UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-24 (JUNE-2012-III)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-24 (JUNE-2012-III)

11. When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”, Hippocrene is :
(A) the fountain of the horse
(B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)

12. Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true ?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.

13. Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word he pronounced was – your name”.
Reason (R) : Marlow tells this lie because he is secretly in love with the Intended and tells her what she wants to hear.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by :
(a) composition
(b) dictation
(c) cloze tests
(d) listening exercises
(e) précis writing
(A) (c) and (e)
(B) (a), (c) and (e)
(C) (b), (c) and (d)
(D) (b) and (d)

15. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on _______.
(A) Holinshed’s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales and legends
(C) Older Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch’s Lives

16. The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in a hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds and the angels. This world view is known as :
(A) Humanism
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
(D) Calvinism

17. In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize :
(A) permanence at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.

18. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him ? It is very hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’ motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.

19. In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
(A) shy 

(B) timid
(C) voluptuous 

(D) sensuous

20. From the following list, identify “backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle, bundle.
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle