1) Who made the remark: ‘Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree’?
A:) Rabindranath Tagore
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) B.Yeats
D:) T.S.Eliot
springline- Correct option B:) Ezra Pound
2) ‘A literature of their own’ is the work by ________
A:) Elaine Showalter
B:) Judith Butler
C:) Julia Kristeva
D:) Virginia Woolf
springline- Correct option A:) Elaine Showalter
3) Which British administrator passed a resolution for the ‘Promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India’?
A:) Lord Hastings
B:) Lord Cornwallis
C:) Lord Bentick
D:) Lord Hardinage
springline- Correct option C:) Lord Bentick
4) Which one of the following novels by Kingsley Amis represents its protagonist as an ‘angry young man’?
A:) I Like it Here
B:) Lucky Jim
C:) The Biographer’s Moustache
D:) The Great Man
springline- Correct option B:) Lucky Jim
5) Which three of the following writers are associated with ‘Kitchen sink drama’? (a) Arnold Wesker; (b) John Arden; (c) Shelagh Delaney; (d) John Osborne;
A:) a, b, and d
B:) a, b, and c
C:) b, c, and d
D:) a, c, and d
springline- Correct option D:) a, c, and d
6) Traces of the Morality plays are discernible in a play like Dr. Faustua, traces such as
A:) Vernacular songs adapting secular themes
B:) Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad Angels and its final moral.
C:) Its Refrains from the Corpus Christ Carol, the complaint of Christ, the lover of mankind
D:) Its rhythmical prose, and the presence of a larger narrative rhythm in the Morality plays
springline- Correct option B:) Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad Angels and its final moral.
7) During the reign of Norman Kings, it was fashionable to speak ______ in upper-class circles in England.
A:) Norse
B:) Latin
C:) Danish
D:) French
springline- Correct option D:) French
8) In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was ‘untimely ripped’ from his mother’s womb?
A:) Macbeth
B:) Macduff
C:) Duncan
D:) Malcolm
springline- Correct option B:) Macduff
9) In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as good examples of English Poesy? (I) The Mirror of Magistrates; (II) The Shepherd’s Calendar; (III) Lament for the Makers; (IV) Ballad of Scottish King
A:) I and III
B:) I and IV
C:) I and II
D:) II and III
springline- Correct option C:) I and II
10) Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except
A:) analytical criticism
B:) literary history
C:) personal biography
D:) Socratic dialogue
springline- Correct option D:) Socratic dialogue
11) What happens to the lock of the hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
A:) it is given back to its rightful owner
B:) it is preserved in monument
C:) it turns into a star
D:) it is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.
springline- Correct option C:) it turns into a star
12) Choose the incorrect option about Keats writing. (a) He lived apart from men and from all political measures. (b) He worshipped beauty like devotee. (c) His content writing is to reflect some splendor of the natural world as he saw or dreamed it to be. (d) He advocates impossible reforms.
A:) a
B:) d
C:) c
D:) b
springline- Correct option B:) d
13) Who said, Keats ‘had flint and iron in him’?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) Mathew Arnold
C:) I.A. Richards
D:) William Empson
springline- Correct option B:) Mathew Arnold
14) Several successful essays were published in book form in 1823. In these essays ‘Elia’ is Lamb himself, and ‘Cousin Bridget’ is his _______.
A:) sister Mary
B:) cousin Heywood
C:) imaginary wife
D:) granny
springline- Correct option A:) sister Mary
15) Choose the incorrect option according the writing of Charles Lamb. (a) Many essays were leading to be a delightful interpretation of the life of London. (b) The essay, Dream Children was an example of Lamb’s humor and pathos. (c) Essays mostly covered some purely personal mood or experience. (d) Through his essays, he reforming poetry and upholding the moral value.
A:) d
B:) c
C:) b
D:) a
springline- Correct option A:) d
16) Which of the following prose (novelist) writer was not in the part of Victorian age and he would be considered in previous age.
A:) Charles Dickens
B:) William Makepeace Thackeray
C:) Thomas De Quincey
D:) Thomas Carlyle
springline- Correct option C:) Thomas De Quincey
17) Whose poetry was evident on successive pages of these striking qualities: the dreaminess of Spencer, the majesty of Milton, the natural simplicity of Wordsworth, the fantasy of Blake and Coleridge, the melody of Keats and Shelley and the narrative vigour of Scott and Byron?
A:) Alfred Tennyson
B:) Robert Browning
C:) Mathew Arnold
D:) William Morris
springline- Correct option A:) Alfred Tennyson
18) Who described Tennyson as ‘a fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bonze-colored, shaggy-headed man… most restful, brotherly, solid-hearted’?
A:) John Ruskin
B:) Thomas Carlyle
C:) John Henry Newman
D:) Mathew Arnold
springline- Correct option B:) Thomas Carlyle
19) Which of the following is the general subject of Celtic legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, and the chief source of its material is Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur.
A:) The Prince
B:) In Memorium
C:) Old Mortality
D:) The Idyls of the King
springline- Correct option D:) The Idyls of the King
20) ‘handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’ is the description owed to _____.
A:) Catherine
B:) Kate Hardcastle
C:) Emma Woodhouse
D:) Lucrezia
springline- Correct option C:) Emma Woodhouse
21) ‘My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer’ whose voice in this line over to the reader?
A:) Pip
B:) Heathcliff
C:) Manolin
D:) Huckleberry Finn
springline- Correct option A:) Pip
22) What is the title of Book 3 of George Eliot’s novel ‘Middle March’?
A:) Miss Brooke
B:) Waiting for Death
C:) The Dead Hand
D:) The Widow and the Wife
springline- Correct option B:) Waiting for Death
23) Where was the part two and six in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure?
A:) At Marygreen
B:) At Melchester
C:) At Shaston
D:) At Christminster
springline- Correct option D:) At Christminster
24) In the ‘Power and the Glory’ the chapter 15th is entitled _______
A:) WEAVERS AND WEFT
B:) A BIT OF METAL
C:) THE FEET OF THE CHILDREN
D:) THE RESCUE
springline- Correct option C:) THE FEET OF THE CHILDREN
25) Choose the incorrect of Chaucer and His works. (a) In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes with a tolerant humour and restrained wit. (b) Chaucer’s literary career has been divided into three periods (French Period, Italian Period, and English period) (c) The Legend of Good Woman, a collection of stories in heroic couplets. (d) The Canterbury Tales was most popular in his French period.
A:) c
B:) b
C:) a
D:) d
springline- Correct option D:) d
26) Choose incorrect option of The Canterbury Tales. (a) Chaucer originally conceived a framing device with a motley company of thirty travellers telling two stories each way on their pilgrimage to Canterbury and two return to London. (b) The design was similar to Boccaccio’s Decameron (c) Chaucer had completed only 24 stories when de died in 1400. (d) Southwark was not a part of London now.
A:) c
B:) b
C:) a
D:) d
springline- Correct option D:) d
27) The author in this work defends the writing of imaginative literature against Puritan charge that it is an enemy of virtue. He argues that poetry has the function of both teaching and delighting. The great end of learning is living of virtuous life and inspired poet can lead leaders to the highest truths. What is the work mentioned and who was written?
A:) The American Scholar - Emerson
B:) The Defense of Poesy - Sidney
C:) A Defense of Poetry - Shelley
D:) The Study of Poetry - Arnold
springline- Correct option B:) The Defense of Poesy - Sidney
28) When the writer died, his work was continued by Samuel Purchas. The completed work was entitled _________ or Purchas His Pilgrimages (1625), which was inspired Coleridge to write ‘Kubla Khan’.
A:) Hakluyt’s Posthumus
B:) Euphues
C:) Pandosto, the Triumph of Time
D:) Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Voyages, Traffics, and Discoveries of the English Nation
springline- Correct option A:) Hakluyt’s Posthumus
29) Choose the incorrect option of Faerie Queene. (a) Books I-III were published in 1590. Books IV-VI were published in 1596. (b) Spenser’s monumental scheme of this work is comparable in scope to Dante’s Convivio (The Banquet). (c) The plan of the 24 books, Spenser planned first to portray eleven private moral virtues, each portrayed by a knightly figure, with the Arthur summing up all virtues in the twelfth book. (d) Only six books were completed.
A:) d
B:) a
C:) b
D:) c
springline- Correct option C:) b
30) It is called the most beautiful nuptial poem, celebrates the poet’s wedding to Miss Boyle.
A:) Prothalamion
B:) Epithalamion
C:) Canonisation
D:) To His Coy Mistress
springline- Correct option B:) Epithalamion
31) Choose the incorrect option. (a) ‘Metaphysical Poetry’ synthesizes passion and intellect, to display both feeling and learning. (b) ‘The Cannonization’ is a philosophical love poem. (c) ‘The Ecstasy’ makes a mystical religious experience of the joining of the souls of two lovers (d) John Donne died in 1630.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) d
springline- Correct option D:) d
32) Whose writing combined the restless intellectual spirit of the earlier period with the later emphasis on religion and politics.
A:) George Herbert
B:) John Milton
C:) T.S. Eliot
D:) W.B. Yeats
springline- Correct option B:) John Milton
33) It is a carpe diem poem that wittily suggests that with unlimited time, in the work the poet could catalogue his mistress’s charms, but since time is short ‘seizing the day’ and tasting immediate pleasures is imperative.
A:) Prothalamion
B:) Epithalamion
C:) Canonisation
D:) To His Coy Mistress
springline- Correct option D:) To His Coy Mistress
34) The dramatist made original use of feigned madness and a play-within-a-play. It could be categorized revenge play.
A:) Macbeth
B:) The Spanish Tragedy
C:) All for Love
D:) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
springline- Correct option B:) The Spanish Tragedy
35) It is a melodramatic accounts of royal power struggles during chaotic periods of English history.
A:) Antonio and Cleopatra
B:) The Faerie Queene
C:) Henry IV – Part I
D:) Tughlaq
springline- Correct option C:) Henry IV – Part I
36) Choose the incorrect option according to The Tempest.
A:) Prospero- the magician in the play.
B:) Ariel – a spiritual creature.
C:) Caliban – represents the baser side of the human nature.
D:) Ceres – the Roman goddess of marriage.
springline- Correct option D:) Ceres – the Roman goddess of marriage.
37) ‘sleep no more’, ‘murder sleep’, ‘the innocent sleep’ and ‘sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care’ are appeared in __________.
A:) Macbeth
B:) The Spanish Tragedy
C:) All for Love
D:) The Hairy Ape
springline- Correct option A:) Macbeth
38) Who misuses his/her powers by playing tricks on the Pope.
A:) Faustus
B:) Clarissa
C:) Thalestris
D:) Umbriel
springline- Correct option A:) Faustus
39) John Bunyan's allegorical narrative about a 'Christian' going to salvation occupied a place right next to the family Bible, The full title of the allegory, when it was published in 1678, is _________.
A:) The Pilgrim's Progress From Home To The Wicket Gate Into The Celestial City
B:) The Pilgrim's Progress – an Allegory
C:) The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
D:) The Pilgrim's Progress: Dangerous Journey to the Desired Country.
springline- Correct option C:) The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
40) It concentrates on the last hours in the lives of the royal pair, and it is esteemed for its elaborately formal presentation of character, action and theme.
A:) Henry IV – Part 1
B:) All for Love
C:) Prothalamion
D:) Epithalamion
springline- Correct option B:) All for Love
41) Choose the incorrect option of Tom Jones. (a) The title is ‘The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling’. (b) It was published on 28 February 1749. (c) It is a ‘comic poem in prose’. (d) Book VI. — containing the most memorable transactions which passed in the family of Mr Allworthy, from the time when tommy jones arrived at the age of fourteen, till he attained the age of nineteen.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) d
D:) c
springline- Correct option C:) d
42) Who called ‘The Rape of the Lock’ as ‘the most attractive of all ludicrous compositions’
A:) Dr. Samuel Johnson
B:) Alexander Pope himself
C:) James Boswell
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option A:) Dr. Samuel Johnson
43) It is a massive blank-verse autobiography of his poetic mind. It was revised over period of fifty years and his death in 1850. Many critics consider it the century’s greatest poem.
A:) Lyrical Ballads
B:) Prelude
C:) Byzantium
D:) The Scholar Gypsy
springline- Correct option B:) Prelude
44) Who is comforted by the realization that ideal art is truth and that art is permanent in his poem?
A:) Robert Browning
B:) Shelley
C:) Keats
D:) Coleridge
springline- Correct option C:) Keats
45) Which of the following indicts society for not allowing freedom to intellectual and cultural pursuits.
A:) Middle March
B:) Moby Dick
C:) To the Light House
D:) The English Teacher
springline- Correct option A:) Middle March
46) It is literature’s most savage indictment of a society that crushes a penniless intellectual, and the title character longing for an education is frustrated and doomed.
A:) Tom Jones
B:) Jude the Obscure
C:) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D:) The English Teacher
springline- Correct option B:) Jude the Obscure
47) The poet denounces the intellectual confusion of his age and idealizes a young Oxford student who has ‘integrity of the spirit’ and survives in the work.
A:) Jude the Obscure
B:) The Way of the World
C:) The English Teacher
D:) The Scholar Gypsy
springline- Correct option D:) The Scholar Gypsy
48) It is a condemnation of the sterile futility of modern life and essentially a ritual drama with powerful underlying myths.
A:) The Power and the Glory
B:) The Waste land
C:) Byzantium
D:) Because I Could not Stop for Death
springline- Correct option B:) The Waste land
49) Choose the incorrect pair of Playwright and play
A:) G.B. Shaw - Man and Superman
B:) John Galsworthy – The Silver Box
C:) John Millington Synge – Riders to the Sea
D:) Samuel Beckett - Juno and the Paycock
springline- Correct option D:) Samuel Beckett - Juno and the Paycock
50) Choose the incorrect one. (a) absurd – Drama that has as its basic premise the meaninglessness of life. (b) Alexandrine – A line of poetry with six iambic feet. (c) blank Verse – a type of poetry in which rhyme is not use. Each line has ten syllables with an iambic rhythm. (d) Carpe diem – A Latin Phrase, meaning literally ‘seize the day’. (e) Free Verse – poetic compositions in which there is neither rhyme nor a regular meter, also called Verse libre (Latin for free verse). (f) Heroic Couplet – A pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) e
springline- Correct option D:) e
51) Who was sharp as a knife-edge where mathematical matter were concerned in the novel ‘The English Teacher’.
A:) Rangappa
B:) Gopal
C:) Singaram
D:) Gajapathy
springline- Correct option B:) Gopal
52) Who outlined to Ravi a husband’s responsibilities, drove him into corners and lectured him, the duties he owed to mother-in-law and wife in ‘A Handful of Rice’?
A:) Nalini
B:) Apu
C:) Jayamma
D:) Thangam
springline- Correct option C:) Jayamma
53) What speeds madly towards the speaker with overload The Meaning of Africa written by Abioseh Nicol?
A:) car
B:) jeep
C:) lorry
D:) truck
springline- Correct option C:) lorry
54) Pick the odd one from the sub topics of the poem Fire at the Murdering Hut by Judith Wright. (a.) The Fire, (b.) The Stone, (c.) The Hut (d.) The Grave.
A:) d only
B:) c only
C:) b only
D:) a only
springline- Correct option B:) c only
55) 'Beauty is nothing to me, neither the beauty of the body nor that that comes of dress.' (The Dance of Shiva) The above given statement is quoted in which work?
A:) Koyil Purdnam
B:) Dasa Dhamma Sutta
C:) Unmai Vilakkam
D:) Majjhima Nikdya
springline- Correct option B:) Dasa Dhamma Sutta
56) Which movement frightened the Government and they hurried on with tenancy legislation, according to An Autobiography written by Nehru?
A:) industrial movement
B:) non-cooperation movement
C:) agrarian movement
D:) Swadeshi movement
springline- Correct option C:) agrarian movement
57) Pick the correct projection of the third type of ambiguity, according to William Empson’s The Seventh Type of Ambiguity.
A:) third type of ambiguity occurs when the author is discovering his idea in the act of writing or not holding it all in his mind at once.
B:) third type of ambiguity is about verbal matter that occurs when to ideas which are connected only by being both relevant in context.
C:) third type of ambiguity occurs when two or more meaning of statement do not agree among themselves but combine to make clear a more complicated state of mind in author.
D:) third type of ambiguity occurs when a statement says nothing, by tautology, by contradiction, or by irrelevant statement; so that the reader is forced to invent statements of his own and they are liable to conflict with one another.
springline- Correct option B:) third type of ambiguity is about verbal matter that occurs when to ideas which are connected only by being both relevant in context.
58) Who got insulted by Martha for being unsuccessful and stuck in the history department, in Edward Albee’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A:) Nick
B:) Nash
C:) George
D:) Thomas
springline- Correct option C:) George
59) What is the real name of Yank, who was born in New York and brought up in a lower class family, according to Eugene O'Neill’s The Hairy Ape?
A:) Paddy
B:) Bob Smith
C:) Long
D:) Douglas
springline- Correct option B:) Bob Smith
60) Pick the subject in chapter six of Aristotle’s Poetics. (a.) discussion of imitation -object of imitation and manner of imitation, (b.) origin and development of poetry, (c.) tragic drama, (d.) rules for the tragic poet
A:) d only
B:) b only
C:) a only
D:) c only
springline- Correct option D:) c only
61) According to James Thurcer’s The Owl in the Attic, Mr. Monroe has the habit of collecting which kind of object?
A:) pen
B:) pencil
C:) handkerchief
D:) books
springline- Correct option B:) pencil
62) Which character among the following spoke the Epilogue in The Tempest written by Shakespeare?
A:) Ariel
B:) Prospero
C:) Ferdinand
D:) Miranda
springline- Correct option B:) Prospero
63) For how many days did the epic struggle of an old fisherman is pro-long, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
A:) eighty-five days
B:) eighty-four days
C:) eighty-three days
D:) eighty-two days
springline- Correct option B:) eighty-four days
64) “We owe them thanks, because they thus” Identify the literary device used in the above given poetic line?
A:) Alliteration
B:) Assonance
C:) Simile
D:) Metaphor
springline- Correct option A:) Alliteration
65) “The false society of men— —for earthly greatness All heavenly comforts rarefies to air.”According to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, who sang the above given line?
A:) Chapman
B:) Thoreau
C:) Raleigh
D:) Collins
springline- Correct option A:) Chapman
66) In Henry IV, Part 1, Which trusted ally brought the news about the Douglas’ meeting with the English rebels at Shrewsbury and their motive to attack the king?
A:) Sir Walter Blunt
B:) Lord John
C:) Earl of Northumberland
D:) Earl of Worcester
springline- Correct option A:) Sir Walter Blunt
67) In the essay ‘Metaphysical Poets’ Elliot insists on unity. Pick the combination of unity insisted by T.S.Elliot. (a.) emotion, (b.) setting, (c.) time, (d.) thought.
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and d only
D:) d and a only
springline- Correct option D:) d and a only
68) What are for the scholar's idle times, according to Emerson's The American Scholar? (a.) books, (b.) writing, (c.) being creative.
A:) b and c only
B:) c and a only
C:) a only
D:) b only
springline- Correct option C:) a only
69) At the end of Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for Death, what headed in the direction of eternity?
A:) wind
B:) sky
C:) time
D:) horse
springline- Correct option D:) horse
70) According to Robert Frost’s Mending wall, what could help one to get and make good neighbours?
A:) not talking
B:) hardwork
C:) hardship
D:) good fence
springline- Correct option D:) good fence
71) “I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights With multitudes bent toward some _____ scene” (The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge) Identify he appropriate word to fill he blank in the above given poetic lines.
A:) moving
B:) enchanting
C:) flashing
D:) faking
springline- Correct option C:) flashing
72) What is the term used for the process of vowel elided and the consonant on either side of it are run together, with the result that a syllable is lost?
A:) By Syncopation
B:) By Metanalysis
C:) By Telescoping
D:) Back-Formation
springline- Correct option A:) By Syncopation
73) Among the following what does ever add pleasure, according to Francis Bacon’s Of Truth?
A:) sins
B:) pleasures
C:) A mixture of desire
D:) A mixture of a lie
springline- Correct option D:) A mixture of a lie
74) what keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well
A:) a man that studies truth
B:) a man that studies friendship
C:) a man that studies revenge
D:) a man that studies adversity
springline- Correct option C:) a man that studies revenge
75) According to T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent, honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed towards whom/ what?
A:) poet
B:) play
C:) poetry
D:) playwright
springline- Correct option C:) poetry
76) Which word among the following defines the fault and misery of Rousseau, in Thomas Carlyle’s The Hero as Man of Letters?
A:) bashful
B:) egoism
C:) vanity
D:) diffidence
springline- Correct option B:) egoism
77) “It was the heat brought the stars to a boil, and you asked me about constellations.”(R. Parthasarathy : from Trial from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets) Fill the above given poetic lines with appropriate word.
A:) March
B:) August
C:) October
D:) December
springline- Correct option B:) August
78) RANAJIT: Uncle, you are partial to the outsiders, and against your own kith and kin. It is through your lessons that Abhijit has failed fully to accept the duties of the kingdom of Uttarakut which are to be his hereafter. Who is the above mentioned uncle in Tagore’s Muktha Dhara?
A:) Viswajit
B:) Abhijit
C:) Suman
D:) Bibhuti
springline- Correct option A:) Viswajit
79) Which language appears to have been impressed rather by their uncouth appearance, since the adjective vilain in modern means ugly?
A:) Old English
B:) Anglo Saxon
C:) French
D:) Latin
springline- Correct option C:) French
80) “At home on _______ nights the prayers Were said. My morals had declined, I heard of Yoga and of Zen.” (Nissim Ezekiel : Background Casually from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets) Fill the above given poetic lines with the appropriate word.
A:) Monday
B:) Wednesday
C:) Friday
D:) Saturday
springline- Correct option C:) Friday
81) Where did Tughlaq heaped the copper coins that were exchanged for gold and silver coins by the people, according to Girish Karnad ‘s Tughlaq?
A:) in his room
B:) in his treasure
C:) in his palace
D:) in his garden
springline- Correct option D:) in his garden
82) Which character among the following was married to a rich man named Languish who died and left her his fortune and began an affair with Mirabell, according to William Congreve’s The Way of the World?
A:) Arabella
B:) Marwood
C:) Millamant
D:) Foible
springline- Correct option A:) Arabella
83) Which character among the following is known as one-eyed lion in Gurucharan Das’ Larins Sahib?
A:) Dalip Singh
B:) Tej Singh
C:) Sher Singh
D:) Ranjit Singh
springline- Correct option D:) Ranjit Singh
84) Which character among the following borrowed money from Charley and pretended to be his salary, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman??
A:) Stanley
B:) Willy
C:) Biff
D:) Happy
springline- Correct option B:) Willy
85) “Our language sunk under him.” Who said the above given line that was quoted by Johnson in his work?
A:) Addison
B:) Steel
C:) Byron
D:) Dryden
springline- Correct option A:) Addison
86) How did Okonkwo died in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which is considered as a sin that made clansmen not to touch the body?
A:) he consumed poison
B:) he silted his throat
C:) he hanged
D:) he drowned
springline- Correct option C:) he hanged
87) In The Pilgrim’s Progress who is referred as a good friend by Christian and Faithful in Chapter VI?
A:) Obstinate
B:) Evangelist
C:) Prudence
D:) Discretion
springline- Correct option B:) Evangelist
88) In which year does Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize by Swedish academy for the work Gitanjali?
A:) 1912
B:) 1913
C:) 1914
D:) 1915
springline- Correct option B:) 1913
89) Among the following what is compared with the teeming sores in the poetic lines of Alec Derwent Hope’s Australia?
A:) cities
B:) lands
C:) robber
D:) shores
springline- Correct option A:) cities
90) “Or the dull sobbing draft, that moans and rakes Upon the strings of this Æolian lute, Which better far were mute.” In Greek Mythology, the word ‘Æolian’ denotes which god among the following?
A:) god of earth
B:) god of music
C:) god of art
D:) god of wind
springline- Correct option D:) god of wind
91) Who help Baroka to marry Sidi and tried her best to convince Sidi in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel?
A:) Lakunle
B:) Baroka
C:) Sadiku
D:) Ailatu
springline- Correct option C:) Sadiku
92) “My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal,” ( Immortality Ode) Select the correct explanation of above given poetic lines?
A:) my heart celebrates your presence and my head has a crown
B:) my heart is filled with joy and I feel like a queen
C:) my heart rejoices and my head has a crown with your happiness
D:) my heart is in your festival where I was crowned
springline- Correct option C:) my heart rejoices and my head has a crown with your happiness
93) Which character in Alan Paten’s Cry, the Beloved Country, goes over Absalom’s letters from prison, in which he assures that if there is a possibility he could return to Ndotsheni?
A:) Msimangu
B:) Lithebe
C:) Kumalo
D:) Jarvis
springline- Correct option C:) Kumalo
94) “But I am not interested now in what writers expect of society; that is generally contained in their books, or should be. What is not so well documented is what society expects of its writers.” Who among the following said the above given statement in their work?
A:) Chinua Achebe
B:) Hazlitt
C:) Alan Paten
D:) Carlyle
springline- Correct option A:) Chinua Achebe
95) “And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:”(Tintern Abbey) What is the literary device used in the above given poetic lines?
A:) simile
B:) anaphora
C:) allusion
D:) allegory
springline- Correct option B:) anaphora
96)The publication of John Crowe Ransom’s “The New criticism” in _______ gave a name to the Anglo American variety of formalist criticism.
A:)1941
B:)1942
C:)1943
D:)1944
springline- Correct option A:)1941
97)The practical critic I.A.Richard’s book “Principles of Literary Criticism” argued than criticism should emulate the precision of science “Principles of Literary Criticism” was published in the year_____
A:)1914
B:)1919
C:)1924
D:)1930
springline- Correct option C:)1924
98)William Empson came up with the phenomenal “ The Seven types of Ambiguity” as a virtuoso example of close reading using ambiguity as a defining feature of poetic language ignoring the biographers of authors the social contexts and literary history. The Seven types of Ambiguity was published in the year.
A:)1920
B:)1930
C:)1922
D:)1934
springline- Correct option B:)1930
99) Wimsatt and Beardsley pointed out in “The Verbal Icon “that sure knowledge of the authors intended meaning is usually unavailable “the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art” “The Verbal Icon” was published in the year_________
A:)1952
B:)1953
C:)1954
D:)1955
springline- Correct option C:)1954
100) Archetype is a primordial image character or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered universal. It emerges from myth criticism of which Maud Bodkin’s _____ publication “Archetypal Patterns” in poetry is an excellent example.
A:)1922
B:)1935
C:)1934
D:)1936
springline- Correct option C:)1934
101)In the year __________ Derrida published three books “Writing and difference”, Of Grammatology and “The Speech and Phenomenon” that effectively put an end to structuralism and launched a new era in French intellectual life
A:)1967
B:)1968
C:)1970
D:)1972
springline- Correct option A:)1967
102) Louis Rosenblatt talks about reader response in “Literature as Exploration” (1938) that a poem is what the ___________lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
A:) Reader
B:) Poet
C:) Writer
D:) Life
springline- Correct option A:) Reader
103) _______ linguistics studies the development of language through history and through time.
A:) Applied
B:) Scientific
C:) Diachronic
D:) Synchronic
springline- Correct option C:) Diachronic
104) _________ is the science classifies languages which studies the origin organisation nature and development of language descriptively historically comparatively and explicity.
A:) Linguistics
B:) Morphology
C:) Ethnography
D:) History
springline- Correct option A:) Linguistics
105)___________ is the study of speech processes including the anatomy neurology and pathology of speech the articulation classification and perception of speech sounds.
A:) Phonology
B:) Speech theory
C:) Phonetics
D:) Application
springline- Correct option C:) Phonetics
106)_________ is described as experimental phonetics or instrumental phonetics and are general terms for phonetic studies which involves the use of mechanical and electronic apparatus.
A:) Phonetic substance
B:) Articulatory phonetics
C:) Laboratory phonetics
D:) Acoustics phonetics
springline- Correct option C:) Laboratory phonetics
107)_________ refers to the auditory aspects or sound features of spoken language as studied by articulatory acoustic and auditory phonetics
A:) Phonetic substance
B:) Application
C:) Structural aspect
D:) Environmental aspect
springline- Correct option A:) Phonetic substance
108)_________ points out “descriptive criticism begins in self justification with poets discussing their own works and defending them against hostile attacks as Dryden has done in his innumerable prefaces”.
A:) George Watson
B:) Anatole France
C:) T.S.Eliot
D:) Antonio Gramsci
springline- Correct option A:) George Watson
109)________ is the choice and arrangement of words in a line of poetry.
A:) Diction
B:) Classic
C:) Allegory
D:) Aestheticism
springline- Correct option A:) Diction
110) Q:32) The principles ideals or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effect in art literature film or theatre by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations.
A:) Surrealism
B:) Scholasticism
C:) Symbolism
D:) Romanticism
springline- Correct option A:) Surrealism
1) Who is the author of ‘Paviyakothu’ __________
A:) Perunchitharanar
B:) Bharathidasan
C:) Bharathiyar
D:) Arivumathi
springline- Correct option A:) Perunchitharanar
2) Which of the following was portrayed as ‘Muthamizh Kappiyam’, ‘Kudimakkal Kapiyam’?
A:) Etthuthogai
B:) Silapathikarm
C:) Seevakasinthamani
D:) Thiruvalluva Maalai
springline- Correct option B:) Silapathikarm
3) ‘Ornithology’ is the study of ________.
A:) Ships
B:) Ants
C:) Birds
D:) bones
springline- Correct option C:) Birds
4) Robot is a social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. It was given Saudi Arabian citizenship, and became the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. The robot is named ________.
A:) Eliza
B:) Deep Blue
C:) Riyadh
D:) Sophia
springline- Correct option D:) Sophia
5) ________ ,also known as Mahamalla, was a emperor of the Pallava dynasty who ruled South India from 630–668 CE.
A:) Mahendravarman
B:) Mahendravarman II
C:) Pulakeshin II
D:) Narasimhavarman I
springline- Correct option D:) Narasimhavarman I
6) Who is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental thinking in the field. His birthday is observed every year as the National Librarian Day in India.
A:) Vanda Broughton
B:) S. R. Ranganathan
C:) K.S. Raghavan
D:) S. Dasgupta
springline- Correct option B:) S. R. Ranganathan
7) Who was the most famous of the Mauryan kings. He was known as ‘Devanam Piya’, meaning ‘Beloved of the Gods’?
A:) Ashoka
B:) Ajatasatru
C:) Kalasoka
D:) Mahapadma Nanda
springline- Correct option A:) Ashoka
8) Which of the following was not a fundamental right?
A:) Right to Equality
B:) Right against exploitation
C:) Right to freedom of speech and expression
D:) Right of free compulsory education of all children upto the age of 14
springline- Correct option D:) Right of free compulsory education of all children upto the age of 14
9) Which of the following is the ex officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha?
A:) President
B:) Vice President
C:) Prime Minister
D:) None of these
springline- Correct option B:) Vice President
10) The Panchayat Raj was first introduced in _____
A:) Rajasthan
B:) Tamilnadu
C:) Uttar Pradesh
D:) Bihar
springline- Correct option A:) Rajasthan
11) A teacher organizing reflective level academic deliberations in the classroom. The scope for which type of communication will be optimum in such a situation?
A:) One-way vertical communication
B:) Two-way interactive communication
C:) Transactional communication
D:) Zero level communication
springline- Correct option C:) Transactional communication
12) If a child is exposed to frequent rejections, punishments and teasing by the parents and teachers, usually it may lead to:
A:) Mental retardation
B:) Learning disability
C:) Delinquency
D:) Brain disorders
springline- Correct option C:) Delinquency
13) Which of the following is not a type of learning disability?
A:) Dyslexia
B:) Alexia
C:) Dysgraphia
D:) Asphyxia
springline- Correct option D:) Asphyxia
14) In order o be able understand how children grow and learn, teacher-trainees should be exposed to a course in:
A:) Educational Administration
B:) Educational Philosophy
C:) Educational Psychology
D:) Educational Sociology
springline- Correct option C:) Educational Psychology
15) ‘Prayer cannot be offered with an empty stomach’. This statement will get support form _____.
A:) Idealism
B:) Naturalism
C:) Pragmatism
D:) Logical Positivism
springline- Correct option C:) Pragmatism
16) The ultimate purpose of Gandhian education is the:
A:) Creation of a classless society
B:) Promotion of human beings
C:) Development of a human and awakened society
D:) Salvation for all
springline- Correct option B:) Promotion of human beings
17) Sir Aurobindo’s idea of supermind implies that:
A:) Darwin theory is relevant, hence education cannot do much
B:) The task of a teacher is to uplift the awakened consciousness of human beings.
C:) A teacher has to integrate psychology, biology and education in his/ her teaching techniques
D:) Education can achieve its divine purpose through meditation.
springline- Correct option B:) The task of a teacher is to uplift the awakened consciousness of human beings.
18) Which one of the following is an example of social mobility?
A:) En masse withdrawl of learners from school by their parents
B:) Shifting school to a far off place
C:) Weekend visits to villages by city dwellers
D:) Deputizing village youths in Indian Army.
springline- Correct option D:) Deputizing village youths in Indian Army.
19) The concept of equalization of educational opportunities implies:
A:) Providing books and uniform to learners
B:) Providing resources to learners as per their ability
C:) Encouraging learners to study as many subjects as they can
D:) Optimizing learning conditions for success in school board examinations.
springline- Correct option B:) Providing resources to learners as per their ability
20) Who developed the concept ‘Functional Autonomy of Motives’?
A:) Mcdougal
B:) Atkinson
C:) Maslow
D:) Allport
springline- Correct option D:) Allport
21) Which of the following principles is used in shaping behaviour in Skinner’s Operant Conditioning?
A:) Principle of keeping the response simple and specific
B:) Principle of keeping the response soft and sweet
C:) Principle of successive approximation
D:) Principle of reward and punishment
springline- Correct option C:) Principle of successive approximation
22) Which of the laws of learning given by Thorndike had to be revised?
A:) Law of Exercise
B:) Law of Readiness
C:) Law of Effect
D:) Law of Belongingness
springline- Correct option C:) Law of Effect
23) Who developed the concept of group factors in intelligence?
A:) Burt
B:) Spearman
C:) Thurstone
D:) Guilford
springline- Correct option A:) Burt
24) The right to free and compulsory education at primary education level is ensured by our Constitution under:
A:) Article 21 A of 2009-Act
B:) Article 21 B of 2002 - Act
C:) Article 45 of directive principles
D:) Article 21 A of 2002 - Act
springline- Correct option D:) Article 21 A of 2002 - Act
25) There is a maximum scope of change in curricular contents by the state boards of school education in ________.
A:) Demonstration Model
B:) Administrative Model
C:) System Analysis Model
D:) Grassroot Model
springline- Correct option B:) Administrative Model
26) The basic purpose of educational supervision is to:
A:) Ensure better result of students in the board examination
B:) Ensure effective teaching-learning ambiance in the school.
C:) Ensure maximum attendance of learners in the school
D:) Ensure compliance of set rules and procedures
springline- Correct option B:) Ensure effective teaching-learning ambiance in the school.
27) Which of the following term is closely related to the meaning of the term ‘aptitude?’
A:) Ability
B:) Achievement
C:) Capability
D:) Potential
springline- Correct option D:) Potential
28) In programmed learning who is said to be the proponent of ‘Adaptive programming’
A:) Skinner
B:) Gilbert
C:) Crowder
D:) Mager
springline- Correct option C:) Crowder
29) In which of the following Communication Model, there is optimum scope for encoding and decoding messages?
A:) International Model based on learner participation
B:) Distance Learning Model based on use of Information and Communication technology support.
C:) Discussion-cum-Lecture session model conducted by the teacher
D:) Transactional model based on collaborative projects
springline- Correct option D:) Transactional model based on collaborative projects
30) The Duchenne is the most common type of
A:) Spina bifida
B:) Multiple Sclerosis
C:) Muscular dystrophy
D:) Traumatic Brain Injury
springline- Correct option C:) Muscular dystrophy
31) Which of the following statement is correct in the context of students with learning disabilities?
A:) They show perceptual impairment affecting perceptual skills such as thinking and reasoning.
B:) They learn in the same way as efficiently as their classmates
C:) They display academic performance higher than expected
D:) They have the emotional problem which is one of the primary causes of their learning disabilities.
springline- Correct option A:) They show perceptual impairment affecting perceptual skills such as thinking and reasoning.
32) Marfan Syndrome is a kind of:
A:) Genetic Disorder
B:) Viral Infection
C:) Degenerative neuromuscular disease
D:) Muscular contraction
springline- Correct option A:) Genetic Disorder
33) Which of the following provisions is most appropriate for addressing the learning needs of the students having disabilities/impairments?
A:) Individualized Transition Program (ITP)
B:) Pre-School Programs for Children
C:) Individualized Education Program (IEP)
D:) Free and Appropriate Education (FAPE)
springline- Correct option C:) Individualized Education Program (IEP)
34) Which of the following arrangements is an effective supplement for providing Teacher Education through distance mode?
A:) EDUSAT
B:) Smart Classrooms
C:) Virtual Universities
D:) MOOC
springline- Correct option D:) MOOC
35) Which of the following method should be used by each teacher?
A:) Analytical-synthetic
B:) Synthetic-analytical
C:) Only analytical
D:) Only synthetical
springline- Correct option A:) Analytical-synthetic
36) The highest level of cognitive domain is
A:) Synthesis
B:) Analysis
C:) Comprehension
D:) Evaluation
springline- Correct option D:) Evaluation
37) In which teaching method learner’s participation is made optimal and procative?
A:) Discussion method
B:) Buzz session method
C:) Brainstorming session method
D:) Project method
springline- Correct option D:) Project method
38) In Social Science, a central issue is the question of whether the social world can be studied using the methods of natural sciences. This statement refers to the issue of ____.
A:) Ontology
B:) Axiology
C:) Etymology
D:) Epistemology
springline- Correct option D:) Epistemology
39) Classroom interactions are influenced largely by
A:) Students’ commitment
B:) Teacher-centric environment
C:) Organizational oversight
D:) Unsolicited interventions
springline- Correct option A:) Students’ commitment
40) Which amongst the following natural hazards has relatively slow onset?
A:) Volcanic eruptions
B:) Droughts
C:) Wildfires
D:) Land and Slides
springline- Correct option B:) Droughts