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

Which of the following plays belong to Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy?

1. A. Agamemnon
2. B. The Libation Bearers
3. C. Antigone
4. D. Oedipus at Colonus
5. E. Electra

Which of the following are fourteenth-century writers of secular prose?

1. A. John of Trevisa
2. B. Julian of Norwich
3. C. John Mandeville
4. D. Bernard of Clairvaux
5. E. Walter Hilton

To whom was Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) dedicated?

Which proprietor of the Rose Theatre repaired and expanded it in 1592 and 1595?

Arrange the following works of Milton in chronological order:

1. A. Paradise Lost
2. B. Lycidas
3. C. 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'
4. D. 'On Shakespeare'
5. E. Paradise Regained

In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, whom does Achitophel represent?

Who composed Lucasta: Posthume Poems?

Who wrote Gallathea?

Who composed 'Address to a Steam Vessel'?

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Which of the following statements are true about Jonathan Swift?

1. A. He was born in Dublin and educated at Kilkenny Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin.
2. B. He co-authored a book with Samuel Johnson.
3. C. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1695.
4. D. He was a member of the Kit-Cat Club.
5. E. He wrote Lady Audley's Secret.

Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock?

1. A. Headlong Hall
2. B. Nightmare Abbey
3. C. Imaginary Conversations
4. D. The Spirit of the Age
5. E. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets

Which of the following was NOT written by Thomas Carlyle?

In which Dickens novel is a nineteen-year-old left penniless with his mother and his sister Kate after his father's death?

Which of the following are novels by Wilkie Collins?

1. A. Basil
2. B. A Tale of a Tub
3. C. The Woman in White
4. D. Lapsing
5. E. The School for Lovers

'And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords / Of life. / And I have something to expiate.' Identify the D. H. Lawrence poem.

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Who wrote The Voyage of the Beagle?

Which of the following novelists are correctly matched with their works?

1. A. Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native
2. B. Charles Dickens – The History of Henry Esmond
3. C. Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
4. D. George Eliot – Northanger Abbey
5. E. Charlotte Brontë – The Professor

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Arrange the following novels in chronological order:

1. A. Jane Eyre
2. B. A Tale of Two Cities
3. C. Middlemarch
4. D. The Return of the Native
5. E. The Newcomes

Arrange the following novels of Thomas Hardy in chronological order:

1. A. Jude the Obscure
2. B. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
3. C. Under the Greenwood Tree
4. D. A Pair of Blue Eyes
5. E. Far from the Madding Crowd

Arrange the following poems of Thomas Hardy in chronological order:

1. A. 'Channel Firing'
2. B. 'The Darkling Thrush'
3. C. 'In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"'
4. D. 'He Never Expected Much'
5. E. 'A Trampwoman's Tragedy'

Which novel by D. H. Lawrence led to the obscenity trial and acquittal of Penguin Books?

Arrange the following poems of Louis MacNeice in chronological order:

1. A. 'Sunday Morning'
2. B. 'Bagpipe Music'
3. C. 'Star-gazer'
4. D. 'Entirely'
5. E. 'Prayer Before Birth'

Which poet, an admirer of Lawrence from an early age, wrote in a letter that after reading Sons and Lovers he felt ready to die?

Which of the following poetry collections were NOT written by Philip Larkin?

1. A. The North Ship
2. B. The Less Deceived
3. C. The Whitsun Weddings
4. D. Death of a Naturalist
5. E. Responsibilities

Who wrote Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear?

Which is Beryl Bainbridge's first novel?

Who was a famous seventeenth-century diarist?

With which of the following periodicals was Joseph Addison associated?

1. A. The London Magazine
2. B. The Spectator
3. C. The Gentleman's Magazine
4. D. The Tatler
5. E. The Rambler

Which of the following periodicals were founded or edited by Charles Dickens?

1. A. North and South
2. B. The Newcomes
3. C. Household Words
4. D. The Way We Live Now
5. E. All the Year Round

Who among the following was NOT an original member of Johnson's Literary Club?

Who wrote Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century?

Macaulay's 1835 Minute on Indian Education aimed to create a class of persons who were:

Arrange the following collections of Nissim Ezekiel in chronological order:

1. A. The Exact Name
2. B. Latter-Day Psalms
3. C. Sixty Poems
4. D. The Unfinished Man
5. E. A Time to Change

Who wrote A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature?

Which playwright shows the influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays?

In which poem does Kamala Das describe her husband and sons, and herself as wife and mother 'insignificant as a fly'?

In Indian English Literature 1980–2000: A Critical Survey, what do M. K. Naik and Shyamala Narayan claim about Indian English drama?

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

1. A. Mahesh Dattani, Tara
2. B. Gieve Patel, Mister Behram
3. C. Asif Currimbhoy, Goa
4. D. Nissim Ezekiel, Marriage Poem
5. E. Asif Currimbhoy, The Dumb Dancer

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Which of the following plays contain the rehearsal of a play within the play?

1. A. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
2. B. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
3. C. Miller, Death of a Salesman
4. D. Jarry, Ubu Roi
5. E. Tendulkar, Silence! The Court Is in Session

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Who made the first published Latin translation of Aristotle's Poetics?

Statement I: Unlike Plato, Aristotle holds that the best poetry needs great skill, and he distinguishes good from bad poetry by systematic criteria. Statement II: Aristotle accepts Plato's view that emotions are central to poetry but rejects his distrust of them.

Which of the following is NOT a dialogue of Plato?

Who wrote the 1582 pamphlet Playes Confuted in Five Actions, complaining that bawdy Latin, French, Italian and Spanish comedies had been 'thoroughly ransacked' to furnish London playhouses?

Who wrote Novum Organum?

'Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, / And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.' From which work are these lines?

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Arrange the following writers by year of birth:

1. A. James Boswell
2. B. Edward Gibbon
3. C. Samuel Johnson
4. D. Edmund Burke
5. E. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Reflections on the Revolution in France
2. B. Preface to Shakespeare
3. C. The Social Contract
4. D. A Treatise of Human Nature
5. E. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Which of the following works were published in 1791?

1. A. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
2. B. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
3. C. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
4. D. Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
5. E. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

In which year was Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published?

Which critic held that poetry contains the same elements as prose, and differs from it in how they are combined and in its purpose?

Arrange the following works of T. S. Eliot in chronological order:

1. A. The Sacred Wood
2. B. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
3. C. 'The Metaphysical Poets'
4. D. 'The Function of Criticism'
5. E. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

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Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism. Reason (R): Poststructuralism retains the humanism of structuralism and agrees that language is not central to understanding ourselves and the world.

Which theorist described myth as 'depoliticised speech' in bourgeois society?

Which of the following statements does Barthes make in 'From Work to Text'?

1. A. The work is a methodological field.
2. B. The Text must be understood as a computable object.
3. C. The Text is plural.
4. D. The work is never caught up in a process of filiation.
5. E. The work is ordinarily the object of consumption.

Statement I: Althusser's interpellation is the 'hailing' ('Hey, you there!') by which individuals are constituted as ideological subjects. Statement II: Interpellation is very similar to Derrida's deconstruction.

Arrange the following works in order of first publication:

1. A. Edward Said, Orientalism
2. B. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious
3. C. T. S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture
4. D. Raymond Williams, Keywords
5. E. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

Arrange the following books in order of publication:

1. A. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
2. B. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West, The Future of the Race
3. C. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Black Literature and Literary Theory
4. D. Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey
5. E. Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood

According to Andrew Milner, which three of Williams's early meanings of 'culture' survive in Keywords?

1. A. A general state or habit of the individual mind
2. B. The general state of intellectual development of a whole society
3. C. The general body of the arts
4. D. A whole way of life of a group or people
5. E. Elitism

Who held that 'significant breaks', where old lines of thought are disrupted and elements regrouped around new premises, matter most in cultural studies?

Which of the following books was NOT written by Raymond Williams?

Along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, who is a founding figure of British cultural studies?

Which of the following features are generally accepted as true of Birmingham cultural studies, as described by Stuart Hall?

1. A. It strengthened the barrier between high and low culture.
2. B. It privileged text over context.
3. C. It could accommodate the study of working-class lives.
4. D. It promoted readings based on social and political contexts.
5. E. It was essentially apolitical.

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Assertion (A): James Ellroy began his career in crime fiction with Brown's Requiem (1981). Reason (R): His mother was murdered in 1958.

Which two were earlier titles of Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'?

1. A. 'Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night'
2. B. 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'
3. C. 'A Child's Reminiscence'
4. D. 'The Wound-Dresser'
5. E. 'A Word Out of the Sea'

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Who wrote Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?

Which two of the following plays are by Arthur Miller?

1. A. They Too Arise
2. B. The Real Thing
3. C. Some Kind of Love Story
4. D. Tiny Alice
5. E. The Crying of Lot 49

Which two of the following poems are by Robert Lowell?

1. A. 'Anecdote of the Jar'
2. B. 'Skunk Hour'
3. C. 'Howl'
4. D. 'Night Sweat'
5. E. 'The Gift Outright'

Which two of the following poems were NOT composed by Adrienne Rich?

1. A. 'Diving into the Wreck'
2. B. 'Transcendental Etude'
3. C. 'Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law'
4. D. 'The Applicant'
5. E. 'Ripples on the Surface'

Statement I: Invisible Man is a 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison. Statement II: It traces the surreal journey of an unnamed African American narrator from the racist South to New York.

Which play may be considered a parody of Macbeth, with parts of Hamlet and King Lear?

Arrange the following writers by date of birth:

1. A. Goethe
2. B. Oscar Wilde
3. C. Bertolt Brecht
4. D. Eugene O'Neill
5. E. Molière

Which two plays by Chekhov make creative use of Hamlet?

1. A. The Proposal
2. B. Three Sisters
3. C. The Cherry Orchard
4. D. Uncle Vanya
5. E. The Seagull

Which of the following are plays by Bertolt Brecht?

1. A. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
2. B. Life of Galileo
3. C. Copernicus
4. D. Archimedes
5. E. Man Equals Man

Who wrote The Flies, an adaptation of the Electra myth?

Which of the following author–country pairings are correct?

1. A. Philip Roth – USA
2. B. Shirley Jackson – Australia
3. C. Henry James – Canada
4. D. Ruskin Bond – India
5. E. Ali Cobby Eckermann – Australia

Who wrote the story collection Reginald in Russia?

In the nature–nurture debate, which linguist proposed an innate core of abstract knowledge about language that pre-specifies a framework for all natural languages (Universal Grammar)?

Which of the following are correct about the Direct Method of teaching English?

1. A. There is no interference from the mother tongue.
2. B. Learners connect directly with English, thinking and expressing themselves in it.
3. C. Teaching and learning are carried out in English.
4. D. It is useful in overcrowded classrooms.
5. E. It is based on the principle of 'doing by learning'.

Which of the following explains the difference between conceptual and empirical research?

What is the standard format for citing a book in the MLA Handbook (8th edition)?

Which one of the following statements is true?

The last line, 'Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out', contains which figurative device?

What is the meaning of 'putrescent'?

In the context of the overall content, the title 'Apostrophe to Man' is:

What does 'detestable' mean in the poem?

'Everyday life' as a theory deals with:

In the passage, de Certeau's theory of everyday life offers a site of ___ the dominant.

What is the meaning of 'quotidian'?

Which of the following is NOT related to the meaning of 'interstice'?

Why is everyday-life study regarded as a science of the 'small'?