List of top English Questions on Comparative Literature and Translations Studies

Identify the author-translator duo who are correctly matched:
(A) Adheesh Sathaye - Simon Bruni
(B) Elena Ferrante - Ann Goldstein
(C) Han Kang - Deborah Smith
(D) Olga Tokarczuk - Jennifer Croft

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

Which of the following Comparative Literature concepts signify literary similarity between at least two works that cannot be explained by context?
(A) Comparative poetics
(B) Genetic contact
(C) Typological affinity
(D) Intertextuality

The publication and performance of which work made Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o believe that his theatre work reached censorship because of its use of the local language and its capability to sway a larger number of people to political action?

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

Which of the following are the features of the MAT Project in India known as “MANTRA Machine Translation Systems”?
(A) Translates English texts to Hindi in specific domains of public administration, agriculture, education, and health.
(B) Provides tools for users in museums and archives.
(C) Project MANTRA-Rajbhasha based on this technology, developed by C-DAC, received funding by the Dept. of Official Languages, Ministry of Home Affairs.
(D) Result being developed by Carnegie Mellon Univ. USA; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.