NET PAPER-2 JUNE 2006

NET PAPER-2  JUNE 2006

1. Which one of the following author - book pair is correctly matched?

(A) J.M. Coetzee - Shame

(B) Saul Bellro - Herzog

(C) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace

(D) Elfriede Jelinek - The Pianist


2. Which novel has a nameless narrator?

(A) Invisible Man

(B) The Grapes of Wrath

(C) Moby Dick

(D) Anna Karenina


3. Samuel Beckett wrote:

(A) Endgame

(B) Volpone

(C) Mother Courage and Her Children

(D) A Doll's House


4. Willy Loman is a character in:

(A) A Doll's House

(B) The Cherry Orchard

(C) Waiting for Godot

(D) The Death of a Salesman


5. The Plough and the Stars was written by:

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) J.M. Synge

(C) Sean O'casey

(D) Lady Gregory


6. The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is:

(A) There was no subtitle

(B) A satire

(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets

(D) A poem


7. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?

(A) Jonathan Swift

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Richard Steele

(D) Lancelot Andrews


8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of:

(A) essays

(B) editorials

(C) letters

(D) diaries


9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled upon:

(A) "Annus Mirabilis"

(B) Endymion

(C) Don Quixote

(D) Pilgrim's Progress


10. Who was the last of the Christian Humanists?

(A) Oliver Cromowell

(B) John Milton

(C) John Bunyan

(D) Richard Crashaw


11. The narrative of Raja Rao's Kanthapura is based on:

(A) Puranas

(B) Shastras

(C) The Ramayana

(D) The Mahabharata


12. Which of the following author - book pair is correctly matched?

(A) David Malouf - The City of Djins

(B) C.L.R. James - The English Patient

(C) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter Nama

(D) Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite Justice


13. Who wrote "A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude”?

(A) Ngugi

(B) Achebe

(C) Soyinka

(D) Derek Walcott


14. "Jindiworobak" movement relates to:

(A) Australian literature

(B) Canadian literature

(C) New Zealand literature

(D) Caribbean literature


15. The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of:

(A) Nature poetry

(B) Symbolish poetry

(C) Imagist poetry

(D) Modernist poetry


16. The figure of the "Abyssinian maid" appears in:

(A) "Frost at midnight"

(B) "Christabel"

(C) "Kubla Khan"

(D) "Dejection: an Ode"


17.Coleridges statement that imagination "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate" relates to:

(A) fancy

(B) primary imagination

(C) secondary imagination

(D) esemplastic imagination


18. "Did he who made the Lamb made thee" appears in:

(A) "The Tyger"

(B) "Chimney Sweeper"

(C) "London"

(D) "Introduction"


19. "Essays of Elia” are:

(A) political ideology

(B) economic disparity

(C) literary criticism

(D) personal impressions


20. Who among the following is a writer of historical romances?

(A) Emily Bronte

(B) Jane Austen

(C) Walter Scott

(D) Walter Savage Lander


21. Which of the following thinker - concept pairs is rightly matched?

(A) Stanley Fish - Reader Response

(B) Jacques Devida - New Historicism

(C) Northrop Frye - Practical Criticism

(D) I.A. Richards - Archetypal Criticism


22. Which of the following thinker - concept pairs is rightly matched?

(A) Vaman - Dhwanyaloka

(B) Bharata - Natya Shastra

(C) Mamata - Vakrokti

(D) Abhinava Gupta - Kavya Alankar


23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism:

(A) Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response

(B) New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader Response

(C) Reader Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism, New Criticism

(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response


24. "Peripetia” means:

(A) purgation of emotion

(B) tragic flaw

(C) reversal of fortune

(D) recognition of error


25. "Gynocriticism" focuses on:

(A) Criticism on women

(B) Criticism by women

(C) Criticism of male writers by women writers

(D) Women as writers


26. Which of the following sequences is correct?

(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native,Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond

(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond


27. Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the Victorian period is named, spans:

(A) 1833 - 1901

(B) 1837 - 1901

(C) 1840 - 1905

(D) 1842 – 1905


28. Pre - Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with:

(A) narrative and style

(B) narrative and nature

(C) form and design

(D) form and value


29. The concept of "mad woman in the attic" can be traced to:

(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

(B) Villette

(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) Jane Eyre


30. Who among the Victorians is called "the prophet of modern society”?

(A) Ruskin

(B) Carlyle

(C) Macaulay

(D) Arnold


31. Who among the following is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?

(A) the Haberdasher

(B) the Tapyser

(C) the Blacksmith

(D) the Summoner


32. Bosola is the executioner in:

(A) The Spanish Tragedy

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) The White Devil

(D) The Jew of Malta


33. The mystery plays deal with:

(A) the life of Christ

(B) the New Testament

(C) Psalms

(D) Apocrypha



34. The Faerie Queene is based on:

(A) Utopia

(B) Tottelis Miscellany

(C) Morte d'Arthur

(D) Orlando Furioso


35. Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following plays :

(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet

(B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet

(C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

(D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth


36. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" sums up the art of poetry as taught first by:

(A) Aristotle

(B) Horace

(C) Longinus

(D) Plato


37. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on:

(A) science and philosophy

(B) art and morality

(C) dogma and superstition

(D) fake morals and manners


38. Dr. Johnson started :

(A) The Postman

(B) The Spectator

(C) The Rambler

(D) The Tatler



39. Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty?

(A) Mary Wollstonecraft

(B) Edmund Burke

(C) Thomas Hobbes

(D) John Locke


40. Which famous American classic opens with "Call me Ishmael”?

(A) Rip Van Winkle

(B) The Scarlet Letter

(C) The Grapes of Wrath

(D) Moby Dick




41. Allen Ginsberg's vision of America is inspired by:

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Robert Frost

(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(D) Edgar A. Poe


42. Who among the following represents the Sri Lankan diaspora?

(A) M.G. Vassanji

(B) Cyril Debydeen

(C) Michael Ondaatje

(D) Arnold H. Itwaru


43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a work by:

(A) Alice Walker

(B) Margaret Lawrence

(C) Margaret Atwood

(D) None of them


44. The Empire writes Back was written by :

(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa Thinngo

(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen Slemon

(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua Achebe

(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths


45. The theatre of cruelty is associated with:

(A) Stanislavosky

(B) Grotovsky

(C) Antonin Artand

(D) Eugino Barba

 
46. A particle is :

(A) a patchwork of words, sentences, passages

(B) a satirical poem

(C) a love song

(D) a collection of lines from different poems


47. "Careless she is with artful Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an example of:

(A) irony

(B) paradox

(C) simile

(D) metaphor


48. A metrical foot containing a stressed, followed by an unstressed, syllable is:

(A) anapaest

(B) iamb

(C) trochee

(D) dactyl


49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet is:

(A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee

(B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee

(C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee

(D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee


50. Using the expression "Crown" for the monarchy is an example of:

(A) Metonymy

(B) Synecdoche

(C) Irony

(D) Metaphor