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Organisation : Central Board Of Secondary Education
Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : Folk Literature
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016

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Folk Literature Model Question :

Time : 1 1/4 hours
Maximum Marks : 100
Note :
** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.

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1. Who stated ‘Folklore was the mirror of a nation and reflected its soul’ ?
(1) Wilhelm Grimm
(2) Johann Gottfried Herder
(3) W.J. Thoms
(4) E.B. Tylor

2. The study of the relations between signifiers and signification is known as
(1) Pragmatics
(2) Semantics
(3) Morphemes
(4) Phonemes

4. ‘To me the term ‘folklore’ is most meaningful when applied to the unwritten literary manifestations of all people, literary or otherwise’ – who stated this ?
(1) Von Sydow
(2) Axel Olrik
(3) John L. Mish
(4) George M. Foster

5. Riddle which is generally expressed in allegorical language that require ingenuity for their solution is known as
(1) Enigma
(2) Pedagogy
(3) Paradigm
(4) Metaphor

6. Analogical method comprises
(1) Cognitive process of information
(2) Exemplification, metaphor and metonymy
(3) Transferring meaning from a particular to another particular subject
(4) Argument from one to all

7. Who said that, ‘If a riddle is an overt question with a covert answer, a proverb is an overt answer to a covert question’ ?
(1) Andre Joles
(2) Claude Levi-Strauss
(3) Pierre Maranda
(4) G.B. Milner

8. Which one is not Freud’s conception :
(1) Conscious mind
(2) Pre-conscious mind
(3) Unconscious mind
(4) Racial mind

9. The study of Multi-word lexical units is called
(1) Phraseology
(2) Philology
(3) Phonology
(4) Morphology

10. A curse believed to be cast by a malevolent scowl is known as
(1) Exorcism
(2) Evil eye
(3) Sympathic magic
(4) Divination

11. Relationship between elements in language refers to their occurrence in a linear sequence is considered as
(1) Pragmatic
(2) Semantic
(3) Syntagmatic
(4) Paradigmatic

12. Context of a story telling comprises of
(1) text, ritual, storyteller, magic
(2) narrator, occasion, audience, interactions
(3) audience, ritual, narrator, evil eye practice
(4) ritual, text, riddle, occasion

13. According to Saussure the definition of Phoneme contains two major principles
I. Sound-images
II. Phonational act
III. Auditory impression
IV. Word structure
Codes :
(1) I, II and III are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

14. Folklore, like any product of culture, can be fully understood only in connection with its
I. Oral Literature
II. Functions
III. Societal contexts
IV. Aesthetics
Codes :
(1) II and III are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) I, II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

15. According to Richard Dorson what is fundamentally required to make ‘folklore as an
academic discipline’ ?
I. Charity base
II. Institutional base
III. Political base
IV. Intellectual base
Codes :
(1) I and II are correct. (2) II and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct. (4) III and IV are correct.

16. Ballad Singer uses ‘narrative repetition’ and ‘causative repetition’ as a structural mechanism to
I. Frame narrative
II. Deconstruct narrative
III. Link scenes
IV. Build scenes
Codes :
(1) III and IV are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

17. Critical ethnography begins and ends with the problems that community members deem important for study and the methodology device is based on
I. Non-participant – observation
II. Self-reflexivity
III. Judicial activism
IV. Research activism
Codes :
(1) II and IV are correct.
(2) III and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

18. Alan Dundes’ Structural Typology of Folktale is based on
I. Charles S. Peirce Model
II. Kenneth L. Pike’s Model
III. North American Indian Folktales
IV. North American Folktales
Codes :
(1) III and IV are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

19. The scientific method of Research is based on certain basic postulates such as
I. Subjective Observation
II. Pre-conceptual Frames
III. Empirical Evidence
IV. Ethical Neutrality
Codes :
(1) III and IV are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) II and III are correct.
(4) I and IV are correct.

20. Performance role in the study of Culture was advocated by the theories of
I. Ethnography of Speaking
II. Rites of Passage
III. Interpretation of Dream
IV. Paradigmatic structuralism
Codes :
(1) I and III are correct.
(2) II and IV are correct.
(3) I and IV are correct.
(4) I and II are correct.

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