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UGC NET Questions

Course: 19th NTRCA

Duration: 20 minutes

Mark per Correct: 1

Negative per Wrong: 0.25

Total Marks: 30

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1. Who among the following was known as ‘The Lady of Christ’s’ during his college days at Cambridge? (UGC NET August 2024)

a) Richard Lovelace
b) Alexander Pope
c) John Milton
d) Sir John Suckling

2. “That is no country for old men” appears in which poem? (UGC NET September 2024)

a) Sailing to Byzantium
b) The Death of the Hired Man
c) A Forsaken Garden
d) Channel Firing

3. The term “Objective Correlative” is associated with— (UGC NET June-2011)

(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) F. R. Leavis
(c) I. A. Richards
(d) T. S. Eliot

4. The line “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die” is from— (UGC NET June-2011)

(a) The Charge of the Light Brigade
(b) The Deserted Village
(c) The Prelude
(d) Ode on a Grecian Urn

5. The play "The Tempest" is considered Shakespeare's: (UGC NET Dec-2015)

(a) Farewell to the stage
(b) First tragedy
(c) Political commentary
(d) Historical drama

6. The poem Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") was written by: (UGC NET Dec-2012)

(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Donne
(c) Edmund Spenser
(d) Christopher Marlowe

7. The novel "The Trial" is famous for its: (UGC NET Dec-2014)

(a) Kafkaesque atmosphere
(b) Realistic detail
(c) Romantic idealism
(d) Comic elements

8. The line "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments…" is from which poet? (UGC NET Dec-2013)

(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Donne
(c) Edmund Spenser
(d) Ben Jonson

9. Who wrote the poem Invictus? (UGC NET June-2011)

(a) William Ernest Henley
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) Robert Browning
(d) Matthew Arnold

10. The poem "The Waste Land" references: (UGC NET Dec-2015)

(a) Tiresias
(b) Odysseus
(c) Achilles
(d) Oedipus

11. The play The Alchemist was written by: (UGC NET June-2013)

(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) John Webster
(d) Thomas Middleton

12. The play "The Duchess of Malfi" is a: (UGC NET Dec-2015)

(a) Jacobean tragedy
(b) Elizabethan comedy
(c) Restoration comedy
(d) Medieval morality play

13. Who wrote the novel "The Sea, The Sea"? (UGC NET June-2013)

(a) Iris Murdoch
(b) Muriel Spark
(c) Doris Lessing
(d) Angela Carter

14. The poem "The Waste Land" is divided into: (UGC NET Dec-2011)

(a) Five parts
(b) Four parts
(c) Six parts
(d) Three parts

15. The poem "The Second Coming" contains the line: (UGC NET Dec-2011)

(a) "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
(b) "A terrible beauty is born"
(c) "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"
(d) "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed"

16. The poem "The Hollow Men" ends with the line: (UGC NET Dec-2011)

(a) "This is the way the world ends"
(b) "Not with a bang but a whimper"
(c) "Here we go round the prickly pear"
(d) "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams"

17. The poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" explores: (UGC NET Dec-2014)

(a) Guilt, sin, and redemption
(b) Nature’s beauty
(c) Political commentary
(d) Social hierarchy

18. The play "The Caretaker" features the characters: (UGC NET Dec-2012)

(a) Aston, Mick, and Davies
(b) Stanley, Goldberg, and McCann
(c) Ruth, Teddy, and Lenny
(d) Hamm, Clov, and Nagg

19. Who wrote the play "The Revenger's Tragedy"? (UGC NET June-2014)

(a) Thomas Middleton
(b) Cyril Tourneur
(c) John Webster
(d) John Ford

20. The play "The Importance of Being Earnest" critiques: (UGC NET Dec-2015)

(a) Victorian hypocrisy and social norms
(b) Elizabethan drama
(c) Medieval romance
(d) Modern politics

21. The novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" uses which narrative technique? (UGC NET Dec-2013)

(a) Metafiction
(b) Stream of consciousness
(c) Magic realism
(d) Epistolary

22. The poem "Fern Hill" celebrates: (UGC NET Dec-2011)

(a) Childhood and nature
(b) War
(c) Love
(d) Urban life

23. The novel "The Old Man and the Sea" exemplifies: (UGC NET Dec-2014)

(a) Hemingway’s iceberg theory and minimalism
(b) Social realism
(c) Romantic idealism
(d) Magical realism

24. The poetic line “There is one great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead” appears in— (UGC NET August 2024)

a) Biographia Literaria
b) The Prelude
c) The Excursion
d) Lyrical Ballads

25. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft’s autobiographical novel? (UGC NET August 2024)

a) Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman
b) Mary: A Fiction
c) Wives and Daughters
d) The Well of Loneliness

26. Alexander Pope’s famous quote, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” appears in which one of the following works? (UGC NET August 2024)

a) Essay on Criticism
b) The Dunciad
c) Essay on Man
d) The Rape of the Lock

27. John Heywood wrote a farcical interlude called The Four P’s. Who were the Four P’s?

a) a Palmer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Packer
b) a Printer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Palmer
c) a Pedlar, a Parson, a Palmer, a Pothecary
d) a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Pothecary, a Pedlar

28. Midnight’s Children is a representative text of: (UGC NET September 2024)

a) Poststructuralism
b) Postcolonialism
c) Postmodernism
d) Modernism

29. Which of the following was not an Irish playwright? (UGC NET September 2024)

a) G.B. Shaw
b) J.M. Synge
c) Oscar Wilde
d) Harold Pinter

30. Which of these did Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1835 Minutes on Indian Education want to create? (UGC NET June 2023)

a) A class of people Eurasian by blood but European by taste
b) A class of people Indian by blood but English by taste
c) A class of people Indian by blood but multinational in identity
d) A class of people European by blood but Oriental by taste