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Direction (Q. Nos. 1-4) :
Read the passage and answer the questions given below :
Translation is defined as a process of finding a target language equivalent for the source language text. In some extreme theoretical positions, equivalence is sometimes defined as the identity of not only the content but also of the form and the processes at various levels of the linguistic structure in the translated material in the target language. Equivalence, as we conceive it here, is the transfer of the content to the target language in a manner that is acceptable to and considered as the “genius” of the target language. This equivalence must be achieved in such a way that ambiguity, interference and variation in meaning are all avoided. Except where the original purposely resorts to polysemy, homography, homophony, and synonymy, the translated version is generally expected to avoid these.
The translation should aim at seeking the conceptual equivalents; it should define the conceptual equivalents accurately and tender them in the linguistic terms of the target language. As people begin to travel from place to place, from one country into another for various pursuits, and as people groups begin to develop social, cultural and economic contacts with one another, the necessity for translation for effective communication increases.
Multiplicity of languages is a fact of life in our world. People all over the world may prefer to learn English as an additional language and to attain some level of achievement in that language, and yet they would zealously continue to hold on to their own languages for socio-political, cultural and religious reasons.
Q.1. Equivalence in translation includes :
(A) the context
(B) the form
(C) the content, the form and the process
(D) the process
Q.2. Translation should be :
(A) literal
(B) ambiguous
(C) variant
(D) approximate
Q.3. Translation generally avoids :
(A) multiple meanings
(B) different meanings
(C) dissimilar sounds
(D) dissimilar words
Q.4. Now there is ................. demand for translation.
(A) no
(B) diminishing
(C) a little
(D) a growing
Q.5. Who coined the phrase ‘Archi writing’ ?
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Edward Said
(D) Michel Foucault
Q.6. Look Back in Anger is authored by :
(A) John Osborne
(B) Robert Bolt
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Harold Pinter
Q.7. Brides of Reason is the title of a volume of poems authored by :
(A) Ronald Bottrall
(B) C. Day Lewis
(C) Donald Davie
(D) Keith Douglas
Q.8. ‘Lead, Kindly Light’, a famous poem in English is written by :
(A) Cardinal Newman
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) John Keats
(D) George Herbert
Q.9. Match the works with the authors given below :
List I
(i) Andrea Del Sarto
(ii) The Blessed Damozel
(iii) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
(iv) The Lotus Eaters
List II
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Tennyson
(c) Rossetti
(d) R. Browning
Codes :
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)
(D) (c) (d) (a) (b)
Q.10. In a nasalised sound the air stream :
(A) escapes through the nasal passage only
(B) escapes through the oral and the nasal passage simultaneously
(C) escapes through the oral passage only
(D) does not escape at all
Q.11. Who among these is not associated with existentialist thought ?
(A) Friedrich Nietzche
(B) Rene Descartes
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Soren Kierkegaard
Q.12. The antimasque was a form developed by :
(A) George Chapman
(B) John Marston
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) John Webster
Q.13. The concept ‘Epiphany’ is mentioned in relation to the works of :
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) James Joyce
(C) Ronald Firbank
(D) Edward Marsh
Q.14. While writing about the works of Wells, Bennett and John Galsworthy, who said that ‘they spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring’?
(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) E. M. Foster
(D) James Joyce
Q.15. What is the real name of Pablo Neruda, a surrealist poet of Chile ?
(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(B) Margaret Eleanor Atwood
(C) Patrick Victor Martindale White
(D) Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto
Q.16. Which character doesn’t appear in The Untouchable ?
(A) Maya
(B) Bakha
(C) Lakha
(D) Sohini
Q.17. Who is famous for his work on ancient Indian scriptures ?
(A) Shashi Tharoor
(B) Devdutt Pattanaik
(C) Nikesh Shukla
(D) P. K. Balakrishnan
Q.18. Tennessee Williams employed............ technique in his play The Glass Menagerie.
(A) Conventional
(B) Traditional
(C) Unconventional
(D) Religious
Q.19. The Audio-Lingual Method of language teaching uses :
(A) Communicative theory
(B) Cognitive theory
(C) Behaviourist theory
(D) Semantic theory
Q.20. The perspective called “Affective stylistics” was developed by :
(A) Michael Riffaterre
(B) David Bleich
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) Jonathan Culler
Q.21. Which critic made a seathing attack on T.S. Eliot in 1920s, wrote a standard introduction to Poetics and authored The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal?
(A) F. R. Leavis
(B) E. V. Lucas
(C) F. L. Lucas
(D) Middleton Murry
Q.22. Which poet describes his childhood episodes as ‘spots of time’ ?
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Lord Byron
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S. T. Coleridge
Q.23. Match the following writers with their lifespan :
List I
(i) William Blake
(ii) Charles Lamb
(iii) P. B. Shelley
(iv) John Keats
List II
(a) 1795-1821
(b) 1792-1822
(c) 1775-1834
(d) 1757-1827
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) (d) (c) (b) (a)
(B) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(C) (b) (d) (a) (c)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
Q.24. What do the following lines smack of ?
Mid hush’d, cool rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,
Blue, Silver-white, and budded Tyrion,
They lay calm-breathing on the bedded grass;
Their arms embraced, and their pinions too;
Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu.
(A) Wordsworth’s Pantheism
(B) Coleridge’s Imagination
(C) Charles Lamb’s Humour
(D) Keats’ Sensuousness
Q.25. Which one of the following works is not written by George Peele ?
(A) The Battle of Alcazar
(B) The Love of King David and Fair Bethasbe
(C) The Old Wives’ Tale
(D) The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay
Q.26. Rasselas (1759) by Samuel Johnson is subtitled :
(A) King of Aragon
(B) Prince of England
(C) King of Scotland
(D) Prince of Abyssinia
Q.27. O Love, how strangely sweet
Are thy weak passions,
That Love and Joy should meet
In self-same fashions !
These lines are written by :
(A) Henry Howard
(B) George Herbert
(C) John Marston
(D) John Donne
Q.28. Identify the figure of speech in the following lines :
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.
(A) Synecdoche
(B) Transferred epithet
(C) Metonymy
(D) Personification
Q.29. Which of the following writers is NOT a Victorian writer ?
(A) Samuel Butler
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Jane Bronte
(D) Philip Larkin
Q.30. The novel Rites of Passage is written by :
(A) John Fowles
(B) J. G. Ballard
(C) William Golding
(D) E. M. Forster
Q.31. Which of the following novels is subtitled A Novel Without a Hero ?
(A) Oliver Jurist
(B) Wuthering Heights
(C) Vanity Fair
(D) The Mill on the Floss
Q.32. The line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” occurs in which of the following poems ?
(A) “Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson
(B) “The Lotus Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson
(C) “The Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning
(D) “The Scholar Gypsy” by Matthew Arnold
Q.33. Who introduced the dramatic theory of ‘alienation effect’ ?
(A) Stringberg
(B) Bertolt Brecht
(C) Franz Kafka
(D) Antonin Artaud
Q.34. While commenting on Theodore Francis Powys’ literary works, who said, “It does not seem likely that it will ever again be possible for a distinguished mind to be framed, as Mr. Powys has been, on the rhythms, sanctioned by nature and time, of rural culture” ?
(A) G. B. Harrison
(B) J. B. Priestley
(C) Herbert Read
(D) F. R. Leavis
Q.35. The use of an interactive model of language teaching materials based on the learner’s everyday life situations are the strategies used by :
(A) The Army Method
(B) The Reading Method
(C) The Communicative Language Approach
(D) The Bilingual Method
Q.36. Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in :
(A) 1991
(B) 1992
(C) 1993
(D) 1994
Q.37. Which of the following books is NOT written by Taslima Nasreen ?
(A) Lajja
(B) French Lover
(C) Bakul Katha
(D) Shorom
Q.38. Who among the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance ?
(A) Allen Ginsberg
(B) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
(C) Langston Huges
(D) Louisa Mary Alcott
Q.39. Nataraj in The Man-fater of Malgudi is a :
(A) veterinary doctor
(B) printing press owner
(C) tourist guide
(D) philosopher
Q.40. Who among the following did not publish a dictionary of the English language ?
(A) Robert Cawdrey
(B) William Tyndale
(C) Nathaniel Bailey
(D) Samuel Johnson
Q.41. Teaching English for communicative competence in a specific field such as IT, engineering, business, accounting, hospitality is referred to by the acronym :
(A) ESP
(B) EAP
(C) EGP
(D) EFP
Q.42. The Wretched of the Earth includes an introduction by :
(A) Jean-Paul Sartre
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Aimé Césaire
(D) Nelson Mandela
Q.43. Who called Spenser the “Poet’s Poet” ?
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) John Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Charles Lamb
Q.44. According to Aristotle, tragedy has ................... elements.
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 5
(D) 4
Q.45. Identify the character about whom Charles Lamb characterises her manner as “innocence-resembling boldness” and William Hazlit found in that character “that forced and practised presence of mind”.
(A) Miranda in The Tempest
(B) Isabella in The White Devil
(C) Vittoria in The White Devil
(D) Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi
Q.46. Which one of the following characteristics cannot be attributed to Charles Lamb’s essays ?
(A) Metaphysical element
(B) Humour and Pathos
(C) Mystification
(D) Autobiographical element
Q.47. How does Donne argue that in killing the flea the girl commits triple murder ?
(A) The girl’s mother, father and the flea
(B) The poet’s mother, father and the girl
(C) The poet, the girl and the flea
(D) The girl’s mother, father and the poet
Q.48. Of the following which is a tragedy written by Ben Jonson ?
(A) Cynthia’s Revels
(B) The Poetaster
(C) Bartholomew Fair
(D) Sejanus
Q.49. Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’ was dedicated to ..............
(A) Sir Philip Sidney
(B) Christopher Marlowe
(C) Robert Greene
(D) Thomas Lodge
Q.50. Who has made self-declaration about the microcosmic depiction as ‘the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work’ ?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Jane Austen
(C) Walter Scott
(D) Joseph Conrad
Q.51. Who is called the ‘Wasp of Twickenham’ ?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Shaftsbury
Q.52. Which one of the following is not included in the group of ‘Metaphysical poets’ ?
(A) Abraham Cowley
(B) John Donne
(C) John Cleveland
(D) Edmund Spenser
Q.53. Which of the following statements or comments is NOT TRUE ?
(A) Tess is more sinned than against than the sinning.
(B) Robert Browning shares his robust optimism in his poems.
(C) Thomas Hardy is a pessimistic novelist and asserts the importance of the role of destiny or chance in lives of human beings.
(D) Thyrsis cannot be said to be a pastoral elegy.
Q.54. Identify the metrical foot in the following line :
With a turf on my breast, and a stone on my head.
(A) Anapest
(B) Iamb
(C) Tetrameter
(D) Trochee
Q.55. Which type of theme does L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between deal with ?
(A) Jamesian
(B) Lawrentian
(C) Restoration
(D) Jacobean
Q.56. Which of the following novels of Charles Dickens has the autobiographical elements ?
(A) Bleak House
(B) Hard Times
(C) Nicholas Nickleby
(D) David Copperfield
Q.57. Phonology studies :
(A) Patterns of sound
(B) Patterns of meaning
(C) Patterns of letters
(D) Patterns of sentences
Q.58. Who wrote the novel The Plague ?
(A) Kingsley Amis
(B) Albert Camus
(C) Franz Kafka
(D) Jean Paul Sartre
Q.59. Who wrote the play Rhinoceros ?
(A) Samuel Beckett
(B) Henrik Ibsen
(C) Albert Camus
(D) Eugene Ionesco
Q.60. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was first published in :
(A) 1938
(B) 1939
(C) 1940
(D) 1941
Q.61. Charles Morgan is the author of :
(A) The Fountain
(B) Orlando
(C) The Corn King and the Spring Queen
(D) The Cathedral
Q.62. Which among the following is not an autobiographical writing by Taslima Nasreen ?
(A) Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood)
(B) Utal Hawa (Wild Wind)
(C) Ka (Speak Up)
(D) Lajja
Q.63. Janaki is a character in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel :
(A) Coolie
(B) Untouchable
(C) The Village
(D) The Big Heart
Q.64. Who was known as the ‘Nightingale of India’ ?
(A) Amrita Pritam
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Mahadevi Varma
(D) Jalnavi Barua
Q.65. Langue and parole are terms used by :
(A) Barthes
(B) Saussure
(C) Lacan
(D) Foucault
Q.66. Choose the correct option which matches the critic (Column A) with the concept/theories they put forward (Column B) :
(Column A)
(i) Derrida
(ii) Saussure
(iii) Homi Bhabha
(iv) Edward Said
(Column B)
(a) Hybridity
(b) Deconstruction
(c) Orientation
(d) Structuralism
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(B) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(C) (b) (d) (a) (c)
(D) (d) (c) (b) (a)
Q.67. The word “womanist” was used by :
(A) Zora Neale Hurston
(B) Alice Walker
(C) Toni Morrison
(D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q.68. “The artist is once more in rudiments an introvert, not for removed from neurosis.” Who wrote these lines ?
(A) Kristeva
(B) Jung
(C) Lacan
(D) Freud
Q.69. The line, “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” is from :
(A) The Tempest
(B) King Lear
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night
Q.70. Whom did John Keats regard as the prime example of “Negative Capability” ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) John Milton
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Shakespeare
Q.71. What is Hellenism ? It is ..........
(A) Love for Greek art, literature and culture
(B) the world of Hell
(C) Goethic culture and art
(D) a supernatural element
Q.72. The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales were on their way to the shrine of ...............
(A) St. Augustine
(B) Our Lady of Caversham
(C) Thomas a’ Becket
(D) Our Lady Undercroft
Q.73. ‘The Defence of Poesie’ is written by :
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) Sir Philip Sidney
(C) Thomas Nashe
(D) Christopher Marlowe
Q.74. In A GAME AT CHESS written by Thomas Middleton the white pieces represent :
(A) The English
(B) The Spaniards
(C) The French
(D) The German
Q.75. The author of the biography Life of Johnson (1791) is :
(A) Edward Gibbon
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) James Boswell
(D) Sheridan
Q.76. What is the name of the club frequented by writers like Addison and Steele ?
(A) Fat Men’s Club
(B) Spectator Club
(C) October Club
(D) Kit Kat Club
Q.77. Which of the following poems is not written by John Donne ?
(A) The Apparition
(B) The Ecstasy
(C) The Altar
(D) The Bait
Q.78. What is Rime Royal ?
(A) It is a seven-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc.
(B) It is a six-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbc.
(C) It is a four-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming abab.
(D) It is a five-line, iambic hexameter stanza rhyming ababb.
Q.79. The essential quality/qualities of a researcher is/are :
(A) Systematization or theorizing of knowledge
(B) Spirit of free enquiry
(C) Reliance on observation and evidence
(D) All the above
Q.80. A volume of verse entitled Tender only to one is authored by :
(A) Carol Ann Duffy
(B) Derek Mahon
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Paul Muldoon
Q.81. Identify the correct sequence of research steps :
(A) Selection of topic, review of literature, data collection, interpretation of findings.
(B) Selection of topic, review of literature, interpretation of findings, data collection.
(C) Selection of topic, data collection, review of literature, interpretation of findings.
(D) Review of literature, selection of topic, data collection, interpretation of findings.
Q.82. Vowels are produced with a stricture of :
(A) open approximation
(B) close approximation
(C) open and close approximation at the same time
(D) without any approximation
Q.83. Research ethics do not include :
(A) Subjectivity
(B) Honesty
(C) Integrity
(D) Objectivity
Q.84. Which poem by T.S. Eliot begins with the lines ?
‘I don’t know much about gods;
but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god–sullen,
untamed and intractable’ ?
(A) “The Dry Salvages”
(B) “The Hollow Men”
(C) “Ash Wednesday”
(D) “Four Quartets”
Q.85. Who, among the following, is a dramatist ?
(A) Edgar Wallace
(B) Harcourt Williams
(C) Dorothy Sayers
(D) J.C. Powys
Q.86. Derek Walcott in his poem ‘Far Cry From Africa’ refers to ................. tribe.
(A) Sonjo
(B) Kikuyu
(C) Kamba
(D) Embu
Q.87. Tagore’s Gitanjali reveals NOT :
(A) his deep roots in the ancient Indian traditions
(B) a personal quest for the Divine
(C) an outcome of his ecstasy
(D) a radical view of society
Q.88. The Drum Dancer is a play by :
(A) Asif Currimbhoy
(B) Gurucharan Das
(C) Badal Sarkar
(D) Mahesh Elkunchwar
Q.89. In Halliday’s classification of the functions of language, language use for learning and exploring the environment is termed as :
(A) Representational
(B) Imaginative
(C) Interactional
(D) Heuristic
Q.90. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?
(A) A Creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of languages and become the main language in a particular place.
(B) A Creole is a person descended from the Europeans who first settled in the West Indies or the Southern United States of America.
(C) A Creole is a standard language used in official and formal situations by governments, in media and in education.
(D) A Creole is a person of mixed African and European race, who lives in the West Indies and speaks a Creole language.
Q.91. Who does Sidney call “the right popular philosopher” ?
(A) Lawyer
(B) Poet
(C) Historian
(D) Mathematician
Q.92. In the chapter “Historical Criticism” N. Frye represents a theory of :
(A) Symbols
(B) Modes
(C) Myths
(D) Genres
Q.93. Which critic theorised the act of reading by foregrounding the concept of interpretive communities ?
(A) Stanley Fish
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Allen Tale
(D) John Crowe Ransom
Q.94. Which one among the following statements is not true in the context of Marxist criticism ?
(A) It tries to locate a text in its historical context.
(B) It makes ideological analysis.
(C) It argues that the author is autonomous, independent of history.
(D) It subscribes to dialectical materialism.
Q.95. The letters of which English poet have been described by T.S. Eliot as “certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet”?
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) Lord Byron
(C) Sir Walter Scott
(D) John Keats
Q.96. Though Shakespeare is an Elizabethan playwright, some of his plays were performed for the first time in the Jacobean period. Which of the following plays was performed after 1603 ?
(A) The Comedy of Errors
(B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Taming of the Shrew Direction
(Q. Nos. 97-100) : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below :
Our interiors never could remain Quite Engligh.
The local gods hidden in
Cupboards from rational Parsi eyes
Would suddenly turn up on the walls
Garlanded alongside the King and the Queen.
Today it is simpler to admit with relief :
The men are too greasy, their speech
Is too nasal, their wives either plain
Or overdone; they choose for their dresses
A shattering blue and choke their flowers
In tinsel; their mind is provincial,
Their children are dull.
Q.97. Interiors of the houses have become :
(A) more Indianised
(B) remained unchanged
(C) Anglicised
(D) Outdated
Q.98. What is the attitude of the Parsi ?
(A) Traditional
(B) Superstitious
(C) Sceptic
(D) Reasonable
Q.99. The reference is made to :
(A) Poor Parsis
(B) Well-off ones
(C) Indianised ones
(D) Westernised one
Q.100. Here the word ‘greasy’ means :
(A) soft
(B) selfish
(C) harsh
(D) slippery