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

Total Questions: 100

11. The Sadler Commission Report (1917-1919) was critical of the quality of students graduating from the university and had very perceptive remarks on English and the use of mother tongue in Indian education. What was the commission appointed for?

Correct Answer: (b) To study the problems of Calcutta University
Solution:

The Sadler Commission is known as The Calcutta University Commission (1917). The Calcutta University Commission in 1917 under the chairmanship of the late Sir Michael Sadler. This commission was appointed for to study the problems of Calcutta University.

12. What is being described by Wordsworth in the following lines from his poem, The Thorn I've measured if from side "Tis three feet long and two feet wide.

Correct Answer: (d) An infant's grave
Solution:

Poem - 'The Thorn' was published in 1815 in Poems Volume II. This poem was composed by William Wordsworth. It is an infants grave 'Tis three feet long and two feet wide'.

13. For which one of the following reasons, in Oscar Wilde's novel, The picture of Dorian gray, Gray breaks down when he sees his finished portrait?

Correct Answer: (c) Distraught by the fact that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful
Solution:

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wild first published complete in July 1890. The novel begins on a beautiful summer day in Victorian Era England. Major characters of the novel are - Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, Sibyl Vane, Alan Campbell, Lord Fermar etc. Gray breaks down when he sees his finished portrait distraught by the fact that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful.

14. Which of the following statements is true in terms of distribution of metrical feet?

Correct Answer: (c) Iambic is to Trochaic as Anapaestic is to Dactylic
Solution:

Statement (c) is true in terms of distribution of metrical feet.
Iambic - Unstressed / Stressed
Trochaic - Stressed/ Unstressed
Anapaestic - Unstressed/ Unstressed / Stressed
Dactylic - Stressed / Unstressed / Unstressed.

15. Which of the following descriptions fits the unit of verse, Dactyl?

Correct Answer: (b) One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
Solution:

In Dactylic : a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
Éve with hěr / bás kět wăs /
Déep In thě / bélls ănd grăss /

16. Who is the author of the short story, The Ghost of Firozsha Baag?

Correct Answer: (d) Rohinton Mistry
Solution:

'The Ghost of Firozsha Baag' is a short story by Rohinton Mistry, who is an Indian born Canadian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012.

17. Which one of the following paired terms is correct in its explication?

Correct Answer: (a) Phonology - Sound system
Solution:

Option (a) is correct paired.
Phonology: the study of the elementary speech sound, it is a branch of linguistic that studies the sounds of human speech.

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

Assertion (A): The dialects of English that have resulted from the regional separation of English-speaking communities have not acquired the status of languages.
Reason (R): The Germanic dialects that are now Dutch, English, German, Swedish etc., have become distinct owing to geographical dispersion.
In the light of the above two statements choose the correct option:

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).

19. In Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock who among the following painters is the subject of conversation among the perambulating women?

Correct Answer: (c) Michelangelo
Solution:

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is the first professionally published poem by American born British poet T.S. Eliot. It was first published in 1915. Michelangelo is the subject of conversation among the perambulating women. "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."

20. Match the Novelist with the Publisher:

 Author Publisher/Associate
 A. Laurence Sterne iv. Robert Dodsley
 B. Henry Fielding ii. Andrew Millar
 C. Frances Burney i. Thomas Lowndes
 D. Daniel Defoe iii. William Taylor

Choose the correct option from those given below:

 A B C D A B C D
 (a) iii  i ii iv (b) ii iv i iii
 (c) iv ii iiii (d) ii  iii iv i
Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:

Option (c) is correctly matched the novelist with the publisher–

 Novelist Publisher
 A. Laurence Sterne – iv. Robert Dodsley
 B. Henry Fielding – ii. Andrew Millar
 C. Frances Burney – i. Thomas Lowndes
 D. Daniel Defoe – iii. William Taylor