UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-17 (D-2012-III)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-17

61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels. Pick the odd one out :
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene

62. What is the following a description of ? ‘a loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary

63. From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic :
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss

64. From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels :
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali
(D) Piyali

65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group :
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) Dipesh Chakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar

66. Statement (S) : “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.”
Interpretation (I) : The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view, the (I) does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship to (I).

67. ‘The parish of rich women, physical decay, / Yourself…’ What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H. Auden’s view ?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly

68. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’ ?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis

69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
I. the works of native people living in a land that has been taken over by non-natives.
II. the works of black people in the United States.
III. the literature of the marginalized.
IV. refers to the works of nonheterosexuals Of the above :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.

70. Assertion (A) : In The Duchess of Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on the Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R) : His desire was to provide a strange entertainment to drive the Duchess mad.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to the study of African-American literature ?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected African-American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African- American films and dramatic arts that signify Black ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of autobiographical narratives involving Black lives and cultural traditions.

72. This influential critic-
I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. published such titles as The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon.
III. asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion and
IV. is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers in the English Academy.
Identify the critic-
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets

73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci :
(A) hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.
(C) hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.
(D) hegemony is synonymous with subjugation

74. Match the following :
i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers’ Club / The Decadents of the 1890’s
ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley George Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The University Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration Playwrights
Codes :
       i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1

75. Combine the statements correctly :
According to Homi Bhabha……
1. mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners.
2. but it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
3. mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture, behavior and manners…
4. but is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 3 and 2