1.'Satyameva Jayate' is borrowed from which Upanishad

Brihadaranyaka

Chandogya

Mundaka

Katha

2.Who is the author of the play Mudrarakshasa

Kalidasa

Sudraka

Vishakhadatta

Bhasa

3.Name the comparatist who propounded the concept of 'Weltliteratur'

J. W. von Goethe

Fritz Strich

Sulpiz Boisseree

Zacharias Werner

4.The two literary genres that Aristotle discusses in The Poetics are

Novel and Drama

Prose and Poetry.

Drama and Poetry

Epic and Drama

5.The Symbolist Movement began with the works of

T. S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

Marcel Duchamp

Charles Baudelaire

6. "Whid1 Sikh Guru compiled Guru Granth Sahib in 1604

Guru Rarndas

Janam Sakhis

Guru Angad

Guru Arjan .

7.How many divisions are there in Dante's The Divine Comedy

Three.

Twelve

Twenty-four

Nine

8. Which mystical movement takes its name from Arabic tradition of wearing

Bahai'ism

Sufism

Zoroastrianism

Dervish

9.'Therukoothu' is a folk-art form in

Kannada

Tamil

Telugu

Malayalam

10.'Tamasha' is a folk-art form in drama written in

Bengali

Marathi

Tamil

Hindi

11.'Sphota Theory' is explained in the following book

Yogasutra

Ashtadhyayi

Vakyapadiya

Dhanyaloka

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

Ramakant Rath

Jayanta Mahapatra

Ganeswar Mishra

Fakir Mohan Senapati

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

Agathiyar

Tolkappiyar

Perunchithanar

Thiruvalluvar

14. Lalleswari was a poet from which region

Rajasthan

Kashmir

Bengal

Himachal

15.Linguist Suniti Kumar Chatteljee called which the "Mother of all Indian Scripts'

Meluha

Brahmi

Kharoshti

Devanagari

16. Dimasa, Hajong, Kom, Kuki, Lushai, Mishing are names from which part of India

Ladakh

North east

Himalayan Tarai

West frontier

17. Froi11 which Shakespeare play is the following quote: "To die, to sleep -To sleep, perchance to dream there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..."

Macbeth

King Lear

Othello

Hamlet

18.Which famous philosopher of the Enlightenment said this: "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."

John Locke

Rene Descartes

Voltaire

Immanuel Kant

19. Identify the odd group from among the following:

Pinter, Wesker, Osborne

DeQuincey, Galsworthy, Yeats

Arnold, Browning, Tennyson

Frye, Saussure, Derrida

20. Identify the odd gr.o.l.lP from among the following:

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Lamb, John Ruskin

S.T. Coleridge, lM. Synge, Thomas Hardy

Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao

Nissim Ezekiel, A.K.Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra

21. The author ofAfter Babel is

Roland Barthe;;

Noam Chomsky

George Steiner

Helene Cixous

22. Who among the following is NOT a Dalit Writer?

Namdeo Dhasal

P. Shivakami

SharankumarLimbale

Premchand

23 ..Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society was founded by

Urvashi Butalia

Madhu Kishwar and Ruth Vanita

Sharmila Rege

Jagori Research Team

24.Noh is a traditional form of

Mexican drama

Japanese drama

Chinese drama

Spanish drama

25.The popular Italian saying the "traduttore" is a "traditore" means

the translator is atraditionalist

the translator is a creator

the translator is a traitor

the translator is an interlocutor

26. T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is example of

Comic allegory

Ode to love

Dramatic Monologue

Mixing of genres

27.In his An Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi mentions one of these texts, as a distinct influence. Identify the text

Thoreau, Walden

Ruskin, Unto This Last

Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

28.Who said "All history is contemporary h

Hegel

Croce

Voltaire istory"

Bossuet

29.The author of The A1yth ofSisyphus is

Jean Paul Sartre

Samuel Beckett

Albert Camus

Franz Kafka

30. Identify the primary epic out of the following

The Aeneid

Paradise Lost

The Iliad

Jerusalem Delivered

31.'New historicism' theory was popularized

Stephen Greenblatt

Stanley Fish

Raymond Williams

Michel Foucault

32. The Neo-Marxist who views literature in relation to ideology is

Claude Levi-Strauss

Luce Irigaray

Louis Althusser

Helene Cixous

33.The paradigmatic essay "The Laugh of Medusa" is written by

Sandra Gilbert

Luce Irigaray

Julia Kristeva

Helene Cixous

34.A work in which formal traits of different works are loosely but not ludicrously mixed is called

pastiche

parody

caricature

burlesque

35.Identify the author of The Anxiety of Influence

Harold Bloom

Gayatri Spivak

LA. Richards

Elaine Showalter

36.'Aporia', a Greek concept, is re-invented by

Jacques Lacan

Paul de Man

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault"

37.According to H.H.Remak, 'World Literature', when compared to 'Comparative Literatur', suggests an element of

Space

Quality

Time

Intensity

38.Which of the following terms stresses the beginning, rather than the duration, of a time span of considerable length

Period

Age

Era

Century

39. Select the correct set from the following:

Bankim Chandra,Gora Saratchandra, Srikant (iii)Tagore, Anandmath

Bankim Chandra,Anandmath Saratchandra, Srikant iii)Tagore, Gora

Bankim Chandra, Srikant Saratchandra, Cora (iii)Tagore, Anandmath

Bankim Chandra, Srikant Saratchandra, Anandmath (iii)Tagore, Gora

40.'Karuthamma' and 'Pareekutty' are protagonists of which Malayalam novel

Indulekha

Balyakalasakhi

Khassakinte Itihasan

Chemmeen

41.'The Last Supper' is a subject of which novel

The Bourne Inheritance

The Da Vinci Code

The Trotternamah

Angels and Demons

42. The Throne ofBlood is a Japanese film version of

Macbeth

Richard the Third

Hamlet

King Lear

43.How to Read Donald Duck was written by

Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart

Octavio Paz and Muriel Spark

Walt Disney

Frederic Jameson

44.Chomana Dudi by Shivarama Karanth tells the story of

untouchable communities

bonded labour

oppression and denial

all of the above

45.Who is the author of the phenomenally popular Lord of the Rings nalTatives

J. R. R. Tolkien

1. K. Rowling

Lewis Carroll

P.L. Travers

46. Who among these hasn't played the role of Sherlock Holmes

Jeremy Brett

Peter O'Toole

Robert Downey Jr.

Benedict Cumberbatch

47. 'Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi' is known in Hindi cinema as

Mehmood

Kader Khan

Johnny Walker

Amjad Khan

48. Who commented "Hindi cinema asks the right questions but alTives at wrong answers"

Ashish Rajyadhaksha

Sudhir Kakkar

Arjun Appadurai

Ashis Nandy

49.The History ofSeXitality was written by

Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan

Michel Foucault

Vatsayana

50. 'The Ashes' series is played between

England and Australia

Australia and New Zealand

England and South Africa

All cricket teams of the world

51.What is the best definition for the word 'ineluctable'

shiny

unhappy

sudden

unavoidable

52. What is the best definition for the word 'preclude'

reveal

enclose

prevent

isolate

53.What is the best definition for the word 'insidious'

chronic

remarkable

frank

treacherous

54.What is the best definition for the word 'revelry'

confusion

merry making

struggle

quarrel

55.What is the best definition for the word 'choleric'

diseased

discomfort

irritable

impatient

56.Statement: Severe drought is reported to have set in several parts of the country. Courses of Action:

1. Government should immediately make alTangement for providing financial assistance to those affected. .

2. Food, water and fodder should immediately be sent to all these areas to save the people and cattle.

only 1

only 2

either 1 or 2

neither 1 or 2

57.Class A has a higher enrolment than Class B. Class C has a lower enrolment than Class B. Class A has a lower enrolment than Class C. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is:

True

False

None of the above

Uncertain

58. Blue berries cost more than strawbelTies. Blueberries cost less than raspberries. Raspberries cost more than strawberries and blueberries. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is:

True

False

None of the above

Uncertain

59.Complete the series: AZ, BY, CX,









60.Complete the series: AI, BJ, CK,









61.Look at this series: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60, What number should come next?









62.Look at this series: 201, 202, 204, 207, What number should come next?

205

208

210

211

63.Look at this series: What number should come next?

14

15

21

23

64.Complete the series: BCB, OED, FGF, HlH,

JKJ

HJH

IJl

JHJ

65.Complete the series: AB, DEF, HIJK, STUVWX.

(A)MNOPQ

(B)LMNOP

(C)LMNO

(D)QRSTU

66. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem .
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

[Billy Collins, Sailing Around the Room Alone,
New Yark: Random house; 2001, p. 16] What figure of speech is "hold it up to light/like a color slide"

Simile

metaphor

personification

metonymy

67."press a ear against its hive" is what figure of speech

Simile .

metaphor

personification

metonymy

68.According to the poet, how may the poem be read

explore like a mouse

playfully like water-skiing

walk into the poem-room

all of the above

69.What image of forced analysis is given by the poet

of a prisoner

tortured entity

beating with a hose

all of the above

70.Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: What becomes apparent when we look at the origins of comparative literature is that the term predated the subject. People used the phrase 'comparative literature' without having clear ideas about what it was. With the advantages of retrospection, we can see that 'comparative' was set against 'national', and that whilst the study of 'national' literatures risked accusations of partisanship, the study of 'comparative' literature carried with it a sense of transcendence of the narrowly nationalistic. In other words, the term was used loosely but was associated with the desire for peace in Europe and for harmony between nations. Central to this idealism was also the belief that comparison could be undertaken on a mutual basis. So Chasles in 1835 and Abel Francois Villemain in 1829 hailed the value of studying patterns of influence, li3ting the names of great writers from a variety of different countries. Comparative literary study, according to Chasles, was to be before anything else, a 'pleasure involving a look at great figures from the sixteenth century onwards. Communication, commingling, sharing were key words in this view of comparative literature, which depoliticized writing and aspired towards universal concord. Comparative literature seems to have emerged as an antidote to nationalism, even though its roots went deep into national cultures. [Susan Basnnett Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993: 21] What problem did the comparatist initially face in his subject?

There were too many definitions of the phrase.

There was no clear definition of the term.

The subject involved too many national literatures.

The subject was too broad and vague

71.What was perceived to be the disadvantage of studying only national literatures

Such a study indicated a narrow-minded approach to the study of literature.

Such a study was basically influenced by the political climate in Europe.

Such a study was undertaken on a mutual basis.

Such a study transcended the narrow notions of literature.

72. Villemain and Chasles emphasized

Reception

Diachronic study

Influence

Synchronic study

73.Chasles as an exponent of comparative literature

Opposed national cultures

Denounced political writing.

Believed in international harmony.

Aimed at studying 16th century literature

74.What is the paradox found in Comparative Studies(

'Comparative' was set against 'national'.

Comparative literature encouraged universal culture, yet was rooted in national cultures.

Comparative literary study should be theoretical, yet be first a 'pleasure trip'.

Comparative literature freed literature from politics.

75.The Key words for Comparative Literary practice were

a pleasure trip

comparative versus national

transcendence of narrowness

communication, commingling, sharing'