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Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : English
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016
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Instructions
Paper – III :
Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
Model Questions
1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford
2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
(1) John Marston
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
(4) Thomas Heywood
3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”
(1) Mirabell
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
(4) Mincing
4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism
(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism
5. By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?
(1) Grildrig
(2) Glumdalclitch
(3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin
6. Who among the following was born in India ?
(1) Paul Scott
(2) Lawrence Durrell
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul
7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers ?
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.
8. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism ?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Georges Poulet
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky
9. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ?
(1) Barkis
(2) Micawber
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham
10. What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ?
(1) Pequod (2) Rachel
(3) Hagar (4) Sphinx
11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance.
(1) Oriental
(2) French
(3) Gothic
(4) Popular
12. Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings ?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II (2) II and III
(3) I and IV (4) I and III
13. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake” ?
(1) Aestheticism
(2) Didacticism
(3) Realism
(4) Neo-realism
14. The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of
(1) Oxymoron
(2) Antithesis
(3) Paradox
(4) Metonomy
15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?
(1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
(3) Kurtz
(4) An unnamed narrator
16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
(1) The Conscious Lovers
(2) The Good Natur’d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
(4) The Rivals
17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :
(1) The Living and the Dead
(2) The Tree of Man
(3) Happy Valley
(4) The Aunt’s Story
18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise ?
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.
(2) To spy on Edmund.
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.
19. What is a feminine rhyme ?
(1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
(2) A rhyme on two syllables.
(3) A rhyme on three syllables.
(4) A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.
20. Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry :
I. French Without Tears
II. The Lady’s Not for Burning
III. Venus Observed
IV. The Deep Blue Sea
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III (2) I and III
(3) II and IV (4) I and IV
21. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S. Eliot, the term “Traditional” usually means
(1) something positive
(2) something negative
(3) something historical
(4) something old
22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet ?
(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne
(3) Robert Herrick
(4) Andrew Marvell
23. Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’s work ?
(1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
(2) The Transcendence of the Ego
(3) Of Grammatology
(4) The Work of Mourning
24. In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side ?
(1) Adam
(2) Eve
(3) Raphael
(4) God
25. A.S. Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on
I. Alfred Tennyson
II. Robert Browning
III. Christina Rossetti
IV. William Morris
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV