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

In which two plays does the blind seer Tiresias appear?

1. A. Oedipus the King
2. B. Agamemnon
3. C. Antigone
4. D. Oedipus at Colonus

Who instruct Faustus in the dark arts?

Which statement about the printing of Shakespeare's plays is correct?

Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh explaining The Faerie Queene was:

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. The Tempest
2. B. All for Love
3. C. Volpone
4. D. The School for Scandal

Match List I with List II:

Arrange the following prose works in chronological order:

1. A. Carlyle, Past and Present
2. B. Hobbes, Leviathan
3. C. Ruskin, Unto This Last
4. D. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson

When Milton recast Paradise Lost from ten books into twelve in 1674, whose model did he follow?

Which two of the following are Defoe's historical narratives?

1. A. History of the Rebellion
2. B. A Meditation upon a Broomstick
3. C. A Journal of the Plague Year
4. D. Memoirs of a Cavalier

Which two of the following are odes in the Horatian manner?

1. A. Jonson, 'To the Immortal Memory… of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison'
2. B. Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
3. C. Pope, 'Ode on Solitude'
4. D. Tennyson, 'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington'

In which act of The Way of the World does the 'proviso scene' between Mirabell and Millamant occur?

In Browning's 'Caliban upon Setebos', Setebos is:

Match List I with List II:

Mr Pumblechook is a character in:

Which two of the following were published in 1859?

1. A. On the Origin of Species
2. B. A Tale of Two Cities
3. C. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
4. D. Silas Marner

To which boarding school does Mrs Reed send Jane Eyre?

Who wrote the short play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets?

In which story does the narrator watch the consumptive Mr Shaynor recreate Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in a trance?

Which two of the following are interludes in Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga?

1. A. To Let
2. B. Indian Summer of a Forsyte
3. C. Awakening
4. D. In Chancery

In which Poe story is the narrator haunted by a rival with the same name and an uncanny likeness?

Which two of the following are Virginia Woolf's autobiographical essays?

1. A. 'A Will to Word It'
2. B. 'A Sketch of the Past'
3. C. 'A Faint Hue of the Past'
4. D. 'Am I a Snob?'

Which Larkin poem ends 'Never such innocence again'?

Which two of the following are Heaney's 'bog poems'?

1. A. 'Personal Helicon'
2. B. 'Punishment'
3. C. 'The Early Purges'
4. D. 'The Tollund Man'

In Pinter's The Birthday Party, who suggests the party?

Which of the following are plays by John Osborne?

1. A. Look Back in Anger
2. B. Loot
3. C. Funeral Games
4. D. Déjàvu

What do Lucky's bags in Waiting for Godot contain?

Which two novels belong to Joyce Cary's first trilogy?

1. A. Aissa Saved
2. B. To Be a Pilgrim
3. C. Herself Surprised
4. D. Charley Is My Darling

Which of the following are non-fiction works by Peter Ackroyd?

1. A. Escape from Earth
2. B. The Great Fire of London
3. C. The English Ghost
4. D. English Music

Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order:

1. A. The London Magazine
2. B. The Quarterly Review
3. C. The Spectator (1828)
4. D. The Edinburgh Review

Which journal is devoted exclusively to theoretical concepts?

Which of the following are feminist theoretical periodicals?

1. A. Spectrum
2. B. Signs
3. C. Chrysalis
4. D. Transition

Statement I: The Education Commission of 1964–66 recommended removing English as the medium of instruction at college level. Statement II: English largely remains the language of administration and jurisprudence.

Match List I with List II:

Who described the people of Hindustan as 'a race of men lamentably degenerate and base'?

Which body held that English divides the people into two nations, the few who govern and the many who are governed?

Which body distinguished the teaching of English as a skill from the teaching of English literature?

Arrange the following autobiographical works in chronological order:

1. A. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
2. B. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth
3. C. Nayantara Sahgal, Prison and Chocolate Cake
4. D. Kamala Das, My Story

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. The White Tiger
2. B. A Tiger for Malgudi
3. C. A Suitable Boy
4. D. Heat and Dust

Arrange the following books of poetry in chronological order:

1. A. Ezekiel, The Unfinished Man
2. B. Tagore, Gitanjali (English)
3. C. Kolatkar, Jejuri
4. D. Sarojini Naidu, The Sceptred Flute

Who wrote the essay 'Naipaul's India and Mine'?

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Which two does Emerson call 'the chancellors of God' in 'Self-Reliance'?

1. A. Truth
2. B. Cause
3. C. Spirit
4. D. Effect

Which two novels belong to Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy?

1. A. The Book of Illusions
2. B. Ghosts
3. C. The Locked Room
4. D. Winter Journal

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Which Borges story has an epigraph from Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy?

How does Christ respond to the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov?

Into which two broad divisions does Plato's Divided Line split reality?

Which two poets defended poetry against Plato's charges?

1. A. John Dryden
2. B. P. B. Shelley
3. C. T. S. Eliot
4. D. Philip Sidney

Who argued that the poet 'nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth', answering Plato?

Into which three kinds does Bacon divide poetry in The Advancement of Learning?

Which two of the following are Johnson's views on the metaphysical poets?

1. A. They were 'singular in their thoughts'.
2. B. They were careful of their diction.
3. C. They combined dissimilar images.
4. D. They avoided occult resemblances.

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'

Match List I with List II:

Who coined the term 'aesthetics'?

Which two plays does Eliot mention in 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'?

1. A. Agamemnon
2. B. Antigone
3. C. Othello
4. D. Doctor Faustus

Who highlighted the role of print-languages in the rise of nationalism?

In which essay does Pound define the Image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'?

Which of the following does a deconstructive reading show?

1. A. A text must always be read in context.
2. B. 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte' (there is no outside-text).
3. C. A text may betray itself.
4. D. A text may have an ascertainable meaning.
5. E. Meaning is endlessly deferred.

Match List I with List II:

Who described the novel as 'multiform in style and variform in speech and voice'?

Which statement about Jakobson's account of metaphor and metonymy in aphasia is correct?

Match List I with List II:

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Which of the following essays have been productive in cultural studies?

1. A. Laura Mulvey, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
2. B. Viktor Shklovsky, 'Art as Technique'
3. C. Sigmund Freud, 'The Uncanny'
4. D. Stuart Hall, 'Encoding/Decoding'

Who developed the idea of 'interpretive communities'?

Which of the following are features of Barthes's 'writerly' text?

1. A. The reader accepts its meaning with little effort.
2. B. It focuses attention on what is written.
3. C. It makes the reader a producer of the text.
4. D. It tends to be self-conscious.

Which statement represents the Frankfurt School's view of culture?

Which word group gives the moments of communication in Stuart Hall's 'Encoding/Decoding'?

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

1. A. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
2. B. Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
3. C. Partridge, Usage and Abusage
4. D. Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language

Who wrote The Complete Plain Words?

Assertion (A): Understanding a cultural form would not simply place it within one specific culture. Reason (R): Cultural forms are best studied at the intersection of different cultural networks.

Statement I: Cultures and cultural meanings are the same the world over. Statement II: It is impossible to divide the world into exclusive cultural blocs.

Which two edited This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color?

1. A. Audre Lorde
2. B. Barbara Smith
3. C. Gloria Anzaldúa
4. D. Cherríe Moraga

Who coined the term 'genderlect'?

Assertion (A): English is now a subject that makes learners subtle, tough-minded readers. Reason (R): Students study the historical and ontological status of texts.

How does a metaphor differ from a simile?

'Nice day again, isn't it?' is an example of:

Which two of the following words came into English from Czech?

1. A. Pistol
2. B. Robot
3. C. Sauna
4. D. Coach

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Which two meanings are admissible for 'You do not know how good oysters taste'?

1. A. How good oysters are to eat
2. B. How oysters taste when cooked
3. C. What oysters taste when they eat
4. D. How good oysters (good ones) taste things when they eat

The ability of language to refer to things not present in the immediate environment is called:

Which of the following statements about pidgins and creoles are true?

1. A. A pidgin becomes a creole and then a first language.
2. B. A creole begins as a pidgin and becomes a first language.
3. C. A pidgin is simple but rule-governed, while a creole has no grammatical rules.
4. D. Pidgins and creoles arise where speakers of mutually unintelligible languages need a common language.

Arrange the stages of empirical research in sequence:

1. A. Data collection
2. B. Hypothesis
3. C. Validation
4. D. Findings
5. E. Analysis

Assertion (A): No piece of research will be the first of its kind. Reason (R): The reliability of progress in knowledge depends on the honesty of researchers.

Unlike deduction, the inductive method draws its conclusion from:

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

1. A. Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media." PMLA, vol. 128, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 193–200.
2. B. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "On Monday of Last Week." The Thing Around Your Neck. London: Knopf, 2009. 74–94.
3. C. Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading…" PMLA 128.1 (2013): 193–200.
4. D. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "On Monday of Last Week." The Thing Around Your Neck, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, pp. 74–94.

Which information has been dropped from book entries in the MLA Handbook (8th edition)?

Which two reference sources are particularly useful in compiling a working bibliography?

1. A. MLA International Bibliography
2. B. A specialised poetry encyclopedia
3. C. A general library catalogue
4. D. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

For the poet, being alone is a condition conducive to:

For the speaker of the words 'When I'm alone', being alone is:

Which two statements capture the meaning of 'Alone' for thinking beings?

1. A. Meeting, talking and bidding good-night
2. B. Quietude and calmness of the self
3. C. Life lived and understood
4. D. Becoming free from faith

Poetry is described as one of Plato's two higher forms of divine madness. What is the other?

In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be:

1. A. an incidental defect of poetic quality
2. B. examples of madness of thought
3. C. an exaggerated concretisation of things
4. D. a divinely inspired poetic expression

Who was in love with Demetrius?

Who speaks these lines?

To whom are the lines addressed?

Which device is used in '…looking into all the vessels ranged before him'?

'Fancy' is opposed to which two of the following?

1. A. Emotion
2. B. Reason
3. C. Fact
4. D. Imagination