List of top Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Read the following statements carefully:
(A) Ultracentrifugation separates molecules based on their density
(B) Gel electrophoresis separates molecules based on their mobility in an electric field
(C) Gel filtration separates molecules based on their size
(D) NMR separates molecules based on their proton signal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):

List I	Playwright	List II: Play
A	Badal Sircar	(I) Charandas Chor
B	Vijay Tendulkar	(II) Evam Indrajit
C	Mohan Rakesh	(III) Silence! The Court is in Session
D	Habib Tanvir	(IV) Adhe Adhure

Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?
Fledgling (2005)
Kindred (1979)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
The Word for World is Forest (1972)

Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

Who is the author of the 2014 novel, The Black Hill?
(A) Mamang Dai
(B) Easterine Kire
(C) Robin S. Ngangom
(D) Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Which famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children’s magazine Sandesh?

Match the Indian writings in English (List I) with their respective authors (List II):

List I	Indian Writing in English	List II: Author
A	A Fine Balance	(I) Anita Desai
B	The God of Small Things	(II) Rohinton Mistry
C	Such a Long Journey	(III) Khushwant Singh
D	Fire on the Mountain	(IV) Arundhati Roy

Arrange the publications of Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication:
(A) Train to Pakistan (1956)
(B) Delhi: A Novel (1990)
(C) I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959)
(D) The Company of Women (1999)

Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?

Match the author (List-I) with the text (List-II):

List I	Author	List II: Text
A	Arundhati Roy	(I) Midnight's Children
B	Salman Rushdie	(III) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
C	Kiran Desai	(II) The Inheritance of Loss
D	Shashi Deshpande	(IV) The Dark Holds No Terrors

V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:

To which famous Indian playwright can the following plays be attributed? Pagla Ghoda, Hatt Tikhhar Pratap:

Match the Indian Writings in English in List I with their respective authors in List II:

List I (Books)	List II (Authors)
A. Difficult Daughters	I. Anita Desai
B. The God of Small Things	III. Arundhati Roy
C. The Shadow Lines	II. Manju Kapur
D. The Artist of Disappearance	IV. Amitav Ghosh

Match the translation studies concept (List-I) with its definition (List-II):

List I	Concept	List II: Definition
A	Subtitling	(I) Also known as captions or on-screen commentary, it is a written translation of the spoken text that appears at the bottom of the screen to assist viewers in following the dialogues of a film.
B	Transcreation	(II) A mix of translation and creation, this method is used in the advertising and marketing industry to make a text appealing to a specific target audience.
C	Voice-over	(III) A translation technique in which an interpreter’s voice is heard instead of the original audio, but the original voice is also audible in the background.
D	Dubbing	(IV) The practice of replacing the original soundtrack with a translated one while keeping the synchronization of the actors’ lip movements and facial expressions.

Arrange the steps of the Translation Process in the correct order:
(A) Analysis of the Source Language text in order to decode its meanings.
(B) Transfer of the meanings from the Source Language text to the Target Language text without losing the integrity of the Source Language text.
(C) Restructuring of the Source Language through recreation in the Target Language text.

Arrange the following novels of Stephen King in the chronological order of their publication (oldest first):
(A) Carrie
(B) It
(C) Misery
(D) The Shining

Set in Dartington Hall, this Booker-winning novel is a story about post-war Britain and the influence of Nazis on British gentlemen, but it ultimately about redemption. Identify the novel:

Match the literary awards in List I with their correct description in List II:

List I (Literary Awards)	List II (Description)
A. Booker Prize	I. Recognizes outstanding achievement in art or science.
B. Hugo Award	IV. Presented annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works.
C. Pulitzer Prize	III. Recognizes excellence in the field of journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
D. Nobel Prize in Literature	II. Awarded annually for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom.

Match the Text (List-I) to the Genre/Type:

List I	Name of the Text	List II: Genre/Type
A	Paradise Lost	(I) Dramatic Monologue
B	Porphyria's Lover	(II) Satire
C	King Lear	(III) Epic
D	The Dunciad	(IV) Tragedy

Arrange these Comedies of William Shakespeare in their chronological order (oldest first)
1.The Tempest
2. As You Like It
3. The Taming of the Shrew
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts? Pamela, The Castle of Otranto, Humphry Clinker

The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travels of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of the picaresque novel?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
(B) Tom Jones (1749)
(C) Don Quixote (1605)
(D) Moll Flanders (1722)

Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance (oldest first):
(A) Byomkesh Bakshi
(B) Sherlock Holmes
(C) Hercule Poirot
(D) Dupin

Identify the author who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi: