1 Race, milieu and moment were suggested by the three areas to be concentrated on in the study of literature.

Mikhail Bakhtin

Gerald Gillespie

Hippolyte Taine

Matthew Arnold

2 The scholar who studied Greek tragedy in the framework of the breakdown of tribal society as well as the social and political struggles in Athens

A.W. Pickard-Cambridge

Gerald Else

George Thomson

Harry Levin

3 According to Aristotle, poetry

Imitation of action

Imitation of human action that aims to give pleasure

Mimicry of reality

That which has a beginning, middle and end

4 Who has suggested the name "synthetic literature" as an alternate term for "general literature"

Julius Petersen

Paul Van Tieghem

Werner P. Freidrich

Craig la Driere

5 According to Northrope Frye, the best translation of dianoia is

Form

Theme

genre

context

6 The two major trends in literary theory criticized by H.R.Jauss in his essay "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" are

Marxism and Psychoanalytic Criticism

Structuralism and Post-structuralism

Formalism and Marxism

Formalism and New Criticism

7 Which group of writers are Nobel laureates for literature

Nelson Mandela, Wangari Mathai, Wole Soyinka

Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee

Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Nadine Gordimer

J.M.Coetzee, Wangari Mathai, Nelson Mandela

8 Match the pen-name with the author

Suryakant Tripathi Chanda
Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan Gulzar
Sampooran Singh Kalra Nirala
Mahalaqa Bai Ajneya

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9 An exposition occurs

At the end of a play

During the interval in the performance

In the first scene, i.e., at the beginning of the play

Throughout the play

10 The graphic novel is written by Marjean Satrapy.

Ironman

Persepolis

Game of Thrones

The Owl's Tale

11 Anandavardhan is associated with the theory of

Swara

Dhvani

Rasa

Auchitya

12 Match the writer with the pen-name
P.C. Kuttikrishnan Banaphool
Ramdhari Singh Madhavikutty
Kamala Das Uroob
Balaichand Mukherji Dinkar

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13 The poetic form which describes the beauty of the heroine from head to toe is called

Chaupai

Soratha

Nakhshik

Baramaasi

14 A primary epic is

Written

Oral

Printed

Found only in manuscript form

15 Match the translator with the text

Gregory Rabassa I Won't Let You Go
Narayana Menon One Hundred Years of Solitude
P. Lal Chemmeen
Ketaki Kushari Dyson The Mahabharata

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16 The number of languages recognized in the VIIIth Schedule of the Indian Constitution is

30

22

24

18

17 Which of the following poets and critics were members of the Chicago School of 1920s and 30s America

Wallace Stevens, Jonathan Culler

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore

Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman

R.S. Crane, Elder Olson

18 A macaronic verse is

One in which two or more languages are combined

A recipe for making noodles

A sonnet

A verse that is unrhymed

19 Jashoda is a character in the by

Lihaaf, Ismat Chugtai

Breastgiver, Mahasweta Devi

Tinniki Nani, Qurrutulain Haider

Ekpyali chai, Mannu Bhandari

20 Match the theorist with the area of scholarship
Gerard Genette L'ecriture feminine
Roland Barthes Structuralism
Claude Levi Strauss Semiotics
Helene Cixous Narratology

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21 Which one of the following is not a writer of science fiction

Satyajit Ray

Isaac Asimov

H.G. Wells

Agatha Christie

22 Match the scholars with their specialization

Helen Gardener Eliot studies
A.C. Bradley Postcolonialism
Edward Said English novel tradition
F.R. Leavis Shakespeare criticism

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23 Wide Sargasso Sea is a/an of Jane Eyre.

Imitation

Reception

Retelling

Deconstruction

24 guides Dante through Inferno.

Aeneas

Odysseus

Virgil

Beatrice

25 Match the books with the authors

Five point someone Amish Tripathi
The Zoya factor Chetan Bhagat
The Inscrutable Americans Anuja Chauhan
Scion of Ikshvaku Anurag Mathur

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26 Three Hundred Ramayanas is written by

M.K. Gandhi

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

A.K. Ramanujan

Ganesh Devy

27 Match the theorist with the country
Paulo Freire Cuba
Amilcar Cabral Brazil
Che Guevera Guinea Bissau
Frantz Fanon Algeria

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28 The term Dalit was first used in 1958 at the

Ambedkar Sahitya Parishad

Sahitya Akademi

Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha

Sangathi

29 A study of the theme of unrequited love in European literature during the medieval period would be called a

Synchronic study

Diachronic study

Genological study

Historiographical study

30 The novel by Perumal Murugan which was banned is called

Seasons of the Palm

One-Half Woman

Beasts of Burden

Current Show

31 Match the critic with the author on whom he/she has written
Mikhail Bakhtin Edgar Allan Poe
Walter Benjamin Racine
Roland Barthes Baudelaire
Jacques Lacan Dostoevsky

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32 Which of these is an example of New Comedy

Plautus, Pseudolus

Aristophanes, Frogs

Moliere, The Bourgeois Gentleman

Utpal Dutt, Nightmare City

33 The story of Philoctetes has been used by

Terence, Sophocles, Aeschylus

Euripedes, Aeschylus, Sophocles

Terence, Euripedes, Sophocles

Aeschylus, Euripedes, Terence

34 Hamlet's be or not to was translated by Voltaire and Schlegel

in French and German respectively

in German and French respectively

in French and Spanish respectively

in Latin and Greek respectively

35 Salman Rushdie's Shame is set strategically in a country called



I

Z

P

36 Identify the author of the following statement "A badly written book is only a blunder; but a bad translation of a good book is a crime"

Theodore Savory

Matthew Arnold

Gilbert Highet

P.B. Shelley

37 The author of Translation as Discovery is

A.K.Ramanujan

Harish Trivedi

Susan Bassnett

Sujit Mukherjee

38 Brecht borrowed his idea of the chalk circle from

Chinese drama

Japanese poetry

Indian musical performance

African oral traditions

39 Music was a central part of the performances created by these writers

Rabindranath Tagore
Moliere
Richard Wagner
Utpal Dutt

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and

and

and

and

40 In the case of which of the following films was the novel written AFTER the film was made

Lord of the Rings

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Pather Panchali

2001: A Space Odyssey

41 Fitzgerald put his translation of the Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam in

Couplets

Quatrains

Alexandrines

Free verse

42 Rouse, Rieu and Lawrence are all translators of

The Odyssey

The Iliad

The Divine Comedy

The Republic

43 The psychological problem of delay in Hamlet was studied by

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

C.G. Jung

Ernst Kris

44 Simon O. Lesser and Norman N. Holland are the ego psychologists who popularized psychoanalytic criticism in

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

United States of America

45 "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" Identify the author of the statement.

Hoggart

Remak

Marx

Freud

46 Who made the following statement "The relation between literature and society are reciprocal. Literature is not only the effect of social causes; it is also the cause of social effects"

Georg Lukacs

Pierre Macherey

Terry Eagleton

Harry Levin

47 St. Augustine and Aristotle appear as the point of departure for the study of literary historiography in a work by

Sisir Kumar Das

Paul Ricouer

Emmanuel La Roi Ladurie

Hayden White

48 Whose definition of Comparative Literature includes arts such as sculpture and music

Ulrich Weisstein

Rene Etiemble

Van Tieghem

H.H. Remak

49 Match the author with his work

William Empson The Ego and the Id
Lionel Trilling Psychoanalytic E.plorations in Art
Ernst Kris Art and Neurosis
Sigmund Freud Seven Types of Ambiguity

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50 Which of these authors is of the view that Comparative Literature is a branch of literary history

Jean Marie Carre

Paul Van Tieghem

Ferdinand Baldensperger

Rene Etiemble