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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-23 (JUNE-2012-III) 1. In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes (a) the fox and the vulture (b) the fly and the cockroach (c) the fly, the crow and the raven (d) the fox, the vulture and the goat (A) (a) and (b) are correct. (B) only (d) is correct. (C) (b) and (d) are correct. (D) (a) and (c) are correct. 2. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______. (A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions. (B) an essay that propounds an anti essentialist view of place. (C) an existential lament on triumphant colonialism. (D) an orientalist description of his favourite homelands. 3. Identify the incorrect statement below : (a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to about 1940. (b) Expanded, BASIC read : Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course. (c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850. (d) While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an expe

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-22 (JUNE-2012-II) 41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of (A) Bathos (B) Epistrophe (C) Chiasmus (D) Anti-climax 42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ? (A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems. (B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women. (C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin. (D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor 43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of (A) only gender (B) only class (C) both class and gender (D) only patriarchy 44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer ? (A) Oscar Wilde (B) Oliver Goldsmith (C) Edmund Burke (D) Thomas Gray 45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after (A) The Restoration (B) The Glorious Revolution (C) The Reformation (D) The French Revolution 46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stop

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-21 (JUNE-2012-II) 31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true. (A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936. (B) He was born in India but schooled in England. (C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma. (D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads. 32. What is the correct combination of the following ? I. Balachandra Rajan         a. The Tamarind Tree II. R. K. Narayan                b. The Coffer Dams III. Kamala Markandaya   c. The Dark Dancer IV. Romen Basu                   d. The Dark Room (A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b (B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c (C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b (D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b 33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem. (A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley (B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten (C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell (D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys 34

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-20 (JUNE-2012-II) 21.             List – I                                             List – II 1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius    I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic” 2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge.          II.Sidney, Defence/An Apology for Poetry 3. Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object        III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads 4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done IV. Coleridge,Biographia Literaria         1   2   3 4 (A) IV III I II (B) II IV III I (C) III II I IV (D) IV II I III 22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India ? (A) A Tramp Abroad (B) Roughing It (C) The Innocents Abroad (D) Following the Equator 23. William Blake’s f

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-19 (JUNE-2012-II) 11.                    List – I                                     List – II I. “Because I could not stop for death…”a. Robert Frost II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”               b. William CarlosWilliams III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….” c. Emily Dickinson IV. “So much depends /upon”                 d. Walt Whitman The correctly matched series would be : (A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a (B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c (D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b 12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are (A) comic (B) solemn (C) hortatory (D) irony 13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics ? (A) bench (B) night club (C) house (D) park 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards w

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-18 (JUNE-2012-II) 1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term : (A) aporia (B) difference (C) erasure (D) supplement 2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love? (A) Harold Pinter (B) Alan Bennett (C) Caryl Churchill (D) Tom Stoppard 3. Arrange the following in the chronological order : 1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women 2. Lyrical Ballads 3. French Revolution 4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (A) 4, 3, 1, 2 (B) 3, 2, 1, 2 (C) 1, 2, 4, 3 (D) 2, 1, 3, 4 4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story ? (A) Sons and Lovers (B) Ulysses (C) The Power and the Glory (D) Heart of Darkness 5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as (A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn (B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporari

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-17 61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels. Pick the odd one out : (A) Fanny Robin (B) Tess D’Urberville (C) Marty South (D) Bathsheba Everdene 62. What is the following a description of ? ‘a loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’ (A) Essay (B) Autobiography (C) Epistolary Fiction (D) Diary 63. From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic : (A) Allen Tate (B) Robert Penn Warren (C) Cleanth Brooks (D) Claude Levi-Strauss 64. From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels : (A) Ila (B) Urvashi (C) Sonali (D) Piyali 65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group : (A) Ranajit Guha (B) Partha Chatterjee (C) Dipesh Chakrabarty (D) Sumit Sarkar 66. Statement (S) : “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.” Interpretation (I) : The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human l