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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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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