Solved UGC NET question June 2012

ENGLISH Paper – II 2012 June

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term :

(A) aporia

(B) difference

(C) erasure

(D) supplement

2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Alan Bennett

(C) Caryl Churchill

(D) Tom Stoppard

3. Arrange the following in the chronological order :

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2

(B) 3, 2, 1, 2

(C) 1, 2, 4, 3

(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story ?

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Ulysses

(C) The Power and the Glory

(D) Heart of Darkness

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(C) The Book of Duchess

(D) The Legend of Good Women

7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(C) Damon and Pythias

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

Ø  Ferrex and Porrex are the sons of king Gorboduc

8. Who of the following poets is Australian ?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(C) Edwin Muir

(D) Derek Walcott

9. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another. Who were they ?

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(C) Johnson on Dryden

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate ?

(A) Tony Morrison

(B) Seamus Heaney

(C) Ted Hughes

(D) Geoffrey Hill

Ø  Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in 1993

11.                               List – I                                 List – II

I. “Because I could not stop for death…” a. Robert Frost

II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”                  b. William CarlosWilliams

III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”     c. Emily Dickinson

IV. “So much depends /upon”                    d. Walt Whitman

The correctly matched series would be :

(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a

(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d

(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c

(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

(A) comic

(B) solemn

(C) hortatory

(D) irony

13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics ?

(A) bench

(B) night club

(C) house

(D) park

14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(C) Standard English Project

(D) Basic English Project

15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho

(D) The Way of the World

16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true ?

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.

II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.

IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

(A) I and II are true.

(B) II and III are true.

(C) II and IV are true.

(D) III and IV are true.

17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes

(B) the Symbolists

(C) the Imagists

(D) the Art Noveau School

18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) P. B. Shelley

(C) Thomas De Quincey

(D) Lord Byron

19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?

(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(C) William Golding

(D) Graham Greene

21. List – I                                                             List – II

1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius    I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”

2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of

all knowledge.                                               II.Sidney, Defence/An Apology for  
                                                                                                                                            Poetry

3. Literary criticism is a description and

evaluation of its object                                III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical 
                                                                                                                                              Ballads

4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich

 a tapestry as diverse poets have done        IV. Coleridge,Biographia Literaria

      1                2          3          4

(A) IV              III         I           II

(B) II                IV        III         I

(C) III               II          I           IV

(D) IV              II          I           III

22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India ?

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(C) The Innocents Abroad

(D) Following the Equator

23. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott ?

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(C) George Cruishank

(D) John Tennial

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(C) The Land of the Hurricanes

(D) The Newfound Land

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(C) The Jungle

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English ?

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(C) The hyacinth garden scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

28. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by

(A) Hamlet

(B) Lear

(C) Othello

(D) Macbeth

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel  is a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy

30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) John Arden

(C) Harold Pinter

(D) David Hare

Ø  The drama critic Irving Wardle used the term ‘comedy of menace’ to describe the plays of David Campton, Harold Pinter, Nigel Dennis and N.F Simpson.  The term was borrowed from the sub title of David Campton’s play “The lunatic view: A comedy of menace”.   

31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.

(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.

(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.

(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

32. What is the correct combination of the following ?

I. Balachandra Rajan              a. The Tamarind Tree

II. R. K. Narayan                    b. The Coffer Dams

III. Kamala Markandaya        c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu                      d. The Dark Room

(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b

(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c

(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b

(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

Ø  Wrong choice. The right one is I-c, II-d, III – b, IV - a

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

Ø  Read Mac Flecknoe

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

(A) winter, spring

(B) autumn, summer

(C) wind, rains

(D) spring, winter

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works :

I. Let us go then, you and I…..                 a. Moby Dick

II. Call me Ishmael…..                              b. Macbeth

III. When shall we three meet again ?      c. “The Love Song of J.  
                                                                    Alfred Prufrock”

IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter  d. Tristram Shandy

V. I wish either….begot me …..                e. “In Memory of W. B. 
                                                                                          Yeats”

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d

(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d

(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c

(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Volpone

(D) Gorboduc

37. What is a neologism ?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism ?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation

(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory

(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are :

(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(C) iron, gold, silver and brass

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending ?

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman

(D) The Clockwork Orange

Ø  The central character of the novel is Sarah Woodruff, ‘the woman’ abandoned by a French naval officer. She happens to meet Charles Smithson, a gentleman along with his fiancé Ernestina Freeman.  Charles feels sympathy towards Sarah and they meet occasionally.  In the course of a journey, Charles happens to stay at Sarah’s place and they make love.  Here, contrary to the popular belief,  Charles finds that Sarah was a virgin.  The novel has three possible endings.     1. Charles marries Ernestina, but their marriage is a disaster, 2, Charles and Sarah become intimate and his engagement with Ernestina ends with unwanted consequences, Charles loses everything and Sarah flees to London, later to be found by Charles, with his child, 3,  Charles finds Sarah but without child and she is not interested in continuing their affair.

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Anti-climax

Ø  Chiasmus is the rhetorical device in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.( like antimetabole).

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.

(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.

(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ø  ‘The Book Named the Governor’(1531) is the great work of the 15^th century English humanist, Sir Thomas Elyot.  It is a lengthy treatise on the virtues to be cultivated by statesmen.

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(C) both class and gender

(D) only patriarchy

44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer ?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) Thomas Gray

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Reformation

(D) The French Revolution

46. In a poem, a line may either be endstopped or

(A) rhymed

(B) broken

(C) accented

(D) run-on

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” ?

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(C) A. K. Ramanujam

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

48. Match the following :

I. James Joyce                      1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot                           2. James Boswell

III. Life of Johnson                3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of Poets                 4. Richard Ellman

(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3

(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4

(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4

• Peter Ackroyd is the biographer of T.S Eliot and Richard Ellmann is the biographer of James Joyce.

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile

(B) image

(C) conceit

(D) metonymy

50. An epilogue is

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.

(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.

(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.

(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.