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MASTER CADRE 2022  QUESTIONS

91. Which of the following is Not a work by Philip Larkin?

1. The North Ship
2. A Girl of Winter
3. The Whitson Weddings
4. The Two Poets of Croistic

92. Which of the following is Not a work by Ted Hughes?

1. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Being
2. Cromwell
3. The Hawk in the Rain
4. Tales from Ovid

93. Stevie Smith is known for

1. her realist poetry
2. ironic verses
3. witty, caustic and enigmatic verses
4. matter of fact writing

94. Where was George Orwell born?

1. Bengal
2. Delhi
3. Rangoon
4. Madras

95. Which of the following is not a  work by George Orwell?

1. Nineteen Eighty four
2. Animal Farm
3. Shooting an Elephant
4. A Better Class of persons

96. When William Golding was awarded Nobel Prize?

1. 1983
2. 1956
3. 1968
4. 1988

97. Which of the following is Not a work by William Golding?

1. Lord of the files
2. Rites of Passage
3. Gallic Wars
4. The Paper Men

98. Which of the following is a novel by Doris lessing?

1. Mona Lisa
2. Memoirs of a Survivor
3. Love's Shadow
4. Problems of Life and Mind

99. Which of the following is Not a work by Graham Greene?

1. Doting 
2. The Power and The Glory
3. The Heart of the Matter
4. The End of The Affair

100. Stephen Leacock was a 

1. Poet
2. Journalist
3. Playwright
4. Humorist

101. Pappachi is a charater in 

1. Tale of Two cities
2. The god of Small Things
3. Satanic Verses
4. House of Mr. Biswas

102. Towards the end of Raja Rao's Kanthapura, Murthy writes a letter a 

1. Ratna
2. Rangamma
3. Bhatta
4. Jawaharlal Nehru

103. Who wrote the introduction to the English Translation of Tagore's Geetanjali?

1. Tagore himself
2. Graham Greene
3. WB yeats
4. HG Wells

104. Who made a film on Tagore's novel The Home and The World?

1. Satayajit Ray
2. Mrinal Sen
3. David Lean
4. Shyam Bengal

105. Who recommended RK Narayan's first novel to a publisher in England for publication?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Graham Greene
3. James joyce
4. Mulk Raj Anand

106. Which of the following is not a work of RK Narayan?

1. Swami and His Friends
2. My Days
3. A horse and the Goats
4. Mr. Swamy

107. The Booker Prize winner novel of VS Naipaul In a Free State explores

1. the problems of nationality and identity in alien lands
2. the problems of nationality and identity in one's own land
3. the problems of regional imbalances in alien land
4. the problems of regional imbalances in one's own land

108. VS Naipaul's The Overcrowded Barracoon is 

1. a collection of short stories
2. a collection of personal and political articles
3. a novel 
4. an autobiographical memoir

109. Salman Rushdie is considered one of the exponents of 

1. realism
2. magic realism
3. absurd literature
4. sequential fiction

110. A Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories is 

1. a collection of stories
2. a collection of folk tales
3. a collection of mythical fables
4. a novel for children

111. A generative grammar operates upon

1. infinite rules
2. infinite vocabulary of units
3. finite vocabulary
4. Both A and B

112.According to Chomsky, transformational grammars are 

1. same as phrase structure grammars
2. of the same power as finite state grammars
3. less powerful than phrase structure grammars
4. more powerful than phrase structure grammars

113. In Chomsky's view, human creativity is 

1. rule-governed
2. haphazard
3. conscious
4. uncontrolled

114. Language systems are

1. static
2. unproductive
3. productive
4. none of the above

115. Generativism in grammar is 

1. an adjunct to behaviourism
2. a reaction to behaviourism
3. similar to behaviourism
4. similar to descriptive grammar

116. If Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society, the aims guiding this theory and research is 

1. sociological
2. linguistic
3. both a and b
4. neither a and b

117. Sociolinguistics contributes to

1. the descriptive linguistics
2. language planning
3. grammatical studies
4. none of the above

118. Accent refers to

1. pronunciation
2. grammar
3. both A and B
4. allophonic variation

119. If somebody speaks in dialect in Britain, it is 

1. by itself a reference to a separate language
2. in relation to its difference from Standard English
3. a reference to a variety of RP
4. None of the above

120. Dialectal differences cover

1. pronunciation
2. grammar
3. vocabulary
4. all the above