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George Eliot – Previous Year UGC-NET Questions
1. Match the character with the work:
Character:
I. Count Fosco
II. Margaret
III. Lucy Snowe
IV. Maggie Tulliver
Work:
A. Villette
B. Adam Bede
C. The Woman in White
D. North and South
Codes: I II III IV
2. Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition?
3. “When Fred got into debt, it always seemed to him highly probable that something or other – he did not necessarily conceive what – would come to pass enabling him to pay in due time”. Why is Fred Vincy in debt in Middlemarch?
4. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel:
5. Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the question with the help of the code:
(i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
6. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic?
7. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel?
8. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman, …………..
9. _________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of scenes from the novel.
5 th right answer is c
Yes