Mock 1 – Statements, Sequencing & Matching (Part 1)

Arrange the following books in chronological order:

1. A. G. N. Shuster, The English Ode from Milton to Keats
2. B. Paul H. Fry, The Poet's Calling in the English Ode
3. C. John Heath-Stubbs, The Ode
4. D. Carol Maddison, Apollo and the Nine: A History of the Ode
5. E. John Miles Foley (ed.), Oral Traditional Literature

Arrange the following statements in chronological order:

1. A. Nissim Ezekiel founded Quest, a general intellectual review associated with liberal democratic politics.
2. B. The Illustrated Weekly of India sponsored a short story competition and began publishing contemporary Indian English poetry.
3. C. The Writers Workshop began to publish volumes of poetry.
4. D. C. R. Mandy became editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.

Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication:

1. A. The Serpent and the Rope
2. B. Two Leaves and a Bud
3. C. A Bend in the Ganges
4. D. So Many Hungers!
5. E. Waiting for the Mahatma

Identify the correct chronological order of publication of the following works:

1. A. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
2. B. The Advancement of Learning
3. C. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
4. D. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language

Arrange the following stages of first language acquisition in chronological order:

1. A. The two-word stage
2. B. Telegraphic speech
3. C. The one-word stage
4. D. Cooing
5. E. Babbling

Arrange the following commissions, committees and events in the history of English in India in chronological order:

1. A. Gokak Committee Report
2. B. Acharya Ramamurti Commission
3. C. All India Language Conference
4. D. Kothari Commission
5. E. The Official Languages Act

Arrange the following works of S. Radhakrishnan chronologically:

1. A. The Heart of Hindustan
2. B. Occasional Speeches and Writings
3. C. Eastern Religions and Western Thought
4. D. The Dhammapada (translation)
5. E. The Principal Upanishads

Arrange the following works of John Storey in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization
2. B. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction
3. C. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader
4. D. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life
5. E. Culture and Power in Cultural Studies: The Politics of Signification

Arrange the following works of criticism chronologically:

1. A. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
2. B. A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
3. C. The History of Sexuality
4. D. New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings
5. E. Bodies That Matter

Arrange the following statements in the order of their appearance in Aristotle's Poetics:

1. A. The plot is 'the end at which tragedy aims'.
2. B. Regarding the plot, 'a whole is what has a beginning, middle and end'.
3. C. The plot should have unity: 'the component incidents must be so arranged that if one of them be transposed or removed, the unity of the whole is dislocated and destroyed'.
4. D. The tragic character must be a man 'who is not pre-eminently virtuous and just... but falls through some flaw in him'.
5. E. The function of the poet is to narrate 'events such as might occur... according to the laws of probability or necessity'.

Choose the correct chronological order of the following works on postcolonial criticism:

1. A. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
2. B. Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years
3. C. Nation and Narration
4. D. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
5. E. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Arrange the following feminist works in chronological order:

1. A. The Female Imagination
2. B. The Madwoman in the Attic
3. C. A Literature of Their Own
4. D. Women's Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis
5. E. Revolution in Poetic Language

Arrange the following core elements of a Works Cited entry according to the MLA Handbook (9th edition):

1. A. Publisher
2. B. Title of source
3. C. Author
4. D. Title of container
5. E. Publication date

Arrange the following steps of material collection according to the hierarchy given by Delia da Sousa Correa and W. R. Owens in The Handbook to Literary Research:

1. A. Identify your nearest major research library
2. B. Visit your own university library
3. C. Identify what is available online
4. D. Visit your nearest major research library

Choose the correct matches of play and playwright:

1. A. Hali – Rabindranath Tagore
2. B. Tiger Claw – Lakhan Deb
3. C. The Flute of Krishna – P. A. Krishnaswamy
4. D. Nalini – Gurcharan Das
5. E. Hayavadana – Girish Karnad

Read the following statements carefully and find the correct ones:

1. A. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women.
2. B. John Milton wrote Comus, Astrophel and Stella and Paradise Lost.
3. C. S. T. Coleridge composed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and The Curse of Kehama.
4. D. Shakespeare wrote The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Rape of Lucrece and Troilus and Cressida.
5. E. Alexander Pope's works include The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock and the Epistles.

Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones:

1. A. Patrick White, Christina Stead and Robertson Davies are famous Australian novelists.
2. B. The notion of 'civilized barbarity' was anticipated in H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel Allan Quatermain, in which civilization is said to be 'only savagery silver-gilt'.
3. C. Novels like The French Lieutenant's Woman, Midnight's Children and Waterland deconstruct traditional notions of history and subjectivity.
4. D. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy and McGahern's The Dark, which were banned in Ireland, were published during the 1950s.
5. E. The trauma of the mid-century years accounts for the prevalence of dystopian elements in novels like A Clockwork Orange, Lanark and The Handmaid's Tale.

Read the following statements carefully and find the correct ones:

1. A. Charles Lamb was a lifelong friend of Coleridge and a defender of the poetic creed of Wordsworth.
2. B. The London crowd, with its pleasures and occupations, never attracted Charles Lamb.
3. C. Charles Lamb gave us the best pen-portraits of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Landor, Hood and many more interesting men and women of his age.
4. D. Charles Lamb wrote Essays of Elia, Tales from Shakespeare and The Revolt of the Tartars.
5. E. Lamb was especially fond of old writers and was apparently unable to express his new thought without using their old quaint expressions.

Choose the correct definitions of language:

1. A. Language uses symbols that are primarily vocal but may also be visual; its subfields are phonetics, phonology, writing systems, orthography and nonverbal communication.
2. B. Language is used for communication; its subfields are sentence processing, pragmatics, discourse analysis and conversation analysis.
3. C. Language uses symbols that have conventionalized meanings; its subfields are universal grammar, innateness, emergentism, neurolinguistics and cross-cultural analysis.
4. D. Language is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures or marks having understood meanings.
5. E. Language has region-specific characteristics; its subfields are phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis and lexical analysis.

Choose the events correctly matched with their year:

1. A. The Official Languages Commission submitted its report in 1936.
2. B. The first ELTI was established in Allahabad in 1954.
3. C. The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages was established in Hyderabad in 1958.
4. D. The National Policy on Education came in 1960.
5. E. The NPE and its Programme of Action came in 1986.

Choose the statements made by Virginia Woolf about women:

1. A. 'She is born stupid and can do nothing but stupidity.'
2. B. 'She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction.'
3. C. 'She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history.'
4. D. She criticized Shakespeare for being harsh and rude to his female characters.
5. E. 'In real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.'

For Matthew Arnold, culture is:

1. A. the ability to know what is best
2. B. the ability to know what is worst
3. C. the mental and spiritual application of what is best
4. D. the pursuit of what is best
5. E. the pursuit of what is worst

Which of the following statements were made by J. S. Mill in The Subjection of Women?

1. A. 'The husband was called the lord of the wife.'
2. B. 'She is a slave of any boy whose parents force a ring upon her finger.'
3. C. 'Wives are in general no better treated than slaves.'
4. D. 'The wife is the actual bondservant of her husband.'
5. E. 'If all women are not the victims of actual rape, then all of them are the victims of the threat of rape.'

Which of the following rules on formatting dates and times in the body of a paper are correct according to the MLA Handbook (9th edition)?

1. A. When using the month-day-year style in prose, a comma must follow the year unless another punctuation mark follows it.
2. B. Use a comma between month and year or between season and year.
3. C. Decades can be written out or expressed in numerals.
4. D. Spell out centuries in uppercase letters.
5. E. Numerals are used for most times of the day; generally use the twelve-hour clock in prose.