State Eligibility Test - 2018
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State Eligibility Test - 2018 (Final Answer Key) English Q1 : Which of the following works by Chaucer is often called ‘a novel in verse’? The Book of the Duchess A The Legend of Good Women B Trailus and Criseyde C The Canterbury Tales D Answer Key: C Q2 : “Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” The above words are uttered by a character in __________. King Lear A Othello B Macbeth C Hamlet D Answer Key: C Q3 : According to Francis Bacon what makes a “ready man”? Reading A Writing B Consultation C Conference D Answer Key: D Q4 : Dante has used ___________ in Divine Comedy. Monorhyme A Limerick B Terza Rima C Enclosed Rhyme D Answer Key: C Q5 : Which one of the following is written in blank verse? Donne : The Flea A Dryden : All for Love B Shelley : Ode to the West Wind C Shakespeare : Sonnet 29 D Answer Key: B Q6 : Which of the following examplifies the Puritan attack on poetry? Sidney’s “ Apology for Poetry “ A Lodge's “Reply” B Gabriel Harvey’s “Four Letters” C Stephen Gosson’s “School of Abuse” D Answer Key: D Q7 : Richardson’s Clarissa falls in the category of : Epistolary novel A Psychological novel B Realistic novel C Bildungsroman novel D Answer Key: A Q8 : Which among the following is not a tragi-comedy? The Caretaker A Waiting for Godot B The Cherry Orchard C The School for Scandal D Answer Key: D Q9 : Lyrical Ballads was published in_____. 1785 A 1798 B 1789 C 1770 D Answer Key: B Q10 : Which woman novelist wrote Frankenstein in 1818? Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell A George Eliot B Charlotte Bronte C Mary Shelley D Answer Key: D Q11 : Who among the following is not a ‘Graveyard poet’? Thomas Parnell A Alexander Pope B Edward Young C Robert Blair D Answer Key: B Q12 : D. H. Lawrence’s “Cocksure Women and Mensure Men”, the anti-feminist work, is an example of ___________ essay. an informative A a descriptive B an argumentative C a narrative D Answer Key: C Q13 : Which poem of Sylvia Plath describes the condition of a pregnant woman? Mirror A Balloons B Insomaniac C Metaphors D Answer Key: D Q14 : Whose poems heralded the ‘Celtic Revival’ in the 18th Century? W.B. Yeats A Tennyson B Eric Linklater C James Macpherson D Answer Key: D Q15 : Nation and Narration is written by: Edward Said A Homi Bhaba B Gayatri Spivak C Bill Ashcroft D Answer Key: B Q16 : Which of the following is a 'dramatic poem' written by John Milton? Animadversions A L’Allegro B Il Penerose C Samson Agonistes D Answer Key: D Q17 : Who is the author of the narrative poems, ’A lover’s Complaint, ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape of Lucrece’? Ben Johnson A Aphra Behn B Marlowe C Shakespeare D Answer Key: D Q18 : Which of the following play was written by Wole Soyinka to commemorate the Independence of Nigeria? A Dance of the Forests A The Road B Kongi’s Marvest C Madmen and Specialists D Answer Key: A Q19 : Which literary process etymologically means ‘carrying across’? Annotation A Parse B Transposition C Translation D Answer Key: D Q20 : Betty Friedan wrote the text entitled as: The second Sex A The Feminine Mystique B A Room of One’s Own C Thinking about Women D Answer Key: B Q21 : Who asserted, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thoughts” while examining the politics of language? George Orwell A Wittgenstein B Faulkner C Cleanth Brooks D Answer Key: A Q22 : R. N. Tagore’s Gora is a novel on the theme of_______ Bengali culture A Indian Culture in Pakistan B East-West encounter C Wages of freedom D Answer Key: C ‘Nora’ is a character immortalized by : Q23 : August strindberg A Henrik Ibsen B Emile Zola C Edward Albee D Answer Key: B Q24 : Which one of the following was not involved in the production of the influential postmodern text, Learning from Las Vegas? Harold Bloom A Robert Venturi B Steven Izenour C Denise Scott Brown D Answer Key: A Q25 : Who contributed to Indian poetry in English with works like To India My Native Land and The Fakhir of Janghira? Michael Madhusudhan Dutt A Henry Derozio B Sarojini Naidu C Manmohan Ghose D Answer Key: B Q26 : According to __________ , ‘one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simon de Beauvoir A Elaine Showalter B Ellen Moer C Virginia Woolf D Answer Key: A Q27 : Gramsci’s concept that a social class achieves a predominant influence and power not by direct and overt means but by succeeding in making its ideological views so pervasive that the subordinate classes unwittingly accept and participate in their own oppression, is called: Interpellates A Hegemony B Hermeneutics C Nonsynchronus D Answer Key: B Q28 : Who advanced the concept of ‘negative capability'? T.S. Eliot A Goethe B Byron C Keats D Answer Key: D Q29 : Who created Lady Berfram, Isabella Thorpe and Miss Jennings as fictional characters? Mrs.Radcliffe A Jane Austen B Charlotte Bronte C George Eliot D Answer Key: B Q30 : Which Indian author’s first book is a collection of poems published in 1980 as Mappings? Arundhati Roy A Kamla Das B Vikram Seth C Amitav Ghosh D Answer Key: C Q31 : Which great German classicist and Nobel Laureate wrote A Theory of Rome? Max Muellar A Goethe B Theodor Mommsen C Nietzsche D Answer Key: C Q32 : Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon are associated with Harlem Renaissance A Back to Africa B Negritude C Surrealism D Answer Key: C Q33 : The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook are the famous works of___________. William Golding A Doris Lessing B C. S. Lewis C Ted Hughes D Answer Key: B Q34 : Who wrote Grapes of Wrath? F. Scott Fitzgerald A Hemingway B John Updike C John Steinbeck D Answer Key: D Q35 : Who among the following poets said about Emerson that he had a “Greek head on right Yankee Shoulders”? Thoreau A Whitman B Robert Frost C Lowell D Answer Key: D Q36 : Swifts Tale of a Tub and The Battle of Books were published in_____. 1704 A 1714 B 1724 C 1734 D Answer Key: A Q37 : In linguistics, what is understood by the term ‘Register’? The way in which a language registers in the mind of its users A The way the users of a language register the nuances of that Language B Language specifically denigred for the subject/situation it deals with C Language used in informal situations by professionals D Answer Key: C Q38 : Eliot employed ‘dissolution of sensibility’ in his essay on________. Hamlet’s Predicament A The Metaphysical Poets B Milton's Poetry C Keatsian Poetry D Answer Key: B Q39 : Which one of the following is not written by Rohinton Mistry? Calcutta Chromosome A Such a Long Journey B Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozshah Baag C Family Matters D Answer Key: A Q40 : Who wrote "The World, The Text and The Critic"? Derrida A Edward Said B Roland Barthes C Homi Bhabha D Answer Key: B Q41 : Whose book of poetry on Kashmir in English is tittled A Country Without a Post Office? Jayanta Mahapatra A Vikram Seth B Agha Shahid Ali C Dom Moraes D Answer Key: C Q42 : Charandas Chor is the most famous play of a theatre artist: Utpal Datt A Badal Sircar B Habib Tanvir C Vijay Tendulkar D Answer Key: C Q43 : Who coined the term ‘Theatre of Absurd’ Artand A Beckett B Ionesco C Esslin D Answer Key: D Q44 : The Weave of My Life is an autonarrative of______. P. Shivakami A Laxmibai Tilak B Urmila Pawar C Anita Desai D Answer Key: C Q45 : Who is the editor of Poisoned Bread? Arjun Dangle A Mulk Raj Anand B Eleanor Zelliot C Joseph Macwan D Answer Key: A Who is the writer of a famous Indian novel, Samskara? Q46 : A.K. Ramanujan A U.R. Anantha Murthi B K. Shivaram Karanth C Aravind Malagatti D Answer Key: B Q47 : Poet of the Underworld is an anthology of poems of __________. Dilip Chitre A Namdeo Dhasal B Arun Kolatkar C Nissim Ezekiel D Answer Key: B Q48 : In which of the following novels does Velutha appears as an important character? Kanthapura A The God of Small Things B Gora C The Guide D Answer Key: B Q49 : Who among the following is a famous character created by Mulk Raj Anand? Raju A Bakha B Rosy C Swami D Answer Key: B Q50 : Which among the following is an undelivered speech and provides ideological framework for poets, writers and scholars on the issue of caste? Pakistan or Partition of India A Who were the Shudras? B Annihilation of Caste C Castes in India... D Answer Key: C Q51 : Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature by Sharankumar Limbale is translated from the Marathi by _______. Alok Mukherjee A Maya Pandit B Alok Bhalla C Sharad Patil D Answer Key: A Q52 : Karukku is a title of Bama's book which means_______. Palmyra leaves which are like double-edged sword A Neem leaves which are green B Bitter fruits in mansoon season C Bamboo sticks D Answer Key: A Q53 : The autonarrative of Baby Kamble which is translated from the marathi by Maya Pandit is _________. The Prisons We Broke A Upara B Sangati C Against All Odds D Answer Key: A Q54 : Who is referred to as “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”? Thomas Kyd A Shakespeare B Ben Jonson C Spenser D Answer Key: B Q55 : Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy can be described as ____.