UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2


11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism ?
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii)

12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods.
Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary Example histories, Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.
(A) (AST) and (R) are correct
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)

13. Everyman is...
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible
(B) a medieval morality play
(C) a Tudor interlude
(D) a miracle play

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?
(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

15. Doris Lessing’s interest in __________ is widely recognized :
(A) Hinduism 
(B) Sufism 
(C) Zen 
(D) Judaism

16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as...
(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion
(C) understatement
(D) circumlocution

17. Arrange the following in chronological order...
(i) The death of Shakespeare
(ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
(iii) Caxton and the printing press
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

18. “The Muse of History” is a classic postcolonial essay by :
(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Derek Walcott

19. “Do I contradict myself ?
Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above lines are from...
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier

20. “Verses on the Death of Dr Swift” was written by...
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) James Boswell
 

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