Comparative Literature Mcqs
Comparative Literature Mcqs
Comparative Literature Mcqs
MCQs
First chapter :
Zepetnek Book
Theories of Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative
Cultural Studies
4. The comparative literature always tries to find the similar connection between …
a) Methodology and Institutional framework
b) TEXT CULTURE AND LITERATURE
c) Language and discipline
d) None of these
8. _____ is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural
expression across linguistic national and disciplinary boundaries? a) comparative
cultural studies is the theoretical, as well as methodological postulate b) to move and dialogue
betweenWorld literature
c) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
d) National literature
e) Both a and b
12. Intermediality is a phenomenon for the creation of new forms of……… among
others to find ways for their distribution.
a) ARTISIC AND CRITICAL INNOVATION
b) Language and culture innovation
c) Literature and culture
d) Both a and b
14. The Modern Language Association of America has been publishing a book
series called?
a) APPROACHES TO TEACHING WORLD LITERATURE
b) Approaches to comparative literature
c) The Routledge Companion to World literature
d) None of these
15 ……… focus is on
how to read texts across the literatures of the world (in translation) and on how to
teach literature, thus it is a program of practice.
a) National literature
b) Historical literature
c) COMPARATIVE & WORLD LITERATURE
d) All of these
18 …… can be applied to the study of the traditional, the canonical, and the
hegemonic.
a) Psychological studies
b) CULTURAL STUDIES
c) Sociological studies
d) Comparative studies
a) HYBRIDS FIELD
b) democratic
c) authoritative
d) objective
a) HIGH CULTURE
b)popular culture
c)Empirical
d)Central
a) Mythological beliefs
b) Existential
c)Critical
d) MARXIST
a) Eurocentrism
b) Comparative criticism
C) Humanism
d) EPISTEMOLOGICAL THOUGHT
a) Hugo
b) James
C) GOETHE
d) Zepetnek
a) chakarvorty spivak
b) Zepetnek
c) HAUN SAUSSY
d) Stanford
a) Weltliteratur
b) Eurocentrism
c) Global Playing
d) WHY NOT COMPARE?
29. "World literature invites to reconsider the dimension of reference ,asking what
world or worlds this literature refers to"...
Who comments ..?
a) Susan Bassnett
b) MARTIN PUCHNER
C) Pavel
d) Zepetnek
a) 2010
b) 2009
C) 2008
d) 2011
a) cross-cultural
b) interdisciplinary
C) A & B
d) none
a) HYBRID FIELD
b) Field of comparative
c) Critical humanities
d) Field of study
a) Comparative culture
b) OBJECTiVE CULTURE
c) Political commitment
d) None of these
a) AFRICAN LANGUAGE
b) German language
c) Italian
d) French
a) 1920_1930
b) 1980 _1999
c) 1930_1940
d) 1940_1950
38. In the area of thematics, cultural studies can be applied to such as.
a) Subjectivities
b) GENDER & SEXUALITY
c) Culture and ecosystem
d) None of these
a) Cognitive science
b) Emotion
c) New media
d) ALL OF THESE
a) Institutional presence
b) RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
c) Postcolonial studies
d) Feminist
a) GERMANY
b) France
c) Italy
d) Russia
43. The department of English cultural study has also been increasing in
departments of.
a) History
b) Sociology
c) Anthropology
d) All OF THESE
44. Cultural studies has also had influence in.
a) Southeast asia
b) South Korea
c) BOTH A AND B
d) None of these
45. Comparative cultural studies developed since the late.
a) 1920
b) 1930
c) 1980
d) 1970
a) Ideological perspective
b) Redical constructivism
c) Ideological dimension
d) MERGER
a) Hybrids field
b) FIELD OF STUDY
c) Methodology
d) Institutional framework
51. The processing, production and marketing of cultural products such as.
a) Music
b) Symbolic forms
c) Film and radio
d) BOTH A AND C
a) SYMBOLIC FORMS
b) Social science
c) Cyberspace
d) None of these
a) INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY
b) Comparative literature
c) Literary theory
d) B & c
54. Starting in the 19th century, comparative literature gained intellectual interest
and institutional presence mostly
a) Europe
b) U.S
c) Germany
d) A & B
55. In the U.S and Canada there is a limited development towards the establishing
of development and the professorship specifically designed as
a) WORLD LITERATURE
b) Russian literature
c) Contextual
Last time MCQS
d) Comparative literature
a) Germany (2011)
b) BEIJING (2011 )
c) Italy (2011)
d) U.S (2011)
a) Comparative literature
b) World literature
c) ASSOCIATION UNDER THE DESIGNATION
d) Intellectual inquiry
a) RELATIONAL CONCEPT
b) Intellectual concept
c) Conceptual concept
d) Comparative concept
a) Pierre Bourdier
b) Norman k Denzin
c) DIONYZ DURISIN
d) Robert Estivals
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) U.K
d) UNITED STATED
61.culture studies is a
a) Cultural study
b) Comparative study
c) CULTURAL CRITIQUE
d) Comparative literature
62.The peer reviewed full- text and open access to quarterly in the humanities and
social science founded in
a) 1919
b) 1998
c) 1981
d) 1970
63.Taiwan where cultural studies has begun to be institutionalized since
a) 1970
b) 1998
c) 1981
d) 1993
a) OBJECTiVE
b) Subjective
c) Comparative
d) Theory
a) CULTURE
b) Tradition
c) Study
d) Theory
a) Theoretical focus
b) Methodology
c) Comparative study
d) A&B BOTH
a) Arts
b) Comparative literature
c) Culture studies
d) OTHER ARTS
68.Larger context of the humanities there has been much discussion about the
a) Methodology
b) Culture study
c) CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
d) Comparative study
a) Compassion academy
b) ACADEMY OF PERSIAN
c) Learnever
d) A step Ahead
a) Merger
b) Superior
c) PERIPHERY
d) Hugo Meltzl
a) SOUTHEAST ASIA
b) North
c) West
d) East
a) EUROPE AND UK
b) subcontinent
c) turkey
a) ENGLISH
b) Arabic
c) Spanish
75. While S Aussy’s analysis that comparative literature aim and scope have gained
currency in literary study is well argued and a welcome
(a) POSITIVE VIEWS
(b) negative
c)positive and negative
a) 2013
b) 2010
c) 2015
a) NORTH EUROPE
b) WEST EUROPE
c) Central Europe
a) TWO WAYS
b) four ways
c) Five ways
a) CULTURE THEORY
b) Market culture
c) clan culture
a) twentie century
b) NINETEENTH CENTURY
c) eighteenth century
82. While this approach of course relevant for an inclusive perspective of the
globalization of.
a) CULTURE AND LITERATURE
b) individual culture
c) custom
a) 2007 to 2000
b) 2000 to 2012
c) 2000 to 2014
a) SCHOLARSHIP
b) ignorance
c) inability
85. At its best cultural studies is a cultural critique that extols the virtues of.
a) specific
b) narrow
c) ELECTRICISM
a) Subjective
b) OBJECTIVE
c) Subjective and objective
87. Although in some of its later versions cultural studies has become less
avowedly.
a) Critical
b) Cultural
c) POLITICAL
a) 1951
b) 1954
c) 1950
a) Greek speaking
b) French speaking
c) ENGLISH SPEAKING
a) 1922
b) 1926
c) 1920
91. Cultural studies Dissacoiate it self from nationalistic and political implication.
a) Greek
b) CHINESE
c) French
a) TWO
b) three
c) four
a) National literature
b) World literature
c) All OF THESE
a) 1860
b) 1880
c) 1889
3. Who had used this term “Comparative Literature” for the first time in English.
a) Hazard
b) Elizabeth brenzal
c) MATTHEW ARNOLD
4.____Is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural
expression across linguistic a.
a) World literature
b) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
c) General literature
a) INFLUENCE
b) Revolution
c) None of these
a) INDIA
b) China
c) Indonesia
a) Harry levin
b) Totosy de zepetnek
c) AlFRED SAUVY
a) FORMOSA
b) Hong Kong
c) Tokyo
9.“ Better a live sappaorw than a stuffi eagle”. Who says this about his translation
of Rubaiyat?
a) Maxwell Anderson
b) Philip vellacott
c) EDWARD FITZGERALD
10. Of the twelve Alwars of tamil Nadu who was the only women?
a) ANDAL
b) Nammalwar
c) Poigai Alwar
11. Henry wells's phrase the “literary genetics” refers to the:
a) Study of genes
b) Study of generation
c) STUDY OF GENRES
12. Who among the following has made the remark, “ Everyone whi made or
applied a theory became a comparatist”?
a) HUAN SAUSSY
b) Harry levin
c) Albert
a) 1848
b) 1850
c) 1852
14. Who says ,that most of the people do not start with comparative literature but
they end up with it in some way or other.
a) SUSAN BASSNETT
b) Methew Arnold
c) None of these
a) Simple
b) CONFUSED
c) Complextive
a) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
b) National literature
c) None of these
a) Literature pearl
b) National literature
c) LITERATURE COMPARE
d) Literature Organization
a) Chaucer
b) Merry shelly
c) P. B shelly
d) MATHEW ARNOLD
a) Communication
b) Economy
c) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
d) All of the above
a) National literature
b) World literature
c) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
d) All of the above
a) Hoethe
b) RENE WELLEK
c) Matthew Arnold
d) Goethe
26. In which year, Mathew Arnold mentioned the term in the plural form
“comparative literature “
a) 1856
b) 1857
c) 1859
d) 1900
27. In 1854, the term first appeared when it was mentioned in a book by moriz
carriere
a) IN GERMANY
b) 2. In France
c) 3. In India
d) 4. In Pakistan
a) FRENCH EXPRESSION
b) German expression
c) England expression
d) U.s expression
a) Written
b) oral
c) WRITTEN AND ORAL
d) None of these
a) Tieghem
b) Jean Marie Carre
c) HENRY REMAK
d) Baudelaire
33. In the author view being parochil is
a) Not desirable
b) DESIRABLE
c) Better then being provisional
d) A matter of personal will
36. ON Cannibals is
a short story written by George Orwell
a) KRISHNA ChANDER
b) Rajinder SINGH
c) Saadat Hasan
d) Ismat Chugtai
a) India
b) CANADA
c) Astralia
d) England
a) Virgil
b) Bion
c) Aristotle
d) THEOCRITUS
40. Who separated the choric poetry from monodic poetry
a) THE GREEK
b) The Roman
c) The German
d) The French
a) PLATO REPUBLIC
b) Horace Ars Poetica
c) Longonus
d) Aristotle poetics
a) Indiana university
b) THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
c) Columbia university
d) Princeton university
a) Michael Ondaatje
b) YASMINE GOONERATNE
c) ShyamSelvadurai
d) ShyamSelvon
45. Identify the comparatist who almost omits thematology from comparative
literature because it does not involve literary influences:
a) HAZARD
b) Paul Van Tieghem
c) Anna Balakian
d) Elizabeth Frenzel
46. Who among the following is associated with the elucidation of the theory of
interliterary processes?
a) Damrosch
b) Claudio Guillen
c) DIONYSUS DURISIN
d) Roman Ingarden
a) COMPOSITION , HINDUSTANI
b) Rhythmic section, Carnatic
c) Melodic composition, Sufi
d) Rhythmic composition, Tribal
48.The French scholar Paul Van Tieghem, while trying for a more precise
definition of the term ‘General Literature’ uses the alternate term _
a) Literature
b) National Literature
c) Cosmopolitan Literature
d) SYNTHETIC LITERATURE
a) Herman Hesse
b) TRANSPOSED HEADS , THOMAS MANN
c) Glassbead Game, Herman Hesse
d) Faust, Goethe
51. Who among the following critics is not associated with the literary method of
close reading?
a) Tate
b) I.A. Richards
c) MAUD BOYKIN
d) William Empson
a) Prabha Mukherjee
b) Sharmila Rege
c) Maya Pandit
d) K. Lalita
53. On which Greek play did Sigmund Freud write, “the play is so effective even to
modern audience because it is the fate of all of us, perhaps to direct our first sexual
impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish
against our father”.
a) Bound
b) OEDIOUS REX
c) Antigone
d) Heracles
54.In a James Joyce short story the protagonist hears a song that sparks a
melancholy recollection of a major event in her youth. Identify the story:
a) “THE DEAD ”
b) “Araby”
c) “Eveline”
d) “The Sisters”
a) BASSNETT
b) Jacques Derrida
c) Tejaswini Niranjana
d) Even-Zohar
57. Which of the following is not a report on the scope, status and standards of
Comparative Literature?
a) REPORT
b) Report
c) Levin Report
d) Report
59.Who among the following was not one of the contributors to the book Aspects
of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches edited by Chandra Mohan and
published in 1989?
a) Trivedi
b) Gerald Gillespie
c) K. Chellappan
d) RENE WELLEK
60.Na D’Souza’s Dweepa has recently been translated into English by _______.
a) Braganza
b) SUSHEELA PUNITHA
c) K. Srilatha
d) Krishnan
61. In the 1990s the Sahitya Akademi planned a multi volume History of Indian
Literature projected to contain ________.
a) TEN VOLUMES
b) Nine volumes
c) Eight volumes
d) TWO volumes
a) Edward Said
b) FRANCO MORETITI
c) Spirak
63. Who had suggested the term “The Comparative Study of Literature” in lieu of
“Comparative Literature”?
a) Levin
b) Rene Wellek
c) LANE COOPER
64.Who among the following has proposed a radical ‘decentring of the subject’?
a) Foucault
b) Jameson
c) DERRIDA
65. in 1971 the first international congress of comparative literature met in.
a) Tokyo
b) Hong kong
c) FORMOSA
66. influence students are the bread and wine of comparative literature.identify the
auhtor of this statement.
a) J. t shaw
b) ANNA BALAKIAN
c) H.H Remak
a) BERTOLT BRECHT
b) Rene Etienble
c) Henry person
68.when One says “A’ has influenced “B” on the basis of similarities between the
work of two authors “ we study.
a) Sources
b) AFFINITIES
c) Evidence
a) AMERICAN
b)French
c)Russian
70. The most important criterion of deciding the nationality of a writer is.
a) Religion
b) Geographical
c) LINGUISTIC
a)RENE WELLEK
b) T.S. Eliot
c) T.E.Hume
a)Tieghem
b) Baudelaire
c) HENRY REMAK
a) Reception
b) LITERARY INFLUENCE
c) non – literary influence
a) jacquese Derrida
b) RAYMOND WILLIAM
c) Stephen Greenblatt
a) Eve- zohar
b) Jacques Derrida
c) BASSNETT
a) COMPOSITION , HINDUSTANI
b) Melodic composition, sufi
c) both a and b
a) K.Lalita
b) sharmila Rege
C) PRABHA MUKHERJEE
78.In 1848 had used this term "comparative Literature" for the first time in English.
a) Macbeth
b) Henry vl
c) Arthur's
d) MATHEW ARNOLD
a) BENEDETTO CROCE
b) Hazand
c) Anna Balakian
d) None of these
80. One of the founder of North American comparative literature, proclaim in the
some years as coarce's attack that the working premise of the student of
comparative literature.
a) L . A Richard
b) CHARLES MILLER GAYLE
c) Both A & B
d) May a pandit
81 . A decade after theory of literature appeared a welleck was already talking
about the crisis in comparative literature and even as the subject appeared to be
giving ground in the....
A) Ninetieth century
B) TWENTIETH CENTURY
C) Both A & B
D) None of these
83. The rush of books on post- colonial literature at the start of the reflect a new
interest in hitherto in neglected area of study.
A) 1970's
B) 1950's
C) 1970's
D) 1990's
A) Grammatical studies
B) Comparative studies
C) TRANSLATION STUDIES
D) None of these
85 . The work of pioneer of the notion of Orientalism has provided many critics
with a new vocabulary.
A) Elizabeth Frankel
B) Ganesh Derly
C) Claudia Gallen
D) EDWARD SAID
86 . The outstanding fact of late twentieth century Europe culture is it's ongoing
recentre action with...
A) BLACK CULTURE
B) African culture
C) Carribbean culture
D) Both A & B
86 . Terry Eagleton has argued that Literature in the meaning of the word we have
inherited is an .
A) IDEOLOGY
B) Myth
C) Social agenda
D) None of these
87. It's possible to argue that as we come to the end of the twentieth century,we
have entered a new phase in the troubled history of .
A) National culture
B) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
C) Indian nationalism
D) Orientalism
88. Evan Zohar argues that extensive translation activity takes place when a culture
is in period of transition:
A) When it is expanding
B) when it needs renewal
C). When it's in a pre revolutionary phase
D). All OF THESE
A) Dynamic analysis
B) HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS
C) Vertical analysis
D) External analysis
91. Who has argued that "Literature in the meaning of the word we have inherited
is an ideology".
A) TERRY EAGLETON
B) Zhang Longxi
C) Ganesh Devy
D) Pierre Bourelieu
A) Early 1950's
B) MID 1970's
C) Late 1970's
D) None of these
93. Which term is most appropriate for the new cross- cultural criticism.
A) POST -COLONIAL
B) Translation studies
C) Comparative Literature
D) B & C
A) SEMIOTICS
B) Phonetics
C) Comparative
D) None of these
A) Itamar Evan-Zohar
B) Gideon Toury
C) A & B
D) None of these
97. Max Koch founder and editor of the two German comparative
a) Novels
b) JOURNALS
c) Dramas
d) Short stories
a) 1990s
b) 1998s
c) 1887s
d) 1879s
99.There is a general agreement that comparative literature acquired its name from
a series of……used for the teaching of literature.
a) Greek anthologies
b) FRENCH ANTHOLOGIES
c) Roman anathologies
a) 1816
b) 1815
c) 1817
101: This literature wrote by:
a) Philarete Chasles
b) Thomas Hardy
c) RENE WELLEK
102: In essay discussing the role played by translated literature in the Czech
literary revivel of the:
a) Rene Wellek
b) VACALV Hanka
c) philarete chasles
104. In….. Hanka and his colleagues announced their discovery of unique
manuscripts in Old Czech from the
ninth, tenth and thirteenth centuries.
a) 1817-18
b) 1917-18
c) 1816- 17
105: After centuries of repression, who had been seen to be a major European
language, with a present and
a past.
a) Hanka
b) Chasles
c) Czech
106: The period from the….. century onwards saw an intense interest in the
publications of folk songs, and poetry and fairy tales.
a) Mid-eighteenth
b) mid -nineteenth
c) Mid –twentieth
107. Who claimed that his poem was a translation of a Gaelic epic by the ancient
Irish bard, Ossian.
a) Ann Bradstreet
b) Macpherson
c) CZECH
108. Who attack on the cultural heritage of the Middle East and the Indian
subcontinent strikes us today as both racist and absurd.
a) Edward Fitzgerald
b)Vaclay Hanka
c) Lord Macaulay
109: The Shakespeare that was taken to…..was a writer who was depicted as being
the embodiment of English virtue
and virtuosity.
a) India
b) England
c) South Africa
a) World literature
b) Comparative literature
c) Greek literature
a) Transition
b) Stagnation
c) Remission
112: Throughout the nineteenth century, use of the term’ Comparative literature
‘was:
a) flexible
b) inflexible
c) non-flexible
113: French comparative literature tended more towards the study of the product of
the:
a) roots or spirit
b) spirit or mind
c) human mind
a) roots or spirit
b) spirit or mind
c) human mind
a) 1876
b) 1877
c) 1878
116: The term…… drifted into use in several languages, meaning whatever anyone
chose it to mean.
a)World literature
b) Greek literature
c) Comparative literature
117: The ….. revolution of 1776 had set the native English of the colonists off along a new road.
American
Russian
New England
a. Analytical process
b. Methodological process
c. Research process
121.A key term in the text has always occupied an important place in comparative literature
a. Enhancement
b. Translation
c. Influence
a. 1915
b.1916
C.1900
a. Idealistic
b. Realistic
c. Nationalistic
124.Translated literature played a role in
a. Czech literary
b. James macpherson
c. Fingal
a. Victorian scholar
b. Classical scholar
c. Revolutionary scholar
126.Czech is a process of
a. Comparison
b. Translation
c. Enhancement
a. Borrowing
b. Transilation
c. Comparison
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
a. 1830
b.1831
c. 1832
132.Fingal appeared in
a. 1700
b. 1760
c.1762
a) 1854
(b) 1855
(c) 1860
135. The Italians with pardonable nationality, are particularly jealous of all that is left them as a
nation in said by.
a)Byron
(b) Milton
(c) Moriz
136.Vladimir Macura stresses the________, it has played such a key role in patterns of
influence.
a) Poetry
(b) society
(c) politics of translated
137. The term in 1846 ‘language is our nationality’ coined by:
138.Translation as a significant part of the development of the new Czech literature, said by.
(a) Johannes
(b) Jungmann
(c) Hanka
139.Discovery of unique manuscripts in Old Czech from the ninth was announced by.
(a) Hanka
(b) Johannes
(c) Moriz Carriere
(a) 1835
(b) 1836
(c) 1838
(a) 1765
(b) 1755
(c) 1744
(a) Gender
(b) the people
(c) society
(a) 1762
(c) 1763
(c) 1777
146. Fingal was such a success that Macpherson went on to _______ other epics.
(a) Translate
(b) poem
(c) drama
147. The American revolution of____ had set the native English of the colonists off along a new
road.
( a) 1766
(b) 1755
(c) 1744
(a)1820
( b) 1818
( c) 1819
(a) spirit
(b) Nationalism.
(c) culture
a. Rene Wellek
b. PHILARETE CHASLES
c. Moriz Carriere
d. Mathew Arnold
153. What thing has played a key role in the patterns of influence in comparativeliterature?
a. Identification
b. Borrowing
c. Comparison
d. TRANSLATION
a. CZECH LITERATURE
b. Comparative Literature
c. Theoretical Literature
d. French Literature
a. VACLAV HANKA
b. Vladimir Macura
c. Jungmann
d. Byron
157. After centuries of repression, Czech had been seen to be a major ________
language, with a present and a past
a. South Asian
b. EUROPEAN
c. Latin
d. Greek
158. A key text which caught the public imagination right across Europe was
named as
a. Volksgeist
b. Kalevala
c. Fairy Tales
d. FINGAL
a. JAMES MACPHERSON
b. Wilhelm Grimm
c. Elias Lonnrot
d. Timothy Brennan
161. The period from mid-eighteenth century onwards saw an intense interest
in a. POETRY
b. Novel
c. Plays
d. Fiction
162. The famous Czech romantic revival poem “May” was written by
a. Wilhelm Grimm
b. Johannes Ewald
c. KAREL MACHA
d. Elias Lonnrot
163. The Finnish national epic the “Kalevala” was written by
a. Wilhelm Grimm
b. Johannes Ewald
c. Karel Macha
d. ELIAS LONNROT
164.“Kalevala” appeared in
a. 1846
b. 1849
c. 1843
d. 1850
165.The first part of Frantisek Palacky ____ volume history of B hemia appeared in 1836
A: Three
B: Seven
C: five
D: four
166: The first was set up in Lyon in 1897 and subsequently other chains appeared in
A: France
B: United State
C: both a and b
D: none of these
167: Early French studies such as the work by Ampere and Villemain need above focused on
A: Romantic Period
B: middle age
C: modern age
D none of these
A: Van Tiegnem
B: Milton
C: De Lomanitz
D: none of these
A: 1890
B: 1880
C:1877
D: 1876
180: The German version of the term “Vergliechende Literaturgeschicte first appeared in book
by
A: Mathew Arnold
B: Moriz Carriere
C: Rene Wellek
D: both a and b
A: Ossian
B: illiad
C: Kalevala
D: none of these
A: 1846
B: 1813
C: 1849
D: 1802
183: Culture is
A: Collective
B: Ahistorical
C: Individual
D none of these
A: Pardonable
B: Particularly
C both a and b
D: non of these
A: 1712
B: 1762
C: 1788
D: 1702
Spanish
German
Greek
French
Edible
Influence
Zealous
Fantastic
190. According to Byron, there is a close relationship between national identity & …
Cultural Inheritance
Patriotism
Language
191. According to Jungmann, what is the significant part of the development of new Czech
literature.
Influence
Translation
Desire
Publication
192.When Hanka & his colleagues announced their discovery of unique manuscripts in Old
Czech:
1917-18
1877-78
1822-23
1817-18
193. Between 1822 and 1827 how many volumes of Slavonic National Songs were published?
3
4
5
8
1827
1836
1844
1821
195. The period from the mid eighteenth century onwards saw an immense interest in publication
of:
Folk songs
Poetry
Fairy tales
All of these
Josef Jungmann
Timothy Brennan
Edward Fitzgerald
Macaulay
Ben Jonson
Harper Lee
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
India
Brazil
Europe
Turkey
199.Where the C.L. Wrenn gave the Presidential Address of the Modern Humanities Research
Association
Melbourne
Chicago
Rome
Berlin
Bengali
Russian
French
Sanskirt
Europe’
France
Italy
Russia
Germany
202. Comparative literature seems to have emerged as antidote to
Nationalism
Patriotism
Feudalism
Structuralism
203. When was the first chair of comparative literature was established:
1877
1897
1887
1864
204. Comparative literature comprises the mutual relationship between Greek & Latin literature,
this was proclaimed by:
Hugo Meltzal
Cluj
Paul Van Tieghem
Charles Chauncey
Against
In favor
Neutral
a) Byron
b)Keats
c)Wordsworth
209. The term comparative Literature seems to have derived from a methodological process
applicable to the science, in which comparing or contrasting served as a means of confirming a:
a) measurements
b) hypothesis
c) reality
a)love of nation
b) failure of nation
c)sipirt of nation
a) Politics of plagiarism
b) politics of translation
c) politics of exaggeration
a)Decrease
b)revive
c)enhancement
a)1822_1827
b)1821_1827
c)1922_1927
214.The greatest poet of the CZech Romantic revival published his major poem "May"in the year
of:
a)1837
b)1836
c)1835
215.The period from the mid-eighteen century_____saw an intense interest in the publication of
folk songs and poetry and fairy tales:
a)onward
b)downward
c)upward
a)Epitome of englishnes
b)fall of englishnes
c)rise of englishnes
a) Culture colonialism
b)imperialism
c)de colonialism
218.The chairs of comparative literature established when was The first chair set up in Lyon:
a) 1897
b) 1898
c)1896
a)settled
b)drifted
c)sank
220.Van Tieghem's suggested that the comparison should take place between:
221.Who set the pre-renaissance literature the boundaries of his Comparative literature:
a) Van Teighem
b) Charles Mills
c)Charles Channel
222._______ appears as oriented more towards the study of cultural transfer always with France
as either giver or receiver ,was concerned with defining and tracing "national characteristics:
a)French perspective
b)Italian perspective
c) Japan perspective
223.French Comparative literature tended more towards the study of the products of the human
mind,whereas German Comparatist were more concerned with the :
224.Who argued in his editorial statement that the discipline of comparative literature was not yet
established and that the task of his journal was to assist with the process of establishing it:
a)De Lomnitz
b)Ulrich Weisstein
c)Paul Van Tieghem
Chpter No 2:
1.who constructed bibliography volume of comparative literature
a)Hardy
b)james
c)charlsdiken
d)Remak
a)Author Marsh
b)Methew Arnold
c)Charles MillGayley
a)Mathew Arnold
b)Gayley
c)Marsh
a)Arthur Marsh
b)Gayley
c)CharlesChicken
a)1834
b)1890
c)1980
9.What is the name of book which introduced of the Russian for malism and American versions
a)Johnson
b)Gayley
c)Henry Gifford
a)Love of nation
b)Spirit of nation
a)Garman
b)Russian
c)French
d)American
a) Contagial differences
b) Political awareness
c) Comparative literature
14) Common this equally manifest in all holding them together is proposed by the famous writer
a) Season Majummda
b) Kimberley Benston
c) Henry Gafford
16) Comparative literature association of India stated the main objective if comparative study in
a) 1981
b) 1980
c) 1990
a) Sources
b) Documenting
c) Both a & b
19) Which of the following playwright's plays were often taught in United States and Britain?
a) Macaulay
b) Dante
c) Ibsen
20) Irish literature should not be separated from English literature says......
a) Johnson
b) Remak
c) Weinstein
22) The growth of comparative literature as a subject through the....... Was paradoxically parallel.
a) 16th century
b) 17th century
c) 19 century
23) Remark's deliberately chosen an approach that is not historical or........ But rather descriptive
and synchronic.
a) Philosophy
b) Generic
c) Sociology
24) Which Literature should not be compared with the western literature?
a) American literature
b) African literature
c) Indian literature
25 ) Who draws the intention of the reader to the dangers of imposing one's system on another?
a) Aurobindo
b) Majmudar
c) Conrad
26) Johnson argues that there are.......... main forms of research in cultural studies.
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
27) The three main branches of literary study is history, criticism and......
a) History
b) Politics
c) Linguistic
29 Literay theory has now become the growth area of literay study in Western Europe and in the
a) United States
b) United kingdom
c) North America
a) Arthur Marsh
b) Frederic Jameson
c) Gayley
31 ) Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett founding father and also proposed a non-nationalistic model
33. by the early……..there was the positivist model on the one hand and formalist model on the
other
A.1960s
B.1970s
C.1980s
35.supereme master of the language ,is renamed and in consequence reread onec he appears
in….
A. south indian
B. Germen
C. Bengali ,Malay, or Mandarin
36. critical discussion of the problematics of intercultural translation has developed alongside
post- colonial theory of the …..
A. National
B. idealistic
C. Ahistorical
A. unirrelevant
B. irrelevant
C. instead
A. Ideas
B. Interdisciplainrity and universalism
C. Both A and B
A. Neutral term
B. Nationalism term
C. Geographical and ideological term
44. Remark essay laid out the basis of an American comparative literature ture that was
distinctive from the ….
A. German school
B. American school
C . French school
A. ideological problem
B. geogarphical problem
C. terminological problem
46. Comparative literature is a study of
A. western university
B. American university
C. Southern Illinois university
A. nothing
B. more high
C. Nothing more or less
49. Crucial to Remark argument was the nation the comparative literature should note be
regarded as a separate discipline ,with his own…..
A. Idealism
B. Ideology
C. Law
A. Synonymous
B. Histroical
C. Terminology
51. What distinguished the new world approach in the early twentieth century……..
A. criticism
B. Terminology
C. partisanship and idealistic
52.Remark’s deliberately chosen an approach that is not historical or ________ but rather
descriptive and ___________.
a. Architecture, Philosophy.
b. Philosophy, economics.
c. Generic, Synchronic.
d. Sociology, Generic.\
53. Gayley proposed that comparative literature should be seen as nothing more or less than.
a. Literary Philology.
b. Literary Theory.
c. Anthropology.
d. Psychology.
54. Gayley’s book comparative literature came out in 1886, and fifteen years later in 1901, he
published a paper Entitled _________.
a. European corporatists.
b. The Science of comparative Literature.
c. The world of comparative literature.
d. New world corporatists.
55. Jameson Suggests, it could be seen as a combination of New world idealism with a rejection
of _____________________.
a. Post, positivism.
b. Commonwealth Literature.
c. Positivism.
d. Industrialized Societies.
56. The three main branches of literary study is history, theory and __________.
a. Politics.
b. Criticism.
c. Positivism.
d. Linguistic.
57.Irish Literature should not be separated From English Literature Says ______________.
a. Johnson.
b. Gayley.
c. Remak.
d. Weisstein.
58. Indian authors, Majumdar argues, have remained renegotiable across generations because of
the ________________.
a. Continuative Character.
b. Comparative Literature.
c. West tradition.
d. Component Literature.
59. ___________________ draws our attention to the different perspectives and to the dangers of
imposing one system upon another.
a. Majumdar.
b. Gayley.
c. Sri Aurobindo.
d. Yeast.
60. In the _________________ period the French School dominated comparative Studies.
a Positivism period.
b. Post – War.
c. Post – Positivism Period.
d. Post – Colonial Period.
61. ________________ Even went so far as to challenge one of the fundamental premises of the
French School.
a. Mathew Arnold.
b. Yeast.
c. Bernard Shaw.
d. Gayley.
a. European.
b. Italian.
c. Comparative.
d. Classical.
63. ________________ model of comparative study has as its starting point a very different
agenda.
a. European.
b. British.
c. Western.
d. West.
65. ______________________ wrote abut comparative literature and the context in which
Gifford and Prawer wrote about it in the 1970s.
a. Mathew Arnold.
b. Christopher Marlowe.
c. Bernard Shaw.
d. T.S Eliot.
66. The growth of comparative literature as a subject through the ____________ was
paradoxically, Parallel.
a. 16th century.
b. 15th century.
c. 19th century.
d. 18th century.
a. Polymath.
b. Nationalist.
c. Middle – East.
d. Eastern Europe.
68. In the English – Speaking World, the process took a long time but as _____________ and
_______________ declined dramatically.
a. European, Italian.
b. Greek, Latin.
c. Colonialism, Post – colonialism.
d. Latin, American.
69. The Status of ________________ language in the 19th century is completely altered today.
a. Modern European.
b. Modern African.
c. Middle East.
d. Eastern Europe.
70. There are a great many similarities between cultural studies in the ________.
a. 1960s.
b. 1970s.
c. 1990s.
d. 1950s.
71. Johnson argues that there are ________________ main forms of research in cultural studies.
a. Four.
b. Six.
c. Two.
d. Three.
Chapter no 3.
72.Who returned to the question of statndard English and declared the statement about this.
a Glanville
b Prince of Wales
c George Simpson
d Seamus Heaney
a 1102
b 1103
c 1104
d 1131
74.Where are the British Isles.
a Northwestern Europe
b Southeastern Europe
c Central Europe
d Western Europe
75.………………. controlled the iseland of Great Britain between AD43 and AD410.
a Rome
b England
c Germany
d The US
76. Jackie kays dramatic poetry portrays character in contemporary ……………….. Context.
a Turkish
b English
c Arabic
d None of these
77.The ……………… Music and American brazenness suit the intellectual temper of India.
a Welsh
b Scottish
c Irish
d Both a & b
a Romanticism
b Modern
c Middle age
d Both B & C
a German German
b English English
c Urdu
d Scots
a 17th Century
b 18th Century
c 19th Century
d 20th Century
83.Full political union between England and Wales book took place in
a 1712
b 1536
c 1836
d 1835
84.Patrick kavanagh was born in
a 1907
b 1808
c 1908
d 1904
a 1791
b 1712
c 1819
d 1817
86.Celtic language
a Rrish, Erse
b English
c Norse
d Urdu
87.Germanic language
88. The problem for a comparatist is that knowledge of the Celtic and
a Irish Language
b Germanic Language
c Dutch Language
d Both a & c
a Patick
b William of Malmesbury
c Anthony Thorlby
d None of them
a King Arthur
b Sir Thomas Mallory
c Showalter
d None of them
92. Who wrote England is become the dwelling place of foreigners and the property of strangers.
a) Patrick Kavanagh
b) Thomas Davis
c) William of Malmesbury
93.At the present time there is no English man who is either earl :
a) Bishop
b) Abbort
c) Both a and b
a) 1814
b) 1830
c) 1845
96.Davis like so many subsequent Irish, Welsh and Scottish______ was all too aware of the
intrinsic links between language and national consciousness
and identity :
a) novelist
b) writer
c) comparatist
97) By the ___ Scotland had become a center of learning and letters of international importance.
a) 1760s
b) 1730s
c) 1720s
98.) Scotland was joined to England through the accession of the Scottish King ______ in 1903.
a) James Stuart
b) Patrick Kavanagh
c) Thomas Davis
a) Celtic language
b) Jermanic language
c) All of these
a) parochial
b) Provincial
c) regional
a) comparatist
b) Novelist
c) poet
102) strangers prey upon the.
a) vitals of England
b) Riches
c) Both a and b
a) opposite
b) similar
c) none of the above
104) comparing the literature of British Isles divided into parts.
a) 4
b) 5
c) 3
105) The problem for a comparatist that knowledge of the Celtic and germanic languages is
unevenly _____
a) Distributed
b) proper
c) none of these
109) The Irish libraries had been one of the glories of _____for centuries.
a) America
b) Europe
c) Canada
a) Irish poet
b) novelist
c) Both a and b
111)Kavanagh’s first collection ploughman and other poems was published in:
a). 1936
b). 1940
c). 1905
112. Terminology is a great deal of difference between Britain, which is a ______entity and the
British Isles which is a _____ one.
a) Economical, Philosophical
b) Political, Geographical
c) Political, Philosophical
d) Psychological, Economical
113. If we speak of British comparative literature, to include which writers would be an act of
appropriation.
a) British
b) German
c) Irish
d) French
115.Schools in England may teach French or German, they do not teach the _____ language of
the British Isles.
a) Celtic
b) English
c) Urdu
d) None
116.Anglo-Welsh and Anglo-Irish would be excluded because the boundary between their status
as _____ and as _____ would be unclear.
a) Identity , language
b) Dialects, history
c) Language, Dialects
d) Both a, c
117.Who is the Irish writer and founder of the Nation, wrote an essay on language and national
identity.
a) George Sampson
b) Thomas Davis
c) John Williams
d) Susan English
118.Comparing the Literature of the British Isles must have _______ dimension.
a) Historical
b) Political
c) Economical
d) Philosophical
120.The present political division date from the founding of the British Isles state in_____
a) 1937
b) 1922
c) 1822
d) 1920
a) Nineteenth
b) Twentieth
c) Seventeenth
d) Eighteenth
122. Both Cornish and Manx are _____ language, but have virtually disappeared.
a) Irish
b) Celtics
c) English
d) Urdu
123.The importance of the world of Celtics myth for contemporary writers is enormous, for it
offers an alternative to the Teutonic mythology of the _______ world.
a) Anglo-Saxon
b) Anglo-Wels
c) Anglo-Irish
d) None
124.The Pelican Guide to English literature divided into how many volumes.
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 10
125. The dominance of the English which there are great speakers flourishing literary and
performance traditional in all three.
a) John Williams
b) George Sampson
c) Susan Bassett
d) Thomas Parry
127.Later part of the Sixteenth century Bible was translated into _______
a) Irish
b) Welsh
c) Celtic
d) None
128. In Scotland, however, the ______ come parallel with development in the rest of Europe.
a) Renaissance
b) Romanticism
c) Classical
d) Philosophical
129.Who is the great Irish poet, discusses the use writers make of national myths.
a) Patrick Williams
b) John Williams
c) George Sampson
d) Thomas Davis
130. The dominance of English as a language, as a _____ and as a _____ system has resulted in a
marginalization of a ______ great deal of marvelous writing in from elsewhere in the Islands.
a) History, literature
b) Social, political
c) Literature, political
d) Political, Identity
131.The tragic history of Ireland combines with reference to troubled ____ poets.
a) Roman
b) Irish
c) German
d) French
132. The problem for a comparatist is that knowledge of the Celtic and
A: Germanic language
B: Irish language
C:Dutch language
D: both a and b
133: The Northern Irish poet John Hewitt poem An Irishman refers to
135: full political union between England and Wales book took place in
A: 1536
B: 1712
C: 1836
A: Henry Wyld
B: Sean Lucy
C: Thomas Davis
A: Thomas Davis
B: Sean Lucy
C: Koelb and Noakes
138: The tragic history of Ireland combines with reference to troubled
A: British poet
B: Roman poet
C: English poet
139: A poet that could not have been written without a wild range
A: “ An open letter”
B “An Irishman in conventry”
C: both a and b
A: Patick
B: William of Malmesbury
C: Anthony Thorlby
A:1907
B: 1808
C: 1907
D: 1904
A: 1791
B: 1712
C: 1819
A.British Isles.
B. Outer Hebrides.
C. Scandinavian Islands.
D. Islands of Iceland.
144. Who were probably the first people to live in the British Isles?
A. Picts
B. Celts
C. Romans
D. Czechs
A. Northwestern Europe
B. Southeastern Europe
C. Southwestern Europe
D. Central Europe
146. What are the deep lakes in northern England and Scotland called?
A. Lochs
B. Ponds
C. Reservoirs
D. Inland seas
A.flat farmlands
B. Craggy mountains
C. Swampy marshlands
D. Rolling hills
A.1922
B. 1965
C. 1933
D. 1947
A.Emeralad Isles
B. Isle Eire
C. West England
D. South Erie
151. When did the first people settle in the British Isles?
152. Which body of water connects England with the mainland of the European continent?
A.Mountain
B.flat land for farming
C.tropical beaches
D.low, rolling hills
A.soctland
B Ireland
C.Northern Land
D.England
157.Currently the United kingdom (or the great Britain is consists of..... countries
A.3
B.5
C.4
D.8
A.Ireland
B.Newzealad
C.United States
D.Finland
A.Switzerland
B.Thailand
C.west Indies
D.U.k
A.Ireland,Scotland,Wales
B.England ,Ireland,Newziland
C.Finland ,Norway ,Ireland
D.Denmark,Ireland,sweden