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...: UGC- NET Model Test Paper II 1. Which of the following does n...
...: UGC- NET Model Test Paper II 1. Which of the following does n...
UGC- NET Model Test Paper II
1. Which
of the following does not have a frame narrative:
A. The
Canterbury Tales
B. The
Bible
C. Wuthering
Heights
D. Frankenstein
2. The
source of The Canterbury Tales
A. The
Decameron
B. The
Arabian Nights
C. The
Panchatantra
D. Both
A and B
3. 1920s
are sometimes referred as The Jazz Age. It is also known by another name. What
is the name:
A. Lost
Generation
B. Harlem
Renaissance
C. Age
of Transcendentalism
D. Age
of Liberalism
4. Which
of the following does not belong to The Black Mountain Poets:
A. Kenneth
Koch
B. Charles
Olson
C. Robert
Creeley
D. Robert
Duncan
5. Pindar’s
odes are “ encomiastic” , that is they are written to:
A. Praise
someone
B. Commemorate
someone
C. Celebrate
someone’s marriage
D.
Persuade someone
6.
The etymological meaning of “Eclogue” is:
A. Pastoral
B. Romance
C. Selection
D. Herdsman
7. ‘Daddy’
is a poem by:
A. Kamla
das
B. Sarojini
naidu
C. Emily
Dicknson
D. Sylvia
Plath
8. Match
the following list:
Novels Setting
I.
Ivanhoe
1. Florence during the Renaissance
II.
Gone
with the Wind
2. Reign of Richard First
III.
War
and Peace 3. Georgia
during the Civil War
IV.
Romola
4. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia
Code:
I II III IV
A. 2
3 4 1
B. 3
1 2 4
C. 2 3 4 1
D. 2 4 1 3
9. The
first English lady to earn her living by her pen was a:
A. Elizabeth
Cary
B. Aphra
Behn
C. Mary
Wollstonecraft
D. Mary
Shelley
10.
John Ruskin is a:
A. Formalistic
Critic
B. Marxist
Critic
C. Social
Critic
D. Aesthetic
Critic
11.
“The
object of study in literary science is not literature but literariness, that
is, what makes a given a literary work” which of the followings book of Roman
Jakobson contains this sentence.
A.
Language
in literature
C. Phonological Studies
D. Six Lectures of Sound and
Meaning,
12.
Syntactic
Structures is
written by
A. Victor
Shklovsky
B. Rene
Wellek
C. Noam
Chomsky
D. David
Lodge
13.
Match the following list:
Concept Critics
I.
Julia Kristeva 1. Anxiety of authorship
II.
Sandra Gilbert 2. Anxiety of influence
III.
Harold Bloom 3. Anxiety of indianness
IV.
Meenakshi Mukharji 4.
Chora
Code:
I II III IV
A. 1
2 3 4
B. 4
3 4 1
C. 1
2 2 3
D. 4
1 2 3
14.
The
True Born Englishman was written by Daniel Defoe in 1701. Its
main concern was:
A. Against the acceptance of the foreign kings
B. To support the acceptance of foreign kings
C. To
support the parliament
D. Against
the parliament
15.
The complete title of Joseph Andrews(1742) is:
A. The
history of Joseph Andrews and his friends
B. The
adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friends
C. The
adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adam
D. The
history of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adam
16.
Divine Comedy is composed in :
A. Rime
Royal
B. Terza
Rima
C. Otava
Rima
D. Heroic
Quatrain
17.
Two
Greek terms dithyramb and phallic procession are related with two main genre of
Greek literature :
A. Tragedy
and epic poetry
B. Comic
satire and tragedy
C. Tragedy
and comedy
D. Epic
poetry and comedy
18.
Which
statement(s) below on the satire is/are inaccurate:
I.
In formal satire the satiric persona
speaks out in the first person
II.
Horatian and juvenalian satires are
formal satires
III.
Menippean satire is also known as Varronian
satire
IV.
Pope’s Moral Essays is an example of juvenalian satire.
A. I
& IV
B. III
& IV
C. ONLY
II
D. ONLY
IV
19.
Thomas
Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey(1818) has
some entertaining caricatures of Romantic poets. Which of the following poets
are caricatured?
A. Coleridge,
Byron and Shelley
B. Coleridge,
Byron and Wordsworth
C. Byron,
Wordsworth and Keats
D. Southey
,Coleridge and Shelley
20.
“Who could not win the mistress, wooed
the maid” which figure of speech is used in the given line:
A. Zeugma
B. Litotes
C. Metonymy
D. Metaphor
21.
Tragedy is taken after the Greek word ‘tragoidos’ in which there was only one
character in the beginning , what do we call that character:
A. Dancer
B. Imitator
C. Hypocrites
D. Performer
22.
Derek Walcott has written a number of
poems using Crusoe as a motif, and a witty radio and stage play in which the
roles of white master and black servant is reversed. The name of the play is:
A. Pantomime
23.
Which of the following statement about
the Things Fall Apart is incorrect:
A. It
seeks to tell the story of colonial counter in Nigeria
B . it is a written and very literary commemoration of an oral culture
B. It
is a rewriting of Joyce Cary’s MR.
Johnson
C. The
heroin of the novel is Umuofia
24.
Which one of the following work is not a
rewriting of Conrad’s Heart of arkness:
A. Nandine
Gordimer’ the African Magician
B. Ama
Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Kill Joy
C. Ngugi’s
A Grain of Wheet
D. Walcott’s
the Castaway
25.
“
Coloumbus and Crusoe” is an essay by:
A. J
M Coetzee
B. V. S. Naipaul
C. Dereck
Walcott
26.
Shiva trilogy does not include:
A. The
immortals of Meluha
B. The
Oath of Vayu Putras
C. The
Secret of Nagas
D. The
Empire of Suryawanshi
27.
Which of the following is not a feature
of Epic Theatre:
A. Narration
B. Turns
the spectator into an Observer
C. Arouses
capacity for action
D. Complex
plot
28.
Which one of the following is not an epistolary novel:
A.
A S Byatt’s Possession
B. Alice
Walker’s The Color Purple
C. Max
Ophulus’s Letter from an Unknown Woman
D. John
Barth’s Letters
29.
The
Pardoner’s tale is a representative example of :
A. exemplum
B. fabliau
C. Parable
D. Apologue
30.
‘Yet Malice never was
his aim/he lashed the vice but spared the name/ his satire points at no defect’
who is the referred satirist:
A. Pope
B. Addison
C. Dryden
D. Swift
31.
Free verse has been described as
‘Playing tennis without a net’ by:
A. Emily
Zola
B. T
S Eliot
C. Robert
frost
D. W
H Auden
32.
Genre
criticism begins with Aristotle who divided literature into three basic
categories of :
A. Lyric,
epic and dramatic
B. Comic,
epic and dramatic
C. Mythic
mimetic romantic
D. Tragic,
comic and epic
33.
a
form of light verse consisting of five anapestic lines rhyming aa bb a. The
vogue for it was created in 1846 when the humorist Edward Lear included
examples in his Book of Nonsense. The
literary form is:
A. limerick
B. list
poem
C. lay
D. legend
34.
“Shakespeare
and the Exorcists” is an essay by Greenblatt who belongs to new historicism. The essay is
centered on:
A. King
Lear
B. A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
C. Hamlet
D. Julius
Caesar
35.
Which
one of the following describes the best of New Humanism
A. It
is against the dominance of scientific thought and modern skepticism
B. It
depreciated the classics for their moral seriousness
C. Basically
it was a political movement but later it turned into aestheticism
D. It
describes a set of attitudes and beliefs triggered by the renaissance interest
in the literature and thought of Greece and Rome
36.
“…for poetry the idea is everything; the rest
is the world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to
the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its
unconscious poetry.” These ideas are expressed in:
A. T
S Eliot’s Three Voices of Poetry
B. F
R Levis’s The Great Tradition
C. Matthew
Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
D. Matthew
Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
37.
“The mind is its own place, and in
itself/ can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”. Find the figure of speech
is in the couplet
A. Oxymoron
B. Antithesis
C. Metaphor
D. Zeugma
38.
“Without
language thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. There are no pre-existing ideas,
and nothing is distinct before the appearance of language” Who is the
progenitor of this idea:
A. Noam
Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. McArthur
D. Derrida
39.
Which novel of Thomas Hardy has happy
ending.
A.
Jude
the Obscure
B.
Under
the Greenwood Tree
40.
Georgian
poets published five volumes of poetry between 1912 and 1922 to experiment and
create fresh approach to the art. Which one of the following is not Georgian
poet?
A. Rupert
Brooke
B. W.
H. Davies
C. Robert
Graves
D. Philip
Larkin
41.
Which one of the following is untrue
about meta theatre:
A. The
term was coined by Bertolt Brecht
B. It
focuses on the Dramatic consciousness of its characters
C. It
represents the modern alternative to tragedy
D. The
earliest example of meta theatre is Shakespeare’s Hamlet
42.
“
As a woman I have no country, as a woman I want no country” this statement is
from Virginia Woolf’s
A.
Three
Guineas
B.
To
the Light House
C.
Judith
Shakespeare
D. A
Room of One’s Own
43.
(
A)-Gender themes in post colonial writing includes issues such as identity,
marriage, Racism and Sexism.
(B)- Post colonial writings are
basically the retrieval of women’s literary and other text.
A. Both
are correct
B. Only
A is correct
C. Only
B is correct
D. Both
are incorrect
44.
The
word ‘Beloved’ in the novel Beloved stands for:
A. For
a daughter
B. For
a servant
C. For
a city
D. For
a house
45.
Which
of following statements are not correct in the context new historicism:
I.
New historicists developed the idea of a
broad totalizing function of culture observable in literary text
II.
New historicism frequently borrows the
terminology from the market place: exchange negotiation and circulation of
ideas described.
III.
New historicism rejects the periodization
of history in favor of ordering history through the interplay of forms of
power.
IV.
New historicism itself is the form of
social oppression because it does not profess universal ideas
A. I
and IV
B. II
and IV
C. Only
IV
D. III
and IV
46.
A-
Every man has his distinctive mythology that may be reflected in legend,
folk lore and ideology.
R- Myths take their specific shapes from the
cultural environment in which they grow- myth is universal.
A. A
is correct and R is correct explanation
B. A
and R are correct but R is not correct explanation
C. Both
are incorrect
D. A
is correct while R is incorrect
47.
In one of his novel Mark Twain discusses
the issues of race and gender in America. The overall theme of freedom of the
individual against the oppressive society around is connected to the feminine
important ways. Which of the following novel discusses this theme?
A.
Tom
Sawyer
48.
Which
of the following is the correct chronological sequence
I.
Midnights Children
II.
Shame
III.
The Satanic Verses
IV.
The Enchantress of Florence
Code
A. I II III IV
B. III
I II IV
C. IV
II III I
D. II
III I IV
49.
Match the following meter with their
examples:
Meter Examples
I.
Iambic 1.And
the clean once are seldom so comical
II.
Anapestic 2. Good
queen, my lord, I say Good queen
III.
Trochaic 3. Life is but an empty dream
IV.
Spondaic 4.To
wake the soul but tender strokes of
heart
Code
I II
III IV
A. 2
1 4 3
B. 4
1 3 2
C. 3 4
1 2
D. 3
4 2 1
50.
Globe Theatre which was built on the
ashes of the Theater, went up into fire in 1613 during the performance of:
A. The
Tempest
B. The
Duchess of Malfi
C. The
White Devil
D. Henry
VIII
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