Exam Details

Subject comparative literature
Paper
Exam / Course ma
Department
Organization central university
Position
Exam Date 2017
City, State telangana, hyderabad


Question Paper

Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Class take preparation I without cannot"

Preparation I cannot take without class.

Without class I cannot take preparation.

I cannot take class without preparation.

I cannot take preparation without class.

Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Asked/I/you/lend/me/to /money/some/purpose/any/for"

Never I asked you for any purpose lend me some money.

I never asked you to lend me some money for any purpose.

I never lend you to ask for any purpose some money.

Some money for any purpose I lend you never to ask.

Which is the correct order of the following jumbled sentence? "Wonderful/what it a garden is!

A wonderful garden it is what!

What a garden it is wonderful!

A garden is it what a wonderful!

What a wonderful garden it is!

Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?

Pulp

Seeds

Core

Slice

Which word of the following does NOT belong with the others?

Avoid

Duck

Dodge

Flee

Rajeshwer, Rameshwer and Vandana are three astronauts. Rajeshwer is Rameshwer's brother. Rameshwer is Vandana's brother. Vandana is not Rajeshwer's brother. Therefore, Vandana is Rajeshwer's sister.

Should be false

Should be true

May be false

Cannot be determined

To complete the pattern given below, identify the correct number of the appropriate symbol, from the four given in the second line, which should replace the question mark?

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1

Joe is younger than Kathy. Mark was born after Joe. Kathy is older than Mark. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

True

False

Uncertain

Neither

Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete pattern: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60,









10) Fill the blank with the correct number that will complete the pattern: 11, 17.

15

14

13

12

11) Find the odd one out of the following:

Sheep: Bleat

Horse: Neigh

Ass: Grunt

Owl: Hoot

12) Find the odd one out of the following: Whale: Mammal Snake: Reptile Salamander: Insect Frog: Amphibian

13) Choose the correct combination to complete the pattern: CD, OHI, UVWXY.

LMNO

MNO

MNOP

NOPQ

14) Fill the blank with the correct combination to complete the sequence:
ATTRIBUTION, TTRIBUTIO, RIBUTIO, IBUTI,

(a)IBU



UTI

BUT

15) If S is the brother of the sister of N is the brother of P is J and the daughter of S is then who is the uncle of









16) If cushion is called pillow, pillow is called mat, mat is called bedsheet and bedsheet is called cover, which will be spread on the floor?

Cover

Bedsheet

Mat

Pillow

17) He took a new job.





(c)Off



18) Not even one of the candidates who attended the interview suitable for the post.

Were

Was

Had been

Being

19) "She sells seashells by the sea shore" is an example of_.

Simile

Aphorism

Metaphor

Alliteration

20) "We are indebted to Mother-India" is an example of_.

Hyperbole

Cliche

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Read the data given below and answer the questions 21-25:
Dinesh and Raju can play cricket and basketball. Dinesh and Mohan can play cricket and lawn tennis. Raju and Praveen can play volleyball and basketball. Mohan and Praveen can play volleyball and lawn tennis.

21) Name the player who can play basketball, volleyball and lawn tennis:

Dinesh

Raju

Mohan

Praveen

22) Name the player who can play volleyball, basketball and cricket:

Dinesh

Raju

Mohan

Praveen

23) Name the player who does not play cricket:

Dinesh

Raju

Mohan

Praveen

24) Name the player who does not play basketball:

Dinesh

Raju

Mohan

Praveen

25) Name the player who does not play lawn tennis:

Dinesh

Raju

Mohan

Praveen

26) The anti-Hindi agitation was first launched in 1937 against the imposition of Hindi in schools in the-then Madras Presidency, This movement was supported by_.

C.Rajagopalachari

The Indian National Congress

E.V. Ramasamy Periyar

All of the above

27) India was reorganized into linguistic states

1950

1954

1952

1956

28) British intervention in Indian languages such as translating the Bible and other European texts into Indian languages, producing dictionaries and grammar books in Indian languages can be described as a process of

Modernization

Sanskritization

Indianization

None of the above

29) Tagore's short story "Kabuliwala" was made into a Hindi film in the year_,

1960

1961

1963

1964

30) On which story did Satyajit Ray base his film Charulata?

"Bhikharini"

"Atithi"

"Haimanti"

"Nastanirh"

31) Sunil Gangopadhyay, the poet and novelist, was born in Faridpur which is now in_.

Pakistan

Kajakistan

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

32) The Bengali movie, Sudhu Nirar Jonno is based on a

Novel

Short story

Long story

Drama

33) Who among the following is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Regan

Cornelia

Cordelia

Goneril

34) The Tripitaka, a collection ofBuddhistteachings, was written in

The third century BC

The fourth century BC

The fifth century BC

The sixth century BC

35) Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement?

Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw.

Lady Gregory. W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge.

W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw.

W .B. Yeats, Patric J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

36) Who among the following Greek Philosophers hailed Sappho as "the tenth muse"?

Aristotle

Pythagoras

Plutarch

Plato

37) Which of the following villages is known for weaving in Nalgonda district of Telangana State?

Kavadipally

Pochampally

Madanapally

Kothapally

38) Dogri speakers are called

Dugras

Dogras

Duggars

Dogris

39) Meri Aawaz Suno, an Indian film released in 1981, is directed by

S.V. Rajendra Singh

Shakti Kapoor

Jeetendra

Pinchoo Kapoor

40) Who among the following introduced Polysystem Theory?

Jermy Mundy

Andre Lefvre

Itamar Evan-Zohar

Lawrence Venuti

Read the following passage and answer questions 41-45:

Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term 'aesthetic' has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a kind of attitude, a kind of experience, and a kind of value. For the most part, aesthetic theories have divided over questions particular to one or another of these designations: whether artworks are necessarily aesthetic objects; how to square the allegedly perceptual basis of aesthetic judgments with the fact that we give reasons in support of them; how best to capture the elusive contrast between an aesthetic attitude and a practical one; whether to define aesthetic experience according to its phenomenological or representational content; how best to understand the relation between aesthetic value and aesthetic experience. But questions of more general nature have lately arisen, and these have tended to have a skeptical cast: whether any use of 'aesthetic' may be explicated without appeal to some other; whether agreement respecting any use is sufficient to ground meaningful theoretical agreement or disagreement; whether the term ultimately answers to any legitimate philosophical purpose that justifies its inclusion in the lexicon. The skepticism expressed by such general questions did not begin to take hold until the later part of the 20th century, and this fact prompts the question whether the concept of the aesthetic is inherently problematic and it is only recently that we have managed to see that it is, or the concept is fine and it is only recently that we have become muddled enough to imagine otherwise. Adjudicating between these possibilities requires a vantage from which to take in both early and late theorizing on aesthetic matters.

41) The passage talks about

Theory of Philosophy

Problem of Aesthetics

Phenomenological Issues

Philosophical disagreements

42) Aesthetic theories have divided over

Artworks as objects

Questions of designation

Phenomenological questions

Representational questions

43) The possibilities for aesthetic adjudication include

The aesthetic concept is inherently problematic.

The aesthetic concept is fine but understood differently.

Both A

None of the above.

44) Why is the term "aesthetic" under a skeptical cast?

For philosophic discussion

For inclusion in lexicon

For aesthetic evaluation

None of the above

45) Aesthetic experience is

A phenomenal experience

A spiritual experience

A perceptual experience

All of the above

Read the following poem and answer questions 46-50:

Daylight would die. Darkness would reign.
We at our hut's door. No single light inside.
Lights burning in houses around.
Kitchen-fires too. Bhakris beaten out.
Vegetables, gruels cooked.
In our nostrils, the smell of food. In our stomachs, darkness.
From our eyes, welling up, streams of tears.
Slicing darkness, a shadow heavily draws near.
On her head, a burden. Her legs a-totter.
Thin, dark of body .... my mother.
All day she combs the forest for firewood.
We wait her return.
When she brings no firewood to sell we go to bed hungry.
One day something happens. How we don't know.
Mother comes home leg bandaged, bleeding.
A large black snake bit her, say two women.
He raised his hood. He struck her. He slithered away.
Mother fell to the ground.
We try charms. We try spells. The medicine man comes.
The day ends. So does her life.
We burst into grief. Our grief melts into air.
Mother is gone. We, her brood, thrown to the winds.
Even now my eyes search for mother. My sadness grows.
When I see a thin woman with firewood on her head,
I go and buy all her firewood.

46) The poem depicts

Mother's grief

Poverty of a family

Daylight and darkness

None of the above

47) Mother passes away

Due to sadness

Due to kitchen fire

Due to snake bite

Due to poverty

48) Who is the "He" in the poem?

Mother's husband

Mother's father

Mother's uncle

Black Snake

49) What does "brood" mean in the poem?

Offspring

Deep thought

Firewood

Charm and spell

50) What does "a burden" mean in the poem?

Slicing darkness

Bundle of firewood

Smell of food

Stream of tears

Read the following passage and answer questions 51-55:

The focus on Indian literature within the discipline of Comparative Literature led to the opening up of many areas of engagement. Older definitions of Indian literature often with only Sanskrit at the Centre, with the focus on a few canonical texts to the neglect of others, particularly oral and performative traditions, had to be abandoned. One also had to take a more inclusive look at histories of literature in different languages of India which were discrete histories based on language and did not do justice to the overlap between social formations, histories and languages, and to the multilingualism that formed the very core of Indian literature. The task, comparatists realized was, as so aptly voiced by Aijaz Ahmad, to trace "the dialectic of unity and difference -through systematic periodization of multiple linguistic overlaps, and by grounding that dialectic in the history of material productions, ideological struggles, competing conceptions of class and community and gender, elite offensives and popular resistances, overlaps of cultural vocabularies and performative genres, and histories of orality and writing and print."

Comparatists dealing with Indian literature also necessarily had to look at the interplay between the mainstream and the popular, the elite and the marginalized and also to some extent foreground intermedial perspectives as different forms existed together in a composite manner, particularly in earlier periods in which textual and performative traditions existed simultaneously. Dealing with Indian literature from a comparative perspective also meant looking at the interactions taking place with literatures in regions beyond the geo-political boundaries of the nation state. All this would necessarily take up a long period of time. The beginning of the process was seen in the comprehensive and integrative three-volume histories of Indian literature, where Indian literatures were studied not as discrete units but in dialogue with one another, brought out by Sisir Kumar Das, a faculty member at the department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, with support from other members of the department and the Sahitya Akademi.

51) The basis for Indian literature is_.

Ideological overlaps

Linguistic overlaps

Cultural overlaps

All of the above

52) Oral tradition in Indian literature in the past was

Exclusive

Inclusive

Prerogative

Affirmative

53) Comparative Literature came into being as a result of_.

A study of only two literatures.

A study of literatures only within a region.

A study of interrelationships beyond territorial limits.

None of the above.

54) Indian literatures should ideally be studied from a perspective.

Cultural

Linguistic

Comparative

Social

55) The first comprehensive history of Indian literature is credited to

Aijaz Ahmad

Amiya Dev

Sisir Kumar Das

Ramachandra Guha

56) The term "Fourth World" first came into wide use in

1972

1973

1974

1976

57) The translator of Mahasweta Devi' s Mother of 1048 is

Pritam Bhattacharya

Samik Bandopadyaya

Gayatri Spivak

Sharadindu Bandopadyaya

58) Who is the director of the film Bride and Prejudice?

Mira Nair

Deepa Mehta

GurinderChadha

Shekhar Kapoor

59) Who is the author of White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text ofPhilosophy?

Frantz Fanon

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Stuart Hall

60) D.N. Nagaraj, the author of the Flaming Feet, hails from_.

Kerala

Karnataka

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

61) Name Nelson Mandel's jailer who claimed "[Mandela] was my prisoner, but he was my father"?

Desmond Tutu

Christo Brand

James Gregory

Andrew Meldrum

62) Comparative Literature in an Age ofGlobalization is a famous book edited by

Haun Saussy

Totosy Zepetnek

David Damrosch

Charles Bernheimer

63) Which of the following is a famous Urdu Journal?

Sahitya

Kallol

Parimal

Angare

64) The term "diaspora" was originally applied to the following ethnic group:

Muslims

Aborigines

Jews

Hindus

65) Who among the following is not a modem poet in Malayalam?

M. Govindan

Rajasekharam

Ayyappan

Kunchan Nambiar

66) Theru Koothu is a folk-art form of_.

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh

Kamataka

67) The concept "Literary History from Below" was first enunciated by

Partha Chatterjee

Sisir Kumar Das

Chandra Mohan

Amiya Dev

68) Who among the following is NOT a Dalit Writer?

Namdeo Dhasal

P. Shivakami

Premchand

Sharan Kumar Limhale

69) Which of the following is primarily a solo performance?

Odissi

Yakshagana

Ottan Thullal

Kuchpudi

70) LAN means:

Least Area Network

Local Area Network

Large Area Network

Light Area Network

71) What does HTTP stand for?

Head Tail Transfer Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Plot

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Plotter

72) A website's main page is called_.

Browser page

Search page

Home page

Bookmark

73) Which of the following states opened India's first transgender school "Sahaj International"?

Karnataka

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

74) Towards an Aesthetics ofDalit Literature is written by_.

Baburao Bagul

Manohar Biswas

Waman Nimbalkar

Sharan Kumar Limbale

75) is a-Malayalam Dalit writer.

C. Ayyappan

Imayam

Bama

Aravind Malagatti

76) A Suitable Boy is a novel written by

Karan Johar

Vikram Seth

Carol Burnside

Michael J. Malone

77) Riddles ofHinduism is written by

Kancha Ilaiah

Pandita Ramabai

E.V. Ramasami Naicker

B. R. Ambedkar

78) Gitanjali is a collection of poems by

Gudipati Venkatachalam

Mani Ratnam

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali

79) One of the following Bhakti poet is a Rajput princess:

Ratanbai

Rami

Atukuri Molla

Mirabai

80) The concept ofthe death ofthe author is proclaimed and celebrated by

Michel Foucault

Roland Barthes

Stephen Greenblatt

Horace

81) is a biography written by the subject about himself or herself.

Memoir

Diary

Autobiography

Journal

82) was the principal architect of English education in India.

William Bentick

Thomas Macaulay

James Stuart Mill

William Adams

83) In which year did Telangana achieve its statehood?

2013

2014

2015

2012

84) How many syllables does a Haiku have?

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

85) Which state of the current North-East India was the last to join the Indian Union in 1975?

Mizoram

Sikkim

Nagaland

Manipur

86) 'Negritude' is a term put forth by the African intellectual_.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Chinua Achebe

Frantz Fanon

Wole Soyinka

87) Literature/art as propaganda was an idea propagated by:

W.E.B. Du Bois

Sharan Kumar Limbale

Alan Locke

None of the above

88) Arthur Miller's idea of tragedy is

Aristetolian

Anti-Aristetolian

Elizabethan

Senecan

89) What was the last word of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart ofDarkness?

Savage

Horror

Congo

None of the above

90) Ahom was a ruling dynasty of which present state of India?

Arunchal Pradesh

Assam

Tripura

Gujarat

91) When was Sangeet Natak Akademi established?

1952

1953

1954

1955

92) Ngugi wa Thiong'o's last work in English was_.

Decolonisng the Mind

Weep Not, Child

The Grain of Wheat

None of the above

93) Nil Darpan, or The Indigo Mirror is a play by

Dinabandu Mitra

Michael Madhusudan Dart

Rabindranath Tagore

None of the above

94) Annihilation of Caste by Ambedkar was first published in which year?

1934

1935

1936

1937

95) Postmodernism as a term was first used by

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Michel Foucault

Jean Baudrillard

96) 'Operation the code name for police action, was for which Indian city's merger to the Indian Union?

Hyderabad

Mumbai

Chennai

Travancore

97) Which book of Plato's Republic is devoted to art?

IX

VIII

VII

X

98) Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities was first published in which year?

1981

1982

1983

1984

99) How many Indian languages are listed in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?









100) Who said "Study the historian before you begin to study the facts"?

Eric Hobsbawm

E.H. Carr

Romila Thapar

Dipesh Chakrabarty


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