1. The pivotal speaker in Republic, Socrates recalls the visit to Piraeus, the port of Athens to
take part in the festivities to honour which deity?
Correct : A. bendis
2. Who is the young half-brother of Plato whose name means “owl” or “gleaming eyes”?
Correct : C. glaucon
3. Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serve
as the effective mythical explanation for their State/
Correct : D. third
4. Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?
Correct : B. socrates
5. Which form of government is based primarily on wealth?
Correct : B. oligarchy
6. The Republic concludes with Socrates’ vibrant description of the tale of which hero?
Correct : A. er
7. Who mentions: “God is not the author of all things, but of good only”
Correct : C. socrates
8. Whose verses does Socrates criticise because of the uneven blend of narrative, especially the
speeches of the characters in Iliad that also employ mimesis or imitation?
Correct : B. homer
9. Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to the
manner of its imitation?
Correct : A. poetry
10. Which type of drama, according to Aristotle is considered a representation of characters of a
base type, which means ridiculous?
Correct : D. comedy
11. Which chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics discusses the construction of an ideal plot, which is
fundamental to tragedy?
Correct : B. seventh
12. What is the Greek term for “resolution of complication”?
Correct : C. denouement
13. Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in the
divisions of a tragedy when staged?
Correct : B. episode
14. Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?
Correct : A. hero
15. Which unity has not been mentioned by Aristotle?
Correct : C. place
16. Whose plays are considered the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic construction and
the author’s role in the epic by Aristotle?
Correct : D. homer
17. Which kind of poetry has been ignored because Aristotle considers it more suited to music
than poetry?
Correct : B. lyric
18. What is the structure of Longinus’ “On the Sublime”?
Correct : A. epistolary
19. What is the excessive use of verbal ornamentation that obstructs the natural use of language
and hence it should be avoided?
Correct : A. grandiloquence
20. How many sources of sublimity are mentioned by Longinus?
Correct : C. five
21. Which figure of speech is useful in heightening expression, in the opinion of Longinus?
Correct : C. asyndeton
22. When was the pastoral romance Arcadia was published?
Correct : A. 1579
23. What does the word vates mean?
Correct : B. a seer
24. Who mentions “as is painting so is poetry”?
Correct : D. horace
25. Which edition of the Preface is considered important because of the explanation of the nature
and characteristics of the poet, and his superiority over the man of science?
Correct : A. 1802
26. Who is the author of Defence of Poetry?
Correct : C. shelley
27. Who mentions: “Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as a
nothing”.
Correct : A. william wordsworth
28. Which critic published his classroom lectures and his ideas along with the dictums of the other critics regularly in Scrutiny?
Correct : B. f.r.leavis
29. Who among the following is recognised one of “the great English novelists”?
Correct : C. jane austen
30. Which critic is of the opinion that though Charles Dickens possesses the vitality and vision of
art as Conrad does, he cannot be included “in the line of great novelists”?
Correct : D. f.r.leavis
31. Whose first book of poems Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917?
Correct : B. t.s.eliot
32. Locate T.S. Eliot’s full length book of essays on poetry and criticism.
Correct : A. the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism
33. Identify the author of The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)/
Correct : B. cleanth brooks
34. What is referred as the analysis of the figurative elements such as images, similes, metaphors,
symbols, and myth that unify a work?
Correct : C. close reading
35. Who wrote the essay “The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks”?
Correct : A. r.s.crane
36. Under which method of analysis, does the critic proceed to ascertain the meaning of a work
from the general truth to the particular one?
Correct : A. deductive
37. What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
Correct : C. kamadhenu
38. Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
Correct : B. natyashastra
39. Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of
apoha?
Correct : D. bhamaha
40. Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
Correct : C. dandin
41. Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri
Shaivism?
Correct : A. abhinavagupta
42. Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata
(indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?
Correct : D. kuntaka
43. Which tailanga scholar who was a prominent poet in the court of the Mughal emperor Shah
Jahan, was conferred the title Panditaraja?
Correct : A. jagannatha
44. In which work by Vamana was the word sahrudaya used first in the technical sense of a
competent reader of poetry?
Correct : D. kavyalamkara
45. Which category of prathibha refers to the creative ability of the poet?
Correct : A. karayitri
46. Who mentions “vakyam rasatmakam kavyam”, which means any composition which gives
tasteful pleasure is poetry?
Correct : D. jagannatha
47. Which Indian critical theory concentrates on emotive expression?
Correct : A. rasa
48. Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression?
Correct : B. dhwani
49. Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics?
Correct : C. bharatamuni
50. Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the objective conditions or reasons for producing or
exciting an emotion, which is also the main stimulating cause or the object of the emotion?
Correct : D. vibhava
51. Who pointed out the major drawbacks in Bhattalolatta’s theory in relation to vibhava and rasa?
Correct : A. mammata
52. Identify the theory by Bhattanayaka that projects the experiential aspect related to emotions,
which is also known as the enjoyment theory?
Correct : B. bhuthivada
53. Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the process of Generalisation?
Correct : D. sadharanikarana
54. Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible person to see the characters
presented in a literary work in a generalised manner?
Correct : B. imagination
55. Who among the following validates how the poetic language triggers the aesthetic process
through its suggestiveness?
Correct : D. abhinavagupta
56. Which term is used by Abhinavagupta to denote “relating”, “narrating” or “describing” emotive
conditions.
Correct : A. bhavanukirtanam
57. Which word is used to denote not only the special aesthetic pleasure and the outward
manifestation of artistic experience but also the mental faculty which makes aesthetic experience possible.
Correct : C. chamatkara
58. Which term used by Bharata means a spectator?
Correct : B. prekshaka
59. Which term refers to any hindrance to aesthetic relish, the impediment that could be effected
by poetry, the actor, or the reader.
Correct : C. rasavighna
60. What is the literal meaning of the word dhwani?
Correct : A. sound
61. What is the source of dhwani theory?
Correct : A. sphota theory
62. Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner?
Correct : C. patanjali
63. Who opposed the theory of dhwani on the ground there was no meaning in inventing a new power for words since dhwani was subordinate to anumana?
Correct : B. mahimabhatta
64. What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry?
Correct : A. chitrakavya
65. Which word refers to the primary power of signification existing in words that is capable of
providing the literal or lexical meaning?
Correct : C. abida
66. Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?
Correct : A. upacharavakrata
67. Which is the variety of dhwani accepted by Kuntaka that includes the employment of words of
double meaning
Correct : C. shabdashaktimoola
68. In the opinion of Aristotle, whose plays are the primary models of artistic unity, dramatic
construction?
Correct : A. homer
69. What is considered superior to the epic since it contains all the elements that give pleasure
along with music and spectacle?
Correct : B. tragedy
70. To whom does Longinus write “On the Sublime”, which is in the form of letters?
Correct : C. postumius terentianus
71. Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern
treatise on English composition?
Correct : A. thomas wilson
72. According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with the
weakness of mankind and the desolation of the world.
Correct : B. elegiac poetry
73. Who considers Hard Times “a moral fable” with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony
in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?
Correct : C. f.r.leavis
74. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of
analysis?