Solved UGC NET question June 2012
ENGLISH
Paper – II 2012 June
Note
: This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each
question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. To refer to the unresolvable
difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term :
(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’s Vindication
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 Gregory and 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 CarlosWilliams
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
all
knowledge.
II.Sidney, Defence/An Apology
for
Poetry
Poetry
3. Literary
criticism is a description and
evaluation of
its
object
III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical
Ballads
Ballads
4. Nature
never set forth the earth in as rich
a
tapestry as diverse poets have done IV. Coleridge,Biographia Literaria
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 to India ?
(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
done, 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 is a
(A) religious
tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic
verse epic
(D) comedy
30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is
associated 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 Tamarind Tree
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
Ø Read Mac Flecknoe
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….. a. Moby Dick
II. Call me
Ishmael….. b. Macbeth
III. When
shall we three meet again ? c. “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
Alfred Prufrock”
IV. He
disappeared in the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy
V. I wish
either….begot me ….. e. “In Memory of W. B.
Yeats”
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 native language
(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 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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