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

Who wrote The House of Fame?

In which year did Miles Coverdale publish his translation of the whole Bible, including the Old Testament?

Sidney's Arcadia was influenced by:

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Who attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham's (Lord Admiral's) company?

Which playwright also translated Homer?

Who wrote The Revenger's Tragedy?

When was Middleton's Women Beware Women published?

Which poem by P. B. Shelley is incomplete?

Which of the following poems are pastoral elegies?

1. A. Lycidas
2. B. 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats'
3. C. Adonais
4. D. Thyrsis
5. E. In Memoriam A. H. H.

'Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' These lines from 'Locksley Hall' reflect:

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Statement I: W. H. Auden called The Importance of Being Earnest perhaps the only pure 'verbal opera' in English. Statement II: Wilde understood the various arts that combine to make theatre possible.

Which of the following statements about Harold Pinter are true?

1. A. He was born in 1925.
2. B. He was influenced by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd.
3. C. The Caretaker and The Alchemist are his famous plays.
4. D. Stanley is a character in The Birthday Party.
5. E. Betrayal is about a married couple.

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Who wrote the lines asking whether poets should 'bicycle-pump the human heart / Or squash it flat', and concluding that love 'is apart from life'?

Who wrote Under the Net (1954)?

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Which of the following novels portray Anglo-Irish relations in the twentieth century?

1. A. Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
2. B. May Sinclair, The Divine Fire
3. C. J. G. Farrell, Troubles
4. D. J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
5. E. Jeffery Farnol, Black Bartlemy's Treasure

In which of the following works is consumerism a major theme?

1. A. Galsworthy, Loyalties
2. B. Brecht, Saint Joan of the Stockyards
3. C. Miller, Death of a Salesman
4. D. Shaw, Candida
5. E. Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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Who among the following were Poets Laureate of England?

1. A. Alfred Austin
2. B. Robert Bridges
3. C. Theodore Watts-Dunton
4. D. Oscar Wilde

Which of the following statements about the Tractarian (Oxford) Movement are true?

1. A. It spread across the whole world.
2. B. Its other leaders were John Henry Newman and R. H. Froude.
3. C. It began with John Keble's sermon of 1833.
4. D. Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name.
5. E. W. G. Ward's Ideal of a Christian Church was praised by the Oxford Convocation.

Who attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D. G. Rossetti, in 'The Fleshly School of Poetry'?

Who among the following does NOT belong to the 'Angry Young Men'?

Who among the following has NOT received the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Which Article of the Constitution allowed English to be used alongside Hindi for official purposes for fifteen years?

Which of the following poetry collections are NOT by Meena Alexander? (A) River and Bridge (B) Articulate Silences (C) Raw Silk (D) Stone Roots (E) A Time to Change

Which of the following is NOT part of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy?

Which of the following novels were published in the 1980s or 1990s?

1. A. Vikram Chandra, Red Earth and Pouring Rain
2. B. Amitav Ghosh, The Circle of Reason
3. C. Githa Hariharan, The Ghosts of Vasu Master
4. D. V. S. Naipaul, Miguel Street
5. E. The Siege of Babylon

Subramani's The Fantasy Eaters (1988) is a:

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Which of the following author–title pairs are correct?

1. A. The Boyfriend – Juliette Banerjee
2. B. Nude Therapy – Margaret Chatterjee
3. C. The Other Woman and Other Stories – Dina Mehta
4. D. The Yankee and the Yogi – B. G. Sidharth
5. E. Prejudice of Ages – Vera Sharma

Which sequence of Naipaul's books is in chronological order?

Naipaul's The Writer and the World is:

What is the title of Gaiutra Bahadur's book about her great-grandmother's indenture?

Which of the following belong to science fiction or speculative fiction?

1. A. Vandana Singh, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
2. B. Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy
3. C. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
4. D. Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Generation 14
5. E. Gautam Bhatia, The Wall

Which concepts are associated with Bhartrhari's theory of sphota?

1. A. Rasa
2. B. Alankara
3. C. Dhvani
4. D. Vakrokti
5. E. Shabda-Brahman

In which language is the Tolkappiyam written?

Who wrote 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' (1985)?

Who wrote of the productive capacities of the 'Third Space' as having a colonial or postcolonial provenance?

Which critic appropriates Marx's statement 'They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented'?

Which of the following graphic narratives depict a political crisis?

1. A. Sarnath Banerjee, Corridor
2. B. Art Spiegelman, Maus
3. C. Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza
4. D. Amruta Patil, Kari
5. E. Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Which of the following are Plato's main objections to poetry?

1. A. The poet is an imitator.
2. B. The poet lacks bravery.
3. C. Poetry stirs the emotions and weakens reason.
4. D. The poet is less responsible.
5. E. The poet lacks knowledge of what he describes.

What does Aristotle mean by 'language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament' (pleasurable accessories) in his definition of tragedy?

1. A. Pompous vocabulary
2. B. Embellished language
3. C. Rhythm and harmony
4. D. Language with song added
5. E. Emotive language

In which period did the 'Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns' arise?

Which of the following is NOT true about Lyrical Ballads?

Who said that there is, and ought to be, an essential difference between the language of prose and of metrical composition?

Statement I: The lines lamenting an age with 'no God', no heroes and no visible temples are by Thomas Carlyle. Statement II: The lines on men who work without pleasure and seek wealth as their only pleasure are by John Ruskin.

Assertion (A): Marxists present Marxism as a scientific account of social change. Reason (R): Culture mirrors social life, and the artist is 'an engineer of the human soul'.

Assertion (A): Lacan was radically critical of existing psychoanalytic theory. Reason (R): Lacan was expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Which of the following are Roland Barthes's contributions?

1. A. He rejected the structural analysis of narratives.
2. B. He held that meaning arises from interconnected codes.
3. C. He identified the codes at work in structuration.
4. D. He played a major role in developing semiology.
5. E. He questioned criticism as the uncovering of the Author's hidden truth.

Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT?

Assertion (A): Barthes distinguishes two kinds of text, the 'readerly' and the 'writerly'. Reason (R): Language is the window through which one sees the world.

Which of the following are among Barthes's codes common to all narratives?

1. A. Synthetic code
2. B. Proairetic code
3. C. Semic code
4. D. Hermeneutic code
5. E. Symbolic code

Which theorist identifies metaphor and metonymy as the two fundamental poles of language?

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Which poem by Shelley did J. Hillis Miller read deconstructively?

Which critic is associated with 'contrapuntal reading'?

Stuart Hall belongs to which school of cultural studies?

Statement I: Hannah Arendt's 'defactualisation' is very close to the concept of 'post-truth'. Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.

Kimberlé Crenshaw's 'intersectionality' is widely used in relation to:

1. A. academic deterioration
2. B. racial justice
3. C. peace formation
4. D. the complex construction of power
5. E. identity politics

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Who wrote A Literature of Their Own?

Which of the following terms denote Showalter's three phases of women's writing?

1. A. Feminine
2. B. Gynic
3. C. Womanish
4. D. Feminist
5. E. Female

Arrange the following feminist texts in chronological order:

1. A. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
2. B. Barbara Johnson, A World of Difference
3. C. Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Female Imagination
4. D. Mary Ellmann, Thinking About Women
5. E. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Who coined the phrase 'the medium is the message'?

In which work is 'a man can be destroyed but not defeated' the main theme?

Assertion (A): In the nineteenth century Charlotte Perkins Gilman gave priority to women's economic independence over the vote. Reason (R): Portraying women as power-seekers was not socially acceptable in nineteenth-century America.

Arrange the following novels of Margaret Atwood in chronological order:

1. A. Lady Oracle
2. B. The Blind Assassin
3. C. The Handmaid's Tale
4. D. The Testaments
5. E. Alias Grace

In which year was the Canadian Multiculturalism Act passed?

Which of the following combinations are correct?

1. A. Dadaism – Tristan Tzara
2. B. Surrealism ('sur-réalisme') – Guillaume Apollinaire
3. C. Surrealism – Filippo Marinetti
4. D. Futurism – André Breton
5. E. Nihilism – Ivan Turgenev

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

Which of the following statements about Ngũgĩ's essay 'Literature in Schools' are appropriate?

1. A. It discusses the relevance and adequacy of the present education system.
2. B. It advocates teaching European texts to students in the Third World.
3. C. It reflects negatively on the literature taught to Kenyan students.
4. D. It argues that cultural imperialism distorts people's vision of history.
5. E. It holds that European teachers are better equipped to teach Kenyan students.

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When was Murakami's Men Without Women first published?

Which of the following statements about Latin American literature are appropriate?

1. A. It shows racial coherence and unity in its representations.
2. B. It draws an analogy between plant growth and human movement.
3. C. Dzul Poot's stories depict the geography of the Chilam Balam towns.
4. D. Quechua had a wide presence across several nations.
5. E. It is unitary and avoids intertextuality.

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A heroic couplet consists of:

Which of the following statements about Neuro-Linguistic Programming are true?

1. A. 'Neuro' indicates that sensory experience shapes behaviour.
2. B. Grammatical knowledge is a matter of practice.
3. C. Richard Bandler and John Grinder developed NLP in the 1970s.
4. D. 'Neuro' covers both invisible thoughts and visible physiological reactions.

Statement I: Teaching non-native literature to ELT students is arid. Statement II: Negative responses in the ELT classroom can create an interesting classroom situation.

Assertion (A): Because we are taught to read, we engage with paradigms rather than texts. Reason (R): We take meaning from a text according to our needs, desires and critical assumptions.

Statement I: Comparative literature studies different cultures, nations and genres, and the relationship of literature to other forms of cultural expression. Statement II: In literary and cultural studies, methodology is secondary.

In research documentation, a 'corporate author' is:

'Adult causality' is about:

Which is closest to being true?

The world of objects makes the child a/an:

The word 'demiurge' connotes:

Which of the following is a correct interpretation?

According to the speaker, Mr Bleaney was:

The poem portrays Mr Bleaney's:

Mr Bleaney was the ____ of the house.

The poem 'Mr Bleaney' is written in a ____ form.