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Friday, April 20, 2012

UGC NET ENGLISH PAPER II SOLVED 2009 JUNE



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
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

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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Wednesday, April 18, 2012


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
(C) Robinson
(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

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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Sunday, April 15, 2012

UGC English Worksheet 1

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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