UGC NET Solved Paper II; Subject -- English; June: 2012

Subject -- English; June: 2012; Paper – II

(ALL THE ANSWERS ARE COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS. WITHOUT SYLLOGISTIC FORMAT YOU NEED AN ELFIN TOWER TALL HEAD.)

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use

of the term :

(A) aporia

(B) difference

(D) supplement

(aporia :difficulty in establishing truth: a confusion in establishing the truth of a proposition)

2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?

(A) Harold Pinter

(B) Alan Bennett

(D) Tom Stoppard

(Tom Stoppard, born in 1937, English playwright, noted for his ingenious use of language and ironic political metaphors scripted for Shakespeare in Love (1998) which won an Academy Award for best original screenplay.)

3. Arrange the following in the chronological order:

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. French Revolution

4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2

(B) 3, 2, 1, 2

(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

( Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women: (1792), asserts that intellectual companionship is the ideal of marriage and pleads for equality of education and opportunity between the sexes.

Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated on a collection of their poetry and jointly published Lyrical Ballads in 1798.

French Revolution: French Revolution, major transformation of the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799.

Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry)

4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Ulysses

(D) Heart of Darkness

(The story opens as a nameless narrator aboard the cruising yawl Nellie, anchored in the Thames River in England, begins to relate secondhand the story of Charlie Marlow's river voyage in the Belgian Congo.)

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

(Irish Dramatic Movement: The Irish Renaissance, initiated in the late 19th century by the works of Yeats, reached its peak in the early years of the 20th century. Yeats himself continued to lead the movement, enriching the poetic symbolism of such dramas as At the Hawk's Well (1916) with inspiration from the Asian theater. John Millington Synge contributed more realistic dramas, drawing on life in the Irish countryside to produce major works of both tragedy and comedy, such as Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907), respectively. A number of secondary dramatists surrounded Yeats and Synge. Some specialized in realistic depictions of their native land, as did Lady Gregory with The Workhouse Ward (1908), and others developed symbolist themes, as, for example, Lord Dunsany with The Glittering Gate (1909). The leading Irish dramatist of the next generation, Sean O'Casey, turned from rural and mythic themes to serious though comic studies of urban Irish life, such as Juno and the Paycock (1924).)

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John

of Gaunt ?

(A) Troilus and Criseyde

(B) The House of Fame

(D) The Legend of Good Women

7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(A) Gorboduc

(B) Ralph Roister Doister

(D) Lamentable Tragedy

(Norton collaborated on Tragedy of Gorboduc with Thomas Sackville, writing the first three acts himself. The play, based on the chronicles of Great Britain, tells of the efforts of King Gorboduc to divide his kingdom between his two sons Ferrex and Porrex.)

8. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(D) Derek Walcott

(Austin Clarke: Irish writer

Judith Wright: Australian writer

Edwin Muir: the British writer

Derek Walcott: West Indian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate)

9. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on

another. Who were they ?

(A) Milton on Shakespeare

(B) Dryden on Milton

(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate ?

(A) Tony Morrison

(B) Seamus Heaney

(D) Geoffrey Hill

11. List – I List – II

I. “Because I could not stop

for death…” a. Robert

Frost

II. “O Captain !

My Captain!” b. William

Carlos Williams

III. “Two roads

diverged in a

wood….” c. Emily

Dickinson

IV. “So much depends

/upon”

d. Walt

Whitman

The correctly matched series would be :

(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a

(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d

(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

(A) comic

(B) solemn

(D) irony

(Jonathan Swift's “A Modest Proposal” published in 1729 is a powerful political satire about the economic and social conditions of the poor in Ireland under British rule. The essay is rich with references to political events in England and Ireland in the 18th century.)

13. I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the

word in italics ?

(A) bench

(B) night club

14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(A) Practical Criticism

(B)New Criticism

(D) Basic English Project

(New Criticism: method emphasizing detailed analysis of text: a movement between 1930 and 1970 in the study of literature, especially poetry, which examined its structure, imagery, and ambiguities, rather than its historical setting or the author's intent.
With the British psychologist and educator Charles Kay Ogden, Richards COMPOSED The Meaning of Meaning (1923), a modern study of semantics viewed from a historical and critical standpoint. Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), Science and Poetry (1926), and especially, Practical Criticism (1929) changed radically the way English is studied and taught. THESE work led to the New Criticism, which shaped literary analysis for much of the 20th century. HIS Basic English and Its Uses (1943), which proposed that the entire world adopt 850 English words to facilitate worldwide communication, EARNED a worldwide reputation. But which is correct option? B OR D)

15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?

(A) The Rivals

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(D) The Way of the World

(From the name of Mrs. Malaprop, a humorous character in the play The Rivals, derives the widely used term malapropism, meaning the absurd misapplication of a long word.)

16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.

II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.

III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.

IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

(A) I and II are true.

(B) II and III are true.

(D) III and IV are true.

17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes

(B) the Symbolists

(D) the Art Noveau School

(Art for art's sake-Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867) French philosopher.

Lecture at the Sorbonne, Paris.Du Vrai, du beau et du bien, "Cours de Philosophie")

18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) P. B. Shelley

(D) Lord Byron

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19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?

(A) Anthony Powell

(B) Evelyn Waugh

(D) Graham Greene

(Graham Greene (1904-1991): English novelist, worked for the London Times from 1926 to 1929 and then as a free-lance writer; In 1935 he was film critic for the Spectator, a British newspaper, and in 1940 he was named literary editor. From 1942 to 1943 he worked for the British Foreign Office in western Africa and after World War II (1939-1945) he traveled widely.)

21. List – I List – II

1. Good sense is

the body of

poetic genius

I. Brooks, “The

Formalist

Critic”

2. Poetry is the

breath and a

finer spirit of

all knowledge.

II. Sidney,

Defence/ An

Apology for

Poetry

3. Literary

criticism is a

description

and evaluation

of its object

III. Wordsworth,

Preface

to Lyrical

Ballads

4. Nature never

set forth the

earth in as rich

a tapestry as

diverse poets

have done

IV. Coleridge,

Biographia

Literaria

1 2 3 4

(A) IV III I II

(B) II IV III I

(D) IV II I III

22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of

his visit to India ?

(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It

(D) Following the Equator

(In 1895 Twain began a successful worldwide lecture tour. The tour and the book based on it is Following the Equator 1897.)

23. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and

“The Tyger” appear in

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Songs of Experience

(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

(William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) are his best-known works of poetry. T. S. Eliot wrote that Blake’s poetry in Songs of Experience and other writings contained “an honesty against which the whole world conspires because it is unpleasant.”)

24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens

and Scott ?

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(D) John Tennial

25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms

(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(D) The Newfound Land

(Note:)

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

(The Portrait of a Lady concerns a young American woman, Isabel Archer, who forms a friendship with an older woman, Madame Merle.)

27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a

departure from Standard English ?

(A) The typist scene

(B) The pub scene

(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

28. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done

quickly…” are uttered by

(A) Hamlet

(B) Lear

(D) Macbeth

(Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7)

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(D) comedy

(Absalom and Achitophel (1681-1682) and Mac Flecknoe (1682) are the most remarkable of Dryden's political satires. Among his other poetic works are noteworthy translations of Roman satirists and of the works of Virgil.)

30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) John Arden

(D) David Hare

(Harold Pinter is known for his so-called comedies of menace, which humorously and cynically depict people attempting to communicate as they react to an invasion or threat of an invasion of their lives.)

31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.

(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.

(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.

(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

32. What is the correct combination of the following?

I. BalachandraRajan

a. The Tamarind Tree

II. R. K. Narayan

b. The Coffer Dams

III. Kamala Markandaya

c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu

d. The Dark Room

(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b

(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c

(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirizes in his famous poem.

(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley

(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten

(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

(Mac Flecknoe (1682))

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West

Wind”)

(A) winter, spring

(B) autumn, summer

(D) spring, winter

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match

the lines and the works :

I. Let us go then, you and I…..

II. Call me Ishmael…..

III. When shall we three meet again ?

IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter

V. I wish either….begot me …..

a. Moby Dick

b. Macbeth

c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

d. Tristram Shandy

e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d

(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d

(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(D) Gorboduc

(In Volpone, or, The Fox (1605), Jonson mocks the way money can corrupt individuals.)

37. What is a neologism?

(A) A word with roots in a native language

(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use

(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism ?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation

(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are:

(A) Carbon, gold, silver and brass

(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond

(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending?

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie

(D) The Clockwork Orange

(John Fowles (1926-2005)’s The French Lieutenant's Woman is a love story with a fractured narrative structure, became his most renowned work. The book was also the basis for a hit movie released in 1981, for which British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay.)

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of

(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe

(D) Anti-climax

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.

(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.

(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(D) only patriarchy

44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(D) Thomas Gray

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(D) The French Revolution

(Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept a diary in a contemporary form of shorthand; it was deciphered and first published in part in 1825. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a modern 11-volume edition, which began publication in 1970, was completed in 1983.)

46. In a poem, a line may either be endstopped or

(A) rhymed

(B) broken

(D) run-on

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” ?

(A) Kamala Das

(B) R. Parthasarthy

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

48. Match the following :

I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell

III. Life of Johnson 3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of Poets 4. Richard Ellman

(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3

(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile

(B) image

(D) metonymy

50. An epilogue is

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.

(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.

(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.

UGC NET syllabus : Subject : English

Tips for UGC- NET English Examination

UGC NET Answer keys: SC30

Q01 A Q02 D Q03 A Q04 D Q05 A Q06 C Q07 A Q08 B Q09 C Q10 B Q11 D Q12 D Q13 B Q14 C Q15 A Q16 A Q17 A Q18 C Q19 A Q20 D Q21 A Q22 D Q23 B Q24 C Q25 A Q26 B Q27 B Q28 D Q29 B Q30 C Q31 C Q32 A Q33 C Q34 A Q35 A Q36 C Q37 C Q38 C Q39 C Q40 C Q41 C Q42 D Q43 C Q44 D Q45 A Q46 D Q47 D Q48 B Q49 D Q50 B

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Reference: Encarta, Wiki, Internet Archive, O.U.P. ,Cazamian, Louis. The Social Novel in England, 1830-1850: Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Kingsley. 1903. Translated by Martin Fido. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.

Comments

AnonymousOctober 16, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Question no. 13 answer is B and Q 14 answer is D. Please verify your answers before publishing them.
Ardhendu DeSeptember 5, 2013 at 8:35 AM
follow THE EXPLANATION COLORED. thanks
হ্যাংলার হাঁড়ি মা-দিদিমার রান্নাঘরেDecember 21, 2013 at 9:38 PM
Q no 10 is faulty as the writers of option A & B both are Nobel Laureates.Thank you
Ardhendu DeDecember 21, 2013 at 11:08 PM
You are right Amar, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992 for the publication of Jazz.
Thanks.

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