NET PAPER-2 JUNE 2008

NET PAPER-2  JUNE 2008

1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights and women's sphere is:

(A) Maud

(B) In Memoriam

(C) Idylls of the King

(D) The Princess

Answer: D  


2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray

(B) Edward Gibbon

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) William Blake

Answer: A

3.The King James Bible was published in :

(A) 1609

(B) 1610

(C) 1611

(D) 1612

Answer: C


4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot used for:

(A) W. B. Yeats

(B) Samuel Beckett

(C) W. H. Auden

(D) Ezra Pound

Answer: D

5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay by:

(A) Henry James

(B) Sylvia Plath

(C) Robert Frost

(D) Wallace Stevens

Answer: C

6. ''Ripeness is all" occurs in:

(A) King Lear

(B) Hamlet

(C) Macbeth

(D) Julius Caeser

Answer: A  


7. A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy was published in:

(A) 1903

(B) 1904

(C) 1905

(D) 1906

Answer: B

8. 'Topsy' appears in:

(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin

(B) History of the United States

(C) Walden

(D) Tom Sawyer

Answer: A

9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is:

(A) Lyric

(B) Ballad

(C) Ode

(D) Haiku

Answer: D

10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence?

(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II

(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice

(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Richard II

(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV Part I - The Merchant of Venice

Answer: D

11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century literature stands for:

(A) Nature of writing

(B) External nature

(C) Human nature

(D) The Universe

Answer: C

12. Who is given credit for first using the term "romantic"?

(A) Friedrich Schlegel

(B) Kant

(C) Coleridge

(D) Schiller

Answer: A

13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by:

(A) James Joyce

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) D. H. Lawrence

(D) E. M. Forster

Answer: C

14. July's People is a novel by:

(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) V. S. Naipul

(C) Wole Soyinka

(D) Nadine Gordimer

Answer: D


15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of:

(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines

(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines

(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter

(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter

Answer: A  


16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers text as:

(A) a structure of metaphors

(B) a unified whole

(C) an experimentation in form

(D) construction of history

Answer: B

17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :

(A) Australia

(B) The U.S.A.

(C) Canada

(D) Britain

Answer: C

18. Sartor Resartus is a text by :

(A) Ruskin

(B) Arnold

(C) Carlyle

(D) Burke

Answer: C

19. Who of the following is not a university wit?

(A) Webster

(B) Robert Greene

(C) Kyd

(D) Marlowe

Answer: A

20. Bosola is a character in a play by:

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Webster

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Thomas Middleton

Answer: B

  


21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven'. This occurs in a poem by :

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) S. T. Coleridge

(C) Byron

(D) Shelley

Answer: A

22. A Dance of the Forest is written by:

(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) Nadine Gordimer

(C) Chinua Achebe

(D) Wole Soyinka

Answer: D


23. The first Canadian poet is:

(A) Charles Sangster

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Charles Heavysege

(D) Alexander Machlachlan

Answer: A

24. Heroic quatrain is :

(A) a stanza in blank verse

(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter

(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter

(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter

Answer: C  


25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally means:

(A) Development novel

(B) Psychological novel

(C) Autobiographical novel

(D) Campus novel

Answer: A  


26.A book that faithfully renders a young man's confused images of love and rejection is :

(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

(B) Lucky Jim

(C) Daisy Miller

(D) The brave New World

Answer: A

27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between:

(A) faith and reason

(B) tradition and modernity

(C) oriental and occidental civilization

(D) romanticism and neo romanticism


Answer: A

28. "For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special" relates to Chaucer''s

(A) Friar

(B) Monk

(C) Doctor

(D) Pardoner

Answer: C  


29. The historical novel began in;

(A) Restoration Period

(B) Augustan Age

(C) Victorian Period

(D) Romantic Period

Answer: D

30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated with:

(A) Graham Green

(B) Kingsley Amis

(C) Margaret Drabble

(D) William Golding

Answer: B  


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

(A) Hard Times - George Eliot

(B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar

(C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold

(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay

Answer: C


32. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by:

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) Christopher Marlow

(C) John Webster

(D) Ben Jonson

Answer: A  


33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during: (A)1920-1940

(B) 1910-1930 

(C)1930-1940 

(D)1900-1910

Answer: B

34.Internal rhyme is :

(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem

(B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines

(C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry

(D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern

Answer: C

35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by :

(A) John Lyly

(B) Marlow

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) John Webster

Answer: D

36. The line "I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be. " appears in T. S. Eliot's

(A) Gerontion

(B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

(C) Four Quartets

(D) The Waste-Land

Answer: B  


37. 'Fancy' deals with:

(A) Fixities and definities

(B) Imagination and Reason

(C) Judgement and Memory

(D) Structure and Superstructure

Answer: A

38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in the form of a :

(A) Project in political economy Social Satire

(B) Political allegory

(C) Social Satire

(D) Old-Testament history

Answer: C

39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad was taken from :

(A) Absalom and Achitophel

(B) Mac-Flecknoe

(C) The Medal

(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Answer: B

40. Which of the following is not a Browning's work ?

(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women

(B) Dramatic Personae

(C) Men and Women

(D) The Palace of Art
Answer: D

41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's The Lines of the Poets is the equipoise between:

(A) Language and form

(B) Style and content

(C) Biography and criticism

(D) Myth and archetype
Answer: C

42. "The Kelson of creation is love". The line occurs in Walt Whitman’s:

(A) Paumonak

(B) Passage to India

(C) O Captain, My Captain

(D) Song of Myself

Answer: D

43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ?

(A) Boswell

(B) Dryden

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Lord Bolingbroke

Answer: A

  


44. The early religious drama is associated with :

(A) Superstitions and beliefs

(B) Mysteries and histories

(C) Interludes and mysteries

(D) Miracles and morality
Answer: D

45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose

(B) a courageous lady in pain

(C) an optimist on verge of collapse

(D) a romantic hero with a weakness

Answer: B

46. Sheridan's first play was:

(A) The Rivals

(B) School for Scandal

(C) St. Patrick's Day

(D) A Trip to Scarborough

Answer: A

47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of:

(A) loss of moral purpose

(B) excess of emotion

(C) excess of reason

(D) loss of human feelings

Answer: B

48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched?

(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H. Hatter

(B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock

(C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the Ganges

(D) Arun Joshi - The Appreutice

Answer: D

49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question 'of time' in his poetry is :

(A) Nissim Ezeikel

(B) R. Parthsarathy

(C) A.K. Ramanujan

(D) Gieve Patel

Answer: D

50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :

(A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe

(B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry

(C) Prose of Emerson

(D) Ezra Pound's Cantos

Answer: D