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UGC NET DEC 2005 : ENGLISH PAPER II

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Signature and Name of Invigilator Answer Sheet No. : ................................................ (To be filled by the Candidate) 1. (Signature) Roll No. (Name) (In figures as per admission card) Roll No. 2. (Signature) (In words) (Name) Test Booklet No. D 3 0 0 5 PAPER II ENGLISH Time : 1 hours] Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 [Maximum Marks : 100 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50 U Instructions for the Candidates 1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page. 1. U DU U S U U U U 2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions. 3. U U U, - S U U U 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) 2. - - S U (i) - S U U U U S U U- U S S U U (ii) 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. U DU U U U - S DU U U U U U U S DU / U U U U U S S U U U U U S U U - S U U - S U UQ (ii) (iii) 4. 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. After this verification is over, the Serial No. of the booklet should be entered in the Answer-sheets and the Serial No. of Answer Sheet should be entered on this Booklet. (iii) - S R U- U 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. 4. U U (A), (B), (C) (D) Example : A B C U U U U- R - S U U U U U U U D where (C) is the correct response. 5. 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. C D U U U S U U U , U 6. U U 7. (Rough Work) S DU U U 8. U- S U , U U U U 9. U # U U- S U U U U U # U U U You have to return the test question booklet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. / U Z U S U U ( U U) U U 12. U U 10. 10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen. 11. 11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited. 12. There is NO negative marking. D 3005 B 5. U U I U U- U 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. A ( C) U 1 P.T.O. ENGLISH PAPER II Note : 1. This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them. Chaucer s The Knight s Tale is a high romance told in : (A) rhyme royal (B) terza rima (C) heroic couplets (D) verse libre 2. Marlowe s first original work was : (A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus (C) The Jew of Malta (D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the second 3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in : (A) The Garden (B) The Picture of T.C. (C) Bermudas (D) Horatian ode upon Cromewells Return From Ireland 4. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was written by : (A) Sir Henry Wotton (B) John Bunyan (C) Jeremy Taylor (D) Richard Baxter 5. Dr. Johnson s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in : (A) 1755 (B) 1756 (C) 1757 (D) 1758 6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken from : (A) The Hind and the Panther (B) Religio Laici (C) Mac-Flecknoe (D) The Medal 7. The character of the leech gatherer appears in : (A) The Recluse (B) The Prelude Book I (C) Laodamia (D) Resolution and Independence 8. Table-Talk is a collection of essays by : (A) Lamb (B) Hunt (C) 9. Hazlitt (D) Carlyle s Sartor Resartus was written under the influence of : (A) Italian romance (B) German romance (C) French romance (D) British romance D 3005 2 De Quincey 10. The image of the Neptune taming the sea horse appears in : (A) (B) Prospice (C) 11. Abt Vogler Andrea del Sarto (D) My Last Duchess T.S. Eliot s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro ( The better Craftsman ) which refers to : (A) 12. (B) Baudelaire (C) G.M. Hopkins (D) Dante (C) Galway (D) Belfast (D) Marlowe The locale of Riders to the Sea is : (A) 13. Ezra Pound Dublin (B) Aran Island The Bog poems are associated with : (A) (B) Elizabeth Jennings (C) 14. Ted Hughes Tony Harrison (D) Seamus Heaney Edward Bond s Bingo deals with the life of : (A) 15. Dryden (B) Shakespeare (C) Ben Jonson Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman is mainly about : (A) (B) American imperialism (C) 16. American dream American pragmatism (D) American transcendentalism The patient in Michael Ondaatje s The English Patient is : (A) 17. Almasy (B) Caravaggio (C) Kirpal Singh personalisation (B) depersonalisation (C) imitation (D) interpretation The concept of arche writing is developed by : (A) 19. Fish (B) Foucault (C) Derrida (D) Paul de Man A figure of speech in which two terms opposite in meaning are placed side by side in one phrase is known as : (A) 20. Hana Mimetic criticism views literary work as : (A) 18. (D) paradox (B) oxymoron (C) sarcasm (D) antithesis A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as : (A) Rhyme royal (B) Ottava rima (C) Tennysonian stanza (D) Spenserian stanza D 3005 3 P.T.O. 21. Choose the correct chronological sequence in question numbers 21 to 30 : (A) Love s Labour s Lost, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Tempest (B) Twelfth Night, Love s Labour s Lost, The Tempest, Othello (C) Love s Labour s Lost, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night (D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love s Labour s Lost, The Tempest 22. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel and Stella, Shepherds Calendar Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds Calendar Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella, Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella 23. (A) (B) (C) (D) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet, absurd play Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play, sonnet Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay, absurd play 24. (A) (B) (C) (D) Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Stephen Spender T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Stephen Spender 25. (A) (B) (C) (D) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation of sensibility, heteroglossia Sublime, negative capability, heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility Sublime, negative capability, dissociation of sensibility, heteroglossia Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility, sublime, negative capability 26. (A) (B) (C) (D) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of W.B. Yeats Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of W.B. Yeats Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Lycidas, Thyrsis 27. (A) Sign, Structure and Play , Signs Taken for Wonder , The Death of the Author , Two Uses of Language Two Uses of Language , The Death of the Author , Sign, Structure and Play , Signs Taken for Wonder The Death of the Author , Two Uses of Language , Signs Taken for Wonder , Sign, Structure and Play Two Uses of Language , The Death of the Author , Sign, Structure and Play , Signs Taken for Wonder (B) (C) (D) 28. (A) (B) (C) (D) D 3005 The Burial of the Dead , A Game of Chess , Fire Sermon , Death by Water A Game of Chess , The Burial of the Dead , Fire Sermon , Death by Water Fire Sermon , The Burial of the Dead , Death by Water , A Game of Chess The Burial of the Dead , Fire Sermon , Death by Water , A Game of Chess 4 29. (A) (B) (C) (D) Midnight s Children, Nectar in a Sie ve, Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome Kanthapura, Midnight s Children, Nectar in a Sie ve, Calcutta Chromosome Kanthapura, Midnight s Children, Calcutta Chromosome, Nectar in a Sie ve Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sie ve, Midnight s Children, Calcutta Chromosome 30. (A) The English Novel : Form and Function, The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The Sense of an Ending Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The English Novel : Form and Function, The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel : Form and Function, Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the novel Aspects of the Novel, Craft of Fiction, The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel : Form and Function (B) (C) (D) 31. Select the matching pairs in question numbers 31 to 40 : (B) The Princess - Browning (A) Sohrab and Rustum - Arnold (D) The Excursion - Shelley (C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - Hopkins 32. (A) (C) Middlemarch - Picaresque Pamela - Epistolary novel (B) (D) Women in Love - Historical Pride and Prejudice - Autobiographical 33. (A) (C) Dickens - Manchester Joyce - Belfast (B) (D) Faulkner - Yoknapatawfa Lawrence - Birmingham 34. (A) (C) Naturalism - Zola Expressionism - V. Woolf (B) (D) Symbolism - T.E. Hulme Magic realism - Graham Greene 35. (A) (B) (C) (D) Audrey Thomas - The Stone Angel Robert Kroetsch - The Burning Water Margaret Lawrence - What the Crow Said Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin 36. (A) (C) Marlowe - Faust Congreve - The Old Bachelor (B) (D) Fletcher - The White Devil Ben Jonson - The Maid s Tragedy 37. (A) (C) Nadine Gordimer - Nigeria Judith Wright - Australia (B) (D) Chinua Achebe - Kenya Peter Carey - Canada 38. (A) (C) Campus novel - Margaret Drabble Diary writing - Samuel Pepys (B) (D) 39. (A) (C) Girish Karnad - Kannada Kamala Das - Tamil A.K. Ramanujan - Telugu R. Parthasarathy - Malayalam 40. (A) (C) Mrs. Malaprop - The School for Scandal Lydia Languish - She Stoops to Conquer D 3005 (B) (D) 5 Travelogue - Macaulay Periodical essay - Lamb (B) (D) Nora - The Seagull Eliza Doolittle - Pygmalion P.T.O. 41. In the assertion Four out of five people suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea , the writer wants to arouse the feeling of : (A) Sympathy (B) Fear (C) Hatred (D) Ill-will 42. John is six feet tall and 240 lb is an assertion of : (A) a fact (B) a judgement (C) an opinion 43. X : He s mean and stingy. Y : Oh, I wouldn t say that. He is just thrifty . The above dialogue asserts that he : (A) is too careful with his money (B) never spends money (C) is so careful with his money that everyone admires him for good management (D) is careful with his money 44. I wandered lonely as a cloud makes an assertion that : (A) The poet travelled with the cloud (B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud (C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely (D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud 45. Death is here, and death is there Death is busy everywhere All around, within, beneath, Above, is death - and we are death The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order and stress in the above lines (A) assist the communication of meaning (B) hinder the communication of meaning (C) reflect meaning and mood (D) reflect a mechanical regularity 46. (D) an inference Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage. All of us live in a society, and are members of a nationality wtih its own language, tradition, historical situation. To what extent are intellectuals servants of these actualities, to what extent enemies ? The same is true of intellectuals relationship with institutions (academy, church, professional guild) and with wordly powers, which in our times have co-opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary degree. Thus in my view the principal intellectual duty is the search for relative independence from such pressures. Hence my characterization of the intellectual as an exile and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of a language that tries to speak the truth to power. Name four important sources to which an intellectual is related basically : (A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and government (B) Institutions, language, truth, and power (C) Nationality, language, tradition, and historical situation (D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition D 3005 6 47. What is the meaning of intellectuals being servants ? (A) The intellectual may be appropriated by his tradition, historical and other actualities of his nation and society (B) The intellectual may be inappropriately Co-opted by agencies of the government (C) The intellectual may be sent into exile and made marginal (D) The intellectual may be forced into accepting the unacceptable propositions 48. What are the four important institutions that Co-opt an intellectual ? (A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and truth (B) academy, church, professional guild, and wordly power (C) society, professional guild, wordly power, truth (D) academy, wordly power, truth, government 49. What is the meaning of relative independence ? (A) liberating oneself from the pressures of government and institutions (B) liberating oneself from the pressures of religion and state (C) liberating oneself from the pressures of institutions and wordly powers (D) liberating oneself from all religious and secular pressures 50. What is the duty of an intellectual and how many identities does he acquire to perform his role ? (A) to achieve complete independence and be characterised as an exile, marginal, and amateur (B) to achieve partial independence and be characterised as the author of a language (C) to manoeuvre independence and be characterised as a keeper of his own conscience (D) to search for relative independence and be characterised as exile and marginal, as amateur, and author -oOo- D 3005 7 P.T.O. Space For Rough Work D 3005 8

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