Mock Quiz 2 - UGC NET - English

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1. 1. The lines :
   ‘Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
   Was sent before but to prepare thy way’ are quoted from :
   1.   Pope’s Dunciad
   2.   Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
   3.   Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe
   4.   Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
2. Fanny Burney’s Evelina is about :
   1.   a young lady’s entry into English fashionable society
   2.   English refugees in Paris
   3.   an English enthusiast for revolutionary liberty
   4.   money and the world of the country house
3. The unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published after Obscenity trial in
   1.   1958
   2.   1965
   3.   1960
   4.   1962
4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in :
   1.   Humphry Clinker
   2.   Clarissa
   3.   The Coverley Papers
   4.   Joseph Andrews
5. In which of the following novels does Stein feature as a significant character ?
   1.   Under Western Eyes
   2.   Lord Jim
   3.   Heart of Darkness
   4.   Nostromo
6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in :
   1.   Crime and Punishment
   2.   Notes from the Underground
   3.   Brothers Karamazov
   4.   The Idiot
7. 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
8. Select the matching pair :
   1.   The Book of the Duchess : Blanche of Leicester
   2.   The Canterbury Tales : The Host of the Tabard
   3.   Troilus and Criseyde : Squire
   4.   The Parliament of Birds : St. Agnes’s Eve
9. ‘The Winter Morning’ forms part of a longer poem by :
   1.   Cowper
   2.   Blake
   3.   Burns
   4.   Byron
10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris Murdoch’s novel :
    1.   Under the Net
    2.   Bruno’s Dream
    3.   The Bell
    4.   The Black Prince
11. ‘Victorian Compromise’ is an expression first used by :
    1.   David Cecil
    2.   G. K. Chesterton
    3.   Lytton Strachey
    4.   Vincent Buckley
12. More’s Latin Masterpiece Utopia was translated into English in :
    1.   1551
    2.   1498
    3.   1516
    4.   1532
13. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry is written by :
    1.   Maud Bodkin
    2.   Stephen Spender
    3.   Harold Bloom
    4.   Frank Kernode
14. Who among the following was not a member of the group, ‘The University Wits’ ?
    1.   Thomas Nashe
    2.   Ben Jonson
    3.   George Peele
    4.   Samuel Daniel
15. William Beckford’s oriental fantasy Vathek was originally written in :
    1.   Spanish
    2.   German
    3.   French
    4.   Italian
16. The term ‘American renaissance’ was first used by :
    1.   R. W. B Lewis
    2.   Leo Marx
    3.   F. O. Matthiessen
    4.   Richard Chase
17. ‘Gladly would he learn, and gladly teach’ is a line from :
    1.   Spenser’s Fairie Queen
    2.   Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’
    3.   Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales
    4.   Langland’s Piers Plowman
18. Which of the following arrangement of the English plays is in correct chronological order ?
    1.   Justice – The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – The Playboy of the Western World
    2.   Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World – The Family Reunion
    3.   The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World
    4.   The Playboy of the Western World – Justice – Saint Joan – The Family Reunion
19. The second part of The Pilgrim’s Progress was published in :
    1.   1690
    2.   1678
    3.   1686
    4.   1684
20. The Egoist is written by :
    1.   Blackmore
    2.   William Thackeray
    3.   Meredith
    4.   Hardy
21. Which is the correct chronological sequence of the following novels ?
    1.   Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Brave New World
    2.   Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Brave New World
    3.   Brave New World – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall
    4.   The Time Machine – Decline and Fall – Brave New World – Nineteen Eightyfour
22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of the following texts :
    1.   The Death of Tragedy
    2.   The Death of a Hero
    3.   The Death of the Author
    4.   The Death of Literature
23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence, Idea, is :
    1.   Samuel Daniel
    2.   Michael Drayton
    3.   Edmund Spenser
    4.   Fulke Greville
24. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel :
    1.   Jane Eyre
    2.   Villette
    3.   Wuthering Heights
    4.   North and South
25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of a book by :
    1.   Harold Bloom
    2.   Graham Hough
    3.   C. M. Bowra
    4.   M. H. Abrahms