HERE IS A SET OF 20 QUESTIONS. STUDENTS APPEARING FOR THE UGC NET EXAM (ENGLISH) DEC 2014 MAY TRY TO ANSWER THEM. YOU MAY CHECK YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE KEY BY CLICKING THE LINK GIVEN BELOW.(LATEST UPDATES COLUMN) Gyan wishes you all a happy x-mas Questions 1. The Lisbon earthquake which took a frightening toll of lives and the equally destructive Seven Years War are referred to as motives for the composition of which following work a. Candide b. Zadig The Babylonian c. Social Contract d. Rasselas 2. The idea of wholeness, the idea of transformation and the idea of self regulation are, according to Piaget, fundamental to the concept of...... a. Structure b. Language c. Thinking d. Literature 3. “Marquez makes dextrous use of this technique in the description of the massacre of the workers by the authorities in connivance with the United Fruit Company”. The technique referred to here is...... a. Expressionism b. Contrapuntal reading c. Magic realism d. Surrealism 4. He at one time ran for the presidency of Peru. Being a politician himself, he has a firm conviction of the political impact of literature. He refers to...... a. Julio Florencio Cortazar b. Mario Vargas Llosa c. Pablo Neruda d. Carlos Fuentes 5. Which Dalit writer in his critique of Indian history points out three sages in the evolution of ancient Indian history namely Vedic age, Age of Buddhism, and India of Hindu counter Revolution associated with Manu. a. Jyotiba Bhule b. Ambedkar c. Bhimrao Shirwale d. Arjun Dangle 6. Coleridge, uses Greek words meaning “into”, “one”, and “mould” in coining a new term in 1817. The term is a. Biographia literaria b. Essemblastic c. Suspension of disbelief d. Organic form 7. The third section of which poem by Wordsworth does Terry Eagleton describe in terms of poet’s flight of fancy.............................. a. Daffodils b. The Leach Gatherer c. Tintern Abbey d. The Solitary Reaper 8. The three critiques of Immanuel Kant are The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Judgement and The Critique of..... a. Practical Reason b. Philosophical Reason c. Romantic Reason d. Political Reason 9. The 18th century England saw the rise and spread of Deism which was countered in the works of ... a. Neo-classicist writers b. Romantic Writers c. John Wesley and his Methodism d. Novels of Defoe 10. Which romantic poet feared that “Kubla Khan” is too fragile and dream-like to bear the cold light of critical examination a. Wordsworth b. Coleridge c. Lamb d. Byron 11. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian are derived from a. Classical Greek b. Modern Greek c. Latin d. Celtic 12. The English word ‘Cruc’ (modern ‘cross’) is derived from ............ a. French ‘Crux’ b. Latin ‘Crux’ c. Greek ‘Crux’ d. Spanish ‘Crux’ 13. Which critic made the following comment about Saussure “Sassure’s originality was to have insisted on the fact that language as a total system is complete at every moment : no matter what happens to have been altered in it a moment before.” a. Roland Barthes b. Jacques Lacan c. Roman Jacobson d. Frederic Jameson 14. Which Indian writer refers to the influence of native language while writing in English in the following lines “I have known for a long time now through my own writing that when we write in English we are, in effect translating. I know this when I find that in a course of a dialogue I find myself unconsciously, of course, translating the words of a non English speaking person from Kannada , Marathi or Hindi into English” a. Shashi Deshpande b. Girish Karnad c. Raja Rao d. Arundhati Roy 15. The Feminine Mystique and The female Eunuch are two important books of a. First wave Feminism b. Second wave feminism c. Third wave Feminism d. Post feminism 16. Her work was blighted by her husband’s Memoirs (1798). Once readers knew the details of her immoral personal life they rejected what she had to say in her work. The work subsequently went out of print until 1844. Name the work referred to in the above lines. a. Some Reflections upon marriage b. Vindication of the rights of Women c. Woman’s Mission d. Woman in the Nineteen Century 17. Who wrote the three following popular works aimed at the middle classes? The mothers of England, The Daughters of England and the Women of England. a. Caroline Norton b. Mrs Sarah Ellis c. Wollstonecraft d. Margaret Cavendish 18. Many critics consider ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’ in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) as a foundation text of which following movements. a. LGBT Movement b. Ecocriticism c. Children’s literature d. Psychoanalytic feminism 19. Which writer outlines his atheistic world view through the villain Zastrozzi a. Byron b. Shelley c. Nietche d. Sartre 20. Which poem written by Shelley was given the title by his friend Thomas Love Peacock a. Defence of Poetry b. St. Irvyne c. Alastor d. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty For Answer key-click the link below gyan4net/index.php
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