UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-27 (JUNE-2012-III)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-27 (JUNE-2012-III)
41. Goethe’s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens in :(A) heaven
(B) hell
(C) forest
(C) forest
(D) Faust’s study
42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines what does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does the poet speak of ?
I. Human beings and their intelligence
II. The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
IV. All the above
(A) Only III is correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
Belladonna – Eugenides – The Typist – Marie – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber – Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber
44. Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of ______.
(A) a detective’s exploits in Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s adventures in a Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an Indian shrine.
(D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern U.P. during British rule.
45. Identify the correctly matched group :
(I) “Because I could not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman
(II) “O Captain ! My Captain!” (b) William Carlos Williams
(III) “Two roads diverged in a wood…” (c) Emily Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends upon…” (d) Robert Frost
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight – work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
(C) a social tie
(D) a rich patron
47. Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”
48. Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.
(A) fraud
42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines what does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does the poet speak of ?
I. Human beings and their intelligence
II. The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
IV. All the above
(A) Only III is correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
Belladonna – Eugenides – The Typist – Marie – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber – Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber
44. Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of ______.
(A) a detective’s exploits in Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s adventures in a Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an Indian shrine.
(D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern U.P. during British rule.
45. Identify the correctly matched group :
(I) “Because I could not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman
(II) “O Captain ! My Captain!” (b) William Carlos Williams
(III) “Two roads diverged in a wood…” (c) Emily Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends upon…” (d) Robert Frost
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight – work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
(C) a social tie
(D) a rich patron
47. Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”
48. Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.
(A) fraud
(B) usury
(C) sloth
(C) sloth
(D) gluttony
50. I-A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”
(B) the very astute remarks made by his students(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention
(D) the success of his experiment
50. I-A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”
(B) the very astute remarks made by his students(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention
(D) the success of his experiment