UGC NET QUESTIONS

UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1

2024-06-09T02:33:00.000-07:00

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

What can be the use of a poetry, that has no true subject except the poet’s own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world, has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths, or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations, founded upon past joys of the same design. But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a de-idealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.

- Harold Bloom’s “The Use of Poetry”.

1. In the context of the above which is closest to being true?

1. There can be no use of poetry.

2. Poetry can have no true subject.

3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.

4. The poet himself may be the subject.

Answer: The poet himself may be the subject.

The passage specifically mentions "the poet's own selfhood", as a possible subject for poetry. While "man" can be a broad subject encompassing the human experience, the focus here is on the individual poet's unique perspective.

2. What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?

1. Promoting serious ideas,

2. Promoting doubtful pleasure,

3. Promoting joyous expectations,

4. Promoting social honesty in life.

Answer: Promoting joyous expectations.

The traditional use of poetry involves “instruction through delight,” where teaching imparts common truths or societal traditions, and aesthetic pleasure fulfills expectations based on past joys. Therefore, “promoting joyous expectations” aligns with this purpose, as poetry aims to delight and meet anticipated pleasures.

3. If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:

1. some truth of untruths.

2. truth of self-recognition.

3. creating ideal pleasures.

4. re-living the past joys.

Answer: option 2. Some truth of untruths.

The passage suggests that an individual’s psyche has its own “accidents,” which it regards as truths, and that the pleasure of originality in poetry, might depend on a kind of “lying against time, and against the achievements of the past.” This implies that the poet’s originality, could stem from a personal interpretation of experiences, which may not align with objective truths or historical facts.

2. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

No worst, there is none.

Pitched past pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief

Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing-

Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked ‘No lingering!

Let me be fell: force I must be brief."

’ O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap

May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small

Durance, deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,

Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all

Life death does end, and each day dies with sleep.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins.

1. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, ‘No worst, there is none.’?

1. It is not worst because there is nothing.

2. Nothing can be so much bad as this.

3. No it is worst as nothing is there.

4. It is very bad as no one is there.

Answer: Nothing can be so much bad as this.

The poem explores the speaker's intense grief, which they describe as being "pitched past pitch of grief." This suggests they've reached a level of suffering they believe, is the absolute worst. The title reinforces this by stating, "No worst, there is none," implying nothing could be worse than what they're experiencing currently.

2. Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:

1. no grief than being experienced.

2. only a new pain more painful.

3. only the twisted known pains.

4. the griefs beyond limits of pain.

Answer: only the twisted known pains.

The phrase “only the twisted known pains” suggests that, the grief experienced is a more intense version of familiar pains. The poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, speaks to the idea that new sorrows are not entirely new, but are intensified forms of past sorrows, hence “twisted known pains.” This reflects the poem’s theme of suffering, being a complex and deepened continuation of past grief.

3. Which two of the following are true?

A. Not all know the intensity or depth of suffering.

B. Death does not put an end to our sufferings.

C. Suffering is seen as winds that hinder comfort.

D. Suffering’s intensity or depth is in the mind.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. C and D only,

3. A and D only,

4. B and D only.

Answer - option three: A and D only.

The poem reflects on the personal and internal nature of suffering, emphasizing that. not everyone can understand the depths of another’s pain. and that its intensity is something that exists in the mind, which can be as insurmountable as mountains.

3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the D’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.

– Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

1. How did the ‘sport with Tess’ end?

1. She was hanged.

2. She was expelled from Wintoncester.

3. The tormentor married her.

4. She died an untimely death.

Answer: She was hanged.

The phrase “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals… had ended his sport with Tess” refers to the tragic conclusion of Tess’s life. The “sport” ended with Tess’s execution, as confirmed by the black flag, which is a traditional symbol of execution.

2. Who are the ‘two speechless gazers’?

1. Reverend James Clare and Mrs. Brooks,

2. 'Liza-Lu and Angel Clare,

3. Tess’s two parents,

4. Parson Tringham and Mrs. d’Urberville.

Answer: ‘Liza‐Lu and Angel Clare.

The ‘two speechless gazers’ mentioned in the extract are Angel Clare and 'Liza-Lu, Tess’s sister. They are described as being in a state of shock and grief after Tess’s execution, which is why they are speechless and motionless.

3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff, As dreams are made on, and our little life, Is rounded with a sleep. – Shakespeare, The Tempest.

1. This insubstantial pageant’ refers to:

1. the shutdown of Globe theatre.

2. a non-real performance.

3. the destroyed mother earth.

4. enactment with support structure.

Answer: a non-real performance.

In the context of Prospero’s speech, “this insubstantial pageant” refers to the temporary and illusory nature of the masque (a type of theatrical performance), that Prospero has conjured with his magic. It also alludes to the fleeting nature of life and human achievements. The term “pageant” here symbolizes all of life’s grandeur, which, like a staged play, is transient and will eventually fade away, leaving no trace.

2. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’ means:

1. Human life is full of imaginary colours.

2. Our life is a text of what happened.

3. We are a bundle of past reality.

4. There is no substance to human life.

Answer: There is no substance to human life.

This famous line suggests that, human life and existence are as insubstantial and ephemeral as dreams. Just as dreams are intangible and fleeting, so too is our life, which is brief and concludes with death (sleep). It emphasizes the idea that life is a transient experience, full of illusions and creations of the mind, much like the spirits Prospero creates and then makes vanish.

1. In "An Apology for Poetry" Sidney discusses the didactic function of poetry by comparing it to philosophy and dash.

1. religion.

2. aesthetics.

3. history.

4. ethic

Answer - History.

In "An Apology for Poetry," Sidney argues that poetry is a more effective didactic tool than history. Philosophy teaches through abstract concepts, while history is limited by factual accuracy. Poetry, according to Sidney, can combine elements of both, offering moral lessons through engaging stories and characters.

2. According to Longinus which two of the following qualities apply to 'great poetry'?

A. It must be the work of genius, an inspired person.

B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.

C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.

D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. A and C only

3. B and D only

4. C and D only

Answer: A and C only

Longinus, in his work "On the Sublime," emphasizes two key qualities of great poetry:

A. Genius: Great poetry is the product of an exceptional mind, capable of creating powerful and original work.

C. Rhetorical Devices: Effective use of figures of speech and other rhetorical devices elevates language and creates a lasting impact.

Melancholy (B) and selective audience (D) are not defining characteristics of great poetry according to Longinus.

3) In "The Function of Criticism" T.S. Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being devotees of what he called:

1. "the Inner Voice".

2. "the Romantic Impulse".

3. "the Symbol Hunt".

4. "the Muse's Mystery".

Answer - the Inner Voice

In “The Function of Criticism,” T.S. Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being devotees of what he called "the Inner Voice".

4) Who among the following compared 'the mind in creation' to 'a fading coal'?

1. Wordsworth

2. Coleridge

3. Shelley

4. Keats

Answer - Shelley.

The person who compared ‘the mind in creation’ to ‘a fading coal’ was Shelley.

5) Who among the following considered paraphrase as 'a heresy'?

1. Percy Lubbock

2. Edmund Wilson

3. I.A.Richards

4. Cleanth Brooks

Answer - Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks, a leading figure in New Criticism, argued against paraphrase as a valid approach to analyzing literature. He believed that the meaning of a poem resides within its language, imagery, and structure, not simply in its ability to be restated.

6). Empiricist linguistics is concerned with :

1. investigation of the human mind.

2. directly observable sense-data.

3. reason as a determinant of enquiry.

4. innate language knowledge.

Answer - option two : directly observable sense-data

Empiricist linguistics emphasizes the role of sensory experience in language acquisition and development. It focuses on how we learn language through interacting with the world around us.

7). In Noam Chomsky's definition of grammar which two features are drawn from Mathematics?

A. complexity

B. abstraction

C. transformation

D. generation

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. A and C only

3. B and D only

4. C and D only

Answer - B and D only (abstraction and generation)

Noam Chomsky's generative grammar draws on mathematical concepts like abstraction and generation. Abstraction refers to the underlying rules and principles that govern language, while generation refers to the process of creating grammatically correct sentences.

Complexity (A) is a feature of language itself, not necessarily borrowed from mathematics. Transformation (C) is a concept within generative grammar, but it's not directly analogous to a mathematical concept.

8). 'Potato' is a sixteenth century borrowing into English from:

1. Spanish.

2. French.

3. German.

4. Norwegian.

Answer - Spanish

The word "potato" entered English from Spanish in the 16th century, following the encounter with the New World.

9). Who among the following represents the global spread of English diagrammatically as three concentric circles?

1. David Crystal

2. Jenny Cheshire

3. Braj B. Kachru

4. Salikoko Mufwene

Answer is Braj B. Kachru

Kachru's model of the spread of English depicts three circles:

Inner Circle (countries with English as a primary language)

Outer Circle (countries where English is widely used but not native)

Expanding Circle (countries where English is increasingly used)

10). Who among the following is the founder of the Survey of English Usage (SEU)?

1. Randolph Quirk

2. Henry Watson Fowler

3. Michael Swan

4. Bryan Garner

Answer: Randolph Quirk

Randolph Quirk is credited with founding the Survey of English Usage, a long-term research project investigating the use of English in the real world.

11). Who is the author of the short story, "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black"?

1. J. M. Coetzee

2. Nadine Gordimer

3. Andre Brink

4. Bessie Head

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer is a South African author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. The title story of her collection "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black" explores themes of identity and race.

12). Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication.

A. This Bridge Called My Back

B. Sexual Politics

C. Gender Trouble

D. The Feminine Mystique

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. B, D, A, C

2. D, B, A, C

3. D, A, B, C

4. B, D, C, A

Answer: D, B, A, C

The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963), Sexual Politics in 1970), This Bridge Called My Back was published in 1981), and Gender Trouble in 1990)

13). Who is the author of the essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"?

1. Aldous Huxley

2. George Orwell

3. Virginia Woolf

4. Somerset Maugham

Answer: George Orwell.

It was inspired by a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy, and was first published in Polemic No. 7 (1947). Orwell analyses Tolstoy’s criticism of Shakespeare’s work in general and his attack on King Lear in particular.

14). Which of the following poems by Robert Browning contains the lines, "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist. . ."?

1. "A Death in the Desert"

2. "Count Gismond"

3. "Bishop Blougram's Apology"

4. "Love Among the Ruins"

Answer: "Bishop Blougram's Apology"

These lines appear in Robert Browning's poem "Bishop Blougram's Apology," where the speaker explores the nature of faith and doubt.

15). Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine?

1. Charles Dickens

2. Lewis Carroll

3. William Makepeace Thackeray

4. Anthony Trollope

Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was a prolific Victorian novelist who also edited The Cornhill Magazine from 1860 to 1862.

16). Which of the following novels has its epigraph taken from the Katha Upanishad

1. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

2. The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

3. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

4. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Answer: The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge features an epigraph from the Katha Upanishad, an ancient Indian scripture.

17). Who is the author of the essay, "What Isn't Literature?"?

1. E. D. Hirsch Jr.

2. Paul Ricoeur

3. Hans-Georg Gadamer

4. Terry Eagleton

Answer: E. D. Hirsch Jr.

Eric "E. D." Donald Hirsch Jr. is an American educator, literary critic, and theorist of education. He is professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Virginia.

18. Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on:

1. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.

2. Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God.

3. James Joyce's Ulysses.

4. George Eliot's Middlemarch.

Answer: Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse.

Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) traces the development of Western literature's representation of reality. It starts with a comparison of the Bible and Homer's Odyssey and concludes by analyzing a work from the modernist era. Among the options provided, Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse best fits this description as a modernist novel.

19). Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the 'semiotic'?

1. Authority, order and patriarchy

2. Displacement, slippage and condensation

3. Repression, control and normalcy

4. Logic, reason and power

Answer: Displacement, slippage and condensation

Julia Kristeva, a French theorist, uses the term "semiotic" to describe the pre-linguistic realm of experience characterized by these features.

20). Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn?

A. Rover

B. Oroonoko

C. Soldier's Fortune

D. The Princess of Cleve

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. B and D only

4. A and C only

Answer: A and B only.

Aphra Behn, a pioneering female playwright and novelist, wrote The Rover and Oroonoko. These works explore themes of love, power, and colonialism.

21). Which two of the following are works by Gustave Flaubert?

A. The Temptation of Saint Anthony

B. Old Goriot

C. Therese Raquin

D. Sentimental Education

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and C only

3. A and D only

4. B and D only

Answer: : A and D only (The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Sentimental Education)

Gustave Flaubert is known for these two novels.

"Old Goriot" is by Honoré de Balzac.

"Thérèse Raquin" is by Émile Zola.

22). Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought?

A. Literature transcends the limits of the age of its origin and so is timeless.

B. Literature is untouched by the essential human nature which is unchanging.

C. Literature is devoid of any purpose to enhance life or promote human values.

D. Identity is a unique essence unaffected by environment and society.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and C only

3. A and D only

4. B and D only

Answer: A and D only.

Of the options provided, the two that align with liberal humanist thought are: A. Literature transcends the limits of its age and is timeless, reflecting universal themes and values across cultures. D. Identity is seen as a unique essence unaffected by external influences, emphasizing intrinsic worth and autonomy independent of societal or environmental factors. In contrast, options B and C do not conform to liberal humanist principles.

23). Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye's typology of literature?

A. Mythos of spring: Comedy

B. Mythos of summer: Satire

C. Mythos of autumn: Tragedy

D. Mythos of winter: Romance

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and D only

3. A and C only

4. B and D only

Answer: A and C only

(Mythos of spring: Comedy; Mythos of autumn: Tragedy)

Northrop Frye's theory associates seasons with literary modes.

Spring represents renewal and joy (comedy).

Autumn signifies decline and loss (tragedy).

Option B (summer) aligns with satire, and option D (winter) with romance, according to Frye.

24). Which two of the following writers does A. D. Hope address through his poetic responses in A Book of Answers?

A. Tolstoy

B. Dostoevsky

C. Mallarme

D. Goethe

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only

2. B and C only

3. B and D only

4. A and C only

Answer: A and C only

A. D. Hope addresses both Tolstoy and Mallarmé in his poetic responses within “A Book of Answers.” The poems serve as a dialogue with the past, where Hope uses his verse to converse with the ideas and legacies of these literary giants.

25). Which two of the following are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?

A. If the title page of a book contains an imprint as well as the publisher's name, omit the imprint and use the publisher's name.

B. While giving a URL copy it from the Web browser but omit http:// or https://.

C. If a quotation extends to more than five lines set it off from the text as block indented an inch from the left margin.

D. Long titles should be abbreviated using the first letter of key words typed in upper case without intervening space. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. A and C only

3. B and C only

4. B and D only

Answer: A and B only.

According to the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, if a title page contains an imprint and the publisher’s name, only the publisher’s name should be used.

26). Which two of the following are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen Greenblatt?

A. crisis of meaning

B. circulation of meaning

C. production of meaning

D. deferral of meaning

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. C and D only

4. B and D only

Answer: B and C only.

Stephen Greenblatt highlights “circulation of meaning” and “production of meaning” in relation to specific historical moments.

27). Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics?

A. R. S. Crane

B. E. M. W. Tillyard

C. Elder Olson

D. Allen Tate

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. A and D only

3. B and C only

4. B and D only

Answer: A and C only (R. S. Crane and Elder Olson)

The Chicago School emphasizes close reading and historical context.

R. S. Crane and Elder Olson are key figures in this school.

E. M. W. Tillyard and Allen Tate are associated with different critical movements.

28) . Which of the following poems contains John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and the hands of a compass?

1. "Negative Love"

2. "Lovers Infinitenesse"

3. "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

4. "A Valediction: Of Weeping"

Answer: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

John Donne's compass conceit appears in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

The other poems listed don't feature this specific conceit.

29). Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication.

A. T. S. Eliot, "The Function of Criticism"

B. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition"

C. Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"

D. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction"

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. C, B, A, D

2. C, B, D, A

3. B, C, D, A

4. B, C, A, D

Answer: B,C,D,A

Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Philosophy of Composition" was published earliest, in 1846.

Henry James’, "The Art of Fiction" came out in 1884.

Virginia Woolf’s, "Modern Fiction" appeared in 1919.

And T. S. Eliot’s "The Function of Criticism" was published latest, in 1923.

30). Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started publication.

A. The Tatler

B. The Examiner

C. The Review

D. The Spectator

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. A, D, C, B

2. B, A, D, C

3. C, A, B, D

4. C, A, D, B

Answer: C,A,B,D

C. The Review (1704)

A. The Tatler (1709)

B. The Examiner (1710)

D. The Spectator (1711)

31) Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R

Assertion A : Postmodern narratives focus on the indeterminate and unstable nature of textuality and subjectivity.

Reason R : Postmodern narrative acts regard narratives and characters as tentative representations of writing and identity.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

2. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

3. A is true but R is false

4. A is false but R is true

Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

Postmodern narratives indeed challenge the notion of fixed meaning and identity. They explore the fluidity and subjectivity of interpretations within narratives and how characters are not simply reflections of reality but constructions shaped by writing and interpretation. Reason R accurately captures this essence.

32) Given below are two statements

Statement I: In Waiting for Godot, it is Vladimir who questions the Boy who comes from Godot towards the end of the two Acts.

Statement II: In Waiting for Godot, it is Estragon who says, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer: Both Statement I and Statement II are true.

In Waiting for Godot, Vladimir does question the Boy about Godot at the play's end. Additionally, Estragon utters the famous line, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful," expressing the characters' sense of futility and stagnation.

33) Given below are two statements

Statement I: New Historicism stipulates that teleological connotations of history have to be eschewed. Statement II: New Historicism neither denies nor accepts totalizing explanations of historical events.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer: Both Statement I and Statement II are true.

Statement I: New Historicism stipulates that teleological connotations of history have to be eschewed. This statement aligns with the New Historicist belief that history should not be viewed as a series of events leading inevitably to a present or future outcome, which is the essence of a teleological perspective.

Statement II: New Historicism neither denies nor accepts totalizing explanations of historical events. This statement is consistent with New Historicist thought, which posits that history is not objective and is instead constructed through discourse, suggesting that totalizing explanations are neither fully accepted nor completely denied.

34) What was poor Yorick in Hamlet?

1. Jester

2. Actor

3. Soldier

4. Gravedigger

Answer: Jester

In Hamlet, Yorick was the king's jester, a famous figure whose skull Hamlet contemplates in the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy.

35) Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular meaning?

1. phoneme

2. phonic substance

3. phonestheme

4. phonemoid

Answer: Phonestheme

A word that refers to a sound associated with a particular meaning is a phonestheme.

36) Who among the following Dickens characters appears as a ghost?

1. Daniel Quilp

2. Dora Spenlow

3. Esther Summerson

4. Jacob Marley

Answer: Jacob Marley.

Jacob Marley is a fictional character in Charles Dickens’s novella “A Christmas Carol.” He was a former business partner of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by Marley’s ghost, who wanders the Earth entwined by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. Marley tells Scrooge that he has a single chance of redemption to avoid the same fate: he will be visited by three spirits, in the hope that he will mend his ways; otherwise, he will be cursed to carry much heavier chains of his own.

37) Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteen-year-old boy, writes a poem called:

1. "The Evergreen Tree".

2. "The Poison Tree".

3. "The Oak Tree".

4. "The Magic Tree".

Answer: "The Oak Tree".

In Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” the protagonist Orlando writes a poem called “The Oak Tree.” The poem undergoes many revisions and rewrites throughout Orlando’s nearly 400-year life, reflecting Orlando’s growth as a writer and a person.

38) What function of English is exemplified by the use of English in India as a "link language" along with a first language by stable bilinguals in well-defined social contexts?

1. complementary

2. supplementary

3. auxiliary

4. equative

Answer: Complementary

(English acts as a bridge language facilitating communication between speakers of different native languages.)

39) Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) never happened?

1. Zygmunt Bauman

2. Jean Baudrillard

3. Jacques Derrida

4. Jurgen Habermas

Answer: Jean Baudrillard.

Jean Baudrillard, a French sociologist and cultural theorist, argued that the Gulf War did not truly take place but was a carefully scripted media event—a “virtual” war. Baudrillard's concept of the "simulacrum" suggests the potential for events to become so mediated that their reality becomes questionable.

40) What 19th-century philosophical term of Russian origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to describe the disintegration of traditional morality in western society?

1. absolutism

2. cynicism

3. nihilism

4. anarchism

Answer: nihilism.

Nietzsche used the term “nihilism” to describe the collapse of traditional moral values and the rejection of religious beliefs.

41) Which of the following statements is true of the working group set up by the University Grants Commission in 1978 to study the medium of instruction in higher education?

1. It recommended a quicker switchover of the medium of instruction from English to Indian languages.

2. It observed that English need not be displaced as the medium of instruction although regional languages were quite ready to take over its functions.

3. It argued that English as a highly developed language was best suited for India's industrial and scientific progress.

4. It asserted that English had the potential to further polarize an already-divided nation along socio-economic and intellectual fault lines.

Answer: It observed that English need not be displaced as the medium of instruction although regional languages were quite ready to take over its functions.

This statement aligns with the findings of the UGC working group. They recognized that while regional languages were prepared to take on instructional roles, English need not be completely replaced. The coexistence of English and regional languages was considered.

42) In comparative philology and sometimes in modern phonology, what is the term used to refer to the deletion of a vowel within a word?

1. Aphaeresis

2. Equi-deletion

3. Paradigm

4. Syncope

Answer: Syncope

(This is the technical term for vowel deletion within a word, such as "gonna" from "going to.")

43) Which of the following statements best describes Terry Eagleton's views on literature?

1. It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order.

2. Its raison d'être is to reflect social reality directly.

3. Its primary purpose is to produce beauty and pleasure.

4. It is closely allied to religion in its significance and seriousness.

Answer: It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order.

Terry Eagleton, a literary theorist, emphasizes the role of literature in perpetuating existing social structures.

44) Which of the following are true of 'performance', as used in linguistic theory?

A. It is analogous to the Saussurean concept of langue.

B. It refers to the specific utterances of individual native speakers in actual situations.

C. It is an innate grammar that suggests humans' universal ability to use language.

D. It includes hesitations and unfinished structures arising out of psychological difficulties acting upon the speaker. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. A and C only

4. B and D only

Answer: B and D only.

‘Performance’ refers to the specific utterances of individual native speakers in actual situations and includes hesitations and unfinished structures arising out of psychological difficulties acting upon the speaker.

45) Which among the following are the works of George Gissing?

A. New Grub Street

B. Agnes Grey

C. The Odd Women

D. Mary Barton

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and D only

3. A and B only

4. C and D only

Answer: A and C only

(Both "New Grub Street" and "The Odd Women" are novels by George Gissing.)

46) Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan?

A. Atonement

B. The Man with Two Left Feet

C. The Child in Time

D. The Rachel Papers

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and D only

3. C and D only

4. D and A only

Answer: A and C only

("Atonement" and "The Child in Time" are both novels by Ian McEwan.)

47) Which of the following are poems by Nissim Ezekiel that make fun of Indians' use of English?

A. "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S."

B. "Philosophy"

C. "Very Indian Poem in Indian English"

D. "Jewish Wedding in Bombay"

E. "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and D only

3. A, B and D only

4. A, C and E only

Answer: A and C only

"Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.": This poem is a well-known example of Nissim Ezekiel's satire on the use of "Indian English." It uses humor to depict characters who misuse English grammar and vocabulary, reflecting a certain social class and cultural context.

"Very Indian Poem in Indian English": This title itself suggests the poem's focus on "Indian English." Similar to "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.," it pokes fun at the idiosyncratic way some Indians use English.

48) Match List I with List II

List I List II

(Author) (Text)

A. Sean O'Casey I. I'm Talking About Jerusalem

B. Dylan Thomas II. The Winslow Boy

C. Terence Rattigan III. Juno and the Paycock

D. Arnold Wesker IV. In the Shadow of the Glen

E. J.M. Synge V. Under Milk Wood

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A-II, B-I, C-III, D-V, E-IV

2. A-V, B-IV, C-II, D-I, E-III

3. A-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV

4. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-V, E-I

Answer: A-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV

(This aligns the authors with their most famous works: A-Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock, B-Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood, C-Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy, D-Arnold Wesker - I'm Talking About Jerusalem, E-J.M. Synge - In the Shadow of the Glen)

49) Match List I with List II

List I List II

(First line) (Poet)

A. “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land... I. G.M.Hopkins

B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! II. Alfred Tennyson

C. I caught this morning morning’s minion... III. D.G. Rossetti

D. Look in my face; my name is Might‐have‐been... IV. Matthew Arnold

E. The sea is calm tonight... V. Robert Browning

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A-II, B-III, C-I, D-V, E-IV

2. A-IV, B-V, C-I, D-III, E-II

3. A-III, B-IV, C-V, D-I, E-II

4. A-II, B-V, C-I, D-III, E-IV

Therefore, the correct matching is:

Answer: A‐II, B‐V, C‐I, D‐III, E‐IV

A. "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land... - II. Alfred Tennyson (from the poem "The Lotus Eaters")

B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! - V. Robert Browning (from the poem "Fra Lippo Lippi")

C. I caught this morning morning's minion... - I. G.M. Hopkins (from the poem "The Windhover")

D. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been... - III. D.G. Rossetti (from the poem " The House of Life: 97. A Superscription")

E. The sea is calm tonight... - IV. Matthew Arnold (from the poem "Dover Beach")

50) Match List I with List II

List I List II

(Character) (Novel)

A. Winston Smith I. Sons and Lovers

B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses

C. 'whiskey priest' III. Nineteen Eighty-four

D. Leopold Bloom IV. Decline and Fall

E. Paul Pennyfeather V. The Power and the Glory

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A-III, B-I, C-V, D-II, E-IV

2. A-I, B-V, C-II, D-III, E-IV

3. A-IV, B-III, C-V, D-II, E-I

4. A-V, B-I, C-IV, D-II, E-III

Answer: A‐III, B‐I, C‐V, D‐II, E‐IV

Winston Smith: The protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Paul Morel: The central character in Sons and Lovers.

‘Whiskey Priest’: The main character in The Power and the Glory.

Leopold Bloom: The fictional protagonist in Ulysses.

Paul Pennyfeather: The main character in Decline and Fall.

51) Arrange the following language areas of the human brain, in the order in which they involve in hearing, understanding and saying a word:

A. arcuate fasciculus.

B. anterior speech cortex.

C. motor cortex.

D. posterior speech cortex.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C, D, B.

2. B, A, D, C.

3. C, B, A, D.

4. D, A, B, C.

Answer: D, A, B, C.

Here's the order of brain involvement:

D. Posterior Speech Cortex: This area processes the sound of the heard word.

A. Arcuate Fasciculus: This pathway connects the posterior speech cortex to the Broca's area.

B. Anterior Speech Cortex (Broca's area): This area is responsible for planning and producing speech.

C. Motor Cortex: This area controls the muscles involved in articulation, turning the planned speech into spoken words.

52) Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the following books:

A. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale.

B. Alice Walker, The Color Purple.

C. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook.

D. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, D, C.

2. B, A, D, C.

3. C, D, B, A.

4. D, C, B, A.

Answer: C, D, B, A.

C. (Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook) was Published in 1962.

D .(Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye was Published in 1970.

B. (Alice Walker, The Color Purple) was Published in 1982.

A. (Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale) was Published in 19852.

53) Arrange the following terms, in the chronological order of their use, in literary theory:

A. Gynesis.

B. Scriptable.

C. Negritude.

D. Paratext.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. D, A, C, B.

2. A, B, C, D.

3. C, A, D, B.

4. B, C, D, A.

Here, No correct chronological order of use is given here. Let’s examine the given terms.

Negritude - This term was coined in the 1930s by French-speaking black intellectuals, particularly associated with the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Paratext - Coined by Gérard Genette in his work "Seuils" (translated as "Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation"), published in 1987. Genette introduced the concept of paratext, to refer to the elements surrounding the main text of a book, that contribute to its interpretation.

Scriptible - This term is associated with Julia Kristeva, and her concept of écriture, or "writing" as an active, transformative process. Kristeva's ideas were developed, in the late 20th century.

Gynesis – a term Coined by Helene Cixous, a French feminist writer and theorist, the term gynesis refers to the generation of women-centered narratives and perspectives. Cixous's work emerged in the latter half of the 20th century.

54) Given below are two statements:

Statement 1: Unlike scientific research, literary research does not have specific materials for investigation and scientific tools for reaching a conclusion and formulating a theory.

Statement II: Literary research consists of critical interpretations of an author's work to the exclusion of biography and editing of texts.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. Both Statement 1 and Statement II are correct.

2. Both Statement 1 and Statement II are incorrect.

3. Statement 1 is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.

4. Statement 1 is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.

Answer: Both Statement 1 and Statement II are incorrect.

Both provided statements about literary research are incorrect. The first statement inaccurately suggests that literary research lacks specific materials, and tools for investigation, whereas in reality, literary research relies on literary texts and various analytical methods. The second statement incorrectly claims that literary research is solely about critical interpretations of authors' works, excluding other important aspects like biography and textual editing. Therefore, the correct assessment is that both Statement 1 and Statement II are incorrect.

55) Given below are two statements:

Statement 1: Linguists, being primarily interested in the scientific study of language, approach language dispassionately. Statement II: Linguists are necessarily polyglots who bring their own biases to language study.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. Both Statement 1 and Statement II are correct.

2. Both Statement 1 and Statement II are incorrect.

3. Statement 1 is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.

4. Statement 1 is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.

Answer: Statement 1 is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.

Statement 1: Linguists approach language scientifically and dispassionately. They study language structures, phonetics, syntax, and semantics using empirical methods. Their goal is to understand language as a system, rather than imposing personal feelings or biases.

Statement II: Linguists are not necessarily polyglots (people who speak multiple languages). While some linguists may be proficient in several languages, it is not a requirement for their work. Linguists strive to minimize biases by using objective research methods. Their focus is on uncovering universal principles of language, rather than personal viewpoints. Linguists approach language objectively, and being a polyglot is not essential for their research.

56) Which of the following are features of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'?

A. emphasis on the central role of God in the universe.

B. presentation of futile actions devoid of any goal.

C. portrayal of situations that point to the meaningfulness of life.

D. lacking in conflicts and dramatic tensions.

E. presenting players in a stasis or drift without definite roles. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C and E only.

2. B, D and E only.

3. A, B and D only.

4. B, C and D only.

Answer: B, D and E only.

The Theatre of the Absurd is characterized by:

B. Presentation of futile actions devoid of any goal.

D. Lacking in conflicts and dramatic tensions.

E. Presenting players in a stasis or drift without definite roles.

It highlights the absurdity of human existence and the lack of inherent meaning in the universe.

57) Who, among the following, is known to have used elements from the Yakshagana tradition in his theatre?

1. Badal Sircar .

2. Girish Karnad.

3. Mohan Rakesh .

4. Mahesh Dattani.

Answer: Girish Karnad.

Girish Karnad is a renowned Indian playwright, who incorporated elements from traditional theatre forms like Yakshagana in his works.

58) Match List 1 with List II.

List 1 (Writer), List II (Book)

A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee, 1. Untouchable.

B. Mulk Raj Anand, II. Rajmohan's Wife.

C. Panchkouree Khan, III. Stories from Indian Christian Life.

D. Kamala Sathianadhan, IV. The Revelations of an Orderly.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A - II, B - 1, C - IV, D – III.

2. A - 1, B - III, C - II, D – IV.

3. A - III, B - IV, C - II, D – 1.

4. A - IV, B - 1, C - II, D – III.

Answer: A - II, B - 1, C - IV, D – III.

A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee is matched with II. Rajmohan’s Wife.

B. Mulk Raj Anand is matched with 1. Untouchable.

C. Panchkouree Khan is matched with IV. The Revelations of an Orderly.

D. Kamala Sathianadhan is matched with III. Stories from Indian Christian Life.

59) Which of these UK universities, saw the first institutional incorporation of Cultural Studies?

1. Bath Spa University,

2. Oxford University,

3. University of Birmingham,

4. Cambridge University .

The Answer is: University of Birmingham.

The University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), founded in the 1960s, is considered a pioneering institution in Cultural Studies.

60) Which of these poets, wrote a poem that served to inspire W B Yeats to write his own poem, "When you are Old"?

1. Francois Villon,

2. Pierre de Ronsard,

3. Edmund Spencer,

4. Heinrich Heine .

Answer: Pierre de Ronsard.

Pierre de Ronsard, a French poet of the Renaissance era, wrote a sonnet titled "Quand vous serez bien vieille" ("When you are very old") that served as an inspiration for W. B. Yeats's poem. Yeats's poem, reflects themes of love, aging, and the passage of time, echoing Ronsard's sentiments expressed in his sonnet.

61) Which of these does Meenakshi Mukherjee propose, as the possible target readership of early Indian English novel?

A. A pan-Indian readership,

B. A localized Indian readership,

C. A British readership,

D. The colonial administrator in India.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. B and C only,

3. C and D only,

4. A and D only .

Answer: C and D only.

British readership and the colonial administrator in India: These novels were often written to cater to British readers, and address British interests and perspectives, especially during the colonial era. The colonial administrator in India (option D) would also be included within the broader category of a British readership. Therefore, option 3 (C and D only) best reflects Meenakshi Mukherjee's proposed target readership for early Indian English novels.

62) Match List 1 with List II

List 1 (Poet), List II (Language).

A. Charles Baudelaire, 1. French.

B. Heinrich Heine, II. German.

C. Sylvia Path, III. English.

D. Jose Marti, IV. Spanish.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A - 1, B - II, C - III, D - IV .

2. A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - 1 .

3. A - III, B - IV, C - 1, D - II .

4. A - IV, B - 1, C - II, D - III .

Answer: A - 1, B - II, C - III, D – IV.

63) Which of these constitute the preoccupations of the protagonist of Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August?

A. Marijuana,

B. Magic,

C. Monotheism,

D. Marcus Aurelius.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. A and D only,

3. B and C only,

4. B and D only.

Answer: A and D only.

Agastya, the protagonist of English, August, is primarily preoccupied with marijuana and Marcus Aurelius’.

The novel explores his use of marijuana and its impact on his perception of the world. Agastya finds solace and guidance in the philosophies of Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.

64) What was the name of the journal, published from Bowling Green University beginning 1969, which carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films?

1. Journal of Mass Culture,

2. Journal of Popular Culture,

3. Journal of Public Culture,

4. Journal of Culture Studies,

Answer: Journal of Popular Culture.

Journal of Popular Culture (JPC), established in 1967 at Bowling Green State University, is a renowned journal focusing on popular culture studies.

The other options don't match the specific description of the journal's content and publication date.

65) Which of these, best describes Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy?

1. Novel of manners,

2. Sentimental novel,

3. Coming-of-age novel,

4. Picaresque novel.

Answer: Coming-of-age novel.

Funny Boy, by Shyam Selvadurai, is a coming-of-age story that follows Arjie, a young boy, growing up in a Sri Lankan Tamil family during a time of ethnic tensions. It explores his experiences with sexuality, family dynamics, and the social and political landscape of his time.

66) Which of these questions, would Cultural Studies be most interested in asking?

A. Who decides what is to be produced?

B. Who can afford the artifact?

C. How is the artifact marketed?

D. What is the register of speech in the artifact?

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B and C only.

2. A, C and D only.

3. B, C and D only.

4. A, B and D only.

Answer: A, C and D only.

Cultural Studies would be most interested in questions that explore the production, representation, and reception of cultural artifacts within society.

67) Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of 'cultural intermediaries'?

1. Luis Althusser,

2. Karl Marx,

3. Pierre Bourdieu,

4. Jurgen Habermas,

Answer: Pierre Bourdieu.

Bourdieu's work extensively explores social class, power dynamics, and how taste and cultural capital influence these processes.

68) From whom, does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term 'subaltern'?

1. Karl Marx,

2. Friedrich Engels,

3. Louis Althusser,

4. Antonio Gramsci.

Answer: Antonio Gramsci.

Spivak borrows the term "subaltern" from Gramsci, who used it to describe the oppressed social groups, with limited agency under dominant power structures.

69) Which of the following, does the Subaltern Studies project contend?

A. Traditional historiography celebrated the role of the subalterns.

B. Traditional history of India's freedom movement celebrates the contribution of select icons.

C. Traditional historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.

D. Subaltern Studies historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only.

2. B and C only.

3. A and C only.

4. B and D only.

Answer: B and C only.

The Subaltern Studies project contends that, traditional historiography has overlooked the voices and experiences of the subalterns, in favor of celebrating the contributions of select icons and dominant narratives.

70) Which of these, did the Wood's Despatch (1854) seek to propagate?

A. Impart Western knowledge to Indians,

B. Restrict access to English learning in India,

C. Educate British officers in Sanskrit and Persian,

D. Create a class of public servants.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. B and C only,

3. A and C only,

4. A and D only.

Answer: A and D only.

The Wood's Despatch aimed to create a class of Indian civil servants, familiar with Western knowledge and administrative practices, to better govern British India.

71) Arrange the following periodicals, in the chronological order in which they started publication:

A. The Spectator,

B. The Tatler,

C. The Rambler,

D. The Critical Review.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C, D,

2. B, A, C, D,

3. B, C, D, A,

4. A, D, B, C,

Answer: B, C, D, A

B. The Tatler (1709): Founded by Richard Steele.

C. The Rambler (1750): Founded by Samuel Johnson.

D. The Critical Review (1756): Founded by a group of writers, the exact composition is unclear.

A. The Spectator (1711): Founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

72) Who, among these, does Gabriel Garcia Marquez name right in the beginning of his Nobel Prize address?

A. Ferdinand Magellan,

B. Christopher Columbus,

C. Marco Polo,

D. Antonio Pigafetta.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. B and C only,

3. C and D only ,

4. A and D only .

Answer: A and D only.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez mentions several explorers in his speech, but specifically acknowledges, Ferdinand Magellan and Antonio Pigafetta for their contributions.

The first sentence of his speech is - Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine navigator who went with Magellan on the first voyage around the world, wrote, upon his passage through our southern lands of America, a strictly accurate account that nonetheless resembles a venture into fantasy.

73) Which of these, constitutes the only extant trilogy from ancient Greek tragedy?

1. King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.

2. Agamemnon, Choephori, The Eumenides.

3. Agamemnon, Orestes, The Eumenides.

4. King Oedipus, Orestes, Antigone.

Answer: Agamemnon, Choephori, The Eumenides –

These three plays are part of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. The trilogy narrates the story of the House of Atreus, focusing on the aftermath of the Trojan War and the curse on the House of Atreus. The three plays are:

Agamemnon (or The Fall of Agamemnon),

Choephori (The Libation Bearers),

The Eumenides (The Furies).

74) Match List 1 with List II.

List 1 (Author) , List II (Form).

A. Pindar 1. Epinicia

B. Menander II. Old Comedy

C. Sappho III. Lyric poetry

D. Aristophanes IV. New Comedy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A - 1, B - III, C - II, D - IV

2. A - 1, B - IV, C - III, D - II

3. A - II, B - 1, C - IV, D - III

4. A - III, B - IV, C - 1, D - II

Answer: A – 1, B - IV, C - III, D – II,

Pindar is known for his Epinicia (victory odes).

Menander is a representative of New Comedy.

Sappho is a famous lyric poet.

Aristophanes is a writer of Old Comedy.

75) Which of these, does the book How to read Donald Duck identify as an important element, in its analysis of imperialist ideology in the Walt Disney comic book?

1. impoverished royalty,

2. noble savage,

3. scientific magic,

4. heartless civilisation.

Answer: noble savage.

The term "noble savage" refers to the romanticized portrayal of indigenous or non-Western peoples, as inherently noble, virtuous, and untainted by modern civilization. In the context of Disney comics, this concept often reflects colonialist or imperialist perspectives, that stereotype and simplify non-Western cultures, while reinforcing Western superiority and hegemony. The book critiques how Disney's portrayals, perpetuate such ideological constructs. How to Read Donald Duck is a book by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, published in 1971, that critiques Disney Comics as a capitalist propaganda for American corporate and cultural imperialism.

76) Match List 1 with List II.

List 1 (Playwright), List II (Play)

A. Bertolt Brecht , 1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

B. Tennessee Williams, II. Life of Galileo.

C. Vaclav Havel, III. Miss Julie.

D. August Strindberg, IV. Temptation.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A - 1, B - II, C - IV, D – III,

2. A - III, B - II, C - 1, D – IV,

3. A - IV, B - III, C - 1, D – II,

4. A - II, B - 1, C - IV, D – III,

Answer: A ‐ II, B ‐ 1, C ‐ IV, D ‐ III.

A. Life of Galileo is the work of Bertolt Brecht.

B. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is by Tennessee Williams.

C. Temptation is authored by Vaclav Havel, and,

D. August Strindberg’s work is Miss Julie.

77) Which of these plays by Girish Karnad, shares its theme with Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads?

1. Hayavadana,

2. Yayati,

3. Nagamandala,

4. Tale Danda.

Answer: Hayavadana.

Both "Hayavadana" by Girish Karnad and "The Transposed Heads" by Thomas Mann, explore themes of identity and the desire to switch body parts.

78) With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiongo generally associated?

1. Decolonising the State,

2. Decolonising the Mind,

3. Decolonising the Body,

4. Decolonising the Polity.

Answer: Decolonising the Mind.

Ngugi wa Thiongo is a prominent figure in postcolonial studies, emphasizing the importance of decolonizing the mind, as a key step in achieving liberation.

79) Match List 1 with List II.

List 1 (Novel), List II (Author)

A. Don Quixote, 1. Machado de Assisi.

B. Sorrows of Young Werther, II. Honore de Balzac.

C. Lost Illusions, III. Goethe.

D. Epitaph of a Small Winner, IV. Miguel de Cervantes.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A - 1, B - III, C - II, D - IV ,

2. A - II, B - 1, C - III, D – IV,

3. A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - 1 ,

4. A - III, B - 1, C - IV, D – II,

Answer: A - IV, B - III, C - II, D – 1.

Don Quixote is by Miguel de Cervantes.

Lost Illusions is by Honore de Balzac.

Sorrows of Young Werther is by Goethe.

Epitaph of a Small Winner is by Machado de Assisi.

80) Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing, in which of the following periodicals?

1. London Magazine,

2. The Edinburg Review,

3. The Quarterly Review,

4. Athenaeum.

Answer: London Magazine.

Charles Lamb used the pen name Elia for his essays published in the London Magazine.

81) In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf:

1. responds to E.M Forster's remarks on character in fiction.

2. criticises book buying preferences of the educated English class.

3. analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.

4. presents modernity as a stable and coherent project uniting all artists.

Answer: Woolf analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.

Virginia Woolf's essay, "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" uses the contrast between an established writer (Arnold Bennett) and a new voice (Mrs. Brown), to explore the changing landscape of fiction.

82) In "Politics and the English Language", which two of the following 'tricks' are mentioned by George Orwell, as 'bad habits' of English use?

A. obsolete words,

B. pretentious diction,

C. dying metaphors,

D. false modifiers.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. B and C only,

3. B and D only,

4. C and D only,

Answer: B and C only.

George Orwell criticizes:

B. Pretentious diction: Using overly complex or formal words when simpler ones would do.

C. Dying metaphors: Clichéd metaphors that have lost their figurative power.

He doesn't specifically target obsolete words (A) or false modifiers (D) in this essay.

83. Match List 1 with List II.

List 1 (Essay), List II (Essayist).

A. "The Tory Fox-Hunter", I. Francis Bacon.

B. "What I Believe", II. Joseph Addison.

C. "The Death of the Moth", III. E.M.Forster.

D. "Of Ambition", IV. Virginia Woolf.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A -1 , B -III , C -IV , D -II.

2. A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -1.

3. A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -1.

4. A -IV , B -1 , C -II , D -III.

Answer: A - II, B - III, C - IV, D – 1.

84) Arrange the following characters, in their chronological sequence of appearance:

A. Mirabell,

B. Shylock,

C. Jimmy Porter,

D. Sir Epicure Mammon,

Choose the correct answer from the options given below,

1. D, B, A, C .

2. B, D, A, C .

3. D, B, C, A.

4. B, D, C, A.

Answer: B, D, A, C.

B. Shylock: Appears in William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (1596).

D. Sir Epicure Mammon: A character in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1605).

A. Mirabell: The protagonist in William Congreve's "The Way of the World" (1700).

C. Jimmy Porter: The central character in John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (1956).

85) Which two of the following concepts, are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson?

A. Pastiche,

B. Hyperreal,

C. Schizophrenia,

D. Habitus,

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only ,

2. C and D only ,

3. B and D only ,

4. A and C only ,

Answer: A and C only.

Frederic Jameson’s work prominently features the concepts of Pastiche and Schizophrenia. He discusses these concepts, in the context of postmodernity, where pastiche refers to the imitation of a unique style without satiric impulse, and schizophrenia represents a breakdown in the signifying chain, a fragmentation of subject into a series of "disconnected signifiers."

86) Arrange the following plays, in their chronological sequence:

A. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance,

B. The Playboy of the Western World,

C. Look Back in Anger,

D. Man and Superman.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below,

1. D, B, A, C.

2. B, D, A, C.

3. D, B, C, A.

4. B, D, C, A.

Answer: D, B, C, A.

D. Man and Superman (1903) - Written by George Bernard Shaw.

B. The Playboy of the Western World (1907) - Written by J.M. Synge.

C. Look Back in Anger (1956) - Written by John Osborne.

A. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) - Written by John Arden.

87) Match List 1 with List II

List 1 (Text), List II (Author).

A. Modernity at Large , 1. J. Urry.

B. The Tourist Gaze, II. E.W. Said.

C. Culture and Imperialism, III. C.L.R. James.

D. The Black Jacobins, IV. A. Appadurai.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A -IV , B -III , C -II , D -1,

2. A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -1,

3. A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -1,

4. A -IV , B -1 , C -II , D -III,

Answer: A - IV, B - 1, C - II, D – III.

A. Modernity at Large – is by A. Appadurai,

B. The Tourist Gaze is a work by J. Urry,

C. Culture and Imperialism is authored by E.W. Said,

D. The Black Jacobins – is penned by C.L.R. James.

88) What might the speaker mean, when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and declares that "I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee"?

A. Time preserves human life.

B. With time comes change.

C. Time creates opportunities.

D. Time removes human life.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only,

2. C and D only,

3. B and D only,

4. A and C only.

Answer: B and D only.

The speaker in the sonnet is likely acknowledging the destructive nature of time ("thy scythe") and its power to bring change ("despite thee"). Time does not necessarily preserve life or create opportunities.

89) Which two of the following stage directions, are from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party?

A. The living-room of a house on a seaside town.

B. A garbage pail on the ground next to the porch steps.

C. A light shows from upstairs bedroom, lower floor windows being dark.

D. He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the table, beating it regularly.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only,

2. C and D only,

3. B abd C only,

4. A and C only.

Answer: A and D only.

90) Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:

A. "An aged man is but a paltry thing."

B. "The world is too much with us."

C. "Daddy, I have had to kill you."

D. "After great pain, a formal feeling comes -"

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. B, D, A, C.

2. D, B, A, C.

3. D, B, C, A.

4. B, D, C, A.

Answer: B, D, A, C.

B. "The world is too much with us." (1802) - This line by William Wordsworth reflects Romanticism's focus on nature.

D. "After great pain, a formal feeling comes -" (1850) - This line by Emily Dickinson might refer to the emotional numbness that follows intense suffering.

A. "An aged man is but a paltry thing." (1920) - This line by William Butler Yeats, from "Sailing to Byzantium," reflects on aging and mortality, a theme prominent in his later work.

C. "Daddy, I have had to kill you." (1962) - This opening line from Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" is a powerful example of confessional poetry.

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ENGLISH

Paper – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term:

(A) aporia

(B) difference

(D) supplement

Ans: A

2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Alan Bennett

(D) Tom Stoppard

Ans: D

3. Arrange the following in the chronological order:

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2

(B) 3, 2, 1, 2

(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

Ans: A

4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Ulysses

(D) Heart of Darkness

Ans: D

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Ans: A

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(D) The Legend of Good Women

Ans: C

7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

Ans: A

8. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(D) Derek Walcott

Ans: B

9. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

Ans: C

10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?

(A) Tony Morrison

(B) Seamus Heaney

(D) Geoffrey Hill

Ans: A/B

11. List – I List – II

I. “Because I could not stop for death…” a. Robert Frost

II. “O Captain ! My Captain!” b. William Carlos Williams

III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….” c. Emily Dickinson

IV. “So much depends /upon” d. Walt Whitman

The correctly matched series would be :

(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a

(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d

(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

Ans: D

12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

(A) comic

(B) solemn

(D) irony

Ans: D

13. I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics?

(A) bench

(B) night club

(D) park

Ans: B

14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(D) Basic English Project

Ans: D

15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear?

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(D) The Way of the World

Ans: A

16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.

II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.

IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

(A) I and II are true.

(B) II and III are true.

(D) III and IV are true.

Ans: A

17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes

(B) the Symbolists

(D) the Art Noveau School

Ans: A

18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) P. B. Shelley

(D) Lord Byron

Ans: C

19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

Ans: C

20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(D) Graham Greene

Ans: D

21. List – I List – II

1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”

2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of

all knowledge. II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry

3. Literary criticism is a description and

Evaluation of its object III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

4. Nature never set forth the earth in

as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done IV. Coleridge,BiographiaLiteraria

1 2 3 4

(A) IV III I II

(B) II IV III I

(D) IV II I III

Ans: A

22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(D) Following the Equator

Ans: D

23. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

Ans: B

24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(D) John Tennial

Ans: C

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(D) The Newfound Land

Ans: A

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Ans: B

27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English?

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

Ans: B

28. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by

(A) Hamlet

(B) Lear

(D) Macbeth

Ans: D

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(D) comedy

Ans: B

30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) John Arden

(D) David Hare

Ans: C

31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year1936.

(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.

(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

Ans: C

32. What is the correct combination of the following?

I. Balachandra Rajan a. The Tamarind Tree

II. R. K. Narayan b. The Coffer Dams

III. Kamala Markandaya c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu d. The Dark Room

(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b

(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c

(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

Ans: A

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirizes in his famous poem.

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

Ans: C

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

(A) winter, spring

(B) autumn, summer

(D) spring, winter

Ans: A

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works :

I. Let us go then, you and I….. a. Moby Dick

II. Call me Ishmael….. b. Macbeth

III. When shall we three meet again ? c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy

V. I wish either….begot me ….. e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d

(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d

(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

Ans: A

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(D) Gorboduc

Ans: C

37. What is a neologism?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

Ans: C

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation

(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

Ans: C

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are:

(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

Ans: C

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending?

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(D) The Clockwork Orange

Ans: C

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(D) Anti-climax

Ans: C

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanza form in some of his major poems.

(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ans: D

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(D) only patriarchy

Ans: C

44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(D) Thomas Gray

Ans: D

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(D) The French Revolution

Ans: A

46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or

(A) rhymed

(B) broken

(D) run-on

Ans: D

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine”?

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

Ans: D

48. Match the following:

I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell

III. Life of Johnson 3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of Poets 4. Richard Ellman

(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3

(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4

Ans: B

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile

(B) image

(D) metonymy

Ans: D

50. An epilogue is

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.

(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.

(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.

Ans: B

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Note :This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.

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

(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

(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

(D) Alvin Kernan

6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :

(A) East Pakistan

(B) India and 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 Panther- Milton's Paradise Lost

(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's Memoirs- Milton'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

(D)Rudyard Kipling

9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads : “one who strove with all his might to champion liberty” ?

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(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

(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey

11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) Edward II : Zenocrate

(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

(D) Leda and Swan

Read the Poem Leda and Swan

13. Inscape refers to :

(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature

(B) The universal 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

(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

(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is :

(A) 99

(B) 47

(D) 108

17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern retelling of :

(A) Ivanhoe

(B) Evelina

(D) The Moonstone

18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare appeared in :

(A) 1752

(B) 1765

(D) 1760

19.The main character in Gogol's Dead Souls is :

(A) Oblomov

(B) Bazarov

(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

(D) John Lyly

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 intertextual references to Jane Eyre ?

(A) No Telephone to Heaven

(B) Wide Sargasso Sea

(D) Between Two Worlds

23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used by :

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Dr. Johnson

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(D) 1821

32.The Female Quixote was written by :

(A)Henry Fielding

(B)Tobias Smollett

(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

Read the Essay The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers

35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Kingsley Amis

(B) Alan Sillitoe

(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)Bundelaire

(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

Greek chorus also had the same form

38.The words “where are the songs of spring ? Ay, where are they ?” occur in :

(A) Ode to the West Wind

(B) The Seasons

(D) Resolution and Independence

Read Ode to Autumn by John Keats

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

(D) The Lotus Eaters

Read the pome The Lotus Eaters by Alfred Lord Tennyson

40.Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake

(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree

(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 Shallott-Tennyson, 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

(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

(D) William Blake

43.Live Like Pigs is :

(A) a humorous poem by Pope

(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(D) Wordsworth

The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold

50. “She is inspired but diabolically inspired”. Who is this lady ?

(A) Candida

(B) Major Barbara

(D) Ann

UGC ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER JUNE 2008

2012-04-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.

1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights and women's sphere is :

(A) Maud

(B) In Memoriam

(C) Idylls of the King
(D) The Princess

Read the pom Princess by Tennyson

2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake

Read Hymn To Adversity
3.The King James Bible was published in :

(A)1609
(B) 1610
(C)1611
(D) 1612

4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot used for :

(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound

Eliot calls Ezra Pound IL Migilor Fabro which means the finer craftsman in his dedication of The Waste Land because of his brilliance as an editor.

5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay by :

(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens
Read the Essay The Figure a Poem Makes

6. ''Ripeness is all” occurs in :
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser

7. A. C. Bradleys Shakespearean Tragedy was published in :

(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906
8. 'Topsy' appears in :

(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(B) History of the United States
(C) Walden
(D) Tom Sawyer

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is :

(A) Lyric
(B) Ballad
(C) Ode
(D) Haiku

10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV Part I - The Merchant of Venice

Shakespearean Plays a Timeline

11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century literature stands for :

(A) Nature of writing
(B) External nature
(C) Human nature
(D) The Universe

12. Who is given credit for first using the termromantic?

(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Kant
(C) Coleridge
(D) Schiller

13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :

(A) James Joyce
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster

14. July's People is a novel by :

(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) V. S. Naipul
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer

15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :

(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines
(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter

16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers text as :

(A) a structure of metaphors
(B) a unified whole
(C) an experimentation in form
(D) construction of history

17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :

(A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.
(C) Canada
(D) Britain
18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :

(A)Ruskin
(B) Arnold
(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke

19. Who of the following is not a university wit ?

(A)Webster
(B) Robert Greene
(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe

20. Bosola is a character in a play by :

(A)Ben Jonson
(B) Webster
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Thomas Middleton

21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven'. This occurs in a poem by :

(A) William Wordsworth
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Byron
(D) Shelley

Read the Poem here: The French Revolution

22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :

(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Chinua Achebe
(D) Wole Soyinka

23. The first Canadian poet is :

(A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Charles Heavysege
(D) Alexander Machlachlan

24. Heroic quatrain is :

(A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter

25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally means :

(A) Development novel
(B) Psychological novel
(C) Autobiographical novel
(D) Campus novel

26.A book that faithfully renders a young man's confused images of love and rejection is :

(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(B) Lucky Jim
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) The brave New World

27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between :

(A) faith and reason
(B) tradition and modernity
(C) oriental and occidental civilization
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism

28. “For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special relates to Chaucer''s

(A) Friar
(B) Monk
(C) Doctor
(D) Pardoner

29. The historical novel began in ;

(A)Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age
(C) Victorian Period
(D) Romantic Period

30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated with :

(A) Graham Green
(B) Kingsley Amis
(C) Margaret Drabble
(D) William Golding

31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Hard Times - George Eliot
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay

32. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by :

(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Christopher Marlow
(C) John Webster
(D) Ben Jonson

33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during :

(A)1920-1940
(B) 1910-1930
(C)1930-1940
(D)1900-1910

New Humanism, critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the moral quality of past civilizations—the best that has been thought and said—in an age of industrialization, materialism, and relativism.

Reacting against the scientifically oriented philosophies of literary realism and naturalism, New Humanists refused to accept deterministic views of human nature. They argued that: (1) human beings are unique among nature’s creatures; (2) the essence of experience is fundamentally moral and ethical; and (3) the human will, although subject to genetic laws and shaped by the environment, is essentially free. With these points of contention, the New Humanists—Paul Elmer More, Irving Babbitt, Norman Foerster, and Robert Shafer, to name only a few—outlined an entire program and aesthetic to incorporate their beliefs. By the 1930s the New Humanists had come to be regarded as cultural elitists and advocates of social and aesthetic conservatism, and their influence became negligible.

34.Internal rhyme is :

(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
(B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry
(D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern

35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by :

(A) John Lyly
(B) Marlow
(C)Ben Jonson
(D)John Webster

36. The line “I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be.......” appears in T. S. Eliot's

(A) Gerontion
(B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(C) Four Quartets
(D) The Waste-Land

37. 'Fancy' deals with :

(A) Fixities and definities
(B) Imagination and Reason
(C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Structure and Superstructure

38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in the form of a :

(A) Project in political economy Social Satire
(B) Political allegory
(C) Social Satire
(D) Old-Testament history

39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad was taken from :

(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

40. Which of the following is not a Browning's work ?

(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women
(B) Dramatic Personae
(C) Men and Women
(D) The Palace of Art

41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise between :

(A) Language and form
(B) Style and content
(C) Biography and criticism
(D) Myth and archetype

42. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman's :

(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself

43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ?

(A) Boswell
(B) Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke

44. The early religious drama is associated with :

(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality

45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness

46. Sheridan's first play was :

(A) The Rivals
(B) School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick's Day
(D) A Trip to Scarborough

47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of :

(A) loss of moral purpose
(B) excess of emotion
(C) excess of reason
(D) loss of human feelings

48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H. Hatter
(B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
(C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Arun Joshi - The Apprentice

49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question of time in his poetry is :

(A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) R. Parthsarathy
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Gieve Patel

50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :

(A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
(C) Prose of Emerson
(D) Ezra Pound's Cantos

UGC SOLVED PAPER II December 2008

2012-04-25T19:29:00.000-07:00

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.

1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England during :

(A) 1830 - 1890

(B) 1837 - 1905

(C) 1837 - 1901
(D) 1850 – 1910

2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday
(B) Sunday and Wednesday
(C) Friday and Monday
(D) Thursday and Monday

3. “Tottel's Miscellany” contained :

(A) 30 sonnets
(C) 50 sonnets
(B) 40 sonnets
(D) 60 sonnets

4.’Imagism' is associated with :

(A) T. S. Fliot
(C) E. E. Cummings
(B) D. H. Lawrence
(D) T. E. Hulme

5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by :

(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Robert Lowell

'Things Fall Apart' is one of the most widely read African novels ever published. It is written by one of Nigeria's leading novelists Chinua Achebe, published in 1958.

6. 'Formal Criticism' relates to the structure of :

(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths
(C) Content
(D) Form

7. A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of :

(A) rhyme
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement
(D) height

8. Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ?

(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) John Ruskin
(D) G. K. Chesterton

9. The confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by :

(A) William Hazlitt
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Landor
(D) De Quincey

10. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in :

(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) Arnold Wesker
(D) Edward Albee

11. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is in the correct chronological order ?

(A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus and Cressida
(B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida
(C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado...
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus and Cressida

Much Ado about Nothing - 1600
Hamlet -                             1603
King Lear -                        1608
Troilus and Cressida -        1609

12. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of :

(A) Philosophical writings
(B) Poetry
(C) Drama
(D) Letters

13. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :

(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats

Walter Scott - 1771-1832,
Byron -           1788-1824,
Shelley -          1792-1822,
Keats -            1795-1821.

14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by :

(A) Virginia Woolf
(B) E. M. Forster
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) James Joyce

15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with :

(A) problems of middle-class
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy
(C) mechanizations of politics
(D) simplicity of lower-class

16. Heptameter consists of :

(A) five metrical feet
(B) six metrical feet
(C) seven metrical feet
(D) eight metrical feet

17. In formalistic school of criticism art is :

(A) entertainment
(B) preaching
(C) matter
(D) style

18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Alan Sillitoe
(B) Paul Scott
(C) Peter Porter
(D) Muriel Spark

19. 'Rugby Chapel' is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his :

(A) mother
(B) brother
(C) father
(D) sister

20. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :

(A)Mary Edgeworth
(B) Aphra Behn
(C) Mary Russell
(D) Mrs Gaskell

21. 'Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight' is a line that occurs in :

(A) Dr Faustus
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Spanish Tragedy

22. Pope's 'Essay on Man' can best be read as a poem of :

(A) classical understanding of nature
(B) anti-romantic view of life
(C) sociological estimate of man
(D) philosophical apprehension of life

23. The term 'Victorian' evokes the attitudes of :

(A) philistinism
(B) moral earnestness
(C) licentiousness
(D) transcendentalism

24. Larry slate is a character in :

(A) Desire Under the Elms
(B) The Emperor Jones
(C) The Iceman Cometh
(D) Hairy Ape
The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene O'Neill

25. 'Iambus' is a metrical foot consisting of :

(A) two syllables
(B) three syllables
(C) four syllables
(D) one syllable

26. The lines ''Not that he wished is greatness to create / For politicians neither love nor hate,'' occur in :

(A) The Rape of the Lock
(B) Abslam and Achitophel
(C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) Essay on man

27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were given by :

(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Victor Hugo
(C) Edger Allan Poe
(D) F. L. Lucas

28. The term 'a stream of consciousness' is derived from the writing of :

(A) Mary Sinclair
(B) Dorothy Richardson
(C) William James
(D) Gertrude Stein

29. Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock is :

(A) a romantic comedy
(B) a historical tragedy
(C) a mythical reconstruction
(D) a tragi-comedy

30. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies that :

(A) there is no one correct meaning of the text
(B) the readers of an age construct the meaning
(C) beliefs determine meaning
(D) a style is the hallmark of the text

31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Walter Pater - Unto This Last
(B) Browning - The Ring and the Book
(C) M. Arnold - Idylls of the King
(D) Thackray - Bleak House

32. 'Myth Criticism' focuses on :

(A) a study of myths and mythology
(B) archetypes of spiritual experience
(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns
(D) the confluence of different traditions

33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility was first used by :

(A) Philip Sydney
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) John Dryden
(D) Mathew Arnold

34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :

(A) picturesque city life
(B) panoramic view of nature
(C) picture of industrial society
(D) picturesque country life

35. 'The Lost Generation' refers to the generation that came to maturity in the :

(A) 1920s
(B) 1930s
(C) 1910s
(D) 1940s

36. The French Revolution had a significant impact on :

(A) Victorian Literature
(B) Romantic Literature
(C) Neo-classic Literature
(D) Modern Literature

37. In which poem does the following line appear ? ''Our birth is but a sleep and aforgetting.'' :

(A) “Michael”
(B) “Immortality Ode”
(C) “Rejection : An Ode”
(D) “Tintern Abbey”

Read the Poem Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

38. Tale of a Tub is about :

(A) Warring political factions
(B) Struggling lower-class people
(C) Controversial philosophical documents
(D)Contemning religious parties

39. Congreve's The way of the world ends with :

(A) a dance party
(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort
(C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison
(D)reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood

40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, “O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ?”

(A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand
(C) Alonso
(D) Stephano

41. Secular influences on the early English drama were :

(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and social customs
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans

42. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress was written while he was :

(A) in prison
(B) on a pilgrimage
(C) on a social mission
(D) in a church

Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in Bedford Jail.
43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is :

(A) a political orator
(B) a propagandist
(C) a social revolutionary
(D) a serious moralist

The speaker who is a serious moralist uses a dignified and public style of utterance to decry modes of vice and error.

44. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice most clearly shows the influence of :

(A) Fielding Smollett
(B) Richardson
(C) Smollett
(D) Sterne

45.The most important of the ‘evolutionists’ during the Victorian period was :

(A) Erasmus Darwin
(B) Robert Chambers
(C) Charles Darwin
(D) Alfred Russell Wallace

46. A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern literature is :

(A) Absurdism
(B) Dadaism
(C) Imagism
(D) Surrealism

47. The term 'magic realism' was first introduced by :

(A) Hannah Arendt
(B) Franz Roh
(C) Jean Arp
(D) Peter Behrens

48. The Indian English novelist who, for the first time, addressed the question of language and indigenous experience was :

(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) R K Narayan
(C) Arun Joshi
(D) Raja Rao

49. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr is written in the :

(A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(B) first person narrative mode
(C) picaresque mode
(D) naturalistic mode

50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is :

(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
(D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg

Read a sonnet by Shakespeare

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UGC NET ENGLISH PAPER II SOLVED 2009 JUNE

2012-04-20T19:32:00.001-07:00

Note :This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1.In a 1817 review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term 'Lake School of Poets' grouping...

(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron

The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement. The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

2.'I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...' The above lines are taken from...

(A) “The Soldier”
(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”
(C) “To His Dead Body”
(D) “Strange Meeting”

Read the poem Strange Meeting by Wilfred Oven.

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration :

(i) Coral Island                                   (ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat                           (iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel                 (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos                                     (viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)
(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)

Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

An enduringly popular classic of children’s fiction, The Coral Island tells the story of three boys stranded on a seemingly idyllic desert island. Thoughtful Ralph, clever, brave Jack and mischievous Peterkin soon find, however, that their new home has more than a few surprises in store! Wayne Forester’s energetic reading brings this classic adventure vividly to life. The Coral Island inspired a whole genre of adventure literature, influencing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

The Great Indian Novel, as author Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned, takes its title not from the author's estimate of its contents but in deference to its primary source of inspiration, the ancient epic the Mahabharata. In Sanskrit, Maha means great and Bharata means India.

Omeros is a 1990 epic poem by Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott The epic is set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Although its name is Omeros (Homer in Greek) it has just a minor touch of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The narrative of Omeros is multilayered. Walcott focuses on no single character; rather, many critics have taken the "hero" of Omeros to be the island of St. Lucia itself. The narrative draws heavily on the legacy of the Homeric epics; Book One even opens with an invocation of the Greek poet, who is likened to the blind character, Seven Seas. However, while many characters within the epic derive their appellations from Homeric characters, this is the only absolute correlation; the themes are Homeric in inspiration, but the story does not imitatively follow the plot of either the Iliad or the Odyssey.

4. “His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man !'”
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?

(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Brutus

Julius Caesar Act V. Scene V

Marc ANTONY

This was the noblest Roman of them all:

All the conspirators save only he

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;

He only, in a general honest thought

And common good to all, made one of them.

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world 'This was a man!'

5. “When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies”. The author of these lines is...

(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) William Shakespeare

Read Sonnet 138 by Shakespeare

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...

(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws

7. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in...

(A) Mac Flecknoe
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Essay on man
(D) Alexander’s Feast

8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?

(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed

Strategic essentialism, a major concept in postcolonial theory was introduced by the Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It refers to a strategy that nationalities, ethnic groups or minority groups can use to present themselves. While strong differences may exist between members of these groups, and amongst themselves they engage in continuous debates, it is sometimes advantageous for them to temporarily 'essentialize' themselves and bring forward their group identity in a simplified way to achieve certain goals.

9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :

(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace

10. Jabberwocky is a character in....

(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Goblin Market

11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said's thesis in Orientalism ?

(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.

(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii)

12.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods.

Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary histories, Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.

(A) (AST) and (R) are correct
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)

13. Everyman is...

(A) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible
(B) a medieval morality play
(C) a Tudor interlude
(D) a miracle play

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?

(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

15.Doris Lessing’s interest in __________ is widely recognized :

(A) Hinduism
(B) Sufism
(C)Zen
(D)Judaism

16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as...

(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion
(C) understatement
(D) circumlocution

17. Arrange the following in chronological order...

(I) The death of Shakespeare
(ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
(iii) Caxton and the printing press
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England

(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii)

Norman conquest 1066
Caxton and the printing press 1476
Accession of James I to the English throne 1603
The death of Shakespeare 1616

18. The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by :

(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Derek Walcott

19. “Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above lines are from...

(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier

Read Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.
20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was written by...

(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) James Boswell

21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written:

(i) Lycidas                      (ii)Arthur Hugh Clough
(iii)Adonais                       (iv) A.H. Hallam
(v) In Memoriam              (vi) Edward King
(vii) Thyrsis                      (viii) Keats

(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)
(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii);(v) - (ii)
(C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
(D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) – (iv)

"Lycidas" is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a college mate of Milton's at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.

“Adonaïs”: A pastoral elegy on the Death of John Keats written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works

“In Memoriam” is a poem by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833.

Thyrsis is the title of a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42.

22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on:

(A) Jazz music
(B) Disability sports
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
(D) Black American folklore

23. “He's not the brightest man in the world” is an example of:

(A) Chiasmus
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes
(D) Simile

24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is associated with...

(A) Wolfgang Iser
(B) Stanley Fish
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) H.R. Jauss

25. The following writers have something in common : What is it ?

Mary Seacole                     J.A. Froude
Mary Kingsley                   Anthony Trollope

(I) They are all victorians
(ii) They are all writers of children's fiction
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild
(iv) They are all travel writers

(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) ii) and (iv)
D) (i) and (iv)

26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...

(A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(C) A German narrative
(D) None of the above

Faustus is a timeless myth pointing directly at the universal truth inherent to our misguided and blasphemous penchant for an ultimate sort of knowledge and power. The idea of an individual selling his or her soul to the devil for knowledge is an old motif in Christian folklore, one that had become attached to the historical persona of Johannes Faustus, a disreputable astrologer who lived in Germany sometime in the early 1500s. The immediate source of Marlowe's play seems to be the anonymous German work Historia von D. Iohan Fausten of 1587, which was translated into English in 1592, and from which Marlowe lifted the bulk of the plot for his drama.

27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement ?

(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group :

(A) Jews
(B) Muslims
(C) Hindus
(D) French Canadians

29. Who among the following is NOT a 'University Wit' ?

(A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) George Peele
(C) Robert Greene
(D) Ben Jonson

30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, 'He has a wooden leg'. Now this wooden leg is...

(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) ambiguous
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct

Phrase: Wooden leg- It comes from the time of the old sailors and pirates where an infamous one had a wooden leg and could drink his rum like no other. Hence the term, wooden leg, is still used for someone who drinks a lot.

31. Prosody studies:

(A) Line endings
(B) Meanings of words
(C) Patterns of prose
(D) Metrics

Prosody is the study of poetic metre and of the art of versification, including rhyme, stanzaic forms, and the quantity and stress of syllables.

32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play?
(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ...

(A) New Historicism
(B) New Aristotelianism
(C) New Criticism
(D) The New Left

Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert \Pennwarren

34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason?

(A) sixteenth century
(B) seventeenth century
(C) eighteenth century
(D) nineteenth century

35. What is common to the following poems ?

Wordsworth's 'The Recluse'
Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'
Byron's 'Don Juan'
Keats' 'Hyperion'

(A) They are all elegies
(B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
(D) They are women-centred poems

36. Who among the following called the novel ‘the bright book of life’ ?

(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley

37. “Ripeness is all'' is a line from...

(A) Hamlet
(B) King Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth

38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was translated by...

(A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(D) A.K. Ramanujan

39. Abel Whittle is a character in:

(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd
(D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I ?

(A)January
(B) April
(C) August
(D)November

41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem?

(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
(C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Golden grove unleaving?
(D) The world is too much with us

Read the Poem by Hopkins..

42.Politics and the English Language is an essay by :

(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) George Orwell
(D) Raymond Williams

43. 'The mind-forged manacles' is phrase from :

(A) ''London''
(B) ''Eternity''
(C) “A Poison Tree”
(D) “I Asked a Thief”

Read the poem "London" by William Blake.

44. “He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?

(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge

45. The Globe Theatre opened in :

(A) 1585
(B) 1593
(C) 1599
(D) 1603

Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the questions 46 to 50 :

We need to begin by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere fact that the word exists, or that an academic institution has been built around it, does not mean that the thing itself is self-evident.

Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to begin with are not hard to find. The full history of the word literature and its equivalents in all languages and all eras has yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look at the question makes it clear that the term has not been around forever. In the European languages, the word literature in its current sense is quite recent: it dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one? Moreover, many languages (many African languages, for example) have no generic term covering all literary productions. To these initial observations we may add the fragmentation characteristic of literature today. Who dares specify what literature is and what is not, given the irreducible variety of the writing that tends to be attached to it, from vastly different perspectives?

The argument is not conclusive: a notion may legitimately exist even if there is no specific term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over the 'naturalness' of literature. A theoretical examination of the problem proves no more reassuring. Where do we come by the conviction that there is indeed such a thing as literature? From experience, we study 'literary' works in school, then in college; we find the 'literary' type of book in specialized stores; we are in the habit of referring to 'literary' authors in everyday conversation. An entity called 'literature' functions at the level of intersubjective and social relations; this much seems beyond question. Fine. But what have we proved? That in the broader system of a given society or culture, an identifiable element exists that is known by the label literature. Have we thereby demonstrated that all the particular products that take on the function of 'literature' possess common characteristics, which we can identify with legitimac? Not at all.

46. This passage casts doubt on:

(A) the assumption called literature.
(B) the idea of literature.
(C) the institution of literature.
(D) the notion of literature.

47. Literature is unsustainable because :...

(A) we are unclear as to what it means.
(B) we are unsure as to its message.
(C) we are not persuaded that the claims made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are the right and the only possible ones.

48. How does the writer argue that the existence of literature is hardly self-evident?

(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by argument that its legitimacy can be interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label does not match the thing we know to be literature.

(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)

49. “Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one”? What makes this a
reasonable question to consider in this context?

(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to better empirical verification than an 'eternal' one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one must be taken
on trust or not at all.
(D) historical phenomenon is well above disputation while an 'eternal' one is not.

50.What does ‘the fragmentation characteristic of literature today' suggest to the writer ?

(A) the fragmentation of modern consciousness.
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its readers.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation into this concept.

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UGC NET English Solved Paper II. Dec 2009

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is

(A) Juvenal

(B) Aristophanes

(C) Plautus
(D) Terence

2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s 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 Chaucer’s 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 Mailcoach (1849) is written by Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859).)

6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by

(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty

(First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.)

7. The earliest tract on feminism is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

(A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men.)

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

(Author set Novels in
Thomas Hardy Wessex
Emily Bronte Egdon Heath
Charles Dickens Coketown
Charlotte Bronte Lowood Parsonage)

9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy?

(A) The Canterbury Tales
(B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame
(D) Legend of Good Women

(The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. The poem is regarded as the first of Chaucer's Italian-influenced period and there are echoes of the works of Ovid, Virgil's Aeneid and particularly Dante's Divine Comedy. The three part structure and the reference to various personalities suggest to some that the poem was meant as a parody of the Divine Comedy.)

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

(Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond. It was written from 1913 onwards. Although it was shown to selected friends, such as Christopher Isherwood, it was only published in 1971 after Forster's death.)

12. W.B. Yeat’s “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 Empson’s 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

(Empson published Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), an influential text which analyzes in detail the meanings and effects of English poetry.)

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.

The term the “Condition-of-England novels” refers largely to industrial novels, social novels, or social problem novels, published in Victorian England during and after the period of the Hungry Forties. this type of novels deals with the contemporary social and political issues related to deteriorating social scenario after the Industrial Revolution in England in the early 19th century.

16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to

(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Poetics
(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

Stephen Gosson (1554-1624). —Poet, actor, and satirist wrote The School of Abuse (1579), directed against "poets, pipers, players, jesters, and such-like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth." Dedicated to Sir P. Sidney, it was not well received by him, and is believed to have evoked his Apologie for Poetrie (1595).

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”

Read the Poem The Last Ride Together

20. Dr. Johnson’s “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”

Read the Poem In Memory of W.B Yeats

23. The Temple is a collection of poems by
(A) Thomas Carew
(B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert
(D) Richard Crashaw

24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday

The Shoemakers' Holiday, or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. While The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play by Francis Beaumont.

25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called ?

(A) Lamia
(B) Hyperion
(C) Il Penseroso
(D) Thyrsis

26. Match the character with the novel :

1. Caddy                          5. The Sound and the Fury

2. Lennie                          6. Of Mice and Men

3. Jake Barnes                  7. The Sun Also Rises

4. Tommy Wilhelm            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

Caddy-- The Sound and the Fury

Lennie---- Of Mice and Men

Jake Barnes--- The Sun Also Rises

Tommy Wilhelm--- Seize the Day

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

The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, "The Sun Also Rises." In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.

29. Hyperbole is

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

Stephen Greenblatt ,Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Orgel, Lisa Jardine, and Louis Montrose are the notable New Historicists.

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

“The Man with the Blue Guitar” 1937 is one of Stevens’ best composition series. The poem series is related to Picasso’s painting of the same title.

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

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a satire on the contemporary craze for Gothic novels and their characteristic themes of horror, picturesque ruins, medievalism, terrible secrets, and the supernatural. Northanger Abbey recounts the career of the heroine Catherine Morland.

36. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to

(A) The narrator of “Goblin Market”

(B) Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting

(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper

(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre

37. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson’s 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.

Johnson's last major work, The Lives of the English Poets, was begun in 1778, when he was nearly 70 years old, and completed—in ten volumes—in 1781. It comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. It is arranged, approximately, by date of death. On the other hand, Wordsworth’s Lifetime (1770-1850) does not focus Johnson’s critical era.

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

Moll Flanders : Daniel Defoe published Moll Flanders in 1722 .

Pamela: Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740) by Samuel Richardson

Richardson's Joseph Andrews (1742),

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)

39. “How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is 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

Saint Joan ~ Scene IV

written by George Bernard Shaw

WARWICK. I am a soldier, not a churchman. As a pilgrim I saw something of the Mahometans. They were not so ill-bred as I had been led to believe. In some respects their conduct compared favorably with ours.

CAUCHON [displeased] I have noticed this before. Men go to the East to convert the infidels. And the infidels pervert them. The Crusader comes back more than half a Saracen. Not to mention that all Englishmen are born heretics.

THE CHAPLAIN. Englishmen heretics!!! [Appealing to Warwick] My lord: must we endure this? His lordship is beside himself. How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

CAUCHON. I absolve you, Messire de Stogumber, on the ground of invincible ignorance. The thick air of your country does not breed theologians.

WARWICK. You would not say so if you heard us quarrelling about religion, my lord! I am sorry you think I must be either a heretic or a blockhead because, as a travelled man, I know that the followers of Mahomet profess great respect for our Lord, and are more ready to forgive St Peter for being a fisherman than your lordship is to forgive Mahomet for being a camel driver. But at least we can proceed in this matter without bigotry.

CAUCHON. When men call the zeal of the Christian Church bigotry I know what to think.

WARWICK. They are only east and west views of the same thing.

CAUCHON [bitterly ironical] Only east and west! Only!!

WARWICK. Oh, my Lord Bishop, I am not gainsaying you. You will carry The Church with you, but you have to carry the nobles also. To my mind there is a stronger case against The Maid than the one you have so forcibly put. Frankly, I am not afraid of this girl becoming another Mahomet, and superseding The Church by a great heresy. I think you exaggerate that risk. But have you noticed that in these letters of hers, she proposes to all the kings of Europe, as she has already pressed on Charles, a transaction which would wreck the whole social structure of Christendom?

CAUCHON. Wreck The Church. I tell you so.

40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept?

(A) Archetype

(B) The Uncanny

(C) The Absurd

(D) The Imaginary

The Uncanny (“the opposite of what is familiar") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar. Because the uncanny is familiar, yet strange, it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to, yet repulsed by an object at the same time. This cognitive dissonance often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than rationalize.

41. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “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

(A and B are possible)

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

Khushwant Singh’s English novel Train to Pakistan (1956) is one of the earliest novels to evoke the horrors of the violence that accompanied partition.

Attia Hosain's 'Sun Light on A Broken Column' also deals with partition politics.

Amitav Ghosh's novel The Shadaw Lines (1988) portrays the pre independence and post independence partition politics in ironic terms.

While Anita Desai's In Custody is the story of a college lecturer seeking to meet the great poet who has been his hero since childhood. It was made into a motion picture in 1993.

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, Thoreau’s 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.

Transcendentalism, in philosophy and literature, belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by human reason.

In its most specific usage, transcendentalism refers to a literary and philosophical movement that developed in the U.S. in the first half of the 19th century. While the movement was, in part, a reaction to certain 18th-century rationalist doctrines, it was strongly influenced by Deism, which, although rationalist, was opposed to Calvinist orthodoxy. Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of the strict Puritan religious attitudes that were the heritage of New England, where the movement originated. In addition, it opposed the strict ritualism and dogmatic theology of all established religious institutions.

American transcendentalism began with the formation (1836) of the Transcendental Club in Boston. Among the leaders of the movement were the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, the feminist and social reformer Margaret Fuller, the preacher Theodore Parker, the educator Bronson Alcott, the philosopher William Ellery Channing, and the author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

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 labelled ‘conservative’ – that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo is cherished : and there are discourses which can be labelled ‘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 setsof values. This process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction ofdifferent ‘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) (B) II and III

(C) (C) III and IV

(D) (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.

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UGC NET English Solved Paper II JUNE:2010

1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to

(A) Richardson’s Pamela

(B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fielding’s Tom Jones
(D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called

(A) Memento Mori

(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye

3. Samuel Butler’s 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 Yeats’s

(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) The Circus Animals’ Desertion

5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s 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 Handmaid’s 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 Byron’s Childe Harold was influenced by

(A) Milton
(B) Spenser
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope

11. Tennyson’s 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. Chaucer’s 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 Shakespeare’s

(A) Coriolanus
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Henry IV Part – I
(D) A Midsummer Night’s 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 – Girls of Golding Slender Means
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing

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

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 Windermere’s 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) Kongi’s Harvest

26. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s 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 Spenser’s 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 to an author

35. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was

(A) Bacon’s Essays
(B) King James’ translation of the Bible
(C) Robert Burton’s 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 Pinter’s plays?

(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man’s Land, The Homecoming
(B) The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, The Room, One for the Road
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The Home coming, No Man’s Land

41. Johnson’s 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

43. In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was

(A) 1816
(B) 1817
(C) 1820
(D) 1819

44. Pope’s 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

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

48. Elizabeth Gaskell’s 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

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UGC ENGLISH 2010 DECEMBER SOLVED QUESTIONS

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UGC English 2010 December Solved Questions

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among others.

(A) John Bunyan (B) Thomas Rhymer (C) William Congreve (D) Henry Fielding

2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by

(A) Charles Darwin (B) Edward Moxon (C) Joseph Paxton (D) Richard Owen

3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of

(A) G.B. Shaw (B) Noel Coward (C) Tom Stoppard (D) T.S. Eliot

4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings ?

(A) The land of the Lilliputians (B) The land of the Brobdingnagians

(C) The land of the Laputans (D) The land of the Houyhnhnms

5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel about

(A) the sea (B) the capital market (C) the landscape (D) the judicial system

6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are

(A) Welsh (B) Scottish (C) Irish (D) Polish

7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated ?

(A) Lord Byron (B) Claire Clairmont (C) William Godwin (D) P.B. Shelley

8. Which among the following poems by Philip Larkin records his impressions while travelling to London by train?

(A) “Aubade”   (B) “Church Going”   (C) “The Whitsun Wedding” (D) “An Arundel Tomb”

9. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was

(A) Ben Jonson (B) John Donne (C) John Dryden (D) Samuel Butler

10. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married

him” – occurs in

(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones    (B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch

11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a satire on

(A) Aristocracy   (B) chivalry   (C) peasantry (D) clergy

12. Which of the following thinker concept pair is correctly matched?

(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism

(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism

(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction

(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism

13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s

(A) The Merchant of Venice (B) The Tempest (C) Othello (D) King Lear

14. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

(A) Cleanth Brooks (B) John Crowe Ransom (C) Robert Penn Warren (D) Allan Tate

15. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy ?

(A) The White Devil (B) The Duchess of Malfi (C) Doctor Faustus (D) The Spanish Tragedy

16. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality ?

(A) G.B. Shaw (B) Arthur Miller (C) Bertolt Brecht  (D) John Galsworthy

17. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to

I. Meena Alexander

II. Arundhati Roy

III. Kiran Desai

IV. Shashi Deshpande

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

       (A) I and IV are correct.

       (B) II and III are correct.

       (C) I, II and IV are correct.

       (D) I and III are correct.

18. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter stands for

I. Adultery

II. Able

III. Angel

IV. Appetite

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

     (A) I and II are correct.

     (B) II and III are correct.

     (C) I, II and IV are correct.

      (D) I, II and III are correct.

19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two lines of verse is called

(A) monorhyme (B) feminine rhyme   (C) masculine rhyme (D) eye rhyme

20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie’s name following the publication of :

(A) Midnight’s Children   (B) Shame (C) Satanic Verses (D) Grimus

21. “There is nothing outside the text” is a key statement emanating from

(A) Feminism (B) New Historicism   (C) Deconstruction   (D) Structuralism

22. The Augustan Age is called so because

(A) King Augustus ruled over England during this period

(B) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period

(C) The English King was born in the month of August

(D) This was an age of sensibility

23. One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is

(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis (B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis    (D) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirize in the portrait of Sporus ?

(A) Lady Wortley Montague (B) Joseph Addison (C) Lord Shaftsbury (D) Lord Harvey

25. The hero of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine was born as a

(A) carpenter   (B) goldsmith   (C) shepherd   (D) fisherman

26. In a letter to his brother George in September 1819, John Keats had this to say about a fellow romantic

poet : “He describes what he sees –I describe what I imagine – Mine is the hardest task.” The poet under reference is

(A) Wordsworth   (B) Coleridge    (C) Byron   (D) Southey

27. A sequence of repeated consonantal sounds in a stretch of language is

(A) alliteration    (B) acrostic   (C) assent    (D) syllable

28. Reformation was predominantly a movement in

(A) politics   (B) literature   (C) religion    (D) education

29. The motto “only connect” is taken from

(A) Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (B) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

(C) H.G. Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly   (D) E.M. Forster’s Howards End

30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in

(A) sonnet   (B) dramatic verse   (C) lyric   (D) elegy

31. Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group ?

(A) Lytton Strachey   (B) Clive Bell   (C) E.M. Forster    (D) Winston Churchill

32. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by

(A) Bishop Berkley   (B) David Hume     (C) Francis Bacon (D) John Locke

33. The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt   (B) Terence Hawkes    (C) Terry Eagleton    (D) Ronald Barthes

34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is

(A) ten-syllabic line   (B) eight-syllabic line    (C) rhyme royal    (D) ottava rima

35. Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was published in the year

(A) 1859    (B) 1879    (C) 1845    (D) 1866

36. Who of the following is the author of Juno and the Paycock ?

(A) Lady Gregory    (B) W.B. Yeats    (C) Oscar Wilde    (D) Sean O’Casey

37. The title of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by

(A) Christopher Marlowe   (B) William Shakespeare    (C) Ben Jonson    (D) John Webster

38. “Silverman has never read Browning.” This is an example of

(A) chiasmus   (B) conceit    (C) zeugma    (D) metonymy

39. The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by

(A) William Empson    (B) Northrop Frye    (C) Wellek and Warren    (D) Wimsatt and Beardsley

40. “Recessional : A Victorian Ode”, Kipling’s well-known poem,

I. laments the end of an Era

II. marks a new commitment to scientific knowledge

III. expresses the sincerity of his religious devotion

IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria’s 1897 Jubilee Celebration

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) I and IV are correct.

    (D) I, III and IV are correct.

41. Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright ?

(A) William Congreve   (B) William Wycherley    (C) Ben Jonson    (D) George Etherege

42. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line : ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / Bird thou never wert” ?

(A) “Ode to a Nightingale” (B) “To the Cuckoo”    (C) “To a Skylark”    (D) “To the Daisy”

43. Who among the following Victorian poets disliked his middle name ?

(A) Arthur Hugh Clough         (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins   (D) Algernon Charles Swinburne

44. Aston is a character in Pinter’s

(A) The Birthday Party   (B) The Caretaker    (C) The Dumb Waiter    (D) The Homecoming

45. Byron’s English Bards and Scottish Reviewers is about

I. the survey of English poetry

II. evangelism in English poetry

III. contemporary literary scene

IV. the early English travellers

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

   (A) III and IV are correct.

    (B) II, III and IV are correct.

     (C) I and II are correct.

     (D) I and III are correct.

46. Which Eliotian character utters the question – “Do I eat a peach” ?

(A) Marina (B) Prufrock   (C) Sweeney    (D) Stetson

47. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory ?

(A) The True-Born Englishman   (B) Captain Singleton   (C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters

(D) Moll Flanders

48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth century England was engineered by

(A) Sir Thomas Malory   (B) John Gower   (C) John Barbour   (D) William Caxton

49. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it” ?

(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge   (B) Coleridge on Keats    (C) Hazlitt on Lamb   (D) De Quincey on Crabbe

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written by

(A) John Dryden   (B) William Wycherley    (C) William Congreve   (D) George Etherege

Answers

1.C      2.C     3.D    4.B    5.C 6.C     7.C     8.C    9.C     10.B    11.D   12.C    13.C   14.B    15.C
16.C   17.D   18.D   19.C 20.C 21.C   22.B   23.C   24.D   25.C    26.C     27.A    28.C   29.D    30.A 31.D   32.D   33.A   34.A 35.A 36.D   37.B   38.D   39.D   40.B    41.C     42.C 43.C    44.B    45.D 46.B   47.C   48.D   49.C   50.C

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UGC English Worksheet 1

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1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
     (A) Virgil   (B) Petronius (C) Seneca (D) Homer

2. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

    (A) Allen Tate (B) J. C. Ransom (C) I. A. Richards (D) F. R Leavis

3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?

     (A) Baudelaire (B) Irving Babbit (C) Dante (D) Laforgue

4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

     (A) Oedipus (B) Grail Legend of Fisher King (C) Philomela (D) Sysyphus

5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

     (A) brother (B) brother-in-law (C) guardian (D) cousin

6. Estella is the daughter of?

    (A) Joe Gargery (B) Abel Magwitch (C) Miss Havisham (D) Bentley Drumnile

7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

   (A) Sesame and Lilies (B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture (C) Unto This Last (D) Fors Clavigera

8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

     (A) Catholicism (B) Protestantism (C) Paganism (D) Buddhism

9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

     (A) boisterous humour (B) humour and pathos (C) subtlety of irony (D) stream of consciousness

10. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

     (A) The Bible (B) The Irish mythology (C) The German mythology (D) The Greek mythology

11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

     (A God (B) Satan (C) Adam (D) Eve

12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

      (A)Susan (B)Jane (C)Gertrude (D) Emily

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

      (A)Ralph and Jack (B) Simon and Eric (C) Sam and Eric (D) Simon and Jack

14.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a___________

     (A) lawyer (B) postman (C)Judge (D) School teacher

15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line? ‘To Carthage then I came’

      (A) Buddha (B) Tiresias (C)Smyrna Merchant (D) Augustine

16. The following lines are an example……… of image.

‘The river sweats

Oil and tar’

      (A) visual (B) kinetic (C) erotic (D) sensual

17. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

      (A) Vanity Fair (B) Middlemarch (C) Wuthering Heights (D) Oliver Twist

18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

      (A) Mars (B) Hercules (C) Zeus (D) Bacchus

19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

     (A)Hopkins (B)Tennyson (C)Browning (D)Wordsworth

20.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

      (A) Browning (B) Tennyson (C) Swinburne (D) Rossetti

21.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

      (A) The Tempest (B) Henry IV, Pt I (C) Hamlet (D) Twelfth Night

22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?

      (A) Act II, Scene I (B) Act III, Scene III (C) Act IV, Scene III (D) Act III, Scene I

23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

      (A) Alonso (B) Ariel (C) Gonzalo (D) Stephano

24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

      (A) Or, What is you Will (B) Or, What you Will (C) Or, What you Like It (D) Or, What you Think

25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

      (A) The Tempest (B) Hamlet (C) Henry IV, Pt I (D) Twelfth Night

26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

      (A) Earl of Northumberland (B) Earl of March (C) Earl of Douglas (D) Earl of Worcester

27. Paradise Lost was originally published in?

      (A) ten books (B) eleven books (C) nine books (D) eight books

28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

      (A) Darcy (B) Wickham (C) William Collins (D) Charles Bingley

29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

     (A) William Wordsworth (B) P.B.Shelley (C) S. T. Coleridge (D) John Keats

30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

      (A) Philip Pirrip (B) Filip Pirip (C)Philip Pip (D) Philips Pirip

31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

       (A)Mexico (B) Italy (C)France (D) Germany

32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

     (A) The Inheritors (B) Lord of the Flies (C) Pincher Martin (D) Pyramid

33.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?

     (A) Mrs. Morel (B) Annie (C) Miriam (D) Clara Dawes

34. 'Vanity Fair' is a novel by?

     (A) Jane Austen (B) Charles Dickens (C) W. M. Thackeray (D) Thomas Hardy

35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

     (A) Milton (B) Coleridge (C) Keats (D) Johnson

36. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

     (A) The White Peacock (B) The Trespasser (C) Sons and Lovers (D) Women in Love

37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

     (A) Nature (B) Dorothy (C) Coleridge (D) Wye

38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

     (A) Keats (B) Wordsworth (C) Shelley (D) Byron

39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

     (A) Work Without Hope (B) Frost at Midnight (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (D) Youth and Age

40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

      (A) P. B. Shelley (B) Charles Lamb (C) Hazlitt (D) Coleridge

41. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

      (A) Leigh Hunt (B) Milton (C) Shakespeare (D) Thomas Chatterton

42. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

      (A) 1823 (B) 1826 (C) 1834 (D) 1833

43. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

      (A) Keats (B) Coleridge (C) Southey (D) Wordsworth

44.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?

      (A) Charles Lamb (B) William Wordsworth (C) Leigh Hunt (D) S. T. Coleridge

45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?

      (A) Tennyson (8) Charles Lamb (C) Lockhart (D) T. S. Eliot

46. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’ was written in memory of?

       (A) A. H. Hallam (B) Edward King (C) Wellington (D) P. B. Shelley

47. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

      (A) Robert Browning (B) John Keble (C) E. B. Pusey (D) J. H. Newman

48. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

      (A) Chaste lard (B) A Song of Italy (C) Atalanta in Calydon (D) Songs before Sunrise

49. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

       (A) six lectures (B) five lectures (C) four lectures (D) seven lectures

50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

      (A) Johnson (B) Cromwell (C) Shakespeare (D) Luther

51. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

      (A) The Stones of Venice (B) The Two Paths (C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture

       (D) Modem Painters

52. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

      (A) Charles Dickens (B) Anthony Trollope (C) W. H. White (D) B. Disraeli

53. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

       (A) Tennyson (B) Browning (C) Swinburne (D) D. G. Rossetti

54. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

       (A) Spenserian Stanza (B) Ballad (C) Ottava Rima (D) Rhyme Royal

55. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

      (A) Sir Thomas Wyatt (B) William Shakespeare (C) Earl of Surrey (D) Milton

56. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

      (A) The Pre-Raphaelites (B) Ruskin (C) Pater (D) Matthew Arnold

57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”

      (A) Oxymoron (B) Metaphor (C) Simile (D) Synecdoche

58. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

      (A) Sailing to Byzantium (B) Byzantium (C) The Second Coming (D) Leda and the Swan

59. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

      (A) Pumblechook (B) Herbert Pocket (C) Bentley Drummle (D) Jaggers

60. Who is Mr. Tench in ‘The Power and the Glory'?

      (A) A teacher (B) A clerk (C) A thief (D) A dentist

ANSWERS:

1.B 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.A 9.B 10.A 11.B 12.C 13.C 14.A 15.D 16.C 17.A 18.C 19.A 20.B 21.A 22.D 23.C 24.B 25.B 26.A 27.A 28.B 29.D 30.A 31.A 32.B 33.D 34.C 35.C 36.A 37.B 38.B 39.C 40.A 41.D 42.D 43.A 44.B 45.C 46.A 47.A 48.C 49.A 50.B 51.D 52.B 53.A 54.C 55.C 56.D 57.A 58.A 59.B 60.D

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