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Be focused
Meticulously check the syllabus and exam pattern
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Prepare for Paper 1 first
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List of Books for UGC NET English
UGC NET/JRF/SLET English (Paper-III)
Author: Dr B B Jain

Trueman's UGC NET National Eligibility Test/SET State Eligibility Test English Literature 01 Edition
Author: B. P. Panigrahi

UGC NET/JRF/SET English Literature (Paper II & III)
Publisher: Upkar Prakashan

UGC-NET/JRF/SLET English (Paper - II) 1st Edition
Author: Surya Pal Yadav

UGC NET/JRF/SET English Literature (Paper - II)
Author: B. B. Jain

UGC NET English Exam sample paper…..
1. “The just man justices. What kind of
foregrounding do you find in the
above lines ?
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above
2. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code
given :
List – I List – II
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed
syllable followed
by a stressed
syllable
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is
followed by two
unstressed
syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed
syllable is
followed by a
stressed syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable
is followed by an
unstressed syllable
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4
3. The separation of styles in
accordance with class appears more
consistently in _______ than in
medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser
4. “Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism
5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
6. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code
given below :
List – I
(Critic)
List – II
(Theory)
i. Cleanth
Brooks
1. Ambiguity
ii. William
Empson
2. Paradox
iii. Mark
Schorer
3. Archetypal
patterns in poetry
iv. Maud
Bodkin
4. Techniques as
discovery
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
7. “The artist may be present in his
work like God in creation, invisible
and almighty, everywhere felt but
nowhere seen.” Henry James is
talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity

8. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code given
below :
List – I
(Theorist)
List – II
(Book)
i. Michel
Foucault
1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith
Butler
2. Epistemology of
the Closet
iii. Alan
Sinfield
3. History of
Sexuality
iv. Eve
Kosofsky
Sedgwick
4. Cultural Politics-
Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination
according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says,
“lies in his powerful and beautiful
application of ideas to life”. But a
critic pointed out it was “not a happy
way of putting it, as if ideas were a
lotion for the inflamed skin of
suffering humanity”. Who was this
critic ?
(A) T.S. Eliot (B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge (D) Allen Tate
10. Derrida’s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man,
J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson,
Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan,
Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze,
Felix Guattari
11. Identify the correct group of
playhouses in late sixteenth century
London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe,
Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,
Thames
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the
dew will rust them.
Good Signior, you shall more
command with years.
Than with your weapons.” The above
lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and officers
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and
Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators
(D) Montano and Cassio
13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the
Second shows the murder of the king.
Where does it take place ?
(A) Westminster, a room in the
palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath
14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” –
1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591
The Spanish Tragedie – about
1585
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” –
1559
Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about
1591
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” –
1585
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – 1579
The Spanish Tragedie – about
1557
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” –
1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – about
1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about
1557

15. Match the items in the List – I with
items in List – II according to the code
given below :
List – I
(Authors)
List – II
(Works)
i. Lucy
Hutchinson
1. The Life and
Death of Mr.
Badman
ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a
Discourse of
Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
iv. Margaret
Cavendish
4. Memoirs of the
Life of Colonel
Hutchinson
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
16. “But deeds, and language, such as men
do use;
And persons, such as comedy would
choose,
When she would show an image of the
time,
and sport with human follies, not with
crime.”
In the above lines Jonson
I. Opposes the artificiality of the
romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short
comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with
melodrama.
Find out the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct
(D) II, III and IV are correct
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we
prove,
We’ll build in ________ pretty
roomes.”
(A) lyrics (B) epics
(C) sonnets (D) stanzas
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or
might extort from me.” (Paradise
Lost, Book I)
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by
Satan ?
(A) The courage never to submit or
yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil
19. It has been described as a “novel
without predecessors”, the product of
an original mind and became
immediately popular. It is a peculiar
blend of pathos and humour, though
the pathos is sometimes overdone to
the point of becoming offensively
sentimental.
The novel was published in 1760.
What is the name of the novel ?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) A Tender Husband
20. The son of a joiner, he was
apprenticed as a printer. He remained
a printer throughout his life. He was
asked to prepare a series of modern
letters for those who could not write
for themselves. This humble task
taught him the art of expressing
himself in letters. Who is the novelist ?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss
Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the
following lines ?
(A) Pope (B) Gray
(C) Collins (D) Southey
22. Which of the following works is not
actually a prose essay ?
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
(C) An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New
Theory of Vision

23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
believing that he loves her in The
Way of the World ?
(A) Millamant
(B) Lady Wishfort
(C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall
24. “Competence to age is
supplementary to youth, a sorry
supplement indeed, but I fear the best
that is to be had. We must ride where
we formerly walked : live better and
be softer and shall be wise to do so –
than we had means to do in the good
old days you speak of.”
Who speaks these words and to
whom ?
(A) Lamb to Bridget
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy
25. The Prelude although begun as early
as 1799 and finished in its first
version in 1805, was not published
until ________.
(A) 1815 (B) 1820
(C) 1830 (D) 1850
26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress
With the wreathed trellis of a
working brain.” The above lines are
quoted from
(A) ‘Adonais’
(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(D) ‘Endymion’
27. “Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of
love is illustrated in Blake’s
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the
unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) William Godwin
(C) Mary Hay
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry
James’ theory of the novel :
(A) It should be sentimental
(B) It should be objective
(C) It should be realistic
(D) It should be viewed as an
artistic form
30. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code
given below :
List – I
(Novels)
List – II
(Characters)
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore
ii. A Passage to
India
2. Molly Bloom
iii. To the
Lighthouse
3. Gerald Crich
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2 4
31. Which among the following novels
was not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s room
(C) Aaron’s Rod
(D) A Passage to India
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings
beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs
caressed
By the dark webs, her nap caught in
his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his
breast.”
Who is the author of the above lines ?
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) D.H. Lawrence

33. “Consume my heart away; sick with
desire
And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
(A) “Felix Randal”
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”
34. Who among the following is not a
surrealist poet ?
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
35. The protagonist returns with an
admonition, the diamond sent to him
for smuggling out a packet of
diamonds as bribe.
This scene occurs in one of the
novels of Graham Greene – Identify
the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana
36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published
together in London in 1959 under the
English titles is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks,
Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks
than Kicks, Murphy
37. Among the following playwrights,
who was awarded the Pulitzer prize
in 1920 ?
(A) Eugene O’Neill
(B) Sean O’Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
(D) J.B. Priestly
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the
concept of ________ in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
39. Who among the following is not an
American modernist poet ?
(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the
younger
(D) Marianne Moore
40. An important poet and playwright
who in the 1960s led the Black Arts
Movement, in the spirit of negritude,
posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that
expressed a pan-African, organic and
whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B) Amiri Baraka
(C) Ishmael Reed
(D) Bell Hooks
41. Match List – I with List – II
according to the code given below :
List – I
(Authors)
List – II
(Books)
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or
Mapping the
Waters
iii. Marina
Warners
3. Wide Sargasso
Sea
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The
Pleasures of Conquest termed as a
postcolonial novel of the nineties is
ironically enough set in the tropical
island nation of
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Fiji
(C) The Caribbean
(D) Amnesia

43. Which of the following is not an
Asian – Canadian writer ?
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa
(D) Meena Alexander
44. Which of the following is true ?
(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in
nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection
of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery
rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds
and Fruits of English Poetry”
45. “The old order changeth yielding
place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many
way.”
In which of the following poems do
these lines appear ?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’
(D) ‘Ulysses’
46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a
historical novel of the Italian
Renaissance was not successful.
Which was this novel ?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven
by passion and revenge, add a new
dimension to the concept of suffering ?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times
48. From the following women
characters in Hardy’s novels choose
the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta
49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes
caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is
represented as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt
clergy
3. who practiced what he
preached
4. who was a poor but honest
clerk
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
50. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code
given below :
List – I
(Plays)
List – II
(Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in
his Humour
3. Vittoria
Corombona
iv. The Spanish
Tragedie
4. Aspatia
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1