UGC NET

1. “lf a large diamond is cut up into little bits, it will lose its value just as an army is divided up into small units of soldiers, it loses its strength.” The argument put above may be…

1. CSS stands for (A) Cascading Style Sheets (B) Collecting Style Sheets (C) Comparative Style Sheets (D) Comprehensive Style Sheets Answer: A 2. MOOC stands for (A) Media Online Open Course (B) Massachusetts Open Online Course (C) Massive…

1. Two of the following list are “Angry Young Men” of the 1950’s British literary scene. I. John Osborne II. C.P. Snow III. Anthony Powell IV. Kingsley Amis The right combination, accordingto the code (A) I & II…

1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines? (A) Syntactic (B) Semantic (C) Collocation (D) None of the above Answer: A,B 2. Match the items in List – I with…

1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience? (1) John Locke (2) John Wesley (3) Isaac Watts (4) Denis Diderot Answer: 1 2.…

1. Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study…

1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress? (1) He drowns in the River of Death (2) He enters the Celestial City (3) He finds the Truth (4) He discovers the way to Hell Answer:…

1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ? (1) Durham (2) Glasgow (3) Cambridge (4) Oxford Answer: 3 2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ? (1) John Marston (2) Thomas Middleton…

1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are : (a) Bath (b) Bristol (c) Leeds (d) London The right combination according to the code is : (1) (a)…

1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri 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…