UGC NET IN ENGLISH PAPER II DEC 2004

UGC NET IN ENGLISH

PAPER II DEC 2004

1 . In Langland's Piers the Plowman , Piers appears finally as :

The Good Samaritan

2 . It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all :

4 stories - 2 each on the way to and back

3 . Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by :

Shakespeare

4 . The total number of poems in Shakespeare'sSonnets is :

154

5 . Which of the following plays has a Machiavellian hero ? 

 Jew of Malta

6 . Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler ? 

Hudibras

7 . Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic couplets ? 

Il Penseroso

8 . Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve ? 

The Relapse

9 . Dryden's All for Love is an adaptation of :

Antony and Cleopatra

10 .Which of the following books proposes a political theory ?

Leviathan 

11 . Which of the following books is written by a woman ?

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

12 . Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?

A Tale of a Tub

13 . Which of the following is a 'Visionary " work by William Blake ?

Songs of Experience

14 . Pope's An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of :

Lord Bolingbroke

15 . Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal ?

The Vanity of Human Wishes

16 . The final version of Wordsworth's The Prelude appeared in :

1850

17 . "To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite " is written by "

Shelley

18 . " A thing of beauty is a joy forever " occurs in :

Endymion

19 . Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel ?

Northanger Abbey

20 . Who distinguished between "the literature of Knowledge and the literature of power " ?

Thomas de Quincey

21 . Who among the following Victorian poets is most  sensitive to the conflict between the old and the new?

Tennyson

22 . Under the Greenwood Tree is written by :

Thomas Hardy

23 . The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :

Bleak House

24 . The novel Mary Barton is written by :

Elizabeth Gaskell

25 . The line " Poetry is a criticism of life" occurs in :

The Study of Poetry

26 . Martha Quest was written by :

Doris Lessing

27 . The term "Steam of Consciousness " was taken from the book :

The Principles of Psychology 

28 . G.S. Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses on :

Symbols

29 . Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesmanrelies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of :

Willy Loman

30 . The character Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the novel :

Ulysses

31 . Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?

Michael Ondaatje

32 . Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in :

Judith Wright

33 . Margaret Atwood's Survival  makes a case for :

Canadian Nationalism

34 . V.S. Naipaul's latest book is :

Half a Life

35 . Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th century Spain as the starting point ?

The Moor's Last Sigh

36 . Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by :

Edward Albee

37 . Imamu Amiri Baraka is a  :

An American writer

38 . The Miscellany was published from :

The Writer's Workshop

39 . Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ?

Wole Soyinka

40 . Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks?

Nadine Gordimer

41 . New Criticism considers text as a :

Autotelic

42 . Mythologies was written by :

Roland Barthes

43 . The word 'Catharsis' signifies :

Purgation 

44 . The rejection of "Universalism" is a mark of :

Deconstruction

45 . Eliot's theory of " objective correlative " appeared in his essay entitled :

Hamlet And His Problems

46 . Sprung Rhythm is an example of :

Verse

47 . "More is thy due than more than all can pay " is an example of :

Inversion

48 . Unrhymed  metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called :

Blank Verse

49 . Verse stories dealing with chivalry , Knight , errantry , enchantments and love are known as :

 The metrical romances

50 . " He is a citizen of no mean city " is an example of :

Litotes