THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY

Hyderabad – 500 007

Entrance Examination

MA in Comparative Literature

Model Paper

Instructions:

1. Questions of section 1 carry one mark each. 2. Questions of section 2 and 3 carry 2 marks each. 3. No negative marking.

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FROM THE GIVEN CHOICES

Section: 1 20X1= 20

1. Harish came _____________ a car and will go ____________the morning train.

a) On, in

b) By, on

c) In, on

d) In, in

2. Saroja likes to pay her bills _____________ cheque.

a) By

b) In

c) At

d) None of these

3. The noise of the birds ______________ as we walked out of the avian sanctuary.

a) Died down

b) Died out

c) Died up

d) Died away

4. The gun ________________ accidentally while Ramesh was cleaning it.

a) Went out

b) Went off

c) Went down

d) Went on

5. The weather is ___________________ after stormy days.

a) Looking up

b) Picking up

c) Holding up

d) Stepping up

6. I look forward __________________ you soon.

a) To see

b) Seeing

c) To seeing

d) All of these

7. If you were ever in trouble, I would give you all the help you _________________.

a) Need

b) Needed

c) Would need

d) Will need

8. The children were delighted to see a _____________ of swans in the lake.

a) Bevy

b) Muster

c) Pack

d) Host

9. Ramesh was shocked to find a _______________ of termites feeding on his exotic

collection of books.

a) Wedge

b) Spring

c) Nest

d) Ambush

10. Which of the following is NOT a synonym of “placate”?

a) Appease

b) Lull

c) Conciliate

d) Infuriate

11. The ___________ of bears visiting the sugarcane fields is a nuisance to the poor

farmers.

a) Sloth

b) Brood

c) Family

d) Herd

12. Much of the world’s economy is controlled by _______________________.

a) The ministers of Geneva

b) The gnomes of Zurich

c) A mug’s game

d) None of these

13. You should be able to understand this point of view if you __________________.

a) Used your food

b) Used your pen

c) Used your loaf

d) Used your lock

14. It is time that the government put some of its longer serving ministers ___________.

a) Out to grass

b) Fall from grace

c) Grasp the nettle

d) Make the grade

15. Geeta took the _______________________ next to the car showroom.

a) Monument

b) Beeches

c) Rill

d) Monticule

16. There was ______________ an increase in legal regulation and surveillance.

a) Via Media

b) In Toto

c) Ad Nauseam

d) Faux pas

In the following questions, one of the phrases in the given alternatives should

replace the phrase in bold type (in the question) to make it grammatically

correct. Choose the correct phrase from the given alternatives.

17. While still in the hospital, the stitches were removed from the patient’s wound.

a) The patient removed the stitches from his wound

b) The stitches had been removed from the patient’s wound

c) The patient’s stitches has removed from the wound

d) The patient had the stitches removed from his wound

18. Write the letter in a legible hand and you should drop it in the mail box.

a) You drop

b) You must drop

c) Drop

d) No correction required

19. Take into account the suggestions of the panel, a revised draft report is being

placed in the public domain.

a) Taking into account

b) Taken into account

c) Taking an account

d) Accounting for

20. I am fully convinced of the integrity of my colleagues.

a) Fully convincing of

b) Fully convincing about

c) Fully convincing of

d) No correction required.

SECTION 2 20 X 2 = 40

21. Who is the author of The Location of Culture?

a) Jacques Derrida

b) Edward Said

c) Homi Bhabha

d) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

22. Which of the following writers does NOT belong to the Generation of 1927?

a) Federico Garcia Lorca

b) Pedro Salinas

c) Rafael Alberti

d) Juan Rulfo

23. Which of the following is a poem by Derek Walcott?

a) “Telephone Conversation”

b) “A Far Cry from Africa”

c) “Still I Rise”

d) “Refugee Mother and Child”

24. Who is the author of the play The Lion and the Jewel?

a) Maya Angelou

b) Wole Soyinka

c) Chinua Achebe

d) Lorraine Hansbury

25. The protagonist of which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood calls herself a

“two-legged womb”?

a) Alias Grace

b) Surfacing

c) The Handmaid’s Tale

d) Hag-Seed

26. Who is the author of Open Veins of Latin America?

a) Julio Cortazar

b) Roberto Bolano

c) Carlos Fuentes

d) Eduardo Galeano

27. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the much awaited book of which of the following

Booker Prize winners?

a) Eleanor Catton

b) Arundhati Roy

c) J. M. Coetzee

d) Salman Rushdie

28. Who is the author of the poem “Australia”?

a) David Malouf

b) Seamus Heaney

c) A. D. Hope

d) Les Murray

29. “The Country without a Post Office” is a poem by - - - -

a) Faiz Ahmed Faiz

b) Agha Shahid Ali

c) Nissim Ezekiel

d) Jayanta Mahapatra

30. Who among the following is NOT a poet from the North East?

a) Robin Ngangom

b) Temsula Ao

c) Mamang Dai

d) A. K. Ramanujan

31. Who is the author of The Wretched of the Earth?

a) Wole Soyinka

b) Frantz Fanon

c) Chinua Achebe

d) Andre Brink

32. “The Doctor and the Saint” is the Introduction to - - - - -

a) Mahatma Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth

b) Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India

c) B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste

d) Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

33. The “Frontier Thesis” does not include

a) Detachment from European mindsets and erroding customs

b) Importance of the Frontier in shaping American history

c) A rhetorical tie to American social progress

d) A postcolonial experience of alienation

34. Isla Negra is associated with

a) Federico Garcia Lorca

b) Pablo Neruda

c) Octavio Paz

d) Cesar Vallejo

35. Who called for the “abolition of English Departments?”

a) Ngugi wa Thiong’o

b) Frantz Fanon

c) Antonio Negri

d) Chinua Achebe

36. Who among the following is NOT a diasporic writer?

a) V. S. Naipaul

b) Salman Rushdie

c) William Golding

d) Vikram Seth

37. ‘Chutnification’ is a term coined by - - - - -

a) Salman Rushdie

b) Amitav Ghosh

c) Anita Desai

d) Vikram Seth

38. Which of the following is the fictional city depicted by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

a) Castle Rock

b) El Dorado

c) Comala

d) Macondo

39. Who coined the term ‘magic realism’?

a) Jose Marti

b) Franz Roh

c) Juan Rulfo

d) Alejo Carpentier

40. Chinua Achebe found the representation of Africa in this modernist novel

problematic

a) Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

b) Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

c) James Joyce’s Ulysses

d) Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter

SECTION -3 20 X 2 = 40

41. Who is the author of The Challenge of Comparative Literature?

a) Ali Behdad

b) Dominic Thomas

c) Claudio Guillen

d) Michael Lucey

42. Which of the following terms is not frequently utilized in the discourses of

comparative literature?

a) World Literature

b) Capitalist Literature

c) General Literature

d) National Literature

43. Identify the name that does NOT share similarity with the other three names.

a) Aristophanes

b) Sophocles

c) Euripides

d) Aeschylus

44. Which of the following texts is NOT written by Immanuel Kant?

a) Critique of Pure Reason

b) Critique of Practical Reason

c) Critique of Metaphysics

d) Critique of Judgement

45. Identify the literary character that does NOT belong to the group?

a) Laertes

b) Horatio

c) Polonius

d) Brabantio

46. Who wrote The Phenomenology of the Spirit?

a) Hegel

b) Dilthey

c) Locke

d) Hume

47. Bibliography of Comparative Literature [1950] - one of the seminal works in the field

of Comparative Literature was authored by

a) Rene Wellek and Austin Warren

b) Fernard Baldensperger and Werner Paul Friederich

c) Sisir Kumar Das and Amiya Deb

d) Max Muller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

48. Who among the following is NOT a symbolist poet?

a) Mallarme

b) Verlaine

c) Cesaire

d) Baudelaire

49. The notion of ‘Migratory Plots’ was popularized by

a) Veselovsky

b) Dostoevsky

c) Pushkin

d) Gorky

50. “A poet borrows not ideas, but motifs”. Who among the following is credited to have

made this statement?

a) Tolstoy

b) Zhirmunsky

c) Turgenev

d) Mayakovsky

51. Who among the following translated the Persian poet Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyyat

into English?

a) Mehtab Mahmoodi

b) Abdul Haneef Sala-Ud-Din

c) Edward Fitzgerald

d) Edgar Allan Poe

52. Urubhanga is a

a) Play written by Bhasa

b) Novel written by Kuntaka

c) Philosophical treatise by Adi Shankara

d) The only collection of poems by Kalidasa.

53. Identify the work that does NOT belong to the group?

a) Waiting for the Barbarians

b) Star Book

c) Foe

d) The Master of Petersburg

54. What was Susan Bassnett referring to when she famously asked “What is this but

comparative literature under another name”?

a) Cultural Studies

b) Translation Studies

c) Postcolonial Literature

d) Postmodern Literature

55. Which Latin American writer said “I have always imagined that Paradise to be a kind

of library’?

a) Borges

b) Marquez

c) Vargas Llosa

d) Fuentes

56. Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature is authored by

a) Indranath Chowdhary

b) Harry Levin

c) Renato Poggioli

d) Earl Miner

57. Identify the Buddhist philosopher of language who developed the theory of

deductive logic in India.

a) Nagarjuna

b) Dignaga

c) Asvaghosha

d) Dharmakirti

58. In the Navarasa tradition of the Indian Aesthetics, which Rasa was added later as an

afterthought?

a) Hasya

b) Karuna

c) Bibhitsa

d) Saantam

59. Kadambari – a romantic epic/novel in Sanskrit was composed by

a) Banabhatta

b) Durgabhatta

c) Martandabhatta

d) Nalabhatta

60. ‘Abhinavabharati’ refers to

a) It is a commentary on Bharata Muni’s NatyaSastra by Abhinavagupta.

b) It is a theoretical account of Indian music and painting by Abhinavsharada.

c) It is a Sanskrit kavya that describes Abhimanyu’s escapades in the

Mahabharata composed by Arohamitra.

d) It refers to the grand stage built at Nalanda for the sake of preserving and

performing Indian Oral Plays.