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

Total Questions: 100

61. Which of the following does Roland Barthes contend in "Form Work to Text"?

A. The work is a methodological field
B. The text must be understood as a computable object
C. The Text is plural
D. The work is never caught up in a process of filiations
E. The work is ordinarily the object of consumption
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) C and E
Solution:

• The points that are contended in "From Work to Text" are (c) and (e).
• The  Text is plural.
• The work is ordinarily the object of consumption. Barthes' argument is that literature can no more be studied as a work. It is a text. He differentiated between the work and Text on seven counts-Method, Genre, the Sign, the Plurality, Filiations, Reading and Pleasure.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

62. Match List I with List II

     List-I   List-II
 A. When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country round appeared like a continued garden, and the incased fields, which were generally forty foot square, resembled so many beds of flowers. 1. A Description of a city Shower
 B. There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast. 2. Gulliver's Travels
 C. Having to no purpose used all peaceable endeavors, the collected part of the semen, raised and inflamed, became adjust, converted to choler, turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain. 3. A Modest Proposal
 D. Sweeping from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the food. 4. A Tale of a Tub

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

 A B C D A B C D
 (a) 4 3 2 1 (b) 2 3 4 1
 (c) 1 2 3 4 (d) 3 1 2 1
Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:

• The appropriate match of List-I (excerpt from work) with List-II (work) is A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

63. Which among the following are correct?

A. Philip Roth - USA
B. Shirley Jackson - Australia
C. Henry James - Canada
D. Ruskin Bond - India
E. Ali Cobby Eekermann – Australia
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

• Of the given combinations of writers and their working country, option (c) A, D, and E is correct.
• Philip Roth (1933-2018)-American Novelist.
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) American Writer.
• Henry James (1843-1916) American British author.
• Ruskin Bond (1934) - Indian author
• Ali Cobby Eckermann - Australian Poet.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

64. Who was the writer of A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature?

Correct Answer: (c) E. F. Oaten
Solution:

"A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature : (The Le Bas Prize Essay for 1907") is a pioneering essay on the subject of Anglo-Indian Literature by Edward Farley Oaten, first published in 1908.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

65. Which famous English poet, at an early age announcing his admiration for D.H. Lawrence, excitedly wrote to his friend. "I have been reading Sons and Lovers and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing that book he'd still be England's greatest novelist"?

Correct Answer: (d) Philip Larkin
Solution:

• Philip Larkin, at an early age announced his admiration for D.H. Lawrence, excitedly wrote to his friend, "I have been reading "Sons and Lovers" and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing that book he'd still be England's greatest novelist".
• Philip Larkin (Pseudonym : Brunette Coleman) was an English poet, Novelist, and librarian, he was in his childhood when D.H. Lawrence was a prominent writer; He was influenced by D.H. Lawrence's works.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

66. Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication :

A. Judge the Obscure
B. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
D. A Pair of Blue Eyes
E. Far From the Madding Crowd
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

•  The chronological order of the given works of Thomas Hardy is: C, D, E, B and A.
•  Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872).
• A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873).
• Far From the Madding Crowd (1874).
• Tess of the D'urbervilles : A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891).
• Jude the Obscure (1895).
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

67. Name the author of Out on Stage : Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century.

Correct Answer: (a) A Sinfield
Solution:

• "Out on stage : Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century" (1999) is written by Alan Sinfield.
• This book tracks stage representations of Lesbians and gay man from Oscar Wilde to the present day.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

68. Which of the following plays may be considered as a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear?

Correct Answer: (d) Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi
Solution:

• Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" (1896) may be considered as a parody of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", and some parts of "Hamlet" and "King Lear".
• This French play was translated into English and published under a variety of titles.
• The title character, Pere Ubu, is a gluttonous, greedy, and cruel individual who slaughters the royal family of Poland in order to ascend the throne. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

69. Of which of the following was Charles Dickens the founding editor?

A. North and South
B. The New comes
C. Household Words
D. The Way We Live Now
E. All the Year Round
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) C and E
Solution:

• Charles Dickens was founding editor of "Household World" (1850,) and its successor "All the Year Round" (1959-70).
• He is generally considered the greatest of Victorian era.
• "A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, a Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations are some very popular works of Dickens.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

70. Which of the following two plays have been written by Arthur Miller?

A. They Too Arise
B. The Real Thing
C. Some Kind of Love Story
D. Tiny Alice
E. The Crying of Lot 49
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A and C
Solution:

•  Two plays of the given plays are, "They Too Arise" (1936), and "Some Kind of Love Story" (1983) written by Arthur Miller.
• "They Too Arise" was an early work of Miller.
• "Some Kind of Love Story" (1982) is a one act play by Miller.
• "The Real Thing" (1982) by Tom Stoppard.
•  "Tiny Alice" (1964) by Edward Albee
• "The Crying of Lot 49" (1965) by Thomas Pynchon
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).