UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-33 (DECEMBER-2011-II)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-33 (DECEMBER-2011-II)

31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?
(A) Endymion
(B) The Fall of Hyperion
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) Lamia

32. Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code given below :
List – I                                   List – II
I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The Vanity of Human Wishes
II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield
III. Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer
IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The Beggar’s Opera
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 4 3 2 1

33. The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt

34. Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the question with the help of the code :
(i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
Code :
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

35. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense of humour and comedy ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) P.G. Wodehouse
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) John Galsworthy

36. Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel ?
(A) Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City
(B) L.P. Hartley’s Facial Justice
(C) Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas

37. Identify the author of the following lines :

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
(A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert
(C) John Donne
(D) Henry Vaughan

38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of
essays on “The Pleasures of Imagination,” written by
(A) Richard Steele
(B) John Dennis
(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison

39. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
Assertion (A) : Gulliver’s Travels earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope.
Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

40. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great Tradition’, enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph Conrad
(B) James Joyce
(C) Jane Austen
(D) George Eliot