UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-25 (JUNE-2012-III)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-25 (JUNE-2012-III)
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What does it in this statement stand for ?(A) Marxism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism
(D) New Historicism
22. For, though, I’ve no idea. What this accoutred frowsty ____ is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank)
(A) bar
(B) barn
(C) attic
(C) attic
(D) alcove
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
24. Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas ?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara
25. In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by :
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) John Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker
26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called ?
(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known as “grammar”.
27. Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below :
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
28. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I List – II
(I) David Malouf (a) The Solid Mandala
(II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering Babylon
(IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of the Kelly Gang
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with :
(A) a kitchen – maid
(B) an English governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite
30. This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses”. It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical under reference is :
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London Magazine
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
24. Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas ?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara
25. In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by :
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) John Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker
26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called ?
(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known as “grammar”.
27. Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below :
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
28. Match List – I with List – II.
List – I List – II
(I) David Malouf (a) The Solid Mandala
(II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering Babylon
(IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of the Kelly Gang
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with :
(A) a kitchen – maid
(B) an English governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite
30. This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses”. It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical under reference is :
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London Magazine