UGC/NTA NET English Solved Paper with Explanation: Set-2
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UGC NET Exam July 2016
Set-2
Also useful for Assistant Professor Examination to be conducted by U.P Education Service Commission and similar other examinations.
1. “The mistakes of a Night” is the subtitle of
a)
The Conscious Lovers
b) The
Good Natured man
c)
She Stoops to Conquer
d) The
Rivals
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Ans. (c) She Stoops to Conquer is
a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It was first performed in
London in 1773. Initially the play was titled “Mistakes of a Night” and the events within the play take place
in one long night. In 1778, John
O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town. |
2. Identify the first novel written by
Patrick White:
a)
The Living and the Dead
b) The
Tree of Man
c)
Happy Valley
d) The
Aunt’s Story
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Ans. (c) Happy Valley is a 1939 novel by Australian author Patrick White. It won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. |
3. In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise ?
b.
To
spy on Edmund
c.
To
antagonize Goneril and Regan
d.
To
revenge upon Lear for banishing him
|
Ans. (a) In King Lear, Kent disguises as a peasant, calling himself “Caius,” so that he can continue to serve Lear even after Lear banishes him. He is loyal, but he gets himself into trouble throughout the play by being extremely blunt and outspoken. |
4. What is a feminine rhyme ?
a)
A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed
b)
A rhyme on two syllables.
c)
A rhyme on three syllables
d)
A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.
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Ans. (a) Feminine rhyme, also called double rhyme, involves two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). In feminine ending, the final syllable is unstressed. |
5. Identify two of the following written by Christopher
Fry:
1.
French
Without Tears
2.
The
Lady is Not for Burning
3.
Venus
Observed
4.
The
Deep Blue Sea
The right combination according
to the code is:
a. a) 2
and 3
b.
b) 1
and 3
c. c) 2 and 4
d) 1 and 4
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Ans. (a) Christopher
Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for
his verse dramas, notably The
Lady is Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in
the 1940s and 1950s. Venus Observed is
a play in blank verse. |
6. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S Eliot, the term ‘tradition’
usually means
a) something positive
b) something negative
c) something historical
d) something old
|
Ans.
(c) In Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot proposes that tradition is a living
culture which is inherited from the past and also has an important function
in shaping the present. To Eliot tradition is bound up with historical sense
of a poet or writer. Historical sense is a perception that past is not
something that is lost. |
7. Which of the following is a Cavalier
poet ?
a) George Herbert
b) John Donne
c) Robert Herrick
d) Andrew Marvell
|
Ans. (c) The cavalier poets was a school of poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). These poets grouped themselves with the King and his service, thus becoming Cavalier Poets. The best known of the cavalier poets are Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling. |
8. Which of the following is not Jacques
Derrida’s work ?
a)
Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question
b)
The Transcendence of the Ego
c)
Of Grammatology
d)
The Work of Mourning
|
Ans. (b) ‘The Transcendence of the Ego’ is a philosophical essay written by Jean-Paul Sartre. The essay demonstrates Sartre’s transition from traditional phenomenological thinking and most notably his break from Edmund Husserl’s school of thought (phenomenology). |
9. In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of
the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side ?
a)
Adam
b) Eve
c) Raphael
d) God
|
Ans. (c) |
10. A.S Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely
based on
1. Alfred Tennyson
2. Robert Browning
3 Christina Rossetti
4. William Morris
The right combination according
to the code is
a.
1
and 2
b.
2
and 4
c.
2
and 3
d.
3
and 4
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Ans. (a) Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by British author A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize. The novel explores the postmodern concerns. |
11. ‘The Dark Lady of the Sonnet’ is a short
comedy by
a)
Bernard Shaw
b) W.B Yeats
c)
J.M Synge
d) John Osborne
|
Ans
(a) The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (
1910) is a short comedy by G. B Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending
to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I
and attempts to persuade her to create a national theatre. |
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12. John Milton’s description of gold as a
“precious bane” (Paradise Lost Book II)
is best described as
a)
a dactyl
b) an oxymoron
c)
enjambment
d) zeugma
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Ans. (b)
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in
which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoron phrases
is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting
meanings, such as “cruel kindness,” or “living death”. It is important to
understand the difference between an oxymoron and a paradox. A paradox may
consist of a sentence, or even a group of sentences. An oxymoron, on the
other hand, is a combination of two contradictory or opposite words. A
paradox seems contradictory to the general truth, but it does contain an
implied truth. An oxymoron, however, may produce a dramatic effect, but does
not make literal sense. |
13. There is a play on the name of
Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
a)
Doctor Faustus
b) The Jew of
Malta
c)
Tamburlaine the Great
d) Edward II
|
Ans.
(b) In the Prologue to The Jew of Malta, Marlowe introduces the themes of Machiavellian scheming and
disrespect for religion that run throughout the play. The narrator
Machiavelli is a covetous strategist
who bears little resemblance to the real Machiavelli, the Italian author of
the Discourses and The Prince. |
14. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe
Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson
undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticism in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the
Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most
successfully?
a) Time
b) Place
c) Action
d) Johnson does not feel that Aristotelian dramatic
unities are
important.
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Ans. (c) Samuel
Johnson, in the ‘preface to Shakespeare’, remarks that only the 'unity of action' is
the vital principle which Aristotle had emphasized in his "Poetics"
and that the other two unities of time and place "arise evidently from
false assumptions." Johnson defends Shakespeare by implying that since
Shakespeare has observed the vital principle of "unity of action"
his failure to observe the other two unities of 'time' and 'place' can be
excused. |
15. Who among the following was praised and
patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?
a)
John Clare
b) George Crabbe
c)
Robert Burns
d) Walter Scott
|
Ans.(c) Robert
Burns also known as the Bard of Ayrshire, and the Ploughman Poet was a
Scottish poet. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. |
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