UGC NET English Paper 2 – 2021 cycle (Shift 2) – Question Paper with Answer Key

Who says 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' in Hamlet?

Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

Which of the following statements about Ben Jonson's dramatic legacy are true?

1. A. Jonson's physiological view of character had no precedent.
2. B. Following the moralities and interludes, Jonson gave his characters descriptive (aptronymic) names.
3. C. Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the comedy of humours.
4. D. Marston and Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company.

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of first publication:

1. A. The Faerie Queene
2. B. Lyrical Ballads
3. C. Canto General
4. D. Les Fleurs du mal

Arrange the following groups of poets in chronological order:

1. A. Imagist poets
2. B. Cavalier poets
3. C. Movement poets
4. D. Lake Poets

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Which two writers condemned the presence of some fifty thousand slaves brought into England by 1771?

1. A. Samuel Johnson
2. B. Alexander Pope
3. C. Horace Walpole
4. D. Thomas Gray

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What is the term for the nineteenth-century novel of fashionable high life?

Which fictional character is believed to be based on the fifteenth-century Vlad the Impaler?

Which of the following are examples of the Künstlerroman?

1. A. The Portrait of a Lady
2. B. David Copperfield
3. C. Tom Jones
4. D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Arrange the following poems of Yeats in chronological order:

1. A. 'The Wild Swans at Coole'
2. B. 'The Second Coming'
3. C. 'Among School Children'
4. D. 'Adam's Curse'

Which two of the following are works by Ted Hughes?

1. A. Wildtrack
2. B. Wodwo
3. C. Lupercal
4. D. Jack Straw's Castle

Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?

1. A. The British Museum Is Falling Down
2. B. The Seven Sisters
3. C. Changing Places
4. D. Nice Work
5. E. Empire of the Sun

Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Great Expectations under the same title?

Statement I: The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon. Statement II: Estragon echoes Pozzo's 'They give birth astride of a grave'.

Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot?

1. A. Estragon
2. B. Pozzo
3. C. Bassanio
4. D. Murphy

Arrange the following journals in chronological order:

1. A. Longman's Magazine
2. B. The Cornhill Magazine
3. C. Blackwood's Magazine
4. D. Bentley's Miscellany

Which of the following may be said of the journal begun at Bowling Green University in the late 1960s, with essays on Spider-Man comics, rock music and detective films?

1. A. It highlighted the importance of popular culture.
2. B. It highlighted the importance of elite culture.
3. C. It buttressed the canon by making it more elitist.
4. D. It broke down the dominance of 'high' culture.

Which term describes spurious words created by the errors of copyists, printers or editors?

Arrange the following characters in the chronological order of the works in which they appear:

1. A. Praneshacharya
2. B. Shakuni
3. C. Rusty
4. D. Gobar

Which departments did Wood's Despatch (1854) recommend in the universities?

1. A. Arabic
2. B. English
3. C. French
4. D. Law

Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. A. English replaces Persian as the language of administration
2. B. Charles Grant arrives in India
3. C. Universities founded at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
4. D. Fort William, Calcutta, is built

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Which of the following songwriters have received the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1. A. Elton John
2. B. Rabindranath Tagore
3. C. Bob Dylan
4. D. Bob Marley

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. The God of Small Things
2. B. The Inheritance of Loss
3. C. That Long Silence
4. D. The Namesake

Which theme best sums up most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays?

What does Urvashi Butalia aim at in The Other Side of Silence?

1. A. Understanding Partition beyond the political divide
2. B. Foregrounding a personal history of Partition
3. C. Presenting Partition as more tragic than the Holocaust
4. D. Finding and uniting separated families

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Who wrote The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?

Who wrote The Otherness of English: India's Auntie Tongue Syndrome?

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In which book of Paradise Lost does 'Agra and Lahor of Great Mogul' appear?

Which were among the earliest colonial publishing initiatives for India?

1. A. Andrew Lang's Colonial Book Series
2. B. Murray's Home and Colonial Library
3. C. Macmillan's Colonial Library
4. D. Chatto & Windus Colonial Library

Who held that poetry is only an imitation of an imitation, and therefore trivial?

Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals' is primarily concerned with which country?

Which two criticisms did Johnson make of the metaphysical poets in the Life of Cowley?

1. A. An inappropriate combination of wit and imagination
2. B. They wrote verses rather than poetry
3. C. They copied neither nature nor life
4. D. They never tried to be singular in their thoughts

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Who wrote 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'?

In 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time', what does Arnold make the essence of criticism?

Which two of the following are 'fallacious estimates' of poetry in Arnold's 'The Study of Poetry'?

1. A. Contextual estimate
2. B. Personal estimate
3. C. Comparative estimate
4. D. Historic estimate

How does Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's 'Horatian Ode'?

Arrange the following terms in chronological order:

1. A. Dissociation of sensibility
2. B. Unreliable narrator
3. C. Theatre of cruelty
4. D. Egotistical sublime

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their appearance in literary theory:

1. A. Phallogocentrism
2. B. Locutionary act
3. C. Interpellation
4. D. Interpretive community

Which narrative cycle does Foucault refer to in 'What Is an Author?'

Statement I: Deconstruction supports a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified. Statement II: Language is non-referential, referring only to a play of signifiers.

Which of the following essays are in Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination?

1. A. 'From the History of Novelistic Discourse'
2. B. 'Discourse in the Novel'
3. C. 'Romance and Novel'
4. D. 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel'

Which of the following books were written by Noam Chomsky?

1. A. Syntactic Structures
2. B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
3. C. Language and Society
4. D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
5. E. The Pragmatics of Politeness

Who wrote 'The Typology of Detective Fiction'?

Who defined ideology as the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence?

Assertion (A): The 'implied reader' shifts attention from the actual reader to a disembodied dimension of reception built into the text. Reason (R): The 'Dear Reader' addressed in realist novels is a fictional representation of the audience.

Which of the following were written by I. A. Richards?

1. A. Concepts of Criticism
2. B. Science and Poetry
3. C. The Philosophy of Rhetoric
4. D. English Literature in Our Time and the University

Who treats tradition as both a blessing and a curse for the poet?

Who used the phrase 'philosophy of praxis'?

Which J. G. Ballard novel concerns a strange 'virus' that crystallises the forest?

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Which statement best represents Fanon's political position?

To what did the 1968 Nairobi memorandum 'On the Abolition of the English Department' object?

1. A. The primacy of English literature and culture
2. B. The centrality of Africa in the department
3. C. The primacy of orature in the syllabus
4. D. The focus on the historic continuity of English literature

What was the Birmingham centre for the study of culture called?

Which of the following are true of Raymond Williams's Culture and Society?

1. A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
2. B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
3. C. It defines culture as a whole way of life.
4. D. It equates culture with science.

Which of the following are 'cultural intermediaries' for a commercial film?

1. A. A film-magazine columnist
2. B. The director
3. C. Fan clubs
4. D. The producer

Which of the following are generally true of cultural studies?

1. A. It is politically engaged.
2. B. It privileges text over context.
3. C. It has a symbiotic relationship with formalism.
4. D. It studies the means of production of a text.

Which of the following is true of mass media?

Which device did Dorfman and Mattelart identify in Disney comics as spreading imperialist ideology?

Who coined the term 'ecofeminism'?

Who wrote Radiant Textuality?

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What did Brecht call his drama, to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?

1. A. 'Meditation on a Bone'
2. B. 'Imperial Adam'
3. C. 'Woman to Man'
4. D. 'The Old Prison'

Who wrote the short story 'The Voter'?

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With which movements is Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal generally associated?

1. A. Neoclassicism
2. B. Symbolism
3. C. Modernism
4. D. Postmodernism

Who created the character Julien Sorel?

Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?

Arrange the following stages of first-language acquisition in sequence:

1. A. Holophrastic (one-word) stage
2. B. Babbling
3. C. Telegraphic speech
4. D. Cooing

Words with the same pronunciation but different meanings are called:

Statement I: A pidgin arises when two mutually unintelligible groups communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language. Statement II: However long a pidgin is spoken, it can never become a community's mother tongue.

Which features does Saussure attribute to language?

1. A. An interlocking structure
2. B. A system of constant change
3. C. A system of signs
4. D. A self-standing formation

The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is called a:

Which pair of thinkers is associated with speech-act theory?

Who argued, in 'The World as India', that English is the only unifying language of India?

'You have hissed the mystery lectures' is an example of:

Which of the following statements about English in India are true?

1. A. India has one of the largest English-using populations in the world.
2. B. No Indian group claims English as its mother tongue.
3. C. Over fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently.
4. D. English is the principal language of commerce.
5. E. Hindi has supplanted English as the link language.

Which of the following is a dead language?

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

1. A. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991.
2. B. Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620–26.
3. C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
4. D. Wellek, René. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750–1950, Yale UP, 1986.

Statement I: If all research were original and uninspired by others, researchers would rarely begin by drawing on their predecessors' ideas. Statement II: Studying and documenting past work stifles the growth of human knowledge.

Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

When was the MLA Style Sheet first published?

Which best captures the theme of the passage?

The mistake human beings make is to:

The 'principal worries of our life' follow us even if we:

1. A. detach ourselves from family life
2. B. are deep in buying and selling
3. C. mentally abstain from the hustle and bustle
4. D. enter schools of philosophy

Thoughts that are true for all time are:

In the second stanza, the poet thinks of:

Which best captures what we infer about the poet?

The whole description is an example of:

What is the 'system' of which Dombey and Son were the centre?

'Is man no more than this?' means:

Which best captures what Shakespeare means?