UGC-NTA NET English Solved Paper with Explanations: Set-1
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UGC NET Exam July 2016
Set- 1
Also useful for Assistant Professor Examination to be conducted by U.P Education Service Commission and similar other examinations.
1 Which British University
figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
a) Durham
b)
Glasgow
c) Cambridge
d) Oxford
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Ans.
(c) The Prelude or, Growth of a
Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by William Wordsworth. Intended as
the introduction to the more philosophical poem The Recluse, which Wordsworth never
finished, The Prelude is an
extremely personal work and reveals many details of Wordsworth's life.
Wordsworth began The Prelude in
1798 and continued to work on it throughout his life. In his letters to Dorothy, he referred to it
as "the poem on the growth of my own mind". It was posthumously
titled and published in 1850 by his widow Mary. Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet
laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. |
2 Who is the author of A Woman Killed
with Kindness?
a) John Marston
b)Thomas
Middleton
c) John Fletcher
d)Thomas
Heywood
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Ans. (d)
A Woman Killed with Kindness is an
early seventeenth-century stage play written by Thomas Heywood. First published in 1607, the play has generally
been considered Heywood's masterpiece. |
3 In
William Congreve’s The Way of the World, identify the speaker of the
line: “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one
parts with one’s power.”
a) Mirabell
b)Witwoud
c) Millamant
d)Mincing
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Ans. (c) The Way of the World is a play written by William Congreve. It is regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies.The play is
centred on the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant In order for them to marry and receive
Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell
must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately,
Lady Wishfort is a very bitter lady who despises Mirabell and wants her own
nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant. |
4 T.S
Eliot found spiritual support in
a) Christianity
b)
Hinduism
c) Buddhism
d)
Judaism
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Ans. (a) In 1927, Eliot converted to Anglicanism from Unitarianism and he took British citizenship. He specifically identified himself as Anglo-Catholic, proclaiming himself "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion". About 30 years later Eliot commented on his religious views that he combined "a Catholic cast of mind, a Calvinist heritage,and a Puritanical temperament". In his work The Idea of a Christian Society(1939)
Eliot argued that the humanist attempt to form a non-Christian, ‘rational’
civilization was doomed. “ The experiment will fail’, he wrote, “but we must
be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the faith may be preserved
alive through the dark ages alive before us; to renew and rebuild
civilization, and save the world from suicide.” He didn’t believe society
should be ruled by Church, only by Christian principles, with Christians
being “the conscious mind and the conscience of the nation.” |
5 By
what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag?
a) Grildrig
b)
Glumdalclitch
c) Splacknuck
d)
Mannikin
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Ans. (a) Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. |
6 Who
among the following was born in India?
a) Paul Scott
b)
Lawrence Durrell
c) E.M. Forster
d)
V.S Naipaul
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Ans.
(b) Lawrence Durrell was born in Jalandhar, British India, His first school was St. Joseph's School, North Point,
Darjeeling. At the age
of eleven, Durrell was sent to England for schooling. His formal education was unsuccessful, and he failed his
university entrance examinations. His first collection, Quaint Fragments, was published in 1931, when he was 19. |
7 What
metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ in
Faerie Queene (Book I Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the
relationship between the tale and its readers?
a)
That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert
b)
That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way
c)
That of a ship filled with jolly
mariners.
d)
That of a riderless house, following his own direction
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Ans. (c) |
8 Who
among the following is not associated with Russian formalism
a) Roman Jacobson
b) George
Poulet
c) Boris Eichenbaum
d) Victor
Shklovsky
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Ans. 8. (b) Georges Poulet was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Best known for his four-volume work Studies in Human Time, Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the reader to open his or her mind to the consciousness of the author. |
9 Which
character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
a) Barkis
b)
Micawber
c) Uriah Heep
d)
Miss Havisham
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Ans. (b) Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield. He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that "something will turn up." |
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10 What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishamael in Herman
Melville’s Moby Dick?
a)
Pequod b)
Rachel
c)
Hager d)
Sphinx
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Ans. (b) Moby-Dick;
or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative
of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling
ship Pequod. Its reputation as a
"Great American Novel" was
established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's
birth. William Faulkner confessed he
wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it
"one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and
"the greatest book of the sea ever written" Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is
among world literature's most famous. |
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