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UGC NET DEC 2012 : ENGLISH PAPER II

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PAPER-II ENGLISH Signature and Name of Invigilator 1. (Signature) __________________________ OMR Sheet No. : ............................................... (To be filled by the Candidate) (Name) ____________________________ 2. (Signature) __________________________ (Name) ____________________________ D 30 1 2 1 Time : 1 /4 hours] 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 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 test question booklet and 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. D-30-12 Roll No. (In figures as per admission card) Roll No.________________________________ (In words) [Maximum Marks : 100 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 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. 5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text: (A) William Golding, The Inheritors (B) Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived (C) William Empson, Collected Poems (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot 6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left leaning tendencies ? (A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington (B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke (C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis (D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh 7. Identify the work below that does Match the following : 1. The Sage of Concord 2. The Nun of Amherst 3. Mark Twain 4. Old Possum not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century: (A) Advancement of Learning (B) Gulliver s Travels (C) The Spectator (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 2. 3. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan s Christian does NOT pass ? (A) The Slough of Despond (B) Mount Helicon (C) The Valley of Humiliation (D) Vanity Fair The period of Queen Victoria s reign is (A) 1830 1900 (B) 1837 1901 (C) 1830 1901 (D) 1837 1900 4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ? (A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (B) It also carried pastoral and other poems. (C) It carried a Preface which Wordsworth added in 1800. (D) It also printed from Gray s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Paper II 5. Emily Dickinson 6. R.W. Emerson 7. T.S. Eliot 8. Samuel L. Clemens (A) 1 6; 2 5; 3 8; 4 7 (B) 1 5; 2 6; 3 7; 4 8 (C) 1 8; 2 7; 3 6; 4 5 (D) 1 7; 2 8; 3 5; 4 6 2 D 30 12 8. 9. Name the theorist who divided poets into strong and weak and popularized the practice of misreading: (A) Alan Bloom (B) Harold Bloom (C) Geoffrey Hartman (D) Stanley Fish 13. 14. 10. 16. Identify the correct statement below : (A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton s Needle are tragedies. (B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton s Needle are comedies. (C) All of them are problem plays. (D) All of them are farces. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true ? 1. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two acts . 2. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two scenes . 3. It carries a subtitle: a tragicomedy in two parts . 4. It does not carry a subtitle. (A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 1 The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group ? I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater (A) I and II (B) I (C) II and III (D) IV Which of the following awards is not given to Indian English writers ? (A) The Booker Prize (B) The Sahitya Akademi Award (C) The Gyanpeeth (D) Whitbread Prize 11. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge ? (A) Robert Southey (B) Sir Walter Scott (C) William Hazlitt (D) A. C. Swinburne 15. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to (A) the sun (B) the moon (C) the north star (D) the rose The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in (A) 1642 (B) 1640 (C) 1659 (D) 1660 12. W.M. Thackeray s Vanity Fair owes its title to (A) Browning s Fifine at the Fair (B) Shakespeare s Merchant of Venice (C) Goldsmith s Vicar of Wakefield (D) Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress D 30 12 3 Paper II 17. 18. 19. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ? (A) Bishop Berkeley (B) Samuel Johnson (C) Edmund Burke (D) Horace Walpole 21. (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S. (B) For Eliot who started publishing verse drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published. (C) In Dryden s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ? (A) Lisideius (B) Crites (C) Eugenius (D) Neander For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels. (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm. The term invective refers to (A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing. (B) an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule. (C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance. (D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power. 22. The Enlightenment was characterized by (A) accelerated industrial production and general well being of the public. (B) a belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation. (C) the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life. (D) an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will. 23. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London ? (A) How far can you go (B) The White Teeth (C) An Equal Music (D) Brick Lane Paper II The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below : 20. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: ...there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow ? (A) King Lear (B) Hamlet (C) Coriolanus (D) Macbeth 4 D 30 12 24. 25. 26. 27. D 30 12 Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul ? (A) The Mystic Masseur Miguel Street The Suffrage of Elvira A House for Mr. Biswas. (B) Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas The Suffrage of Elvira. (C) The Suffrage of Elvira Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas. (D) The Mystic Masseur The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street A House for Mr, Biswas. 31. 5 ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English. (A) Edmund Spenser s Amoretti (B) Philip Sidney s Astrophel and Stella (C) Samuel Daniel s Delia (D) Michael Drayton s Idea s Mirror 30. What is common to the following writers ? Identify the correct description below : William Congreve George Etherege William Wycherley Thomas Otway (A) All of these were Restoration playwrights (B) All of them were critics of Orwell s regime (C) All of them edited Shakespeare s plays (D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the discovery of English in colonial India ? (A) Signs taken for Wonders (B) Mimicry (C) Nation and Narration (D) The Commitment to Theory 29. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters ? (A) Wyndham Lewis s Enemy (B) Harold Pinter s Caretaker (C) Katherine Mansfield s Life of Ma Parker (D) Graham Greene s Brighton Rock In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth ? (A) Emma (B) Mansfield Park (C) Persuasion (D) Northanger Abbey 28. Match the following pairs of books and authors : Books Authors I. i. John Ruskin Condition of the Working Class in England II. London ii. Henry Mayhew Labour and the London Poor III. Past and iii. Thomas Carlyle Present IV. The Unto iv. Friedrich Engels This Last Codes : I II III IV (A) iv i ii iii (B) iv ii iii i (C) ii iv i ii (D) iii ii iv iv Kubla Khan takes an epigraph from (A) Samuel Purchas Purchas His Pilgrimage (B) Hakluyt s Voyages (C) The Book Named the Governour (D) Sir Thomas More s Utopia Paper II 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Paper II Charles Dickens s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence (A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (B) It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times. (C) It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times. (D) It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times. 43. 6 Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of negative capability ? (A) John Milton (B) William Wordsworth (C) William Shakespeare (D) P.B. Shelley 42. Which of the following poems uses terza rima ? (A) John Keats s Ode to a Nightingale (B) P.B. Shelley s Ode to the West Wind (C) William Wordsworth s The Solitary Reaper (D) Alfred Tennyson s Ulysses Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ? (A) A reflection (B) A speaking picture (C) A refraction (D) A reflected picture 41. Shakespeare s sonnets (A) do not carry a dedication. (B) are dedicated to James I of England. (C) are dedicated to Mary Arden. (D) are dedicated to an unknown Mr. W.H. What does the term episteme signify ? (A) Knowledge (B) Archive (C) Theology (D) Scholarship 40. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster s A Passage to India as a camaeo ? (A) The Birthday Party (B) A Resounding Tinkle (C) Indian Ink (D) Amadeus Which of the following are companion poems ? (A) Gypsy songs and Songs and Sonnets (B) L Allegro and II Penseroso (C) The Good Morrow and The Sun Rising (D) Full Fathom Five and Hark, Hark! the Lark 39. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism ? (A) Nostromo (B) From Ritual to Romance (C) A Room of One s Own (D) A Dance to the Music of Time When one says that someone is no more or that someone has breathed his/ her last , the speaker is resorting to (A) euphism (B) euphony (C) understatement (D) euphemism 38. Which of the following author theme is correctly matched ? (A) The Battle of Tribute to The the Books rude forefathers of the hamlet . (B) The Rape of Quarrel between the Lock ancient and modern authors. (C) Gray s Accumulation of Elegy wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values. (D) The Quarrel Deserted between two Village families caused by Lord Petre. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by (A) Edwin Muir (B) Edward Thomas (C) Robert Bridges (D) Coventry Patmore D 30 12 44. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence ? (A) A Poison Tree The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias (B) The Deserted Village A Poison Tree Ozymandias The Blessed Damozel (C) The Blessed Damozel A Poison Tree The Deserted Village Ozymandias (D) The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias A Poison Tree 45. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies ? (A) Raymond Williams (B) Christopher Caudwell (C) Lucien Goldmann (D) Antonio Gramsci 46. F. Turner s famous hypothesis is that (A) the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization. (B) the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination. (C) the Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization. (D) the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress. 47. 48. 49. D 30 12 The preliminary version of James Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called (A) Stephen Hero (B) Bloom s Blunder (C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus (D) The Dead 50. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate ? I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter III. an eight line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet IV. an eight line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter (A) I and II (B) II (C) III (D) IV Match the following texts with their respective themes : I. Areopagitica i. Fashion, (Milton) courtship, seduction II. Leviathan ii. The liberty (Hobbes) for unlicensed printing III. Alexander s iii. Absolute sovereignty Feast (Dryden) IV. The Way of iv. The power of music the World (Congreve) Codes : I II III IV (A) i ii iii iv (B) ii iii iv i (C) iii iv i ii (D) iv iii i ii (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (A) (B) (C) (D) 7 A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works. It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche A pastiche is also known as a purple passage . A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language. (i) and (ii) are correct. only (i) is correct. (iii) and (iv) are correct. only (iv) is correct. Paper II Space For Rough Work Paper-II 8 D-30-12

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