UGC-NET Paper-I English (VIII) Set-8

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1.

In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two
locations. They are :
(a) Bath
(b) Bristol
(c) Leeds
(d) London
The right combination according to the code is :

1(a) and (b)
2(b) and (c)
3(a) and (d)
4(b) and (d)

2.

Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway?

1“If music be the food of love, play on”.
2“Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages”.
3“Those are pearls that were his eyes”.
4“There is a tide in the affairs of man”.

3.

Identify the important theatres of the Elizabethan period :
(a) Peacock
(b) Globe
(c) Swan
(d) Grand
The right combination according to the code is :

1(a) and (b)
2(b) and (c)
3(b) and (d)
4(a) and (d)

4.

In which poem does Matthew Arnold express the dilemma of: “Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born”?

1“Self - Dependence”
2“Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”
3“To a Republican Friend”
4“Dover Beach”

5.

Who made the comment that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn” ?

1Henry James
2William Faulkner
3Jack London
4Ernest Hemingway

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