English Multiple Choice Questions and Answers - Set 17 | UGC NET English MCQs

1 What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home Coming ?

1 boxer

2 butcher

3 pimp

4 cab driver

Answer: pimp

2 Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?

1 Beppo

2 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

3 Don Juan

4 The Vision of Judgement

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Answer:Don Juan

3 In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of

1 William Morris

2 William Holman Hunt

3 D.G. Rossetti

4 James Collinson

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Answer:D.G. Rossetti

4 In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title ?

1 Love and Duty Reconcil’d

2 Beauty in Distress

3 Virtue Rewarded

4 Love in Excess

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Answer: Love and Duty Reconcil’d

5 Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except

1 analytical criticism

2 literary history

3 personal biography

4 Socratic dialogue

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Answer:Socratic dialogue

6 Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?

I. In the Heart of the Country

II. Life and Times of Michael K.

III. Disgrace

IV. Waiting for the Barbarians

The right combination according to the code is :

1 II and III

2 II and IV

3 III and IV

4 I and III

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Answer:II and III

7 Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?

1 Miletus

2 Socrates

3 Plato

4 Aristotle

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Answer:Plato

8 Who among the following is not a diasporic writer ?

1 Beryl Bainbridge

2 Timothy Mo

3 Hanif Kureishi

4 Sam Selvon

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Answer: Beryl Bainbridge

9 “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.” Which of the following best expresses the position stated above ?

1 A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.

2 A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.

3 A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of opposition.

4 A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.

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Answer: A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.

10 In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s

1 Son

2 Son-in-law

3 Nephew

4 Servant

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Answer: Son-in-law

11 Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ?

1 To kill a living creature is immoral.

2 People should honour and respect all living things.

3 Prayer can accomplish miracles.

4 True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.

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Answer: People should honour and respect all living things.

12 “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by

1 Stephen Krashen

2 M.A.K. Halliday

3 Merrill Swain

4 Gertrude Buck

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Answer: Merrill Swain

13 In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature.

1 William Wilberforce

2 Ignatius Sancho

3 William Blackstone

4 John Hawkins

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