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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-36 (JUNE-2011-II) 11. Who among the following is not associated with the translation of the Bible ? (A) Miles Coverdale (B) William Tyndale (C) John Wycliffe (D) Thomas Browne 12. Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are structured. Use the code given below : I. Denouement II. Conflict III. Exposition IV. Climax Code : (A) III, II, IV, I (B) III, IV, II, I (C) II, IV, III, I (D) II, IV, I, III 13. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by (A) John Milton (B) William Blake (C) Gerald Manley Hopkins (D) Matthew Arnold 14. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was (A) John Bunyan (B) Jeremy Collier (C) William Wycherley (D) John Vanbrugh 15. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde : (A) A Woman of No Importance (B) The Importance of Being Earnest (C) Saints and Sinners (D) An Ideal Husband 16. Put the following novels by...

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...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-37 (JUNE-2011-II) 31. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyce’s (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (B) Dubliners (C) Ulysses (D) Exiles 32. Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay. (A) “The Metaphysical Poets” (B) “Hamlet” (C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (D) “Dante” 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year (A) 1995 (B) 1996 (C) 1997 (D) 1998 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, “An Address to the Irish People” was composed by (A) W.B. Yeats (B) P.B. Shelley (C) Jonathan Swift (D) G.B. Shaw 35. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological sequence ? (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World (B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World (C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India 36. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is w...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-34 (DECEMBER-2011-II) 41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an (A) African-American writer (B) American-Jewish writer (C) American-Indian writer (D) American-Asian writer 42. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has (A) three Acts  (B) five Acts (C) four Acts  (D) two Acts 43. James Joyce’s Exiles is a (A) Short Story  (B) Poem (C) Play  (D) Novel 44. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" – is the opening sentence of (A) Ulysses (B) Nostromo (C) Chrome Yellow (D) Nineteen Eighty-Four 45. The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams is (A) Man As He Is Not (B) Man As He Is (C) Things As They Are (D) The Pupil of Nature 46. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ? (A) Helene Cixous (B) Monica Wittig (C) Simone de Beauvoir (D) Luce Irigaray 47. “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a longer essay by (A) G. Wilson Knight (B) A. C. Bradley (C) Thomas De Quincey (...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-33 (DECEMBER-2011-II) 31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ? (A) Endymion (B) The Fall of Hyperion (C) The Eve of St. Agnes (D) Lamia 32. Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code given below : List – I                                   List – II I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The Vanity of Human Wishes II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield III. Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The Beggar’s Opera Code : I II III IV (A) 1 4 3 2 (B) 2 4 1 3 (C) 3 2 4 1 (D) 4 3 ...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-32 (DECEMBER-2011-II) 21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by (A) Robert Greene (B) Thomas Deloney (C) Thomas Nashe (D) Thomas Lodge 22. Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ? (A) George Villiers (B) John Marston (C) John Webster (D) Thomas Middleton 23. The author of Nation and Narration is (A) Edward Said (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Homi Bhabha 24. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ? (A) Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller (B) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (D) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela 25. The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with (A) D. H. Lawrence (B) James Joyce (C) E. M. Forster (D) Virginia Woolf 26. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ? (A) The Stone Angel (B) No Fixed Address (C) The Edible Woman (D) Half breed 27. The expression “murderous innoce...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-31 (DECEMBER-2011-II) 11. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features ? (A) Doctor Faustus (B) Edward II (C) Hero and Leander (D) Tamburlaine 12. Sir Fopling is a character in (A) Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer (B) Congreve’s The Way of theWorld (C) Etherege’s The Man of Mode (D) Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers 13. Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on” ? (A) Clara Reeve (B) Maria Edgeworth (C) Frances Burney (D) Jane Austen 14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel (A) When Rain Clouds Gather (B) The Mimic Men (C) Things Fall Apart (D) The Interpreters 15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called (A) Trochee (B) Iambic (C) Spondee (D) Terza Rima 16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales ? (A) Meekness (B) Defiance (C) Chastity (D) Experience 17. Put the following books...