Master Cadre Special

91. When did Rabindranath Tagore return his title of 'Sir' bestowed upon him by the Raj?
  1. After non-cooperation movement
  2. After the partition of Bengal
  3. After Civil Disobedience movement
  4. After jalianwala Bagh Massacre
92. An elegy is a poem
  1. of mourning
  2. of mirth
  3. tuned to a musical composition
  4. none of the above
93. Modernism is a literary movement spanning from
  1. Frist to second World war
  2. The last decade of 19th century to the start of  Second World War
  3. the end of Second World War to 1960
  4. 18 to 19th century
94. Surrealism is a movement in art and literature which
  1. attacked rationalism and narrow logical systems
  2. was strictly rational in approach
  3. attempted to demolish Freudian psychoanalysis
  4. came into being during Plato's times
95. Full form of IPA is
  1. International Phonemic Association
  2. International Phonemic alphabet
  3. International Phonetic Alphabet
  4. International Pronouncing Alphabet
96. RP Stand for
  1. Received Pronunciation
  2. Receptive Pronunciation
  3. Representative Pronunciation
  4. Registered Pronunciation
97. Dialect refers to
  1. differences in pronunciation
  2. differences in vocabulary 
  3. differences in grammar
  4. all the above
98. Behaviourism in linguistics refers to an understanding of the nature of language which is 
  1. Saussurian
  2. pre-chomskyan
  3. post-chomskyan
  4. mentalistic
99. Mentalism in linguistics is 
  1. supplementary to behaviourism
  2. opposed to behaviourism
  3. opposed to the traditional understanding of materialism
  4. independent of structural rules
100. Informal register of  a language
  1. are arbitrary
  2. are rule-governed
  3. fall within the framework of prescriptive and traditional grammar
  4. are governed by rules which are transcendental
101. Generative grammar is a set of rules which operates upon
  1. finite vocabulary of units
  2. infinite vocabulary of units
  3. both A and B
  4. neither A and B
102. According to Chomsky Phrase Structure grammars are
  1. less powerful than transformational grammars
  2. more powerful than transformational grammars
  3. of the same power  as the transformational grammars
  4. less powerful power than finite state grammars
103. Morphemes of  a language are
  1. free 
  2. bound
  3. both free and bound
  4. arbitrary
104. Sound 'f' is
  1. fricative
  2. affricate
  3. dental
  4. plosive
105. Homophony is 
  1. sameness of spelling
  2. sameness of sound
  3. sameness of structure
  4. sameness of meaning
106. An exception to arbitrary nature of sign is 
  1. conventional words
  2. cultural words
  3. literary words
  4. onomatopoeic words
107. William Blake was
  1. an artistic conservative
  2. an artistic liberal
  3. an artistic rebel
  4. a neo classic
108. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was
  1. included in Lyrical Ballads
  2. excluded from Lyrical Ballads in subsequent editions
  3. published independently in the first instance
  4. none of the above
109. In Marlowe's plays the imaginative ambition of his protagonists
  1. wins in the end
  2. carries no thematic significance
  3. is psychological soothing
  4. confronts its own limits
110. George Eliot was Influenced by the philosophy of
  1. Ludwig Feuerbach
  2. Hegel
  3. Marx
  4. Bergson
111. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is
  1. an expression  of doubts
  2. an assertion of faith
  3. Both A and B
  4. none of the above
112. Which of the following is not a novel by Jane Austen?
  1. Mansfield Park
  2. The Parish Register
  3. Persuation
  4. Emma
113. Swift's A tale of a Tub is the story of three brothers who represent 
  1. Roman Catholicism
  2. Anglicanism
  3. Calvinistic Dissent
  4. all the above
114.The form of Spencer's The Faerie Queen owes to 
  1. Virgil
  2. Ariosto
  3. both A and B
  4. neither A and B
115. Wuthering Heights in the novel Wuthering Heights is 
  1. a hill
  2. a groove
  3. a street
  4. a house
116. The name of the main female character in Wuthering Heights is 
  1. Elizabeth Browning
  2. Nelly
  3. Susane
  4. Catherine
117. Venus and Adonis is a work by
  1. Thomas Kyol
  2. Marlowe
  3. Spencer
  4. Shakespeare
118. Which of the following is Not a play by Shakespeare?
  1. King John
  2. The Spanish Tragedy
  3. Henry V
  4. Henry VIII
119. The intellectual world of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is one in which
  1. humanist ideas reign
  2. medieval science is rejected
  3. divinity has no place
  4. all the above
120. In Pope's The Rape of the Lock
  1. epic gets domesticized
  2. heroic is debunked
  3. both A and B
  4. neither A and B



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