NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows :

Are you There? My father and I shove back the furniture to the four walls of the sitting room then lie on the carpet wearing blindfolds, his left hand holding my left hand. Are you there, Moriarty? he enquires, before tightening (I imagine) the grip on his rolled-up copy of yesterday's Times.

There is only one possible answer to that. I give it while rolling away to the side but still clasping his hand, still in range, and sure enough he manages a direct hit. Now it is my turn, but the moment I lift my weapon I realise there is no stillness, and the chill and stiffness of his fingers, he has been dead for a good while already. Andrew Motion

The poet and his father shove back furniture to

Correct Answer: (b) to play a game
Solution:

The poet and his father shove back the furniture to the four walls of the sitting room to play a game (Are you there, Moriarty).
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

92. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows:

Moriarty is the name of

Correct Answer: (c) a game played by two or more blindfolded persons
Solution:

Moriarty is the name of a game played by two or more blindfolded persons. • • Each player is blindfolded and given a rolled up newspaper (anything which is not likely to injure).
• Here, in the poem the two player in this game are the poet and his father. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

93. Which one of the following statements is truе?

Correct Answer: (a) The poet imagines that his father tightens his grip on the rolled-up copy of Times.
Solution:

Among the given statements, the first statement mentioned in option (a) is absolutely correct.
• The poet imagines that his father frightens his grip on the rolled-up copy of Times (News paper).
• The above statement is clearly mentioned in second stanza.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

94. The 'Weapon' mentioned in the first line of the fourth stanza of the poem is

Correct Answer: (b) a rolled-up newspaper.
Solution:

The 'weapon' mentioned in the first line of the fourth stanza of the poem is "a rolled-up newspaper".
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

95. In the last stanza of the poem,

Correct Answer: (a) the poet is sure of his father's death.
Solution:

In the last stanza of the poem, the poet is sure of his father's death.
• In the last stanza, the poet realized that there was no reason to continue. He could tell from his stillness and chill and stillness of his fingers. He was sure that his father is dead.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

96. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

In this sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds of writing all the way from Beowulf to Virginia woolf, than as a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing. It would not be easy to isolate, from all that has been variously called 'literature', some constant set of inherent features. In fact, it would be as impossible as trying to identify the single distinguishing feature which all games have in common. There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever. Any bit of writing may be read 'non-pragmatically', if that is what reading a text as literature means, just as any writing may be read 'poetically'.

If pore over the railway timetable not to discover a train connection but to stimulate in myself general reflections on the speed and complexity of modern existence, then I might be said to be reading it as literature. John M. Ellis has argued that the term 'literature' operates rather like the word 'weed': weeds are not particular kinds of plant, but just any kind of plant which for some reason or another a gardener does not want around. Perhaps 'literature' means something like the opposite: any kind of writing which for some reason or another somebody values highly. As the philosophers might say, 'literature' and 'weed' are functional rather than ontological terms : they tell us about what we do, not about the fixed being of things.

What is the implication of the statement : In this sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds by certain kinds of writing all the way from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, than as a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing"?

Correct Answer: (c) Literature has values that may be interpreted differently by different subject-positions.
Solution:

The implication of the given first line of the passage is literature has values that may be interpreted differently be different subject-positions.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

97. What is the implication of the phrase, 'there is no essence' of literature whatsoever" in the passage?

Correct Answer: (b) There is no central meaning in literary texts.
Solution:

In the given excerpt of the "Literary Theory" by "Terry Eagleton, The implication of the phrase "There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever" is "there is no central meaning in literary texts".
• Literary texts are interpreted and read in the situation and it's completely based on the reader. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

98. What is the meaning of the term "non-pragmatic" used in the passage?

Correct Answer: (d) Affective
Solution:

The meaning of the term "non pragmatic" in the passage means "affective". Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

99. What is the significance of the analogy drawn between "weed" and "literature" in the context of the passage?

Correct Answer: (c) They are considered expendable by deterministic systems.
Solution:

Analogy drawn between "weed" and "literature" in the context of the passage in " the context of the passage is "they are considered expendable by deterministic systems".
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

100. what is the meaning of the word "ontological"?

Correct Answer: (b) Dealing with the study of "being".
Solution:

Meaning of "ontological" is "related to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being".
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).