UGC NET English Mock Test 5 Welcome to your UGC NET English Mock Test 5 1. Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” sums up the art of poetry as taught first by (A) Aristotle (B) Horace (C) Longinus (D) Plato None 2. In an interlude the emphasis on (A) seriousness (B) rough and puerile fun (C) morality (D) artistic values None 3. Swift’s tale of a tub is a satire on (A) Science and philosophy (B) Art and morality (C) Dogma and superstition (D) Fake morals and manners None None 3. Swift’s tale of a tub is a satire on (A) Science and philosophy (B) Art and morality (C) Dogma and superstition (D) Fake morals and manners None 4. the term masque which stand for a semi-dramatic courtly form of entertainment, had the element of (A) poetic drama and music (B) dance and song (C) lavish costume and stage effect (D) all the above None 5. dr. Johnson started (A) The postman (B) The spectator (C) The rambler (D) The Tatler None 6. Which literary genre means a short poem with a witty or ingenious turn of thought? (A) epigram (B) aphorism (C) fable (D) paradox None 7. Who among the following cautioned against the danger of popular liberty (A) Mary Wollstonecraft (B) Edmund Burke (C) Thomas Hobbes (D) John Locke None 8. ‘comic epic is a unique literary genre which comically employs in a prose work all the epic device such as- (A) invocation (B) epic-similes (C) solemnity of purpose (D) all the above None 9. Which famous American classic open with “call me Ishmael”? (A) Rip Van Winkle (B) The Scarlet Letter (C) The Grapes of wrath (D) Moby Dick None 10. Drama is a performance, usually of some pre-arrange text on scenario by actor for an audience and has its basis in and associated with (A) imitation through action of some form of conflict (B) rituals and ceremonies (C) music and dance (D) all the above None 11. Allen Ginsberg’s vision of America is ins-paired by (A) Walt Whitman (B) Robert frost (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (D) Edgar A. Poe None 12. Mream allegory is a type of medie-val ……….in the form of a dream. (A) pastoral comedy (B) verse-romance (C) heroic tragedy (D) sentimental tragedy None 13. Who among the following represent the Sri Lanka diaspora? (A) M.G. Vassanji (B) Cyril Debydeen (C) Michael Ondaatje (D) Arnold H. Itwaru None 14. Which term is used when the idealized passage of rural life express the purity of happiness, innocence, contentment and devotion? (A) Idyll (B) Erotic (C) Sadism (D) Rural epic None 15. Out of America s a film adaptation of a work by- (A) Alice Walker (B) Margaret Lawrence (C) Margaret Atwood (D) Alice Munro None 16. Dumb show is a short piece of a silent action which is included in a play to- (A) symbolize the significance of what is shortly going to take place (B)draw the attraction on some significant action (C) create concrete impression of an abstract theme (D) all of above None 17. The Empire writes Back was written by- (A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa Thinngo (B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen Slemon (C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua Achebe (D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths None 18. Comic relief is the comic diverting element in a serious tragic work especially a dramatic work, which (A) relieves the tension and heightens the impact of tragic scene (B) adds to the tension and heightens the impact of tragic scene (C) adds to the variety (D) counterpoints the tragic scene None 19. The Theatre of Cruelty is associated with- (A) Stanislavosky (B)Grotovsky (C) Antonin Artand (D) Eugino Barba None 20. Droll is a short dramatic piece generally an adaption which (A) is accompanied by music and dancing (B) creates comic or farcial effect (C) is usually produced at fairs and in taverns (D) all the above None Time's up