UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-12 (D-2012)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-12

11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady :
I. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
II. to achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. to prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.

12. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer and his work.
Choose the correct answer :
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier– “On the Marvelous in America”

13. Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out :
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man

14. Match the translators in List – I with the English translations of Indian Literature texts in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I                                            List – II
i. K.B. Vaid                 1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V. Vijayan           2. The Diary of a Maid Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre           3. Samskara
iv. A.K.Ramanujan    4. Saga of Dharmapuri
Codes :
      i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4

15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / Its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged / Processions led by frantic drums.’ Identify the city :
(A) Calcutta 
(B) Banares
(C) Bombay 
(D) Agra

16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention

17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen :
(A) the ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘a tongue of light, a fit of flame’

18. The word resurrect is
(A) an abbreviation
(B) a spurious verb
(C) a back-formation
(D) a disguised compound

19. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I                                                   List – II
i. Annie John                                        1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones                                        2. Bildungsroman
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther    3. Gothic
iv. Vathek                                              4. Epistolary
Codes :
      i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2

20. Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought-Fox’ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. About the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet’s brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.