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

Total Questions: 100

91. Given below are two statements - one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A) : Language constructs meaning.
Reason (R) : Language structures meanings depending on the speaking subjects' perception, context and auditor(s).
In the light of the above two statements choose the correct option:

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

Option (a) is correct. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Language structures meaning.
Language structures meanings depending on the speaking subjects perception, context and auditors.

92. Which one of the following words best describes the heroes of Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Thomas Mann's The Confessions of Felix Krull?

Correct Answer: (b) Picaro
Solution:

'Picaro' is a Spanish word which means a "rogue" and "Knave". The Picaresque novel the word - Picaresque' has been derived from the word - Picaro. The heroes of Cervantes Don Quixote, Mark Twain's - The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Thomas Mann's - The confessions of Felix kurll are 'rogue' and 'knave'.

93. In the study of Anglo-American literatures, certain distinguished names in critical/editorial scholarship become synonymous with famous writers and periods of literary history. Match the following names with their respective areas of scholarship:

 

Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:

Option (b) correctly matched the names with their respective areas of scholarship-

 ID Scholar Reference Area of Scholarship / Subject
 A. Edward Mendelson iii. W.H. Auden
 B. Jerome McGann  iv. Textual Scholarship
 C. Stanley Fish i. John Milton
 D. Hugh Kenner ii. Ezra Pound

 

Hence option (b) is correct.

94. Which of the following correctly list the two novels figuring the writer as a public figure, as a celebrity and as grist for the academic mill?

Correct Answer: (d) Bech: A Book and Bech is Back
Solution:

Bech : A Book' is written by John Updike, published in 1965 and Bech is Back' is also written by John Updike and published in 1982. Basic Bech' combines two classic titles - Bech : A Book and Bech is Back. The hero of "Beck: A Book" is writer in trouble, as a celebrity and as grist for the academic mill.
Hence option (d) is correct.

95. Match the play with the subject matter of the play:

Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:

Option (d) is correctly matched the play with the subject matter of the play.

 ID Play Reference Subject Matter
 A The Doctor's Dilemma iv. Mockery of physicians' ignorance
 B You Never Can Tell iii. Devaluation of social traditions
 C Candida i. Flouting of stage conventions
 D Arms and the Man ii. Satire on military heroes

Hence option (d) is correct.

96. Who among the following is one of the University Wits?

Correct Answer: (b) Thomas Nashe
Solution:

The term University Wits' was coined by George Saintsbury. The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th century playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the University- Oxford or Cambridge. Prominent member of this group were - Christopher Marlow, Robert Green and Thomas Nash from Cambridge and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge and George Peel from Oxford. So Thomas Nashe is correct answer, whether Thomas Hooker, Michael Drayton, William Harvey are not associated with respective areas of scholarship- University Wits.

97. Instruction

THE GROCER'S CHILDREN The grocer's children eat day-old bread, moldy cakes and cheese, soft black bananas on stale shredded wheat, weeviled rice, their plates heaped high with wilted greens, bruised fruit, surprise treats from unlabelled cans, tainted meat. The grocer's Children never go hungry.

How does the poem achieve its effect?

Correct Answer: (b) It presents a series of inedible fare in the face of the basic need to eat
Solution:

The poem achieve its effect that it presents a series of inedible fare in the face of the basic need to eat.

98. What is suggested by the word 'tainted' in line 11?

Correct Answer: (c) Spoiled
Solution:

The word 'tainted' suggest option (c) Spoiled. Taint means - the effect of something bad or unpleasant that spoils the quality of something.

99. Whose point of view seems to have been stated in the poem?

Correct Answer: (c) The narrator's
Solution:

The narrator's point of view seems to have been stated in the poem.

100. Which of the following words best describes the last sentence of the poem?

Correct Answer: (a) Ironic
Solution:

Last sentence of the poem-
The Grocer's children
Never go hungry, is ironic.
Hence option (a) is correct.