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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-50 (DECEMBER-2006-II) 1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from : (A) Hamlet  (B) Macbeth (C) The Tempest  (D) King Lear 2. Pecola is a character in : (A) The Bluest Eye  (B) Oliver Twist (C) Don Quixote  (D) Beloved 3. Which of the following was associated with the “Bloomsbury Group”. (A) T. S. Eliot  (B) W. B. Yeats (C) T. E. Hulme  (D) Virginia Woolf 4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot : (A) Jerry  (B) Lucky  (C) Jimmy Porter  (D) Ham 5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” : (A) Herbert  (B) Marvell  (C) Donne   (D) Crashaw 6. The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is : (A) “Voyage to Houyhnhnms”   (B) “Voyage to Laputa” (C) “Voyage to Brobdingnag”  (D) “Voyage to Lilliput” 7. Who edited The Tatler : (A) Steele and John Locke  (B) Addison and Dryden (C) Addison and Blackmore...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-49 (DECEMBER-2007-II) 41.Which famous English novel opens with a young woman who is 'handsome, clever and rich' ? (A) Middlemarch (B) Wuthering Heights (C) Moll Flanders (D) Emma 42.It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I “Milton belongs to the Devil's party without knowing it”. Who among the following made this statement ? (A) Frank Kermode (B) William Empson (C) C.S. Lewis (D) William Blake 43.Live Like Pigs is : (A) a humorous poem by Pope (B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell (C) a play by Arden (D) a satirical sketch by Swift 44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings'. From which section of Eliot's The Waste Land are the above lines taken ? (A) A Game of Chess (B) What the Thunder Said (C) Burial of the Dead (D) Fire Sermon 45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe's African Trilogy ? (A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer At Ease (B) No Longer At Ease ...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-48 (DECEMBER-2007-II) 31.John Keats's poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' was composed in : (A)1818 (B) 1819 (C)1820 (D) 1821 32.The Female Quixote was written by : (A)Henry Fielding (B)Tobias Smollett (C) Charlotte Lennox (D) Aphra Behn 33. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ? (A) Thom Gunn (B) Alan Lewis (C)Edward Thomas (D) Seamus Heaney 34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is : (A) a poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb (B) an elegy by William Wordsworth (C) an essay by Charles Lamb (D) an essay by William Hazlitt 35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by : (A) Kingsley Amis (B) Alan Sillitoe (C) John Braine (D) John Osborne 36.In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ? (A) Baudelaire (B)Mallarme (C)Verlaine (D)Apollinaire 37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a thre...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-47 (DECEMBER-2007-II) 21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway called ? (A) Clarissa (B) Hours (C)The Big Ben (D)The Party 22. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre ? (A) No Telephone to Heaven (B) Wide Sargasso Sea (C) Crick Crack Monkey (D) Between Two Worlds 23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used by : (A) Ben Jonson (B) Dr. Johnson (C) Helen Gardner (D) Dryden 24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a novel by : (A) George Orwell (B) Joseph Conrad (C) D.H. Lawrence (D) E.M. Forster 25. The expression “Thy hand, great Anarch” occurs in a satire by : (A) Dryden (B) Pope (C) Johnson (D)Swift 26.In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ? (A) The Heart of the Matter (B) The Power and the Glory (C) Brighton Rock (D) The Quiet American 27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind' is : (A) Rochester (B)Dryden (C)Gray (D) Sw...

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...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER 45 (DECEMBER-2007-II) 1.The author of The Provok'd Husband was : (A) Etherege (B) Colley Cibber (C)Wycherley (D) Vanbrugh 2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ ? (A) Piggy (B) Ralph (C) Jack (D) Simon 3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's novel Tristram Shandy is: (A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (C) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 4. Feminine ending refers to : (A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse (B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable (C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable (D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse 5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is written by : (A) Michel Foucault (B) Jacques Derrida (C) Roland Barthes (D) Alvin Kernan 6. Salman Rush...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-44 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 41. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies’. Identify the writer. (A) Chinua Achebe  (B) V.S. Naipaul (C) Salman Rushdie  (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo 42. “Magic Realism” is closely associated with (A) Italo Calvino  (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (C) Anita Desai   (D) Rohinton Mistry 43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction? (A) Kamala Markandya  (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee  (D) Amitav Ghosh 44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel? (A) Train to Pakistan  (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column (C) The Shadow Lines  (D) In Custody 45. Which of the following options is correct? (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement. (ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century. (iii) It was a reaction...