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1. Who among the following is not a formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B)Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
2. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by
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(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins

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(D) Matthew Arnold
3. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of ‘base and
superstructure” in relation to literature ?
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(A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann

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(D) Walter Benjamin
4- “Heteroglossia” refers to
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(A) the multiple readings of a text.
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.
5-“Panopticism” is the title of achapter in a well-known book by
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida
6. A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of

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(A) 11 lines
(B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines
7. The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha
8.The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by
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(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt

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9. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great Tradition’, enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph Conrad

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(B) James Joyce
(C) Jane Austen
(D) George Eliot

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10. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by
(A) William Empson

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(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) F. R. Leavis
11. Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with
(A) Post-modernism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Reader Response Theory
(D) Russian Formalism
12. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term:
(A) aporia
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(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement
13. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project
14. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for
(A) the Aesthetes
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(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School
15. What is a neologism?

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(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

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(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases
16. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

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(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory

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(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
17. The term invective refers to
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and
ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is

undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
18. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”

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(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
19. What does the term episteme signify?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
20. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
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(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley T

21 The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the
following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of
homologies
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(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell

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(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci

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22.. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.
22. ___ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
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(C) Oxymoron
(D) Enthymeme
23. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) Aime Cesaire
(B) Ania Loomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
24. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit combined
with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
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(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
25. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated technological development and the massive
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extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by __.
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Ernst Mandel

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(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stanley Fish

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26. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)

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i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
27. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
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List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
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(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
28. Derrida’s American disciples were

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(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan

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(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
29. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet?

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(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne

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(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
30. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of …………… in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
31. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through
(1) a system of structured differences in language
(2) a system of random differences in language

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(3) a system of structured references in language
(4) a system of random references in language
32. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English
Studies. Name the Journal.
(1) The English Historical Review
(2) The Criterion
(3) Scrutiny
(4) The Edinburgh Review
33. In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the
‘Carnivalesque’?
(1) “Discourse in the novel”
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(2) Dialogic Imagination
(3) Rabelais and his world
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel” T

34. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:
(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom

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(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate

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35. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says: “Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as
right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the
filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue”. Which of the following forms
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of poesy offers a foil that helps us perceive the beauty of virtue?
(1) Pastorals
(2) Parody
(3) Comedy
(4) Tragedy
36. John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere
he shines …..” Identify him
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) John Gower
(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Ilerrick

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37. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Georges Poulet
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky
38. Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position?
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.
(2) Power operates through discourse.
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.
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39. In “Tradition and Individual Talent” Eliot describes the workings of the poet’s mind in terms of
which of the following?
(1) Natural selection
(2) A chemical reaction

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(3) A flowing river
(4) A cornucopia
40. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT
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(1) Medicine
(2) Anthropology
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(3) Psychology
(4) Criminology
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41. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition is
(1) moral purpose
(2) sublime subject matter
(3) reader-response
(4) truth to life
42. Which country is Jacques Derrida born in?
(1) France
(2) South Africa
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium
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43. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental
structures of language ?
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
44. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
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45. In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as good examples of
English Poesy ?
I. The Mirror of Magistrates T

II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Maker
IV. Ballad of Scottish King

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The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III

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(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
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(4) II and III
46. The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil
punished, was devised by
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
47. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) repeating mistakes
(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism
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(4) historicism
48. Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’ ?
(1) Allen Tate
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) W.K. Wimsatt
(4) Monroe C Beardsley
49. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom does John Dryden refer to as “the most learned and
judicious Writer which any Theater ever had” ?
(1) John Webster
(2) Christopher Marlowe
(3) Ben Jonson
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(4) William Shakespeare
50. Match the title with the author :
(a) Sexual Politics (i) Mary Ellman

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(b) A Literature of Their Own (ii) Elaine Showalter
(c) Thinking About Women (iii) Helene Cixous
(d) The Laugh of the Medusa (iv) Kate Millet

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Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)

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(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

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(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
51. Northrop Frye’s influential work, Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the subtitle indicates, four
essays. Which of the following is NOT one among them ?
(1) “Archetypal Criticism : Theory of Myths”
(2) “Typological Criticism : Theory of Types”
(3) “Historical Criticism : Theory of Modes”
(4) “Ethical Criticism : Theory of Symbols”
52. Who among the following proposed that the First Gulf War had never taken place, it was simply a
hyperreal, media-generated spectacle?
1.Richard Rorty
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2.Jean-Francois Lyotard
3.Jean Baudrillard
4.Umberto Eco
54. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the
design and purpose of the author is called
1. Affective fallacy
2. Intentional fallacy
3. Authorial fallacy
4. Synecdochic fallacy
55. In the 1940’s, a critic and a philosopher produced two influential and controversial papers called
“The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy”.
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Identify Them
(a) Cleanth Brooks
(b) Monroe C. Beardsley T

(c) William K. Wimsalt Jr.
(d) R.P. Blackmur
The right combination according to the code is:

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1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (d)

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3. (b) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)

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56. Semiotics originated mainly in the works of two theorists. They are:
a. Charles Sanders Peirce
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Ferdinand de Saussure
d. Valentin Voloshinov
The right combination according to the code is ______ .
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
57. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?

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1. Maud Bodkin
2. Hans-Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Wolfgang Iser
58. Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight ?
1. Longinus
2. Plotinus
3. Aristotle
4. Horace
59. In his Practical Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several kinds of meanings and that
the “total meaning” is a blend of contributory meanings which are of different types. He identified
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four kinds of meaning, or the total meaning of a word depends upon four factors. Choose the right
combination as proposed by Richards.
1. Sense, feeling, Tone and Matter
2. Image, Feeling, Tone and Intention

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3. Sound, Sense, Tone and Matter
4. Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention

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60. Match the term with the theorist:
(Term) (Theorist)
(a) Negritude (1) Alice Walker

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(b) Womanism (2) Jurgen Habermas
(c) Interpellation (3) Aime Cesaire

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(4) Louis Althusser (d) Public Sphere
1. (a)-(2), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
61. Identify the two names from the following who are associated with Hermeneutics :
(a) Edmund Husserl
(b) E. D. Hirsch
(c) Martin Heidegger
(d) Stephen Greenblat

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Choose the correct option :
1. (a) and (c)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
62. The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.”
Which one of the following critical texts begins with the above assertion?
1. Walter Allen, The English Novel
2. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel
3. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition
4. Ian Watt, Rise of the Novel
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63. Match the works with authors :
Works
(a) Image-Music-Text (i) M. H. Abrams

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(b) Why Marx was Right (ii) Raymond Williams
(c) Mirror and the Lamp (iii) Roland Barthes
(d) Culture and Society (iv) Terry Eagleton

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Choose the correct option from those given below :
1- (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c-iv); (d-iii)

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2- (a)-(iv); (b-iii); (c-ii); (d)-(i)
3- (a)-(ii); (b)-(i); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)

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4- (a)-(iii); (b-iv); (c-i); (d-ii)
64. What was Gramsci’s term for cultural consensus supporting capitalism?
1 . Monopoly
2. Ideology
3. Discourse
4. Hegemony
65. Which one of the following paired terms is correct in its explication?
1. Phonology—Sound system
2. Semiology—Ordering of speech sounds
3. Etymology—Sign system
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4. Morphology—Evolution of words
66. Who among the following analysed the naturalizing of connotative meanings into myths?
1 Michel Foucault
2. Roman Ingarden
3. J. Hillis Miller
4. Ronald Barthes
67. Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first used/popularized them :
(a) The Frontier Thesis (i) Raymond Williams
(b) The Lost Generation (ii) Homi Bhabha
(c) Third Space (iii) F . J . Turner
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(d) Structure of Feeling (iv) Gertrude Stein
1 (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
2 (a)-(iii); (c)-(i); (c)-iv); (d)-(ii)

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3 (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(ii); (d)-(i)
4- (a)-(i); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)

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68. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural effect that religion has in social life
2. The political effect that matter has in social lives

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3. The material effect that culture has in wider social life
4. The effect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty

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69. Which one of the following is the source of the passage given below?
“I have observed with growing anxiety the career of this word culture during the past
six of seven years. We may find it natural, and significant, that during a period of
unparalleled destructiveness, this word should come to have an important role. . .”
1. F. R Leavis, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
2. T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
3. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
4. Stuart Hall, Cultural Representations and Signifizing Practice
70. Which of the following sociologists’ ideas on the practice of receiving and giving gifts are used by
J. Hillis Miller to reinforce her arguments in the essay, Critic as Host
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1. Emile Durkheim
2. Max Weber
3. Marcel Mauss
4. Daniel Bell
71. Which type of textual copy is concerned With an assessment of the physical details of the books
and their exact relationship to the condition in which the book was planned to appear at the time of
its initial publication?
1. Real copy
2. Ideal copy
3. Initial copy
4. Base copy
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72. What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term ‘performance’?
1. Difference
2. Parole T
3. Paradigm
4. Langue
73. What is ‘euphmism’?

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1. Eulogical and adulatory style of writing
2. Discursive and hortatory style of writing

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3. Pompous and affected style of writing
4. Exalted and gland style of writing

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74. Match the critics and their works :
Critics Works
(a) Edward Said (i) The Illusion: of Postmodernism
(b) Terry Eagleton (ii) Contemporary Marxist Criticism
(c) Francis Mulhern (iii) Theory into Practice
(d) K. M. Newton (iv) Culture and Imperialism
1. (a-iv); (b-i); (c-ii); (d-iii)
2.(a-iv); (b-i); (c-iii); (d-ii)
3.(a-ii); (b-i); (c-iv); (d-iii)

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4. (a-i); (b-ii); (c-iii); (d-iv)
75. Which writer applied the term ‘cultural poetics’ to his own critical contribution to make literature
and arts as part of social practice?
1. Stephen Greenblatt
2. Mikhail Bakhtin
3. Jonathan Dollimore
4. Raymond Williams
76. Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power-relations, knowledge and
the human body?
1. Louis Althusser
2. Clifford Geertz
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3. Jacques Lacan
4. Michel Foucault
77. Match the books with the writers : T

(a) The Madwoman in the Attic (i) Frantz Fanon
(b) The Wretched of the Earth (ii) Stephen Greenblatt
(c) Shakespearean Negotiations (iii) Stanley Fish

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(d) Is There a Text in This Class? (iv) Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

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1. (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)

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3. (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
78. Which one of the following observations of “Lost Generation”. A term coined by Gertude Stein, is
correct?
1. German Jews who survived the Second World War and went to Israel
2. The American expatriates in Europe after the First World War
3. The Irish Freedom fighters of the early Twentieth Century
4. The European living in America
79. Which of the following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?
1. Knowledge is not metaphysical or transcendental

2. Knowledge is not a matter of perspective.
3. Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of view
4. Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power
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80. Who among the following are associated with the ‘Jazz Age’?
1. Ernest hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald

2. Scott fitzgerald and John Dos Passos
3. John das passos and Sherwood Anderson
4. Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson
81. Match the works with authors
a) Homi Bhabha i. Saving the text
b) Geoffrey Hartman ii. The location of cultute
c) Edward said iii. Desire in language
d) Julia Kristeva iv. Culture and imperialism
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Choose the correct option:
(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

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(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
81. which two concepts developed by the French sociologist pierre bourdieu, have become
increasingly influential in cultural studies?
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A. Dissemination
B. Gynesis
C. Cultural capital
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D. Habitus

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(a) and (c)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(b) and (d)
82. Match the works with authors:
a) Bodies that matter i. Camille Paglia
b) A world of difference ii. Elaine Showalter
c) A literature of their own iii. Barbara Johnson
d) Vamps and thamps iv. Judith butler

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(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
83. Match the author with the text:
a) Rita Kothari i. The queen’s hinglish
b) Probal dasgupta ii. The indianization of English
c) Braj b. kachru iii. Translating India
d) Baljinder k. mahal iv. The otherness of English
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(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)

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(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
84. Which two of the following are associated with Deconstruction?

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A. Jacques Derrida
B. Raymond Williams
C. Paul De Man
D. Jonathan Dolli more
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(a) and (b)

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(a) and (c)
(a) and (d)
(b) and (d)
85. Match the theorist with the text:
a) John Fiske i. Distinction
b) Michel de Certeau ii. The Postmodern Condition
c) Pierre Bourdieu iii. Reading the Popular
d) Jean Francois Lyotard iv. The Practice of Everyday Life
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

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(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
86. What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
A. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

B. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
C. Syntactic Structures
D. Knowledge of Language
(d), (c), (b),(a)
(b), (c), (d), (a)
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(c), (b), (a), (d)
(a), (b), (c), (d)
87. Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images is
producing a cultural condition a kin to ‘historical amnesia’?
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1. Jean Baudrillard
2. Ihab Hassan
3. Frederic Jameson
4. Daniel Bell
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88. The statement 'There is nothing outside the text' is given by :
(A) Jacques Derrida

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(B) Roland Barthes
(C) M. M. Bakhtin
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(D) M. H. Abram
89. Who is the writer of “The Flies”, an adaptation of the Electra myth?
1. Jean-Paul Sartre
2. Edward Bond
3. Albert Camus
4. TS Eliot
90. Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
A. Deconstruction I. Jacques Derrida
B. Hegemony II. Antonio Gramsci

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C. Habitus III. Louis Althusser
D. Interpellation IV. Pierre Bordieu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A-I. B-II, C-IV, D-III
2. A-II. B-I, C-III, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III. D-I
4. A-III. B-I, C-II, D-IV
91. Who among of the following are known as Cambridge Critics?
A. Arthur-Quiller Couch
B. F.R. Leavis
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C. George Saintsbury
D. I.A. Richards
E. William Empson

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1. B, C, and D
2. A, B, and C
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3. A. C, and E
4. B. D. and E
92. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional
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theatre?
[1] Epic theatre

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[2] Kitchen-sink theatre
[3] Musical theatre
[4] Proletarian theatre
93. Which two of the following are works by I.A Richards?
(a) Concepts of Criticism
(b) Science and Poetry
(c) The philosophy of Rhetoric
(d) English Literature In our time and the university
[1] (a) and (b) only
[2] (a) and (d) only

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[3] (b) and (c) only
[4] (b) and (d) only
94. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s
political position?
[1] Colonialism will die a natural death San any violent struggle against it.
[2] Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.
[3] Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.
[4] The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.
95. Which two of the following dramatists are associated with the Epic Theatre?
A. Fernando Arrabal
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B. Bertolt Brecht
C. Arnolt Bronnen
D. James Saunders T
1. A and B only
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2. B and C only
3. A and D only
4. B and D only
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96. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Orientalists in British India were not sympathetic towards India’s ancient learning.
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Statement II: William Jones thought that in “imagination”, “ratiocination’, and philosophy, Indians
were by no means inferior to Europeans.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true Answer: 4
97. Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and ‘performance’?
1. Noah Webster
2. Steven Pinker
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3. Roman Jakobson
4. Noam Chomsky
98. Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions
of a text’s reception?
1. Wolfgang lser
2. Stanley Fish
3. Hans Robert Jauss
4. Pierre Bourdieu
99. Match List I and List II List I
Terms Theorists
A. Superreader I. Michel Foucault
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B. Biopower II. Mikhail Bakhtin
C. Bricolage III. Michael Riffaterre
D. Chronotope IV. Claude Levi-Strauss

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1. A – III, B – II, C – IV, D – I
2. A – III, B – I, C – IV, D – II
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3. A – IV, B – I, C -III, D – II
4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III

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100. Match List I and List II
List I Terms List II Theorists

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A. arche-ecriture I. Julia Kristeva
B. cyborg II. Donna Haraway
C. genotext III. Friedrich Schleiermacher
D. hermeneutic circle IV. Jacques Derrida
1. A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – III
2. A – III, B – I, C – II, D – IV
3. A – III, B – II, C – IV, 0 – I
4. A – IV, B – I, C – II, D – Ill

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1. Who among the following is not a formalist critic ?

(A) Allen Tate

(C) Stanley Fish

(D) William Empson

2. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by

(B) William Blake

(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins

(A) Edmund Wilson

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Lucien Goldmann

(D) Walter Benjamin

(A) the multiple readings of a text.

(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.

(C) the comments on the margins of a text.

(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.

5-“Panopticism” is the title of achapter in a well-known book by

(A) Roman Jakobson

(B) Jacques Lacan

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Jacques Derrida

6. A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of

7. The author of Nation and Narration is

(A) Edward Said

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Frantz Fanon

(D) Homi Bhabha

8.The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by

(B) John Keats

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) William Hazlitt

(A) Joseph Conrad

(B) James Joyce

(C) Jane Austen

(D) George Eliot

10. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by

(A) William Empson

(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.

(C) I.A. Richards

11. Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with

(B) New Historicism

(C) Reader Response Theory

(D) Russian Formalism

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(C) Standard English Project

(D) Basic English Project

14. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes

(C) the Imagists

(D) the Art Noveau School

15. What is a neologism?

(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

16. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?