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

Total Questions: 100

81. Match List I with List II

  List-I   List-II
 A. David Hume 1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
 B. Edward Gibbon 2. A Complete History of England
 C. William Godwin 3. Treatise on Human Nature
 D. Tobias Smollen  4. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

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

 A B C D
 (a) 3 1 4 2
 (b) 1 2 3 4 
 (c) 2 3 1 4
 (d) 4 1 2 3
Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:• The correct match of List I with II is A-3, B-1, С4, D-2.
  List-I  List-II
 A. David Hume 3. Treatise on Human Nature
 B. Edward Gibbon 1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
 C. William Godwin 4. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
 D. Tobias Smollen 2. A Complete History of England

Hence, the correct answer is option (a)

82. Given below are two statements :

Statement I : Unlike Plato, Aristotle considers that poetry at its best requires great skill, and also differentiates between good and bad poetry on clear and systematic aesthetic grounds.
Statement II : Aristotle accepts Plato's insight that the emotions are important to poetry, but rejects Plato's distrust of the emotions.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:

Correct Answer: (a) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Solution:

• Of the given two statement, statement I and II are absolutely correct.
• Unlike plato, Aristotle considers that poetry at its best requires great skill, and also differentiates between good and bad poetry on clear and systematic aesthetic grounds.
• Aristotic accepts plato's insight that the emotions are important to poetry, but rejects plato's distrust of the emotions.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

83. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A) : James Ellroy started writing crime fiction, commencing with Brown's Requiem (1981)
Reason (R) : James Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958. In the context of the statements above,
choose the most appropriate answer from among the options below:

Correct Answer: (b) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)
Solution:

• In the given assertion (A) and reason (R), both (A) & (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A).
• James Ellroy (1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist; in 1981, Ellroy published his first novel, "Brown's Requiem".
• At the age of 7, Ellroy Saw his mother naked and began to sexually fantasize about her.
• Ellroy stated that "I lived for naked glimpse : I hated her and lusted for her. •On June 22, 1958, when Ellroy was ten years old, his mother was raped and murdered.
• Ellroy later described her mother as "Sharp tongued and bad tampered, unable to keep steady job, alcoholic, and sexually promiscuous.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

84. Joseph Addison was associated with which of the following?

A. The London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Gentleman's Magazine
D. The Tatler
E. The Rambler
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) B and D
Solution:

• Joseph Addison was only associated with "The Spectator" and "The Tatler" of the given options.
• "The Spectator" was a periodical published in London by the essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison from March 1, 1711 to Dec. 6, 1712.
• "The Tatler" was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years.
•  Addison an Steele liquidated "The Tatler" in order to make a fresh stent with the similar Spectator, and the collected issues of The Tatler are usually published in the same volume as the collected Spectator.
• "The London Magazine" (1732) - Burhan Al-Chalabi.
• The Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1922)-Edward Cave.
• The Rambler (1750-52) - Samuel Johnson.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

85. Which influential cultural theorist stated the following regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies?

"What is important are the significant breaks - where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes."

Correct Answer: (b) Stuart Hall
Solution:

• Stuart Hall, Cultural theorist stated regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies "what is important are the significant breaks-where old lines of thought are disrupted, order constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and them."
• Stuart Henry MePhail Hall was a Jamaican born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.
• Hall along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as "British Cultural Studies" or the "Birmingham School of Cultural Studies".
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

86. Which of the following points are correct regarding the Direct Method of teaching English in a classroom scenario?

A. There is no interference of the mother tongue.
B. There is direct connection with the target language (English). Learners think in the target language and express in the target language.
C. The teaching learning process is carried out in English.
D. This method is useful in overcrowded classroom situation.
E. This method is basedon the principle of "Doing by Learning."
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, B, С
Solution:

• Statement A, B and C is correct regarding direct method of teaching English in a classroom. In direct method of teaching English teachers have to instruct in English only not in mother tongue or other languages.
• There is direct connection with the target language (English). Learners think in the target Language and express in the target language.
• The teaching learning process is carried out in English only.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

87. Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar, published in 1579, was dedicated to________.

Correct Answer: (c) Sidney
Solution:

• The Shepheardes Calendar was series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature.
• Spenser dedicated the poem to Philip Sidney.
• This poem consists 12 "Ecologies" (One for each month of the year)
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

88. In which year was Edmund Burke's Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful published?

Correct Answer: (d) 1757
Solution:

• Edmund Burke's "A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" (1757) Merged psychological and aesthetic questioning by hypothesizing that the spectator's or reader's delight in the sublime depended upon a sensation of pleasurable pain.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

89. Arrange in chronological order the publication of the following anthologies of poetry by Nissim Ezekiel:

A. The Exact Name
B. Latter-Day Psalms
C. Sixty Poems
D. The Unfinished Man
E. A Time to Change
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

•  The correct chronological order of the publication of the anthologies of poetry by Nissim Ezekiel is E, D, D, A and B.
•  A Time to change (1952 in London)
•  Sixty poems                           (1953)
•  The Unfinished Man           (1960)
• The Exact Name                   (1965)
• Latter-Day Psalms               (1982)
Hence, the correct answer's option (b).

90. Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?

Correct Answer: (b) Charles Darwin
Solution:

• The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) is a book by Charles Darwin. This was Third volume of the Narrative of the voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).