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.   Duke Senior
   2.   Prospero
   3.   Gloucester
   4.   Othello
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.   Othello
   2.   In Memoriam
   3.   The Mistress
   4.   Andrea del Sarto
3. Which of the following novels was influenced by Carlyle’s French Revolution?
   1.   The Fall of the Princes
   2.   War and Peace
   3.   Ivanhoe
   4.   A Tale of Two Cities
4. Deism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment because of its
   1.   rejection of revelatioan
   2.   acceptance of revelation
   3.   emphasis on the philosophy of a work
   4.   concept of universality
5. Among Carlyle’s works, Sartor Resartus stands out as
   1.   a personal response to the French Revolution
   2.   an account of German politics
   3.   a treatise on heroism
   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.   1075
   3.   1076
   4.   1065
7. Which of the following was a characteristic feature of Medieval literature?
   1.   Realism in representation of time and space
   2.   Absence of alliteration in poetry
   3.   The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable
   4.   A large body of personal literature
8. The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a
   1.   long narrative story of an adulterous Duchess
   2.   lengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
   3.   short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales
   4.   tribute to his beloved and her beauty
9. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As
   1.   a legendary story
   2.   mythological story
   3.   an epic
   4.   a lyrical drama
10. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology?
    1.   Alastor
    2.   Prometheus Unbound
    3.   Queen Mab
    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.   Castle Dangerous
    2.   Ivanhoes
    3.   Heart of Midlothian
    4.   Old Morality
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.   Northanger Abbey
    2.   Emma
    3.   Sense and Sensibility
    4.   Mansfield Park
13. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’
    1.   Northrop Frye
    2.   T. S. Eliot
    3.   I. A. Richards
    4.   William Empson
14. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From Sonnets
    from the Portuguese”
    1.   She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
    2.   She wrote the whole in Portugal
    3.   The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
    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, 3 and 4 are correct
    2.   1 and 2 are correct
    3.   2 and 3 are correct
    4.   1 and 3 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.   III and IV are correct.
    2.   I and II are correct.
    3.   II and IV are correct.
    4.   I and III are correct.
17. Which of the following statements is not true of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions?
    1.   It challenges communalism.
    2.   The play centres on a middle class Hindu family during a communal riot.
    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.   Eknath
    2.   Chandalika
    3.   Muktadhara
    4.   Sacrifice
19. ‘Lexis’ refers to
    1.   'The history of words
    2.   The selection of words
    3.   Study of select word forms
    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.   Walt Whitman
    2.   Robert Lowell
    3.   Wallace Stevens
    4.   Langston Hughes