61. In Non-verbal Communication four types of spaces exist. They are: intimate, personal, social, and
(A) Public
(B) Private
(C) Friendly
(D) Unsocial
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62. In Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ what supernatural ability do the children born at the exact moment of India’s independence possess?
(A) Telekinesis
(B) Invisibility
(C) Telepathy
(D) Shape-shifting
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63. In one of the novels by Arvind Adiga the whole story is told in the form of 8 emails written by the protagonist to the Chinese Premier claiming himself as a successful Indian entrepreneur. Identify the novel.
(A) The White Tiger
(B) Between the Assassinations
(C) The Last Man in the Tower
(D) Selection Day
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64. Match the dates with events related to East India Company (EIC) activities in India:
Dates – Events
1. 1639 – a. EIC resumed activities in Kolkata
2. 1651 – b. EIC acquired Chennai on lease
3. 1668 – C. EIC permitted to trade in Bengal by Mughals
4. 1691 – d. EIC acquired Mubai from Portugal
(A) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
(B) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(C) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(D) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
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65. English was made the official language of education in 1837 in by the British rulers.
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) England
(D) India
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66. In India people like ________ viewed English as a barrier to class equality and to the economic development of the poor.
(A) Raja Rao
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Rammanohar Lohia
(D) RK Narayan
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67. Arrange the following novels by Adiga in chronological order. Identify the correct code:
1. Selection Day
2. Last Man in Tower
3. Between the Assassinations
4. The White Tiger
(A) 3, 1, 2, 4
(B) 2, 3, 4, 1
(C) 4, 3, 2, 1
(D) 1, 3, 2, 4
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68. Which of the following is not a type of Cultural Studies?
(A) British Cultural Materialism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Postmodernism
(D) Formalism
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69. Which literary theory transcends the confines of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history?
(A) Structuralism
(B) Cultural Studies
(C) New Criticism
(D) Formalism
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70. Match the titles of the critical works with their authors:
Critical works – Authors
1. Critical Approaches to Literature – a. Simone de Beauvoir
2. The Rhetoric of Fiction – b. Ernest Jones
3. Hamlet and Oedipus – c. David Daiches
4. The Second Sex – d. Wayne Booth
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(B) 1-c; 2-d; 3-b; 4-a
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a
(D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
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71. The following thinker compiled a notebook of shakespearean idioms and phrases when he was learning English in the 1840s.
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Michael Bakhtin
(D) Raymond Williams
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72. Which of the following is not an American magazine?
(A) The New Republic
(B) The New Review
(C) The New Yorker
(D) New Atlantis
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73. What was the name of the first daily newspaper that began in 1702?
(A) The Jockey’s Intelligencer
(B) The Examiner
(C) The Daily Courant
(D) The Tatler
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74. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
(i) Samson Agonistes – John Milton
(ii) Mac Flecknoe – John Dryden
(iii) On a Girdle – William Davenant
(iv) Hudibras – Samuel Butler
(A) (i)
(B) (iv)
(C) (iii)
(D) (ii)
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75. The periodical adopted a fictional method of presentation through a “Spectator Club/’ whose imaginary members extolled the authors’ own ideas about society. These “members” included representatives of commerce, the army, the town (respectively, Sir Andrew Freeport, Captain Sentry, and Will Honeycomb), and of the country gentry (Sir Roger de Coverley). Identify the periodical:
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Dial
(D) The London Weekly
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76. “The book was impossible to lay aside, once I had begun it. It gripped me. Johannesburg to Durban was a twenty-four hours’ journey. The train reached there in the evening. I could not get any sleep that night. I determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of the book.”
Which book is the author talking about in these lines?
(A) Sartor Resartus
(B) Capital
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) Unto This Last
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77. The Times Literary Supplement is a ________ literary review published as a supplement to The Sunday Times of London.
(A) Daily
(B) Weekly
(C) Bi-monthly
(D) Monthly
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78. He is an English essayist and critic. He went to school at Christ’s Hospital, where he was a near contemporary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and of Leigh Hunt. In 1792 he found employment as a clerk at East India House (the headquarters of the East India Company), remaining there until retirement in 1825. In 1796 his sister, Mary, in a fit of madness (which was to prove recurrent) killed their mother. He reacted with courage and loyalty, taking on himself the burden of looking after Mary. Identify the writer:
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Hazlitt
(C) Johnson
(D) John Lily
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79. The term; malapropism’ is derived from the name of a character in a play by:
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Brinsley Sheridan
(C) Bernard Shaw
(D) William Congreve
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80. Who founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and Boston Playwright’s Theatre?
(A) Derek Welcott
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Larkin
(D) W.B. Yeats
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