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

The correct match of the novels with their authors is: (A)-III, (B)-I, (C)-IV, (D)-II.
• Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road by Nigerian author Ben Okri tells the story of Azaro, a spirit child.
• Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price (1976) focuses on the problems of women in postcolonial Nigeria. She dedicated this novel to her mother, Alice Ogbanje Emecheta.
• Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published in 2006 by 4th Estate in London, the novel tells the story of the Biafran war.
• The Lying Days (1953) is the debut novel of Nobel prize winner South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

The correct match of books with their authors is: (A)-II, (B)-IV, (C)-I, (D)-III.

The correct match of the writers with their books is: (A)-III, (B)-I, (C)-IV, (D)-II.

• Richard Wright's American Hunger (1977) is a autobiographical work which narrates Wright's experiences after moving to the North.
• Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008) deals with slavery in 17th century. • Barbara Chase Riboud's Sally Hemings (1979) is a story based on historical fact recreates the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Shally Hemings, who bore him seven children.
• Octavia E Butler's Kindred (1979) incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

The correct match of writers with their books is: (A)-II, (B)-IV, (C)-I, (D)-III.
• Madhukar Krishna Naik's (MK Naik) A History of Indian English Literature traces the course of Indian English timer, dividing it into convenient periods, in an analytical, critical and engaging style.
• Indian Writing in English: Critical Essays is written by David McCutchion.
• The Indian Contribution to English Literature is written by A.R. Srinivasa Iyengar.
• English in India : Its Present and Future is written by V.K. Gokak.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The correct sequence of the publication of the given poems is: D, B, C, A, E.
• John Dryden's Mac Flecknoe (1682) is a mock-heroic satire, a direct attack on anther prominent poet of the time Thomas Shadwell.
• John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (1687), a poem in three parts, is an allegory in heroic couplets.
• William Butler Yeats' The Wild Swan at Coole (1917) is a lyric poem which explores the theme of the fraility of human life through his speaker.
• W.B. Yeats' The Tower (1928) is a powerful poem that talks of his deteriorating physical health and his growing passion in political and personal matters.
• Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings (1964) is a collection of 32 poems which recounts the speaker's train journey from the east of England to London and his observations along the way.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The correct chronological order of the years of the birth of given writers is: B, C, D, A, Е.
• Edmund Spencer (1552/53-1599) is an English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in English Literature.
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) is an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet and patron of scholars and poets.
• After Shakespeare's sonnets, Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle. His notable works are Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella, and The Defence of Poesie.
• John Donne (1572-1631) is a leading English poet of the metaphysical poetry, notable for purity and effectiveness of his choice of words. His notable work is Easter Wings.
• George Herbert (1593-1633) is an English religious poet, a major metaphysical poet, notable for purity and effectiveness of his choice of words. His notable work is Easter Wings.
• Olives Goldsmith (1730-1714) is an Anglo Irish essayist, poet, novelist and dramatist. His notable works are the series to essays The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher (1762), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
Hence, the correct answer is option (b

The chronological order of the publication of the given works is: B, D, A, C, E.
• The chronological order of publication of the books is Thomas Babington Macaulay's In Essay on John Milton (1825), Robert Browning's first published poem Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833), Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island (The sea cook: A story of Boys), and Arnold Bennett's (novel) The Old Wives' Tale (1908).
Note: The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele, published in (1595). Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist, irony writer and dramatist. His comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appreciated.
• Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist. Her notable works are Emma (1815) Lady Susan, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Mansfield Park (1814).
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British novelist author and illustrator. His notable works are Vanity Fair (1847-48), and The History of Henry Esmond (1852).
• Richard Doddridge Blackmore (R.D. Blakemore) (1825-1900) was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century.
• James M. Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright born in 1860.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The chronological order of the writers in terms of the period they belong to is: D, C, А, B, Е.
• Francis Bacon is the first great English essayist, consider to be the father of English essays belongs to Jacobean period (1603-1625).
• John Dryden (1631-1700) belongs to Restoration period or the Age of Drydėn.
• Richard Steele (1672-1729) belongs to the Neo-Classical Age.
• Charles Lamb (1775-1834), prince of English essayists belongs to Romantic age. .
• Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) an English poet and cultural critic bełongs to English Victorian period.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).