UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-11 (2012-D)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-11

1. Which of the following book by V.S.Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited ? 
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness

2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) the ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) the ability to command language rather than language commanding the user.
(C) glibness
(D) accuracy

3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE ?
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be equated with the human in respect of emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).

4. Identify the correctly matched group :

                List – I                                         List – II
i. ‘L’ Allegro and ‘Il Pensoro so’      1. Pastoral elegy
ii. ‘Lycidas’                                         2. Masque
iii. Comus                                            3. Sonnet
iv. ‘On His Blindness’                        4. Prose tract
v. Areopagitica                                    5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplets

Codes :
       i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3

5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood –The University Wits – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets- The Scottish Chaucerians. The right chronological sequence would be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits – The Transitional Poets – The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – TheRhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The University Wits – The Scottish Chaucerians – The Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets, The Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The Rhymers’ Club.

6. ‘Aucitya’ refers to :
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy

(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.

7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is
(A) a Public Park
(B) a Church
(C) a Quarry
(D) an Abandoned Factory

8. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Character)             List – II(Work)
i. Telemachus               1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya                         2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov                   3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac                 4. The Odyssey

Codes :
       i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2

9. This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works contain the words “sonnets”and “elegies”. He is 
(A) Herman Hesse 
(B) Heinrich Heine 
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff 
(D) Raine Marie Rilke

10. Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates ? 
(A) The Birds 
(B) The Wasps 
(C) The Clouds 
(D) The Frogs

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