English (Paper 2) Quiz for UGC NET June 2020 Exam

Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned merchant-sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island?

Match the characters with the novels:

(a) Arthur Seaton (i) Top Girls

(b) Marlene (ii) The Golden

Notebook

(c) Anna Wulf (iii) The Swimming

Pool Library

(d) Beckwith (iv) Saturday Night

and Sunday

Morning

In the mechanical drill method of second language acquisition:

(a) The learner has the freedom to choose from many responses.

(b) The learner’s response is totally controlled.

(c) Comprehension of the item by the learner is not required.

(d) Comprehension of the item by the learner is obligatory.

The right combination according to the code is:

Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called __________.

In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they?