UGC NET English Paper 2 – June 2023 (Shift 1) – Question Paper with Answer Key

Who among the following is an early Tudor poet?

During a 1613 performance of which play did the Globe Theatre burn down?

Which two of the following plays were written by Ben Jonson?

1. A. Flowers for Latin Speaking
2. B. The Devil Is an Ass
3. C. Sappho and Phao
4. D. The Woman in the Moon
5. E. The Staple of News

Who built the Red Lion playhouse in Stepney in 1567?

Which of the following statements about Religio Laici are true?

1. A. John Dryden wrote Religio Laici.
2. B. It strongly criticises the Anglican Church.
3. C. Religio Laici means 'A Layman's Faith'.
4. D. It was published in 1690.
5. E. It is a philosophical-religious prose treatise.

Which of Milton's works adapts the form of Greek tragedy?

Which playwrights collaborated on Three Hours after Marriage?

1. A. John Gay
2. B. John Dryden
3. C. Alexander Pope
4. D. William Congreve
5. E. John Arbuthnot

Which of the following are works by Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

1. A. Richelieu
2. B. St Patrick's Day
3. C. The Duenna
4. D. The Citizen of the World
5. E. Irene

Statement I: Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' was published in 1807. Statement II: It sums up his philosophy of childhood.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. W. H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939'
2. B. George Herbert, 'The Collar'
3. C. Lord Byron, Beppo
4. D. John Milton, Paradise Lost
5. E. Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things

From which novel is the passage in which Pip leaves the ruined place hand in hand with a companion and 'saw no shadow of another parting' taken?

In which Jane Austen novel does Captain Frederick Wentworth appear?

What is Adam in George Eliot's Adam Bede?

Which of the following writers are called Edwardian novelists?

1. A. George Eliot
2. B. Arnold Bennett
3. C. H. G. Wells
4. D. E. M. Forster
5. E. Robert Louis Stevenson

Match List I with List II:

Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
2. B. Kim
3. C. The Old Wives' Tale
4. D. The Time Machine
5. E. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Which of the following figures are named in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?

1. A. Ezra Pound
2. B. Michelangelo
3. C. Valerie Eliot
4. D. Hamlet
5. E. Walt Whitman

Who wrote Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?

Who wrote The Golden Bough, which influenced Eliot's poetry and criticism?

Which of the following books make up Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair?

1. A. Sunset Song
2. B. Brothers and Sisters
3. C. Cloud Howe
4. D. Men and Wives
5. E. Grey Granite

What is Ted Hughes's Wodwo?

Match List I with List II:

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Which of the following are works by William Faulkner?

1. A. Sanctuary
2. B. Color Struck
3. C. Jesus, the Son of Man
4. D. Light in August
5. E. Absalom, Absalom!

Which of the following poets have held the Oxford Professorship of Poetry?

1. A. James Fenton
2. B. Margaret Atwood
3. C. Seamus Heaney
4. D. Anne Sexton
5. E. Paul Muldoon

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?

Which of the following were Movement poets?

1. A. Donald Davie
2. B. Hilda Doolittle
3. C. Michael Longley
4. D. Philip Larkin
5. E. Derek Walcott

Which of the following are known as Cambridge critics?

1. A. Arthur Quiller-Couch
2. B. F. R. Leavis
3. C. George Saintsbury
4. D. I. A. Richards
5. E. William Empson

Which of the following facts about the Frankfurt School are correct?

1. A. It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
2. B. Adorno and Horkheimer were two of its members.
3. C. It established the term 'critical theory'.
4. D. It had strong ties with the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
5. E. Its members were forced into exile after the rise of Nazism.

What did the Kothari Commission suggest about English?

Which of the following form Mulk Raj Anand's trilogy?

1. A. The Village
2. B. Private Life of an Indian Prince
3. C. Across the Black Waters
4. D. The Sword and the Sickle
5. E. The Road

What is the name of the goddess in Raja Rao's Kanthapura?

Arrange the following books of poetry in chronological order:

1. A. Nissim Ezekiel, A Time to Change
2. B. Kedarnath Singh, Banaras and Other Poems
3. C. Sri Aurobindo, Savitri
4. D. Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
5. E. Sudeep Sen, Anthropocene

Purdah is a collection of poems by:

Arrange the following playwrights in order of birth:

1. A. Asif Currimbhoy
2. B. Gurcharan Das
3. C. Nissim Ezekiel
4. D. Gieve Patel
5. E. Cyrus Mistry

Match List I with List II:

A. K. Ramanujan was also a:

1. A. Photographer
2. B. Translator
3. C. Painter
4. D. Classical singer
5. E. Teacher at the University of Chicago

Which three of the following plays were written by Nissim Ezekiel?

1. A. Savaksa
2. B. Marriage Poem
3. C. Nalini
4. D. Mister Behram
5. E. The Sleepwalkers

Match List I with List II:

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Kamala Markandaya, Two Virgins
2. B. R. K. Narayan, The Painter of Signs
3. C. Bhabani Bhattacharya, Shadow from Ladakh
4. D. Manohar Malgonkar, A Bend in the Ganges
5. E. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, To Whom She Will

Which three of the following plays were written by Bhasa?

1. A. Charudatta
2. B. Ratnavali
3. C. Urubhanga
4. D. Malavikagnimitram
5. E. Karnabharam

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Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. A. Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
2. B. Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
3. C. Addison and Steele, The Spectator
4. D. Lamb, 'My Relations'
5. E. Browning, 'How It Strikes a Contemporary'

To whom did Francis Bacon dedicate The Advancement of Learning?

In which year was Hobbes's Leviathan first published?

Which of the following were written by John Dennis?

1. A. The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry
2. B. The Christian Hero
3. C. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
4. D. The Conscious Lovers
5. E. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear

Statement I: Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of something. Statement II: Criticism may be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive or descriptive.

In Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, which speaker argues for the superiority of French drama over English?

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
2. B. Woolf, A Room of One's Own
3. C. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
4. D. Johnson, Lives of the Poets
5. E. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Match List I with List II:

Who proposed that the mind at birth is a blank slate (tabula rasa)?

An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744) was the first major biography published by:

Which of the following were written by Thomas Carlyle?

1. A. Chartism
2. B. Past and Present
3. C. The French Revolution
4. D. Suspiria de Profundis
5. E. The English Mail-Coach

The 'Condition of England' debate was initiated by:

Who wrote that Charlotte Brontë's mind contained 'nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage'?

Thomas Love Peacock wrote the essay:

Which of the following are significant texts of Victorian criticism?

1. A. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
2. B. Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance
3. C. Eliot, 'Hamlet and His Problems'
4. D. Arnold, 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'
5. E. Ruskin, Modern Painters

Arrange the following prose writers in order of birth:

1. A. Joseph Addison
2. B. Francis Bacon
3. C. Charles Lamb
4. D. Virginia Woolf
5. E. Matthew Arnold

Match List I with List II:

Statement I: Eric Bentley wrote The Life of the Drama. Statement II: The book focuses on the lives of seminal twentieth-century dramatists.

Which of the following is Peter Brook's study of theatre?

Which of the following terms are integral to New Criticism?

1. A. Tension
2. B. Mirror stage
3. C. Irony
4. D. Polyphony
5. E. Paradox

In which year was Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity published?

Who made the term 'the Name of the Father' famous?

Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in chronological order:

1. A. The Long Revolution
2. B. Culture and Society
3. C. Marxism and Literature
4. D. Writing in Society
5. E. The Politics of Modernism

Which of the following were written by Stuart Hall?

1. A. 'Encoding/Decoding'
2. B. 'The Rediscovery of "Ideology": Return of the Repressed in Media Studies'
3. C. The Raw and the Cooked
4. D. 'What Is Digital Humanities?'
5. E. 'The Culture Industry'

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Which of the following concepts are associated with Jean Baudrillard?

1. A. Hyperreality
2. B. Bricolage
3. C. Rhizome
4. D. Simulacra
5. E. Dispositif

The concept of the public sphere is central to the work of:

Where did Saussure deliver the lectures later published as the Course in General Linguistics?

Assertion (A): The experience of homosexuality in a homophobic culture differs for whites and blacks. Reason (R): Sexuality and sexual identity are experienced differently by whites and blacks.

Which of the following books was NOT written by Edward Said?

What does Bourdieu mean by 'habitus'?

Assertion (A): Cultural studies holds that culture is political rather than aesthetic or humanist in emphasis. Reason (R): The object of cultural studies is high art and the exalted literary canon.

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Arrange the following events, significant for literary criticism, in chronological order:

1. A. The first manned Moon landing
2. B. The end of the Second World War
3. C. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech
4. D. The Russian Revolution
5. E. Indian Independence

Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' underscores that:

In which year was Political Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, published?

Who wrote the play Angels in America?

Which two of the following plays were written by Edward Albee?

1. A. The Zoo Story
2. B. The Price
3. C. A Delicate Balance
4. D. Frances
5. E. Operation Sidewinder

Which of the following was NOT written by Margaret Atwood?

Who among the following is an Australian Aboriginal poet?

Who wrote The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas?

Noam Chomsky is known for his:

Which of the following are true about corpus linguistics?

1. A. It works on a collection of naturally occurring spoken and written texts.
2. B. It has ensured the supremacy of speech over writing.
3. C. It concerns the teaching of linguistics at school level.
4. D. It is a methodology of computer-based empirical analysis of language use.
5. E. It is purely based on Chomskyan linguistics.

The full form of MLAT is:

Who argued that children learn language through behaviourist reinforcement, associating words with meanings?

A structured interview consists of:

Which method is used to study the diversity of human cultures in their particular settings?

The person described in the poem is:

The person described in the poem is sympathetic to:

The poem uses:

The third line of the poem suggests something about:

The person described in the poem:

'The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language.' What is the implication of this statement?

The purpose of I. A. Richards's 'practical criticism' was to:

In the context of the passage, what does 'literary canon' imply?

What kind of value judgement did practical criticism promote?

In the context of the passage, close reading implies: