ENGLISH LITERATURE

Paper II (2011 June)

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two(2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
Paper-II
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickenss
(A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
The old curiosity shop was published as a book in 1841which Dickens published along with
short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. The
Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of 'not quite
fourteen.' An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in
his shop of odds and ends. She lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her
only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write.
Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her
grandfather attempts to make Nell a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He borrows
heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf
moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the
opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather
suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands
of England, to live as beggars. Convinced that the old man has stored up a fortune for Nell, her
wastrel brother Frederick convinces the good-natured but easily-led Dick Swiveller to help him
track Nell down so that Swiveller can marry her and the two can share Nell's supposed
inheritance. Kit has found new employment with Mr and Mrs Garland. Nell is trapped by Quill
but escapes. He comes to know about the whereabouts of Nell. But when he reaches there,
Nell is dead due to arduous journey and her grandfather has turned insane. He waits for his
granddaughter to come back until he dies after some days.
2. Who, among the following Indian writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined
locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai
Malgudi is the imagined locale created by R.K Narayan.
3. Who among the following is not a formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
Stanley Eugene Fish, an American literary theorist (born in 1938) is a critic associated with
Reader Response theory.
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde

Petrarchan Sonnet: abba ababa, cde cde, or ababa abba cdc dcd, Shakespearean
sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg.

5. Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed ?

(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles
Barabas, the jew of Malta is consumed by greed. Tamburlaie power, Doctor Faustus
knowledge , power and desire to enjoy life. Mephistopheles is the demon in Faustus legend, to
whom Faustus give his soul. The complete title of Marlows play is The Tragicall History of the
Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennysons
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) Maud
(D) Locksley Hall
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems
which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal
of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.
7. There are two lists given below. Match the authors in List I with their nationality in List II
by choosing the right option against the code.
List I (Author)
List II (Nationality)
(I) Patrick White
(1) Canada
(II) Nadine Gordimer
(2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood
(3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme
(4) South Africa
Code :
(I)
(II)
(III)
(IV)
(A)
(2)
(1)
(4)
(3)
(B)
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)
(C)
(3)
(4)
(1)
(2)
(D)
(3)
(2)
(4)
(1)
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
9. The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry. our race, as time goes on, will find an
ever surer and surer stay. This claim for poetry is made in
(A) Arnolds The Study ofPoetry
(B) Shelleys A Defence ofPoetry
(C) Sidneys An Apology forPoetry
(D) Eliots of Poetry and Poets
10. Which of the following is not about a dystopia ?
(A) George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxleys Brave New World
(C) William Goldings Lord of the Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantynes The Coral Island
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish fiction
author R. M. Ballantyne at the height of the British Empire. The story relates the adventures of
three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. The novel is
inspired by Robinson Crusoe.

11. Who among the following is not associated with the translation of the Bible ?
(A) Miles Coverdale
(B) William Tyndale
(C) John Wycliffe
(D) Thomas Browne
12. Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are
structured. Use the code given below :
I. Denouement
II. Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax
Code :
(A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I
(D) II, IV, I, III
13. The term, curtal sonnet, was coined by
(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(D) Matthew Arnold
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
(1698) was
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley
(D) John Vanbrugh
15. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde :
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest
(C) Saints and Sinners
Saints and Sinners is a play on modern middle class life by Henry Arthur Jones.
(D) An Ideal Husband
16. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code:
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times
3. Bleak House
4. A Tale of Two Cities
Code :
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
Bleak house 1853, Hard Times 1854, A Tale of two Cities 1859, Great Expectations -1860
17. Thomas Kyds The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by
(A) Seneca
(B) Tertullian
(C) Virgil
(D) Plautus
18. In its final published version, Eliots
The Waste Land contains a total of

(A) 334 lines (B) 433 lines

(C) 373 lines (D) 423 lines
Final version of The Waste Land is 434 lines
19. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea is set in
(A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta
(C) The Caribbean
(D) The African Savannah
Wide Sargasso Sea(1966) is the most successful and post colonial novel by Dominican born
Jean Rhys. The novel parallels Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. Her other novel is Good
morning , midnight. 1939. Part One takes place in Coulibri, Jamaica and is narrated by
Antoinette. Part Two alternates between the points of view of her husband and of Antoinette
following their marriage and is set in Granbois, Dominica.
20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, Horatio, I am dead. This is an example of
(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
(C) prolepsis
(D) pun
Prolepsis is a Figurative device by which a future event is presumed to have already occurred.
21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
(A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
(C) Comic fiction
(D) Bildungsroman
22. The City of Dreadful Night, a long poem depicting the late Victorian sense of gloom and
despondency, is written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) James Thomson
(D) John Davidson
23. Which of the following novels by V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph
Conrad ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(D) The Mimic Men
A bend in the river is set in an unnamed African country.
24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belindas lapdog is named
(A) Luck (B) Shock
(C) Pluck (D) Muck
25. You Cant Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch
You cant do both is a semi autobiographical novel published in 1994. Amiss first novel, Lucky
Jim (1954), is perhaps his most famous. The novel criticizes academic society. That Uncertain
Feeling (1955) centres on a young provincial librarian and his temptation towards adultery; I
Like It Here (1958) presents Amiss contemptuous view of abroad and followed upon his own
travels on the Continent with a young family; Take a Girl Like You (1960) steps away from the
immediately autobiographical, but remains grounded in the concerns of sex and love in ordinary

modern life, tracing the courtship and ultimate seduction of the heroine Jenny Bunn by a young
schoolmaster, Patrick Standish. In The Anti-Death League (1966), Amis begins to show some of
the experimentation. His other works are The Green Man (1969) (mystery/horror) and The
Alteration (1976) (alternate history) I Want It Now (1968) and Girl, 20 (1971). In 1968 What
Became of Jane Austen? and Other Essays, In 1965, he wrote the popular The James Bond
Dossier under his own name.
26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud

Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who appears as the narrator or protagonist in

many of Philip Roths novels. Zuckerman makes his first appearance in the novel, My
Life As a Man (1974), where he is the creation of another fictional character, writer Peter
Tarnopol. The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist and in Zuckerman
Unbound (1981) he is an established novelist. (Zuckerman novels: The Ghost Writer
Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy, The Counter life,
American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, Exit Ghost

27. Plato censured poetry because he believed it

(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.
28. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam
(B) The Charge of the Light Brigade
(C) Crossing the Bar
(D) Tithonus
Originally written in 1833 as "Tithon" and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February
edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860.
29. The character Giovanni features in one of the following texts :
(A) John Clelands Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
(B) John Fords Tis Pity Shes a Whore
(C) John Braines Room at the Top
(D) John Evelyns Diaries
Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. The play was first published in 1633,
in a quarto. Ford dedicated the play to John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Baron of
Turvey. Giovanni is the central character who shows an incest towards his sister Annabella.
30. Which of the following poems features the phrase, the still, sad music of humanity ?
(A) Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
(B) Michael : A Pastoral Poem
(C) The Solitary Reaper
(D) Tintern Abbey
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyces
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Dubliners
(C) Ulysses
(D) Exiles

Molly Bloom, whose given name is Marion, is the wife of the main character Leopold Bloom in
Ulysses.
32. Eliot uses the term objective correlative in his essay.
(A) The Metaphysical Poets
(B) Hamlet
(C) Tradition and the Individual Talent
(D) Dante
Objective correlative is the term referring to a symbolic article used to show inexplicable
feelings like emotion. The term was popularized by Eliot in the essay "Hamlet and His
Problems". The term was first used by Washington Allston.
33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998
34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, An Address to the Irish People was composed by
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
35. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World
(D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India
Kim 1901,Sons and Lovers 1913,A passage to India 1924,Brave New World 1932.
36. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift is written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
(D) Jonathan Swift
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift is written by Jonathan Swift in 1731; Published 1739
37. Widowers Houses was written by
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw
Widowers house(1892) is the first play written by G.B Shaw to be staged
38. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of base and
superstructure in relation to literature ?
(A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Walter Benjamin
39. Heteroglossia refers to
(A) the multiple readings of a text.
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of

(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor

(B) The Witch of Exmoor
(C) The Service of Clouds
(D) The Godless in Eden
41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Drydens literary rival,
(A) Richard Flecknoe
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for
(A) attacking human vices and follies.
(B) inciting the reading public.
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.
(D) pleasing their women readers.
43. Byrons The Vision of Judgement is a satire directed against
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey
44. Tom Paines The Rights of Man was published in
(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793
45. Andrew Marvells An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells Return from Ireland was written in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648
46. The Rime of Ancient Mariner is about
(A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(C) the curse of a sea God
(D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner
47. To Daffodils is a poem, written by
(A) Robert Herrick
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley
48. Which of the following novels reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny ?
(A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) The Towers of Silence
49. England, my England is a poem by
(A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
(C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) Rudyard Kipling
50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of
(A) The Revolt of Islam

(B) The Necessity of Atheism

(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) The Masque of Anarchy

Solved NET English 2011 December question

ENGLISH
Paper II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two(2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray
2. Hemingways novel A Farewell to Arms is divided into
(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books
3. Panopticism is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida
4. The lines, She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:/
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five, are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse
5. Who, among the following women writers, famously imagined the
plight of Shakespeares sister ?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) Irish Murdoch
(D) Frances Burney
A room of ones own
6. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
Assertion (A) : Dickenss novels are called Newgate Novels.
Reason (R) : They are called so, because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and
adventures of criminals.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Newgate Novels(1830s-1840s) glorified the lives of the criminals. Dickens Oliver Twist is
classified as Newgate novel by some critics.It gets its name from Newgate Calendar, a
biography of criminals.
7. Who among the following writers does not belong to the group, the University Wits ?
(A) John Lyly
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) George Peele
(D) Thomas Kyd
8. Which of the following characters of Websters The White Devil utters the
memorable words :
Oft gay and honourd robes those tortures try :
We think cagd birds sing, when indeed they cry.
(A) Vittoria Corombona
(B) Bracciano
(C) The Cardinal
(D) Flamineo
9. All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life this statement is attributed to
(A) Thomas Carlyle
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) J.S. Mill
(D) John Ruskin
10. Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist ?
(A) J.D. Salinger
(B) Henry Greene
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth
Henry Green is the psudonym of the British author Henry Vincent Yorke, author of Nothing and
Loving
11. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
(A) Doctor Faustus
(B) Edward II
(C) Hero and Leander
(D) Tamburlaine
12. Sir Fopling is a character in
(A) Wycherleys The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreves The Way of theWorld
(C) Ethereges The Man of Mode
(D) Davenants The Platonick Lovers
13. Who famously said, Three or four families in a Country Village is the
very thing to work on ?
(A) Clara Reeve
(B) Maria Edgeworth
(C) Frances Burney
(D) Jane Austen
14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
(A) When Rain Clouds Gather
(B) The Mimic Men
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The Interpreters
15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called

(A) Trochee
(B) Iambic
(C) Spondee
(D) Terza Rima
16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in
The Canterbury Tales ?
(A) Meekness
(B) Defiance
(C) Chastity
(D) Experience
17. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the
question with the help of the Code given below :
(i) The Dunciad
(ii) The Rape of the Lock
(iii) An Essay on Man
(iv) An Essay on Criticism
Code :
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
18. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliots novel
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas Marner
(C) Daniel Deronda
(D) Adam Bede
19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel by a citizen of
(A) the United Kingdom
(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
(C) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth
(D) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
20. A curtal sonnet consists of
(A) 11 lines (B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines (D) 14 lines
21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by
(A) Robert Greene
(B) Thomas Deloney
(C) Thomas Nashe
(D) Thomas Lodge
22. Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ?
(A) George Villiers
(B) John Marston
(C) John Webster
(D) Thomas Middleton
23. The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha
24. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in
contemporary fiction ?

(A) Thomas Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller

(B) Henry Fieldings Tom Jones
(C) Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
(D) Samuel Richardsons Pamela
25. The phrase Only Connect is associated with
(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) E. M. Forster
(D) Virginia Woolf
26. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) The Stone Angel
(B) No Fixed Address
(C) The Edible Woman
(D) Half breed
Half breed(1973) is the first novel of Maria Campbell, No fixed Address, An Amorous Journey is
the novel of Aritha Van Herk, The Stone Angel - Margarette Lawrence
27. The expression murderous innocence is an example of
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Zeugma
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Pun
28. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response
Assertion (A) : Othello killed Desdemona.
Reason (R) : Because Desdemona committed infidelity.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
29. The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of
(A) Religion
(B) Tradition
(C) Reason
(D) Sentiments
30. Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?
(A) Lycidas
(B) LAllegro
(C) Camus
(D) Paradise Lost
31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?
(A) Endymion
(B) The Fall of Hyperion
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) Lamia
32. Match the following authors with their respective works with the help
of the code given below :
List I
List II
I. Oliver Goldsmith
1. The Vanity of Human Wishes
II. John Gay
2. The Vicar of Wakefield
III. Samuel Johnson
3. She Stoops to Conquer
IV. Richard Sheridan
4. The Beggars Opera

Code :
I
II
III
IV
(A)
1
4
3
2
(B)
2
4
1
3
(C)
3
2
4
1
(D)
4
3
2
1
Wrong code: Goldsmith She stoops.., The Vicar, Gay Beggaars Opera, Johnson vanity of
human wishes
33. The term egotistical sublime was coined by
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt
Term coined by John Keats to describe (what he saw as) Wordsworth's self-aggrandising style.
34. Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the question with the
help of the code :
(i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
Code :
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
Middlemarch1874, Daniel Deronda1863, Felix Holt, the Radical1866, Romola1876

35. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense
of humour and comedy ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) P.G. Wodehouse
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) John Galsworthy
36. Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel ?
(A) Doris Lessings The Four-Gated City
(B) L.P. Hartleys Facial Justice
(C) Anthony Burgesss The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S. Naipauls A House for Mr Biswas
37. Identify the author of the following lines :
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
(A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert
(C) John Donne
(D) Henry Vaughan
Read the poem Good morrow
38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of
essays on The Pleasures of Imagination, written by
(A) Richard Steele

(B) John Dennis

(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison
39. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the
right response.
Assertion (A) : Gullivers Travels earned Jonathan Swift the bad
name of being a misanthrope.
Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and
(R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
40. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the Great Tradition,
enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph Conrad
(B) James Joyce
(C) Jane Austen
(D) George Eliot
41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an
(A) African-American writer
(B) American-Jewish writer
(C) American-Indian writer
(D) American-Asian writer
42. Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts (B) five Acts
(C) four Acts (D) two Acts
43. James Joyces Exiles is a
(A) Short Story (B) Poem
(C) Play (D) Novel
44. It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" is the opening
sentence of
(A) Ulysses
(B) Nostromo
(C) Chrome Yellow
(D) Nineteen Eighty-Four
45. The subtitle of William Godwins Caleb Williams is
(A) Man As He Is Not
(B) Man As He Is
(C) Things As They Are
(D) The Pupil of Nature
46. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Monica Wittig
(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Luce Irigaray
47. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson Knight
(B) A. C. Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) F. R. Leavis

48. The expression, dreaming house is an example of

(A) Zeugma
(B) Transferred epithet
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe
49. The term Practical Criticism is coined by
(A) William Empson
(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) F. R. Leavis
50. Victor Shklovskys name is associated with
(A) Post-modernism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Reader Response Theory
(D) Russian Formalism

Solved UGC NET question Dec 2006

ENGLISH
PAPER II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying
two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.
1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from :
(A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest (D) King Lear
2. Pecola is a character in :
(A) The Bluest Eye (B) Oliver Twist
(C) Don Quixote (D) Beloved

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's novel published in 1970

3. Which of the following was associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

(A) T. S. Eliot (B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme (D) Virginia Woolf
4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot :
(A) Jerry (B) Lucky (C) Jimmy Porter (D) Ham
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write A thought to him was an experience :
(A) Herbert (B) Marvell (C) Donne (D) Crashaw
6. The last book of Gullivers Travels is :
(A) Voyage to Houyhnhnms (B) Voyage to Laputa
(C) Voyage to Brobdingnag (D) Voyage to Lilliput
7. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke (B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore (D) Addison and Steele

8. John Lockes Essay Concerning Human Understanding is about :

(A) nature of human behaviour (B) nature of the human mind
(C) nature of human society (D) nature of human ideology
9. Restoration Comedy marks the restoration of :
(A) womens rights (B) democracy
(C) monarchy (D) human rights
10. Which of Alexander Popes poems begins with the line Shut, shut the door, good
John, fatigued I said :
(A) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (B) Dunciad
(C) Epistles (D) Rape of the Lock
11. The statement One has to convey in a language that is not ones own the spirit that is
ones own appears in :
(A) Ice-Candy Man (B) The Guide
(C) Nagamandala (D) Kanthapura
12. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched :
(A) Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the Patriarch
(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
(C) Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri Beloved

The Tin Drum is a 1959 novel by Gnter Grass. The Autumn of the Patriarch is
Gabriel Garcia Marquezs novel written in 1975 and Beloved is a novel by Toni Morrison
published in 1987.

13. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison (B) Nadine Gordiner
(C) Buchi Emcheta (D) Doris Lessing

Buchi Emcheta is a Nigerian novelish

14. Which of the following is not an Australian author :

(A) Margaret Laurence (B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin (D) Peter Carey

Margaret Laurence is a Canadian writer. Colin Thomas Johnson, (Born 21 August

1938) known by his nom de plume, Mudrooroo Narogin or Mudrooroo Nyoongah is
an Australian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. since 2001 he has been living in
Kapan, Nepal. His many works are centred on Australian Aboriginal characters and
Aboriginal topics.

15. The Tulsis of Naipauls A House for Mr. Biswas lived in :

(A) Pagotes House (B) Hanuman Mansion
(C) Tulsiana (D) Hanuman House
1 16. The quotation a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite
I AM appears in :
(A) Lyrical Ballads (B) Biographia Literaria
(C) In Defense of Poetry (D) Letters of Keats
17. Fearful Symmetry appears in the poem :
(A) Introduction (B) Chimney Sweeper
(C) The Tyger (D) London

18. The quotation when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons is a definition of :
(A) Negative capability (B) Secondary imagination
(C) Criticism of life (D) Dissociation of sensibility
19. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock (B) De Quincey (C) Hazlitt (D) Gibbon
20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and Wickham eloped to :
(A) Barchester (B) Bath (C) Gretna Green (D) Glasgow

Though Lydia and Wickam decided to go to Gretna Green, they went to London
instead.

21. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is correctly matched :

(A) Frye ........... Mysticism
(B) Derrida ............. Deconstruction
(C) I. A. Richards ........... Archetypal Criticism
(D) Eagleton ............... Psychological Criticism
22. Which of the following thinker concept pairs is correctly matched :
(A) Abhinava Gupta .............. Dhwanyaloka
(B) Vaman .............. Kavya Alankar
(C) Mamata .............. Kavya Prakash
(D) Bharata .............. Vakrokti
Dwanyaloka Ananda vardhana, Kavya prakash Mammat, Kavya Alankar Pandit Var Shri
Vaman , Vakrokti Kuntaka, Natysastra -Bharata
23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism :
(A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism
(B) New Historicism, Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism
(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism, Reader-Response
(D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism
24. Hamartia means :
(A) reversal of fortunes (B) purgation of emotions
(C) depravity (D) error of judgement
25. The term gynocriticism was coined by :
(A) Betty Friedman (B) Elaine Showalter
(C) Luce Irigarey (D) Susan Sontag
26. Which is the correct sequence :
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti
Thackeray (1811-1863), Brontes- Charlotte (1816), Emily (1818), and Anne (1820)George Eliot
(1819-1880) D.G Rossetti 1828-1882
27. Which of Dickens novels opens with the words It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times .... .
(A) A Tale of Two Cities (B) Oliver Twist
(C) Pickwick Papers (D) Hard Times
28. The term The Fleshly School of Poetry is associated with the :
(A) Chartists (B) Pre-Raphaelites
(C) Symbolists (D) Imagists
29. The line The sea is calm tonight occurs in :

(A) Tennysons Maude (B) Arnolds Thyrsis

(C) Tennysons The Lotos-Eaters (D) Arnolds Dover Beach
30. The term gothic, a category of fiction, also applies to :
(A) architecture (B) painting (C) music (D) theater
31. The gap-toothed character in prologue to The Centerbury Tales is :
(A) the Prioress (B) the Nun
(C) the Wife of Bath (D) the Narrator
32. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy :
(A) Duchess of Malfi (B) Volpone
(C) Hamlet (D) Gorboduc
Volpone, or The Fox is a comedy by Ben Jonson. Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex is the first
English tragedy by Thomas Norton and Sackville in 1561. Ferrex and Porrex are the sons of
king Gorboduc.
33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
(A) Knights (B) Crusaders (C) Pilgrims (D) Saints
34. The Red cross Knight is Spensers Faerie Queene represents :
(A) Temperance (B) Chastity (C) Truth (D) Falsehood
35. The line Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings appear in :
(A) Macbeth (B) King Lear
(C) Othello (D) Julius Caesar
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato (B) Horace (C) Virgil (D) Aristotle
37. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Johnson :
(A) Preface to the English Dictionary (B) Preface to Shakespeare
(C) Lives of English Poets (D) Cowley
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ?
(A) Colonel Jack (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) Captain Singleton (D) Moll Flanders
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :
(A) Political Philosophy
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the
Beautiful
(C) Reflections
(D) The Annual Register
40. The line A man can be destroyed but not defeated appears in :
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls (B) The Old Man and the Sea
(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (D) The Sun also Rises
41. Who among the following is called A New England Poet :
(A) Robert Frost (B) Edwin Arlington Robinson
(C) William Carlos Williams (D) Allen Ginsberg
42. Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee Williams :
(A) Night of the Iguana (B) A Streetcar named Desire
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (D) The Zoo Story
The Zoo Story is by Edward Albee
43. Margaret Atwoods Survival is :
(A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(C) a critique of Canadian polity
(D) a exposition of Canadian history
44. The term Negritude was coined by :
(A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha

(B) Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Wole Soyinka

(C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
Aime Cesaire in his poem Notebook of a Return to the native Land 1939
45. Bertolt Brechts concept of theatre was influenced by :
(A) Irwin Piscator (B) Antonin Artaud
(C) Peter Brook (D) Eugino Barba
Brecht had collaborated with Erwin Piscator, father of political theatre. Piscator's theatre was
utilitarian. Just like Brecht, Piscator's theatre was a direct response to the events taking place
around him
46. The relationship between Othello and Iago is an example of :
(A) inversion (B) irony
(C) innuendo (D) invective
47. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is :
(A) dactyl (B) trochee (C) iamb (D) anapaest
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is :
(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh (D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
49. Using the Bench for the judiciary is an example of :
(A) metaphor (B) irony (C) Synecdoche (D) metonymy
50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called :
(A) running rhythm
(B) sprung rhythm
(C) blank verse
(D) rhymed verse

Solved UGC NET question Dec 2007

ENGLISH PAPER II
DEC 2007
1.The author of The Provok'd Husband was :
(A) Etherege
(B) Colley Cibber
(C)Wycherley
(D)Vanbrugh
2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ ?
(A) Piggy
(B) Ralph
(C) Jack
(D) Simon
3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's novel Tristram Shandy is:
(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
4. Feminine ending refers to :

(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse

(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse
Eg: Of old, when Scarron his companions invited
Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united,
5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is written by :
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Alvin Kernan
6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :
(A) East Pakistan
(B) India and Pakistan
(C) Pakistan
(D) None of the above
7.Choose the correct chronological sequence in :
(A) Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The Hind and the Panther
(B) Hutchinson's Memoirs - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the PantherMilton's Paradise Lost
(C) Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the PantherHutchinson's Memoirs
(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's MemoirsMilton's Paradise Lost
Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - around 1670 published in 1863
Milton's Paradise Lost - 1667
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - 1678
Dryden's The Hind and the Panther-1687
8.The Little Minister is a novel by :
(A) John Galsworthy
(B)H.G. Wells
(C) James M. Barrie
(D)Rudyard Kipling6
9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads : one who strove with all his might to champion
liberty ?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Daniel Defoe
10. In which of the following novels incidents relating to the declaration of Emergency in India in
1975 figure?
(A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck
(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy
(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August : An Indian Story
(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey
11. Identify the matching pair :
(A) Edward II : Zenocrate
(C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio
(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas

(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
Protagonists
The Jew of Malta: Barabas, Tamburlaine the Great: Tamburlaine, The Spanish Tragedy:
Hieronimo, Edward II: King Edward II
12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in :
(A) The Second Coming
(B) Circus Animals Desertion
(C) When You Are Old
(D) Leda and Swan
13. Inscape refers to :
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature
(B) The universal character of a natural thing
(C) The individuating character of a natural thing
(D) The moment of release from the material world
14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the 'success' myth ?
(A) A Zoo Story
(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(C) American Dream
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith
15. The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond
our personal intelligence. Who among the following is the author of the above lines?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Sri Aurobindo
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose
16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is :
(A) 99
(B) 47
(C) 112
(D) 108
17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern retelling of :
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Evelina
(C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) The Moonstone
18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare appeared in :
(A) 1752
(B) 1765
(C)1791
(D) 1760
19.The main character in Gogol's Dead Souls is :
(A) Oblomov
(B) Bazarov
(C) Alyosha
(D) Chichikov
20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an'upstart
crow' by :
(A) Robert Greene
(B) Thomas Lodge
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) John Lyly

Robert Greene attacks the actor William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow"! in the pamphlet
called the 'Groatsworth of Wit'. An Upstart is characteristic of someone who has risen
economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position - To crow is
to boast and a crow is a scavenger who steals from others - Greene clearly dislikes the 'Upstart
Crow'! This is what the pamphlet says:
"Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his
Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse
as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely
Shake-scene in a countrie."
Greene is saying that the 'Upstart Crow' was an actor (wrapt in a Player's hide) who now
believes that he can write as well as the best scholars. Palladis Tamia, subtitled "Wits
Treasury", is a 1598 book written by the minister Francis Meres. It is important in English literary
history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare.
21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway called ?
(A) Clarissa
(B) Hours
(C)The Big Ben
(D)The Party
22. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre ?
(A) No Telephone to Heaven
(B) Wide Sargasso Sea
(C) Crick Crack Monkey
(D) Between Two Worlds
23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used by :
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Helen Gardner
(D) Dryden
"A term used to group together certain 17th-century poets, usually DONNE, MARVELL,
VAUGHAN and TRAHERNE, though other figures like ABRAHAM COWLEY are sometimes
included in the list.
Metaphysical concerns are the common subject of their poetry, which investigates the world by
rational discussion of its phenomena rather than by intuition or mysticism. DRYDEN was the
first to apply the term to 17th-century poetry when, in 1693, he criticized Donne: 'He affects the
Metaphysics... in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds
of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts.
24. Only connect is the epigraph to a novel by :
(A) George Orwell
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) E.M. Forster
Only connect is the epigraph to E.M Forster's novel Howards End.
25. The expression Thy hand, great Anarch occurs in a satire by :
(A) Dryden
(B) Pope
(C) Johnson
(D)Swift
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All.(the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad)
26.In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ?
(A) The Heart of the Matter

(B) The Power and the Glory

(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Quiet American
27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind' is :
(A)Rochester
(B)Dryden
(C)Gray
(D) Swift
28.'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for describing :
(A) the moment of discovery by the protagonist
(B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist
(C) the happy resolution of the plot
(D) the convergence of the main plot and the sub plot
29.In which play by Shakespeare do we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of
male politics ?
(A) Henry V
(B) Richard III
(C)Anthony and Cleopatra
(D) Hamlet
30.Which of the following feminist critics used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the first time ?
(A) Kate Millet
(B) Simone de Beauvoir
(C)Elaine Showalter
(D) Mary Ellmann
31.John Keats's poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' was composed in :
(A)1818
(B)1819
(C)1820
(D) 1821
32.The Female Quixote was written by :
(A)Henry Fielding
(B)Tobias Smollett
(C) Charlotte Lennox
(D) Aphra Behn
33. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ?
(A) Thom Gunn
(B) Alan Lewis
(C)Edward Thomas
(D) Seamus Heaney
34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :
(A) a poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb
(B) an elegy by William Wordsworth
(C)an essay by Charles Lamb
(D) an essay by William Hazlitt
35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by :
(A) Kingsley Amis
(B) Alan Sillitoe
(C) John Braine
(D) John Osborne
36.In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and
places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ?

(A)Baudelaire
(B)Mallarme
(C)Verlaine
(D)Apollinaire
"Black Venus"(a collection of short stories, appeared in 1985), in which the poet Baudelaire is
described from the point of view of his mistress, Jeanne Duval, tackles yet another of the many
myths of femininity which Carter debunks with particular pleasure: that of the exotic mistress.
Jeanne Duval, a Creole woman, about whose origins not much is known, was the woman with
whom Baudelaire had a long, occasionally interrupted, relationship.
37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a three-part structure in :
(A) a classic ode
(B) a Greek chorus
(C)a medieval ballad
(D) a Petrarchan sonnet
38.The words where are the songs of spring ? Ay, where are they ? occur in :
(A) Ode to the West Wind
(B) The Seasons
(C) Ode to Autumn
(D) Resolution and Independence
39.Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes the above lines occur
in Tennyson's :
(A) Tears, Idle Tears
(B) In Memoriam
(C) Maud
(D) The Lotus Eaters
40.Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake
(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree
(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott
(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
Lady of the Lake- Sir Walter Scott, Lake Isle of Innisfree-W.B. Yeats, The Lady of ShallottTennyson, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets- Thomas De Quincey
41.Which famous English novel opens with a young woman who is 'handsome, clever and
rich' ?
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Wuthering Heights
(C) Moll Flanders
(D) Emma
42.It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I Milton belongs to the Devil's party without knowing
it. Who among the following made this statement ?
(A) Frank Kermode
(B) William Empson
(C) C.S. Lewis
(D) William Blake
43.Live Like Pigs is :
(A) a humorous poem by Pope
(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell
(C) a play by Arden
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift
44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings'.
From which section of Eliot's The Waste Land are the above lines taken ?

(A) A Game of Chess

(B) What the Thunder Said
(C) Burial of the Dead
(D) Fire Sermon
45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe's African Trilogy ?
(A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer At Ease
(B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart
(C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God
(D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease
Things Fall Apart -1958, No Longer At Ease -1960, Arrow of God-1964
46. Which are the figures of speech used in the following lines by Blake
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?
(A) simile and personification
(B) irony and synecdoche
(C) apostrophe and synecdoche
(D) metonymy and apostrophe
47. In which of the following American novels does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur ?
(A) Huck Finn
(B) The Red Badge of Courage
(C) Invisible Man
(D) The Great Gatsby
48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he says 'He knew the tavern well in every town' ?
(A) Pardoner
(B) Monk
(C) Squire
(D) Friar
49. Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic
truth and poetic beauty. Who, among the following, made the above statement ?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Sidney
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Wordsworth
From The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold
50. She is inspired but diabolically inspired. Who is this lady ?
(A) Candida
(B) Major Barbara
(C) Saint Joan
(D) Ann

UGC NET solved Dec 2009

1. A classical influence on Ben Jonsons Volpone is
(A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus (D) Terence
2. Kiplings The White Mans Burden is addressed to

(A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.

(B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo.
(C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan.
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) 1912
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucers contemporary?
(A) Thomas Chatterton (B) John Gower
(C) Thomas Shadwell (D) John Gay
5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott?
(A) Ivanhoe (B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart of Midlothian (D) The English Mail Coach
The English Mail Coach is a novel by Thomas De Quincey
6. Provincializing Europe is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said (B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah (D) Dipesh Chakravarty
7. The earliest tract on feminism is
(A) Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the Rights of Woman
(D) Mary Astells A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
A serious Proposal (two volumes)(1694,1697), Vindication - 1792
8. Match the imaginary location with its creator:
1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens
5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath
7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 (B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7 (D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dantes The Divine Comedy ?
(A) The Canterbury Tales (B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame (D) Legend of Good Women
10. Essays of Elia was published in
(A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850
11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ?
(A) The Well of Loneliness (B) Maurice
(C) Orlando (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
12. W.B. Yeats Easter 1916 is
(A) a response to a major political uprising
(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school
(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) an ode to his native country
13. William Empsons Seven Types of Ambiguity is
(A) A structuralist study of narrative

(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism

(C) A study of the media
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence
14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism?
(A) J.A. Froude (B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill (D) Cardinal Newman
15. The Condition of England literature refers to
(A) The literature written by the labour class.
(B) The literature of England extolling living conditions.
(C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.
(D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad.
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to
(A) Platos Republic
(B) Aristotles Poetics
(C) Stephen Gossons The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Colliers Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English.
(A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada
18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size :
1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet
(A) 1 2 3 4 (B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 1 3 4 2
19. Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ? These
lines are from
(A) Rabbi Ben Ezra (B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Caliban upon Setebos (D) The Last Ride Together
20. Dr. Johnsons The Vanity of Human Wishes expresses
(A) Epicureanism (B) Humanism (C) Stoicism (D) Cynicism
21. A trivial comedy for serious people was the subtitle for
(A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Blythe Spirit
(C) The Way of the World (D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ?
In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/
Teach the free man how to praise.
(A) In Memoriam (B) Thyrsis
(C) In Memory of W.B. Yeats (D) Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by
(A) Thomas Carew (B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert (D) Richard Crashaw
24. Ben Jonsons comedies are
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemakers Holiday
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene

(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemakers Holiday
25. What is L Allegros companion piece called?
(A) Lamia (B) Hyperion (C) Il Penseroso (D) Thyrsis
26. Match the character with the novel :
1. Caddy 2. Lennie
3. Jake Barnes 4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The Sound and the Fury 6. Of Mice and Men
7. The Sun Also Rises 8. Seize the Day
Codes :
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement?
(A) Allen Ginsberg (B) Mark Beard
(C) Isaac McCaslih (D) Charles Beard
28. The Lost Generation is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of
the years following the First World War. Who called them The Lost Generation?
(A) H.L. Mencken (B) Willa Cather
(C) Jack London (D) Gertrude Stein
1. an extravagant exaggeration 2. a racist slur
3. a metrical skill 4. a figure of speech
(A) 1 is correct (B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct (D) 3 is correct
30. Imagined Communities is a concept propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson (B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed (D) Partha Chatterjee
31. The New Historicists include
(A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
32. Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar may be linked to the work of the following
artist:
(A) Modigliani (B) Chagall (C) Picasso (D) Cezanne
33. The author of Gender Trouble is
(A) Elaine Showalter (B) Helene Cixous
(C) Michele Barrett (D) Judith Butler
34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by
(A) Michel Foucault (B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Julia Kristeva (D) Roland Barthes
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ?
(A) Frankenstein (B) Northanger Abbey
(C) Castle of Otranto (D) Mysteries of Udolfo
36. The madwoman in the attic is a specific reference to
(A) The narrator of Goblin Market
(B) Augusta Eggs 1858 narrative painting

(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper

(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
37. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnsons The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies
of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of
William Wordsworth.
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also
adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth.
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
39. How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? Itis a contradiction in terms.
This means
1. An Englishman does not know what heresy is.
2. An Englishman has no beliefs.
3. And, therefore, there is no question of his heresy.
4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question of his acting his beliefs.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct (B) 2 and 1 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct (D) 2 and 4 are correct
40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?
(A) Archetype (B) The Uncanny
(C) The Absurd (D) The Imaginary
41. He wrote an essay called Conrads Darkness where he praises the earlier writer for
offering him a vision of the worlds half-made societies. Identify the writer.
(A) Chinua Achebe (B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Salman Rushdie (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
42. Magic Realism is closely associated with
(A) Italo Calvino (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C) Anita Desai (D) Rohinton Mistry
43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction?
(A) Kamala Markandya (B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee (D) Amitav Ghosh
44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel?
(A) Train to Pakistan (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The Shadow Lines (D) In Custody
45. Which of the following options is correct?
(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.
(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.
(iv) Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson,
Thoreaus Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.

(A) (i) and (iv) are correct. (B) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. (D) (iv) is correct
Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives
given below in the question 46 to 50 :
It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in
structuring our experience. The whole idea of language is something of a fiction: what we
normally refer to as language can more realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection of
discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different discourses
which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different selves. A discourse can be
conceptualized as a system of statements which cohere around common meanings and
values. So, for example, in contemporary Britain there are discourses which can be labeled
conservative that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo
is cherished: and there are discourses which can be labeled patriarchal that is, discourses
which emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant
discourses such as these appear natural: they are powerful precisely because they are able to
make invisible the fact that they are just one among many different discourses.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would
not regard analysis in terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of
talking about discourses rather than about language is that the concept discourse
acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse: whenever we
speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This
process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different selves:
different discourses position us in different ways in relation to the world.
Questions :
46.Which of the following is True in the light of this passage?
(A) Language is inaccurate. (B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse. (D) Discourse comprises language.
47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage?
I. different selves II. range
III. system of statements IV. heterogeneous collection
(A) II and IV (B) II and III (C) III and IV (D) I
48. Having called language something of a fiction, how does the author suggest its opposite ?
By using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system (B) more accurate to say
(C) range of discourses (D) more realistically be seen
49. Which among the following statements is NOT true ?
(A) Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.
(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.
(C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
50. What does this passage plead for ?
(A) Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
(D) Studying discourse as language

UGC NET Solved paper II 94 December

ENGLISH PAPER II
1. The renaissance started in
1) Italy
2) France
3) England
4) Germany
2. The line The paths of glory lead but to the grave occurs in
1) Shakespeare
2) Herbert
3) Pope
4) Gray
(Read Elegy written in the country church yard)
3. By character Aristotle means
1) Personages in drama
2) Cause of action
3) Combination of incidents in drama
4) Particular nature of drama
4. Amor Vincit Omnia in Chaucers The Prologue means
1) Love conquers nothing
2) Love conquers all
3) Love is blind
4) Love is fatal
5. The sonnet form was introduced in England by
1) Shakespeare
2) Philip Sidney
3) Wyatt
4) John Skelton
6. Which one of the following novels of Dickens is based on his own life?
1) Nicholas Nickleby
2) Great Expectations
3) Hard Times
4) David Copperfield
7. Dryden in Essay of Dramatic Poesy rejects tragi-comedy because
1) It is an innovative form
2) It violates the unity of tone
3) It is a poor imitation of French drama
4) It was practiced only by the Ancients
8. What is the sub-title of The Prelude?
1) An autobiography
2) A preface to my life
3) Growth of a poets mind
4) A poets story
9. The line Love is not Times fool occurs in a sonnet by
1) John Keats
2) Philip Sidney
3) John Donne
4) William Shakespeare
10. The Renaissance is written by

1) Walter Pater
2) Mathew Arnold
3) IA Richards
4) George Saintsbury
11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says
1) The good is always encouraged
2) The good is not particularly encouraged nor evil disapproved
3) The evil is often triumphant
4) There is no moral purpose
12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title of
1. Clarissa Harlowe
2) She Stoops to Conquer
3) Joseph Andrews
4) The Way of the World
13. The Romantic Age in England is distinguished for its
1) Verse drama
2) Political prose
3) Horror novels
4) Lyrical poetry
14. Who among the following was not a member of the pre-Raphaelite Brother hood?
1) Oscar Wilde
2) William Holman Hunt
3) John Everett Millais
4) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
15. Eliots Objective correlative signifies the writers ability to
1) relatively delineate his objectives
2) relate different objects
3) correlate objects and events
4) objectify the desired states of mind
16. Which one of the following is a Cavalier poet?
1) Herbert
2) Donne
3) Herrick
4) Marvell
Cavalier poets are the band of poets in 17th Century who supported Charles I. They are Ben
Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, John Suckling, and Robert Herrick. Though Herrick was not a
court poet, his style makes him a Cavalier poet.
17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death of
1) W.B Yeats
2) John Keats
3) P.B Shelly
4) Wordsworth
18. Which one of the following is not a Lake Poet?
1) Wordsworth
2) Coleridge
3) Southey
4) Shelley
19. Negative Capability is
1) The ability to overcome unpleasant experience
2) A passive subordination to experience
3) A subjective response to experience

4) depersonalized empathy with experience

20. Plurality, according to John Stuart Mill, is necessary for the
1) cultivation of the genius
2) success of democracy
3) intellectual enrichment of the society
4) evolution of State
21. A little learning is a dangerous thing is taken from
1) Alexander Pope
2) John Dryden
3) William Shakespeare
4) Jonathan Swift
22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is
1) an attack on Catholicism
2) denunciation of Protestantism
3) a defence of the authors stand
4) a defence of religious values
Apologia is written in reaction to Charles Kingsleys criticism of Newman.
23. Who is the author of Journal of the Plague Year?
1) Richard Steele
2) Daniel Defoe
3) Joseph Addison
4) Samuel Pepys
24. The Chartist Movement sought
1) Recognition of chartered trading companies
2) Political rights for women
3) Protection of the political rights of the middle class
4) Extension of the political rights to the working class
Chartism was the first mass working class movement for the political rights from 1838 48 in England.
It got its name from the peoples charter in 1838.
25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is written by
1) William Hazlitt
2) S.T Coleridge
3) Charles Lamb
4) De Quincey
26. The dictum only connect is central to the writings of
1) Aldous Huxley
2) Virginia Woolf
3) E.M Forster
4) D.H Lawrence
27. The criterion of Leaviss Great Tradition is
1) moral purpose
2) sublime subject matter
3) reader-response
4) truth to life
28. Free trade signifies
1) trade without government control
2) trade with only government control
3) freedom to trade in all commodities
4) freedom to export anything
29. In Culture and Anarchy, Mathew Arnold recommends
1) adoption of Hellenism

2) adoption of Hebraism
3) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism
4) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism
30. Lamia is a poem by
1) Rossetti
2) Shelley
3) Keats
4) Spenser
31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on the deserted Island?
1) 12 years and 9 days
2) 28 years and 2 months
3) 16 years
4) 21 years and 2 months
Crusoe's unfortunate journey was on 1659 September 30. He returned to England on 1686 Dec. 19. Total
period is 27 years two months and 19 days
32. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?
1) 1851
2) 1857
3) 1861
4) 1871
33. Yeats Leda and the Swan drawn upon
1) An oriental myth
2) East European myth
3) Celtic myth
4) A Greek myth
Leda and the Swan is a Greek myth in which Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda
34. The source of E.M Forsters title Where Angels Fear to Tread is
1) Pope
2) Dryden
3) Milton
4) Donne
Popes An Essay On Criticism Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
35. The lines Things fall apart/ Centre cannot hold occur in
1) Byzantium
2) Gerontion
3) Second Coming
4) Sailing to Byzantium
36. The Movement is a literary phenomenon in the
1) Thirties
2) Forties
3) Fifties
4) Sixties
37. John Donne affects the metaphysics. This remark was made by
1) Samuel Johnson
2) Allen Tate
3) T.S Eliot
4) John Dryden
38. The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination all compact. These lines occur in
1) Twelfth Night
2) A Midsummer Nights dream
3) As You Like It

4) The Tempest
In Act V, Theseus remarks The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination all compact.
39. Alexanders Feast is
1) A mock epic by Alexander Pope
2) A play by Dryden
3) A play by Marlow
4) an Ode by Dryden
40. Who said this: Life is not a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope?
1) Dorothy Richardson
2) James Joyce
3) Henry James
4) Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent
envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Modern Fiction
41. In which book of Gullivers Travels does Balnibarbi find a mention?
1) Laputa
2) Lilliput
3) Houyhnhnms
4) Borbdingnag
42. The phrase Sweetness and Light was first used by
1) Dr. Johnson
2) Keats
3) Mathew Arnold
4) Swift
(in The Battle of the Books)
43. Carlyles Sartor Resartus is
1) an autobiography
2) a fictional narrative
3) a biography
4) a fictional biography
44. Hopkinss Curtal Sonnet consists of
1) 14 lines
2) 101/2lines
3) 131/2 lines
4) 12 1/2lines
45. God is referred to as the president of Immortals in
1) The Paradise Lost
2) Tess
3) Ulysses
4) The White Devil
46. Osbornes Look Back in Anger was first staged in
1) 1956
2) 1957
3) 1958
4) 1960
47. Maurya is a character in
1) She Stoops to Conquer
2) Volpone
3) Riders to the Sea
4) The Golden Gate
48. Which of the following is a poet as well as a painter?

1) Tennyson
2) Keats
3) Shelley
4) Rossetti
49. Which English poet referred to Oxford as that sweet city with her dreaming spires?
1) Robert Graves
2) Matthew Arnold
3) W. H Auden
4) Alexander Pope
In Thyrsis of Arnold. Parts of this poem appear in Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
50. Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She died young this was said by
1) Hamlet about Ophelia
2) Othello about Desdemona
3) Lear about Cordelia
4) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi.

UGC NET solved questions 1995 part II

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Which famous poem contains the line, Hieronimo is mad again?

Lapis Lazuli
The Waste Land
Dover Beach
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Defamiliarisation as a function of Art was stressed by
Russian formalists
The New critics
The Psycho-analytical critics
The Marxist critics
If music be the food of love, play on This line occurs in Shakespeares
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
King Lear
As You Like It
Who is the author of The Uses of Literacy
Richard Hoggart
Raymond Williams
F.R Leavis
Terry Eagleton
Alone ,alone, all all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea These lines occur in a poem by
Robert Burns
S.T Coleridge
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Full fathom five thy father lies illustrates
Rhyme
Assonance
Internal rhyme

4)

Alliteration
From Shakespeares Tempest, Ariel sings this to Ferdinand about his father Alonso, King of
Naples.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them Ding-dong, bell.
7.
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by
1)
C.P Snow
2)
James Joyce
3)
Dylan Thomas
4)
Angus Wilson
8.
Who wrote the poem Troilus and Criseyde ?
1)
Shakespeare
2)
Chaucer
3)
Spenser
4)
Marlow
9.
Miltons Paradise Lost was published in
1)
1628
2)
1667
3)
1600
4)
1687
Miltons Paradise Lost, which is often regarded as the greatest literary work in English, was
originally published in ten books in the year 1667 by Samuel Simmons.
10. About whom did David Garrick comment that he spoke like poor poll but wrote like an angel?
1)
Sir John Reynolds
2)
Dr. Samuel Johnson
3)
Oliver Goldsmith
4)
Richard Steele
11. Richardsons novel Pamela is
1)
An epistolary novel
2)
A picaresque novel
3)
A Gothic novel
4)
A Satirical novel
12. Which of the following is a pastoral elegy?
1)
Areopagitica
2)
Lycidas
3)
Absalem and Achitophel
4)
Rasselas
13. Who among the following was a Pre-Raphaelite poet?
1)
Tennyson
2)
Ruskin
3)
Browning
4)
Rossetti
14. The Authorized version of the Bible appeared in
1)
1611

2)
1628
3)
1603
4)
1617
15. Which among the following is an Anglo Saxon Epic?
1)
Faerie Queen
2)
The Aeneid
3)
The Divine Comedy
4)
Beowulf
16. The Printing Press was first introduced into England by
1)
Bacon
2)
Caxton
3)
Thomas Moore
4)
Sidney
17. Chaucers Pilgrims first met in a place called
1)
The Tabard
2)
The Grays Inn
3)
The Russell Square
4)
The Manor House
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four
Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the
Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these
Inns.
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, London.
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor,
the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to
country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes.
18. Some of Shakespeares sonnets were addressed to
1)
The Queene
2)
Marlow
3)
Dark Lady
4)
Nobody in particular
19. The famous letter to Lord Chesterfield which sounded the death knell of literary patronage,
was written by
1)
Edmund Burke
2)
Samuel Johnson
3)
Jeremy Collier
4)
Jonathan Swift
20. Peripeteia is seen in tragedy when there is a reversal of fortune as
1)
When a rich man becomes poor
2)
When the protagonist undergoes a conversion of heart
3)
When the protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about the opposite of the
expected result
4)
When the protagonist sees his mistake
21. A Tale of a Tub was written by
1)
Swift
2)
Fielding
3)
Johnson
4)
Pope
22. A woman playwright who was popular in the Restoration Age was
1)
Virginia woolf
2)
Katherine Mansfield

3)
Aphra Behn
4)
George Eliot
23. The Principles of Literary Criticism was published in
1)
1924
2)
1936
3)
1950
4)
1914
24. A modern play which employs the classical convention of the Chorus is
1)
St. Joan
2)
Murder in the Cathedral
3)
Becket
4)
Lady Windermeres Fan
25. The central function of criticism, according to Arnold is
1)
Description of the work
2)
To interpret the work
3)
To help the poet / writer to write competently
4)

To promote discrimination in the reader and civilized standards

UGC NET solved question Jun 2010

ENGLISH Paper II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question
carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. The epithet a comic epic in prose is best applied to
(A) Richardsons Pamela
(B) Sternes A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fieldings Tom Jones
(D) Defoes Robinson Crusoe
2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called
(A) Memento Mori
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(C) Robinson
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
3. Samuel Butlers Erewhon is an example of
(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature
4. The line moments of unageing intellect occurs in Yeatss
(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) The Circus Animals Desertion
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridges Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped the
following poets together as the Lake School of Poets :

(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge

(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
6. Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White ?
(A) The Vivisector
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda
7. The famous line .. Where ignorant armies clash by night is taken from a poem
by
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Matthew Arnold
8. Which among the following novels is not written by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) Surfacing
(B) The Blind Assassin
(C) The Handmaids Tale
(D) The Stone Angel
9. The term theatre of cruelty was coined by
(A) Robert Brustein
(B) Antonin Artaud
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello
10. The verse form of Byrons Childe Harold was influenced by
(A) Milton
(B) Spenser
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope
11. Tennysons Ulysses is
(I) a poem expressing the need for going forward and braving the struggles of life
(II) a dramatic monologue
(III) a morbid poem
(IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
The right combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I & IV
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and II
12. Which post-war British poet was involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia
Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Geoffrey Hill
13. Chaucers Parliament of Fowles is in part
(I) a puzzle
(II) a debate
(III) a threnody

(IV) a beast fable

The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV
(B) II, III & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) II & IV
14. Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Paine
(D) Edward Gibbon
15. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its
(A) excessive wit and humour
(B) bitter satire and cynicism
(C) indecency and permissiveness
(D) superficial reflection of society
16. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Shakespeares
(A) Coriolanus
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Henry IV Part I
(D) A Midsummer Nights Dream
18. The term Cultural Materialism is associated with
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart
19. Which of the following author book pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Muriel Spark Under the Net
(B) William Golding Girls of Slender Means
(C) Angus Wilson Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing
Under the Net Iris Murdock, Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark, Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
20. Who among the following is a Canadian critic ?
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye
21. Sethe is a character in
(A) The Colour Purple
(B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Beloved
(D) Lucy

Sethe is the central character who kills her daughter and tries to kill other three
children in Toni Morrisons novel Beloved published in 1987. The novel is based on a
true story of an AfroAmerican slave, Margaret Garner
22. Imagined Communities is a book by
(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
23. Who among the following is a Cavalier poet ?
(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Richard Crashaw
(C) John Suckling
(D) Anne Finch
24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) Lady Windermeres Fan
(C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) An Ideal Husband
25. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka ?
(A) The Lion and the Jewel
(B) The Dance of the Forests
(C) Master Harold and the Boys
(D) Kongis Harvest
Master Harold and the Boys is a play by Athol Fugard
26. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of
Molieres The Misanthrope ?
(A) The Plain Dealer
(B) The Country Wife
(C) Love in a Wood
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
27. Inversion is the change in the word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this
book I like. Another term for inversion is
(A) Hypallage
(B) Hubris
(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton
28. The phrase the willing suspension of disbelief occurs in
(A) Biographia Literaria
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(C) In Defence of Poetry
(D) Poetics
29. The religious movement Methodism in the 18th century England was founded
by
(A) John Tillotson
(B) Bishop Butler
(C) Bernard Mandeville
(D) John Welsey
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with
literary heroes, is written by
(A) Charles Lamb

(B) Thomas de Quincey

(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spensers Faerie Queene is represented by
the character
(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana
(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa
32. The book Speech Acts is written by
(A) John Austin
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
33. Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence ?
(A) Philip Sydney Astrophel and Stella
(B) Samuel Daniel Delia
(C) Derek Walcott Omeroos
(D) D.G. Rossetti The House of Life
34. Incunabula refers to
(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
(B) books published before the year 1501
(C) books containing an account of myths and rituals
(D) books wrongly attributed toan author
The term incunabula refers to books or pamphlets published not hand written before
1501. The earlier term was fifteener.
35. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was
(A) Bacons Essays
(B) King James translation of the Bible
(C) Robert Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy
(D) None of the above
36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Hard Times
(C) Dombey and Son
(D) Bleak House
37. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase spots of time ?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron
38. The statement I think, therefore, I am is by
(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre
39. Verse that has no set theme no regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
(I) open form
(II) flexible form
(III) free verse

(IV) blank verse

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
(C) II, III and IV are correct
(D) I and III are correct
40. Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinters plays ?
(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Mans Land, The Homecoming
(B) The Homecoming, No Mans Land, The Room, One for the Road
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Mans Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The Homecoming, No Mans Land
41. Johnsons Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year
(A) 1710
(B) 1755
(C) 1739
(D) 1759
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to
(A) J.M. Coetzee
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis
(D) Salman Rushdie
In the year 1993, Rushdie won special Booker of Bookers prize.
43. In Keats poetic career, the most productive year was
(A) 1816
(B) 1817
(C) 1820
(D) 1819
44. Popes The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos
45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character associated with
I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness
The correct combination for the above statement according to the code is
(A) I & II
(B) I, II & III
(C) III & IV
(D) I & III
Stephen Dedalus is the protagonist in The portrait and in an important role in
Ulysses. The hero of Ulysses is Leopold Bloom
46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his
(A) ignorance
(B) pride
(C) courage
(D) drunkenness
47. The first complete printed English Bible was produced by

(A) William Tyndale

(B) William Caxton
(C) Miles Coverdale
(D) Roger Ascham
Myles Coverdales complete Bible was published in 1535. John Wycliff- first hand
written bible. Gutenberg first printed bible, Tyndale first man to print New
Testament in English.
48. Elizabeth Gaskells novel Mary Barton is sub-titled
(A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
(C) A Story of Provincial Life
(D) The Factory Girl
49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have
written 200 plays. The playwright is
(A) John Ford
(B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
(D) Thomas Heywood
50. The concept of Star-equilibrium in connection with man-woman relationship
appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives Tales