UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, June-2020 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

WHEN I'M ALONE
'When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue As though to be alone were nothing strange. 'When I was young', he said, 'when I was young.... I thought of age, and loneliness, and change, I thought how strange we grow when we're alone, And how unlike the selves that met, and talk, And blow the candles out, and say good-night, Alone....The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but in most faith is overthrown.                                                                                                                    SIEGFRIED SASSOON

For the poet, 'Being alone' is a condition conducive to 

Correct Answer: (c) growing up in an unexpected way
Solution:

For the poet 'Being alone' is a condition conducive to growing up in an unexpected way.

92. For the speaker of the words 'When I'm alone', being alone is

Correct Answer: (a) The normal fate of a human being all his life
Solution:

For the speaker of the words 'When I'm alone' being alone is the normal fate of a human being all his life.

93. Which two of the following statements aptly captures the meaning of 'Alone' for thinking beings?

(A) Meeting talking and bidding goodnight
(B) Quietude and calmness of self
(C) Life lived and understood
(D) Becoming free from faith
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) (B) and (C) only
Solution:

The statement 'quietude and calmness of self and life lived and understood' aptly captures the meaning of 'Alone' for thinking beings.

94. Read the following passage and answer questions that follow:

Poetry, as a mania – one of Plato's two higher forms of "divine" mania - has, in all its species, a mere insanity incidental to it, the "defect of its quality", into which it may lapse in its moment of weakness; and the insanity which follows a vivid poetic anthropomorphism like that of Rossetti may be noted here and there in his work, in a forced and almost grotesque materializing of abstractions, as Dante also became at times a mere subject of the scholastic realism of the Middle Age.
- Walter Pater

In the above passage poetry is described as one of Plato's two higher forms of 'divine' madness. Which is the other one?
Choose the correct option?

Correct Answer: (b) Love
Solution:

Poetry is described as one of Plato's two higher forms of divine madness and love.

95. In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be:

(A) an incidental defect of poetic quality
(B) examples of a madness of thought
(C) an exaggerated concretization of things
(D) a divinely inspired poetic expression
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) (C) and (A) only
Solution:

In Rossetti; the forced personifications may be an exaggerated concretization of things and an incidental defect of poetic quality.

96. Read the following passage and answer questions

I do entreat your grace to pardon me. I know not by what power I am made bold, Nor how it may concern my modesty. In such a presence here to plead my thoughts: But I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may be fall me in this case. If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
- A Midsummer's Night Dream

Who was in love with Demetrius?

Correct Answer: (b) Helena
Solution:

'A Midsummer Night Dream' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. Demetrius, a young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena.

97. The above lines are addressed to

Correct Answer: (a) Theseus
Solution:

The above lines - I do entreat your grace ............... to wed Demetrius, are spoken by Hermia addressed to Theseus in Act I Scene I.
Hermia: I would my father looked but with my eyes.
Theseus: Rather your eyes must with his judgement look.
Hermia - I do entreat your grace ---------.

98. Who is the speaker of the above lines?

Correct Answer: (d) Hermia
Solution:

The above is spoken by Hermia. See the explanation of question no. 97.

99. Read the following and then answer the questions that follow:

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by" and by; dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within - or sometimes only maim him and distort him.
Dickens Hard Times

In the expression "...... looking into all the vessels ranged before him....", which one of the following devices is used? 

Correct Answer: (c) Metaphor
Solution:

In the expression '' ...... looking into all the vessels ranged before him..."metaphor is used.
Metaphor is an implicit as implied comparison between two very dissimilar thing.

100. 'Fancy' is opposed to which two of the following?

(A) Emotion
(B) Reason
(C) Fact
(D) Imagination
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) (B) and (C) only
Solution:Fancy is opposed to reason and fact.