UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose
UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose
Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose
1. Who is widely regarded as the father of the English personal essay, whose Essais influenced Francis Bacon? Michel de Montaigne.
2. Which English philosopher and statesman published the pioneering essay collection Essays in 1597? Francis Bacon.
3. What Baconian essay famously opens with the line 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer'? 'Of Truth'.
4. Who wrote the 17th-century prose masterpiece Religio Medici? Sir Thomas Browne.
5. Which Jacobean-era prose work by Robert Burton explores the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy? The Anatomy of Melancholy.
6. Who wrote the 1644 radical prose tract Areopagitica, defending freedom of speech and opposing licensing? John Milton.
7. What classical Greek text by Aristotle investigates the rhetoric of persuasion and public speaking? Rhetoric.
8. Who wrote the 18th-century periodical papers The Tatler and The Spectator alongside Richard Steele? Joseph Addison.
9. Which 18th-century essayist and lexicographer wrote the periodical The Rambler and The Idler? Samuel Johnson.
10. What monumental 1755 reference work did Samuel Johnson author, transforming English lexicography? A Dictionary of the English Language.
11. Who wrote the satirical and biting prose pamphlet A Modest Proposal (1729)? Jonathan Swift.
12. What Enlightenment thinker wrote the political and philosophical treatise Two Treatises of Government? John Locke.
13. Which French Enlightenment philosopher wrote the satirical philosophical tale Candide and numerous influential essays? Voltaire.
14. Who wrote the romantic autobiography and philosophical treatise Confessions? Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
15. What pioneering feminist prose work did Mary Wollstonecraft publish in 1792? A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
16. Who wrote the Romantic critical prose collection Biographia Literaria (1817)? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
17. Which English essayist wrote the nostalgic and intimate prose collection Essays of Elia? Charles Lamb.
18. Who authored the Romantic critical essay 'On the Murder' Considered as One of the Fine Arts'? Thomas De Quincey.
19. What autobiographical prose work by Thomas De Quincey details his addiction to opium? Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
20. Who wrote the Victorian cultural critique Culture and Anarchy (1869)? Matthew Arnold.
21. Which Victorian social thinker wrote Unto This Last, critiquing industrial capitalism and political economy? John Ruskin.
22. Who wrote the Victorian historical and philosophical prose work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History? Thomas Carlyle.
23. What American transcendentalist essayist wrote Self-Reliance and Nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24. Which American philosopher spent two years living simply at Walden Pond, recording his experiences in Walden (1854)? Henry David Thoreau.
25. What Thoreau political essay established the concept and practice of civil disobedience? Civil Disobedience.
26. Who wrote the late 19th-century aesthetic prose study The Renaissance (1873)? Walter Pater.
27. What famous concluding phrase to Walter Pater's The Renaissance advocates burning with 'a hard, gem-like flame'? 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
28. Who wrote the modernist feminist critical essay A Room of One's Own (1929)? Virginia Woolf.
29. Which Virginia Woolf essay addresses women's exclusion from educational institutions and literary histories? A Room of One's Own (1929)
30. Who wrote the 1946 political essay 'Politics and the English Language'? George Orwell.
31. What George Orwell autobiographical essay recounts his experiences as a police officer in Burma shooting an elephant? 'Shooting an Elephant'.
32. Which British philosopher and essayist co-authored Principia Mathematica and wrote widely read pacifist and cultural essays? Bertrand Russell.
33. Who wrote the 20th-century cultural criticism collection Mythologies (1957)? Roland Barthes.
34. What landmark post-colonial cultural critique did Edward Said publish in 1978? Orientalism.
35. Who wrote the post-colonial feminist essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
36. What American essayist and novelist wrote the civil rights-focused prose collection The Fire Next Time (1963)? James Baldwin.
37. Who wrote the influential feminist essay collection The Second Sex (translated into English in 1953)? Simone de Beauvoir.
38. Which American essayist and cultural critic wrote Notes of a Native Son? James Baldwin.
39. Who authored the acclaimed 20th-century essay collection The Death of the Moth? Virginia Woolf.
40. What term describes a prose composition of moderate length exploring a specific subject from a personal or analytical perspective? Essay.
41. Who wrote the essay 'Modest Proposal' critiquing British economic exploitation of Ireland? Jonathan Swift.
42. Which Roman statesman and philosopher wrote influential letters and moral essays like De Amicitia (On Friendship)? Cicero.
43. Who wrote the classical Roman collection of personal reflections and philosophical notes Meditations? Marcus Aurelius.
44. Which ancient Greek historian wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War? Thucydides.
45. Who wrote the foundational historical text The Histories, chronicling the Greco-Persian Wars? Herodotus.
46. What Renaissance prose treatise by Baldassare Castiglione outlines the ideal manners of a courtier? The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano).
47. Who wrote the Elizabethan prose work Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit? John Lyly.
48. What stylistic movement of Elizabethan prose, characterized by excessive balance, antithesis, and classical allusions, took its name from John Lyly's character? Euphuism.
49. Who wrote An Apology for Poetry (Defence of Poesy)? Sir Philip Sidney.
50. What 17th-century philosophical prose work by Thomas Hobbes argues for a strong social contract and absolute sovereignty? Leviathan.
51. Who wrote the Enlightenment economic treatise The Wealth of Nations (1776)? Adam Smith.
52. Which Scottish Enlightenment philosopher wrote A Treatise of Human Nature? David Hume.
53. Who authored the Enlightenment philosophical work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)? John Locke.
54. What 19th-century utilitarian treatise did John Stuart Mill publish in 1861? Utilitarianism.
55. Which John Stuart Mill essay argues for individual liberty and freedom of expression against societal conformity? On Liberty (1859).
56. Who wrote the pioneering 1869 feminist prose work The Subjection of Women? John Stuart Mill.
57. Which Victorian art critic and author wrote the multi-volume architectural study The Stones of Venice? John Ruskin.
58. What American philosopher and psychologist wrote Pragmatism (1907)? William James.
59. Who wrote the 20th-century American essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)? Joan Didion.
60. Which Joan Didion essay collection features reflections on the fragmentation of 1960s American counterculture? Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
61. Who wrote the autobiographical essay collection The White Album? Joan Didion.
62. What American writer and cultural critic wrote Notes on 'Camp' (1964)? Susan Sontag.
63. Which Susan Sontag collection defends interpretation and critiques modern aesthetic sensibilities? Against Interpretation (1966).
64. Who authored the influential post-war essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? Walter Benjamin.
65. What critical essay by Roland Barthes announced the symbolic removal of the author from textual interpretation? 'The Death of the Author' (1967).
66. Who wrote the foundational structuralist essay collection Mythologies, analyzing modern cultural signs? Roland Barthes.
67. Which post-colonial theorist wrote the essay collection The Location of Culture (1994)? Homi K. Bhabha.
68. Who wrote the 20th-century anti-colonial treatise The Wretched of the Earth (1961)? Frantz Fanon.
69. What Frantz Fanon text examines the psychological impact of racism and colonization on Black individuals? Black Skin, White Masks (1952).
70. Who wrote the 19th-century transcendentalist essay Walden? Henry David Thoreau.
71. What literary term describes a brief story used to illustrate a point within a non-fictional essay or speech? Anecdote.
72. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to the audience's emotions within persuasive prose? Pathos.
73. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to ethics, credibility, or character in argumentation? Ethos.
74. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to logic, reason, and structured evidence? Logos.
75. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson? James Boswell.
76. What biographical masterpiece did James Boswell publish in 1791? The Life of Samuel Johnson.
77. Who wrote the early 19th-century personal essay collection Table Talk? William Hazlitt.
78. Which Romantic essayist and critic wrote The Spirit of the Age (1825)? William Hazlitt.
79. Who wrote the Victorian autobiographical prose work Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)? John Henry Newman.
80. What Oxford Movement theological figure wrote The Idea of a University? John Henry Newman.
81. Who wrote the 20th-century dystopian critical essay collection Brave New World Revisited? Aldous Huxley.
82. Which Aldous Huxley essay collection explores mystical experiences and altered perception? The Doors of Perception (1954).
83. Who wrote the 1930 anti-war and political essay Civilisation and Its Discontents? Sigmund Freud.
84. What foundational psychoanalytic prose work by Sigmund Freud introduced the interpretation of dreams? The Interpretation of Dreams (1899).
85. Who wrote the 20th-century historical and sociological prose study Civilising Process? Norbert Elias.
86. What 20th-century structuralist anthropological work by Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionized non-fiction cultural analysis? Structural Anthropology (or Tristes Tropiques).
87. Who wrote the influential feminist manifesto and prose text The Dialectic of Sex (1970)? Shulamith Firestone.
88. What contemporary American essayist wrote The Empathic Civilization? Jeremy Rifkin
89. Which American essayist mastered the personal essay form and wrote 'Once More to the Lake'? E.B. White.
90. Who co-authored the children's classic Charlotte's Web and revised The Elements of Style? E.B. White.
91. What guide to writing style, originally written by William Strunk Jr., was famously revised and expanded by E.B. White? The Elements of Style.
92. Who wrote the 20th-century African American civil rights essay Stride Toward Freedom? Martin Luther King Jr.
93. What famous civil rights address delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 is a masterwork of persuasive prose? 'I Have a Dream'.
94. Who wrote the 19th-century American abolitionist autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)? Frederick Douglass.
95. What prominent African American abolitionist and women's rights activist delivered the famous 1851 speech 'Ain't I a Woman?' Sojourner Truth.
96. Who wrote the 18th-century slave narrative The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)? Olaudah Equiano.
97. What 20th-century feminist essay collection did Adrienne Rich write, exploring motherhood and patriarchal culture? Of Woman Born (1976).
98. Who wrote the postmodern essay collection The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), exploring media ecology and print culture? Marshall McLuhan.
99. What famous media theory catchphrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan in his non-fictional prose work Understanding Media (1964)? 'The medium is the message.'
100. Who wrote the 20th-century environmental prose classic Silent Spring (1962), launching the modern environmental movement? Rachel Carson.
Unit – IV: Non-Fictional Prose
1. Who is widely regarded as the father of the English personal essay, whose Essais influenced Francis Bacon? Michel de Montaigne.
2. Which English philosopher and statesman published the pioneering essay collection Essays in 1597? Francis Bacon.
3. What Baconian essay famously opens with the line 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer'? 'Of Truth'.
4. Who wrote the 17th-century prose masterpiece Religio Medici? Sir Thomas Browne.
5. Which Jacobean-era prose work by Robert Burton explores the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy? The Anatomy of Melancholy.
6. Who wrote the 1644 radical prose tract Areopagitica, defending freedom of speech and opposing licensing? John Milton.
7. What classical Greek text by Aristotle investigates the rhetoric of persuasion and public speaking? Rhetoric.
8. Who wrote the 18th-century periodical papers The Tatler and The Spectator alongside Richard Steele? Joseph Addison.
9. Which 18th-century essayist and lexicographer wrote the periodical The Rambler and The Idler? Samuel Johnson.
10. What monumental 1755 reference work did Samuel Johnson author, transforming English lexicography? A Dictionary of the English Language.
11. Who wrote the satirical and biting prose pamphlet A Modest Proposal (1729)? Jonathan Swift.
12. What Enlightenment thinker wrote the political and philosophical treatise Two Treatises of Government? John Locke.
13. Which French Enlightenment philosopher wrote the satirical philosophical tale Candide and numerous influential essays? Voltaire.
14. Who wrote the romantic autobiography and philosophical treatise Confessions? Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
15. What pioneering feminist prose work did Mary Wollstonecraft publish in 1792? A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
16. Who wrote the Romantic critical prose collection Biographia Literaria (1817)? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
17. Which English essayist wrote the nostalgic and intimate prose collection Essays of Elia? Charles Lamb.
18. Who authored the Romantic critical essay 'On the Murder' Considered as One of the Fine Arts'? Thomas De Quincey.
19. What autobiographical prose work by Thomas De Quincey details his addiction to opium? Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
20. Who wrote the Victorian cultural critique Culture and Anarchy (1869)? Matthew Arnold.
21. Which Victorian social thinker wrote Unto This Last, critiquing industrial capitalism and political economy? John Ruskin.
22. Who wrote the Victorian historical and philosophical prose work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History? Thomas Carlyle.
23. What American transcendentalist essayist wrote Self-Reliance and Nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24. Which American philosopher spent two years living simply at Walden Pond, recording his experiences in Walden (1854)? Henry David Thoreau.
25. What Thoreau political essay established the concept and practice of civil disobedience? Civil Disobedience.
26. Who wrote the late 19th-century aesthetic prose study The Renaissance (1873)? Walter Pater.
27. What famous concluding phrase to Walter Pater's The Renaissance advocates burning with 'a hard, gem-like flame'? 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
28. Who wrote the modernist feminist critical essay A Room of One's Own (1929)? Virginia Woolf.
29. Which Virginia Woolf essay addresses women's exclusion from educational institutions and literary histories? A Room of One's Own (1929)
30. Who wrote the 1946 political essay 'Politics and the English Language'? George Orwell.
31. What George Orwell autobiographical essay recounts his experiences as a police officer in Burma shooting an elephant? 'Shooting an Elephant'.
32. Which British philosopher and essayist co-authored Principia Mathematica and wrote widely read pacifist and cultural essays? Bertrand Russell.
33. Who wrote the 20th-century cultural criticism collection Mythologies (1957)? Roland Barthes.
34. What landmark post-colonial cultural critique did Edward Said publish in 1978? Orientalism.
35. Who wrote the post-colonial feminist essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
36. What American essayist and novelist wrote the civil rights-focused prose collection The Fire Next Time (1963)? James Baldwin.
37. Who wrote the influential feminist essay collection The Second Sex (translated into English in 1953)? Simone de Beauvoir.
38. Which American essayist and cultural critic wrote Notes of a Native Son? James Baldwin.
39. Who authored the acclaimed 20th-century essay collection The Death of the Moth? Virginia Woolf.
40. What term describes a prose composition of moderate length exploring a specific subject from a personal or analytical perspective? Essay.
41. Who wrote the essay 'Modest Proposal' critiquing British economic exploitation of Ireland? Jonathan Swift.
42. Which Roman statesman and philosopher wrote influential letters and moral essays like De Amicitia (On Friendship)? Cicero.
43. Who wrote the classical Roman collection of personal reflections and philosophical notes Meditations? Marcus Aurelius.
44. Which ancient Greek historian wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War? Thucydides.
45. Who wrote the foundational historical text The Histories, chronicling the Greco-Persian Wars? Herodotus.
46. What Renaissance prose treatise by Baldassare Castiglione outlines the ideal manners of a courtier? The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano).
47. Who wrote the Elizabethan prose work Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit? John Lyly.
48. What stylistic movement of Elizabethan prose, characterized by excessive balance, antithesis, and classical allusions, took its name from John Lyly's character? Euphuism.
49. Who wrote An Apology for Poetry (Defence of Poesy)? Sir Philip Sidney.
50. What 17th-century philosophical prose work by Thomas Hobbes argues for a strong social contract and absolute sovereignty? Leviathan.
51. Who wrote the Enlightenment economic treatise The Wealth of Nations (1776)? Adam Smith.
52. Which Scottish Enlightenment philosopher wrote A Treatise of Human Nature? David Hume.
53. Who authored the Enlightenment philosophical work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)? John Locke.
54. What 19th-century utilitarian treatise did John Stuart Mill publish in 1861? Utilitarianism.
55. Which John Stuart Mill essay argues for individual liberty and freedom of expression against societal conformity? On Liberty (1859).
56. Who wrote the pioneering 1869 feminist prose work The Subjection of Women? John Stuart Mill.
57. Which Victorian art critic and author wrote the multi-volume architectural study The Stones of Venice? John Ruskin.
58. What American philosopher and psychologist wrote Pragmatism (1907)? William James.
59. Who wrote the 20th-century American essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)? Joan Didion.
60. Which Joan Didion essay collection features reflections on the fragmentation of 1960s American counterculture? Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
61. Who wrote the autobiographical essay collection The White Album? Joan Didion.
62. What American writer and cultural critic wrote Notes on 'Camp' (1964)? Susan Sontag.
63. Which Susan Sontag collection defends interpretation and critiques modern aesthetic sensibilities? Against Interpretation (1966).
64. Who authored the influential post-war essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? Walter Benjamin.
65. What critical essay by Roland Barthes announced the symbolic removal of the author from textual interpretation? 'The Death of the Author' (1967).
66. Who wrote the foundational structuralist essay collection Mythologies, analyzing modern cultural signs? Roland Barthes.
67. Which post-colonial theorist wrote the essay collection The Location of Culture (1994)? Homi K. Bhabha.
68. Who wrote the 20th-century anti-colonial treatise The Wretched of the Earth (1961)? Frantz Fanon.
69. What Frantz Fanon text examines the psychological impact of racism and colonization on Black individuals? Black Skin, White Masks (1952).
70. Who wrote the 19th-century transcendentalist essay Walden? Henry David Thoreau.
71. What literary term describes a brief story used to illustrate a point within a non-fictional essay or speech? Anecdote.
72. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to the audience's emotions within persuasive prose? Pathos.
73. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to ethics, credibility, or character in argumentation? Ethos.
74. What rhetorical term refers to an appeal to logic, reason, and structured evidence? Logos.
75. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson? James Boswell.
76. What biographical masterpiece did James Boswell publish in 1791? The Life of Samuel Johnson.
77. Who wrote the early 19th-century personal essay collection Table Talk? William Hazlitt.
78. Which Romantic essayist and critic wrote The Spirit of the Age (1825)? William Hazlitt.
79. Who wrote the Victorian autobiographical prose work Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)? John Henry Newman.
80. What Oxford Movement theological figure wrote The Idea of a University? John Henry Newman.
81. Who wrote the 20th-century dystopian critical essay collection Brave New World Revisited? Aldous Huxley.
82. Which Aldous Huxley essay collection explores mystical experiences and altered perception? The Doors of Perception (1954).
83. Who wrote the 1930 anti-war and political essay Civilisation and Its Discontents? Sigmund Freud.
84. What foundational psychoanalytic prose work by Sigmund Freud introduced the interpretation of dreams? The Interpretation of Dreams (1899).
85. Who wrote the 20th-century historical and sociological prose study Civilising Process? Norbert Elias.
86. What 20th-century structuralist anthropological work by Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionized non-fiction cultural analysis? Structural Anthropology (or Tristes Tropiques).
87. Who wrote the influential feminist manifesto and prose text The Dialectic of Sex (1970)? Shulamith Firestone.
88. What contemporary American essayist wrote The Empathic Civilization? Jeremy Rifkin
89. Which American essayist mastered the personal essay form and wrote 'Once More to the Lake'? E.B. White.
90. Who co-authored the children's classic Charlotte's Web and revised The Elements of Style? E.B. White.
91. What guide to writing style, originally written by William Strunk Jr., was famously revised and expanded by E.B. White? The Elements of Style.
92. Who wrote the 20th-century African American civil rights essay Stride Toward Freedom? Martin Luther King Jr.
93. What famous civil rights address delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 is a masterwork of persuasive prose? 'I Have a Dream'.
94. Who wrote the 19th-century American abolitionist autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)? Frederick Douglass.
95. What prominent African American abolitionist and women's rights activist delivered the famous 1851 speech 'Ain't I a Woman?' Sojourner Truth.
96. Who wrote the 18th-century slave narrative The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)? Olaudah Equiano.
97. What 20th-century feminist essay collection did Adrienne Rich write, exploring motherhood and patriarchal culture? Of Woman Born (1976).
98. Who wrote the postmodern essay collection The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), exploring media ecology and print culture? Marshall McLuhan.
99. What famous media theory catchphrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan in his non-fictional prose work Understanding Media (1964)? 'The medium is the message.'
100. Who wrote the 20th-century environmental prose classic Silent Spring (1962), launching the modern environmental movement? Rachel Carson.