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
- To which boarding school does Mrs Reed send Jane Eyre?
- Who wrote the short play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets?
- In which story does the narrator watch the consumptive Mr Shaynor recreate Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in a trance?
- Which two of the following are interludes in Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga? A. To Let B. Indian Summer of a Forsyte C. Awakening D. In Chancery
- In which Poe story is the narrator haunted by a rival with the same name and an uncanny likeness?
- Which two of the following are Virginia Woolf's autobiographical essays? A. 'A Will to Word It' B. 'A Sketch of the Past' C. 'A Faint Hue of the Past' D. 'Am I a Snob?'
- Which Larkin poem ends 'Never such innocence again'?
- Which two of the following are Heaney's 'bog poems'? A. 'Personal Helicon' B. 'Punishment' C. 'The Early Purges' D. 'The Tollund Man'
- In Pinter's The Birthday Party, who suggests the party?
- Which of the following are plays by John Osborne? A. Look Back in Anger B. Loot C. Funeral Games D. Déjàvu
- What do Lucky's bags in Waiting for Godot contain?
- Which two novels belong to Joyce Cary's first trilogy? A. Aissa Saved B. To Be a Pilgrim C. Herself Surprised D. Charley Is My Darling
- Which of the following are non-fiction works by Peter Ackroyd? A. Escape from Earth B. The Great Fire of London C. The English Ghost D. English Music
- Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order: A. The London Magazine B. The Quarterly Review C. The Spectator (1828) D. The Edinburgh Review
- Which journal is devoted exclusively to theoretical concepts?
- Which of the following are feminist theoretical periodicals? A. Spectrum B. Signs C. Chrysalis D. Transition
- Arrange the following writers in order of birth: A. Oscar Wilde B. William Langland C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. John Dryden E. Alexander Pope
- Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is based on:
- To which mythological figure is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Doctor Faustus?
- Which oppositions are evoked in Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be'? A. Life and death B. Action and emotion C. Affirmation and confirmation D. Doing and abstaining from doing
- Which of the following characters show a scholar's studious abstraction? A. Shylock B. Hamlet C. Il Penseroso D. Mosca
- Which of the following is a set of metaphysical poets?
- Which rivers are mentioned in Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'? A. Ganges B. Thames C. Humber D. Jhelum
- In which book of Paradise Lost do Adam and Eve quarrel over dividing their labour?
- Arrange the following plays in chronological order: A. The Country Wife B. Cymbeline C. The Spanish Tragedy D. The Rivals
- Arrange the following plays in chronological order: A. All for Love B. Venice Preserv'd C. The School for Scandal D. The Country Wife
- What are the major themes of Congreve's The Way of the World?
- Who wrote Mazeppa, a narrative poem about a seventeenth-century Ukrainian leader?
- Who wrote 'A Fragment' (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. John Keats I. Alastor B. William Wordsworth II. Songs of Experience C. P. B. Shelley III. 'Comic' (sic) D. William Blake IV. The Excursion