Solved Paper II English UGC NET - June 2011
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,