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

Which of the following are the main schools of Hellenistic philosophy?

1. A. Cynicism
2. B. Epicureanism
3. C. Stoicism
4. D. Surrealism
5. E. Expressionism

Which of the following statements about Virgil's Aeneid are true?

1. A. It gathers legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness.
2. B. It tells of the founding of Rome itself.
3. C. It tells of the legendary founding of Lavinium.
4. D. Books 1–6 recount Aeneas' wanderings on the pattern of the Odyssey.
5. E. Books 7–12 recount Aeneas' wanderings on the pattern of the Odyssey.

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

1. A. Caxton prints Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
2. B. Caxton sets up his press at Westminster
3. C. Gutenberg prints the Bible at Mainz
4. D. Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English
5. E. Wycliffe's translation of the Bible into English

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

1. A. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
2. B. Luther, Ninety-five Theses at Wittenberg
3. C. Cranmer, The First Book of Common Prayer
4. D. More, Utopia
5. E. Machiavelli, The Prince

Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in chronological order:

1. A. Twelfth Night
2. B. The Taming of the Shrew
3. C. Much Ado About Nothing
4. D. Romeo and Juliet
5. E. The Winter's Tale

Who wrote: 'If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties'?

Who held that a writer's merit lies not in original thought but in apt expression of what others have thought ('What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed')?

Who among the following were NOT members of the Kit-Cat Club?

1. A. George Etherege
2. B. Richard Steele
3. C. Samuel Johnson
4. D. William Congreve
5. E. Joseph Addison

Which play mocks the heroic drama of Dryden and his contemporaries?

Who wrote that poetry 'is not a branch of authorship: it is the stuff of which our life is made'?

From which book of Paradise Lost is the epigraph of Frankenstein taken?

Godwin's Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) was written to expose:

Which of the following are NOT by Mary Wollstonecraft?

1. A. The Wrongs of Man
2. B. A Vindication of the Rights of Men
3. C. Thoughts on the Education of Sons
4. D. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
5. E. The Wrongs of Woman

Who wrote 'Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters'?

Under what title were Thackeray's three satirical stories of unhappy marriage collected?

Arnold's Friendship's Garland (1871) is a sequel to:

Who among the following were members of the Metaphysical Society, founded by James Knowles in 1869?

1. A. Robert Browning
2. B. T. H. Huxley
3. C. Alfred Tennyson
4. D. Matthew Arnold
5. E. W. E. Gladstone

In which work did Sherlock Holmes first appear?

Women in Love is a sequel to Lawrence's:

Which of Forster's novels is about homosexual love?

Which statement about the Booker Prize is NOT correct?

Which is considered the first Indian novel in English?

Arrange the following novels by R. K. Narayan in chronological order:

1. A. The Vendor of Sweets
2. B. The Bachelor of Arts
3. C. The English Teacher
4. D. The Guide
5. E. The Financial Expert

Arrange the following writers by year of birth:

1. A. Sarojini Naidu
2. B. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
3. C. Manmohan Ghose
4. D. Henry Derozio
5. E. Toru Dutt

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

1. A. Anita Desai, Diamond Dust
2. B. Mahasweta Devi, 'Breast-Giver'
3. C. Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
4. D. Derek Walcott, Dream on Monkey Mountain
5. E. Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom

Arrange the following playwrights by year of birth:

1. A. Asif Currimbhoy
2. B. Nissim Ezekiel
3. C. Cyrus Mistry
4. D. Mahesh Dattani
5. E. Gurcharan Das

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Arrange the following novels by Salman Rushdie in chronological order:

1. A. Fury
2. B. Midnight's Children
3. C. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
4. D. The Moor's Last Sigh
5. E. Grimus

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Which of the following is NOT a work by Perumal Murugan?

Who wrote the first Dalit woman's autobiography?

Akkarmashi (The Outcaste) is the autobiography of:

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Which of the following create wordless graphic narratives?

1. A. Roy Fuller
2. B. Orijit Sen
3. C. Anthony Hecht
4. D. George Mathen (Appupen)
5. E. George Monbiot

Which is NOT a screen adaptation of The Comedy of Errors?

Arrange the following Partition films by year of release:

1. A. Garm Hava
2. B. Tamas
3. C. Khamosh Pani
4. D. Chhinnamul
5. E. Subarnarekha

Kai Po Che! (2013) is based on which Chetan Bhagat novel?

Who, defending śānta rasa, compared the eight rasas to eight gods with śānta as their centre, Śiva?

Which English novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2023?

Absalom, Absalom! is:

Which was Hugo Gernsback's science-fiction magazine, the first of its kind?

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. Miller, Death of a Salesman
2. B. Williams, The Glass Menagerie
3. C. Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. D. O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
5. E. Rose, Twelve Angry Men

Big Daddy is a character in:

Arrange the following novels by Toni Morrison in chronological order:

1. A. Jazz
2. B. Beloved
3. C. The Bluest Eye
4. D. Song of Solomon
5. E. Tar Baby

Who was the first African American appointed US Poet Laureate (Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress)?

Who wrote 'poem in praise of menstruation'?

Arrange the following writers by year of birth:

1. A. Maya Angelou
2. B. Toni Morrison
3. C. Alice Walker
4. D. Langston Hughes
5. E. James Baldwin

Arrange the following works by Dostoevsky in chronological order:

1. A. Notes from Underground
2. B. Crime and Punishment
3. C. The Idiot
4. D. The Brothers Karamazov
5. E. Poor Folk

Which is the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal Australian?

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Which Ibsen play did a London reviewer call 'an open drain' (or 'open sewer')?

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Arrange the following novels by Margaret Atwood in chronological order:

1. A. The Edible Woman
2. B. The Handmaid's Tale
3. C. The Blind Assassin
4. D. Lady Oracle
5. E. The Robber Bride

Arrange the following novels by Chinua Achebe in chronological order:

1. A. A Man of the People
2. B. Things Fall Apart
3. C. Arrow of God
4. D. Anthills of the Savannah
5. E. No Longer at Ease

The Greek word polis refers to:

1. A. a social structure
2. B. a political structure
3. C. a legal structure
4. D. a city-state
5. E. barbarians

Plato regarded poetry as:

1. A. an imitation of reality
2. B. a self-subsistent entity
3. C. distant from reality
4. D. a manifestation of reality
5. E. life as experienced in reality

Neoplatonism was founded by:

1. A. Plato
2. B. Plotinus
3. C. Porphyry
4. D. Aristotle
5. E. Pythagoras

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In Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay (1668), Neander represents:

Which of the following are true of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872)?

1. A. It examines the origins and development of Greek tragedy.
2. B. It argues that Socratic rationalism and optimism killed Greek tragedy.
3. C. It examines the origin of music and dance in ancient Greece.
4. D. It argues that tragedy arose from the fusion of Apollonian and Dionysian elements.
5. E. It argues that music is the spirit of tragedy.

Who held that language is a system of signs whose parts must be considered in their synchronic solidarity?

Which of the following are true of the 'collective unconscious'?

1. A. Freud introduced the term.
2. B. Jung introduced the term.
3. C. It contains archetypes, universal primordial images and ideas.
4. D. It contains stereotypes and individual experiences.
5. E. It is the unconscious common to humanity, arising from the inherited structure of the brain.

Announcing the eclipse of grand narratives in The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard sought above all to declare the death of:

Which statement about 'cultural intermediaries' is NOT true?

Which assumptions about cultures of space are NOT true?

1. A. Space is about the power to control access, representation and use.
2. B. Space is simply land or built-up area.
3. C. Space shapes social relations and communities.
4. D. Space is socially constructed.
5. E. Space has nothing to do with people's everyday activities.

Which assumptions about standpoint theory are NOT true?

1. A. Social position can give a privileged perspective on certain knowledge.
2. B. Marginalised groups may have insights the dominant group lacks.
3. C. The oppressed class is bound to lose class consciousness.
4. D. Marginal perspectives cannot help us understand social dynamics.
5. E. Social contradictions and political struggle can produce counter-hegemonic norms.

In The Long Revolution (1961), Raymond Williams analysed the social origins of 350 writers from the Oxford Introduction to English Literature for the years:

In The Dialogic Imagination, Bakhtin:

1. A. develops a theory of polyphony and many voices
2. B. holds that language is imaginary
3. C. holds that language evolves dynamically
4. D. argues that language is shaped by and shapes culture
5. E. develops a theory of imaginative language

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Rudolf Pannwitz used 'postmodern' in 1917 to describe:

Which of the following are true of M. H. Abrams's The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)?

1. A. It describes eighteenth-century literature as a mirror.
2. B. It describes nineteenth-century (Romantic) literature as a lamp.
3. C. It describes nineteenth-century literature as a mirror.
4. D. The mirror stands for literature as a reflection of outward reality.
5. E. The lamp stands for literature as illumination projected by the artist.

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Who among the following is NOT associated with lesbian and gay studies?

1. A. Jane Rule
2. B. Jonathan Dollimore
3. C. John Wamn
4. D. Elizabeth Jennings
5. E. Richard Dyer

Who used 'social fact' and 'collective consciousness' with reference to language?

1. A. Franz Boas
2. B. Leonard Bloomfield
3. C. Émile Durkheim
4. D. Noam Chomsky
5. E. Ferdinand de Saussure

Who wrote History of the European Languages?

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Which of the following are true of the 'abstract poem'?

1. A. The term was coined by Edith Sitwell.
2. B. Its words are chosen for their sound.
3. C. Its words are chosen for imagery and symbolism.
4. D. The term was coined by W. H. Auden.
5. E. Its words are not used chiefly for their sense.

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Wittgenstein's view that the limits of language are the limits of thought means that:

1. A. the structure of language defines its meaning
2. B. intended meaning defines the structure of language
3. C. what can be meaningfully said can be thought
4. D. structure and meaning are independent
5. E. thought precedes language

Phonetics deals with:

1. A. the production of speech sounds
2. B. the reception of speech sounds
3. C. the transmission of speech sounds
4. D. the patterning of speech sounds
5. E. word formation

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The principles of research design covering measurement, sampling, case study, survey and experiment are together termed:

Which type of research treats the physical and social world as objects measured with standardised data?

The property of yielding the same results when the same technique is repeated is:

A manuscript that overlaps with earlier papers by the same authors is a case of:

A hypothesis formed during or after the research is called:

What kind of imagery dominates the poem?

What is the central theme of the poem?

What is the mood of the poem?

The phrases 'oceanic eyes' and 'absent eyes' are an example of:

What do the 'red signals sent out' suggest?

Which of the following is true in the context of the passage?

What helps to remove suspicion?

What does 'well guarded' mean here?

What is the main theme of the passage?

What is the predominant tone of the passage?