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.   Duke Senior
   4.   Gloucester
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.   The Mistress
   2.   In Memoriam
   3.   Andrea del Sarto
   4.   Othello
3. Which of the following novels was influenced by Carlyle’s French Revolution?
   1.   Ivanhoe
   2.   A Tale of Two Cities
   3.   War and Peace
   4.   The Fall of the Princes
4. Deism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment because of its
   1.   emphasis on the philosophy of a work
   2.   concept of universality
   3.   acceptance of revelation
   4.   rejection of revelatioan
5. Among Carlyle’s works, Sartor Resartus stands out as
   1.   a disguised spiritual autobiography
   2.   a personal response to the French Revolution
   3.   a treatise on heroism
   4.   an account of German politics
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.   1075
   2.   1065
   3.   1076
   4.   1066
7. Which of the following was a characteristic feature of Medieval literature?
   1.   A large body of personal literature
   2.   Absence of alliteration in poetry
   3.   The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable
   4.   Realism in representation of time and space
8. The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a
   1.   lengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
   2.   tribute to his beloved and her beauty
   3.   short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales
   4.   long narrative story of an adulterous Duchess
9. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As
   1.   a legendary story
   2.   an epic
   3.   a lyrical drama
   4.   mythological story
10. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology?
    1.   Queen Mab
    2.   Prometheus Unbound
    3.   Alastor
    4.   Julian and Maddalo
11. Which of Scott's novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans, the Covenanters, and the royal forces under Culverhouse"?
    1.   Old Morality
    2.   Ivanhoes
    3.   Castle Dangerous
    4.   Heart of Midlothian
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.   Emma
    2.   Northanger Abbey
    3.   Mansfield Park
    4.   Sense and Sensibility
13. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’
    1.   I. A. Richards
    2.   William Empson
    3.   T. S. Eliot
    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.   The sonnets were narrated by a portuguese.
    4.   She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
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 III are correct.
    2.   I and II are correct.
    3.   II and IV are correct.
    4.   III 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 is concerned with homosexual relationship.
    3.   It challenges communalism.
    4.   It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia.
18. Which of the following plays is not written by Rabindranath Tagore?
    1.   Sacrifice
    2.   Eknath
    3.   Chandalika
    4.   Muktadhara
19. ‘Lexis’ refers to
    1.   'The history of words
    2.   Study of select word forms
    3.   All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
    4.   The selection of words
20. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?
    1.   Wallace Stevens
    2.   Robert Lowell
    3.   Langston Hughes
    4.   Walt Whitman