Deconstruction Previous Year UGC-NET English

Clip

UPDATE: Now, you can get these 4000+ questions in booklet/hardcopy format. Click here to know more.

UGC-NET Literature Theory Quiz

1. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Writer)

(a) Homi Bhabha

(b) T.S. Eliot

(d) John Fiske

List-II (Book)

I. Reading the popular

II. The Location of culture

III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture

IV. Image-Music-Text

1)(a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III
2)(a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I
3)(a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV
4)(a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

2. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.

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 signifiers.

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

3. Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?

1)Deification
2)Impoverishment
3)Infantilization
4)Personification

4. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.

Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of “truth”.

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

5. Match List I with List II:

List I (Concepts)

[A] “Bricolage”

[B] “Dasein”

[C] “Parapraxes”

[D] “Polyphony”

List II (Theorists)

[I] Martin Heidegger

[II] Sigmund Freud

[III] Lévi-Strauss

[IV] Mikhail Bakhtin

1)A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
2)A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

6. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Hannah Arendt’s “defactualization” is very close to the concept of “post-truth”.

Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.

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

7. J. Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist reading of which of the following poems of P.B. Shelley?

1)“The Triumph of Life”
2)“Ode to the West Wind”
3)“Revolt of Islam”
4)“The Witch of Atlas”

8. Find the correct explanation of the term “Aporia”:

1)It denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question
2)It is an address to something inanimate
3)It is applied to a work of art fraught with inherent tension
4)It refers to a form of denial of existence

9. Identify the one that has not been paired correctly:

1)Criticism in Wilderness – Geoffrey Hartman
2)Madness and Civilization – Roland Barthes
3)Poetry and Repression – Harold Bloom
4)Strangers to Ourselves – Julia Kristeva

10. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The poststructuralists’ genre critics suggest that the way to ‘de-essentialize’ genre is to re-cast it in terms of discourse.

Statement II: But while the poststructuralist move toward dialectical exchange and ideology is both useful and necessary, conceiving of genre primarily in terms of discourse reveals certain limitations that are intrinsic to poststructuralism’s basic approach to discourse and to the relationship envisioned between discourse and subjectivity.

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

11. Which of the following concepts are associated with the writings of Jean Baudrillard?

A) Hyperreality
B) Bricolage
C) Rhizome
D) Simulacra
E) Dispositif

1)A and B
2)A and E
3)C and D
4)A and D

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

Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism.

Reason (R): Poststructuralism continues structuralism’s strongly humanist perspective and it closely follows structuralism in its belief that language is not the key to our understanding of ourselves and the world.

1)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2)Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
3)(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect
4)(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct

13. Match List I with List II:

List I (Concepts)

A. Deconstruction

B. Hegemony

C. Habitus

D. Interpellation

List II (Theorists)

I. Jacques Derrida

II. Antonio Gramsci

III. Louis Althusser

IV. Pierre Bourdieu

1)A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2)A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3)A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

14. The term ‘simulacra’ in postmodern discourse is about:

(A) Absence of vivid representation of reality
(B) Artificially produced reality dubbed as authentic
(C) A rejection of modernistic view of reality
(D) The gap between the perception and reality
(E) The psychological interplay at the level of subconscious

1)(C) and (E) Only
2)(D) and (E) Only
3)(A) and (B) Only
4)(B) and (C) Only

15. What does aptly define minor literature, according to Gilles Deleuze?

1)Deconstruction of Material Reality
2)Deterritorialisation of language
3)Heteroglossia
4)Metanarrative

16. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Discourses are cultural and social practices rooted in psychic and physical reality.

Reason (R): Foucault defines discourse as the material manifestation of thought which shapes our subjectivity.

1)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2)Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3)(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4)(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

Clip

Deconstruction Previous Year UGC-NET English

UGC-NET Literature Theory Quiz

Structuralism Previous Year UGC-NET English

Noam Chomsky, Mikhail Bhaktin & Michel Foucault Previous Year UGC-NET English

Leave a comment Cancel reply

Join us on Telegram for exclusive updates on English Literature