UGC NET 2012
Paper II
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement
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
3. Arrange
the following in the chronological order :
1. Mary Wollstonecraft’sVindication 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
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
5. The
Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregoryand Edward
Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his
contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John
Ervine
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
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
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
8. Who of the following poets is Australian ?
(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott
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
10. Who,
among the following, is a Nobel Laureate ?
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill
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
12. The
predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are
(A) comic
(B) solemn
(C) hortatory
(D) irony
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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 II. Sidney,
Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
all knowledge.
3. Literary criticism is a
description
III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
and evaluation of its object
and evaluation of its object
4. Nature never set forth the earth in
as
rich
IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
a tapestry as diverse poets have done
1
2 3 4
(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III
22. In
which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his
visit toIndia ?
(A) A
Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing
It
(C) The
Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
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
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
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
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
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
28. The
words “If it were done when tis one, then twere well / It were done quickly…”
are uttered by
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
29. John
Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a
(A) religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy
30. The
term ‘the comedy of menace’ isassociated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare
31. Examine
the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year
1936.
(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.
32. What
is the correct combination of the following ?
I. Balachandra
Rajan
a. The TamarindTree
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
33. Name
the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises
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
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
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…..
II. Call me Ishmael…..
III. When shall we three meet again ?
IV. He disappeared in the dead of
winter
V. I wish either….begot me …..
a. Moby Dick
b. Macbeth
c. “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy
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
36. Which
of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc
37. What
is a neologism ?
(A) A word with roots in a
nativelanguage
(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
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
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
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
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
42. Which
of the following statements is NOT correct ?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a
stanzaic 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
43. Material
feminism studies inequality in terms of
(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy
44. Who
among the following is not an Irish writer ?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray
45. Entries
in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins
after
(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution
46. In
a poem, a line may either be endstopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on
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
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 4. 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
49. “The
pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy
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.
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