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Objective Questions for UGC NET/JRF/SET

                  
1.)Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is 

A)an Irish nationalist 
B)a great warrior 
C)a Jewish advertising agent 
D)an Owner 

Answer C)

2.) To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term;

 A) aporia
 B) difference
C) erasure
 D) supplement

Answer: (A)

3.)Who is the father of romantic English poetry?

  1. William Shakespeare 
  2. William Wordsworth 
  3. Christopher Marlowe 
  4. John Keats

      Answer B)

4.)Who among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?

A) Harold Pinter
B) Alan Bennett
C) Caryl Churchill
D) Tom Stoppard

 Answer: (D)



5.) Arrange the following in the chronological order;

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

    A) 4, 3, 1, 2
    B) 3, 2, 1, 2
    C) 1, 2, 4, 3
    D) 2, 1, 3, 4

Answer: (A)

6.) Who is the member of Pre-Shakespearean period?

   A)John Keats 
   B)William Wordsworth 
   C)Christopher Marlowe 
   D) Aristotle 

Answer C)

7.)Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

   A) Sons and Lovers
   B) Ulysses
   C) The Power and the Glory
   D) Heart of Darkness

Answer: D)



8.) The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Answer A)



9.) Which poem was written on the death of Blanche by Chaucer, Wife of John of Gaunt?

A) Troilus and Criseyde
B) The House of Fame
C) The Book of Duchess
D) The Legend of Good Women

Answer: C)



10.)The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title as 

A) Gorboduc
B) Ralph Roister Doister
C) Damon and Pythias
D) Lamentable Tragedy

Answer: A)


11.) Who is Australian poet?

A) Austin Clarke
B) Judith Wright
C) Edwin Muir
D) Derek Walcott

 Answer: B)



12. “He found it brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

A) Milton on Shakespeare
B) Dryden on Milton
C) Johnson on Dryden
D) Jonson on Shakespeare
  
Answer: C)



13.) Who among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?

A) Tony Morrison
B) Seamus Heaney
C) Ted Hughes
D) Geoffrey Chaucer 

Answer: B)






14.) The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

A) comic
B) solemn
C) hortatory
D) irony

Answer: D)



15.) I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics?

A) bench
B) night club
C) house
D) park

Answer: B)

16.)Eastward Ho was written by 

A)John Webster 
B)John Fletcher 
C)George Chapman 
D)William Shakespeare 

Answer C)


17.) C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

A) Practical Criticism
B) New Criticism
C) Standard English Project
D) Basic English Project

Answer: C)



18.) In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?

A) The Rivals
B) She Stoops to Conquer
C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
D) The Way of the World

Answer: A)



19.) Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

A) I and II are true.
B) II and III are true.
C) II and IV are true.
D) III and IV are true.

Answer: A)



20.) “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

A) the Aestheteswww.netugc.com
B) the Symbolists
C) the Imagists
D) the Art Noveau School

Answer A)



21.) Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

A) S. T. Coleridge
B) P. B. Shelley
C) Thomas De Quincey
D) Lord Byron

Answer C)



22.) Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

Answer A)



23.) Who among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?

A) Anthony Powell
B) Evelyn Waugh
C) William Golding
D) Graham Greene

Answer D)

24.)Christopher Marlowe was born on 

A)1956
B)1980
C)1593
D)1564
Answer D)

25.)John Keats was born on 

A)1795
B)1785
C)1790
D)1821
Answer A)

26.)Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age is 

A)John lyly 
B)George Peele 
C)Robert Greene 
D)All of these 

Answer D)

27.)Philip Sidney was born on 

A)1554
B)1564
C)1607
D)None 

Answer A)

28.)The dramatist who is known for his musical ability 

A)George Peele 
B)Robert Greene 
C)Thomas kyd 
D)John Lyly 

Answer A)

29.) Which play of George Peele was a pastoral play?

A)The Old Wives play 
B)The Arraignment of Paris 
C)The Battle of Alcazar 
D)The Famous Chronicles  of king Edward 

Answer B)

30.)Whose Poetry  is full of Patriotism?

A)Shakespeare 
B)Spencer 
C)Drayton 
D)Sidney 

Answer C)  

31.)How many plays were written by William Shakespeare?

A)35
B)25
C)45
D)37

Answer D)

32.) Lover's  Complaint is written by 

A)William Wordsworth 
B)William Shakespeare 
C)John Keats 
D)William Blake 

Answer B)

33.)Shakespeare's tragedy can be divided into three parts, According  to 

A)Marlowe 
B)Keats 
C)Bradley 
D)John Donne 

Answer C)  

34.Which  is tragedy among the following 

A)Twelfth Night 
B)The Tempest 
C)Cymbeline 
D)As You Like It 

Answer C)

35.) Shakespeare's long lyrical poem 

A)Edward 3rd 
B)Othello 
C)Venus And Adonis 
D)King Lear 

Answer C) 

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