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UGC/NTA - NETENGLISH LITERATURE

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December 1994 Paper II

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December 1994 Paper II

1. The renaissance started in A) Italy

B) France

C) England

D) Germany

2. The line 'The paths of glory lead but to

the grave' occurs in

A) Shakespeare

B) Herbert

C) Pope

D) Gray

3. By 'character' Aristotle means

A) Personages in drama

B) Cause of action

C) Combination of incidents in drama

D) Particular nature of drama

4. 'Amor Vincit Omnia' in Chaucer's The

Prologue means

A) Love conquers nothing

B) Love conquers all

C) Love is blind

D) Love is fatal

5. The sonnet form was introduced in

England by

A) Shakespeare

B) Philip Sidney

C) Wyatt

D) John Skelton

6. Which one of the following novels of

Dickens is based on his own life?

A) Nicholas Nickleby

B) Great Expectations

C) Hard Times

D) David Copperfield

7. Dryden in 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy'

rejects 'tragi-comedy' because

A) It is an innovative form

B) It violates the unity of tone

C) It is a poor imitation of French drama

D) It was practiced only by the Ancients

8. What is the sub-title of „The Prelude‟?

A) An autobiography

B) A preface to my life

C) Growth of a poet's mind

D) A poet's story

9. The line 'Love is not Time's fool' occurs

in a sonnet by:

A) John Keats

B) Philip Sidney

C) John Donne

D) William Shakespeare

10. The Renaissance is written by

A) Walter Pater

B) Mathew Arnold

C) I A Richards

D) George Saintsbury

11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says

A) The good is always encouraged

B) The good is not particularly encouraged

nor evil disapproved

C) The evil is often triumphant

D) There is no moral purpose

12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title

of

A. Clarissa Harlowe

B) She Stoops to Conquer

C) Joseph Andrews

D) The Way of the World

13. The Romantic Age in England is

distinguished for its

A) Verse drama

B) Political prose

C) Horror novels

D) Lyrical poetry

14. Who among the following was not a

member of the 'pre-Raphaelite

Brotherhood'?

A) Oscar Wilde

B) William Holman Hunt

C) John Everett Millais

D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is

A) an attack on Catholicism

B) denunciation of Protestantism

C) a defence of the author's stand

D) a defence of religious values

23. Who is the author of 'Journal of the

Plague Year'?

A) Richard Steele

B) Daniel Defoe

C) Joseph Addison

D) Samuel Pepys

24. The Chartist Movement sought

A) Recognition of chartered trading

companies

B) Political rights for women

C) Protection of the political rights of the

middle class

D) Extension of the political rights to the

working class

25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

is written by

A) William Hazlitt

B) S.T Coleridge

C) Charles Lamb

D) De Quincey

26. The dictum 'only connect' is central to

the writings of

A) Aldous Huxley

B) Virginia Woolf

C) E.M Forster

D) D.H Lawrence

27. The criterion of Leavis's Great

Tradition is

A) moral purpose

B) sublime subject matter

C) reader-response

D) truth to life

28. Free trade signifies

A) trade without government control

B) trade with only government control

C) freedom to trade in all commodities

D) freedom to export anything

15. Eliot's 'Objective correlative' signifies

the writer's ability to

A) relatively delineate his objectives

B) relate different objects

C) correlate objects and events

D) objectify the desired states of mind

16. Which one of the following is a

Cavalier poet?

A) Herbert

B) Donne

C) Herrick

D) Marvell

17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death

of:

A) W.B Yeats

B) John Keats

C) P.B Shelly

D) Wordsworth

18. Which one of the following is not a

Lake Poet?

A) Wordsworth

B) Coleridge

C) Southey

D) Shelley

19. 'Negative Capability' is

A) The ability to overcome unpleasant

experience

B) A passive subordination to experience

C) A subjective response to experience

D) depersonalized empathy with experience

20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart

Mill, is necessary for the

1) cultivation of the genius

B) success of democracy

C) intellectual enrichment of the society

D) evolution of State

21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing”

is taken from

A) Alexander Pope

B) John Dryden

C) William Shakespeare

D) Jonathan Swift

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29. In 'Culture and Anarchy', Mathew

Arnold recommends

A) adoption of Hellenism

B) adoption of Hebraism

C) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism

D) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism

30. Lamia is a poem by

A) Rossetti

B) Shelley

C) Keats

D) Spenser

31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on

the deserted Island?

A) 12 years and 9 days

B) 28 years and 2 months

C) 16 years

D) 21 years and 2 months

32. In which year did the Great Exhibition

take place?

A) 1851

B) 1857

C) 1861

D) 1871

33. Yeats' Leda and the Swan drawn upon

A) An oriental myth

B) East European myth

C) Celtic myth

D) A Greek myth

34. The source of E.M Forster's title Where

Angels Fear to Tread is

A) Pope

B) Dryden

C) Milton

D) Donne

35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre

cannot hold” occur in

A) Byzantium

B) Gerontion

C) Second Coming

D) Sailing to Byzantium

36. The 'Movement' is a literary

phenomenon in the

A) Thirties

B) Forties

C) Fifties

D) Sixties

37. John Donne 'affects the metaphysics'.

This remark was made by

A) Samuel Johnson

B) Allen Tate

C) T.S Eliot

D) John Dryden

38. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are

of imagination all compact”. These lines

occur in

A) Twelfth Night

B) A Midsummer Night's dream

C) As You Like It

D) The Tempest

39. Alexander's Feast is

A) A mock epic by Alexander Pope

B) A play by Dryden

C) A play by Marlow

D) an Ode by Dryden

40. Who said this: “Life is not a luminous

halo, a semi-transparent envelope”?

A) Dorothy Richardson

B) James Joyce

C) Henry James

D) Virginia Woolf

41. In which book of Gulliver's Travels

does Balnibarbi find a mention?

A) “Laputa”

B) “Lilliput”

C) “Houyhnhnms”

D) “Borbdingnag”

42. The phrase 'Sweetness and Light' was

first used by

A) Dr. Johnson

B) Keats

C) Mathew Arnold

D) Swift

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43. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is

A) an autobiography

B) a fictional narrative

C) a biography

D) a fictional biography

44. Hopkins's Curtal Sonnet consists of

A) 14 lines

B) 101/2lines

C) 131/2 lines

D) 12 1/2lines

45. God is referred to as the 'president of

Immortals” in

A) The Paradise Lost

B) Tess

C) Ulysses

D) The White Devil

46. Osborne's Look Back in Anger was first

staged in

A) 1956

B) 1957

C) 1958

D) 1960

47. Maurya is a character in

A) She Stoops to Conquer

B) Volpone

C) Riders to the Sea

D) The Golden Gate

48. Which of the following is a poet as well

as a painter?

A) Tennyson

B) Keats

C) Shelley

D) Rossetti

49. Which English poet referred to Oxford

as “that sweet city with her dreaming

spires”?

A) Robert Graves

B) Matthew Arnold

C) W. H Auden

D) Alexander Pope

50. “Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She

died young” – this was said by

A) Hamlet about Ophelia

B) Othello about Desdemona

C) Lear about Cordelia

D) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi.

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