NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. June 2023 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

11. The author of The Golden Bough, a text that influnced Eliot's poetry and criticism substantially, is :

Correct Answer: (b) James George Frazer
Solution:

The Golden Bough, a text that influenced T.S. Eliot's poetry and criticism was written by James George Frazer. This book inspired much of the creative literature of the period.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

12. Which two of the following plays have been written by Edward Albee?

A. The Zoo Story
B. The Price
C. A Delicate Balance
D. Fences
E. Operation Sidewinder
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A & C
Solution:

Among the given options, The Zoo Story and A Delicate Balance was written by Edward Albee. The play The Zoo Story explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity etc. in a materialistic world.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

13. Who among the following has written the play Angles in America?

Correct Answer: (d) Tony Kushner
Solution:

Angels in America is a play by American playwright Tony Kushner. It received numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

14. Mention the year in which Political Shakespeare edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield was published.

Correct Answer: (d) 1985
Solution:

In 1985, Political Shakespeare was edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

15. Who among the following built the Red Lion in Stepney in 1567?

Correct Answer: (c) John Brayne
Solution:

The Red Lion is thought to have been built in 1567 by John Brayne. The Red Lion was an Elizabethan play house.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

16. Which three of the following plays were written by Sanskrit dramatist Bhasa?

A. Carudatta
B. Ratnavali
C. Urubhanga
D. Malavikagnimitram
E. Karnabharam
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A, Cand E
Solution:

Carudatta, Urubhanga and Karnabharam are written by Bhasa, one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

17. Match List I with List II

  LIST-I  LIST-II
 A. The Feast of Youth I. Meena Kandaswami
 B. "Hunger" II. P. Lal
 C. Writers' Workshop III. Harindranth Chatttopadhyaya
 D. Touch IV. Jayanta Mahapatra

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(1)
Solution:

The Feast of Youth was appeared in 1918 by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya who was the brother of Sarojini Naidu. The poem Hunager by Jayanta Mahapatra is based on prostitution which is the result of poverty, social and economic injustice; Professor Purushottam Lal founded writer's workshop in 1958 along with his ring leaders; and the poem Touch was composed by Meena Kandasami.
Hence, option (c) will by correct answer.

18. Which three of the following plays have been written by Nissim Ezekiel?

A. Savaksa
B. Marriage-Poem
C. Nalini
D. Mister Behram
E. Sleepwalkers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (d) B, C & E
Solution:

In 1969, at the writers workshop, Ezekiel published his three plays which includes Nalini Marriage-Poem and The Sleepwalkers is a one-act farce, satirizing the kind of Indians and the Americans who visit India. It explores the Indian's excessive fascination with American culture. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

19. From which novel of Charles Dickens are the following lines extracted?

"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her."

Correct Answer: (a) Great Expectations
Solution:

These given lines have been taken from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. This particular conversation is going on between Estella and Pip, in the closing paragraph of the novel.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

20. An Account of the Life Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major biography published by________.

Correct Answer: (c) Samuel Johnson
Solution:

An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major biography published by Dr. Samuel Johnson. The biography contains many details of Savage's account of his own life, including claims that he was the illegitimate child of a noble family that quickly disowned and abandoned him at birth.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.