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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 of

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