THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY

HYDERABAD-500 007

Ph D in English (Indian and World Literatures)

Entrance Test- 2014- Model Question Paper

Time: 2 Hrs Max. Marks: 120

Instructions:

1. There will be FOUR Sections in this paper (A, B, C, and D and all sections carry equal marks of 30
each.
2. Section A will have 30 objective type questions and questions in Sections B , C and D are of
Comprehensive type.

SECTION A

Answer all the questions (30): (30X1=30 marks)

1. Which of the following is a collection of short stories by Anita Desai: ( )
a. Games at Twilight
b. Fasting, Feasting
c. Baumgartners Bombay
d. Voices in the City
2. Which one of the following texts uses the technique of magic realism: ( )
a. The Mimic Men
b. One Hundred Years of Solitude
c. Untouchable
d. Storm in Chandigarh
3. Who is the author of the work, The Death of the Author? ( )
a. Jacques Derrida
b. Terry Eagleton
c. Roland Barthes
d. Julia Kristeva
4. Who among the following wrote the Foreword t Tagores Gitanjali? ( )
a. Graham Greene
b. W B Yeats
c. T S Eliot
d. Ezra Pound





5. Who among the following postcolonial literary giants passed away recently: ( )
a. Wilson Harris
b. Chinua Achebe
c. Derek Walcott
d. Octavio Paz
Section B

Answer any TWO of the following questions (06) in about 800 words each : (2X15= 30) (2

1. Are the assumptions on Humanism valid in the contemporary world? Why (not)?
2. Discuss the importance of ideology in literary interpretation?
3. Write about the chief attributes of Reader-response Criticism?
4.
5.
6.
Section C

Read the passage (prose) given below and answer the questions (05) that follow in not
more than 100 words each. (5x6=30)

Section D
Attempt a critical reading of the extract (fiction or play or poem) given below in not
more than 500 words: (1x30=30