UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-42 (DECEMBER-2009-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-42 (DECEMBER-2009-II)


21. “A trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for
(A) Everyman in His Humour 
(B) Blythe Spirit
(C) The Way of the World 
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest.

22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ?
“In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/Teach the free man how to praise.”
(A) In Memoriam 
(B) Thyrsis
(C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” 
(D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot”

23. The Temple is a collection of poems by
(A) Thomas Carew 
(B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert 
(D) Richard Crashaw

24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday

25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called?
(A) Lamia 
(B) Hyperion 
(C) Il Penseroso 
(D) Thyrsis

26. Match the character with the novel :
1. Caddy                                       2. Lennie
3. Jake Barnes                             4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The Sound and the Fury        6. Of Mice and Men
7. The Sun Also Rises                 8. Seize the Day
Codes :
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 
(B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8

27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement?
(A) Allen Ginsberg 
(B) Mark Beard
(C) Isaac McCaslih 
(D) Charles Beard

28. “The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War. Who called them “The Lost Generation”?
(A) H.L. Mencken 
(B) Willa Cather
(C) Jack London 
(D) Gertrude Stein

29. Hyperbole is___
1. an extravagant exaggeration 
2. a racist slur
3. a metrical skill 
4. a figure of speech
(A) 1 is correct 
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct 
(D) 3 is correct

30. “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson 
(B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed 
(D) Partha Chatterjee

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