English Multiple Choice Questions and Answers - Set 44 | UGC NET English MCQs

1 Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :

1 The Living and the Dead

2 The Tree of Man

3 Happy Valley

4 The Aunt’s Story

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Answer: Happy Valley

2 In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise ?

1 To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.

2 To spy on Edmund.

3 To antagonize Goneril and Regan.

4 To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.

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Answer:To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.

3 What is a feminine rhyme ?

1 A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.

2 A rhyme on two syllables.

3 A rhyme on three syllables.

4 A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.

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Answer:A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.

4 In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S. Eliot, the term “Traditional” usually means

1 something positive

2 something negative

3 something historical

4 something old

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Answer: something negative

5 Who of the following is a Cavalier poet ?

1 George Herbert

2 John Donne

3 Robert Herrick

4 Andrew Marvell

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Answer:Robert Herrick

6 Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’s work ?

1 Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question

2 The Transcendence of the Ego

3 Of Grammatology

4 The Work of Mourning

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Answer:The Transcendence of the Ego

7 In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side ?

1 Adam.

2 Eve.

3 Raphael.

4 God.

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Answer:Adam.

8 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

1 Bernard Shaw

2 W.B. Yeats

3 J.M. Synge

4 John Osborne

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Answer: Bernard Shaw

9 John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as

1 a dactyl

2 an oxymoron

3 enjambment

4 zeugma

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Answer:an oxymoron

10 There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s

1 Doctor Faustus

2 The Jew of Malta

3 Tamburlaine, the Great

4 Edward II

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Answer: The Jew of Malta

11 Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully ?

1 Time

2 Place

3 Action

4 Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important

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