UPDATE: Now, you can get these 4000+ questions in booklet/hardcopy format. Click here to know more.
Charles Dickens – Previous Year UGC-NET English
1. Match the imaginary location with its creator:
Authors & Locations:
1. Emily Bronte
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage
4. Charles Dickens
5. Wessex
6. Egdon Heath
7. Coketown
8. Charlotte Bronte
2. What is “Forster Collection”?
3. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
Assertion (A): Dickens’s novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’.
Reason (R): They are called so, because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
Reason (R): They are called so, because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
4. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code:
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times
3. Bleak House
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
6. Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is:
7. Match the columns:
Character:
I. Lady Dedlock
II. Lady Bertram
III. Lady Harriet
IV. Lady Jane
Novel:
1. Vanity Fair
2. Wives and Daughters
3. Mansfield Park
4. Bleak House
I II III IV
8. Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are aligned by readers. Match them appropriately:
Novels:
1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
Sources:
I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
1 2 3 4
9. Chapter III of Oliver Twist opens with a narratorial remark about Oliver being punished for “the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more.” What did Oliver ask for more?
10. Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens text.
11. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in:
12. Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
13. Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was acknowledging the quality of the work of which writer?
14. Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:
15. The Tale of Two Cities has:
16. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence:
17. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’:
18. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s:
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of:
20. Literary works such as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form?
21. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
22. Which novel opens thus: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show.”
23. Identify the character, a black-eyed dwarf who “constantly revealed a few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a panting dog”.
24. Nicholas Nickleby firmly established Charles Dickens as a dominant novelist of his time and the book as an unrivalled literary phenomenon. To celebrate the completion of the book, a painter noted that there had been nothing comparable to him since the days of Samuel Richardson. Identify the painter.
25. Considering the story of the novel, what does the title Dombey and Son stand for?
26. Match the character with the novel:
Character:
(a) Kate
(b) Florence
(c) Miss Havisham
(d) Agnes
Novel:
(i) Great Expectations
(ii) Nicholas Nickleby
(iii) David Copperfield
(iv) Dombey and Son
27. Which of the following fictional characters is in the right chronological order?
28. Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right chronological order?
29. Harold Skimpole is a character in:
