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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-30 (DECEMBER-2011-II) 1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by (A) William Wordsworth (B) Robert Southey (C) John Clare (D) Thomas Gray 2. Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms is divided into (A) two books (B) three books (C) four books (D) five books 3. “Panopticism” is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by (A) Roman Jakobson (B) Jacques Lacan (C) Michel Foucault (D) Jacques Derrida 4. The lines, “She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:/Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five”, are an example of (A) blank verse (B) clerihew (C) heroic couplet (D) free verse 5. Who, among the following women writers, famously imagined the plight of Shakespeare’s sister ? (A) George Eliot (B) Virginia Woolf (C) Irish Murdoch (D) Frances Burney 6. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response. Assertion (A) : Dickens’s novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’. Reason (R) : They are called so, because Dicke

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-29 (JUNE-2012-III) 61. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday. (b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system (c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language. (d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language. (A) (d) is correct. (B) (b) is correct. (C) (a) and (c) are correct. (D) (c) and (d) are correct. 62. In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read : “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur ? (A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write. 63. Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and translations. (I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana (II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad Gita (III) Mohini Chatterjee

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-28 (JUNE-2012-III) 51. Based on the following description, identify the text in reference : This is a play in which no one comes, no one goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a man struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally written in French, later translated into English. It was first performed in 1953. (A) Look Back in Anger (B) Waiting for Godot (C) The Zoo Story (D) The Birthday Party 52. One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify. (A) The Pardoner’s Tale (B) The Parson’s Tale (C) The Monk’s Tale (D) The Knight’s Tale 53. In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following : (a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate. (b) it has aggregative and associative power. (c) it plays with fixities and definites. (d) it has shaping and modifying power. The correct combination reads : (A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination. (B) (a) and (c) for fanc

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-27 (JUNE-2012-III) 41. Goethe’s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens in : (A) heaven  (B) hell (C) forest  (D) Faust’s study 42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines what does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does the poet speak of ? I. Human beings and their intelligence II. The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey IV. All the above (A) Only III is correct. (B) Only IV is correct. (C) I and II are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 43. Find the odd (wo)man out : Belladonna – Eugenides – The Typist – Marie – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber – Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular (A) Belladonna (B) Madame Sosostris (C) Tiresias (D) The ruin – bibber 44. Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the stor

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-26 (JUNE-2012-III) 31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time. Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct ? (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A). (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A). (C) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) (A) is false but (R) is true. 32. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism : (a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age. (b) Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work. (c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing !” (d) Appeared in 1701. (A) (c) and (d) are incorrect. (B) (a) and (b) are incorrect. (C) (a) to (d) are correct. (D) only (a) and (d) are correct. 3

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-25 (JUNE-2012-III) 21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What does it in this statement stand for ? (A) Marxism (B) Structuralism (C) Formalism (D) New Historicism 22. For, though, I’ve no idea. What this accoutred frowsty ____ is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank) (A) bar  (B) barn (C) attic  (D) alcove 23. Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel ? (A) Azadi (B) Tamas (C) Clear Light of the Day (D) That Long Silence 24. Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas ? (A) Raghu (B) Ralph Singh (C) Dehuti (D) Tara 25. In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by : (A) Matthew Gregory Lewis (B) John Polidori (C) John Stagg (D) Bram Stoker 26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called ? (A) It is a set of basic gram

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-24 (JUNE-2012-III) 11. When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”, Hippocrene is : (A) the fountain of the horse (B) a spring sacred to the Muses (C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of Pegasus (D) Both (A) & (B) 12. Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true ? (a) The Prelude was published posthumously. (b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet. (c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature. (d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume. (A) (a) to (d) are true. (B) (a) is not true. (C) (d) is not true. (D) Only (c) is true. 13. Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended about Kurtz when he tells her “The las