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

Doris Lessing's 'Shikasta', 'Alfred and Emily and 'The Grass is Singing' are matched correctly with their respective themes.
'Shikasta' is a 1979 science fiction novel and is the account of Canopus' work on Earth during a difficult period. Canopus became interested in the planet called Rohanda and he plans to bring the planet into its empire by speeding human evolution. 'Alfred and Emily' is a 2008 book in hybrid form, which is based on the lives of Lessing's parents. 'The Grass is Singing' is a 1950 novel, which is drawn from her experience in Africa. It follows the life of an emotionally immature woman and hasty marriage to an unsuccessful farmer.
'The Golden Notebook' is a 1962 novel, and is a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity amid the trauma of emotional refection and sexual betrayal.
'The Good Terrorist' is a 1985 political novel, which follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA.

'Article 343' of the Indian constitution made the provision for use of English alongside Hind for official purposes, for fifteen years.
Article 343 is about the official language of the Union. The 2nd part of the article states, 'for a period of 15 years from the commencement of this constitution, the English Language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement'.
Hence option (c) is correct.

'Under The Net' is a 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch. Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality and the power of the unconscious. 'Under The Net' is her first novel. It follows the life of an aspiring writer Jake Donaghue as he stumbles from place to place through Europe in search of illusory ideals. The novel falls in the genre of the Picaresque, a comedic form in which a clever, lower class protagonist makes his way up in the world using his wits. The novel uses its protagonists wandering to show how conflicts and resolutions arise unpredictably in the creative life. Hence option (b) is correct.

In the article, 'Fleshly school of Poetry', Robert Buchanan attacked the Pre-Raphaelites; The Fleshly school of poetry is a fierce attack on the PreRaphaelite school. Written in 1871, the essay was first published in The contemporary Review under the Pseudonym 'Thomas Maitland'. Principally, 'Maitland focuses on the art of and poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Pre-Raphaelite was an artistic movement founded in 1848 by the poet and painter Rossetti and the painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Buchanan attacked them as he believed that PreRaphaelite art was excessively 'sensual' implying 'that the body is greater than the soul'. Hence option (c) is correct.

All the given books are written by V.S. Naipaul, who was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and non-fiction in English.
The correct sequence will be-
A House for Mr. Biswas - 1961
India: An Area of Darkness- 1964
India: A wounded civilization - 1976
India: A Million Mutinies Now-1990
Hence option (c) is correct.

'Women Beware Women' is a play by Thomas Middleton and was published in 1657. it is a Jacobean tragedy which revolves around family betrayals, romantic infidelities and false friendships. It is a play about a righteous questioning of presumed morality, where sexuality and class trump traditional gender roles, where love cats itself and tastes delicious. Note- None of the options are correct.
Therefore, NTA has dropped this question.

Arun Kolatkar uses colloquial speech in his poems. Colloquial language and expressions could be things like informal words, phrases and slang words which is used by writers to create a sense of community and society.
Arun Kolatkar was an Indian poet who wrote in both Marathi and English. Kolatkar envisions abstract qualities to paint a picture of life of his own kind. His poems found humour in everyday matters.
Private Poems in Public Garden is composed by Dilip Chitre, who was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Hence option (c) is correct.

Both the given statements are correct. The teaching of non-nature literature to the students of English Language Teaching is arid because it has no relativeness with non-native literature to the students/learners of English Language. So, the first statement is absolutely correct.
The negative responses in ELT (English Language Teaching) classroom can create an interesting classroom situation as it gives ample opportunity to the teacher to explore and elaborate. ELT (English Language Teaching) is teaching of English language to people whose first language is not English.
Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

Dadaism is a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values. Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French poet, who was one of the founders and central figures of the movement. Super-Realiom is a type of 20th century art and literature in which unusual or impassible things are shown happening. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of cubism and a forefather of surrealism.
The philosophical idea of existential rihilirm is that life has no purpose or value, and that man's existence is insignificant. Nihilism was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev.

The correct pair of the books and their author is A,C.D, The Boyfriend is authored by Juliette Banerjee. Born in Kolkata, she lives with her family in Sydney Australia since 1987. her other works are "Flower from a Book", "The Gap-Toothed Banister-А Tale of Anglo-India" etc. "The other woman and other stories" is written by Dina Mehta, published in 1981.
"The Yankee and the Yogi" (1981) is authored by B.G. Siddhartha.
Nude therapy is a work of saros cowasiee.
Hence, the correct match is option (b).