UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-41 (DECEMBER-2009-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-41 (DECEMBER-2009-II)

11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ?
(A) The Well of Loneliness 
(B) Maurice
(C) Orlando 
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol

12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is
(A) a response to a major political uprising
(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school
(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) an ode to his native country

13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is
(A) A structuralist study of narrative
(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
(C) A study of the media
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence

14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism?
(A) J.A. Froude 
(B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill 
(D) Cardinal Newman

15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to
(A) The literature written by the labour class.
(B) The literature of England extolling living conditions.
(C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.
(D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad.

16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to
(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Poetics
(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English.
(A) Gujarati 
(B) Bengali 
(C) Marathi 
(D) Kannada

18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size :
1. epic 
2. epigram 
3. stanza 
4. sonnet
(A) 1 2 3 4 
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1 
(D) 1 3 4 2

19. “Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?” These lines are from
(A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra” 
(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi”
(C) “Caliban upon Setebos” 
(D) “The Last Ride Together”

20. Dr. Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” expresses
(A) Epicureanism 
(B) Humanism 
(C) Stoicism 
(D) Cynicism

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