List of top English Questions

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

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)

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.’

Which of the following Comparative Literature concepts signify literary similarity between at least two works that cannot be explained by context?
(A) Comparative poetics
(B) Genetic contact
(C) Typological affinity
(D) Intertextuality

Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance (oldest first):
(A) Byomkesh Bakshi
(B) Sherlock Holmes
(C) Hercule Poirot
(D) Dupin

Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

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

To which famous Indian playwright can the following plays be attributed? Pagla Ghoda, Hatt Tikhhar Pratap:

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.

V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:

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)

Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):

List I	Playwright	List II: Play
A	Badal Sircar	(I) Charandas Chor
B	Vijay Tendulkar	(II) Evam Indrajit
C	Mohan Rakesh	(III) Silence! The Court is in Session
D	Habib Tanvir	(IV) Adhe Adhure

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

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

Which of the following is a part of Anthony Burgess’ Malayan trilogy?
(A) A Clockwork Orange
(B) Time for a Tiger
(C) The Enemy in the Blanket
(D) Beds in the East

Which famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children’s magazine Sandesh?

Which of the following D.H. Lawrence’s novels written in Italy and published in 1928 was banned in England for its sexual content?

Match the book (List I) with its author (List II):

List I (Book)	List II (Author)
A. My Antonia	I. Mary Shelley
B. The Garden Party and Other Stories	II. Katherine Mansfield
C. Frankenstein	III. James Joyce
D. Dubliners	IV. Willa Cather

Arrange the Shakespearean tragedies in the ascending order of the period in which they were published (oldest first):
(A) Julius Caesar
(B) Coriolanus
(C) Othello
(D) Titus Andronicus

Identify the writer(s) associated with the Harlem Renaissance:
(A) Claude McKay
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) W.E.B. Du Bois
(D) Langston Hughes

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.

The first Progressive Writers’ Conference was held in Lucknow on this date.
Identify the date:

Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?

Match the Indian writings in English (List I) with their respective authors (List II):

List I	Indian Writing in English	List II: Author
A	A Fine Balance	(I) Anita Desai
B	The God of Small Things	(II) Rohinton Mistry
C	Such a Long Journey	(III) Khushwant Singh
D	Fire on the Mountain	(IV) Arundhati Roy

Which of the following is true for masque performances?
(A) Masques were important theatrical forms during the reigns of James I and Charles I.
(B) They were performed in private royal halls.
(C) They were expensive to mount and had simple costumes and minimal stage designs.
(D) The designer of the most successful masques was Inigo Jones.