Mixed Practice (Statements, Sequencing and Matching) – Previous Year Questions
48 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
- Arrange the following books in chronological order: A. G. N. Shuster, The English Ode from Milton to Keats B. Paul H. Fry, The Poet's Calling in the English Ode C. John Heath-Stubbs, The Ode D. Carol Maddison, Apollo an…
- Arrange the following statements in chronological order: A. Nissim Ezekiel founded Quest, a general intellectual review associated with liberal democratic politics. B. The Illustrated Weekly of India sponsored a short s…
- Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication: A. The Serpent and the Rope B. Two Leaves and a Bud C. A Bend in the Ganges D. So Many Hungers! E. Waiting for the Mahatma
- Identify the correct chronological order of publication of the following works: A. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times B. The Advancement of Learning C. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty a…
- Arrange the following stages of first language acquisition in chronological order: A. The two-word stage B. Telegraphic speech C. The one-word stage D. Cooing E. Babbling
- Arrange the following commissions, committees and events in the history of English in India in chronological order: A. Gokak Committee Report B. Acharya Ramamurti Commission C. All India Language Conference D. Kothari C…
- Arrange the following works of S. Radhakrishnan chronologically: A. The Heart of Hindustan B. Occasional Speeches and Writings C. Eastern Religions and Western Thought D. The Dhammapada (translation) E. The Principal Up…
- Arrange the following works of John Storey in chronological order of publication: A. Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization B. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction C. What is Cultural…
- Arrange the following works of criticism chronologically: A. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity B. A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition C. The History of Sexuality D. New Lesbian Criticis…
- Arrange the following statements in the order of their appearance in Aristotle's Poetics: A. The plot is 'the end at which tragedy aims'. B. Regarding the plot, 'a whole is what has a beginning, middle and end'. C. The…
- Choose the correct chronological order of the following works on postcolonial criticism: A. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics B. Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years C. Nation and Narration D…
- Arrange the following feminist works in chronological order: A. The Female Imagination B. The Madwoman in the Attic C. A Literature of Their Own D. Women's Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis E. Revo…
- Arrange the following core elements of a Works Cited entry according to the MLA Handbook (9th edition): A. Publisher B. Title of source C. Author D. Title of container E. Publication date
- Arrange the following steps of material collection according to the hierarchy given by Delia da Sousa Correa and W. R. Owens in The Handbook to Literary Research: A. Identify your nearest major research library B. Visit…
- Choose the correct matches of play and playwright: A. Hali – Rabindranath Tagore B. Tiger Claw – Lakhan Deb C. The Flute of Krishna – P. A. Krishnaswamy D. Nalini – Gurcharan Das E. Hayavadana – Girish Karnad
- Read the following statements carefully and find the correct ones: A. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women. B. John Milton wrote Comus, Astrophel and Stella and…
- Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones: A. Patrick White, Christina Stead and Robertson Davies are famous Australian novelists. B. The notion of 'civilized barbarity' was anticipated in H. R…
- Read the following statements carefully and find the correct ones: A. Charles Lamb was a lifelong friend of Coleridge and a defender of the poetic creed of Wordsworth. B. The London crowd, with its pleasures and occupat…
- Choose the correct definitions of language: A. Language uses symbols that are primarily vocal but may also be visual; its subfields are phonetics, phonology, writing systems, orthography and nonverbal communication. B.…
- Choose the events correctly matched with their year: A. The Official Languages Commission submitted its report in 1936. B. The first ELTI was established in Allahabad in 1954. C. The Central Institute of English and For…
- Choose the statements made by Virginia Woolf about women: A. 'She is born stupid and can do nothing but stupidity.' B. 'She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction.' C. 'She pervades poetry from cover to…
- For Matthew Arnold, culture is: A. the ability to know what is best B. the ability to know what is worst C. the mental and spiritual application of what is best D. the pursuit of what is best E. the pursuit of what is w…
- Which of the following statements were made by J. S. Mill in The Subjection of Women? A. 'The husband was called the lord of the wife.' B. 'She is a slave of any boy whose parents force a ring upon her finger.' C. 'Wive…
- Which of the following rules on formatting dates and times in the body of a paper are correct according to the MLA Handbook (9th edition)? A. When using the month-day-year style in prose, a comma must follow the year un…
- Choose the correct statements: A. Miller's play The Crucible was first written in verse. B. The American Dream is a play by Edward Albee about the absurd situation and immediate realities. C. The American Dream is a nov…
- Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones: A. A mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphoric vehicles. B. In metonymy, a part of something is used to signify the whole. C. T…
- Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones: A. Mikhail Bakhtin traces the roots of the novel back to imperial Rome and ancient Hellenistic romances. B. Henry James considers the novel as the epi…
- Choose the correct statements about Victorian prose writers: A. Macaulay was the practical man of affairs, helping and rejoicing in the progress of his beloved country. B. Ruskin was like a Hebrew prophet just in from t…
- Choose the correct statements regarding the scope of linguistics: A. To describe and trace the history of all observable languages. B. To determine the forces that are permanently and universally at work in all language…
- Choose the correct statements: A. English literature was first offered as a subject of study at King's College, London, in 1831. B. English was first offered as a subject of study in England in 1828 at the universities…