UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-10

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-10

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

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.

43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore

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 – Blessed Damozel Ozymandias – A Poison Tree

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

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.

47. Which statement(s) below on 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 iambic six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter 

(A) I and II 
(B) II
(C) III 
(D) IV

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

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

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 use of figurative language.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) only (iv) is correct.