British Literature – Previous Year Questions
441 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
Topic-wise mock tests
- Who wrote The House of Fame?
- In which year did Miles Coverdale publish his translation of the whole Bible, including the Old Testament?
- Sidney's Arcadia was influenced by:
- Match List I with List II: List I: Play List II: Approximate date A. Hamlet I. 1606 B. Macbeth II. 1599 C. Julius Caesar III. 1604 D. Othello IV. 1600
- Who attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham's (Lord Admiral's) company?
- Which playwright also translated Homer?
- Who wrote The Revenger's Tragedy?
- When was Middleton's Women Beware Women published?
- Which poem by P. B. Shelley is incomplete?
- Which of the following poems are pastoral elegies? A. Lycidas B. 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats' C. Adonais D. Thyrsis E. In Memoriam A. H. H.
- 'Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' These lines from 'Locksley Hall' reflect:
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. O. Henry I. 'The Last Suttee' B. Rudyard Kipling II. 'Beauty' C. Oscar Wilde III. 'At Verona' D. Ralph Waldo Emerson IV. 'Hard to Forget'
- Statement I: W. H. Auden called The Importance of Being Earnest perhaps the only pure 'verbal opera' in English. Statement II: Wilde understood the various arts that combine to make theatre possible.
- Which of the following statements about Harold Pinter are true? A. He was born in 1925. B. He was influenced by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd. C. The Caretaker and The Alchemist are his famous plays. D. Stanley…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Lines (paraphrased) List II: Poet A. Faces along the bar clinging to their average day I. Wilfred Owen B. 'The awful daring of a moment's surrender' II. T. S. Eliot C. 'Bent double, li…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Movement writer List II: Work A. Donald Davie I. 'Against Romanticism' B. Philip Larkin II. Hurry On Down C. Kingsley Amis III. The Shires D. John Wain IV. The North Ship
- Who wrote the lines asking whether poets should 'bicycle-pump the human heart / Or squash it flat', and concluding that love 'is apart from life'?
- Who wrote Under the Net (1954)?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Text List II: Year A. To the Lighthouse I. 1913 B. Sons and Lovers II. 1927 C. Finnegans Wake III. 1939 D. The Waste Land IV. 1922
- Which of the following novels portray Anglo-Irish relations in the twentieth century? A. Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September B. May Sinclair, The Divine Fire C. J. G. Farrell, Troubles D. J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Kri…
- In which of the following works is consumerism a major theme? A. Galsworthy, Loyalties B. Brecht, Saint Joan of the Stockyards C. Miller, Death of a Salesman D. Shaw, Candida E. Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Novel A. Malcolm Bradbury I. The Masters B. David Lodge II. Lucky Jim C. Kingsley Amis III. The History Man D. C. P. Snow IV. Changing Places
- Who among the following were Poets Laureate of England? A. Alfred Austin B. Robert Bridges C. Theodore Watts-Dunton D. Oscar Wilde
- Which of the following statements about the Tractarian (Oxford) Movement are true? A. It spread across the whole world. B. Its other leaders were John Henry Newman and R. H. Froude. C. It began with John Keble's sermon…
- Who attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D. G. Rossetti, in 'The Fleshly School of Poetry'?
- Who among the following does NOT belong to the 'Angry Young Men'?
- Who among the following has NOT received the Nobel Prize in Literature?
- Who says 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' in Hamlet?
- Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?
- Which of the following statements about Ben Jonson's dramatic legacy are true? A. Jonson's physiological view of character had no precedent. B. Following the moralities and interludes, Jonson gave his characters descrip…