UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-8

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-8 (D-2012)

21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below :
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.

22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A) accelerated industrial production and general well– being of the public.
(B) a belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(C) the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.

23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: “...there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” ?
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth

24. Match the following pairs of books and authors :

Books                                                                              Authors
I. Condition of the Working Class in England     i. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and the London Poor        ii. Henry Mayhew III. Past and Present                                      iii. Thomas Carlyle  

IV. The Unto This Last                                  iv. Friedrich Engels 

Codes :
       I             II                   III                 IV 

(A) iv            i                      ii                    iii
(B) iv            ii                     iii                    i
(C) ii            iv                      i                    ii
(D) iii           ii                      iv                   iv

25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters ?

(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of  Ma Parker” Brighton
(D) Graham Greene’s Rock 

26. What is common to the following writers ? Identify the correct description below :

William Congreve
George Etherege
William Wycherley
Thomas Otway

(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age

27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth ?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey

28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India ?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”

29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and stella
(C) Stella Samuel Daniel’s Delia Idea’s
(D) Michael Drayton’s Mirror

30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The  Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr, Biswas.