AUAT 2024 Question Paper MA in English

Entrance Exam
2024

QUESTION
PAPER

Question Booklet No. Question Booklet Series : A
AUAT — 2024
2-Year M.A. in English (P03)
( TEST BASED ON MCQ AND WRITING SKILL )

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Section—A : Multiple Choice Questions
PART—I
( Core Subject )
1. Which of the following plays by 5. Which of the following is not a form
Marlowe used a German work about of comic verse?
an early 16th century scholar who [A] Eclogue
claimed to have powers of black
[B] Limerick
magic?
[C] Clerihew
[A] The Jew of Malta
[D] Doggerel
[B] The Tragical History of Doctor
Faustus
6. The most important element of a
[C] Tamburlaine the Great tragedy, in Aristotle’s view, is
[D] Dido, queen of Carthage [A] plot
2. John Keats directed that the epitaph [B] character
on his grave should read, [C] spectacle
[A] Bright star, would I were steadfast [D] propriety
as thou art
[B] He will awake no more, oh, never 7. ‘Allegory of the cave’ is presented in
more! [A] Aristotle’s Poetics
[C] Here lies one whose name was [B] Ars Poetica by Horace
writ in water [C] The Defence of Poesy by Philip
[D] Beauty is truth, truth beauty Sidney
3. Which of the following statements is [D] Plato’s Republic
not true about the Victorian Age?
8. In which of the following works is a
[A] A sense of doubt pervaded much
parallel between a card game and the
of Victorian literature
battle of the sexes developed?
[B] During the Victorian age,
[A] Pamela
England established an empire
“on which the sun never sets” [B] The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman
[C] Pre-Raphaelite poets were deeply
attached to contemporary issues [C] The Rape of the Lock
[D] Fantasies and science fiction [D] Absalom and Achitophel
became popular in the late
Victorian period 9. Which of the following statements
does not apply to the writers of the
4. Which of the following is not an Romantic period?
example of a sonnet cycle?
[A] They glorified emotions
[A] Astrophil and Stella by Philip
[B] Many of them idealized the
Sidney
peasants and the child
[B] Amoretti by Edmund Spenser
[C] Many of them shunned
[C] The House of Life by Dante
individualism
Gabriel Rossetti
[D] Many of them were fascinated by
[D] Gathered Leaves by Mary
the remote
Coleridge
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10. Which of the following statements 14. Why does the speaker in Eliot’s The
related to Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ is Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock say, “I
untrue? am not Prince Hamlet”?
[A] In the poem the “sunny pleasure- [A] Because he is indecisive like
dome with caves of ice” brings Hamlet
together nature and artifice [B] Because he wants to justify his
[B] The poem is about the creation of inability to ask a question that
art he intends to ask
[C] The Abyssinian maid of the poem [C] Because he is an ordinary man,
sings of Alph, the sacred river not a prince
[D] The artist represented in the [D] Because he is talking to a
poem is to be regarded with ‘holy twentieth century woman
dread’
15. How does the speaker in the poem
11. Which of the following statements
Strange Meeting understand that he
related to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering
is in hell?
Heights is untrue?
[A] By the sight of the “profound dull
[A] Thrushcross Grange symbolizes
tunnel”
the rational, civilized world
[B] By the groaning of the sleepers
[B] The novel adopts a linear first-
in the tunnel
person narrative technique
[C] By the “dead smile” of one of the
[C] The storm-swept moorland of the
sleepers who suddenly sprang up
novel is imaginatively close to
that of King Lear [D] By the “thousand fears” that
“grained” the vision’s face
[D] Heathcliff is one of the most
fascinating hero-villains in
English literature 16. Which of the following lines by Yeats
is related to the Easter Rising of 1916?
12. The horror of Conrad’s Heart of [A] Things fall apart; the centre
Darkness lies in cannot hold
[A] Kurtz’s degeneration and [B] That is no country for old men
ultimate despair [C] I made my song a coat
[B] Marlow’s realization that he too [D] A terrible beauty is born
is capable of moral transgression
like Kurtz 17. Which image from James Joyce’s short
[C] knowing the savagery pulsating story Araby reminds us of the Grail
behind the civilized façade legend?
[D] All of the above [A] Mangan’s sister’s figure defined
by the light from the half-open+ed
13. Which of the following novels is not door
autobiographical?
[B] The boy’s eyes burning with
[A] A Portrait of the Artist as Young anguish and anger
Man
[C] The boy bearing his chalice
[B] The Way of All Flesh through a throng of foes
[C] Of Human Bondage
[D] The houses at Richmond Street
[D] Waiting for the Barbarians gazing at one another
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18. Which one is the most possible theme 22. Which of the following statements
of Conrad’s story, The Lagoon? about Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night
is untrue?
[A] Sin, repentance and salvation
[A] A cross-dressing heroine is at the
[B] Crime and punishment center of the action
[B] With the final song, the comedy
[C] Wages of sin is death
ends in a bitter-sweet note
[D] Sin and repentance [C] In the tradition of the Christian
festivity of Twelfth Night, Malvolio
can be considered the “Lord of
19. How did the boss feel after the death
Misrule”
of the fly?
[D] The complete title of the play is
[A] The boss was terribly sad Twelfth Night or What You Will
[B] The boss had a feeling of
wretchedness 23. Why does Bluntschli in Shaw’s Arms
and the Man come back to return a
[C] The boss felt a sense of power coat?

[D] The boss experienced the [A] Being honest, he did not want to
catharsis of his feelings be in debt
[B] As a professional soldier he
wanted to maintain a high
20. W. H. Auden presents several
standard of morality
reactions to the fall of Icarus in his
.
poem Musee des Beaux Arts. Which [C] Because he was incurably
one of the following is not true about romantic
the reactions?
[D] Because he wanted to fight a duel
[A] For the ploughman it was not an with Sergius
important failure
24. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout
[B] The ship calmly sailed on way of speech/writing, is also known
as
[C] The sun went on shining
[A] circumlocution
[D] The horse scratched its innocent
behind on a tree [B] chiasmus
[C] understatement
21. Who in William Shakespeare’s play [D] synecdoche
Macbeth was “from his mother’s womb
/ Untimely ripped”?
25. “He is not the brightest boy in the
class.” This is an example of
[A] Malcolm
[A] hyperbole
[B] Macduff
[B] irony
[C] Fleance
[C] litotes
[D] Banquo [D] transferred epithet

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26. “Imagined Community” is a concept 31. Which American poet is referred to as
propounded by the father of free verse?
[A] Edward Said [A] Langston Hughes
[B] Frantz Fanon
[B] Robert Frost
[C] Paul Gilroy
[C] Ralph Waldo Emerson
[D] Benedict Anderson
[D] Walt Whitman
27. Which one of the following is accepted
as the earliest tract on feminism? 32. Which of the following is the setting
[A] Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal of William Faulkner’s novels and
to the Ladies short stories?
[B] Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second [A] Lafayette County, Mississippi
Sex
[B] Yoknapatawpha County,
[C] Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s
Mississippi
Own
[D] Mary Wollstonecraft’s A [C] Mississippi County, Arkansas
Vindication of the Rights of Woman [D] Cleveland County, Oklahoma

28. “Heteroglossia” refers to
33. Which of the following literary
[A] the juxtaposition of multiple traditions is Frederick Douglass
voices in a text associated with?
[B] the comments on the margins of
[A] Gothic fiction
a text
[C] the gloss or commentary relating [B] Transcendental Poetry
to a text [C] Abolitionist narratives
[D] the multiple readings of a text
[D] American Nationalist Literature
29. Who among the following argued that
the birth of the reader must be at the 34. Which of the following is not a feature
cost of the death of the author? of Emily Dickinson’s poems?
[A] Roman Jakobson [A] Extensive use of dashes
[B] Michel Foucault
[B] Use of pentameter
[C] Roland Barthes
[C] Capitalizing of interior words
[D] Mikhail Bakhtin
[D] Slant Rhymes
30. Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of ‘mimicry’
is related to 35. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter
[A] the reading of structure and signs stands for
[B] the analysis of Disneyland as a [A] Appetite
perfect model of simulation
[B] Arrogance
[C] the foregrounding of the voice of
the subalterns [C] Adultery
[D] the understanding of the [D] Available
operations of colonial discourses

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36. Which play by Girish Karnad can be 40. Who among the following Indian
related to Thomas Mann’s Transposed writers in English, has created an
Heads? identifiable imagined locale?

[A] Hayavadana [A] Anita Desai

[B] R. K. Narayan
[B] Naga-Mandala
[C] Raja Rao
[C] Tughlaq
[D] Mulk Raj Anand
[D] Tale-danda
41. Which of the following is not a
Partition novel?
37. Which of the following Indian English
authors wrote the line - “The best [A] Sunlight on a Broken Column
poets wait for words”?
[B] The Shadow Lines

[A] Kamala Das [C] Train to Pakistan

[B] Nissim Ezekiel [D] Twilight in Delhi

[C] A. K. Ramanujan 42. The word ‘gym’ is an example of

[D] Sarojini Naidu [A] clipping

[B] abbreviation
38. In which of the following novels [C] acronym
Harikatha is used as a medium of
‘consciousness raising’? [D] eponym

[A] Waiting for the Mahatma 43. The branch of linguistics that deals
with the scientific study of meaning
[B] Kanthapura is

[C] Untouchable [A] semantics

[B] morphology
[D] Fire on the Mountain
[C] phonology

39. Which of the following is not a novel [D] syntax
by Salman Rushdie?
44. A regional variety of a language is
[A] Shame
[A] register
[B] The Moor’s Last Sigh
[B] creole
[C] Haroun and the Sea of Stories [C] dialect

[D] An Equal Music [D] pidgin

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45. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot 50. The famous line “....... where ignorant
has armies clash by night” is taken from
a poem by
[A] three acts
[A] Wilfred Owen
[B] four acts
[C] one act [B] Siegfried Sassoon

[D] two acts [C] S. T. Coleridge

[D] Matthew Arnold
46. Which of the following works of John
Milton is an elegy?
51. The phrase ‘the willing suspension of
[A] Lycidas disbelief’ occurs in
[B] L’Allegro [A] Preface to Lyrical Ballads
[C] Camus [B] In Defence of Poetry
[D] Paradise Lost [C] Biographia Literaria

[D] Tradition and Individual Talent
47. The IPA stands for
[A] International Phonemic
52. Sexual jealousy is a theme in
Association
Shakespeare’s
[B] International Phonological
Association [A] The Tempest

[C] International Phonological [B] The Merchant of Venice
Alphabet [C] King Lear
[D] International Phonetic Alphabet
[D] Othello

48. Who famously said, “Three or four
53. Who among the following is not a
families in a Country Village is the
very thing to work on”? Restoration playwright?

[A] Jane Austen [A] Ben Jonson

[B] Charlotte Bronte [B] William Congreve

[C] George Eliot [C] George Etherege

[D] Emily Brontë [D] William Wycherley

49. Who among the following women 54. The term diaspora was originally
writers, imagined the plight of applied to the following ethnic group :
Shakespeare’s sister?
[A] Arab Muslims
[A] George Eliot
[B] French Canadians
[B] Virginia Woolf
[C] Spaniards
[C] Simone de Beauvoir
[D] Jews
[D] Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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PART—II
( Islamic History and Culture, General English & General Knowledge )
55. Revelation to Prophet Muhammad 60. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born
(PBUH) started with the word ‘Iqra’ in
which means >¤ã ³åÒà´¶ƒ (Îà.)-&¹ \@µÑ‚à> Òº
>¤ã ³åÒà´¶ƒ (Îà.)-&¹ A¡àìá "¤t¡ão¢ šøt¡¸àìƒÅ Ç¡¹ç¡ [A] Jordan
ÒìÚìá ‘ÒüA¡¹à’ Ŧ [ƒìÚ ™à¹ "=¢ Òº
[A] pray [B] Jeddah

[B] prostrate [C] Mecca
[C] read [D] Medina
[D] write
61. In Islam, legal matters are part of
56. Which of the following cities is not a Òüκàì³ "àÒü> Î}yû¡à”z [¤ÈÚà[ƒ A¡ãìι "”z®¢å¡v¡û¡?
sacred city for Muslims?
[A] Fikr
[>ì´•¹ ëA¡à>ô ÅÒ¹[i¡ ³åÎ[º³ìƒ¹ A¡àìá šåo¸Ñ‚à> >Ú?
[B] Zikr
[A] Jerusalem
[C] Shariah
[B] Mecca
[C] Cairo [D] Taharat
[D] Medina 62. Hajj is performed in the month of
57. What does Islam say about acquiring ë™ ³àìÎ Ò\ šà[ºt¡ ÒÚ, t¡à Òº
knowledge? [A] Dhul Qadah
`¡à> "\¢ì>¹ ¤¸àšàì¹ ÒüκೠA¡ã ¤ìº? [B] Dhul Hijjah
[A] Obligatory for men only
[C] Shaban
[B] Obligatory for women only
[D] Shawwal
[C] Obligatory for rich people only
[D] Obligatory for all 63. Rashidun Caliphate lasted for _____
years.
58. Which one is not part of the five
pillars of Islam? ¹à[Ńå> [Jºàó¡ìt¡¹ γÚA¡àº _____ ¤á¹¡ú
[>ìW¡¹ ëA¡à>[i¡ Òüκàì³¹ še¡Ñzì´±¹ ³ì‹¸ "”z®¢å¡v¡û¡ [A] 20
>Ú? [B] 30
[A] Profess Allah is the only God [C] 40
[B] Pray five times daily
[D] 50
[C] Make a pilgrimage to Mecca
[D] Read the Qur’an every day 64. Who accompanied Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) during
59. The divine book revealed to Prophet migration?
Muhammad (PBUH) is
ëA¡à>ô ¤¸[v¡û¡ [Ò\¹ìt¡¹ Î³Ú >¤ã ³åÒà´¶ƒ (Îà.) ëA¡
>¤ã ³åÒà´¶ƒ (Îà.)-&¹ [>A¡i¡ "¤t¡ão¢ 'Åã Kø씂¹ ÎU [ƒìÚ[áìº>?
>à³ Òº
[A] Abu Hurayra
[A] Torah
[B] Hazrat Ali
[B] Qur’an
[C] Injeel [C] Khadija
[D] Zabur [D] Abu Bakr

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65. What are the companions of the 70. Which gates are closed during the
Prophet called? month of Ramadan?
>¤ã¹ ÎàÒà¤ã샹 [A¡ ¤ºà ÒÚ? ¹³\à> ³àìÎ ëA¡à>ô ƒ¹\àP¡ìºà ¤Þê¡ =àìA¡?
[A] Sahabah [A] Gates of Hell
[B] Gates of Heaven
[B] Friends
[C] Gates of Light
[C] Ansar
[D] Gates of Mosque
[D] None of the above
71. What is the Shari’ah?
66. What to say when anyone sneeze? Å[¹Út¡ A¡ã?
ëA¡l¡ü Òòà[W¡ [ƒìº A¡ã ¤ºìt¡ ÒÚ? [A] A religious school
[A] Yarhamukallah [B] A native dance
[C] A style of calligraphy
[B] Ya Allah
[D] A form of Muslim law
[C] Alhamdu lillah
[D] La Ilaha Illallah 72. The Kabah is located in _____.
A¡à¤àQ¹ _____ ët¡ "¤[Ñ‚t¡¡ú
67. What is Salat means? [A] Mecca
Îàºàt¡ ³àì> A¡ã? [B] Medina
[A] Fasting [C] Istanbul

[B] Giving to the poor [D] Iraq

[C] Praying 73. Are women allowed to go to mosques
[D] Pilgrimage to offer prayers?
³[Òºà샹 [A¡ ³Î[\ìƒ >à³à\ šØl¡à¹ ">å³[t¡ ëƒ*Úà
68. What is the meaning of
ÒÚ?
‘Astaghfirullah’? [A] No, women are not allowed in
the mosques
‘"ÑzàK[ó¡¹ç¡ÀàÒ’-&¹ "=¢ A¡ã?
[B] Women can only listen to
[A] I ask Allah for Forgiveness prayers
[B] We are for Allah [C] Yes, women can offer prayers in
mosques, provided there are
[C] Accept our prayer
separate facilities and provision
[D] None of the above
[D] Women can pray in the mosques,
standing right beside the men
69. What is the first duty to become a
Muslim? 74. In which language was the Holy
Qur’an revealed?
³åκ³à> Ò*Ú๠šø=³ A¡t¢¡¤¸ A¡ã?
‘š[¤y A塹"à>’ ëA¡à>ô ®¡àÈàÚ "¤t¡ão¢ ÒìÚ[áº?
[A] Salat
[A] Arabic
[B] Sawm
[B] Greek
[C] Hajj [C] Latin
[D] Shahadah [D] Hebrew
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75. Fill in the blanks with the 80. In which of the following States
appropriate words. Rawatbhata Nuclear Plant is
The _____ workers will come forward situated?
and protest against the _____ of the ¹à*Úàt¡®¡ài¡à šà¹³ào[¤A¡ ëA¡@ƒø [>ìW¡¹ ëA¡à>ô ¹àì\¸
organization.
"¤[Ñ‚t¡?
[A] deprived, issues
[A] Rajasthan
[B] depraved, policies
[B] Gujarat
[C] derived, interests
[C] Madhya Pradesh
[D] depreciated, management
[D] Tamil Nadu

76. Find the word opposite in meaning to 81. Who invented the railway engine?
the underlined word.
빺*ìÚ Òü[g> ëA¡ "à[¤ÍHþ๠A¡ì¹>?
Rahim’s foolishness will drive me to
despair. [A] Charles Babbage
[A] Hopefulness [B] Isaac Newton
[B] Desperation [C] James Watt
[C] Destruction [D] George Stephenson
[D] Repulsed
82. Who is said to be the father of the
Indian Space Programme?
77. Fill in the blanks with the correct
alternatives. ®¡à¹t¡ãÚ ³ÒàA¡àÅ A¡³¢Îè[W¡¹ \>A¡ A¡àìA¡ ¤ºà ÒÚ?
The farmer placed his shovel _____ [A] Abdul Kalam
the wall and sat _____ to rest. [B] Rakesh Sharma
[A] beside, over [C] Vikram Sarabhai
[B] against, down [D] Homi Bhabha
[C] by, along
83. Which of the following was Indian’s
[D] on, in
first mapping satellite?

78. Identify the synonym of the word [>ìW¡¹ ëA¡à>[i¡ ®¡à¹ìt¡¹ šø=³ ³¸à[š} θàìi¡ºàÒüi¡
‘ABJECT’. [áº?
[A] Outrageous [A] CARTOSAT-1
[B] Fantastic [B] Aryabhata
[C] Devastated [C] Bhaskara-II
[D] Deplorable [D] INSAT-1A

79. Fill in the blank with the appropriate 84. The super computer ‘PARAM’ was
collective noun. developed by
A _____ of cards. Îåšà¹ A¡[´šl¡üi¡à¹ ‘PARAM’ ít¡[¹ A¡ì¹>
[A] pile [A] TATA
[B] bundle [B] IIT-Kharagpur
[C] deck [C] IIT-Kanpur
[D] bunch [D] C-DAC
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Section—B : Descriptive Questions on Core Subject

Attempt a short essay on the topic given :

85. Attempt a short essay on the topic given :

Poetry makes nothing happen

86. Who, according to you is the most interesting of Shakespearean female characters?
Justify your answer.

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