UGC NET English Paper 2 – December 2022 (Shift 1) – Question Paper with Answer Key

Who wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity?

Match List I with List II:

Who wrote Epicoene, or The Silent Woman?

Who wrote The Compleat Angler?

Which of the following are works by John Bunyan?

1. A. The Pilgrim's Progress
2. B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
3. C. A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
4. D. The Holy War
5. E. Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. A. Lycidas
2. B. Hero and Leander
3. C. Comus
4. D. Paradise Lost
5. E. The Waste Land

Arrange the following poets in order of birth:

1. A. Rudyard Kipling
2. B. Robert Browning
3. C. John Masefield
4. D. A. E. Housman
5. E. John Donne

Arrange the following novels of Dickens in order of publication:

1. A. Oliver Twist
2. B. Dombey and Son
3. C. The Pickwick Papers
4. D. Bleak House
5. E. David Copperfield

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
2. B. Shaw, John Bull's Other Island
3. C. Congreve, The Double Dealer
4. D. Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday
5. E. Steele, The Conscious Lovers

Which of the following playwright–play pairs are correct?

1. A. William Wycherley – The Rivals
2. B. Ben Jonson – Volpone, or The Fox
3. C. William Congreve – The Country Wife
4. D. Aphra Behn – The Dutch Lover
5. E. R. B. Sheridan – The School for Scandal

'In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, / Before polygamy was made a sin…' From which poem, satirising a biblical king's promiscuity, are these lines taken?

Which of the following poems was written by Oliver Goldsmith?

Which of the following plays were written by Lord Byron?

1. A. Sardanapalus
2. B. Hellas
3. C. Cain
4. D. The Two Foscari
5. E. The Cenci

Which of the following works by Robert Browning are pure (stage) dramas?

1. A. Strafford
2. B. 'The Last Ride Together'
3. C. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
4. D. Pippa Passes
5. E. 'Porphyria's Lover'

Which of the following were written by Thomas Carlyle?

1. A. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
2. B. The French Revolution: A History
3. C. Of Human Bondage
4. D. The Hour and the Man
5. E. Hudibras

Where was Robert Burns born?

Who personifies Necessity in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound?

In which work does Dr Primrose appear?

From which novel is the passage describing a baby secretly buried at night in the shabby corner of a churchyard reserved for the unbaptised?

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Which combination of playwrights contributed to 'kitchen sink' drama?

Which of the following dramas belong to the Theatre of the Absurd?

1. A. The Birthday Party
2. B. Endgame
3. C. Mrs Warren's Profession
4. D. Rhinoceros
5. E. Riders to the Sea

Which of the following are plays by Harold Pinter?

1. A. Family Voices
2. B. A Moon for the Misbegotten
3. C. The Room
4. D. No Man's Land
5. E. Krapp's Last Tape

Arrange the following books on drama in chronological order:

1. A. Robert Brustein, The Theatre of Revolt
2. B. Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd
3. C. Eric Bentley, The Playwright as Thinker
4. D. C. W. E. Bigsby, Modern American Drama 1945–1990
5. E. J. L. Styan, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice

Statement I: The Theatre of Revolt was written by Robert Brustein. Statement II: It was written in the context of the French Revolution.

Who, after watching A Midsummer Night's Dream, called it 'the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life'?

Samuel Pepys's claim to fame rests on his:

Who founded the journal Scrutiny in 1932?

Which languages are used in Kalidasa's Abhijnanasakuntalam?

In 1835 English replaced which language as the language of administration under the East India Company?

Which document is called the 'Magna Carta' of English education in India?

Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Rajmohan's Wife
2. B. Manohar Malgonkar, A Bend in the Ganges
3. C. Raja Rao, Kanthapura
4. D. Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
5. E. Manohar Malgonkar, Distant Drum

Which Shakespeare play did Girish Chandra Ghosh translate into Bengali and direct?

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Which of the following statements about R. K. Narayan are true?

1. A. The Guide has an open ending.
2. B. Most of his characters belong to the elite.
3. C. He wrote 'The Martyr's Corner'.
4. D. He won the Booker Prize for The Vendor of Sweets.
5. E. Malgudi is a real town in Karnataka.

Which of the following was NOT written by Kamala Markandaya?

Which of the following plays were NOT written by Mahesh Dattani?

1. A. Dance Like a Man
2. B. The Fire and the Rain
3. C. On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
4. D. A Touch of Brightness
5. E. Bravely Fought the Queen

Which of the following books were written by Aravind Adiga?

1. A. The Blue Bedspread
2. B. Between the Assassinations
3. C. The House of Blue Mangoes
4. D. Last Man in Tower
5. E. The White Tiger

Who wrote Tribute to Papa and Other Poems?

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What did Thomas Rymer mean by 'poetic justice'?

1. A. The distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to virtue or vice
2. B. That a literary work should be governed by decorum and morality
3. C. That a literary work should reflect the random outcomes of everyday life
4. D. The metaphysical nature of poetic experience
5. E. Justifying poetry as part of the ideal republic

Which of the following statements about Pope's An Essay on Criticism are correct?

1. A. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism and praises the great critics of antiquity.
2. B. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism and describes the good critic.
3. C. It analyses the structure of a good essay and praises great critics.
4. D. It analyses how to turn a good essay into good criticism.
5. E. It analyses Wordsworth's poetry and praises great critics.

Which of the following were written by Thomas De Quincey?

1. A. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
2. B. The French Revolution
3. C. Hudibras
4. D. Autobiographic Sketches
5. E. Suspiria de Profundis

What does Arnold mean by 'Hebraism' in Culture and Anarchy?

Match List I with List II:

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Which of the following New Critics are correctly paired with their texts?

1. A. J. C. Ransom – 'Criticism, Inc.'
2. B. William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity
3. C. Cleanth Brooks and R. P. Warren – Understanding Poetry
4. D. R. P. Blackmur – In Search of the New Criticism
5. E. Allen Tate – The New Apologists for Poetry

Who revalued 'the masses' as sources and subjects of literature?

Who first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?

In which year was Roland Barthes's Image–Music–Text published?

Which of the following were written by Roland Barthes?

1. A. Allegories of Reading
2. B. Mythologies
3. C. The Pleasure of the Text
4. D. Some Versions of Pastoral
5. E. 'What Is an Author?'

Which of the following are correctly matched?

1. A. Jonathan Culler – Culture and Society
2. B. Raymond Williams – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
3. C. Terry Eagleton – Criticism and Ideology
4. D. Walter Benjamin – Illuminations
5. E. Stanley Fish – The Implied Reader

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Foucault, Madness and Civilization
2. B. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. C. Lacan, The Language of the Self (tr. Wilden)
4. D. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic
5. E. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

Arrange the following theories in the chronological order of their emergence:

1. A. Structuralism
2. B. Psychoanalysis
3. C. Ecocriticism
4. D. Orientalism (colonial discourse analysis)
5. E. New Criticism

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

1. A. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
2. B. The Anatomy of Melancholy
3. C. Hobbes, Leviathan
4. D. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
5. E. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Culler, Structuralist Poetics
2. B. Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
3. C. Culler, The Pursuit of Signs
4. D. Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
5. E. Iser, The Implied Reader

Match List I with List II:

Match List I with List II:

Who has written on narrative empathy?

Who coined the phrase 'soft capitalism'?

To whom is the term 'thick description' attributed?

As a 'proto-discipline' in the 1960s, cultural studies chiefly explored:

What does CCCS stand for in cultural studies?

According to Stuart Hall, which concept played a seminal role in cultural studies?

Who jointly edited Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism?

Which of the following was NOT written by Raymond Williams?

Which of the following books were written by Julia Kristeva?

1. A. Desire in Language
2. B. Illuminations
3. C. Syntax and Semantics
4. D. Revolution in Poetic Language
5. E. The Madwoman in the Attic

To which of the following is New Historicism indebted?

1. A. Marxism
2. B. Formalism
3. C. Reader-response theory
4. D. Existentialism
5. E. Hermeneutics

Which of the following statements about cyberpunk are true?

1. A. It is science fiction.
2. B. It uses postmodernist techniques and posthumanist themes.
3. C. Events often take place in virtual reality.
4. D. It is fiction written on online platforms.
5. E. Laurence Sterne wrote the first cyberpunk novel.

Statement I: Human bodies are 'sexed' only from a particular, narrow perspective. Statement II: Most reproduction in our lifetimes has nothing to do with 'sex'.

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Which combination of plays made significant use of expressionist techniques?

Besides Brecht, which two figures influenced epic theatre?

Statement I: Stanislavski collaborated with Chekhov in staging his plays. Statement II: My Life in Art was written by Stanislavski.

Which of the following poets have lived in Australia?

1. A. Judith Wright
2. B. Yusef Komunyakaa
3. C. Kath Walker
4. D. Thomas Kinsella
5. E. T. S. Eliot

Which of the following novels was written by Patrick White?

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Which of the following author–title pairs are correct?

1. A. Gabriel García Márquez – The Feast of the Goat
2. B. Jorge Luis Borges – The Autumn of the Patriarch
3. C. Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
4. D. E. L. Doctorow – Ragtime
5. E. A. S. Byatt – Possession

Which of the following author–country pairs are correct?

1. A. J. M. Coetzee – South Africa
2. B. Margaret Atwood – Canada
3. C. Philip Roth – Australia
4. D. Orhan Pamuk – Turkey
5. E. Graham Swift – New Zealand

Which science systematically studies the function of signs?

What is a second language?

Assertion (A): In the same classroom some learners progress quickly while others progress very slowly. Reason (R): Some learners never achieve native-like command of a second language.

The process by which a learner's interlanguage freezes at a more or less deviant stage is called:

Integrative motivation refers to language learning for:

Who distinguished constatives from performatives?

According to the English Subject Centre report, which skills are needed for postgraduate work in English?

1. A. Library searching skills
2. B. Editorial skills
3. C. Bibliographic skills
4. D. Peer-management skills
5. E. IT skills

Which of the following statements are true about methods and methodologies in literary research?

1. A. Methods and methodologies are identical.
2. B. Methods concern how a research project is carried out.
3. C. Methodologies concern how a research project is carried out.
4. D. Methodologies concern the perspectives one brings to one's work.
5. E. Methods concern the perspectives one brings to one's work.

Which of the following are possible ways of turning a topic into an argument?

1. A. Arguing for or against an existing critic or critical position
2. B. Arguing for the value of a new theoretical approach to a text
3. C. Arguing about a historical or literary-historical aspect
4. D. Arguing that a theme is entirely unrelated to a group of texts
5. E. Arguing only about the significance of well-known authors

Assertion (A): Co-operative learning activities require students to work together to complete a task or solve a problem. Reason (R): These techniques identify a weak learner and separate them from the group for special attention.

Which of the following statements is true?

The poet says that two people lying together look like:

The poet says that while lying in bed he and his companion pass the time:

The poet and his companion are:

The poet says it is difficult to find words that are:

'Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self' implies:

What does the word 'assonance' mean?

What does Caudwell imply by 'The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality'?

What is meant by 'mock reality' in the passage?

If rhythm, 'preciousness' and style are alien to the novel, in which genre are they distinctive features?