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
- In how many parts was George Eliot's Middlemarch first published?
- Kipling's story 'Mrs Bathurst' is set in:
- The term Erziehungsroman means:
- Which of the following works is NOT by William Cooper?
- Which of the following is by Joseph Conrad?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Poet List II: Work A. Edmund Spenser I. 'Whoso List to Hunt' B. Philip Sidney II. 'So Cruel Prison How Could Betide' C. Thomas Wyatt III. The Faerie Queene D. Henry Howard, Earl of Sur…
- Which among the following does not fall in the category of 'Revenge Tragedy'?
- Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare in chronological order: A. The Tempest B. Love's Labour's Lost C. Twelfth Night D. Much Ado About Nothing E. A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 'O, sir, content you; / I follow him to serve my turn upon him. / We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly followed.' These lines are spoken by:
- The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays appeared in:
- Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a:
- Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in chronological order of publication: A. The Advancement of Learning B. De Augmentis Scientiarum C. Novum Organum D. New Atlantis E. The History of the Reign of King Henry V…
- Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne's wife, who died in 1617?
- Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve's The Way of the World?
- Who is credited with ending the system of patronage with his 'Letter to Lord Chesterfield'?
- The short poem 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' appears in which eighteenth-century novel?
- Who among the following illustrated the works of Thomas Gray and Robert Blair?
- Arrange the following poems in chronological order of publication: A. 'The Tyger' B. 'The Solitary Reaper' C. Adonais D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner E. 'To Autumn'
- Which of the following poems uses terza rima?
- Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley?
- From the statements given below, what is true about the Gothic novel? A. It arose in fourteenth-century American literature. B. It often uses medieval architecture — castles, abbeys, crypts — as its setting. C. It is a…
- Which of the following is a dramatic monologue?
- Which of the following is the last novel of George Eliot?
- Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order: A. Women in Love B. The White Peacock C. Sons and Lovers D. The Rainbow E. The Trespasser
- Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group?
- Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in chronological order: A. 'Adam's Curse' B. 'Among School Children' C. 'The Second Coming' D. 'The Wild Swans at Coole' E. 'Under Ben Bulben'
- From which poem are these lines taken? 'Once more the storm is howling, and half hid / Under this cradle-hood and coverlid / My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle / But Gregory's wood and one bare hill…'
- Which of the following novelists did not employ the stream-of-consciousness technique?
- Which of the following is not correctly matched?
- Under whose presidency was PEN (the international association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists) founded by Mrs Dawson Scott in 1921?