UGC NET June 2013 Paper II
1. In Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday
present. What is it ?
(A) A toy
(B) A piano
(C) A drum
(D) A violin
2. How does Lord Jim end ?
(A) Jim is shot
through the chest by Doramin.
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” and betrays
Jewel.
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin.
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless
books.” To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission ?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh
4. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic ?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Malcolm Bradbury
(C) Lionel Trilling
(D) Joseph Frank
5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still
flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.” The above lines are quoted from
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B) “Michael”
(C) “Frost at
Midnight”
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison”
6. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava
rima ?
(A) “Among School
Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The Shield of Achilles”
7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the
story of Shakespeare’s
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Antony and
Cleopatra
(D) Measure for Measure
8. Arrange the following works in the order in which they
appear. Identify the correct code :
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
The correct combination according to the code is : Code :
(A) III, IV, II, I
(B) IV, III, I, II
(C) II, I, IV, III
(D) I, II, III, IV
9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(A) 1660 to 1669
(B) 1649 to 1660
(C) 1662 to 1689
(D) 1660 to 1689
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to
poetry ?
(A) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the
reader.
(B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from
God to the reader.
(C) A moral power
whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
(D) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere
illusion and trickery.
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the
following contemporary individuals :
(A) Addison and Lord
Hervey
(B) Dryden and Rochester
(C) Swift and Steele
(D) Smollett and Defoe
12. Match the following authors with their works :
List – A
List
– B
(Authors) (Works)
I. Alice Walker
1. Invisible Man
II. Ralph Ellison
2. The Color Purple
III. Richard Wright
3.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
IV. Zora Neale Hurston
4. Native Son
Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code
:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 2 4 3
No Code is correct
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use
‘cross-dressing’ as a device ?
(A) As You Like It
(B) Julius Caeser
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
14. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under
postcolonial theory ?
(A) Nation and Narration
(B) Orientalism
(C) Discipline and
Punish
(D) White Mythologies
15. Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a
classic statement of___Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic
(B) Empiricist
(C) Nationalist
(D) Realist
16. “Power circulates in all directions, to and from all
social levels, at all times.” Who said this ?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Roland Barthes
17. Which one of the following is not written by an
Australian Aboriginal writer ?
(A) Kath Walker
(B) Peter Carey
(C) Robert Bropho
(D) Jack Davis
The question is ambiguous.
18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought
out Tottel’s Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify the name of the Earl
of Surrey from the following :
(A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) Thomas Sackville
(D) Henry Howard
19. Match the following lists :
List – I List – I
(Novelists)
(Novels)
I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing
II. Margaret Atwood 2. The Stone Angel
III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine
River
IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me
and My House
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
I II III IV
(A) 1 4
3 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
20. The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines
in it the features of
I. The Elizabethan Theatre
II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France
III. The Irish Theatre
IV. The Greek Theatre
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and IV are
correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I and II are
correct.
21. Which American poet wrote : “I sound my barbaric yawp
over the roofs of the world” ?
(A) Robert Lowell
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Langston Hughes
22. The etymological meaning of the word “trope” is
(A)Ggesture
(B) Turning
(C) Mirror
(D) Desire
23. Who among the following English poets defined poetic
imagination as “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation
in the infinite ‘I AM’ ” ?
(A) Blake
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’
(A) David Copperfield
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) Bleak House
(D) Great Expectations
25. Match the following :
(Schools/Concept of
Criticism)
(Critics)
I. Formalism
1. John Crow Ransom
II. New Critics
2. The Jungians
III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature 3. Victor Shklovsky
IV. Literary art as archetypal image 4. I.A. Richards
The correct combination according to the code is :
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 2 1
4
26. In the late seventeenth century a “Battle of Books”
erupted between which two groups ?
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(C) Champions of
Ancient and Modern Learning
(D) The Welsh and the Scots
27. “Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day
Love’s pleasure drives his love away…”
In the above quote the last line is an example of
(A) allusion
(B) pleonasm
(C) paradox
(D) zeugma
28. Match the author with the work :
List – I
List – II
(Authors) (Works)
I. Kingsely Amis 1. Saturday and Sunday
Morning
II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book
III. Doris Lessing 3. The Left Bank
IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky
Jim
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 3 4
29. In which of Hardy’s novels does the character Abel
Whittle appear ?
(A) Far from the Madding Crowd
(B) The Return of the Native
(C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) The Mayor of
Casterbridge
30. The phrase “dark Satanic mills” has become the most
famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The
phrase was used by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Blake
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin
31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood
and dale the scared river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to
?
(A) A lifeless ocean
(Read Kubla Khan, by Coleridge, not sure about ans)
(B) The caverns
measureless
(C) A fountain
(D) The waves
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel
Prize for literature who rejected the label “British” though he has always
written in English rather than his regional language ?
(A) Douglas Dunn
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Philip Larkin
33. Which of the following statements best describes Sir
Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici ?
(A) It is a story of
conversion or providential experiences.
(B) It emphasizes
Browne’s love of mystery and wonder.
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death.
(D) It reports the facts of Browne’s life.
34. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste
Land is not correctly mentioned ?
(A) The typist
(B) Madam Sosostris
(C) The Merchant from
Eugenides
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular
35. Which one of the following best describes the general
feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
(A) Studied
melancholy and aestheticism
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
(D) Raucous celebration combined with paranoid
interpretation
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The
Spirit of Solitude” ?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of
the Beast Fable ?
(A) The Knight’s Tale
(B) The Monk’s Tale
(C) The Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
(D) The Miller’s Tale
38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel
(A) sets off in quest
of life away from his mother.
(B) considers the option of committing suicide.
(C) joins his elder brother William in London.
(D) embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism.
39. When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her
cheeks, her lips” you are using a rhetorical device of
(A) Enumeration
(B) Antanagoge
(C) Parataxis
(D) Hypotaxis
40. The following are two lists of plays and characters.
Match them.
List – I
List – II
(Plays) (Characters)
I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole
II. The Malcontent 2.
Beatrice
III. The City Madam 3. Bianca
IV. The Changeling 4. Doll
Tearsheet
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 1
2 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
41. With Bacon the essay form is
(A) an intimate, personal confession
(B) witty and boldly imagistic
(C) the aphoristic
expression of accumulated public wisdom
(D) homely and vulgar
42. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of
Honour is about
(A) The English at
War
(B) The English Aristocracy
(C) The Irish question
(D) Scottish nationalism
43. Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the
disparity in Britain between the
rich and the poor ?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Frederick Engels
44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the
Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are
I. Moloch
II. Clemos
III. Belial
IV. Thamuz
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and IV are
correct.
(B) I and III are
correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of
order”, he is using
(A) irony
(B) simile
(C) understatement
(D) personification
46. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of
(A) drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink
drama
(C) absurd drama
(D) melodrama
47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify
cruelty ?
(A) Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst
(C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Eliza Reed
48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person
perverted into a thing’ ?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
49. John Suckling belongs to the group of
(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Neo-classical poets
(D) Religious poets
50. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller
into whose mouth the account of Utopia is put. His name is
(A) Michael
(B) Raphael
(C) Henry
(D) Thomas
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