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

Total Questions: 100

71. Which one of the following is the source of the passage given below?

"I have observed with growing anxiety the career of this word culture during the past six of seven years. We may find it natural, and significant, that during a period of unparalleled destructiveness, this word should come to have an important role...."

Correct Answer: (b) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Solution:

Source of the given passage is - Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot, that originally appeared as a series of articles in New England Weekly' in 1943. It was published in book form in 1948. Eliot presents culture as an organic, shared system of beliefs that cannot be planned or artificially induced.

72. Identify the author in whose works the character Ashenden appears many times:

Correct Answer: (d) Somerset Maugham
Solution:

A character named William Ashenden' is the narrator of Maugham's novel 'Cakes and Ale', The Moon', 'Sixpence' and 'The Razar's Edge'. Ashenden is also the name of a character who appears in several of Maugham's short story.

73. Who among the following is celebrated in John Keats's Lines on the Mermaid Tavern?

Correct Answer: (d) Robin Hood
Solution:

Robin Hood is celebrated in John Keats's 'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern'.
Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium...................
..........................................
.....................O generous food!
Drest as though bold Robin Hood.

74. "The last temptation is the greatest treason To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

(T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral) Why is the 'temptation', 'treason' for the speaker of the lines?

Correct Answer: (a) It is only self-serving
Solution:

The lines - "The Last temptation........" is spoken by Thomas in T.S. Eliot's play 'Murder in the Cathedral'. As the Chorus, Priests and Tempters speak together about the uncertainty of life Thomas retreats into himself to consider the Fourth Tempter's promise that he could find glory if he wills martyrdom for himself. When he speaks again beginning a long speech with the above lines he has firmly committed to dying for the right reason. Thomas's are in the play is to first acknowledged that his pride is leading him towards "the right deed for the wrong reason" and then to rid himself of the "self" the personality that is keeping him from being God's instrument.

75. Who speaks the following lines and to whom?

"O, look upon me, sir,
And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.
No, sir, you must not kneel."

Correct Answer: (b) Cordelia to Lear
Solution:

Cordelia speaks the lines- "O, look upon me, sir, And hold your hands in benediction o'er me. No, sir, you must not kneel" to King Ler, in the famous tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear' in Act-IV, Scene VII (A tent in the French Camp Lear on a bed asleep).

76. Which writer applied the term 'cultural poetics' to his own critical contribution to make literature and arts as part of social practice?

Correct Answer: (a) Stephen Greenblatt
Solution:

'Cultural poetics' also known as the New Historicism' in America and 'Cultural Materialism' in Britain, is a form of literary analysis whose purpose is to discover the original ideology behind significant historical and biological facts about writers, resources and the art they create. Stephen Greenblatt applied the term 'Cultural poetics' to his own critical contribution to make literature and arts as part of social practice.

77. Which one of the following correctly describes the meaning of Macbeth's words' ....life is but a walking shadow'?

Correct Answer: (b) Life is just devoid of substance
Solution:

The Macbeth Quote from Act V, Scene V "Out, out brief Candle Life's but a walking shadow" is a famous Shakespeare Quote on death. These lines are spoken by Macbeth after hearing the news of his wife's death. In the above lines, the brief candle is related with short life span Macbeth in the state of numbness and pain after his wife's death compares life with a brief candle, a walking shadow, a poor player, a tale told by an idiot. Option (b) correctly describes the meaning of Macbeth's words - 'Life is just devoid of substance'.

78. In which of the following paired terms, the relationship between the active and passive forms of a sentence can best established?

Correct Answer: (a) Deep structure - Surface structure
Solution:

Deep structure and Surface structure' can be best established in the relationship between the active and passive forms of a sentence. Deep structure and surface structure are concepts used in linguistic syntax in the Chomskyan tradition of 'transformational generative grammar'.

79. "Culture is ordinary : that is the first fact." Which one of the following is the source of this statement?

Correct Answer: (b) Resources of Hope
Solution:

"Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact" is the source of Raymond Williams famous book Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism'. Hence option (b) is correct.

80. Who of the following are being talked about in the following lines?

"..... you seem to understand me,
By each at once her choppy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
An yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so."

Correct Answer: (c) The witches in Macbeth
Solution:

These lines- "..... you seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : you should be women, An yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so" appears in famous tragedy of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. These lines occurs in Act I Scene III and are being talked about 'The Witches in Macbeth'.