List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Theory, Title etc.} & \text{Thinker} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Utilitarianism} & \text{(I). Immanuel Kant} \\ \hline \text{(B). Father of Modern Philosophy} & \text{(II). Baruch Spinoza} \\ \hline \text{(C). Empiricism and Rationality} & \text{(III). J.S. Mill} \\ \hline \text{(D). Pantheism} & \text{(IV). Rene Descartes} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which among the following autobiographies by Indian women is the earliest?

The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were inimical to which of the following:

Arrange the following Indian writers in the chronological order (beginning with the earliest) of their date of birth:
(A) Jaishankar Prasad
(B) Dushyant Kumar
(C) Premchand
(D) Amrita Pritam
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Arrange the following movements/prominent literary genres in chronological order, beginning with the earliest:
(A) Gothic Novel
(B) The Newgate Fiction
(C) Expressionism
(D) Metaphysical Poetry
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Arrange the following Nobel Prize winners in chronological order of they being awarded, beginning with the earliest.
(A) Doris Lessing
(B) William Golding
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Wole Soyinka
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At whose request during the Nagyagnya was The Mahabharata narrated ?

Which ONE of the following female characters does not figure in the works by Kalidasa?

The 'Wars of the Roses' is used to describe which of the following:

Which of the following books relate to the Partition of India?
(A) The Broken Mirror
(B) Coolie
(C) Midnight's Furies
(D) Ice Candy Man
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Who among the following is a science fiction writer?

What is Intentional Fallacy?

Naturalism is:

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature was:

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility', as a poetic philosophy is ascribed to:

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Movie Adaptation)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Omkara} & \text{(I) Mricchkatikam} \\ \hline \text{(B) Maqbool} & \text{(II) Othello} \\ \hline \text{(C) Utsav} & \text{(III) White Nights} \\ \hline \text{(D) Saawariya} & \text{(IV) Macbeth} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Blank verse is:

The first Indian writer to write a novel in English was:

Who first used the term 'Negative Capability'?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Humour)} & \textbf{List-II (Characteristic)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Sanguine} & \text{(I) Anger} \\ \hline \text{(B) Melancholic} & \text{(II) Apathy} \\ \hline \text{(C) Phlegmatic} & \text{(III) Sadness} \\ \hline \text{(D) Choleric} & \text{(IV) Happiness} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Age)} & \textbf{List-II (Author)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Elizabethan} & \text{(I) William Hazlitt} \\ \hline \text{(B) Restoration} & \text{(II) Christopher Marlowe} \\ \hline \text{(C) Augustan} & \text{(III) Aphra Behn} \\ \hline \text{(D) Romantic} & \text{(IV) John Gay} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Actual Name)} & \textbf{List-II (Pen name/Pseudonym)} \\ \hline \text{(A) J. K. Rowling} & \text{(I) Currer Bell} \\ \hline \text{(B) Mary Ann Evans} & \text{(II) Robert Galbraith} \\ \hline \text{(C) Agatha Christie} & \text{(III) George Eliot} \\ \hline \text{(D) Charlotte Brontë} & \text{(IV) Mary Westmacott} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Quote from the Play)} & \textbf{List-II (Name of the Play)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Brevity is the soul of wit} & \text{(I) The Tempest} \\ \hline \text{(B) All the world's a stage} & \text{(II) Hamlet} \\ \hline \text{(C) We are such stuff as dreams are made of} & \text{(III) Macbeth} \\ \hline \text{(D) Out, out brief candle} & \text{(IV) As You Like It} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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'Hamartia' refers to a trait in the protagonist in plays, that are:

Who among the following were known as the University Wits?
(A). John Lyly
(B). Ben Jonson
(C). Thomas Nashe
(D). Thomas Middleton
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