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

Total Questions: 100

41. Match each of the following concepts/ objects with the corresponding description:

Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:
 Option (b) is correctly matched concepts/objects with the corresponding description–
 A. Farce iii. Characterized by broad humour, wild antics, slapsticks etc
 B. Props i. Articles and objects used on the stage
 C. Music hall iv. Variety entertainment of songs, comic turns that flourished in England through the late $19^{th}$ century
 D. Closet  drama ii. Drama written to be read rather than acted
 Hence option (b) is correct.

42. "To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lighting." About which Shakespearean actor Coleridge wrote the above line?

Correct Answer: (d) Edmund Kean
Solution:

Coleridge wrote the line "To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flash of lighting" for the celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor - Edmund Kean, born in England. It was in the impersonation of the great creations of Shakespeare's genius that the varied beauty and grandeur of the acting of Kean were displayed in their highest form. His main disadvantage as an actor was his small stature.

43. Match the critics and their works:

Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:
 Option (a) is correctly matched the critics and their work– Critics Works
 A. Edward Said iv Culture and Imperialism (1993)
 B. Terry Eagleton i The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
 C. Francis Mulhern  ii Contemporary Marxist Criticism (1992)
 D. K.M. Newton iii Theory into Practice (1992)
 Hence option (a) is correct.

44. Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power-relations, knowledge and the human body?

Correct Answer: (d) Michel Foucault
Solution:

Michel Foucault explored the shifting and contested power relations, knowledge and the human body. He was French historian and philosopher. His famous works are as follows: History of Madness in the Classical Age (1961), The Birth of the Clinic (1963), Discipline and Punish (1975), The History of Sexuality.

45. Which of the following plays is characterized by the exclusivity of a single character talking to himself?

Correct Answer: (d) Krapp's Last Tape
Solution:

'Krapp's Last Tape' is a one act play in English by Samuel Beckett, with a cast of one man it was written for Northern Irish actor - Patrick Magee. The play was first performed as a curtain raiser to 'Endgame' from 28 October to 29 November 1958 at the royal court theatre London. This play is characterized by the exclusivity of a single character talking to himself.

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

Assertion (A): Instances of beliefs triggering action are present in social life and may give rise to problems in determining 'causality'.
Reason (R) : Beliefs may not be accompanied by or give rise to logically appropriate actions, and actions may occur which are consistent with motivations and intentions, but they often, if not usually, also have unanticipated outcomes.
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).

47. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term 'Cultural Materialism'?

Correct Answer: (c) The material effect that culture has in wider social life
Solution:

'Cultural Materialism' emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s along with 'new historicism'. The term was coined by Raymond Williams. Cultural materialism makes analysis based in critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt school. According to Raymond Williams 'Cultural Materialism' is the material effect that culture has in wider social life.

48. Which novel by J.G. Farrel describes the experiences of a polio victim?

Correct Answer: (c) The Lung
Solution:

The Lung' is a novel written by James Gardon Farrel, published in 1965. In this novel he drew upon his own affliction with Polio' which he contracted at Oxford to present a downbeat portrait of an irascible man confined to an iron lung. So this novel describes the experiences of a polio victim.

49. Which of the following two points were emphasised by 'Wood's Dispatch of 1854'?

i. Teaching of the English language along with the study of vernacular language ii. compulsory inclusion of Christianity in the curriculum
iii. The gradual withdrawal of government patronage from Indian languages
iv. The importance of female education

Correct Answer: (a) (i) and (iv)
Solution:

Sir Charles Wood, the President of the board of control, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India. In 1854 he sent a dispatch to Lord Dalhousie to suggest the teaching of English language along with the vernacular language.

50. From among the following, identify the two correct statements in Johnson's criticism of Shakespeare:

A. His Athenians are not sufficiently Greek and his kings not completely royal.
B. He sacrifices virtue to convenience and is more careful to please than to instruct.
C. He adheres to strict chronology and gives to one age or nation only its own customs and opinions.
D. He sacrifices reason, property and truth to pursue even a poor and barren quibble.
Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (d) B and D
Solution:

Dr. Johnson was a lexicographer, editor, biographer and literary critic. In his critical work Preface to Shakespeare' he had given an appreciative analysis about the Shakespeare, as option (b) and (d).
A. He sacrifices virtue to convenience and is more careful to please than to instruct.
B. He sacrifices reason, property and truth to pursue even a poor and barren quibble.