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UGC-NET PYQs
1. Which among the following are the titles of the periodicals?
(A) Dickens’ Household Words
(B) S.T. Coleridge’s Friend
(C) Richard Steele’s Guardian
(D) Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
(E) Leigh Hunt’s Indicator
(B) S.T. Coleridge’s Friend
(C) Richard Steele’s Guardian
(D) Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
(E) Leigh Hunt’s Indicator
2. From which novel of Charles Dickens are the following lines extracted?
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
3. In a novel of Charles Dickens, a high spirited boy of 19 is left penniless along with his mother and sister Kate on the death of his father. Which of the following is the novel?
4. Which two cities are referred in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities?
5. What is the correct order of publication of the novels of Charles Dickens?
(A) Great Expectations
(B) Hard Times
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) David Copperfield
(E) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) Hard Times
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) David Copperfield
(E) A Tale of Two Cities
6. Which among the following are examples of the Kunstler roman?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
7. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations without altering the original title?
8. Read the following passage from Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son:
“The earth was made for Dombey and son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A.D had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey – and son.”
What is the ‘system’ of which Dombey and son were the centre?
9. The whole description in the Dombey and Son passage above is an example of: