UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-6

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-6 (DECEMBER, 2012)

1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass ?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair

3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900

4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. One of the following published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, Deceived
(C) William Empson, Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot

6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies ?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh

7. Match the following :
1. The Sage of 5. Concord
2. The Nun of 6. Amherst
3. Mark Twain 7.
4. Old Possum 8.

(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6

8. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish

9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) the sun
(B) the moon
(C) the north star
(D) the rose

10. Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English writers ?
(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize