UGC NET English JUNE 2008 Paper II 1. Tennysons poem about womens rights and womens sphere is : (A) Maud (B) In Memoriam (C) Idylls of the King (D) The Princess 2. Hymn To Adversity is a poem by : (A) Thomas Gray (B) Edward Gibbon (C) Alexander Pope (D) William Blake 3.The King James Bible was published in : (A) 1609 (B) 1610 (C) 1611 (D) 1612 4.IL Migilor Fabro is the expression Eliot used for : (A) W. B. Yeats (B) Samuel Beckett (C) W. H. Auden (D) Ezra Pound 5. The Figure a poem Makes is an essay by : (A) Henry James (B) Sylvia Plath (C) Robert Frost (D) Wallace Stevens 6. Ripeness is all occurs in : (A) King Lear (B) Hamlet (C) Macbeth (D) Julius Caeser 7. A. C. Bradleys Shakespearean Tragedy was published in : (A) 1903 (B) 1904 (C) 1905 (D) 1906 8. Topsy appears in : (A) Uncle Toms Cabin (B) History of the United States (C) Walden (D) Tom Sawyer 9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is : (A) Lyric (B) Ballad (C) Ode (D) Haiku 10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence ? (A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II (B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice (C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Richard II (D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV Part I - The Merchant of Venice 11. The word nature in the eighteenth century literature stands for : (A) Nature of writing (B) External nature (C) Human nature (D) The Universe 12. Who is given credit for first using the term romantic? (A) Friedrich Schlegel (B) Kant (C) Coleridge (D) Schiller 13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by : (A) James Joyce (B) Virginia Woolf (C) D. H. Lawrence (D) E. M. Forster 14. Julys People is a novel by : (A) Margaret Atwood (B) V. S. Naipul (C) Wole Soyinka (D) Nadine Gordimer 15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of : (A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines (B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines (C) Rhyming iambic hexameter (D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter 16. Gestalt theory of literature considers text as : (A) a structure of metaphors (B) a unified whole (C) an experimentation in form (D) construction of history 17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from : (A) Australia (B) The U.S.A. (C) Canada (D) Britain 18.Sartor Resartus is a text by : (A) Ruskin (B) Arnold (C) Carlyle (D) Burke 19. Who of the following is not a university wit ? (A) Webster (B) Robert Greene (C) Kyd (D) Marlowe 20. Bosola is a character in a play by : (A) Ben Jonson (B) Webster (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) Thomas Middleton 21. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. This occurs in a poem by : (A) William Wordsworth (B) S. T. Coleridge (C) Byron (D) Shelley 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by : (A) Margaret Atwood (B) Nadine Gordimer (C) Chinua Achebe (D) Wole Soyinka 23. The first Canadian poet is : (A) Charles Sangster (B) Oliver Goldsmith (C) Charles Heavysege (D) Alexander Machlachlan 24. Heroic quatrain is : (A) a stanza in blank verse (B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter (C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter (D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter 25. Bildungsroman translated literally means : (A) Development novel (B) Psychological novel (C) Autobiographical novel (D) Campus novel 26.A book that faithfully renders a young mans confused images of love and rejection is : (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man (B) Lucky Jim (C) Daisy Miller (D) The brave New World 27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between : (A) faith and reason (B) tradition and modernity (C) oriental and occidental civilization (D) romanticism and neo romanticism 28. For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special relates to Chavcers (A) Friar (B) Monk (C) Doctor (D) Pardoner 29. The historical novel began in ; (A) Restoration Period (B) Augustan Age (C) Victorian Period (D) Romantic Period 30. The term Campus novel is associated with : (A) Graham Green (B) Kingsley Amis (C) Margaret Drabble (D) William Golding 31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ? (A) Hard Times - George Eliot (B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar (C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold (D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay 32. The title of William Faulkners The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by : (A) William Shakespeare (B) Christopher Marlow (C) John Webster (D) Ben Jonson 33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during : (A)1920-1940 (B) 1910-1930 (C)1930-1940 (D)1900-1910 34.Internal rhyme is : (A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines (C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern 35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by : (A) John Lyly (B) Marlow (C) Ben Jonson (D) John Webster 36. The line I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be....... appears in T. S. Eliots (A) Gerontion (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock (C) Four Quartets (D) The Waste-Land 37. Fancy deals with : (A) Fixities and definities (B) Imagination and Reason (C) Judgement and Memory (D) Structure and Superstructure 38. Swifts Modest proposal is written in the form of a : (A) Project in political economy Social Satire (B) Political allegory (C) Social Satire (D) Old-Testament history 39. The main idea of Popes The Dunciad was taken from : (A) Absalom and Achitophel (B) Mac-Flecknoe (C) The Medal (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 40. Which of the following is not a Brownings work ? (A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women (B) Dramatic Personae (C) Men and Women (D) The Palace of Art 41. The most obvious feature of Johnsons The Lines of the Poets is the equipoise between : (A) Language and form (B) Style and content (C) Biography and criticism (D) Myth and archetype 42. The Kelson of creation is love. The line occurs in Walt Whitmans : (A) Paumonak (B) Passage to India (C) O Captain, My Captain (D) Song of Myself 43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ? (A) Boswell (B) Dryden (C) Alexander Pope (D) Lord Bolingbroke 44. The early religious drama is associated with : (A) Superstitions and beliefs (B) Mysteries and histories (C) Interludes and mysteries (D) Miracles and morality 45. The Tale of Two Cities has : (A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose (B) a courageous lady in pain (C) an optimist on verge of collapse (D) a romantic hero with a weakness 46. Sheridans first play was : (A) The Rivals (B) School for Scandal (C) St. Patricks Day (D) A Trip to Scarborough 47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of : (A) loss of moral purpose (B) excess of emotion (C) excess of reason (D) loss of human feelings 48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ? (A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H. Hatter (B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the Ganges (D) Arun Joshi - The Appreutice 49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question of time in his poetry is : (A) Nissim Ezeikel (B) R. Parthsarathy (C) A.K. Ramanujan (D) Gieve Patel 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by : (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe (B) Stephane Mallarmes Poetry (C) Prose of Emerson (D) Ezra Pounds Cantos
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