UGC NET/WBCSC SET MOCK EXAMINATION

[Literary Theory and Criticism]

Prepared by- Prof. Sourav Nag

1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres,
Surreys verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the
(A) French verse (B) Italian verse (C) Spanish verse (D) Latin verse
2. Fop at the toilet, flattrer at the Board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord. The above lines are
quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc (B) The Rape of the Lock (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (D) Absalom and
Achitrphel
3. Which one of Brechts works was intended to lampoon the conventional sentimental musical but the
public lapped up the works sentiment and missed the humour?
(A) Man is Man (B) Three Penny Opera (C) The Mother (D) Life of Galileo
4. Which of the following statements is not true of Mahesh Dattanis Final Solutions?
(A) The play centres around a middle class Hindu family during a communal riot. (B) It challenges communalism.
(C) It is concerned with homosexual relationship. (D) It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia
5. Which of the following statements is not true of Wole Soyinkas The Swamp Dwellers ?
(A) It talks about the family, the extended family in the African society.
(B) It is a confrontation between the traditional and modern society.
(C) It talks about the migration of people, crossing of borders and diasporic anguish.
It is a comment about the city, urban, modern and the country rural, the swamp, the ancient.
6. She dwells with beauty Beauty that must die, wrote Keats in one of his odes, referring to
(A) Indolence (B) Autumn (C) Melancholy (D) Psyche
7. In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his Heavnly Muse, Urania at the beginning of :
(A) Book one (B) Book four (C) Book nine (D) Book seven
8. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(A) The Rivals (B) She Stoops to Conquer (C) The Mysteries of Udolpho (D) The Way of the World
9. The following words and phrases, peace makers, help-meet, the fat of the land, a labour of love,
the eleventh hour and the shadow of death were made current by
(A) the British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham
(B) the fifteenth century British prelates
(C) the Puritan tractarians
(D) the sixteen-century translators of the Bible
10. Jacques Lacan posits three orders which structure human existence. In the list that follows : Identify
the one that is not included by Lacan :
(A) Imaginary (B) Unconscious (C) Real (D) Symbolic
11. In which poem of Donnes is the lovers face reflected in the eyes of his beloved ?
(A) The Good Morrow (B) The Canonization (C) The Apparition (D) A Valediction : Forbidding
Mourning
12. Yeasts Sailing to Byzantium is about-
(A) Irish Culture (B) The art and culture of Byzantium in general (C) Irish revolutionaries (D) Regenerating
the art and culture that existed in Byzantium
13. Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhoma (B) Evam Indrajeet (C) That Other History (D) Agra Bazar
14. 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 ?
(A) Romance (B) Epic (C) Fiction (D) Novel
15. In Pinters Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?
(A) A toy (B) A piano (C) A drum (D) A violin
16. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(A) 1660 to 1669 (B) 1649 to 1660 (C) 1662 to 1689 (D) 1660 to 1689
17. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who rejected the label
British though he has always written in English rather than his regional language ?
(A) Douglas Dunn (B) Seamus Heaney (C) Geoffrey Hill (D) Philip Larkin
18. When you say I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips you are using a rhetorical
device of
(A) Enumeratio (B) Antanagoge (C) Parataxis (D) Hypotaxis
19. Which of the following statements is not applicable to Derridas rejection of the notion of the
Metaphysics of Presence ?
(A) The desire for immediate access to meaning privileges presence over absence.
(B) All presences are necessarily metaphysical and, therefore, are to be rejected.
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play of difference and differance.
(D) Metaphysics involves installing hierarchies and orders of subordination in the various dualisms that it
encounters.
20. Literary works by post-modern British writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette
Winterson generally tend to share which of the following characteristics ?
(A) The use of fragmented narrative structures with multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology and location.
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality of life in cultures and countries all over the world.
(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for nineteenth and early twentieth century life, typically expressed in ueful,
melancholic tones.
(D) The use of brief, economic literary forms and a spare, astringent literary style.
21. The Angel in the House became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class
femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby (B) Arthur Hugh Clough (C) Charlotte Mew (D) Coventry Patmore
22. Which of the following poets describes his mistress as No, she is not Anglo-Indian. She is Indian
English, the language that I use.
(A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Keki Daruwalla (C) A.K. Ramanujan (D) R. Parthasarathy
23. In coining the term Ecriture feminine Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not
necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence (B) Joseph Conrad (C) James Joyce (D) E.M. Forster
24. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are-
(A) real and fake (B) voluntary and involuntary (C) subjective and objective (D) latent and manifest
25. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene ONeill as a play of old sorrow, written in
tears and blood ?
(A) Desire under the Elms (B) The Hairy Ape (C) Long Days Journey into Night (D) Mourning Becomes
Electra
26. In Marxist criticism the term interpellation defines
(A) the ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of material practices.
(B) the ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices.
(C) the ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) the ways in which the subjects of an ideology resist false positions of knowledge regarding others.
37. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
38. Collocations refer to
(A) the combination of words in a phrase (B) the act of positioning words (C) grouping of words in a sentence
(D) combination of natural words
39. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality,
becomes the setting of the play ?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are) (B) To Clothe the Naked (C) The Life I Gave You (D) Six
Characters in Search of an Author
40. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the headlines : A book the police should ban; loathsome
study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster. Its opening chapter was originally
suppressed. Name the novel :
(A) Lady Chatterleys Lover (B) The Rainbow (C) Women in Love (D) The White Peacock