1. Which of the following works does not address the theme of ‘The Fall of Man’?

(A) Milton’s Paradise Lost

(B) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy

(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

(D) Camus’ The Fall

Answer: (B)

2. The 17th century collection of French fables which facilitated the migration of tales to a large extent were written by

(A) La Fontaine

(B) Aesop

(C) Ignacy Krasicki

(D) Phaedrus

Answer: (A)

3. The following book argues that growth in literary criticism and the interest in institutionalizing literary education are closely interrelated:

(A) Is there a text in this class?

(B) The Anxiety of Influence

(C) The Social Mission of English Criticism: 1848 – 1932

(D) After Theory

Answer: (C)

4. By “Cultural Capital” is meant ____.

(A) the prestige attached to a particular work of art, or any commodity, in a socio-cultural milieu

(B) the prestige attached to capitalist culture in a sociocultural milieu

(C) the distinction capitalism draws between/among culture’s products and effects

(D) the capital culture makes in a scenario that undervalues noncultural products and services

Answer: (A)

5. The following could constitute legitimate objects of enquiry within cultural studies

I. Work song

II. Comic book

III. Film

IV. Social networking

The correct combination according to the code:

(A) Only III

(B) Only II

(C) All of the above

(D) II and IV

Answer: (C)

6. Arrange the following in chronological order:

i. Aeschylus’ death

ii. Babur’s arrival in India

iii. Virgil’s birth

iv. The traditional date for the fall of Troy

Codes:

(A) i ii iii iv

(B) iv i iii ii

(C) iii ii i iv

(D) iv iii ii i

Answer: (B)

7. Grouped below are languages that share socio-historical and cultural traditions of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Identify the group to which languages with this shared history belong:

1. Hindi, Urdu, English, Dogri

2. Bangla, Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati

3. Manipuri, Maithili, Malayalam

4. Chhattisgarh, Haryanvi, Marathi

Codes:

(A) 1

(B) 3 & 4

(C) 2

(D) 1 & 2

Answer: (D)

8. Which of the following argues for an open embrace of and sympathy for, linguistic aliens and minorities?

(A) Monolingualism of the Other

(B) Strangers to Ourselves

(C) A Million Mutinies

(D) The Stranded Diaspora

Answer: (A)

9. Which of the following statements on Vande Matram is/are not true?

1. Its opening passage is an invocation of fertility, beauty and benignity.

2. It code switches from Sanskrit to Bangla and back.

3. It is the battle chant of the Hindu army in Bankim Chandra’s novel.

4. It is a lyric Bankim Chandra wrote at the ascension of George V to the throne of England.

5. It became popular as a great revolutionary hymn during India’s struggle for independence.

Codes:

(A) 1 & 2 are not true.

(B) 4 is not true.

(C) 3 & 5 are not true.

(D) 3 is not true.

Answer: (B)

10. Identify the author of Literary into Cultural Studies from the following:

(A) Lawrence Grossberg

(B) Meghan Morris

(C) Stuart Hall

(D) Anthony Easthoge

Answer: (D)

11. Hori is a character in

(A) Godan

(B) House of Kanooru

(C) Hajaar Churashir Ma

(D) Padmamali

Answer: (A)

12. Identify the writer of The Joys of Motherhood.

(A) Ama Ata Aidoo

(B) Buchi Emecheta

(C) Flora Nwapa

(D) Bessie Head

Answer: (B)

13. On the question of cultural production of meaning, this text highlighted how different class cultures might in fact share sources, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, yet make radically opposed meanings of those works in arriving at a consciousness of one’s relational position in society. The text in question is

(A) The Uses of Literacy

(B) The Making of English Working Class

(C) Culture and Society: 1780-1950

(D) Crusoe’s Footprints

Answer: (B)

14. Which of the following art styles does not belong to the classical group?

(A) Expressionism

(B) The Baroque

(C) The Renaissance

(D) The Gothic

Answer: (C)

15. All except one of the following films incorporate the experience of the partition in their plots. Identify the exception.

(A) Garm Hawa

(B) Earth 1947

(C) Heat and Dust

(D) Meghey Dhaka Tara

Answer: (C)

16. An artist, very crucial to an understanding of narrative forms in the eighteenth-century English culture, engraved the contemporary English society in a series of scenes called

(A) The Rogne’s Progress

(B) The Pilgrim’s Progress

(C) The Harlot’s Progress

(D) The Journeyman’s Progress

Answer: (C)

17. Lessing’s Laskoön invokes comparison primarily between literature and

(A) Greek Sculpture

(B) Roman Sculpture

(C) Roman art

(D) German music

Answer: (B)

18. Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarcthwstra was interpreted in music by

(A) Philip Glass

(B) Richard Strauss

(C) Karl Böhm

(D) John Cage

Answer: (B)

19. Identify the common factor which binds these three characters – Noah, Utnapishtim and Deucalion.

(A) They fought for the independence of their country.

(B) They built boats to save the lives of God’s creations.

(C) They spread Christianity in their homelands.

(D) They were all turned into beasts.

Answer: (B)

20. The concept of a ‘Literary History from Below’ was first enunciated by which of the following scholar?

(A) Susie Tharu

(B) Tutun Mukherjee

(C) Amiya Dev

(D) N.D. Mirajkar

Answer: (C)

21. The term ‘Mosaic’ is used to describe the cultural framework of

(A) USA

(B) Australia

(C) UK

(D) Canada

Answer: (D)

22. Comparative Literature: Where have we been, where are we now, where are we going and do we want to go there? Is a recent book on Comparative Literature by

(A) Dorothy Figueira

(B) Haun Saussy

(C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(D) Steven Sondrup

Answer: (A)

23. Dialectic of Enlightenment was written by

(A) Jean Baudrillard and Max Horkheimer

(B) Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno

(C) Jean Baudrillard and Theodor Adorno

(D) Jean Baudrillard and Pierre Bourdieu

Answer: (B)

24. Listed below are 4 Indian journals. One of them was devoted to translation and translation studies.

(A) Triveni

(B) Indian Thought

(C) Hans

(D) Setu

Answer: (D)

25. It is argued that Indian literature is neither “one” nor “many” but rather a systemic whole, by

(A) Sujit Mukherjee

(B) Sisir Kumar Das

(C) Swapan Majumdar

(D) V.K. Gokak

Answer: (C)

26. Which of the following languages was not covered in Comparative Indian Literature, edited by K.M. George and published in 1984?

(A) Kashmiri

(B) Sanskrit

(C) Sindhi

(D) Lepcha

Answer: (D)

27. Name the theoretician who, in the 1920s, described Comparative Literature as a bogus term that made neither sense nor syntax.

(A) Lane Cooper

(B) Austin Warren

(C) Ulrich Weisstein

(D) Rene Wellek

Answer: (A)

28. Who among the persons listed below is not an indigenous story teller?

(A) Ned Kelly

(B) Lee Maracle

(C) Hoskie Benally

(D) Hiromi Goto

Answer: (D)

29. “On Cannibals” is

(A) a short story written by George Orwell

(B) an essay written by Michel de Montaigue

(C) an essay written by Francis Bacon

(D) a short story written by Kenneth Anderson

Answer: (B)

30. “Peshwar Express” is a short story by

(A) Krishna Chander

(B) Rajinder Singh Bedi

(C) Saadat Hasan Manto

(D) Ismat Chugtai

Answer: (A)

31. Among other things, Comparative Literature is a branch of literary history and it is, like all historical disciplines, faced with the thankless task of bringing order to the seeming chaos of ceaselessly unfolding and constantly flowing events. Who commented this?

(A) Amiya Dev

(B) Ulrich Weisstein

(C) Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

(D) Matthew Arnold

Answer: (B)

32. Which of the following works is not literature proper and is more of a political treatise?

(A) War and Peace

(B) Crime and Punishment

(C) The Prince

(D) The Agony and the Ecstasy

Answer: (C)

33. The first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature was

(A) Yukio Mishima

(B) Yasunari Kawabata

(C) Haruki Murakami

(D) Kenji Nakagami

Answer: (B)

34. Death in Venice is written by

(A) Agatha Christie in English

(B) Machiavelli in Italian

(C) Thomas Mann in German

(D) Honore de Balzac in French

Answer: (C)

35. The Wretched of the Earth is a book by

(A) Edward Said related to postcolonial theory

(B) Edward Said related to readerresponse theory

(C) Franz Fanon related to readerresponse theory

(D) Franz Fanon related to postcolonial theory

Answer: (D)

36. Which of the following is associated with Translation Studies?

(A) Locke/Dryden Map

(B) Franco-Germanic Map

(C) Holmes/Toury Map

(D) Prussian-Czech Map

Answer: (C)

37. Which of the following texts argues that untouchability has its roots in internal social discrimination in India and not in racial difference, as had been argued by Stanley Rice, a sociologist?

(A) “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

(B) Balut

(C) Taral-Antaral

(D) Untouchables: Who were they?

Answer: (D)

38. “Comparative Literature in India” the landmark essay published in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (YCGL) was written by

(A) G.N. Devy

(B) D.W. Fokkema

(C) Buddhadeva Bose

(D) Jasbir Jain

Answer: (C)

39. The first modern phase of Hindi literature is held to be the

(A) Dwivedi period

(B) Chhayavaad

(C) Pragativaad

(D) Bhartendu period

Answer: (D)

40. How many Prakrits are prescribed in “Natyashastra”?

(A) 5

(B) 8

(C) 7

(D) 10

Answer: (C)

41. In Brecht’s Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis, the most important message is contained in the

(A) Epilogue

(B) Chorus

(C) Prologue

(D) Dedication

Answer: (C)

42. Who among the following do you associate with the concepts of formal and dynamic equivalence?

(A) Itamar Evan-Zohar

(B) Eugene Nida

(C) Lawrence Venuti

(D) Walter Benjamin

Answer: (B)

43. Which writer’s Nobel Prize Address makes a reference to both Antonio Pigafetta and William Faulkner?

(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(B) Octavio Paz

(C) Mo Yan

(D) Frauz Kafka

Answer: (A)

44. The journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India is called

(A) Literature and Literary Studies

(B) Literary and Cultural Studies

(C) Indian Comparative Literature Studies

(D) Sahitya

Answer: (D)

45. Sisir Kumar Das’ “Muses in Isolation” pleads for

(i) abolishing English studies in India

(ii) a rationale of English studies in India

(iii) a distinction between the teaching of English language and the teaching of English literature

(iv) strengthening the teaching of the English language in India

Codes:

(A) Only (i) is correct.

(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.

(D) Only (iv) is correct.

Answer: (C)

46. Which of the bodies mentioned below was one of the two organizations that merged to form the Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)?

(A) Comparative Literature Society

(B) Indian National Comparative Literature Association

(C) Dravidian Comparative Literature Association

(D) Comparative Literature Association of Delhi

Answer: (B)

47. Namdeo Dhasal’s poetry has been translated most recently into Bengali by

(A) Manabendra Bandyopadhyay

(B) Sunil Gangopadhyay

(C) Aveek Majumdar

(D) Mahasweta Devi

Answer: (C)

48. In the essay “Present Tasks of Comparative Literature” Meltzl emphasizes on the idea of

(A) Defamiliarization

(B) World literature

(C) The principle of polyglottism

(D) National literature

Answer: (C)

49. Identify the text which is not adapted from Mahabharata.

(A) Andha Yug

(B) Mahagatha

(C) Yugantar

(D) Samskara

Answer: (D)

50. The Aeneid is

(A) an epic poem written in Greek

(B) an epic poem written in Latin

(C) a historical treatise on ancient Greece

(D) an early Latin religious text

Answer: (B)

51. Who among the following was not one of the contributors to Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches, edited by Chandra Mohan and published in 1989?

(A) Harish Trivedi

(B) K. Chellapan

(C) Gerald Gillespie

(D) Rene Wellek

Answer: (D)

52. Which of the following constitutes one of the periods of literary history demarcated by Sisir Kumar Das in his A History of Indian Literature?

(A) 1800-1835

(B) 1857-1919

(C) 1885-1919

(D) 1857-1900

Answer: (A)

53. That the notion of fidelity in translation was not an essential one for the Indian context before colonial contact, was argued by

(A) Sujit Mukherjee

(B) Hrish Trivedi

(C) Rabindranath Tagore

(D) Jaucy James

Answer: (A)

54. Lacan has been influential on

(A) French Feminism

(B) Post-Modernism

(C) Marxist Cultural Studies

(D) American Feminism

Answer: (A)

55. The tradition of Revenge Tragedy was introduced in Europe by

(A) Corneille

(B) Kyd

(C) Seneca

(D) Racine

Answer: (C)

56. Identify the writer who says: “I think Comparative Literature, which is not different from the study of single literatures so far as the critical methodology is concerned, but differs only in matter and attitude, can play a vital role in the reorganization of our literature faculties and in the teaching of literature.”

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) Harish Trivedi

(C) K.M. George

(D) Sisir Kumar Das

Answer: (D)

57. Eiron and alazon are characters in _______.

(A) Sophoclean tragedy

(B) Farce

(C) Aristophenian comedy

(D) Interlude

Answer: (C)

58. “Triumph and Tragedy” is one of the sections of the following book:

(A) Partitioning Pakistan

(B) A History of Indian Literature

(C) The Legacy of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

(D) Sylvia Plath : An Unauthorized Biography

Answer: (B)

59. Prithviraj Raso ascribed to Chand Bardai is composed in

(A) Standard Hindi

(B) Maithili

(C) Maithili and Bhojpuri

(D) Sandhyabhasha

Answer: (D)

60. Hayden White says: “… a specifically historical inquiry is born less of the necessity to establish that certain events occurred than of the desire to determine what certain events might mean for a given group, society, or culture’s conception of its present tasks and future prospects.” Here, White reconceptualises historical process to include the

(A) importance of validation of historical events

(B) application of archival procedures to past occurrences

(C) relations between texts and the contexts of production as well as reception

(D) indexical relation between intention and meaning

Answer: (C)

61. The Macmillan Modern Indian Novels in Translation series

(A) domesticates all culture – specific markers into English

(B) retains many culture-specific markers and provides detailed annotations

(C) retains culture-specific markers, but neither annotates them nor signposts them by italicising

(D) retains culture-specific markers, italicises them, but does not provide any connotations

Answer: (B)

62. Of primary importance to Aristotle’s understanding of tragedy is the play

(A) Oedipus Rex

(B) Oedipus Tyrannus

(C) Antigone

(D) Choephoroi

Answer: (A)

63. Hutom Pyanchar Naksha is written by

(A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

(B) Kaliprasanna Sinha

(C) Fakir Mohan Senapati

(D) Nabakanta Barua

Answer: (B)

64. Kiratarjuna according to the Sashtras, is designated as

(A) Charit

(B) Mahakavya

(C) Virgatha

(D) Akhyayika

Answer: (B)

65. Assertion (A): The erosion of national boundaries in the sphere of literary production may serve as a Utopian project of encouraging transnational solidarity and exchange.

Reason (R): It can be deployed to disguise, in processes of cultural imperialism, the residual asymmetries embedded in neo-colonial structures of politics, economics and international power.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (B)

66. Post Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice has been jointly edited by

(A) Harish Trivedi & Jaucy James

(B) Jaucy James & Susan Bassnett

(C) Susan Bassnett & Harish Trivedi

(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Andre Lefevere

Answer: (C)

67. The play by Vijay Tendulkar that is modelled on a real-life incident in the world of the media is

(A) Kanyadaan

(B) Bimala

(C) Kamala

(D) A Friend’s Story

Answer: (C)

68. The following theoreticians have been particularly critical of thematology:

(i) Fernand Baldensperger

(ii) Paul Hazard

(iii) Benedetto Croce

(iv) Rene Wellek

Codes:

(A) (i) and (ii)

(B) (i) and (iii)

(C) All of the above

(D) None of the above

Answer: (C)

69. In Manto’s short story “Khol do”, the name of one of the characters is

(A) Hasina

(B) Sakina

(C) Hanifa

(D) Kamala

Answer: (B)

70. Which of the following has little, if any, theoretical efficacy as a contentcategory?

(A) Motif

(B) Situation

(C) Staff

(D) Theme

Answer: (C)

71. Identify the writer of Kafka on the Shore.

(A) Haruki Murakami

(B) Yukio Mishima

(C) Hideo Oguma

(D) Kobo Abe

Answer: (A)

72. In which of these books did Gurbhagat Singh’s “Comparative Literature: Towards a Non-

Logocentric Paradigm” appear?

(A) Aspects of Comparative Literature

(B) Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization

(C) Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice

(D) Comparative Literature: The Indian Context

Answer: (C)

73. W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” uses a cluster of images from Bruegel’s paintings. While the poem explicitly mentions his “Fall of Icarus” some other references to his works include:

I. The Crucifixion

II. The Massacre of the Innocents

III. The Numbering at Bethlehem

IV. The Procession to Calvary

The correct combination according to the code is:

Codes:

(A) II and III are correct.

(B) I and III are correct.

(C) I and IV are correct.

(D) III and IV are correct.

Answer: (A)

74. In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published The Lyrical Ballads. The same year saw the publication of another such joint venture in Europe. The contributors to this anthology were

(A) Lamartine and Musset

(B) Goethe and Schiller

(C) Shelley and Keats

(D) Heine and Herder

Answer: (B)

75. Who among the following Indian scholars is reputed to have contemplated a literary history of/for India in at least two of his major books?

(A) Harish Trivedi

(B) K. Ayyappa Panicker

(C) Sujit Mukherjee

(D) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar

Answer: (C)

1. The first systematic application of the theory of patriarchy to literary studies was made by

(A) Michel Foucalt

(B) Shulamith Firestone

(C) Nigel Leask

(D) Kate Millet

Answer: (D)

2. Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” was initially written as an introduction to an anthology of translations of poems by

(A) Schiller

(B) Rilke

(C) Baudelaire

(D) Paul Valery

Answer: (C)

3. ‘Rasa’ is an amalgamation of

(A) Bibhava and Anubhava

(B) Bibhava, Anubhava, Vyabhicaribhava, Sthayibhava

(C) Sthayibhava and Bibhava

(D) Bibhava, Anubhava, Vyabhicaribhava

Answer: (B)

4. With which genre would you associate the poem “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”?

(A) Noh

(B) Haiku

(C) Khandakavya

(D) Ghazal

Answer: (B)

5. Kappanna and Appanna are characters in which of these modern Indian plays?

(A) Yayati

(B) Nagamandala

(C) Tughlaq

(D) Sakharam Binder

Answer: (B)

6. Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:

I. Anand Math

II. Umrao Jan Ada

III. Godan

IV. Indulekha

Code:

(A) I, IV, II, III

(B) IV, I, III, II

(C) II, IV, I, III

(D) III, II, I, IV

Answer: (A)

7. Name the author of the influential essay, “From Comparative Literature to Translation Studies”.

(A) Susan Bassnett

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Tejaswini Niranjana

(D) Itamar Even-Zohar

Answer: (A)

8. Which of the following is not a report on the scope, status and standards of Comparative Literature?

(A) Bassnett Report

(B) Bernheimer Report

(C) Levin Report

(D) Greene Report

Answer: (A)

9. The Howe Past Midnight is an English translation of Tamil writer Salma’s works done by

(A) Sundara Ramaswamy

(B) Sujit Mukherjee

(C) Lakshmi Holmstrom

(D) A.K. Ramanujan

Answer: (C)

10. Which of these methods deal/(s) primarily with categories related to content?

(A) Thematology

(B) Genology and Historiography

(C) Stylistics

(D) Thematology and Stylistics

Answer: (A)

11. A key theory in translation studies that challenges the hegemony of the source language and locates the translation firmly in the context of the target language space instead, is the

(A) Polyphony theory

(B) Polyvalence theory

(C) Multivalence theory

(D) Polysystem theory

Answer: (D)

12. Homeric epithet is a combination of

(A) Adjective and Noun

(B) Two adjectives

(C) Noun and Adverb

(D) Adjective and Adverb

Answer: (A)

13. Vidyasagar’s Bhrantibilas is an adaption of Shakespeare’s

(A) Macbeth

(B) Romeo and Juliet

(C) The Tempest

(D) Comedy of Errors

Answer: (D)

14. Gargantua and Pantagruel is

(A) Written by Montaigne during the medieval period in France

(B) Written by Rabelais during French Renaissance

(C) Written by Villon during early Renaissance in France

(D) Written by Montaigne during French Romanticism

Answer: (B)

15. The tripartite division of translation into ‘metaphases’, ‘paraphrase’ and ‘imitation’ was introduced by

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) John Dryden

(C) Walter Benjamin

(D) Susan Bassnett

Answer: (B)

16. Which of the following languages was not covered by the original four volumes of the National Bibliography of Indian Literature 1901-1953 published by the Sahitya Akademi, but was part of the fifth volume, which was envisaged and added later to the series?

(A) Kashmiri

(B) Rajasthani

(C) Sanskrit

(D) Sindhi

Answer: (B)

17. Identify the author who is a double migrant:

(A) Rohinton Mistry

(B) Shani Mootoo

(C) Shyam Selvadurai

(D) Anita Rau Badami

Answer: (B)

18. The philosopher whose deconstructionist critique of problems of origins, essence and presence caught the attention of critics who had grown disenchanted with New Criticism and structuralism, was

(A) Jacques Derrida

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Mikhail Bakhtin

(D) Roland Barthes

Answer: (A)

19. Bakhtin proposes the notion of

(A) Heteroglossia

(B) Zones of characters

(C) (A) and (B)

(D) None of them

Answer: (C)

20. Name the translator who infamously stated that the Persian poets he translated were not poets enough until he made them so

(A) William Jones

(B) Charles Wilkins

(C) Edward Fitzgerald

(D) Ram Mohan Roy

Answer: (C)

21. Which of the following is one of the definitive characteristics of the French School of Comparative Literature?

(A) Stylistics

(B) Polygenesis Studies

(C) Influence Studies

(D) Mythological Studies

Answer: (C)

22. The common element is early Bangla and Ahamiya literature is

(A) Namah texts

(B) Charyapadas

(C) Krittibas’ Ramayana

(D) Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita

Answer: (B)

23. G.K. Chisterton’s “After Walt Whitman” is _______

(A) A parody of Whitman’s themes

(B) A caricature of Whitman’s persona

(C) A tribute to Whitman’s clairvoyance

(D) A parody of Whitman’s style

Answer: (D)

24. Which of the following is, in sum, Paul de Man’s thesis in such books as Blindness & Insight and Allegories of Reading?

(A) In all things that speech can express, these are two elements – the outward or instrumental and the real or spiritual.

(B) What literature “knows” is that knowledge is a paretic, that is, unavailable, because it is subject to a double bind. We cannot have access to the truth that we seek in literature; and this is literature’s truth.

(C) Canonical works take the measure of the reader by means of their authority; their capacity to rebuke, baffles, and thwart us, as well as surprise us with unexpected, astonishing power. Even at its most frustrating, the canonical work draws us on; in our fascination, we remain loyal to it.

(D) In the struggle for the allegiance of the reading public, the established poetics can point to prestigious finished products whereas the adherents of the new poetics cannot yet do so. Consequently, the challenges being to import their own ‘finished products’.

Answer: (B)

25. “From country to popular” is the subtitle of a volume of which series on Indian Literary history?

(A) A History of Indian Literature

(B) The Oral Tradition in India

(C) Literary History of India

(D) India: Her Literature and Culture

Answer: (A)

26. The Pleiade is

(i) A cluster of stars

(ii) A group of 18th century French poets

(iii) A group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians.

(A) Only (i) is correct.

(B) Only (ii) is correct.

(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.

(D) (ii) and (iii) are correct.

Answer: (C)

27. Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?

(A) Jagannatha

(B) Bharata

(C) Mammata

(D) Anandavardhana

Answer: (D)

28. Novels that breach the template are held by reception aesthetics to be

(A) Discursively constructed

(B) Extending the horizon of expectation

(C) Creating estrangement

(D) Canonically correct

Answer: (B)

29. Miss Leela Benare is the protagonist of which of these plays?

(A) Evam Indrajit

(B) Ghasiram Kotwal

(C) Adhe Adhure

(D) Silence! The Court is in Session

Answer: (D)

30. “The theorist who took it upon himself to” distinguish between what is social from what is individual in language, and what is essential from what is ancillary was

(A) Eugene Nida

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Roman Jacobson

Answer: (B)

31. Name the 1958 work that applied structuralist and semi logical methods to a range of non-literary texts such as wrestling, food and fashion

(A) S/Z

(B) The Pleasure of the Text

(C) Mythologies

(D) Writing Degree Zero

Answer: (C)

32. The European poet who compared his own poetic style with that of Pinder in the lines “Julus, whoever rivals Pindar……” was

(A) Roousard

(B) Harace

(C) Catullus

(D) Villon

Answer: (B)

33. The Loeb Classical Library is known to provide comparative literary scholars with __________.

(A) Original classics in unexpurgated format

(B) Literary translations of classics

(C) Literal translations of classics

(D) Original classics, edited, with notes and lists of sources

Answer: (C)

34. Identify the Booker Prize awardee from the list below, who was not born in India.

(A) Arundhati Ray

(B) Salman Rushdie

(C) V.S. Naipaul

(D) Aravind Adiga

Answer: (C)

35. Babaji Nataka

(i) Is considered by many as the first Oriya play.

(ii) Has been translated into English as The Holy Man.

(iii) Is written in colloquial 19thcentury Oriya.

(iv) Has several characters who speak Bangla, Hindi and English.

(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

(B) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.

(C) Only (i) is correct.

(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.

Answer: (D)

36. Uttararamacaritam was a famous play of

(A) Bhavabhuti

(B) Kalidasa

(C) Shudraka

(D) Banabhatta

Answer: (A)

37. The name of Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury has been taken from

(A) Othello

(B) King Lear

(C) Hamlet

(D) Macbeth

Answer: (D)

38. Ovid’s Metamorphoses contains

(A) A collection of religious sayings

(B) A collection of myths

(C) A collection of parables

(D) A collection of poems on ancient European civilization

Answer: (B)

39. Identify the book which does not fall under the category of diasporic literature

(A) Can you hear the Night bird call?

(B) The Oath of the Vayuputras

(C) Interpreter of Maladies

(D) The Sorrow and the Terror

Answer: (B)

40. Identify the one which is not a historical novel:

(A) Ivanhoe

(B) The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(C) War and Peace

(D) Moby Dick

Answer: (D)

41. The Order of Things is a book by

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo

Answer: (B)

42. Aayatollah Khomeini had declared a ‘fatwa’ on

(A) Arundhati Ray for “God of Small Things”

(B) Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children

(C) Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses

(D) Amitav Ghosh for River of Smoke

Answer: (C)

43. The Cherry Orchard was written by

(A) Moliere in French

(B) Chekhov in Russian

(C) Heine in German

(D) Chekhov in Polish

Answer: (B)

44. Who declared that the “unconscious is structured like a language”?

(A) Jacques Lacan

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(C) Roman Jacobson

(D) Sigmund Freud

Answer: (A)

45. The greatest theorist of tragicomedy was

(A) Giovanni de Bernardo

(B) Battista Guarini

(C) John Dryden

(D) Joseph Addison

Answer: (B)

46. “Translation as Perjury” is an essay by

(A) Rammohan Roy

(B) N. Kamala

(C) Anisur Rahman

(D) Sujit Mukherjee

Answer: (D)

47. Counterpoints is written by

(A) Ipshita Chanda

(B) Nabaneeta Dev Sen

(C) Chandra Mohan

(D) Ajeet Kaur

Answer: (B)

48. Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Flies borrows its theme from

(A) Sophocles

(B) Aristophanes

(C) Homer

(D) Aeschylus

Answer: (D)

49. The first department of comparative literature was started at

(A) Jadavpur University

(B) Calcutta University

(C) Delhi University

(D) University of Kerala

Answer: (A)

50. Which of the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

(A) John Steinbeck

(B) Jean-Paul Sartre

(C) Leo Tolstoy

(D) Harold Pinter

Answer: (C)

51. “Why Comparative Indian Literature?” is an essay by

(A) R.K. Dasgupta

(B) Amiya Dev

(C) Swapan Majumdar

(D) Sisir Kumar Das

Answer: (D)

52. Who among the following cannot be subsumed under the category, American Transcendentalists?

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(C) Emily Dickinson

(D) Henry David Thoreau

Answer: (C)

53. Friedrich Schlegel was a major figure of

(A) Early German classicism

(B) Medieval German Literature

(C) The Storm and Drang Movement

(D) German Romanticism

Answer: (D)

54. The English Novel Rajmohan’s wife was written by

(A) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

(B) Raja Rammohan Roy

(C) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay

(D) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer: (C)

55. Homer’s The Odyssey contains

(A) 12 books

(B) 18 books

(C) 24 books

(D) 6 books

Answer: (C)

56. The Hindi film Utsav was based on

(A) Gathasaptasati

(B) Tripitaka

(C) Mricchhakatika

(D) Meghduta

Answer: (C)

57. _________ is the study of the discursive content of images, the symbolic meanings that they express.

(A) Iconology

(B) Philology

(C) Mythography

(D) Iconography

Answer: (D)

58. Which early European poet used the AZP structure of the ballet to formulate his stanzaic pattern?

(A) Dante

(B) Petrarch

(C) Harace

(D) Pindar

Answer: (D)

59. Satyajit Ray’s award winning film “Pather Panchali” is based on a novel by

(A) Kazi Nazrul Islam

(B) Rabindranath Tagore

(C) Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay

(D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Answer: (C)

60. Which of the following reports engages most clearly with the emergence of Cultural studies?

(A) Greene Report

(B) Blue Report

(C) Bernheimer Report

(D) Levin Report

Answer: (C)

61. Culture Studies as an academic discipline began in the UK at the

(A) University of London

(B) University of Birmingham

(C) University of Manchester

(D) University of East Anglia

Answer: (B)

62. Name the author of the novel Kartography

(A) Hanif Qureishi

(B) Anitav Ghosh

(C) Shyam Selvadurai

(D) Kamala Shamsie

Answer: (D)

63. Who among the following devised a “pointillist” method in Art history?

(A) Ernest Gombrich

(B) Fernand Braudel

(C) Erwin Panofsky

(D) Heinrich Wölfflin

Answer: (B)

64. The following poems furnish good examples of the artistic potential of emphasis:

I. “The Lady of Shallot”

II. “Musee des Beaux Arts”

III. “Preludes”

IV. “Ode on a Grecian Uru”

(A) I and II are correct

(B) II and III are correct

(C) III and IV are correct

(D) II and IV are correct

Answer: (D)

65. Principles of Art History was written by

(A) Oskar Walzel

(B) Heinrich Wolfflin

(C) Zimmermann

(D) E. Legouis

Answer: (B)

66. Which of these books were published in two different editions separated by many years, the first in black and white, and the second in colour, where the racism in the former was sought to be removed by the author in the latter?

(A) Tintin in Africa

(B) Tintin in America

(C) Tintin in the Congo

(D) Tintin and the Broken Ear

Answer: (C)

67. Match List – I with List – II:

List – I                                                            List – II

(Broad Area)                                       (Theorist associated with it)

i. The politics of representations         1. Richard Hoggart

ii. Cultural studies and Media             2. Stuart Hall

iii. The audience and consumption     3. Lawrence Grossberg

iv. Cultural studies in the US              4. David Morley

Codes:

       i ii iii iv

(A) 3 4 2 1

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 2 1 4 3

(D) 4 3 1 2

Answer: (C)

68. The ‘Inuits’ are commonly known as

(A) Negroes

(B) Eskimos

(C) Australoids

(D) Red-Indians

Answer: (B)