CUET-PG SERIES General-awareness
Books And Authors
17 previous year questions.
Volume: 17 Ques
Yield: Medium
High-Yield Trend
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2023 Chapter Questions 17 MCQs
01
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who is the author of the book "Castes : Old and New"?
1
Andre Beteille
2
M.N. Srinivas
3
M.N. Panini
4
Dipankar Gupta
02
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Match List I with List II:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | The Sex which is Not One | (I) | Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar |
| (B) | The Newly Born Women | (II) | Luce Irigaray |
| (C) | The Madwoman in the Attic | (III) | Adrienne Rich |
| (D) | On Lies, Secrets and Silence | (IV) | Helene Cixous |
1
A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
2
A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3
A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4
A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
03
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Match the works in List I with their authors in List II:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | Doctor Faustus | (I) | William Shakespeare |
| (B) | Julius Caesar | (II) | Christopher Marlowe |
| (C) | In Defence of Poesy | (III) | Edmund Spenser |
| (D) | The Faerie Queene | (IV) | Sir Philip Sidney |
1
A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2
A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3
A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
4
A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
04
PYQ 2023
medium
general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who introduced the term "Stream of Consciousness"?
1
James Joyce
2
Henry James
3
William James
4
Samuel Richardson
05
PYQ 2023
medium
general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Toxophilus was, in the author's own words, written "in the English tongue for English men". Who is the author?
1
Sir Thomas More
2
John Skelton
3
William Tyndale
4
Roger Ascham
06
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
'A Bend in the Ganges' is written by.
1
Khushwant Singh
2
Anita Desai
3
R. K. Narayan
4
Manohar Malgonkar
07
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
The first Indian novel, Rajmohan's Wife, was written by:
1
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
2
R. K. Narayan
3
Raja Rao
4
Rabindranath Tagore
08
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
English August: An Indian Story is a famous novel written by:
1
Upamanyu Chatterjee
2
Vikram Seth
3
Raja Rao
4
David Davidar
09
PYQ 2023
medium
general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Match List I with List II :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | Robert Browning | (I) | Ode To a Nightingale |
| (B) | John Keats | (II) | My Last Duchess |
| (C) | P.B. Shelley | (III) | Dover Beach |
| (D) | Matthew Arnold | (IV) | Prometheus Unbound |
1
A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
2
A-IV. B-II, C-I, D-III
3
A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4
A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
10
PYQ 2023
medium
general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Match List I with List II :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | Oliver Goldsmith | (I) | Tom Jones |
| (B) | Henry Fielding | (II) | The Lives of the Poets |
| (C) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | (III) | Biographia Literaria |
| (D) | Samuel Johnson | (IV) | The Vicar of Wakefield |
1
A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2
A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3
A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
4
A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-I
11
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who amongst the following is not a part of the group of the "University Wits"?
1
Christopher Marlowe
2
William Shakespeare
3
Robert Greene
4
George Peele
12
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Munshi Premchand's Godaan has been translated into English by:
1
Jai Rattan and Purshottama in 1957
2
Gordon C. Roadarmel in 1968
3
Both (1) and (2)
4
None of the above
13
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Which Indian novelist has written 'The Cat and Shakespeare'?
1
R. K. Narayan
2
Khushwant Singh
3
Raja Rao
4
Anita Desai
14
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who wrote the preface to Mulk Raj Anand's 'Untouchable'?
1
W. B. Yeats
2
E. M. Forster
3
Mahatma Gandhi
4
T. S. Eliot
15
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who among the following first used the term 'Meritocracy' in his satirical book "Rise of Meritocracy" in 1958 ?
1
Paul Willis
2
Peter Woods
3
Michael Young
4
David Hargreaves
16
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Who among the following is the author of the book "Learning to Labour" ?
1
David Hargreaves
2
Paul Willis
3
Ivan Illich
4
Peter Woods
17
PYQ 2023
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general-awareness ID: cuet-pg-
Which of the following is a controversial book published in 1972 that used Computer models to calculate the planet's available resources, rate of population growth, amount of land available for cultivation, levels of industrial and food production and amount of pollutants released into the air, and had a large hand in launching the environmental movement?
1
The Logic of Growth
2
The Limits to Growth
3
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
4
An Inconvenient Truth