PG & RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

NATIONAL COLLEGE (Autonomous)

Tiruchirappalli – 620001.

Ph. D. Entry level Eligibility Test (2017)

Name of the Candidate:

Answer All Questions

All Questions carry equal marks. (75 x 1 = 75 marks)
1. Aijaz Ahmad points out the term Third World Literature Originated in the Metropolitan University
in the world.
a) Aijaz Ahmad b) Fredric Janeran c) Miller d) Gayatri Chakravorthy
2. _____ is the major book of Freud
a) The Dynamics of Literary Response b) The Interpretations of Dreams
c) Principles of Literary Criticism d) The Aims of Interpretation
3. Etymologically, the world criticism is derived from the Greek word meaning –
a) Faults b)Interpretation c) Judgement d) Analysis
4. ______ is the most important member of the Chicago Critics Group.
a) John Crowe b) Wimsatt c) Brook d) Ronald Crane
5. _______ is the recognition of truth.
a) Anagnorisis b) Hamaritia c) Perepeteia d) Catharisis
6. Mathew Arnold introduced the famous Touchstone Method in his work ____
a) Function of Criticism b) The study of Poetry
c) Essay in Criticism d) On the study of Celtic Literature
7. The originator and names of deconstruction is the French thinker ________
a) Carl Jung b) Paul de Man c) Jacques Derrida d) Sigmund Freud
8. The term Intertextuality, popularised by ______
a) Ronald Barthes b) Arthur Symons c) Edmund Wilson d) Julia Kristeva
9. _____ was considered to be the father of English Criticism
a) John Dryden b) Mathew Arnold c) Ben Johnson d) Samuel Johnson
10. ___________ is the Technique of viewing the action of a novel through the eyes of a character
whose subtlety of mind equals that of the novelists himself.
a) Notes of Novelist b) The Central Intelligence Technique
c) The continuity of things d) Objective Correlative
11. Novel is derived from the Italian word
a) Novelette b) Novella c) Novelty d) All the above
12. ______ is the best example of Picaresque Novels
a) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela b) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
c) Nashe’s “The unfortunate Traveller” d) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
13. ________ is the narrative which is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters
a) realistic novel b) Novel of Manners
c) Novel of Incident d) Epistolary Novel
14. ______ is considered to be the first novel in Indian writing in English.
a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s wife b) Mulkraj Anand’s Untouchable
c) EM Forster’s A Passage to India d) RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days

15. ______ is the sudden spiritual revelation or manifestation which the character experience usually at
a moment of crisis.
 a) Euphony b) Epiphany c) Euphemism d) Cacophony
16. Charles Dickens ___ is the best example of Buildings roman
a) Great Expectations b) Jim c) David Copperfield d) Hard Times
17. EM Forester used the famous _______ in his “A Passage to India.”
a) Stream of consciousness b) Monologue
c) Omniscient narrative d) Flashback technique
18. _____ character appears more than one episode in a novel.
a) Recurring b) Round c) Flat d) Spoil
19. The main character in a plot, on whom our interest centres is called the
a) Antagonist b) Protagoist c) Villan d) Suspense
20. “In Medias Res” means: _____
a) in the beginning of things b) in the end of things
c) in the middle of things d) in the climax
21. Derived from the Latin word ________, to plagiarize means “to commit literary theft” and to
“present as new and original idea or product derived from an existing source.
a) Plagia b) plagiarious c) plagiarus d) plagiarius
22. Chetan Bhagat uses the technique of stream of consciousness and mystery in his novel.
a) Five Point someone b) what young India wants
c) the three mistakes of My Life d) Half Girlfriend
23. ___ is considered to be the debut novel of Chetan Bhagat
a) One Indian Girl b) Five Point Someone
c) Making India Awesome d) One night at the call centre
24. One Night at the Call Centre is a story uses a literal deus ex machine, when the characters receive a
phone call from ________
a) Fairly b) Giant c) God d) Anonymous
25. The novel One Indian Girl begins with a narrator.
a) Omniscient b) Male c) Prologue d) female
26. Two states: The story of My Marriage is about a couple, who hail from two different states of India
________.
a) Punjab and Tamilnadu b) Kerala and Punjab
c) Rajasthan and Tamilnadu d) West Bengal and Tamilnadu
27. A literary element that helps to indicate the mood of a novel is ______
a) Story b) Setting or Milieu c) Theme d) Background
28. Making India awesome is Chetan Bhagat’s _______.
a) Travelogue b) Fantasy fiction c) Non-fiction d) Epistolary Novel
29. A novel whose main action is set around the college or university is known as
a) Fantasy Novels b) Varsity Novels
c) Detective Novels d) Campus Novels
30. EM Forster in his book :Aspects of the novel” describes the two types of character _______
a) Flat and Round b) Thin and Thick
c) Recurring and Dull d) Comic and Tragedy
31. A good researcher topic should contain ______
a) Clarity b) Current importance c) Well defined d) All the above
32. ___ created a factious town named Malgudi.
a) Tagore b) RK Narayan c) Vijay Tendulkar d) Nirad C. Chandri
33. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is categorised under ______
a) Political Change b) poetry c) Magical realism d) Auto-biography
34. The _____ is an Indian born Canadian author who wrote novels like such a Long Journey, A Fine
Balance.
a) Vikram A Chandra b) Kiran Desai c) Vikram Seth d) Rohinton Mistry
35. ______ is the literature of the countries that were colonised mainly by European countries.
a) Post colonial literature b) Migrant literature
 c) Diasporic literature d) Orient literature
36. _________ is the process of the story follows as it builds to its main conflict.
a) Crisis b) Rising Action c) Resolution d) Falling Action
37. As a literary device ___ is a metaphor whose vehicle may be a character, representing real world
issues and occurrences.
a) Euphemism b) Cacophony c) Allegory d) Allusion
38. In Edgar Allan Poem “The Raven”, the black bird stands for death and loss is an example for ___
a) Imagism b) Materialism c) Realism d) Symbolism
39. _________ became the 1 Canadian to win NB for literature in 2013.
st

a) Alice Munro b) Margret Atwood c) Robertson Davies d) Margret Laurence

40. The Theme of Wilderness is best explained in Margret Atwood’s _____
a) Surfacing b) Survival c) You are happy d) The Servant Girl
41. A work which is deliberately construed in a negative fashion, relying for its effects on the deletion
of standard elements is called ______
a) New Novel b) Contemporary Novel c) Antinovel d) Regional Novel
42. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela or Virtue rewarded is the novel of ________
a) Manners b) Incident c) Narration d) Character
43. The term Gynocriticism was named by _________
a) Elaine Showalter b) Judith Fetterley c) Aphra Behn d) Petricia Meyer Spack
44. A type of drama that was popularized by Norwegian play right Henrik Ibsen was _______
a) Modern Play b) Problem play c) Discussion Play d) Social Play
45. Prolepsis or Flashforward is a narrative technique that describe a scene that temporary jumps the
narrative _______ in time.
a) forward b) backward c) medieval d) out
46. _____ is reflecting a character’s mood in the atmosphere or inanimate object
a) Personification b) Pathetic fallag c) Hamartia d) Projection
47. Which one of these is not a type of Irony?
a) Verbal Irony b) Dramatic Irony c) Strong irony d) Situational Irony
48. ______ wrote essays in the Pseudonym Elia.
a) Jane Austen b) Sir Walter Scott c) Ben Jhonson d) Charles Lamb
49. Psychoanalytic Criticism was developed by
a) Sigmund Freud b) Carl Jung c) Rousseau d) Derrida
50. The Indian Novelist _________ adopts the technique of flashback and flashforward to project his
material.
a) Manju Kapur b) Upamanyu Chatterjee c) Amitav Ghosh d) Shashi Taroor
51. Research is
(a) Searching again and again
(b) Finding solution to any problem
(c) Working in a scientific way to search for truth of any problem
(d) None of the above

52. Which of the following is the first step in starting the research process?
(A) Searching sources of information to locate problem.
(B) Survey of related literature
(C) Identification of problem
(D) Searching for solutions to the problem

53. A common test in research demands much priority on

(A) Reliability (B) Useability (C) Objectivity (D) All of the above

54. Action research means

(A) A longitudinal research
(B) An applied research
(C) A research initiated to solve an immediate problem
(D) A research with socioeconomic objective

55. A reasoning where we start with certain particular statements and conclude with a universal
statement is called
(A) Deductive Reasoning (B) Inductive Reasoning (C) Abnormal Reasoning (D) Transcendental
Reasoning

56. Which of the following variables cannot be expressed in quantitative terms?

(A) Socio-economic Status (B) Marital Status (C) Numerical Aptitude (D) Professional Attitude

57. The essential qualities of a researcher are

(A) Spirit of free enquiry (B) Reliance on observation and evidence
(C) Systematization or theorizing of knowledge (D) All the above

58. A research paper is a brief report of research work based on

(A) Primary Data only (B) Secondary Data only (C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above

59. Aristotle and Plato belong to ____ phase of criticism.

(A) Hellenic (B) Hellenistic (C) Renaissance (D) Graeco-Roman

60. “My great religion is the belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than intellect”.
Whose words?
a) Thomas Hardy b) Charlotte Bronte c) Emily Bronte d) D.H Lawrence

61) “…the error of evaluating a poem by its effects—especially its emotional effects—upon the
reader” is:

A. Affective Fallacy
B. Intentional Fallacy
C. Both A and B
D. Pathetic Fallacy

62) Match A with B

A B
a. Robert Penn Warren 1. Ode to the Confederate Dead
b. Allen Tate 2. Understanding Poetry
c. John Crowe Ransom 3. Literary Criticism: A Short History
d. W.K. Wimsatt 4. The New Criticism

A. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2 B. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1 C. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3 D. a-1, d-4, c-2, d-3

63) Marlowe’s all four great tragedies share two features in common. Which are they?

1. Magic Realism
2. Theme of overreaching
3. Blank Verse
4. Romantic presentation

A. Only 1, 2 and 3 B. Only 3 and 4 C. Only 2, 3 and 4 D. Only 2 and 3

64) Who said that the writer should be “outside the whale”, because otherwise, the state or society could
swallow the writer up, as the whale had swallowed Jonah.
A. Andrew Marvell B. S.T.Coleridge C. T.S.Eliot D. George Orwell

65) “I have used similitude.” Who said this about his which work?

A. Thomas Hobbes about ‘Leviathan’.

B. Bunyan about ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’
C. Milton about ‘Paradise Lost’
D. Alexander Pope about ‘The Dunciad’

66) Which of the following is wrong?

A. Jonathan Swift—A Modest Proposal—Pamphlet—1728

B. Samuel Johnson—The Vanity of Human Wishes—Imitation of Juvenal’s 10th satire
C. Robinson Crusoe—Friday—Colonialism
D. Henry Feilding—Tom Jones—Story of a foundling

67) The two gentlemen in the Two Gentlemen of Verona are

(a) Douglas and Calvin (b) Valentine and Protons (c) Henry Bailey and Davenant (d) Lovelace and
Herrick

68) Who popularized the inductive method for arriving at a conclusion through his Novum Organum?
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Francis Bacon (c) Addison and Steele (d) Dr. Johnson

69) Thomas Hardy’s life and career are obliquely depicted in:
A. The Return of the Native B. Jude the Obscure C. Tess of the d’ Urbervilles D. The Mayor of
Casterbridge

70) Which of the following statements is/are wrong based on the novel “Heart of Darkness”?
1. Kurtz pretends to be mad.
2. The novel opens on the mouth of the Thames.
3. Marlow is the hero-narrator of the tale
4. Chinu Achebe denounced this novel as “bloody racist”.

A. Only 1 B. Only 2 C. Only 3 and4 D. Only 4

71) “The humblest craftsman over near the Aemilian school will model fingernails and imitate
waving hair in bronze; but the total work will be unhappy because he does not know how to represent it
as a unified whole. I should no more wish to be like him, if I desired to compose something, than to be
praised for my dark hair and eyes and yet go through life with my nose turned awry. You who write,
take a subject equal to your powers, and consider at length how much your shoulders can bear. Neither
proper words nor lucid order will be lacking to the writer who chooses a subject within his powers. The
excellence and charm of the arrangement, I believe, consists in the ability to say only what needs to be
said at the time, deferring or omitting many points for the moment. The author of the long-promised
poem must accept and reject as he proceeds.”

Horace here: A. Gives advice B. Criticises C. Evaluates D. Inspires

72) “The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses, calling them by the names
and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever
their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive.

“And particularly they studied the genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity.
“Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of, and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to
realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects: thus began priesthood; choosing forms of
worship from poetic tales.

“And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things.

“Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Who speaks here?

A. Addison B. Matthew Arnold C. William Blake D. Alexander Pope

73) “I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke on various subjects; several things dovetailed in
my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement especially in
literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously-I mean negative capability, that is when a
man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and
reason-Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the
penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge.”

This is taken:

A. from Letter to Benjamin Bailey.

A. from Letter to George and Thomas Keats .
B. from Letter to John Taylor .
C. from Letter to Richard Woodhouse.

74) Well, we are all condamnes. as Victor Hugo says: "les hommes sont tous condamnes a mort avec
des sursis indejinis ": we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this
interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in
expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High passions give
one this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, political or religious enthusiasm. or the
"enthusiasm of humanity." Only, be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened,
multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for
art's sake has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to
your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

This is from:

A. Is There a Text in This Class?

B. The Contingency of Language
C. Studies in the History of the Renaissance
D. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles

75) Or, after dark, will dubious women come

To make their children touch a particular stone;
Pick simples for a cancer; or on some
Advised night see walking a dead one?
Power of some sort will go on
In games, in riddles, seemingly at random;
But superstition, like belief, must die,
And what remains when disbelief has gone?

This is taken from Philip Larkin’s

A. The Less Deceived B. An Arundel Tomb C. Church Going D. Toads

Research Guide/Supervisor Chairman of DRC

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