A Set of
26 Objective Questions & Answers
UGC NET
ENGLISH QUESTION BANK
2. The source of E.M Forster’s title Where Angels Fear to Tread is Pope. (Pope’s An Essay On Criticism – ‘Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread’)
3. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre cannot hold” occur
in Yeats' Second
Coming.
4. The ‘Movement’ is a literary phenomenon in the forties. Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
4. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is
not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own” appears in : Kanthapura
5. Garcia Marquez counts powerful men, including
Cuban President Fidel Castro, among his closest friends. Notably, the Autumn
of the Patriarch is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel written in 1975.
6. Buchi Emecheta,
Nigerian writer, whose works explore the joys
and sorrows of African women as they struggle with patriarchal dominance,
neocolonialism, economic exploitation, and racism. However, She did not receive the Noble Prize.( Noble Prize recipient -
Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordiner, Doris Lessing)
7. John Donne ‘affects the metaphysics’. This remark was made
by John Dryden.
8. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination
all compact”. These lines occur in A
Midsummer Night’s dream. In Act V, Theseus
remarks “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of imagination all compact”.
9. Alexander’s Feast
is an Ode by Dryden.
10. Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions) “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged;
life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the
beginning of consciousness to the end.” – Modern
Fiction Virginia Woolf
11. The phrase ‘Sweetness and Light’ was first used by Swift
in
The Battle of the Books.
12. Margaret Laurence (1926-1987),
Canadian writer’s chief
concern, the development of women's characters as they struggle for
self-realization in a male-dominated world, is explored in such novels as This
Side Jordan (1960); The Stone Angel (1964); A Jest of God
(1966)—which formed the basis of the film Rachel, Rachel (1968); The
Fire Dwellers (1969); and Heart of a Stranger (1977). Subsequently,
she turned to the writing of stories for children. Laurence's special interest
in Africa, where she lived for a time after her marriage, is revealed in A
Tree for Poverty (1954), a collection of Somali poems and tales, and Long
Drums and Cannons (1968), a critical study of Nigerian literature.
13. The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in :
Hanuman House..Naipaul’s other novels are, The Mystic Masseur
(1957), The Suffrage of Elvira (1958), and Miguel Street (1959). his
best-known novel, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), is about an Anglicized
Indian’s attempt to assert his own identity and establish his independence in a
Creole world. The protagonist is based on the author’s father. Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
14. The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of
the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” appears in : Biographia Literaria
15. “Fearful Symmetry” appears in the poem: The Tyger.
American-born English poet and critic 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.” Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
16. “Negative
Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,
mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
English poet.
Letter to
George and Thomas Keats
17. Prose-writer Gibbon does not belong to the Romantic Period.
18. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and Wickham eloped to Gretna Green. Though Lydia and Wickam decided to go to
Gretna Green, they went to London instead.
19. The epigraph
of The Waste Land is borrowed from Petronius.
20. Allen Tate
(1899-1979), American poet and literary critic, one of the young writers at
Vanderbilt University in the 1920s who called themselves the “Fugitives” called
The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’.
21. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal
City’ in the first and third sections from
Baudelaire.
22. Myths of
Oedipus, Grail Legend of Fisher King, and Philomela figure
in The Waste Land. (Sysyphus) Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
23. Joe
Gargery is Pip’s guardian. The orphaned Philip Pirrip,
who calls himself Pip, was raised by his harsh sister Mrs. Joe
and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a
blacksmith.
24. Vanity Fair has the sub-title ‘A Novel without
a Hero’. The title is borrowed
from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, in which Vanity Fair is a
town that exists for the purpose of diverting men and women from the road to
heaven. Thackeray transports Vanity Fair to London in the early 1800s.
25. John Ruskin’s
Unto This Last influenced Mahatma
Gandhi.
26. Graham
Greene’s novels are marked by Catholicism.
Ref: 1. History of English Literature- Albert
2. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
3. UGC NET OLD QUESTION PAPERS
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