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

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Who praised Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la Rose?

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Which of the following were written by Robert Greene?

1. A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
2. B. Alphonsus
3. C. A Moon for the Misbegotten
4. D. The Old Wives' Tale
5. E. King of Aragon

Which of the following were written by George Peele?

1. A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
2. B. A Moon for the Misbegotten
3. C. The Arraignment of Paris
4. D. The Scottish History of James the Fourth
5. E. The Old Wives' Tale

'What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones / The labour of an age in piled stones… Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid / Under a star-ypointing pyramid?' Who wrote these lines?

Who wrote The Power of Love (1643), which advocates brotherly love as a route to radical social change?

Arrange the following works in order of publication:

1. A. Yeats, The Tower
2. B. Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
3. C. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
4. D. Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
5. E. Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

Who wrote that he wished to have it said that he had 'brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses'?

Who wrote A Woman Killed with Kindness?

Who wrote a poem titled 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'?

1. A. John Donne
2. B. John Milton
3. C. Adrienne Rich
4. D. Sylvia Plath
5. E. Robert Frost

Which two of the following poems are linked by their form (the country-house poem)?

1. A. 'The Last Ride Together'
2. B. 'Ulysses'
3. C. 'Upon Appleton House'
4. D. 'To Penshurst'
5. E. The Waste Land

Which of the following poems were written by Alexander Pope?

1. A. The Dunciad
2. B. Moral Essays
3. C. Grongar Hill
4. D. Cooper's Hill
5. E. Absalom and Achitophel

Who composed the lyrical drama Hellas?

Which of the following defines 'sentimental comedy'?

Which of the following works were NOT written by Thomas Carlyle?

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

Of which Jane Austen novel did Somerset Maugham remark that the heroine is 'a little prig' and the hero 'a pompous ass', yet he did not care?

In which year was Treasure Island published?

Tennyson's The Princess: A Medley is:

Who played the lead in the first production of Osborne's The Entertainer (1957)?

Who wrote For the Unfallen?

Which two of the following plays were written by W. B. Yeats?

1. A. The Land of Heart's Desire
2. B. Time and the Conways
3. C. The Silver Tassie
4. D. The Countess Cathleen
5. E. The Plough and the Stars

In which year was Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth published?

Arrange the following poets in order of birth:

1. A. George Herbert
2. B. Edmund Spenser
3. C. Philip Sidney
4. D. John Donne
5. E. Oliver Goldsmith

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Darwin, On the Origin of Species
2. B. Macaulay, 'Essay on Milton'
3. C. Stevenson, Treasure Island
4. D. Browning, Pauline
5. E. Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale

Arrange the following novelists in order of birth:

1. A. Jane Austen
2. B. Henry Fielding
3. C. J. M. Barrie
4. D. R. D. Blackmore
5. E. W. M. Thackeray

Arrange the following writers chronologically:

1. A. Richard Steele
2. B. Charles Lamb
3. C. John Dryden
4. D. Francis Bacon
5. E. Matthew Arnold

Arrange the following works chronologically:

1. A. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
2. B. Hobbes, Leviathan
3. C. Pepys, Diary
4. D. Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
5. E. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

In which year did the Education Commission chaired by D. S. Kothari (the sixth commission in the history of Indian education) submit its report?

Who chaired the University Education Commission of 1948?

Which of the following was the first newspaper of India?

'The great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.' Who made this comment?

Which of the following are leading characters in Mulk Raj Anand's novels?

1. A. Munoo
2. B. Bakha
3. C. Sampath
4. D. Gangu
5. E. Dopdi

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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

Who wrote Larins Sahib?

Which of the following were originally written by Vijay Tendulkar?

1. A. The Cyclist and His Fifth Woman
2. B. Scandal in Fairyland
3. C. The Vultures and Encounter in Umbugland
4. D. Sakharam Binder
5. E. The Fire and the Rain

Which of the following are plays by Asif Currimbhoy?

1. A. Princes
2. B. The Captives
3. C. An Experiment with Truth
4. D. Angkor
5. E. Dance Like a Man

Which statement about V. S. Naipaul is false?

Which of the following novels was NOT written by Amitav Ghosh?

Which two of the following books were written by Dipesh Chakrabarty?

1. A. Provincializing Europe
2. B. Selected Subaltern Studies
3. C. Identity and Violence
4. D. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
5. E. In Other Worlds

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In his 'Three Circles of English', Braj Kachru divides English-using countries into:

Which of the following pairs are correct?

1. A. Aristotle – Rhetoric
2. B. Quintilian – Institutio Oratoria
3. C. Brooks and Warren – Understanding Fiction
4. D. Allen Tate – The Verbal Icon
5. E. Harold Bloom – The Great Tradition

Which of the following statements about Sidney and Gosson are correct?

1. A. Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry.
2. B. It was a counterblast to Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse.
3. C. Gosson wrote in the euphuistic style.
4. D. Sidney's style was neoclassically restrained.
5. E. Both wrote in the eighteenth century.

Which two kinds of 'truth' does Bacon distinguish in The Advancement of Learning?

When was Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published?

Who wrote An Essay on the Principles of Human Action?

Which of the following is NOT a work of P. B. Shelley?

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

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Which of the following were NOT written by J. S. Mill?

1. A. The Subjection of Women
2. B. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
3. C. Past and Present
4. D. Explorations
5. E. On Liberty

Which of the following is true about New Criticism?

Who is credited with the phrase 'structure of feeling'?

Statement I: Poststructuralist genre critics argue that genre should be 'de-essentialised' by recasting it in terms of discourse. Statement II: Discourse-based genre theory has limitations deriving from poststructuralism's conception of discourse and subjectivity.

Which of the following were written by (or under the name of) the Bakhtin circle?

1. A. 'White Mythology'
2. B. Freudianism: A Marxist Critique
3. C. The Ideology of the Aesthetic
4. D. Rabelais and His World
5. E. Morphology of the Folktale

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. A. John Keble – On the Healing Power of Poetry
2. B. Carl G. Jung – Writing and Difference
3. C. Jacques Derrida – Modern Man in Search of a Soul
4. D. Harold Bloom – The Anxiety of Influence
5. E. Kate Millett – Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction

Which two paradigms does Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus fuse?

1. A. Marxism
2. B. Poststructuralism
3. C. Psychoanalysis
4. D. Feminism

Which two of the following books are rooted in Foucault's ideas of sexuality?

1. A. Metahistory
2. B. Gender Trouble
3. C. The Role of the Reader
4. D. Epistemology of the Closet
5. E. Sexual Politics

Which theorist has written on 'affective economies'?

'Demythologising' is associated with:

Which of the following thinkers is known as a post-Marxist?

Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?

Who among the following is NOT a member of the Frankfurt School?

Which of the following is NOT a slave narrative?

Which of the following is false about Frederick Douglass?

Which of the following are novels by John Steinbeck?

1. A. The Naked and the Dead
2. B. The Grapes of Wrath
3. C. East of Eden
4. D. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. E. Cannery Row

In whose poem do 'Aunt Jennifer's tigers' appear?

Which of the following are true about Gabriel García Márquez?

1. A. He was a Caribbean novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
2. B. He was known as 'Gabo' or 'Gabito'.
3. C. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
4. D. Love in the Time of Cholera is a memoir.
5. E. One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967.

Which of the following author–text pairs are correct?

1. A. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
2. B. Italo Calvino – If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
3. C. Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason
4. D. D. M. Thomas – The Everest Hotel
5. E. Doris Lessing – The Testaments

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Which of the following are true about Chinua Achebe?

1. A. He wrote Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart.
2. B. 'The Novelist as Teacher' is a seminal essay on African literature.
3. C. The people depicted in Things Fall Apart are the Igbo.
4. D. He was a Kenyan-born American writer.
5. E. He wrote 'On the Abolition of the English Department'.

Which is the oldest method of teaching English?

In SLA theory and research, the classroom is viewed as:

The arrival of corpus linguistics has revitalised:

Assertion (A): From a sociolinguistic standpoint, mainstream SLA is asocial, keeping hidden the social side of learning to interact through language. Reason (R): A sociolinguistic perspective focuses on the linguistic system and on pragmatic and discourse features, refusing to treat language as norms or to examine diversity and ideologies.

Assertion (A): In extensive reading the teacher plays the main role. Reason (R): Extensive reading aims to broaden learners' knowledge.

Statement I: 'Anagenesis' is the final part of a drama after the climax, where conflicts are resolved. Statement II: 'Anagenesis' is the turning point at which the audience sees an unexpected reversal.

Statement I: There is an analogy between an author's works and the experiences of his or her life. Statement II: The works may be seen as an incomplete translation of the life.

Statement I: Things acquire meaning beyond mere use because my relation to them involves an 'Other'. Statement II: When I designate a thing, I designate it to the Other.

Which of the following is a DON'T in writing a dissertation or thesis?

Which statement about the ideal literary researcher is false?

Which of the following are true of literary research?

1. A. It is devoted to the enlightenment of criticism.
2. B. It seeks to illuminate the work of art as it really is.
3. C. It has no connection with the information it offers.
4. D. It tries to see the writer as he or she really was.

Which of the following statements about autobiography as a research source are correct?

1. A. It can be accepted at face value.
2. B. It is usually idealised.
3. C. It is coloured by a motive of self-justification.
4. D. It is embroidered by artistic imagination.

Which of the following are key attributes and skills for using literary research tools and techniques?

1. A. An overview of the main online and print sources
2. B. Not participating in online information networks
3. C. Knowledge of online sources and the ability to evaluate them comparatively
4. D. Using sources to locate material archives
5. E. Peer-management technique

Why do the poet and his father move the furniture to the walls?

What is 'Moriarty'?

Which statement about the father's grip is true?

What is the 'weapon' in the first line of the fourth stanza?

What does the last stanza show about the father?

What does the claim that literature is 'a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing' imply?

What does 'there is no essence of literature whatsoever' imply?

What does 'non-pragmatic' mean in the passage?

What is the significance of the 'weed' analogy?

What does 'ontological' mean?