UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3

21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written :
(i) ‘Lycidas’ (ii) Arthur Hugh Clough (iii) ‘Adonais’
(iv) A.H. Hallam (v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King
(vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats

(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)
(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii); (v) - (ii)
(C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
(D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) - (iv)

22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on :
(A) Jazz music
(B) Disability sports
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
(D) Black American folklore

23. “He’s not the brightest man in the world” is an example of :
(A) Chiasmus 

(B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes 

(D) Simile

24. The term ‘horizon of expectations’ is associated with...
(A) Wolfgang Iser 

(B) Stanley Fish
(C) Harold Bloom 

(D) H.R. Jauss

25. The following writers have something in common :
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
What is it ?
(i) They are all Victorians
(ii) They are all writers of children’s fiction
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild
(iv) They are all travel writers

(A) (i) and (ii) 

(B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) (ii) and (iv) 

(D) (i) and (iv)

26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is...
(A) A French narrative 

(B) A Dutch narrative
(C) A German narrative 

(D) None of the above

27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement ?
(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group :
(A) Jews 

(B) Muslims 

(C) Hindus 

(D) French Canadians

29. Who among the following is NOT a ‘University Wit’ ?
(A) Christopher Marlowe 

(B) George Peele
(C) Robert Greene 

(D) Ben Jonson

30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, ‘He has a wooden leg’. Now this wooden leg is...
(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) ambiguous
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct