These questions have been asked in the first shift of the UGC Net exam 2023 Dec, the answers are provided at the end. The questions and answers are as per UGC so there might be some errors.
1. Who among the following is an early Tudor poet?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Skelton
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
2. Which of the following works of Milton seeks to adapt the form of Greek tragedy?
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Regained
C. Lycidas
D. Comus
3. Ted Hughes’ Wodwo is
A. A volume named from the wild men of the woods of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
B. A volume named after the elves of the masque of The Tempest.
C. A volume named after the central character of Pearl.
D. A volume named after the name of the monster of Beowulf.
4. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?
A. Allen Ginsberg
B. Gregory Corso
C. Jack Kerouac
D. Rita Dove
5. Purdah is a collection of poems by
A. Adil Jussawalla
B. Imtiaz Dharker
C. Agha Shaliid Ali
D. Sujata Bliatt
6. Who among the following is an Australian Aboriginal poet?
A. Judith Wright
B. Kath Walker
C. Robert Frost
D. Maya Angelou
7. Who among the following built the Reel Lion in Stepney in 1567?
A. Richard Burbage
B. James Burbage
C. John Brayne
D. Philip Henslowe
8. Mention the year in which Political Shakespeare edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield was published.
A. 1980
B. 1984
C. 1987
D. 1985
9. Name the play during the performance of which the Globe Theatre was burned down in 1613.
A. Henry VI
B. Henry VIII
C. Richard II
D. Richard III
10. Who among the following has written the play Angels in America?
A. David Mammet
B. August Wilson
C. Sam Shepard
D. Tony Kushner
11. Name the book in which Peter Brook makes a study of late 1940s theatre.
A. The Empty Space
B. Experimental Drama
C. After Brecht: British Epic Theatre
D. Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama
12. In which novel of Jane Austen is Captain Frederick Wentworth a character?
A. Emma
B. Northanger Abbey
C. Mansfield Park
D. Persuasion
13. Who. among the following, wrote about Charlotte Bronte that her mind contained ‘nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage’?
A. Elizabeth Gaskell
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. Mary Shelley
14. From which novel of Charles Dickens are the following lines extracted? “I took her hand hi mine, and we went out of the rained place: and. as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me. I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
A. Great Expectations
B. David Copperfield
C. Nicholas Nickleby
D. Bleak House
15. Adam in Adam Bede of George Eliot is a .
A. Mason
B. Teacher
C. Carpenter
D. Doctor
16. Who among the following has written Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?
A. Herman Melville
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Mark Twain
D. Edgar Allan Poe
17. The name of the Goddess in Kanthapura is:
A. Kenchamma
B. Akkayya
C. Narsiga
D. Tiruchengode
18. Which of the following is NOT written by Margaret Atwood?
A. The Edible Woman
B. The Stone Angel
C. Surfacing
D. The Handmaid’s Tale
19. The author of The Golden Bough, a text that influenced Eliot’s poetry and criticism substantially, is:
A. John Ruskin
B. James George Frazer
C. Thomas Carlyle
D. David Wilson
20. Seven Types of Ambiguity was published in the year____.
A. 1920
B. 1924
C. 1927
D. 1930
21. The debate on ‘the condition of England question’ was initiated by_____.
A. William Hazlitt
B. Walter Bagehot
C. Thomas Carlyle
D. Matthew Arnold
22. The character who discusses the relative merits of French drama and English drama in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy is:
A. Neander
B. Lisideius
C. Crites
D. Eugenius
23. Saussure delivered his series of lectures on general linguistics, later published after his death as Course in General Linguistics, at the University of______.
A. Frankfurt
B. Madrid
C. Geneva
D. Rome
24. Noam Chomsky is known for his _____.
A. Generative grammar
B. Glossematic linguistics
C. Linguistic determinism
D. Grammar Translation Method
25. The ‘Name of the Father” is a term made famous by____.
A. Helene Cixous
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Carl Jung
D. Northrop Frye
26. Which among the following books is NOT written by Edward Said?
A. On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain
B. The World, the Text and the Critic
C. Image-Music-Text
D. The Question of Palestine
27. What does Pierre Bourdieu imply by the term ‘habitus’ in his sociological studies?
A. The culture of increasing consumerization of post-capitalist societies.
B. The phenomenon of the masses succumbing to material fetishism of different types.
C. A person’s posture, speech and the mental habit of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling and action.
D. Personal habits that do not impact the society profoundly.
28. Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” underscores the notion that –
A. The boundaries between animal, human and machine are breaking down.
B. The cyborgs would establish a dictatorship of the proletariat in the near future.
C. Humans and non-humans would wage a battle for acquisition of cultural capital.
D. Identity politics would be bolstered by intervention of artificial intelligence.
29. The concept of the public sphere plays a particularly important role in the work of .
A. Jurgen Habermas
B. Jonathan Dollimore
C. Jean Baudrillard
D. Raymond Williams
30. Ail Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major biography published by .
A. Alexander Pope
B. Joseph Addison
C. Samuel Johnson
D. James Boswell
31. Thomas Love Peacock authored the essay .
A. “Revolt of the Tartars”
B. “Ail Essay on the Principles of Human Action”
C. “Four Ages of Poetry”
D. “Seven Lamps of Architecture”
32. Who proposed the idea that the mind at the time of birth is like a blank slate or tabula rasa?
A. John Locke
B. J S Mill
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Francis Bacon
33. The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas is written by_______ .
A. James Joyce
B. Umberto Eco
C. Walter Pater
D. Matthew Arnold
34. Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning was dedicated to
A. King James I
B. King Henry IV
C. King Richard II
D. Queen Elizabeth I
35. Thomas Hobbes’s philosophical tract Leviathan was first published in___ .
A. 1631
B. 1641
C. 1651
D. 1661
36. Who among the following argued that children learn language based on behaviorist reinforcement principles by associating words with meaning?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. F. Skinner
C. Stephen Krashen
D. Peter Singer
37. The full form of MLAT is
A. Modern Language Alertness Test
B. Modern Language Affective Test
C. Modern Language Aptitude Test
D. Modern Language Acid Test
38. The Kothari Commission suggested
A. That English must be used as a link language to translate one Indian language text into another.
B. That English be studied as a library language with the aim of getting the knowledge of science and technology, commerce and trade by reading standard books in English.
C. That research in India should be done only in English.
D. That a teacher at a University must know how to speak and write in English.
39. A structured interview consists of
A. A series of pre-determined questions.
B. A series of pre-determined questions along with questions asked at the time of the interview.
C. A series of questions on the structure of the research.
D. Questions asked at random
40. Which of the following methods is used to study the diversity of human cultures in their particular cultural settings?
A. Visual Method of Study.
B. Archival Method of Research.
C. Discourse Analysis.
D. Ethnography
41. Which among the following is true about Religio Laicf!
a. John Dryden wrote Religio Laid.
b. Religio Laid strongly criticized the Anglican Church.
c. Religio Laid means ‘A Layman’s Faith’
d. Religio Laid was published in 1690.
e. Religio Laid was a philosophico-religious prose treatise.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and c
B. a and c
C. a and d
D. d and e
42. Which two of the following plays have been written by Edward Albee°
a. The Zoo Story
b. The price
c. A Delicate Balance
d. Fences
e. Operation Sidewinder
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a & d
B. b & d
C. a & c
D. b & c
43. Which three of the following plays have been written by Nissim Ezekiel?
a. Savaksa
b. Marriage-Poem
c. Nalini
d. Mister Behram
e. Sleepwalkers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b & d
B. b. c & d
C. a. c & d
D. b. c & e
44. Which two of the following dramatists have won the Sultan Padamsee Award?
a. Mahesh Dattani
b. Gurcharan Das
c. Girish Kamad
d. Cyrus Mistry
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a & c
B. b & d
C. b & c
D. a & d
45. Identify the works written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
a. Richelieu
b. St Patrick’s Day
c. The Duenna
d. The Citizen of the World
e. Irene
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a & b
B. c & d
C. b & c
D. a & e
46. Which of the following fictional works form a trilogy by Mulk Raj Anand?
a. Village
b. Private Life of an Indian Prince
c. Across the Black Waters
d. The Sword and the Sickle
e. The Road
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.b and c
B. a.c and d
C. b.d and e
D. c.d and e
47. Which of the following are written by William Faulkner?
a. Sanctuary
b. Color Struck
c. Jesus, The Son of Man
d. Light in August
e. Absalom. Absalom!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and c
B. b. c and d
C. a. d and e
D. c, d and e
48. Who among the following are called Edwardian Novelists?
a. George Eliot
b. Arnold Bennett
c. H. G. Wells
d. Edward Morgan Forster
e. Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a, b and c
B. a. c and d
C. b. c and d
D. b. d and e
49. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair comprises the following books:
a. Sunset Song
b. Brothers and Sisters
c. Cloud Howe
d. Men and Wives
e. Grey Granite
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a, b and c
B. a. c and e
C. b. c and e
D. c. d and e
50. The Movement poets included:
a. Donald Davie
b. Hilda Dolittle
c. Michael Lougley
d. Philip Larkin
e. Derek Walcott
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a and e
B. a and d
C. b and e
D. c and d
51. Some of the following poets adorned the Oxford Professor of Poetry Chair:
a. James Fenton
b. Margaret Atwood
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Anne Sexton
e. Paul Muldoon
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b. c and d
B. a. b and c
C. a. c and e
D. c. d and e
52. Which of the following works are written by John Dennis?
a. The Advancement and Reformation of Modem Poetry
b. The Christian Hero
c. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
d. The Conscious Lovers
e. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and c
B. a. c and e
C. b. c and d
D. c. d and e
53. Which of the following works have been authored by Thomas Carlyle?
a. Chartism
b. Past and Present
c. The French Revolution
d. Suspiria de Profundis
e. The English Mail Coach
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and c
B. b. c and d
C. a. b and d
D. c. d and e
54. Which among the following is true about corpus linguistics?
a. It is a collection of naturally occurring spoken and written texts.
b. It lias ensured the supremacy of speech over writing.
c. It is about the teaching of linguistics at the school level.
d. It is a methodology that involves computer-based empirical analysis of language use.
e. It is a branch of linguistics that is purely based on Chomskyan linguistics.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a and b
B. b and c
C. a and d
D. c and e
55. Who among the following are known as Cambridge Critics?
a. Arthur-Quiller Couch
b. F.R. Leavis
c. George Saintsbury
d. LA. Richards
e. William Empson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b. c. and d
B. a. b. and c
C. a. c. and e
D. b. d. and e
56. Some of the following terms are integral to New Criticism:
a. Tension
b. Min or Stage
c. Irony
d. Polyphony
e. Paradox
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b.c. and d
B. a.b. and c
C. a.c. and e
D. b.d. and e
57. Some of the following are significant texts of Victorian Criticism. Identify them.
a. Studies in the History of the Renaissance
b. From Rituals to Romance
c. “Hamlet and His Problems”
d. “The Function of Criticism in the Present Time”
e. Modern Painters
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b.c. and d
B. a.d. and e
C. a.c. and d
D. b.d. and e
58. Facts about the Frankfurt School include the following:
a. It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
b. Adomo and Horkheiiner were its two members.
c. The School established the term ‘Critical Theory”.
d. It had strong ties with the thinkers of the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
e. It was forced into exile with the ascendency of Nazism in Germany.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b. c. and d
B. a. b. and c
C. a. c. and e
D. b. c. and e
59. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall has written the following:
a. “Encoding decoding’’
b. “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’: Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies”
c. “The Raw and the Cooked”
d. “What is Digital Humanities?”
e. “Culture Industry”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below”
A. a and b
B. b and c
C. c and d
D. d and e
60. Which of the following concepts are associated with the writings of Jean Baudrillard?
a. Hyperreality
b. Bricolage
c. Rhizome
d. Simulacra
e. Dispositif
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a and b
B. a and e
C. c and d
D. a and d
61. “The Love Song of .T. Alfred Prufrock” names the following figures:
a. Ezra Pound
b. Michelangelo
c. Valerie Eliot
d. Hamlet
e. Walt Whitman
A. a. c and e
B. b and d
C. b, d and e
D. d and e
62. K. Ramanujan, the famous Indian English poet, was also a______.
a. Photographer
b. Translator
c. Painter
d. Classical singer
e. Teacher at the University of Chicago
A. a. c and e
B. b. c and d
C. b and d
D. b and e
63. Which of the following playwrights have collaborated in writing the satire Three Hours after Marriage?
a. John Gay
b. John Dryden
c. Alexander Pope
d. William Congreve
e. John Arbuthnot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and d
B. a. c and e
C. a. b and e
D. a. d and e
64. Which two of the following plays were written by Ben Jonson?
a. Flowers for Latin Speaking
b. The Devil is an Ass
c. Sapho and Phao
d. The Woman in the Moon
e. The Staple of News
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a and d
B. a and c
C. b and e
D. d and e
65. Which three of the following plays were written by Sanskrit dramatist Bhasa?
a. Carudatta
b. Ratnavali
c. Urubhanga
d. Malavikagnimitram
e. Kamabharam
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a. b and d
B. a. c and e
C. b. c and e
D. c. d and e
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66. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Lions and Shadows i. W. H. Auden
b. The Still Centre ii. Louis MacNeice
c. Translation of Agamemnon iii. Stephen Spender
d. The Sea and the Mirror iv. Christopher Isherwood
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. (a)-(iv). (b)-(iii). (c)-(ii). (d)-(i)
B. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iii). (c)-(i). (d)-(iv)
C. (a)-(iii).(b)-(ii). (c)-(iv). (d)-(i)
D. (a)-(iv). (b)-(ii). (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
67. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. The Feast of Youth i. Meena Kandaswami
b. “Hunger” ii. P. Lal
c. Writers’ Workshop iii. Harindranath Chattopadhyay
d. Touch iv. Jayanta Mahapatra
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv). (d)-(i)
B. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iii). (c)-(i). (d)-(iv)
C. (a)-(iii).(b)-(iv). (c)-(ii). (d)-(i)
D. (a)-(iv). (b)-(ii). (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
68. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. George Meredith i. The Virginians
b. George Eliot ii. Scenes of Clerical Life
c. Charlotte Bronte iii. Evan Harrington
d. William Makepeace Thackeray iv. The Professor
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a-iii. b-ii. c-iv. d-i
B. a-iv. b-iii. c-i. d-ii
C. a-i. b-ii. c-iii. d-iv
D. a-ii. b-i. c-iv. d-iii
69. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Humayun Kabir i. A Goddess Named Gold
b. Bhabani Bhattacharya ii. Men and Rixers
c. Manohar Malgonkar iii. Combat of Shadows
d. Kainala Markandaya iv. Possession
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a-iv. b-iii. c-i. d-ii
B. a-iii. b-i. c-iv. d-ii
C. a-i. b-ii. c-iii, d-iv
D. a-ii. b-i. c-iii. d-iv
70. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Practical Criticism i. John Crowe Ransom
b. The New Criticism ii. F.R. Leavis
c. The Well-Wrought Urn iii. I. A. Richards
d. The Great Tradition iv. Cleanth Brooks
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a-ii. b.-i. c-iii. d-iv
B. a-iii. b – i. c -iv. d — ii
C. a-iii. b-iv, c-ii, d-i
D. a-iv. b – iii. c – ii. d -i
71. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Response to Stephen Gosson i. Aristotle
b. The Individual Talent ii. Matthew Arnold
c. Catharsis iii. T.S. Eliot
d. Sweetness and Light iv. Philip Sidney
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a-iv. b-ii, c-iii, d-i
B. a-iv. b-iii. c-i. d-ii
C. a-iv. b- iii. c-ii. d-i
D. a-iv. b-i. c-ii. d-iii
72. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Writing Degree Zero i. 1957
b. Mythologies ii. 1953
c. The Empire of Signs iii. 1973
d. The Pleasure of the Texi iv. 1970
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a-iv,b- ii.,c-iii,d-i
B. a-iii.b-iv.c-ii.d-i
C. a-iv.b- iii.c-ii.d-i
D. a – ii. b -i. c – iv d – iii
73. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Antonio Gramsci i. Popular Culture
b. Pierre Bourdieu ii. Hegemony
c. Dick Hebdige iii. Cultural capital
d. Raymond Williams iv. Subculture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. (a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(ii). (d)-(iii)
B. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iii). (c)-(iv). (d)-(i)
C. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
D. (a)- (iv). (b)-(iii). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
74. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. I e i. Down and Out in Paris and London
b. Daniel Defoe ii. The Grass is Singing
c. George Orwell iii. A Journal of the Plague Year
d. Doris Lessing iv. A Sort of Life
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. (a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(ii). (d)-(iii)
B. (a)-(iv). (b)-(iii). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
C. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
D. (a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
75. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
a. Egotistical sublime a. Matthew Arnold
b. Willing suspension of disbelief b. Joseph Addison
c. Touchstone c. John Keats
d. Pleasures of the Imagination d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. (a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
B. (a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(ii). (d)-(i)
C. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
D. (a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
76. Arrange the correct chronological sequence of the publication of the following texts:
a. “September 1, 1939“
b. “The Collar”
c. Beppo
d. Paradise Lost
e. Seeing Things
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b.d.c.a.e
B. b.a.e.c.d
C. a.e.b.c.d
D. c.b.a.d.e
77. Arrange the chronological sequence of the publication of the following Indian books of poems:
a. Tune to Change
b. Banaras and Other Poems
c. Savitri
d. The Golden Threshold
e. Anthropocene: Climate Change. Contagion. Consolation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. b.d.e.c.a
B. d.c.a.b.e
C. a.b.c.d.e
D. c.e.b.a.d
78. Arrange the following playwrights chronologically in accordance with the years of their birth.
a. Asif Currimbhoy
b. Gurcharan Das
c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Gieve Patel
e. Cyrus Mistry
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.d.c.b.e
B. e.c.b.d.a
C. c.a.d.b.e
D. c.e.d.a.b
79. Arrange the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published:
a. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b. Kim
c. The Old Wives’ Tale
d. The Time Machine
e. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.d. b. c. e
B. d.a. c. b. e
C. b.d. a. c. e
D. a.c. b .e .d
80. Arrange the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published:
a. Two Virgins
b. The Painter of Signs
c. Shadow from Ladakh
d. A Bend in the Gauges
e. To Whom She Will
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.b. c. d.e
B. d.b.e. c. a
C. e.d. c. a. b
D. c.d. e.a.b
81. Arrange the collect a chronological sequence of the publication of the following texts:
a. Essay of Dramatic Poesy
b. A Room of One’s Own
c. Culture and Anarchy
d. The Lives of the Poets
e. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’’
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.d.e. c. b
B. d.a. e.b. c
C. a.c. d.e.b
D. e.d. c.a.b
82. Arrange the correct chronological sequence of events that affected literary criticism and theory.
a. Man’s First Flight to the Moon
b. End of the World War II
c. Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Have a Dream” Speech
d. Russian Revolution
e. India’s Independence
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. c.d.e.a.b.
B. a.e.b.c.d
C. c.e.b.d.a
D. d.b.e.c.a
83. What is the correct sequence of the following texts authored by Raymond Williams?
a. The Long Revolution
b. Culture and Society
c. Marxism and Literature
d. Writing in Society
e. The Politics of Modernism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.b.c.d.e
B. b.a.c.d.e
C. c.a.d.e.b
D. d.c.b.a.e
84. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following English non-fictional prose writers according to their years of birth?
a. Joseph Addison
b. Francis Bacon
c. Charles Lamb
d. Virginia Woolf
e. Matthew Arnold
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.d.c.b.e
B. b.a.c.e.d
C. c.a.d.e.b
D. d.c.b.a.e
85. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following texts?
a. “The Advancement of Learning”
b. “An Apologie for Poetry”
c. ‘‘The Uses of the Spectator”
d. “My Relations”
e. “How it Strikes a Contemporary”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. a.b.c.d.e
B. b.a.c.d.e
C. c.a.d.e.b
D. d.c.b.a.e
86. Given below are two statements. One is labeled as Assertion A and the other is labeled as Reason R,
Assertion (A): The experience of homosexuality in a homophobic culture is not the same for the whites and blacks.
Reason (R): Sexuality and sexual identity is experienced differently by the whites and blacks.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the option given below:
A. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B. Both (A) and (R) are collect but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C. (A)is correct but (R) is not correct.
D. (A)is not correct but (R) is correct.
87. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A):Scholars working in the field of cultural studies maintain that ‘culture’ in cultural
studies is neither aesthetic nor humanist in emphasis, but political.
Reason (R): The implication of the above is that the object of study in cultural studies is ‘high art’ and the study of the exalted literary canon.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are correct. but R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is correct but R is not correct.
D. A is not correct but R is correct.
88. Statement I: The book The Life of the Drama was written by Eric Bentley.
Statement II: The book The Life of the Drama highlights the lives of certain seminal twentieth-century dramatists.
In the light of the statements given above, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Both Statement I and Statement II are true
B. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
C. Statement I is true but Statement II is false
D. Statement II is true but Statement I is false
89. Given below are two statements:
Statement 1: Criticism is the construction of a judgment about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something.
Statement 2: Criticism can be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive, or descriptive.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:
A. Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.
B. Statement 1 is false but Statement 2 is true,
C. Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false
D. Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
90. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Wordsworth’s ‘’Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” was published in 1807.
Statement II: In “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.” Wordsworth sums up his philosophy of childhood.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
B. Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
C. Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
D. Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far.
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter Gin
and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.
Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for
The lame dogs and hint buds that surround her.—
She is a procession 110 one can follow after But be
like a little dog following a brass band. She will not
glance up at the bomber, or condescend To drop
her gin and scuttle to a cellar.
But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain
Whom only faith can move, and so I send
O all my faith, and all my love to tell her
That she will move from mourning into mourning.
91. The person described in the poem
A. Is alive.
B. Is dead.
C. Is deaf.
D. Will be dead soon.
92. The third line of the poem suggests something about
A. The complexion of the person.
B. The physique of the person.
C. The nationality of the person.
D. The continent to which she belongs.
93. The person described in the poem is sympathetic to
A. Wounded human beings only.
B. Wounded birds only.
C. Disabled dogs and wounded buds.
D. Animals and birds in general.
94. The poem uses
A. Cartographic and nature images.
B. Nature images only.
C. Medical images.
D. Astronomical images.
95. The person described in the poem is
A. A nonbeliever.
B. A christian.
C. A believer.
D. A marxist
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893- 1979) in the 1920s. He felt that concentration upon ‘the words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements. He wras part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of the discipline of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the critical practices of the New’ Critics. John Crowe
Ransom (1888— 1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906-94) and their colleagues in the US.Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
96. In the context of the above passage, close reading implies
A. Reading a text by adopting an indisciplinaiy mode of inquiry.
B. Reading a text by emphasising on its affective capacity.
C. Reading a text by adopting a phenomenological approach.
D. Reading a text by focussing on words and the technical aspects.
97. The purpose of I.A. Richard’s ‘practical criticisim’ was to
A. Ensure that criticism adopted a practical perspective to life and basic human issues.
B. Usher in an objective approach to the study of texts.
C. Valorise the prescriptive function of literature.
D. Foreground the contextual aspects of the text taken under scrutiny.
98. What kind of value judgement did practical criticism as a radical critical movement promote or promulgate?
A. Giving credence to intentionality.
B. Privileging the affective dimension.
C. Valorising historical scholarship.
D. Evaluating value in terms of universal truths.
99. “The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language.”
What could be the implication of this statement?
A. Practical criticism involves a political hermeneutic.
B. Practical criticism privileges a pragmatic approach.
C. Practical criticism prioritises on evaluating texts by adopting a purely literary mode
of inquiry bereft of contextualization.
D. Practical criticism is activism-based criticism.
100. In the context of the above passage, what does ‘literary canon’ imply?
A. A selection of random, arbitrary literary works.
B. A selection of Christian exegetical works.
C. A selection of literary texts established as part of a great tradition.
D. A curated selection from popular literature.
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