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41.

The Citizen of the World is written by ..................... .

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2025, SET Exam - 2025,

Answer: D

The Citizen of the World was written by Oliver Goldsmith.

Goldsmith's series of letters, first published in a periodical in 1760-61 and collected in 1762, purports to be written by a Chinese philosopher, Lien Chi Altangi, visiting London. The outsider's view lets Goldsmith satirise English manners and society.

Samuel Johnson wrote Rasselas and The Rambler, Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveller, and Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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42.

A periodical The Rambler, as imitation of The Spectator, was started by .............

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MH SET - 2025, SET Exam - 2025,

Answer: D

The Rambler was started by Samuel Johnson.

Johnson wrote and published The Rambler twice a week from 1750 to 1752, over 200 essays on morality, literature and society, following the model of the periodical essay that Addison and Steele had established in The Spectator (1711-12).

Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele founded The Spectator and The Tatler themselves, and Alexander Pope was a poet, not the editor of a periodical of this kind.

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43.

Whose essays are called 'infinite riches in a little room' ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2025, SET Exam - 2025,

Answer: C

The phrase is applied to the essays of Francis Bacon.

'Infinite riches in a little room' is a line from Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, where Barabas describes his jewels. Critics have borrowed it for Bacon's Essays (1597-1625), whose short pieces pack great wisdom into very few words.

Marlowe wrote the line but it does not describe his own work, and the essays of Thomas Nashe and Charles Lamb are not the ones the phrase is used for; Lamb's Essays of Elia are prized for their personal, whimsical charm rather than compression.

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44.

Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The work that does not belong to the eighteenth century is Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, which appeared in 1605 and so belongs to the Jacobean period at the start of the seventeenth. Swift's Gulliver's Travels came out in 1726, The Spectator was published by Addison and Steele in 1711-12 and 1714, and Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot dates from 1735. All three of those are works of the eighteenth century, which leaves Bacon's treatise as the odd one out. The Advancement of Learning is a prose work on the state of knowledge and its reform, and it forms part of Bacon's plan for the Great Instauration.

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45.

Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ?

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Samuel Johnson compiled A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, the first authoritative dictionary of English, which he produced over about nine years with a few assistants. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher, Edmund Burke a statesman and political thinker, and Horace Walpole a letter-writer and author of The Castle of Otranto. The answer is Samuel Johnson. The work was later extended and revised by Johnson, and its famous definitions, such as the one of 'lexicographer' as a harmless drudge, show his wit.

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46.

Match the following pairs of books and authors :

BooksAuthors
I. Condition of the Working Class in Englandi. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and the London Poorii. Henry Mayhew
III. Past and Presentiii. Thomas Carlyle
IV. The Unto This Lastiv. Friedrich Engels

Codes :
I II III IV

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Friedrich Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). Henry Mayhew wrote London Labour and the London Poor (1851). Thomas Carlyle wrote Past and Present (1843), and John Ruskin wrote Unto This Last (1860). So I goes with iv, II with ii, III with iii and IV with i, which gives the code 'iv ii iii i'. The other codes pair Ruskin or Mayhew with the wrong works, and the last code repeats iv.

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47.

Match the following texts with their respective themes :

I. Areopagitica (Milton)i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing
III. Alexander's Feast (Dryden)iii. Absolute sovereignty
IV. The Way of the World (Congreve)iv. The power of music

Codes :
I II III IV

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

The correct match is I-ii, II-iii, III-iv, IV-i. Milton's Areopagitica (1644) is a plea for the liberty of unlicensed printing. Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) argues for absolute sovereignty. Dryden's Alexander's Feast is an ode on the power of music, and Congreve's The Way of the World (1700) is a comedy of fashion, courtship and seduction. This gives the code ii iii iv i.

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48.

Which of the following book by V.S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited ?

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The book subtitled The Caribbean Revisited is The Middle Passage, V.S. Naipaul's 1962 account of his journey through Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica, in the editions that carry that subtitle.

In a Free State (1971) is a Booker Prize winning set of linked narratives about Africa and the West, A Bend in the River (1979) is a novel set in a post-colonial African country, and An Area of Darkness (1964) is his first travel book on India. None of these has the Caribbean subtitle.

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49.

The following words and phrases, 'peace makers', 'help-meet', 'the fat of the land', 'a labour of love', 'the eleventh hour' and 'the shadow of death' were made current by

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

These phrases, peacemakers, helpmeet, the fat of the land, a labour of love, the eleventh hour and the shadow of death, came into common English through the sixteenth and early seventeenth-century translators of the Bible, from Tyndale and Coverdale to the King James Version of 1611.

Roger Ascham was a Tudor scholar and tutor, the fifteenth-century prelates wrote in Latin and not in this idiom, and the Puritan tractarians did not make these phrases current. The Bible translators did.

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50.

Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

The correct order is Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge (1798), and the second edition of Lyrical Ballads with the Preface (1800).

The other options place the Vindication before Burke's Reflections, to which it was partly a reply (her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Men answered Burke), or put the second edition of Lyrical Ballads before the first edition.

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