UGC ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER II- JUNE 2012

ENGLISH

Paper – II

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

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

(A) aporia

(B) difference

(C) erasure

(D) supplement

Ans: A

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

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Alan Bennett

(C) Caryl Churchill

(D) Tom Stoppard

Ans: D

3. Arrange the following in the chronological order:

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

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2

(B) 3, 2, 1, 2

(C) 1, 2, 4, 3

(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

Ans: A

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

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Ulysses

(C) The Power and the Glory

(D) Heart of Darkness

Ans: D

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

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

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Ans: A

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

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(C) The Book of Duchess

(D) The Legend of Good Women

Ans: C

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

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(C) Damon and Pythias

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

Ans: A

8. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(C) Edwin Muir

(D) Derek Walcott

Ans: B

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

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(C) Johnson on Dryden

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

Ans: C

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

(A) Tony Morrison

(B) Seamus Heaney

(C) Ted Hughes

(D) Geoffrey Hill

Ans: A/B

11.              List – I                                                          List – II

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

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

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

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

The correctly matched series would be :

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

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

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

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

Ans: D

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

(A) comic

(B) solemn

(C) hortatory

(D) irony

Ans: D

13. I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

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

(A) bench

(B) night club

(C) house

(D) park

Ans: B

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

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(C) Standard English Project

(D) Basic English Project

Ans: D

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

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho

(D) The Way of the World

Ans: A

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

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

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

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.

IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

(A) I and II are true.

(B) II and III are true.

(C) II and IV are true.

(D) III and IV are true.

Ans: A

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

(A) the Aesthetes

(B) the Symbolists

(C) the Imagists

(D) the Art Noveau School

Ans: A

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

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) P. B. Shelley

(C) Thomas De Quincey

(D) Lord Byron

Ans: C

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

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

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

(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

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

Ans: C

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

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(C) William Golding

(D) Graham Greene

Ans: D

21. List – I                                                                           List – II

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

2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of

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

3. Literary criticism is a description and

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

4. Nature never set forth the earth in

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

1       2       3       4

   

   (A)   IV       III       I       II

   (B)   II        IV       III     I

   (C)   III       II        I       IV

   (D)   IV       II        I        III

Ans: A

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

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(C) The Innocents Abroad

(D) Following the Equator

Ans: D

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

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

Ans: B

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

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(C) George Cruishank

(D) John Tennial

Ans: C

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(C) The Land of the Hurricanes

(D) The Newfound Land

Ans: A

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(C) The Jungle

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Ans: B

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

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(C) The hyacinth garden scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

Ans: B

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

(A) Hamlet

(B) Lear

(C) Othello

(D) Macbeth

Ans: D

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy

Ans: B

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

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) John Arden

(C) Harold Pinter

(D) David Hare

Ans: C

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

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year1936.

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

(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.

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

Ans: C

32. What is the correct combination of the following?

I. Balachandra Rajan                                           a. The Tamarind Tree

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

III. Kamala Markandaya                                       c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu                                                   d. The Dark Room

(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b

(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c

(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b

(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

Ans: A

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

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

Ans: C

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

(A) winter, spring

(B) autumn, summer

(C) wind, rains

(D) spring, winter

Ans: A

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

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

II. Call me Ishmael…..                                     b. Macbeth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ans: A

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

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Volpone

(D) Gorboduc

Ans: C

37. What is a neologism?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

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

(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

Ans: C

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

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

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

(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

Ans: C

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

(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(C) iron, gold, silver and brass

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

Ans: C

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

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman

(D) The Clockwork Orange

Ans: C

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

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Anti-climax

Ans: C

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

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

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

(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ans: D

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(C) both class and gender

(D) only patriarchy

Ans: C

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

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) Thomas Gray

Ans: D

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Reformation

(D) The French Revolution

Ans: A

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

(A) rhymed

(B) broken

(C) accented

(D) run-on

Ans: D

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

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(C) A. K. Ramanujam

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

Ans: D

48. Match the following:

I. James Joyce                     1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot                         2. James Boswell

III. Life of Johnson               3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of  Poets               4. Richard Ellman

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

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

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

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

Ans: B

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

(A) simile

(B) image

(C) conceit

(D) metonymy

Ans: D

50. An epilogue is

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.

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

(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.

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

Ans: B

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