NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2024 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

41. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Work)	List-II (Author)
(A) Archetypal Patterns in Poetry	(III) Maud Bodkin
(B) The Dynamics of Literary Response	(I) Norman Holland
(C) The Anxiety of Influence	(II) Harold Bloom
(D) A Literature of Their Own	(IV) Elaine Showalter

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
(b) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(c) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(d) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

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

Solution:

The correct match will be :
#Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (1934) by Maud Bodkin
# The Dynamics of Literary Response (1968) by Norman Holland
# The Anxiety of Influence (1973) by Harold Bloom
# A Literature of their Own (1977) by Alaine Showalter.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

42. Which of the following statements are true about 'cyberfeminism'?

(A) Women are not demanding material and social spасе
(B) It interrogates the patriarchal nature of the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
(C) It is negotiation with the contemporary culture's extensive information
(D) Virtual environment does not provide greater freedom to women
(E) Women are unable to appropriate the materiality of cyberspace
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) (A) and (E) Only
(b) (B) and (C) Only
(c) (C) and (D) Only
(d) (D) and (E) Only

Correct Answer: (b) (B) and (C) Only

Solution:

The true statements about 'cyber feminism'.
# It interrogates the patriarchal nature of the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
# It is a negotiation with the contemporary culture's extensive information. Cyber feminism is feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the internet and technology. The term was coined in the 1994 by Sadie plant.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

43. Midnight's Children is a representative text of :

(a) Poststructuralism
(b) Postcolonialism
(c) Postmodernism
(d) Modernism

Correct Answer: (c) Postmodernism

Solution:

Midnight's Children (1981) is a representative text of Postmodernism. It is a novel by Indian British writer Salman Rushdie. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

44. Which of the following poems are by Sir Walter Scott?

(A) "Christmas in the Olden Time"
(B) "After the Last Breath"
(C) "Lochinvar"
(D) "Dance of Death"
(E) "A Man was Drawing near to Me"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) (A), (B), (D) Only
(b) (B), (C), (E) Only
(c) (C), (D), (E) Only
(d) (A), (C), (D) Only

Correct Answer: (d) (A), (C), (D) Only

Solution:

Christmas in the Olden Time, Lochinvar and Dance of Death are written by Sir Walter Scott. He was Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Morality (1816), The Heart of Midlothian (1818) and so on. His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

45. Who is the author of French novel, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d' Arvers?

(a) M.K.Naik
(b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) Toru Dutt
(d) Emily Zola

Correct Answer: (c) Toru Dutt

Solution:

Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers is a French novel by Toru Dutt. It is published in 1879, posthumously. She is known for her volumes of poetry in English. Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of 21 of tuberculosis.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

46. Who has written Jejuri?

(a) R. Parthasarthy
(b) Nissim Ezekiel
(c) Arun Kolatkar
(d) Jayanta Mahapatra

Correct Answer: (c) Arun Kolatkar

Solution:

Jejuri is a series of poems written by Indian poet Arun Kolatkar. Consisting of a sequence of 31 poems. Jejuri depicts Kolatkar's unit to Jejuri, a city in Pune, which the poet visited in 1964. It was first published in Opinion Literary Quarterly in 1974, and issued in book form in 1976. Jejuri won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

47. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Concept/Theory)	List-II (Key Figure)
(A) Postmodernism	(I) Jacques Lacan
(B) Psychoanalysis	(II) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Mimicry	(III) Jean Baudrillard
(D) New Historicism	(IV) Homi Bhabha

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
(b) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(c) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(d) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

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

Solution:

The correct match will be :
# Postmodernism-Jean Baudrillard
# Psychoanalysis-Jacques Lacan
# Mimicry-Homi Bhabha
# New Historicism-Stephen Greenblatt.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

48. Who is the author of Abhijanasakuntalam?

(a) Bhavabhuti
(b) Kalidasa
(c) Shudraka
(d) Banabhatta

Correct Answer: (b) Kalidasa

Solution:

Abhijanasakuntalam is a Sanskrit play by the Ancient poet Kalidasa, dramatizing the story of Sakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata and regarded as the best of Kalidas' works.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

49. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Work)	List-II (Author)
(A) Untouchable	(I) Raja Rao
(B) Serpent and the Rope	(II) R.K. Narayan
(C) Nectar in a Sieve	(III) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) A Tiger for Malgudi	(IV) Kamala Markandeya

Choose the correct answer from the options given-below:

(a) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(b) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
(c) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
(d) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

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

Solution:

The correct match will be:
# Untouchable (1935) by Mulk Raj Anand
# Serpent and the Rope (1960) by Raga Rao
# Nector in a Sieve (1954) by Kamala Markandeya
# A Tiger for Malgudi (1983) by R.K. Narayan
Hence, option (b) is correct.

50. Of the following, what is not true about Pidgins and Creoles?

(a) Spoken by the Third World Countries
(b) Distorted versions of other languages
(c) New languages in their own right
(d) Developed during the periods of linguistic crisis

Correct Answer: (b) Distorted versions of other languages

Solution:

Distorted versions of other languages is not true about Pidgins and creoles. Pidgins-Simplified language used for communication between speakers of different languages.
Creoles-Fully developed language that arises from a pidgin language when it becomes the native language of a group of speakers.
Pidgin is used for communication between speaks of different languages. Creole is used in all aspects of life, including family, education and politics. Hence, option (b) by correct.