Sindi
was born in Africa to an Indian father and an English mother, brought up by his
Indian uncle, get his education in England and America, yet he senses always a
nowhere man and he states, “My foreignness lay within me and I wouldn‟t leave
myself behind wherever I went… The novel is an enactment of the crisis of the present
in the story of Sindi Oberoi. He is a perennial outsider, an uprooted young man
living in the latter half of the twentieth century who belongs to no country,
no people and finds himself an outsider in Kenya, Uganda, England, America and
India.the novel is
4 The Fictional Art
Ans:1
Sindi
Oberoi, the narrator hero in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner says: “My foreignness
lay within me and I couldn’t leave myself behind wherever I went.” Identify the
countries which Sindi Oberoi went to.
1
Kenya, Uganda, England, America, India
2
Kenya, Uganda, New Zealand, England, India
3
Kenya, England, Canada, India
4
Kenya, America, England, Australia, India
Ans:1
Three of his novels The Foreigner (1968), The Strange Case of Billy
Biswas (1971), and The Apprentice (1974) were published before 1980.
Then came his Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel The Last Labyrinth (1981) and finally the last The City and the River (1990). The major themes that run
through all of Joshi’s novels are the themes of alienation and involvement,
Arun
Joshi himself explains that, “My novels are essentially attempts towards a
better understanding of the world and of myself” statement belong to the novel
1 The Foreigner (1968),
2The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971),
3 The Apprentice (1974)
4 The Fictional Art
Ans:3
A
poet laureate said “I do not think that since Shakespeare there has been such a
master of the English language as I.” Who is the poet?
1
Stephen Spender
2
John Dryden
3
Alfred Lord Tennyson
4
Ted Hughes
Ans:3
Tennyson died at Aldworth House, his home in
Surrey, on October 6, 1892, at the age of eighty-three. He was buried in the
Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey, and the copy of Shakespeare's play -----, which he had been reading on the night
of his death, was placed in his coffin.
1 Cymbeline
2
hamlet
3kingleare
4 macbeth
Ans:1
Who
among the following was a contemporary of John Milton and wrote The Worthy
Communicant? It is said that his prose “can be read easily, when Milton’s must
be studied.”
1
Jeremy Taylor
2
John Bunyan
3
Andrew Marvell
4
George Herbert
Ans:1
In 1668,
Dryden wrote Of
Dramatic Poesie; An Essay which uses__________ separate characters to
dramatise the conflicting viewpoints which new theatrical activity had produced
|
(1)
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three
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(2)
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two
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(3)
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four
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(4)
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six
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Ans:3
Writing
his most influential play, August Strindberg called it “My most beloved drama,
the child of my greatest suffering.” The play is:
1
A Dream Play
2
Miss Julie
3
The Bridal Crown
4
The Dance of Death
Ans:1
In
which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic]
and not a slave” to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would
be “no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the
accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street
tailors would have it”?
1
“How it Strikes a Contemporary”
2
“Modern Fiction”
3
“The Russian Point of View”
4
“Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown”
Ans:2
Who
is the author of the statement: “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is
the rage संताप of Caliban seeing his own face in the
glass”?
1
Arthur Symons
2
Benjamin Disraeli
3
W. B. Yeats
4
Oscar Wilde
Ans:4
1.
THE artist is the creator of beautiful things. To
reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
2.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things
are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
All the statement belong to Oscar Wildes
novel
1. Dorian Gray,
Ans:2
Which
of the following statements about Thomas Mann’s novels is true?
Buddenbrooks
is a family saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Aschenbach,
the writer protagonist in Death in Venice, is preoccupied with classicism,
especially with classical ideals of male beauty.
In
his second winter at the sanatorium, Hans Castorp, protagonist of The Magic
Mountain gets lost in a blizzard during a solitary skiing expedition.
Adrian
Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus in Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a
musician.
The right combination according to the code is:
1
Only (a) and (c) are correct
2
Only (b) and (d) are correct
3
(b), (c) and (d) are correct
4
(a), (b) and (d) are correct
Ans:4
To
whom did Raja Ram Mohan Roy write in 1823 his letter seeking the introduction
of English education in India?
1
Lord Amherst
2
Lord Bentinck
3
Lord Cunningham
4 Lord Hastings
Ans:1
Listed
below are the seemingly friendly characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress who give
Christian dangerous advice. Among them is one who does not belong to this
group. Identify this odd character.
1
Mr. Worldly Wiseman
2
Evangelist
3
Ignorance
4
Talkative
Ans:1
The
direct French influence on the English language during the Middle English
period was in the form of
1.
loss
of inflections.
2.
intake
of French words into English.
3.
both
the loss of inflections and intake of French words into English.
4.
addition
of inflections.
Ans:3
A
significant development in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal Society
in
England. The main purpose of the society was __________ .
1
to set the rules for the royal court and governance
2
to guide and promote the development of science and scientific exploration
3
to set norms for civil society
4
to promote theatre
Ans;2
One
of the most highly revered, scholarly, and passionate interpreters of English
and world literatures, he was appointed the Lord Northcliffe Professor of
Modern English Literature at University College, London in 1967, and later as
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge in 1974, an
appointment made by the Crown at the suggestion of the Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1991. Entitled to
designate himself as “Sir,” he never did, but wrote and autobiography entitled
Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this book came from Coriolanus: “He was a
kind of nothing, titleless.”
Who
among the following is this writer/critic?
1
F. R. Leavis
2
I. A. Richards
3
Frank Kermode
4
David Lodge
Ans:3
Which
of the following provided theoretical basis for Audio-Lingual Method of
Language Teaching?
1
Transformational Generative Linguistics
2
Congnitive Psychology and Structural Linguistics
3
Behaviourist Psychology and Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics
4
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Ans:3
Who
among the following characters of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov dies in the final scene?
(1)
Anya (2) Firs
3)
Varya (4) Lopakhin
Ans:2
In
tracing the history of English poetry, Thomas Gray’s “Progress of Poesy”
invokes a major poet as follows: “Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the
seraph-wings of Extasy, The secrets of th’ Abyss to spy.” Who is “He”?
1.
William
Shakespeare
2.
Edmund
Spenser
3.
John
Milton
4.
John
Dryden
Ans:3
“I
suffered from impaired eye-sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford
without a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice
my age, I left for London, to begin writing for a magazine, I produced my own
journal.” Choose the correct answer, identifying the writer, the magazine and
the journal.
1
John Milton, The Examiner’s Magazine, London Magazine
2
Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, The Tatler
2
Richard Steele, The Guardian, The Spectator
4
Samuel Johnson, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, The Rambler
Ans:4
Which
of the American novelists is associated with the series of five books about
Natty Bumppo, an old hunter, also called Leatherstocking?
1
Stephen Crane
2
James Fennimore Cooper
3
Herman Melville
4
Jack London
Ans:2
Who wrote The History of Australian Literature in 1961?
1
Randolph Stow
2
H. M. Green
3
Handel Richardson
4
Francis Adam
Ans:2
Dhvanyaloka of. Anandavardhana,. Vakroktijivita of Kuntaka, Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara and. Mammata's Kavyaprakasa.
Though Bharata' rasa theory
Match
the following:
|
|
Theorist
|
Theories
|
|
|
(a)
|
Bharata
|
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(i)Vakrokti
|
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(b)
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Kuntaka
|
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(ii)Riti
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(c)
|
Bhamaha
|
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(iii)Dhvani
|
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(d)
|
Anandavardhana
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(iv)Rasa
|
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The
right matching according to the code is:
|
|
(a)
|
(b)
|
(c)
|
(d)
|
|
(1)
|
(i)
|
(iv)
|
(ii)
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(iii)
|
|
(2)
|
(ii)
|
(iii)
|
(i)
|
(iv)
|
|
(3)
|
(iv)
|
(i)
|
(ii)
|
(iii)
|
|
(4)
|
(iii)
|
(ii)
|
(iv)
|
(i)
|
Ans:3
Rasa
is defined by Bharata in his Natyasastra as follows: - vibhavanubhava -
vyabhicari -samyogat - rasa - nispattih
which means that the! "combination of vibhavas (determinants) and
anubhavas· (consequents) together with vyabhicari bhavas (transitory· states)
produce rasa" Rasa is chat which is: relishable - rasa iti kah padarthah
atrucyate asvadyatvat.
six
chapters in Kavyalamkara have fiftynine karikas in the first chapter and The
ninetysix. karikas of the second chapter, a Fiftyeight karikas of the third.
Kavyalamkara is written by
1 Anandavardhana
2 Kuntaka
3 Bahama
4 Bharata
Ans:3
(1) Who is the author of Natyasatra
(A) Bharatha (B)Bhamaha
(C)Ananthavarthana (D)Kuntaka
Ans:A
(2) Who is the author of Natasutra
(A)
Bhamaha (B) Silali
(C)
Kuntaka (D) Kesmaentra
Ans:B
(4) What is the essence of poetry
(A) Rasa (B) Bava (C) Riti (D) Aucitya
Ans:A
(6) Natyasatra sixth chapter deals with
(A) Bhav &Alankaras
(B)
Rasa & Bava
(C)
Alankaras & Vakrokthi
(D) Karika & Vriti
Ans:B
(7) According to Bharata ,what is the soul of
the poetry
(A)
Bava (B) Rasa (C) Alankara (D) Guna
Ans:B
(8) Who is the author of kavyaprakasa
(A) Mammata (B) Ananthavardhana
(C) Ruyyaka (D) Bharatha
Ans:A
(11) Bhamaha was anterior to ------------
(A)
Vamana (B) Dandin
(C) Bhamaha (D) Ananthavarthana
Ans:B
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