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

Total Questions: 100

21. Thomas Hobbes's philosophical tract Leviathan was first published in________.

Correct Answer: (c) 1651
Solution:

Thomas Hobbes' philosophical tract Leviathan was first published in 1651. Its name was derived from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

22. Match List I with List II

  LIST-I LIST-II
 A. Writing Degree Zero I. 1957
 B. Mythologies II. 1953
 C. The Empire of Signs III. 1973
 D. The Pleasure of the Text IV. 1970

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The correct match will be:
Writing Degree Zero (1953) by Roland Barthes
Mythologies (1957) by Roland Barthes
The Empire of Signs (1970) by Roland Barthes
The Pleasure of the Text (1973) by Roland Barthes.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

23. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall has written the following:

A. "Encoding/decoding"
B."The Rediscovery of 'Ideology': Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies"
C. "The Raw and the Cooked"
D. "What is Digital Humanities?"
E. "Culture Industry"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A and B
Solution:

The cultural critic Stuart Hall has written Encoding/decoding. "The encoding process is organized through the operation of codes within the semantic chain of a discourse. Apart from these he wrote The Rediscovery of ideology: Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies. Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

24. Match List I with List II

  LIST-I  LIST-II
 A. Response to Stephen Gosson I. Aristotle
 B. The Individual Talent II. Matthew Arnold
 C. Catharsis III. T.S. Eliot
 D. Sweetness and Light  IV. Philip Sidney

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

Stephen Gosson, a playwright attacked on the English stage by writing The School of Abuse. Sidney replied him by writing An Apology for Poetry. The Individual Talent was given by T. S. Eliot in his essay Tradition and Individual Talent. The term Catharsis was given by Aristotle in Poetics and Sweetness and Light is related to Matthew Arnold.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

25. Who among the following is true about Religio Laici?

A. John Dryden wrote Religio Laici.
B. Religio Laici strongly criticized the Anglican Church.
C. Religio Laici means 'A Layman's Faith'
D. Religio Laici was published in 1690.
E. Religio Laici was a philosophico-religious prose treatise.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A and C
Solution:

Among the given options fact (A) and (C) are correct because Religio Laici is a poem in heroic couplet by John Dryden, it was given another name А Layman's faith.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

26. Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A) : Scholars working in the field of cultural studies maintain that 'culture' in cultural studies is neither aesthetic nor humanist in emphasis, but politica.
Reason (R): The implication of the above is that the object of study in cultural studies is 'high art' and the study of the exalted literary canon.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A is correct but R is not correct.
Solution:

In the given question, assertion is correct because scholars working in the field of cultural studies must maintain that culture, but the given reason is irrelevant while explaining the above fact. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

27. In which novel of Jane Austen is Captain Frederick Wentworth a character?

Correct Answer: (d) Persuasion
Solution:

Captain Frederick Wentworth is a character in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen. The theme of this novel is the idea of a second chance at love. Captain Frederick is the prototype of the new gentleman in the 19th century a self-made man who makes his fortune by hard work rather than inheritance. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

28. Some of the following terms are integral to New Criticism :

A. Tension
B. Mirror Stage
C. Irony
D. Polyphony
E. Paradox
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, C and E
Solution:

New Criticism was a Formalist Movement in literary theory. New Critics believed the structure and meaning of the text and it should not be analyzed separately. Tension, Irony and Paradox are integral part of New-Criticism. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

29. Adam in Adam Bede of George Eliot is a _______.

Correct Answer: (c) Carpenter
Solution:

Adam in Adam Bede of George Eliot is a carpenter. He is 26 years old at the beginning of the novel and bears an expression of large-hearted intelligence. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

30. Ted Hughes' Wodwo is

Correct Answer: (a) a volume named from the wild men of the woods of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Solution:

Ted Hughes' Wodwo is a volume named from the wild men of the woods of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It depicts an unusual, human-like creature considering his surrounding and purpose of life.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.