UGC-NET PYQs
1. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
A) Jane Eyre
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Middlemarch
D) The Return of the Native
E) The Newcomes
- 1)A, B, C, D, E
- 2)A, E, B, C, D
- 3)B, A, C, E, D
- 4)B, C, A, D, E
2. Adam in Adam Bede of George Eliot is a ______________
- 1)Mason
- 2)Teacher
- 3)Carpenter
- 4)Doctor
3. Match List I with List II
List I (Authors)
A) George Meredith
B) George Eliot
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) William Makepeace Thackeray
List II (Works)
I) The Virginians
II) Scenes of Clerical Life
III) Evan Harrington
IV) The Professor
- 1)A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
- 2)A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
- 3)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
- 4)A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
4. Who among the following are called Edwardian Novelists?
A) George Eliot
B) Arnold Bennett
C) H. G. Wells
D) Edward Morgan Forster
E) Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1)A, B and C
- 2)A, C and D
- 3)B, C and D
- 4)B, D and E
5. Which among the following is not a character from Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion?
- 1)Sir Walter Elliot
- 2)Lady Russell
- 3)Miss Crawford
- 4)Frederick Wentworth
6. In which novel of Jane Austen is Captain Frederick Wentworth a character?
- 1)Emma
- 2)Northanger Abbey
- 3)Mansfield Park
- 4)Persuasion
7. “I recognize that its heroine is a little prig and its hero a pompous ass, but I do not care.” About which novel of Jane Austen is this statement made by Somerset Maugham?
- 1)Pride and Prejudice
- 2)Northanger Abbey
- 3)Sense and Sensibility
- 4)Mansfield Park
8. Find the chronological order of the writers in terms of their years of birth:
A) Jane Austen
B) Henry Fielding
C) James M. Barrie
D) Richard Doddridge Blackmore
E) William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1)A, B, C, D, E
- 2)B, A, E, D, C
- 3)C, D, A, B, E
- 4)D, B, A, E, C
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