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

Total Questions: 100

31. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Cultures and cultural meanings are the same the world over. Statement II:It is impossible to divide the world into exclusive cultural blocs.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
Solution:

Culture is the characteristic and knowledge of a particular group of people encompassing language, religion, social habits music and arts whether cultural means relating to a particular society and its ideas, customs and art. So, statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is true.

32. Which two of the following novels are part of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy?

(A) The Book of Illusions
(B) Ghosts
(C) The Locked Room
(D) Winter Journal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume. Trilogy is a postmodern interpretation of detective and mystery fiction exploring various philosophical themes.

33. Who among the following theorists defines novel as "a phenomenon multiform in style and variform in speech and voice"?

Correct Answer: (c) Mikhail Bakhtin
Solution:

In Epic and Novel Bakhtin argues that the novel flourishes on diversity, making it uniquely suited to post-industrial society. Bakhtin defines novel as a whole is 'a phenomenon multiform in style and variform in speech and voice'.

34. Who is the author of the short play, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets?

Correct Answer: (b) George Bernard Shaw
Solution:

'The Dark Lady of the Sonnets' is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the Dark Lady accidentally encounters queen Elizabeth I and attempts to pursue her to create a national theater.

35. Which two of the following plays are mentioned in T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent"?

(A) Agamemnon
(B) Antigone
(C) Othello
(D) Dr. Faustus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T.S. Eliot. This is one of the more well known work that Eliot produced in his critical capacity. The plays Agamemnon and Othello are mentioned in this text.

36. Which two of the following works are Daniel Defoe's historical narratives?

(A) History of the Rebellion
(B) Meditations on a Broomstick
(C) A Journal of the Plague Year
(D) Memories of a Cavalier
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

'A Journal of the Plague Year' and 'Memories of a Cavalier' both works are historical narratives. 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) is a fictionalized account of the bubonic Plague that swept through London in 1665. 'Memories of a Cavalier' is also a work of historical fiction, set during the thirty years war and the English Civil Wars.

37. Which two of the following essays have proved particularly productive in the disciplinary practices of Cultural Studies?

(A) Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
(B) Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"
(C) Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"
(D) Stuart Hall, "Encoding/decoding"
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) (A) and (D) only
Solution:

"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and "Encoding/decoding" essays have proved productive in the disciplinary practices of Cultural Studies. 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' was written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal screen. The 'Encoding/decoding' model of communication was first developed by cultural studies in 1973.

38. Match List I with List II

Correct Answer: (d) (A)-(i), (B)-(iv), (C)-(ii), (D)-(iii)
Solution:

The concept Competence/Performance is the system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language and given by Noam Chomsky. Signifier/Signified is a concept most commonly related to semiotics, that can be described as "The study of signs and symbols". Metaphor and Metonymy are two fundamental opposite poles along which a discourse with human language is developed.

39. Which two of the following are part of Virginia Woolf's collection of autobiographical essays?

(A) "A Will to Word It"
(B) "A Sketch of the Past"
(C) "A Faint Hue of the Past"
(D) "Am I a Snob"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) (B) and (D) only
Solution:

Virginia Woolf provides insight into her early life in her autobiographical essays, including 'Reminiscences' (1908), '22 Hyde Park Gate' (1921), 'A Sketch of the Past' (1940) and 'Am I a Snob'.

40. Which two of the following are Samuel Johnson's statements about metaphysical poets?

(A) they were singular in their thoughts
(B) they were careful in their diction
(C) they effected combination of dissimilar images
(D) they avoided occult resemblances
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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

The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits and by greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. They were singular in their thoughts and they effected combination of dissimilar images.