NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2023 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

11. The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a novel exploring past and future. It has been written by:

Correct Answer: (b) Amitav Ghosh
Solution:

• The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a Novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh exploring past and future.
• The book, set in calcutta and New York City, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of mysterious turn of events.
Hence, the correct answer is option(b).

12. "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased."

Correct Answer: (b) Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
Solution:

Notes from the Underground or Letter from the Underworld is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch in 1864.
• The opening line of the novella is "I and a sick man--- -- I and a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased."
Hence, option (b) is correct answer.

13. Which of the following is true of Edward Said's Orientalism?

(A) It was published in 1979.
(B) Utilises the concept of discursive formulation as argued by Focault.
(C) He has taken up the detailed analysis of imaginative geography and representation of the Orient.
(D) It is one of the foundational texts of Postcolonial theory.
(E) It puts to use Barthes' concept of 'death of the author'.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) (B), (C) and (D) Only
Solution:

Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said is a Post-Colonial work where he has discussed the us, other man mentality. According to him "whites are white while rest are others". This was the work where occidents and Oriental terms are discussed. It is one of the foundational texts of postcolonial theory. Hence, option(d) is correct.

14. Math List-I with List-II.

   List-I (Term)   List-II (Definition)
 A. Ambivalence I Rejection of a normative concept of 'correct' or 'standard' English
 B. Magic Realism II Marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race
 C. Abrogation III Complex mix of attraction and repulsion
 D. Miscegenation IV Inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) (A)-(III) (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(I)
Solution:
  List-I (Term)  List-II (Definition)
  A.   Ambivalence III Complex mix of attraction and repulsion
 B. Magic   Realism IV Inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly
 C.   Abrogation   I Rejection of a normative concept of 'correct' or 'standard' English
 D.   Miscegenation II Marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race

Hence, the correct answer is option(d).

15. 'Panopticism' is a concept that refers to external spying. Who among the following coined this term?

Correct Answer: (b) Michel Foucault
Solution:

Panopticism is a concept given by French philosopher Michel Foucault in his 1975 work Discipline & punish: The Birth of the Prison.
• Foucault developed the Panopticism concept based on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon theory, which stated that designing central surveillance towers in prisons would enhance discipline in the corrective institutions.
• This theory refers to external spying.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

16. "An Introduction" by Kamla Das is:

Correct Answer: (c) A poem of resistance and protest
Solution:

• Kamla Das' An Introduction is her well known and acclaimed poem, published in 1965 in her first volume of poetry Summer in Calcutta.
• The poem explores her complex emotions regarding the system controlling her life and the lives of countless suffering women.
• In An Introduction, Das explodes powerful themes of feminism, equal rights, freedom, and marriage.
• This poem delves into women's inner self along with resistance and protest. Hence, the correct answer is option(c).

17. Which among the following statements are true about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights?

(A) This novel was published in 1847.
(B) Emily Bronte published this novel under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
(C) Lockwood and Catherine Linton are the main narrators of the story.
(D) The novel is unique for its abstention from authorial intrusion, unusual structure and narrative technique.
(E) Wuthering Heights was the third novel of Emily Bronte.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) (A), (B) and (D) Only
Solution:

• Emily Bronte's First and only novel Wuthering Heights (1847) published under her pen name Ellis Bell.
• This novel is unique for its abstention from authorial intrusion, unusual structure and narrative technique.
• Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean are the main narrators in Wuthering Heights. Hence, the correct code is (A), (B) and (D) only. So, the correct answer is option(c).

18. All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class......have had good, at least expensive education...." Where has Virginia Woolf explained it?

Correct Answer: (c) The Leaning Tower
Solution:

In Virginia Woolfs The Leaning Tower, she explained about educational and financial status of writers from Elizabethan period to 20" century and she quoted "All Writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class...... have had good, at least expensive education.."
Hence, the correct answer is option(c).

19. Which among the following poems has not been composed by P.B. Shelley?

Correct Answer: (d) When We Two Parted
Solution:

To Wordsworth (1816)* Mutability (1816)* and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)* are written by P.B. Shelly while When We Two Parted (1816) was written by Lord Byron.
• When We Two Parted describes the pain and disillusionment that follow a break-up between the speaker and his lover.
• In To Wordsworth, Shelley eulogizes the still -living Wordsworth to accuse the older poet of having betrayed his ideals.
Note- (*) Written in that particular year.
Hence, the correct answer is option(d).

20. Math List-I with List-II.

  List-I (Character)  List-II (Novel)
 A. Sethe I The Handmaid's Tale
 B. Okankwo II Beloved
 C. Offred  III Things Fall Apart
 D. Winston Smith  IV Nineteen Eighty Four

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
Solution:

• The correct match of List I with List- II would be (A)-II, (B)- III, (C)-I, (D)-IV.

   List-I (Character)   List-II (Novel)
 A Sethe II Beloved by Tony Morrison (1887)
 B Okonkwo III Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
 C Offred I The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
 D Winston Smith IV Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (1949)

Hence, the correct answer is option(a).