List of top Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Who out of the following are the seminal thinkers of the ‘Enlightenment Age’?
1.Julia Kristeva
2.Michel Foucault
3.Immanuel Kant
4.Rene Descartes
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Who is the author of the 2014 novel, The Black Hill?
(A) Mamang Dai
(B) Easterine Kire
(C) Robin S. Ngangom
(D) Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Which of the following works of ‘magical realism’ can be accredited to the celebrated author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
(A) Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
(B) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
(C) The House of the Spirits (1982)
(D) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

Which of the following works is attributed to Ben Jonson?
(A) To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left
(B) The Changeling
(C) The Sun Rising
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?
Fledgling (2005)
Kindred (1979)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
The Word for World is Forest (1972)

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts? Pamela, The Castle of Otranto, Humphry Clinker

The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travels of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of the picaresque novel?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
(B) Tom Jones (1749)
(C) Don Quixote (1605)
(D) Moll Flanders (1722)

Match the Indian Writings in English in List I with their respective authors in List II:

List I (Books)	List II (Authors)
A. Difficult Daughters	I. Anita Desai
B. The God of Small Things	III. Arundhati Roy
C. The Shadow Lines	II. Manju Kapur
D. The Artist of Disappearance	IV. Amitav Ghosh

Identify the correct chronological order of the following theoretical movements
1. Structuralism
2. New Criticism
3. Poststructuralism
4. Feminist Criticism

In which Absurdist play, written in French as Fin de Partie, would you find the characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?

The publication and performance of which work made Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o believe that his theatre work reached censorship because of its use of the local language and its capability to sway a larger number of people to political action?

Arrange the following events in the order of their occurrence in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre:
(A) Jane meets Mr. Rochester.
(B) Jane’s studies at Lowood School.
(C) Mr. Briggs, a solicitor from London, arrives with a letter from Richard Mason about Bertha Mason.
(D) Jane takes up the role of governess for Misses Abbot and Bessie Lee.

In the following lines from John Donne’s sonnet Death, Be Not Proud, when the speaker proclaims Death, thou shalt die, what figure of speech is being employed?
“You are not sleep; you wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”

Match the rasa (List I) with the bhava it evokes (List II):

List I (Rasa)	List II (Bhava)
A. Shringar	II. Rati
B. Hasya	III. Hasa
C. Shoka	I. Raudra
D. Veera	IV. Vira

Arrange the following novels of Stephen King in the chronological order of their publication (oldest first):
(A) Carrie
(B) It
(C) Misery
(D) The Shining

Select examples of ‘Speculative Fiction’ from the following:
(A) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
(B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
(C) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
(D) The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Arrange the steps of the Translation Process in the correct order:
(A) Analysis of the Source Language text in order to decode its meanings.
(B) Transfer of the meanings from the Source Language text to the Target Language text without losing the integrity of the Source Language text.
(C) Restructuring of the Source Language through recreation in the Target Language text.

Identify the author of the anthropological text, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003):

In which elegy would you find these famous lines: ‘I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.’

Then, looking about her with eyes that would not fail, a Circe with its hair in the coil, spoke: ‘You are taking what I would not give.
This is an excerpt from “The Lament of the Median.” Identify the statement that corresponds to the lines:

Identify the author-translator duo who are correctly matched:
(A) Adheesh Sathaye - Simon Bruni
(B) Elena Ferrante - Ann Goldstein
(C) Han Kang - Deborah Smith
(D) Olga Tokarczuk - Jennifer Croft

During common sports injuries, which of the following tendons are affected?
A. Medial epicondylitis
B. Band of collagen tissue
C. Lateral epicondylitis
D. Anterior cruciate ligament
E. Achilles tendonitis

The boiling point of 50% sucrose solution is

Not very far from Srinagar, on the second terrace of Burzahom, at least two Neolithic sites are known. These are:

Identify the sociologist associated with Gemeinschaft.