UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-50 (DECEMBER-2006-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-50 (DECEMBER-2006-II)

1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from :
(A) Hamlet 
(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest 
(D) King Lear

2. Pecola is a character in :
(A) The Bluest Eye 
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) Don Quixote 
(D) Beloved

3. Which of the following was associated with the “Bloomsbury Group”.
(A) T. S. Eliot 
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme 
(D) Virginia Woolf
4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot :
(A) Jerry 
(B) Lucky 
(C) Jimmy Porter 
(D) Ham

5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :
(A) Herbert 
(B) Marvell 
(C) Donne 
(D) Crashaw

6. The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is :
(A) “Voyage to Houyhnhnms” 
(B) “Voyage to Laputa”
(C) “Voyage to Brobdingnag” 
(D) “Voyage to Lilliput”

7. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke 
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore 
(D) Addison and Steele

8. John Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” is about :
(A) nature of human behaviour 
(B) nature of the human mind
(C) nature of human society 
(D) nature of human ideology

9. Restoration Comedy marks the restoration of :
(A) women’s rights 
(B) democracy
(C) monarchy 
(D) human rights

10. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said” :
(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” 
(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles” 
(D) “Rape of the Lock”

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