UGC NET English Solved Paper III :
1. Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul is
subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
Answer: (C)
2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) The ability to put oneself across comfortably in
speech and/or writing.
(B) The ability to command language rather than
language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness
(D) Accuracy
Answer: (A)
3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic
Fallacy is NOT TRUE?
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are not
true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as
human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with
disapproval because nature cannot be equated with the human in respect of
emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by Alexander Pope
in his Pastorals (1709).
Answer: (D)
4. Identify the correctly matched group:
List – I
List – II
i. ‘L’ Allegro and ‘IlPensoro so’
1. Pastoral elegy
ii. ‘Lycidas’
2. Masque
iii.
Comus
3. Sonnet
v.
Areopagitica
5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplets
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3
Answer: (B)
5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The University
Wits – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets – The Scottish Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence would be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The University Wits –
The Transitional Poets – The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The University Wits – The
Scottish Chaucerians – The Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’
Club – The Transitional Poets, The Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish Chaucerians –
The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The Rhymers’ Club.
Answer: (A)
6. ‘Aucitya’ refers to:
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men
accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place
is
(A) A Public Park
(B) A Church
(C) A Quarry
(D) An Abandoned Factory
Answer: (C)
8. Match List – I with List – II according to the
code given below:
List – I
List – II
(Character)
(Work)
i. Telemachus
1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya
2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov
3. The Cherry Orchard
iv.
Rastignac
4. The Odyssey
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer: (D)
9. This renowned German poet was born in Prague and
died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The
titles of his last two works contain the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke
Answer: (D)
10. Which of the following plays gained notoriety
for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates?
(A) The Birds
(B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds
(D) The Frogs
Answer: (C)
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady:
I. To get her money and achieve his ambition in
life.
II. To achieve his political goal as an extremist
and a nihilist
III. To prove his superiority over other young men
of the time.
IV. All of the above
Find the correct combination according to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
12. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault
mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer and his work.
Choose the correct answer:
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America”
Answer: (B)
13. Here is a list of Partition novels which have
‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out:
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
Answer: (C)
14. Match the translators in List – I with the
English translations of Indian Literature texts in List – II according to the
code given below:
List – I
List – II
i. K.B.
Vaid
1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V.
Vijayan 2. The
Diary of a Maid Servant
iii. Dilip
Chitre 3.
Samskara
iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of
Dharmapuri
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer: (C)
15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel
talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed
with rains / its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged/ Processions led by frantic
drums.’ Identify the city:
(A) Calcutta
(B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(D) Agra
Answer: (C)
16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four
kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
Answer: (A)
17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters
SirLeoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several ill
omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does
not serve as an omen:
(A)The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’
Answer: (C)
18. The word resurrect is
(A) An abbreviation
(B) A spurious verb
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound
Answer: (C)
19. Match List – I with List – II according to the
code given below:
List – I
List – II
i. Annie John
1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones
2. Bildungsroman
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther
3. Gothic
iv.
Vathek
4. Epistolary
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (B)
20. Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought- Fox’ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. about the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet’s brain like the
Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination according to
the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it is the
imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain
magnitude….having a beginning, a middle, and an end’. What is ‘it’?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Epic
(C) Poetry
(D) Farce
Answer: (A)
22. According to Matthew Arnold, ‘touchstones’ help
us test truth and seriousness
that constitute the best poetry. What are the ‘touchstones’?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
Answer: (C)
23. ‘An extremely simplified form of language used
for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different
languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfill the
essential needs of communication.’
Which of the following is best described by this
definition?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
Answer: (B)
24. What do the prosodic features of a language tell
us?
(A) The speaker’s native language and its cognate
languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional state, social
class, educational background, geographical provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the resources of the
language spoken by him/her and their deployment.
Answer: (B)
25. What novel answers to the following
descriptions?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. The
work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as also
third-person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods –
contemporary and Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
Answer: (B)
26. The following words and phrases, ‘peace makers’,
‘help-meet’, ‘the fat of the land’, ‘a labour of love’, ‘the eleventh hour’
and ‘the shadow of death’ were made current by
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates
(C) The Puritan tractarians
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the Bible
Answer: (D)
27. Who among the following writers asserted
‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not exist?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
Answer: (B)
28. Identify the one in correct chronological
sequence:
(A) The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey
Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William
Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare – The Norman
Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Norman
Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
Answer: (A)
29. Which of the following arrangements is in the
correct chronological sequence?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical
Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in
France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman –
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition
by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on, the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone
Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone
Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Answer: (B)
30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
Answer: (C)
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a
motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning,
vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress,
our discourse and our behaviour.’ The founder of the periodical wrote under
the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
Answer: (A)
32. Arrange the following in the order in which the
details of a research article / essay appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the essay, the title
of the journal, volume & issue numbers, year of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page numbers, the title
of the journal, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the title of the
essay, page numbers, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the title of the
journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of publication, page numbers
Answer: (D)
33. From the following indicate the work which is
not a Dystopia:
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited
Answer: (D)
34. ‘Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a
man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s
image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image
of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a
good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed
Answer: (A)
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character
and the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John
Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to
meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a
writer.
Answer: (A)
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A
Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo
Answer: (C)
37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For
here’s a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
home. Round as a globe, and liquor’dev’ry chink Goodly and great he rails
behind his link’.
In the above extract from Absalom and AchitophelOg
is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
Answer: (C)
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book
of life’ to describe
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
(C) The Bible
(D) The short lyric
Answer: (A)
39. Identify the correctly matched group:
List – I
List – II
i. Where Angles Fear to Tread
1. Malay
ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Russia
iii. The Plumed Serpent
3. Italy
v. Under Western Eyes
5. Dublin
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
Answer: (A)
40. Given below are two statements, one labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes ‘Madame Eglentyne’
thus: ‘She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe
a mous caught in atrappe’
Reason (R): On her ‘broche of gold full shene’ was
written Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two statements, which one of
the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: (B)
41. Identify the correct statements on Langue and
Parole below:
1. Langue is the abstract language system, the
grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually produced by its
user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced by its
users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the
grammar of a system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
Answer: (B)
42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the
following characters has ‘a face like a frog’?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim
Answer: (B)
43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning
night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; and flecked
darkness like a drunkardreels
From forth day’s path and Titan’sburning wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)The speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
Answer: (C)
44. ‘How noble in reason ! How infinitein faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like anangel! In
apprehension how like a God!’
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
Answer: (C)
45. Said identifies Orientalism as:
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on anontological and
epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than oneof human
production
In the light of the statement above:
(A) II and III are correct, I and IVare wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.
Answer: (C)
46. Identify the period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his
Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659
Answer: (B)
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than
rest, men. I means she upright, honest, speak her mind…”What light does the
quotation throwon ShugAvery?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her
lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
Answer: (D)
48. 1. A content word is not a function word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a function
word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a
function word just about means functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
Answer: (A)
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of
American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following:
(A) Mark twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide
circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s
greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of
the English Language in that year.
Answer: (D)
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did
Marry Shelley give?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
Answer: (C)
51. Which of the following statements on George
Lamming’s In the Castle ofMy Skin [1953] is not true?
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of avillage’s growth
into awareness in the late colonial period.
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s first novel.
Answer: (C)
52. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily
Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be …
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward
movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
Answer: (A)
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Seasons of Migration to
the North will undoubtedly notice its parallels with the story/stories of:
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict Anderson’s
Imagined Communities?
(A) It is a prosaic response to the myth of El
Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the Origin and
Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson advances the view that
nations are not natural entities but narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson’s view, modern nationalism was
basically a consequence of the convergence of capitalism, the new print
technology and the fixity that resulted from print extending to ‘Vernacular’
languages.
Answer: (A)
55. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive, for the
rain it raineth everyday. ’These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the novel:
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
Answer: (A)
56. What is a mock-heroic poem?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics
(B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in all
epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and
affectations
(D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and
hero-worship
Answer: (C)
57. Which of the following statements is not true of
Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
Answer: (A)
58. In drama, an aside is addressed…
(A) To an audience by an actor; the words so spoken
are not meant to be heard by other actors on the stage.
(B) To other actors on the stage; the words so
spoken are not meant to be heard by the audience.
(C) By the playwright to the audience.
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist
Answer: (A)
59. Match List – I with List – II according to the
code given below:
List –
I
List – II
(Novels)
(Last Lines)
i. The Mayor of
Casterbridge
1. ‘He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.’
ii. Sons and
Lovers
2. ‘In their death, they were not divided.’
iii. The Great
Gatsby
3. ‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.’
iv. The Mill on the
Floss
4. ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past.’
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: (D)
60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a
statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer: (B)
61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers
in Hardy’s novels.
Pick the odd one out:
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene
Answer: (D)
62. What is the following a description of? ‘A loose
sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary
Answer: (A)
63. From the following indicate the critic who is
not a New Critic:
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer: (D)
64. From the following list, pick out a woman
character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels:
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali
(D) Piyali
Answer: (B)
65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of
the subaltern group:
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) DipeshChakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar
Answer: (D)
66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep and
forgetting.”
Interpretation (I): The human soul never tires in
the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human life is a long sleep
and ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship
to (I).
Answer: (B)
67. ‘The parish of rich women, physical decay, /
yourself…’
What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H. Auden’s
view?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
Answer: (D)
68. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is
‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
Answer: (D)
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
I. The works of native people living in a land that
has been taken over by non-natives.
II. The works of black people in the United States.
III. The literature of the marginalized.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Malfi Ferdinand
sets a whole group of mad men on the
Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a strange
entertainment to drive the Duchess mad.
In the context of the two statements, which one of
the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer: (B)
71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis
Gates JR. a notable contribution to the study of African- American
literature?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected African-American
novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American
criticism that draws upon rhetorical and signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African- American films
and dramatic arts that signify Black ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of
autobiographical narratives involving Black lives and cultural traditions.
Answer: (B)
72. This influential critic
I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as
Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. Published such titles as The Anxiety of
Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon.
III. Asserted that most literary criticism is but
slightly disguised religion and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known and
contrarian among his American peers in the English Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist
Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent on the
part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the
part of a dominant political entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
Answer: (B)
74. Match the following:
i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas
Kyd 1. The Rhymers’ Club / The Decadents of the 1890’s
ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley George
Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
University Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats 4. The
Restoration Playwrights
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
Answer: (D)
75. Combine the statements correctly: According to
Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the
colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture,
behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a certain
menace.
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 3 and 2
Answer: (A)
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