UGC NET English Paper 2 – August 2024 (Shift 1) – Question Paper with Answer Key

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

1. A. The Pilgrim's Progress
2. B. Beowulf
3. C. Endymion
4. D. The Faerie Queene
5. E. Paradise Lost

Which of Everyman's companions goes with him into the grave?

Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales are true?

1. A. The General Prologue describes 'wel nyne and twenty' pilgrims meeting at the Tabard Inn.
2. B. The Parson's Tale is the introductory tale and deals with the seven virtues.
3. C. The work is in verse of various metres and in prose.
4. D. Only twenty-three pilgrims tell stories; twenty-four tales are told in all.
5. E. The Prioress's Tale is about a child murdering its mother.

Which English Bible translator was burnt at the stake and is remembered for the care of his translation?

Which of the following statements correctly describe 'utopia' and 'dystopia'?

1. A. More's Utopia (1516) is an essay in four books.
2. B. More first gave the genre its name by calling his imaginary republic Utopia.
3. C. Utopia was originally written in English.
4. D. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World are dystopian (anti-utopian) texts.
5. E. Utopia was translated into French, German and Spanish by Ralph Robinson.

Thomas Norton wrote the first three acts of Gorboduc, the first regular English tragedy. Who wrote the last two?

According to Spenser's plan for The Faerie Queene, how many knights (one for each virtue) were to feature?

Which of the following history plays are NOT by Shakespeare?

1. A. Henry the Third
2. B. Richard the Third
3. C. Richard the Second
4. D. Richard the Second
5. E. Henry the Fifth
6. F. Richard the Fifth

Who was called 'the Lady of Christ's' at Cambridge?

Which of the following plays did Fletcher write with Francis Beaumont?

1. A. The Faithful Shepherdess
2. B. The Loyal Subject
3. C. Cupid's Revenge
4. D. The Pilgrim
5. E. The Maid's Tragedy

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Sir Thomas Browne's longest work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors (1646), deals with:

Which periodical did Steele (with Addison) start after The Spectator closed?

What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's autobiographical novel?

'There is / One great society alone on earth: / The noble Living and the noble Dead' occurs in:

'France: An Ode' was written by:

Who was NOT one of the Lake Poets?

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Which novelist wrote: 'Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult'?

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Who said that 'the artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian always'?

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Who coined the terms 'inscape' and 'instress'?

Who was NOT a member of the Bloomsbury Group?

Who first applied 'stream of consciousness' to literature?

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Arrange the following books in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. B. Northern Lights
3. C. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4. D. The Hobbit
5. E. Lord of the Flies

Arrange the following plays by Shaw in chronological order:

1. A. Pygmalion
2. B. Man and Superman
3. C. Arms and the Man
4. D. Too True to Be Good
5. E. Saint Joan

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Who was NOT one of the 'Angry Young Men'?

Which is NOT a novel by Jean Rhys?

Arrange the following Agatha Christie novels in chronological order:

1. A. Death on the Nile
2. B. Murder on the Orient Express
3. C. Sparkling Cyanide
4. D. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
5. E. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Which of the following won the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1. A. Orhan Pamuk
2. B. Somerset Maugham
3. C. Harold Pinter
4. D. Margaret Atwood
5. E. Herta Müller

Which of the following statements about Bhavabhuti's Uttararamacharita are true?

1. A. The action falls into two broad movements (separation and reunion).
2. B. The first act deals only with Rama's birth and childhood.
3. C. It is a play based on the Ramayana.
4. D. Its theme is derived from the last book (Uttarakanda) of the Ramayana.
5. E. In the second part Sita takes refuge in the hermitage of Vishvamitra.

Which of the following statements about the Panchatantra are true?

1. A. The Panchatantra descends from the Hitopadesha.
2. B. It is a manual for instructing a king's sons in good conduct (niti).
3. C. The first book deals with the adventures of a tortoise, a deer and a crow.
4. D. The Tantrakhyayika is one of its oldest recensions.
5. E. It is divided into five parts.

Which of the following statements about The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian are true?

1. A. It is Nirad C. Chaudhuri's autobiography.
2. B. It is a work of Partition literature.
3. C. The author's unabashed Anglophilia made it controversial.
4. D. It was published in 1951.
5. E. It is chiefly about communal conflict.

Arrange the following writers by year of birth:

1. A. R. K. Narayan
2. B. Raja Rao
3. C. Sri Aurobindo
4. D. K. S. Venkataramani
5. E. Sarojini Naidu

Which of the following stories deal with Partition?

1. A. Manto, 'Thanda Gosht'
2. B. Ismat Chughtai, 'Gharwali'
3. C. 'Jila-Watan'
4. D. Rajinder Singh Bedi, 'Lajwanti'
5. E. Mahasweta Devi, 'Rudali'

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. Ahmed Ali, Twilight in Delhi
2. B. Chaman Nahal, Azadi
3. C. Manohar Malgonkar, Distant Drum
4. D. Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
5. E. K. A. Abbas, Tomorrow Is Ours

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. So Many Hungers!
2. B. All About H. Hatterr
3. C. Music for Mohini
4. D. Waiting for the Mahatma
5. E. Kanthapura

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Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
2. B. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
3. C. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
4. D. Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters
5. E. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

Which of the following are graphic narratives?

1. A. Indu Sundaresan, The Feast of Roses
2. B. Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand, Bhimayana
3. C. Malik Sajad, Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir
4. D. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
5. E. Vishwajyoti Ghosh (ed.), This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition

Arrange the five junctures (sandhis) of plot in Dhananjaya's Dasharupaka in order:

1. A. Avamarsha (pause)
2. B. Mukha (opening)
3. C. Pratimukha (progression)
4. D. Upasamhriti / Nirvahana (conclusion)
5. E. Garbha (development)

Arrange the following works of B. R. Ambedkar in chronological order:

1. A. Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables
2. B. Annihilation of Caste
3. C. The Problem of the Rupee
4. D. Federation versus Freedom
5. E. The Buddha and His Dhamma

Which ship brought the first indentured Indian labourers to Trinidad in 1845?

Who wrote that 'the true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both'?

Which book is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868)?

Which is NOT a play by Eugene O'Neill?

Which of the following writers belonged to the Harlem Renaissance?

1. A. Leslie Jamison
2. B. Stephen King
3. C. Alain Locke
4. D. Langston Hughes
5. E. Zora Neale Hurston

Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

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Which of the following played a significant part in the Australian Aboriginal movement?

1. A. Judith Wright
2. B. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
3. C. Jack Davis
4. D. David Malouf
5. E. Kevin Gilbert

Which of the following nineteenth-century novels portray disabled characters?

1. A. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
2. B. Flaubert, Madame Bovary
3. C. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
4. D. Dickens, A Christmas Carol
5. E. Melville, Moby-Dick

Arrange the following campus novels in chronological order:

1. A. Coetzee, Disgrace
2. B. Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
3. C. Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe
4. D. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
5. E. Philip Roth, The Human Stain

Arrange the following works by Black British writers in chronological order:

1. A. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, No Place Like Home
2. B. Mike Phillips, London Crossings
3. C. Ekow Eshun, Black Gold of the Sun
4. D. George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile
5. E. Caryl Phillips, The European Tribe

What prompted Sidney to write An Apology for Poetry?

Who called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'?

Pope's line usually quoted as 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing' comes from:

Who defined taste as 'that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike'?

Which is NOT one of Lacan's three orders?

Who said that 'the object of study in literary science is not literature but literariness'?

Arrange the following works of theory in chronological order:

1. A. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
2. B. Barthes, Mythologies
3. C. Derrida, Of Grammatology
4. D. Lacan, Écrits
5. E. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition

Announcing the eclipse of grand narratives in The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard in effect declared the death of:

Who published The New Criticism (1941)?

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Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in chronological order:

1. A. Keywords
2. B. Culture and Society
3. C. The Long Revolution
4. D. The Country and the City
5. E. Modern Tragedy

Which of the following statements are correct?

1. A. 'Performativity' was coined by Derrida.
2. B. 'Meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins.
3. C. 'Culture industry' was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer.
4. D. 'Ideological State Apparatus' was coined by Bakhtin.
5. E. 'Womanism' was coined by Alice Walker.

Arrange the following thinkers by year of birth:

1. A. Simone de Beauvoir
2. B. Walter Benjamin
3. C. Jean Baudrillard
4. D. Mikhail Bakhtin
5. E. Roland Barthes

Who wrote The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading?

Which of the following statements are correct?

1. A. Diegesis is used by Plato to mean statement and by Aristotle to mean narration.
2. B. Foucault's 'biopolitics' refers to governments' attempts to rationalise the problems posed by a population as living beings.
3. C. A hypertext is 'second-degree' literature that alludes to or derives from a hypotext.
4. D. 'Desiring-machines' is a concept of Antonio Gramsci.
5. E. Dream-work is the mechanism that turns a dream's latent material into its manifest content.

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Which of the following statements are correct?

1. A. 'Nation language' was coined by Derek Walcott.
2. B. 'Poetic justice' was coined by Thomas Rymer.
3. C. 'Neo-colonialism' was coined by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
4. D. 'Nihilism' was introduced by Turgenev in Fathers and Sons.
5. E. In his preface to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Caxton listed the Nine Worthies.

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Which of the following are LGBTQ+ writers?

1. A. David Gauntlett (Making Is Connecting)
2. B. Torrey Peters (Detransition, Baby)
3. C. Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue)
4. D. Alyssa Huynh (Safe Space)

A 'palindrome' is:

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An 'eponymous' character is one who:

Which statement correctly defines an 'epithet'?

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'Invective' is:

How are words from a language other than English written in a research paper?

When is a prose quotation set off as a block quotation?

Which principles does the MLA Handbook (9th ed.) set out under inclusive language?

1. A. Avoid negatively judging others' experiences.
2. B. Use a dictionary to check for offensive terms.
3. C. Use pronouns extensively.
4. D. Any format of capitalisation and styling is acceptable.
5. E. Refer to identity only when relevant.

The 'mechanics of prose' in the MLA Handbook cover:

Which citation of a journal article follows MLA (9th ed.)?

Which of the following is NOT a metaphor for words in the poem?

A major theme of the poem is that:

Which line shows the destructive side of words?

Which device is used in the opening line, 'All round me are words, and words and words'?

In style and form the poem is closest to:

Which phrase best states the central message of the passage?

What does the 'real war' in 'a real war against war' mean?

According to the passage, what is needed to spread peace and love?

What kind of passage is this?

Which 'will of God' does the author mean in 'I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will'?