UGC ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER II DECEMBER 2007

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

(C) Jack

(D) Simon

3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's novel Tristram Shandy is:

(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

 

(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

4. Feminine ending refers to :

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

(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable

(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable

(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse

       Eg: Of old, when Scarron his companions invited

       Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united,

5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is written by :

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Alvin Kernan

6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :

(A) East Pakistan

(B) India and Pakistan

(C) Pakistan

(D) None of the above

7.Choose the correct chronological sequence in :

(A) Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The Hind and the Panther

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

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

(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

(C) James M. Barrie

 

(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

(C) Henry Fielding

(D) Daniel Defoe

10. In which of the following novels incidents relating to the declaration of  Emergency in India in 1975 figure ?

(A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck

(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy

(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August : An Indian Story

(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey

11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) Edward II : Zenocrate

(C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio

(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas

(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston

Protagonists

The Jew of Malta: Barabas, Tamburlaine the Great: Tamburlaine,   The Spanish Tragedy: Hieronimo, Edward II: King Edward II

12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in :

(A) The Second Coming

(B) Circus Animals Desertion

(C) When You Are Old

(D) Leda and Swan

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

(C) The individuating character of a natural thing

(D) The moment of release from the material world

14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the 'success' myth ?

(A) A Zoo Story

(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

(C) American Dream

(D) The Death of Bessie Smith

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond our personal intelligence”. Who among the following is the author of the above lines ?

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

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

(A) 99

(B) 47

(C) 112

(D) 108

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

(A) Ivanhoe 

(B) Evelina 

(C) Robinson Crusoe

(D) The Moonstone

18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare appeared in :

(A) 1752

(B) 1765

(C)1791

(D) 1760

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

(A) Oblomov

(B) Bazarov

(C) Alyosha

(D) Chichikov

20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an'upstart crow' by :

(A) Robert Greene

(B) Thomas Lodge

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) John Lyly

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

(C) Crick Crack Monkey

(D) Between Two Worlds

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

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Helen Gardner

(D) Dryden

"A term used to group together certain 17th-century poets, usually DONNE, MARVELL, VAUGHAN and TRAHERNE, though other figures like ABRAHAM COWLEY are sometimes included in the list.
Metaphysical concerns are the common subject of their poetry, which investigates the world by rational discussion of its phenomena rather than by intuition or mysticism. DRYDEN was the first to apply the term to 17th-century poetry when, in 1693, he criticized Donne: 'He affects the Metaphysics... in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts.

24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a novel by :

(A) George Orwell

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) D.H. Lawrence

(D) E.M. Forster

Only connect is the epigraph to E.M Forster's novel Howards End.

25. The expression “Thy hand, great Anarch” occurs in a satire by :

(A) Dryden

(B) Pope

(C) Johnson

(D)Swift

Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All.
(the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad)

26.In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ?

(A) The Heart of the Matter

(B) The Power and the Glory

(C) Brighton Rock

(D) The Quiet American

27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind' is :

(A)Rochester

(B)Dryden

(C)Gray

(D) Swift

28.'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for describing :

(A) the moment of discovery by the protagonist

(B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist

(C) the happy resolution of the plot

(D) the convergence of the main plot and the sub plot

29. In which play by Shakespeare do we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of male politics ?

(A) Henry V

(B) Richard III

(C)Anthony and Cleopatra

(D) Hamlet

30.Which of the following feminist critics used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the first time ?

(A) Kate Millet

(B) Simone de Beauvoir

(C)Elaine Showalter

(D) Mary Ellmann

31.John Keats's poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' was composed in :

(A)1818

(B)1819

(C)1820

(D) 1821

32.The Female Quixote was written by :

(A)Henry Fielding

(B)Tobias Smollett

(C) Charlotte Lennox

(D) Aphra Behn

33. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ?

(A) Thom Gunn

(B) Alan Lewis

(C)Edward Thomas

(D) Seamus Heaney

34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :

(A) a poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb

(B) an elegy by William Wordsworth

(C)an essay by Charles Lamb

(D) an essay by William Hazlitt

                       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

(C) John Braine

(D) John Osborne

 

36.In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ?

(A)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

(C) Ode to Autumn

(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

(C) Maud

(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

(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott

(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets

                                              Lady of the Lake- Sir Walter Scott, Lake Isle of Innisfree-W.B. Yeats, The Lady of 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

(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Emma

42.It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I “Milton belongs to the Devil's party without  knowing it”. Who among the following made this statement ?

(A) Frank Kermode

(B) William Empson

(C) C.S. Lewis

(D) William Blake

43.Live Like Pigs is :

(A) a humorous poem by Pope

(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell

(C) a play by Arden

(D) a satirical sketch by Swift

44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings'.From which section of Eliot's The Waste Land are the above lines taken ?

(A) A Game of Chess

(B) What the Thunder Said

(C) Burial of the Dead

(D) Fire Sermon

45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe's African Trilogy ?

(A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer At Ease

(B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart

(C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God

(D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease

Things Fall Apart -1958,  No Longer At Ease -1960,  Arrow of God-1964

46. Which are the figures of speech used in the following lines by Blake ?

“Tyger, tyger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”

(A) simile and personification

(B) irony and synecdoche

(C) apostrophe and synecdoche

(D) metonymy and apostrophe

47. In which of the following American novels does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur ?

(A) Huck Finn

(B) The Red Badge of Courage

(C) Invisible Man

(D) The Great Gatsby

48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he says 'He knew the tavern well in every town' ?

(A) Pardoner

(B) Monk

(C) Squire

(D) Friar

49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”. Who, among the following, made the above statement ?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Sidney

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Wordsworth

                   The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold

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

(A) Candida

(B) Major Barbara

(C) Saint Joan

(D) Ann

 

UGC ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER JUNE 2008

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. Bradley’s 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 term“romantic?

(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