UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, December-2019 ENGLISH (SOLVED PAPER-II)

Total Questions: 67

1. Which two concepts, developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu have become increasingly influential in cultural studies?

(1) Dissemination
(2) Gynesis
(3) Cultural Capital
(4) Habitus
Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (c) (3) and (4)
Solution:

Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist who was a public intellectual in the tradition of Emile Zola and Jean-Paul-Sartre. His concept of 'Habitus' and 'Cultural Capital' was influential in recent past modernist Humanities and social science.
Cultural Capital : In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises that capital formed the foundation of social life and dictated one's position within the social order.
Habitus : Habitus is one of Bourdieu's most influential yet ambigious concept. It refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital, to the deeply ingrained habits, skills and dispositions that we possess due to our life experience.

2. Which combination in the following constitutes the trilogy Qresteia?

Correct Answer: (c) Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Solution:

'Qresteia' a trilogy of tragic drama's by the ancient Greek dramatist, Aeschylus. It is his last work and the only complete trilogy of Greek dramas that has survived.
The 'Qresteia' tells the story of the house of Atreus. Agamemnon, Choephoroe and Eumenides constitutes the trilogy Qresteia.
Agamemnon : The first play, Agamemnon, portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan war and his murder by his wife - Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
Choephoroe : The second play - Choephoroe takes the real object its title from the Chorus of women servants who come to pour propitiatory offerings at the tomb of the murdered Agamemnon. It details the revenge of Agamemnon's daughter Electra and his son, Orestes.
Eumenides : The third play, Eumenides opens at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi, where Orestes has taken sanctuary from the furies. At the command of the Delphic oracle, Orestes journies to Athens to stand trial for his matricide.

3. How often did Richard Steele's Tatler appear every week and how many issues of Tatler in total were published?

Correct Answer: (c) Three times a week: 271 issues
Solution:

The Tatler, a periodical launched in London by the essayist Sir Richard Steele in April 1709, appearing three times weekly until January 1711; a total of 271 issues, published in London by John Morphew and printed by John Nutt.

4. Given below two statements Assertion (A) and Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Only actual research develops research skills.
Reason (R): Information is discrete, whereas knowledge consists of a network of connections.
In the light of the above two statements choose the correct options:

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

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

5. Following Plato, which two of the following statements about 'Phantasm' and 'Semblance' are correct?

(1) 'Phantasm' is an image, while 'Semblance' is the real object
(2) 'Phantasm' is the real object while 'Semblance' is only a resemblance.
(3) Phantasm unlike semblance has the same proportions as the object.
(4) Semblance is 'unreal' but looks 'real' as compared to phantasm.
Choose the correct option :

Correct Answer: (b) (3) and (4)
Solution:

In the 'Republic' Socrates says that painting (as well as tragedy) is an imitation of a phantasm or appearence as it appears rather than an imitation of reality or truth and Plato is clearly drawing on the distinction made in the sophists between the image of likeness that resembles the original it imitates and the semblance (Phantasma) that only mimics its modal without bearing any true resemblance. Plato's signs are of two sorts, image and simulacara (phantasm and sembalance) both are governed by mimesis.

6. Which of the following fictional characters is in the right Chronological order?

Correct Answer: (c) Man Friday - Uncle Toby - Miss Havisham - Stephen Dedalus
Solution:

Right chronological order of the fictional characters is option (c).
Man Friday: This character appears in DanielDefoe's novel - Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.
Uncle Toby: This character appears in Laurence Sterne's novel - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman published in 1759.
Miss Havisham : This character appears in Charles Dicken's novel-Great Expectaction, published in 1861.
Stephen Dedalus: This character appears in James Joyce's novel - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916.

7. Which one of the following has two heroes with the same name?

Correct Answer: (d) Armadale
Solution:

'Armadale' is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in November 1864 to June 1866. The novel has a convaluted plot about two distant cousins both name - Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the others (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale).

8. The following is a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order of their formulation?

Correct Answer: (b) The unconscious - langue - heresy of paraphrase - difference
Solution:

The unconscious - langue - heresy of paraphrase - difference is the right chronological order of the critical terms formulation.

9. Match the works with authors

Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:

Option (b) is correctly matched-

 (A) Homi Bhabha (ii) The Location of Culture
 (B) Geoffrey Hartman (i) Saving the Text
 (C) Edward Said (iv) Culture and Imperialism
 (D) Julia Kristeva (iii) Desire in Language

10. In the following list, which two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature?

(1) Kunapipi
(2) Interventions
(3) Daedalus
(4) Clio
Choose the correct option :

Correct Answer: (d) (1) and (2)
Solution:

Kunapipi : Journal of post colonial writing and culture was a biannual arts magzine with special but not exclusive emphasis on the new literature written in English. Kunapipi and Interventions are two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature.