Olete.in – MCQs, Mock Tests & Government Job Prep | UGC NET UGC Net English MCQ Questions Part 2

In formalistic school of criticism art is :

1. Entertainment
2. Preaching
3. Matter
4. Style

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The loneliness of the long-Distance Runner is a novel by :

1. Alan Sillitoe
2. Paul Scott
3. Peter Porter
4. Muriel Spark

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Rugby Chapel is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his:

1. Mother
2. Brother
3. Father
4. Sister

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :

1. Mary Edgeworth
2. Aphra Behn
3. Mary Russell
4. Mrs Gaskell

✅ Correct Answer: 1

On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim O father surely that Is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ?

1. Caliban
2. Ferdinand
3. Alonso
4. Stephano

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Secular influences on the early English drama were:

1. Political squabbles religious sermons and social customs
2. Rural politicking hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy
3. Village festivals folk plays and minstrels
4. Middle-class life moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Tennysons poem about womens rights and womens sphere is :

1. Maud
2. In Memoriam
3. Idylls of the King
4. The Princess

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Hymn To Adversity is a poem by :

1. Thomas Gray
2. Edward Gibbon
3. Alexander Pope
4. William Blake

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The King James Biere was published in :

1. 1609
2. 1610
3. 1611
4. 1612

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Panopticism is the title of a chapter in a well- known book by ?

1. Roman Jakobson
2. Jacques Lacan
3. Michel Foucault
4. Jacques Derrida

✅ Correct Answer: 3

. The lines She was a worthy woman ai hir lyve:/ Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five are an example of

1. blank verse
2. clerihew
3. heroic couplet
4. free verse

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who among the following women writers famously imagined the plight of Shakespeares sister ?

1. George Eliot
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Irish Murdoch
4. Frances Burney

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.

1. Dickenss novels are called Newgate Novels. Reason (R) : They are called so because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
2. Both (Ai and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation. ? (2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation.
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false but (R) is true.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who among the following writers does not belong to the group the University Wits ?

1. John Lyly
2. Thomas Nashe
3. George Peele
4. Thomas Kyd

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who amongst the following is not a Jewish American novelist ?

1. J.D. Salinger
2. Henry Greene
3. William Faulkner
4. Philip Roth

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A. C. Bradleys Shakespearean Tragedy was published in:

1. 1903
2. 1904
3. 1905
4. 1906

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Topsy appears in:

1. Uncle Toms Cabin
2. History of the United States
3. Walden
4. Tom Sawyer

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Heroic quatrain is:

1. a stanza in blank verse
2. eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
3. four line stanza in iambic pentameter
4. six line stanza in iambic pentameter

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Bildungsroman translated literally means:

1. Development novel
2. Psychological novel
3. Autobiographical novel
4. Campus novel

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A book that faithfully renders a young mans confused images of love and rejection is:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
2. Lucky Jim
3. Daisy Miller
4. The brave New World

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Victorian Age witnessed a clash between:

1. faith and reason
2. tradition and modernity
3. oriental and occidental civilization
4. romanticism and neo romanticism

✅ Correct Answer: 1

For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore he loved gold in special relates to Chaucers

1. Friar
2. Monk
3. Doctor
4. Pardoner

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The historical novel began in;

1. Restoration Period
2. Augustan Age
3. Victorian Period
4. Romantic Period

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The term �Campus novel is associated with

1. Graham Green
2. Kingsley Amis
3. Margaret Drabble
4. William Golding

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?

1. Hard Times - George Eliot
2. Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
3. Sohrab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
4. Ethics of the Dust - Macaulay

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during:

1. 1920-1940
2. 1910-1930
3. 1930-1940
4. 1900-1910

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The macabre element in drama was introduced by:

1. Johft Lyly
2. Marlow
3. Ben Jotison
4. John Webster

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The line I am no Prince Hamlet nor was mean to be....... appears in T. S. Eliots

1. Gerontion
2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pmfrock
3. Four Quartets
4. The Waste-Land

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Fancy deals with :

1. Fixities and definities
2. Imagination and Reason
3. Judgement and Memory
4. Structure and Superstructure

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Swifts Modest proposal is written in the form of a:

1. Project in political economy
2. Political allegory
3. Social Satire
4. Old-Testament history

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The main idea of Popes The Dunciad was taken from:

1. Absalom and Achitophel
2. Mac-Flecknoe
3. The Medal
4. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The most obvious feature of Johnsons The Lives of The Poets is the equipoise between :

1. Language and form
2. Style and content
3. Biography and criticism
4. Myth and archetype

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Kelson of creation is love. The line occurs in Walt Whitmans:

1. Paumonak
2. Passage to India
3. O Captain My Captain
4. Song of Myself

✅ Correct Answer: 4

With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life?

1. Boswell
2. Drydeti
3. Alexander Pope
4. Lord Balingbroke

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The early religious drama is associated with:

1. Superstitions and beliefs
2. Mysteries and histories
3. Interludes and mysteries
4. Miracles and morality

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The author of The Provoked Husband was:

1. Etherege
2. Colley Cibber
3. Wycherley
4. Vanbrugh

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the boys in Goldings Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ?

1. Piggy
2. Ralph
3. Jack
4. Simon

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The complete title of Sternes novel Tristram Shandy is :

1. The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
2. A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
4. The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A curtal sonnet consists of

1. 11 lines
2. 12 lines
3. 13 lines
4. 14 lines

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by

1. Robert Greene
2. Thomas Deloney
3. Thomas Nashe
4. Thomas Lodge

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who among the following is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy?

1. George Villiers
2. John Marston
3. John Webster
4. Thomas Middleton

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where Angles Fear to Tread is a novel by :

1. Virginia Woolf
2. E. M. Forster
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. James Joyce

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The plays of Edward Albee deal with :

1. problems of middle-class
2. hypocracy of aristocracy
3. mechanizations of politics
4. simplicity of lower-class

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Heptameter consists of

1. five metrical feet
2. six metrical feet
3. seven metrical feet
4. eight metrical feet

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The author of Nation and Narration is ?

1. Edward Said
2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3. Frantz Fanon
4. Homi Bhabha

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ?

1. Thomas Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller
2. Henry Fieldings tom Jones
3. Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
4. Samuel Richardsons Pamela

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The phrase �Only Connect is associated with

1. D. H. Lawrence
2. James Joyce
3. E. M. Forster
4. Virginia Woolf

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?

1. The Stone Angel
2. No Fixed Address
3. The Edible Woman
4. Halfbreed

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spensers Faerie Queene is represented by the character

1. Britomart
2. Gloriana
3. Cynthia
4. Duessa

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The book Speech Acts is written by

1. John Austin
2. John Searle
3. Jacques Derrida
4. Ferdinand de Saussure

✅ Correct Answer: 1