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UGC NET DEC 2007 : 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 7 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 3007 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. The author of The Provok d Husband was : (A) Etherege (B) Colley Cibber (C) Wycherley (D) Vanbrugh 2. Who among the boys in Golding s Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ ? (A) Piggy (B) Ralph (C) Jack (D) Simon 3. The (A) (B) (C) (D) 4. Feminine ending refers to : (A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse (B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable (C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable (D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse 5. The essay The Death of the Author is written by : (A) Michel Foucault (B) Jacques Derrida (C) Roland Barthes (D) Alvin Kernan 6. Salman Rushdie s Shame is set in : (A) East Pakistan (C) Pakistan 7. complete title of Sterne s novel Tristram Shandy is : The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (B) (D) India and Pakistan None of the above Choose the correct chronological sequence in : (A) Lucy Hutchinson s Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson - Milton s Paradise Lost - Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress - Dryden s The Hind and the Panther (B) Hutchinson s Memoirs - Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress - Dryden s Hind and the Panther - Milton s Paradise Lost (C) Milton s Paradise Lost - Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress - Dryden s Hind and the Panther - Hutchinson s Memoirs (D) Dryden s Hind and the Panther - Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress Hutchinson s Memoirs - Milton s Paradise Lost D 3007 2 8. The Little Minister is a novel by : (A) John Galsworthy (C) James M. Barrie (B) (D) H.G. Wells Rudyard Kipling 9. Which Augustan writer s epitaph reads : one who strove with all his might to champion liberty ? (A) Alexander Pope (B) Jonathan Swift (C) Henry Fielding (D) Daniel Defoe 10. In which of the following novels incidents relating to the declaration of Emergency in India in 1975 figure ? (A) Farrukh Dhondy s Bombay Duck (B) Vikram Seth s A Suitable Boy (C) Upamanyu Chatterjee s English August : An Indian Story (D) Rohinton Mistry s Such Long Journey 11. Identify the matching pair : (A) Edward II : Zenocrate (C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio (B) (D) The Jew of Malta : Barabas Tamburlaine : Gaveston 12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in : (A) The Second Coming (B) Circus Animals Desertion (C) When You Are Old (D) Leda and Swan 13. Inscape refers to : (A) The indwelling presence of God in nature (B) The universal character of a natural thing (C) The individuating character of a natural thing (D) The moment of release from the material world 14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the success myth ? (A) A Zoo Story (B) Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (C) American Dream (D) The Death of Bessie Smith 15. The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond our personal intelligence . Who among the following is the author of the above lines ? (A) Rabindranath Tagore (B) A.K. Coomaraswamy (C) Sri Aurobindo (D) Sisir Kumar Ghose D 3007 3 P.T.O. 16. The number of poems in Sidney s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is : (A) 99 (B) 47 (C) 112 (D) 108 17. J.M. Coetzee s Foe is a postmodern retelling of : (A) Ivanhoe (B) Evelina (C) Robinson Crusoe (D) The Moonstone 18. Johnson s edition of Shakespeare appeared in : (A) 1752 (B) 1765 (C) 1791 (D) 1760 The main character in Gogol s Dead Souls is : (A) Oblomov (B) Bazarov (C) Alyosha (D) Chichikov 19. 20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an upstart crow by : (A) Robert Greene (B) Thomas Lodge (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) John Lyly 21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway called ? (A) Clarissa (B) Hours (C) The Big Ben (D) The Party 22. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes intertextual references to Jane Eyre ? (A) No Telephone to Heaven (B) Wide Sargasso Sea (C) Crick Crack Monkey (D) Between Two Worlds 23. The term metaphysical poets , was first used by : (A) Ben Jonson (B) Dr. Johnson (C) Helen Gardner (D) Dryden 24. Only connect is the epigraph to a novel by : (A) George Orwell (B) Joseph Conrad (C) D.H. Lawrence (D) E.M. Forster 25. The expression Thy hand, great Anarch occurs in a satire by : (A) Dryden (B) Pope (C) Johnson 26. (D) Swift In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ? (A) The Heart of the Matter (B) The Power and the Glory (C) Brighton Rock (D) The Quiet American D 3007 4 27. The author of A Satire Against Reason and Mankind is : (A) 28. Rochester (B) Dryden (C) Gray the moment of discovery by the protagonist (B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist (C) the happy resolution of the plot (D) the convergence of the main plot and the sub plot In which play by Shakespeare do we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of male politics ? (A) Henry V (B) Richard III (C) 30. Anthony and Cleopatra (D) Hamlet Which of the following feminist critics used the expression Gynocriticism for the first time ? (A) Kate Millet (B) Simone de Beauvoir (C) 31. Elaine Showalter (D) Mary Ellmann John Keats s poem Ode to a Nightingale was composed in : (A) 32. 1818 (B) 1819 (C) 1820 Henry Fielding (B) 1821 Tobias Smollett (C) Charlotte Lennox (D) Aphra Behn Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ? (A) Thom Gunn (B) Alan Lewis (C) 34. (D) The Female Quixote was written by : (A) 33. Swift Anagnorisis is a term used by Aristotle for describing : (A) 29. (D) Edward Thomas (D) Seamus Heaney The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers is : (A) (B) an elegy by William Wordsworth (C) 35. a poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb (D) an essay by William Hazlitt The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by : (A) Kingsley Amis (B) Alan Sillitoe (C) John Braine (D) John Osborne D 3007 5 P.T.O. 36. In Black Venus Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ? (A) 37. Bundelaire (B) Mallarme (C) Verlaine Apollinaire Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a three-part structure in : (A) a classic ode (B) a Greek chorus (C) 38. (D) a medieval ballad (D) a Petrarchan sonnet The words where are the songs of spring ? Ay, where are they ? occur in : (A) (B) The Seasons (C) 39. Ode to the West Wind Ode to Autumn (D) Resolution and Independence Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes the above lines occur in Tennyson s : (A) (B) In Memoriam (C) 40. Tears, Idle Tears Maud (D) The Lotos Eaters Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ? (A) (B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree (C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott (D) 41. Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Which famous English novel opens with a young woman who is handsome, clever and rich ? (A) (B) Wuthering Heights (C) 42. Middlemarch Moll Flanders (D) Emma It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I Milton belongs to the Devil s party without knowing it . Who among the following made this statement ? (A) (B) William Empson (C) 43. Frank Kermode C.S. Lewis (D) William Blake Live Like Pigs is : (A) a humorous poem by Pope (B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell (C) a play by Arden (D) a satirical sketch by Swift D 3007 6 44. A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings . From which section of Eliot s The Waste Land are the above lines taken ? (A) A Game of Chess (B) What the Thunder Said (C) Burial of the Dead (D) Fire Sermon 45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe s African Trilogy ? (A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer At Ease (B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart (C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God (D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease 46. Which are the figures of speech used in the following lines by Blake ? Tyger, tyger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? (A) simile and personification (B) irony and synecdoche (C) apostrophe and synecdoche (D) metonymy and apostrophe 47. In which of the following American novels does the Valley of Ashes occur ? (A) Huck Finn (B) The Red Badge of Courage (C) Invisible Man (D) The Great Gatsby 48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he says He knew the tavern well in every town ? (A) Pardoner (B) Monk (C) Squire (D) Friar 49. Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty . Who, among the following, made the above statement ? (A) Dr. Johnson (B) Sidney (C) Matthew Arnold (D) Wordsworth 50. She is inspired but diabolically inspired . Who is this lady ? (A) Candida (B) Major Barbara (C) Saint Joan (D) Ann -oOo- D 3007 7 P.T.O. 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