UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-35 (JUNE-2011-II)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-35 (JUNE-2011-II)
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s(A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
2. Who, among the following Indian writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai
3. Who among the following is not a formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde
5. Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennyson’s
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall”
7. There are two lists given below. Match the authors in List – I with their nationality in List – II by choosing the right option against the code.
List – I (Author) List – II (Nationality)
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
Code :
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
9. “The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.” – This claim for poetry is made in
(A) Arnold’s “The Study ofPoetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence ofPoetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology forPoetry”
(D) Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets
10. Which of the following is not about a dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island