2. Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internet
communication?
Correct : C. david crystal
3. Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?
Correct : D. vs naipaul
4. Who wrote Things fall Apart?
Correct : A. chinua achebe
5. Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on
Correct : A. partition
6. Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?
Correct : A. kamla das
7. Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe?
Correct : D. shame
8. Achebe belongs to_
Correct : A. nigeria
9. The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is
Correct : C. second coming
10. An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a
Correct : A. travelogue
11. is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.
Correct : B. voss
12. The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in
Correct : A. africa
13. The Guide is a novel written by
Correct : A. rk narayan
14. Mukta Dhara is a play by
Correct : A. tagore
15. The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means
Correct : D. song offerings
16. Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?
Correct : A. wb yeats
17. Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The Golden
Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to
Correct : B. new zealand
18. Who wrote the book The Western Canon?
Correct : A. harold bloom
19. Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by
Correct : B. terry eagleton
20. Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?
Correct : C. f.r leavis
21. “Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by
Correct : A. david hume
22. The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of
Correct : D. greek
23. The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and
Race on Campus is written by
Correct : A. dinesh d’souza
24. Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to
Correct : A. 1835
25. What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?
Correct : C. dead white european male
26. Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?
Correct : A. wolf gang iser
27. Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?
Correct : B. edward fitzgerald
28. Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?
Correct : A. henry louis gates
29. Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?
Correct : C. frank kermode
30. The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they are
yours is called
Correct : A. plagiarism
31. “Piers Plowman” is a poem by
Correct : C. william langland
32. means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an
educational value
Correct : A. didacticism
33. Aestheticism means intended for_
Correct : B. pleasure
34. My story is a fictional autobiography of
Correct : A. kamala das
35. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of
Correct : A. nirad chaudhri
36. Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?
Correct : B. michel foucault
37. Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?
Correct : B. untouchables
38. Who wrote Poetics?
Correct : B. aristotle
39. What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?
Correct : D. purgation of pity and fear
40. In which century did Shakespeare live?
Correct : D. sixteenth
41. Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?
Correct : B. roland barthes
42. The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’s
like a red red rose” is called a
Correct : B. simile
43. The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O my
love’s a red red rose” is called a_
Correct : A. metaphor
44. Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The Social
Construction of Reality ?
Correct : B. peter berger& tomas luckman
45. A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called
Correct : B. nativism
46. Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?
Correct : A. salman rushdie
47. Who is considered as the father of sociology?
Correct : C. emile durkheim
48. A book of synonyms is called
Correct : C. thesaurus
49. Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?
Correct : A. rushdie
50. Slavoj Zizek is a native of
Correct : C. slovenia
51. O f the following
Correct : B. the fragile absolute
52. What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.
Correct : A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
53. Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is
Correct : A. jacques lacan
54. Who is called “the French Freud”?
Correct : B. jacques lacan.
55. Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has the
following three stages of symbolic, imagination and the
Correct : D. mirror stage
56. “The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by
Correct : A. jacques lacan
57. Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of
structuralism is a _ linguist.
Correct : D. swiss
58. Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by
Correct : C. saussure
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
Correct : D. synecdoche
60. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by
Correct : C. jacques derrida
61. Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?
Correct : D. waste land
62. Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the same
time?
Correct : B. derrida
63. Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?
Correct : D. stanley fish
64. Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?
Correct : A. harold bloom
65. Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?
Correct : C. textual criticism
66. wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .
Correct : A. james thorpe
67. Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?
Correct : A. roland barthes
68. Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?
Correct : A. jacques lacan
69. “The Philosophy of Composition” is by
Correct : B. edgar allan poe
70. Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blending
states of mind and feeling
Correct : A. t s eliot
71. wrote After the New Criticism(1980)
Correct : C. frank lentricchia
72. wrote Defence of poetry
Correct : A. shelley
73. The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken from
the poem by John Donne.
Correct : C. the canonization
74. The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that were
elaborated over a number of lines.
Correct : A. well wrought
75. According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.
Correct : A. libido
76. Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by
Correct : B. freud
77. Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first full
scale study of major work
Correct : B. psychoanalytic
78. Hamlet is a
Correct : A. tragedy
79. Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?
Correct : A. ia richards
80. Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable
experience?
Correct : D. ia richards
81. Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic
Correct : A. hazlitt
82. “Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of
Correct : A. hans robert gauss
83. Ecriture the French word is used for
Correct : C. writing
84. Writing Degree Zero is a book written by
Correct : B. roland barthes
85. “Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by
Correct : B. umberto eco
86. The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by
Correct : A. john crowe ranson
87. Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?
Correct : A. structuralist
88. Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?
Correct : B. william empson
89. According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _
Correct : A. tension
90. Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in
1949
Correct : B. theory of literature
91. Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?
Correct : A. cleanth brooks
92. Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)
Correct : A. ia richards
93. Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR
Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?
Correct : C. joseph conrad
94. Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word
Correct : A. ambiguity
95. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on
Correct : D. existentialism
96. Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson,
Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”?
Correct : B. elder olson
97. The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of
Correct : C. cg jung
98. Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book
Correct : A. one the limits of poetry
99. denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character
types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.
Correct : C. archetype
100. The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is