COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
PAPER – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa is a/an __________ novel.
(1) epistolary
(2) political
(3) pastoral
(4) utopian
2. Choose the correct statement :
(1) Era stresses the duration rather than the beginning.
(2) Age is determined by movement.
(3) Epoch includes several periods.
(4) Period encompasses one full epoch.
3. When was William Jones’s translation of Kalidasa’s Abhijnanashakuntalam published ?
(1) 1789
(2) 1785
(3) 1783
(4) 1778
4. Who introduced the term, ‘Weltliteratur’ ?
(1) Fritz Strich
(2) Andre Gide
(3) Wolfgang Goethe
(4) R.A. Sayce
5. Who among the following, has worked on the themes of Faulkner’s novels ?
(1) Anna Balakian
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) Raymond Trousson
(4) S.S. Prawer
6. When a foreign reader finds in a work a meaning which the original author never meant, it is said to be :
(1) Creative treason
(2) Creative blundering
(3) Reception
(4) Recognition
7. _________ is an effective symbol of the triumph of the rural over the urban in Nectar in a Sieve.
(1) Thambi
(2) Puli
(3) Nathan
(4) Biswas
8. The book, This Man and Music is authored by __________.
(1) Paul Phillips
(2) Erik Alder
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) Anthony Burgess
9. Who among the following has made the remark, “Everyone who made or applied a Theory became a comparatist“ ?
(1) Charles Bernheimer
(2) Huan Saussy
(3) Harry Levin
(4) Totosy de Zepetnek
10. The term ‘Third world’ was coined by the French economist :
(1) Thomas Piketty
(2) Alfred Sauvy
(3) Albert Aftanion
(4) Maurice Allais
11. The Telugu poet Tenali Rama has written a number of _________ poems.
(1) Champu
(2) Dasaka
(3) Chatuvu
(4) Chaatupadyam
12. Who is the director of the film version of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice in 1971 ?
(1) John Boorman
(2) Francis Ford Coppola
(3) Luchino Visconti
(4) Brian de Palma
13. Who is the author of Kavya – Mimamsa ?
(1) Panini
(2) Rajasekhara
(3) Upamanyu
(4) Parasara
14. The Chartist movement sought __________.
(1) Protection of the political rights of the working class
(2) Recognition of chartered trading companies
(3) Political rights for women
(4) Protection of the political rights of the middle class
15. Sigmund Freud’s analysis of ___________ is generally considered to be the first modern psychobiography.
(1) William Shakespeare
(2) Leonardo da Vinci
(3) William Blake
(4) John Milton
16. Match the work with the author :
17. When we say that “A” has influenced “B” on the basis of similarities between the works of the two writers, we document what is called :
(1) Affinity
(2) Influence
(3) Contamination
(4) Adaptation
18. “Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle”. Who says this about his translation of Rubaiyat ?
(1) Edward Fitzgerald
(2) Maxwell Anderson
(3) Dorothy Sayers
(4) Philip Vellacott
19. In 1971 the first International Congress of Comparative Literature met in :
(1) Formosa
(2) Hong Kong
(3) Tokyo
(4) Berlin
20. Of the twelve Alwars of Tamil Nadu who was the only woman ?
(1) Andal
(2) Nammalwar
(3) Periyalwar
(4) Poigai Alwar
21. The translator Dorothy Sayers, for the translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, uses :
(1) Heroic Couplet
(2) Terza Rima
(3) Free Verse
(4) Iambic Pentameter
22. All the following writers have produced variations on the theme of Faust EXCEPT :
(1) Christopher Marlowe
(2) Thomas Mann
(3) Mikhail Lermontov
(4) Paul Valery
23. Henry Wells’s phrase “the literary genetics” refers to the :
(1) study of generalizations
(2) study of generations
(3) study of genes
(4) study of genres
24. Influence studies are “the bread and wine of Comparative Literature”. Identify the author of this statement :
(1) Anna Balakian
(2) J.T. Shaw
(3) Ullrich Weisstein
(4) H.H. Remak
25. W.B. Yeats, while reading __________ said, “these prose translations… have stirred my blood as nothing has for years. I have carried the manuscript with me for days, reading them in the railway trains, on top of omnibuses restaurants” :
(1) Khayyam’s Rubaiyat
(2) Tagore’s Gitanjali
(3) Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
(4) Dante’s The Divine Comedy
26. Who among the following, was the first writer to stress the segregation of literary genres ?
(1) Cicero
(2) Aristotle
(3) Quintilion
(4) Horace
27. The notion of ‘heteroglossia’ was formulated by ___________.
(1) Victor Shlovsky
(2) Mikhail Bakhtin
(3) Jacques Lacan
(4) Roland Barthes
28. In naturalistic texts :
(1) the plot takes precedence over the tale.
(2) the plot never corresponds with the tale.
(3) the tale takes precedence over the plot.
(4) the plot corresponds with the tale.
29. T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” illustrates the interconnection between __________.
(1) Literature and Cinema
(2) Literature and Sculpture
(3) Literature and Painting
(4) Literature and Music
30. The Kannada writer Chandrasekar Kambar often forays into Karnataka’s __________.
(1) politics
(2) folklore
(3) history
(4) geography
31. Who said that there is no cultural document that is not at the same time a record of barbarism ?
(1) Walter Benjamin
(2) Michel Foucault
(3) Julia Fristeva
(4) Karl Marx
32. Who is the author of the article, “What Novels can do that Films Can’t (and Vice Versa)” ?
(1) Roland Barthes
(2) George Blustone
(3) Leo Braudy
(4) Seymour Chatman
33. Name the author of the book, Marxism and Form : Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.
(1) C. Bartolovich
(2) Raymond Williams
(3) Frederic Jameson
(4) Tony. Bennet
34. The essay, “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact” is written by __________.
(1) Dominick La Capra
(2) Hayden White
(3) Partha Chatterjee
(4) Dipesh Chakrabarti
35. Poems of Love and War is a collection of Sangam poetry translated by :
(1) Lakshmi Holmstorm
(2) U.R. Ananthamoorthy
(3) A.K. Ramanujan
(4) Subramanya Bharathi
36. Who is the editor of A New History of French Literature ?
(1) Denis Hollier
(2) Peter France
(3) Alberto Manguel
(4) Ernest Sturm
37. Who is the author of the essay, “The Law of Genre” ?
(1) Jacques Derrida
(2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Roland Barthes
(4) Michel Foucault
38. Who among the following places a greater emphasis on the instrumental function of a literary period bringing “order into the seeming chaos of ceaselessly unfolding and constantly flowing events” ?
(1) Ulrich Weisstein
(2) H.H. Remak
(3) Claudio Guillen
(4) David Perkins
39. Who among the following French poets had famously declared that in a poem what he wanted to say was what he wanted to make ?
(1) Charles Baudelaire
(2) Paul Valery
(3) Arthur Rimbaud
(4) Paul Verlaine
40. Who is the author of the essay, “The Crisis of Comparative Literature” ?
(1) Van Tieghem
(2) Fernand Baldensperger
(3) Rene Wellek
(4) Austin Warren
41. K.V. Puttappa’s work in Kannada, The Beginner’s Muse is a ____________.
(1) collection of letters
(2) verse drama
(3) collection of poems
(4) compilation of diary – notes
42. The term __________ is most frequently used to indicate the place from which a borrowing is taken.
(1) reception
(2) source
(3) age
(4) era
43. Identify the author of the article, “Daughters of Tamil : Language and Poetics of Womanhood in Tamilnadu”.
(1) M.A. Selby
(2) R. Bauman
(3) S. Ramasamy
(4) Thamilannal
44. Whose path – breaking work provided the groundwork for both Structuralism and Poststructuralism ?
(1) Sigmund Freud
(2) J.W. Goethe
(3) William Jones
(4) Ferdinand de Saussure
45. __________ and _________ are the only genres identified by Aristotle in The Poetics.
(1) Epic, Comedy
(2) Drama, Prose
(3) Lyric, Novel
(4) Epic, Drama
46. Who speaks of periodization as at once “notional” and “real” ?
(1) Horst Frenz
(2) Rene Wellek
(3) Ulrich Weisstein
(4) Francois Jost
47. Lakshmi Holmstrom, the noted Tamil translator, is the founder-trustee of an organisation called ___________.
(1) Sparrow
(2) Salidaa
(3) Eltai
(4) Sahitya
48. Satyaji Ray made the film, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, based on the short-story of the same name written by ___________.
(1) Debakinandan Khatri
(2) Balakrishna Bhatt
(3) Prem Chand
(4) Kishorilal Goswami
49. St. Jerome translated the Bible into :
(1) Latin
(2) English
(3) French
(4) German
50. According to Elisabeth Frenzel, ___________ is a smaller thematic unit, an element pertaining to content and situation.
(1) Idea
(2) Motif
(3) Fable
(4) Trait
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