NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2025 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

61. Kipling's story "Mrs Bathurst" is set in:

Correct Answer: (b) South Africa
Solution:

Rudyard Kipling's short story "Mrs. Bathurst" is set in primarily in Simon Stown, South Africa and published in 1904 in the collection Traffics and Discoveries. The native is told through the fragmented accounts of several men in South Africa, focusing on a mysterious widow, Mrs. Bathurst, and her obsessive lover, a military man Vickery.

62. Who made the following remark?

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined that either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident."

Correct Answer: (a) Sir William Jones
Solution:

The following remark "The Sanskrit language, ............... produced by accident" is made by Sir William Jones, a British philologist and orientalist who is considered a pioneer in the field of comparative linguistics. This observation about the structural similarities between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin led him to theorize that these languages shared a common ancestor.

63. Choose the correct statements :

A. English literature was first offered as a subject of study at king's college, London in 1831.
B. English was first offered as a subject of study in England only in 1828 in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
C. Though taught as a medium of instruction and a subject of study in India since 1850s, oxford and Cambridge did not allow the new subject of English literature to be taught till the end of the nineteenth century.
D. In 1931, English replaced the study of classics in Greek and Latin (the language of the church) in oxford and Cambridge.
E. Till the end of the nineteenth century literature meant only the study of great books in classical languages lime Greek and Latin in Oxford and Cambridge.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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

The correct statements are-
A. English literature was first offered as a subject of study at king's college, London in 1831.
C. Though taught as a medium of instruction and a subject of study in India since 1850s, Oxford and Cambridge did not allow the new subject of English literature to be taught till the end of the nineteenth century.
E. Till the end of the nineteenth century literature meant only the study of great books in classical languages lime Greek and Latin in Oxford and Cambridge.

64. Choose the correct chronological order of the given works on Postcolonial Criticism:

A. In Other Worlds
B. Postcolonial Literary Studies: First Thirty Years
C. Nation and Narration
D. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
E. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The correct chronological order of the given works on Postcolonial Criticism is- "In Other Worlds" (1987) authored by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
"Nation and Narration" (1990) edited by Homi K. Bhabha
"Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization" (1996) written by Arjun Appadurai
"The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (originally published in 1905 but often revisited and debated in later theoretical contexts) written by Max Weber.
"Postcolonial Literary Studies: First Thirty Years" (2004) edited by John Thieme.

65. Match List-I with List-II

   List-I (Line)  List-II (Author)
 A. One day I wrote her name upon the strand/but came the waves and washed it away I. Thomas Gray
 B. Under the greenwood tree/who loves to lie with me,/And turn his merry note/Unto the sweet bird's note II. William Shakespeare
 C. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,/The lowing heard wind slowly o'er the lea III. Ted Hughes
 D. Remember how we picked the daffodils?/nobody else remembers, but remember IV. Edmund Spenser

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Solution:
  List-I (Line)  List-II (Author)
 A. One day I wrote her name upon the strand/but came the waves and washed it away IV. Edmund Spenser
 B. Under the greenwood tree/who loves to lie with me,/And turn his merry note/Unto the sweet bird's note II. William Shakespeare
 C. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,/The lowing heard wind slowly o'er the lea I. Thomas Gray
 D. Remember how we picked the daffodils?/nobody else remembers, but remember III. Ted Hughes

66. Arrange the following core elements of list of work cited according to MLA Handbook 9th edition:

A. Publisher
B. Title of Source
C. Author
D. Title of Container
E. Publication Date
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

According to the MLA handbook, 9th edition, the core elements of a citation should generally appear in the following sequence:
1. Author
2. Title of source
3. Title of container
4. Publisher
5. Publication date.

67. Which of the following rules are correct regarding formatting of date and time in the body of thesis writing according to MLA Handbook 9th Edition?

A. When using the month-day style in prose, a comma must be placed after the year unless another punctuation mark follows it.
B. Use a comma between month and year or between season and year.
C. Decades can be written out or expression in numerals.
D. Spell out centuries in uppercase letters.
E. Numerals are used for most times of the day. Generally, use the twelve hour-clock system in prose
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (c) A, C and E only
Solution:

According to MLA Handbook 9th Edition-
A. When using the month-day style in prose, a comma must be placed after the year unless another punctuation mark follows it.
C. Decades can be written out or expression in numerals.
E. Numerals are used for most times of the day. Generally, use the twelve hour-clock system in prose.

68. Which of the following is not a kind of literary research?

Correct Answer: (c) Experimental Research
Solution:

Experimental Research is not a kind of literary research. It focus on controlled experiments, manipulation of variables and quantitative data collection to test hypotheses. While bibliography and textual criticism, biographical and interpretive research is a kind of literary research.

69. Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones:

A. Mikhail Bakhtin traces the roots of the novel back into the imperial Rome and ancient Hellenistic romances.
B. Henry James considers the novel as the epic of a prosaic modern world.
C. Margaret Anne Doody locates novel birthplace in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.
D. F.R. Leavis defines novel as "one bright book of life".
E. Georg Lukacs calls the novel "the epic of a world abandoned by God".
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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

The most appropriate answer from the given options is- A, C and E only.
• Mikhail Bakhtin traces the roots of the novel back into the imperial Rome and ancient Hellenistic romances.
• Margaret Anne Doody locates novel birthplace in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.
• Georg Lukacs calls the novel "the epic of a world abandoned by God".

70. Read the following statements carefully and find out the correct ones :

A. Charles Lamb was a lifelong friend of Coleridge and defender of the poetic creed of Wordsworth.
B. The London crowd, with its pleasures and occupations, never attracted Charles lamb.
C. Charles Lamb gave us the best penportraits of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Landor, Hood, and many more of the interesting men and women of his age.
D. Charles Lamb wrote Essays of Elia, Tales from Shakespeare and The Revolt of the Tartars.
E. Lamb was especially fond of old writers, and was apparently unable to express his new thought without using their old quaint expressions.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, C and E only
Solution:

The most appropriate answer from the given options is- A, C and E only.
• Charles Lamb was a lifelong friend of Coleridge and defender of the poetic creed of Wordsworth.
• Charles Lamb gave us the best pen-portraits of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Landor, Hood, and many more of the interesting men and women of his age.
• Lamb was especially fond of old writers, and was apparently unable to express his new thought without using their old quaint expressions.