Unit Wise Questions of UGC NET English 2021 (Morning Shift)

Prose

Q1. Who is the author of the essay “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool”?
 1. Aldous Huxley
2. George Orwell
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Somerset Maugham
Correct Answer :‐Aldous Huxley

Q2. With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiongo generally associated?
1. Decolonising the State
2. Decolonising the Mind
3. Decolonising the Body
4. Decolonising the Polity
Correct Answer :‐ Decolonising the State

Poetry

Q1. Match List I with List II

(First line)
A. “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land…
B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!     
C. I caught this morning morning’s minion…  
D. Look in my face; my name is Might‐have‐been…
E. The sea is calm tonight…

Poet
I. G.M.Hopkins
II. Alfred Tennyson
III. D.G. Rossetti
IV. Matthew Arnold
V. Robert Browning

Correct Answer :‐ A‐II, B‐III, C‐I, D‐V, E‐IV

(Author)
A. Pindar
B. Menander
C. Sappho
D. Aristophanes

 (Form)
I. Epinicia
II. Old Comedy
III. Lyric poetry
IV. New Comedy

Linguistics:

Q1.In comparative philology and sometimes in modern phonology, what is the term used to refer to the deletion of a vowel
within a word?
1. Aphaeresis
2. Equi‐deletion
3. Paradigm
4. Syncope
Correct Answer :‐Aphaeresis

Q2. Which of the following are true of ‘performance’, as used in linguistic theory?
A. It is analogous to the Saussurean concept of langue.
B. It refers to the specific utterances of individual native speakers in actual situations.
C. It is an innate grammar that suggests humans’ universal ability to use language.
 D. It includes hesitations and unfinished structures arising out of psychological difficulties acting upon the speaker.
Answer :‐ A and B only

Q3. Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular meaning?
 1. phoneme
2. phonic substance
3. phonestheme
4. phonemoid
Correct Answer :‐ phoneme

Q4. Arrange the following language areas ofthe human brain in the order in which they involve in hearing, understanding and saying a word:
A. arcuate fasciculus
B. anterior speech cortex
C. motor cortex
D. posterior speech corte

Correct Answer :‐ A, C, D, B

Q5. Empiricist linguistics is concerned with:
1. investigation of the human mind.
2. directly observable sense‐data
3. reason as a determinant of enquiry.
4. innate language knowledge.
Correct Answer :‐ investigation of the human mind.

Q6. In Noam Chomsky’s definition of grammar which two features are drawn from mathematics ?
A. complexity
B. abstraction
C. transformation
D. generation

Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Q7. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Linguists, being primarily interested in the scientific study of language, approach language dispassionately.
Statement II: Linguists are necessarily polyglots who bring their own biases to language study.

1.Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
2.Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
3.Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
4.Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

Correct Answer :‐Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

Q8. Who among the following represents the global spread of English diagrammatically as three concentric circles?
 1. David
2. Jenny Cheshire
3. Braj B. Kachru
4. Salikoko Mufwene
Correct Answer :‐David Crystal

Q9. Who among the following is the founder of the Survey of English Usage (SEU)?
1. Randolph Quirk
2. Henry Watson
3. Michael
4. Bryan Garner
Correct Answer :‐ Randolph Quirk

English In India

Q1.What function of English is exemplified by the use of English in India as a “link language” along with a first
language by stable bilinguals in well‐defined social contexts.
1. complementary
2. supplementary
3. auxiliary
4. equative
 Correct Answer :‐ complementary

Q2. Which of these did the Wood’s Despatch (1854) seek to propagate?
 A. Impart Western knowledge to Indians
B. Restrict access to English learning in India
C. Educate British officers in Sanskrit and Persian
D. Create a class of public servants
Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Q3. Which of the following statements is true of the working group set up by the University Grants Commission in 1978 to study the medium of instruction in higher education?

1. It recommended a quicker switchover of the medium of instruction from English to Indian languages.
2. It observed that English need not be displaced as the medium of instruction although regional languages were quite ready to take over its functions.
3. It argued that English as a highly developed language was best suited for India’s industrial and scientific progress.
4. It asserted that English had the potential to further polarize an already‐divided nation along socio‐economic and intellectual fault lines.
Correct Answer :‐ It recommended a quicker switchover of the medium of instruction from English to Indian languages.

Literary Theory:

 Q1. Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990‐91) never happened?

1. Zygmunt Bauman
2. Jean Baudrillard
3. Jacques Derrida
4. Jurgen Habermas
Correct Answer :‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Q2. What 19th‐century philosophical term of Russian origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to describe the disintegration of traditional morality in western society?
1. absolutism
2. Cynicism
3. nihilism
4. anarchism
Correct Answer :‐ absolutism

Q3. Which of the following statements best describes Terry Eagleton’s views on literature?
1. It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order
2. Its raison d’être is to reflect social reality directly.
3. Its primary purpose is to produce beauty and pleasure.
4. It is closely allied to religion in its significance and seriousness.
Correct Answer :‐ It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order.

Q4. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory
1. gynesis
2. scriptible
3. negritude
4. Paratext
Correct Answer :‐ D, A, C, B

Q5. Given below are two statements

Statement I: New Historicism stipulates that teleological connotations of history have to be eschewed.
Statement II: New Historicism neither denies noraccepts totalizing explanations of historical events.
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false
4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Correct Answer :‐ Both Statement I and Statement II are true

 Q6. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion

A : Postmodern narratives focus on the indeterminate and unstable nature of textuality and subjectivity. Reason
R : Postmodern narrative acts regard narratives and characters as tentative representations of writing and identity. In light of the above statements,
choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
2. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
Correct Answer :‐ Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Q7. Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of ‘cultural intermediaries’?
1. Luis Althusser
2. Karl Marx
3. Pierre Bourdieu
4. Jurgen Habermas
Correct Answer :‐ Luis Althusser

Q8. From whom does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term ‘subaltern’?
 1. Karl Marx
2. Friedrich Engels
3. Louis Althusser
4. Antonio Gramsci
Correct Answer :‐Antonio Gramsci

Q9. Which of the following does the Subaltern Studies project contend?
A. Traditional historiography celebrated the role of the subalterns.
 B. Traditional history of India’s freedom movement celebrates the contribution of select icons.
C. Traditional historiography highlights the dominant strands of India’s freedom struggle.
D. Subaltern Studies historiography highlights the dominant strands of India’s freedom struggle.

Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Q10. Who among the following considered paraphrase as ‘a heresy’
1. Percy Lubbock
2. Edmund Wilson
3. I.A.Richards
4. Cleanth Brooks
Correct Answer :‐ Percy Lubbock

Q11. Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication.
A. This Bridge Called My Back
B. Sexual Politics
C. Gender Trouble
D. The Feminine Mystique

Correct Answer :‐ B, D, A, C

Q12. Who is the author of the essay, “What Isn’t Literature?”
1. E. D. Hirsch Jr.
2. Paul Ricoeur
3. Hans‐Georg Gadamer
4. Terry Eagleton
Correct Answer :‐ E. D. Hirsch Jr.

Q13. Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the ‘semiotic’?

1. Authority, order and patriarchy
2. Displacement, slippage and condensation
3. Repression, control and normalcy
4. Logic, reason and power
Correct Answer :‐ Authority, order and patriarchy

Q14. Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought?
A. Literature transcends the limits of the age of its origin and so is timeless.
B. Literature is untouched by the essential human nature which is unchanging.
C. Literature is devoid of any purpose to enhance life or promote human values.
D. Identity is a unique essence unaffected by environment and society.
Correct Answer :‐ A and C only

Q15. Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye’s typology of literature?
A. Mythos of spring: Comedy
B. Mythos of summer: Satire
C. Mythos of autumn: Tragedy
D. Mythos of winter: Romance
Correct Answer :‐A and B only

Research Method and Material in English

Q1. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Unlike scientific research, literary research does not have specific materials for investigation and scientific
tools for reaching a conclusion and formulating a theory.
Statement II: Literary research consists of critical interpretations of an author’s work to the exclusion of biography and
editing of texts.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.

4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

Correct Answer :‐ Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.

Q2. Which two of the following are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?
 A. If the title page of a book contains an imprint as well as the publisher’s name, omit the imprint and use the publisher’s name.
B. While giving a URL copy it from the Web browser but omit http:// or https://.
 C. If a quotation extends to more than five lines set it off from the text as block indented an inch from the left margin.
D. Long titles should be abbreviated using the first letter of key words typed
in upper case without intervening space.
Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Q3. Which two of the following are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen Greenblatt?

A. crisis of meaning
B. circulation of meaning
C. production of meaning
D. deferral of meaning
Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Literary Criticism

 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

 What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet’s own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design. But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self‐recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a idealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.        :     Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
                                                         

Q1. In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
1. There can be no use of poetry.
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
Correct Answer :‐ There can be no use of poetry.

Q2. What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’
 1. Promoting serious ideas
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
3. Promoting joyous expectations
4. Promoting social honesty in life
Correct Answer :‐ Promoting serious ideas

Q3. If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:
 1. some truth of untruths.
2. truth of self‐recognition
3. creating ideal pleasures
4. re‐living the past joys.
Correct Answer :‐ some truth of untruths.

Q4.In “An Apology for Poetry” Sidney discusses the didactic function of poetry by comparing it to philosopy and:

1. religion.
2. aesthetics.
3. History
4. ethics.
Correct Answer :‐ religion.

Q5. Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication.
A. T. S. Eliot, “The Function of Criticism”
B. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition”
C. Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
D. Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction”
Correct Answer :‐ C, B, A, D

Q6. Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics?
A. R. S. Crane
B. E. M. W. Tillyard
C. Elder Olson
D. Allen Tate
Correct Answer :‐ A and C only

Q7. According to Longinus which two of the following qualities apply to ‘great poetry’?
A. It must be the work of genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
Correct Answer :‐A and B only

Q8. In “The Function of Criticism” T.S.Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being devotees of what he called:
1. “the Inner Voice”.
 2. “the Romantic Impulse”.
3. “the Symbol Hunt”.
4. “the Muse’s Mystery”.
 Correct Answer :‐ “the Inner Voice”.

Q9. Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on:
1. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
2. Wyndham Lewis’s The Apes of God.
3. James Joyce’s Ulysses.
4. George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
Correct Answer :‐Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Culture Studies

Q1.Which of these UK universities saw the first institutional incorporation of Cultural Studies?
1. Bath Spa University
2. Oxford University
3. University of Birmingham
4. Cambridge University
Correct Answer :‐ Bath Spa University

Q2. What was the name of the journal published from Bowling Green University beginning 1969, which carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films?
1. Journal of Mass Culture
2. Journal of Popular Culture
3. Journal of Public Culture
4. Journal of Culture Studies
Correct Answer :‐Journal of Mass Culture

Q3. Which of these questions would Cultural Studies be most interested in asking?
A. Who decides what is to be produced?
B. Who can afford the artifact?
C. How is the artifact marketed?
D. What is the register of speech in the artifact?
Correct Answer :‐ A, B and C only

Q4. Which of these does the book How to read Donald Duck identify as an important element in its analysis of imperialist ideology in the Walt Disney comicbook?
1. impoverished loyalty
2. noble savage
3. scientific magic
4. heartless civilisation
Correct Answer :‐ impoverished royalty

Misalleneous

Q.1 Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started publication.
A. The Tatler
B. The Examiner
C. The Review
D. The Spectator
Correct Answer :‐ A, D, C, B

Q2. Arrange the following periodicals in the chronological order in which they started publication:
A. The Spectator
B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler
D. The Critical Review
Correct Answer :‐ A, B, C, D

Q3. Who, among these, does Gabriel Garcia Marquez name right in the beginning of his Nobel Prize address?
(World Literature)
A. Ferdinand Magellan
 B. Christopher Columbus
C. Marco Polo
D. Antonio Pigafetta
Correct Answer :‐ A and B only

Q4. ‘Potato’ is a sixteenth‐century borrowing into English from
1. Spanish.
2. French.
3. German
4. Norwegian
Correct Answer :‐Spanish

Q5. Match List I with List II

(Poet)

A. Charles Baudelaire
B. Heinrich Heine
C. Sylvia Path
D. Jose Marti

Language
I. French
 II. German
III. English
 IV. Spanish