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Subject english
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Exam / Course ugc net national eligibility test
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Organization university grants commission
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Exam Date June, 2010
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ENGLISH
Paper II

Note This paper contains fifty objective type questions, each question carrying two

marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. The epithet "a comic epic in prose" is best applied to
Richardson's Pamela
Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
Fielding's Tom Jones
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called

Memento Mori


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


Robinson


The Ballad of Peckham Rye



3. Samuel Butler's Erewhon is an example of

Feminist Literature


Utopian Literature


War Literature


Famine Literature



4. The line "moments of unageing intellect" occurs in Yeats's

Byzantium


Among School Children


Sailing to Byzantium


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'

Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge


Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge


Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge


Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey


6. Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White

The Vivisector


The Tree of Man


Voss


Oscar and Lucienda


7. The famous line "……. where ignorant armies clash by night" is taken from a poem by

Wilfred Owen


W.H. Auden


Siegfried Sassoon


Matthew Arnold


8. Which among the following novels is not written by Margaret Atwood

Surfacing


The Blind Assassin


The Handmaid's Tale


The Stone Angel


9. The term 'theatre of cruelty' was coined by

Robert Brustein


Antonin Artaud


Augusto Boal


Luigi Pirandello



10. The verse form of Byron's Childe Harold was influenced by

Milton


Spenser


Shakespeare


Pope



11. Tennyson's Ulysses is

a poem expressing the need for going forward and braving the struggles of life


a dramatic monologue


a morbid poem

a poem making extensive use of satire

The right combination for the above statement, according to the code, is


I&IV


II and III


III and IV


Iand II



12. Which post-war British poet was involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia Plath

Philip Larkin


Ted Hughes


Stevie Smith


Geoffrey Hill



13. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles is in part

a puzzle


a debate


a threnody

a beast fable

The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is


I,II&IV


II, III IV


I&IV


II&IV


14. Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason

William Godwin


Edmund Burke


Thomas Paine


Edward Gibbon


15. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its

excessive wit and humour


bitter satire and cynicism


indecency and permissiveness


superficial reflection of society


16. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by

Terry Eagleton


Karl Marx


Raymond Williams


Louis Althusser


17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Shakespeare's

Coriolanus


Julius Caesar


Henry IV Part I


A Midsummer Night's Dream



18. The term 'Cultural Materialism' is associated with

Stephen Greenblatt


Raymond Williams


Matthew Arnold


Richard Hoggart



19. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched

Muriel Spark Under the Net


William Girls of


Golding Slender Means

Angus Wilson Lucky Jim


Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing



20. Who among the following is a Canadian critic

I.A. Richards


F.R. Leavis


Cleanth Brooks


Northrop Frye



21. Sethe is a character in

The Colour Purple


The Women of Brewster Place


Beloved


Lucy


22. Imagined Communities is a book by

Aijaz Ahmad


Edward Said


Perry Anderson


Benedict Anderson


23. Who among the following is a Cavalier poet

Henry Vaughan


Richard Crashaw


John Suckling


Anne Finch


24. Which play of Wilde has the sub­title, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

A Woman of No Importance


Lady Windermere's Fan


The Importance of Being Earnest


An Ideal Husband


25. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka

The Lion and the Jewel


The Dance of the Forests


Master Harold and the Boys


Kongi's Harvest


26. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope

The Plain Dealer


The Country Wife


Love in a Wood


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

Hypallage


Hubris


Haiku


Hyperbaton



28. The phrase 'the willing suspension of disbelief occurs in

Biographia Literaria


Preface to Lyrical Ballads


In Defence of Poetry


Poetics



29. The religious movement Methodism in the 18th century England was founded by

John Tillotson


Bishop Butler


Bernard Mandeville


John Welsey



30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by

Charles Lamb


Thomas de Quincey


Leigh Hunt


William Hazlitt


31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser's Faerie Queene is represented by the character

Britomart


Gloriana


Cynthia


Duessa


32. The book Speech Acts is written by

John Austin


John Searle


Jacques Derrida


Ferdinand de Saussure


33. Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence
Philip Sydney Astrophel and Stella

Samuel Daniel Delia


Derek Walcott Omeroos


D.G. Rossetti The House of Life


34. 'Incunabula' refers to

books censured by the Roman Emperor


books published before the year 1501


books containing an account of myths and rituals


books wrongly attributed to an author



35. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was

Bacon's Essays


King James' translation of the Bible


Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
None of the above

36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens'

Little Dorrit


Hard Times


Dombey and Son


Bleak House



37. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase 'spots of time'

John Keats


William Wordsworth


S.T. Coleridge


Lord Byron



38. The statement think, therefore, I is by

Schopenhauer


Plato


Descartes


Sartre



39. Verse that has no set theme no regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is

open form


flexible form


free verse

blank verse

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is


II and III are correct


III and IV are correct


II, III and IV are correct


I and III are correct


40. Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinter's plays

The Room, One for the Road, No Man's Land, The Homecoming


The Homecoming, No Man's Land, The Room, One for the Road


The Room, The Homecoming, No Man's Land, One for the Road


One for the Road, The Room, The Homecoming, No Man's Land


41. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year

1710


1755


1739


1759


42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to

J.M. Coetzee


Nadine Gordimer


Martin Amis


Salman Rushdie



43. In Keats' poetic career, the most productive year was

1816


1817


1820


1819



44. Pope's The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in

three cantos


four cantos


five cantos


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

I&II


I,II&III


III&IV


I&III



46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his

ignorance


pride


courage


drunkenness


47. The first complete printed English Bible was produced by

William Tyndale


William Caxton


Miles Coverdale


Roger Ascham


48. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton is sub-titled

The Two Nations


A Tale of Manchester Life


A Story of Provincial Life


The Factory Girl


49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The playwright is

John Ford


Thomas Dekker


Philip Massinger


Thomas Heywood


50. The concept of "Star-equilibrium" in connection with man-woman relationship appears in

Women in Love


Maurice


Mrs. Dalloway


The Old Wives' Tales


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