UGC NET English December 1994 Paper II 1. The renaissance started in A) Italy B) France C) England D) Germany 2. The line The paths of glory lead but to the grave occurs in A) Shakespeare B) Herbert C) Pope D) Gray 3. By character Aristotle means A) Personages in drama B) Cause of action C) Combination of incidents in drama D) Particular nature of drama 4. Amor Vincit Omnia in Chaucers The Prologue means A) Love conquers nothing B) Love conquers all C) Love is blind D) Love is fatal 5. The sonnet form was introduced in England by A) Shakespeare B) Philip Sidney C) Wyatt D) John Skelton 6. Which one of the following novels of Dickens is based on his own life? A) Nicholas Nickleby B) Great Expectations C) Hard Times D) David Copperfield 7. Dryden in Essay of Dramatic Poesy rejects tragi-comedy because A) It is an innovative form B) It violates the unity of tone C) It is a poor imitation of French drama D) It was practiced only by the Ancients 8. What is the sub-title of The Prelude? A) An autobiography B) A preface to my life C) Growth of a poets mind D) A poets story 9. The line Love is not Times fool occurs in a sonnet by A) John Keats B) Philip Sidney C) John Donne D) William Shakespeare 10. The Renaissance is written by A) Walter Pater B) Mathew Arnold C) IA Richards D) George Saintsbury 11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says A) The good is always encouraged B) The good is not particularly encouraged nor evil disapproved C) The evil is often triumphant D) There is no moral purpose 12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title of A. Clarissa Harlowe B) She Stoops to Conquer C) Joseph Andrews D) The Way of the World 13. The Romantic Age in England is distinguished for its A) Verse drama B) Political prose C) Horror novels D) Lyrical poetry 14. Who among the following was not a member of the pre-Raphaelite Brother hood? A) Oscar Wilde B) William Holman Hunt C) John Everett Millais D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 15. Eliots Objective correlative signifies the writers ability to A) relatively delineate his objectives B) relate different objects C) correlate objects and events D) objectify the desired states of mind 16. Which one of the following is a Cavalier poet? A) Herbert B) Donne C) Herrick D) Marvell 17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death of A) W.B Yeats B) John Keats C) P.B Shelly D) Wordsworth 18. Which one of the following is not a Lake Poet? A) Wordsworth B) Coleridge C) Southey D) Shelley 19. Negative Capability is A) The ability to overcome unpleasant experience B) A passive subordination to experience C) A subjective response to experience D) depersonalized empathy with experience 20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart Mill, is necessary for the 1) cultivation of the genius B) success of democracy C) intellectual enrichment of the society D) evolution of State 21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing” is taken from A) Alexander Pope B) John Dryden C) William Shakespeare D) Jonathan Swift 22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is A) an attack on Catholicism B) denunciation of Protestantism C) a defence of the authors stand D) a defence of religious values 23. Who is the author of Journal of the Plague Year? A) Richard Steele B) Daniel Defoe C) Joseph Addison D) Samuel Pepys 24. The Chartist Movement sought A) Recognition of chartered trading companies B) Political rights for women C) Protection of the political rights of the middle class D) Extension of the political rights to the working class 25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is written by A) William Hazlitt B) S.T Coleridge C) Charles Lamb D) De Quincey 26. The dictum only connect is central to the writings of A) Aldous Huxley B) Virginia Woolf C) E.M Forster D) D.H Lawrence 27. The criterion of Leaviss Great Tradition is A) moral purpose B) sublime subject matter C) reader-response D) truth to life 28. Free trade signifies A) trade without government control B) trade with only government control C) freedom to trade in all commodities D) freedom to export anything 29. In Culture and Anarchy, Mathew Arnold recommends A) adoption of Hellenism B) adoption of Hebraism C) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism D) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism 30. Lamia is a poem by A) Rossetti B) Shelley C) Keats D) Spenser 31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on the deserted Island? A) 12 years and 9 days B) 28 years and 2 months C) 16 years D) 21 years and 2 months 32. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place? A) 1851 B) 1857 C) 1861 D) 1871 33. Yeats Leda and the Swan drawn upon A) An oriental myth B) East European myth C) Celtic myth D) A Greek myth 34. The source of E.M Forsters title Where Angels Fear to Tread is A) Pope B) Dryden C) Milton D) Donne 35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre cannot hold” occur in A) Byzantium B) Gerontion C) Second Coming D) Sailing to Byzantium 36. The Movement is a literary phenomenon in the A) Thirties B) Forties C) Fifties D) Sixties 37. John Donne affects the metaphysics. This remark was made by A) Samuel Johnson B) Allen Tate C) T.S Eliot D) John Dryden 38. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination all compact”. These lines occur in A) Twelfth Night B) A Midsummer Nights dream C) As You Like It D) The Tempest 39. Alexanders Feast is A) A mock epic by Alexander Pope B) A play by Dryden C) A play by Marlow D) an Ode by Dryden 40. Who said this:” Life is not a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope”? A) Dorothy Richardson B) James Joyce C) Henry James D) Virginia Woolf 41. In which book of Gullivers Travels does Balnibarbi find a mention? A) “Laputa” B) “Lilliput” C) “Houyhnhnms” D) “Borbdingnag” 42. The phrase Sweetness and Light was first used by A) Dr. Johnson B) Keats C) Mathew Arnold D) Swift 43. Carlyles Sartor Resartus is A) an autobiography B) a fictional narrative C) a biography D) a fictional biography 44. Hopkinss Curtal Sonnet consists of A) 14 lines B) 101/2lines C) 131/2 lines D) 12 1/2lines 45. God is referred to as the president of Immortals” in A) The Paradise Lost B) Tess C) Ulysses D) The White Devil 46. Osbornes Look Back in Anger was first staged in A) 1956 B) 1957 C) 1958 D) 1960 47. Maurya is a character in A) She Stoops to Conquer B) Volpone C) Riders to the Sea D) The Golden Gate 48. Which of the following is a poet as well as a painter? A) Tennyson B) Keats C) Shelley D) Rossetti 49. Which English poet referred to Oxford as “that sweet city with her dreaming spires”? A) Robert Graves B) Matthew Arnold C) W. H Auden D) Alexander Pope 50. “Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She died young” – this was said by A) Hamlet about Ophelia B) Othello about Desdemona C) Lear about Cordelia D) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi.
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