UGC NET 2011: June, Paper II, English
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s 6. The plan of Arthurian stories has
(A) Hard Times influenced the composition of
Tennyson’s
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist (A) In Memoriam
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop (B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
2. Who, among the following Indian (D) “Locksley Hall”
writers in English, has created an
identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand 7. There are two lists given below.
Match the authors in List – I with
(B) Raja Rao
their nationality in List – II by
(C) R.K. Narayan choosing the right option against the
(D) Anita Desai code.
List – I List – II
3. Who among the following is not a (Author) (Nationality)
formalist critic ? (I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(A) Allen Tate (II) Nadine (2) New
Gordimer Zealand
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(III) Margaret (3) Australia
(C) Stanley Fish Atwood
(D) William Empson (IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
Code :
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian (I) (II) (III) (IV)
sonnet is (A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee (B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(B) abab cdcd efef gg (C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(C) abba cddc effe gg (D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
(D) abba abba cde cde
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
5. Who among the following Marlovian following rhyme scheme :
characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine (B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) Doctor Faustus (C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) Mephistopheles (D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
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9. “The future of poetry is immense, 13. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined
because in poetry…. our race, as by
time goes on, will find an ever surer (A) John Milton
and surer stay.” – This claim for
poetry is made in (B) William Blake
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of (C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
Poetry”
(D) Matthew Arnold
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of
Poetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for 14. The author of the pamphlet Short
Poetry” View of Immorality and Profaneness
(D) Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets
of the English Stage (1698) was
10. Which of the following is not about (A) John Bunyan
a dystopia ? (B) Jeremy Collier
(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen
(C) William Wycherley
Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New (D) John Vanbrugh
World
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the
15. Identify a play in the following list
Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral that is not written by Oscar Wilde :
Island (A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being
11. Who among the following is not Earnest
associated with the translation of the
Bible ? (C) Saints and Sinners
(A) Miles Coverdale (D) An Ideal Husband
(B) William Tyndale
(C) John Wycliffe
(D) Thomas Browne 16. Put the following novels by Charles
Dickens in a sequential order with
12. Arrange the following stages in a the help of the code :
sequence in which all Shakespearean 1. Great Expectations
tragedies are structured. Use the
code given below : 2. Hard Times
I. Denouement 3. Bleak House
II. Conflict 4. A Tale of Two Cities
III. Exposition
IV. Climax Code :
Code : (A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(A) III, II, IV, I (B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I (C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) II, IV, I, III (D) 4, 2, 1, 3
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17. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 22. “The City of Dreadful Night”, a long
was influenced by poem depicting the late Victorian
sense of gloom and despondency, is
(A) Seneca
written by
(B) Tertullian
(A) Matthew Arnold
(C) Virgil
(B) Robert Browning
(D) Plautus (C) James Thomson
(D) John Davidson
18. In its final published version, Eliot’s
The Waste Land contains a total of
23. Which of the following novels by
(A) 334 lines (B) 433 lines V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and
(C) 373 lines (D) 423 lines carries echoes of Joseph Conrad ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur
19. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is (B) A Bend in the River
set in (C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(A) The Congo region (D) The Mimic Men
(B) The Niger Delta
(C) The Caribbean 24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s
lapdog is named
(D) The African Savannah
(A) Luck (B) Shock
20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his (C) Pluck (D) Muck
friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is
an example of 25. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by
(A) protasis (A) John Fowles
(B) anacrusis (B) Doris Lessing
(C) prolepsis (C) Kingsley Amis
(D) pun (D) Irish Murdoch
21. The Castle of Otranto is an example 26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is
of associated with the fiction of
(A) Gothic fiction (A) Norman Mailer
(B) Romance (B) Saul Bellow
(C) Comic fiction (C) Philip Roth
(D) Bildungsroman (D) Bernard Malamud
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27. Plato censured poetry because he 31. Molly Bloom is a character in James
believed it Joyce’s
(A) eliminates the ego. (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a
(B) promotes sensuality. Young Man
(C) distorts reality. (B) Dubliners
(D) cripples the imagination. (C) Ulysses
(D) Exiles
28. Which of the following Tennyson
poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam 32. Eliot uses the term “objective
(B) “The Charge of the Light correlative” in his essay.
Brigade” (A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(C) “Crossing the Bar”
(B) “Hamlet”
(D) “Tithonus”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual
Talent”
29. The character Giovanni features in
one of the following texts : (D) “Dante”
(A) John Cleland’s Fanny Hill :
Memoirs of a Woman of 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the
Pleasure
Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(B) John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a
Whore’ (A) 1995
(C) John Braine’s Room at the Top (B) 1996
(D) John Evelyn’s Diaries (C) 1997
(D) 1998
30. Which of the following poems
features the phrase, “the still, sad
music of humanity” ? 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
(A) “Ode: Intimations of “An Address to the Irish People”
Immortality from Recollections was composed by
of Early Childhood”
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) “Michael : A Pastoral Poem”
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) “The Solitary Reaper”
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) “Tintern Abbey”
(D) G.B. Shaw
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35. Which of the following 39. “Heteroglossia” refers to
arrangements of English novels is in
the correct chronological sequence ? (A) the multiple readings of a text.
(A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons (B) the juxtaposition of multiple
and Lovers, Brave New World voices in a text.
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to (C) the comments on the margins
India, Kim, Brave New World of a text.
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A (D) the gloss or commentary
Passage to India, Brave New
relating to a text.
World
(D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons
and Lovers, A Passage to India 40. Margaret Drabble is the author of
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor
36. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is
(B) The Witch of Exmoor
written by
(C) The Service of Clouds
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson (D) The Godless in Eden
(C) John Gay
(D) Jonathan Swift 41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on
Dryden’s literary rival,
37. Widowers’ Houses was written by (A) Richard Flecknoe
(A) Oscar Wilde (B) Thomas Shadwell
(B) T.S. Eliot (C) John Wilmot
(C) John Galsworthy (D) Matthew Prior
(D) G.B. Shaw
42. Eighteenth century writers used
38. Who among the following Marxist satire frequently for
critics has reconsidered the classic
problem of ‘base and superstructure” (A) attacking human vices and
in relation to literature ? follies.
(A) Edmund Wilson (B) inciting the reading public.
(B) Raymond Williams (C) glorifying the culture of the
(C) Lucien Goldmann upper classes.
(D) Walter Benjamin (D) pleasing their women readers.
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43. Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” 47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by
is a satire directed against
(A) Robert Herrick
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) P.B. Shelley
(D) Robert Southey
44. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was 48. Which of the following novels
published in reconstructs the historical events of
the Indian Mutiny ?
(A) 1790
(B) 1791 (A) The Jewel in the Crown
(C) 1792 (B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(D) 1793 (C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) The Towers of Silence
45. Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode
upon Cromwell’s Return from
49. “England, my England” is a poem by
Ireland” was written in
(A) W.E. Henley
(A) 1647
(B) 1649 (B) A.E. Housman
(C) 1650 (C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) 1648 (D) Rudyard Kipling
46. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is 50. Shelley was expelled from the
about Oxford University due to the
(A) a perilous adventure in the sea publication of
(B) the accidental killing of an (A) The Revolt of Islam
octopus
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
(C) the curse of a sea God
(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) the guilt and expiation of the
(D) The Masque of Anarchy
Ancient Mariner
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