UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-26 (JUNE-2012-III)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-26 (JUNE-2012-III)

31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time.
Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

32. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism :
(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age.
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work.
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing !”
(d) Appeared in 1701.
(A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
(B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct.

33. What is register ?
(A) The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users.
(B) The way users of a language register the nuances of that language.
(C) A variety of language used in social situations or one specially designed for the subject it deals with.
(D) A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by professionals.

34. Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) attacked ______.
(A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
(B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
(C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration Theatre.
(D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth century.

35. One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is______.
(A) European and non-European perceptions of reality.
(B) English and non-English perceptions of reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and English theatre.
(D) the relative merits of French and English poetry.

36. Identify the correctly matched pair :
(A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H. Halterr
(B) AnitaDesai – Inheritance of Loss
(C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence

37. Match the following correctly :
(I) Langue / Parole                          (a) Noam Chomsky
(II) Competence / Performance     (b) C. S. Pierce
(III) Ieonic / Indexical                     (c) Ferdinand de Saussure
(IV) Readerly / Writerly                 (d) Roland Barthes
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d)

38. 1. Joy Kogawa    (a) Bloody Rites
2. M. G. Vasanjee     (b) Obasan
3. Sky Lee                  (c) The Gunny Sack
4. Arnold Itwaru       (d) Disappearing Moon Café
        1    2    3   4
(A) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b)
(C) (b) (c) d) (a)
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)

39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign ?
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post modern world.
(B) Disneyland captures ‘essences’ and ‘non-essences’ of Reality more convincingly than other cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it would seem to imply some counter balancing reality.
(D) Disneyland is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the post modern visual game of handy-dandy.

40. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti ?
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at King’s college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a poet in her right.
(D) Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel” displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.