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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-8 (D-2012) 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below : (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S. (B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published. (C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels. (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm. 22. The Enlightenment was characterized by (A) accelerated industrial production and general well– being of the public. (B) a belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation. (C) the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life. (D) an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will. 23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: “...there is

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-7 (D-2012) 11. Identify the correct statement below : (A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are tragedies. (B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle are comedies. (C) All of them are problem plays. (D) All of them are farces. 12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to (A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair (B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield (D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress 13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in (A) 1642 (B) 1640 (C) 1659 (D) 1660 14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge ? (A) Robert Southey (B) Sir Walter Scott (C) William Hazlitt (D) A. C. Swinburne 15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true ? 1. It carries a subtitle

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-6 (DECEMBER, 2012) 1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century: (A) Advancement of Learning (B) Gulliver’s Travels (C) The Spectator (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass ? (A) The Slough of Despond (B) Mount Helicon (C) The Valley of Humiliation (D) Vanity Fair 3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is (A) 1830–1900 (B) 1837–1901 (C) 1830–1901 (D) 1837–1900 4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ? (A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of th

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-5 41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem ? (A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense (B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! (C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving ? (D) The world is too much with us 42. “Politics and the English Language” is an essay by : (A) F.R. Leavis (B) Terry Eagleton (C) George Orwell (D) Raymond Williams 43. “The mind-forged manacles” is phrase from : (A) “London”  (B) “Eternity” (C) “A Poison Tree”  (D) “I Asked a Thief” 44. “He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ? (A

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3 21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written : (i) ‘Lycidas’ (ii) Arthur Hugh Clough (iii) ‘Adonais’ (iv) A.H. Hallam (v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King (vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats (A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi) (B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii); (v) - (ii) (C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii) (D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) - (iv) 22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on : (A) Jazz music (B) Disability sports (C)

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4 31. Prosody studies : (A) Line endings  (B) Meanings of words (C) Patterns of prose  (D) Metrics 32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ? (A) Everyman (B) Gorboduc (C) Romeo and Juliet (D) The Duchess of Malfi 33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ... (A) New Historicism  (B) New Aristotelianism (C) New Criticism  (D) The New Left 34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility. The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason ? (A) sixteenth century  (B) seventeenth century (C) eighteenth century  (D) nineteenth century 35. What is common to the following poems ? Wordsworth’s “The Recluse” Shelley’s “The Triumph of Life” Byron’s “Don Juan”

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2 11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism ? (i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive. (ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive. (iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern. (iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern. (A) (iii) (B) (iv) (C) (i) and (iv) (D) (ii) and (iii) 12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods. Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary Exam