1. The term 'Comparative Literature' was first used in English in 1848 by

Walter Pater

Matthew Arnold

John Ruskin

D.G. Rossetti

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

RajendraChola

Krishnadevaraya

Mahendravarman I

Vikramaditya VI

3. Who is the author of the book,Motif-Index ofFolkLiterature

Stith Thompson

E. M. Butler

L. Weinstein

Kate Hamburger

4. In Northrop Frye's classification of genres, tragedy is related to

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

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

Silappathikaram

Ramayana

MaleyaMadeswara

Manimekalai

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

Humayun

Akbar

Jahangir

Dara Shikoh

7. Sikh Guru who developed the Gurmukhi script ofPanjab is

Guru Nanak

Guru Ramdas

Guru Angad

Guru Arjun

8. The impact ofIbsen's plays on George Bernard Shaw is an instance of

Reception

Imitation

Analogy

Influence

9. Who said, badly written book is only a blunder. A bad translation is a crime'

Theodore Savory

Susan Bassnett

J. C. Catford

Gilbert Highet

10. Who announced: "The epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach"

Levin

Arnold

Goethe

Herder

11. The critic who added the Shanta rasa as the ninth rasa is

Panini

Abhinava Gupta

Dandin

Mammata

12. The most important exponent of 'Aucitya' is

Ksemendra

Bhamaha

Ananda Vardhana

Dandin

13. According to Aristotle, Tragedy has

four parts

eight parts

seven parts

six parts

14. Match the items in List with those in List -II and choose the right Code given below:

List List -II

Eliot Negative capability

Keats Langue and Parole

Coleridge Objective correlative

Saussure Fancy and Imagination

Codes:











15. The technique "alienation effect" was employed in drama by

Luigi Pirandello

Gerard Genette

Bertolt Brecht

Eugene Ionesco

16. Identify the author of the statement: "Comparative Literature... is the comparison of one literature with another or others, and the comparison of literature with other spheres of human expression"

Rene Wellek

Henry. H. Remak

Paul van Tieghem

Marius-Francois Guyard

17. The ancient Tamil classic anthology Akananuru is a collection

one hundred war poems

three hundred war poems

two hundred love poems

four hundred love poems

18. The Wooden Cow is the translation Tamil original Marapasu written by

Jayakanthan

Ashokamitran

T. Janakiraman

Sundara Ramasamy

19. Match the items in List I with List -II and choose the right Code given below:
List-I List-II

Thus Spake Zarathustra Bhama

Rakta Karabi Nietzsche

Light in August RabindranathTagore

Karukku Faulkner Codes:











20. Identify the author of the statement"English Literature rode to power on the back of wartime nationalism."

James Snead

Terry Eagleton

Edward Said

Homi Bhabha

21. The concept "thick descriptions" in culture studies is advocated by

Fredric Jameson

Aram Veeser

Louis Montrose

Clifford Geertz

22. Which of the following pairs do not deal with thematology

Stoff--Rohstoff

Dominant--Residual

Fabula--Syuzhet

Trait--Type

23. Which of the following is not one of the Comparative Literature "methodology triad"

Genealogy

Historiography

Genology

Thematology

24. Which among the following elements tends to be de-emphasized in extrinsic histories of literature

Text

Author

Context

Readers

25. Who discussed Greek tragedy as an interplay ofApollonianlDionysian opposition

Nietzsche

Heraclitus

Schopenhauer

Kant

26. Who coined the term ecriture feminine

Julia Kristeve

Simone de Beauvoir

Luce Irigaray

Helene Cixous

27. Indian Narratology is a book by

C.D. Narasimhaiah

Ayappa Panikker

K. M. George

Glirbhagat Singh

28. Who coined the term "differential multilogue" to reflect Indian multilinguality

C.D. Narasirnhaiah

Ayappa Panikker

K. M. George

Gurbhagat Singh

29. Who are the authors ofDialectics ofEnlightenment

Partha Chatterjee and Dipesh Chakravorty

Edward Said and Homi Bhaba

Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer

Robert E. Park and Charles H. Cooley

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

Dogri

Nepali

Garo

Ho

31. Who is the author of The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey

Madhu Ramnath

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Malik Sajad

Anuja Chauhan

32. Who said: "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Bob Marley

Bob Dylan

Jim Morrison

Robert Ingersoll

33. Whose relentless struggle against Sexual Harassment led to the formulation of the Vishakha Guidelines which has now evolved as 2013 Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act

Bhanwari Devi

Phoolan Devi

Dopdi Majhen

'Nirbhaya'

34. 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

OrhanPamuk

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. The study of literary reception, according to Weisstein, points in the direction

literary history

literary criticism

literary sociology

anthropology

37. D.G. Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" is a well-known instance of the symbiotic relationship between

Poetry and Dance

Poetry and Painting

Poetry and Sculpture

Poetry and Architecture

38. The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation is theorized by

Itamar Even Zohar

Susan Bassnett

Lawrence Venuti

Edwin Gentzler

39. Who formulated the concept of 'camivalesque' for critical analysis

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jacques Derrida

Mikhail Bakhtin

John Keats

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

David Darnrosch

Franco Moretti

Pascale Casanova

Charles Bemheimer

41. Girish Karnad directed film Utsav is based on which famous play

Abhijnana Shakutalam

Mudrarakshasa

Mrichhakatika

Malavikagnimitram

42. The film Garam Hava or Scorching Winds is based on an unpublished story by

Kaifi Azmi

Ismat Chugtai

Shama Zaidi

M.S.Sathyu

43. The trilogy Meghe Dhaka Tara, Komal Gandhar, Subarnarekha on the aftermath of the Partition ofBengal was made by which filmmaker

Ritwik Ghatak

Satyajit Ray

Mrinal Sen

Gautam Ghosh

44. Caves with magnificent paintings have been declared UNESCO World Heritage sites. Two are Ajanta and Elephanta Caves. Which among these is the third?

Badami caves

Aihole caves

Kashmir caves

Ellora caves

45. For which dance men wear kafni pyjamas?

Bihu

Cholliya

Garba

Kathakali

46. The national anthem 'Jana Galla Mana' was first sung at

Calcutta, 19] 1

Amritsar, ]918

Delhi, 1936

Mumbai, 1912

47. The Indian Flag was designed by

Subramania Bharati

Pingali Venkayya

Tanguturi Prakasanl

R.K Shanmukham Chetty

48. A famous musician [instrumentalist] associated with the Tabla is

Ali Akbar Khan

Vilayat Khan

Bismillah Khan

Ahmed Jan Thirakwa

49. The film Slumdog Millionaire was adapted from whose book

Arvind Adiga

Chctan Bhagat

Vikas Swarup

Vikram Seth

50. In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won how many Academy Awards

9

10

11

12

51. What is the best definition for the word 'inimical' Stimulating

glamorous

hostile

useful

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

revenge

dismissal

control

grant

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

progressive

refreshing

holy

close

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

re-using material for valuable product

follow a cycle of planting

skip a step to take another

cycle uphill

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

incredulous

meticulous

principled

hesitant

56. Artists are generally whimsical. Some of them are frustrated. Frustrated people are prone to be drug addicts. Based on these statements which of the following conclusion is true?

All frustrated people are drug addicts

Some artists may be drug addicts

All drug addicts are artists

Frustrated people are whimsical

57. In a family there are a husband, wife, two sons and two daughters. All the ladies were invited to a dinner. Both sons went out to play. Husband did not return from office. Who was at home?

Only wife was at home

All ladies were at home

Only sons were at home

Nobody was at home

58. Earth is related to the Sun in the same way the Moon is related to

Orbit

Sky

Earth

Star

59. If, Circle:: Circumference; Square::

Volume

Perimeter

Diagonal

Area

60. If, Ship:: Sea; Camel

Desert

Forest

Land

Mountain

61. Complete the series: A2, B4, C6, D8,

E8, F10

E12, F14

E10, Fl

DlO, EI0

62. Complete the series: DEF, DEF2, DE2F2,
D2E2F3.

DEF3

D3EF3

D2E3F

D2E2F2

63. Complete the series: ATTRIBUTION, TRIBUTI,

BUT

UTI

UT

IBU

64. The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never rise without the contribution of50% of their population. The above passage best supports the statement that:

India is striving hard for the emancipation of women.

All women should be well educated.

A nation can progress only when women are given equal rights and opportunities

Women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

65. Should there be world government? Identify whether any, all or none of the arguments below are strong.

1. Yes, because it will help eliminate tensions among nations;

2. No, because it will only enable developed countries to dominate.

Only 1

Only 2

Both

Neither

66. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow: She the river said tQ him, the sea: All my life I've been dissolving myself Traditionally, readers of literature postulated an instantly responsive reader and strove to read like one. It is possible, however, to replace this postulate with the postulate of an initially unresponsive reader. Although it is strictly a postulate, it seems to correspond to observed reader behaviour at first meetings with a literary work. It is well known that the first reaction to unfamiliar music is one of puzzlement, apathy, or even dislike and that only continued exposure builds up a or a capacity for response. This applies, in varying degrees, to music in general and then at lower levels of generalization, to a composer, a composition, a musician or singer, and an individual piece of music or a song. It similarly applies, again, varying degrees to literature, a genre, an author, a literary work and a particular passage. ["Methods of critical reading," online exercises] and flowing towards you for your sake in the end it was I who turned into the sea A woman's gift is as large as the sky but you went on worshipping yourself you never thought of becoming a river and merging with me. [Heera Bansode, "Woman" from Marathi Dalit Poetry Online tr. Vinay Dharwadkar] "She the river/said to him, the sea" are instances of which figure of speech

simile

metaphor

metonymy

personification

67. "A woman's gift is as large as the sky" is which figure of speech

simile

metaphor

metonymy

personification

68. What does "you went on worshipping yourself' mean

becoming a devotee

being ritualistic

act as god-man

being egotistical

69. The words "dissolving" "flowing" "becoming" "merging" stress what quality

fluidity

lack of form

being unfixed

indecisive

70. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: The author is of the view that,

readers of literature are dumb

readers of literature are believed to naturally respond to texts

readers of literature take time in responding to what is before them

readers of literature respond without any prejudice

71. That readers naturally and instinctively respond to literature is a/an

antiquated view

modem view

traditional view

erroneous view

72. On what basis does the author advance his postulate of "an initially unresponsive reader"

Personal observation

Observed behaviour of readers

Behaviour of observant readers

General statistical information

73. What, according to the author, is conducive to better appreciation of art objects

Taste

Continued exposure to art objects

Postulates relating to art objects

Patience

74. First reaction to artwork may often be

puzzlement

confusion

pleasure

ridicule

75. What does the expression "in varying degrees" refer to in this passage

Literature, genre, author, etc.

Composer, composition, musician etc.

Capacity for response

Capacity for appreciation