Solved UGC NET question Dec 2007

ENGLISH PAPER II

DEC 2007

1.The author of The Provok'd Husband was :

(A) Etherege

(B) Colley Cibber

(C)Wycherley

(D)Vanbrugh

2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ ?

(A) Piggy

(B) Ralph

(C) Jack

(D) Simon

3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's novel Tristram Shandy is:

(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

4. Feminine ending refers to :

(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse

(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable

(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable

(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse

Eg: Of old, when Scarron his companions invited
       Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united,

5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is written by :

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Alvin Kernan

6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :

(A) East Pakistan

(B) India and Pakistan

(C) Pakistan

(D) None of the above

7.Choose the correct chronological sequence in :

(A) Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The Hind and the Panther

(B) Hutchinson's Memoirs - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the Panther- Milton's Paradise Lost

(C) Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the Panther- Hutchinson's Memoirs

(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's Memoirs- Milton's Paradise Lost

Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - around 1670 published in 1863
Milton's Paradise Lost - 1667
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - 1678
Dryden's The Hind and the Panther-1687

8.The Little Minister is a novel by :

(A) John Galsworthy

(B)H.G. Wells

(C) James M. Barrie

(D)Rudyard Kipling6

9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads : “one who strove with all his might to champion liberty” ?

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) Henry Fielding

(D) Daniel Defoe

10. In which of the following novels incidents relating to the declaration of  Emergency in India in 1975 figure? 

(A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck

(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy

(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August : An Indian Story

(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey

11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) Edward II : Zenocrate

(C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio

(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas

(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston

Protagonists

The Jew of Malta: Barabas, Tamburlaine the Great: Tamburlaine,   The Spanish Tragedy: Hieronimo, Edward II: King Edward II

12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in :

(A) The Second Coming

(B) Circus Animals Desertion

(C) When You Are Old

(D) Leda and Swan

13. Inscape refers to :

(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature

(B) The universal character of a natural thing

(C) The individuating character of a natural thing

(D) The moment of release from the material world

14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the 'success' myth ?

(A) A Zoo Story

(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

(C) American Dream

(D) The Death of Bessie Smith

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond our personal intelligence”. Who among the following is the author of the above lines?

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is :

(A) 99

(B) 47

(C) 112

(D) 108

17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern retelling of :

(A) Ivanhoe 

(B) Evelina 

(C) Robinson Crusoe

(D) The Moonstone

18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare appeared in :

(A) 1752

(B) 1765

(C)1791

(D) 1760

19.The main character in Gogol's Dead Souls is :

(A) Oblomov

(B) Bazarov

(C) Alyosha

(D) Chichikov

20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an'upstart crow' by :

(A) Robert Greene

(B) Thomas Lodge

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) John Lyly

Robert Greene attacks the actor William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow"! in the pamphlet called the 'Groatsworth of Wit'.  An Upstart is characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position - To crow is to boast and a crow is a scavenger who steals from others - Greene clearly dislikes the 'Upstart Crow'! This is what the pamphlet says:

"Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie."

Greene is saying that the 'Upstart Crow' was an actor (wrapt in a Player's hide) who now believes that he can write as well as the best scholars. Palladis Tamia, subtitled "Wits Treasury", is a 1598 book written by the minister Francis Meres. It is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare.

21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway called ?

(A) Clarissa

(B) Hours

(C)The Big Ben

(D)The Party

22. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre ?

(A) No Telephone to Heaven

(B) Wide Sargasso Sea

(C) Crick Crack Monkey

(D) Between Two Worlds

23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used by :

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Helen Gardner

(D) Dryden

"A term used to group together certain 17th-century poets, usually DONNE, MARVELL, VAUGHAN and TRAHERNE, though other figures like ABRAHAM COWLEY are sometimes included in the list.
Metaphysical concerns are the common subject of their poetry, which investigates the world by rational discussion of its phenomena rather than by intuition or mysticism. DRYDEN was the first to apply the term to 17th-century poetry when, in 1693, he criticized Donne: 'He affects the Metaphysics... in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts. 

24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a novel by :

(A) George Orwell

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) D.H. Lawrence

(D) E.M. Forster

Only connect is the epigraph to E.M Forster's novel ‘ Howards End’.

25. The expression “Thy hand, great Anarch” occurs in a satire by :

(A) Dryden

(B) Pope

(C) Johnson

(D)Swift

Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All.(the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad) 

26.In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ?

(A) The Heart of the Matter

(B) The Power and the Glory

(C) Brighton Rock

(D) The Quiet American

27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind' is :

(A)Rochester

(B)Dryden

(C)Gray

(D) Swift

28.'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for describing :

(A) the moment of discovery by the protagonist

(B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist

(C) the happy resolution of the plot

(D) the convergence of the main plot and the sub plot

29.In which play by Shakespeare do we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of male politics ?

(A) Henry V

(B) Richard III

(C)Anthony and Cleopatra

(D) Hamlet

30.Which of the following feminist critics used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the first time ?

(A) Kate Millet

(B) Simone de Beauvoir

(C)Elaine Showalter

(D) Mary Ellmann

31.John Keats's poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' was composed in :

(A)1818

(B)1819

(C)1820

(D) 1821

32.The Female Quixote was written by :

(A)Henry Fielding

(B)Tobias Smollett

(C) Charlotte Lennox

(D) Aphra Behn

33. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ?

(A) Thom Gunn

(B) Alan Lewis

(C)Edward Thomas

(D) Seamus Heaney

 34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :

(A) a poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb

(B) an elegy by William Wordsworth

(C)an essay by Charles Lamb

(D) an essay by William Hazlitt

35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Kingsley Amis

(B) Alan Sillitoe

(C) John Braine

(D) John Osborne

36.In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ?

(A)Baudelaire

(B)Mallarme

(C)Verlaine

(D)Apollinaire

"Black Venus"(a collection of short stories, appeared in 1985), in which the poet Baudelaire is described from the point of view of his mistress, Jeanne Duval, tackles yet another of the many myths of femininity which Carter debunks with particular pleasure: that of the exotic mistress. Jeanne Duval, a Creole woman, about whose origins not much is known, was the woman with whom Baudelaire had a long, occasionally interrupted, relationship.

37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a three-part structure in :

(A) a classic ode

(B) a Greek chorus

(C)a medieval ballad

(D) a Petrarchan sonnet

38.The words “where are the songs of spring ? Ay, where are they ?” occur in :

(A) Ode to the West Wind

(B) The Seasons

(C) Ode to Autumn

(D) Resolution and Independence

39.“Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes” the above lines occur in Tennyson's :

(A) Tears, Idle Tears

(B) In Memoriam

(C) Maud

(D) The Lotus Eaters 

40.Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake

(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree

(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott

(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets

 Lady of the Lake- Sir Walter Scott, Lake Isle of Innisfree-W.B. Yeats, The Lady of Shallott-Tennyson,  Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets- Thomas De Quincey  

41.Which famous English novel opens with a young woman who is 'handsome, clever and rich' ?

(A) Middlemarch

(B) Wuthering Heights

(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Emma

42.It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I “Milton belongs to the Devil's party without  knowing it”. Who among the following made this statement ?

(A) Frank Kermode

(B) William Empson

(C) C.S. Lewis

(D) William Blake

43.Live Like Pigs is :

(A) a humorous poem by Pope

(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell

(C) a play by Arden

(D) a satirical sketch by Swift

44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings'.  From which section of Eliot's The Waste Land are the above lines taken ?

(A) A Game of Chess

(B) What the Thunder Said

(C) Burial of the Dead

(D) Fire Sermon

45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe's African Trilogy ?

(A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer At Ease

(B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart

(C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God

(D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease

Things Fall Apart -1958,  No Longer At Ease -1960,  Arrow of God-1964 

46. Which are the figures of speech used in the following lines by  Blake

“Tyger, tyger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”

(A) simile and personification

(B) irony and synecdoche

(C) apostrophe and synecdoche

(D) metonymy and apostrophe

47. In which of the following American novels does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur ?

(A) Huck Finn

(B) The Red Badge of Courage

(C) Invisible Man

(D) The Great Gatsby

48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he says 'He knew the tavern well in every town' ?

(A) Pardoner

(B) Monk

(C) Squire

(D) Friar

49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”. Who, among the following, made the above statement ?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Sidney

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Wordsworth

   From The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold

50. “She is inspired but diabolically inspired”. Who is this lady ?

(A) Candida

(B) Major Barbara

(C) Saint Joan

(D) Ann