English Multiple Choice Questions and Answers - Set 24 | UGC NET English MCQs

1 The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition is

1 moral purpose

2 sublime subject matter

3 reader-response

4 truth to life

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Answer: moral purpose

2 In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole wife-to-be ?

1 Bertha

2 Martha

3 Jane

4 Barbara

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Answer:Bertha

3 Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste land ?

1 Ring-a-roses

2 London Bridge is Falling Down

3 Humpty Dumpty

4 Jack and Jill

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Answer:London Bridge is Falling Down

4 Purple Hisbiscus is a work by

1 Cyprian Ekwensi

2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3 Seffi Atta

4 Chukwuemeka Ike

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Answer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5 Which country is Jacques Derrida born in ?

1 France

2 South Africa

3 Algeria

4 Belgium

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Answer:Algeria

6 Which of the following plays is NOT part of the so-called Arnold Wesker Trilogy ?

1 I’m Talking about Jerusalem

2 Chips with Everything

3 Roots

4 Chicken Soup with Barley

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Answer:Chips with Everything

7 Identify the play from among the following in which a spendthrift young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors :

1 The Taming of the Shrew

2 The School for Scandal

3 The Strife

4 The Philanderer

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Answer:The School for Scandal

8 Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling ?

1 Just So Stories

2 Puck of Pook’s Hill

3 The Secret Garden

4 Rewards and Faeries

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Answer: The Secret Garden

9 In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse’s reward for slaying the Dragon ?

1 The Dragon’s treasure hoard

2 The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of a righteous quest

3 Eternal salvation

4 Una’s hand in marriage and her parents’ kingdom

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Answer:Una’s hand in marriage and her parents’ kingdom

10 Which of the following novels has the death of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, the former President of Pakistan, at its centre ?

1 The Kite Runner

2 A Case of Exploding Mangoes

3 Shame

4 Kartography

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Answer: A Case of Exploding Mangoes

11 Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to

1 E.L. Woodward

2 Charles Lutwidge Dodson

3 Michael Brock

4 W.E. Houghton

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Answer:Charles Lutwidge Dodson

12 One of the following collections initiated confessional poetry in America, a new mode in which the poet bared his/her most tormenting personal problems with great honesty and intensity.

1 Live or Die

2 Words for the Wind

3 Life Studies

4 Ariel

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Answer: Life Studies

13 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a ______ by ______.

1 novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne

2 play, Mrs. Radcliffe

3 poem, William Blake

4 sermon, Laurence Sterne

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Answer:poem, William Blake

14 In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost, Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. He states that he is in particular need of aid because he has what he considers to be a disability. What is it ?

1 Lameness

2 Deafness

3 Prolixity

4 Blindness

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