English literature solved Mcqs set 1

*1⃣Who used first the term* "Metaphysics"?

A.Dr. Johnson

B.John Donne✅

2⃣The most impressive treatment of 'imagination' has been given by:

A.Coleridge✅

B.Keats

3⃣'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was banned because it was considered:

A.Obscene✅

B.Obscurantist

4⃣Who said: 'I awoke one morning and found myself famous'

A.Byron✅

B.Keats

5⃣"Paradise Regained" comprises:

A.4 books✅

B.12 books

6⃣Estella is a character in:

A.Great Expectations✅

B.A Tale of Two Cities

7⃣'Animal Farm' was written by:

A. George Orwell✅

B. Hemmingway

8⃣Bernard Shaw got the Nobel prize for:

A.Saint joan✅

B.Man and Superman✅

👉🏻Not for any specific work.

9⃣The most famous writer of the 'Heroic Couplet' is:

A.Pope✅

B.Dryden

1⃣0⃣Who wrote 'Cries of Children'?

A. Elizabeth Barrett✅

B. Robert Browning UGC Net English December 2012 Paper 2 Solved

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Paper – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)

marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. Identify the work below that does

not belong to the literature of the

eighteenth century:

(A) Advancement of Learning

(B) Gulliver’s Travels

(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Answer:(A)

2. Which, among the following, is a

place through which John Bunyan’s

Christian does NOT pass ?

(A) The Slough of Despond

(B) Mount Helicon

(D) Vanity Fair

Answer:(B)

3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign

(A) 1830–1900

(B) 1837–1901

(D) 1837–1900

Answer:(B)

4. Which of the following statements

about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT

true ?

(A) It carried only one ballad

proper, which was Coleridge’s

The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner.

(B) It also carried pastoral and

other poems.

Wordsworth added in 1800.

(D) It also printed from Gray’s

Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard.

Answer:(D)

5. One of the following texts was

published earlier than 1955. Identify

the text:

(A) William Golding, The

Inheritors

(B) Philip Larkin, The Less

Deceived

Poems

(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for

Godot

Answer:(D)

6. Who among the poets in England

during the 1930s had left–leaning

tendencies ?

(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,

Richard Aldington

(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried

Sassoon, Rupert Brooke

Cecil Day Lewis

(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies,

Edward Marsh

Answer:(C)

7. Match the following :

1. The Sage of 5. Emily Dickinson

Concord

2. The Nun of 6. R.W. Emerson

Amherst

3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot

4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens

(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7

(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8

(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6

Answer:(A)

8. Name the theorist who divided poets

into “strong” and “weak” and

popularized the practice of

misreading:

(A) Alan Bloom

(B) Harold Bloom

(D) Stanley Fish

Answer:(B)

9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope

repeatedly compares Belinda to

(A) the sun

(B) the moon

(D) the rose

Answer:(A)

10. Which of the following awards is not

given to Indian–English writers ?

(A) The Booker Prize

(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award

(D) Whitbread Prize

Answer:(X)

11. Identify the correct statement below :

(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while

Ralph Roister Doister and

Gammer Gurton’s Needle are

tragedies.

(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while

Ralph Roister Doister and

Gammer Gurton’s Needle are

comedies.

(D) All of them are farces.

Answer:(B)

12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes

its title to

(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair

(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of

Venice

(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Answer:(D)

13. The Puritans shut down all theaters

in England in

(A) 1642

(B) 1640

(D) 1660

Answer:(A)

14. Who of the following was not a

contemporary of Wordsworth and

Coleridge ?

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Sir Walter Scott

(D) A. C. Swinburne

Answer:(D)

15. Which of the following statements

about Waiting for Godot is NOT

true ?

1. It carries a subtitle: “a

tragicomedy in two acts”.

2. It carries a subtitle: “a

tragicomedy in two scenes”.

3. It carries a subtitle: “a

tragicomedy in two parts”.

4. It does not carry a subtitle.

(A) 4 (B) 2

Answer:(X)

16. The Bloomsbury Group included

British intellectuals, critics, writers

and artists. Who among the

following belonged to the

Bloomsbury Group ?

I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton

Strachey

II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive

Bell

III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth

IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James,

Walter Pater

(A) I and II

(B) I

(D) IV

Answer:(A)

17. Who, among the following is

credited with the making of the first

authoritative Dictionary of the

English Language ?

(A) Bishop Berkeley

(B) Samuel Johnson

(D) Horace Walpole

Answer:(B)

18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic

Poesy (1668), who opens the

discussion on behalf of the ancients ?

(A) Lisideius

(B) Crites

(D) Neander

Answer:(B)

19. The term invective refers to

(A) the abusive writing or speech

in which there is harsh

denunciation of some person or

thing.

(B) an insulting writing attack upon

a real person, in verse or prose,

usually involving caricature

and ridicule.

which an apparently

straightforward statement or

event is undermined in its

context so as to give it a very

different significance.

(D) the chanting or reciting of

words deemed to have magical

power.

Answer:(A)

20. Which of the following novels

depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi

immigrants in East London ?

(A) How far can you go

(B) The White Teeth

(D) Brick Lane

Answer:(D)

21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial

year for two important writers in

England. Identify the correct phrase

below :

(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden

who left England for the U. S.

(B) For Eliot who started

publishing verse–drama, for

Hardy whose Wessex Poems

were published.

Graham Greene, each for

publishing his first novels.

(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel

Prize and Orwell who

published his Animal Farm.

Answer:(A)

22. The Enlightenment was characterized

(A) accelerated industrial

production and general well–

being of the public.

(B) a belief in the universal

authority of reason and

emphasis on scientific

experimentation.

compliance with Christian

values of life.

(D) an undue faith in predestination

and neglect of free will.

Answer:(B)

23. Which Shakespearean play contains

the line: “...there is a special

providence in the fall of a sparrow” ?

(A) King Lear

(B) Hamlet

(D) Macbeth

Answer:(B)

24. Match the following pairs of books

and authors :

Books Authors

I. Condition of i. John Ruskin

the Working

Class in

England

II. London ii. Henry Mayhew

Labour and

the London

Poor

III. Past and iii. Thomas Carlyle

Present

IV. The Unto iv. Friedrich Engels

This Last

Codes :

I II III IV

(A) iv i ii iii

(B) iv ii iii i

(D) iii ii iv iv

Answer:(B)

25. In which of the following texts do

Aston, Davies and Mick appear as

characters ?

(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy

(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker

Ma Parker”

(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton

Rock

Answer:(B)

26. What is common to the following

writers ? Identify the correct

description below :

William Congreve

George Etherege

William Wycherley

Thomas Otway

(A) All of these were Restoration

playwrights

(B) All of them were critics of

Orwell’s regime

Shakespeare’s plays

(D) All of them wrote tragedies in

the same age

Answer:(A)

27. In which Jane Austen novel do you

find the characters Anne Elliott,

Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and

Captain Wentworth ?

(A) Emma

(B) Mansfield Park

(D) Northanger Abbey

Answer:(C)

28. In which of his essays does Homi

Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of

English in colonial India ?

(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”

(B) “Mimicry”

(D) “The Commitment to Theory”

Answer:(A)

29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence

in English.

(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti

(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and

Stella

(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s

Mirror

Answer:(B)

30. Which is the correct sequence of the

novels of V.S.Naipaul ?

(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel

Street–The Suffrage of Elvira –

A House for Mr. Biswas.

(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic

Masseur – A House for

Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of

Elvira.

Miguel Street – The Mystic

Masseur – A House for

Mr. Biswas.

(D) The Mystic Masseur – The

Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel

Street – A House for

Mr, Biswas.

Answer:(D)

31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from

(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His

Pilgrimage

(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages

(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

Answer:(A)

32. Which of the following author–

theme is correctly matched ?

(A) The Battle of Tribute to “The rude forefathers

the Books of the hamlet”.

(B) The Rape of Quarrel between ancient and

the Lock modern authors.

“Elegy” consequent loss of human lives

and values.

(D) The Quarrel between two

Deserted families caused by Lord Petre.

Village

Answer:(X)

33. Which among the following titles set

a course for academic literary

feminism ?

(A) Nostromo

(B) From Ritual to Romance

(D) A Dance to the Music of Time

Answer:(C)

34. In which play do we see a reworking

of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India

as a camaeo ?

(A) The Birthday Party

(B) A Resounding Tinkle

(D) Amadeus

Answer:(C)

35. Shakespeare’s sonnets

(A) do not carry a dedication.

(B) are dedicated to James I of

England.

(D) are dedicated to an unknown

“Mr. W.H.”

Answer:(D)

36. Which of the following poems uses

terza rima ?

(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a

Nightingale”

(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the

West Wind”

Solitary Reaper”

(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

Answer:(B)

37. When one says that “someone is no

more” or that “someone has breathed

his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to

(A) euphism

(B) euphony

(D) euphemism

Answer:(D)

38. Which of the following are

“companion poems” ?

(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and

Sonnets”

(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”

Sun Rising”

(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark,

Hark! the Lark”

Answer:(B)

39. What does the term episteme signify ?

(A) Knowledge

(B) Archive

(D) Scholarship

Answer:(A)

40. Which of the following is a better

definition of an image in literary

writing ?

(A) A reflection

(B) A speaking picture

(D) A reflected picture

Answer:(B)

41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime

example of ‘negative capability’ ?

(A) John Milton

(B) William Wordsworth

(D) P.B. Shelley

Answer:(C)

42. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two

Cities begins with the sentence

(A) It was the best of times, it was

the worst of times.

(B) It was the brightest of times, it

was the darkest of times.

was the poorest of times.

(D) It was the happiest of times, it

was the saddest of times.

Answer:(A)

43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

were published posthumously by

(A) Edwin Muir

(B) Edward Thomas

(D) Coventry Patmore

Answer:(C)

44. Which of the following is the correct

chronological sequence ?

(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted

Village – The Blessed Damozel

– Ozymandias

(B) The Deserted Village – A

Poison Tree – Ozymandias –

The Blessed Damozel

Poison Tree – The Deserted

Village – Ozymandias

(D) The Deserted Village – The

Blessed Damozel –

Ozymandias – A Poison Tree

Answer:(B)

45. The term homology means a of music

correspondence between two or more

structures. Who of the following

developed a theory of relations

between literary works and social

classes in terms of homologies ?

(A) Raymond Williams

(B) Christopher Caudwell

(D) Antonio Gramsci

Answer:(X)

46. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that

(A) the Frontier has outlived its

ideological utility in American

civilization.

(B) the Frontier has posed a

the challenge to the American

creative imagination.

great determinant of American

civilization

(D) the Frontier has been the one

great deterrent to American

progress.

Answer:(C)

47. Which statement(s) below on the

Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate?

I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but

alliterative

II. a stanza of four lines in iambic

pentameter

III. an eight-line stanza in iambic

pentameter followed by a ninth

in six iambic feet

IV. an eight-line stanza with six

iambic feet followed by a ninth

in iambic pentameter

(A) I and II (B) II

Answer:(C)

48. Match the following texts with their

respective themes :

I. Areopagitica i. Fashion, courtshiseductionion

(Milton)

.II. Leviathan ii. The liberty for unlicensed

(Hobbes) Printing

III. Alexander’s iii. Absolute sovereignty

Feast

(Dryden)

IV. The Way of iv. The power of music

the World

(Congreve)

Codes :

I II III IV

(A) I ii iii iv

(B) ii iii iv i

(D) iv iii I ii

Answer:(B)

49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Man was called

(A) Stephen Hero

(B) Bloom’s Blunder

Dedalus

(D) The Dead

Answer:(A)

50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of

themes, stylistic elements or

subjects borrowed from other

works.

(ii) It is distinguished from parody

because not all parody is

pastiche

(iii) A pastiche is also known as a

‘purple passage’.

(iv) A pastiche is given to an

elevated style, especially in its

use of figurative language.

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.

(B) only (i) is correct.

(D) only (iv) is correct.

Answer:(A)

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