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

Total Questions: 100

31. Given below are two statements :

Statement I : Althusser's theory of "interpellation" implies the act of hailing like "Hey, you!" and thereby turning individuals into ideological, consenting subjects.
Statement II: Althusser's theory of interpellation is very much similar to the concept of Derrida's theory of Deconstruction.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (c) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false.
Solution:

Of the given two statements, statement (I) is true but statement (II) is not true. • Althusser's theory of "interpellation" implies the act of hailing like "Hey, You!" and thereby turning individuals into ideological, consenting subjects. • Althusser's theory of interpellation is not similar to the concept of Derrida's theory of Deconstruction.
• Althusser introduces the theory of interpellation in "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)".
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

32. Who does Achitophel represent in John Dryden's allegorical poem Absalom and Achitophel?

Correct Answer: (a) First Earl of Shaftesbury
Solution:

"Absalom and Achitophel" is a verse satire by English poet John Dryden, published in 1681 and written in heroic couplets, the poem is about Exclusion crisis.
• The chapters relate the story of King David's favourite Son Absalom and his false friend Achitophel, who persuades Absalom to revolt against his father.
• In this poem, Dryden assign each figure in the crisis a biblical name; e.g. Absalom is Monmouth, Achitophel is Shaftesburry and David is Charles II. Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

33. Who composed the poem "Address to a Steamvessel"?

Correct Answer: (b) Joanna Baillie
Solution:

• The poem "Address to a Stream-Vessel" is composed by Joanna Baillie.
• Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as plays on the passions and fugitive verses.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

34. According to Stuart Hall, which of these is generally accepted to be true of Cultural Studies as it was practiced at the University of Birmingham in the UK?

A. It sought to strengthen the barrier between high culture and low culture
B. It sought to privilege the study of the text at the cost of context
C. It could accommodate the study of the lives of working class people
D. It sought to promote readings based on social and political contexts
E. It was essentially apolitical
Choose the correct answer from the following options :

Correct Answer: (b) C and D
Solution:

• According to Stuart Hall, statement (c) and (d) are true of Cultural Studies as it was practiced at the University of Birmingham in the UK.
• Cultural Studies could accommodate the study of the lives of working class people.
• It sought to promote readings based on social and political contexts.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

35. Which of the following poems are written by the American poet, Robert Lowell?

A. "Anecdote of the Jar"
B. "Skunk Hour"
C. "Howl"
D. "Night Sweat"
E. "A Gift Outright"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) B and D
Solution:

• Poems "Shunk Hour" and "Night Sweat" are written by Robert Lowell. • "Anecdote of the Jar" is written by Wallace Steven; "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg; "The Gift Outright" by Robert Frost.
So, the correct combination is B & D.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

36. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their publication :

A. Tara
B. Mister Behram
C. Goa
D. Marriage-Poem
E. The Dumb Dancer
Choose the correct answer from the option below:

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

The correct chronological order of the publication of the given works is D, C, E, A, B.
(D) Marriage Poem (1959)
(C) Goa
(E) The Dumb Dancer (1992)
(A) Tara (1995)
(B) Mister Behram (1998)

37. Who among the following displays an influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays?

Correct Answer: (b) Girish Karnad
Solution:

• Girish Karnad displays an Influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays.
• Yakshgana is a dance-drama of South India, associated most strongly with the State of Karnataka.
• With roots in Sanskrit literature and theatre, Yakshagana emerged as a form of dance-drama in the 16th Century.
• "Hayavadana" is the perfect example in which Karnad used Yakshagana. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

38. Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticised speech in bourgeois society?

Correct Answer: (d) Roland Barthes
Solution:

• Roland Barthes enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticised speech in bourgeois society. Barthes contents that myth is the proper vehicle for the transformation of thinking.
• Barthes employs a broad understanding of the concept of "politics" to explain the "ideological inversion which defines this society."
• The "ideological inversion" happens when "bourgeoisie" or middle-class ideas appear to represent the ideas of the entire nation. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

39. Identify the two previous titles of the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" as Walt Whitman continued to revise it until it reached the present form in the "Sea-Drift" section of the 1881 edition.

A. "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"
B. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
C. "A Child's Reminiscence"
D. "The Wound-Dresser"
E. "A Word Out of the Sea"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) C and E
Solution:

• "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by American poet Walt Whitman is one of his most complex and successfully integrated poems.
• Originally titled "A Child's Reminiscence", the poem was first published in the "Saturday Press" on December 24, 1859.
• The poem was later included in the 1860 edition of "Leaves of Grass" under the title "A Word out of the Sea".
• "Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is found in he title section, "Sea Drift".
So, the titles mentioned in (c) & (e) are absolutely correct.
Hence, option (a) is correct answer.

40. Match List I with List II

  List-I    List-II
  A. Culture and Environment  2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  B. In Other Words : Essays in Cultural Politics   1. F. R. Leavis and D Thompson
  C. The Cultural Turn : Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998  3. Fredric Jameson
  D. The Uses of Literacy  4. Richard Hoggart

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Codes:

 A B C D A B  C D
 (a) 1 2 3 4 (b) 2 1 3 4
 (c) 4 2 3 1 (d) 3 1 2 4
Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:The correct match of the given "Books" with their "writers" is: A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4.
   List-I  List-II
 A. Culture and Environment  1. F. R. Leavis and D Thompson
 B. In Other Words : Essays in Cultural Politics  2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 C. The Cultural Turn : Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998  3. Fredric Jameson
 D. The Uses of Literacy  4. Richard Hoggart

Hence, the correct answer is option (b)