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Question 1

The study of signs is called_

A. linguistics
B. semiotics
C. scientology
D. stylistics

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Question 2

Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internetcommunication?

A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge

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Question 3

Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?

A. shiv naipaul
B. kushwant singh
C. dom moraes
D. vs naipaul

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Question 4

Who wrote Things fall Apart?

A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. ismuth chugthai
D. yeats

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Question 5

Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on

A. partition
B. untouchables
C. prostitution
D. famine

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Question 6

Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?

A. kamla das
B. mahasweta devi
C. mihir sen
D. satyajit ray

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Question 7

Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe?

A. no longer at ease
B. arrow of god
C. a man of people
D. shame

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Question 8

Achebe belongs to_

A. nigeria
B. sudan
C. south africa
D. ethiopia

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Question 9

The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is

A. easter 1916
B. byzantium
C. second coming
D. daffodils

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Question 10

An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a

A. travelogue
B. novel
C. shortstory
D. drama

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Question 11

is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.

A. snake
B. voss
C. cosmos
D. raj quartet

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Question 12

The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in

A. africa
B. england
C. australia
D. u s a

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Question 13

The Guide is a novel written by

A. rk narayan
B. kr narayanan
C. anita desai
D. kirandesai

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Question 14

Mukta Dhara is a play by

A. tagore
B. r k narayanan
C. anita desai
D. manjula padmanaban

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Question 15

The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means

A. god songs
B. good songs
C. verses
D. song offerings

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Question 16

Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?

A. wb yeats
B. tagore
C. eliot
D. louis fischer

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Question 17

Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The GoldenLover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to

A. australia
B. new zealand
C. trinidad
D. china

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Question 18

Who wrote the book The Western Canon?

A. harold bloom
B. david lodge
C. william wordsworth
D. f r leavis

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Question 19

Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by

A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r.leavis
D. northrop frye

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Question 20

Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?

A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r leavis
D. coleridge

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Question 21

“Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by

A. david hume
B. harold bloom
C. david lodge
D. plato

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Question 22

The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of

A. hebrew
B. arab
C. chinese
D. greek

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Question 23

The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex andRace on Campus is written by

A. dinesh d’souza
B. amartya sen
C. arundhadi roy
D. noam chomsky

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Question 24

Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to

A. 1835
B. 1935
C. 1845
D. 1925

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Question 25

What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?

A. dear white european males
B. dead white english man
C. dead white european male
D. dear white english man

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Question 26

Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?

A. wolf gang iser
B. kamla das
C. mahasweta devi
D. terry eagleton

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Question 27

Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?

A. homer
B. edward fitzgerald
C. harold bloom
D. terry eagleton

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Question 28

Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?

A. henry louis gates
B. harold bloom
C. dinesh d’souza
D. milton

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Question 29

Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?

A. t s eliot
B. coleridge
C. frank kermode
D. wordsworth

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Question 30

The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they areyours is called

A. plagiarism
B. theft
C. robbery
D. copyright

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Question 31

“Piers Plowman” is a poem by

A. cervantes,
B. wycliffe
C. william langland
D. tyndale

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Question 32

means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with aneducational value

A. didacticism
B. structure
C. textual criticism
D. sensualism

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Question 33

Aestheticism means intended for_

A. learning
B. pleasure
C. teaching
D. spirituality

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Question 34

My story is a fictional autobiography of

A. kamala das
B. a k ramanujam
C. indira nooyi
D. nissim ezikial

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Question 35

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of

A. nirad chaudhri
B. kamaladas
C. kushwant singh
D. dom moraes

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Question 36

Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?

A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge

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Question 37

Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?

A. a fine balance
B. untouchables
C. bye bye black bird
D. maneater of malgudi

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Question 38

Who wrote Poetics?

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. horace

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Question 39

What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?

A. emotion
B. fear
C. pity
D. purgation of pity and fear

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Question 40

In which century did Shakespeare live?

A. eighteenth
B. nineteenth
C. twentieth
D. sixteenth

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Question 41

Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?

A. roman jakobson
B. roland barthes
C. todorov
D. david cristal

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Question 42

The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’slike a red red rose” is called a

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit

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Question 43

The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O mylove’s a red red rose” is called a_

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit

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Question 44

Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The SocialConstruction of Reality ?

A. david crystal
B. peter berger& tomas luckman
C. tomas luckman
D. eagleton

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Question 45

A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called

A. neocolonialism
B. nativism
C. regionalism
D. practicalism

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Question 46

Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?

A. salman rushdie
B. naipaul
C. vikram seth
D. bilkram chandra

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Question 47

Who is considered as the father of sociology?

A. bipin chandra
B. romila thapar
C. emile durkheim
D. d d kosambi

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Question 48

A book of synonyms is called

A. dictionary
B. reverse dictionary
C. thesaurus
D. oxymoron

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Question 49

Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?

A. rushdie
B. hanif kureishi
C. arundhadi roy
D. david lodge

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Question 50

Slavoj Zizek is a native of

A. iran
B. america
C. slovenia
D. italy

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Question 51

O f the following

A. in defence of lost causes
B. the fragile absolute
C. the ticklish subject
D. the cultural turn

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Question 52

What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.

A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
B. is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
C. christian legacy
D. none of these

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Question 53

Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is

A. jacques lacan
B. lyotard
C. foucault
D. habermas

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Question 54

Who is called “the French Freud”?

A. c j yung
B. jacques lacan.
C. lyotard
D. foucault

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Question 55

Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has thefollowing three stages of symbolic, imagination and the

A. object
B. subject
C. self
D. mirror stage

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Question 56

“The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by

A. jacques lacan
B. bakhtin
C. derrida
D. foucault

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Question 57

Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development ofstructuralism is a _ linguist.

A. german
B. italian
C. british
D. swiss

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Question 58

Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by

A. barthes
B. derrida
C. saussure
D. lacan

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Question 59

The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in“ten hands” for “ten workers” is called

A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. synecdoche

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Question 60

“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by

A. saussure
B. lacan
C. jacques derrida
D. julia kristeva

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Question 61

Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?

A. of grammatology
B. dissemination
C. writing and dif erence
D. waste land

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Question 62

Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the sametime?

A. lacan
B. derrida
C. barthes
D. tudor

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Question 63

Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?

A. harold bloom
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. stanley fish

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Question 64

Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?

A. harold bloom
B. foucault
C. m h abrams
D. todorov

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Question 65

Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?

A. new criticism
B. aesthetic criticism
C. textual criticism
D. structuralism

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Question 66

wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .

A. james thorpe
B. vladimir propp
C. eliot
D. eagleton

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Question 67

Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?

A. roland barthes
B. lacan
C. foucault
D. derrida

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Question 68

Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?

A. jacques lacan
B. siigmund freud
C. earnest jones
D. jung

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Question 69

“The Philosophy of Composition” is by

A. keats
B. edgar allan poe
C. coleridge
D. tennison

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Question 70

Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blendingstates of mind and feeling

A. t s eliot
B. f r leavis
C. samuel jonson
D. shelley

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Question 71

wrote After the New Criticism(1980)

A. f r leavis
B. samuel jonson
C. frank lentricchia
D. shelley

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Question 72

wrote Defence of poetry

A. shelley
B. keats
C. longinus
D. shakespeare

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Question 73

The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken fromthe poem by John Donne.

A. the flee
B. valediction
C. the canonization
D. the anniversary

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Question 74

The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that wereelaborated over a number of lines.

A. well wrought
B. simile
C. humour
D. zeitgeist

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Question 75

According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.

A. libido
B. thanatos
C. eros
D. oedipus complex

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Question 76

Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

A. adler
B. freud
C. jung
D. piaget

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Question 77

Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first fullscale study of major work

A. formalist
B. psychoanalytic
C. structuralist
D. textual

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Question 78

Hamlet is a

A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. farce
D. novel

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Question 79

Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?

A. ia richards
B. t.s.eliot
C. f rleavis
D. coleridge freud

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Question 80

Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuableexperience?

A. coleridge
B. t.s.eliot
C. f.r.leavis
D. ia richards

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Question 81

Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

A. hazlitt
B. coleridge
C. wordsworth
D. f.r.leavis

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Question 82

“Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of

A. hans robert gauss
B. george gardener
C. robert c holub
D. j p stern

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Question 83

Ecriture the French word is used for

A. speaking
B. reading
C. writing
D. note making

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Question 84

Writing Degree Zero is a book written by

A. geoffrey hartman
B. roland barthes
C. derrida
D. barthes

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Question 85

“Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by

A. samuel johnson
B. umberto eco
C. derrida
D. roland barthes

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Question 86

The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by

A. john crowe ranson
B. ia richards
C. t.s.eliot
D. milton

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Question 87

Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?

A. structuralist
B. new critics
C. romantics
D. neo classical critics

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Question 88

Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?

A. ts eliot
B. william empson
C. fr leavis
D. ia richards

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Question 89

According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _

A. tension
B. irony
C. paradox
D. extension

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Question 90

Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in1949

A. principles of literary criticism
B. theory of literature
C. language of fiction
D. on the sublime

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Question 91

Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?

A. cleanth brooks
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson

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Question 92

Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)

A. ia richards
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson

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Question 93

Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FRLeavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?

A. d h lawrence
B. emilebronte
C. joseph conrad
D. golding

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Question 94

Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word

A. ambiguity
B. paradox
C. simile
D. metaphor

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Question 95

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on

A. expressionism
B. impressionism
C. ambiguity
D. existentialism

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Question 96

Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson,Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”?

A. ezra pound
B. elder olson
C. allan tate
D. r s crane

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Question 97

The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of

A. freud
B. adler
C. cg jung
D. piaget

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Question 98

Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book

A. one the limits of poetry
B. tensions in poetry
C. the limits of poetry
D. poetry

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Question 99

denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, charactertypes, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.

A. image
B. motif
C. archetype
D. mythology

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Question 100

The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is

A. negritude
B. black art movement
C. black aesthetics
D. black movement

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Question 101

Who wrote Second Sex, an important work of feminism?

A. simon de bouveur
B. sartre
C. toril moi
D. spivak

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Question 102

Who was the person who led the Chavadar lake satyagraha on 25 December 1927?

A. dr ambedkar
B. gandhi
C. nehru
D. subash chandra bose

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Question 103

As a revolt against caste oppression Dr Ambedkar got converted toOctober 1956.

A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. islam
D. christianity

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Question 104

Why I am not a Hindu is a work by_

A. kanjah illaiah
B. b r ambedkar
C. spivak
D. bama

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Question 105

WEB Du Bois’s idea that black people could never see oneself through their eyes butonly through the eyes of the white is called

A. white myth
B. multiple consciousnesses
C. double consciousness
D. false consciousness

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Question 106

WEB Du Bois argued that the view that blacks were biologically inferior is notscientific in his book

A. the souls of the black folk
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. good earth

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Question 107

Dirk Hoerder brilliant argues the European Renaissance understood as exclusivelyEuropean phenomena was in fact a mixture of cultural contributions in his book

A. cultures in contact
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. culture and anarchy

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Question 108

Who coined the word Gynocriticism?

A. shakespeare
B. elaine showalter
C. virginia wolf
D. toril moi

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Question 109

The suffragette movement is connected with _

A. marxism
B. ecocriticism
C. feminism
D. orientalism

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Question 110

Which is Mary Wollstonecraft’s work on feminism

A. mad woman in the attic
B. a vindication of the rights of woman (1792
C. the subjection of women (1869
D. on the rights of women

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Question 111

Who wrote the essay “The Black Arts Movement” of 1968?

A. larry neal
B. mal com
C. hl gates
D. gayle

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Question 112

_represents a number of Afro‐Americans whose work shaped the socialand political turbulence of the 1960s

A. black arts movement
B. dalit movement
C. romantic movement
D. renaissance

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Question 113

Who founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School in 1965 at Harlem?

A. martin luther king
B. imamu amiri baraka
C. le roi jones
D. wole soyinka

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Question 114

Imamu Amiri Baraka was born as

A. le roi jones
B. wole soyinka
C. mary anne evans
D. martin luther

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Question 115

Baraka’s play, Dutchman is often considered an exemplary product of the_

A. black arts movement
B. feminism
C. new criticism
D. ecoaesthetics

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Question 116

“I have a Dream” is a famous speech by

A. malcom x
B. martin luther king
C. nehru
D. abdul kalam

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Question 117

Id, egoand Super ego are the bi partition of the human psyche made by

A. freud
B. adler
C. althusser
D. s ramachandran

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Question 118

Which feminist critic spoke about the need of a room for a woman to become awriter?

A. simon de boeuver
B. virginia wolf
C. toril moi
D. alice walker

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Question 119

Donna Harraway’s notion of the “creature of the post – gender world” is called

A. cyborg
B. bisexual
C. hetero sexual
D. tansgender

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Question 120

The term the French writer Halen Cixious used for feminine writing which is typicallyfeminine in style, language, tome and feeling is called

A. ecriture feminine
B. exciter feminine
C. feminist
D. feminism

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Question 121

Who coined the term subaltern?

A. antonio gramsci
B. althusser
C. antonia negri
D. gayathri spivak

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Question 122

Which of the following is a not a novel by Toni Morrison the 1993 Afro‐Americannobel prize winner?

A. the bluest eye
B. sula
C. song of solomon
D. a suitable boy

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Question 123

Who classified the feminist authors into three main types : Femine phase 1840 – 1880, Feminist phase 1890 ‐ 1920s and the female phase.

A. elaine showalter
B. susan gubar
C. sandra gilbert
D. virginia wolf

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Question 124

Sudras in Ancient India is a book written by .

A. bipin chandra
B. rs sharma
C. n ram
D. kosambi

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Question 125

“Who was Sudras?”, book authored by DR BR Ambedakar was dedicated to .

A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. jyothi rao phule
C. bipin chandra
D. nehru

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Question 126

Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam?

A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. george fernandes
C. vk krisna menon
D. chandrik kumaratunge

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Question 127

Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies?

A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith guhe
C. ijas ahammed
D. gayathri spivak

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Question 128

Who authored the book In Theory?

A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith gune
C. ijas ahamed
D. gayathri spivak

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Question 129

Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by

A. bama
B. saram kumar limbalai
C. omprakash valmiki
D. ismath chugthai

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Question 130

Myth literature and African world is a book by

A. nelson mandela
B. wole soyinka
C. naipaul
D. rushdie

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Question 131

A female homo sexual is called a

A. bisexual
B. transgender
C. lesbian
D. queer

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Question 132

Who is the author of Coming Out?

A. henry miller
B. jidith butler
C. jeffrey week
D. sinfield

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Question 133

Who wrote the book Orientalism?

A. edward said
B. gayatri chakravorty spivak
C. franz fanon
D. gandhi

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Question 134

is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of theopposite sex.

A. transsexual
B. transvestite
C. hermaphrodite
D. bisexual

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Question 135

is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex.

A. queer
B. gay
C. transsexual
D. hetro sexual

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Question 136

Interventions is an international journal of

A. post colonial studies
B. new historicism
C. new criticism
D. post modernism

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Question 137

The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) whichinaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively.

A. cultural studies
B. post colonial studies
C. new historicism
D. deconstruction

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Question 138

In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of ContemporaryCultural Studies?

A. 1946
B. 1956
C. 1967
D. 1964

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Question 139

Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by

A. roland barthes
B. homi j bhabha
C. w b yeats
D. northrop frye

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Question 140

Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time?

A. raymond williams
B. jonathan dollimore
C. alan sinfield
D. karl marx

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Question 141

Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrotethe book Political Shakespeare(1985). Its subtitle is_

A. new essays in cultural materialism
B. essays in cultural materialism
C. cultural materialism : a reader
D. none of these

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Question 142

Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysisor “reading” of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings.

A. descriptions
B. thick descriptions
C. analysis
D. none of these

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Question 143

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in

A. 1992
B. 1990
C. 1993
D. 1991

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Question 144

Which work begins with the statement “The History of all hitherto existing society isthe history of class struggles”.

A. german ideology
B. das capital
C. proletarians
D. communist manifesto

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Question 145

Who described new historicism as “a reciprocal concern with the historicity of textsand textuality of history?

A. louis montrose
B. stephen green blatt
C. catherine galager
D. none of these

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Question 146

is the term used by new historicists to suggest verbal formations whichare the “Ideological products” or “cultural constructs” of a specific area.

A. representations
B. mythologies
C. products
D. ideology

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Question 147

The book The New Historicism, a collection of essays by new historicists, LouisMontrose, Stephen Green Blatt and others is edited by_

A. h aram veeser
B. louis montrose
C. stephen green blatt
D. catherine galager

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Question 148

Who used the term “ecocriticism” for the first time in 1978?

A. william rueckert
B. raymond williams
C. leo marx
D. donald worster

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Question 149

An early ecocritical work The country and the City (1973) is written by

A. raymond williams
B. william rueckert
C. leo marx
D. donald worster

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Question 150

The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic

A. rachel carlson
B. joseph meeker
C. raymond williams
D. jonathan bate

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Question 151

Who wrote the book Silent Spring (1962) on toxic effects of residue of chemicals?

A. rachel carson
B. william rueckert
C. raymond williams
D. leo marx

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Question 152

is a term used for placing human beings at the centre of everything andits opposite is ecocentrism.

A. anthropocentrism
B. phonocentricism
C. logocentricism
D. technocentricsm

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Question 153

Who coined the term “Literary ecology” in 1972?

A. william ruckert
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. raymond williams

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Question 154

Who wrote the essay “nature” which argued that all human actions are irrationalbecause they try to change or alter the course of nature?

A. js mill
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. wordsworth

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Question 155

Who wrote The Population Bomb (1972) one of the most popular environmentalistbooks ever written?

A. rachel carlson
B. paul ehrlich
C. joseph meeker
D. jonathan bate

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Question 156

argue that patriarchal societies’ values and beliefs have resulted in theoppression of both women and nature.

A. ecofeminists
B. feminists
C. ecologists
D. economists

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Question 157

Vandana Shiva’s book_ an important ecofeminist book saw ancient Indiaas possessing a more environment friendly culture.

A. mother earth
B. moby dick
C. staying alive
D. made from this earth

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Question 158

The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that theirreadings are

A. non political
B. historical
C. economical
D. political

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Question 159

A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_

A. hybridity
B. dialogism
C. intertextuality
D. circulation

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Question 160

is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism

A. new historicism
B. deconstruction
C. structuralism
D. cultural poetics

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Question 161

Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing

A. pastiche
B. parody
C. eclectic approach
D. symbolism

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Question 162

Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) which is ananalysis of various aspects of post modernism?

A. jean–francois lyotard
B. saussure
C. barthes
D. terry eagleton.

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Question 163

Who put forward the proposition that all literary texts have gaps or lacunae, which isan important concept in reader‐response theory?

A. wolfgang iser
B. saussure
C. lacan
D. freud

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Question 164

Who made a distinction between ‘open’ and ‘closed texts?

A. gayathri spivak
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. umberto eco

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Question 165

In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross‐breeding iscalled_

A. marginality
B. colonialism
C. hybridity
D. modernism

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Question 166

Who made a controversy by famously saying that the Gulf war did not take place

A. barthes
B. jean baudrillard
C. lyotard
D. saddam hussein

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Question 167

Simulation and simulacra are whose notions?

A. jean budrillard’s
B. lyotard’s
C. barthe’s
D. babha’s

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Question 168

The term “Social realism” is connected with

A. structuralism
B. marxist criticism
C. modernism
D. post structuralism

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Question 169

Hungarian Marxist Critic Georg Lukacs developed a theory known asseeing literary works as reflections of a kind of system that was gradually unfolding

A. realism
B. expressionism
C. reflection
D. dadaism

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Question 170

Which Marxist playwright is connected with the epic theatre?

A. bertolt brecht
B. theodor adorno
C. george lukas
D. engels

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Question 171

Who of the following figures is not associated with Frankfurt School of Marxistaesthetics founded in 1923?

A. theodor adorno
B. max horkheimer
C. herbert marcuse
D. bertolt brecht

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Question 172

Whose definition is “Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world”?

A. theodore adorno
B. marcuse
C. horkheimer
D. herbert marcuse

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Question 173

Who wrote the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Porduction”?

A. walter benjamin
B. bertolt brecht
C. theodor adorno
D. edward said

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Question 174

Which Marxist critic developed the theory of homologies?

A. lucien goldman
B. adorno
C. lukacs
D. walter benjamin

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Question 175

The first English Marxist Critic of note was who wrote Illusion and Reality is

A. brecht
B. gramsci
C. christopher caudwell
D. althusser

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Question 176

Cyberpunk is a subspecies of

A. science fiction
B. novel
C. drama
D. poetry

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Question 177

Fiction dealing with fiction is called

A. metafiction
B. metadrama
C. metanarative
D. metacriticism

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Question 178

Grand narrative/metanarrative is a concept of_

A. lyotard
B. barthes
C. baudrillard
D. paul de man

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Question 179

Who is the author of History of Sexuality?

A. derrida
B. foucault
C. henry miller
D. dh lawrence

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Question 180

The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively.

A. european and western
B. european and eastern
C. eastern and western
D. western and eastern

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Question 181

Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?

A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. franz fanon
D. edward said

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Question 182

The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths andHellen Tiffin is ?

A. theory and practice
B. theory in post colonial literatures
C. theory and practice in post colonial literatures
D. practice in post colonial literatures

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Question 183

Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. wole soyinka
D. edward said

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Question 184

Who wrote the book The Location of Culture?

A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. raymond williams
D. homi j bhabha

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