NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam December 2024 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

51. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

  LIST-I (Text)  LIST-II (Author)
 A. Nala and Damayanti I. Sri Aurobindo
 B. Jayadeva II. Vasudeva Rao
 C. The Viziers of Bassara  III. P.A. Krishnaswamy
 D. The Flute of Krishna IV. Harindranath

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The correct matches are-

 Literary Work Year  Author
 Nala and Damayanti 1920 Vasudeva Rao
 Jayadeva — Harindranath
 The Viziers of Bassora 1959 Sri Aurobindo
 The Flute of Krishna 1950 P.A. Krishnaswamy

So, the correct answer is option (b).

52. Identify the one who was not a 'New Critic':

Correct Answer: (d) Claude Levi-Strauss
Solution:

The New critics highlighted the importance of "close reading" as a method to connect with a text. focusing intently on the relationships between form and meaning. Notable figures among the New Critics consisted of Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Raisom, Cleanth Brooks, William Empson and F.R. Leavis.
Claude Levi-Strauss is best known as the founder of structural anthropology and for his theory of structuralism.
So, the correct answer is option (d).

53. Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication:

A. "The Tyger"
B. "The Solitary Reaper"
C. "Adonais"
D. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
E. "Ode to Autumn"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, D, B, E, C
Solution:

The Tyger poem was published in William Black's The Song of Experience (1794).
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a lyrical ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was published in Lyrical Ballads (1798).
• The Solitary Reaper is a lyrical poem by William Wordsworth, it was published in 1807.
• Ode to Autumn is a poem by one of the best English Romantic poets John Keats, it was published in 1820.
• Adonais is an elegy on the death of John Keats by Percey Besshey Shelley in 1821.
So, the correct answer is option (с).

54. The author of "The Politics of Translation" and translator of Mahashweta Devi's "Standayini" is:

Correct Answer: (c) Gayatri C. Spivak
Solution:

Gayatri chakravoty Spivak is the author of The Politics of Translation and she also translated Mahashweta Devi's Standayini into English. entitted Breast-giver.
So, the correct answer is option (c).

55. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

  LIST-I (Text)  LIST-II (Author)
 A. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian I. Dom Moraes
 B. My Son's Father II. A.S. Iyenger
 C. All through the Gandhian Era III. Sasthi Brata
 D. My God Died Young IV. Nirad C. chaudhary

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The correct matches will be-

       Literary Work  Year      Author
 Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951  Nirad C. Chaudhury 
 My Son's Father 1968   Dom Moraes
 All Through the Gandhian Era 2001  A.S. Iyengar
 My God Died Young 1968  Sasthi Brata

Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.

56. An ideal research paper should include:

A. A statement that establishes the problem or controversial issue that the paper intends to examine.
B. Background information to establish past theories and current ideas on the topic.
C. Summarizing and paraphrasing.
D. Glorification of the paper writer himself.
E. A thesis to establish one's position.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) A, B and E only
Solution:

An ideal research paper should include these particular statements:
• A statement that establishes the problem or controversial issue that the paper intends to examine.
• Background information to establish past theories and current ideas on the topic.
• A thesis to establish one's position.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

57. Which of the following novelists did not employ "Stream of consciousness" technique?

Correct Answer: (d) Graham Greene
Solution:

Graham Greene did not employ "Stream of consciousness" techniques and rest of all are employ the stream of consciousness techniques.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

58. Identify the statements which are true for Psychoanalytic Criticism.

A. The premises and procedures were established by Sigmund Freud.
B. Freud posited that artists are like neurotic patients.
C. Freud posited that 'Psychoanalysis" can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization.
D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
E. Freud proposed that literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) A, C and E only
Solution:

The true statement for psychoanalytic criticism are the premises and procedures were established by Sigmund Freud, Freud posited that psychoanalysis can be used to account for many developments and practices in the history of civilization, and Freud proposed that literature and other arts manifest the repressed subconscious and unconscious drives of the artist. Hence, option (d) is correct.

59. The first folio of Shakespeare's plays appeared in:

Correct Answer: (d) 1623
Solution:

The First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays was published in 1623, It was the first collected edition of his work. It contains 36 of Shakespeare's plays, including Macbeth, The Tempest, As You Like It and Julius Caesar. Pericles, Prince of Tyre was not included in the First Folio.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

60. The Grammar Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on:

Correct Answer: (b) Accuracy
Solution:

The Grammar Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on accuracy, focusing on learning grammar rules, translating between the native language and the largest language, and prioritizing reading and writing skills over speaking and listening abilities.
Hence, option (b) is correct.