UGC NET English Paper 2 – December 2024 – Question Paper with Answer Key

Match List I with List II:

Which among the following does not fall in the category of 'Revenge Tragedy'?

Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare in chronological order:

1. A. The Tempest
2. B. Love's Labour's Lost
3. C. Twelfth Night
4. D. Much Ado About Nothing
5. E. A Midsummer Night's Dream

'O, sir, content you; / I follow him to serve my turn upon him. / We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly followed.' These lines are spoken by:

The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays appeared in:

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a:

Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in chronological order of publication:

1. A. The Advancement of Learning
2. B. De Augmentis Scientiarum
3. C. Novum Organum
4. D. New Atlantis
5. E. The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne's wife, who died in 1617?

Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve's The Way of the World?

Who is credited with ending the system of patronage with his 'Letter to Lord Chesterfield'?

The short poem 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' appears in which eighteenth-century novel?

Who among the following illustrated the works of Thomas Gray and Robert Blair?

Arrange the following poems in chronological order of publication:

1. A. 'The Tyger'
2. B. 'The Solitary Reaper'
3. C. Adonais
4. D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. E. 'To Autumn'

Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley?

From the statements given below, what is true about the Gothic novel?

1. A. It arose in fourteenth-century American literature.
2. B. It often uses medieval architecture — castles, abbeys, crypts — as its setting.
3. C. It is a form of Baroque art.
4. D. It is a style of mosaic and fresco wall painting.
5. E. It aims to evoke chilling terror through mystery and horror.

Which of the following is a dramatic monologue?

Which of the following is the last novel of George Eliot?

Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order:

1. A. Women in Love
2. B. The White Peacock
3. C. Sons and Lovers
4. D. The Rainbow
5. E. The Trespasser

Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group?

Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in chronological order:

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

From which poem are these lines taken? 'Once more the storm is howling, and half hid / Under this cradle-hood and coverlid / My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle / But Gregory's wood and one bare hill…'

Which of the following novelists did not employ the stream-of-consciousness technique?

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

Under whose presidency was PEN (the international association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists) founded by Mrs Dawson Scott in 1921?

Which of these are correct combinations of works by Doris Lessing and their themes?

1. A. The Golden Notebook – a journey to Rhodesia
2. B. The Good Terrorist – a doomed love affair
3. C. Shikasta – a planet (Earth) cut off from a benevolent advanced civilisation
4. D. Alfred and Emily – the lives of her parents
5. E. The Grass Is Singing – drawn from her African experience

Identify the pairs which are matched correctly:

1. A. Barbara Christian – 'The Race for Theory'
2. B. Alfred W. Crosby – 'Unhiding the Hidden'
3. C. Paul Carter – Naming Place
4. D. Graham Huggan – Ecological Imperialism
5. E. Thomas B. Macaulay – 'Minute on Indian Education'

Arrange the following periodicals in chronological order:

1. A. Fraser's Magazine
2. B. The Spectator (1828 revival)
3. C. The Westminster Review
4. D. The Quarterly Review
5. E. The Edinburgh Review

Which of the following texts was written by Rabindranath Tagore?

Arrange the following novels of Mulk Raj Anand in chronological order:

1. A. Coolie
2. B. The Big Heart
3. C. The Village
4. D. Two Leaves and a Bud
5. E. Seven Summers

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Who wrote The Life Divine?

In which year was Raja Rao's Kanthapura published?

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Which of the following works of R. K. Narayan were published after Independence?

1. A. The Dark Room
2. B. The English Teacher
3. C. The Financial Expert
4. D. Swami and Friends
5. E. The Guide

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Which of the given statements about Om Prakash Valmiki's Joothan are correct?

1. A. Joothan is a novel.
2. B. It critically represents the condition of the Valmiki community.
3. C. It describes the hardships faced by Dalits in independent India.
4. D. It was translated into English by Arun Prabha Das.
5. E. It is a critique of upper-caste society.

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

1. A. The Wound of Spring (S. Menon Marath)
2. B. Men and Rivers (Humayun Kabir)
3. C. The House at Adampur (Anand Lall)
4. D. The Vermilion Boat (Sudhin N. Ghose)
5. E. Delinquent Chacha (Ved Mehta)

Which of the following statements are true about A. K. Ramanujan?

1. A. He is a poet of the sixties.
2. B. His poetry draws on his Hindu heritage.
3. C. He has a poor sense of rhythm.
4. D. He makes poor use of akam techniques.
5. E. He uses akam techniques.

Who wrote the poem 'Jejuri'?

Which of the following is not matched correctly?

Who said, 'The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it'?

The author of 'The Politics of Translation' and translator of Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini' is:

Who wrote English in India: Its Present and Future (1964)?

Arrange the following works chronologically:

1. A. Masks of Conquest (Gauri Viswanathan)
2. B. The Twice Born Fiction (Meenakshi Mukherjee)
3. C. After Amnesia (G. N. Devy)
4. D. A History of Indian English Literature (M. K. Naik)
5. E. Colonial Transactions (Harish Trivedi)

Who wrote these lines? 'Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves / Waited for rain, while the black clouds / Gathered far distant, over Himavant. / The jungle crouched, humped in silence.'

'Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need.' Who composed these lines?

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Langston Hughes's poem 'I, Too' ('I, too, sing America') is a response to which poet?

Who is best known for articulating the concept of Négritude?

Identify the statements which are correct:

1. A. Flâneur – Baudelaire
2. B. Habitus – Pierre Bourdieu
3. C. 'Modernity: An Unfinished Project' – Michel Foucault
4. D. Imagined Communities – Frantz Fanon
5. E. Thick description – 'Clifford Mentz'

Choose the correct sequence of the following works of Pablo Neruda:

1. A. Spain in Our Hearts (España en el corazón)
2. B. Crepusculario (Book of Twilight)
3. C. The Inhabitant and His Hope
4. D. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
5. E. Venture of the Infinite Man

Arrange the following works chronologically:

1. A. The English Patient
2. B. The Swinging Bridge
3. C. Lives of Girls and Women
4. D. Family Matters
5. E. Birnam Wood

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Identify all the Australian Aboriginal writers:

1. A. Kim Scott
2. B. Peter Carey
3. C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
4. D. Kevin Gilbert
5. E. Derek Walcott

Which of the following is not an autobiography?

Which of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?

1. A. Purple Hibiscus
2. B. July's People
3. C. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. D. The Mimic Men
5. E. My Son's Story

In which text do these lines occur? 'Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, / What the weak head with strongest bias rules, / Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.'

Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication:

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

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Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Deconstruction and Criticism
2. B. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities
3. C. Literary Theory and the Claims of History
4. D. The Western Canon
5. E. An Appetite for Poetry

'There is nothing outside the text' is a statement by:

What is 'Practical Criticism'?

Identify the one who was not a New Critic:

Which of the following statements are true about Modernism?

1. A. It broke with formal conventions.
2. B. Older modes of thought underwent a cultural shift.
3. C. Liberal humanism declined.
4. D. It revived classical scholarship.
5. E. It promoted logocentrism.

Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. A. Nation and Narration
2. B. The Dialogic Imagination
3. C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
4. D. Discourse on Colonialism
5. E. Orientalism

Which of the statements given below are true?

1. A. The CCCS was founded at Berkeley in 1960.
2. B. Habermas links the rise of the public sphere to print culture.
3. C. Paul Gilroy introduced the term 'Black Atlantic'.
4. D. Adorno praised the alienating avant-garde, such as Schoenberg's atonal music.
5. E. 'Chutnification' was coined by Edward Soja.

Identify the statements which are true for psychoanalytic criticism:

1. A. Freud established its premises and procedures.
2. B. Freud said artists are like neurotic patients.
3. C. Psychoanalysis can explain developments in the history of civilisation.
4. D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
5. E. Literature manifests the artist's repressed drives.

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Identify the correct statements about ecocriticism:

1. A. It explores the web of interrelations between human and non-human.
2. B. Human accountability to the environment is part of a text's ethics.
3. C. It explores the interplay between environment and body.
4. D. There is only one wave of ecocriticism.
5. E. It has not addressed gender.

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Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
2. B. Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
3. C. Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat
4. D. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
5. E. William Gibson, Neuromancer

Arrange the following steps of decision-making in the research process:

1. A. Choosing a research topic
2. B. Data collection
3. C. Analysing and interpreting data
4. D. Formulating the research problem
5. E. Conceptualisation and operationalisation

What does the deductive method of reasoning refer to?

An ideal research paper should include:

1. A. A statement of the problem or issue
2. B. Background on past and current theories
3. C. Summarising and paraphrasing
4. D. Glorification of the writer
5. E. A thesis stating the writer's position

Which of the following are true about the epistemological dimension of research?

1. A. Scientific realism
2. B. The search for truth
3. C. Critical theory
4. D. Certain and indubitable knowledge
5. E. A mechanism of social control

Which of the following are correct according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition?

1. A. Margins of one inch on all sides
2. B. Coordinating conjunctions are bolded in the title
3. C. Use a slash between paired opposites (e.g. reader/writer)
4. D. A half-inch hanging indent in the Works Cited list
5. E. Subordinating conjunctions are not bolded in the title

Which of the following Works Cited entries are incorrect according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition?

1. A. Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.
2. B. Charon, Rita, et al. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine. Oxford UP, London, 2017.
3. C. Sabau, Ana. 'The Perils of Ownership.' American Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 2007, pp. 1–27.
4. D. Riddle, Julie, 'Shadow Animals.' The Georgia Review, 67.3, pp. 424–47.
5. E. Copeland, Edward. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge UP, 1997. 131–48.

The line 'Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness' presents which rhetorical figure?

Identify the correct statements concerning the respective genre:

1. A. An epistle is a letter-form literary genre.
2. B. An epigraph is an inscription on a tomb.
3. C. An epigram is a short, witty poem.
4. D. An epitaph is a formal opening statement of a work.
5. E. An epyllion is a short poem in epic metre.

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Which of the following statements are correct about litotes?

1. A. It contains understatement for emphasis.
2. B. It is not the opposite of hyperbole.
3. C. It is used with laconic intentions.
4. D. It is used with ironic intentions.
5. E. It is used only in a dramatic context.

When was the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) developed and promulgated?

The Grammar Translation Method in English language teaching stresses:

Identify the correct statements about langue and parole:

1. A. Langue is the abstract system of a language — its grammar.
2. B. Parole is language actually produced by users, following langue.
3. C. Langue is language produced by users following parole.
4. D. Parole is the abstract language system.
5. E. Langue and parole are unrelated.

The functional–communicative approach in English language teaching is in opposition to:

Systematic culture manipulation takes place through:

What is the meaning of 'atomised individuals' in the passage?

'Mass culture' refers to:

When did popular culture get associated with the USA?

What is the core issue discussed in the passage?

What does the poem say about the nature of the world?

Identify the rhyme scheme in the poem:

What does the poet intend to do in life?

What is the mood of the poem?

Identify the metre of the poem: