June 2005 UGC NET ENGLISH Paper 2 I Solved Question Papers I 2005 Solved Papers (English Literature)

 

June 2005  UGC NET ENGLISH Paper 2 I Solved Question Papers I 2005 Solved Papers (English Literature)

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Paper 2- June 2005

1. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale had its origin in
(A) The French Roman de Renart
(B) The Italian Boccaccio's Teseide
(C) The English John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
(D) The German Goethe’s Faust

2. The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in
(A) 1664
(B) 1631
(C) 1623
(D) 1650

3. Restoration comedy begins with
(A) Congreve
(B) Sheridan
(C) Dryden
(D) Etherege

4. The author of Of The Progress of the Soul is
(A) John Bunyan
(B) John Donne
(C) Henry Vaughan
(D) Richard Crashaw

5. Dr. Johnson’s The Lives of The Poets is an example of
(A) Psychological criticism
(B) Biographical criticism
(C) Historical criticism
(D) Archetypal criticism

6. The picaresque novel with a female picaroom is
(A) Tom Jones
(B) Clarissa
(C) Moll Flanders
(D) Amelia

7. The expression “ancestral voices prophesying war” occurs in
(A) Kubla Khan
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) Christabel
(D) Rime of The Ancient Mariner

8. The posthumously published novel of Jane Austen is
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Emma
(D) Northanger Abbey

9. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus means
(A) Satan’s story retold
(B) The tailor retailored
(C) I know not where
(D) a set of elegant clothes

10. The character not created by Hardy is
(A) Sue Bridehead
(B) Bathsheba Everdene
(C) Betsy Trotwood
(D) Thomasin

11. The poet who described poetry as “inspired mathematics” is
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Hopkins
(C) Archibald Macheish
(D) Ezra Pound

12. The woman character who is an artist by profession in Virgnniia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is
(A) Lily Briscoe
(B) Mrs. Ramsay
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) Miriam

13. The poet who said, “My poems are not about violence, but vitality,” is
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) C.D. Lewis
(D) Thom Gunn

14. Pinter’s Care Taker can be called a
(A) comedy of manners
(B) comedy of menace
(C) comedy of errors
(D) comedy of humours

15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for the first time in
(A) Song of Solomon
(B) Tar Baby
(C) Jazz
(D) The Bluest Eye

16. The author of The Hungry Tide is
(A) Vikram Seth
(B) Shobha De
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Upamanyu Chatterjee

17. The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle is
(A) Thought
(B) Character
(C) Plot
(D) Spectacle

18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in
(A) New criticism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Structuralism
(D) Formalism

19. “United we stand, divided we fall” is an example of
(A) Antithesis
(B) Bathos
(C) Tautology
(D) Litotes

20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable precedes the accented is called
(A) anapaestic
(B) dactylic
(C) catalectic
(D) iambic 

21. Choose the correct chronological sequence 

(A) Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility , Mansfield Park
(B) Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility , Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice
(C) Pride and Prejudice , Northanger Abbey , Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility
(D) Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Northanger Abbey

22. Shakespeare criticism by
(A) Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot -Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley
(B) Bradley – Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt
(C) T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – Spurgeon
(D) Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – T.S. Eliot – Spurgeon

23. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
(C) Imagism, Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
(D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism

24. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre
(B) Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, Closest drama
(C) Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd
(D) Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre

25. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe
(B) Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe
(C) Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson
(D) Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson

26. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Religio Medici
(B) Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Religio Medici , Essay on Dramatic Poesy
(C) Religio Medici , Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Essay on Dramatic Poesy
(D) Urn Burial , Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Areopagitica , Religio Medici

27. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Meena Alexander
(B) Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das
(C) Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt
(D) Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena Alexander

28. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs. Morel
(B) Dorothea, Mrs. Morel, Jude, Lady Havisham
(C) Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel, Lady Havisham
(D) Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel

29. Choose the correct chronological sequence
(A) The Well-Wrought Urn , The Verbal Icon , Theory of Literature , Literary Theory : An Introduction
(B) The Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of Literature , The Verbal Icon , Literary Theory : An Introduction
(C)The Verbal Icon , The Well-Wrought Urn , Literary Theory : An Introduction , Theory of Literature
(D) Literary Theory : An Introduction , The Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of Literature , The Verbal Icon

30. Nobel Prize Winners in Literature : Correct sequence
(A) Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, W.B. Yeats
(B) W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney
(C) T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Nadine Gordimer
(D) Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot

31. Select the matching pair
(A) An Idylls of the King – Browning
(B) The Diverting History of John Gilpin – William Cowper
(C) The Tower – T.S. Eliot
(D) The Fall of Hyperion – Shelley

32. Select the matching pair
(A) Hard Times – Psychological novel
(B) To The Light-house – Picaresque novel
(C) The Castle of Otranto – Gothic novel
(D) Wuthering Heights – Historical novel

33. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors
(B) Hardy – Scotland
(C) Walter Scott – Ireland
(D) Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa

34. Select the matching pair
(A) Surrealism – Tristan Tzara
(B) Imagism – Spender
(C) Naturalism – Yeats
(D) Magic Realism – Galriel Garcia Marquez

35. Select the matching pair
(A) Victor Shklovsky – Carnivalesque
(B) Stanley Fish – Aphasia
(C) Hjelmslev – Glossematics
(D) Roland Barthes – Affective Stylistics

36. Select the matching pair
(A) Bessie Head – Newzealand
(B) Derek Walcott – South Africa
(C) A.D. Hope – Australia
(D) Ondaatje – Nigeria

37. Select the matching pair
(A) T.S. Eliot – The Birthday Party
(B) Osborne – The Entertainer
(C) Bernard Shaw – Luther
(D) Tom Stoppard – Lear

38. Select the matching pair
(A) Periodical Essays – Bacon
(B) Confessional Poetry – Ted Hughes
(C) Science Fiction – David Lodge
(D) Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris

39. Select the matching pair
(A) Nissim Ezekiel – Persian
(B) Gieve Patel – Gujarati
(C) Dilip Chitre – Sanskrit
(D) Adil Jussawallah – Urdu

40. Select the matching pair
(A) Pearl- The Scarlet Letter
(B) Raka- The God of Small Things
(C) Raphael- The Great Expectations
(D) Pip- Fire on the Mountain

41. The assertion, “We had a very restful holiday,” implies
(A) We didn’t exert ourselves
(B) We did nothing
(C) We were very lazy
(D) We had a very dull time

42. “The progress of an artist is an continual self sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. “This assertion implies
(A) Merely by a continual extinction of personality an artist is sure to make progress
(B) An artist is likely to make progress through continual self sacrifice and extinction of personality
(C) Continual self sacrifice and extinction of personality will undermine the progress of the artist
(D) An artist must have a personality to create art

43. “The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us”. This assertion implies :
(A)Poetry has multiple functions to perform
(B)Poetry is more useful than other arts
(C)All other arts including poetry have their limitations
(D)Poetry has no role to play

44. “Human beings, and especially human beings as an integral part of a social organisation are regarded as primary subject matter of literature”. This assertion implies
(A)Human beings alone can be the subject matter of literature
(B)All living beings-animal and human, contribute towards the creation of literature
(C)Humans as social beings are the nucleus of all literary exercise
(D)Literature transcends the human and the non-human.

45. “We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more”. The assertion implies
(A)Human beings have only three faculties at their command to comprehend all knowledge
(B)A sharpening of three faculties mentioned would help human beings to become better
(C)Only with the combination of all senses, we may become better
(D)Seeing, hearing and feeling are not enough to become better human beings

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage :
John Dryden in the late seventeenth century defined poetic license as “The liberty which poets have assumed to themselves, in all ages, of speaking things in verse which are beyond the severity of prose”. In its most common use the term is confined to diction alone, to justify the poet’s departure from the rules and conventions of standard spoken and written prose in matters such as syntax, word order, the use of archaic or newly coined words, and the conventional use of eye-rhymes. The degree and kinds of linguistic freedom assumed by poets have varied according to the conventions of each age, but in every case the justification of the freedom lies in the success of the effect.
In a broader sense, “Poetic License” is applied not only to language, but to all the ways in which poets and other literacy authors are held to be free to violate, for special effects, the ordinary norms not only of common discourse but also of literal and historical truth, including the devices of metre and rhyme, the recourse to literary conventions, and the representation of fictional characters and events.

46. ‘Poetic license’ means
(A) liberty with diction, alone
(B) liberty with diction and norms of common discourse
(C) liberty with historical truth
(D) liberty with representations of fictional characters
Answer: A

47. ‘Linguistic freedom’ is :
(A) freedom with diction, newly-coined words, syntax
(B) freedom with the use of colloquial language
(C) freedom with the use of figurative construction
(D) freedom with literal truth

48. How do you justify the linguistic freedom taken ?
(A) on the basis of scholarship embedded
(B) on the basis of form
(C) on the basis of the success of the effect
(D) on the basis of the thematic grandeur

49. “Diction” means :
(A) severity of prose
(B) devices of metre and rhyme
(C) poetic license
(D) syntax and word order

50. “Poetic license” applies to :
(A) Poets alone
(B) All literary
(C) Dramatists only
(D) Epic writers only