Name of the University : Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Exam : PhD English Entrance Test
Document Type : Model Question Paper
Category or Subject : English
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MANUU PhD English Entrance Test Question Paper
Time: 2hrs
Maximum Marks: 75
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Instructions For Candidates
1. The Candidate is instructed to write his/ her Hall Ticket No. in the space provided above. In addition to this, if the candidate writes his/ her Hall Ticket No. or name anywhere in this Booklet his/her paper will not be evaluated.
2. This Booklet has (12) pages. If any defect, please bring it to the notice of the Invigilator.
3. This Booklet has two parts. Part A carries 50 Objective Type Questions, with (A), (B), (C) and (D) as alternatives. Choose the correct alternative and in the OMR Answer Sheet, darken the circle that you have chosen as your answer.
4. The candidate shall get the marks only when he/she darkens the correct circle in the OMR Answer Sheet. If the candidate marks in this Booklet in any way, and does not darken the circle in the OMR Answer Sheet, then the candidate shall NOT get any marks.
5. In Part B this Booklet carries 8 questions, out of which the candidate requires to attempt any five question. Every question must be answered in not more than 20 lines.
6. Pleas hand over his Booklet alongwith the OMR Answer Sheet to the Invigilator before you leave the examination hall.
Sample Question Paper
Instructions :
Choose the correct alternative (a, b, c, d,) from the following 50 questions and darken the corresponding circle in the OMR Sheet. Each question carries one mark. 1×50=50
Part A – Objective
1) Which one of the following is the oldest poetic codex?
A) Vercelli Book
B) Black Book
C) The Faerie Queen
D) The Gododdin
2) Songes and Sonettes is supposedly the first printed anthology of English poetry.
It is also called
A) Tottel’s Miscellany
B) Verses and Vercelli
C) Chaucer’s Verses
D) Conductor of Chaos
3) In whose household account the “Chaucer Life Records” appeared?
A) Catherine Howard, the Countess of Suffolk
B) Elizabeth de Burgh, the Countess of Ulster
C) Frances Sydney, the Countess of Sussex
D) Sophie, the Countess of Wessex
4) Rhapsode refers to
A) an epic poem
B) a classical Greek performer of epic poetry in the 5th and 4th centuries BC
C) a Scottish professional performer of narrative poetry of 7th and 8th centuries
D) an Irish poem
5) Diophantus and Charidora is the work of
A) Robert Burns
B) James Hepburn
C) Robert Aytoun
D) James I
6) Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following lines? To sing a song that old was
sung/From ashes ancient Gower is come;
A) King John
B) Titus Andronicus
C) Pericles
D) Winter’s Tale
7) Who wrote the poem ‘Mementos’ which appeared in the ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Charlotte Brontë
8) The Green Dwarf was written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym of
A) Currer Bell
B) Ellis
C) Acton Bell
D) Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley
9) The Novel, ‘Things as They Are’ is also known with the title
A) The Adventures of Caleb Williams
B) The Jungle
C) The Grapes of Wrath
D) Nature and Art
10) Journey without Maps is a travel account by
A) Graham Greene
B) Edmond Hamilton
C) Richard Guest
D) Richard Ford
11) Identify the writer below who had written a story a week for over a year for New York World Sunday Magazine
A) Earnest Miller Hemingway
B) William Sydney Porter
C) James Joyce
D) Herman Melville
12) Identify the name of the Professor of English literature who wrote: The Native Chiefs and Their States in 1877: A Manual of Reference.
A A A J Nesbitt
B) George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
C) L Tipping
D) Dr. L Chase
13) Who is the author of Panic Spring?
A) Ruskin Bond
B) Gerald Durrell
C) Lawrence Durrell
D) Glen Duncan
14) Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall is considered to be the
A) first English Tragedy
B) first English novel
C) first English comedy
D) first English epic
15) What is the label used for the romantic fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily by women and whose notable authors were Eliza Haywood and Delarivier Manley?
A) Romantic fiction
B) Elizabethan fiction
C) Manley fiction
D) Amatory fiction
16) Which novel given in the options does not belong to Victor Hugo?
A) The Man Who Laughs
B) Bug-Jargal
C) The Last Day of a Condemned Man
D) 61 Hours
17) Who wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho?
A) Ann Radcliff
B) Immanuel Radcliff
C) Geoffrey Radcliff
D) Victor Radcliff
18) Pry- A Novella is
A) an interactive story on the Apple iTunes store
B) an e-novel in versified form
C) a translation of prejudiced replies of youth
D) a television adaptation of a detective story.
19) Which of the following is considered to be the first ever novel published in the floppy disk?
A) e by Matt Beaumont
B) Host by Peter James
C) With Eyes Closed by Jason Miranda
D) The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino
20) Who is credited for first presenting the concept of e-reader?
A) Gregory Newby
B) Robert ‘Bob’ Carlton Brown
C) Roderick Chisholm
D) Jon Harkins
21) Who is credited with introducing the term epistemology?
A) Peter Noah
B) Immanuel Kant
C) James Frederick Ferrier
D) Robert Nozick
22) Who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature?
A) Immanuel Kant
B) Locke
C) David Hume
D) William Blake
23) Who wrote Critique of Pure Reason?
A) Milton
B) Coleridge
C) David Hume
D) Immanuel Kant
24) Who founded The Gentleman’s Magazine?
A) Jane West
B) William Lisele Bowles
C) Thomas Campbell
D) Edward Cave
25) The third Edinburgh Review published during 1802 to 1929 was noted for promotion of
A) Romanticism and Whig Politics
B) Lake Poets and Tory Politics
C) Classicism and Whig Politics
D) Romanticism and Tory Politics
Part B – Descriptive
Write notes on any five of the following : 5×5=25
a) Immigrant narratives in English
b) Indian minority narratives in English
c) Acculturation and assimilation in world English literature
d) Literature of civil wars
e) Print culture and the history of English books
f) English lexicography
g) The English language assessment and testing
h) Teaching and learning of English in the Urdu speaking world