Who is the author of the Telugu Dalit novel, Antaranivasantham?

A. Kaki Madhava Rao

B. Kalyan Rao

C. Chalameswara Rao

D. Gurajada Appa Rao

2) Who among the following is a Bengali classical poet?

A. Rabindranath Tagore

B. Jaya Deva

C. Amiya Chakravarthy

D. Iswara Chandra Gupta

3) The term "Fourth World" refers to Children

B. Women

C. Subpopulations

D. None of the above

4) Sri Sri is a revolutionary poet from

A. Andhra Pradesh

B. Maharashtra

C. Karnataka

D. Orissa

5) Who among the following is not a modern poet in Malayalam?

A. M. Govindan

B. Rajasekharam

C. A. Ayyappan

D. Kunchan Nambiar

6) Fakir Mohan Senapathi is a writer in Urdu

B. Sindhi

C. Bangla

D. Oriya

7) Who among the following is the founder of Dalit Panthers Movement in Maharashtra:

A. Sharan Kumar Limbale

B. Namdeo Dhasal

C. Urimla Pawar

D. Baby Kamble

8) The translator ofMahasweta Devi's Mother of 1048 is:

A. Pritam Bhattacharya

B. Samik Bandopadyaya

C. Samik Bandopadyaya

D. Sharadindu Bandopadyaya

9) Who among the following is a Booker Prize winner?

A. Anita Desai

B. Arundhati Roy

C. S.K. Ray

D. Jhumpa Lahiri

10) Wide Sargasso Sea is a parallel of which novel?

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. Moby Dick

C. Jane Eyre

D. Lord Jim

11) What is the central theme of Vijay Tendulkar's Kanyadaan?

A. Dowry

B. Female feticide

C. Dysfunctional family

D. Casteism

12) Which novel has the famous first line: "Call me Ishmael"?

A. Surfacing .

B. Ice Candy Man

C. Moby Dick

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

13) Which of the following is not written by Umberto Eco?

A. The Name of the Rose

B. The Island of the Day Before

c. Nobody Writes to the Colonel

D. The Prague Cemetery

14) "The AI,eph" is a short story by

A. Jorge Luis Borges

B. Bapsi Sidhwa

C. Rainer Maria Rilke

D. Naguib Mahfouz

15) "The Captive Lady" is written by

A. Bakim Chandra Chatterjee

B. Toru Dutt

C. Michael Madhusudan Dutt

D. Derozio

16) Which ofthe following does not belong to the genre of "magic realism"?

A. The Famished Road

B. One Hundred Years of Solitude

C. The Lowland

D. Midnight's Children

17) Who is the recipient ofprestigious Jnanpith Award for 2013?

A. Pratiba Ray

B. Ravuri Bharadwaja

c. Jeet Thayil

D. Rehman Rahi

18) Bertolt Brecht's is associated with

A. Epic Theatre

B. Absurd Theatre

C. Magic Realism

D. Stream of Consciousness

19) The fictional town of Macondo is mentioned in

A. Things Fall Apart

B. One Hundred Years of Solitude

C. The Bluest Eye

D. Mountain Language

20) "Is There a Text in This Class?" is by

A. Wolfgang Iser

B. Wimsatt

C. Stanley Fish

D. Roland Barthes

21) In Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, Gauri Viswanathan analyzes:

A. British rule and the rise of Indian nationalism.

B. British rule and the renaissance in Indian literatures.

C. The relationship between British political and commercial interests and the establishment of English Literature as a discipline in India.

D. The decline of literary study and its connection with British conquest of India.

22) Classical Marxism ascribed the domain of ideas and meanings to
A. Base structure

B. Superstructure

C. Both base and superstructure

D. None of the above

23) Partha Chatterjee refers to two kinds of contemporary Indian politics. The first one is "the politics of sovereignty" and the second one is

A. The politics ofMinorities

B. The politics of dominance

C. The politics of superiority

D. The politics ofgovernmentality

24) The Cracked Mirror is a book by Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai that focuses on:

A. Social reality

B. Experience and theory

c. Social sciences in India

D. Untouchability

25) Women ,Writing in India, in 2 volumes, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha are collections of literature written by women in

A. English

B. Indian languages

C. Indian languages but translated into English

D. English and Indian languages

26) Telugu film Tagore is a remake of a
A. Marathi movie

B. Tamil movie

C. Kannada movie

D. Malayalam movie

27) The term "diaspora" was originally applied to the following ethnic group:

A. Muslims

B. French Canadians

C. Jews

D. Hindus

28) National Folklore Support Centre is located at:

A. Bangalore

B. Chennai

C. Hyderabad

D. Trivandrum

29) The concept of "World Literature" is traced to:

A. Plato

B. Aristotle

C. Goethe

D. Montague

30) Rubai, a poetic form, consists of

A. Two lines

B. Three lines

C. Four lines

D. Five lines

31) Who among the following coined the term "dialogic imagination"?

A. Foucault

B. Derrida

C. Bakhtin

D. Lacan

32) Kavyamimamsa is credited to

A. Rajasekhara

B. Mammata

C. Vamana

D. Anandavardhana

33) Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable mainly focuses on

A. Political issues

B. Social issues

C. Spiritual issues

D. Cultural issues

34) Who among the following is the first Sahitya Akademi Award winner?

A. R.K. Narayan

B. Verrier Elwin

C. Mulk Raj Anand

D. Raja Rao

35) Tamasha in Marathi is a

A. Folk-art form

B. Novel

c. Drama

D. Short story

36) Agha Shahid Ali, an eminent Kashmiri-American poet, wrote mostly in

A. English

B. Kashmiri

C. Urdu

D. Hindi

37) Therukkuthu is a folk-art form in

A. Kannada

B. Tamil

C. Telugu

D. Malayalam

38) Hindi film series Krrish belongs to the genre of

A. Romance

B. Science fiction

C. Historical

D. Adventure

39) Satyajit Ray created two popular fictional characters in Bengali children's literature: Detective Feluda and Professor Shonku.

A. Teacher

B. Scientist

C. Film Director

D. Explorer

40) Burra Katha is an oral story-telling art of

A. Tamil Nadu

B. Andhra Pradesh

C. Karnataka

D. Kerala

41) "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" is a famous quote from

A. Lenin

B. Stalin

C. Mao

D. Marx

42) Who among the following is not a "University Wit"?

A. Ben Jonson

B. Robert Green

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. George Peele

43) As against the comparative study of distinct literatures, "the study of literature without regard to linguistic frontiers," according to R.A. Sayee, is:

A. Cosmopolitan Vernacularism

B. World Literature

C. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism

D. Diaspora Literature

44) "Comparative Indian literature" would mean:

A. A study of literatures of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

B. A study ofvarious regional literatures across India.

C. A study of literatures within in one linguistic region or state.

D. A study of Indian literature in relation to WorId literatures.

45) "Our journey is not from comparative literature to comparative Indian literature, but from comparative Indian literature to comparative literature" is associated with:

A. Amiya Dev

B. Sisir Kumar Das

C. Harish Trivedi

D. Ayyappa Paniker

46) Tulu is spoken by an ethno-linguistic community belonging mostly to

A. Andhra and Orissa

B. Kamataka and Kerala

c. Kamataka and Tamil Nadu

D. Andhra and Maharashtra

47) The Satyajit Ray film based on Tagore's short story "Nastanirh" is

A. Aparajito

B. Ghare Baire

C. Nayak

D. Charulata

48) Which among the following is the last novel written by Sunil Gangopadhyay?

A. Satyer Aral .

B. Nishanga Samrat

C. Purbo-Paschim

D. Achena Manush

49) Laxman Gaikwad's Uchalya is a

A. Tribal novel

B. Dalit novel

C. Tribal autobiography

D. Dalit autobiography

50) "Genre" is borrowed from:

A. Spanish

B. French

C. German

D. Sanskrit

51) Who among the following is the youngest daughter of King Lear?

A. Regan

B. Cornelia

C. Cordelia

D. Goneril

52) Jambapuranam, a caste myth, is associated with in Andhra Pradesh.

A. Masti community

B. Madiga community

C. Mala community

D. Matangi community

53) Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?

A. "Mending Wall"

B. "Home Burial"

C. "Birches"

D. "Fire and Ice"

54) "She sells seashells by the shore" is an example of

A. Simile

B. Aphorism

c. Metaphor

D. Alliteration

55) Which of the following is necessarily a solo performance?

A. Odissi

B. Yakshagana

C. Ottan Thullal

D. Kuchipudi

56) The first Asian to receive Nobel Prize in literature was

A. C.V. Raman

B. Sarojini Naidu

C. Mother Teresa

D. Rabindranath Tagore

57) Who claimed that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"?

A. William Wordsworth

B. P.B. Shelley

C. William Blake

D. John Keats

58) Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as

A. Understatement

B. Allusion

c. Circumlocution

D. SYnecdoche

59) "The Muse of History" is a classical postcolonial essay by
A. Derek Walcott

B. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

C. Wilson Harris

D. Chinua Achebe

60) Comparative Literature in an Age ofGlobalization is edited by

A. Charles Bernheimer

B. Huan Saussy

C. David Damrosch et al

D. Pascale Casanova

Read the following excerpts (from Susan Bassnett) and answer questions 61-65:

In his article "On Linguistic Aspects of Translation," Roman Jakobson distinguishes between three types of translation: Intralingual translation, or rewording (an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs in the same language), Interlingual translation or translation proper (an interpretation of verbal signs by means of some other language), Intersemiotic translation or transmutation (an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems).....

Having established these three types, of which translation proper describes the process of transfer from SL to TL, Jakobson goes on immediately to point to the central question in all types: that while messages may serve as adequate interpretations of code units or messages, there is ordinarily no full equivalence through translation. Even apparent sYnonymy does not yield equivalence, and Jakobson shows how intralingual translation often has to resort to a combination of code units in order to fully interpret the meaning of a single unit. Hence a dictionary of so-called synonyms may give perfect as a synonym for ideal or vehicle as a synonym for conveyance but in neither case can there be said to be complete equivalence, since each unit contains within itselfa set ofnon-transferable associations and connotations.....

Once the principle is accepted that sameness cannot exist between two languages, it becomes possible to approach the question of loss and gain in the translation process. It is again an indication of the low status of translation that so much time should have been spent on discussing what is lost in the transfer of a text from SL to TL whilst ignoring what can be gained, for the translator can at times enrich or clarify the SL text as a direct result of the translation process. Moreover, what is often seen as "lost" from SL context may be replaced in the TL context. ....

61) Jakobson's three-tier classification oftranslation is exhaustive and final.

A. Agree

B. Disagree

C. Not clear

D. Not sure

62) SL TL refers to:

A. Sacred Technical Language

B. Scientific Textual Language

C. Subjective Theoretical Language

D. Source Target Language

63) Jakobson believes that translation proper is:

A. Impossible and impractical

B. Interpretative and creative

c. Scientific and equivalent

D. Subjective and undependable

64) Translation is a process that involves possible loss as well as potential gain.

A. Agree

B. Disagree

C. Not clear

D. Not sure

65) "Perfect" and "vehicle" do not have synonyms.

A. Agree

B. Disagree

C. Not clear

D. Not sure

66) Archetypal Criticism is associated with

A. Christopher Norris

B. Ernest Jones

C. Northrop Frye

D. Christopher Fry

67) Which of the following novels by Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lanka-born Canadian writer, which won the Booker Prize, was published in 1992?

A. The English Patient

B. In the Skin of a Lion

C. Running in the Family

D. Coming through Slaughter

68) Who among the following critics interpreted Freud's theory of women being castrated as "social castration"?

A. W.K. Whimsatt