December 2021 – NTA NET English Literature -Question Analysis

Social History

1. Arrange the following in their chronological order:
   1. (a) English replaces Persian as offcial language of the company.
   2. (b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India.
   3. (c) Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and madras.
   4. (d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta.
2. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position? The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.
3. Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s, The Other side of Silence primarily seek to do? To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide. To foreground a personal history of the partition
4. Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India? Murray Colonial and Home Library Series, Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
5. Which of these departments did the Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?
   1. (a) Arabic
   2. (b) English
   3. (d) Law
6. (Library/Institute)
   1. (a) Connemara Public Library – Chennai
   2. (b) Dhwanyaloka – Mysore
   3. (c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute – Pune
   4. (d) Asiatic Society – Kolkata
7. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771 Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole

1. Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel? Stendhal
2. Q.30) Match List-I with List-II: Book- Author
   1. (a) English, August – Upamanyu Chatterjee
   2. (b) In Custody – Anita Desai
   3. (c) Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
   4. (d) Funny Boy – Shyam Selvuadurai
3. Which of these characters gure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? Estragon, Pozzo
4. Which among the following are examples of the Kunstler roman? David Copperfield, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
5. With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated? Symbolist, Modernist
6. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations without altering the original title? Kathy Acker
7. Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:
   1. (a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things 2
   2. (b) Kiran Desai, The inheritance of Loss 4
   3. (c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence 1
   4. (d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake 3
8. Match
   1. (a) A Handful of Dust – Evelyn  Wagh
   2. (b) Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
   3. (c) Howard’s End – E. M. Forster
   4. (d) The Plumed Serpent – D. H. Lawrence
   5. (e) Those Barren Leaves – Aldous Huxley
9. Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler? Count Dracula
10. Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with? The Crystal World
11. Who wrote the Labyrinth of Solitude? Octavio Paz
12. Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?
    1. (a) The British Museum is Falling down
    2. (c) Changing Places
    3. (d) Nice Work
13. Arrange the following characters in the chronological in which they appeared in Indian literature?
    1. (a) Praneshacharya (Samskara) 4
    2. (b) Sakuni (Mahabharata) 1
    3. (c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof) 3
    4. (d) Gobar (Godan) 2

1. Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
2. Q.19) Match list-I with list-II:
   1. (Poem)
   2. (a) “The Road not taken “ – Robert Frost
   3. (b) “Tonight, I can Write the Saddest lines” – Pablo Nerula
   4. (c) “I hear America Singing” – Walt Whitman
   5. (d) “I, too, Sing America” – Langston Hughes
3. Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:
   1. (a) The Imagist poets 3
   2. (b) The Cavalier poets 1
   3. (c) The Movement Poets 4
   4. (d) The Lake poets 2
4. Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright? “Woman to Man”, “The Old Prison”
5. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”? Book XI
6. (Book – Poet)
   1. (a) Anniversaries – John Donne
   2. (b) The Temple – George Herbert
   3. (c) The Rehearsal Traspros’d – Andrew Marvell
   4. (d) Pindarique Odes – Abraham Cowley
7. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes? Wodwo, Lupercal
8. Arrange the following poems by W.B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication?
   1. “Adam’s Curse” 1
   2. “The Wild Swans at Coole” 2
   3. “The Second coming” 3
   4. “Among School Children” 4
9. Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:
   1. (a) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 1
   2. (b) Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads 2
   3. (d) Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil 3
   4. (c) Pablo Neruda’s Canto General 4
10. Who among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? Rabindranath Tagore, Bob Dylan
11. Poets:
    1. a) Robert Browning – Srafford
    2. (b) S.T. Coleridge – Remorse
    3. (c) A.W. Pinero – The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
    4. (d) Alfred Tennyson – Queen Mary
    5. (e) William Wordsworth – The Borderers

1. Shakespeare, King Lear
2. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre? Epic theatre
3. Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays? Workings of power
4. Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson? Taking after the practice of the Moralities and interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae patronymically. Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick To catch the old one belong to the genre of Comedy of Humors that Jonson is said to have pioneered.
5. Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”? Marcellus
6. Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play? The Taming of the Shrew
7. The opening and closing lines for waiting for Godot are spoken by estragon.
8. (Plays – Playwright)
   1. (a) Madmen and Specialists – II. Wole Soyinka
   2. (b) The Sea at Dauphin – III. Derek Walcott
   3. (c) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi – IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’s
   4. (d) An Echo in the Bone – I. Dennis Scott

1. Who is the author of the truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?  A. Revathi
2. Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals” focus on primarily? Brazil
3. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.
   1. (a) Longman’s Magazine 4
   2. (b) Cornhill Magazine 3
   3. (c) Blackwood’s Magazine 1
   4. (d) Bentley’s Miscellany 2
4. (Text – Author)
   1. (a) Advancement of learning – Francis Bacon
   2. (b) Past and Present Thomas Carlyle
   3. (c) English Traits – R.W. Emerson
   4. (d) Illness as Metaphor Susan Sontag
5. Who wrote the short story, “The volter”? Chinua Achebe
6. Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”? Tzvetan Todorov
7. Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”? William Hazlitt

1. In “The function of Criticism at the present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism? Disinterestedness
2. In “The life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets? Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses. – They neither copied nature nor life.
3. Match List -1 with List-II: Writer – book
   1. (a) Homi Bhabha – The Location of Culture.
   2. (b) T.S. Eliot – Notes Towards the Denition of culture.
   3. (c) Roland Barthes – Image – Music – Text
   4. (d) John Fiske- Reading the poupular
4. How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”? ‘A tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’
5. Which two of the following fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The study of poetry”? Personal estimate, Historic estimate
6. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in new bearings in English poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis? Milton and Shelley
7. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering is as both a blessing and a curve? Harold Bloom
8. Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial? Plato
9. Texts:
   1. The Lie of the Land – II. Rajeswari Sunder Ranjan
   2. Masks of Conquest – III. Gauri Viswanathan
   3. Rethinking English – IV. Swathi Joshi
   4. This Gift of English – I. Alok Mukherjee
10. Q.91) Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic imagination four Essays? “Discourse in the Novel”, “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”

1. The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we: (b) Are deep into buying and selling. (d) Are in to schools of philosophy.
2. Which two of the following are words by I.A Richards? Science and Poetry, The philosophy of Rhetoric
3. What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called? Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
4. Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial lm: The lm magazine columnist -: Fan clubs
5. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society? It critiques the idea of high culture. It denies culture as a way of life.
6. Which of these generally taken to be true of cultural studies? It is politically engaged. It studies the means of production of a text.
7. Who among the following says that ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individual to their real condition of existence”? Louis Althusser
8. Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
9. Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts? J.L. Austin and John Searle
10. Who is the author of Radiant Textuality? [1] Jerome McGann
11. Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green university from 1969, which carried essays on spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films? It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture. It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture.
12. Who among the following has coined the terms, ‘eco- feminism’? Francoise d’Eaubonne
13. Which of the following is true of mass media? It usually has a central, single source.
14. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:
    1. Locutionary Act 1
    2. Interpellation 2
    3. Phallogocentrism
    4. Interpretive community 4
15. Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Negugi Wa Thiongo object to be in 1968? The primacy of English literatures and cultures. The focus on the study of the historic continuity of English Literature
16. Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxes’? Antonio Gramsci
17. Given below are two statements: Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signiers.
18. Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky? Syntactic Structures, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
19. Which of these is identied by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Matter art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology? Infantilization
20. Which of the following narratives cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author”? The Thousand and One Nights

1. Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India? India is counted among the largest English – speaking communities in the world. English is the country’s principal language of commerce.
2. The set of inected forms taken by a single word is: Lexeme
3. Who, in “The world as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India? Susan Sontag
4. Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language.
5. Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child ‘s first language acquisition:
   1. Cooling
   2. Babbling
   3. Holophrastic
   4. Telegraphic Speech
6. Which of the following is a dead language? Gothic
7. Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of The MLA Handbook?
   1. (b) Kincaid, Jamaica. “In history.” Callaloo, vol.24, no.2, Spring 2001, pp .620-26.
   2. (c) Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
8. Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome? Prabal Dasgupta

1. Aporia
2. Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature : Silver-Fork
3. Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors? Ghostwords
4. Usage in “you have hissed the mystery lectures” is an example of: Spoonerism
5. Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are: Homologues
6. The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in: 1951
7. Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style? MHRA
8. Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:
   1. (a) Dissociation of Sensibility 2
   2. (b) Unreliable Narrator 4
   3. (c) Theatre of Cruelty 3
   4. (d) Egotistical Sublime 1