UGC NET 2013: December, Paper II, English
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Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All
questions are compulsory.
1. ____ the very word is like a bell
4. The roman a clef (French for
To toll me back from thee to my “novel with a key”) uses
sole self ! contemporary historical figures as
Which word ? its chief characters. They are of
course given fictional names. One
(A) Bird
example is Aldous Huxley’s Point
(B) Immortal Counter Point.
(C) Forlorn Its Mark Rampion is modelled on
(D) Fancy _______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
2. In poems like “The Altar” and
(B) E.M. Forster
“Easter Wings” ________ exploits
_______. (C) Wyndham Lewis
(A) John Donne, alliteration (D) Arnold Bennett
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung 5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
rhythm
Housbondes at chirche-dore she
(D) George Herbert, typographic hadde fyve,
space
In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse represents the Wife of Bath as :
of hours ! I. crude and vulgar
For what wears out the life of II. outspoken and boastfully
mortal men ? licentious
‘Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, III. a witness to masculine oppression
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls IV. bubbling with vitality
And numb the elastic powers …
Find the correct combination
Who does the poet address here ? according to the code :
(A) The Scholar Gipsy (A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) Telemachus (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) The Nightingale (C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) The Poet’s Sister, Dorothy (D) II, III and IV are correct.
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6. The novel tells the story of twin 10. Which of the following works does
brothers, Waldo, the man of reason not have a mad woman as a
and intellect, and Arthur, the character in it ?
innocent half-wit, the way their
(A) The Yellow Wallpaper
lives are inextricably intertwined.
Which is the novel ? (B) The Mad Woman in the Attic
(A) The Tree of Man
(C) Jane Eyre
(B) Voss
(C) The Solid Mandala (D) Wide Sargasso Sea
(D) The Vivisector
11. Which of the following is NOT a
7. Who among the following was
quest narrative ?
NOT a member of the Scriblerus
Club ? (A) Shelley’s Alastor
(A) Thomas Parnell
(B) Byron’s Manfred
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Joseph Addison (C) Coleridge’s Christabel
(D) John Gay (D) Keats’s Endymion
8. _______ is a theological term
brought into literary criticism by 12. The novel has a scene where
_______. African American students are
(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine made to compete and fight with
each other as they rush for the gold
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
coins tossed on an electric blanket.
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
Identify the novel.
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
(A) Richard Wright : Native Son
9. ________ the Almighty Power (B) James Baldwin : Another
Hurled headlong flaming from th’ Country
Ethereal Sky,
(C) Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man
With hideous ruin and combustion
down (D) Toni Morrison : Bluest Eye
To bottomless perdition, there to
dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire 13. G.M. Hopkins’s “Windhover” is
dedicated :
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to
Arms. (A) To Christ, our Lord
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
(B) To Christ our lord
Choose the appropriate word :
(C) to no one
(A) Him (B) He
(C) Satan (D) The Fiend (D) to Christ, the Lord
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14. Match List – I with List – II 17. Identify the correctly matched set
according to the code given below : below :
List – I List – II (A) The Norman Conquest – 1066
(Authors) (Poems)
William Caxton and the
i. Ted Hughes 1. “The Otter”
introduction of printing – 1575
ii. Seamus 2. “Snake”
Heaney The King James Bible – 1611
iii. W.H. 3. “Ghost Dr. Johnson’s English
Auden Crabs” Dictionary – 1755
iv. D.H. 4. “Prevent the The Commonwealth Period/
Lawrence Dog from the Protectorate – 1649-1660
Barking with
a Juicy (B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
Bone.” William Caxton and the
Codes : introduction of printing – 1475
i ii iii iv The King James Bible – 1611
(A) 1 2 4 3 Dr. Johnson’s English
(B) 2 3 1 4 Dictionary - 1755
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4 The Commonwealth Period/
the Protectorate – 1649-1660
15. His cooks with long disuse their (C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
trade forgot; William Caxton and the
Cool was his kitchen, though his introduction of printing- 1475
brains were hot.
The King James Bible – 1564
Who is this character whose
stinginess passed into a proverb ? Dr. Johnson’s English
(A) Corah (B) Shimei Dictionary -1780
(C) Zimri (D) Achitophel The Commonwealth Period/
the Protectorate – 1649-1660
16. “The story and the novel, the idea (D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
and the form, are the needle and
thread, and I never heard of a guild William Caxton and the
of tailors who recommended the introduction of printing – 1575
use of the thread without the The King James Bible – 1627
needle, or the needle without the Dr. Johnson’s English
thread.” Dictionary – 1746
This famous passage describing the
The Commonwealth Period/
relation of idea to form is found in
the Protectorate – 1624-1660
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An
Apology for Poetry
(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
Biographia Literaria (A) a Great War veteran
(C) Henry James, “The Art of
(B) a Dublin bar owner
Fiction”
(D) I.A. Richards, Principles of (C) a Jewish advertising agent
Literary Criticism (D) an Irish nationalist
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19. “Late capitalism”, by which is 21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is
meant accelerated technological often used as an umbrella term to
development and the massive include other figures of speech
extension of intellectually qualified such as metonyms which can be
labour, was first popularised by technically distinguished from it in
______. its narrower usage.
(A) Terry Eagleton Identify the metaphorical phrase in
this sentence :
(B) Ernst Mandel
(A) narrower usage
(C) Raymond Williams
(B) technically distinguished
(D) Stanley Fish
(C) figures of speech
(D) umbrella term
20. Which of the following
arrangements is in the correct
chronological sequence ? 22. Along the shore of silver streaming
Thames;
(A) Native Son by Richard
Whose rutty bank, the which his river
Wright – Invisible Man by
hems,
Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes
Were Watching God by Zora Was painted all with variable flowers,
Neil Hurston – Another
…
Country by James Baldwin
Fit to deck maidens’ bowers
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching
God by Zora Neil Hurston – And crown their paramours
Native Son by Richard Against their bridal day, which is not
Wright – Invisible Man by long;
Ralph Ellison – Another
Country by James Baldwin Sweet Thames ! run softly till I end
my song.
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph
(Spenser’s Prothalamion)
Ellison – Native Son by
Richard Wright – Another Another poet fondly recalls these
Country by James Baldwin – lines but cannot conceal their heavily
Their Eyes Were Watching ironic tone in :
God by Zora Neil Hurston
(A) Marianne Moore’s “Spenser’s
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching Ireland”
God by Zora Neil Hurston – (B) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”
Another Country by James
Baldwin – Native Son by (C) W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of
Richard Wright – Invisible Limestone”
Man by Ralph Ellison (D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land
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23. The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit, 27. It is unimaginable that all the
The Caretaker, often travels under following events happened in one year :
an assumed name. It is
1. Arthur Evans discovered the
(A) Bernard Jenkins first European civilization;
(B) Roly Jenkins his excavations in Crete
revealed a culture that was
(C) Jack Jenkins
far older than either Attic
(D) Peter Jenkins Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
published the Oxford Book of
24. Here is a list of early English plays
English Verse.
imitating Greek and Latin plays.
Pick the odd one out : 3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the
Barcelona train at Gare d’
(A) Gorboduc
Orsay, Paris.
(B) Tamburlaine
4. Max Planck unveiled the
(C) Ralph Roister Doister Quantum Theory.
(D) Gammer Gurton’s Needle 5. Hugo de Vries identified
what would later come to be
called genes.
25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of
William Congreve’s Way of the 6. Sigmund Freud published
World open ? The Interpretation of
Dreams.
(A) A Chocolate-House
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
(B) A Pub
Identify the year :
(C) A Carrefour
(A) 1899 (B) 1900
(D) The drawing room of Sir
(C) 1901 (D) 1903
Willfull’s mansion
28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a
26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a
beggar if he be found worthy.
well-oiled bicycle” is an example
of Spoonerism, someone saying This is the epigraph to
“Congenital food” for ‘Continental (A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow
food’ is an example of ______. Men”
(A) Malaproprism (B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man
(B) Pleonasm Who Would be the King”
(C) Neologism (C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) Archaism (D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
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29. Robert Graves’s “In Broken 33. Match List – I with List – II
Images” ends thus : according to the code given below :
He in a new confusion of his List – I List – II
understanding; (Novels) (Last lines)
I in a new understanding of my i. Lord Jim 1. ‘It was done;
confusion. it was
The figure of speech here is finished. Yes,
_______. she thought
(A) Chiasmus (B) Catachresis laying down
(C) Inversion (D) Zeugma her brush in
extreme
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an fatigue, I
example of ________. have had my
vision.’
(A) pathetic fallacy
ii. To the 2. ‘April 27.
(B) hyperbole
Lighthouse Old father,
(C) pun old artificer,
(D) conceit stand me now
and ever in
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby,
good
the narrator Nick Carraway
stead…’
observes :
“They were careless people”. Who iii. A Passage 3. ‘He feels it
to India himself and
were they ?
says often
(A) Tom and Daisy that he is
(B) The Wilsons “preparing to
(C) Gatsby and his friends leave all this;
(D) The people of East Egg preparing to
leave,...”,
32. William Wordsworth’s statement while he
of purpose in publishing the Lyrical waves his
Ballads carries the following hands sadly
phrase. (Complete the phrase at his
correctly). butterflies.’
“to choose incidents from common iv. A Portrait 4. ‘ “No not
life and to relate or describe them, of the yet,” and the
throughout, as far as possible, Artist as a sky said,
______.” Young “No, not
(A) in a selection of language Man there”.’
really used by men. Codes :
(B) in a relation to language
i ii iii iv
really used by men.
(A) 2 4 3 1
(C) in a selection of language
really used by common man. (B) 3 2 4 1
(D) in deference to language (C) 3 1 4 2
actually used by men. (D) 2 3 1 4
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34. Identify the incorrect description/s 37. Which of the following poems by
of “Sprung Rhythm” from the Tennyson does NOT speak of old
following : age and death ?
1. This rhythm causes ideas to (A) “The Beggar Maid”
spring in our minds – hence (B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
Sprung Rhythm. (C) “Ulysses”
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet (D) “Tithonus”
are of equal length.
3. A foot may have one to four 38. One English poet addressing
syllables in Sprung Rhythm. another :
4. Its metre is derived from the Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt
metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry apart;
which was based on accent
Thou hast a voice whose sound was
and linked by alliteration.
like the sea:
(A) 4 is incorrect.
Pure as the naked heavens,
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
majestic, free,
(C) 3 is incorrect.
So didst thou travel on life’s
(D) 1 is incorrect.
common way,
In cheerful godliness… .
35. Who among the following proposes
Whose lines are these ? To whom
that the unconscious comes into
are they addressed ?
being only in language ?
(A) Sigmund Freud (A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) Jacques Lacan (B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) Stuart Hall (C) William Wordsworth – John
(D) Paul de Man Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William
36. The Elizabethan Settlement Shakespeare
established during the reign of
Elizabeth I 39. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets
I. ensured the supremacy of the (1781) was originally a series of
Church of England. introductions to the poets he wrote
II. allowed Christians to for a group of London publishers.
acknowledge the authority of They were collected as :
the Pope. (A) Lives of English Poets :
III. allowed the extremer Critical and Biographical
Protestants to be part of the Essays.
Anglican church. (B) Prefaces, Biographical and
IV. created a group known as the Critical, to the Works of
Roundheads. English Poets.
The correct combination according (C) Notes, Biographical and
to the code is : Critical, on the Works of
(A) I and III are correct. English Poets.
(B) I and II are correct. (D) Lives of English Poets :
(C) II and III are correct. Biographical and Critical
(D) III and IV are correct. Notes.
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40. Which of the following is NOT 43. Steeling herself to the murder,
mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to
‘generic plots’ ? “unsex me here”. (Macbeth I.5.39)
Choose the right option to fill in the
(A) The comic blank :
(B) The tragic (A) God
(B) the spirits of hell
(C) The lyric (C) the angels in heaven
(D) The ironic (D) no one in particular
44. You will find the following lines in
41. Arrange the sections of The Waste an English poem :
Land in the order in which they Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
appear in the poem : Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
1. The Fire Sermon Of Humber would complain.
Which poem ? Who is the poet ?
2. Death by Water
(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
3. A Game of Chess (B) “Holy Thursday.” William
Blake
4. What the Thunder Said
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra
5. The Burial of the Dead Banerjee Divakaruni
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4 (D) “To His Coy Mistress.”
Andrew Marvell
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4 45. Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .sa The world should listen then, as I
am listening now.
(A) Dryden’s Absalom and
Whose lines are these ? To whom
Achitophel are they addressed ?
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the (A) John Keats. The Nightingale
World (B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Wye Valley
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ (D) Robert Browning. The
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46. Match List – I with List – II 49. Who among the following gave a
according to the code given below : happy ending to King Lear ?
List – I List – II
(A) James Quin
(Novel) (Major
symbol)
(B) Nahum Tate
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog
ii. The Return of 2. train (C) Peg Woffington
the Native
(D) Charles Macklin
iii. Bleak House 3. heath
iv. Tess 4. mist
Codes :
50. Jane Austen’s Pride and
i ii iii iv
Prejudice starts with the
(A) 2 3 1 4 famous statement : “It is a truth
(B) 4 2 3 1 universally acknowledged that a
(C) 2 3 4 1 single man in possession of a
good fortune must be in want of a
(D) 1 3 4 1
life.”
47. The following postmodernist novel As we get to read the novel this
has an unusual protagonist whose statement seems to be made from
gender is not revealed. So much so, the point of view of :
that we keep wondering whether
that person’s relationships are I. the surrounding families
homo-/hetero-sexual :
(A) The French Lieutenant’s II. Mrs Bennet
Woman
(B) English Music III. Mr Bennet
(C) Written on the Body IV. The women of Jane Austen’s
(D) Enduring Love age and society
Find out the correct combination
48. Which novel of Graham Greene in
according to the code :
the following list does NOT end in
some form of suicide by the
protagonist ? (A) I, II and III are correct.
(A) The Heart of the Matter (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(B) England Made Me
(C) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory (D) I, III and IV are correct.
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UGC - NET EXAM DECEMBER 2013 (GRIEVANCES)
KEYS - PAPER 2
Subject (30 ) ENGLISH
Qno Answer
1 C
2 D
3 A
4 A
5 B
6 C
7 C
8 D
9 A
10 B
11 C
12 C
13 AB
14 C
15 B
16 C
17 B
18 C
19 B
20 B
21 CD
22 D
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 A
27 B
28 B
29 A
30 A
31 A
32 A
33 C
34 D
35 B
36 A
37 A
38 C
39 B
40 C
41 D
42 C
43 B
44 D
45 B
46 A
47 C
48 B
49 B
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