Fiction, Short Story – English UGC NET – Solved PYQs

Q. 1 – 50

1. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) Norman Mailer
(2) Saul Bellow
(3) Philip Roth
(4) Bernard Malamud

2. Match the authors in List-I with their nationality in List-II (UGC NET June 2011)

Codes:

3. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) The Congo region
(2) The Niger Delta
(3) The Caribbean
(4) The African Savannah

4. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) Alexander Pope
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) John Gay
(4) Jonathan Swift

5. The Castle of Otranto is an example of (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) Gothic fiction
(2) Romance
(3) Comic fiction
(4) Bildungsroman

6. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) The Revolt of Islam
(2) The Necessity of Atheism
(3) The Triumph of Life
(4) The Masque of Anarchy

7. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) Hard Times
(2) Great Expectations
(3) Oliver Twist
(4) The Old Curiosity Shop

8. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code (UGC NET June 2011)

1. Great Expectations

2. Hard Times

3. Bleak House

4. A Tale of Two Cities

(1) 3, 2, 4, 1
(2) 2, 4, 3, 1
(3) 1, 2, 4, 3
(4) 4, 2, 1, 3

9. Margaret Drabble is the author of (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) The Memoirs of a Survivor
(2) The Witch of Exmoor
(3) The Service of Clouds
(4) The Godless in Eden

10. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I means she upright, honest, speak her mind…” What light does the quotation throw on Shug Avery? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) She is a manly woman.
(2) She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.
(3) She is bent on self-assertion
(4) Both (2) and (3)

11. From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(2) George Orwell – 1984
(3) Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
(4) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited

12. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
(2) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(3) The Moaning Wind
(4) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’

13. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Mary Shelley give? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) A Gothic Tale
(2) A Gothic Romance
(3) The Modern Prometheus
(4) A Modern Parable

14. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.” Interpretation (I): The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies. Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten. (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(2) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(3) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit it.
(4) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship to (I).

15. Which of the following poems uses terza rima? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(2) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(3) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(4) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

16. Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin [1953] is not true? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) On one level this is a coming-of-age story.
(2) It is an elegiac account of a village’s growth into awareness in the late colonial period.
(3) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(4) This was George Lamming’s first novel.

17. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
(2) It was the brightest of times; it was the darkest of times.
(3) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest of times.
(4) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest of times.

18. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(2) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(3) Martin, Little Nell
(4) Uriah Heep, Barkis

19. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Emma
(2) Mansfield Park
(3) Persuasion
(4) Northanger Abbey

20. Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North will undoubtedly notice its parallels with the story/stories of (UGC NET Dec 2012)

I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness

(1) I and II are correct.
(2) Only IV is correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) II and IV are correct.

21. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) The Slough of Despond
(2) Mount Helicon
(3) The Valley of Humiliation
(4) Vanity Fair

22. Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin [1953] is not true? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) On one level this is a coming-of-age story.
(2) It is an elegiac account of a village’s growth into awareness in the late colonial period.
(3) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(4) This was George Lamming’s first novel.

23. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) A Public Park
(2) A Church
(3) A Quarry
(4) An Abandoned Factory

24. Match List-I with List-II according to the code given below (UGC NET Dec 2012)

Codes:

25. Raskolnikov murders the old lady: (UGC NET June 2012)

I. To get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
II. To achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. To prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above

(1) I and II are correct.
(2) I and III are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I, II and III are correct.

26. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with: (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) a kitchen-maid
(2) an English governess
(3) a French governess
(4) a socialite

27. Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy. The other two novels are: (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) The Flounder and Dog Years
(2) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(3) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(4) Crabwalk and The Rat

28. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India? (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) A Tramp Abroad
(2) Roughing It
(3) The Innocents Abroad
(4) Following the Equator

29. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) Toni Morrison
(2) Zora Neale Hurston
(3) Alice Walker
(4) Bell Hooks

30. The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel? (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) Mrs. Morland
(2) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(3) Mrs. Bennet
(4) Mrs. Dashwood

31. Assertion (A): “Tam O’Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time. Reason (R): John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct? (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false but (R) is true.

32. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear? (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) The Rivals
(2) She Stoops to Conquer
(3) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(4) The Way of the World

33. “If comes, can, be far behind?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) winter, spring
(2) autumn, summer
(3) wind, rains
(4) spring, winter

34. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(2) The Land of Homosapiens
(3) The Land of the Hurricanes
(4) The Newfound Land