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UGC NET English Paper 2 December 2018 ( Q 1 to 20 )

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1. The term ‘Digger’ is associated with a group of agrarian communists who
   
   1.   Laurence Clarkson
   2.   Gerrard Winstanley
   3.   George Fox
   4.   John Lilburne
2. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a
   “sect of poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and
   criticism” who constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound
   judgement in matters political” ?
   1.   Henry Vaughhan
   2.   Francisco Franco
   3.   Ralph Vaughan
   4.   Francis Je
3. This poet was of the Auden generation and was only briefly a member of
   the Communist party. In his poem, ”The Pylons”, he averred that the Pylons are “Bare like nude giant girls that have no secrets”. This prompted the label,
   Pylon poets, for the new generation of poets who were happy to use the gas
   works or pistons of a steam-engine as poetic imagery. ( Name this poet.)
   1.   Cecil Day Lewis
   2.   Christopher Isherwood
   3.   Stephen Spender
   4.   Louis MacNeice
4. Which of the following is the most accurate description of Butler English ?
   1.   A dialect of English spoken by the descendants of Anglo-Indians.
   2.   A pidgin, also called “Kitchen English” spoken by South Asians in Europe.
   3.   A minimal pidgin that emerged during colonial times in the Madras Presidency
   4.   Any non-grammatical variety of English used by menials in Commonwealth countries
5. S.T. Coleridge “Dejection : An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a
   refrence to a ballad. Identify the ballad.
   1.   “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”
   2.   “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
   3.   “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence”
   4.   “Ballad of the Gibbet”
6. What is the delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s “Horation Ode” ?
   1.   Praising Roman virtues while endorsing Christian beliefs.
   2.   Celebrating the Restoration while regretting the frivolity of the new regime.
   3.   Praising feminine virtues while mocking the
   4.   Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for the executed King.
7. Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and
   delight ?
   1.   Longinus
   2.   Plotinus
   3.   Aristotle
   4.   Horace
8. Braj Kachru has observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and
   writers to use hybridized lexical items. One example of this is
   1.   Jugarh
   2.   Ping-pong
   3.   Chaywallah
   4.   Lathi-charge
9. Identify the Fireside poets of the US.
   1.   Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley
   2.   Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton
   3.   T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
   4.   William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. Evelina was published in 1778
    1.   anonymously
    2.   posthumously
    3.   using the name Fanny Burney
    4.   under apseudonym
11. Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture.
    The distinction referred to
    1.   the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic,
       metaphorical and other devices respectively
    2.   the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a
       narrative, argument, etc., respectively
    3.   objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed
       to enlighten them respectively.
    4.   the devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative , and the
       objects and material themselves, respectively.
12. Match the poem with the opening lines :
    (a) “Ode to Psyche”
    (b) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
    (c) “Ode to a Nightingale”
    (d) “Ode on Melancholy”
    
    (1) “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of Hemlock I
    had drunk,”
    (2) “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its Poisonous
    wine,”
    (3) “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and Slow
    time,”
    (4) “O Goddess ! hear these tuneless numbers, by sweet enforcement and
    Remembrance dear,”
    1.   (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(4)
    2.   (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
    3.   (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
    4.   (a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(3), (d)-(2)
13. Match the character with the play :
    (Character)
    (a) Dorimant
    (b) Lady Fidget
    (c) Malevole
    (d) Vernish
    (Play)
    (1) The plain Dealer
    (2) The Man of Mode
    (3) The Country Wife
    (4) The Malcontent
    1.   (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
    2.   (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
    3.   (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
    4.   (a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(3), (d)-(2)
14. What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem ?
    1.   The letting go
    2.   A formal feeling
    3.   Substantial light
    4.   A concrete simplicity
15. The “grammer bullies” – you read them in places like the New York Times
    – and they tell you what is correct.
    You must never use “hopefully, we will be going there on Thrusday.” That is incorrect
    and wrong and you are basically an ignorant pig if you say it.
    This is judgementalism . The game that is being played there is a game of social
    class. It has nothing do with the morality of writing and speaking and thinking clearly, of which George Orwell, for instance, talked so well.
    To which famous essay of Orwell does the author refer here ?
    1.   “Inside the Whale”
    2.   “Politics and the English Language
    3.   “Refections on Gandhi"
    4.   “Why I Write”
16. In the spring of 1941, Nikos Kazantzakis embarked on one of his most
    ambitious projects, a play known as Yangtze. What English/Greek title is it now
    known as ?
    1.   Brobdingnag
    2.   Zoroaster
    3.   Zorba
    4.   Buddha
17. One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury
    Tales is that
    1.   it alerted us to the term auctor, someone who is both ‘an originator, or one who
       gives increase’, the best description for Chaucer himself.
    2.   it married domesticity to divinity, the baker’s Loaf with the bread of life.
    3.   instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its diversity.
    4.   it upheld the idea that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry
       itself is an object of knowledge
18. The following epitaph was written by Rudyard Kipling during the war of
    1914-18.
    HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
    This man is his own country prayed we know not to what Powers.
    We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
    “Powers” here refers to _______, “then” to______, and “ours” to______.
    1.   The Hindus, the French, the British
    2.   The military, the Hindu sepoys, Powers
    3.   The divine, Powers, our country
    4.   Authorities, his compatriots, our country
19. Which Walter Scott novel is set in France in the fifteenth century ?
    1.   Redgauntlet
    2.   Quentin Durward
    3.   Ivanhoe
    4.   The Antiquarry
20. In which work does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and of
    devil’s party without knowing it” ?
    1.   “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
    2.   “London”
    3.   “Songs of Innocence”
    4.   “The Chimney Sweeper”

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