Practice UGC NET English Paper 2 July 2018 - The Uncovered English

Paper 2 - July 2018

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Question 1

Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned Merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island ?

1. "Crossing the Bar”

2. "Tithonus”

3. "Enoch Arden”

4. "Maud”

Question 2

In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?

1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth

2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton

3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth

4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

Question 3

Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s Woman, and Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ?

1. John Arden

2. Edward Bond

3. Harold Pinter

4. David Hare

Question 4

The years in English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as

1. The Neo-Classical period

2. The Commonwealth period

3. The Stuart period

4. The Jacobean period

Question 5

In R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends, which game offers Swami the best kind of emotional release from the strains and pressures of disagreeable circumstances ?

1. Cricket

2. Football

3. Tennis

4. Hockey

Question 6

William Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that “To Generalize is to be ____________. To Particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit.” Fill in the blank.

1. An Idiot

2. A Poet

3. A Dreamer

4. A Skunk

Question 7

Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?

1. Irish

2. Northumbrian

3. Mercian

4. Kentish

Question 8

Anthony Burgess’s last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford. Who is the central character to whom the title refers ?

1. Sir Walter Raleigh

2. Sir Philip Sidney

3. Christopher Marlowe

4. Earl of Southampton

Question 9

Choose the chronological order:

1. William Caxton prints the first English book - William Shakespeare's First Folio - John Milton's Areopagitica - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).

2. “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) – William Shakespeare’s First Folio – William Caxton prints the first English book - William Shakespeare's First Folio - John Milton's Areopagitica.

3. William Caxton prints the first English book - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) – William Shakespeare’s First Folio – John Milton's Areopagitica.

4. William Shakespeare’s First Folio – John Milton's Areopagitica - William Caxton prints the first English book - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets)

Question 10

What does the phrase ut pictura poesis from Horace’s Art of Poetry mean ?

1. “as in painting, so in poetry”

2. “poetry beggars pictorial description”

3. “as in poetry, so in painting”

                            

4. “picture above all poetry”

                         

Question 11

Who among the following is the author of Account of the Augustan Age in England (1759) ?

1. John Gay

2. William Hazlitt

3. Oliver Goldsmith

4. Samuel Johnson

Question 12

In how many parts did Cervantes publish his novel, Don Quixote ?

1. Three

2. Five

3. Two

4. Twelve

Question 13

Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians carries biographical sketches of writers and public Õgures. Identify the list below that correctly mentions those Eminent Victorians.

1.Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon

2.A.E.W. Mason, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges

3.E.F. Benson, Cardinal Manning, Lord Tennyson, Beatrice Webb.

4.George Harding, General Gordon, Robert Browning, Mrs Humphrey Ward

Question 14

One of the following statements about the eponymous saint of Dryden’s “Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” is incorrect. Identify that Statement.

1.St. Cecilia’s was a Roman Lady, an early Christian martyr.

2.St. Cecilia’s was an Armenian devotee of the Christian Faith.

3.St. Cecilia’s festival is celebrated on 22 November in England

4.St. Cecilia’s was a patroness of music who was fabled to have invented the organ

Question 15

Which of the statements on Michael Robert’s Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) is not true ?

1.His anthology canonized modern poetry and poets for quite some decades

2.The Collection begins with the poems of Robert Bridges.

3.Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology

4.Yeats, Eliot and Pound Õnd a place in the Faber Book of 1936

Question 16

Who among the following proposed that the First Gulf War had never taken place, it was simply a hyperreal, media-generated spectacle?

1.Richard Rorty

2.Jean-Francois Lyotard

3.Jean Baudrillard

4.Umberto Eco

Question 17

Sir Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial was prompted by

1. The Discovery of ancient buial-urns near Norwich

2. The Contemporary researches on burial rites in Norway.

3. The Death of St. Francis of Assissi and his burial.

4. The Publication of the English Book of Common Prayer

Question 14

Identify from the among the following list those that cannot be called War Fiction. A. A Modern Instance
B. Catch – 22
C. The Age of Innocence
D. The Naked and the Dead.

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (a) and (c)

4. (b) and (d)

1. "Crossing the Bar”