Brontë Sisters - Previous Year UGC-NET

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Brontë Sisters – Previous Year UGC-NET

1. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A)Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North and South – Villette
(B)Wuthering Heights – Villette – North and South – Adam Bede
(C)Villette – North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
(D)North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede – Villette

2. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill Magazine. Identify the author.

(A)Elizabeth Gaskell
(B)Charlotte Bronte
(C)Emily Bronte
(D)George Eliot

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration:

Texts and Inspirations:

(i) Coral Island

(ii) The Odyssey

(iii) The Mahabharata

(iv) Jane Eyre

(v) The Great Indian Novel

(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea

(vii) Omeros

(viii) Lord of the Flies

(A)(i) – (v), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (viii), (iv) – (vi)
(B)(iv) – (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) – (viii), (ii) – (v)
(C)(iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi), (i) – (vii), (ii) – (viii)
(D)(i) – (viii), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi)

4. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering?

(A)Wuthering Heights
(B)Jude the Obscure
(C)Mill on the Floss
(D)Hard Times

5. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when he visits Lowood School?

(A)Laziness
(B)Stealing
(C)Lying
(D)Spying

6. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married him” – occurs in:

(A)Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B)Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
(C)Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D)George Eliot’s Middlemarch

7. “I am not an angel …… and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” This is said by:

(A)Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss
(B)Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem
(C)Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel
(D)Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend

8. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?

(A)Blanche Ingram
(B)Mr. Brocklehurst
(C)St. John Rivers
(D)Eliza Reed

9. Match the character with the work:

Characters:

A. Pip

B. Casaubon

C. Becky Sharp

D. Heathcliff

Works:

I. Middlemarch

II. Great Expectations

III. Wuthering Heights

IV. Vanity Fair

The right combination according to the code is:

I II III IV

(1)B C D A
(2)D A C B
(3)B A D C
(4)C B A D

10. Which two of the following correctly describe the features of Wuthering Heights?

(a) Flashbacks and time shifts

(b) Oedipal obsessions

(d) Acute evocation of place

(A)(a) and (c)
(B)(b) and (d)
(C)(a) and (d)
(D)(c) and (d)

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