Date 08/09/2013

                                         UGC- NET Model Test Paper 1

1.     Philosophical Optimism is related to:

A.   Theocracy

B.   Religious poetry

C.   Theodicy

D.   Theology

2.     Haiku contains seventeen syllables. The order is :

A.   Five, seven and five syllables

B.   Seven, five and five syllables

C.   Five, six and six syllables

D.   Six five and five syllables

3.     Which one of the following is not a feature of graveyard poetry:

A.   Meditative poems

B.   Human immortality

C.   Elegiac pensiveness

D.   Human mortality

4.     Harlem renaissance belongs to:

A.   American writers

B.   African writers

C.   Afro-American writers

D.   American slave writers

5.     “Image is a picture made out of words and a poem may itself be an image composed from multiplicity of images”. This statement is from:

A.   C. D. Lewis’s Poetic Image

B.   Frank Kermode’s Romantic Image

C.   M. H. Abrams’s Mirror and Lamp

D.   I. A. Richards’s Practical Criticism

6.     The etymological meaning of “Meiosis” is:

A.   Hyperbole

B.   Understatement

C.   Exaggeration

D.   Metaphor

7.     ‘Hymn of Apollo’ is a poem by:

A.   John Keats

B.   P. B. Shelley

C.   Wordsworth

D.   Coleridge

8.     Match the following list:

           Writers                                Books

                               I.            W.K. Wimsatt           1. The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision

                            II.            Harold Bloom            2. The Modes Of Modern Writing

                         III.            Thomas Lodge            3. The Verbal Icon

                        IV.            George Meredith         4. Modern Love

Code:

I         II         III           IV

A.     2        3          4              1

B.    3         1          2              4

C.   3          2          1              4

D.   2         4           1              3

9.     ‘Sestina’ is a:

A.   Six line poem of six stanza

B.   Seven line poem of seven stanza

C.   A publication agency devoted to ecriture writings

D.   A type of Horatian Satire

10.                         Which one of the following is not written in Spenserian Staza:

A.   The Castle of Indolence

B.   The Eve of St Egnes

C.   Adonais

D.   Leda and Swan

11.                         Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub is a:

A.   Comedy of Manners

B.   A satire on religion

C.   A satire on political parties

D.   A satire on Whigs

12.                          The Pilgrims of Progress has been translated into:

A.   More than 50 languages

B.   More than 100 languages

C.   More than 200 languages

D.   More than 300 languages

13.                         Match the following list:

           Writers                                Books

                                           I.            Salman Rushdie          1. The Enchantress of Florence

                                        II.            V. S. Naipaul               2. The Middle Passage

                                     III.            Tony Morrison             3. The Bluest Eye

                                    IV.            William Dalrymple       4. City of Djinns

Code:

        I         II         III           IV

A.           1        2          3             4

B.          2        3          4              1

C.          1         2         4              3

D.          2          3         1              4

14.                         Bannatyne Club was founded in 1823 by:

A.    William Hazlitt

B.   De Quincy

C.   Walter Scott

D.   Wordsworth and Coleridge

15.                        Biographia Literaria was conceived as an explanatory preface to:

A.   Lyrical Ballads

B.   Sibylline Leaves

C.   Rime of the Ancient mariner

D.   Kubla Khan

16.                         Who was not included in Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians :

A.   Matthew Arnold

B.   Thomas Arnold

C.   Cardinal Manning

D.   Florence Nightingale

17.                         The New Biography and The Art of biography are essays by:

A.   James Joyce

B.   Henry James

C.   William James

D.   Virginia Woolf

18.                         The subtitle of Browning’s Pauline is:

A.   A Fragment of a Confession

B.   A Collection of Love poems

C.   A Fragment

D.   A Confession

19.                         Find odd one out:

A.   Paper Money Lyrics

B.   Four Ages of Poetry

C.   The Art of Sinking in Poetry

D.   Essays on Fashionable Literature

20.                        The Prologue to the Jew of Malta is spoken by:

A.   Shakespeare

B.   Marlowe

C.   Machevil

D.   Barbose

21.                        ‘Author’s Apology’ is a preface to:

A.    A Tale of a Tub

B.    Gulliver’s Travels

C.   Battle of Books

D.   The Left Bank

22.                         Gulliver meets yahoos at:

A.   Lilliput

B.   Houyhnhms

C.   Laputa

D.   Brobdingnag

23.                         The first circulating library was established in Edinburgh in:

A.   1617

B.   1716

C.   1817

D.   1718

24.                         Johnson’s  ‘London: A Poem is modeled on:

A.   Tenth satire of Juvenal

B.   Third satire of Juvenal

C.   Tenth satire of Horace

D.   Third satire of Horace

25.                         Recognize the person from the following description—A German dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize, admired and translated by James Joyce who gave him the epithet “a little immortal thing”--

A.   Gerhart Hauptman

B.   Heiner Müller

C.   Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein,

D.   August Adolf von Haugwitz

26.                         “Everything about that man is good except his poetry”, who commented on whom?

A.   William Blake on Byron

B.   Byron on William Blake

C.   Southey on Byron

D.   Byron on Southey

27.                        The British premier of Waiting for Godot was directed by:

A.   Samuel Becket

B.   Michael Hamburger

C.   Sir Peter Hall

D.   Charles Hamilton

28.                        J. G. Farrel’s Empire Trilogy comprises except:

A.   The Seige of Krishnapore

B.   Troubles

C.   The Tower of Silence

D.   The  Singapore Grip

29.                         The concept of intertextuality was first expressed by Julia kristeva in a journal that was also the ideological home of Avant-Garde and Poststructuralism. The name of the journal was:

A.   Adventurer

B.   Tel Quel

C.   The Criterion

D.   Scrutiny

30.                        In her novel Possession, A. S. Byatt wrote of one of her characters “------ did to Blackadder (the character) what he did to serious students: he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to or change it.” Who is the critic referred here?

A.   T. S. Eliot

B.   I.A. Richards

C.   F.R. Levis

D.   Roman Jakobson

31.                        Byron dedicated his Child Harold’s Pilgrimage to:

A.   Charlotte Bronte

B.   Charlotte Harley

C.   Robert Southey

D.   William Blake

32.                         A few of University wits were scholars of Oxford University and others of Cambridge University. Which of the following is not from Cambridge University—

A.   Christopher Marlowe

B.   Thomas Nash

C.   George Peele

D.   Robert Greene

33.                         The Unfortunate Traveller also known as The Life of Jack Wilton is the precursor of the picaresque novel. The novel is set during the reign of:

A.   Elizabeth I

B.   Henry VIII

C.   Henry V

D.   Henry VI

34.                         Keats defines his own poetic identity as a chameleon poet in the direct contrast to---

A.   Wordsworth

B.   Coleridge

C.   Shelley

D.   Spenser

35.                         ---- was written when the writer was in exile, recalls mediaeval rather than Renaissance thinking. It is a commonwealth in which the individual is the absolute subject of state control. What is the name of the book mentioned in the description?

A.   Paradise Lost

B.   The Leviathan

C.   Utopia

D.   The Castle of Otranto

36.                         Scansion is:

A.   A method of describing a poem by analyzing the meter and rhyme of its lines

B.   A method of research pedagogy

C.   A method of teaching pedagogy

D.   A research tool for analyzing a novel

37.                         In “No man is an island”-

A.   Island is tenor, man is vehicle

B.   Man is tenor, island is vehicle

C.   Both man and island are tenor

D.   Both man and tenor are vehicle

38.                        “Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace,defeat exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away…. These lines are extracted from—

A.   The Indian Camp

B.   The Indian Juggler

C.   Midnight’s Children

D.   A House for Mr Biswas

39.                         “Unconscious is structured like a language” whose statement is this?

A.   Freud

B.   Lucan

C.   Jung

D.   Lawrence

40.                         My trade is to flatter the dead, not the living; I am a ---- What is the business of Bosola?

A.   Grave digger

B.   Tomb maker

C.   Executioner

D.   None of these

41.                         Following lines are related to—

Nature is the apparition of god…the organ through which the universal speaks to the individual and strives to lead the individual back to it.

A.   Utilitarianism

B.   Universalism

C.   Transcendentalism

D.   Surrealism

42.                         The name of the Dickens’s novel that was condemned by T B Macaulay for its  ‘sullen socialism’ and admired by G B Shaw and F R Leavis is—

A.   Hard Times

B.   Bleak House

C.   Great Expectation

D.   A Tale of Two Cities

43.                         Oceania of the novel 1948 is divided into three parties. Which of the following in not a party?

A.   Inner Party

B.   Outer Party

C.   Proles

D.   Interior Party

44.                         1985 is a novel by—

A.   Anthony Trollope

B.   Anthony Burgess

C.   George Orwell

D.   George Lucus

45.                         Mrs Coleman was the first lady to act in a play. In which did she perform?

A.   Antony and Cleopatra

B.   The Siege of Rhodes

C.   Women Beware Women

D.   The Plain Dealer

46.                        Paradise Lost is dedicated to-

A.   Elizabeth Mynshull

B.   Mary Powel

C.   Katherine Woodcock

D.   Cromwell

47.                        The alternate title of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Traveller was-

A.   Vicar of the Wakefield

B.   A Prospect of Society

C.   A Gentleman

D.   The Citizen of the World

48.                         The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is divided into—

A.   18

B.   19

C.   20

D.   17

49.                          Match the following Characters and novels

Character                                                     Novel

I.                   Saraswati Chandra Ranbaxi           1.And the Mountains Echoed

II.                 Pari Wahdati                                  2.   Wolf Hall

III.             Stephen Gardiner                           3. The Finkler Question

IV.            Julian Treslove                                4.The Tailor’s Needle

Code

                I       II       III        IV

A.        2       1        4          3

B.       4        1         2           3

C.       4        1        3            2

D.       1       2        3             4        

50.                         Ellioner and Marianne was rewritten as

A.   Pride and Prejudice

B.   Emma

C.   Sense and Sensibility

D.   Mansfield Park