cbsenet.nic.in NET Comparative Literature Paper III Model Question : Central Board Of Secondary Education

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Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
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Subject : Comparative Literature
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016

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Comparative Literature Model Question :

Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.

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1. Who among the following characterizes ideology as representing “the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” ?
(1) Frederic Jameson
(2) Louis Althusser
(3) Georg Lucas
(4) Walter Benjamin

2. What is the term borrowed from Bourdieu to describe the different agents in the production of cultural artifacts ?
(1) Decision makers
(2) Controllers
(3) Gate-keepers
(4) Image-makers

3. Which of the following is not a writer of detective fiction ?
(1) Earle Stanley Gordner
(2) Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
(3) R.K. Narayan
(4) Satyajit Ray

4. Two of the earlier translations of the Bible in Indian Languages were available in _____.
I. Bengali II. Tamil
III. Urdu IV. Marathi
The right combination according to the code is _____.
(1) II and III
(2) III and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and IV

5. In the mapping of the world republic of letters, Pascal Casanova proposes a flow of literary exchange that is heavily weighted in favour of two languages in terms of cultural capital. These two languages are
I. French II. English
III. Chinese IV. Spanish
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV (2) II and III
(3) I and II (4) II and IV

6. A panegyrical poem in Urdu is called
(1) Haju
(2) Quasida
(3) Latifa
(4) Hikayat

7. Who among the following has articulated the concept of a “nation language” ?
(1) Edward Brathwaite
(2) Wilson Harris
(3) Stuart Hall
(4) Aime Cesaire

8. The genre not recognized a separate one by Aristotle is
(1) Lyric
(2) Epic
(3) Tragedy
(4) Comedy

9. Frederic Jameson’s theorization of third world literature is based on the hypothesis whereby he holds all textual productions originating in such locales as
(1) Social allegories
(2) National myths
(3) National allegories
(4) Social myths

10. Identify the author of the essay, “contemporary studies : An approach to the study of literature and society”.
(1) Terry Eagleton
(2) P.P. Clark
(3) Richard Hoggart
(4) T.S. Eliot

11. The Tamil Dalit writer Sivakami’s Oodal Arasiyal is a _____.
(1) Short story
(2) Novel
(3) Poem
(4) Collection of essays

12. Match the stage performance with the language
List – I List – II
I Yaksagana A. Marathi
II Ankiya Nat B. Bengali
III Lalith C. Kannada
IV Yatra D. Assamese
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) C B D A
(2) C D A B
(3) D C A B
(4) B C A D

13. Dhvanyalokaalochana is written by
(1) Abhinavagupta
(2) Bharata
(3) Mammata
(4) Bhartuhari

14. Match the author with the early grammar :
List – I List – II
I N.B. Halhed A. Grammar of the Bengali language
II Charles Wilkins B. Hindustani Grammar
III Gilchrist C. Grammar of the Persian language
IV William Jones D. Gramamr of the Sanskrita language
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) A B D C
(2) A D B C
(3) B A D C
(4) B D C A

15. Which of the following are members of the Cockney School of Poetry ?
(1) Leigh Hunt, John Keats
(2) William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge
(3) William Hazlitt, Thomas L. Peacock
(4) P.B. Shelley, Samuel Johnson

16. In 1934 Renoir made a film adaptation of Flaubert’s
(1) A Sentimental Education
(2) Madam Bovary
(3) A Simple Heart
(4) Memoirs of a Madman

17. In which of the following reports on the state of the discipline there is a discernible emphasis on “multiple language use and modes of hybridization” ?
(1) The Greene Report
(2) The Levin Report
(3) The Bernheimer Report
(4) The Saussy Report

18. Dryden quotes Ben Jonson’s translation of _____ as an example of metaphrase.
(1) Virgil’s Aeneid
(2) Horace’s Ars Poetica
(3) Longinus’ On the Sublime
(4) Aristotle’s Poetics

19. Match the author / writer with the year of publication of the discipline reports :
List – I List – II
I Harry Levin A. 1993
II Thomas Greene B. 1965
III Charles Bernheimer C. 2004
IV Haun Saussy D. 1975
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) B D A C
(2) D B A C
(3) C D A B
(4) B A D C

20. Which nineteenth century theorist does Lawrence Venuti draw on for his concepts of domestication and foreignization ?
(1) Mathew Arnold
(2) Friedrich Schleirmacher
(3) Iginio Tarchetti
(4) Charles Darwin

21. Thomas Wolf’s Look Homeward, Angel is understood as an instance of
(1) Historical fiction
(2) Psychological fiction
(3) Bildungsromau
(4) Kunstlerroman

22. A key assumption of cultural studies is that people are part of a hierarchical structure of
(1) Culture
(2) Mediated communication
(3) Power
(4) Ideology

23. Who among the following scholors worked on the practice of sati in colonial India ?
(1) Gauri Viswanathan
(2) Svati Joshi
(3) Lata Mani
(4) Priya Joshi

24. Some Indian writers living in London in 1930s took initiative to develop a manifesto for a new literary culture which later led to the creation of progressive writer’s association. Two prominent members were
I. N.M. Rasheed II. Qayyam Nazar
III. Sajjad Zaheer IV. Mulk Raj Anand
The right combination according to the code is _____.
(1) II & III
(2) I & II
(3) II & IV
(4) III & IV

25. The study of influences is most typical of the _____ school of comparative literature.
(1) French
(2) American
(3) Chinese
(4) German