Unit-VI Part-IX

1.      Why does Matthew Arnold in The Function of Criticism state that, “the English poetry of the first quarter of this century, with plenty of energy, plenty of creative force, did not know enough”?

                 i.          Because the poets did not read enough           ii. Because there was no national glow of life and thought

              iii.   Because there was a lack of culture         iv. Because there was no force of learning and criticism

                              a.  (i), (ii) and (iii) only     

                              b. (ii), (iii) and (iv) only 

                              c. (ii) and (iii) only        

                              d. All the above

2.      The term used in criticism to “identify a deliberate poetic device: the use of a single word or expression to signify two or more distinct references, or to express two or more diverse attitudes or feelings is called ------
                        a.  Portmanteau  
                        b. Ambiguity     
                        c. Paradox
                        d. Pun

3.      These critics oppose the violation of overly politicized and often abstruse theory into the field of literary criticism and the use of identity politics. They feel that the importance of literary imagination and creativity is marginalized by such theorizing. Which school of critics are we talking about?
                        a.  Cultural Theory Critics  
                        b. Identity Theorists     
                        c. Liberal Humanist Critics         
                        d. New Critics

4.      The German Ideology was a book written by :
                        a.  Althusser and Gramsci     
                        b. Lukacs and Brecht    
                        c. Adorno and Derrida     
                        d.Marx and Engels

5.      Which of these statements are true of structuralism?

                 i.          The literary work is called a text                         ii. The reader is more important than the author.

               iii.          The impersonal act of reading is more valid than the sensibility of reading

               iv.          It emphasizes subjectivity and personal ideas.

                  a.  (i), (ii) and (iii) only    

                  b. (ii), (iii) and (iv) only 

                  c. (ii) and (iii) only       

                  d. (ii) and (iv) only

6.      Which of these statements describe the notion of displacement as explained by Freud?

a. The substitution for an unconscious object of desire by an acceptable one

b. The omission of parts of the unconscious dreams               

a. The transference of dreams from one individual to another

b. The disjuncture between inner and outer conscience.

7.      Which of these are part of modernism?

                 i.          Using fragmented narratives ii. Violating traditional syntax and coherence

               iii.          Using conventional writing styles                       iv. Stream of consciousness technique of narration

                  a.  (i), (ii) and (iii) only    

                  b. (i), (ii) and (iv) only     

                  c. (ii), (iii) and (iv) only 

                  d. (i) and (iv) only

8.      What according to Derrida is “neither a word nor a concept and indicates a juncture”?
                        a.  Jouissance            
                        b. Metalanguage         
                        c. Différance              
                        d. Textuality

9.      Identify the term with the work of criticism :

                 i.          Androgynous mind                   -              (a) The Laugh of the Medusa

                ii.          Ecriture feminine                     -              (b) Towards a Feminist Poetics

               iii.          Gynocriticism                          -              (c) Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

               iv.          Male gaze                                  -              (d) A Room of One’s Own

                    a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b                    

                    b. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c       

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

10.   Place these works of Judith Butler chronologically according to the date of publication :

                 i.          Undoing Gender

                ii.          Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

               iii.          Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

               iv.          Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

                  a.  (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)  

                  b. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)          

                  c. (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)          

                  d. (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)

11.   Identify the key concepts of Homi Bhabha :

                 i.          Culture         ii. Hybridity          iii. Mimicry          iv. Ambivalence

                  a.  (ii), (iii) and (iv) only         

                  b. (i), (ii) and (iii) only   

                  c. (i), (iii) and (iv) only   

                  d. All of the above

12.   The book written by Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher is ………
                        a.  Hamlet in Purgatory           
                        b. Practicing New Historicism    
                        c. History Studies           
                        d. Essays in Early Modern Culture

13.   The autobiography, Akkarmashi is written by………...
                        a.  Namdeo Dhasal       
                        b. Bama          
                        c. Omprakash Valmiki   
                        d. Sharan Kumar Limbale

14.   What are the two types of untranslatability according to Catford?
                        a.  Social and political      
                        b. Verbal and Non-verbal                    
                        c. Similes and Metaphors                
                        d. Linguistic and Cultural

15.   A significant concept of Cultural Studies is that people are part of a hierarchical structure of :
                        a.  Modernity     
                        b. Mediated communication                 
                        c. Power              
                        d. Identity

16.   Who makes this statement, “Simply put, ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment”?
                        a.  Vandana Shiva   
                        b. Cheryl Glotfelty      
                        c. Eric Fromm     
                        d. Lynn White

17.   Match the Sanskrit term of rasa with the closest English equivalent :

                 i.          Hasya                           -              (a) Marvellous/Amazing

                ii.          Bibhatsa                      -              (b) Compassion/Sympathy

               iii.          Adbhuta                      -              (c) Repulsive/Disgust

               iv.          Karuna                         -              (d) Humorous/Comic

                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b   

                    b. (i)-d,(ii)-c, (iii)-a,(iv)-b              

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                       

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

18.   Match the Theorist and the Theory :

                 i.          Aucitya                        -              (a)Anandavardhana

                ii.          Vakrokti                      -              (b)Bharthari

               iii.          Dhvani                         -              (c)Kshemendra

               iv.          Sphota                         -              (d)Kuntaka

                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b            

                    b. (i)-d,(ii)-c, (iii)-a,(iv)-b     

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                  

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

19.   Who is the author of ‘Margins of Philosophy’?
                        a.  Jacques Lacan          
                        b. Jacques Derrida       
                        c. Heidegger               
                        d. Sartre

20.   Whom does Michel Foucault consider as the Founders of Discursivity?
                        a.  Freud and Marx 
                        b. Hegel and Kant         
                        c. Claude-Levi Straus and Saussure                             
                        d. Saussure and Derrida

21.   Who described Dryden as the father of English criticism?
                        a.  Matthew Arnold 
                        b. Dr. Johnson           
                        c. L.C.Knights           
                        d. Alexander Pope

22.   What is ‘Touchstone’ in Arnold’s view?

a. Aesthetic principle laid down in classical literature

b. The reader’s original impression of the text

c.  Instances of great writing providing a yard stick

d. Standards set down by the French Academy

23.   Who among the following did NOT belong to the school of New Criticism?
                        a.  J.C.Ransom               
                        b. Yvor Winters  
                        c. Cleanth Brooks       
                        d. W.K.Wimsatt

24.   Which is the only novel by Dickens analyzed in detail by F. R. Leavis in ‘The Great Tradition’?
                        a.  Oliver Twist      
                        b. Hard Times  
                        c. Old Curiosity Shop               
                        d. A Tale of Two Cities

25.   Virginia Woolf argues that women’s creativity in literature requires :
                        a.  Noble heredity           
                        b. Sympathetic readership
                        c.  Privacy and financial independence      
                        d. Radical political ideology

26.   “Poetry is the breath and spirit of all knowledge ....”. This statement appears in :
                        a.  Biographia Literaria              
                        b. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
                        c.  Defense of Poetry           
                        d. Oxford Lectures on Poetry

27.   Which work did T. S. Eliot praise for using myth to impose order on the anarchy of modern life?
                        a.  Ezra Pound’s poetry         
                        b. W. B. Yeats’ poetry  
                        c. Ulysses by Joyce
                        d. W. H. Auden’s longer poems

28.   Who is the author of The Country and the City?
                        a.  Stuart Hall       
                        b. Richard Hoggart     
                        c. E.P.Thompson        
                        d. Raymond Williams

29.   Aristotle is of the view that :
                        a.  Poetry is less philosophical than history       
                        b. Poetry is more philosophical than history
                        c.  Poetry and history cannot be compared at all                   
                        d. It is an unnecessary debate

30.   Match the following :

                 i.          Objective correlative                              -              (a) Cleanth Brooks

                ii.          Intentional Fallacy                                 -              (b) Ezra Pound

               iii.          Irony and Paradox                                 -              (c) Wimsatt and Beardsley

               iv.          Make it new                                             -              (d) T.S.Eliot

                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b        

                    b. (i)-d,(ii)-c, (iii)-a,(iv)-b    

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                  

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

31.   Structural approach to literature is primarily interested in understanding how :

a. Structural relationships constitute the system called literature

b. The authorial intention constitutes the meaning of the text

c. The thematic structure operates in the poem

d. The texture of the poem is revealed through its structure

32.   The term ‘womanism’ was coined by :
                        a.  Alice Walker           
                        b. Kate Millet              
                        c. Barbara Johnson                 
                        d. Tony Morrison

33.   The concept of ‘Dialogic Imagination’ is associated with :
                        a.  Mikhail Bakhtin 
                        b. Viktor Shklovsky        
                        c. Roman Jakobson    
                        d. Walter Benjamin

34.   The term ‘Stream of consciousness' is first used in the writings of :
                        a.  Sigmund Freud   
                        b. William James        
                        c. Carl Jung             
                        d. Virginia Woolf

35.   T.S.Eliot considers ‘Hamlet’ an inferior work because :
                        a. It has a loose plot                      
                        b. Characters are not fully developed

c. It contains excessive violence             
d. The author’s intention is not realized

36.   Dr. Johnson claimed in his plan for the Dictionary that he would “Fix the English Language in three years”. To whom did he write this?
                        a.  Boswell 
                        b. Lord Chesterfield     
                        c. His Publisher  
                        d. Edward Cocker

37.   “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul”. This tribute to Shakespeare was paid by :
                        a.  Dr. Johnson     
                        b. Milton     
                        c. Ben Johnson   
                        d. Dryden

38.   The complete title of Fredric Jameson’s work is :

a. Postmodernism and the Logic of High Capitalism

b. Postmodernism and the Logic of Global Capitalism

c.  Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

d. Postmodernism as the Cultural Logic of Market Capitalism

39.   Name the critic who formulated the concept of interpretive communities :
                        a.  Woolfgang Iser  
                        b. Fredric Jameson      
                        c. Stanley Fish          
                        d. Norman Holland

40.   Match the following :

                 i.          Stephen Greenblatt            -              (a)Cultural Studies

                ii.          J.C.Ransom                        -              (b)Cultural Materialism

               iii.          Stuart Hall                        -              (c)New Criticism

               iv.          Alan Sinfield               -              (d)New Historicism

                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b            

                    b. (i)-d,(ii)-c, (iii)-a,(iv)-b       

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

41.   “Here is God’s plenty”. Dryden made this remark about :
                        a.  Shakespeare’s play       
                        b. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales     
                        c. Milton’s Paradise Lost                       
                        d. Dante’s Divine Comedy

42.   Vandana Shiva’s ‘Staying Alive’ does NOT deal with :
                        a.  The Green Revolution             
                        b. Patriarchy and Capitalism      
                        c. Religious Fundamentalism                      
                        d. The Idea of Progress

43.   “An image is an intellectual and emotional complex in one instant of time”. This statement was made by :
                        a.  T.S.Eliot     
                        b. Ezra Pound           
                        c. Cleanth Brooks        
                        d. I.A.Richards

44.   Which of the following critics formulated the performative theory of gender?
                        a.  Elaine Showalter        
                        b. Gayathri Spivak        
                        c. Judith Butler 
                        d. Judith Wright

45.   F.R.Leavis does not include ……… in his Great Tradition of English novelists.
                        a.  Joseph Conrad       
                        b. D.H.Lawrence         
                        c. Charles Dickens       
                        d. George Eliot

46.   Ferdinand Saussure describes actual speech as :
                        a.  Langue          
                        b. Laugage              
                        c. Parole          
                        d. Acoustic system

47.   “Is there a text in the class?” is a well-known essay by :
                        a.  Jonathan Culler  
                        b. Stanley Fish           
                        c. Shlovsky         
                        d. Northrop Frye

48.   “Can the Subaltern Speak?” discusses :
                        a. Orientalism      
                        b. European Feminism  
                        c. The Sati System        
                        d. The Sepoy Mutiny

49.   F.R.Leavis does not discuss ……. in his ‘New Bearings in English Poetry’.
                        a.  T.S.Eliot       
                        b. Ezra Pound           
                        c. Walter de la Mare           
                        d. Stephen Spender

50.   “Doing as One Wishes” is the ironical description of individualism by :
                        a.  Thomas Carlyle  
                        b. Matthew Arnold        
                        c. Ruskin        
                        d. J.S.Mill

51.   Tragedy results in :
                           a.  Catharsis        
                           b. Eumenides        
                           c. Hamartia        
                           d. Anagnorisis

52.   ‘Negative Capability’ is a term first used by :
                           a.  Wordsworth        
                           b. Keats      
                           c. Coleridge     
                           d. Sigmund Freud

53.   Which of the following is a work by William Empson?
                        a.  Face of the Buddha     
                        b. Essays on Shakespeare        
                        c. Faustus and the Censor  
                        d. All of them

54.   The theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature and philosophical texts is referred to :
                        a.  Hermeneutics            
                        b. Ambiguity             
                        c. Rhetoric                
                        d. Semantic

55.   Which one of the following is true?

a. Post-structuralism emerged in France during the 1960s.

b. A metalanguage is a systematized way of talking about concepts like meaning and grammar beyond the constraints of a traditional language.

c. Derrida and Foucault are post-structuralist philosophers.  
d. All of them

56.   “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” is a famous lecture of :
                        a.  Roland Barthes         
                        b. Jacques Derrida         
                        c. Michel Foucault         
                        d. Jurgen Habermas

57.   ‘A Literature of their Own’ is a work written by :
                        a.  Virginia Woolf         
                        b. Mary Wollstonecraft
                        c. Elaine Showalter    
                        d. Simone de Beauvoir

58.   Which among the following is a work of Virginia Woolf about the cocker spaniel dog owned by Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
                        a.  Flush: A Biography        
                        b. The Waves         
                        c. Between The Acts   
                        d. Three Guineas

59.   Match the Following :

                 i.          Postcolonial Criticism             -              (a)Isobel Armstrong

                ii.          Feminist Criticism                     -              (b)Roland Barthes

               iii.          Post-Structuralism                   -              (c)Roman Jakobson

               iv.          Structuralism                             -              (d)Edward Said

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c          

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a          

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

60.   Who among the following is the author of the famous works  ‘Ashtadhyayi’?
                        a.  Panini              
                        b. Bharata Muni 
                        c. Bhartrihari             
                        d. Patanjali

61.   Franz Fanon proposes …………. to colonization.
                        a.  A syncretic approach             
                        b. An accommodative approach
                        c.  A conciliatory approach          
                        d. An adversarial approach

62.   The post-colonial critic who proposed the abolition of the department of English is :
                        a.  Chinna Achebe         
                        b. Wole Soyinka        
                        c. N. Gugi        
                        d. Aime Cesaire

63.   The Shakespeare character who is central to post-colonial theories is :
                        a.  Othello          
                        b. Desdemona           
                        c. The Fool in King Lear       
                        d. Caliban

64.   The author of ‘Sexual Politics’ is :
                        a.  Dale Spengler            
                        b. Elaine Showalter       
                        c. Kate Millet               
                        d. Judith Butler

65.   ‘One is not born, nut rather becomes a woman’. This statement is by :
                        a.  Simone de Beauvoir      
                        b. Mary Wollstencraft        
                        c. Germaine Greer       
                        d. Betty Freidan

66.   Dr. Johnson defends Shakespeare against charges of :
                        a.  Vulgarity           
                        b. Verbosity     
                        c. Disregard of the unities        
                        d. Anachronisms

67.   Match the following :

                 i.          Dissociation of sensibility                      -              (a)Empson

                ii.          Ambiguity                                               -              (b)Cleanth Brooks

               iii.          Irony                                                       -              (c)Arnold

               iv.          Touchstone method                                -              (d)T.S.Eliot

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c            

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a         

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                     

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

68.   Match the following :

                 i.          Plato                            -              (a)Agamemnon

                ii.          Aristotle                      -              (b)Frogs

               iii.          Aristophanes              -              (c)The Republic

               iv.          Aeschylus                    -              (d)The Poetics

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c            

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a            

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                        

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

69.   Max Harkheimer and Theodore Adorno are two Marxist theorists associated with :
                        a.  Prague School            
                        b. Frankfurt School       
                        c. Chicago School          
                        d. London School

70.   Of which novel did Edward Said produce a post-colonial critique?
                        a.  George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss          
                        b. E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India
                        c.  Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park              
                        d. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

71.   Who was the pioneer of ‘New Criticism’?
                        a.  William Empson 
                        b. L.C.Knights            
                        c. I.A.Richards    
                        d. J.C.Ransom

72.   Who was the founder-director of the Centre for contemporary cultural studies established in Birmingham?
                        a.  Raymond Williams       
                        b. Terry Eagleton        
                        c. Stuart Hall    
                        d. Richard Hoggart

73.   Wordsworth and Coleridge differed with each other on the issue of :
                        a.  Imagination                 
                        b. Fancy          
                        c. Poetic diction        
                        d. Creative Process

74.   The term ‘hegemony’ was coined by :
                        a.  Walter Benjamin         
                        b. Antonio Gramsci    
                        c. Raymond Williams   
                        d. Theodore Adorno

75.   Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ is translated into English by :
                        a.  Linda Hutcheon          
                        b. Gayathri Spivak       
                        c. Paul de Man            
                        d. Homi Bhabha

76.   Which among the following statements are correct about cultural studies?

                 i.   It is the comparative study of world cultures

                ii.  It looks at culture as the standard of ethical and aesthetic excellence

               iii. It emphasizes the materiality of culture               
         iv. It looks at culture as the location of power

                  a.  (i)        

                  b. (iii)         

                  c. (i) and (ii)                  

                  d. (iii) and (iv)

77.   Who coined the term ‘Ecocriticism’?
                        a.  Joseph Meeker  
                        b. Simon Estok   
                        c. William Rueckert       
                        d. Raymond Williams

78.   Match the following :

                 i.          Publication of ‘The Lyrical Ballads’                    -              (a)1848

                ii.          Death of Wordsworth                                           -              (b)1832

               iii.          Passage of the Reform Bill                                   -              (c)1850

               iv.          Communist Manifesto                                          -              (d)1798

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b    

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a            

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                       

                    d. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

79.   Who among the following was opposed to the core principles of Aestheticism?
                        a.  D G Rossetti       
                        b. Walter Pater 
                        c. Matthew Arnold         
                        d. Oscar Wilde

80.   Which of the following statement(s) is/ are true?

                 i.          Virginia Woolf was an exponent of the stream of consciousness in fiction.

                ii.          Virginia Woolf can be described as a feminist writer and critic.

               iii.          Virginia Woolf can be described as a High Modernist.

               iv.          Virginia Woolf wrote a number of novels in the epistolary mode.

                  a.  Statements 1 and 2 are true               

                  b. Statements 1, 2 and 4 are true

                  c.  Statements 1, 3 and 4 are true. 

                  d. Only statement 1 is true.

81.   Which of the following statements are true?

                 i.          Frantz Fanon is a postcolonial writer.

                ii.          Frantz Fanon discusses the collaboration of the colonisers with the colonized.

               iii.          Frantz Fanon espouses cultural hybridity as an ideal.  

               iv.          Frantz Fanon discusses identity politics.

                  a.  Statements 1, 3 and 4 only are true                  

                  b. Statements 1,2 and 4 only are true

                  c.  Statements 1 and 2 only are true         

                  d. All the statements are true

82.   --------- is one of the authors of The Empire Writes Back.
                        a.  Frantz Fanon            
                        b. Geoffrey Leech      
                        c. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o    
                        d. Helen Tiffin

83.   Match the following :

                 i.          Plato                            -              (a)On the Sublime

                ii.          Aristotle                      -              (b)Ars Poetica

               iii.          Horace                        -              (c)The Republic

               iv.          Longinus                     -              (d)Poetics

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b              

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a      

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                       

                    d. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

84.   -------- was the first to use the expression ‘negative capability’.
                        a.  Keats            
                        b. Wordsworth         
                        c. Coleridge          
                        d. Shelley

85.   Which of the following statement(s) is/are true?

                 i.          Eliot believed that tradition acted strongly even in poets who are considered avant-garde.

                ii.          Eliot asserted that tradition cannot be taken as a lump.

               iii.          Eliot believed that escape from emotion, not overflow of emotion was a poet’s creed.

               iv.          For Eliot ‘objective correlative’ referred to the way emotion is represented.

                  a.  Statements 2,3 and 4 only are true               

                  b. Statements 1 and 2 only are true

                  c.  Only statement 1 is true                            

                  d. All statements are true

86.   According to Cleanth Brooks ------ are the most important elements in poetry.
                        a.  Irony and paradox       
                        b. Themes and motifs             
                        c. Imagery and diction     
                        d. None of these

87.   Roman Jacobson is associated with -------
                        a.  Russian Formalism    
                        b. Translation theory           
                        c. Structuralism 
                        d. All of these

88.   The concept of ideological state apparatus was formulated by --------
                        a.  Karl Marx                
                        b. Antonio Gramsci             
                        c. Louis Althusser           
                        d. Jacques Derrida

89.   Which of the following statements are true?

                 i.          The ‘paradigmatic axis’ conceived by Saussure is vertical

                ii.          According to Saussure the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

               iii.          According to Saussure language can be conceived as a system of structures.

               iv.          According to Saussure much of language is innate.

                  a.  All the statements are true.               

                  b. Statements 1, 2 and 3 only are true.

                  c.  Statements 1 and 2 only are true 

                  d. Statements 3 and 4 only are true.

90.   The path-breaking book of Freud is titled -------
                        a.  The Interpretation of Dreams            
                        b. The Political Unconscious
                        c.  Psychology of the Unconscious        
                        d. On Narcissism

91.   The notion of ‘public sphere’ is associated with -------
                        a.  Frederic Jameson     
                        b. Michel Foucault      
                        c. Jacques Derrida        
                        d. Jurgen Habermas

92.   The following is NOT a work by Jacques Derrida :
                        a.  Of Grammatology       
                        b. Writing and Difference      
                        c. Margins of Philosophy           
                        d. History of Sexuality

93.   Match the following :

                 i.          The Second Sex                                       -              (a)Betty Friedan

                ii.          A Room of One’s Own                            -              (b)Simone de Beauvoir

               iii.          Towards a Feminist Poetics                    -              (c)Virginia Woolf

               iv.          The Feminine Mystique                          -              (d)Elaine Showalter

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b        

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a       

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c        

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

94.   Which of the following statements are true :

                 i.          Judith Butler asserted that gendered behavior is performance.

                ii.          Judith Butler stated that there are no stable identities.

               iii.          Judith Butler did not accept the distinction between sex and gender.

               iv.          The linguistic construction of ‘sex’ is stable, according to Judith Butler.

                  a.  Statements 1,2 and 4 only are true               

                  b. Statements 1,2 and 3 only are true

                  c.  Statements 1 and 2 only are true           

                  d. All the statements are true

95.   Match the following :

                 i.          Edward Said                -              (a) The Wretched of the Earth

                ii.          Bill Ashcroft                -              (b) Orientalism

               iii.          Homi Bhabha             -              (c) The Empire Writes Back

               iv.          Frantz Fanon              -              (d) Narration and Narration

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b            

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a         

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

96.   “New Historicism” and ------- are allied critical approaches.
                        a.  Reader Response Theory        
                        b. Deconstruction     
                        c. Cultural Materialism    
                        d. None of these

97.   Namdeo Dhasal is a ------ Dalit Writer.
                        a.  Gujarati       
                        b. Marathi        
                        c. Punjabi        
                        d. Oriya

98.   Match the following :

                 i.          Theory of Adaptation                             -              (a)Sherry Simon

                ii.          Polysystem Theory                                 -              (b)Andre Lefevere

               iii.          The Rewriting-Culture School              -              (c)Linda Hutcheon

               iv.          Feminist Translation Studies                 -              (d)Itamar Evan-Zohar

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b         

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a        

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                       

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

99.   Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India is a study on environmental issues in India by -----
                        a.  Medha Patkar             
                        b. Vandana Shiva        
                        c. Sunderlal Bahuguna   
                        d. Baba Amte

100.   Dhvanyaloka is a critical treatise by ______
              a.  Anandavardhana     
              b. Kunthaka             
              c. Bhamaha                 
              d. Patanjali

101.  The theory of Sphota was forumulated by :
              a.  Patanjali     
              b. Bhartrhari             
              c. Panini       
              d. Bhamaha

102.  Match the following :

                 i.           Raymond Williams                    -              (a) Dialectic of Enlightenment

                ii.          Theodor W Adorno                    -              (b) Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse

               iii.          Herbert Marcuse                        -              (c) Keywords

               iv.          Stuart Hall                                   -              (d) Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-c,(iv)-b           

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a          

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

103.  “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” is a famous assertion by :
              a.  Philip Sydney       
              b. Samuel Johnson        
              c. Alexander Pope      
              d. John Dryden

104.   Which one of the following is a work of Cleanth Brook?
              a.  Understanding Poetry            
              b. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

c.   William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond            
d. All of them

105.  Who among the following is considered as the founding father of semiotics?
             a.  I.A.Richards     
             b. Ferdinand Saussure            
             c. Jürgen Habermas   
             d. Michel Foucault

106.  Which among the following is a work of Simone de Beauvoir?
             a.  The Second Sex     
             b. She Came to Stay  
             c. The Mandarins   
             d. All of them

107.  Which among the following is a publication started by Dr.B.R.Ambedkhar?
             a.  Mook Nayak      
             b. Bahishkrit Bharat      
             c. Equality Janta      
             d. All of them

108.  The historical novel ‘People of the Black Mountains’ is written by :
             a.  Virginia Woolf         
             b. Frantz Fanon            
             c. Raymond Williams   
             d. Meaghan Morris

109.  Match the following rasas with their primary emotions :

                 i.          Adbhuta rasa              -              (a)pride

                ii.          Karuna rasa                -              (b)wonder

               iii.          Vira rasa                      -              (c)sorrow

               iv.          Raudra rasa                -              (d)anger

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c             

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a          

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                       

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

110.  Who among the following developed the theory of ‘cultural hegemony’?
              a. Louis Althusser
              b. Erich Fromm            
              c. Antonio Gramsci                  
              d. Frantz Fanon

111.  Which among the following is the famous commentary of Abhinavagupta on ‘Dhvanyaloka’?
              a.  Kavyaprakasha          
              b. Lochana               
              c. Alankara Sarvasva         
              d. Abhinav Bharti

112.  Match the following :

                                               i.     Lost Woods                                                     -              (a) Cheryll Glotfelty

                                              ii.    The Bioregional Imagination                        -              (b) Harold Fromm

                                             iii.   The Nature of being human                          -              (c)Vandana Shiva

                                             iv.    The Violence of the Green Revolution          -              (d)Rachel Carson

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c     

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a           

                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                      

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

113.  Johnson’s ‘Lives of the English Poets’ appeared between?
             a.  1775-1779        
             b. 1780-1785           
             c. 1735-1739         
             d. 1779-1781

114.  Identify the poem from which the following lines by T.S.Eliot are taken:

“I think we are in rats’ alley

Where the dead men lost their bones.”

        a.  Sweeney Among the Nightingales        

        b. The Hollow Men         

        c. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

        d. The Waste Land

115.  “Orientalism assumed an unchanging orient, absolutely different from the west.” This statement was made by :
              a.  Gayathri Spivak         
              b. Edward Said           
              c. Ashis Nandy             
              d. Homi Bhabha

116.  Who among the following critics, belongs to the branch of “Reader Response Criticism”?
              a.  Roman Jacobson        
              b. Stanley Fish          
              c. Terry Eagleton         
              d. Helene Cixous

117.  The terms ‘trace’, ‘presence’ and ‘difference’ belong to the following branch of critical theory :
              a.  Structuralism          
              b. New Criticism 
              c. Semiotics                
              d. Deconstruction

118.  “The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thompson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thompson impresses.” This tribute to Thompson’s ability was paid by :
              a.  Dr. Johnson      
              b. Alexander Pope     
              c. Jonathan Swift        
              d. William Collins

119.  In ‘Biographia Literaria’ Coleridge remarks :

“It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate……” ‘It’ refers to :

        a.  Perception    

        b. Imagination            

        c. Awareness               

        d. Fancy

120.  “………….. is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Pick the correct phrase to fill in the blanks.
              a.  Epiphany        
              b. Dissociation of Sensibility   
              c. Transferred Epithet            
              d. Negative Capability