UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-23 (JUNE-2012-III)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-23 (JUNE-2012-III)
1. In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.
2. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an anti essentialist view of place.
(C) an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his favourite homelands.
3. Identify the incorrect statement below :
(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to about 1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read : Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were far too complicated and technical to understand.
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (b) & (d)
(C) (a) & (c)
(C) (a) & (c)
(D) (c) & (d)
4. Items in a published book appear in the following order :
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index, Footnotes
5. Match the following :
(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, (a) Metaphysical poets
William Cowper, George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, (b) Transitional Poets Abraham Cowley, John Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, (c) War Poets Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, (d) Georgians John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
(I)(II)(III)(IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works. Identify the correctly matched group.
(I) Pale Fire (a) ThomasHardy
(II) The Sound and the Fury (b) Somerset Maugham
(III) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Faulkner
(IV) Under the Greenwood Tree (d) Tom Stoppard
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir Nabokov
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)
7. Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain “stage directions” in drama.
(A) Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
(B) The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters’ actions or tone of voice are indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
(D) Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached to a line of dialogue.
8. The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated with :
(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant
(A) (a) & (b)
4. Items in a published book appear in the following order :
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index, Footnotes
5. Match the following :
(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, (a) Metaphysical poets
William Cowper, George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, (b) Transitional Poets Abraham Cowley, John Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, (c) War Poets Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, (d) Georgians John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
(I)(II)(III)(IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works. Identify the correctly matched group.
(I) Pale Fire (a) ThomasHardy
(II) The Sound and the Fury (b) Somerset Maugham
(III) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Faulkner
(IV) Under the Greenwood Tree (d) Tom Stoppard
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir Nabokov
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)
7. Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain “stage directions” in drama.
(A) Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
(B) The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters’ actions or tone of voice are indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
(D) Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached to a line of dialogue.
8. The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated with :
(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (c) & (d)
(C) (b) & (c)
(C) (b) & (c)
(D) (a) & (d)
9. Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are :
(A) The Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
10. The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel ?
(A) Mrs. Morland
(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs. Dashwood
9. Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are :
(A) The Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
10. The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel ?
(A) Mrs. Morland
(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs. Dashwood