UGC NET Past Year Question Paper II: English (December 2012) | UGC NET Past Year Papers PDF Download

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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of
questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the
paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept
a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an
open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions
in the booklet with the information printed on the
cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions
missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any
other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately
by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the
period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the
Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra
time will be given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number
should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B),
(C) and (D). Y ou have to darken the circle as indicated below
on the correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the OMR
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark
at any place other than in the circle in the OMR Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your Name, Roll Number, Phone Number or
put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except for the
space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose
your identity, or use abusive language or employ any other
unfair means, you will render yourself liable to
disqualification.
9. You have to return the test question booklet and Original
OMR Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall. You are, however, allowed to carry
duplicate copy of OMR Sheet on conclusion of examination.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üßõÖÖÙ£Ö µÖÖë Ûêú ×»Ö‹ ×®Ö¤ìü¿Ö
D-30-12 1 P.T.O.
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(iii) ‡ÃÖ •ÖÖÑ“Ö Ûêú ²ÖÖ¤ü OMR ¯Ö¡ÖÛú Ûúß ÛÎú´Ö ÃÖÓÜ µÖÖ ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖÏ¿®Ö-¯Öã×ßÖÛúÖ
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Signature and Name of Invigilator
OMR Sheet No. : ...............................................
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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of
questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the
paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept
a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an
open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions
in the booklet with the information printed on the
cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions
missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any
other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately
by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the
period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the
Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra
time will be given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number
should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B),
(C) and (D). Y ou have to darken the circle as indicated below
on the correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the OMR
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark
at any place other than in the circle in the OMR Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your Name, Roll Number, Phone Number or
put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except for the
space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose
your identity, or use abusive language or employ any other
unfair means, you will render yourself liable to
disqualification.
9. You have to return the test question booklet and Original
OMR Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall. You are, however, allowed to carry
duplicate copy of OMR Sheet on conclusion of examination.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üßõÖÖÙ£Ö µÖÖë Ûêú ×»Ö‹ ×®Ö¤ìü¿Ö
D-30-12 1 P.T.O.
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4
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PAPER-II
ENGLISH
(To be filled by the Candidate)
Signature and Name of Invigilator
OMR Sheet No. : ...............................................
Roll No.
(In words)
1. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
2. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
Roll No.________________________________
30
(In figures as per admission card)
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Paper–II 2  D–30–12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Identify the work below that does 
not belong to the literature of the 
eighteenth century: 
 (A)  Advancement of Learning 
 (B)  Gulliver’s Travels 
 (C)  The Spectator 
 (D)  An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 
 
2. Which, among the following, is a 
place through which John Bunyan’s 
Christian does NOT pass ? 
 (A)  The Slough of Despond 
 (B)  Mount Helicon 
 (C)  The Valley of Humiliation 
 (D)  Vanity Fair 
 
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign 
is 
 (A)  1830–1900 
 (B)  1837–1901 
 (C)  1830–1901 
 (D)  1837–1900 
 
4. Which of the following statements 
about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT 
true ? 
 (A)  It carried only one ballad 
proper, which was Coleridge’s 
The Rime of the Ancient 
Mariner. 
 (B)  It also carried pastoral and 
other poems. 
 (C)  It carried a “Preface” which 
Wordsworth added in 1800. 
 (D)  It also printed from Gray’s 
Elegy Written in a Country 
Churchyard. 
 
 
 
 
 
5. One of the following texts was 
published earlier than 1955. Identify 
the text: 
 (A)  William Golding, The 
Inheritors 
 (B)  Philip Larkin, The Less 
Deceived 
 (C) William Empson, Collected 
Poems 
 (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for 
Godot 
 
6. Who among the poets in England 
during the 1930s had left–leaning 
tendencies ? 
 (A)  T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, 
Richard Aldington 
 (B)  Wilfred Owen, Siegfried 
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke 
 (C)  W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, 
Cecil Day Lewis 
 (D)  J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, 
Edward Marsh 
 
7. Match the following : 
1. The Sage of 
Concord 
5. Emily 
Dickinson 
2. The Nun of 
Amherst 
6. R.W. 
Emerson 
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot 
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. 
Clemens 
 (A)  1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 
 (B)  1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 
 (C)  1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 
 (D)  1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 
ENGLISH 
Paper – II 
 
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
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D12
Paper–II 2  D–30–12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Identify the work below that does 
not belong to the literature of the 
eighteenth century: 
 (A)  Advancement of Learning 
 (B)  Gulliver’s Travels 
 (C)  The Spectator 
 (D)  An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 
 
2. Which, among the following, is a 
place through which John Bunyan’s 
Christian does NOT pass ? 
 (A)  The Slough of Despond 
 (B)  Mount Helicon 
 (C)  The Valley of Humiliation 
 (D)  Vanity Fair 
 
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign 
is 
 (A)  1830–1900 
 (B)  1837–1901 
 (C)  1830–1901 
 (D)  1837–1900 
 
4. Which of the following statements 
about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT 
true ? 
 (A)  It carried only one ballad 
proper, which was Coleridge’s 
The Rime of the Ancient 
Mariner. 
 (B)  It also carried pastoral and 
other poems. 
 (C)  It carried a “Preface” which 
Wordsworth added in 1800. 
 (D)  It also printed from Gray’s 
Elegy Written in a Country 
Churchyard. 
 
 
 
 
 
5. One of the following texts was 
published earlier than 1955. Identify 
the text: 
 (A)  William Golding, The 
Inheritors 
 (B)  Philip Larkin, The Less 
Deceived 
 (C) William Empson, Collected 
Poems 
 (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for 
Godot 
 
6. Who among the poets in England 
during the 1930s had left–leaning 
tendencies ? 
 (A)  T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, 
Richard Aldington 
 (B)  Wilfred Owen, Siegfried 
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke 
 (C)  W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, 
Cecil Day Lewis 
 (D)  J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, 
Edward Marsh 
 
7. Match the following : 
1. The Sage of 
Concord 
5. Emily 
Dickinson 
2. The Nun of 
Amherst 
6. R.W. 
Emerson 
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot 
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. 
Clemens 
 (A)  1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 
 (B)  1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 
 (C)  1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 
 (D)  1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 
ENGLISH 
Paper – II 
 
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 D–30–12 3  Paper–II 
8. Name the theorist who divided poets 
into “strong” and “weak” and 
popularized the practice of 
misreading: 
 (A)  Alan Bloom 
 (B)  Harold Bloom 
 (C)  Geoffrey Hartman  
 (D)  Stanley Fish 
 
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope 
repeatedly compares Belinda to 
 (A)  the sun 
 (B)  the moon 
 (C)  the north star 
 (D)  the rose 
 
10. Which of the following awards is not 
given to Indian–English writers ? 
 (A)  The Booker Prize 
 (B)  The Sahitya Akademi Award 
 (C)  The Gyanpeeth 
 (D)  Whitbread Prize 
 
11. Identify the correct statement below : 
 (A)  Gorboduc is a comedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
tragedies. 
 (B)  Gorboduc is a tragedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
comedies. 
 (C)  All of them are problem plays. 
 (D)  All of them are farces. 
 
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes 
its title to 
 (A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair 
 (B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of 
Venice 
 (C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 
 (D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress 
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters 
in England in 
 (A) 1642 
 (B) 1640 
 (C)  1659 
 (D) 1660 
 
14. Who of the following was not a 
contemporary of Wordsworth and 
Coleridge ? 
 (A)  Robert Southey  
 (B)  Sir Walter Scott  
 (C)  William Hazlitt  
 (D) A. C. Swinburne 
 
15. Which of the following statements 
about Waiting for Godot is NOT   
true ? 
 1.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two acts”. 
 2.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two scenes”. 
 3.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two parts”. 
 4.  It does not carry a subtitle. 
 (A)  4 (B) 2 
 (C) 3 (D) 1 
 
16. The Bloomsbury Group included 
British intellectuals, critics, writers 
and artists. Who among the 
following belonged to the 
Bloomsbury Group ? 
 I.  John Maynard Keynes, Lytton 
Strachey 
 II.  E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive 
Bell 
 III.  Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth 
 IV.  Thomas Hardy, Henry James, 
Walter Pater 
 (A)  I and II 
 (B) I 
 (C)  II and III 
 (D)  IV 
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Paper–II 2  D–30–12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Identify the work below that does 
not belong to the literature of the 
eighteenth century: 
 (A)  Advancement of Learning 
 (B)  Gulliver’s Travels 
 (C)  The Spectator 
 (D)  An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 
 
2. Which, among the following, is a 
place through which John Bunyan’s 
Christian does NOT pass ? 
 (A)  The Slough of Despond 
 (B)  Mount Helicon 
 (C)  The Valley of Humiliation 
 (D)  Vanity Fair 
 
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign 
is 
 (A)  1830–1900 
 (B)  1837–1901 
 (C)  1830–1901 
 (D)  1837–1900 
 
4. Which of the following statements 
about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT 
true ? 
 (A)  It carried only one ballad 
proper, which was Coleridge’s 
The Rime of the Ancient 
Mariner. 
 (B)  It also carried pastoral and 
other poems. 
 (C)  It carried a “Preface” which 
Wordsworth added in 1800. 
 (D)  It also printed from Gray’s 
Elegy Written in a Country 
Churchyard. 
 
 
 
 
 
5. One of the following texts was 
published earlier than 1955. Identify 
the text: 
 (A)  William Golding, The 
Inheritors 
 (B)  Philip Larkin, The Less 
Deceived 
 (C) William Empson, Collected 
Poems 
 (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for 
Godot 
 
6. Who among the poets in England 
during the 1930s had left–leaning 
tendencies ? 
 (A)  T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, 
Richard Aldington 
 (B)  Wilfred Owen, Siegfried 
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke 
 (C)  W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, 
Cecil Day Lewis 
 (D)  J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, 
Edward Marsh 
 
7. Match the following : 
1. The Sage of 
Concord 
5. Emily 
Dickinson 
2. The Nun of 
Amherst 
6. R.W. 
Emerson 
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot 
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. 
Clemens 
 (A)  1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 
 (B)  1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 
 (C)  1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 
 (D)  1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 
ENGLISH 
Paper – II 
 
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marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 D–30–12 3  Paper–II 
8. Name the theorist who divided poets 
into “strong” and “weak” and 
popularized the practice of 
misreading: 
 (A)  Alan Bloom 
 (B)  Harold Bloom 
 (C)  Geoffrey Hartman  
 (D)  Stanley Fish 
 
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope 
repeatedly compares Belinda to 
 (A)  the sun 
 (B)  the moon 
 (C)  the north star 
 (D)  the rose 
 
10. Which of the following awards is not 
given to Indian–English writers ? 
 (A)  The Booker Prize 
 (B)  The Sahitya Akademi Award 
 (C)  The Gyanpeeth 
 (D)  Whitbread Prize 
 
11. Identify the correct statement below : 
 (A)  Gorboduc is a comedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
tragedies. 
 (B)  Gorboduc is a tragedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
comedies. 
 (C)  All of them are problem plays. 
 (D)  All of them are farces. 
 
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes 
its title to 
 (A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair 
 (B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of 
Venice 
 (C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 
 (D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress 
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters 
in England in 
 (A) 1642 
 (B) 1640 
 (C)  1659 
 (D) 1660 
 
14. Who of the following was not a 
contemporary of Wordsworth and 
Coleridge ? 
 (A)  Robert Southey  
 (B)  Sir Walter Scott  
 (C)  William Hazlitt  
 (D) A. C. Swinburne 
 
15. Which of the following statements 
about Waiting for Godot is NOT   
true ? 
 1.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two acts”. 
 2.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two scenes”. 
 3.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two parts”. 
 4.  It does not carry a subtitle. 
 (A)  4 (B) 2 
 (C) 3 (D) 1 
 
16. The Bloomsbury Group included 
British intellectuals, critics, writers 
and artists. Who among the 
following belonged to the 
Bloomsbury Group ? 
 I.  John Maynard Keynes, Lytton 
Strachey 
 II.  E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive 
Bell 
 III.  Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth 
 IV.  Thomas Hardy, Henry James, 
Walter Pater 
 (A)  I and II 
 (B) I 
 (C)  II and III 
 (D)  IV 
Paper–II 4  D–30–12 
17. Who, among the following is 
credited with the making of the first 
authoritative Dictionary of the 
English Language ? 
 (A)  Bishop Berkeley 
 (B)  Samuel Johnson 
 (C)  Edmund Burke 
 (D)  Horace Walpole 
 
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic 
Poesy (1668), who opens the 
discussion on behalf of the ancients ? 
 (A)  Lisideius 
 (B)  Crites 
 (C)  Eugenius 
 (D) Neander 
 
19. The term invective refers to 
 (A)  the abusive writing or speech 
in which there is harsh 
denunciation of some person or 
thing. 
 (B)  an insulting writing attack upon 
a real person, in verse or prose, 
usually involving caricature 
and ridicule. 
 (C)  a written or spoken text in 
which an apparently 
straightforward statement or 
event is undermined in its 
context so as to give it a very 
different significance. 
 (D)  the chanting or reciting of 
words deemed to have magical 
power. 
 
20. Which of the following novels 
depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi 
immigrants in East London ? 
 (A)  How far can you go 
 (B)  The White Teeth 
 (C)  An Equal Music 
 (D)  Brick Lane 
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial 
year for two important writers in 
England. Identify the correct phrase 
below : 
 (A)  For Yeats who died, for Auden 
who left England for the U. S. 
 (B)  For Eliot who started 
publishing verse–drama, for 
Hardy whose Wessex Poems 
were published. 
 (C) For Evelyn Waugh and 
Graham Greene, each for 
publishing his first novels.  
 (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel 
Prize and Orwell who 
published his Animal Farm. 
 
22. The Enlightenment was characterized 
by 
 (A)  accelerated industrial 
production and general well–
being of the public. 
 (B)  a belief in the universal 
authority of reason and 
emphasis on scientific 
experimentation. 
 (C)  the Protestant work ethic and 
compliance with Christian 
values of life. 
 (D)  an undue faith in predestination 
and neglect of free will. 
 
23. Which Shakespearean play contains 
the line: “...there is a special 
providence in the fall of a sparrow” ? 
 (A)  King Lear 
 (B) Hamlet 
 (C)  Coriolanus 
 (D)  Macbeth 
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Paper–II 2  D–30–12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Identify the work below that does 
not belong to the literature of the 
eighteenth century: 
 (A)  Advancement of Learning 
 (B)  Gulliver’s Travels 
 (C)  The Spectator 
 (D)  An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 
 
2. Which, among the following, is a 
place through which John Bunyan’s 
Christian does NOT pass ? 
 (A)  The Slough of Despond 
 (B)  Mount Helicon 
 (C)  The Valley of Humiliation 
 (D)  Vanity Fair 
 
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign 
is 
 (A)  1830–1900 
 (B)  1837–1901 
 (C)  1830–1901 
 (D)  1837–1900 
 
4. Which of the following statements 
about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT 
true ? 
 (A)  It carried only one ballad 
proper, which was Coleridge’s 
The Rime of the Ancient 
Mariner. 
 (B)  It also carried pastoral and 
other poems. 
 (C)  It carried a “Preface” which 
Wordsworth added in 1800. 
 (D)  It also printed from Gray’s 
Elegy Written in a Country 
Churchyard. 
 
 
 
 
 
5. One of the following texts was 
published earlier than 1955. Identify 
the text: 
 (A)  William Golding, The 
Inheritors 
 (B)  Philip Larkin, The Less 
Deceived 
 (C) William Empson, Collected 
Poems 
 (D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for 
Godot 
 
6. Who among the poets in England 
during the 1930s had left–leaning 
tendencies ? 
 (A)  T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, 
Richard Aldington 
 (B)  Wilfred Owen, Siegfried 
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke 
 (C)  W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, 
Cecil Day Lewis 
 (D)  J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, 
Edward Marsh 
 
7. Match the following : 
1. The Sage of 
Concord 
5. Emily 
Dickinson 
2. The Nun of 
Amherst 
6. R.W. 
Emerson 
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot 
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. 
Clemens 
 (A)  1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 
 (B)  1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 
 (C)  1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 
 (D)  1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 
ENGLISH 
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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) 
marks. Attempt all the questions. 
 D–30–12 3  Paper–II 
8. Name the theorist who divided poets 
into “strong” and “weak” and 
popularized the practice of 
misreading: 
 (A)  Alan Bloom 
 (B)  Harold Bloom 
 (C)  Geoffrey Hartman  
 (D)  Stanley Fish 
 
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope 
repeatedly compares Belinda to 
 (A)  the sun 
 (B)  the moon 
 (C)  the north star 
 (D)  the rose 
 
10. Which of the following awards is not 
given to Indian–English writers ? 
 (A)  The Booker Prize 
 (B)  The Sahitya Akademi Award 
 (C)  The Gyanpeeth 
 (D)  Whitbread Prize 
 
11. Identify the correct statement below : 
 (A)  Gorboduc is a comedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
tragedies. 
 (B)  Gorboduc is a tragedy, while 
Ralph Roister Doister and 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle are 
comedies. 
 (C)  All of them are problem plays. 
 (D)  All of them are farces. 
 
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes 
its title to 
 (A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair 
 (B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of 
Venice 
 (C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 
 (D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress 
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters 
in England in 
 (A) 1642 
 (B) 1640 
 (C)  1659 
 (D) 1660 
 
14. Who of the following was not a 
contemporary of Wordsworth and 
Coleridge ? 
 (A)  Robert Southey  
 (B)  Sir Walter Scott  
 (C)  William Hazlitt  
 (D) A. C. Swinburne 
 
15. Which of the following statements 
about Waiting for Godot is NOT   
true ? 
 1.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two acts”. 
 2.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two scenes”. 
 3.  It carries a subtitle: “a 
tragicomedy in two parts”. 
 4.  It does not carry a subtitle. 
 (A)  4 (B) 2 
 (C) 3 (D) 1 
 
16. The Bloomsbury Group included 
British intellectuals, critics, writers 
and artists. Who among the 
following belonged to the 
Bloomsbury Group ? 
 I.  John Maynard Keynes, Lytton 
Strachey 
 II.  E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive 
Bell 
 III.  Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth 
 IV.  Thomas Hardy, Henry James, 
Walter Pater 
 (A)  I and II 
 (B) I 
 (C)  II and III 
 (D)  IV 
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17. Who, among the following is 
credited with the making of the first 
authoritative Dictionary of the 
English Language ? 
 (A)  Bishop Berkeley 
 (B)  Samuel Johnson 
 (C)  Edmund Burke 
 (D)  Horace Walpole 
 
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic 
Poesy (1668), who opens the 
discussion on behalf of the ancients ? 
 (A)  Lisideius 
 (B)  Crites 
 (C)  Eugenius 
 (D) Neander 
 
19. The term invective refers to 
 (A)  the abusive writing or speech 
in which there is harsh 
denunciation of some person or 
thing. 
 (B)  an insulting writing attack upon 
a real person, in verse or prose, 
usually involving caricature 
and ridicule. 
 (C)  a written or spoken text in 
which an apparently 
straightforward statement or 
event is undermined in its 
context so as to give it a very 
different significance. 
 (D)  the chanting or reciting of 
words deemed to have magical 
power. 
 
20. Which of the following novels 
depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi 
immigrants in East London ? 
 (A)  How far can you go 
 (B)  The White Teeth 
 (C)  An Equal Music 
 (D)  Brick Lane 
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial 
year for two important writers in 
England. Identify the correct phrase 
below : 
 (A)  For Yeats who died, for Auden 
who left England for the U. S. 
 (B)  For Eliot who started 
publishing verse–drama, for 
Hardy whose Wessex Poems 
were published. 
 (C) For Evelyn Waugh and 
Graham Greene, each for 
publishing his first novels.  
 (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel 
Prize and Orwell who 
published his Animal Farm. 
 
22. The Enlightenment was characterized 
by 
 (A)  accelerated industrial 
production and general well–
being of the public. 
 (B)  a belief in the universal 
authority of reason and 
emphasis on scientific 
experimentation. 
 (C)  the Protestant work ethic and 
compliance with Christian 
values of life. 
 (D)  an undue faith in predestination 
and neglect of free will. 
 
23. Which Shakespearean play contains 
the line: “...there is a special 
providence in the fall of a sparrow” ? 
 (A)  King Lear 
 (B) Hamlet 
 (C)  Coriolanus 
 (D)  Macbeth 
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24. Match the following pairs of books 
and authors : 
Books Authors 
I. Condition of 
the Working 
Class in 
England 
i. John Ruskin 
II. London 
Labour and 
the London 
Poor 
ii. Henry 
Mayhew 
III. Past and 
Present 
iii. Thomas 
Carlyle 
IV. The Unto 
This Last 
iv. Friedrich 
Engels 
 Codes : 
  I II III IV 
 (A) iv i ii iii 
 (B) iv ii iii i  
 (C) ii iv i ii 
 (D) iii ii iv iv 
 
25. In which of the following texts do 
Aston, Davies and Mick appear as 
characters ? 
 (A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy 
 (B)  Harold Pinter’s Caretaker 
 (C)  Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of 
Ma Parker” 
 (D)  Graham Greene’s Brighton 
Rock 
 
26. What is common to the following 
writers ? Identify the correct 
description below : 
 William Congreve   
 George Etherege  
 William Wycherley  
 Thomas Otway 
 (A)  All of these were Restoration 
playwrights 
 (B)  All of them were critics of 
Orwell’s regime 
 (C)  All of them edited 
Shakespeare’s plays 
 (D)  All of them wrote tragedies in 
the same age 
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you 
find the characters Anne Elliott, 
Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and 
Captain Wentworth ? 
 (A)  Emma 
 (B)  Mansfield Park 
 (C) Persuasion  
 (D)  Northanger Abbey 
 
28. In which of his essays does Homi 
Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of 
English in colonial India ?  
 (A)  “Signs taken for Wonders” 
 (B)  “Mimicry” 
 (C)  Nation and Narration 
 (D)  “The Commitment to Theory” 
 
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence 
in English. 
 (A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 
 (B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and 
Stella 
 (C)  Samuel Daniel’s Delia 
 (D)  Michael Drayton’s Idea’s 
Mirror 
 
30. Which is the correct sequence of the 
novels of V.S.Naipaul ? 
 (A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel 
Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – 
A House for Mr. Biswas. 
 (B) Miguel Street – The Mystic 
Masseur – A House for          
Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of 
Elvira. 
 (C)  The Suffrage of Elvira – 
Miguel Street – The Mystic 
Masseur – A House for             
Mr. Biswas. 
 (D)  The Mystic Masseur – The 
Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel 
Street – A House for             
Mr, Biswas. 
 
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from 
 (A)  Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His 
Pilgrimage 
 (B) Hakluyt’s Voyages 
 (C) The Book Named the Governour 
 (D)  Sir Thomas More’s Utopia