UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2021/June 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)

However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner, as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world, he uses it: there are, prepared for him actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy.

He is turned into a little stay-at-homw householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality, they are supplied to him ready-made, he has only to help himself, he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish.

The merest set of blocks, provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world, then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult name, the actions he performs are not those of a user but htose of a dimiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life, not property, objects now act by themselves, they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the plam of his hand. Roland Barthes "Toys" (Excerpt from Mythologies)

Which of the following is a correct interpretation?

Correct Answer: (d) In touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of life
Solution:

The correct interpretation of the given excerpt from Roland Barthes' Mythologies, "Toys", is 'the child creates dynamic forms of life when he touches the object. He has only to use the ready made world, not to invent it. He thinks himself as the owner, the user of the stuffs around him but never thinks that he is the creator of the things.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

92. In the context of the above passage, which is the closest to being true:

Correct Answer: (c) Toys affect the cognitive abilities of the children
Solution:

The correct statement from the given options is option (c)- Toys affect the cognitive abilities of the children. With the help of toys, children tries to know the world. Whatever they get, they are in purely ready made form, they don't have to invent or create any thing instead they have to learn from the articles around them.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

93. The adult causality is about

Correct Answer: (b) Cognitive and logical structure of the world
Solution:

The adult causality is about cognitive and logical structure of the world.
For a child, it is never a matter of concern to think about adults happening; what is the reason behind any deed or what is cause and effect of any occurrence taking place around. When the aforesaid is being understood, it is nothing but a matter of cognitive and logical structure. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

94. The word "demiurge" connotes

Correct Answer: (c) their creative abilities
Solution:

The word "demiurge" connotes from the give excerpt- "Children's creative ability". The actions a child performs are not a action of user or for' anything very significant but it is unknowingly a creation. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

95. The world of objects makes the child

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

The world of objects makes the child Actant, and creator. A child works on the objects around him, acts on and creates something with the help of objects. Hence, the correct answer is option (c & d).
Note:- NTA has considered both the option as correct answer.

96. Read the following poem, and answer the questions that follow (96-100):

Mr Bleaney This was Mr Bleaney's room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies. till They moved him,' Flowered curtains, thin and frayed, Fall to within five inches of the sill, Whose windo shows a strip of building land. Tussocky, littered, 'Mr Bleaney took My bit of garden properly in hand.' Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no hook Behind the door, no room for books or bags- 'I'll take it, So it happens that I lie Where Mr Bleaney lay, and stub my fags On the same saucer-souvenir, and try Stuffing my ears with cotton-wool, to drown The jabbering set he egged her on to buy.

I know his habits - what time he came down. His preference for sauce to gravy, why He kept on plugging at the four aways-Likewise their yearly frame: the Frinton flok Who put him up for summer holidays, And Christmas at his sister's house in Stoke. But if he stood and watched the frigid wind Tousling the clouds, lay on the fusty bed Telling himself that this was home, and grinned, And shivered, without shaking off the dread That how we live measures our own nature, And at his age having no more to show Than one hired box should make him pretty sure He warranted no better, I don't know. Philip Larkin

The poem, "Mr, Bleaney", is written in a ______ form.

Correct Answer: (c) Dramatic
Solution:

Philip Larkin's poem "Mr. Bleaney" is written in dramatic form. Written in 1955 and published in the 1964 volume "The Whitsun Weddings", it deals with loneliness, deprivation, and the fear of wasting one's life.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

97. In the third line 'They' refers to

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

None of the given options/words (noun) is appropriate for "they" given in third line. NTA has dropped this question.

98. Mr. Bleaney was the _________ of the house.

Correct Answer: (b) Tenant
Solution:

Mr. Bleaney was the tenant (living in rented room) of the house. The poem's speaker rents a digy room and discovers that the previous tenant, Mr. Bleaney, lived there for many years, seemingly trapped in a solitary, dull existence. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

99. According to the speaker Mr. Bleaney was

Correct Answer: (d) a sad and dull person
Solution:

According to the speaker Mr. Bleaney was a sad and dull person. The landlady explains about Mr. Bleany as a solitary and dull. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

100. The poem "Mr. Bleaney" deals with the portrayal of his _________.

Correct Answer: (d) ordinariness
Solution:

The poem "Mr. Bleaney" deals with portrayal of his ordinariness as his life was very monotonous; there was no newness in his life.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).