UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-21 (JUNE-2012-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-21 (JUNE-2012-II)


31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

32. What is the correct combination of the following ?
I. Balachandra Rajan         a. The Tamarind Tree
II. R. K. Narayan                b. The Coffer Dams
III. Kamala Markandaya   c. The Dark Dancer
IV. Romen Basu                   d. The Dark Room
(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works :
I. Let us go then, you and I…..    a. Moby Dick
II. Call me Ishmael…..                 b. Macbeth
III. When shall we three meet again ? c. “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy
V. I wish either….begot me …..    e. “In Memory of W. B.Yeats”
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc

37. What is a neologism ?
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism ?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are :
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending ?
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange

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