UGC NET English Paper 2 – 2020 cycle (Shift 1) – Question Paper with Answer Key

Arrange the following writers in order of birth:

1. A. Oscar Wilde
2. B. William Langland
3. C. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. D. John Dryden
5. E. Alexander Pope

Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is based on:

To which mythological figure is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Doctor Faustus?

Which oppositions are evoked in Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be'?

1. A. Life and death
2. B. Action and emotion
3. C. Affirmation and confirmation
4. D. Doing and abstaining from doing

Which of the following characters show a scholar's studious abstraction?

1. A. Shylock
2. B. Hamlet
3. C. Il Penseroso
4. D. Mosca

Which of the following is a set of metaphysical poets?

Which rivers are mentioned in Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'?

1. A. Ganges
2. B. Thames
3. C. Humber
4. D. Jhelum

In which book of Paradise Lost do Adam and Eve quarrel over dividing their labour?

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. The Country Wife
2. B. Cymbeline
3. C. The Spanish Tragedy
4. D. The Rivals

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. All for Love
2. B. Venice Preserv'd
3. C. The School for Scandal
4. D. The Country Wife

What are the major themes of Congreve's The Way of the World?

Who wrote Mazeppa, a narrative poem about a seventeenth-century Ukrainian leader?

Who wrote 'A Fragment' (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English?

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Which two of the following are section titles in De Quincey's The English Mail-Coach?

1. A. The Glory of Mobility
2. B. The Vision of Sudden Death
3. C. The Glory of Motion
4. D. The Vision of Unexpected Truth

Which two of the following poems are dramatic monologues?

1. A. Tennyson, 'Ulysses'
2. B. Larkin, 'Church Going'
3. C. Carol Ann Duffy, 'Medusa'
4. D. Katherine Philips, 'A Married State'

Which two of the following poems are by Robert Browning?

1. A. 'Locksley Hall'
2. B. 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'
3. C. 'The Lady of Shalott'
4. D. 'Two in the Campagna'

Arrange the following novelists in order of birth:

1. A. Anne Brontë
2. B. Jane Austen
3. C. Ann Radcliffe
4. D. Fanny Burney
5. E. Maria Edgeworth

In which novel is Harold Skimpole a character?

Which Sherlock Holmes story refers to a significant event in English history?

Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Crome Yellow
2. B. Sons and Lovers
3. C. Mrs Dalloway
4. D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Which two of the following texts are associated with literary feminism?

1. A. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
2. B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
3. C. Jane Austen, Emma
4. D. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

In Waiting for Godot, who says 'Astride of a grave and a difficult birth'?

Which game do the characters play in Act II of The Birthday Party?

Which of the following is most appropriately true of Pinter's plays?

Which Larkin poem deals with the trauma of a rape victim?

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Which of Heaney's bog poems contains the line 'Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible'?

The lives of which writers were the subject of novels by Anthony Burgess?

1. A. Milton
2. B. Marlowe
3. C. Shelley
4. D. Keats

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Which novel contains a questionnaire for the reader?

Which two events are described in Pepys's Diary?

1. A. The Plague in London
2. B. The Great Fire of London
3. C. The War of the Spanish Succession
4. D. The Essex Rebellion

Which two writers inspired the periodical essay?

1. A. Robert Burton
2. B. François Rabelais
3. C. Francis Bacon
4. D. Michel de Montaigne

Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order:

1. A. The Critical Review
2. B. The Monthly Review
3. C. The Gentleman's Magazine
4. D. The Rambler

Which journal publishes articles exclusively on critical theory?

Which Governor-General, Sir Thomas Munro recorded, wanted to make anglicised a country that 'resembles England in nothing'?

Statement I: Orientalists in British India were not sympathetic to India's ancient learning. Statement II: William Jones held that Indians were not inferior to Europeans in imagination, ratiocination and philosophy.

Assertion (A): English was introduced in India mainly to benefit and consolidate British power. Reason (R): English met the social and economic aspirations of the emerging middle class and urban elites.

To whom did Rammohan Roy address his letter of 11 December 1823 pleading for modern Western education?

Which aims did Macaulay's Minute (1835) pursue?

1. A. To promote European literature and science among the natives
2. B. To impart English literature and science through translations
3. C. To encourage native learning through more useful studies
4. D. To stop spending on Oriental works and spend only on English education

In which novel is Lala Kanshi Ram a character?

Who was the first Director of the Central Institute of English, Hyderabad (now EFL University)?

In 'Civil Disobedience', what two things did Thoreau learn from his night in jail?

1. A. That the State is ultimately weak
2. B. That captivity inspires courage
3. C. That his neighbours were friends only in good times
4. D. That captivity brings wisdom about human affairs

Which novel consists of a 999-line poem preceded by a Foreword and followed by a Commentary and Index?

Which two dramatists are associated with epic theatre?

1. A. Fernando Arrabal
2. B. Bertolt Brecht
3. C. Arnolt Bronnen
4. D. James Saunders

What is the subject of Ivan's controversial article in The Brothers Karamazov?

Which statement about Aristotle's Poetics is true?

According to Sidney, which are the three kinds of poetry?

Which science does Hobbes call 'the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind'?

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Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. The Advancement of Learning
2. B. On the Origin of Species
3. C. On Heroes and Hero-Worship
4. D. The Lives of the Poets

Arrange the following critical works in chronological order:

1. A. Preface to Lyrical Ballads
2. B. A Defence of Rhyme
3. C. Life of Cowley
4. D. 'The Frontiers of Criticism'

Who believed that rhyme is not integral to poetry?

1. A. William Wordsworth
2. B. Horace
3. C. Samuel Daniel
4. D. Philip Sidney

Who called blank verse 'verse only to the eye'?

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In 'My First Acquaintance with Poets', whom does Hazlitt call 'the only person I ever knew who answered to the idea of a man of genius'?

Which essay argues that realism as a method is 'a complete failure'?

Which works does Walter Pater, in 'Style', name as examples of 'great art'?

1. A. The Iliad
2. B. The Divine Comedy
3. C. Les Misérables
4. D. Faust

Arrange the following critical terms in the chronological order of their emergence:

1. A. The heresy of paraphrase
2. B. Stream of consciousness
3. C. Practical criticism
4. D. Defamiliarisation

In 'The Metaphysical Poets', which French poets does Eliot set beside the metaphysicals?

1. A. François Villon
2. B. Jean Racine
3. C. Charles Baudelaire
4. D. Arthur Rimbaud

Which of the following describe the basic assumptions of structuralism?

1. A. It is concerned with signs and signification.
2. B. It considers only verbal conventions and codes.
3. C. It began with the works of Jacques Derrida.
4. D. It challenges the belief that literature reflects a given reality.
5. E. All signs are arbitrary, yet necessary for comprehending reality.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
2. B. Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
3. C. Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
4. D. Austin, How to Do Things with Words

Who proposed the 'multi-accentuality' of the sign, the sign's inner dialectic and its 'evaluative accent'?

Which theorist particularly emphasised the social and historical dimensions of a text's reception?

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In The Anxiety of Influence, how does Bloom define 'clinamen'?

Which assumption best expresses the position of post-structuralist criticism?

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Which two terms are specifically associated with Pierre Bourdieu?

1. A. Habitus
2. B. Consciousness
3. C. Desire
4. D. Distinction

Who popularised the term 'glocalisation'?

Statement I: Consumption is driven by self-interest and the maximisation of personal pleasure. Statement II: Social status correlates strongly with housing styles, musical tastes and food preferences.

Which two books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists?

1. A. The Brief Compass
2. B. Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
3. C. Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company
4. D. Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed

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Which two terms are associated with formalist criticism?

1. A. Aura
2. B. Actant
3. C. Narratee
4. D. Defamiliarisation
5. E. Foregrounding

Which feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience expressed in a style of writing different from men's?

1. A. Elaine Showalter
2. B. Luce Irigaray
3. C. Kate Millett
4. D. Simone de Beauvoir
5. E. Hélène Cixous

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Which best explains 'paralanguage'?

Which two statements apply to 'metalanguage'?

1. A. It is a technical language describing the properties of language.
2. B. It is a 'first-order' language.
3. C. It is a 'second-order' language that replaces a first-order language with metaphors.
4. D. It is a 'second-order' language.

Which statement about Saussure's langue and parole is correct?

Who proposed the terms 'competence' and 'performance'?

Assertion (A): Signs are never neutral or innocent. Reason (R): Signs are organised into systems that convey meaning in all cases.

Which statement defines the scope of semiotics?

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Who coined 'the medium is the message'?

Which two statements are admissible about 'Hari wrote a poem on the mountains'?

1. A. It shows lexical ambiguity.
2. B. It shows structural ambiguity.
3. C. It has two deep structures.
4. D. It has two surface structures.

Unlike inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning draws its conclusions exclusively from:

Assertion (A): Research methods are a range of tools used for different types of inquiry. Reason (R): Research tools are products of the situations in which they are applied.

Which of the following define a research hypothesis?

1. A. A proposition that is always true
2. B. A provisional explanation of anything
3. C. A theory that evidence will disprove
4. D. A statement assumed true for the sake of argument

Which two aspects must be strictly observed to avoid plagiarism?

1. A. Subjectivity
2. B. Acknowledgement
3. C. Citation
4. D. Interpretation

Which two entries follow the MLA Handbook (8th edition)?

1. A. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
2. B. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage, 1991.
3. C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley. U of California P, 1996.
4. D. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.

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Which best describes the lady's face as she lies asleep at dawn?

'Logic cannot have any empirical part' because:

1. A. the laws of thought are subjective
2. B. it propounds laws that are capable of demonstration
3. C. its laws are valid for all thought
4. D. its laws are valid for everyone's experience

Which two statements are correct?

1. A. For natural philosophy, nature as an object of experience determines the laws.
2. B. For moral philosophy, nature is to be experienced.
3. C. Natural philosophy does not describe how things actually happen.
4. D. Moral philosophy accounts for what ought to be.

Why is the beadle told to whip his own back instead of the prostitute's?

Who speaks these lines, and to whom?

About vice and sin, the speaker says that:

In 'passed her hands over her face', the 'face' belongs to:

The implication of 'They had been strangers too long' is that: