356 PU M A English and Comparative Literature

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are created by:-

Swift
Richardson

R.L. Stevenson
Fielding

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What does DTS stands for in translation Studies?

Direct Translation Studies

Dialogue Transference Studies

Dialect translation Studies
Descriptive Translation Studies

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Which of the following writers was executed for mistranslating Plato's Dialogue?
Hillaire Belloc

Nostra Damus

Etienne Dolet

Pierre Le Tourneur

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Who is the author of the poem, "The Traveler"?
Dryden

Dr.Johnson
Pope
Oliver Goldsmith

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Who coined the term "the Global Village"?
Walter Benjamin
Marshall McLuhan

Raymond Williams
 Stuart Hall

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CBT in translation refers to:-
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Collocation Based Terms

Culture Based Terms

Context Based Terms

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The phrase "stream of consciousness" was coined by:-
William James

Edmund Wilson

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

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Which of the following texts of Kalidasa in translation was received with an "undisputed applause" by the
Germans?
Malavika and Agnimitra

Urvashi
Raghuvamsha

Shakuntla

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BELLICOSE=
witty
crude
sympathetic

quarrelsome

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Which Indian women playwright has discussed organ trade in her play Harvest?

Manjula Padmanabhan

Uma Parameswaran
 Mahasweta Devi

Dina Mehta

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Which Victorian poet described poetry as 'a criticism of life'?

Lord Tennyson
John Ruskin

Matthew Arno1d

Robert Browning

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In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, and the total depravity of man, and the
complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, the Puritans in America:-

Emphasized the goodness of Divinity

the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation

Stressed the importance of religious experience
Believed in Union of Church and society

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Who coined the term, "theatre of the absurd"?

Samuel Beckett
Edward Albee

Raymond Williams
Martin Esslin

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"It cannot be inherited, and if you want if you must obtain it by great labour". What is T.S. Eliot discussing
here?
Talent
Values

Tradition

Objectivity

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In the sentence 'A barking sound, the shepherd hears' the italicized words represent a(n):-

tense
 adjunct

subject

predicate

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Verbs like has, could, shall, was, etc are also known as ________.
anomalous finites

main verbs

infinite verbs
finite verbs

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What is the name of the girl that Wordsworth talked about in Three Years She Grew?

Lucy

Elizabeth
Dorothy

Anne

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Who wrote the Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali?

George Moor

W.B. Yeats
Ian Fletcher

William Morris

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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterically naked" are lines from
Allen Ginsberg's:-
'Kaddish'

'America'

'Howl'
'Five A.M'

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Where, when, and by whom was Dalit Literature introduced for the first time?
 Hyderabad, 1968, Gaddar

Mumbai, 1976, Arjun Dangle

Pune, 1949, Dr.Ambedkar

Mumbai, 1958, Baburao Bagul

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John Nettleship, who described himself as a short tempered chemistry teacher with long hair and a
gloomy mandarous laboratory, influenced a popular character in Harry Potter novels. Identify him.

Professor Quirrel

Severus Snape
Albus Dumbledore

Alastor Moody

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RENEGADE=
Militant
soldier

inexperience

turncoat

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ADROIT=

skilful
speedy
colorful

Cunning

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In The Fire and the Rain, Karnad draws upon a story from __________.

The Bhagavat Gita

The Mahabharata
The Bible
The Ramayana

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The author of Unto this Last is __________________.

Macaulay

Lytton

Ruskin
Carlyle

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A __________ sentence is a type of sentence that asks questions.

Interrogative

imperative
declarative

exclamatory

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The term, 'malapropism' is derived from the name of a character in a play by:-
Congreve
Shaw

Shakespeare

Sheridan

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Which of the romantics propounded the term "esemplastic" in his theory of imagination?

Percy Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats

William Wordsworth

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The source for Samuel Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is thought to be__________.
A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea by Captain George Shelvocke

Voyages by James Cook

Around the World in Thirty Days by Jules Verne
A Expedition to Antarctic by Christopher Columbus

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How many years older is Pip's sister Joe Gargeryin Dickens' Great Expectations?

more than 20 years

more than 10 years

more than 5 years

more than 25 years

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Who is the author of The Death of Tragedy?

Frederick Nietzsche

Jean Paul Sartre

George Steiner

Antonin Artaud

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The Last Days of Pompeii is a historical novel written by ________________.

Walter Scott
Anthony Trollope

Benjamin Disraeli

Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Who is the author of The Making of the English Working Class, which seeks to encourage the culture of
the marginalized?
Stephen Greenblatt
Alan Sinfield
Raymond Williams

E.P.Thompson

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Which of the following writers suggested 'Imitation' also as a method in Translation?

Dryden

Pope
Tytler
Johnson

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Who is the author of The Branded Uchalya?

Poomani

Arjun Dangle
OmprakashValmiki

Baburao Bagul

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Who propounded the theory of epic theatre before BertoltBrecht?

Erwin Piscator
Grotowski
Emily Zola

Stanislavski

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The vocal cords are situated in the:-

lungs

Larynx
trachea

glottis

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Which is the autobiography of Vasant Moon?
Growing up Untouchable in India
The Scar
Oorukeri

The Branded Uchalya

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Lamb refers to his father under the name of:-

Lovel

Mr. H
Mariat
Massinger

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Girish Karnad's play Hayavadana is based on ________.

Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads

Odyssey
an Indian Folktale

a Chinese legend

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Whom did Luther follow in rejecting word-for-word translation among the following?

St. Jerome
Horace
Quintilian

Cicero

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Upon translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat", which of the following writers made the following
observation "Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle"?

Edward Fitz Gerald

Arnold
Longfellow

Rossetti

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Which of the following play is considered a postmodern play?
The Ghosts

Street Car named desire

Hamlet Machine
Kanyadaan

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CYCLOID=

an uncouth character
Conceited
a person with a mental imbalance

Personality characterized by alternating

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Which play of Mahesh Dattani deals with the transgender issues?
Dance Like a man
On a muggy night in Mumbai
Final Solutions

The Seven Steps around the fire

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H.G. Wells is known for his contribution to the field of _______________.
Comic plays

Historical fiction

Science fiction

Picaresque novels

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Who coined the term "Stereotypes"?

Richard Dyer

Terry Eagleton

Nicholas Granham
Raymond Williams

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The words 'due' and 'dew' are examples of:-
Synonyms

Acronyms
Homophones

Antonyms

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How does Algernon understand in Importance of being Earnest that Jack is leading a double life?
By__________.
An inscription
A note book
A portrait

A tablecloth
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Which among the following is the autobiographical novel of Charles Dickens?
The Pickwick Papers
Hard Times

Great Expectations
David Copperfield

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Who branded Romantic poets as 'paper revolutionaries'?

Louis Althusser
Raymond Williams

Terry Eagleton

Christopher Caudwell

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Which theatre influenced Badal Sircar's concept of 'Third Theatre'?

Piscator's political theatre

Brecht's epic theatre

Artaud's theatre of cruelty

Grotowski's poor theatre

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Alexander Fraser Tytler first published his Principles of Translation in the year:-

1854
1848
1793
1791

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The author of Jane Eyre is ________________.

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
George Eliot

Emily Bronte
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Why according to Mathew Arnold is poetry superior to history?
Because it contains euphemisms
Because it bears the stamp of high seriousness and truth

Because it has imagery

Because it has ornamental lines

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Who used the term 'bio-power' or 'bio-politics' in Disability Studies?

Mike Oliver
Frantz Fanon

Michel Foucault

Lennard J Davis

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APLOMB=

confidence
style

show
poise

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SUPERCELIOUS=

physical
Contemptuous
Stupid
Earthly

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CLUMNY=
treachery
publishing skill
slander

murder
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Who is the author of Untouchable Spring?

Sivasagar
G. Kalyana Rao

KathiPadmarao
Gaddar

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Which of the following novels won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960?

Waiting for the Mahatma

The Financial Expert

The Guide

The English Teacher

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The theme of Faerie Queen Book II represents____________.

Friendship
Temperance

Chastity
Holiness

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Who among the following stands out as the most prominent translators of the seventeenth century?

Richard Fanshawe
John Denham
Charles Cotton
Urquhart

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Identify Tolstoy's the most frequently translated text till even the recent times?
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Illyich

The Cossacks
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Roman de la Rose, an important work of middle age is a _________.
tragic love
courtly love

elegy
Allegorical romance

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Identify the poet on whose grave is written the epithet" Here lies one whose name was written in water".

Shelley
Keats

Coleridge

Toru Dutt

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There are ______________ pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales including Chaucer himself.

Thirty
Twenty eight

Thirty one
Twenty nine

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The poem "The Scholar Gypsy" is a poem by__________.

Robert Browning
Christina Rossetti
Mathew Arnold
Tennyson

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Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following line: 'If music be the food of love, play on . . .'?
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Hamlet

Twelfth Night
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The Hours of Idleness is a collection of work by _______________.

Coleridge
Keats

Byron
Shelley

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The dubbing of all characters carried out by a single male voice who reads the translated dialogue over
the original soundtrack with no lip-synchronization is called:-

Lektor

Tracking

Screen translation

Voice over

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Raymond Williams is a well-known critic belonging to:-

Structuralism
Marxism

Formalism
Deconstruction

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Chaucer's, The Parliament of Fowls is a poemin celebration of saint _________.

St. Valentine's Day

St. John
St. Agnes
St.Cecilia

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'Climbing mountains is an adventure sport.' The italicized word is a:-

infinitive
present participle

present tense
 gerund

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Shelley's one of the unfinished long poem is ____________.
Prometheus Unbound

Adonais
The triumph of Life

The Masque of Anarchy

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Which British explorer translated and compiled 'One Thousand and One Nights' or the 'Arabian Nights'?
John Hanning Speke

James Augustus Grant

Richard Francis Burton

John Bird Fuller

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The word translation is given after the Greek God Hermes who was associated with the Greek God and
served as his messenger.
Apollo

Zeus
Hercules

Phoebe

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Who is Tottel in Tottel's Miscellany?

The translator
The writer
The publisher

The editor

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The German word 'Dolmetscher' that Schleiermacher uses to distinguish types of translators means:-
One who translates commercial texts

One who translates critical texts

 One who translates artistic texts

One who translates scholarly texts

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'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.' Whose words are
these?

Thomas Moore
David Lindsay

Francis Bacon

Roger Bacon

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'____ Mount Everest is the tallest peak in the world' Insert the correct article.

An

A
The
no article necessary

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How many syllables are there in the word insufficient?

three
four

two
one

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Name the novel which begins with this statement: "You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "What I am
about to tell you".
Native Son
Joy Luck Club

The Woman Warrior

Absalom, Absalom

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The term 'Metaphysical Poets' was first used by _____________.

George Herbert
 John Donne

Dr. Johnson

T.S. Eliot

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Who among the following is associated with the imagist movement?
W.H.Auden

Dylan Thomas

Stephen Spender
Ezra Pound

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Recognize the writer who has works such as Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger, and War Dances.

Martin Espada

Jeanette Armstrong
Louise Erdrich

Sherman Alexie

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'I shall have written my exercise by the time you reach home.' The italicized words represent which
tense?

future

future continuous perfect

future perfect
future continuous

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Which Somerset Maugham's short-story made into a 1932 film, deals with the story of a missionary,
Alfred Davidson who tries to reform a prostitute.
'The Letter'

'The Luncheon'

'Bewitched'
'Rain'

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"Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss". These lines talk about:-
 Mephistopheles sensuality

Faustus' sensuality

Hercules' sensuality
Tamburlaine's sensuality

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Name the work that uses as a backdrop the Tuskgee Institute, the philosophy of Booker T. Washington,
the communist party's ideology and the issue of racism.
Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain

Alice Walker'S Color Purple

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Which word means 'believing in the wisdom of ordinary people'?
populous
popular

populist

poplar

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Who is Alison in Look Back in Anger?

Jimmy Porter's sister

Jimmy Porter's wife
Jimmy Porter's mother

Jimmy Porter's girlfriend

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Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?

Colin Wilson

John Osborne
Alan Sillitoe
John Wain

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Identify the Italian Children's novel that has been adapted into more than 250 languages.
Heart
Geronimo Stilton

Adventures of Pinocchio
The Last Dragon

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Mr. Micawber is a character created by ________________.

Charles Dickens

William Shakespeare
T.S.Eliot

R.L.Stevenson

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'Manish feels that the tiger is superior to the lion.' In this sentence, the word 'to' should be replaced by:-
then
than

from

'to' need not be replaced

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Which American novelist described Plath as "one of the most celebrated and controversial of postwar
poets writing in English." Moreover, she added that her poems "read as if they've been chiseled, with a
fine surgical instrument, out of arctic ice."
Joyce Carol Oates

JhumpaLahiri

Alice Walker
Denis Donoghue

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Who among the following was associated with Bloomsbury group in England?

Virginia Woolf
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen

Iris Murdoch
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A novel that is in the form of letters is known as:-

fiction
a memoir

an epistolatory novel
an autobiography

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Shaw has himself written that 'Candida is a counterpoint to:-
Galsworthy's Strife'

Ibsen's Ghosts

Galsworthy's Justice'

Ibsen's Doll's House'