Metaphysical Poets Previous Year UGC-NET Questions

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UGC-NET PYQs – 17th Century Literature

Matching Questions

1. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Book)

(a) Anniversaries

(b) The Temple

(c) The Rehearsal Transpros’d

(d) Pindarique Odes

List-II (Poet)

I. Abraham Cowley

II. John Donne

III. George Herbert

IV. Andrew Marvell

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

Metaphysical Poets

2. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” is written by:

A) John Donne
B) John Milton
C) Adrienne Rich
D) Sylvia Plath
E) Robert Frost

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

3. Who composed Lucasta: Posthume Poems, published posthumously?

1)George Herbert
2)Thomas Carew
3)Richard Lovelace
4)Sir John Suckling

Chronological Questions

4. Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth:

A) George Herbert
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Philip Sidney
D) John Donne
E) Oliver Goldsmith

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

Victorian Writers

5. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: “……. he who discovers no god whatever, how shall he discover heroes the visible temples of God” is a statement by Thomas Carlyle.
Statement II: “It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure” is a statement made by John Ruskin.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: