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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-44 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 41. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies’. Identify the writer. (A) Chinua Achebe  (B) V.S. Naipaul (C) Salman Rushdie  (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo 42. “Magic Realism” is closely associated with (A) Italo Calvino  (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (C) Anita Desai   (D) Rohinton Mistry 43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction? (A) Kamala Markandya  (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee  (D) Amitav Ghosh 44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel? (A) Train to Pakistan  (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column (C) The Shadow Lines  (D) In Custody 45. Which of the following options is correct? (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement. (ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century. (iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and t

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-43 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 31. The New Historicists include (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose  (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg  (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey 32. Wallace Stevens’ “The Man with the Blue Guitar” may be linked to the work of the following artist: (A) Modigliani  (B) Chagall  (C) Picasso  (D) Cezanne 33. The author of Gender Trouble is (A) Elaine Showalter  (B) Helene Cixous (C) Michele Barrett  (D) Judith Butler 34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by (A) Michel Foucault  (B) Jacques Lacan (C) Julia Kristeva  (D) Roland Barthes 35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ? (A) Frankenstein  (B) Northanger Abbey (C) Castle of Otranto  (D) Mysteries of Udolfo 36. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to (A) The narrator of “Goblin Market” (B) Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting (C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (D) Bertha Mason of J

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-42 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 21. “A trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for (A) Everyman in His Humour  (B) Blythe Spirit (C) The Way of the World  (D) The Importance of Being Earnest. 22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ? “In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/Teach the free man how to praise.” (A) In Memoriam  (B) Thyrsis (C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”  (D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot” 23. The Temple is a collection of poems by (A) Thomas Carew  (B) Robert Herrick (C) George Herbert  (D) Richard Crashaw 24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday 25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called? (A) Lamia  (B) Hyperion  (C) Il Penseroso  (D) Thyrsis 26. Match the

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-41 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ? (A) The Well of Loneliness  (B) Maurice (C) Orlando  (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is (A) a response to a major political uprising (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne (D) an ode to his native country 13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is (A) A structuralist study of narrative (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism (C) A study of the media (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence 14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism? (A) J.A. Froude  (B) Charles Kingsley (C) J.S. Mill  (D) Cardinal Newman 15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to (A) The literature written by the labour class. (B) The literature of England extolling living conditions. (C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes. (D) The

UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-40 (DECEMBER-2009-II) 1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is (A) Juvenal  (B) Aristophanes  (C) Plautus  (D) Terence 2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines. (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria. (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in (A) 1922  (B) 1920  (C) 1918  (D) 1912 4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary? (A) Thomas Chatterton  (B) John Gower (C) Thomas Shadwell  (D) John Gay 5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott? (A) Ivanhoe  (B) Lady of the Lake (C) Heart of Midlothian  (D) The English Mail Coach 6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by (A) Edward Said  (B) Paul Gilroy (C) Abdul R. Gurnah  (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 7. The earliest tract on feminism is (A) Simone d

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) promotes sensua