English Multiple Choice Questions and Answers - Set 43 | UGC NET English MCQs

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1 Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?

1 Durham

2 Glasgow

3 Cambridge

4 Oxford

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Answer: Cambridge

2 Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

1 John Marston

2 Thomas Middleton

3 John Fletcher

4 Thomas Heywood

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Answer:Thomas Heywood

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3 In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”

1 Mirabell

2 Witwoud

3 Millamant

4 Mincing

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Answer:Millamant

4 T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

1 Christianity

2 Hinduism

3 Buddhism

4 Judaism

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Answer: Christianity

5 By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?

1 Grildrig

2 Glumdalclitch

3 Splacknuck

4 Mannikin

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Answer:Grildrig

6 Who among the following was born in India ?

1 Paul Scott

2 Lawrence Durrell

3 E.M. Forster

4 V.S. Naipaul

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Answer:Lawrence Durrell

7 What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers ?

1 That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.

2 That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.

3 That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.

4 That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.

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Answer:That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.

8 Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism ?

1 Roman Jakobson

2 Georges Poulet

3 Boris Eichenbaum

4 Victor Shklovsky

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Answer: Georges Poulet

9 Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ?

1 Barkis

2 Micawber

3 Uriah Heep

4 Miss Havisham

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Answer:Micawber

10 What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ?

1 Pequod

2 Rachel

3 Hagar

4 Sphinx

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Answer: Rachel

11 Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance.

1 Oriental

2 French

3 Gothic

4 Popular

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Answer: Gothic

12 Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake” ?

1 Aestheticism

2 Didacticism

3 Realism

4 Neo-realism

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Answer: Aestheticism

13 The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of

1 Oxymoron

2 Antithesis

3 Paradox

4 Metonomy

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Answer:Paradox

14 Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?

1 Marlow

2 Director of Companies

3 Kurtz

4 An unnamed narrator

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Answer:An unnamed narrator

15 The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of

1 The Conscious Lovers

2 The Good Natur’d Man

3 She Stoops to Conquer

4 The Rivals

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Answer:She Stoops to Conquer

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