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51. - How many types of languages in drama     54. . T. S. Eliot's poetic play 'Murder In the
      are distinguished by Bharatmuni in             Cathedral' is based on the martyrdom of:
      *Natyashastra' ?
                                                    (A) St. Thomas Becket
      (A) 4               (B)' 3                    (B) St. Thomas More-
      (C) 5               (D) 6                     (C) St. Paul

 52. Identify the correct pairs ;                   (D)'St. Augustine

     (a) Shakespeare - As You Like It
                                               55. Name the English-dramatist who won.
     (b) MsccXoiviQ-Everyman in His Humour          Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and is
     (c) Dryden - The Indian Queen                  placed amongst the pioneers of the

     (d) Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party         theatre of the absurd with notable plays
                                                    like 'The Caretaker' and 'Homecoming'.
     (e) G B. Shaw - Dream on Monkey
                                                    (A) Arthur Adamov
                                    Mountain

     (A) (a), (c) and (d) only                     (B) Samuel Beckett

     (B) (b), (a) and (e) only                     (C) Harold Pinter

     (C) (a),(b) and (c) only                      (D) Eugene" O'Neill

    (D) (c),(d) and (e) only                   56. The opening scene of the play 'The Way
                                                    of The World' by William Congreve
53_. Find out the play not written by
                                                    begins in :
     Tennessee "^lliams :
                                                   (A) Green House
    (A) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
                                                   (B) Chocolate House
    (B) A Street Car Named Desire
                                                   (C) Yellow Room
    (C) The Hairy Ape
                                                   (D) Candy House
    (D) The Glass]Menagerie

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57. Henrik Ibsen was a/an :                     60. Manjula Padmanabhan's play 'Harvest'
                                                        deals with'the issues related to :
        (A) Norwegian playwright
                                                        (A) Organ trade
        (B) American theatre director
                                                        (B) Agriculture growth
        (C) British dramatist
                                                        (C) Communalism
        (D) Irish poet
                                                        (D) Intemational conspiracy
    58. The term 'Third Theatre' is associated
                                                    61. Milton's 'Aerop^itica' was published in
         with:
                                                         the year :
        (A) Mahesh Dattani                              (A) 1641            (B) 1654
        (B) Girish Kamad                                (C) 1644 -          (D) 1649
        (C) Badal Sircar
                                                    62. Who among the following is a 'Cavalier
        (D) R. N. Tagore                                 poet' ?                                     } ,

I   59. The following lines are told by a father         (A) Richard Lovelace
                                                         (B) Andrew Marvell
         to his daughter in a play :
         "We two alone will sing like birds in a        ^ (C) John Milton
                                            cage         (D) Sir Philip Sidney

         When thou dost ask me blessings, I will    63. Which of the following option is
                                       kneel down        correct?

         And ask of thee forgiveness "                   (A) Iambic — A stressed syllable
         Identify the play from the choices given             followed by an unstressed syllable."

         below :                                         (B) Dactylic—Two unstressed syllables
                                                              followed by a stressed syllable. .
         (A) Hamlet - Polonius to Ophelia
                                                         (C) Trochaic — An unstressed syllable
         (B) Oedipus Rex - Oedipus to Antigone
                                                              followed by a stressed syllable.
         (C) King Lear - Lear to Cordelia
                                                         (D) Spondee — Two successive stressed
         (D) Tempest - Prospero to Miranda                    syllables.

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64. Which of the following is not an          67. Who defined poetry in the following
                                                    words :
      occasional poetry ?
                                                   'Poetry is the record of the best and
     (A) Lycidas                                    happiest momeiits of the happiest and
                                                    best minds".
     (B) Epithalamion
                                                   (A) William Wordsworth
     (C) The Love Song ofJ. Alfied Prufrock        (B) Matthew Arnold

     (D) The Charge of the Light Brigade           (C) P. B. Shelley

                                                 ' (D) S. T. Coleridge
 65. Who among the following is a
                                              68. Which of the following is not the part of
     'Graveyard Poet' ?                            T. S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' ?

    (A) John Keats                                (A) Ash Wednesday ,
                                                  (B) East Coker
    (B) Edward Young
                                                  (C) Burnt Norton
    (C) William Blake                             (D) The Dry Salvages

    (D) Matthew Prior                         69. Who wrote the poem entitled 'Fem
                                                   Hill'?
66. Which of the following is not correctly
                                                  (A) Ted Hughes       (B) Thom Gunn
     matched ?
                                                  (C) Philip Larl^ (D) Dylan Thomas
    (A) Ottava Rima — Eight lines             70. A figure of speech in whicH "the part
                                                  stands for the whole and the whole
    (B) Rima Royal — Seven lines
                                                  stands for the part" is known as :
    (C) Terza Rima — Three lines
                                                  (A) Metonymy         (B) Prosopopoeia '
    (D) Spenserian Stanza — Ten lines             (C) Synecdoche       (D) Litotes

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71. The English word 'Novel' is derived     75. William Somerset Maugham is an

    from the Italian word                       English writer known for his

  , (A) Novela          (B) Novala             (A) Plays and poems

    (C) Novelia         (D) Novella ,           (B) Essays and stories

72. 'The Forsyte Saga' is written by.           (C) Poems and essays

    (A) John Maxwell                            (D) Plays, novels and short stories

    (B) John Galsworthy                     76. In Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man

    (C) John Milton                             and the Sea', the central character,

    (D) John Osbome                             Santiago is a...

                                                (A) French Soldier
73. R. K. Narayan's novel, 'Swami and
     Friends' is published in                   (B) Cuban Fisherman

    (A) 1925             (B) 1930               (C) British Knight

    (C) 1935             (D) 1940               (D) Russian Captain


74. The novel 'The Foreigner' is authored   77. Who has called Henry Fielding the

     by.         -                              'Father of the English Novel' ?

    (A) John Galsworthy                         (A) Dr. Johnson

     (B) R. K. Narayan                          (B) Sir Walter Scott

     (C) Mulk Raj Anand                         (C) Thomas Carlyle

     (D) Arun Joshi                             (D) Thomas Hardy


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78. Henry Fielding's novel, Tom Jones' is         81. Which of the following prose writers
      also known as
                                                        wrote the 'History of the World', during
      (A) The history of Tom Jones
                                                        his imprisonment for twelve and a half
   ■ (B) The story of Tom Jones, the Squire
                                                        years in the Tower ?
     (C) The history of Tom Jones, a
                                                       (A) Walter Raleigh
           Foundling

     (D) The Tragic history of Tom Jones               (B) Philip Sidney

                                                       (C) Roger Ascham
 79. According to E. M, Forster, a story is a
     'narrative of events arranged in their            (D) Gascoigne

      time-sequence', whereas a plot organizes
                                                  82. What is the term used for 'an inoffensive
     the events according to a'
                                                       expression used in place of a- blunt one
     (A) Sense of causality
                                                       that is felt to be disagreeable or
     (B) Choice of the protagonist
                                                       embarrassing' ?
     (C) Destiny of the heroine

     (D) Desire of the writer
                                                      (A) Anapestic        (B) Allusion

                                                      (C) Euphuism         (D) Euphemism
80. Nineteen Eighty-four, a novel by George
     Orwell is the writer's
                                                  83. What is the term used for 'short, pithy
    (A) response to his Winning the Nobel
                                                       statements of widely accepted truths
          prize
                                                       about everyday life' ?
    (B) reply to British Prime Minister
                                                      (A) Apologue         (B) Trickster
    (C) warning against totalitarianism
                                                      (C) Alazon           (D) Proverbs
    (D) advice to his children

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84. Regarding his work as a whole, who is       87. , Who is the author of 'The Anatomy of
                                                      Melancholy' ?
     known as 'A bell ringer who is up first
                                                    (A) Robert Burton
     to call others to Church' ?
                                                    (B) .John Selden
    (A) Philip Sidney                               (C) Thomas Browne

  • (B) Francis Bacon                               (D) Thomas Fuller

    (C) \Wlliam H^itt                           88. "From the point of yonder rolling cloud
                                                     I plunge into my past being, and revel
    (D) Walter Raleigh
                                                     there, as the sun-burnt Indian plunges
                                                     headlong into ihe wave that wafis him to
85. "I think I,shall go to my grave without          his native shore."
     finding, or expecting to find, such            jnvwhich ofthe following essays do these
                                                     lines occur ?
     another companion."
                                                    (A)- National Prejudices
     Who has given these words of exquisite
                                                    (B) On Going a Journey
     compliment to Hazlitt ?
                                                    {C) Old China
    (A) Goldsmith        (B) Addison .              (D) Imperfect Sympathies
    (C) Charles Lamb (D) Rich^d Steele          89. >\^ch of the following is not a work by
                                                     Ruskin ?
86. Which one of the following' essays
                                                    (A) Unto. This Last
     by   ■ Thomas      De     ■ Quincey   is
                                                    (B) Munera Pulveris
     autobiographical in nafiire ?                  (C) The Crown of Wild Olive
    (A) Literary Rerniniscences                     (D) Apologia Pro f^ta Sua

    (B) On the Knoclang at the Gate in          90. Who has written the essay 'On Doing
                                                    Nothing' ?.
          Macbeth
                                                    (A) Francis Bacon
    (C) Confessions ofan Opium Eater
                                                    (B) J. B. Priestley.
    (P) Murder Considered as one of the             (C) A. G Gardiner
          Fine Arts                                 (D) Robert Lynd

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91, Which        among        the   following   94. What is 'reliability' in a test ?              .
      recommended that Hindi should be
                                                      (A) A test measuring what it is designed
      India's federal language ?
                                                           to measure
      (A) Radhakrishnan Commission

      (B) Mudaliar Commission                         (B) A       test   without   learner-centre

      (C) Kothari Commission                               ^sessment
                                    ■   ' t


      (D) Gokhale Committe Report
                                                      (C) Use of rubrics during testing

92, Which is the outcome of the Army
                                                     (D) Consistency         of    test       results
      Specialised Training Programme ?
                                                           for a specific group of leamers over
      (A) Communicative Language Teaching
                                                           time
      (B) Audio-\^sual Methods

      (C) Total Physical Response               95. Where is the Headquarters of the

      (D) The National Approach                     . Central Institute of Indian Languages

93,   Who coined the term 'Communicative              located ?                    .                   ..

      Competence- ?
                                                     (A) Madras

      (A) Noam Chomsky
                                                     (B) Shimla
      (B), Michael Halliday                     •                  '         /
                                                                                          K



                                                     (C) Mysore
      (C) Dell Hymes.                                                                          I




                                                    . ;(D) Delhi                   .
      (D) Henry AWddowson

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96. Which British Governor initiated the"         99. Who invented Esperanto, the most

    translation of the Bhagwad Gita and The              successful artificial auxiliary language ?
    Mahabharata in English ?
                                                         (A) C. K. Ogden
    (A) Sir William Jones     ■
                                         /
                                                         (B) Ludwig ZamenhofiF
    (B) Wanen Hastings
                                                         (C) Johann M. Schleyer
    (C) Richard Williams
                                                         (D) Bronislaw Malinowski
    (D) Major Rennell

97. Who made the distinction between              100.             is, the study of the internal

    'langue' and 'parole' ?                              construction of words.


    (A) Ferdinand De Saussure                            (A) Phonology        (B) Semantics
                                                                                           w


    (B) Noam Chomsky                                     (C) Semiotics        (D) Morphology
    (C) Michael Halliday
                                                  101. Which of the following Acts marked a
    (D) Dell Hymes
                                                         significant turning point in the history of
98. Who has authored the book 'Principles
                                                         the spread of English education in India ?
     and Practice in     Second   Language
                                                         (A) The Regulation Act of 1773
     Acquisition' ?

                                                         (B) The Charter Act of 1813
    (A) David Nunan

    (B) Peter 1. Roach                                   (C) The Indian Councils Act of 1935

    (C) George Yule                                      (D) The Government of India Act of

    (D) Stephen D. Krashen                                    1935


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102. Which of the following works is             105. In the novel 'The Vendor of Sweets',
     considered the most seminal writing by           what business venture does Mali, lagan's
     Raja Rao portraying the impact of M. K.          son, propose ?
     Gandhi's non-violence movement on a
                                                     (A) A sweet shop in America
     small village in South India ?
                                                     (B) A story writing machine
    (A) Kanthapura
                                                     (C) A traditional Indian artifacts shop
    (B) The Serpent and The Rope
                                                     (D) An import-export cloth shop
    (C) The Cat and Shakespeare

    (D) Comrade Kirillov                         106. Who wrote the following lines ?

                                                     "Don't write in English", they said,
103. Which self authored book was called 'a

  . book of prayer' by Raja Rao ?                    "English is not your mother tongue".

    (A)_ Kanthapura                                  (A) Kamala Das

    (B) The Serpent and the Rope                     (B) Tom Dutt

    (C) The Cat and Shakespeare.                     (C) Sarojini Naidu
    (D) Comrade Kirillov                             (D) Eunice de Souza .

104. Raja Ram Mohan Roy's letter, dated          107. With which of the following poets, the
     December 11, 1823, is an important
                                                      Indian English poetry graduated jfrom
     document contributing to the introduction
                                                      imitation to authenticity ?
     of bilingualism in Indian subcontinent.
                                                     (A) R. N. Tagore
     Who was the letter addressed to ?

    (A) Lord Amherst                                 (B) Tom Dutt

    (B) Lord Macaulay                                (C) Sri Aurobindo

    (C) Charles Grant                                (D) Ram Sharma

    (D) Lord Castlereagh
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108. Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in which          111. The book 'Culture and Society' by
  'of the following ?                                       Raymond Williams was published in the
    (A) Arun Joshi's 'The Strange Case'                     year :

     (B) Kiran Desai's 'The Inheritance of
                                                            (A) 1956           (B) 1958
          Loss'
                                                            (C) 1960           (D) 1962
    (C) Chaman Nahal's 'Azadi'

    (D) R. K. Narayan's 'The Guide'                   112. Culture has been defmed as a "Complex

                                                            whole which includes knowledge, belief,
109. "The term 'Indo-Anglian' suggests
     relation between two countries (India and          ■   arts, morals, law, custom and any other

     England) rather than a country and a                   capabilities and habits acquired by man
     language."    Who    said   ^e    above                as a member of society" by :
     statement?
                                                            (A) Edward Tylor
    (A) M. K. Srinivas
                                                            (B) John Storey
    (B) Alphonso-Karkala
                                                            (C) Donna Haraway
    (C) M. K. Naik .

    (D) S..K. Desai                                         (D) Antonio Gramsci


110. Which of the following are the co-editors        113. The Burden of History (1966) has been
                                                                                           f



     of the book 'Chutnefying English ; The                 written by :
     Phenomenon of Hinglish' ?
                                                            (A) Walter Benjamin
    (A) Jamuna Kachru and B. B. Kachru
                                                            (B) Henry Lefebvre
    (B) B. B. Kachru and Rupert Snell
                                                            (C) Frantz Fanon
    (C) Rita Kothari and Jamuna Kachru
                                                            (D) Hayden White
    (D) Rita Kothari and Rupert Snell

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114. Which of the following.is considered a       117. Ngugi   Wa -Thiong'o is a writer and
                                                       cultural theorist from :
     founding text on Queer Theory ?
                                                       (A) Uganda          (B) Nigeria
    (A) Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
                                                       (C) Kenya           (D) South Africa
          (1999)
                                                  118. Which one of the following films has not
    (B) Simone De Beauvoir's The Second
                                                       been directed by Ousmane Sembene ?
          5ex(1949) ^
                                                      (A) Niaye (1964)
    (C) ^rginia WoolTs A Room of One's                 (B) In Search of Famine (1980)

          Own (1929)                                   (C) Xala (1974)

    (D) None of the above                             (D) Moolaade (2004)

                                                  119. "The Precession of Simulacra" has been
115. Which of the following belongs to the
                                                       written by :
     genre of Horror films .?
                                                      (A) Mark Polter
    (A) Stella                                        (B) C. T. Mohanty

    (B) On Hme!                                       (C) Jean Baudrillard
                                                                                   I

                                                      (D) Richard Dyer
 . (C) Halloween

                                                  120. Which of the following is a term used in
    (D) Backstreet
                                                       film studies for referencing all of the
116. The Uses of Literacy has been written             elements placed in front of the camera to

    by:
                                                       be photographed and included in the
                                                       sequence : setting and props, lighting,
    (A) Michel Foucault                                costume, make-up, and the action of the
    (B) Roland Barthes                                 character ?

                                                      (A) Montage          (B) Mise-en-scene
    (C) Edward Thompson
                                                      (C) Editing          (D) Diegesis
    (D) Richard Hoggart

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121. "To feel the virtue of the poet or the        124. 'The Well Wrought Urn' is a collection

     painter, to disengage it, to set it forth-             of essays by :

     these are the three stages of the critic's            (A) I. A. Richards
     duty." Who of the following is credited
                                                           (B) Cleanth Brooks
     with this statement ?
                                                           (C) T. S. Eliot
    (A) John Dryden
             {                                             (D) William Empson
    (B) Walter Pater

                                                   125.                 dissolves, difiuses, dissipates
    (C) Matthew Arnold
                                                            in order to recreate." Select the correct
    (D) I. A. Richards
                                                            option for the blank space.
122. In John Dryden's 'Essay of Dramatic
                                                            (A) Primary Imagination
     Poesy', who is the representative of
                                                            (B) Secondary Imagination
     Dryden himself ?
                                                            (C) Fancy
    (A) Eugenius
                                                            (D) Emotion
    (B) Crites

    (C) Lisideius                                      126. The term 'objective corelative' appears in

    (D) Neander                                             which of the following essays ?

                                                           (A) Tradition and Individual Talent
123. The Biographia Literaria was published

     in the year :                                          (B) Frontiers of Criticism

    (A) 1817              (B) 1820                          (C) Hamlet and His Problems

    (C) 1821              (D) 1822                          (D) Fine art ofReading


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127. According to I. A. Richards the two uses    131. Who     among the following critics
     of language are :                               does not belong to 'Yale School of
    (A) The      referential/scientific , and        Criticism'?

          emotive
                                                     (A) Paul de Man
    (B) Fanciful and superlative
                                                     (B) Gerard Genette
    (C) Ideational and imitative
                                                     (C) Hillis Miller
    (P) None of the above
                                                     (D)' Geoffrey Hartman
128. According to the Natya Shastra ofBharat,
                                                 132. Who         among    the      following
     how many Sthaayi Bhavas are there ?
                                                     critics undermines a 'Metaphysics of
    (A) Eight
                                                     Presence'?
    (B) Six
                                                     (A) Freud            (B) Saussure
    (C) Nine
                                                     (C) Derrida          (D) Bakhtin
    (D) Ten

129. Sthaayi Bhava Krodha or wrath gives         133. Which   publication can be taken for

    rise to which rasa ?                             identifying the beginnings of the 'second

    (A) Vir or Heroic                                wave' feminism in the 1960s America ?


    (B) Ratidra or Furious                          (A) Virginia Wooirs A Room of One

    (C) Vibhatsa or Loathsome                               Own


    (D) Adbhuta or Marvellous                       (B) Betty Friedan's       The Feminine
                                                          Mystique
130. Who is the author of'New Bearings in
    English Poetry ?                                (C)- Mary Ellman's Thinking About
                                                            Women
    (A) T. S. Eliot      (B) F. R. Leavis

    (C) I. A. Richards (D) Edith Sitwell            (D) Kate Millet's Sexual Politics

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134. In which of the essays, does Julia           136. The term 'Ctilture Industry' is associated

                                                          with :
    Kristeva draws on the work of Bakhtin
                                                          (A) Aijaz Ahmed
    and the Russian formalists to propose the
                                                          (B) Michele Barrett
    idea of 'Intertextuality' ?
                                                          (C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    (A) 'The      Revolution       in   Poetic
                                                          (D) Adomo and Horkheimer
        .Language*      and       'Desire   in

         Language*.
                                                  137. Who among the following critics argued
                                                          that modern technical innovations such
    (B) 'The Bounded Text' and 'Word
                                                          as the television, the radio and cinema
         Dialogue and Novel'
                                                          have altered the status of'Work of Art'?

    (C) Es^y : 'Critical and Clinical* and              . (A) Fredric Jameson

         'Proust and Signs'                               (B) Walter Benjamin

    (D) 'Beyond Formalism' and 'The Fate                  (C) Roland Barthes

         of Reading'                                      (D) Stuart Hall


135. Who wrote the essay 'Reading the                 138. Who among, the following critics is
                                                          known as the exponent of 'Reception
    Satanic Verses' ?
                                                         -Theory' ?
    (A) Edwiard Said
                                                          (A) Roland Barthes
    (B) Northrop Frye
                                                          (B) Paul de Man

    (C) Mary Grillespie                                   (C) Wolfgang Iser

    (p) Gayatri Chakravorty Spiyak                        (D) Harold Bloom


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. 139. Who among the following critics states        142. As per MLA style, which option seems
       that "Gender is the repeated stylization           to be correct about the title of a research
       of the body, a set of repeated acts within         paper ?
       a highly rigid regulatory frame that
                                                         (A) It must be put in the centre
       congeal over time to produce the
                                                         (B) It must be italicized
       appearance of substance, of a natural sort
       of being" ?                                       (C) It must be underlined

      (A) Julia Kristeva                                 (D) It must be typed in all coital letters

      (B) Barbara Kruger                            143. Which of the following options is the
      (C) Kate Millet                                    standardized method of capitalization
                                                                                                     •s


      (D) Judith Butler                                  when one copies a title in the works-
                                                         cited list ?
 140. Who among the following critics argues
     .that "Reality is a f^tasy construction             (A) KISS OF the SPIDER WOMAN

      that enables us to mask the Real of our           (B) KISS of THE SPIDER WOMAN

      desire" ?                                         (C) Kiss of the spider woman
     (A) Zizek             (B) Freud                    (D) Kiss of the Spider Woman
     (C) Lacan             (D) Hegel
                                                    144. Which term is ascribed to the practice/
 141. Who introduced the term 'Impact Factor*            act of presenting another person's ideas,
      in the late 1950s ?.                               words or entire work as one's own ?

     (A) Kitsakom                                       (A) Editing
     (B) Eugene Garfield                                (B) Plagiarism
     (C) Charles Mansfield
                                                        (C) Copyright
     (D) Chenija
                                                        (D) Intellectual inspiration
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145. What does the abbreviation 'PDF' stand         148. In MLA style, while writing the title of

     for ?
                                                         research paper, which of the following
                                                                    I



                                                         parts of speech falling within a title, is
    (A) Printable Data File
                                                         not capitalized ?
    (B) Portable Data File
                   I                                     (A) Noun             (B) Preposition
    (C) Portable Data Format
                                                         (C) Verb             (D) Adjective
    (D) Proxy Data File
                                                    149. Which term do we ascribe to the data
146. What is 'Microsoft Word'?
                                                         generated by planning and conducting a
     (A) Word Processing Package                         sample survey ?

     (B) Imaging Process                                 (A) Secondary data

     (C) PowerPoint Presentation                        . (B) Individual data

     (D) Project Presentation Process                    (C) Primary data

                                                         (D) Efficiency data
147. Which is incorrect with respect to the

     title and the subtitle of a research paper/    150. What do we call a battery of statements

     report ?                                             designed to-capture the relevant aspects

     (A) Should not be too long or obscure                of a consumer's personality, interest,
                                                          attitudes, beliefs and values ?
     (B) Must reflect the concept
                                                         (A) Psychographic inventory
     (C) Must focus on the key aspects as
             embodied iii the text
                                                         (B) Personal study

                                                         (C) Academic study
     (D) Must contain aspects not dealt with
             in the text
                                                         (D) Industrial acumen


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