JMI BA English PYQ 2019 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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1. The Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2017 was awarded to
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Doris Lessing
(C) Haruki Murakami
(D) Kazuo Ishiguro
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2. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year
(A) 1905
(B) 1910
(C) 1913
(D) 1920
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3. A Suitable Boy is written by
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Arvind Adiga
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4. Malgudi Days is written by
(A) Upamanyu Chatterjee
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Mulk Raj Anand
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5. The Untouchable is written by
(A) Raja Rao
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Amrita Pritam
(D) Munshi Premchand
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6. Midnight’s Children is written by
(A) Vikram Seth
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Arundhati Roy
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7. Train to Pakistan is written by
(A) Khushwant Singh
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Amrita Pritam
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8. Ice-Candy Man is written by
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) Alamgir Hashmi
(C) Saadat Hasan Manto
(D) Agha Shahid Ali
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9. The Kite Runner is written by
(A) Paulo Coelho
(B) Khaled Hosseini
(C) Yann Martel
(D) George Orwell
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10. Decolonizing the Mind is written by
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Amos Tutuola
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11. The Life of Pi is written by
(A) Joseph Conrad
(B) Paulo Coelho
(C) Yann Martel
(D) Harper Lee
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12. The Mahabharata is written by
(A) Vatsyayan
(B) Bharata Muni
(C) Ved Vyas
(D) Kalidas
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13. Iliad and Odyssey are written by
(A) Cicero
(B) Homer
(C) Socrates
(D) Aristotle
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14. Rubaiyyat is written by
(A) Saadi Shirazi
(B) Omar Khayyam
(C) Al-Biruni
(D) Rumi
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15. Cry, the Beloved Country is written by
(A) Alan Paton
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Joseph Conrad
(D) J.M. Coetzee
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16. “Lihaaf” is written by
(A) Attia Hosain
(B) Ismat Chughtai
(C) Rashid Jahan
(D) Eunice De Souza
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17. “Draupadi” is written by
(A) Githa Hariharan
(B) Mahasweta Devi
(C) Nayantara Sehgal
(D) Anita Desai
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18. A House for Mr Biswas is written by
(A) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
(B) Bapsi Sidhwa
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) V.S. Naipaul
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19. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is written by
(A) Thomas Hardy
(B) D.H. Lawrence
(C) James Joyce
(D) Agatha Christie
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20. Mary Ann Evans was a novelist better known by her pen name
(A) Acton Bell
(B) A.M. Barnard
(C) George Eliot
(D) Harper Lee
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21. The first woman novelist of England was
(A) Mary Shelley
(B) Aphra Behn
(C) Elizabeth Gaskell
(D) Jane Austen
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22. A limerick is a
(A) A six-line poem rhyming aaabbb
(B) A five-line poem rhyming aabba
(C) A seven-line poem rhyming aabbcca
(D) An eight-line poem rhyming ababcdcd
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23. A haiku is a
(A) A short poem of 10 syllables
(B) A short poem of 15 syllables
(C) A short poem of 17 syllables
(D) A short poem of 19 syllables
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24. A fable is a
(A) A short story with animals characters
(B) A short story with fantastical beast characters
(C) A short story with gods and demi-gods
(D) A short story with fairies and magicians
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25. A ballad is
(A) A short poem or song that is humorous
(B) A short poem or song that has nymphs and satyrs
(C) A short poem or song that has a dreamlike quality
(D) A short poem or song that narrates a romantic story
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26. An epic is
(A) A long poem with heroic characters
(B) A long poem with animal characters
(C) A long poem with humorous characters
(D) A long poem with nymphs and satyrs
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27. Which one of these creatures in J.K. Rowling’s novels is not based on classical mythology?
(A) Fluffy
(B) Mrs. Norris
(C) The Phoenix
(D) The Hippogriff
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28. In which Hardy novel does a girl fail to get married because she goes to the wrong church?
(A) Far From the Madding Crowd
(B) The Return of the Native
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(D) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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29. In which Coleridge poem is a ship condemned to wandering endlessly on the seas after a sailor kills a large bird?
(A) Kubla Khan
(B) Christabel
(C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D) Frost at Midnight
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30. In which Kafka story does a man wake up to find himself transformed into a giant insect?
(A) The Judgment
(B) The Metamorphosis
(C) In the Penal Colony
(D) A Common Confusion
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31. In which Dickens novel does a child get punished because he asks for more food?
(A) Nicholas Nickelby
(B) David Copperfield
(C) Great Expectations
(D) Oliver Twist
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32. In which Shakespearean play does a moneylender demand a pound of flesh from his debtor?
(A) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Measure for Measure
(D) Cymbeline
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33. Anna Karenina is written by
(A) Anton Chekhov
(B) Alexander Pushkin
(C) Maxim Gorky
(D) Leo Tolstoy
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34. Crime and Punishment is written by
(A) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(B) Ivan Turgenev
(C) Alexander Pushkin
(D) Nikolai Gogol
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35. The Scarlet Letter is written by
(A) Langston Hughes
(B) Ernest Hemingway
(C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(D) Emily Dickinson
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36. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is written by
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Ernest Hemingway
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Herman Melville
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37. Which Dickens novel begins with the words, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
(A) Great Expectations
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) The Pickwick Papers
(D) Barnaby Rudge
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38. Which modern novel ends with the words, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
(A) To Kill a Mockingbird
(B) Murder on the Orient Express
(C) The Other Side of Midnight
(D) Gone with the Wind
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39. The famous speech “I Have A Dream” was delivered by
(A) Winston Churchill
(B) Abraham Lincoln
(C) Emmeline Pankhurst
(D) Martin Luther King Jr.
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40. The film, My Fair Lady, is based on the G.B. Shaw play
(A) Saint Joan
(B) Pygmalion
(C) Candida
(D) Major Barbara
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