UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-31 (DECEMBER-2011-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-31 (DECEMBER-2011-II)

11. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
(A) Doctor Faustus
(B) Edward II
(C) Hero and Leander
(D) Tamburlaine

12. Sir Fopling is a character in
(A) Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreve’s The Way of theWorld
(C) Etherege’s The Man of Mode
(D) Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers

13. Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on” ?
(A) Clara Reeve
(B) Maria Edgeworth
(C) Frances Burney
(D) Jane Austen

14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
(A) When Rain Clouds Gather
(B) The Mimic Men
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The Interpreters

15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called
(A) Trochee
(B) Iambic
(C) Spondee
(D) Terza Rima

16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales ?
(A) Meekness
(B) Defiance
(C) Chastity
(D) Experience

17. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the question with the help of the Code given below :
(i) The Dunciad
(ii) The Rape of the Lock
(iii) An Essay on Man
(iv) An Essay on Criticism
Code :
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

18. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas Marner
(C) Daniel Deronda
(D) Adam Bede

19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel by a citizen of
(A) the United Kingdom
(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
(C) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth
(D) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland

20. A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of
(A) 11 lines 
(B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines 
(D) 14 lines

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