Reading Comprehension – Previous Year Questions
169 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
- For the speaker of the words 'When I'm alone', being alone is:
- Which two statements capture the meaning of 'Alone' for thinking beings? A. Meeting, talking and bidding good-night B. Quietude and calmness of the self C. Life lived and understood D. Becoming free from faith
- Poetry is described as one of Plato's two higher forms of divine madness. What is the other?
- In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be: A. an incidental defect of poetic quality B. examples of madness of thought C. an exaggerated concretisation of things D. a divinely inspired poetic expression
- Who was in love with Demetrius?
- Who speaks these lines?
- To whom are the lines addressed?
- Which device is used in '…looking into all the vessels ranged before him'?
- 'Fancy' is opposed to which two of the following? A. Emotion B. Reason C. Fact D. Imagination
- Match List I with List II: List I: Image List II: Compared to A. Her hair I. the player B. The pillows II. a harp C. The breeze III. a rose D. Her cheeks IV. a cloud
- Match List I with List II: List I: Expression List II: Figure of speech A. 'Her hair a harp' I. Simile (comparison by 'seems') B. 'The hand of a breeze' II. Metaphor C. 'Seems the carved face' III. Oxymoron D. 'My waken…
- Which best describes the lady's face as she lies asleep at dawn?
- 'Logic cannot have any empirical part' because: A. the laws of thought are subjective B. it propounds laws that are capable of demonstration C. its laws are valid for all thought D. its laws are valid for everyone's exp…
- Which two statements are correct? A. For natural philosophy, nature as an object of experience determines the laws. B. For moral philosophy, nature is to be experienced. C. Natural philosophy does not describe how thing…
- Why is the beadle told to whip his own back instead of the prostitute's?
- Who speaks these lines, and to whom?
- About vice and sin, the speaker says that:
- In 'passed her hands over her face', the 'face' belongs to:
- The implication of 'They had been strangers too long' is that: