Mock Quiz 1 - UGC NET - English

  

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1. Which Shakespearean character says this:  “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
    They kill us for their sport”?
   1.   Othello
   2.   Prospero
   3.   Gloucester
   4.   Duke Senior
2. In which text can you find these lines? “It is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.
   1.   In Memoriam
   2.   Othello
   3.   The Mistress
   4.   Andrea del Sarto
3. Which of the following novels was influenced by Carlyle’s French Revolution?
   1.   A Tale of Two Cities
   2.   War and Peace
   3.   Ivanhoe
   4.   The Fall of the Princes
4. Deism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment because of its
   1.   concept of universality
   2.   rejection of revelatioan
   3.   acceptance of revelation
   4.   emphasis on the philosophy of a work
5. Among Carlyle’s works, Sartor Resartus stands out as
   1.   an account of German politics
   2.   a treatise on heroism
   3.   a personal response to the French Revolution
   4.   a disguised spiritual autobiography
6. The Norman Conquest of England in the battle of Hastings is an important landmark in the history of English literature. It occurred in the year
   1.   1066
   2.   1076
   3.   1065
   4.   1075
7. Which of the following was a characteristic feature of Medieval literature?
   1.   A large body of personal literature
   2.   Realism in representation of time and space
   3.   Absence of alliteration in poetry
   4.   The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable
8. The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a
   1.   lengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
   2.   short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales
   3.   long narrative story of an adulterous Duchess
   4.   tribute to his beloved and her beauty
9. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As
   1.   a lyrical drama
   2.   mythological story
   3.   a legendary story
   4.   an epic
10. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology?
    1.   Prometheus Unbound
    2.   Julian and Maddalo
    3.   Queen Mab
    4.   Alastor
11. Which of Scott's novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans, the Covenanters, and the royal forces under Culverhouse"?
    1.   Ivanhoes
    2.   Heart of Midlothian
    3.   Old Morality
    4.   Castle Dangerous
12. "About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram ". This is the beginning of a novel by Jane Austen. Which one?
    1.   Mansfield Park
    2.   Emma
    3.   Sense and Sensibility
    4.   Northanger Abbey
13. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’
    1.   T. S. Eliot
    2.   I. A. Richards
    3.   William Empson
    4.   Northrop Frye
14. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From Sonnets
    from the Portuguese”
    1.   She wrote the whole in Portugal
    2.   The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
    3.   She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
    4.   The sonnets were narrated by a portuguese.
15. Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina ?
    1. Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate spirit and
    determination to live life on her own terms.
    2. She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.
    3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.
    4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.
    1.   1 and 2 are correct
    2.   2 and 3 are correct
    3.   1 and 3 are correct
    4.   1, 3 and 4 are correct
16. All forms of feminism posit that:
    I. The relationship between the sexes is one of inequality and oppression.
    II. There should be an end to all wars.
    III. Women need financial independence.
    IV. All men are prone to violence.
    The correct combination according to the code is:
    1.   I and II are correct.
    2.   III and IV are correct.
    3.   I and III are correct.
    4.   II and IV are correct.
17. Which of the following statements is not true of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions?
    1.   The play centres on a middle class Hindu family during a communal riot.
    2.   It challenges communalism.
    3.   It is concerned with homosexual relationship.
    4.   It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia.
18. Which of the following plays is not written by Rabindranath Tagore?
    1.   Sacrifice
    2.   Chandalika
    3.   Eknath
    4.   Muktadhara
19. ‘Lexis’ refers to
    1.   'The history of words
    2.   Study of select word forms
    3.   The selection of words
    4.   All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
20. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?
    1.   Robert Lowell
    2.   Langston Hughes
    3.   Wallace Stevens
    4.   Walt Whitman