UGC NET English Solved Paper II : 2012 December
1. Identify the work below that does not belong to
the literature of the eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer: (A)
2. Which, among the following, is a place through
which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
Answer: (B)
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(D) 1837–1900
Answer: (B)
4. Which of the following statements about The
Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was
Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in
1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard.
Answer: (D)
5. One of the following texts was published earlier
than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
Answer: (C)
6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s
had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
Answer: (C)
7. Match the following:
1. The Sage of Concord
5. Emily Dickinson
2. The Nun of Amherst
6. R.W. Emerson
3. Mark Twain
7. T.S. Eliot
4. Old Possum
8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
Answer: (A)
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong”
and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
Answer: (B)
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares
Belinda to
(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose
Answer: (A)
10. Which of the following awards is not given to
Indian–English writers?
(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize
Answer: (C)
11. Identify the correct statement below:
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister
Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are tragedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.
Answer: (B)
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to
(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Answer: (D)
13. The Puritans shut down all theatersin England in
(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660
Answer: (A)
14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of
Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
Answer: (D)
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting
for Godot is NOT true?
1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
scenes”.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
parts”.
4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1
Answer: (D)
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British
intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged
to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
Answer: (A)
17. Who, among the following is credited with the
making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B)
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who
opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
Answer: (B)
19. The term invective refers to
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which there is
harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real person,
in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken text in which an apparently
straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give
it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed to have
magical power.
Answer: (A)
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight
of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
Answer: (D)
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for
two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England
for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama,
for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for
publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who
published his Animal Farm.
Answer: (A)
22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A) Accelerated industrial production and general
well–being of the public.
(B) A belief in the universal authority of reason
and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance with
Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in predestination and neglect of
free will.
Answer: (B)
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line:
“...there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”?
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth
24. Match the following pairs of books and authors:
Books
Authors
I. Condition of the Working Class in England
i. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and the London Poor
ii. Henry Mayhew
III. Past and Present
iii. Thomas Carlyle
IV. Theunto This Last
iv.
Friedrich Engels
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
(C) ii iv i ii
(D) iii ii iv iv
Answer: (B)
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies
and Mick appear as characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
Answer: (B)
26. What is common to the following writers?
Identify the correct description below:
William Congreve
George Etherege
William Wycherley
Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age
Answer: (A)
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the
characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey
Answer: (C)
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss
the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
Answer: (A)
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
Answer: (A)
30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of
V.S. Naipaul?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of
Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for
Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The
Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira,
Miguel Street – A House for Mr. Biswas.
Answer: (D)
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Answer: (A)
32. Which of the following author– theme is correctly
matched?
(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The rude
forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between ancient
and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the
consequent loss of human lives and values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between two
families caused by Lord Petre.
Answer: (A)
33. Which among the following titles set a course
for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
Answer: (C)
34. In which play do we see a reworking of
E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
Answer: (C)
35. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
Answer: (D)
36. Which of the following poems uses terzarima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Answer: (B)
37. When one says that “someone is no more” or that
“someone has breathed his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism
Answer: (D)
38. Which of the following are “companion poems”?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”
Answer: (B)
39. What
does the term episteme signify?
(A)
Knowledge
(B)
Archive
(C)
Theology
(D)
Scholarship
Answer: (A)
40. Which
of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?
(A) A
reflection
(B) A
speaking picture
(C) A
refraction
(D) A
reflected picture
Answer: (B)
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of
‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (C)
42. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins
with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of
times.
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the
darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest
of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest
of times.
Answer: (A)
43. The
works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin
Muir
(B) Edward
Thomas
(C) Robert
Bridges
(D)
Coventry Patmore
Answer: (C)
44. Which of the following is the correct
chronological sequence?
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The
Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The
Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel –
Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
Answer: (B)
45. The term homology means a correspondence between
two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations
between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
Answer: (A)
46. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility
in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the
American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great determinant
of American civilization.
(D) The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to
American progress.
Answer: (C)
47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian
stanza is/are accurate?
I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter
followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of figurative
language. Iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Answer: (D)
48. Match the following texts with their respective
themes:
I. Areopagitica (Milton)
i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
III. Alexander’s Feast
(Dryden)
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The World
(Congreve) iv. The power of
music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer: (B)
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Answer: (A)
50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic
elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all
parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple
passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.
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