July 2020

1. “lf a large diamond is cut up into little bits, it will lose its value just as an army is divided up into small units of soldiers, it loses its strength.”The argument put above may be called as(A) Analogical(B) Deductive(C) Statistical(D) CasualAnswer: A 2. Given below are some characteristics of logical argument. Select the […]

1. CSS stands for(A) Cascading Style Sheets(B) Collecting Style Sheets(C) Comparative Style Sheets(D) Comprehensive Style SheetsAnswer: A 2. MOOC stands for(A) Media Online Open Course(B) Massachusetts Open Online Course(C) Massive Open Online Course(D) Myrind Open Online CourseAnswer: C 3. Binary equivalent of decimal number 35 is(A) 100011(B) 110001(C) 110101(D) 101011Answer: A 4. gif, jpg, bmp,

1. Two of the following list are “Angry Young Men” of the 1950’s British literary scene.I. John OsborneII. C.P. SnowIII. Anthony PowellIV. Kingsley AmisThe right combination, accordingto the code(A) I & II(B) II & IV(C) I & IV(D) I & IIIAnswer: C 2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains(A) Six volumes(B) Nine volumes(C) Ten volumes(D) Four

1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines?(A) Syntactic(B) Semantic(C) Collocation(D) None of the aboveAnswer: A,B 2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :List – Ii. Lambicii. Anapaesticiii. Dactyliciv. TrochaicList – II1. An unstressed syllable

1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?(1) John Locke(2) John Wesley(3) Isaac Watts(4) Denis DiderotAnswer: 1 2. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?(1) Walter Pater(2) Oscar Wilde(3) Thomas Carlyle(4) John RuskinAnswer: 1

1. Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited “touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the

1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress?(1) He drowns in the River of Death(2) He enters the Celestial City(3) He finds the Truth(4) He discovers the way to HellAnswer: 4 2. God is referred to as “The President of Immortals” in(1) Paradise Lost(2) Waiting for Godot(3) Tess of the D’urbervilles(4) The

1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?(1) Durham(2) Glasgow(3) Cambridge(4) OxfordAnswer: 3 2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?(1) John Marston(2) Thomas Middleton(3) John Fletcher(4) Thomas HeywoodAnswer: 4 3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’scruelty is one’s

1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are :(a) Bath(b) Bristol(c) Leeds(d) LondonThe right combination according to the code is :(1) (a) and (b)(2) (b) and (c)(3) (a) and (d)(4) (b) and (d)Answer: 4 2. Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several

1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.(1) Kim(2) A Passage to India(3) Train to Pakistan(4) Private Life of an Indian PrinceAnswer: 1 2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege of Lucknow,