Tuesday, May 29, 2012

UGC NET solved questions 1995 part II


1.       Which famous poem contains the line, “Hieronimo is mad again”?
1)      Lapis Lazuli
2)      The Waste Land
3)      Dover Beach
4)      The Wreck of the Deutschland
2.       Defamiliarisation as a function of Art was stressed by
1)      Russian formalists
2)      The New critics
3)      The Psycho-analytical critics
4)      The Marxist critics
3.       ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ This line occurs in Shakespeare’s
1)      Hamlet
2)      Twelfth Night
3)      King Lear
4)      As You Like It
4.       Who is the author of The Uses of Literacy
1)      Richard Hoggart
2)      Raymond Williams
3)      F.R Leavis
4)      Terry Eagleton
5.       “Alone ,alone, all all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea” – These lines occur in a poem by
1)      Robert Burns
2)      S.T Coleridge
3)      John Keats
4)      William Wordsworth
6.       ‘Full fathom five thy father lies’ illustrates
1)      Rhyme
2)      Assonance
3)      Internal rhyme
4)      Alliteration
From Shakespeare’s Tempest, Ariel  sings this to Ferdinand about his father Alonso, King of Naples.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
7.       The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by
1)      C.P Snow
2)      James Joyce
3)      Dylan Thomas
4)      Angus Wilson
8.       Who wrote the poem Troilus and Criseyde ?
1)      Shakespeare
2)      Chaucer
3)      Spenser
4)      Marlow
9.       Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in
1)      1628
2)      1667
3)      1600
4)      1687
Milton’s Paradise Lost, which is often regarded as the greatest literary work in English, was originally published in ten books in the year 1667 by Samuel Simmons.
10.   About whom did David Garrick comment that he spoke like poor poll but wrote like an angel?
1)      Sir John Reynolds
2)      Dr. Samuel Johnson
3)      Oliver Goldsmith
4)      Richard Steele
11.   Richardson’s novel Pamela is
1)      An epistolary novel
2)      A picaresque novel
3)      A Gothic novel
4)      A Satirical novel
12.   Which of the following is a pastoral elegy?
1)      Areopagitica
2)      Lycidas
3)      Absalem and Achitophel
4)      Rasselas
13.   Who among the following was a Pre-Raphaelite poet?
1)      Tennyson
2)      Ruskin
3)      Browning
4)      Rossetti
14.   The Authorized version of the Bible appeared in
1)      1611
2)      1628
3)      1603
4)      1617
15.   Which among the following is an Anglo Saxon Epic?
1)      Faerie Queen
2)      The Aeneid
3)      The Divine Comedy
4)      Beowulf
16.   The Printing Press was first introduced into England by
1)       Bacon
2)      Caxton
3)      Thomas Moore
4)      Sidney
17.   Chaucer’s Pilgrims first met in a place called
1)      The Tabard
2)      The Gray’s Inn
3)      The Russell Square
4)      The Manor House
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns.
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, London.
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes.
18.   Some of Shakespeare’s sonnets were addressed to
1)      The Queene
2)      Marlow
3)      Dark Lady
4)      Nobody in particular
19.   The famous letter to Lord Chesterfield which sounded the death knell of literary patronage, was written by
1)      Edmund Burke
2)      Samuel Johnson
3)      Jeremy Collier
4)      Jonathan Swift
20.   Peripeteia is seen in tragedy when there is a reversal of fortune as
1)      When a rich man becomes poor
2)      When the protagonist undergoes a conversion of heart
3)      When the protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about the opposite of the expected result
4)      When the protagonist sees his mistake
21.   A Tale of a Tub was written by
1)      Swift
2)      Fielding
3)      Johnson
4)      Pope
22.   A woman playwright who was popular in the Restoration Age was
1)      Virginia woolf
2)      Katherine Mansfield
3)      Aphra Behn
4)      George Eliot
23.   The Principles of Literary Criticism was published in
1)      1924
2)      1936
3)      1950
4)      1914
24.   A modern play which employs the classical convention of the Chorus is
1)      St. Joan
2)      Murder in the Cathedral
3)      Becket
4)      Lady Windermere’s Fan
25.   The central function of criticism, according to Arnold is
1)      Description of the work
2)      To interpret the work
3)      To help the poet / writer to write competently

4)      To promote discrimination in the reader and civilized standards

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