Non-Fictional Prose – English UGC NET – Solved PYQs

1. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was (UGC NET June 2011)
(1) John Bunyan
(2) Jeremy Colliers
(3) William Wycherley
(4) John Vanbrugh

2. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for (UGC NET June 2011)
(1) attacking human vices and follies.
(2) inciting the reading public.
(3) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.
(4) pleasing their women readers.

3. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was published in (UGC NET June 2011)
(1) 1790
(2) 1791
(3) 1792
(4) 1793

4. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour. The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is (UGC NET Dec 2012)
(1) The Tatler
(2) The Spectator
(3) The Critical Review
(4) The Rambler

5. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following: (UGC NET Dec 2012)
(1) Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(2) The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.
(3) Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year.
(4) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.

6. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that (UGC NET Dec 2012)
(1) The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(2) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(3) The Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(4) The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.

7. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century (UGC NET Dec 2012)
(1) Advancement of Learning
(2) Gulliver’s Travels
(3) The Spectator
(4) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

8. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language? (UGC NET Dec 2012)
(1) Bishop Berkeley
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Edmund Burke
(4) Horace Walpole

9. This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses”. It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy. The periodical under reference is: (UGC NET June 2012)
(1) The Tatler
(2) The Spectator
(3) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) The London Magazine

10. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson? (UGC NET June 2012)
(1) He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and plantations.
(2) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under William Chawming.
(3) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things in new ways.
(4) His famous “American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.