UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION -FEBRUARY 2013
Ph.D. (COMPARATlVE LITERATURE)

Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 75
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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE

1.
The question paper (in 7 pages) consists of two parts: Part A and Part B.

2.
Part A is objective type and has to be answered in the OMR Answer Sheets, using black or blue ball point pen, as per the instructions.


Please write

Hall Ticket Number in the OMR Answer Sheet.
There is n@gative marking in this part. 0.33 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. No mark will be deducted for an unanswered bit.
No extra/additional OMR Answer Sheet will be provided. Rough work, if any, has to be done in the space provided at the end.
3.
Part B contains questions of a descriptive nature and has to be answered in English, except Part B II translation, in the separate Answer Book.

4.
Please write the Hall Ticket Number in Part A of the question paper as well as in the Part B Answer Book.

5.
Please hand over the OMR Answer Sheet and the Answer Book at the end of the examination to the invigilator. The question paper may be taken by the candidates at the end of the examination.



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Ph.D. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) -FEBRUARY 2013
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PART-A (50 Marks)
MARK THE MOST APPROPRIA TE ANSWER IN THE OMR SHEETS.
1.
All the trees in the park are flowering trees. Some ofthe trees in the park are dogwoods. All dogwoods in the park are flowering trees. Ifthefirst two statements are true, the third statement is True False Unknown Ambiguous

2.
Mara runs faster than Gail. Li Iy runs faster than Mara. Gail runs faster than Lily. Ifthe first two statements are true, the third statement is True False Unknown Ambiguous


QUESTIONS CHOOSE-rHE ODD ONE OUT, THE ONE WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO THE GROUP.
3.
Umbrella Gloves Shirt Shoes

4.
Inhabit Vacate Reside Dwell

5.
Cotton Nylon C)Silk Terylene

6.
Treat Great Heard Rates

7.
Cear Wear Bear Fear

8.
Giddy Acne Mother Egg

9.
Table Later Treat Tears

10.
Rare Tear Reap Tore




11.
Snakes and hawks are the predators of mice in the field. Dogs which also feed on mice are bought on the scene. What will be the immediate result? Decrease in the number of mice. Increase in the number of snakes. Decrease in the number of snakes and hawks. Decrease in the number of dogs.

12.
Identify that pair of numbers which is not related to the other pairs of numbers due to lack of some common property. 57,69 B)73,61 47, 59 42, 29

13.
Ice is related to coolness in the same way as Earth is related to Ocean Weight Gravitation Forest

14.
is the study of the evolution of the human as an animal. Ethnology Anthropology Chronology Archaeology

15.
Identify the missing number in the series: 12, 21, 48. 45 B)33 C)38 40

16.
The story of Kannaki and Kovalan is dealt with in


Tirukkural Nallathangal Kathai
Desingurajan Kathai Cilapathikaram

17.
Which of the following is not rightly matched? Ballad: A genre that combines the elements of the epic, the lyric and the drama. Novel: A genre that has been called the bourgeois epic. Tragedy: A genre that imitates an action towards a cathartic effect. Pastoral: A genre related to the court. .

18.
Identify the writer who published Street on the Hill (poetry), Difficult Pleasures (short stories) and The Lunatic in my Head (novel) Anjum Hasan Temsula Ao Fakir Senapati Kiran Desai

19.
The Oslo Accord refers to a peace treaty between: India and Pakistan India and China North Korea and South Korea Israel and Palestine

20.
The linguistic function of"Hello" at the beginning of a phone conversation is Poetic Conative Phatic Referential

21.
Phaniyamma, the Kannada novel about a child-widow, is by C.T. Indira M.K. Indira Pankaka Vaidehi


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22. Dialogism is associated with Derrida Bakhtin Foucault Jakboson
23. Anandvardhana composed Dhwanyaloka Kavyamimamsa Kavya Prakas Kavyalamkarasutra
24.
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala writes poetry in Gujarati Odiya Hindi Marathi

25.
Indulekha is often considered the first in Tamil Kannada Telugu Malayalam

26.
Akka Mahadevi was a prominent figure of the Veerashaiva Bhakti movement of the 12th century Kerala Karnataka Tamil Nadu Telugu

27.
Umrao Jaan Ada is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa Khalil Gibran Mirza Ghalib Faiz Ahmed Faiz

28.
"The Crisis ofComJ3arative Literature," in Concepts o/Criticism, is by M.H. Abrams F.R. Leavis Raymond Williams RGne Wellek


29. Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories Literature is by
Claude Pichois Antonio Porta
Earl Miner Francois Jost

30. Comparative Cultural Studies is an approach made popular by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek David Damrosch Susan Bassnett Charles Bernheimer
31. The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in India is by " Madhav Prasad Ravi Vasudevan Ashish Rajadhyaksha S. V. Srinivas
32.
The Subaltern Studies group was inspired by the ideas ofA) Immanuel Kant Thomas Hobbs Thomas Babington Macaulay Antonio Gramsci

33.
Justice Rajender Sachar Committee Report documented the social, economic and educational status of in India. Muslims Dalits Tribals Women



34.
Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri isa Short story Novel Poem Autobiography

35.
Many Dalit scholars believe that Dalits are better represented in the literature created by the Dalits themselves than the "progressive literature" produced by the upper caste writers on Dalits. This belief is based on the idea that Dalit writers by nature are more objective; Upper caste progressive writers are biased against Dalits; The lived experiences of Dalits help them in self-representation: None of the above.

36.
Most of Partha Chatterjee's writings theorize Colonialism nationalism Partition Human rights Women's rights

37.
Which of the following universities recently removed A.K. Ramanujan's "Three Hundred Ramayanas" from the syllabus ofa BA course? Delhi University South Gujarat Univeristy Aligarh Muslim Hyderabad Banaras Hindu University

38.
In which of the following present Indian states did the anti-Hindi agitations, involving mass protests and riots by students, happen? Karnataka Tamil Nadu Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh

39.
Identify the modern Indian playwright who has used Indian myths in his plays, from among the following: Badal Sircar VUay Tendulkar Girish Karnad Mohan Rakesh

40.
NAAC is an autonomous institution under the aegis of: ICSSR CSIR UGC ICHR

41.
"Translation usurps authority, but translation also bestows authority" is a famous statement by Octavio Paz Eugene Nida Andre Lefevere J.C. Catford

42.
The lead character in the film 'The Bandit Queen' has been played by Rupa Gangu Iy Seema Biswas Pratiba Sinha Shabama Azmi

43.
The film Salaam Bombay was directed by Shyam Senegal . Mira Nair Aparna Sen Mrinal Sen

44.
These Hills Called Home: Stories from the War Zone is a collection short stories written by Temsula Ao M.K. Binodini Robin Ngangom Indira Goswami

45.
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not," the opening lines of London 2012 Summer Olympics, was penned by Lloyd George William Shakespeare OJ. Whosane Elton John

46.
The concept of "arche writing" was developed by Fish Foucault Oerrida de Man

47.
The concept as being crucial to popular politics is advocated by Slavoj Zizek Louis Althusser Alan Badiou Ernest Laclau

48.
Who among the following is associated wit.h the concept of "public sphere"? Gayatri Spivak Terry Eagleton Jurgen Habermas Frederic Jameson

49.
Panchatantra was first translated into Pahlavi in 6th century AD 7th century AD 8th century AD 9th century AD

50.
George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was Welsh British Scottish Irish


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Ph.D. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) -FEBRUARY 2013
PART-B (25 Marks)
.To be answered in the Answer Book.
I. Write an essay onany of the following: (15 Marks)
The importance of translation for Comparative Indian Literature.
Death of the Author.
Comment on new writings in anyone Indian vernacular.

II. Translate the following passage into a modern Indian language, other than English. (Note: Mention the language) (10 Marks)
"A dumb log," was my reply when asked: "What kind of person should be chosen for prime minster?" .... Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think this is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is .... I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life .... For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done .... To think that the one who is smart and can look out for himself is exceptional, is to follow "adult" values. The one who goes about his own business, eats and sleeps well, the one with nothing to worry about, would seem to me to be living in the most satisfactory manner. There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything. In Aesop's fable, when the frogs asked god for a king, he presented them with a log. The frogs made fun of the dumb log and when they asked the god for a greater king, he sent down a crane. As the story goes, the crane pecked all the frogs to death.