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UGC-CBSE – ENGLISH NET
PAPER - II– MODEL ANSWER KEY
22nd January 2017
BY ANIL S AWAD
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I am herewith posting/sharing the Answer Key 22nd January 2017 English Net Exam. This is Model Answer Key and Not Authentic key. I have tried my best to provide ideal model answers to all the 50 Questions in Paper II.  It is my great pleasure to inform you that most of the questions are either from my study notes or group discussion/parallel posting while online teaching. Before moving to the key, let me clear some points –

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1.   Identify from the following the work Nirad C Chaudhari called “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”
(1)        Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
ANSWER - UGC KEY ANWER - (3)Train to Pakistan
My Answer - (1) Kim


(YOU CAN CHALLENGE THIS QUESTION)

2.   Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny?
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3)        Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
ANSWER - (3) Alfred Lord Tennyson

3.   Who among the following theorists hold that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language?
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J L Austin
(3)        Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
ANSWER - (3) Roman Jakobson

4.   From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Snese and Sensibility?
I.            Elior
II.         Marianne
III.           Mary
IV.           Amanda
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) I and III
(2)       I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
ANSWER - (2) I and II

5.   Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman?
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3)        Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
ANSWER - (3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit



6.   Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication:
(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3)        The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MackFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
ANSWER – (3)  The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The Advancement of Learning – 1605 (Francis Bacon)
Paradise Lost – 1667 (John Milton)
MackFlecknoe – 1682 (John Dryden)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – 1689 (John Locke) 

7.   Poe’s ‘The Raven’ mourns the death of Poe’s
(1)        Lost Lenore
(2) Lost Abigail
(3) Pet animal
(4) Lost heritage
ANSWER - (1) Lost Lenore

8.   In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was ‘untimely ripped’ from his mother’s womb?
(1) Macbeth
(2)        Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcom
ANSWER - (2) Macduff

9.   Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
(1) Belinda
(2)        Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestirs
ANSWER – (2) Clarissa

10.               Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster:
I.                  A Woman Killed With Kindness
II.               The Revenger’s Tragedy
III.      The White Devil
IV.       The Duchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3)        III & IV
(4) I & III
ANSWER - (3) III & IV

A Woman Killed With Kindness –Thomas Heywood
The Revenger’s Tragedy – Thomas Middleton 

11.               Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis?
(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4)        An Imaginary Life
ANSWER - (4) An Imaginary Life

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12.               In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as good examples of English Poesy?
I.            The Mirror of Magistrates
II.         The Shepherd’s Calendar
III.           Lament for the Makers
IV.           Ballad of Scottish King
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3)        I and II
(4) II and III
ANSWER -  (3) I and II

See the extract from Defence of Poesy:
Chaucer, undoubtedly, did excellently in his Troilus and Cressida; of whom, truly, I know not whether to marvel more, either that he in that misty time could see so clearly, or that we in this clear age walk so stumblingly after him. Yet had he great wants, fit to be forgiven in so revered antiquity. I account the Mirror of Magistrates meetly furnished of beautiful parts; and in the Earl of Surrey’s lyrics many things tasting of a noble birth, and worthy of a noble mind. The Shepherd’s Calendar hath much poetry in his eclogues, indeed worthy the reading, if I be not deceived. That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it. Besides these, I do not remember to have seen but few (to speak boldly) printed, that have poetical sinews in them. For proof whereof, let but most of the verses be put in prose, and then ask the meaning, and it will be found that one verse did but beget another, without ordering at the first what should be at the last; which becomes a confused mass of words, with a tinkling sound of rime, barely accompanied with reason.

13.               Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “misfire”
(1)        Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E M Forster
(4) D H Lawrence
ANSWER - (1) Virginia Woolf
She quotes: ‘I finished Ulysses, & think it a misfire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.’

14.               Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection “Strange Surprising Adventures”?
(1) Moll Flanders
(2)        Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
ANSWER – (2) Robinson Crusoe 


15.               In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when he visits Lowood School?
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3)        Lying
(4) Spying
ANSWER - (3) Lying


16.               William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in its entirety?
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat?”
(2)        “My mother is a fish”
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with”
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam”
ANSWER - (2) “My mother is a fish”

17.               The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman, _____
(1) St. Agnes
(2)        St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
ANSWER - (2) St. Theresa

18.               “O, for a draught of vintage! That hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earh,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!”
The above description is an example of
(1) Paronomasia
(2)        Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Answer - (2) Synaesthesia
In literature, synaesthesia refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. These lines are taken from John Keats’ ‘Ode To A Nightingale’. The poem itself is an ideal example of synaesthesia. 

19.               The term, “poetic justice” to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3)        Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
ANSWER - (3) Thomas Rhymer
English drama critic Thomas Rymer coined the phrase in The Tragedies of the Last Age Considere'd (1678) to describe how a work should inspire proper moral behaviour in its audience by illustrating the triumph of good over evil.

20.               ____  is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3)        Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
ANSWER - (3) Miles Coverdale

21.               In The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading upwards and is addressed and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : ‘None can usurp this height…./But those to whom to miseries of the world / Are misery, and will not let them rest’ Who is the prophetess?
(1) Urania
(2)        Moneta
(3) Melete
(4) Mneme
ANSWER - (2) Moneta

22.               Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are named the following EXCEPT:
(1)        The Sky
(2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
(4) The Lighthouse
ANSWER – (1) The Sky

23.               Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it”?
(1) The Tree of Man
(2)        Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Answer – (2) Voss


24.               Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies?
(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy
(3)        Peter
(4) Jack
ANSWER - (3) Peter

25.               Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ;which included
I.            Holman Hunt
II.               Arthur Hugh Clough
III.           Gerald Manley Hopkins
IV.       John Millais
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2)        I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
ANSWER - (2) I and IV

26.               The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer?
I.                  Jealousy
II.         Envy
III.           Lust
IV.       Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3)        I and IV
(4) III and IV
ANSWER - (3) I and IV

27.               Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in
(1) The real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents
(2)        An elementary letter-writing manual
(3) The general plight of English women
(4) The suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values
ANSWER - (2) An elementary letter-writing manual
Richardson began writing Pamela as a conduct book (educate the reader on social norms), but as he was writing, the series of letters turned into a story. He then decided to write in a different genre: the new form, the novel, which attempted to instruct through entertainment. In fact, most novels from the mid-18th century and well into the 19th, followed Richardson's lead and claimed legitimacy through the ability to teach as well as amuse.

28.               The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled
(1)        A Satire against Sedition
(2) A Satire against Tyranny
(3) A Satire against Greed
(4) A Satire against Apostasy
ANSWER - (1) A Satire against Sedition

29.                        Full fathom five thy father lies’ is an example of
(1) Assonance
(2)        Alliteration
(3) Apostrophe
(4) Enjambment
ANSWER - (2) Alliteration

30.               What is a trochee?
(1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses
(2)        A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable
(3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical
ANSWER - (2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable

For detail analysis of Metre and Foot, please visit my blog:


31.               Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms
I.                  Lyric
II.         Dramatic Monologue
III.      Ballad
IV.           Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is
(1)        II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
ANSWER – UGC KEY - (3) I and III

My Answer - (1) II and III

(Explanation - Definitely it is Dramatic Monologue. Dramatic Monologue is a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.And of course, John Keats himself mentions in the title - "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad) 

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32.               _____ narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority
(1) First person
(2)        Self-conscious
(3) Third Person
(4) Participant
ANSWER - (2) Self-conscious

33.               Who among the following modern writers is associated with the quote, “Only connect”?
(1) D H Lawrence
(2) Virginia Woolf
(3) James Joyce
(4)        E M Forster
ANSWER - (4) E M Forster

34.               Which of the following images does not figure in Auden’s “Musee dex Beaux Arts”?
(1) A boy falling out of the sky
(2) Children…skating on a pound at the edge of wood
(3)        Ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) The dogs go on with their doggy life
ANSWER - (3) Ranches of isolation and the busy griefs

Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

35.               Feste is a clown in
(1)        Twelfth Night
(2) As You Like It
(3) The Taming of the Shrew
(4) Much Audo About Nothing
ANSWER – (1) Twelfth Night

36.               Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play
(1) Enter a Free Man
(2)        The Real Inspector Hound
(3) Jumpers
(4) Night and Day
ANSWER - (2) The Real Inspector Hound

37.               Which of the following is not true of free verse?
(1) Characterised by short, regular lines
(2) No rhyme pattern
(3)        Written in iambic pentameter
(4) A dependence on the effective  and more intense use of pauses
ANSWER - (3) Written in iambic pentameter

38.               James Thomson’s long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all his life, began in the first instance as a poem entitle
(1)        Spring
(2) Summer
(3) Winter
(4) Autumn
ANSWER – UGC KEY ANSWER - (3) Winter
 My Answer - (1) Spring

(You can challenge the above question definitely - refer the site - https://archive.org/stream/seasonsbyjamest00thomgoog/seasonsbyjamest00thomgoog_djvu.txt)

39.               Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared posthumously. They are known as –
(1)        Mutability Cantos
(2) Friendship Cantos
(3) Justice Cantos
(4) Courtesy Cantos
ANSWER - (1) Mutability Cantos

40.               Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) Repeating mistakes
(2) Totalitarianism
(3) Deconstructionism
(4)        Historicism
ANSWER – (4) Historicism

41.               What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home Coming?
(1) Boxer
(2) Butcher
(3)        Pimp
(4) Cab driver
ANSWER - (3) Pimp

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42.               Which Byron poem begins with the following manner: “I want a hero: an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one”?
(1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(3)        Don Juan
(4) The Vision of Judgement
ANSWER - (3) Don Juan

43.               In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of
(1) William Morris
(2) William Holman Hunt
(3)        D G Rossetti
(4) James Collinson
ANSWER – (3) D G Rossetti

44.               In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-paper. What is the sub-title?
(1)        Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(2) Beauty in Distress
(3) Virtue Rewarded
(4) Love in Excess
ANSWER - (1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d

45.               In ‘Traditional and the Individual Talent’, T S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to
(1) The language of the poet
(2)        The mind of the poet
(3) The soul of the poet
(4) The life of the poet
ANSWER - (2) The mind of the poet
See the extract from – Traditional and Individual Talent’
The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

46.               Match the character with the work:
A. Pip                       I. Middlemarch
B.  Causaubon            II. Great Expectations
C.  Becky Sharp          III. Wuthering Heights
D. Heathcliff             IV. Vanity Fair
The right combination according to the code is:
I       II     III    IV
(1)     B       C       D       A
(2)     D       A       C       B
(3)    B      A      D      C
(4)     C       B       A       D
        ANSWER - (3)  B      A      D      C

47.               Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except
(1) Analytical criticism
(2) Literary history
(3) Personal biography
(4)        Socratic dialogue
ANSWER - (4) Socratic dialogue

48.               Which two works of J M Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions?
I.                  In the Heart of the Country
II.         Life and Times of Michael K
III.      Disgrace
IV.           Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is:
(1)        II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
ANSWER - (1) II and III

49.               Who among the following Greek Philosopher has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais”?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3)        Plato
(4) Aristotle
ANSWER - (3) Plato

50.               Match the author with the work:
A.   John Locke                 I. A short view of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stages
B.   William Dampier      II. Two Treatise on Government
C.   Jeremy Collier           III. A Short View of Tragedy
D.   Thomas Rhymer       IV. Voyages

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



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SHORT ANSWER KEY
1.    (1) Kim (Train to Pakistan) ? - Please refer above explanation
2 .    (3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
3.    (3) Roman Jakobson
4.    (2) I and II
5.    (3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
6.    (3)  The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
7.    (1) Lost Lenore
8.    (2) Macduff
9.    (2) Clarissa
10. III & IV
11. (4) An Imaginary Life
12. (3) I and II
13. (1) Virginia Woolf
14. (2) Robinson Crusoe
15. (3) Lying
16. (2) “My mother is a fish”
17. (2) St. Theresa
18. (2) Synaesthesia
19. (3) Thomas Rhymer
20. (3) Miles Coverdale
21. (2) Moneta
22. (1) The Sky
23. (2) Voss
24. (3) Peter
25. (2) I and IV
26. (3) I and IV
27. (2) An elementary letter-writing manual
28. (1) A Satire against Sedition
29. (2) Alliteration
30. (2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable
31.???Please refer above explanation
32. (2) Self-conscious
33. (4) E M Forster
34. (3) Ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
35. (1) Twelfth Night
36. (2) The Real Inspector Hound
37. (3) Written in iambic pentameter
38. (1) Spring - Please refer above explanation
39. (1) Mutability Cantos
40. (4) Historicism
41. (3) Pimp
42. (3) Don Juan
43. (3) D G Rossetti
44. (1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d
45. (2) The mind of the poet
46. (3) B A D C
47. (4) Socratic dialogue
48. (1) II and III
49. (3) Plato
50. (3) II  IV I III



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