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UGC NET DEC 2008 : ENGLISH PAPER II

8 pages, 50 questions, 50 questions with responses, 58 total responses,

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Signature and Name of Invigilator OMR 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 8 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. 2. 3. 4. 1. U DU U S U U U U Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions. 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. 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 : A B C 2. - 3. U U U, - S U U U - S U (i) (ii) 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 (iii) - S R OMR U U U U OMR R - S U U 4. U U (A), (B), (C) (D) U U U U U D A B C D (C) U 5. U U I U U- U 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 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. There is NO negative marking. D 3008 - S U U U U S U U- U S S U U 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 / U Z U S U 11. U ( U U) U U 12. U U 10. 1 P.T.O. ENGLISH PAPER II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them. 1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England during : (A) 1830 - 1890 (B) 1837 - 1905 (C) 1837 - 1901 (D) 1850 - 1910 2. The (A) (B) (C) (D) 3. Tottel s Miscellany contained : (A) 30 sonnets (C) 50 sonnets (B) (D) 40 sonnets 60 sonnets Imagism is associated with : (A) T. S. Fliot (C) E. E. Cummings (B) (D) D. H. Lawrence T. E. Hulme 4. Rambler appeared every : Tuesday and Saturday Sunday and Wednesday Friday and Monday Thursday and Monday 5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by : (A) W. B. Yeats (B) Ted Hughes (C) W. H. Auden (D) Robert Lowell 6. Formal Criticism relates to the structure of : (A) Literary devices (B) Myths (C) Content (D) Form 7. A Foot in prosody is a basic unit of : (A) rhyme (B) (C) rhythmic measurement (D) 8. length height Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ? (A) William Hazlitt (B) Francis Bacon (C) John Ruskin (D) G. K. Chesterton D 3008 2 9. The confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by : (A) William Hazlitt (B) S. T. Coleridge (C) Landor (D) De Quincey 10. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in : (A) Seamus Heaney (B) Elizabeth Jennigs (C) Arnold Wesker (D) Edward Albee 11. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is in the correct chronological order ? (A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus and Cressida (B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida (C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado... (D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus and Cressida 12. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of : (A) Philosophical writings (B) Poetry (C) Drama (D) Letters 13. The (A) (B) (C) (D) 14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by : (A) Virginia Woolf (B) (C) D. H. Lawrence (D) E. M. Forster James Joyce The plays of Edward Albee deal with : (A) problems of middle-class (B) (C) mechanizations of politics (D) hypocracy of aristocracy simplicity of lower-class Heptameter consists of : (A) five metrical feet (C) seven metrical feet six metrical feet eight metrical feet 15. 16. 17. correct chronological order of the following poets is : Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats (B) (D) In formalistic school of criticism art is : (A) entertainment (B) (C) matter (D) D 3008 3 preaching style P.T.O. 18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a novel by : (A) (B) Paul Scott (C) 19. Alan Sillitoe Peter Porter (D) Muriel Spark Rugby Chapel is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his : (A) 20. mother (B) brother (C) father Mary Edgeworth (B) Aphra Behn (C) Mary Russell (D) Mrs Gaskell Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight is a line that occurs in : (A) Dr Faustus (B) Hamlet (C) 22. Macbeth (D) The Spanish Tragedy Pope s Essay on Man can best be read as a poem of : (A) classical understanding of nature (B) anti-romantic view of life (C) sociological estimate of man (D) 23. philosophical apprehension of life The term Victorian evokes the attitudes of : (A) philistinism (B) moral earnestness (C) 24. licentiousness (D) transcendentalism Larry slate is a character in : (A) Desire Under the Elms (B) The Emperor Jones (C) 25. The Iceman Cometh (D) Hairy Ape Iambus is a metrical foot consisting of : (A) two syllables (B) three syllables (C) 26. sister The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is : (A) 21. (D) four syllables (D) one syllable The lines Not that he wished is greatness to create / For politicians neither love nor hate, occur in : (A) The Rape of the Lock (B) Abslam and Achitophel (C) Mac Flecknoe (D) Essay on man D 3008 4 27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were given by : (A) (B) Victor Hugo (C) 28. Friedrich Schlegel Edger Allan Poe (D) F. L. Lucas The term a stream of consciousness is derived from the writing of : (A) (B) Dorothy Richardson (C) 29. Mary Sinclair William James (D) Gertrude Stein Sean O Casey s Juno and the Paycock is : (A) (B) a historical tragedy (C) 30. a romantic comedy a mythical reconstruction (D) a tragi-comedy The Reader-Response Theory implies that : (A) (B) the readers of an age construct the meaning (C) beliefs determine meaning (D) 31. there is no one correct meaning of the text a style is the hallmark of the text Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ? (A) (B) Browning The Ring and the Book (C) M. Arnold Idylls of the King (D) 32. Walter Pater Unto This Last Thackray Bleak House Myth Criticism focuses on : (A) (B) archetypes of spiritual experience (C) recurrence of archetypal patterns (D) 33. a study of myths and mythology the confluence of different traditions The phrase disassociation of sensibility was first used by : (A) (B) T. S. Eliot (C) 34. Philip Sydney John Dryden (D) Mathew Arnold An Idyll is usually a poem about a : (A) picturesque city life (B) panoramic view of nature (C) picture of industrial society (D) picturesque country life D 3008 5 P.T.O. 35. The Lost Generation refers to the generation that came to maturity in the : (A) 1920s (B) 1930s (C) 1910s (D) 1940s 36. The French Revolution had a significant impact on : (A) Victorian Literature (B) Romantic Literature (C) Neo-classic Literature (D) Modern Literature 37. In which poem does the following line appear ? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. : (A) Michael (B) Immortality Ode (C) Rejection : An Ode (D) Tintern Abbey 38. Tale (A) (B) (C) (D) 39. Congreve s The way of the world ends with : (A) a dance party (B) (C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison (D) of a Tub is about : Warring political factions Struggling lower-class people Controversial philosophical documents Contending religious parties punishment of Lady Wishfort reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood 40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ? (C) Alonso (D) Stephano (A) Caliban (B) Ferdinand 41. Secular influences on the early English drama were : (A) political squabbles, religious sermons and social customs (B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy (C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels (D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans 42. John Bunyan s The Pilgrim s Progress was written while he was : (A) in prison (B) on a pilgrimage (C) on a social mission (D) in a church 43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is : (A) (C) D 3008 a political orator a social revolutionary (B) (D) 6 a propagandist a serious moralist 44. Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice most clearly shows the influence of : (A) (B) Richardson (C) 45. Fielding Smollett (D) Sterne The most important of the evolutionists during the Victorian period was : (A) (B) Robert Chambers (C) 46. Erasmus Darwin Charles Darwin (D) Alfred Russell Wallace A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern literature is : (A) (B) Dadaism (C) 47. Absurdism Imagism (D) Surrealism The term magic realism was first introduced by : (A) (B) Franz Roh (C) 48. Hannah Arendt Jean Arp (D) Peter Behrens The Indian English novelist who, for the first time, addressed the question of language and indigenous experience was : (A) (B) R K Narayan (C) 49. Mulk Raj Anand Arun Joshi (D) Raja Rao G. V. Desani s All About H. Hatterr is written in the : (A) (B) first person narrative mode (C) 50. stream-of- consciousness mode picaresque mode (D) naturalistic mode The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is : (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg (C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh (D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg -oOo- D 3008 7 P.T.O. Space For Rough Work D 3008 8

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