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Jane Austen – Previous Year UGC-NET Questions
1. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel?
2. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel?
3. Pick out two Austen heroines from the following list who are right-minded but neglected in the beginning but gradually are acknowledged to be correct by characters who have previously looked down on them.
(a) Elizabeth Bennet
(b) Fanny Price
(c) Emma Woodhouse
(d) Anne Elliot
The right combination according to the code is:
4. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice most clearly shows the influence of:
5. Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on”?
6. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility?
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is:
7. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliot, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
8. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the ………….. romance.
9. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of:
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen’s age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code:
10. Who among this group of young male characters in Jane Austen’s novels is not sent to the University for Education?
11. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels?
12. Who among the following is NOT a character in Pride and Prejudice?
13. Which of the two novels of Jane Austen have the spa town of Bath as a primary location?
(a) Emma
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Northanger Abbey
(d) Persuasion
The right combination according to the code is:
14. Which one of the following novels of Jane Austen was abandoned unfinished?
15. Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by date of birth):
A. Anne Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Ann Radcliffe
D. Fanny Burney
E. Maria Edgeworth
