UGC NET Solved Paper II December-2012

UGC NET Solved Paper II December-2012

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

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

3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is

(A) 1830–1900

(B) 1837–1901

(C) 1830–1901

(D) 1837–1900

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” whichWordsworth added in 1800.

(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Identify the correct statement below:

(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are tragedies.

(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are comedies.

(C) All of them are problem plays.

(D) All of them are farces.

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

13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in

(A) 1642

(B) 1640

(C) 1659

(D) 1660

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

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

16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, and 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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 whoseWessex 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 hisAnimal Farm.

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.

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. The Unto 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

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

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

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

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

(D) “The Commitment to Theory”

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

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 MysticMasseur – A House for

Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage ofElvira.

(C) The Suffrage of Elvira –Miguel Street – The MysticMasseur – A House forMr. Biswas.

(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel

Street – A House for Mr, Biswas.

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

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.

( QUESTION BEARS A CONFUSION)

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

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

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.”

36. Which of the following poems use sterza rima ?

(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to theWest Wind”

(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”

(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

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

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”

39. What does the term episteme signify?

(A) Knowledge

(B) Archive

(C) Theology

(D) Scholarship

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

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

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.

43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by

(A) Edwin Muir

(B) Edward Thomas

(C) Robert Bridges

(D) Coventry Patmore

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 – APoison 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

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

(D) Antonio Gramsci

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.

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 ninthin iambic pentameter

              (A) I and II (B) II (C) III (D) IV

48. Match the following texts with the irrespective themes:

I. Areopagitica(Milton)i. Fashion, courtship, seduction

II. Leviathan (Hobbes)ii. The liberty forum licensed 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

49. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Man was called

 (A) Stephen Hero

 (B) Bloom’s Blunder

(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus

 (D) The Dead

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 use of figurative language.

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.

(B) only (i) is correct.

  (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.

 D) only (iv) is correct.