UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-14 (D-2012-III)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-14
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour.’ The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff.The periodical described above is-
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
32. Arrange the following in the order in which the details of a research article / essay appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, year of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page numbers, the title of the journal, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the title of the essay, page numbers, volume and issue numbers, year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of publication, page numbers
33. From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia :
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited
34. ‘Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from ?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character and the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown ?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a writer.
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out :
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo
37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor’d ev’ry chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link’.
In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book of life’ to describe
(A) the novel
(B) the dramatic monologue
(C) the Bible
(D) the short lyric
39. Identify the correctly matched group :
List – I List – II
i. Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2. Russia
iii. The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
iv. An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
v. Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin
Codes :
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
40. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Chaucer describes ‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus : ‘She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught in a trappe’
Reason (R) : On her ‘broche of gold full shene’ was written Amor Vincit Omnia. In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.