UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-46 (DECEMBER-2007-II)

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-46 (DECEMBER-2007-II)

11. Identify the matching pair :
(A) Edward II : Zenocrate
(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas
(C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio
(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston

12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in :
(A) The Second Coming
(B) Circus Animals Desertion
(C) When You Are Old
(D) Leda and Swan

13. Inscape refers to :
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature
(B) The universal character of a natural thing
(C) The individuating character of a natural thing
(D) The moment of release from the material world

14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the 'success' myth ?
(A) A Zoo Story
(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(C) American Dream
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond our personal intelligence”. Who among the following is the author of the above lines?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Sri Aurobindo
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is :
(A) 99
(B) 47
(C) 112
(D) 108

17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern retelling of :
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Evelina
(C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) The Moonstone

18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare appeared in :
(A) 1752
(B) 1765
(C)1791
(D) 1760

19.The main character in Gogol's Dead Souls is :
(A) Oblomov
(B) Bazarov
(C) Alyosha
(D) Chichikov

20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an'upstart crow' by :
(A) Robert Greene
(B) Thomas Lodge
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) John Lyly

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