1. Which of the following is generally not considered a 'primary source' for literary research?

Novel

Diary

Poem

Glossary

2. One of the following is not an essential quality of 'scholarly resources':

Written by experts in the field

Reviewed by peers in the field

Written with a lot of jargon

Account for previous studies in the field

3. If you are looking for critical material on the following topic, what would be the best and most productive keywords for your search? The Representation of Poverty in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English.

Representation, poverty

Poverty, Indian fiction

Indian, English

Representation, Indian fiction

4. If you were studying the adaptation of the Harry Potter books into film, then your methodological approaches would be necessarily....

Interpolative

Literary-philosophical

Interdisciplinary

Bibliographical

5. If you were researching tweets and blogs you would be working within the broad field of. ..

Screen studies

Digital culture studies

Consciousness studies

Image studies

6. Into which established field of study would all these characters fit? Moriarty, Lecter, Voldemort, Lex Luthor

Arch-villain studies

Evil studies

Cultural studies

Pop-film studies

7. If a project that studies contemporary publishing is funded by a publishing house then the project might be said to have a...

Conflict of interest

Double-edged research program

Double-vision methodology

Contestatory methodology

8. A hypothesis is

A statement which serves as the basis for future investigation

A statement of the aims of an investigation

A methodical evaluation of research evidence

A&C

9. The first stage of literary research is...

Searching sources of information to locate problem

Survey of related literature

Identification of a research problem

Searching sources of information to locate problem.

10. When reading an article in a scholarly journal one should...

Reject the ideas of the author outright

Approach it with a questioning stance

Accept the ideas of the author in their entirety

Use the same ideas in your own writing

11. A research paper is at least a brief report on research work based on

Primary Data only

Secondary Data only

Both Primary and Secondary Data

None of the above

12. The final stage in the research process is...

Problem formulation

Data collection

Data analysis

Report writing

13. One of the following search engines is exclusively meant for scientific information:

Google

Yahoo

SCIRUS

Altavista

14. Inductive logic proceeds from:

The general to the general

The particular to the general

The general to the particular

The particular to the particular

15. While critically analysing a text, which of the following assumptions is likely to be troublesome?

i. The idea that there can be only one correct reading

ii. The notion that a good description is equal to a good analysis

iii. The belief that all interpretation is purely subjective

Only ii

i and iii

ii and iii

ii and iii

16. To ensure that we are not just seeing in a text what we we need to

i. Ensure that our idea can be validated in the text as a whole

ii. Ensure that the specifics in the text also endorse the idea

iii. Find a critic who says what we think

i and ii

i and iii

ii and iii

ii and iii

17. In literary research the thesis statement should not be

Debatable and evaluative

Validated by the text

Self-evident and obvious

Rooted in a theoretical school

18. Which of the following statements is not true of 'Fat Studies'?

It is an interdisciplinary field.

It studies the nutrition of fats.

It studies fat human bodies.

It is akin to critical weight studies.

19. Which of the following does not fit into the rubric of'Materialist criticism'?

Marxist criticism

New Historicism

Cultural Materialism

Myth Criticism

20. Mythopoeic narratives do not include

Narratives that create new mythologies.

Narratives that are static retellings of the older mythologies.

Narratives that are transformative retellings of older mythologies.

Narratives that posit entire new mythological universes.

21. Read the following sentences and then mark the correct choice:

i. An abstract is both critical and evaluative.

ii. An abstract is a purely descriptive summary.

iii. An annotation is both descriptive and evaluative.

Only i is true

Both ii and iii are true

Both i and ii are true

Only iii is true

22. Which of the following is not a valid method in literary research?

Close reading of texts

Merely summarizing

Character study

A historicist approach

23. Life-histories or case-histories may be considered as an adequate basis for generalization to the extent that

They are typical or representative of a certain group.

They are not typical or representative of a certain group.

They take cognizance of all the individual case histories of the group.

They do not take cognizance of all the individual case histories of the group.

24. In research, documentation means...

Preservation of documents

Collection of documents

Acknowledging the exact sources of information

Writing summaries of documents

25. The practice of publishers seeking the advice of expert readers, or referees, before publishing a book is called:

Critical review

Refereeing

Peer evaluation

Scrutiny

26. The New Critical method of reading is attributed to:

Matthew Arnold

Harold Bloom

Cleanth Brooks

Jacques Derrida

27. In the study of bibliography, collation applies to

Checking the details that appear side by side.

Collecting various types of information and presenting them.

Verifying the number and order of the sheets of a volume as a means of determining its completeness.

Rearranging the number and order of the sheets of a volume as a means of determining its cohesion.

28. Identify the odd one out:

Descriptive versus Analytical Research

Applied versus Fundamental Research

Quantitative versus Qualitative Research

Historical versus Chemical Research

29. In reasoned argument we often deduce that something is or is not the case. To deduce means

To take away from what has been argued or presented.

To derive as conclusion from something known or assumed.

To anticipate as conclusion from something known or assumed.

To add to what has been argued or presented.

30. Reading, studying, considering, teaching, etc., in a superficial or cursory manner is to the material on hand.

Skip

Peruse

Skim

Prompt

31. Which of the following statements is a logical fallacy?

All flowers are not yellow.

Many flowers are not yellow.

No flower is yellow.

Many flowers are yellow.

32. A hypothesis need not be

amenable to testing

specific and limited in scope

consistent and derived from the most known facts

indicative of the various stages of the research project

33. Which of the following is not a component of the research methodology in literary studies?

To apply relevant theoretical tools to interpret texts

To develop new theories for reading texts

To contextualize texts in their milieu

To rewrite the stories from the texts

34. Fan fiction would be researched under the broad category of...

Archival studies

Technology studies

Pop culture studies

Renaissance studies

35. Which of the following would you not use as a reliable source for critically analyzing a text or author?

Scurrilous prose about the text/author

Autobiographical writings

Biography

Encyclopedia entries

36. If you skip a word or phrase when quoting a passage in your writing, you insert a/an

Hyperbole

Epitaph

Ellipsis

Prolepsis

37. Examining the prolepsis, analepsis and metalepsis in a plot would mean one is studying...

Structural Narratology

Plot studies

Sequencing Studies

Metatheory

38. A critical approach that utilizes information about the author's personal life in order to explicate hers/his works would be ....

Milieu centric

Psychobiographical

Historical

Author focus

39. When we study 'diction' in a text, we study the ...

Words on a page

Choice of words

Words in a dictionary

Lyrical words

40. What is the province of a philologist?

Written records and their authenticity and original meaning

Palaeomodem and neomodem textuality

Graphic art of the philological society

Logical construction of linguistic and philosophical texts.

Part B
Essay (20 marks)

Write an essay on ONE of the following topics:

1. A Dalit Canon?

2. Queer aesthetics in literature

3. Approaching seventeenth century poetry

4. Memory and autobiography

5. The fiction of the world

6. The film as text

7. The postcolonial Victorian

8. How to read a trauma-memoir. ..

9.

Poetry analysis (20 marks)

Poets believe that they work with mental ears. What evidence of the auditory/acoustic imagination do you find in the following poem? How much of that evidence contributes to its apocalyptic tone?

Sound of the Axe Once a woman went into the woods.
The birds were silent. Why? she said.
Thunder, they told her,
thunder is coming.
She walked on, and the trees were dark
and rustled their leaves. Why? she said.
The great storm, they told her,
the great storm is coming.
She came to the river, it rushed by
without reply, she crossed the bridge,
she began to climb
up to the ridge where grey rocks
bleached themselves, waiting
for crack of doom,
and the hermit
had his hut, the wise man
who had lived since time began.
When she came to the hut
there was no one.
But she heard his axe.
She heard
the listening forest.
She dared not follow the sound
of the axe. Was it
the world-tree he was felling?
Was this the day?

Denise Levertov