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UGC NET DEC 2009 : ENGLISH PAPER II

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Signature and Name of Invigilator OMR Sheet No. : ......................................... (To be filled by the Candidate) 1. (Signature) __________________________ Roll No. (Name) ____________________________ 2. (Signature) __________________________ (In figures as per admission card) Roll N o.____________________________ (In words) (Name) ____________________________ D-3009 Time : 1 1/4 hours] Test Booklet No. PAPER-II [Maximum Marks : 100 ENGLISH Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Instructions for the Candidates 1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page. 2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions. 3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below : (i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet. (ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in the booklet with the information printed on the cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be given. (iii) After this verification is over, the Test Booklet Number should be entered in the OMR Sheet and the OMR Sheet Number should be entered on this Test Booklet. 4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). You have to darken the oval as indicated below on the correct response against each item. Example : B C A D where (C) is the correct response. 5. Your responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will not be evaluated. 6. Read instructions given inside carefully. 7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet. 8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself liable to disqualification. 9. You have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. 10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen. 11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited. 12. Negative Marking :- For each incorrect answer, 0.5 marks shall be deducted. D-0109 D-3009 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50 1. 2. - 3. , - - : (i) - - (ii) - / - - (iii) - OMR OMR - 4. (A), (B), (C) (D) B C A D : (C) 5. I - , 6. 7. (Rough Work) 8. - , 9. - OMR - 10. / 11. ( ) 12. : 0.5 P.T.O. 1 P.T.O. ENGLISH Paper II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions. 1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson s Volpone is (A) Juvenal (B) Aristophanes (C) Plautus 2. Kipling s The White Man s Burden is addressed to (A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines. (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo. (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria. (D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan. 3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in (A) 1922 (B) 1920 (C) 1918 (D) Terence (D) 1912 4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer s contemporary ? (A) Thomas Chatterton (B) John Gower (C) Thomas Shadwell (D) John Gay 5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ? (A) Ivanhoe (B) Lady of the Lake (C) Heart of Midlothian (D) The English Mail Coach 6. Provincializing Europe is a concept propounded by (A) Edward Said (B) Paul Gilroy (C) Abdul R. Gurnah (D) Dipesh Chakravarty 7. The earliest tract on feminism is (A) Simone de Beauvoir s The Second Sex (B) Virginia Woolf s A Room of One s Own (C) Mary Wollstonecraft s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (D) Mary Astell s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 8. Match the imaginary location with its creator : 1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy 3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath 7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte (A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 (B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 (C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7 (D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 9. 4-7 6-8 Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante s The Divine Comedy ? (A) The Canterbury Tales (B) The Book of the Duchess (C) The House of Fame (D) Legend of Good Women Paper-II 2 D-3009 10. Essays of Elia was published in (A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850 11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ? (A) The Well of Loneliness (B) Maurice (C) Orlando (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 12. W.B. Yeat s Easter 1916 is (A) a response to a major political uprising (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne (D) an ode to his native country 13. William Empson s Seven Types of Ambiguity is (A) A structuralist study of narrative (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism (C) A study of the media (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence 14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ? (A) J.A. Froude (B) Charles Kingsley (C) J.S. Mill (D) Cardinal Newman 15. The Condition of England literature refers to (A) The literature written by the labour class. (B) The literature of England extolling living conditions. (C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes. (D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad. 16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to (A) Plato s Republic (B) Aristotle s Poetics (C) Stephen Gosson s The School of Abuse (D) Jeremy Collier s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English. (A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada 18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size : 1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza (A) 1 2 3 4 (B) 2 1 (C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 1 3 19. 3 4 4. 4 2 sonnet Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ? lines are from (A) Rabbi Ben Ezra (B) Fra Lippo Lippi (C) Caliban upon Setebos (D) The Last Ride Together D-3009 3 These Paper-II 20. Dr. Johnson s The Vanity of Human Wishes expresses (A) Epicureanism (B) Humanism (C) Stoicism (D) Cynicism 21. A trivial comedy for serious people was the subtitle for (A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Blythe Spirit (C) The Way of the World (D) The Importance of Being Earnest. 22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ? In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Teach the free man how to praise. (A) In Memoriam (B) Thyrsis (C) In Memory of W.B. Yeats (D) Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot 23. The Temple is a collection of poems by (A) Thomas Carew (C) George Herbert (B) Robert Herrick (D) Richard Crashaw 24. Ben Jonson s comedies are (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker s Holiday (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker s Holiday 25. What is L Allegro s companion piece called ? (A) Lamia (B) Hyperion (C) Il Penseroso (D) Thyrsis Match the character with the novel : 1. Caddy 3. Jake Barnes 5. The Sound and the Fury 7. The Sun Also Rises Codes : (A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 (C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 4-6 1-8 26. 2. 4. 6. 8. Lennie Tommy Wilhelm Of Mice and Men Seize the Day (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement ? (A) Allen Ginsberg (B) Mark Beard (C) Isaac McCaslih (D) Charles Beard 28. The Lost Generation is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War. Who called them The Lost Generation ? (A) H.L. Mencken (B) Willa Cather (C) Jack London (D) Gertrude Stein 29. Hyperbole is 1. an extravagant exaggeration 3. a metrical skill (A) 1 is correct (C) 1 and 3 are correct Paper-II 2. 4. (B) (D) 4 a racist slur a figure of speech 1 and 4 are correct 3 is correct D-3009 30. Imagined Communities is a concept propounded by (A) Benedict Anderson (B) Homi Bhabha (C) Aijaz Ahmed (D) Partha Chatterjee 31. The New Historicists include (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey 32. Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar may be linked to the work of the following artist : (A) Modigliani (B) Chagall (C) Picasso (D) Cezanne 33. The author of Gender Trouble is (A) Elaine Showalter (C) Michele Barrett (B) Helene Cixous (D) Judith Butler 34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by (A) Michel Foucault (B) Jacques Lacan (C) Julia Kristeva (D) Roland Barthes 35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ? (A) Frankenstein (B) Northanger Abbey (C) Castle of Otranto (D) Mysteries of Udolfo 36. The madwoman in the attic is a specific reference to (A) The narrator of Goblin Market (B) Augusta Egg s 1858 narrative painting (C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre 37. Assertion (A) : 38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ? (A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy (B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders (C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews (D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy Dr Johnson s The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of William Wordsworth. Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth. (A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct. (B) (A) is true but (R) is false. (C) (A) and (R) are true. (D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true. D-3009 5 Paper-II 39. How can what an Englishman believes be heresy ? It is a contradiction in terms. This means 1. An Englishman does not know what heresy is. 2. An Englishman has no beliefs. 3. And, therefore, there is no question of his heresy. 4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question of his acting his beliefs. (A) 1 and 4 are correct (B) 2 and 1 are correct (C) 1 and 3 are correct (D) 2 and 4 are correct 40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept ? (A) Archetype (B) The Uncanny (C) The Absurd (D) The Imaginary 41. He wrote an essay called Conrad s Darkness where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world s half-made societies . Identify the writer. (A) Chinua Achebe (B) V.S. Naipaul (C) Salman Rushdie (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo 42. Magic Realism is closely associated with (A) Italo Calvino (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (C) Anita Desai (D) Rohinton Mistry 43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction ? (A) Kamala Markandya (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee (D) Amitav Ghosh 44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel ? (A) Train to Pakistan (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column (C) The Shadow Lines (D) In Custody 45. Which of the following options is correct ? (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement. (ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century. (iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke. (iv) Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson, Thoreau s Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller. (A) (i) and (iv) are correct. (B) (ii) and (iii) are correct. (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. (D) (iv) is correct. Paper-II 6 D-3009 Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the question 46 to 50 : It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in structuring our experience. The whole idea of language is something of a fiction : what we normally refer to as language can more realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different discourses which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different selves . A discourse can be conceptualized as a system of statements which cohere around common meanings and values . So, for example, in contemporary Britain there are discourses which can be labelled conservative that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo is cherished : and there are discourses which can be labelled patriarchal that is, discourses which emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant discourses such as these appear natural : they are powerful precisely because they are able to make invisible the fact that they are just one among many different discourses. Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would not regard analysis in terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of talking about discourses rather than about language is that the concept discourse acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse : whenever we speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different selves : different discourses position us in different ways in relation to the world. Questions : 46. Which of the following is True in the light of this passage ? (A) Language is inaccurate. (B) Discourse is accurate. (C) Language comprises discourse. (D) Discourse comprises language. 47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage ? I. different selves II. range III. system of statements IV. heterogeneous collection (A) II and IV (B) II and III (C) III and IV (D) I 48. Having called language something of a fiction , how does the author suggest its opposite ? By using the phrase (A) conceptualized as a system (B) more accurate to say (C) range of discourses (D) more realistically be seen 49. Which among the following statements is NOT true ? (A) Conservative discourses plead for the status quo. (B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male values. (C) Dominant discourses are natural. (D) Dominant discourses seem natural. 50. What does this passage plead for ? (A) Theorizing language in a new way. (B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses. (C) Studying language as discourse. (D) Studying discourse as language. D-3009 7 Paper-II

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