UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-15 (D-2012-III)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-15
41. Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below :
1. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has ‘a face like a frog’ ?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim
43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)
The speaker describes-
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
44. ‘How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel !
in apprehension how like a God !’
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage ?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
45. Said identifies Orientalism as :
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than one of human production.
In the light of the statement above :
(A) II and III are correct, I and IV are wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.
46. Identify the period during which the Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds :
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I mean she upright, honest, speak her mind…” What light does the quotation throw on Shug Avery ?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
48. 1. A content word is not a function word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means functionally.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following :
(A) Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give ?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable