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

Total Questions: 100

31. Given below are two statements: One is labelled Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A) : The Marxists represent Marxism as a scientific account of social change.
Reason (R): The Marxist ideology believes that culture is a mirror of social life and the artist is an engineer of the human soul educating the working classes. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Solution:

In the given options, assertion (A) and reason (R) are the correct factual details regarding Marxist literary Criticism. Marxism as a sociological approach denies the existence of gender biasness, differences or other type of differences such as caste issues or other kind of diversity. In fact, they simply assert that society is divided into two parts which is called the dominant class or rich class or financially powerful class and the second one is called the poor class or crushed class. They say that if the monetary or financial conditions are differing, these are the basic structure of society. Neither Marx nor Engels bequeathed a critical or aesthetic theory, but they tended to disparage socialist writers of a propagandist type, and suggested that art is not tied directly to phases of economic development but has a certain autonomy.
Marx's materialist view of history, with its emphasis on economic issues such as ownership of the means of production and the central importance of the conflict between social classes, as well as his dialectical methodology, adapted from Hegel, have been especially influential. Hence, option (A) is correct answer.

32. Which of the following are Plato's main objections against poetry?

A. The poet is an imitator.
B. The poet is incapable of bravery.
C. The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the reasoning capacity of the citizens.
D. The poet is less responsible.
E. The poet has no knowledge of the world.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Plato criticizes poetry as a whole and prescribes to banish the poets from the 'Republic' because it shows the suffering of virtuous people and prosperity of wicked men. He further says that the poet imitates without knowing the reality and shows his lack of purpose and knowledge. According to Plato, poetry evokes passion and emotion, therefore it is deceptive in nature, and the poet has no knowledge of the world because he does not depict the stark realities of world in his poetry, rather he takes shelter in imagination and fanciful notions. Hence, option (A) will be correct answer.

33. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Hannah Arendt's "defctualization" is very close to the concept of "Post-truth".
Statement II : Post-truth relies on absolute lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Solution:

The concept of "Post-truth" which is very close to defactualization has been given by Hannah Arendt, a historian, philosopher, and social scientist who is well-known for "defactualization". "Post-truth" term refers to the 21st century widespread documentation and concern about disputes over public truth claims. It is believed to have made its maiden appearance in a 1992 essay, pertaining to the IranContra Scandal and Persian Gulf-war garnered widespread popularity in the form of "post-truth politics". It gives post-truth relies on absolute lies. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

34. Match List-I with List-II

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

'The Waste land' (1922) is a poem by T.S Eliot, first published in Criterion and a few days later in The Dial. It consists of five sections, 'The Burial of the Dead', 'A Game of Chess', 'The fire Sermon,' 'Death by Water', and 'What the Thunder said'. It was seriously praised by I.A. Richards as "a perfect emotive description of a state of mind which is probably inevitable for a while to all meditative people".
'Sons and Lovers' (1913) is an autobiographical Bildungsroman novel, known for incestuous relationship. 'Finnegan's Wake' (1939) is a wondrously perplexing work of James Joyce. It is written in a unique style which makes abundant use of puns and portmanteau words.
'To the Lighthouse' (1927) is a novel by Virginia Wooli and it is about the Ramsay family.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

35. The Writer and the World by V.S. Naipaul is a

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

'The Writer and the World' by V.S Naipaul is a collection of essays on post-colonial India Sir V.S. Naipaul is a novelist, travel-writer, born i Trinidad, got Booker Prize for 'In a free State' (1971 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001. His majo works are: 'The Mystic Masseur' (1957), 'The Suffrag of Elvira' (1958), The Mimic Men (1967), 'Guerrillas (1975), 'A Bend in the River (1979) and 'The Enigma o Arrival' (1987). Hence, option (c) and (d) will be correct answer.

36. Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?

Correct Answer: (a) "The Triumph of Life"
Solution:

'The Triumph of Life' is an unfinished visionary poem by P.B. Shelley, written in the bay Lerici in summer 1822 and composed in Terza Rima. The poem is strongly influenced by Dante's 'Inferno'.
'Ode to the West Wind' by Shelley, was written in 1819 and published in 1820. The ode is a passionate invocation to the spirit of the West Wind, both destroyer and preserver.' 'Queen Mab' is a visionary and ideological poem by Shelley, published privately in 1813 when he was 21. The poem is in nine cantos using didactic and descriptive blank verse greatly indebted to Milton and to Robert Southey's 'Thalaba'.
Alastor' or 'The Spirit of Solitude,' a visionary poem was written in 1815 and published in 1816. Thus, option (a) will be correct answer.

37. Which writer does not belong to the Angry Young Men Movement?

Correct Answer: (e) *
Solution:

The Angry Young Men Movement was a journalistic catchphrase loosely applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s, including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and Colin Wilson whose political views were radical or anarchic, and who described various forms of social alienation. It is sometimes said to derive from the title of a work by the Irish writer Leslie Paul, 'Angry Young Man' (1951). Thus, option (c) and (d) will be correct answer.

38. Match List-I with List-II

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

'The Fall of a Sparrow' is written by Salim Moizuddin Ali, an Indian ornithologist and naturalist, sometimes referred to as the "birdsman of India". 'My India' is written by Edward James "Jim" Corbett. It is an autobiography and a collection of various experiences from a hunter to a worker on Mokamesh Ghat to a healer. Kailash Sankhala's 'Wild Beauty' is focused on wild life description and Kailash is wellknown as The Tiger Man of India. 'Nights and Days: My Book of India's Wildlife' is written by M. Krishnan. Thus, option (a) will be correct answer.

39. A.L. Tennyson in the following lines:

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns"

Correct Answer: (b) Reflects upon evolutionary faith
Solution:

Through these lines of 'Locksley Hall', Tennyson reflects upon evolutionary faith. It is a monologue spoken by a disappointed lover, revisiting the desolate moorland home by the sea where he had been brought up by an unsympathetic uncle, and where he fell in love with his cousin Amy. The narrator scorns the modern world of steamship and railway, and ends with an ambiguous acceptance of 'the ringing grooves of change'. Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

40. Which of these statements are true in the context of Neuro-Linguistic programming?

A. 'Neuro' in NLP means that our behaviour is determined by our sensory experiences
B. Grammatical Knowledge is a matter of practice
C. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s
D. Neuro covers "invisible thoughts and visible physiological reactions"
E. All of the above
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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

Neuro-linguistic programming is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book 'The Structure of Magic I'. In the given options, (A), (C) and (D) are true.
Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.