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

Total Questions: 100

51. Who among the following has written Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?

Correct Answer: (d) Edgar Allan Poe
Solution:

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1840.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

52. Who among the following are called Edwardian Novelists?

A. George Eliot
B. Arnold Bennett
C. H.G. Wells
D. Edward Morgan Forster
E. Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) B, C and D
Solution:

Among the given options, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells and Edward Morgan Forster are called Edwardian novelists. Edwardian era spanned the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910 and is sometimes extended to the start of the world war first. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

53. Match List I with List II

 LIST-I LIST-II
 A. Graham Greene I. Down and Out in Paris and London
 B. Daniel Defoe II. The Grass is Singing
 C. George Orwell III. A Journal of the Plague Year
 D. Doris Lessing  IV. A Sort of Life

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

A Sort of Life is the first volume of autobiography by Graham Greene, published in 1971; while A Journal of the Plague Year was written by Daniel Defoe. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933 and written by George Orwell.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

54. Which two of the following plays were written by Ben Jonson?

A. Flowers for Latin Speaking
B. The Devil is an Ass
C. Sapho and Phao
D. The Woman in the Moon
E. The Staple of News
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (c) B and E
Solution:

The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson published in 1631; while The Staple of News is an early Caroline era play, a satire by Ben Jonson. The Woman in the Moon is a comedy by John Lyly and Sapho and Phao is written by John Lyly. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

55. Which of the following works have been authored by Thomas Carlyle?

A. Chartism
B. Past and Present
C. The French Revolution
D. Suspiria de Profundis
E. The English Mail Coach
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, B and C
Solution:

Chartism was a long pamphlet by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1839. Past and Present is written by Carlyle and published in 1843; while The French Revolution is a three-volume narrative history by Thomas Carlyle, first published in 1837. It established Carlyle's reputation.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

56. Which among the following is true about corpus linguistics?

A. It is a collection of naturally occuring spoken and written texts.
B. It has ensured the supremacy of speech over writing.
C. It is about the teaching of linguistics at the school level.
D. It is a methodology that involves computer based empircal analysis of language use.
E. It is branch of linguistics that is purely based on Chomskyan linguistics. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A and D
Solution:

Corpus linguistics is a methodology that involves compute-based empirical analyses of language use by employing large electronically available collections of naturally occurring spoken and written texts. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

57. The 'Name of the Father' is a term made famous by________.

Correct Answer: (b) Jacques Lacan
Solution:

The Name of the Father is a term made famous by Jacques Lacan. According to Lacan, this term is closely bound up with the superego, the phallus, the symbolic order and the Oedipus Complex. It is defined as the laws and restrictions that control both our desire and the rules of communication. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

58. Some of the following are significant texts of Victorian Criticism. Identify them.

A. Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
B. From Rituals to Romance.
C. "Hamlet and His Problems"
D. "The Function of Criticism in the Present Time"
E. Modern Painters
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A, D, and E
Solution:

Studies in the History of the Renaissance, is a collected, edited sequence of essays by Walter Pater while The Function of Criticism in the Present Time is the significant text of Victorian Criticism by Matthew Arnold. Modern Painters is a five volume work by the Victorian art-critic John Ruskin.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

59. Name the play during the performance of which the Globe Theatre was burned down in 1613.

Correct Answer: (b) Henry VIII
Solution:

When there was the performance of Henry VIII going on, at that time the Globe Theatre was burned down in 1613, and the very next year it was rebuilt. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

60. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" names the following figures : "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" names the following figures :

A. Ezra Pound
B. Michelangelo
C. Valerie Eliot
D. Hamlet
E. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) B and D
Solution:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is a dramatic monologue. T. S. Eliot has borrowed many references and allusions from various sources. In this particular poetry, there is reference of Michelangelo and Hamlet.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.