English Multiple Choice Questions and Answers - Set 45 | UGC NET English MCQs

1 In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians ?

1 Music

2 Public lectures

3 Conversation

4 Dicing and cards

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Answer: Dicing and cards

2 Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position ?

1 In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.

2 Power operates through discourse.

3 There is connection between power and knowledge.

4 Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.

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Answer:In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.

3 In which year did the Great Exhibition take place ?

1 1851

2 1857

3 1861

4 1871

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Answer:1851

4 When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of

1 Alliteration

2 Allegory

3 Assonance

4 Antithesis

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Answer: Alliteration

5 Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” ?

1 “Far from the madding crowd”

2 “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”

3 “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen”

4 “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”

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Answer:“All nature is but art, unknown to thee”

6 Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of

1 youth against old age

2 old age against youth

3 power against knowledge

4 knowledge against power

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Answer:old age against youth

7 In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates ?

1 Nobility, church and commoners.

2 Royalty, nobility and peasantry.

3 Royalists, republicans and peasants.

4 Country, city and commons.

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Answer:Nobility, church and commoners.

8 Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave ?

1 Sula

2 Tar Baby

3 Song of Solomon

4 Beloved

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Answer: Beloved

9 Who among the following translated Homer ?

1 Thomas Gray

2 Samuel Johnson

3 Oliver Goldsmith

4 Alexander Pope

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Answer:Alexander Pope

10 Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a

1 Picaresque novel

2 Epistolary novel

3 Diary novel

4 Coming-of-age novel

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Answer: Coming-of-age novel

11 When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted ?

1 1924

2 1945

3 1936

4 1962

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Answer: 1936

12 Who among the following is not an imagist ?

1 Ezra Pound

2 W.B. Yeats

3 Amy Lowell

4 T.E. Hulme

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Answer: W.B. Yeats

13 Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as

1 Celia

2 Julia

3 Anne

4 Melanie

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Answer:Celia

14 Who among the following is not a myth critic ?

1 Robert Graves

2 Raymond Williams

3 Francis Fergusson

4 Northrop Frye

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Answer:Raymond Williams

15 According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one ?

1 Romance

2 Epic

3 Fiction

4 Novel

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