NET/SET/JRF PRACTICE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH LITERATURE
20/20
1. Galip is a character who appears in Orhan Pamuk''s _____
a) The Black Book b) Silent House c) My Name is Red d) Snow
2. Match the following
Novels Authors
a) The English Patient - Martin Amis
b) London Fields - Michael Odantjee
c) The Remains of the Day - William Gibson
d) Sprawl - Kauzo Ishiguro
3. Santiago in Paulo Coetho's The Alchemist is a _____
a) postman b) shepherd c) poet d) pimp
4. Given below are the essays from Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind. Rearrange all the essays in the correct order.
a) The Language of African Literature
b) The Language of African Fiction
c) The Quest for Relevance
d) The Language of African Theatre
i) DCAB ii) ABCD iii) DABC iv) ADBC
5. Who is the narrator in Peter Carey's Illywhacker?
a) George b) Mathias c) Herbert Badgery d) Lucy
6. Which one of the following novels is an example of "coming-of-age story?"
a) Hawksmoor b) Oranges are Not the Only Fruit c) Middlemarch d) The Illywhacker
7. _____ is the final novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
a) Poor Folk b) Notes from underground c) Crime and Punishment d) The Brothers Karamazov
8. G.M. Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" is a/an _____
a) elegy b) sonnet c) curtal sonnet d) lyric
9. When did W.B. Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) 1932 b) 1965 c) 1923 d) 1933
10. i) "Little", ii) "The Dry Salvage", iii) "The Burnt Nortan", iv) "The East Coker" --- These are the title of the poems from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Arrange all the titles in right order.
a) I, III, II, IV b) III, II, IV, I c) III, IV, II, I d) I, II, III, IV
11. _____ is the substitution of one word for another with comic effect.
a) Conceit b) Malapropism c) Metaphor d) Rhetoric
12. "Two rhyming lines in iambic pentametre expressing complete thought is called _____
a) parody b) sonnet c) heroic couplet d) terza rima
13. _____ is not the practitioner of 'Deconstruction"
a) Roger Fowler b) Paul de Man cO Terry Eagleton d) J. Hillis Miller
14. Match the following
Author Work
Frantz Fanon - Mythologies
Homi Bhaba - The Political Unconscious
Frederic Jameson - Nation and Narration
Roland Barthes - The Wretched of the Earth
15. Who is the founder and head of 'the Simon De Beauvoir Prize?'
a) Freud b) Julia Kristeva c) Edward Said d) Roland Barthes
16. "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" is a critical work by _____
a) S. T. Coleridge b) Charles Lamb c) A. C. Bradley d) L. C. Knight
17. _____ is the branch of linguistics that deals with word order
a) syntax b) semiotics c) langue d) parole
18. Lady Catherine de Borough is a character who appears in Jane Austen's _____
a) Emma b) Persuasion c) Pride and Prejudice d) Mansfiled Park
19. The famous line "frailty thy name is woman" occurs in Shakespeare's _____
a) Macbeth b) Hamlet c) As You Like It d) Othello
20. Bleak House is a novel by _____
a) Hardy b) D.H. Lawrence c) Joseph Conrad d) Emile Bronte
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1. a. The Black Book
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b) London Fields - Martin Amis
c) The Remains of the Day - Kauzo Ishiguro
d) Sprawl - William Gibson
3. b) shepherd
4. iv) ADBC
5. c) Herbert Badgery
6. b) Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
7. d) The Brothers Karamazov
8. b) sonnet
9. c) 1923
10. c) III, IV, II, I
11. b) Malapropism
12.c) heroic couplet
13. a) Roger Fowler
14. Frantz Fanon -The Wretched of the Earth
Homi Bhaba - Nation and Narration
Frederic Jameson - The Political Unconscious
Roland Barthes - Mythologies
15. b) Julia Kristeva
16. thomas de quincey
17. a) syntax
18. c) Pride and Prejudice
19. b) Hamlet
20. Charles Dickens
Very good, all answers are correct except question no . 8. Try to find out
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