NET Question Paper II 2004

 

 NET Question Paper II 2004

1.      In Langlands’ Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as:

(A)  Charity     (B) The Holy Trinity

(C) Jesus    (D) The Good Samaritan

Ans;Jesus /the good samaritan  

I am not able to search beyond the scene where Pirs Plwman goes to plough after making his will. 
The next mention is in a sequel. The following passage is noteworthy. 
"Anima, after describing the tree of Charity, says that it is under the care of Piers the Plowman, the dreamer swoons, for joy, into a dream, in which he sees Piers and the tree, and hears a long account of the fruits of the tree which gradually becomes a narrative of the birth and betrayal of Christ. At the close of this he wakes, and wanders about, seeking Piers, and meets with Abraham (or Faith), who expounds the Trinity; they are joined by Spes (Hope); and a Samaritan (identified with Jesus) cares for a wounded man whom neither Faith nor Hope will help. After this, the Samaritan expounds the Trinity, passing unintentionally to an exposition of mercy; and the dreamer wakes. In the next vision (passus XIX) he sees Jesus in the armour of Piers ready to joust with Death; but, instead of the jousting, we have an account of the crucifixion, the debate of the Four Daughters of God and the harrowing of hell. He wakes and writes his dream, and, immediately, sleeps again and dreams that Piers, painted all bloody and like to Christ, appears. Is it Jesus or Piers? Conscience tells him that these are the colours and coat-armour of Piers, but he that comes so bloody is Christ. A discussion ensues on the comparative merits of the names Christ and Jesus, followed by an account of the life of Christ. Piers is Peter (or the church)," 
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2.      It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all:

(A)  One story (B)   Two stories

(C) Three stories    (D)       Four stories

      person must tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back!And when we get back here after the pilgrimage, we'll all pay for the dinner of the person who tells the ... He toldeach of us to take one piece of straw 22 from the pieces ... 2 Think of another way in which Theseuscould have decided which.

3.      Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by:

(A)  Shakespeare     (B)       Marlowe

(C) Drayton           (D)       Sydney

4.      The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is:

(A) 123      (B)       142

(C) 104      (D)        154

In total, he wrote thirty-seven plays, 154 sonnets, and five long narrative poems, including "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", "The Passionate Pilgrim", "The Phoenix and the Turtle", and "A Lover's Complaint"

5.      Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero ?

(A)  Tamburlaine Part I      (B)  Dr. Faustus   (C)  Jew of Malta      (D) Edward II

Tamburlaine The Great, hence-forward Tamburlaine, which presented an outstanding achievements of a man who trusted his power, was the most solid and flawless of Christopher Marlowe’s drama: “more consistent in quality than Dido or Faustus, more whole and substantial than The Jew of Malta, and more vigorous in imagination and sustaining power than Edward II”.23 

6.      Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler ?

(A)  Religio Laici

(B)  David Simple

(C)  Hudibras

(D)  Journal of the Plague Year

•   Hudibras, satiric poem by Samuel Butler, published in several parts beginning in 1663. The immediate success of the first part resulted in a spurious second part’s appearing within the year; the
• authentic second part was published in 1664. The two parts, plus “The Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophel,” were reprinted together in 1674. In 1678 a third (and last) part was published. The work is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy Butler saw in militant Puritanism.

7.      Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets?

(A)  IL Penseroso

(B)  “On His Blindness”

(C)  “On     the     Late     Massacre        in Piedmont”

(D)  Lycidas

IL Penseroso ( a tetrameter line containing eight syllables and usually consisting of iambic and trochaic feet.)

8.      Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve?

(A)  The way of the World

Bharanisri 

(B)  The Old Bachelor

(C)  Love for Love

(D)  The Relapse\

• The Old Bachelor (1693)
• The Double Dealer (1694)                        
• Love for Love (1695)
• The Mourning Bride (1697)
• The Way of the World (1700

9.      Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of:

(A)  Philaster

(B)  Romeo and Juliet

(C)  Antony and Cleopatra

(D)  Edward II  

    All For Love is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.

10.  Which of the following books proposes a political theory?

(A)  Principia          (B) Leviathan

(C)  Anatomy of Melancholy

(D)  Liberty of Prophesying

• “Leviathan” or, as it was originally titled: “Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil,” is 1651 by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The title derives from the Biblical Leviathan, a chaotic sea-monster.The book is a treatise on the idea of a structure of society that derives from the power of a sovereign without the influence of God. Although Hobbes was a Christian, he argued that a citizen of a commonwealth should not have to divide their loyalties between their king and their God and this is where the problems of society stemmed from. This work, seen today as one of the earliest examples of social contract theory, discusses the moral need to engage in actions that are thought of as “good” as opposed to “evil.”Because of the religious nature of the time in which it was written, Leviathan was heavily disputed and panned by critics. However, Hobbes expected this outcome and even intended it. He felt that this controversy could possibly put an end to a war. Leviathan is now considered as one of the greatest masterpieces of the  17th-century philosophy.

11.  Which of the following books is written by a woman ?

(A)  A  Vindication  of  the  Rights  of Women

(B)  Social Contract

(C)  A Treatise of Human Nature

(D)  The Wealth of Nations

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,

12.  Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory?

(A)  The Battle of the Books

(B)  A Modest Proposal

(C)  Gulliver’s Travels

(D)  A Tale of a Tub

13.  Which of the following is a “Visionary” work by William Blake?

(A)  The Song of Los

(B)  Songs of Experience

(C)  Poetical Sketches

(D)  The  Vision  of  the  Daughters  of Albion

14.  Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of:

(A)  Lord Petrie

(B)  Theobald

(C)  Lord Bolingbroke

(D)  Lord Harvey

15.  Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal?

(A)  London

(B)  Vanity of Human Wishes

(C)  The Life of Savage

(D)  Rasselas

16.  The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in:

(A) 1798    (B)       1806

(C) 1850    (D)       1860

17.  “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by:

(A)  Shelley (B)       Wordsworth

(C) Keats   (D)        Byron

18.  “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs in:

(A)  “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

(B)  “Ode to Autumn”

(C)  “Ode to Psyche”

(D)  “Endymion”

19.  Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel?

(A)  Pride and Prejudice

(B)  Emma

(C)  Sense and Sensibility

(D)  Northanger Abbey

20.  Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power”?

(A)  Coleridge

(B)  De Quincey

(C)  Hazlitt

(D)  Lamb

21.  Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensitive to the conflict between the old and the new?

(A)  Tennyson

(B)  Rossetti

(C)  Browning

(D)  Swinburne

22.  Under the Greenwood Tree is written by:

(A)  Mrs. Gaskell

(B)  George Eliot

(C)  Thomas Hardy

(D)  Emily Bronte

23.  The Office of Circumlocution occurs in:

(A)  David Copperfield

(B)  Bleak House

(C)  Little Dorrit

(D)  Hard Times

24.  The novel Mary Barton is written by:

(A)  Mrs. Gaskell

(B)  George Eliot

(C)  Emily Bronte

(D)  Dickens

25.  The line”Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in:

(A)  Culture and Anarchy

(B)  Modern Painters

(C)  The Study of Poetry

(D)  Sartor Resartus

26.  Martha Quest was written by:

(A)  Jean Rhys

(B)  Doris Lessing

(C)  Iris Murdoch

(D)  Nadine Gordimer

27.  The term “Stream of Consciousness” was taken from the book:

(A)    The Human Mind

(B)  The Principles of Psychology

(C)    The Mind of Man

(D)  Modes of Human Behaviour

28.  G.S. Fraser’s The Golden Bough focusses on:

(A)  Images             (B) Metaphors

(C) Symbols          (D) Archetypes

29.  Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of:

(A)  Willy Loman    (B)       Estragon

(C) Vladimir          (D)       Lucky

30.  The character Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the novel:

(A)  The Sound and the Fury

(B)  Ulysses

(C)  To the Lighthouse

(D)  The Europeans

31.  Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?

(A)  Cyril Dabydeen

(B)  Michael Ondaatje

(C)  Arnold H. Itwaru

(D)  M.G. Vassanji

32.  Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in:

(A)  Les Murray

(B)  Gwen Harwood

(C)  Judith Wright

(D)  A.D. Hope

33.  Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for:

(A)  Canadian   identity   in   Canadian literature

(B)  Canadian nationalism

(C)  The future of Canadian literature

(D)  The past of Canadian literature

34.  V.S. Naipaul’s latest book is:

(A)  The Mystic Masseur

(B)  A Bend in the River

(C)  Among the Believers

(D)  Half a Life

35.  Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as a starting point ?

(A)  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

(B)  The Moor’s Last Sigh

(C)  Shame

(D)  Grimus

36.  Who’s  Afraid  of  Virginia  Woolf  is written by:

(A)  Arthur Miller

(B)  Engene O Neil

(C)  Edward Albee

(D)  Tennessee Williams

37.  Imamu Amiri Baraka is:

(A)  A Carribean writer

(B)      An American writer

(C)  An Arab writer

(D)    A Sri Lankan writer

38.  The Miscellany was published from:

(A)  Sahitya Akademi

(B)  The Writers Workshop

(C)  PEN

(D)  Dhwanyalok

39.  Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community?

(A)  Derek Walcott

(B)  Wole Soyinka

(C)  Chinna Achebe

(D)  Okot

40.  Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks?

(A)  Margaret Drabble

(B)  Nadine Gordimer

(C)  Muriel Spark    (D) Jean Rhys

41.  New Criticism considers text as a:

(A)  Cultural construct

(B)  Historical construct

(C)  Linguistic construct

(D)  Autotelic

42.  Mythologies was written by:

(A)  Roland Barthes

(B)  Jacques Derrida

(C)  Homi K. Bhabha

(D)  Ernest Dowson

43.  The word “Catharsis” signifies:

(A)  Pontification

(B)  Personification

(C)  Purgation

(D)  Publication

44.  The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of:

(A)  Deconstruction

(B)  New Historicism

(C)  Structuralism

(D)  Postcolonial criticism

45.  Eliot’s theory of “objective correlative” appeared in his essay entitled:

(A)  Three voices of Poetry

(B)  Tradition     and   the   Individual Talent

(C)  The Metaphysical Poets

(D)    Hamlet

46.  Sprung Rhythm is an example of:

(A)  Verse   (B)       Syllable

(C) Stress   (D)      Meter

47.  “More is thy due than more than all can pay” is an example of:

(A)  Weak - ending    (B) Inversion

(C)  Alexandrine

(D)  Extra Syllable

48.  Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called:

(A)  Rhyme royal

(B)  Run-on-lines

(C)  Blank verse

(D)  Spenserian stanza

49.  Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are known as:

(A)  The epic           (B)       The ballad

(C)  The ode

(D)  The metrical romances

50.  “He is a citizen of no mean city” is an example of:

(A)  Periphrasis       (B) Tautology

(C) Prolepsis          (D) Litotes