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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