D.H. Lawrence - Previous Year UGC-NET

D.H. Lawrence – Previous Year UGC-NET English

1. The roman à clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary historical figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on _______.

(A)D.H. Lawrence
(B)E.M. Forster
(C)Wyndham Lewis
(D)Arnold Bennett

2. The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in:

(A)Women in Love
(B)Maurice
(C)Mrs. Dalloway
(D)The Old Wives’ Tales

3. Match the character with the work:

Characters:

(a) Rupert Birkin

(b) Lydia Lensky

(d) Richard Somers

Works:

(1) Sons and Lovers

(2) Kangaroo

(3) Women in Love

(4) The Rainbow

(A)(a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
(B)(a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
(C)(a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
(D)(a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(2), (d)-(3)

4. D.H. Lawrence’s 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?

(A)Egypt
(B)South Africa
(C)Mexico
(D)Peru

5. Gudrun is a character in a novel by:

(A)James Joyce
(B)Virginia Woolf
(C)D. H. Lawrence
(D)E. M. Forster

6. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A)Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World
(B)Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World
(C)Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World
(D)Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India

7. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel:

(A)Sets off in quest of life away from his mother
(B)Considers the option of committing suicide
(C)Joins his elder brother William in London
(D)Embraces a Schopenhauer-like nihilism

8. In Women in Love what is Winifred’s pekinese dog called?

(A)Bismarck
(B)Looloo
(C)Lucky
(D)Buddy

9. How does Women in Love open?

(A)Rupert Birkin, Lawrence’s alter ego, is taking a walk in the English countryside
(B)The Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, are “working and talking”
(C)The wedding party gathers at Shortlands, the Criches’s home
(D)The last lesson is in progress, “peaceful and still” in Ursula’s classroom

10. Identify the author in whose works the character Ashenden appears many times: