Sunday, 15 September 2013

                                     
                            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
B.     The Capeman
C.     Beef, No Chicken
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
D.   Nadine Gardimer  
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
D.     The Woodlanders
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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