English NET-JRF

Q.26 Choose the correct alternative. 1) The Staple of News was first performed in 1625. 2) The Staple of News was intended to be part of the second folio collection of Jonson’s works. 3) In the play, the News Staple is a satirical parody on the developments of newspaper and news agency business, especially, that developed and appeared in response to the Thirty Years War. 4) The main source of the play came from the early miracle plays. A) 1, 2 & 3 B) Only 1 C) 1, 2, 3 & 4 D) Only 1 & 4

Q.1 Whom did Sidney dedicate his work Arcadia to? A) Penelope Devereux B) Edmund Spenser C) Himself D) Mary Herbert

1. Keat's Endymion has (a) 3,000 lines (b) 4,000 lines (c) 2500 lines (d) 4,500 lines

1)  Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility? A.  Andrey Bely B.  Ivan Goncharov C.  Ivan Bunin D.  Vladimir Mayakovsky

1. Which of the following novels focuses on the question of rape? (a) The Bending Vine (b) Voices in The City (c) Some Inner Fury (d) A Time to Be Happy

1. Who is the author of Raj? (a) Geeta Mehta (b) Rama Mehta (c) Shobha De (d) Nargis Dalai

1. The landmark publication of The Interpretation of Dreams was in ________. (a) 1900 (b) 1905 (c) 1910 (d) 1915

1. Who founded the school of Neo‐ Platonism?          (a) Terence   (b) Catullus   (c) Plotinus   (d) Horace

1. Name the subtitle of the 1852 anti‐slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. (a) The Plight of the Blacks (b) A Man against Slavery (c) Life Among the Lowly (d) Story of the Downtrodden

ENGLISH LITERATURE Paper – II (2011 June) Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two(2) marks. Attempt all the questions. Paper-II 1 . Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s (A) Hard Times (B) Great Expectations (C) Oliver Twist (D) The Old Cur iosity Sho p The old curiosity shop was published as a book in 1841 which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock , which lasted from 1840 to 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of 'not quite fourteen.' An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. She lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop , and whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did,