List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Match the following literary retellings (List-I) with their original versions in (List-II):

List I	Literary Retellings	List II: Original Versions
A	Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad	(I) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B	Jeanette Winterson's Weight	(II) The Odyssey
C	Angela Carter's Queen of Hearts	(III) Through the Looking-Glass
D	Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls	(IV) The Iliad

Select examples of ‘Speculative Fiction’ from the following:
(A) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
(B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
(C) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
(D) The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Which of the following is true for masque performances?
(A) Masques were important theatrical forms during the reigns of James I and Charles I.
(B) They were performed in private royal halls.
(C) They were expensive to mount and had simple costumes and minimal stage designs.
(D) The designer of the most successful masques was Inigo Jones.

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

Which of the following works of ‘magical realism’ can be accredited to the celebrated author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
(A) Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
(B) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
(C) The House of the Spirits (1982)
(D) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

Identify the correct chronological order of the following theoretical movements
1. Structuralism
2. New Criticism
3. Poststructuralism
4. Feminist Criticism

Which of the following D.H. Lawrence’s novels written in Italy and published in 1928 was banned in England for its sexual content?

Match the following African novels in List I with the authors in List II:

List I (\(\text{African\ Novels}\))	List II (\(\text{Authors}\))
A. Things Fall Apart	I. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B. Petals of Blood	II. Tayeb Salih
C. Season of Migration to the North	III. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
D. Half of a Yellow Sun	IV. Chinua Achebe

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

Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:

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)

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

Select the traditional definition of the ”ballad” from the following:

Arrange the following Gothic novels in ascending chronological order (oldest first):
(A) Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(B) Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
(C) Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

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:

Match the Jane Austen novels (List I) with their primary female character (List II):

List I (Jane Austen Novels)	List II (Primary Female Character)
A. Pride and Prejudice	I. Catherine Morland
B. Persuasion	IV. Anne Elliot
C. Northanger Abbey	I. Catherine Morland
D. Mansfield Park	III. Fanny Price

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

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

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:

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

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)

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?

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

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