Keys English UGC NET December 2014

Answer Key of UGC NET English Paper-III December 2014 (D3014)

3.         The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells,

            And bugles calling for them from sad shires”.

            These lines are from Wilfred Owen’s:

Ans.     C-“Anthem for Doomed Youth”

6.         The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is_____.

Ans.     B-King’s Library

8.         Who among Shakespeare’s contemporaries did not write tragedies?

Ans.     B- John Lyly

9.         The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of_____.

Ans.     C-Amir

12.       ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by

Ans.     D-Marshal McLuhan

16.       The fruit was eaten.

            The fruit is ripening

            Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Ans.     C- 1, 3, 5 are correct

18.       “While the world moves

            In appentency on its metalled way

            Of time past and time future”

            These lines are from:

Ans.     C-Burnt Norton

20.       ‘Homonyms’ are words that

Ans.     C- are spelt similarly but have different meanings

21.       Match the columns

Ans.     A- 2  4  1   3

26.       Match the following correctly:

Ans.     C-  3   2   1   4

27.       From which Sheridan’s plays the following extract is taken?

Ans.     B-The School for Scandal

28.       Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir in “The Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Second Sex?

Ans.     D- Kafka

29.       In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells about his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness.

Ans.     A- Other Colors

31.       Who among the following is NOT an Australian writer?

Ans.     D-Bill Pearson

32.       After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works to narrate chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he gave this persona is___.

Ans.     B- Krishan Chander

35.       Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in

Ans.     C- French

38.       The author of Black Skin, White Masks is

Ans.     B- Frantz Fanon

39.       Match the following

            Poet                 Bird

Ans.     A- 4   3   2   1

43.       Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has been translated into English by

Ans.     B- By the playwright himself

44.       Edward Said’s well-known book Orientalism was published in

Ans.     A- 1978

45.       “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by

Ans.     B- Ben Jonson

46.       Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by

Ans.     B- Agha Shahid Ali

47.       “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery – a confidence trick”. The statement has been made by

Ans.     A- Angus Wilson

48.       Here is a list of American words and word-makers. Match the following:

Ans.     C- 3   4   2   1

49.       Which of the following in Jacques Derrida’s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign and play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”?

Ans.     B- We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things…. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

52.       In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ‘gyres’?

Ans.     A- A Vision

53.       Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on____.

Ans.     C- Biblical stories

56.       The team “womanism” was first used by

Ans.     D- Alice Walker

59.       Match the columns

Ans.     C-  4   3   2   1

60.       “The Books You Needn’t Read, the Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category of Books Read Before Being Written”.

Ans.     B- Italo Colvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

61.       Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are aligned by readers. Match them appropriately.

Ans.     C-  4   1   2   3

62.       Identify the right chronological sequence:

Ans.     C- Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A Game of Chess – The City Madam

64.       Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Noble Prize for Literature?

Ans.     B- Chinua Achebe

65.       The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in ____ volumes.

Ans.     D- 6

66.       The first novel written by Graham Greene is

Ans.     D- The Man Within

67.       From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper class’?

Ans.     C- The Knight, The Squire, The Proioress

70.       Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle:

Ans.     A-Ralph

71.       Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other Poems and the journal, The Germ are associated with____.

Ans.     A- the Pre-Raphaelites

Note: Kindly cross check the answers from the concerned books.

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