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VINEET PANDEY
UGC/NTA - NETENGLISH LITERATURE
PREVIOUS YEAR PAPER
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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