1.Who saw language as a system of signs, constructed by convention, which lent itself to synchronic structural analysis.
a).Roland Barthes
b).Claude Levi-Strauss
c).Ferdinand de Saussure
d).Jonathan Culler
2.It is a broad reaction against the idealization, historical retrospection, and imaginary words of Romanticism.
a).Realism
b).Imagism
c).Pre-Raphaelitism
d).Surrealism
3.Who was the founder of Modern Linguistics, as well as of structuralism?
a).Noam Chomsky
b).Roland Barthes
c).Claude Levi-Strauss
d).Ferdinand de Saussure
4.Choose the wrong match:
a).Psychoanalytic theory - Jacques Lacan
b).Structuralist Marxist - Louis Althusser
c).Feminists - Julia Kristeva
d).Simulacra - Roman Jacobson
5.Choose the equal word of ‘imitation’ which gives the same meaning .
a).Pathos
b).Mythos
c).Mimesis
d).Pity
6.Hellenism refers to the spread of ________culture
a).Roman
b).Greek
c).French
d).German
7.Which of the following is not a Greek Philosopher?
a).Plato
b).Democritus
c).Aristotle
d).Boethius
8.Who founded academy in Athens?
a).Plato
b).Democritus
c).Aristotle
d).Boethius
9.Gorgias, Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic – these are the major dialogues of _________.
a).Aristotle
b).Socrates
c).Plato
d).Alexander
10. Who recounts the ‘myth of the cave’, where people have lived all their lives watching shadows of reality cast by a fire, with their backs to the true light of the sun?
a).Aristotle
b).Socrates
c).Plato
d).Alexander
11.Who wrote ‘An Essay on Criticism’?
a).Mathew Arnold
b).Alexander Pope
c).John Dryden
d).Cleanth Brooks
12.Who was a great lexicographer and always thought of himself as an ordinary person in English Neo Classical period.
a).John Dryden
b).Alexander Pope
c).Jonathan Swift
d).Samuel Johnson
13.Which of the following is not right match.
a).Apologie for Poetry - Sir Philip Sydney
b).Defence of Rhyme - Samuel Daniel
c).Discourse of English Poetry - John Dryden
d).The Arte of English Poesie - George Puttenham
14.Which of this following element is not associated with Romanticism
a).Rational
b).Supernatural
c).Imagination
d).Nature
15.Who made the famous notion of the ‘death of the author’?
a).Roland Barthes
b).Ferdinand de Saussure
c).Jonathan Culler
d).Claude Levi-Strauss
16.Which of the following writer is a Polish writer?
a).James Joyce
b).Joseph Conrad
c).DH Lawrence
d).Virginia Woolf
17.Who is the first of the ‘Angry Young Men’
a).Harold Pinter
b).Sameul Butler
c).Tom Stoppard
d).John Osborne
18.Who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932
a).John Galsworthy
b).Harold Pinter
c).Seamus Heaney
d).William Golding
19.Arnold Bennet wrote naturalist novels about a smug, narrow – minded, lower middle calss. The Clayhanger Trilogy is written by him. Which of these following is not the part of this trilogy?
a).Tono- Bungay
b).Clayhanger
c).Hilda Lessways
d).These Twain
20.Which of the following is not written by Roland Barthes?
a).Mythologies
b).Writing Zero Degree
c).Elements of Semiology
d).Of Grammatology
21.Marlow is the frequent narrator of __________.
a).James Joyce
b).Joseph Conrad
c).George Orwell
d).DH Lawrence
22.Who wrote the novel Brave New World, set in the year 632?
a).Aldous Huxley
b).Evelyn Waugh
c).William Golding
d).George Orwell
23.Choose the wrong match of author and work.
a).Roland Barthes - The Death of the Author
b).Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology
c).IA Richards - S/Z
d).Terry Eagleton - After Theory
24.In this novel, A group of small boys isolated on a desert island after a plane crash. This novel was written by William Golding who awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
a).The Inheritors
b).A Passage to India
c).The Heart of the Matter
d).Lord of the Flies
25.Who wrote the famous novel Ulysses (1922) which was censored in America until 1933, in England until 1936.
a).James Joyce
b).Joseph Conrad
c).George Orwell
d).DH Lawrence
26.The novel ‘Flush’ is a fantastic feat of the imagination; it is a biography of Elizabeth Barret Browning. Who wrote this novel?
a).James Joyce
b).Joseph Conrad
c).DH Lawrence
d).Virginia Woolf
27.Who suggests that myth is not an object, a concept or an idea but a language, a type of speech?
a). Roland Barthes
b).Claude Levi-Strauss
c).Northrop Frye
d).Jonathan Culler
28.Who the dramatist, supported women’s rights, equality of income, abolition of private property, and a change in the voting system. His plays are witty discussions, with conflicts of ideas rather than of neuroses and physical passions. In his more than 50 plays he sought to provoke his audience intellectually by making them laugh?
a).John Galsworthy
b).GB Shaw
c).John Millington Synge
d).Samuel Beckett
29.Which of the following Irish writer wrote ‘Juno and the Paycock’, set in 1922 during the civil war between Irish Free State and the Irish Revolutionary Army?
a).JM Synge
b).Sean O’Casey
c).GB Shaw
d).WB Yeats
30.The National Theatre of Ireland ________.
a).The Abbey Theatre
b).The Absurd Theatre
c).The Angry Men Theatre
d).Kicken Sink Drama
31.When was the Abbey Theatre firs opened to Public?
a).1900
b).1901
c).1903
d).1904
32. Literature or drama that has as its basic premise the meaninglessness of life in the 20th century. It uses banal repetitions and fantasy is ________.
a).Analogy
b).Archetype
c).Fabliau
d).Absurd
33.A type of novel, first popularized in the late 18th century, characterized by trill-provoking and supernatural events is ________.
a).Grotesque
b).Gothic Novel
c).Science Fiction Novel
d).Psychological Novel
34.A type of realistic fiction that developed in France, America, and England in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It presupposes that human beings are like puppets, controlled completely by external and internal forces.
a).Neoclassicism
b).Naturalism
c).Romanticism
d).Didacticism
35.A South African playwright, he has stunningly revealed the problems of apartheid among various ethnic group in his country.
a).Athol Fugard
b).Tom Stoppard
c).Sir James Matthew Barrie
d).Herley Granville Barker
36.Who coined the term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
a).Albert Camus
b).Eugène Ionesco
c).Martin Esslin
d).Samuel Beckett
37.Who argued that language is a system of signs in relation.
a).Roland Barthes
b).Claude Levi-Strauss
c).Ferdinand de Saussure
d).Jonathan Culler
38.Which of the following playwright not associated with the Theatre of Absurd?
a).John Galsworthy
b).Edward Albee
c).Samuel Becket
d).Luigi Pirandello
39.Which of the following writer criticized the Philistinism of bourgeois society ?
a).John Ruskin
b).Thomas Carlyle
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Bergson
40.The major figure included Flaubert and Balzac in France, George Eliot and Charles Dickens in England are in _________.
a).Realism
b).Imagism
c).Aestheticism
d).Surrealism
41.Which is the general aim of trustful, accurate, and objective representation of the real world, avoidance of imaginary and mystical?
a).Realism
b).Imagism
c).Pre-Raphaelitism
d).Surrealism
42.Who first formulated the manifesto of Naturalism?
a).Gustave Flaubert
b).Émile Zola
c).Stéphane Mallarmé
d).Arthur Rimbaud
43.Who began the journal Realisme in 1856?
a).Edmond Durantry
b).Emile Zola
c).Wilhelm Bolsche
d).Hippolyte Taine
44.Who made a distinction between two dimensions of language – langue and parole?
a).Roland Barthes
b).Ferdinand de Saussure
c).Jonathan Culler
d).Claude Levi-Strauss
45.‘The Experimental Novel’ is an essay written by the leading figure of French Naturalist.?
a).Gustave Flaubert
b).Émile Zola
c).Stéphane Mallarmé
d).Arthur Rimbaud
46.Choose the wrong match of these option: Movement and the author who belongs the movement.
a).Romanticism - Victor Hugo
b).Pre-Raphaelitism - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
c).Transcendentalism - Henry David Thoreau
d).Dark romanticism - Stephen Crane
47.The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood of artist formed in _______in England.
a).1848
b).1852
c).1835
d).1886
48.Symbolism, aestheticism, and impressionism, fallen under the label of _________.
a).Decadence
b).Pre-Raphaelitism
c).Transcendentalism
d).Dark romanticism
49.Who are the French symbolists of this given list.
a).Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne
b).Leo Tolstoy, Frank Norris
c).Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud
d).Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters
50.Which of the following is not the precursor of Symbolist?
a).Baudelaire
b).Verlaine
c).Rimbaud
d).August Stinberg
51.Who was the major critic of symbolist movement?
a).W.B Yeats
b).T.S Eliot
c).Remy de Gourmont
d).Marcel Proust
52.Who wrote the book ‘The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)’, which characterised symbolism as a revolt against exteriority, against rhetoric, against a materialistic tradition ?
a). Gustave Flaubert
b).Arthur Symons
c).Stéphane Mallarmé
d).Arthur Rimbaud
53.Who was the founder of French Symbolism of this given option?
a).Charles Baudelaire
b).Gustave Flaubert
c).Victor Cousin
d).Arthur Symons
54.‘Correspondence’ is a succinct expression of symbolist aesthetic by _____.
a).Charles Baudelaire
b).Gustave Flaubert
c).Victor Cousin
d).Arthur Symons
55.Which one designates the concept of word?
a).Signified
b).Signifier
c).Sign
d).Sound image
56.‘The Great Tradition’ is written by ________.
a).Louis Althusser
b).F.R. Leavis
c).Pierre Macherey
d).Terry Eagleton
57.CAI stands for ________.
a).Computer analysed instruction
b).Computer assisted Instruction
c).Computer assisted intelligence
d).None of the above
58. Which is also called natural method?
a).Direct method
b).Grammar–translation method
c).Bilingual method
d).Lecturer Method
59.____________ of foreign language teaching was developed by C.J. Dodson (1967).
a).Direct method
b).Grammar–translation method
c).Bilingual method
d).Lecturer Method
60.Who urges the terms of linguistic sign (signifier and signified)?
a).Ferdinand de Saussure
b).Jonathan Culler
c).Claude Levi-Strauss
d).Roland Barthes
61. Who was the member of the Marxist Feminist Literature collective, an important group whose very existence indicates the strong political theoretical interests of this kind of Feminist Criticism.
Catherine Belsey
Cora Kaplan
Patricia Stubbs
Rachel Brainstein
62. List out the French feminist writers. (i) Julia Kristeva (ii) Helene Cixous (iii) Luce Irigaray (iv) Elaine Showalter
II Only
II and IV only
I, II, III only
All
63. Which of the following feminist has written ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’?
Julia Kristeva
Helene Cixous
Luce Irigaray
Elaine Showalter
64. ‘Sex which is not one’ is written by_______
Luce Irigaray
Catherine Belsey
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
65. Who suggests ‘Language use is gendered’ in the essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’?
Mary Wolstonecraft
Alice Walker
Virginia Woolf
George Eliot
66. Who developed in the sense of language is ‘Masculine’ in the book ‘Man Made Language (1981)’?
Virginia Woolf
Sandra Gilbert
Dale Spender
Julia Kristeva
67. Who coined the term ‘ecriture feminine’?
Elaine Showalter
Alice Walker
Julia Kristeva
Helene Cixous
68. In which of Helene Cixous’s essay consists the term ‘ecriture feminie’ which means literally ‘feminie writing’?
The Newly Born Woman
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
The Mad woman in the Attic
The Laugh of the Medusa
69. Who was the terms ‘the symbolic’ and ‘the semiotic’ to designate two different aspects of language?
Elaine Showalter
Alice Walker
Julia Kristeva
Helene CIxous
70. Which of the following writer is a postmodern writer?
T.S. Eliot
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
71. Which of the following writer is not a post-modernist theorist?
Jean Francois Lyotard
Jean Baudrillard
Georges Bataille
Charles Baudelaire
72. The novel exhibits no structure in its allusions. This line indicate post modernism concept. Which of the following work has this quality?
The Waste Land
Ulysses
Waiting for Godot
Heart of Darkness
73. Which of the following option is odd one according to post modernism?
No structure in its allusions
Reader rewrite the play themselves
Heterogeneity of the present
Relies heavily allusions
74. This novel is an expression of a fragment world marooned from the past and relies heavily allusions. This line indicate to modernism. Which of the following work has this quality
The Waste Land
Malone Dies
Waiting for Godot
Labyrinths
75. ___________ is nostalgic and retrospective toward vanished schemes of unity and order.
Modernism
Post modernism
Neo classicism
None of the above
76. Who formulates a notion of ‘communication reason’?
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Francois Lyotard
Gloria Jean Watkins
77. Who condemns Freud as a prime source of the patriarchal attitudes against which feminists must fight?
Toril Moi
Kate Millet
Alice Walker
Jacques Lacan
78. Who opposed Jurgen Habermas’ sanction the project Enlightenment, and Universal reason ?
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Francois Lyotard
Gloria Jean Watkins
79. The term ‘Post modernism’ was tentatively used in late______.
1940s
1950s
1930s
1960s
80. Which of the following writer is not included in Post-modernist critic______?
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
c. Roland Barthes
August Wilhelm Schlegel
81. Pub-talk, parody and Pastiche are used in _____
Neo-classic
Pre-Raphaelite
Structuralist
Post-modernist
82. Patriarchy is a mechanisms in feminist criticism in the 1970s the major effort. Here patriarchy means _____.
A form of social organization in which a female is the family head.
A form of social organization in which a male is the family head.
Eclectic approach
Structures of writing by women
83. Who coined the term ‘gynocriticism’ which means the history, styles, themes, genres and structures of writing by women
Toril Moi
Elaine Showalter
Alice walker
Helene Cixous
84. Elaine Showalter described the change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from ______ (books by men) to gynotexts (books by women).
Androtext
Women text
Feminine
Gynocriticism
85. Which of the following is not a subject of gynocriticism?
Evolution or laws of a female literary tradition
Trajectory of the individual or collective female career
Writing about women’s feeling by men
Psychodynamics of female creativity
86. Who detects in the history of women’s writing: Feminine Phase (1840-80), Feminist Phase (1880-1920), and Female Phase (1920 onwards).
Rachel Brownstein
Julia Kristeva
Helena Cixous
Elaine Showalter
87. Who defiance about ‘tradition’ ‘I have no belief in TRADITION or common myth… or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets’
Mathew Arnold
Philip Larkin
T.S .Eliot
Austin Clarke
88. The period of high modernism was _______
1910-1930
1890-1910
1930-1950
1950-1970
89. Which of the following was not related to Post Modernism
Parody
Pastiche
Eclectic approach
Stream of conscious
90. Pastiche is __________
The development of novel
Illustrate a book by the addition of prints
A kind of imitation
None of the above