UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-1
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-1
1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping...
(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
2. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...” The above lines are taken from...
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
2. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...” The above lines are taken from...
(A) “The Soldier”
(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”
(C) “To His Dead Body”
(D) “Strange Meeting”
3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration :
(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”
(C) “To His Dead Body”
(D) “Strange Meeting”
3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration :
(i) Coral Island (ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat (iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos (viii) Lord of the Flies
(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)
(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) - (vi) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)
4. “His life was gentle and the elements/So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up/And say to all the world, ‘This was a man !”’
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar
5. “When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies”.
The author of these lines is...
(iii) The Mahabharat (iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos (viii) Lord of the Flies
(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)
(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) - (vi) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)
4. “His life was gentle and the elements/So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up/And say to all the world, ‘This was a man !”’
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar
5. “When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies”.
The author of these lines is...
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) William Shakespeare
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) William Shakespeare
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...
(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws
7. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in...
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws
7. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in...
(A) Mac Flecknoe
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Essay on man
(D) Alexander’s Feast
8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Essay on man
(D) Alexander’s Feast
8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
9. David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :
9. David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace
10. ‘Jabberwocky’ is a character in....
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Goblin Market
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Goblin Market