata"

65. Read the following passage carefully and provide the answer best supported by the passage:

From the 18th century until now, the world has witnessed the emergence of various literary schools or movements (Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism) and genres (epic, poetry, novel and drama). It is hardly a coincidence that such literary 'forms and schools are found, in one way or another, in the literatures ofdifferent parts of the world: there must have been a connection between them. Romanticism, for example, was brought to Germany through Schiller, to England through Shelley and others, to France through Hugo, and to Russia through Pushkin within the 19th century; it appeared in the Arab world through a group ofpoets in the first half of the twentieth century. Like animal genus, these schools and genres (as shown by Brunetiere'sL'evolution des Genres, based on Darwin's theory) have undergone basic changes and evolutions; and some of them have decayed.... For example, when they first appeared, epic and drama were confined to using verse, but in time they tended to use both verse and prose, and then prose only. Accordingly, comparatists interested in this field of study base their studies on raising and answering a number of questions such as: what are the similitudes and dissimilitudes between two international literatures in using a specific school or genre? Where and when did this school or genre first appear? And how did it find its way into other literatures? What was behind its change or evolution? Did the boundaries of language, place and time have to do with this? What role did 'reception' play? Many other questions can be put forth and answered. [excerpt from essay by M.M. Enani]

The tnany Movements spread to different parts of the world by

deliberate design

coincidence

leading figures

intercotmections

66. Why did Brunetiere's invoke Darwin's theory of evolution?

to explain evolution and decay of genres

to show the development of various Movements

to enable comparatists to ask questions

all of the above

67. Studying 'similitudes and dissimilitudes' between international literatures can

assist 'distant reading'

lead to holistic understanding of world literatures

raise related questions

all of the above

68. Read the following passage carefully and provide ansvver best supported by the passage:

A literary text is a prime example of an object that is not individuated as a fixed set of attributes within fixed coordinates. Indeed, the continual emergence of interpretive contexts suggests that the attributes of a text also continually emerge. Not a finished product, a text is the incomplete expression ofa finite language user; moving beyond that finite individual, it becomes a collective potentiality, a force of incipience commensurate with the incipience of humanity. It is this collective dimension ofa text that makes its temporal trajectory unforeseeable. And insofar as this trajectory is describable at all, perhaps it is best described as a continuum, registering both extension and transit, changes in time and in attributes. Such a continuum, such extension through motion, makes diachronism an interpretive necessity. Literary critics can perhaps draw inspiration from modem physicists: from their subtle analysis ofmotion in terms of a space-time continuum. In particular, I would like to invoke Einstein to articulate something like a "kinematics" ofthe text, theorizing the text's continuous movement through time. Einstein provides a basis for this kinematics in his special theory ofrelativity, especially what he calls the "relativity of simultaneity. "Time, it seems, passes at different rates for observers in different states ofmotion. Two clocks that are synchronized and then put into different states ofmotion will not strike the hour simultaneously. Likewise, a moving observer and a stationary observer will disagree about the sequence of events. [excerpt from W-C Dimock]

Why does the writer maintain a isn't a 'finished product'?

it has fixed coordinates

it has collective potentiality

it is a finite entity

it is free of all contexts

69. Why does 'diachronisln' become an "interpretative necessity"?

assists space-time analyses

texts exist in a continuum

suggests extension and transit

all of the above

70. "Two clocks that are synchronized and then put into different states of motion will not strike the hour simultaneously." What does this prove with reference to texts?

time changes according to location

persons can tell time differently

there is 'relativity' in texts

none of the above

71. Read the following poem carefully and answer questions that follow:
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a Guest, but not
The Second time, is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect,
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer's com;
Men eat of it and die.

The first line ofthe stanza features an example of:

alliteration

assonance

consonance

repetition

72. The plate is described as 'shifting' because

it can be changed

the ownership is doubtful

fame is not always long lasting

it is unstable

73. What does 'ironic caw' mean

laughter

rejection

fear

wisdom

74. Fame welcomes its Guest

once

twice

always

never

75. Why do Men die?

by courting fame

by eating poisonous corn

of hunger

because death is inevitable