UGC NET/ JRF December 2005 Question Paper II: English

The University Grant Commission (UGC) conducts the National Eligibility Test (UGC NET/ JRF) for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship twice in the month of June and December. Here you find question papers from the English for the benefit of the aspirants. The question paper will help in the practice and thereby further the preparation procedure of the students.

1.Chaucer's The Knight's Tale is a high romance told in :
(A) rhyme royal  
(B) terza rima  
(C) heroic couplets
(D) verse libre
2.Marlowe's first original work was:
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus
(C) The lew of Malta
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the second
3.Marvell pays his homage to the Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in:
(A) "The Garden"
(B) "The Picture of r.c.
(C) "Bermudas"
(D) "Horatian ode upon Cromewells' Return From Ireland"
4.The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was written by :
(A) Sir Henry Wotton  
(B) John Bunyan
(C) Jeremy Taylor  
(D) Richard Baxter
5.Dr. Johnson's A Dictionary of the En~lish Lan~ua~e was published in :
(A) 1755  
(B) 1756  
(C) 1757  
(D) 1758

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