UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, December-2019 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

71. In Paradise Lost Milton invokes his 'Heavenly Muse', 'Urania', at the beginning of which two books?

(A) Book I
(B) Book IV
(C) Book IX
(D) Book VII
Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (a) (A) and (D)
Solution:

'Paradise Lost' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th century English poet John Milton. In this epic Milton invokes 'Heavenly Muse', 'Urania' at the beginning of Book (I) and Book (VII).

72. Which among the following group of writers is labelled as 'University Wits'?

Correct Answer: (d) Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe
Solution:

Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe are labelled as 'University Wits'.

73. hich of the following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela?

Correct Answer: (d) Joseph Andrews
Solution:

Joseph Andrews, in full - The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams, novel written by Henry Fielding, published in 1742. It was written as a reaction against Samuel Richardson's novel 'Pamela' as Virtue Rewarded (1740). Joseph Andrews begins as a parody of 'Pamela'.

74. Which two of the following plays were written by Thomas Heywood?

(A) Gorboрис
(B) The Play Called the Four P.Р.
(C) The Play of the Weather
(D) The Spanish Tragedy
Choose the correct option

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

Thomas Heywood was an English writer, known for his plays, poems and collection of proverbs. 'The play called the Four PP' and 'The play of the Weather' is written by Thomas Heywood. 'The Play of the Weather' is an English interlude or morality play from early Tudor period.

75. Which two aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?

(A) Uni directionality
(B) Multidirectionality
(C) Complex and extensive
(D) Simplistic and abbreviated
Choose the correct option:

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

Multidirectionality complex and extensive are the aspects of cultural diffusion in the age of Globalization need to be addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular.

76. Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of which two modernist writers?

(A) Graham Greene
(B) James Joyce
(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(D) Stephen Spender
Choose the correct option:

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

Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins. James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins are modernist writer.

77. Who among the following prose writers of the Romantic period authored "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts"?

Correct Answer: (c) Thomas De Quincey
Solution:

"On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" is an essay by Thomas Dee Quincey first published in 1827 in Blackwood's Magazine. In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas De Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered 'insomuch' that if a man calls himself a philosopher and never had his life attempted rest assured there is nothing in him.

78. Which of the following combinations best describes the typical methodology of literary research?

Correct Answer: (c) Textual, critical and historical
Solution:

Textual, critical and historical combination best describe the typical methodology of literary research.

79. Who are the co-editors of Chutneyfying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish?

(A) Jamuna Kachru
(B) Rita Kothari
(C) Rupert Snell
(D) Alastair Pennycook
Choose the correct option:

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

Rita Kothari and Rupert Snell are the соeditors of Chuntneyfying English : The Phenomenon of Hinglish.

80. Which British administrator passed a resolution for the 'Promotion of European literatures and Science among the natives of India"?

Correct Answer: (c) Lord Bentick
Solution:

Lord Bentick was the British administrator who passed a resolution for the 'Promotion of European literature and science among the native of Indian.