The complete UGC NET December 2021 question paper for English Literature, covering Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature). Every question below is shown with its options and the correct answer, and a detailed explanation you can unlock by signing in. All 300 questions are free to practise.
| Exam | UGC NET December 2021 |
|---|---|
| Papers | Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature) |
| Exam date(s) | December 1, 2021 |
| Shift(s) | Shift 1 · Shift 2 |
| Paper 1 questions | 100 questions · 60 minutes · 100 marks |
| Paper 2 questions | 200 questions · 120 minutes · 200 marks |
| Total | 300 questions |
| Marking scheme | +2 per correct answer · No negative marking |
UGC NET December 2021 · Shift 1 · English Literature sitting
UGC NET December 2021 · Shift 2 · English Literature sitting
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
As students mature, the study of social issues at the community, state, national and international levels can be made available to them. Which model is designed for this purpose?
Answer: (B) Jurisprudential inquiry
Explanation
Arrange the phases for syntax of Group Investigation Model in correct sequence:
A. Students formulate study task and organise for study
B. Students analyse progress and process
C. Students encounter puzzling situation
D. Independent and Group study
E. Students explore reactions to the situation
Answer: (C) C, E, A, D, B
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The core of the teaching process is the arrangement of environments within which students can interact and study how to learn.
Statement II: A model of teaching is not a description of a learning environment.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Explanation
The 4Rs approach to conflict resolution comprises:
A. Reading
B. Writing
C. Respect
D. Reprimand
E. Resolution
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, B, C and E only
Explanation
Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the options given below.
| List I: Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development | List II: Approximate age |
|---|---|
| A. Sensorimotor | I. Begins about the first grade to early adolescent, around 11 years old |
| B. Preoperational | II. Adolescent to adulthood |
| C. Concrete operational | III. 0-2 years |
| D. Formal operational | IV. Begins about the time the child starts talking to about 7 years old |
Piaget's stages of cognitive development and approximate ages
Answer: (D) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
Explanation
Discourse analysis in historical research is associated with
Answer: (D) Foucault
Explanation
Which of the following are examples of violation of research ethics?
A. Violating participant confidentiality
B. Making recommendations beyond the scope of data collected
C. Using an inappropriate research design
D. Changing data to meet a desired outcome
E. Using a quantitative method in place of a qualitative method
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A, B and D only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Experimenter effects are errors introduced during the collection or analysis of experimental data due to the behaviour of the experimenter.
Statement II: Due to the presence of certain cues in the experimental setting, the participants form an interpretation of the experiment's purpose and subconsciously change their behaviour to fit that interpretation.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: The major deficiency of pre-experimental design is that they fail to provide comparison groups.
Reason R: Equivalence can be achieved through matching and random assignment.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: In the case study method, the researcher collects detailed information from a limited number of participants.
Reason R: Findings based on case study research can be used to develop research hypotheses/questions for subsequent studies.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
The Gandhian method of communication is known as:
Answer: (D) Massline
Explanation
Modern mass communication has the characteristics of being:
A. Sporadic
B. Continuous
C. Based on a schedule
D. Not much dependent on technology
E. Dependent on the use of media
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, C and E only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The primary act of communication begins when an individual decides to use a particular language symbol, susceptible to standardised interpretation, resulting in common meaning.
Statement II: Meaning refers to inner, subjective reactions to images, interpretations, emotions and feelings as given out by the words used.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Explanation
Find out the sequence of elements of effective communication as listed by Cutlip et al.
A. Promise of reward
B. Message clarity
C. Consistency
D. Climate of belief
E. Participatory context
Answer: (C) D, E, A, B, C
Explanation
Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the options given below.
| List I: Communication function/Issue | List II: Area of Operation |
|---|---|
| A. Gatekeeping | I. Time-binding capacity |
| B. Persuasion | II. News |
| C. Entropy | III. Advertising |
| D. Memory | IV. Chaos in communication |
Communication functions/issues and areas of operation
Answer: (A) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
Explanation
The angle between hour hand and the minute hand at 3:40 pm is
Answer: (A) 130°
Explanation
A sum of money on simple interest doubles itself in 10 years. It will triple itself in
Answer: (B) 20 years
Explanation
Find the missing term in the following series:
2, 9, 37, 149, ?
Answer: (D) 597
Explanation
Average of ten positive numbers is X. If each number is increased by 10%, then new average increases by:
Answer: (C) 10%
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The average of first twenty multiples of 9 is 92.5.
Statement II: The average of first ten multiples of 11 is 60.5.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Explanation
Which of the following statements is/are true?
A. The terms 'true' and 'false' apply to arguments.
B. The terms 'true' and 'false' apply to statements.
C. The terms 'valid' and 'invalid' apply to arguments.
D. The terms 'cogent' and 'non-cogent' apply to statements.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Two contrary statements cannot both be false.
Statement II: Two contrary statements cannot both be true.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Explanation
Identify the fallacy committed in the argument:
No tragic actors are happy men.
Some comedians are not happy men.
Therefore, some comedians are not tragic actors.
Answer: (C) Fallacy of Exclusive Premises
Explanation
Identify the correct sequence of inference from beginning to end, according to the Nyāya system.
A. Udaharana
B. Hetu
C. Pratijñā
D. Nigamana
E. Upanaya
Answer: (D) C, B, A, E, D
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: In the Nyāya system, inference is made from the particular to the particular through the Universal.
Statement II: In the Nyāya system, inference is made from the Universal to the Universal through the Particular.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Explanation
A device driver is
Answer: (D) A software that communicates with the operating system and translates data into a format understood by the device
Explanation
What is Anti-spyware software?
Answer: (C) It detects and removes programs installed illegally on a user's computer system
Explanation
Given below are two statements regarding the address bus in a computer system:
Statement I: Address bus carries signals relating to addresses between the processor and memory.
Statement II: It is bi-directional.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Which of the following statements about Anti-virus software are correct?
A. Problem files/programs are quarantined and can be automatically removed
B. Check all files before being loaded or run
C. Use a database to identify potential risks
D. Used for data authenticity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, B and C only
Explanation
Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the options given below.
| List I: ICT Applications | List II: Example |
|---|---|
| A. Measurement applications | I. Simulating car crashes |
| B. Control applications | II. River pollution |
| C. Modelling applications | III. Automatic oven |
| D. Expert systems | IV. Medical diagnosis |
ICT applications matched with examples
Answer: (D) A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV
Explanation
Convention on Biodiversity was signed during
Answer: (B) Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, 1992
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Aerobic digestion of sewage sludge requires lots of energy.
Statement II: Aerobic digestion of sewage sludge produces huge amount of methane.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: Ground level concentration of ozone decreases at night.
Reason R: Ultraviolet radiation photolyses the ozone into other components.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Targets of Goal 7 are:
A. Control global warming
B. Universal access to modern energy
C. Increase global percentage of renewable energy
D. Mitigating air pollution
E. Double the improvement in energy efficiency
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B, C and E only
Explanation
'Solar water still' is a device to
Answer: (B) Convert saline water to potable water using solar energy
Explanation
As per NEP-2020, the responsibility to develop Adult Educator Framework has been given to which one of the following organisations?
Answer: (D) NCERT
Explanation
Which one of the following led to the formulation of 10+2+3 system of education?
Answer: (D) Wood's despatch
Explanation
ERIC is a unit in which one of the following organisations?
Answer: (B) NCERT
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: To make it easier for government as well as non-government philanthropic organisations to build schools, regulations on inputs should be limited to certain areas only.
Reason R: Government should provide effective, enabling and sufficient infrastructure so that all schools have access to safe and engaging school education.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: It is obvious that if higher education is not radically improved, our administration and technical progress, our intellectual standards and social advance will be most seriously handicapped. This is a major recommendation of the University Education Commission.
Statement II: The University Grants Commission was established in accordance with the recommendation of the National Education Commission.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Explanation
The demand inelasticity of articles in terms of non-varying prices is due to
There is a question whether advertising induces demand for an individual company's product more or less elastic. The evidence indicates that the advertising of brands tends to make their demands relatively inelastic for varying periods of time. The data which support this condition are found in the relatively rigid prices of many advertised articles. That brand advertising would have this effect is natural, for an objective of brand advertising is to build consumer preferences. Some consumers will stick by a brand even though its price relationship with competing brands are disturbed. Clearly, the establishment of strong brand preference has led some manufacturers to act as though these preferences made the demand for their brands relatively inelastic. Rarely have they tested the inelasticity of their brands by raising and holding up their prices when competitors have failed to follow similar procedures. Yet, numerous examples were found in which manufacturers in periods of depression held their prices rigid while prices generally and the prices of some competitors were being lowered. In all such instances price competition was found to come into play sooner or later, and either demand shifted to sellers with lower prices or a reduction in price was forced. The quickness with which price competition comes into play varies in different product fields. In the fields of proprietary remedies, the highly individualised nature of the branded products and the tendency of consumers to build strong attachments to brands has given these brands an inelastic demand over relatively long periods of time. Even in these instances, however, price competition has eventually developed.
Answer: (D) Advertising of branded products
Explanation
Why do some manufacturers make their brands of products demand inelastic? It is because of
There is a question whether advertising induces demand for an individual company's product more or less elastic. The evidence indicates that the advertising of brands tends to make their demands relatively inelastic for varying periods of time. The data which support this condition are found in the relatively rigid prices of many advertised articles. That brand advertising would have this effect is natural, for an objective of brand advertising is to build consumer preferences. Some consumers will stick by a brand even though its price relationship with competing brands are disturbed. Clearly, the establishment of strong brand preference has led some manufacturers to act as though these preferences made the demand for their brands relatively inelastic. Rarely have they tested the inelasticity of their brands by raising and holding up their prices when competitors have failed to follow similar procedures. Yet, numerous examples were found in which manufacturers in periods of depression held their prices rigid while prices generally and the prices of some competitors were being lowered. In all such instances price competition was found to come into play sooner or later, and either demand shifted to sellers with lower prices or a reduction in price was forced. The quickness with which price competition comes into play varies in different product fields. In the fields of proprietary remedies, the highly individualised nature of the branded products and the tendency of consumers to build strong attachments to brands has given these brands an inelastic demand over relatively long periods of time. Even in these instances, however, price competition has eventually developed.
Answer: (C) Strong consumer preference
Explanation
What was the post-depression development as regards product pricing?
There is a question whether advertising induces demand for an individual company's product more or less elastic. The evidence indicates that the advertising of brands tends to make their demands relatively inelastic for varying periods of time. The data which support this condition are found in the relatively rigid prices of many advertised articles. That brand advertising would have this effect is natural, for an objective of brand advertising is to build consumer preferences. Some consumers will stick by a brand even though its price relationship with competing brands are disturbed. Clearly, the establishment of strong brand preference has led some manufacturers to act as though these preferences made the demand for their brands relatively inelastic. Rarely have they tested the inelasticity of their brands by raising and holding up their prices when competitors have failed to follow similar procedures. Yet, numerous examples were found in which manufacturers in periods of depression held their prices rigid while prices generally and the prices of some competitors were being lowered. In all such instances price competition was found to come into play sooner or later, and either demand shifted to sellers with lower prices or a reduction in price was forced. The quickness with which price competition comes into play varies in different product fields. In the fields of proprietary remedies, the highly individualised nature of the branded products and the tendency of consumers to build strong attachments to brands has given these brands an inelastic demand over relatively long periods of time. Even in these instances, however, price competition has eventually developed.
Answer: (B) Price competition, resulting in reduction
Explanation
Strong consumer attachment for branded products eventually led to
There is a question whether advertising induces demand for an individual company's product more or less elastic. The evidence indicates that the advertising of brands tends to make their demands relatively inelastic for varying periods of time. The data which support this condition are found in the relatively rigid prices of many advertised articles. That brand advertising would have this effect is natural, for an objective of brand advertising is to build consumer preferences. Some consumers will stick by a brand even though its price relationship with competing brands are disturbed. Clearly, the establishment of strong brand preference has led some manufacturers to act as though these preferences made the demand for their brands relatively inelastic. Rarely have they tested the inelasticity of their brands by raising and holding up their prices when competitors have failed to follow similar procedures. Yet, numerous examples were found in which manufacturers in periods of depression held their prices rigid while prices generally and the prices of some competitors were being lowered. In all such instances price competition was found to come into play sooner or later, and either demand shifted to sellers with lower prices or a reduction in price was forced. The quickness with which price competition comes into play varies in different product fields. In the fields of proprietary remedies, the highly individualised nature of the branded products and the tendency of consumers to build strong attachments to brands has given these brands an inelastic demand over relatively long periods of time. Even in these instances, however, price competition has eventually developed.
Answer: (A) Lasting demand inelasticity
Explanation
The passage focuses upon
There is a question whether advertising induces demand for an individual company's product more or less elastic. The evidence indicates that the advertising of brands tends to make their demands relatively inelastic for varying periods of time. The data which support this condition are found in the relatively rigid prices of many advertised articles. That brand advertising would have this effect is natural, for an objective of brand advertising is to build consumer preferences. Some consumers will stick by a brand even though its price relationship with competing brands are disturbed. Clearly, the establishment of strong brand preference has led some manufacturers to act as though these preferences made the demand for their brands relatively inelastic. Rarely have they tested the inelasticity of their brands by raising and holding up their prices when competitors have failed to follow similar procedures. Yet, numerous examples were found in which manufacturers in periods of depression held their prices rigid while prices generally and the prices of some competitors were being lowered. In all such instances price competition was found to come into play sooner or later, and either demand shifted to sellers with lower prices or a reduction in price was forced. The quickness with which price competition comes into play varies in different product fields. In the fields of proprietary remedies, the highly individualised nature of the branded products and the tendency of consumers to build strong attachments to brands has given these brands an inelastic demand over relatively long periods of time. Even in these instances, however, price competition has eventually developed.
Answer: (B) Impact of advertising on product pricing
Explanation
Using the data in the table, find the total number of male students in the college.
Study the table carefully and answer the question that follows. It shows the total number of students in different courses of a college, together with the percentage of male and female students in each course.
| Course | Total number of students | Male students (%) | Female students (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | 400 | 65 | 35 |
| B.A. | 650 | 54 | 46 |
| M.Sc. | 280 | 75 | 25 |
| M.A. | 340 | 55 | 45 |
| PhD | 180 | 65 | 35 |
Answer: (B) 1125
Explanation
Using the data in the table, find the difference between the total number of male students and the total number of female students in the college.
Study the table carefully and answer the question that follows. It shows the total number of students in different courses of a college, together with the percentage of male and female students in each course.
| Course | Total number of students | Male students (%) | Female students (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | 400 | 65 | 35 |
| B.A. | 650 | 54 | 46 |
| M.Sc. | 280 | 75 | 25 |
| M.A. | 340 | 55 | 45 |
| PhD | 180 | 65 | 35 |
Answer: (C) 400
Explanation
From the table, find the ratio of female students in graduation (B.Sc. + B.A.) to female students in post-graduation (M.Sc. + M.A.).
Study the table carefully and answer the question that follows. It shows the total number of students in different courses of a college, together with the percentage of male and female students in each course.
| Course | Total number of students | Male students (%) | Female students (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | 400 | 65 | 35 |
| B.A. | 650 | 54 | 46 |
| M.Sc. | 280 | 75 | 25 |
| M.A. | 340 | 55 | 45 |
| PhD | 180 | 65 | 35 |
Answer: (D) 439 : 223
Explanation
From the table, find the ratio of male students in post-graduation (M.Sc. + M.A.) to male students in the PhD programme.
Study the table carefully and answer the question that follows. It shows the total number of students in different courses of a college, together with the percentage of male and female students in each course.
| Course | Total number of students | Male students (%) | Female students (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | 400 | 65 | 35 |
| B.A. | 650 | 54 | 46 |
| M.Sc. | 280 | 75 | 25 |
| M.A. | 340 | 55 | 45 |
| PhD | 180 | 65 | 35 |
Answer: (A) 397 : 117
Explanation
From the table, find the difference between the number of male students in graduation (B.Sc. + B.A.) and the number of male students in post-graduation (M.A. + M.Sc.).
Study the table carefully and answer the question that follows. It shows the total number of students in different courses of a college, together with the percentage of male and female students in each course.
| Course | Total number of students | Male students (%) | Female students (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | 400 | 65 | 35 |
| B.A. | 650 | 54 | 46 |
| M.Sc. | 280 | 75 | 25 |
| M.A. | 340 | 55 | 45 |
| PhD | 180 | 65 | 35 |
Answer: (B) 214
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
In the context of the passage, which is closest to being true?
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
— Harold Bloom, "The Use of Poetry"
Answer: (D) The poet himself may be the subject.
Explanation
What is meant by the 'traditional use of poetry'?
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
— Harold Bloom, "The Use of Poetry"
Answer: (A) Promoting serious ideas
Explanation
If the 'selfhood' of a poet is the subject of poetry, then 'originality' shall spring from:
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
— Harold Bloom, "The Use of Poetry"
Answer: (A) some truth of untruths.
Explanation
Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, 'No worst, there is none.'?
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief.'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Answer: (A) It is not worst because there is nothing.
Explanation
Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief.'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Answer: (B) only a new pain more painful.
Explanation
Which two of the following are true?
A. Not all know the intensity or depth of suffering.
B. Death does not put an end to our sufferings.
C. Suffering is seen as winds that hinder comfort.
D. Suffering's intensity or depth is in the mind.
Choose the correct answer from the options given.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief.'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
How did the 'sport with Tess' end?
'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Answer: (A) She was hanged.
Explanation
Who are the 'two speechless gazers'?
'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Answer: (B) 'Liza-Lu and Angel Clare
Explanation
'[T]his insubstantial pageant' refers to:
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— Shakespeare, The Tempest
Answer: (B) a non-real performance.
Explanation
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' means:
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— Shakespeare, The Tempest
Answer: (D) There is no substance to human life.
Explanation
In "An Apology for Poetry" Sidney discusses the didactic function of poetry by comparing it to philosophy and:
Answer: (C) history.
Explanation
According to Longinus, which two of the following qualities apply to 'great poetry'?
A. It must be the work of genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
In "The Function of Criticism" T. S. Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being devotees of what he called:
Answer: (A) "the Inner Voice".
Explanation
Who among the following compared 'the mind in creation' to 'a fading coal'?
Answer: (C) Shelley
Explanation
Who among the following considered paraphrase as 'a heresy'?
Answer: (D) Cleanth Brooks
Explanation
Empiricist linguistics is concerned with:
Answer: (B) directly observable sense-data.
Explanation
In Noam Chomsky's definition of grammar, which two features are drawn from mathematics?
A. complexity
B. abstraction
C. transformation
D. generation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) C and D only
Explanation
'Potato' is a sixteenth-century borrowing into English from:
Answer: (A) Spanish.
Explanation
Who among the following represents the global spread of English diagrammatically as three concentric circles?
Answer: (C) Braj B. Kachru
Explanation
Who among the following is the founder of the Survey of English Usage (SEU)?
Answer: (A) Randolph Quirk
Explanation
Who is the author of the short story, "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black"?
Answer: (B) Nadine Gordimer
Explanation
Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication.
A. This Bridge Called My Back
B. Sexual Politics
C. Gender Trouble
D. The Feminine Mystique
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) D, B, A, C
Explanation
Who is the author of the essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"?
Answer: (B) George Orwell
Explanation
Which of the following poems by Robert Browning contains the lines, "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist..."?
Answer: (C) "Bishop Blougram's Apology"
Explanation
Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine?
Answer: (C) William Makepeace Thackeray
Explanation
Which of the following novels has its epigraph taken from the Katha Upanishad?
Answer: (B) The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Explanation
Who is the author of the essay, "What Isn't Literature?"?
Answer: (A) E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Explanation
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on:
Answer: (A) Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Explanation
Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the 'semiotic'?
Answer: (B) Displacement, slippage and condensation
Explanation
Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn?
A. Rover
B. Oroonoko
C. Soldier's Fortune
D. The Princess of Cleve
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Which two of the following are works by Gustave Flaubert?
A. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
B. Old Goriot
C. Therese Raquin
D. Sentimental Education
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought?
A. Literature transcends the limits of the age of its origin and so is timeless.
B. Literature is untouched by the essential human nature which is unchanging.
C. Literature is devoid of any purpose to enhance life or promote human values.
D. Identity is a unique essence unaffected by environment and society.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye's typology of literature?
A. Mythos of spring: Comedy
B. Mythos of summer: Satire
C. Mythos of autumn: Tragedy
D. Mythos of winter: Romance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A and C only
Explanation
Which two of the following writers does A. D. Hope address through his poetic responses in A Book of Answers?
A. Tolstoy
B. Dostoevsky
C. Mallarme
D. Goethe
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and C only
Explanation
Which two of the following are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?
A. If the title page of a book contains an imprint as well as the publisher's name, omit the imprint and use the publisher's name.
B. While giving a URL copy it from the Web browser but omit http:// or https://.
C. If a quotation extends to more than five lines set it off from the text as block indented an inch from the left margin.
D. Long titles should be abbreviated using the first letter of key words typed in upper case without intervening space.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Which two of the following are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen Greenblatt?
A. crisis of meaning
B. circulation of meaning
C. production of meaning
D. deferral of meaning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics?
A. R. S. Crane
B. E. M. W. Tillyard
C. Elder Olson
D. Allen Tate
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Which of the following poems contains John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and the hands of a compass?
Answer: (C) "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Explanation
Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication.
A. T. S. Eliot, "The Function of Criticism"
B. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition"
C. Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"
D. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B, C, D, A
Explanation
Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started publication.
A. The Tatler
B. The Examiner
C. The Review
D. The Spectator
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C, A, B, D
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): Postmodern narratives focus on the indeterminate and unstable nature of textuality and subjectivity.
Reason (R): Postmodern narrative acts regard narratives and characters as tentative representations of writing and identity.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: In Waiting for Godot, it is Vladimir who questions the Boy who comes from Godot towards the end of the two Acts.
Statement II: In Waiting for Godot, it is Estragon who says, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: New Historicism stipulates that teleological connotations of history have to be eschewed.
Statement II: New Historicism neither denies nor accepts totalizing explanations of historical events.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
What was poor Yorick in Hamlet?
Answer: (A) Jester
Explanation
Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular meaning?
Answer: (C) phonestheme
Explanation
Who among the following Dickens characters appears as a ghost?
Answer: (D) Jacob Marley
Explanation
Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteen-year-old boy, writes a poem called:
Answer: (C) "The Oak Tree".
Explanation
What function of English is exemplified by the use of English in India as a "link language" along with a first language by stable bilinguals in well-defined social contexts?
Answer: (A) complementary
Explanation
Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) never happened?
Answer: (B) Jean Baudrillard
Explanation
What 19th-century philosophical term of Russian origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to describe the disintegration of traditional morality in western society?
Answer: (C) nihilism
Explanation
Which of the following statements is true of the working group set up by the University Grants Commission in 1978 to study the medium of instruction in higher education?
Answer: (A) It recommended a quicker switchover of the medium of instruction from English to Indian languages.
Explanation
In comparative philology and sometimes in modern phonology, what is the term used to refer to the deletion of a vowel within a word?
Answer: (D) Syncope
Explanation
Which of the following statements best describes Terry Eagleton's views on literature?
Answer: (A) It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order.
Explanation
Which of the following are true of 'performance', as used in linguistic theory?
A. It is analogous to the Saussurean concept of langue.
B. It refers to the specific utterances of individual native speakers in actual situations.
C. It is an innate grammar that suggests humans' universal ability to use language.
D. It includes hesitations and unfinished structures arising out of psychological difficulties acting upon the speaker.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B and D only
Explanation
Which among the following are the works of George Gissing?
A. New Grub Street
B. Agnes Grey
C. The Odd Women
D. Mary Barton
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan?
A. Atonement
B. The Man with Two Left Feet
C. The Child in Time
D. The Rachel Papers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Which of the following are poems by Nissim Ezekiel that make fun of Indians' use of English?
A. "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S."
B. "Philosophy"
C. "Very Indian Poem in Indian English"
D. "Jewish Wedding in Bombay"
E. "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and C only
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Author) | List-II (Text) |
|---|---|
| A. Sean O'Casey | I. I'm Talking About Jerusalem |
| B. Dylan Thomas | II. The Winslow Boy |
| C. Terence Rattigan | III. Juno and the Paycock |
| D. Arnold Wesker | IV. In the Shadow of the Glen |
| E. J. M. Synge | V. Under Milk Wood |
Answer: (C) A-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (First line) | List-II (Poet) |
|---|---|
| A. "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land... | I. G. M. Hopkins |
| B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! | II. Alfred Tennyson |
| C. I caught this morning morning's minion... | III. D. G. Rossetti |
| D. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been... | IV. Matthew Arnold |
| E. The sea is calm tonight... | V. Robert Browning |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-V, C-I, D-III, E-IV
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Character) | List-II (Novel) |
|---|---|
| A. Winston Smith | I. Sons and Lovers |
| B. Paul Morel | II. Ulysses |
| C. 'whiskey priest' | III. Nineteen Eighty-four |
| D. Leopold Bloom | IV. Decline and Fall |
| E. Paul Pennyfeather | V. The Power and the Glory |
Answer: (A) A-III, B-I, C-V, D-II, E-IV
Explanation
Arrange the following language areas of the human brain in the order in which they are involved in hearing, understanding and saying a word:
A. arcuate fasciculus
B. anterior speech cortex
C. motor cortex
D. posterior speech cortex
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) D, A, B, C
Explanation
Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the following books:
A. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
B. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
C. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
D. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C, D, B, A
Explanation
Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory:
A. gynesis
B. scriptible
C. negritude
D. paratext
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C, A, D, B
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: Unlike scientific research, literary research does not have specific materials for investigation and scientific tools for reaching a conclusion and formulating a theory.
Statement II: Literary research consists of critical interpretations of an author's work to the exclusion of biography and editing of texts.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: Linguists, being primarily interested in the scientific study of language, approach language dispassionately.
Statement II: Linguists are necessarily polyglots who bring their own biases to language study.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
Explanation
Which of the following are features of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'?
A. emphasis on the central role of God in the universe
B. presentation of futile actions devoid of any goal
C. portrayal of situations that point to the meaningfulness of life
D. lacking in conflicts and dramatic tensions
E. presenting players in a stasis or drift without definite roles
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, D and E only
Explanation
Who, among the following, is known to have used elements from the Yakshagana tradition in his theatre?
Answer: (B) Girish Karnad
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Writer) | List-II (Book) |
|---|---|
| A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee | I. Untouchable |
| B. Mulk Raj Anand | II. Rajmohan's Wife |
| C. Panchkouree Khan | III. Stories from Indian Christian Life |
| D. Kamala Sathianadhan | IV. The Revelations of an Orderly |
Answer: (A) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Which of these UK universities saw the first institutional incorporation of Cultural Studies?
Answer: (C) University of Birmingham
Explanation
Which of these poets wrote a poem that served to inspire W. B. Yeats to write his own poem, "When You Are Old"?
Answer: (B) Pierre de Ronsard
Explanation
Which of these does Meenakshi Mukherjee propose as the possible target readership of the early Indian English novel?
A. A pan-Indian readership
B. A localized Indian readership
C. A British readership
D. The colonial administrator in India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C and D only
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Poet) | List-II (Language) |
|---|---|
| A. Charles Baudelaire | I. French |
| B. Heinrich Heine | II. German |
| C. Sylvia Plath | III. English |
| D. Jose Marti | IV. Spanish |
Answer: (A) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
Explanation
Which of these constitute the preoccupations of the protagonist of Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August?
A. Marijuana
B. Magic
C. Monotheism
D. Marcus Aurelius
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and D only
Explanation
What was the name of the journal published from Bowling Green University beginning 1969, which carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films?
Answer: (B) Journal of Popular Culture
Explanation
Which of these best describes Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy?
Answer: (C) Coming-of-age novel
Explanation
Which of these questions would Cultural Studies be most interested in asking?
A. Who decides what is to be produced?
B. Who can afford the artifact?
C. How is the artifact marketed?
D. What is the register of speech in the artifact?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A, B and C only
Explanation
Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of 'cultural intermediaries'?
Answer: (C) Pierre Bourdieu
Explanation
From whom does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term 'subaltern'?
Answer: (D) Antonio Gramsci
Explanation
Which of the following does the Subaltern Studies project contend?
A. Traditional historiography celebrated the role of the subalterns.
B. Traditional history of India's freedom movement celebrates the contribution of select icons.
C. Traditional historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.
D. Subaltern Studies historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Which of these did the Wood's Despatch (1854) seek to propagate?
A. Impart Western knowledge to Indians
B. Restrict access to English learning in India
C. Educate British officers in Sanskrit and Persian
D. Create a class of public servants
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and D only
Explanation
Arrange the following periodicals in the chronological order in which they started publication:
A. The Spectator
B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler
D. The Critical Review
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, A, C, D
Explanation
Who, among these, does Gabriel Garcia Marquez name right in the beginning of his Nobel Prize address?
A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Marco Polo
D. Antonio Pigafetta
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and D only
Explanation
Which of these constitutes the only extant trilogy from ancient Greek tragedy?
Answer: (B) Agamemnon, Choephori, The Eumenides
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Author) | List-II (Form) |
|---|---|
| A. Pindar | I. Epinicia |
| B. Menander | II. Old Comedy |
| C. Sappho | III. Lyric poetry |
| D. Aristophanes | IV. New Comedy |
Answer: (B) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
Explanation
Which of these does the book How to Read Donald Duck identify as an important element in its analysis of imperialist ideology in the Walt Disney comic book?
Answer: (B) noble savage
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Playwright) | List-II (Play) |
|---|---|
| A. Bertolt Brecht | I. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| B. Tennessee Williams | II. Life of Galileo |
| C. Vaclav Havel | III. Miss Julie |
| D. August Strindberg | IV. Temptation |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Which of these plays by Girish Karnad shares its theme with Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads?
Answer: (A) Hayavadana
Explanation
With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiong'o generally associated?
Answer: (B) Decolonising the Mind
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Novel) | List-II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. Don Quixote | I. Machado de Assis |
| B. Sorrows of Young Werther | II. Honore de Balzac |
| C. Lost Illusions | III. Goethe |
| D. Epitaph of a Small Winner | IV. Miguel de Cervantes |
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in which of the following periodicals?
Answer: (A) London Magazine
Explanation
In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf:
Answer: (C) analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.
Explanation
In "Politics and the English Language" which two of the following 'tricks' are mentioned by George Orwell as 'bad habits' of English use?
A. obsolete words
B. pretentious diction
C. dying metaphors
D. false modifiers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Essay) | List-II (Essayist) |
|---|---|
| A. "The Tory Fox-Hunter" | I. Francis Bacon |
| B. "What I Believe" | II. Joseph Addison |
| C. "The Death of the Moth" | III. E. M. Forster |
| D. "Of Ambition" | IV. Virginia Woolf |
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Arrange the following characters in their chronological sequence of appearance:
A. Mirabell
B. Shylock
C. Jimmy Porter
D. Sir Epicure Mammon
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, D, A, C
Explanation
Which two of the following concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson?
A. Pastiche
B. Hyperreal
C. Schizophrenia
D. Habitus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and C only
Explanation
Arrange the following plays in their chronological sequence:
A. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
B. The Playboy of the Western World
C. Look Back in Anger
D. Man and Superman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) D, B, C, A
Explanation
Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I (Text) | List-II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. Modernity at Large | I. J. Urry |
| B. The Tourist Gaze | II. E. W. Said |
| C. Culture and Imperialism | III. C. L. R. James |
| D. The Black Jacobins | IV. A. Appadurai |
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
What might the speaker mean when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and declares that "I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee"?
A. Time preserves human life.
B. With time comes change.
C. Time creates opportunities.
D. Time removes human life.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B and D only
Explanation
Which two of the following stage directions are from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party?
A. The living-room of a house on a seaside town.
B. A garbage pail on the ground next to the porch steps.
C. A light shows from upstairs bedroom, lower floor windows being dark.
D. He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the table, beating it regularly.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and D only
Explanation
Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:
A. "An aged man is but a paltry thing."
B. "The world is too much with us."
C. "Daddy, I have had to kill you."
D. "After great pain, a formal feeling comes -"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) B, D, A, C
Explanation
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Find out the total number of male students in the college during 2018-2020.
Study the given table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The given table has the number of students enrolled for different courses in 5 different years along with their male and female categorization.
| Year | BSc | BA | BCom | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 2016 | 380 | 220 | 520 | 405 | 200 | 80 |
| 2017 | 390 | 230 | 525 | 417 | 210 | 85 |
| 2018 | 395 | 235 | 535 | 427 | 212 | 87 |
| 2019 | 405 | 250 | 538 | 430 | 215 | 91 |
| 2020 | 415 | 275 | 543 | 438 | 221 | 97 |
Students enrolled in BSc, BA and BCom by year and gender
Answer: (A) 3479
Explanation
Find out the ratio between female students of BA and BCom during 2016-2020.
Study the given table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The given table has the number of students enrolled for different courses in 5 different years along with their male and female categorization.
| Year | BSc | BA | BCom | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 2016 | 380 | 220 | 520 | 405 | 200 | 80 |
| 2017 | 390 | 230 | 525 | 417 | 210 | 85 |
| 2018 | 395 | 235 | 535 | 427 | 212 | 87 |
| 2019 | 405 | 250 | 538 | 430 | 215 | 91 |
| 2020 | 415 | 275 | 543 | 438 | 221 | 97 |
Students enrolled in BSc, BA and BCom by year and gender
Answer: (D) 2117/440
Explanation
Find out the ratio between the percentage increase of male students and the percentage increase of female students from 2016 to 2017.
Study the given table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The given table has the number of students enrolled for different courses in 5 different years along with their male and female categorization.
| Year | BSc | BA | BCom | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 2016 | 380 | 220 | 520 | 405 | 200 | 80 |
| 2017 | 390 | 230 | 525 | 417 | 210 | 85 |
| 2018 | 395 | 235 | 535 | 427 | 212 | 87 |
| 2019 | 405 | 250 | 538 | 430 | 215 | 91 |
| 2020 | 415 | 275 | 543 | 438 | 221 | 97 |
Students enrolled in BSc, BA and BCom by year and gender
Answer: (D) 2.2/3.8
Explanation
Find out the average of difference between male and female students for the BA course during 2016-2020.
Study the given table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The given table has the number of students enrolled for different courses in 5 different years along with their male and female categorization.
| Year | BSc | BA | BCom | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 2016 | 380 | 220 | 520 | 405 | 200 | 80 |
| 2017 | 390 | 230 | 525 | 417 | 210 | 85 |
| 2018 | 395 | 235 | 535 | 427 | 212 | 87 |
| 2019 | 405 | 250 | 538 | 430 | 215 | 91 |
| 2020 | 415 | 275 | 543 | 438 | 221 | 97 |
Students enrolled in BSc, BA and BCom by year and gender
Answer: (C) 108.8
Explanation
Which year has the minimum percentage increase of male students in the college (including all courses)?
Study the given table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The given table has the number of students enrolled for different courses in 5 different years along with their male and female categorization.
| Year | BSc | BA | BCom | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 2016 | 380 | 220 | 520 | 405 | 200 | 80 |
| 2017 | 390 | 230 | 525 | 417 | 210 | 85 |
| 2018 | 395 | 235 | 535 | 427 | 212 | 87 |
| 2019 | 405 | 250 | 538 | 430 | 215 | 91 |
| 2020 | 415 | 275 | 543 | 438 | 221 | 97 |
Students enrolled in BSc, BA and BCom by year and gender
Answer: (C) 2019
Explanation
What is the name of the concept to describe the magnitude of gains from any given change in an educational practice and thus to predict what we can hope to accomplish by using that practice?
Answer: (C) Effect size
Explanation
Identify the correct sequence for phases of personal growth in the non-directive interview process.
A. Develops insight
B. Integration
C. Release of feelings
D. Action
E. New orientation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Develops insight
B. Integration
C. Release of feelings
D. Action
E. New orientation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) C, A, D, B, E
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Behaviour theory does not concentrate on observable behaviour.
Statement II: Behaviour theory approach involves continuous inquiry.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Explanation
Which of the following are popular software (apps) used for conducting online conferences?
A. Big Blue Button
B. ZOOM
C. KOHA
D. Microsoft Teams
E. Moodle
Answer: (C) A, B and D only
Explanation
Match List I with List II:
List I (Erikson's stages of psychological development)
A. Basic trust versus basic mistrust
B. Industry versus inferiority
C. Intimacy versus isolation
D. Generativity versus stagnation
List II (Relevant illustrations)
I. Parenting / mentoring
II. Love relationships
III. School
IV. Feeding
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II
| List I: Erikson's Stages of Psychological Development | List II: Relevant Illustrations |
|---|---|
| A. Basic trust versus Basic mistrust | I. Parenting/mentoring |
| B. Industry versus inferiority | II. Love relationships |
| C. Intimacy versus isolation | III. School |
| D. Generativity versus stagnation | IV. Feeding |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Erikson's stages of psychological development and relevant illustrations
Answer: (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I
Explanation
If the research is to be conducted on very young children or inarticulate persons, which one of the following methods will be appropriate in this situation?
Answer: (C) Observation
Explanation
The objective of exploring the existing literature should be to identify which of the following issues?
A. What is already known about this area?
B. What concepts and theories are relevant to this area?
C. How to get funding for the research?
D. What are the significant controversies in this area?
E. Are there any inconsistencies in the findings of this area?
Answer: (C) A, B, D and E only
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: A proposition is a statement about observable phenomena (concepts) that may be judged as true or false.
Reason R: When a proposition is formulated for empirical testing, it is called a hypothesis.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Context of discovery involves non-rational, intuitive processes while context of justification is based on logical processes.
Statement II: The process of hypothesis generation doesn't strictly follow rigorous logical reasoning.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Explanation
Match List I with List II:
List I (Contexts)
A. Context of discovery
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Abductive reasoning
D. Context of justification
List II (Examples)
I. From the particular to a generalisation
II. Testing or verifying the hypothesis
III. Hypothesis generation
IV. Inference based on some observations
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II
| List I: Contexts | List II: Examples |
|---|---|
| A. Context of discovery | I. From the particular to a generalisation |
| B. Inductive reasoning | II. Testing or verifying the hypothesis |
| C. Abductive reasoning | III. Hypothesis generation |
| D. Context of justification | IV. Inference based on some observations |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Contexts/reasoning types and examples
Answer: (D) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
Colour, as a means of communication, has meanings that mostly emanate from one's own _____.
Answer: (D) Culture
Explanation
Human communication involves:
A. Patterned social interactions
B. Use of abstract meanings only
C. Conflict-oriented actions only
D. Neural activities of the brain
E. Psychological activities
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Patterned social interactions
B. Use of abstract meanings only
C. Conflict-oriented actions only
D. Neural activities of the brain
E. Psychological activities
Answer: (C) A, D and E only
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: A two-way communication takes place when the encoding and decoding are in operation with equal frequency by two or more individuals.
Statement II: The communicator and the communicatee are related by the communication circuits and the success of communication depends upon the level of reciprocity between them.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Explanation
Identify the correct sequence of the following types of visual communication.
A. Objects
B. Maps
C. Graphs
D. Photographs
E. Models
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Objects
B. Maps
C. Graphs
D. Photographs
E. Models
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, E, C, B, D
Explanation
Match List I with List II:
List I (Communication components)
A. Medium
B. Channel
C. Codes
D. Content information
List II (Description)
I. Facts
II. Verbal and non-verbal signs
III. Route by which the message travels
IV. Physical means to transmit the message
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II
| List I: Communication Components | List II: Description |
|---|---|
| A. Medium | I. Facts |
| B. Channel | II. Verbal and non-verbal signs |
| C. Codes | III. Route by which the message travels |
| D. Content information | IV. Physical means to transmit the message |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Communication components and descriptions
Answer: (D) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Analogies have been used for which of the following purposes?
A. Inductive reasoning
B. Deductive reasoning
C. Description
D. Explanation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Inductive reasoning
B. Deductive reasoning
C. Description
D. Explanation
Answer: (C) A, C and D only
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: Naiyāyikas do not accept non-apprehension (anupalabdhi) as a distinct source of knowledge (pramāna).
Reason R: According to Naiyāyikas, non-apprehension can be covered under inference (anumāna).
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) A is true but R is false
Explanation
Match List I with List II (traditional square of opposition):
List I
A. If 'Some flowers are pink' is false
B. If 'No girls are birds' is true
C. If 'Some boys are not tall' is false
D. If 'All chocolates are sweet' is true
List II (Resultant)
I. 'I' is false; 'O' is true
II. 'A' is false; 'E' is true
III. 'I' is true; 'O' is false
IV. 'E' is false; 'I' is true
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II
| List I: In Square of opposition | List II: Resultant |
|---|---|
| A. If 'Some flowers are pink' is False | I. 'I' is False; 'O' is True |
| B. If 'No girls are birds' is True | II. 'A' is False; 'E' is True |
| C. If 'Some boys are not tall' is False | III. 'I' is True; 'O' is False |
| D. If 'All chocolates are sweet' is True | IV. 'E' is False; 'I' is true |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Square of opposition statements and resultants
Answer: (C) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Identify the fallacy committed in the argument below.
Some good actors are not strong men.
All professional wrestlers are strong men.
Therefore, all professional wrestlers are good actors.
Answer: (D) Fallacy of drawing affirmative conclusions from negative premise
Explanation
Anumāna has been accepted as an independent source of valid knowledge (pramāna) by which of the following schools?
A. Buddhists
B. Naiyāyikas
C. Cārvākas
D. Mīmāmsakas
E. Advaitins
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Buddhists
B. Naiyāyikas
C. Cārvākas
D. Mīmāmsakas
E. Advaitins
Answer: (D) A, B, D and E only
Explanation
Which one of the following is a part of the processor?
Answer: (D) Control unit
Explanation
What is a disk defragmenter?
Answer: (A) Rearrange blocks of data to store files in contiguous sectors
Explanation
Given below are two statements regarding the Hard Disk Drive (HDD):
Statement I: HDD use circular platters coated in magnetic material.
Statement II: Access to data is faster than with RAM.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Which of the following statements regarding modems are correct?
A. It is used to convert digital data into analogue.
B. It also converts analogue data into digital data.
C. It sends the data packet to specific addresses.
D. It inspects data packets received over the internet.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. It is used to convert digital data into analogue
B. It also converts analogue data into digital data
C. Sends the data packet to specific addresses
D. Inspects data packets received over the internet
Answer: (D) A and B only
Explanation
Match List I with List II:
List I (Network addresses)
A. IP address
B. MAC address
C. Socket address
D. URL address
List II (Respective layers)
I. Application layer
II. Network layer
III. Transport layer
IV. Data link layer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match List I with List II
| List I: Network Addresses | List II: Respective Layers |
|---|---|
| A. IP Address | I. Application Layer |
| B. MAC Address | II. Network Layer |
| C. Socket Address | III. Transport Layer |
| D. URL Address | IV. Data Link Layer |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Network addresses and respective layers
Answer: (A) A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
Explanation
Eutrophication in a water body leads to which of the following?
A. Bloom of algae
B. Increase in the level of dissolved oxygen (DO)
C. Increase in turbidity and odour of the water body
D. Difficulty in sustaining normal aquatic life
E. Deficiency of nutrients
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. Bloom of algae
B. Increase in the level of dissolved oxygen (DO)
C. Increase in turbidity and odor of the water body
D. Difficulty in sustaining normal aquatic life
E. Deficiency of nutrients
Answer: (C) A, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following has positive radiative forcing or warming effect in the global climate?
Answer: (A) Tropospheric Ozone
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Methanol (CH₃OH), also known as wood alcohol, has a much higher octane rating than gasoline.
Statement II: Methanol burns with a higher flame temperature than gasoline or diesel. Thus, it produces a higher amount of NOx.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Who is the Executive Head of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)?
Answer: (B) Prime Minister of India
Explanation
The primary treatment of wastewater involves removal of
Answer: (A) Solids
Explanation
The NSQF (National Skills Qualifications Framework) organises qualifications according to a series of levels of
Answer: (C) Knowledge, Skills, Aptitude
Explanation
Which one of the following is not an objective of higher education?
Answer: (C) Improving literacy levels
Explanation
"Destiny of India is being shaped in her classrooms." This is stated in
Answer: (C) Education Commission
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: Environmental education makes individuals aware of environmental issues, explore and analyse the causes and effectiveness of the issues, and promotes environmental sustainability.
Reason R: It is very essential to think and act creatively to become technically capable and trained to approach environmental issues in a proactive manner.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Hansa Mehta committee made a recommendation that there is a need to make differentiation in curriculum on the basis of sex.
Statement II: The Bhaktavatsalam committee recommended that the government and public should both act jointly, realise their responsibilities and proceed in a planned manner with regard to the education of girls in future.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Explanation
Internet is considered as a prime medium for its
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Besides being hailed as a technology which can deliver the 'global village', the Internet is also promoted as a singular medium which allows for democratised processes which were not previously possible in the era of broadcast. But what kinds of democracy are being postulated here? Traditionally, and more than ever now, democracy is heavily aligned with the nation-state. Because of this, no sense is made of the claim that the Internet enables universal participation in the democratic process. The point here is the practices of communication afforded by computer-mediated communication may be able to substitute some of the functions of the mass media - for example, in the formation of pre-institutional public opinion. But these practices do not necessarily exert pressure on the institutional apparatuses of politics. Of course, the mass media themselves, as a means of electronically mediated communication, can never replace the institutional apparatuses of politics, and as found out by numerous studies, have been just as much used by politicians as they have influenced them. The internet can be classified as a global technology, which enables connections with individuals and institutions overseas just as easily as it does nationally, regionally or locally. If there is an imagined community on the Internet, it is definitely not the nation-state. State bounded kinds of citizenship cannot be considered coterminous with the kinds of citizenship which are achieved on the Internet. However, this is not to argue that a global sense of citizenship, even if it too is an 'imagined one', cannot exist. Recent protests against international financial institutions such as the World Bank were organised almost entirely through Internet media - a case of not-so-visible electronic assemblies producing very visible embodied assemblies. But even that the experience of community on the Internet is not limited to national boundaries, it is also important to consider the shape and structure of virtual communities.
Answer: (A) Far-reaching accessibility
Explanation
Even now the nation-state influences
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Besides being hailed as a technology which can deliver the 'global village', the Internet is also promoted as a singular medium which allows for democratised processes which were not previously possible in the era of broadcast. But what kinds of democracy are being postulated here? Traditionally, and more than ever now, democracy is heavily aligned with the nation-state. Because of this, no sense is made of the claim that the Internet enables universal participation in the democratic process. The point here is the practices of communication afforded by computer-mediated communication may be able to substitute some of the functions of the mass media - for example, in the formation of pre-institutional public opinion. But these practices do not necessarily exert pressure on the institutional apparatuses of politics. Of course, the mass media themselves, as a means of electronically mediated communication, can never replace the institutional apparatuses of politics, and as found out by numerous studies, have been just as much used by politicians as they have influenced them. The internet can be classified as a global technology, which enables connections with individuals and institutions overseas just as easily as it does nationally, regionally or locally. If there is an imagined community on the Internet, it is definitely not the nation-state. State bounded kinds of citizenship cannot be considered coterminous with the kinds of citizenship which are achieved on the Internet. However, this is not to argue that a global sense of citizenship, even if it too is an 'imagined one', cannot exist. Recent protests against international financial institutions such as the World Bank were organised almost entirely through Internet media - a case of not-so-visible electronic assemblies producing very visible embodied assemblies. But even that the experience of community on the Internet is not limited to national boundaries, it is also important to consider the shape and structure of virtual communities.
Answer: (C) The democratic process
Explanation
In what way can the internet play a role in modern society?
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Besides being hailed as a technology which can deliver the 'global village', the Internet is also promoted as a singular medium which allows for democratised processes which were not previously possible in the era of broadcast. But what kinds of democracy are being postulated here? Traditionally, and more than ever now, democracy is heavily aligned with the nation-state. Because of this, no sense is made of the claim that the Internet enables universal participation in the democratic process. The point here is the practices of communication afforded by computer-mediated communication may be able to substitute some of the functions of the mass media - for example, in the formation of pre-institutional public opinion. But these practices do not necessarily exert pressure on the institutional apparatuses of politics. Of course, the mass media themselves, as a means of electronically mediated communication, can never replace the institutional apparatuses of politics, and as found out by numerous studies, have been just as much used by politicians as they have influenced them. The internet can be classified as a global technology, which enables connections with individuals and institutions overseas just as easily as it does nationally, regionally or locally. If there is an imagined community on the Internet, it is definitely not the nation-state. State bounded kinds of citizenship cannot be considered coterminous with the kinds of citizenship which are achieved on the Internet. However, this is not to argue that a global sense of citizenship, even if it too is an 'imagined one', cannot exist. Recent protests against international financial institutions such as the World Bank were organised almost entirely through Internet media - a case of not-so-visible electronic assemblies producing very visible embodied assemblies. But even that the experience of community on the Internet is not limited to national boundaries, it is also important to consider the shape and structure of virtual communities.
Answer: (A) By shaping institutional public opinion
Explanation
What is the main weakness of the Internet?
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Besides being hailed as a technology which can deliver the 'global village', the Internet is also promoted as a singular medium which allows for democratised processes which were not previously possible in the era of broadcast. But what kinds of democracy are being postulated here? Traditionally, and more than ever now, democracy is heavily aligned with the nation-state. Because of this, no sense is made of the claim that the Internet enables universal participation in the democratic process. The point here is the practices of communication afforded by computer-mediated communication may be able to substitute some of the functions of the mass media - for example, in the formation of pre-institutional public opinion. But these practices do not necessarily exert pressure on the institutional apparatuses of politics. Of course, the mass media themselves, as a means of electronically mediated communication, can never replace the institutional apparatuses of politics, and as found out by numerous studies, have been just as much used by politicians as they have influenced them. The internet can be classified as a global technology, which enables connections with individuals and institutions overseas just as easily as it does nationally, regionally or locally. If there is an imagined community on the Internet, it is definitely not the nation-state. State bounded kinds of citizenship cannot be considered coterminous with the kinds of citizenship which are achieved on the Internet. However, this is not to argue that a global sense of citizenship, even if it too is an 'imagined one', cannot exist. Recent protests against international financial institutions such as the World Bank were organised almost entirely through Internet media - a case of not-so-visible electronic assemblies producing very visible embodied assemblies. But even that the experience of community on the Internet is not limited to national boundaries, it is also important to consider the shape and structure of virtual communities.
Answer: (D) It cannot substitute political institutions
Explanation
The crux of the passage is that the Internet:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Besides being hailed as a technology which can deliver the 'global village', the Internet is also promoted as a singular medium which allows for democratised processes which were not previously possible in the era of broadcast. But what kinds of democracy are being postulated here? Traditionally, and more than ever now, democracy is heavily aligned with the nation-state. Because of this, no sense is made of the claim that the Internet enables universal participation in the democratic process. The point here is the practices of communication afforded by computer-mediated communication may be able to substitute some of the functions of the mass media - for example, in the formation of pre-institutional public opinion. But these practices do not necessarily exert pressure on the institutional apparatuses of politics. Of course, the mass media themselves, as a means of electronically mediated communication, can never replace the institutional apparatuses of politics, and as found out by numerous studies, have been just as much used by politicians as they have influenced them. The internet can be classified as a global technology, which enables connections with individuals and institutions overseas just as easily as it does nationally, regionally or locally. If there is an imagined community on the Internet, it is definitely not the nation-state. State bounded kinds of citizenship cannot be considered coterminous with the kinds of citizenship which are achieved on the Internet. However, this is not to argue that a global sense of citizenship, even if it too is an 'imagined one', cannot exist. Recent protests against international financial institutions such as the World Bank were organised almost entirely through Internet media - a case of not-so-visible electronic assemblies producing very visible embodied assemblies. But even that the experience of community on the Internet is not limited to national boundaries, it is also important to consider the shape and structure of virtual communities.
Answer: (D) can help organise people's assemblies
Explanation
What comes next in the following sequence?
1, 2, 3, 7, 16, 65, ?
Answer: (B) 321
Explanation
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: A culture of bacteria quadruples every hour. If a bottle with these bacteria was half-full at 7 am, then at 6 am on the same day, the bottle was one-eighth full.
Statement II: The average of the first 31 natural numbers is 16.5.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Two trains are moving in the same direction at 60 km/hr and 45 km/hr. The faster train passes a girl sitting in the slower train in 15 seconds. The length of the faster train is
Answer: (C) 62.5 m
Explanation
Six years ago, the ratio of the ages of Ravi and Laxmi was 6 : 5. Four years hence, the ratio will be 11 : 10. Ravi's age at present is
Answer: (B) 18 years
Explanation
A vendor marks all his goods at 50% above the cost price and then offers a discount of 25% on the marked price. What is his profit on the sales?
Answer: (B) 12.50%
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?
The aim of all solitude is the same: to live more at leisure and at one's ease. But people do not always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state: whatever the mind is wrapped up in, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life. Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country. They often follow us even into the cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them.
— Michel de Montaigne, "Of Solitude"
Answer: (D) Solitude is one condition of peace with one self.
Explanation
The mistake human beings make is to:
The aim of all solitude is the same: to live more at leisure and at one's ease. But people do not always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state: whatever the mind is wrapped up in, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life. Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country. They often follow us even into the cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them.
— Michel de Montaigne, "Of Solitude"
Answer: (D) abstain from restraining the mind.
Explanation
The "principal worries of our life" follow us if we:
A. detach ourselves from family life.
B. are deep into buying and selling.
C. mentally abstain from the hustle and bustle.
D. are in to schools of philosophy.
Choose the correct combination from the options.
The aim of all solitude is the same: to live more at leisure and at one's ease. But people do not always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state: whatever the mind is wrapped up in, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life. Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country. They often follow us even into the cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them.
— Michel de Montaigne, "Of Solitude"
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
Thoughts true for all time are:
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray — for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
— W. B. Yeats
Answer: (D) felt deep inside the self.
Explanation
In the second stanza the poet thinks of:
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray — for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
— W. B. Yeats
Answer: (A) what all makes a wise old man.
Explanation
Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray — for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
— W. B. Yeats
Answer: (C) He is old but happy in not being wise.
Explanation
The whole description is an example of:
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A. D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey — and Son.
— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
Answer: (C) analogy.
Explanation
What is the 'system' of which Dombey and Son were the centre?
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A. D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey — and Son.
— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
Answer: (D) The workings of nature
Explanation
'Is man no more than this?' means:
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
— Shakespeare, King Lear
Answer: (B) Man is not as well endowed as some other animals.
Explanation
Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
— Shakespeare, King Lear
Answer: (C) Man can accommodate same properties.
Explanation
Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial?
Answer: (A) Plato
Explanation
In "The Life of Cowley" which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the 'metaphysical poets'?
A. They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.
B. Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.
C. They neither copied nature nor life.
D. They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?
Answer: (C) disinterestedness
Explanation
How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode"?
Answer: (B) 'a tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace'
Explanation
In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis?
Answer: (D) Milton and Shelley
Explanation
Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:
Answer: (B) homophones.
Explanation
According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:
A. an interlocking structure.
B. a system of constant change.
C. a system of signs.
D. a self-standing formation.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:
Answer: (D) lexeme.
Explanation
Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with 'speech acts'?
Answer: (B) J.L. Austin and John Searle
Explanation
Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures." is an example of:
Answer: (C) spoonerism.
Explanation
Who wrote the short story, "The Voter"?
Answer: (C) Chinua Achebe
Explanation
Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
Answer: (A) Marcellus
Explanation
Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets"?
Answer: (B) William Hazlitt
Explanation
Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without altering the original title?
Answer: (B) Kathy Acker
Explanation
Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India?
Answer: (A) Susan Sontag
Explanation
In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul"?
Answer: (D) Book XI
Explanation
Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?"?
Answer: (B) The Thousand and One Nights
Explanation
Who is the author of "The Typology of Detective Fiction"?
Answer: (C) Tzvetan Todorov
Explanation
Who among the following says that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence"?
Answer: (D) Louis Althusser
Explanation
Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Alexander Pope
C. Horace Walpole
D. Thomas Gray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and C only
Explanation
Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?
A. Wildtrack
B. Wodwo
C. Lupercal
D. Jack Straw's Castle
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B and C only
Explanation
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays?
A. "From the History of Novelistic Discourse"
B. "Discourse in the Novel"
C. "Romance and Novel"
D. "Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B and D only
Explanation
Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?
A. "Meditation on a Bone"
B. "Imperial Adam"
C. "Woman to Man"
D. "The Old Prison"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) C and D only
Explanation
Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India?
A. Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
B. Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
C. Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
D. Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B and C only
Explanation
Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?
A. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.
B. Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26.
C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
D. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"?
A. contextual estimate
B. personal estimate
C. comparative estimate
D. historic estimate
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B and D only
Explanation
Match the plays in List I with the playwrights in List II.
| List I (Play) | List II (Playwright) |
|---|---|
| A. Madmen and Specialists | I. Dennis Scott |
| B. The Sea at Dauphin | II. Wole Soyinka |
| C. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi | III. Derek Walcott |
| D. An Echo in the Bone | IV. Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.
A. Longman's Magazine
B. Cornhill Magazine
C. Blackwood's Magazine
D. Bentley's Miscellany
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) C, D, B, A
Explanation
Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication.
A. "The Wild Swans at Coole"
B. "The Second Coming"
C. "Among School Children"
D. "Adam's Curse"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) D, A, B, C
Explanation
Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion A and the other labelled Reason R.
Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason (R): The 'Dear Reader,' invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer:
Answer: (B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon.
Statement II: Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo's statement, "They give birth astride of a grave . . ."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.
Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Explanation
Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?
Answer: (A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
Explanation
Which of the following is a dead language?
Answer: (A) Gothic
Explanation
Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler?
Answer: (C) Count Dracula
Explanation
Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature?
Answer: (B) Silver-Fork
Explanation
What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?
Answer: (A) epic theatre
Explanation
Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?
Answer: (A) Harold Bloom
Explanation
Who among the following is associated with a 'philosophy of praxis'?
Answer: (D) Antonio Gramsci
Explanation
Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?
Answer: (C) The Crystal World
Explanation
Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?
Answer: (B) ghostwords
Explanation
Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position?
Answer: (B) Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.
Explanation
Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?
A. Syntactic Structures
B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
C. Language and Society
D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
E. The Pragmatics of Politeness
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) D and A only
Explanation
Which among the following are examples of the Kunstlerroman?
A. The Portrait of a Lady
B. David Copperfield
C. Tom Jones
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and D only
Explanation
Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?
A. The British Museum is Falling Down
B. The Seven Sisters
C. Changing Places
D. Nice Work
E. Empire of the Sun
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A, C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India?
A. India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world.
B. No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue.
C. More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently.
D. English is the country's principal language of commerce.
E. With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and D only
Explanation
Match the authors in List I with the texts in List II.
| List I (Author) | List II (Text) |
|---|---|
| A. Robert Browning | I. Queen Mary |
| B. S. T. Coleridge | II. The Second Mrs Tanqueray |
| C. A. W. Pinero | III. Remorse |
| D. Alfred Tennyson | IV. The Borderers |
| E. William Wordsworth | V. Strafford |
Answer: (A) A-V; B-III; C-II; D-I; E-IV
Explanation
Match the books in List I with the poets in List II.
| List I (Book) | List II (Poet) |
|---|---|
| A. Anniversaries | I. Abraham Cowley |
| B. The Temple | II. John Donne |
| C. The Rehearsal Transpros'd | III. George Herbert |
| D. Pindarique Odes | IV. Andrew Marvell |
Answer: (B) A-II; B-III; C-IV; D-I
Explanation
Match the novels in List I with the writers in List II.
| List I (Novel) | List II (Writer) |
|---|---|
| A. A Handful of Dust | I. E. M. Forster |
| B. Brighton Rock | II. Evelyn Waugh |
| C. Howard's End | III. D. H. Lawrence |
| D. The Plumed Serpent | IV. Aldous Huxley |
| E. Those Barren Leaves | V. Graham Greene |
Answer: (C) A-II; B-V; C-I; D-III; E-IV
Explanation
Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition:
A. holophrastic
B. babbling
C. telegraphic speech
D. cooing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) D, B, A, C
Explanation
Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:
A. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
B. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
C. Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
D. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C, A, D, B
Explanation
Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:
A. phallogocentrism
B. locutionary act
C. interpellation
D. interpretive community
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, C, A, D
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors.
Statement II: Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
Explanation
Given below are two statements.
Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language.
Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Explanation
Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson?
A. Jonson's physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent.
B. Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically.
C. Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered.
D. John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company of players.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C and D only
Explanation
Who is the author of The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?
Answer: (A) A. Revathi
Explanation
Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?
Answer: (B) Octavio Paz
Explanation
What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?
Answer: (D) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Explanation
Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?
Answer: (D) Stendhal
Explanation
Which of these are true of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society?
A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
C. It defines culture as a way of life.
D. It equates culture with science.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do?
A. To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
B. To foreground a personal history of the Partition
C. To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
D. To find and unite families separated at the Partition
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Match the books in List I with the authors in List II.
| List I (Book) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. English, August | I. Shyam Selvadurai |
| B. In Custody | II. Anita Desai |
| C. Such a Long Journey | III. Rohinton Mistry |
| D. Funny Boy | IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee |
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
Explanation
Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films?
A. It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture.
B. It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture.
C. It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist.
D. It sought to break down the dominance of 'high' culture.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and D only
Explanation
Match the writers in List I with the books in List II.
| List I (Writer) | List II (Book) |
|---|---|
| A. Homi Bhabha | I. Reading the Popular |
| B. T. S. Eliot | II. The Location of Culture |
| C. Roland Barthes | III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture |
| D. John Fiske | IV. Image-Music-Text |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A. Elton John
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Bob Dylan
D. Bob Marley
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Which of the following qualify for the label 'cultural intermediary' in the context of a commercial film?
A. The film magazine columnist
B. The director
C. Fan clubs
D. The producer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and C only
Explanation
Which of the following is true of mass media?
Answer: (A) It usually has a central, single source.
Explanation
With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated?
A. Neo-classical
B. Symbolist
C. Modernist
D. Postmodernist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
Which of these departments did the Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?
A. Arabic
B. English
C. French
D. Law
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, B and D only
Explanation
Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies?
A. It is politically engaged.
B. It privileges text over context.
C. It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism.
D. It studies the means of production of a text.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A and D only
Explanation
Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals," focus on primarily?
Answer: (B) Brazil
Explanation
Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature.
A. Praneshacharya (Samskara)
B. Sakuni (Mahabharata)
C. Rusty (The Room on the Roof)
D. Gobar (Godan)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B, D, C, A
Explanation
Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays?
Answer: (C) Workings of power
Explanation
Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?
Answer: (D) Infantilisation
Explanation
Match the poems in List I with the poets in List II.
| List I (Poem) | List II (Poet) |
|---|---|
| A. "The Road Not Taken" | I. Pablo Neruda |
| B. "Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines" | II. Robert Frost |
| C. "I hear America Singing" | III. Langston Hughes |
| D. "I, too, Sing America" | IV. Walt Whitman |
Answer: (A) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968?
A. the primacy of English literatures and cultures
B. the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
C. the primacy of orature in the syllabus
D. the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) A and D only
Explanation
Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:
A. Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
B. Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
C. Pablo Neruda's Canto General
D. Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, B, D, C
Explanation
Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
A. Estragon
B. Pozzo
C. Bassanio
D. Murphy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India's Aunty Tongue Syndrome?
Answer: (A) Probal Dasgupta
Explanation
Match the libraries and institutes in List I with the locations in List II.
| List I (Library/Institute) | List II (Location) |
|---|---|
| A. Connemara Public Library | I. Kolkata |
| B. Dhvanyaloka | II. Chennai |
| C. Bhandarkar Oriental Institute | III. Mysore |
| D. Asiatic Society | IV. Pune |
Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:
A. The Imagist poets
B. The Cavalier poets
C. The Movement poets
D. The Lake poets
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B, D, A, C
Explanation
Match the texts in List I with the authors in List II.
| List I (Text) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. Advancement of Learning | I. Susan Sontag |
| B. Past and Present | II. Francis Bacon |
| C. English Traits | III. Thomas Carlyle |
| D. Illness as Metaphor | IV. R. W. Emerson |
Answer: (C) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:
A. dissociation of sensibility
B. unreliable narrator
C. theatre of cruelty
D. egotistical sublime
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) D, A, C, B
Explanation
Match the texts in List I with the authors in List II.
| List I (Text) | List II (Author) |
|---|---|
| A. The Lie of the Land | I. Alok Mukherjee |
| B. Masks of Conquest | II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan |
| C. Rethinking English | III. Gauri Viswanathan |
| D. This Gift of English | IV. Svati Joshi |
Answer: (A) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?
Answer: (B) MHRA
Explanation
The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:
Answer: (C) 1951
Explanation
Who among the following has coined the term, 'ecofeminism'?
Answer: (B) Francoise d'Eaubonne
Explanation
Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?
Answer: (D) Jerome McGann
Explanation
Arrange the following in their chronological order:
A. English replaces Persian as official language of the Company
B. Arrival of Charles Grant in India
C. Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
D. Construction of Fort William in Calcutta
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) D, B, A, C
Explanation
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