UGC NET English December 2004 : Paper 2 (Solved Paper with Answers)

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Q.1 In Langland’s Piers the Plowman, piers appear finally as:

  1. Charity
  2. The Holy Trinity
  3. Jesus
  4. The Good Samaritan

Answer: 3

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

  1. 1 story
  2. Two Stories
  3. Three Stories
  4. Four Stories

Answer: 4

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

  1. Shakespeare
  2. Marlowe
  3. Drayton
  4. Sydney

Answer: 1

Q.4 The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s sonnets is:

  1. 123
  2. 142
  3. 104
  4. 154

Answer: 4

Q.5 Which of the following plays has a Machiavellian Hero:

  1. Tamburlaine Part Ⅰ
  2. Dr. Faustus
  3. Jew of Malta
  4. Edward Ⅱ

Answer: 3

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

  1. Religio Laici
  2. David Simple
  3. Hudibras
  4. A Journal of the Plague Year

Answer: 3

Q.7 Which of the following poems did Milton wrote in octasyllabic couplets?

  1. IL Penseroso
  2. On his Blindness
  3. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  4. Lycidas

Answer: 1

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

  1. The Way of the World
  2. The Old Bachelor
  3. Love for Love
  4. The Relapse

Answer: 4

Q.9 Dryden’s All for Love is an adaption of:

  1. Philaster
  2. Romeo & Juliet
  3. Antony and Cleopatra
  4. Edward Ⅱ

Answer: 3

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

  1. Principia
  2. Leviathan
  3. Anatomy of Melancholy
  4. Liberty of Prophesying

Answer: 2

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

  1. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  2. Social Contract
  3. A Treatise of Human Nature
  4. The Wealth of Nations

Answer: 1

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

  1. The Battle of the Books
  2. A Modest Proposal
  3. Gulliver’s Travels
  4. A Tale of a Tub

Answer: 4

Q.13 Which of the following is a visionary work by William Blake?

  1. The Song of Los
  2. Songs of Experience
  3. Poetical Sketches
  4. The Vision of the Daughters of Albion

Answer: 4

Q.14 Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the idea of:

  1. Lord Petrick
  2. Theobald
  3. Lord Bolingbroke
  4. Lord Harvey

Answer: 3

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

  1. London
  2. Vanity of Human Wishes
  3. The Life of Savage
  4. Rasselas

Answer: 2

Q.16 The final version of Wordsworth is The Prelude appeared in:

  1. 1798
  2. 1806
  3. 1850
  4. 1860

Answer: 3

Q.17 “To Suffer Woes Which Hope thinks infinite” is written by:

  1. Shelley
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Keats
  4. Byron

Answer:1

Q.18 “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in:

  1. Ode to a Grecian Urn
  2. Ode to Automn
  3. Ode to Psyche
  4. Endymion

Answer: 4

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

  1. Pride and Prejudice
  2. Emma
  3. Sense of Sensibility
  4. Northanger Abbey

Answer: 4

Q.20 Who distinguished between 11th literature of knowledge and the literature of power?

  1. Coleridge
  2. De Quincey
  3. Hazlitt
  4. Lamb

Answer: 2

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

  1. Tennyson
  2. Browning
  3. Rossetti
  4. Swinburne

Answer: 1

Q.22 Under the Greenwood Tree is Written by:

  1. Mrs. Gaskell
  2. George Eliot
  3. Thomas Hardy
  4. Emily Bronte

Answer: 3

Q.23 The office of circumlocution occurs in:

  1. Little Dorrit
  2. Bleak House
  3. Great Expectations
  4. Hard Times

Answer: 1

Q.24 The novel Mary Barton is written by:

  1. Mrs. Gaskell
  2. George Eliot
  3. Emily Bronte
  4. Dickens

Answer: 1

Q.25 The line “Poetry is criticism of life” occurs in:

  1. Culture and Anarchy
  2. Modern Painters
  3. The Study of Poetry
  4. Sartor Resartus

Answer: 3

Q.26 Martha Quest was Written by:

  1. Jean Rhys
  2. Doris Lessing
  3. Iris Murdoch
  4. Nadine Gordimer

Answer: 2

Q.27 The term Stream of Consciousness was taken from the book:

  1. The Human Mind
  2. The Principles of Psychology
  3. The Mind of Man
  4. Modes of Human Behaviour

Answer: 2

Q.28 G.S. Frazer’s The Golden Bough focuses on:

  1. Images
  2. Metaphors
  3. Symbols
  4. Archetypes

Answer: 4

Q.29 Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of:

  1. Willy Loman
  2. Estragon
  3. Vladimir
  4. Lucky

Answer: 1

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

  1. The Sound and the Fury
  2. Ulysses
  3. To the Lighthouse
  4. The Europeans

Answer: 2

Q.31 Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora:

  1. Cyrill Dabydeen
  2. Michael Ondaatje
  3. Arnold H. Itwaru
  4. M.G. Vassanji

Answer: 2

Q.32 Australian Aboriginals receive a sympathetic treatment in:

  1. Les Murray
  2. Gwen Harwood
  3. Judith Wright
  4. A.D. Hope

Answer: 3

Q.33 Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for:

  1. Canadian Literary Studies
  2. Canadian Nationalism
  3. The Future of Canadian Literature
  4. The Past of Canadian Literature

Answer: 3

Q.34 V.S Naipaul’s latest book is:

  1. The Mystic Masseur
  2. A Bend in the River
  3. Among the Believrs
  4. Half a Life

Answer: 4

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

  1. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  2. The Moor’s Last Sigh
  3. Shame
  4. Grimus

Answer: 4

Q.36 Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by:

  1. Arthur Miller
  2. Eugene O’ Nell
  3. Edward Albee
  4. Tennessee Williams

Answer: 3

Q.37 Imamu Amiri Baraka is:

  1. A Caribbean Writer
  2. An American Writer
  3. An Arab Writer
  4. A Sri Lankan Writer

Answer: 2

Q.38 The Miscellany was published from:

  1. Sahitya Academi
  2. The Writers Workshop
  3. PEN
  4. Dhawanyalok

Answer: 2

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

  1. Derak Walcott
  2. Wole Soyinka
  3. Chinua Achebe
  4. Okot

Answer: 2

Q.40 Who of the following white female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the blacks?

  1. Margaret Drabble
  2. Nadine Gordimer
  3. Murial Spark
  4. Jean Rhys

Answer: 2

Q.41 New criticism considers text as a:

  1. Cultural construct
  2. Historical construct
  3. Linguistic construct
  4. Autotelic

Answer: 4

Q.42 “Mythologies” was written by:

  1. Roland Barthes
  2. Jacques Derrida
  3. Homi K. Bhabha
  4. Ernest Dowson

Answer: 1

Q.43 The word Catharsis signifies:

  1. Pontification
  2. Personification
  3. Purgation
  4. Publication

Answer: 3

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

  1. Deconstruction
  2. New-Historicism
  3. Structuralism
  4. Postcolonial Criticism

Answer: 4

Q.45 Eliot’s theory of Objective Correlative appeared in his essay entitled:

  1. Three Voices of Poetry
  2. Tradition and the Individual Talent
  3. The Metaphysical Poets
  4. Hamlet

Answer: 4

Q.46 Spring Rhythm is an example of:

  1. Verse
  2. Syllable
  3. Stress
  4. Meter

Answer: 4

Q.47 “More is thy due than more than all can play” is an example of:

  1. Weak ending
  2. Inversion
  3. Alexandrine
  4. Extra Syllable

Answer: 2

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

  1. Rhyme Royal
  2. Run-on-Lines
  3. Blank Verse
  4. Spenserian Stanza

Answer: 3

Q.49 Verse stories dealing with Chivalry, knight, errantry, enchantments and love are known as:

  1. The Epic
  2. The Ballad
  3. The Ode
  4. The Metrical Romances

Answer: 4

Q.50 “He is a citizen of no mean city” is an example of:

  1. Periphrasis
  2. Tautology
  3. Prolepsis
  4. Litotes

Answer: 4

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