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

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Statement I: Theatre was more popular in eighteenth-century England than ever before. Statement II: Theatre around London enjoyed court patronage.

Who wrote The Steele Glas (1576)?

Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis is:

Who is the most famous diarist in English?

Which of the following statements about Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) are true?

1. A. It is comic and moralistic.
2. B. Tom and Jones are its two main characters.
3. C. Tom is caught poaching on a neighbour's game.
4. D. Its full title is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.

Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is written in:

Who wrote 'Abt Vogler'?

What is the predominant emotion in Browning's 'Cristina'?

Which of the following statements about the dramatic monologue are correct?

1. A. It allows reciprocal dialogue with the speaker.
2. B. Nineteenth-century poets fully exploited the form.
3. C. Robert Langbaum's The Poetry of Experience discusses the dramatic monologue.
4. D. The speaker's self-absorption makes him the only one who speaks.
5. E. In Browning, speaker and listener share the same footing in the exchange.

Which character–novel pair is correct?

Who is a major advocate of oral history?

Eugenics is illustrated in the writings of:

1. A. John Osborne
2. B. George Bernard Shaw
3. C. Eugene O'Neill
4. D. Harold Pinter
5. E. Arthur Miller

Which novel is set against religious persecution in Mexico?

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Statement I: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is humorous and journalistic in form. Statement II: It narrates the holiday of three young men and their dog.

Which of the following author–work pairs are correct?

1. A. Roddy Doyle – The Barrytown Trilogy
2. B. Bram Stoker – Confessions of an Irish Rebel
3. C. C. S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
4. D. Brendan Behan – Dracula
5. E. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl

Which of the following author–work pairs are correct?

1. A. Malcolm Bradbury – The History Man
2. B. William Golding – Rites of Passage
3. C. Seamus Heaney – Darkness Visible
4. D. Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
5. E. Molly Keane – The Norman Conquests

Which of the following are works by Irvine Welsh?

1. A. The Acid House
2. B. Trainspotting
3. C. Beside the Ocean of Time
4. D. Filth
5. E. Mavis Belfrage

Who coined the term 'The Movement'?

Which of the following novels use magic realism?

1. A. The Shadow Lines
2. B. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. C. Midnight's Children
4. D. Beloved
5. E. Kanthapura

Who made the first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita?

When did Macaulay write his Minute on Indian Education?

In which language was Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha originally written?

Which of the following were NOT written by Rabindranath Tagore?

1. A. Visarjan
2. B. Chandalika
3. C. Muktadhara
4. D. Parineeta
5. E. Punarnava

Statement I: Indian English novelists were warmly received in Europe and flourished in India in the 1930s and 1940s. Statement II: The two world wars created a mood of gloom and civilisational crisis, especially in Europe.

From which novel does the slogan 'Vande Mataram' come?

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'Could fulfilment ever be felt as deeply as loss?' Who wrote this line?

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Which of the following is a short story by the International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree?

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Which of the following statements about writers of the Indian diaspora are correct?

1. A. Bharati Mukherjee's novels present a split diasporic subject.
2. B. Rohinton Mistry belongs to the Parsi community, which left Persia to escape persecution.
3. C. Sujata Bhatt recalls home through nostalgic memory and longing.
4. D. Farrukh Dhondy's fiction connects Delhi and New York.
5. E. G. S. Sharat Chandra's poem wishes for death in India.

Statement I: M. N. Srinivas's The Remembered Village gives ethnographic detail of Rampura near Mysore. Statement II: It stresses the importance of economic freedom for mass upliftment.

Which of the following Booker-winning novels have been made into films?

1. A. Life of Pi
2. B. The Remains of the Day
3. C. Milkman
4. D. The Sellout
5. E. The Inheritance of Loss

Which of the following pairs are correct?

1. A. Kalidasa – Amoghavarsha
2. B. Bhavabhuti – Uttararamacharita
3. C. Bhasa – Urubhanga
4. D. Rajashekhara – Rajatarangini
5. E. Somadeva – Kathasaritsagara

Uttararamacharita, based on Valmiki's Ramayana, was written by:

The Vachana movement in Kannada literature stood for:

Which of the following books were written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri?

1. A. The Continent of Circe
2. B. The Principal Upanishads
3. C. A Passage to England
4. D. Our New Rulers
5. E. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

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Women of Palestine (1982) and Indian Women in Struggle (1980) deal with:

Which postcolonial critics drew on Lacan, Foucault and Derrida in critiquing Eurocentrism?

1. A. Homi K. Bhabha
2. B. Gayatri Spivak
3. C. Abdul JanMohamed
4. D. Edward Said
5. E. Aimé Césaire

Rama's Banishment, edited by Vijay Mishra, deals with the history of the Fiji Indians over a period of:

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Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?

Who defined hamartia as the 'tragic flaw'?

What is Francis Quarles's Emblems (1635)?

Statement I: The best poetry has a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can. Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being at the same time a great critic.

Samuel Butler's Hudibras reflects a revolt against:

Which of the following hold true for Pope's An Essay on Criticism?

1. A. It is an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry.
2. B. It offers generalisations about good taste.
3. C. It explores the difficulty of impartial, just criticism.
4. D. It sets out the qualities of the good critic.
5. E. It reflects critically on Plato's rejection of poetry.

A passage urging writers to distinguish nature from custom and not to fear rules set by 'literary dictators' is considered the death-knell of neoclassical criticism. Who wrote it?

Who used the phrase 'gaudiness and inane phraseology' of neoclassical poetic diction?

Statement I: Dr Johnson inclined towards Tory politics. Statement II: Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism.

Statement I: Keats coined 'negative capability' in a letter of 1817. Statement II: Eliot introduced 'dissociation of sensibility' in 'Hamlet and His Problems'.

Who refers to 'high seriousness' as a quality of great poetry and quotes Milton to prove it?

1. A. T. S. Eliot
2. B. Ezra Pound
3. C. Matthew Arnold
4. D. I. A. Richards
5. E. G. M. Hopkins

Which of the following apply to New Criticism?

1. A. It draws considerably on the critical essays of I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot.
2. B. Some of its concepts were anticipated by F. R. Leavis.
3. C. It distinguishes literary from scientific language.
4. D. It encourages extensive exploration of context and biography.
5. E. It vouches for the historical analysis of a text.

Who is associated with the term 'intentional fallacy'?

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Statement I: For Derrida, aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests; there is no 'pure and neutral' aesthetic realm. Statement II: Outside influence enters aesthetic judgement when philosophers and historians point out its 'truth'.

Which of the following apply to the term 'carnival'?

1. A. It became important through Mikhail Bakhtin's work.
2. B. Popular humour subverts official authority in classical, medieval and Renaissance culture.
3. C. It overturns hierarchy and creates a popular, democratic counter-culture.
4. D. It brings out the serious elements in literature.
5. E. It is used chiefly as a tool for interpreting poetry.

Who considers a text a site of struggle between authority and popular culture?

Statement I: In The Birth of the Clinic, the French Revolution created the grounds for the birth of the clinic. Statement II: Doctors came to care for the body as priests had cared for the soul.

Which of the following relate exclusively to Jacques Lacan?

1. A. The Real
2. B. The id
3. C. The Symbolic
4. D. The ego
5. E. The Imaginary

On which points do Derrida and Barthes converge?

1. A. Both affirm the endless play of language and texts.
2. B. Both conclude that meaning is never final.
3. C. Both hold that language has retrospective power.
4. D. No meaning is fully reliable.
5. E. Meaning lies in relations between words and texts, not in the word itself.

Statement I: Barthes calls the author 'the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology'. Statement II: In 'The Storyteller', Benjamin observes that every real story contains something useful.

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Which of the following are true of reader-response criticism?

1. A. It challenges the idea that meaning resides in the text.
2. B. It rejects the author as the sole originator of meaning.
3. C. It sees the reader as a source of meaning.
4. D. It treats the text as self-sufficient.
5. E. It is chiefly concerned with appreciating historical texts.

'I was indignant; I demanded an explanation. Nothing happened. I burst apart.' Who wrote this?

Which of the following statements about phenomenology are true?

1. A. It is a 'methodological idealism' exploring human consciousness.
2. B. Edmund Husserl developed it as a philosophical method.
3. C. Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
4. D. Heidegger's approach is 'essentialist'.
5. E. The text is purely an embodiment of the author's consciousness.

Which of the following are Gérard Genette's types of narrator, defined by the narrator's relation to the story?

1. A. Extradiegetic
2. B. Heterodiegetic
3. C. Intradiegetic
4. D. Homodiegetic
5. E. Interdiegetic

Which of the following are premises of postcolonial criticism?

1. A. It rejects the universalism claimed for canonical Western literature.
2. B. It foregrounds cultural difference and diversity.
3. C. It acts on principles of peaceful co-existence.
4. D. It celebrates hybridity and cultural polyvalence.
5. E. It resists homogenisation by race, class and nationality.

Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) draws on:

Which of the following are representative texts of gynocriticism?

1. A. Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Female Imagination
2. B. Mary Ellmann, Thinking About Women
3. C. Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic
4. D. Ellen Moers, Literary Women
5. E. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

Oodgeroo Noonuccal's 'We Are Going' examines the impact of colonial conquest on Aboriginal Australians in terms of the loss of:

1. A. the bora ground
2. B. Aboriginal identity
3. C. new education
4. D. traditional ('primitive') culture
5. E. none of the above

García Márquez's postscript to The General in His Labyrinth, on Bolívar's last journey (1830), is an example of:

Which writer used lines from Othello to critique racism in a poem?

In 'The Sea Is History', Walcott draws a parallel between:

Which of the following author–country pairs are correct?

1. A. George Lamming – Barbados
2. B. Ben Okri – Nigeria
3. C. Fred D'Aguiar – Australia
4. D. Wilson Harris – Guyana
5. E. Zulfikar Ghose – India

Gaiutra Bahadur is a ____ writer.

Which of the following is NOT a method of data analysis?

Which of the following statements about the ethnographic method are true?

1. A. It enables study of how literature is consumed in defined social and historical settings.
2. B. Janice Radway's Reading the Romance (1984) is an early example.
3. C. Ethnography is seen as uncovering an objective reality.
4. D. Lutz and Collins's Reading National Geographic (1993) uses ethnographic methods.
5. E. Ethnography privileges objective data over interpretation.

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Who used the phrase 'bowling alone' for the decline of community ties in the United States?

Which work has Santiago as its protagonist?

Which of the following is NOT a kind of sign according to C. S. Peirce?

Which of the following statements about figures of speech are true?

1. A. Paronomasia is a figure based on sound.
2. B. Zeugma is a figure based on construction.
3. C. Irony is a figure based on imagination.
4. D. Chiasmus is a figure based on association.
5. E. Euphemism is a figure based on indirectness.

In which dialect is the English version of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written?

Pater's claim that imaginative prose should be the special art of the modern world implies:

Which expression is closest to the meaning of 'fervid'?

Artistic literature is the representation of:

What does the author mean by 'the less ambitious form of literature'?

According to the author, prose should be:

The poem deals with:

Which figure of speech is implicit in 'Light-winged Smoke!'?

In the first line, 'Icarian bird' connotes:

The word 'Lark' in the third line means:

Why does the poet seek pardon from the gods?