Name of the University : University of Hyderabad
Exam : Entrance Examinations
Degree : M. Phil.
Subject : English
Document Type : Model Question Paper
Year : 2017
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UOH English Entrance Question Paper
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Instructions
1. Do not reveal your identity in any manner on the OMR sheet or answer book.
2. Enter your Hall Ticket Number on the question paper, the OMR sheet and the answer book.
3. This question paper consists of two sections:
Part A consists of Multiple Choice Questions in Research Methodology and must be answered in the OMR sheet. No marks will be deducted for questions not attempted or wrong answers.
Part B must be answered in the answer book provided, and requires you to write an essay and a critical analysis of a poem.
4. At the end of the examination return the OMR sheet and the answer book.
Part – A
Research Methodology
1. Which of the following is generally not considered a ‘primary source’ for literary research?
A. Novel
B. Diary
C. Poem
D. Glossary
2. One of the following is not an essential quality of ‘scholarly resources’:
A. Written by experts in the field
B. Reviewed by peers in the field
C. Written with a lot of jargon
D. Account for previous studies in the field
3. If you are looking for critical material on the following topic, what would be the best and most productive keywords for your search?
The Representation of Poverty in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English.
A. Representation, poverty
B. Poverty, Indian fiction
C. Indian, English
D. Representation, Indian fiction
4. If you were studying the adaptation of the Harry Potter books into film, then your methodological approaches would be necessarily ….
A. Interpolative
B. Literary-philosophical
C. Interdisciplinary
D. Bibliographical
5. If you were researching tweets and blogs you would be working within the broad field of. ..
A. Screen studies
B. Digital culture studies
C. Consciousness studies
D. Image studies
6. Into which established field of study would all these characters fit? Moriarty, Lecter, Voldemort, Lex Luthor
A. Arch-villain studies
B. Evil studies
C. Cultural studies
D. Pop-film studies
7. If a project that studies contemporary publishing is funded by a publishing house then the project might be said to have a …
A. Conflict of interest
B. Double-edged research program
C. Double-vision methodology
D. Contestatory methodology
8. A hypothesis is
A. A statement which serves as the basis for future investigation
B. A statement ofthe aims of an investigation
C. A methodical evaluation of research evidence
D. A&C
9. The first stage ofliterary research is …
A. Searching sources of information to locate problem
B. Survey of related literature
C. Identification of a research problem
D. Searching sources of information to locate problem.
10. When reading an article in a scholarly journal one should …
A. Reject the ideas of the author outright
B. Approach it with a questioning stance
C. Accept the ideas of the author in their entirety
D. Use the same ideas in your own writing
11. A research paper is at least a brief report on research work based on
A. Primary Data only
B. Secondary Data only
C. Both Primary and Secondary Data
D. None of the above
12. The final stage in the research process is …
A. Problem formulation
B. Data collection
C. Data analysis
D. Report writing
13. One of the following search engines is exclusively meant for scientific information:
A. Google
B. Yahoo
C. SCIRUS
D. Altavista
14. Inductive logic proceeds from:
A. The general to the general
B. The particular to the general
C. The general to the particular
D. The particular to the particular
15. While critically analysing a text, which of the following assumptions is likely to be troublesome?
1. The idea that there can be only one correct reading
11. The notion that a good description is equal to a good analysis
lll. The belief that all interpretation is purely subjective
A. Only ii
B. i and iii
C. ii and iii
D. i, ii and iii
Part B
Essay
20 marks
Write an essay on ONE of the following topics:
1. A Dalit Canon?
2. Queer aesthetics in literature
3. Approaching seventeenth century poetry
4. Memory and autobiography
5. The fiction of the world
6. The film as text
7. The postcolonial Victorian
8. How to read a trauma-memoir. ..
Poetry analysis
20 marks
Poets believe that they work with mental ears. What evidence of the auditory/acoustic imagination do you find in the following poem? How much of that evidence contributes to its apocalyptic tone?
Sound of the Axe
Once a woman went into the woods.
The birds were silent. Why? she said.
Thunder, they told her,
thunder is coming.
She walked on, and the trees were dark
and rustled their leaves. Why? she said.
The great storm, they told her,
the great storm is coming.
She came to the river, it rushed by
without reply, she crossed the bridge,
who had lived since time began.
When she came to the hut
there was no one.
But she heard his axe.
She heard
the listening forest.
She dared not follow the sound
of the axe. Was it
the world-tree he was felling?
Was this the day?