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M.A - Comparative Literature - 2019
M.A - Comparative Literature - 2019
I. Write your Hall Ticket No. in the OMR Answer Sheet given to you. Also, write your
Hall Ticket No. in the space provided above.
2. This Question paper consists of 100 objective questions in two parts (A and B) for 100
marks. Marks obtained in Part A will be used to resolve tie cases.
3. Each question carries One mark. There is negative marking of 0.33 for each wrong
answer.
4. Answers are to be marked on the OMR Answer Sheet following the instructions
provided thereon.
5. Plea~e handover the OMR Answer Sheet at the end of the examination to the Invigilator.
You may take the Question Paper at the end of the examination.
6. No additional sheet will be provided. Rough work can be done in the Question paper
itself.
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Part - A
For the questions below, choose the best option [a, or b, or Co or d) to complete the
conversation.
I. When can we meet again?
A) When are you free?
B) It was two days ago.
C) Can you help me?
D) Is this the place?
8. Fleetis a collection of
A) Animals
B) Flowers
C) Ships
D) Cards
10. _ _ _ _ you get your father's permission, I'll take you skiing next weekend.
A) Although
B) Provided
C)As
D) Unless
A) Stag-hind
B) Earl-countess
C) Drone-bee
D) Horse-ewe
A) Affection
B) Prevention
C) Pleasure
D) Doctor
14. Mohan said to her, "You have completed your work" (choose the indirect speech from
the following choices.
'T-'Ly...
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15. The little girl said to her mother, "Did the sun rise in the East?"
A) The little girl said to her mother that the sun rose in the East
B) The little girl asked her mother if the sun rose in the East
C) The little girl said to her mother if the sun rises in the East
D) The little girl asked her mother if the sun is in the East
A) to pass on
B) to pass out
C) to pass away
D) to pass off
A) 2-July
B) 2-May
C) 2-June
D) 12-May
A) Negombo
B) Colombo
C) Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
0) Ariuradhapura
19. Which of the following countries is going to host 2023 International Cricket World-Cup
Championship?
A) Kenya
B) China
C) England
D) India
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Michael Ondaatje
D) None of these
21. The Golden Man Booker, marking the 50th anniversary of the prize in 2018, was awarded
to:
A) Midnight's Children
B) The English Patient
C) Wolf Hall
D) The Remains of the Day
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22. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019 was awarded to:
A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Jayant Kaikini and Tejaswini Niranjana
C) Kamila Shamsie and Tejaswini Niranjana
D) Jayant Kaikini
23. Who among following was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Ama Ata Aidoo
D) Amos Tutuola
24. A lyric poem written in single stanza consisting of fourteen lines is called
A) Ballad
B) Free verse
C) Sonnet
D) Ode
25. Look carefully at the sequence of symbols to find the pattern. Select correct pattern.
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A)2
B)3
C)2
D) 1
26. Consider the statement true: There are books in each library. Which of the following
statements is definitely true?
A) 15
B)l4
C)13
D) 12
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28. Which word of the following i$ NOT associated with the others?
A) Avoid
B) Duck
C) Dodge
D) Flee
A) Sheep: Bleat
B) Horse: Neigh
C) Ass: Grant
D) Owl: Hoot
A) Whale: Mammal
B) Salamander: Insect
C) Snake: Reptile
D) Frog: Amphibian
33. Sanket, Saket and Samyukta are three doctors. Sanket is Saket's brother. Saket is
Samyukta's brother. Samyukta is not Sanket's brother. Therefore, Samyukta is Sanket's
sister.
A) Should be false
B) Cannot be determined
C) May be false
D) Should be true
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35. "Which cities are doing the most to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Tonight's
news report has the details". (Is there a sentence fragment?)
A) Yes
B) Not Sure
C)No
0) None of the above
36. Since it takes approximately one thousand years for a used printer cartridge to decompose
recycling these plastic ink dispensers helps the environment. (Which type of sentence is
this?)
A) Simple
B) Compound
C) Complex
0) Complex-Compound
37. They will demolish the entire block (Choose the passive voice from the following).
38. Child Labour ___ though there are a number of laws against it.
39. Which of the following languages was not enshrined in the 8th schedule of the Indian
Constitution in 2003?
A) Tulu
B) Sindhi
C) Meitei
0) Oogri
40. What we now speak as English language has its roots in,_ __
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Part- B
A) Multicultural
B) Multilingual
C) Multi-communal
D) All of the above
42. "Our journey is not from comparative literature to comparative Indian literature, but
from comparative Indian literature to comparative literature" is associated with:
A) Amiya Dev
B) Sisir Kumar Das
C) Susan Bassnett
D) Ayyappa Paniker
43. "India is one and indivisible, while her children speak with many languages" was declared
by_.
A) S. Radhakrishnan
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Anita Desai
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Karnataka
D) Kerala
A) Poverty
B) Apartheid
C) The state
D) Slavery
46. Who among the following Greek Philosophers hailed Sappho as 'the tenth muse'?
A) Aristotle
B) Pythagoras
C) Plutarch
D) Plato
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47. Who among the following is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare's
King Lear?
A) Regan
B) Cornelia
C) Cordelia
0) Goneril
48. Which of the following languages was considered the divine language?
A) Parsi
B) Urdu
C) Sanskrit
0) Arabi
A) Eight
B) Ten
C) Nine
0) Seven
A) Ravi Gupta
B) Kalpana Lajmi
C) Dimple Kapadia
0) None of the above
52. Which ofthe following can be said as the first wave of Feminism in the West?
A) Fight for women's suffrage
B) Fight against Nuclear warfare
C) Ecofeminism
0) Womanism
A) Macaulay's Minute
B) India's Independence
C) The reorganization of States in India
D) The debate between Orientalists and Anglicists
A) Tamil
B) Urdu
C) Hindi
D) Bangia
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Arunachal Pradesh
D) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
57. Which of the following is the author of 'Towards qn Aesthetic ofDaUt Literature?
A) Arjun Dangle
B) Gopal Guru
C) Sharan Kumar Limbale
D) Sharmila Rege
A) Ranajit Guha
B) Gayatri Spivak
C) Edward Said
D) Homi Bhabha
64. Which of the following artists has had a long association with Manipuri theatre?
A) Temsula Ao
B) Kalpana Lajmi
C) Heisnam Sabitri
D) Habib Tanvir
65:Six Acres and a Third by Fakir Mohan Senapati is a novel written originally in:
A) Hindi
B) Maithili
C) English
D) Oriya
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66. Who among the following is not a 20th century Urdu poet?
A) Sahir Ludhianvi
B) Makhdum Mohiuddin
C) Nida Fazli
D) Mirza Ghalib
67. A History o/Indian Literature: 1800-1910 is the famous book written by___,
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68. Which of the following universities is the first one to have started the Department of
Comparative Literature.
A) Wajeda Tabassum
B) Volga
C) Gogu Shyamala
D) Vaidehi
70. Imagined Communities is a book by
A) Perry Anderson
B) Charles Dickenson
C) Kevin Peterson
D) Benedict Anderson
71. The Tripitaka, a collection of Buddhist teachings, was written in,_ __
72. The English translation of Chandragiri Theeradalli, the Kannada novel by Sara
Aboobacker, is:
A) Breaking Ties
B) On the Banks of the Chandragiri
C) By the Chandragiri
D) My Journey
77. The term 'diaspora' was originally applied to the following ethnic group:
A) Muslims
B) French Canadians
C) Jews
D) Hindus
A) Elaine Showalter
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Judith Butler
A) Karl Marx
B) Louis Althusser
C) Antonio Gramsci
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
A) Soviet Marxism
B) New Criticism
C) Russian Formalism
D) New Historicism
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82. The theoretical term "mimicry~' is associated with which of the following thinkers?
A) Michel Foucault
B) Homi K Bhabha
C) Aristotle
D) Jacques Lacan
83. The Film Lagaan can be read within the framework of_ __
A) Dalit Politics
B) Post-colonial theory
C) Film Studies
D) All the above
84. Which film of the following is based on a short story by the Telugu writer, Chalam?
A) Hyderabad Blues
B) Vanaprastham
C)Grahanam
D) Maa Bhoomi
A) Sociology
B) Eco-criticism
C) Cultural Studies
D) Translation Studies
86. Who plays the role of Saadat Hasan Manto in the film Manto?
A) Irrfan Khan
B) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
C) Anil Kapoor
D) Naseeruddin Shah
A) Mira Nair
B) Deepa Mehta
C) Gurinder Chadha
D) Shekhar Kapoor
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89. "The Hornbill Festival" is a cultural event in which of the following states?
A) Meghalaya
B) Nagaland
C) Arunachal Pradesh
D) Mizoram
90. What can we term the Telugu ofTelangana, Telugu of Coastal and Rayalaseema regions
in Andhra Pradesh?
A) Independent languages
B) Dialects of Telugu
C) Mother Tongues
D) None of the above
Mother!
Waman Nimbalkar
Daylight would die. Darkness would reign.
We at our hut's door. No single light inside.
Lights burning in houses around.
Kitchen-fires too. Bhakris beaten out.
Vegetables, gruels cooked.
In our nostrils, the smell of food. In our stomachs, darkness.
From our eyes, welling up, streams oftears.
Slicing darkness, a shadow heavily draws near.
On her head, a burden. Her legs a-totter.
Thin; dark ofbody ..... my mother.
All day she combs the forest for firewood.
We wait her return.
When she brings no firewood to s~l we go to bed hungry.
One day something happens. How we don't know.
Mother comes home leg bandaged, bleeding.
A large black snake bit her, say two women.
He raised his hood. He struck her. He slithered away.
Mother fell to the ground.
We try charms. We try spells. The medicine man comes.
The day ends. So does her life.
We burst into grief. Our grief melts into air.
Mother is gone. We, her brood, thrown to the winds.
Even now my eyes search for mother. My sadness grows.
When I see a thin woman with firewood on her head,
I go and buy all her firewood.
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A) Mother' grief
B) Poverty of a Family
C) Daylight and Darkness
D) None of the Above
A) Due to Sadness
B) Due to Kitchen Fire
C) Due to Snake Bite
D) Due to poverty
A) Mother's husband
B) Mother's father
C) Mother's Uncle
D) Black Snake
A) Offspring
B) Deep thought
C) Firewood
D) Charm and Spell
A) Slicing Darkness
B) Bundle of Firewood
C) Smell of Food
D) Stream of Tears
Here is Alice Walker's understanding of the term Womanism IWomanist. Read the
Passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
WOMANIST: From womanish. (Opp. of "girlish," i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not
serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of
mothers to female children, "you acting womanish," i.e., like a woman. Usually
referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know
morecand in greater depth than is considered "good" for one. Interested in grown up
doings. Acting grown up. Being grown up. Interchangeable with another black folk
expression: "You trying to be grown." Responsible. In charge. Serious.
Also: A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates
and prefers women's culture, women's emotional flexibility (values tears as natural
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A) Women's oppression
B) Slavery
C) Movement for freedom by Black slaves from USA to Canada
D) All the above
99. "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender." What does this sentence mean?
A) Feminism is outdated
B) Womanists are opposed to feminists
C) Feminists' struggle is great like lavender
D) Womanist struggle is intense like purple
A) Inclusive
B) Exclusive
C) Dominant
D) Black
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