List of practice Questions

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts? Pamela, The Castle of Otranto, Humphry Clinker
Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):
List IPlaywrightList II: Play
ABadal Sircar(I) Charandas Chor
BVijay Tendulkar(II) Evam Indrajit
CMohan Rakesh(III) Silence! The Court is in Session
DHabib Tanvir(IV) Adhe Adhure
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)
In which Absurdist play, written in French as Fin de Partie, would you find the characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?
Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
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 famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children’s magazine Sandesh?
Identify the author of the anthropological text, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003):
Match the Indian writings in English (List I) with their respective authors (List II):
List IIndian Writing in EnglishList II: Author
AA Fine Balance(I) Anita Desai
BThe God of Small Things(II) Rohinton Mistry
CSuch a Long Journey(III) Khushwant Singh
DFire on the Mountain(IV) Arundhati Roy
Arrange the publications of Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication:
(A) Train to Pakistan (1956)
(B) Delhi: A Novel (1990)
(C) I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959)
(D) The Company of Women (1999)
Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?
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 are the features of an ‘idiolect’?
(A) It is the pattern form of a language that is specific to a group of performers depending on their geographical location.
(B) It is a language variety that emanates from the type of language used by a particular individual.
(C) It is a distinctive feature that are habitual to an individual.
(D) This term is mostly used by linguists when observing differences in speech from one person to another.
The process of conversion from one language into another language on the phonological level without a translation is called:“You only transfer the sound of the text in the language you pronounce it. It changes the letters of one alphabet or language into a similar-sounding character of another alphabet.”
Read the following passage and answer the question below:
“Typology of different literature is a technique by way of which two diverse texts or literatures are compared to ascertain the presence of similar or dissimilar elements. It involves the reconstruction of ideological or aesthetic goals set for literary works. This method highlights the context in which a literary work has been created and interpreted in different epochs and for diverse social groups. It helps scholars in understanding the different representations of the world, the role of selected ideological and artistic traditions, and how these are transformed and absorbed into new forms of thought and style.”
Which of the following works has been typologically similar to Anna Karenina?
(A) War and Peace
(B) Madame Bovary
(C) The God of Small Things
(D) Pride and Prejudice
Match the translation studies concept (List-I) with its definition (List-II):
List IConceptList II: Definition
ASubtitling(I) Also known as captions or on-screen commentary, it is a written translation of the spoken text that appears at the bottom of the screen to assist viewers in following the dialogues of a film.
BTranscreation(II) A mix of translation and creation, this method is used in the advertising and marketing industry to make a text appealing to a specific target audience.
CVoice-over(III) A translation technique in which an interpreter’s voice is heard instead of the original audio, but the original voice is also audible in the background.
DDubbing(IV) The practice of replacing the original soundtrack with a translated one while keeping the synchronization of the actors’ lip movements and facial expressions.
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.
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)
Which novelist has the rare honor of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for her non-fiction writings?
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.’
V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:
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
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 author who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi:
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