Literary Movements, Awards, Magazines and Bibles Previous Year UGC-NET English Question

Literary Movements, Awards, Magazines and Bible PYQs

1. Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who contributed to the movement called “Kitchen Sink Drama”.

1)John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden
2)John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter and Shelagh Delaney
3)John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Antonin Artaud and John Arden
4)John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden

2. Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:

(a) The Imagist poets

(b) The Cavalier poets

(d) The Lake poets

1)(b), (d), (a), (c)
2)(b), (d), (c), (a)
3)(d), (a), (b), (c)
4)(d), (b), (a), (c)

3. With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?

(a) Neo-classic

(b) Symbolist

(d) Postmodernist

1)(a) and (d) only
2)(a) and (b) only
3)(b) and (c) only
4)(c) and (d) only

4. Who among the following coined the term ‘The movement’?

1)F.W. Bateson
2)F.R. Leavis
3)J.D. Scott
4)I.A. Richards

5. In Kannada literature, ‘vachana movement’ addressed

1)Progressive values
2)Vedic themes
3)Vedantic thoughts
4)Upanishadic ideas

6. Who among the following in the article “Fleshly school of poetry” attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

1)Robert Browning
2)William Holeman Hunt
3)Robert Buchanan
4)Christina Rossetti

7. Which writer does not belong to the angry young men movement?

1)John Osborne
2)Kingsley Amis
3)Seamus Heaney
4)Philip Larkin

8. Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?

[A] It was widespread across the world

[B] The other leaders of the movement were Paul Newman and R.H. Fronde

[C] The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833

[D] Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a class

[E] The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation

1)A, B and C only
2)A, C and E only
3)C, D and E only
4)B, C and D only

9. Match List I with List II (Four Humours):

List I (Bodily Fluid)

A) Blood

B) Yellow Bile

C) Phlegm

D) Black Bile

List II (Temperament)

I. Phlegmatic

II. Sanguine

III. Melancholy

IV. Choleric

1)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2)A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3)A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

10. Apart from Bertolt Brecht others who have influenced Epic theatre are:

1)Erwin Piscator and Antonin Artaud
2)Martin Esslin and Max Reinhardt
3)Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt
4)Constantin Stanislavski and Max Reinhardt

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11. The Movement poets included:

A) Donald Davie

B) Hilda Doolittle

C) Michael Longley

D) Philip Larkin

E) Derek Walcott

1)A and E
2)A and D
3)B and E
4)C and D

12. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?

1)Allen Ginsberg
2)Gregory Corso
3)Jack Kerouac
4)Rita Dove

13. Transcendental Club was a group of American intellectuals for philosophical discussions. Which text among the following is taken as a short treatise on Transcendentalism?

1)Emerson’s Nature
2)Thoreau’s Walden
3)Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
4)Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

14. Which one of these is not a literary journal/magazine?

1)The Egoist
2)The Criterion
3)The English Review
4)The Hundred and One Dalmatians

15. Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was not needed in the plays of the University Wits?

1)Splendid descriptions
2)Long swelling speeches
3)The handling of violent incidents and emotions
4)Lives of common figures

16. In Absurd Theatre, the characters often use disjointed, repetitive and clichéd speech to:

(A) Suggest that meaninglessness is also about a meaning

(B) Suggest the working of the subconscious

(D) Illustrate the illogical and purposelessness of human condition

(E) Defy the self-professed ‘modern’ notion of dignity and wisdom

1)(A) and (B) Only
2)(B) and (C) Only
3)(D) and (E) Only
4)(A) and (D) Only

17. Who among the following were poet laureates of England?

[A] Alfred Austin

[B] Robert Bridges

[C] Watts-Dunton

[D] Oscar Wilde

1)(A) and (C) only
2)(A) and (D) only
3)(B) and (C) and (D)
4)(A) (B) only

18. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?

1)Winston Churchill
2)T.S. Eliot
3)W.H. Auden
4)Madam Curie

19. Identify the film/films that were based on Booker winning novels:

[A] Life of Pi

[B] The Remains of the Day

[C] Milkman

[D] The Sellout

[E] The Inheritance of Loss

1)B and E only
2)A and B only
3)C and D only
4)B and D only

20. Who among these are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(a) Elton John

(b) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Bob Marley

1)(a) and (d) only
2)(a) and (b) only
3)(b) and (c) only
4)(c) and (d) only

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21. Joseph Addison was associated with which of the following?

A) The London Magazine

B) The Spectator

C) The Gentleman’s Magazine

D) The Tatler

E) The Rambler

1)A and D
2)B and D
3)C and E
4)D and E

22. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication:

(a) Longman’s Magazine

(b) Cornhill Magazine

(d) Bentley’s Miscellany

1)(b), (c), (a), (d)
2)(b), (c), (d), (a)
3)(c), (b), (a), (d)
4)(c), (d), (b), (a)

23. The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

1)I.A. Richards
2)F.R. Leavis
3)Cleanth Brooks
4)John Crowe Ransom

24. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Author)

(a) Robert Browning

(b) S.T. Coleridge

(d) Alfred Tennyson

(e) William Wordsworth

List-II (Works)

I. Queen Mary

II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

III. Remorse

IV. The Borderers

V. Strafford

1)(a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-III; (d)-V; (e)-I
2)(a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV
3)(a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-V; (e)-III
4)(a)-V; (b)-III; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

25. Emblems by Francis Quarles is:

1)A commentary on Homer’s Iliad
2)A commentary on a volume of biblical illustrations
3)A commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid
4)A commentary on Thomas More’s Utopia

26. In which year Miles Coverdale translated The Old Testament of the Bible?

1)1533
2)1534
3)1535
4)1536

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