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Alexander Pope Previous Year UGC-NET English

1. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.” The above lines are quoted from
  • (A)MacFlecknoe
  • (B)The Rape of the Lock
  • (C)Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
  • (D)Absalom and Achitophel
2. “First follow ____________ and your judgement frame. By her just __________, which is still the same.” Supply the appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
“First follow ____________ and your judgement frame.
By her just __________, which is still the same.”
  • (A)wit, law
  • (B)reason, rule
  • (C)nature, standard
  • (D)sense, criterion
3. The main idea of Pope’s The Dunciad was taken from:
  • (A)Absalom and Achitophel
  • (B)Mac-Flecknoe
  • (C)The Medal
  • (D)An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
4. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus?
  • (A)Lady Wortley Montague
  • (B)Joseph Addison
  • (C)Lord Shaftsbury
  • (D)Lord Harvey
5. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
  • (A)three cantos
  • (B)four cantos
  • (C)five cantos
  • (D)two cantos
6. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
  • (A)Luck
  • (B)Shock
  • (C)Pluck
  • (D)Muck
7. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
  • (A)The sun
  • (B)The moon
  • (C)The North Star
  • (D)The rose
8. Sir Plume is a character in ____
  • (A)Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
  • (B)Congreve’s The Way of the World
  • (C)Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
  • (D)Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem
9. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
  • (A)A mock heroic poem
  • (B)Written in heroic couplets
  • (C)Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
  • (D)Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
10. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary individuals:
  • (A)Addison and Lord Hervey
  • (B)Dryden and Rochester
  • (C)Swift and Steele
  • (D)Smollett and Defoe
11. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
  • (A)Pope’s father
  • (B)Pope himself
  • (C)Dr. Arbuthnot
  • (D)The Duke of Marlborough
12. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece nine years'” – which enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring to?
  • (A)Longinus’s in On the Sublime
  • (B)Horace’s in Ars Poetica
  • (C)Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
  • (D)Aristotle’s Poetics
13. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
  • (A)Belinda
  • (B)Clarissa
  • (C)Betty
  • (D)Thalestris
14. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
  • (A)It is given back to its rightful owner.
  • (B)It is preserved in a monument.
  • (C)It turns into a star.
  • (D)It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.

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