UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-7
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-7 (D-2012)
11. Identify the correct statement below :
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are comedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to
(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in
(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660
14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge ?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true ?
1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(C) 3
(D) 1
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group ?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James,
Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
19. The term invective refers to(A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James,
Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
19. The term invective refers to(A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule.
(C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London ?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
(C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London ?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane