Name of the Organization : University Grants Commission
Type of the Exam : UGC National Eligibility Test NET
Subject : English
Year : 2014
Document Type : Model Question Paper
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** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
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1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above
2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :
List – I List – II
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4
3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in _______ than in medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism
5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)
i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity
8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate
10. Derrida’s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,Thames
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years.
Than with your weapons.” The above lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and officers
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators
(D) Montano and Cassio
13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place ?
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath
14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” –1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – 1579
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
15. Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3