JMI BA English PYQ 2024 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 author of the story “The Last Leaf” is
(A) O. Henry
(B) Helen Cixous
(C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(D) Anton Chekhov
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2. A poem of mourning is called
(A) A Sonnet
(B) An Epic
(C) An Elegy
(D) An Epistle
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3. The poem which has fourteen lines is called
(A) A Sonnet
(B) An Epic
(C) An Elegy
(D) An Epistle
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4. A poem T. S. Eliot did not write is
(A) “Gerontion”
(B) “The Journey of the Magi”
(C) “Among School Children”
(D) “Four Quartets”
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5. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 was awarded to
(A) Ngugi Wa Thiong’O
(B) Annie Ernaux
(C) Zadie Smith
(D) Louise Glück
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6. Ahmad Ali is the author of
(A) Twilight in Delhi
(B) Phoenix Fled
(C) In Custody
(D) A Bend in the Ganges
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7. Girish Karnad wrote plays in English and
(A) Telugu
(B) Kannada
(C) Malayalam
(D) Hindi
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8. Mark Antony is an important character in Shakespeare’s play
(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night
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9. The word that best describes the following is ‘Open to more than one interpretation’
(A) Obsolete
(B) Alchemy
(C) Obvious
(D) Ambiguous
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10. A novel that does not deal with Delhi is
(A) City of Djinns
(B) Maximum City
(C) Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(D) White Tiger
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11. The movie Gone Girl is based on a novel by
(A) Rhys Adrian
(B) Angela Carter
(C) Gillian Flynn
(D) Caryl Churchill
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12. Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama is
(A) A novel
(B) A collection of Short Stories
(C) A book in verse
(D) A play
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13. The first attempt at writing a monolingual Dictionary in English was made by
(A) Dr Samuel Johnson
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) T. S. Eliot
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14. A word or sentence that remains the same if read backward is known as
(A) Acronym
(B) Palindrome
(C) Portmanteau
(D) Homonym
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15. A novel not written by Amitav Ghosh is
(A) River of Smoke
(B) The Circle of Reason
(C) Sea of Poppies
(D) Red Earth and Pouring Rain
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16. Mark the odd one among the following:
(A) A Conceit
(B) An Allusion
(C) A Paradox
(D) An Ode
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17. The film Maqbool is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Tempest
(D) King Lear
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18. OTT stands for
(A) Online Television Transmission
(B) Other-Transmission Terminal
(C) Open Time Transmission
(D) Over-The-Top
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19. Two same sounding words with different meanings are called
(A) Homograph
(B) Homonym
(C) Synonym
(D) Antonym
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20. The following is not true about the novel Robinson Crusoe
(A) It was written by Daniel Defoe
(B) It is based on the life of Alexander Selkirk
(C) Crusoe’s companion is called ‘Monday’
(D) It is credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction
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21. A Biblioklept is one who
(A) steals books
(B) loves books
(C) worships books
(D) fears books
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22. A work that depicts an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror is called
(A) Satire
(B) Utopia
(C) Allegory
(D) Dystopia
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23. The word that has the same meaning as ‘precarious’ is
(A) Secure
(B) Elevated
(C) Uncertain
(D) Confident
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24. _________ is a Dalit autobiography
(A) The Outcaste
(B) Untouchable
(C) The Fall of a Sparrow
(D) A Shot at History
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25. A phrase, poem or a quotation set at the beginning of a section, chapter or book is called
(A) Monograph
(B) Epigraph
(C) Epitaph
(D) Epigram
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26. The opening of a story that establishes the context and may reveal some background is called
(A) Interlude
(B) Foreword
(C) Prologue
(D) Preface
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27. The phrase ‘It’s Greek to me’ comes from Shakespeare’s play
(A) Hamlet
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) Cymbeline
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28. Neologism is
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes over a period of time
(C) An obsession with new words and phrases
(D) A newly coined word or a word used in a new sense
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29. Salim Sinai is the central character in the novel
(A) Heart of Darkness
(B) Midnight’s Children
(C) Kim
(D) The Secret Sharer
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30. Wings of Fire is a famous autobiography written by
(A) Vandana Shiva
(B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(C) A PJ Abul Kalam
(D) Saleem Ali
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31. The writer known for writing about Indian mythology is
(A) Agha Shahid Ali
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Chetan Bhagat
(D) Devdutt Pattanaik
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32. Identify the odd one
(A) Spondee
(B) Villanelle
(C) Sonnet
(D) Canzone
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33. An ‘Aside’ is a dramatic device in which
(A) A character speaks to the audience unheard by other characters
(B) A character speaks to himself unheard by other characters
(C) A character speaks to another character in the corner of stage unheard by other characters
(D) It is synonymous with monologue
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34. The Bourne films are based on novels by
(A) Robert Ludlum
(B) Margret Mitchell
(C) Dan Brown
(D) Ian Fleming
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35. The phrase “From what I’ve tasted of desire” (Robert Frost) is an example of
(A) Imagery
(B) Synaesthesia
(C) Allusion
(D) Metaphor
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36. Arrange the following Harry Potter novels in the order of their publication
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(A) 3, 1, 4, 2
(B) 2, 3, 4, 1
(C) 3, 2, 4, 1
(D) 1, 2, 3, 4
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37. The Second Sex was written by
(A) Kate Millett
(B) Donna J. Haraway
(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Judith Butler
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38. “An Ode to a Grecian Urn” is a famous poem by
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Lord Byron
(C) Mary Shelley
(D) John Keats
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39. Frankestein is a famous work by
(A) Richardson
(B) Daniel Defoe
(C) Mary Shelley
(D) Sir Walter Scott
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40. In Shakespeare’s play The Tempest Miranda is the daughter of
(A) Caliban
(B) Prospero
(C) Ferdinand
(D) Alonso
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