UGC NET English Solved Question Paper Dec. 2012 Paper-2
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UGC NET English Solved Paper Dec. 2012 Paper-2
1. Identify the work
below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of
Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot
Answer: (A)
2. Which, among the
following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of
Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of
Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
Answer: (B)
3. The period of Queen
Victoria’s reign is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900
Answer: (B)
4. Which of the
following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one
ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(B) It also carried
pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a
“Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from
Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
Answer: (D)
5. One of the following
texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the
Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the
Less Deceived
(C) William Empson,
Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket,
Waiting for Godot
Answer: (C)
6. Who among the poets
in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra
Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis
MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H.
Davies, Edward Marsh
Answer: (C)
7. Match the following:
1. The Sage of Concord
5. Emily Dickinson
2. The Nun of Amherst
6. R.W. Emerson
3. Mark Twain
7. T.S. Eliot
4. Old Possum
8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
Answer: (A)
8. Name the theorist who
divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of
misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
Answer: (B)
9. In the Rape of the
Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose
Answer: (A)
10. Which of the
following awards is not given to Indian–English writers?
(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi
Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize
Answer: (C)
11. Identify the correct
statement below:
(A) Gorboduc is a
comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a
tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s
Needle are comedies.
(C) All of them are
problem plays.
(D) All of them are
farces.
Answer: (B)
12. W.M. Thackeray’s
Vanity Fair owes its title to
(A) Browning’s Fifine at
the Fair
(B) Shakespeare’s
Merchant of Venice
(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of
Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress
Answer: (D)
13. The Puritans shut
down all theatersin England in
(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660
Answer: (A)
14. Who of the following
was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
Answer: (D)
15. Which of the
following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
1. It carries a
subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle:
“a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
3. It carries a
subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
4. It does not carry a
subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1
Answer: (D)
16. The Bloomsbury Group
included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the
following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes,
Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger
Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty,
Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry
James, Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
Answer: (A)
17. Who, among the
following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of
the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B)
18. In Dryden’s Essay of
Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
Answer: (B)
19. The term invective
refers to
(A) The abusive writing
or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) An insulting writing
attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and
ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken
text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in
its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or
reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
Answer: (A)
20. Which of the
following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East
London?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
Answer: (D)
21. The year 1939 proved
to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct
phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died,
for Auden who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who
started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and
Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won
the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
Answer: (A)
22. The Enlightenment
was characterized by
(A) Accelerated
industrial production and general well–being of the public.
(B) A belief in the
universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work
ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in
predestination and neglect of free will.
Answer: (B)
23. Which Shakespearean
play contains the line: “...there is a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow”?
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth
Answer: (B)
24. Match the following
pairs of books and authors:
Books
Authors
I. Condition of the
Working Class in England
i. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and
the London Poor
ii. Henry Mayhew
III. Past and Present
iii. Thomas Carlyle
IV. Theunto This Last
iv.
Friedrich Engels
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
(C) ii iv i ii
(D) iii ii iv iv
Answer: (B)
25. In which of the
following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s
Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s
Caretaker
(C) Katherine
Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s
Brighton Rock
Answer: (B)
26. What is common to
the following writers? Identify the correct description below:
William Congreve
George Etherege
William Wycherley
Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were
Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were
critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited
Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote
tragedies in the same age
Answer: (A)
27. In which Jane Austen
novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove
and Captain Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey
Answer: (C)
28. In which of his
essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for
Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment
to Theory”
Answer: (A)
29. ______was the first
Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s
Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s
Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s
Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s
Idea’s Mirror
Answer: (A)
30. Which is the correct
sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul?
(A) The Mystic
Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The
Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of
Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur –
The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr. Biswas.
Answer: (D)
31. “Kubla Khan” takes
an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’
Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the
Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s
Utopia
Answer: (A)
32. Which of the following
author– theme is correctly matched?
(A) The Battle of the
Books- Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the
Lock- Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s
“Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and
values.
(D) The Deserted
Village- Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
Answer: (A)
33. Which among the
following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to
Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music
of Time
Answer: (C)
34. In which play do we
see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
Answer: (C)
35. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) Do not carry a
dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to
James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to
Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an
unknown “Mr. W.H.”
Answer: (D)
36. Which of the
following poems uses terzarima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to
a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode
to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s
“The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s
“Ulysses”
Answer: (B)
37. When one says that
“someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her last”, the speaker
is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism
Answer: (D)
38. Which of the
following are “companion poems”?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and
“Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II
Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow”
and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five”
and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”
Answer: (B)
39. What does the term
episteme signify?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
Answer: (A)
40. Which of the
following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture
Answer: (B)
41. Whom did Keats
regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (C)
42. Charles Dickens’s A
Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of
times; it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest
of times; it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest
of times; it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest
of times; it was the saddest of times.
Answer: (A)
43. The works of Gerard
Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
Answer: (C)
44. Which of the following
is the correct chronological sequence?
(A) A Poison Tree – The
Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village
– A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel
– A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village
– The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
Answer: (B)
45. The term homology
means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following
developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in
terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Answer: (A)
46. F. Turner’s famous
hypothesis is that
(A) The Frontier has
outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has
posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has
been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) The Frontier has
been the one great deterrent to American progress.
Answer: (C)
47. Which statement(s)
below on the Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?
I. A quatrain, unrhymed,
but alliterative
II. A stanza of four
lines in iambic pentameter
III. An eight–line
stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. An eight–line stanza
with six use of figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic
pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Answer: (D)
48. Match the following
texts with their respective themes:
I. Areopagitica
(Milton)
i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
III. Alexander’s Feast
(Dryden)
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The World
(Congreve) iv. The power of
music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer: (B)
49. The preliminary
version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of
Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Answer: (A)
50. (i) A pastiche is a
mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished
from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also
known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given
to an elevated style, especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are
correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are
correct.
(D) Only (iv) is
correct.
Answer: (A)
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