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UGC NTA-NET/JRF ENGLISH Solved Papers Also Useful for Other State Level Competitions SLET/SET/CRET/RET/PSC/PGT Chief Editor A. K. Mahajan Compiled and Edited by UGC English Exam Expert Team Editorial Office 12, Church Lane Prayagraj -211002 Mob. : 9415650134 Email : [email protected] website : www.yctbooks.com/ www.yctfastbooks.com  All Rights Reserved with Publisher Publisher Declaration Edited and Published by A.K. Mahajan for YCT Publication Pvt. Ltd. and printed by Roop Printing Press, Prayagraj. In order to Publish the book, full care has been taken by the Editor and the Publisher, still your suggestions and queries are welcomed. Rs. : 795/- In the event of any dispute, the Judicial area will be Prayagraj.  CONTENT University Grant Commision (UGC) NTA NET ENGLISH UGC NTA NET/JRF ENGLISH Exam New Syllabus ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English December 2004 Solved Paper II --------------------------------------------------- 4-8 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English June 2005 Solved Paper II --------------------------------------------------------- 9-13 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English December 2005 Solved Paper II ------------------------------------------------ 14-18 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English June 2006 Solved Paper II ------------------------------------------------------- 19-22 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English December 2006 Solved Paper II ------------------------------------------------ 23-27 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English June 2007 Solved Paper II ------------------------------------------------------- 28-32 UGC NET/JRF Exam, English December 2007 Solved Paper II 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Unit –I : Drama Unit –II : Poetry Unit –III : Fiction, short story Unit –IV : Non-Fictional Prose NOTE : The first four units must also be tested through comprehension passages to assess critical reading, critical thinking and writing skills. These four units will cover all literatures in English. Unit –V : Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in Use. Unit –VI : English in India: history, evolution and futures Unit –VII : Cultural Studies Unit –VIII : Literary Criticism Unit –IX : Literary Theory post World War II Unit –X : Research Methods and Materials in English 3  UGC NET/JRF Exam, December-2004 ENGLISH Solved Paper-II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective 5. Which of the following plays has a type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Machiavellian hero? Attempt all questions. (a) Tamburlaine Part I (b) Dr. Faustus 1. In Langland's 'Piers the Plowman' Piers (c) Jew of Malta (d) Edward II appears finally as : Ans : (c) “The Jew of Malta” is a play by Christopher (a) Charity (b) The Holy Trinity Marlowe probably written in 1589 or 1590. Plot is an (c) Jesus (d) The Good Samaritan original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and Ans : (d) “Piers Plowman” (written in 1370-90) is a revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire, in Langland. It is considered by many critics to be one of the Mediterranean that takes place on the Island of the greatest works of English Literature of the Middle Malta. The character Barabas is described in the play’s Ages, along with Chaucer’s 'Canterbury Tales' and the prologue as “a sound Machiavil” which means he is extremely Machiavellian. anonymously authored Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 6. Which of the following is written by Samuel 2. It was decided that each Canterbury pilgrim Butler? would tell in all : (a) Religio Laici (a) One story (b) Two stories (b) David Simple (c) Three stories (d) Four stories (c) Hudibras (d) Journal of the Plague Year Ans : (d) “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Ans : (c) “Hudibras” is an English mock heroic poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler. Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. In this Chaucer himself is one of the pilgrims. That evening the host of 7. Which of the following poems did Milton write the Tabard Inn suggested that each member of the group in Octosyllabic Couplets? tell tales on the way to and from Canterbury in order to (a) IL Penseroso make the time pass more pleasantly. (b) "On His Blindness" 3. 'Venus and Adonis' is a long narrative poem by : (c) "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" (d) Lycidas (a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Drayton (d) Sydney Ans : (a) “IL Penseroso” is a vision of poetic melancholy by John Milton first found in the 1645-1646 Ans : (a) “Venus and Adonis” is a poem by quarto of verses “The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both Shakespeare written in 1592-1593, with a plot based on English & Latin” published by Humphrey Moseley. passages from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'. It is a 8. Which of the following plays in not written by complex Kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting zone and perspective to present contrasting views of the Congreve? nature of love. (a) The Way of the World (b) The Old Bachelor 4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare's (c) Love for Love 'Sonnets' is : (d) The Relapse (a) 123 (c) 104 Ans : (d) “The Relapse” or virtue in danger is a (b) 142 (d) 154 restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Ans : (d) Shakespeare’s 'Sonnets' is the title of a Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber’s collection of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare, which covers “Love’s Last Shift,” or “The Fool in Fashion.” themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and 9. Dryden's 'All for Love' is an adaptation of: morality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young (a) Philaster (b) Romeo and Juliet man; the last 28 to a dark lady. (c) Antony and Cleopatra (d) Edward II UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2004 4 YCT Ans : (c) “All For Love” or the "World Well Lost" is a 14. Pope's 'An Essay on Man' is based on the ideas heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. It is an of : acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s 'Antony and (a) Lord Petrie (b) Theobald Cleopatra', and focuses on the last hours of the lives of (c) Lord Bolingbroke (d) Lord Harvey its hero and heroine. Ans : (c) "The Essay on Man" is a philosophical 10. Which of the following books proposes a poem, written, characteristically, in heroic couplets, and political theory? published between 1732 and 1734, written by (a) Principia Alexander Pope. The “Essay” consists of four epistles, (b) Leviathan addressed to Lord Bolingbroke, and derived, to some (c) Antony and Melancholy extent, from some of Bolingbroke’s own fragmentary (d) Liberty of Prophesying philosophical writing. Ans : (b) “Leviathan” is a book written by Thomas 15. Which of the following works by Johnson is an Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651. Its name imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal? derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns (a) London the structure of society and legitimate government. (b) Vanity of Human Wishes 11. Which of the following books is written by a (c) The Life of Savage woman? (d) Rasselas (a) A Vindication of the Rights of Women Ans : (b) 'The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth (b) Social Contract Satire of Juvenal Imitated' is a poem by the English (c) A Treatise of Human Nature author Samuel Johnson written in 1749, it was the first (d) The Wealth of Nations published work to include Johnson’s name on title page. Ans : (a) 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' 16. The final version of Wordsworth's 'The (1792), written by the 18th century British philosopher Prelude' appeared in : Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of (a) 1798 (b) 1806 feminist philosophy. (c) 1850 (d) 1860 12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Ans : (c) “The Prelude or Growth of a poet’s Mind"; is Swift is a religious allegory? an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English (a) The Battle of the Books poet William Wordsworth intended as the introduction (b) A Modest Proposal to the more philosophical 'Recluse', which Wordsworth (c) Gulliver's Travels never finished. 'The Prelude' is an extremely personal (d) A Tale of a Tub and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth's life. Ans : (d) “A Tale of a Tub” was the first major work 17. "To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite" is written by Jonathan Swift arguably his most difficult written by : satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a (a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth prose parody divided into sections each delving into the (c) Keats (d) Byron morals and ethics of English. Ans : (a) Percy Bysshe Shelley gives an inspirational 13. Which of the following is a "Visionary" work quote, talking about the value of Love. “To suffer woes by William Blake? which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker (a) The Song of Los than death or night; To defy power", these lines occur in (b) Songs of Experience “Prometheus Unbound.” (c) Poetical Sketches 18. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" occurs in : (d) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion (a) "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Ans : (b) 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is (b) "Ode to Autumn" an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It (c) "Ode to Psyche" appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789. (d) "Endymion" “Songs of Experience” is a poetry collection of 26 Ans : (d) “Endymion” is a poem by John Keats first poems forming the second part of William Blake’s published in 1818. It begins with the line “A thing of 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. The poem was beauty is a joy for ever.” It is written in rhyming published in 1794. couplets in iambic pentameter. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2004 5 YCT 19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the 24. The novel ' Mary Barton' is written by : Gothic novel? (a) Mrs. Gaskell (b) George Eliot (a) Pride and Prejudice (c) Emily Bronte (d) Dickens (b) Emma Ans : (a) “Mary Barton” is the first novel by English (c) Sense and Sensibility author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story (d) Northanger Abbey is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 Ans : (d) “Northanger Abbey” was the first of Jane and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Austen’s novels to be completed for publication, though Victorian lower class. she had previously made a start on “Sense and 25. The line "Poetry is a criticism of life" occurs in : Sensibility” and “Pride & Prejudice.” Most literary critics refer to “Northanger Abbey” as Jane Austen’s (a) Culture and Anarchy (b) Modern Painters 'Gothic Parody' because it satirizes the form and (c) The Study of Poetry (d) Sartor Resartus conventions of the Gothic novels that were popular Ans : (c) 'The Study of poetry' (1880) is written by during the time when Austen wrote this. Matthew Arnold. It is Arnold’s most famous piece of 20. Who distinguished between "the literature of literary criticism. In this work, Arnold is fundamentally Knowledge" and "the literature of Power"? concerned with poetry’s “high destiny.” (a) Coleridge (b) De Quincey 26. 'Martha Quest' was written by : (c) Hazlitt (d) Lamb (a) Jean Rhys (b) Doris Lessing Ans : (b) Thomas De Quincey, “The Literature of (c) Iris Murdoch (d) Nadine Gordimer Knowledge & the Literature of Power,” first Ans : (b) “Martha Quest” (1952) is the second novel published in the North British Review in August, 1848 of British Nobel Prize in Literature winner Doris as part of a critical essay on Alexander Pope. Lessing. Martha Quest is the main character of five 21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the semi-autobiographical novels called 'The Children of most sensitive to the conflict between the old Violence' series, which traces Martha’s life from and the new? girlhood to middle age. (a) Tennyson (b) Rossetti 27. The term "Stream of Consciousness" was (c) Browning (d) Swinburne taken from the book : Ans : (a) Alfred Tennyson (6 Aug, 1809- 6 Oct, 1892) (a) The Human Mind was a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the (b) The Principles of Psychology most popular British Poets. (c) The Mind of Man 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by: (d) Modes of Human Behaviour (a) Mrs. Gaskell (b) George Eliot Ans : (b) In Literary criticism, stream of consciousness, (c) Thomas Hardy (d) Emily Bronte also known as interior monologue, is a narrative mode Ans : (c) "Under the Greenwood Tree, A Rural Painting that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings of the Dutch School" is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which pass through the mind. The term was coined by published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy’s second William James in 1890 in his “Principles of published novel, the last to be printed without his name, Psychology.” and the first of his great series of Wessex Novels. 28. G. S. Fraser's 'The Golden Bough' focuses on : 23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in: (a) Images (b) Metaphors (a) David Copperfield (c) Symbols (d) Archetypes (b) Bleak House Ans : (c) “The Golden Bough: A Study in (c) Great Expectations Comparative Religion” (1890) is a wide ranging (d) Hard Times comparative study of mythology and religion written by Ans : (b) “Bleak House” was the ninth novel from the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer Charles Dickens intended to illustrate the evils caused (1854-1941). It attempts to define the shared elements by long, drawn-out legal cases in the Courts of of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing Chancery. The novel is considered one of Dickens' fertility rites, human sacrifices, the dying god, the finest work although has not been his most popular. scapegoat and many other symbols. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2004 6 YCT 29. Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' relies for Ans : (d) “Half a Life” is a 2001 novel by Nobel its tragic seriousness on the fate of : Laureate V.S. Naipaul published by Alfred A Knop. (a) Willy Loman (b) Estragon The novel is set in India, Africa & Europe. “Half a (c) Vladimir (d) Lucky Life” was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Ans : (a) Willy Loman, the main character in “Death 35. Which of the following books by Salman of a Salesman” is a complex and fascinating tragic Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as a character. He is a man struggling to hold onto what starting point? dignity he has left in a changing society that no longer (a) Haroun and the Sea of Stories values the ideals he grew up to believe in. (b) The Moor's Last Sigh 30. The character Leopold Bloom makes an (c) Shame appearance in the novel : (d) Grimus (a) The Sound and the Fury Ans : (b) “The Moor’s Last Sigh” is the fifth novel by (b) Ulysses Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. The title is taken (c) To the Lighthouse from the story of Boabdil (Abu Abdullah Muhammad) (d) The Europeans the last Moorish King of Granada in the 15th century Ans : (b) “Ulysses” is a modernist novel by Irish writer Spain and tells about the exclusion of Jews & Muslims James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the from Spain and other events. American Journal “The Little Review” from March 36. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is written by : 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. (a) Arthur Miller (b) Eugene O'Neil (c) Edward Albee (d) Tennessee Williams 31. Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora? Ans : (c) 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is a 1962 (a) Cyril Dabydeen (b) Michael Ondaatje play by Edward Albee. It examines the breakdown of (c) Arnold H. Itwaru (d) M.G. Vassanji the marriage of a middle aged couple, Martha & George. Ans : (b) Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan born Canadian novelist and poet. He won the Booker Prize 37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is : for his novel 'The English Patient' (1992). (a) A Caribbean writer 32. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic (b) An American writer treatment in : (c) An Arab writer (a) Les Murray (b) Gwen Harwood (d) A Sri Lankan writer (c) Judith Wright (d) A.D. Hope Ans : (b) Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Ans : (c) Judith Wright (31 May 1915-25 June 2000) Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka, was an African- was an Australian poet, environmentalist and American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. music criticism. 33. Margaret Atwood's 'Survival' makes a case for : 38. 'The Miscellany' was published from : (a) Canadian literary studies (a) Sahitya Akademi (b) Canadian nationalism (b) The Writers Workshop (c) The Future of Canadian Literature (c) PEN (d) The Past of Canadian Literature (d) Dhwanyalok Ans : (a) “Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Ans : (b) 'The Miscellany' published by Writer's Literature” is a survey of Canadian Literature by Workshop, Calcutta is a bimonthly publication of Margaret Atwood, one of the best-known Canadian creative writing from 1968-1980. authors. It was first published by House of Anansi in 1972. 39. Who of the following writers recreates the life 34. V.S. Naipaul's latest book is : of the Yoruba/Ibo community? (a) 'The Mystic Masseur' (a) Derek Walcott (b) 'A Bend in the River' (b) Wole Soyinka (c) 'Among the Believers' (c) Chinua Achebe (d) 'Half a Life' (d) Okot UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2004 7 YCT Ans : (b) Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde (c) The Metaphysical Poets Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was (d) Hamlet awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the firstAns : (d) “Hamlet and His Problems” is an essay African to be honored in that category. written by Eliot in 1919 that offers a critical reading of 40. Who of the following White female authors are Hamlet. The essay first appeared in Eliot’s 'The Sacred sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks? Wood' essays on poetry & criticism in 1920. (a) Margaret Drabble (b) Nadine Gordimer 46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of : (c) Muriel Spark (d) Jean Rhys (a) Verse (b) Syllable Ans : (b) Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a South (c) Stress (d) Meter African writer, political activist & recipient of the 1991 Ans : (a) Sprung Rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed Nobel Prize in Literature. to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed 41. New Criticism considers text as a : from feet in which the first syllable is stressed & may (a) Cultural construct be followed by a variable number of unstressed (b) Historical construct syllables. (c) Linguistic construct 47. "More is thy due than more than all can pay" (d) Autotelic is an example of : Ans : (d) New Criticism was a formalist movement in (a) Weak-ending (b) Inversion literary theory that dominated American literary criticism, in the middle decades of the 20th century. It (c) Alexandrine (d) Extra Syllable emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry to Ans : (b) Inversion also known as 'anastrophe' is a discover how a work of literature functioned as self literary technique in which the normal order of words is contained, self-referential aesthetic object. reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of 42. 'Mythologies' was written by: emphasis or meter, example- (a) Roland Barthes (b) Jacques Derrida What a beautiful picture it is! (c) Homi K. Bhabha (d) Ernest Dowson Note : Inversion was a common practice in the days of Ans : (a) “Mythologies” is a 1957 book by William Shakespeare. Roland Barthes. It is a collection of essays taken from 48. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of his letters, 'nouvelles' examining the tendency of five iambic measures in each line is called : contemporary social value systems to create modern (a) Rhyme royal (b) Run-on-lines myths. (c) Blank verse (d) Spenserian stanza 43. The word "Catharsis" signifies : Ans : (c) Blank verse is poetry written with regular (a) Pontification (b) Personification metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic (c) Purgation (d) Publication pentameter. Ans : (c) Catharsis is the purification and purgation of 49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, emotions especially pity and fear through art or any errantry, enchantments, and love are known as : extreme change in emotion that results in renewal & restoration. (a) The epic (b) The ballad (c) The ode (d) The metrical romances 44. The rejection of "Universalism" is a mark of : Ans : (d) A Metrical romance is otherwise known as (a) Deconstruction (b) New Historicism romantic poetry. The poem tells a story in verse form (c) Structuralism (d) Postcolonial criticism and depicts the adventures of romantic poetry. Ans : (a) Deconstruction is a critical outlook concerned 50. "He is a citizen of no mean city" is an example with the relationship between text and meaning. Jacques Derrida's 1976 work 'Of Grammatology' introduced the of : majority of ideas influential within deconstruction. (a) Periphrasis (b) Tautology 45. Eliot's theory of "objective correlative" (c) Prolepsis (d) Litotes appeared in his essay entitled : Ans : (d) Litotes is an ironical understatement in which (a) Three voices of Poetry an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its (b) Tradition and the Individual Talent contrary example- “Not a bad singer”. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2004 8 YCT  UGC NET/JRF Exam, June-2005 ENGLISH Solved Paper-II Note: This paper contains fifty (50) multiple Ans: (c) “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous choice questions, each carrying two (2) marks. Moll Flanders” is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first Attempt all of them. published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of 1. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale had its origin in : the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits (a) The French Roman de Renart from birth until old age. (b) The Italian Boccaccio's 'Teseide' 7. The expression “ancestral voices prophesying (c) The English John Gower’s 'Confessio Amantis' war” occurs in : (d) The German Goethe’s 'Faust' (a) ‘Kubla Khan’ Ans: (a) “The French Roman de Renart” is the main (b) ‘Frost at Midnight’ character in a literary cycle of allegorical Dutch, (c) 'Christabel' English, French and German fables. Geoffrey Chaucer (d) 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' used ‘Reynard’ material in Canterbury Tales; in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, Reynard appears as “Rossel” and Ans: (a) “Kubla Khan” is a poem written by Samuel an ass as “Brunel”. Taylor Coleridge, in 1797 and published in 1816. 2. The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared 8. The posthumously published novel of Jane in : Austen is : (a) 1664 (b) 1631 (a) Sense and Sensibility (b) Mansfield Park (c) 1623 (d) 1650 (c) Emma (d) Northanger Abbey Ans: (c) “The First Folio” is the first collected edition Ans: (d) Jane Austen’s first major novel “Northanger of William Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, Abbey” was written in 1798-99. Her brother seven years after his death. He wrote around 37 plays, Henry Austen published the novel, after her death in 36 of which are contained in the “First Folio.” 1817. 3. Restoration comedy begins with: 9. Carlyle’s 'Sartor Resartus' means : (a) Congreve (b) Sheridan (a) Satan’s story retold (c) Dryden (d) Etherege (b) The tailor retailored Ans: (a) Restoration comedy refers to English comedies (c) I know not where written and performed in the restoration period from (d) a set of elegant clothes 1660 to 1710. During 1690s the “softer” comedies of Ans: (b) 'Sartor Resartus' (meaning ‘The tailor William Congreve reflected mutating cultural retailored’) is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle. The perceptions and great social change. novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and 4. The author of 'The Progress of the Soul' is : early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes (a) John Bunyan (b) John Donne Teufelsdrockh. (c) Henry Vaughan (d) Richard Crashaw 10. The character not created by Hardy is : Ans: (b) The author of “Of the Progress of the Soul” (a) Sue Bridehead (b) Bathsheba Everdene is John Donne, written in 1896. Donne was an English (c) Betsy Trotwood (d) Thomasin poet. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of Ans: (c) Betsy Trotwood is a fictional character from the metaphysical poets. Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel 'David Copperfield'. 5. Dr. Johnson’s 'The Lives of The Poets' is an 11. The poet who described poetry as “Inspired example of : mathematics” is : (a) Psychological criticism (a) T.S. Eliot (b) Hopkins (b) Biographical criticism (c) Archibald Macleish (d) Ezra Pound (c) Historical criticism (d) Archetypal criticism Ans: (d) “Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, Ans: (b) “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets” which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, (1779-81) comprised short biographies of 52 poets most triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human of whom lived during 18th century. emotions.” - Ezra Pound. 6. The picaresque novel with a female picaroon is: 12. The woman character who is an artist by (a) Tom Jones (b) Clarissa profession in Virginia Woolf’s 'To the (c) Moll Flanders (d) Amelia Lighthouse' is : UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, June 2005 9 YCT  (a) Lily Briscoe (b) Mrs. Ramsay (a) Antithesis (b) Bathos (c) Mrs. Dalloway (d) Miriam (c) Tautology (d) Litotes Ans: (a) Lily Briscoe is a painter and one of the central Ans: (a) In Antithesis, one idea or word is set against character’s in the novel “To the Lighthouse” (1927) by another for the sake of emphasis. Examples- “God made Virginia Woolf. Lily represents Woolf’s idea of an the country and man made the town,” “Prosperity gains artist, who mingles “masculine” rationality with friends, adversity tries them.” “feminine” sympathy. 20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable 13. The poet who said, “My poems are not about precedes the accented is called : violence, but vitality”, is: (a) anapaestic (b) dactylic (a) Philip Larkin (b) Ted Hughes (c) catalectic (d) iambic (c) C.D. Lewis (d) Thom Gunn Ans: (d) Anapaest: two unaccented syllables followed by one stressed syllable. Ans: (b) The major theme of Ted Hughes’s poetry is of course man, that is, the question of man's existence. He Dactylic: one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. said, 'My Poems are not about violence but vitality'. Catalectic: a line lacking one syllable in the last foot. 14. Pinter’s 'Care Taker' can be called a : Iambic: an unaccented syllable precedes (comes before) (a) comedy of manners (b) comedy of menace an accented syllable. (c) comedy of errors (d) comedy of humours Choose the correct chronological sequence in Ans: (b) “The Care Taker” (1960) is a play in three question numbers 21-30: acts by Pinter. Harold Pinter usually used comedy of 21. (a) Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense menace in his plays. and Sensibility, Mansfield Park. 15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for the first (b) Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, time in : Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice (a) Song of Solomon (b) Tar Baby (c) Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, (c) Jazz (d) The Bluest Eye Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility Ans: (a) “Song of Solomon” (1977) is Toni Morrison's (d) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, first novel to be written through a male protagonist's Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey view. It tells us how it is like to be a young black male Ans: (d) The correct chronological sequence is: living in a white male-dominant society through the ♦ “Sense and Sensibility” - Published in 1811 story of Macon ‘Milkman’. ♦ “Pride & Prejudice” - Published in 1813 16. The author of 'The Hungry Tide' is : ♦ “Mansfield Park” - Published in 1814 (a) Vikram Seth (b) Shobha De ♦ “Northanger Abbey” - Published in 1817 (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) Upamanyu Chatterjee 22. Shakespeare criticism by : Ans: (c) 'The Hungry Tide' (2004) is the sixth novel by (a) Spurgeon- T.S. Eliot- Stephen Greenblatt- Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh. It won the Bradley Crossword Book Award for fiction. (b) Bradley- Spurgeon- T.S. Eliot- Stephen Greenblatt 17. The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle is: (c) T.S. Eliot- Stephen Greenblatt- Bradley- (a) Thought (b) Character Spurgeon (c) Plot (d) Spectacle (d) Stephen Greenblatt- Bradley- T.S. Eliot- Ans: (c) According to Aristotle, tragedy has six main Spurgeon elements: Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle Ans: (b) The correct chronological sequence is: (scenic effect), and Song (music). Aristotle also writes: ♦ A.C. Bradley : ‘Shakespearean Tragedy’ (1904) “The plot then is the first principle and as if it were the ♦ T.S. Eliot : “Hamlet and his Problems” (1919) soul of a tragedy.” ♦ Caroline Spurgeon : ‘Shakespeare’s Imagery’ (1935) 18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in : ♦ Stephen Greenblatt : “On Poetics of Culture and the (a) New criticism (b) Deconstruction Interpretation of Shakespeare.” (1987) (c) Structuralism (d) Formalism 23. (a) Pre-Raphaelite-Brotherhood, Oxford Ans: (d) Originating in Russian Formalism, the terms Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism 'fabula' and 'sujet' (Syuzhet) describes two different (b) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite aspects of the timeline of event in a narrative. The Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry “fabula” is the raw material of a story and “Syuzhet” the (c) Imagism, Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite way a story is organised. Brotherhood, Oxford Movement 19. “United we stand, divided we fall” is an example (d) Movement-Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite of : Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, June 2005 10 YCT Ans: (b) The correct chronological sequence is: Ans: (d) The correct chronological sequence is: ♦ Oxford Movement -1833-45 ♦ Toru Dutt - (1856-1877) ♦ Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood - 1848 ♦ Sarojini Naidu - (1879-1949) ♦ Imagism - 1912 ♦ Kamala Das - (1934-2009) ♦ Movement Poetry - 1954 ♦ Meena Alexander - (1951) 24. (a) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the 28. (a) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs. Morel Absurd, Portable Theatre (b) Dorothea, Mrs. Morel, Jude, Lady Havisham (b) Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of the (c) Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel, Lady Havisham Absurd, Closet drama (d) Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel (c) Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Ans: (d) The correct chronological sequence is : Theatre of the Absurd ♦ Miss Havisham – Charles Dickens’ 'Great (d) Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre, Closet Expectations' (1861) drama, Epic Theatre ♦ Dorothea – George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch' (1871-72) Ans: (a) The correct chronological sequence is: ♦ Jude – Thomas Hardy’s 'Jude the Obscure' (1895) ♦ Closet drama - Late 18th century ♦ Mrs. Morel – D. H. Lawrence’s 'Sons and Lovers' ♦ Epic Theatre - 1924-27 (1913) ♦ Theatre of Absurd - 1942 29. (a) The Well-Wrought Urn, The Verbal Icon, ♦ Portable Theatre - Late 1960s and 1970s Theory of Literature, Literary Theory : An Introduction 25. (a) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe (b) The Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of Literature, (b) Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas The Verbal Icon, Literary Theory: An Nashe Introduction (c) Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Ben (c) The Verbal Icon, The Well-Wrought Urn, Jonson Literary Theory: An Introduction, Theory of (d) Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Literature Jonson (d) Literary Theory: An Introduction, The Well- Ans: (c) The correct chronological sequence is: Wrought Urn, Theory of Literature, The Verbal ♦ Thomas Kyd - (1558-1594) Icon ♦ Christopher Marlowe - (1564-1593) Ans: (b) The correct chronological sequence is: ♦ Thomas Nashe - (1567-1601) ♦ “The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the structure of ♦ Ben Jonson - (1572-1637) poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth 26. (a) Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Areopagitica, Urn Brooks. Burial, Religio Medici ♦ “The Verbal Icon”: Studies in the meaning of poetry, (b) Areopagitica, Urn Burial, Religio Medici, published in 1954, written by William K. Wimsatt. Essay on Dramatic Poesy ♦ “Theory of Literature”: is a book on literary (c) Religio Medici, Areopagitica, Urn Burial, scholarship by Rene Wellek, published in 1948. Essay on Dramatic Poesy ♦ “Literary theory : An Introduction” - by Terry (d) Urn Burial, Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Eagleton and published in 1983. Areopagitica, Religio Medici 30. Nobel Prize winners in Literature: Ans: (c) The correct chronological sequence is: (a) Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, ♦ 'Areopagitica' (1644) - John Milton W.B. Yeats ♦ 'Urn Burial' (1658) - Sir Thomas Browne (b) W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, ♦ 'Religio Medici' (1643) - Thomas Browne Seamus Heaney (c) T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, ♦ 'Essay on Dramatic Poesy' (1668) - John Dryden Nadine Gordimer 27. (a) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, (d) Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Meena Alexander Yeats, T.S. Eliot (b) Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das Ans: (b) The correct chronological sequence is: (c) Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena ♦ W.B. Yeats - 1923 Alexander, Toru Dutt ♦ T.S Eliot - 1948 (d) Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena ♦ Nadine Gordimer - 1991 Alexander ♦ Seamus Heaney - 1995 UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, June 2005 11 YCT  Select the matching pair in question numbers 37. (a) T.S. Eliot - The Birthday Party 31 to 40 : (b) Osborne - The Entertainer 31. (a) 'Idylls of the King' - Browning (c) Bernard Shaw - Luther (b) 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin' - (d) Tom Stoppard - Lear William Cowper Ans: (b) 'The Entertainer' is a three-act play by John (c) 'The Tower' - T.S. Eliot Osborne, first produced in 1957. (d) 'The Fall of Hyperion' - Shelley 38. (a) Periodical Essays - Bacon Ans: (b) The correct pair is option (b). (b) Confessional Poetry - Ted Hughes ♦ 'Idylls of the King' (1859) - Alfred Lord Tennyson (c) Science Fiction - David Lodge ♦ ‘The Diverting History of John Gilpin' (1782) - (d) Pre-Raphaelites - William Morris William Cowper Ans: (a) The correct pair is option (a). ♦ 'The Tower' (1928) - William Butler Yeats ♦ 'The Fall of Hyperion' - John Keats ♦ Periodical Essays - Bacon Note: There is also a “The Fall of Hyperion” novel ♦ Confessional Poetry - Sylvia Plath written by Dan Simmons in 1990. ♦ Science Fiction - Hugo Gernsback 32. (a) 'Hard Times' - Psychological novel ♦ Pre-Raphaelites - William Holman Hunt (b) 'To The Light house' - Picaresque novel 39. (a) Nissim Ezekiel - Persian (c) 'The Castle of Otranto'- Gothic novel (b) Gieve Patel - Gujarati (d) 'Wuthering Heights' - Historical novel (c) Dilip Chitre - Sanskrit Ans: (c) “The Castle of Otranto” is a 1764 novel by (d) Adil Jussawalla - Urdu Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first Ans: (a) Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) was an Indian gothic novel. Jewish poet. He was a foundational figure in 33. (a) Emily Bronte - Yorkshire Moors Post-Colonial India’s literary history, specifically for (b) Hardy - Scotland Indian writers. (c) Walter Scott - Ireland 40. (a) Pearl - The Scarlet Letter (d) Mark Twain - Yoknapatawfa (b) Raka - The God of Small Things Ans: (a) The Bronte Country or Moors is a name given (c) Raphael - The Great Expectations to an area of South Pennine hills, west of Bradford in (d) Pip - Fire on the Mountain West Yorkshire, England. Ans: (a) In Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet 34. (a) Surrealism - Tristan Tzara Letter” (1850), Pearl is a symbol of sin and adultery. (b) Imagism - Spender (c) Naturalism - Yeats 41. The assertion, “We had a very restful holiday,” (d) Magic Realism - Gabriel Garcia Marquez implies : (a) We didn’t exert ourselves Ans : (d) It is often said that the works of Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez are examples of (b) We did nothing “magic realism” fiction that integrates elements of (c) We were very lazy fantasy into otherwise realistic settings. (d) We had a very dull time 35. (a) Victor Shklovsky - Carnivalesque Ans: (a) We had a very restful holiday implies that we (b) Stanley Fish - Aphasia didn’t exert ourselves. (c) Hjelmslev - Glossematics 42. “The progress of an artist is a continual self (d) Roland Barthes - Affective Stylistics sacrifice, continual extinction of personality. Ans: (b) The correct pair is (b) Stanley Fish - Aphasia. This assertion implies” He is an American literary critic associated with (a) Merely by a continual extinction of personality Reader-response criticism. an artist is sure to make progress 36. (a) Bessie Head - New Zealand (b) An artist is likely to make progress through (b) Derek Walcott - South Africa continual self sacrifice and extinction of (c) A.D. Hope - Australia personality (d) Ondaatje - Nigeria (c) Continual self sacrifice and extinction of Ans: (c) The correct pair is (c) A.D. Hope - Australia. personality will undermine the progress of the ♦ Bessie Head (1937-1986) - Botswana’s writer artist ♦ Derek Walcott (b. 1930) - Saint Lucia's poet & (d) An artist must have a personality to create art playwright. Ans: (b) The above line implies that an artist is likely to ♦ A.D. Hope (1907-2000) - Australian writer make progress through continual self sacrifice and ♦ Ondaatje (b. 1943) - Sri Lankan writer extinction of personality. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, June 2005 12 YCT 43. “The best poetry will be found to have a power In a broader sense, “Poetic License” is applied not of forming, sustaining and delighting us”. This only to language, but to all the ways in which poets and assertion implies : other literacy authors are held to be free to violate, for (a) Poetry has multiple functions to perform special effects, the ordinary norms and only of common (b) Poetry is more useful than other arts discourse but also but also of literal and historical truth, (c) All other arts including poetry have their including the devices of metre and rhyme, the recourse to limitations literary conventions, and representation of fictional (d) Poetry has no role to play characters and events. Ans: (a) The multiple functions of poetry are implied in 46. ‘Poetic license’ means: the above lines. (a) liberty with diction, alone 44. “Human beings and especially human beings as (b) liberty with diction and norms of common an integral part of a social organisation are discourse regarded as primary subject matter of (c) liberty with historical truth literature”. This assertion implies: (a) Human beings alone can be the subject matter (d) liberty with representations of fictional of literature characters (b) All living beings-animal and human, contribute Ans: (b) According to the passage option (b) is correct. towards the creation of literature (Para 2) (c) Humans as social beings are the nucleus of all 47. ‘Linguistic freedom’ is: literary exercise (a) freedom with diction, newly-coined words, (d) Literature transcends the human and the non- syntax human. (b) freedom with the use of colloquial language Ans: (c) Humans as social beings, are the nucleus of all (c) freedom with the use of figurative construction literary exercise. (d) freedom with literal truth 45. “We must learn to see more, to hear more, to Ans: (a) According to the passage, Linguistic freedom feel more”. The assertion implies : (a) Human beings have only three faculties at their is freedom with diction, newly coined words, syntax. command to comprehend all knowledge (lines 8-9, Para 1) (b) A sharpening of three faculties mentioned 48. How do you justify the linguistic freedom taken? would help human beings to become better. (a) on the basis of scholarship embedded (c) Only with the combination of all senses, we (b) on the basis of form may become better (c) on the basis of the success of the effect (d) Seeing, hearing and feeling are not enough to (d) on the basis of the thematic grandeur become better human beings. Ans: (c) According to the passage option (c) is correct. Ans: (b) The correct implication is option (b). (Para 1, last line) (46-50) Read the passage below and answer the 49. “Diction” means: questions that follow based on your understanding of (a) severity of prose the passage: (b) devices of metre and rhyme John Dryden in the late seventeenth century defined (c) poetic license poetic license as “The liberty which poets have assumed to themselves, in all ages, of speaking things in verse (d) syntax and word order which are beyond the severity of prose.” In its most Ans: (d) Diction means syntax and word order. (line 8- common use the term is confined to diction alone, to 9, Para 1) justify the poet’s departure from the rules and 50. “Poetic license” applies to : conventions of standard spoken and written prose in (a) Poets alone matters such as syntax, word order, the use of archaic or (b) All literary authors newly coined words, and the conventional use of eye- (c) Dramatists only rhymes. The degree and kinds of linguistic freedom (d) Epic writers only assumed by poets have varied according to the conventions of each age, but in every case the Ans: (b) 'Poetic license' applies to all literary authors, in justification of the freedom lies in the success of the all ages who have assumed the liberty of speaking effect. freely for special effects. (Para 2) UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, June 2005 13 YCT  UGC NET/JRF Exam, December-2005 ENGLISH Solved Paper-II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple 6. The main idea of 'The Dunciad' was taken from: choice questions, each question carrying two (2) (a) The Hind and the Panther marks. Attempt all of them. (b) Religio Laici 1. Chaucer’s 'The Knight’s Tale' is a high romance (c) Mac-Flecknoe told in : (d) The Medal (a) rhyme royal (b) terza rima Ans: (c) ‘The Dunciad’ is a satire by Alexander Pope (c) heroic libre (d) verse libre published in three different versions at different times, Ans: (c) 'The Knight’s Tale' is the first tale from during 1728, 1729 and 1742. The main idea of the Geoffrey Chaucer’s 'The Canterbury Tales'. The story Dunciad was taken from 'Mac-Flecknoe'. introduces various typical aspects of knighthood such as 7. The character of the leech gatherer appears in : courtly love and ethical dilemmas. The story is written (a) The Recluse in iambic pentameter end-rhymed couplets. Libre means (b) The Prelude Book I rhyme or metre in a musical composition. (c) Laodamia 2. Marlowe’s first original work was : (d) Resolution and Independence (a) Tamburlaine the Great (b) The Tragical History of D. Faustus Ans: (d) “Resolution and Independence” is a lyric (c) The Jew of Malta poem of the English Romantic poet William (d) The troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Wordsworth, composed in 1802 and published in 1807. Death of Edward the second 8. 'Table-Talk' is a collection of essays by : Ans: (a) “Tamburlaine the Great” is a play in two (a) Lamb (b) Hunt parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the (c) Hazlitt (d) De Quincey life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur. Written in Ans: (c) “Table–Talk" is a collection of essays by the 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan English cultural critic and social commentator William public drama. Hazlitt. It was originally published as two volumes, the 3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector and a first of which appeared in April 1821. The essay deals tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in : with topics such as art, literature and philosophy. (a) “The Garden” 9. Carlyle’s 'Sartor Resartus' was written under (b) “The Picture of T.C.” the influence of : (c) “Bermudas” (a) Italian romance (b) German romance (d) “Horatian ode upon Cromwell’s Return from (c) French romance (d) British romance Ireland” Ans: (b) “Sartor Resartus” is an 1836 novel by Ans: (d) Marvell begins the poem “Horatian Ode Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in 1833-34 in upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” by presenting Fraser’s Magazine. The novel purports to be a Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, commentary on the thought and early life of a German as a “forward youth”, who must once again engage in philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdrockh. military conflict and achieve glory. 4. 'The Life and Death of Mr. Badman' was 10. The image of the Neptune taming the sea horse written by: appears in : (a) Sir Henry Wotton (b) John Bunyan (a) “Abt Vogler” (b) “Prospice” (c) Jeremy Taylor (d) Richard Baxter (c) “Andrea del Sarto” (d) “My Last Duchess” Ans: (b) ‘The Life and Death of Mr. Badman’ is a Ans: (d) “My Last Duchess”, a poem by Robert 1680 book by John Bunyan. It was designed as a Browning, frequently anthologized, is an example of the companion to 'The Pilgrim’s Progress'. dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in 5. Dr. Johnson’s 'A Dictionary of the English Browning’s 'Dramatic Lyrics'. The poem is written in Language' was published in : 28 rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter. (a) 1755 (b) 1756 11. T.S. Eliot’s 'The Waste Land' is dedicated to II (c) 1757 (d) 1758 miglior fabro (“The better Craftsman”) : Ans: (a) Published on 15 April 1755 and written by (a) Ezra Pound (b) Baudelaire Samuel Johnson, 'A Dictionary of the English (c) G.M. Hopkins (d) Dante Language', sometimes published as 'Johnson’s Ans: (a) Eliot dedicated his poem Waste Land by Dictionary', is among the most influential dictionaries in writing a letter in which he wrote “for Ezra Pound: iI the history of the English Language. miglior fabbro”. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2005 14 YCT 12. The locale of 'Riders to the Sea' is : 18. The concept of “arche writing” is developed by : (a) Dublin (b) Aran Island (a) Fish (b) Foucault (c) Galway (d) Belfast (c) Derrida (d) Paul de Man Ans: (b) “Riders to the Sea” is a play written by Irish Ans: (c) According to Derrida, “Arche-writing” is a Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington form of language that can’t be conceptualized within the Synge, first performed on 25 Feb, 1904. A one act “metaphysics of presence”. It is an original form of tragedy, the play is set in the Aran Island. language that is not desired from speech, and it is 13. The “Bog” poems are associated with : unhindered by the difference between speech and (a) Ted Hughes (b) Elizabeth Jennings writing. (c) Tony Harrison (d) Seamus Heaney 19. A figure of speech in which two terms opposite in meaning are placed side by side in one phrase Ans: (d) “North” (1975) is a collection of poems is known as : written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 (a) paradox (b) oxymoron Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection is divided into (c) sarcasm (d) antithesis two parts of which the first is more symbolic, dealing with themes such as “the bog bodies of Northern Ans: (b) An 'oxymoron' is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements in two words that appear to be Europe”. “Bog bodies” inspire four poems in this contradictory, but which contains a concealed point, e.g. volume: “Bog Queen”, “The Grauballe Man”, “The same difference”, 'faithful unfaithful', kept him “Punishment”, and “Strange Fruit”. 'falsely true'. 14. Edward Bond’s 'Bingo' deals with the life of : 20. A stanza of eight iambic pentameters on the (a) Dryden (b) Shakespeare pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as : (c) Ben Jonson (d) Marlowe (a) Rhyme royal (b) Ottava rima Ans: (b) “Bingo, Scenes of Money & Death" is a (c) Tennysonian stanza (d) Spenserian stanza 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond. Ans: (b) “Ottava rima” is a rhyming stanza form of It depicts an aging William Shakespeare at his Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic Warwickshire home in 1615 and 1616."Bingo" is a themes. It is a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of political drama heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming Epic theatre. “abababcc”. 15. Arthur Miller's 'The Death of a Salesman' is Choose the correct chronological sequence in mainly about : question numbers 21 to 30 : (a) American dream 21. (a) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Othello, (b) American imperialism The Tempest (c) American pragmatism (b) Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost. The (d) American transcendentalism Tempest Othello Ans: (a) “Death of a Salesman” is a 1949 play written (c) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, The Tempest, by Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Twelfth Night Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is widely considered to be (d) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost. one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. The Tempest 16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje’s 'The English Ans: (a) The correct chronological sequence of the Patient' is : plays is– (a) Almasy (b) Caravaggio ♦ 'Love’s Labour’s Lost' – 1594 (c) Kirpal Singh (d) Hana ♦ 'Twelfth Night' – 1599 Ans: (a) 'The English Patient' is a 1992 novel. The ♦ 'Othello' – 1604 book follows four dissimilar people brought together at ♦ 'The Tempest' – 1611 an Italian Villa during the Italian campaign of World 22. (a) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel and War-II, first one is an unrecognizably burned man Stella, Shepherds Calendar Almasy, the titular patient, presumed to be English, (b) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister Doister, others being his Canadian army nurse, a Sikh British Shepherds Calendar Army Sapper and a Canadian thief. (c) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella, 17. Mimetic criticism views literary work as : Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister (a) personalisation (b) depersonalisation (d) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds (c) imitation (d) interpretation Calendar, Astrophel and Stella Ans: (c) Mimesis criticism is a method of interpreting Ans: (d) The correct chronological sequence is– texts in relation to their literary or cultural models. ♦ 'Utopia' (1516) – Thomas More Mimesis or imitation was a widely used rhetorical tool ♦ 'Ralph Roister Doister' (1552) – Nicholas Udall in antiquity up until the 18th century’s romantic ♦ 'Shepherds Calendar' (1579) – Edmund Spenser emphasis on originality. ♦ 'Astrophel & Stella' (1580) – Philip Sidney UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2005 15 YCT 23. (a) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd 27. (a) “Sign, Structure and Play,” "Signs Taken for play Wonder", “The Death of the Author”, “Two (b) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet, absurd Uses of Language” play (b) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of the (c) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play, Author”, "Sign, Structure and play”, "Signs sonnet Taken for Wonder" (d) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay, absurd (c) “The Death of the Author”, "Two Uses of play Language”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”, “Sign, Structure and Play” Ans: (a) The correct sequence is– (d) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of the ♦ Sonnet - During 13th century Author”, “Sign, Structure and Play”, "Signs ♦ Periodical Essay - During early 18th century Taken for Wonder" ♦ Gothic novel - 1764 Ans: (b) The correct sequence is– ♦ Absurd play - Late 1950S ♦ “Two uses of Language” (Principles of Literary 24. (a) Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Criticism, 1924) - I.A. Richards Hughes ♦ “Sign, Structure & Play” (1966) - Jacques Derrida (b) T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Ted ♦ “The Death of the Author” (1967) - Roland Barthes Hughes ♦ “Signs Taken for Wonder” (1985) - Homi K. Bhabha (c) Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Stephen 28. (a) “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, Spender “Fire Sermon”, "Death by Water" (d) T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Stephen (b) “A Game of Chess”, “The Burial of the Dead”, Spender “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water” Ans: (b) The correct sequence is– (c) “Fire Sermon”, “The Burial of the Dead”, ♦ T.S. Eliot - 1888-1965 “Death by Water”, “A Game of Chess” ♦ Stephen Spender - 1909-1995 (d) “The Burial of the Dead”, “Fire Sermon”, ♦ Philip Larkin - 1922-1985 “Death by water”, “A Game of Chess” ♦ Ted Hughes - 1930-1998 Ans: (a) The correct sequence of the sections of "The 25. (a) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation of Waste Land" (1922) by T.S. Eliot are– sensibility, heteroglossia ♦ The First section - The Burial of the Dead. (b) Sublime, negative capability, heteroglossia, ♦ The Second section - A Game of Chess. dissociation of sensibility ♦ The Third section - Fire Sermon. (c) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation of ♦ The Fourth section - Death by Water. sensibility, heteroglossia ♦ The Fifth section - What the Thunder Said. (d) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility, 29. (a) Midnight’s Children, Nectar in a Sieve, sublime, negative capability Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome Ans: (c) The correct sequence is– (b) Kanthapura, Midnight’s Children, Nectar in a ♦ “Sublime” is associated with Gothic Literature. (18th Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome century) (c) Kanthapura, Midnight’s Children, Calcutta Chromosome, Nectar in a Sieve ♦ “Negative capability” is associated with John Keats. (d) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sieve, Midnight’s (early 19th century) Children, Calcutta Chromosome ♦ “Dissociation of sensibility” is related with T.S. Eliot. (early 20th century) Ans: (d) The correct order of publication is– ♦ “Heteroglossia” is related to Mikhail Bakhtin. (Mid ♦ 'Kanthapura' (1938) - Raja Rao 20th century) ♦ 'Nectar in a Sieve' (1954) - Kamla Markandaya 26. (a) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of W.B. ♦ 'Midnight’s Children' (1981) - Salman Rushdie Yeats ♦ 'Calcutta Chromosome' (1995) - Amitav Ghosh (b) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of 30. (a) The English Novel : Form and Function, The W.B. Yeats Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The (c) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of W.B. Sense of an Ending Yeats (b) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The (d) Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Lycidas, English Novel: Form and Function The Sense Thyrsis of an Ending Ans: (c) The correct sequence is– (c) The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel: Form and Function, Craft of Fiction, Aspects ♦ 'Lycidas' (1637) - John Milton of the Novel ♦ 'Adonais' (1821) - P.B. Shelley (d) Aspects of the Novel, Craft of Fiction, The ♦ 'Thyrsis' (1866) - Matthew Arnold Sense of an Ending, The English Novel: Form ♦ 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' (1940) - W.H. Auden and Function. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2005 16 YCT Ans: (b) The correct sequence is– Ans: (c) The correct matches are– ♦ “The English Novel: form and function” (1953) - "The Old Bachelor" is the first play written by British Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent. playwright William Congreve, produced in 1693. ♦ “The Craft of Fiction” (1921) - Percy Lubbock 'Faust' - Goethe; ♦ “Aspects of the Novel” (1927) - E.M. Forster 'The White Devil' - John Webster; ♦ “The Sense of an Ending” (2011) – Julian Barnes 'The Maid's Tragedy' - Beaumont and Fletcher. Select the matching pairs in question numbers 37. (a) Nadine Gordimer-Nigeria 31 to 40: (b) Chinua Achebe-Kenya 31. (a) Sohrab and Rustum-Arnold (c) Judith Wright-Australia (b) The Princess-Browning (d) Peter Carey-Canada (c) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly-Hopkins (d) The Excursion-Shelley Ans: (c) The correct pairs are– Ans: (a) The correct matches are– ♦ Nadine Gordimer- South African Writer ♦ 'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) - Arnold ♦ Chinua Achebe - Nigerian Novelist ♦ 'The Princess' (1847) - Tennyson ♦ Judith Wright- Australian Novelist ♦ 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly' - Ezra Pound ♦ Peter Carey - Australian novelist ♦ 'The Excursion' - Wordsworth 38. (a) Campus novel-Margaret Drabble 32. (a) Middlemarch-Picaresque (b) Travelogue - Macaulay (b) Women in Love-Historical (c) Diary writing-Samuel Pepys (c) Pamela-Epistolary novel (d) Periodical essay-Lamb (d) Pride and Prejudice-Autobiographical Ans: (c) The correct pairs are– Ans: (c) The correct matches are– ♦ Campus Novel - Mary McCarthy ♦ 'Middlemarch' (1871) - George Eliot ♦ Travelogue - Pausanias ♦ 'Women in Love' (1920) - D.H. Lawrence ♦ Diary writing - Samuel Pepys ♦ 'Pamela' (1740) - Samuel Richardson [Epistolary - in ♦ Periodical essay - Joseph Addison & Richard Steele form of letters] 39. (a) Girish Karnad-Kannada ♦ 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) - Jane Austen (b) A.K. Ramanujan-Telugu 33. (a) Dickens-Manchester (c) Kamala Das-Tamil (b) Faulkner-Yoknapatawfa (d) R. Parthasarathy-Malayalam (c) Joyce-Belfast Ans: (a) Girish Karnad (born 19 May, 1938) is a (d) Lawrence- Birmingham playwright who predominantly works in South Indian Ans: (b) Yoknapatawpha county is a fictional county Kannada Language. created by the American author William Faulkner. He A.K. Ramanujan - Kannada set three of his novels in the county. Kamala Das - Malayalam 34. (a) Naturalism-Zola R. Parthasarathy - Tamil (b) Symbolism-T.E. Hulme (c) Expressionism-V. Woolf 40. (a) Mrs. Malaprop-The School for Scandal (d) Magic realism- Graham Greene (b) Nora-The Seagull (c) Lydia Languish-She Stoops to Conquer Ans: (a) Naturalism is a literary movement that (d) Eliza Doolittle-Pygmalion emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality. Emile Zola was the Ans: (d) Eliza Doolittle is a character that appeared in founder of this movement. the play 'Pygmalion', written by George Bernard Shaw. Symbolism – Charles Baudelaire It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Expressionism – Edward Munch 41. In the assertion “Four out of five people suffer Magic Realism - Alejo Carpentier from dreaded pyorrhea”, the writer wants to 35. (a) Audrey Thomas-The Stone Angel arouse the feeling of : (b) Robert Kroetsch-The Burning Water (a) Sympathy (b) Fear (c) Margaret Lawrence - What the Crow Said (c) Hatred (d) Ill-will (d) Margaret Atwood-The Blind Assassin Ans: (b) The writer is trying to arouse the feeling of Ans: (d) The correct matches are– fear. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat ♦ 'The Stone Angel' (1964) - Margaret Lawrence of danger, pain or harm. ♦ 'The Burning Water' (1980) – George Bowcring 42. “John is six feet tall and 240 Ib” is an assertion ♦ 'What the Crow Said' (1978) - Robert Kroetsch of– ♦ 'The Blind Assassin' (2000) - Margaret Atwood (a) a fact (b) a judgment 36. (a) Marlowe-Faust (c) an opinion (d) an inference (b) Fletcher-The White Devil Ans: (d) An inference is an assumption or conclusion (c) Congreve-The Old Bachelor that is rationally or logically made, based on the given (d) Ben Jonson-The Maid’s Tragedy facts or circumstances as in the above statement. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2005 17 YCT 43. X : "He’s mean and stingy". 47. What is the meaning of intellectuals being Y : “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. He is just thrifty”. ‘servants’? The above dialogue asserts that he : (a) The intellectual may be appropriated by his (a) is too careful with his money tradition, historical and other actualities of his (b) never spends money nation and society (c) is so careful with his money that everyone (b) The intellectual may be inappropriately Co- admires him for good management opted by agencies of the government (d) is careful with his money (c) The intellectual may be sent into exile and Ans: (a) The above dialogue asserts that he is too made marginal careful with his money. (d) The intellectual may be forced into accepting 44. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” makes an the unacceptable propositions assertion that : Ans: (a) The appropriate answer seems to be option (a) (a) The poet travelled with the cloud The intellectual may be appropriated by his tradition, (b) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud historical and other actualities of his nation and society. (c) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely 48. What are four important institutions that Co- (d) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud opt an intellectual? Ans : (d) “I wandered lonely as a cloud” makes an (a) society, institutions, worldly powers, and truth assertion that the poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud. (b) academy, church, professional guild, and 45. “Death is here, and death is there worldly power Death is busy everywhere (c) society, professional guild, worldly power, All around, within, beneath, truth Above, is death-and we are death” (d) academy, worldly power, truth, government The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order and Ans: (b) Four important institutions that co-opt an stress in the above lines intellectual are academy, church, professional guild and (a) assist the communication of meaning worldly powers. (b) hinder the communication of meaning 49. What is the meaning of ‘relative independence’? (c) reflect meaning and mood (a) liberating oneself from the pressure of (d) reflect a mechanical regularity government and institutions Ans: (c) It reflects the meaning and mood of Death. (b) liberating oneself from the pressures of religion (46-50) Read the following passage and answer and state the questions that follows based on your (c) liberating oneself from the pressures of understanding of the passage. institutions and worldly powers All of us live in a society, and are members of a (d) liberating oneself from all religious and secular nationality with its own language, tradition, historical pressures situation. To what extent are intellectuals servants of Ans: (c) According to the passage, the answer is (c) these actualities, to what extent enemies? The same is liberating oneself from the pressures of institutions and true of intellectuals relationship with institutions worldly powers. (academy, church, professional guild) and with worldly powers, which in our times have co-opted the 50. What is the duty of an intellectual and how intelligentsia to an extraordinary degree. Thus in my many identities does he acquire to perform his view the principal intellectual duty is the search for role? relative independence from such pressures. Hence my (a) to achieve complete independence and be characterization of the intellectual as an exile and characterized as an exile, marginal, and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of a language amateur that tries to speak the truth to power. (b) to achieve partial independence and be 46. Name four important sources to which an characterized as the author of a language intellectual is related basically : (c) to manoeuvre independence and be (a) Society, institutions, worldly powers, and characterized as a keeper of his own government conscience (b) Institutions, language, truth, and power (d) to search for relative independence and be (c) Nationality, language, tradition, and historical characterized as exile and Marginal, as situation amateur, and author (d) Nationality, truth, language and tradition Ans: (d) The duty of an intellectual is to search for Ans: (c) According to the above passage, nationality, relative independence and be characterized as exile and language tradition and historical situation are four Marginal, as amateur and author of a language capable important sources. of speaking the truth to power. UGC NET/JRF English Paper II, December 2005 18 YCT  UGC NET/JRF Exam, June-2006 ENGLISH Solved Paper-II Note: The paper contains fifty (50) multiple (c) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets choice questions, each question carrying two (2) (d) A poem marks. Attempt all of them. Ans : (d) “Absalom and Achitophel” is a landmark 1. Which one of the following author-book pair is poetic political satire by John Dryden (1631-1700). The correctly matched? poem exists in two parts. The first part, of 1681, is (a) J.M. Coetzee-Shame undoubtedly by Dryden. The second part, of 1682, was (b) Saul Bellow-Herzog written by another hand, most likely Nahum Tate. It is (c) Salman Rushdie-Disgrace subtitled 'A Poem'. (d) Elfriede Jelinek-The Pianist 7. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist? Ans : (b) “Herzog” is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow, (a) Jonathan Swift (b) Joseph Addison composed in large part of letters from the protagonist (c) Richard Steel (d) Lancelot Andrews Moses E. Herzog. It won the U.S. National Book Award Ans : (d) Joseph Addison and Richard Steele are for Fiction and the Prix International. generally regarded as the most significant figures in the 2. Which novel has a nameless narrator? development of the 18th century periodical. Together (a) Invisible Man they published the ‘Tatler’ (1709-11), 'The Spectator’ (b) The Grapes of Wrath (1711-12) and the ‘The Guardian’ (1713). Jonathan (c) Moby Dick Swift is considered as the foremost prose satirist of (d) Anna Karenina eighteenth century and wrote under the pseudonym of Ans : (a) “Invisible Man” is a novel by Ralph Ellison Isaac Bickerstaff. Lancelot Andrews was among the about an African American man whose color renders translators of the Authorized Version of King James Bible published in 1611. He does not belong to him invisible, published by Random House in 1952. eighteenth century. 3. Samuel Beckett wrote : 8. John Eveyln and Samuel Pepys were the famous (a) Endgame writers of : (b) Volpone (a) essays (b) editorials (c) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) letters (d) diaries (d) A Doll’s House Ans : (d) John Evelyn was an English writer, gardener Ans : (a) “Endgame”, by Samuel Beckett, is a one - act and diarist. Evelyn’s diaries, or memoirs are largely play with four characters. It was originally written in contemporaneous with those of his rival diarist, Samuel French in 1957 (entitled 'Fin de Partie'); Beckett himself Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture translated it into English. and politics of the time. 4. Willy Loman is a character in: 9. Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' is modeled upon : (a) A Doll’s House (a) “Annus Mirabilis” (b) Endymion (b) The Cherry Orchard (c) Don Quixote (d) Pilgrim’s Progress (c) Waiting for Godot Ans : (c) ‘Hudibras’ is in English mock heroic (d) The Death of a Salesman