Modern Poets Previous Year UGC-NET English Questions

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UGC-NET PYQs

1. For The Unfallen is a book of poems written by:

1)Ted Hughes
2)Sylvia Plath
3)Geoffrey Hill
4)A. E. Housman

2. Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] “Faces along the bar/cling to their average day.”

[B] “The awful daring of a moments surrender.”

[C] “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.”

[D] “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”

List II

[I] Wilfred Owen

[II] T.S. Eliot

[III] Allen Ginsberg

[IV] W.H. Auden

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

3. Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] Stephen Spender

[B] W.H. Auden

[C] John Masefield

[D] Edward Thomas

List II

[I] Cargoes

[II] Consider

[III] Adlestrop

[IV] The Pylons

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

4. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: According to W.H. Auden, The Importance of Being Earnest is the purest example in English literature of a ‘verbal opera’.
Statement II: Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a combined form make theatre performance possible.

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

1)Both statement I and statement II are true
2)Both statement I and statement II are false
3)Statement I is true but statement II is false
4)Statement I is false but statement II is true

5. Match List I with List II:

List I

A) Lions and Shadows

B) The Still Centre

C) Translation of Agamemnon

D) The Sea and the Mirror

List II

I W. H. Auden

II Louis MacNeice

III Stephen Spender

IV Christopher Isherwood

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

6. The following lines are from one of the poems of D. H. Lawrence. Identify the poem:

“And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate;
A pettiness.”

1)Bat
2)Snake
3)Mosquito
4)Cypresses

7. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following poems of Louis MacNeice were published:

A) “Sunday Morning”
B) “Bagpipe Music”
C) “Star-Gazer”
D) “Entirely”
E) “Prayer Before Birth”

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

8. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

(a) Wild Track
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal
(d) Jack Straw’s Castle

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

9. Which of the following works are written by John Dennis?

A) The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry
B) The Christian Hero
C) The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
D) The Conscious Lovers
E) An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare