UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-40 (DECEMBER-2009-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-40 (DECEMBER-2009-II)


1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is
(A) Juvenal 
(B) Aristophanes 
(C) Plautus 
(D) Terence

2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to
(A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.
(B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo.
(C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan.

3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) 1922 
(B) 1920 
(C) 1918 
(D) 1912

4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary?
(A) Thomas Chatterton 
(B) John Gower
(C) Thomas Shadwell 
(D) John Gay

5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott?
(A) Ivanhoe 
(B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart of Midlothian 
(D) The English Mail Coach

6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said 
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah 
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty

7. The earliest tract on feminism is
(A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the Rights of Woman
(D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

8. Match the imaginary location with its creator:
1. Emily Bronte             2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage   4. Charles Dickens
5. Wessex                       6. Egdon Heath
7. Coketown                  8. Charlotte Bronte
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7 
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8

9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?
(A) The Canterbury Tales 
(B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame 
(D) Legend of Good Women

10. Essays of Elia was published in
(A) 1800 
(B) 1823 
(C) 1827 
(D) 1850

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