UGC NET English Practice Set : Paper-II & III Set-1
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National Eligibility Test (NET) Practice Paper : PAPER-II & III
(Subject English : English Literature)
UGC-NET English Practice Set : Paper-II & III (English Literature)
SET-1
1.
Which of the following is the earliest
prose-romance in English?
a)
Arcadia
b)
Morte de Arthur
c)
Euphues
d)
The New Atlantis
2. Thomas More got
the inspiration for writing his Utopia from?
a)
Homer’s Odyssey
b)
Aristotle’s Poetics
c)
Plato’s Republic
d)
Virgil’s
Aeneid
3. Thomas More’ s
Utopia was first written in Latin in 1516. In which year was it rendered in
English?
a)
1520
b)
1551
c)
1557
d)
1559
4. Which play of
Shakespeare was inspired by Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde?
a)
Twelfth Night
b)
Much Ado About Nothing
c)
As You Like It
d)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. What is John
Bunyan’s ‘Grace Abounding’?
a)
A religious treatise
b)
A Prose Romance
c)
The
Author’s autobiography
d)
A commentary on the Bible
6. John Bunyan’s
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ is –
a)
A travelogue
b)
An allegory
c)
A picaresque Novel
d)
A long Sermon
7. In ‘Joseph
Andrews’ Fielding parodies :
a)
Radcliffe’s Romance of the forest
b)
Smollett’s Roderick Random
c)
Richardson’s
Pamela
d)
Stern’s Tristram Shandy
8. The
Mysteries of Udolpho is a
a)
Gothic Novel
b)
Picaresque Novel
c)
Domestic Novel
d)
Historical Novel
9. Swift wrote in
one of his works, “A young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most
delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or
boiled.” Where does he make this observation?
a)
A Modest Proposal
b)
Journal to Stella
c)
The Draper’s Letters
d)
Gulliver’s Travels
10. Referring to one
of his novels, Jonathan said, “Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that
book.” Which novel was he referring to?
a)
A Tale of a Tub
b)
The Battle of Books
c)
Gulliver’s Travels
d)
Cadenus and Vanessa
Answers : 1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6.
(b) 7. (c) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (a)
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