
	Trending ▼ ICSE CBSE 10th ISC CBSE 12th CTET GATE UGC NET Vestibulares ResFinder

UGC Net JUN 2013 : ENGLISH PAPER II

7 pages, 50 questions, 51 questions with responses, 56 total responses,

	ugc_net	+Fave Message
	Profile Timeline Uploads Q & A

Home > ugc_net >

Formatting page ...

PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator 1. (Signature) __________________________ OMR Sheet No. : ............................................... (To be filled by the Candidate) (Name) ____________________________ Roll No. 2. (Signature) __________________________ (In figures as per admission card) (Name) ____________________________ 30 J Roll No.________________________________ (In words) 1 3 1 Time : 1 /4 hours] [Maximum Marks : 100 Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Instructions for the Candidates Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50 1. 2. - 3. , - - , : (i) - / - / (ii) - / - - (iii) OMR - 4. (A), (B), (C) (D) : (C) 5. I OMR OMR , 6. 7. (Rough Work) 8. OMR , , , , , 9. OMR OMR 10. / 11. ( ) 12. 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 / polythene bag on the booklet. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal / without polythene bag 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 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 circle as indicated below on the correct response against each item. Example : where (C) is the correct response. 5. Your responses to the items are to be indicated in the OMR Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at any place other than in the circle in the OMR 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, Roll Number, Phone Number or put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, or use abusive language or employ any other unfair means, you will render yourself liable to disqualification. 9. You have to return the original OMR Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. You are however, allowed to carry duplicate copy of OMR Sheet on conclusion of examination. 10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen. 11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited. 12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers. J-30-13 1 P.T.O. ENGLISH Paper II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory. 1. 5. Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. The above lines are quoted from (A) Tintern Abbey Revisited (B) Michael (C) Frost at Midnight (D) This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison 6. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima ? (A) Among School Children (B) In Praise of Limestone (C) The Wild Swans at Coole (D) The Shield of Achilles 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare s (A) Troilus and Cressida (B) The Merchant of Venice (C) Antony and Cleopatra (D) Measure for Measure 8. In Pinter s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ? Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct code : I. No Longer at Ease II. Things Fall apart III. A Man of the People IV. Arrow of God The correct combination according to the code is : Code : (A) III, IV, II, I (B) IV, III, I, II (C) II, I, IV, III (D) I, II, III, IV (A) A toy (B) A piano (C) A drum (D) A violin 2. How does Lord Jim end ? (A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. (B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance. (C) Jim answers the call of exalted egoism and betrays Jewel. (D) Jim surrenders Doramin. 3. himself to Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books. To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission ? (A) Graham Greene (B) George Orwell (C) Charles Morgan (D) Evelyn Waugh 4. Modernism has been described as being concerned with disenchantment of our culture with culture itself . Who is the critic ? (A) Stephen Spender (B) Malcolm Bradbury (C) Lionel Trilling (D) Joseph Frank Paper-II 2 J-30-13 9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from (A) 1660 to 1669 (B) 1649 to 1660 (C) 1662 to 1689 (D) 1660 to 1689 10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry ? (A) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader. (B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader. (C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models. (D) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere illusion and trickery. 11. 13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use cross-dressing as a device ? (A) As You Like It (B) Julius Caeser (C) Cymbeline (D) Two Gentlemen of Verona 14. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory ? (A) Nation and Narration (B) Orientalism (C) Discipline and Punish (D) White Mythologies 15. Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of _________ Philosophy. (A) Aesthetic (B) Empiricist (C) Nationalist (D) Realist 16. Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times. Who said this ? (A) Edward Said (B) Michel Foucault (C) Jacques Derrida (D) Roland Barthes 17. Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal writer ? (A) Kath Walker (B) Peter Carey (C) Robert Bropho (D) Jack Davis Paper-II An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary individuals : (A) Addison and Lord Hervey (B) Dryden and Rochester (C) Swift and Steele (D) Smollett and Defoe 12. Match the following authors with their works : List A List B (Authors) (Works) I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Color Purple III. Richard 3. Their Eyes Were Wright Watching God IV. Zora Neale 4. Native Son Hurston Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 2 1 3 4 (B) 3 4 2 1 (C) 4 3 1 2 (D) 1 2 4 3 J-30-13 3 18. 19. 20. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel s Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following : (A) Thomas Lodge (B) Thomas Nashe (C) Thomas Sackville (D) Henry Howard 21. 22. Paper-II Little Nell is a character in Dickens (A) David Copperfield (B) The Old Curiosity Shop (C) Bleak House (D) Great Expectations 25. 4 Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ? (A) Blake (B) Wordsworth (C) Coleridge (D) Shelley 24. The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features of I. The Elizabethan Theatre II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France III. The Irish Theatre IV. The Greek Theatre The correct combination according to the code is : Code : (A) I and IV are correct. (B) III and IV are correct. (C) II and III are correct. (D) I and II are correct. The etymological meaning of the word trope is (A) gesture (B) turning (C) mirror (D) desire 23. Match the following lists : List I List I (Novelists) (Novels) I. Margaret 1. Surfacing Laurence II. Margaret 2. The Stone Angel Atwood III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My House Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 1 4 3 2 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 3 2 1 (D) 2 1 4 3 Which American poet wrote : I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world ? (A) Robert Lowell (B) Walt Whitman (C) Wallace Stevens (D) Langston Hughes Match the following : List A List B (Schools/Concept of (Critics) Criticism) I. Formalism 1. John Crow Ransom II. New Critics 2. The Jungians III. Psychological 3. Victor Theory of the Shklovsky Value of Literature IV. Literary art as 4. I.A. Richards archetypal image The correct combination according to the code is : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 1 4 2 (B) 2 4 1 3 (C) 4 1 2 3 (D) 3 2 1 4 J-30-13 26. In the late seventeenth century a Battle of Books erupted between which two groups ? (A) Cavaliers and Roundheads (B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves (C) Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning (D) The Welsh and the Scots 30. The phrase dark Satanic mills has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by (A) William Wordsworth (B) William Blake (C) Thomas Carlyle (D) John Ruskin 27. Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love s pleasure drives his love away In the above quote the last line is an example of (A) allusion (B) pleonasm (C) paradox (D) zeugma 31. 28. Match the author with the work : List I List II (Authors) (Works) I. Kingsely 1. Saturday and Amis Sunday Morning II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book III. Doris Lessing 3. The Left Bank IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 4 1 2 (B) 4 1 2 3 (C) 2 3 1 4 (D) 1 2 3 4 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the scared river ran. Where does this sacred river directly run to ? (A) A lifeless ocean (B) The caverns measureless (C) A fountain (D) The waves 32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who rejected the label British though he has always written in English rather than his regional language ? (A) Douglas Dunn (B) Seamus Heaney (C) Geoffrey Hill (D) Philip Larkin 33. Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne s Religio Medici ? (A) It is a story of conversion or providential experiences. (B) It emphasizes Browne s love of mystery and wonder. (C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death. (D) It reports the facts of Browne s life. 29. In which of Hardy s novels does the character Abel Whittle appear ? (A) Far from the Madding Crowd (B) The Return of the Native (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes (D) The Mayor of Casterbridge J-30-13 5 Paper-II 34. Which of the following characters from Eliot s Waste Land is not correctly mentioned ? 38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel (A) sets off in quest of life away from his mother. (B) considers the option of committing suicide. (C) joins his elder brother William in London. (D) embraces a Schopenhauer like nihilism. 39. When you say I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips you are using a rhetorical device of (A) Enumeration (B) Antanagoge (C) Parataxis (D) Hypotaxis 40. The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them. List I List II (Plays) (Characters) I. Women Beware 1. Malevole Women II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice III. The City Madam 3. Bianca IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tearsheet Which is the correct combination according to the code : Code : I II III IV (A) 3 1 4 2 (B) 2 1 2 4 (C) 1 2 3 4 (D) 4 3 2 1 41. With Bacon the essay form is (A) an intimate, personal confession (B) witty and boldly imagistic (C) the aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom (D) homely and vulgar (A) The typist (B) Madam Sosostris (C) The Merchant from Eugenides (D) The Young Man Carbuncular 35. Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ? (A) Studied melancholy aestheticism and (B) The triumph of science and morbidity (C) Sincere earnestness Protestant zeal and (D) Raucous celebration combined with paranoid interpretation 36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, The Spirit of Solitude ? (A) Mont Blanc (B) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (C) Adonais (D) Alastor 37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable ? (A) The Knight s Tale (B) The Monk s Tale (C) The Nun s Priest s Tale (D) The Miller s Tale Paper-II 6 J-30-13 42. Evelyn Waugh s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about 46. John Osborne s Look Back in Anger is an example of (A) The English at War (A) drawing room comedy (B) The English Aristocracy (B) kitchen-sink drama (C) The Irish question (C) absurd drama (D) Scottish nationalism 43. (D) melodrama Who coined the phrase The Two Nations to describe the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor ? 47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty ? (A) Blanche Ingram (A) Charles Dickens (B) Mr. Brocklehurst (B) Thomas Carlyle (C) Sir John Rivers (C) Benjamin Disraeli (D) Eliza Reed (D) Frederick Engels 48. 44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are I. (C) Thamuz Coleridge Keats Belial IV. (B) Clemos III. (A) Blake Moloch II. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as a person perverted into a thing ? (D) Shelley 49. The correct combination according to the code is John Suckling belongs to the group of (A) Metaphysical poets Code : (B) Cavalier poets (A) I and IV are correct. (C) Neo-classical poets (B) I and III are correct. (D) Religious poets (C) I and II are correct. (D) II and III are correct. 45. 50. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a noble pillar of order , he is using Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account of Utopia is put. His name is (A) irony (A) Michael (B) simile (B) Raphael (C) understatement (C) Henry (D) Thomas (D) personification J-30-13 7 Paper-II Space For Rough Work Paper-II 8 J-30-13

Formatting page ...

Top Contributors
to this ResPaper
(answers/comments)

Irwin Selvan
(42)

sanjibkrbiswas
(6)

Anujith Devadasan
(2)

S. Tripathi
(1)

Formatting page ...

Tags : cbse ugc net question papers, UGC NET Solved Sample Question Paper, UGC NET Exam Papers, ugc net past question papers, ugc net syllabus, ugc net specimen, ugc net study material, UGC NET Study Materials FREE, UGC NET Exam Pattern, Free Ugc Net Online Practice Tests, ugc net previous question papers, central board of secondary education,

ugc_net chat

Horizontal lines at:
Guest Horizontal lines at:
AutoRM Data:
Box geometries: