Solved NET question 95

Solved NET question 95

1.     (This part contains 25 questions for convenience)

 The author of Revaluations is

1)      F.R Leavis

2)      I.A Richards

3)      Wilson Knight

4)      Cleanth Brooks

2.       Which war poet made the statement that his subject was the pity of war, that the poetry was in the pity?

1)      Rupert Brooke

2)      Sigfried Sassoon

3)      Wilfred Owen

4)      Issac Rosenberg

3.       Geraldine is a character in

1)      Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

2)      Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

3)      George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss

4)      Coleridge’s Christabel

4.       “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons” is a statement made by

1)      Mrs. Warren

2)      Elizabeth Bennet

3)      Alfred Prufrock

4)      Celia Copplestone

5.       Waiting for Godot is an example of

1)      Theatre of Cruelty

2)      Classical Tragedy

3)      The absurd Drama

4)      An expressionist Drama

6.       A European playwright who had a dominant influence on British drama of the first half of the twentieth century was

1)      Racine

2)      Goethe

3)      Ibsen

4)      Chekov

7.       The author of The Beggar’s Opera is

1)      John Arbuthnot

2)      John Gay

3)      Oliver Goldsmith

4)      Sheridan

8.       Which twentieth century poet has made the phrase “to Stand and Stare” popular?

1)      Walter de la Mare

2)      John Drinkwater

3)      W.H Davies

4)      Hillaire Belloc

9.       The medal was written by?

1)      Dryden

2)      Pope

3)      Nahum Tate

4)      Abraham Cowley

10.   The year in which the famous modernist novel Ulysses appeared

1)      1922     2)1917      3) 1936      4) 1928

11.   The technical name for unrhymed iambic pentameter is

Blank verse

12.   The commonwealth was established in England in the

Mid 17^th century

13.   George Eliot was the pen name of

Mary Ann Evans

14.   If you say “contagious countries” instead of “continguous countries”, you would be making a mistake known as

Malapropism

15.   Comedy is related to farce in the same way as Tragedy is related to

Melodrama

16.   According to Sidney, a poet

Represents an idealized world

17.   The dramatist who first introduced blank verse in English drama was

Christopher Marlow

18.   The defeat of the Spanish Armada took place in the

1588

19.   What according to Johnson was a ‘fatal Cleopatra’ to Shakespeare?

Pun

20.   One of the following was a famous diarist of 17^th century

1)      William Congreve

2)      Joseph Addison

3)      Samuel Pepys

4)      Richard Steele

21.   This English writer wrote a delightful essay on children he never had

Charles Lamb

22.   One of the following terms was NOT a movement in art or literature

1)      Cubism

2)      Empiricism

3)      Expressionism

4)      Surrealism

23.   One of the following did NOT belong to the group of writers known as ‘The Angry Young Men’

1)      Kingsley Amis

2)      Lawrence Durrell

3)      John Osborne

4)      John Wayne

24.   A play in which a spendthrift young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors is?

The School for Scandal

25.   About which famous character in literature is it said “Age cannot wither her”?

Cleopatra

UGC NET solved questions 1995 part II

1.       Which famous poem contains the line, “Hieronimo is mad again”?

1)      Lapis Lazuli

2)      The Waste Land

3)      Dover Beach

4)      The Wreck of the Deutschland

2.       Defamiliarisation as a function of Art was stressed by

1)      Russian formalists

2)      The New critics

3)      The Psycho-analytical critics

4)      The Marxist critics

3.       ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ This line occurs in Shakespeare’s

1)      Hamlet

2)      Twelfth Night

3)      King Lear

4)      As You Like It

4.       Who is the author of The Uses of Literacy

1)      Richard Hoggart

2)      Raymond Williams

3)      F.R Leavis

4)      Terry Eagleton

5.       “Alone ,alone, all all alone

Alone on a wide, wide sea” – These lines occur in a poem by

1)      Robert Burns

2)      S.T Coleridge

3)      John Keats

4)      William Wordsworth

6.       ‘Full fathom five thy father lies’ illustrates

1)      Rhyme

2)      Assonance

3)      Internal rhyme

4)      Alliteration

7.       The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by

1)      C.P Snow

2)      James Joyce

3)      Dylan Thomas

4)      Angus Wilson

8.       Who wrote the poem Troilus and Criseyde ?

1)      Shakespeare

2)      Chaucer

3)      Spenser

4)      Marlow

9.       Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in

1)      1628

2)      1667

3)      1600

4)      1687

10.   About whom did David Garrick comment that he spoke like poor poll but wrote like an angel?

1)      Sir John Reynolds

2)      Dr. Samuel Johnson

3)      Oliver Goldsmith

4)      Richard Steele

11.   Richardson’s novel Pamela is

1)      An epistolary novel

2)      A picaresque novel

3)      A Gothic novel

4)      A Satirical novel

12.   Which of the following is a pastoral elegy?

1)      Areopagitica

2)      Lycidas

3)      Absalem and Achitophel

4)      Rasselas

13.   Who among the following was a Pre-Raphaelite poet?

1)      Tennyson

2)      Ruskin

3)      Browning

4)      Rossetti

14.   The Authorized version of the Bible appeared in

1)      1611

2)      1628

3)      1603

4)      1617

15.   Which among the following is an Anglo Saxon Epic?

1)      Faerie Queen

2)      The Aeneid

3)      The Divine Comedy

4)      Beowulf

16.   The Printing Press was first introduced into England by

1)       Bacon

2)      Caxton

3)      Thomas Moore

4)      Sidney

17.   Chaucer’s Pilgrims first met in a place called

1)      The Tabard

2)      The Gray’s Inn

3)      The Russell Square

4)      The Manor House

18.   Some of Shakespeare’s sonnets were addressed to

1)      The Queene

2)      Marlow

3)      Dark Lady

4)      Nobody in particular

19.   The famous letter to Lord Chesterfield which sounded the death knell of literary patronage, was written by

1)      Edmund Burke

2)      Samuel Johnson

3)      Jeremy Collier

4)      Jonathan Swift

20.   Peripeteia is seen in tragedy when there is a reversal of fortune as

1)      When a rich man becomes poor

2)      When the protagonist undergoes a conversion of heart

3)      When the protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about the opposite of the expected result

4)      When the protagonist sees his mistake

21.   A Tale of a Tub was written by

1)      Swift

2)      Fielding

3)      Johnson

4)      Pope

22.   A woman playwright who was popular in the Restoration Age was

1)      Virginia woolf

2)      Katherine Mansfield

3)      Aphra Behn

4)      George Eliot

23.   The Principles of Literary Criticism was published in

1)      1924

2)      1936

3)      1950

4)      1914

24.   A modern play which employs the classical convention of the Chorus is

1)      St. Joan

2)      Murder in the Cathedral

3)      Becket

4)      Lady Windermere’s Fan

25.   The central function of criticism, according to Arnold is

1)      Description of the work

2)      To interpret the work

3)      To help the poet / writer to write competently

4)      To promote discrimination in the reader and civilized standards