List of top Questions asked in GATE XH-C2

Literary criticism considers which one of the following texts as offering the strongest support for mimetic theories of art?
The following is a passage about O. V. Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak:
The novel is set in a remote village, in the middle of the 20th century. The narrative is replete with images of the vast ecosystem of the living and the non-living, a land potent with dreams and legends.
The analysis presented in this description is congruent with which one of the following concepts proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin?
Which one of the following did NOT happen in 1919, the year the First World War ended?
Assertion P: Dalit narratives tend to be read single-dimensionally as evoking the reader’s pity at the protagonist’s caste humiliation, or as telling the story of heroic protest against discrimination, or as a description of the protagonist’s rise from misery to triumph.
Assertion Q: There is a tendency to keep the Other in the space of difference, as perpetually exotic.
In the context of the assertions above, which one of the following statements is true?
Some of the recent novels of the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho were published in multiple languages simultaneously, or immediately after the Portuguese edition.
Which of the following is this phenomenon NOT an evidence of?
The following words in English are clustered according to their origin. Choose the cluster/s that contain/s words drawn from languages of the Indian subcontinent.
Which of the following is/are true of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
Which of the following is an example/are examples of noir, popular both as fiction and film?
Which of the following use/s the device of a `story within a story' with multiple narrators?
Study the three examples below:
i) In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the interior ministry of the totalitarian state is called the ‘Ministry of Love’.
ii) In the genre of horror fiction, the reader knows that the killer is hiding in the closet, but the protagonist does not.
iii) “But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.” (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)
These are instances of _______
The first institution to teach English Literature in the world is ________
Which one of the following texts propounds the aesthetic theory of `rasa'?
Which of the following novels is/are predominantly set in Bombay?
Which of the following critically rewrite/s canonical English novels?
Of the following, which novelist/s combine/s feminist concerns with magic realism?
In which of these Shakespearean plays do important female characters disguise themselves as men?
The following lines capture the central trope of a well-known 18th century satirical tract.
``I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...''
Identify the tract from the options below.
Whose poem does Cleanth Brooks close-read to arrive at his concept of ``the well-wrought urn''?
What is common among Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084, Shobha Shakti's Gorilla, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun?
Henry James’ essay “The Art of Fiction”, one of the earliest literary critical engagements with the form of the novel, was preceded by his book-length study of _______
Which of the following is NOT true of Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
“The name is H. Hatterr, and I am continuing . . . Biologically, I am fifty-five of the species.”
The lines above are from an early Indian English novelWho is the author of this novel?
In Areopagitica, John Milton made an impassioned appeal ________
Which of the following texts is a collection of stories that a group of pilgrims tell each other?
Which of these is NOT an autobiography?