JMI BA English PYQ 2017 consists of 100 questions divided into four distinct categories:
| Section | Number of Questions |
| MCQ Objective on Authors, Books, Current literary scene in India and abroad | 40 Marks |
| Unseen Passage for comprehension | 20 Marks |
| Grammar and Vocabulary | 10 Marks |
| Essay | 30 Marks |
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There were 40 MCQ questions from author, Books and current literary scene in india.
20 marks for unseen passage, 10 marks for grammar and 30 marks for essay.
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9. A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage is
(A) Soliloquy
(B) Narrative Poem
(C) Dialogue
(D) Sonnet
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10. Wings of Fire is an autobiography of
(A) Maulana AbulKalam Azad
(B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(C) Manmohan Singh
(D) Bill Gates
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11. Who wrote the story “Toba Tek Singh”?
(A) Ismat Chughtai
(B) Qurratulain Hyder
(C) Prem Chand
(D) Saadat Hasan Manto
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12. Hindi film Omkara is based on which Shakespeare’s play?
(A) Othello
(B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet
(D) King Lear
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13. Famous detective hero Sherlock Holmes is a creation of
(A) Agatha Chrisie
(B) Edgar Allen Poe
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Arthur Conan Doyle
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14. A long narrative poem about a hero’s deeds
(A) Lyric
(B) Epic
(C) Sonnet
(D) Elegy
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15. A person or character who is telling the story
(A) Character
(B) Protagonist
(C) Actor
(D) Narrator
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16. The time and place in which the action of the story takes place
(A) Setting
(B) Plot
(C) Characterization
(D) Unity
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17. One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by
(A) Mario Vargas Llosa
(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C) Carlos Fuentes
(D) Diego Maradona
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18. Who wrote the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) John Milton
(D) T.S. Eliot
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19. What was Ali Baba’s profession in “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”?
(A) Butcher
(B) Baker
(C) Painter
(D) Woodcutter
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20. Who wrote Anna Karenina?
(A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(B) Alexander Pushkin
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Karl Marx
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21. Finish the sentence: “I have been living in Delhi ……”
(A) ten years ago
(B) ten year
(C) for ten years
(D) since ten years
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22. Complete the sentence: “I wish……..
(A) you didn’t said that
(B) you don’t say that
(C) you hadn’t said that
(D) you haven’t said that
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23. Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
(A) England
(B) Australia
(C) India
(D) United States
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24. Who won the Nobel Prize in literature for 2016?
(A) Bob Marley
(B) Bob Dylan
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Dan Brown
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25. James Joyce wrote the novel
(A) Ulysses
(B) The Enigma of Arrival
(C) Heart of Darkness
(D) Crime and Punishment
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26. Bolshevik Revolution in Russia took place in
(A) 1914
(B) 1917
(C) 1921
(D) 1929
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27. Abhigyan Shakuntalam was written by
(A) Kalidas
(B) Tulsidas
(C) Surdas
(D) Biswajit Das
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28. “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny” is the opening line of the speech given by
(A) Winston Churchill
(B) Lord Mountbatten
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Martin Luther King
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29. The novel Twilight in Delhi was written by
(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Ahmed Ali
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri
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30. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is the opening line of a poem by
(A) John Milton
(B) John Lennon
(C) John Keats
(D) John Donne
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31. Who wrote “Saare Jahan se Achcha Hindustan Hamara”
(A) Mirza Ghalib
(B) Muhammad Iqbal
(C) Faiz Ahmad Faiz
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore
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32. Which one of the following is not a novel by Amitav Ghosh
(A) The Glass Palace
(B) Sea of Poppies
(C) River of Smoke
(D) A Bend in the River
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33. Arundhati Roy’s forthcoming novel is called
(A) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
(B) Waiting for Mahatma
(C) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(D) In a Free State
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34. A sad poem, written to express sorrow for someone who is dead
(A) Elegy
(B) Epic
(C) Sonnet
(D) Limerick
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35. Anton Chekhov is particularly famous for his
(A) Novels
(B) Poetry
(C) Short Stories
(D) Essays
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36. Famous poet Pablo Neruda was from
(A) Spain
(B) Argentina
(C) Brazil
(D) Chile
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37. James Bond series of detective novels were written by
(A) Ian Fleming
(B) Ian Rankin
(C) Edgar Allen Poe
(D) Ian McEwan
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38. Who was the main architect of the constitution of India?
(A) Sardar Patel
(B) Bhim Rao Ambedkar
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
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39. Ph.D. stands for
(A) Physical Director
(B) Physically Handicapped Dude
(C) Philosophy Doctor
(D) Doctor of Philosophy
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40. Who wrote the book Origins of Species?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Pablo Neruda
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