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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-39 (JUNE-2011-II) 41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival, (A) Richard Flecknoe (B) Thomas Shadwell (C) John Wilmot (D) Matthew Prior 42. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for (A) attacking human vices and follies. (B) inciting the reading public. (C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes. (D) pleasing their women readers. 43. Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against (A) Charles Lamb (B) John Keats (C) Henry Hallam (D) Robert Southey 44. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was published in (A) 1790 (B) 1791 (C) 1792 (D) 1793 45. Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” was written in (A) 1647 (B) 1649 (C) 1650 (D) 1648 46. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is about (A) a perilous adventure in the sea (B) the accidental killing of an octopus (C) the curse of a sea God (D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner 47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by (A) ...

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-37 (JUNE-2011-II) 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of (A) Gothic fiction (B) Romance (C) Comic fiction (D) Bildungsroman 22. “The City of Dreadful Night”, a long poem depicting the late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency, is written by (A) Matthew Arnold (B) Robert Browning (C) James Thomson (D) John Davidson 23. Which of the following novels by V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad ? (A) The Mystic Masseur (B) A Bend in the River (C) A House for Mr. Biswas (D) The Mimic Men 24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named (A) Luck  (B) Shock (C) Pluck  (D) Muck 25. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by (A) John Fowles (B) Doris Lessing (C) Kingsley Amis (D) Irish Murdoch 26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of (A) Norman Mailer (B) Saul Bellow (C) Philip Roth (D) Bernard Malamud 27. Plato censured poetry because he believed it (A) eliminates the ego. (B) promot...

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 ...