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UGC NET December 2021 English (Shift-I) — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2021 English (Shift-I) (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. In the context of the above passage, which is closest to being true? · Ans: D
2. What is meant by 'traditional use of poetry'? · Ans: C
3. If 'selfhood' of a poet is the subject of poetry, then 'originality' shall spring from: · Ans: A
4. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, 'No worst, there is none.'? · Ans: B
5. Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be: · Ans: C
6. Which two of the following are true? · Ans: C
7. How did the 'sport with Tess' end? · Ans: A
8. Who are the 'two speechless gazers'? · Ans: B
9. '[T]his insubstantial pageant' refers to: · Ans: B
10. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' means: · Ans: D
11. In "An Apology for Poetry" Sidney discusses the didactic function of poetry by comparing it to philosophy and: · Ans: C
12. According to Longinus which two of the following qualities apply to 'great poetry'? · Ans: B
13. In "The Function of Criticism" T.S. Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being devotees of what he called: · Ans: A
14. Who among the following compared 'the mind in creation' to 'a fading coal'? · Ans: C
15. Who among the following considered paraphrase as 'a heresy'? · Ans: D
16. Empiricist linguistics is concerned with: · Ans: B
17. In Noam Chomsky's definition of grammar which two features are drawn from mathematics? · Ans: D
18. 'Potato' is a sixteenth-century borrowing into English from: · Ans: A
19. Who among the following represents the global spread of English diagrammatically as three concentric circles? · Ans: C
20. Who among the following is the founder of the Survey of English Usage (SEU)? · Ans: A
21. Who is the author of the short story, "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black"? · Ans: B
22. Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication. · Ans: B
23. Who is the author of the essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"? · Ans: B
24. Which of the following poems by Robert Browning contains the lines, "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist. ..."? · Ans: C
25. Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine? · Ans: C
26. Which of the following novels has its epigraph taken from the Katha Upanishad? · Ans: B
27. Who is the author of the essay, "What Isn't Literature?"? · Ans: A
28. Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on: · Ans: A
29. Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the 'Semiotic'? · Ans: B
30. Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn? · Ans: A
31. Which two of the following are works by Gustave Flaubert? · Ans: C
32. Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought? · Ans: C
33. Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye's typology of literature? · Ans: C
34. Which two of the following writers does A. D. Hope address through his poetic responses in A Book of Answers? · Ans: D
35. Which two of the following are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook? · Ans: A
36. Which two of the following are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen Greenblatt? · Ans: B
37. Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics? · Ans: A
38. Which of the following poems contains John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and the hands of a compass? · Ans: C
39. Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication. · Ans: C
40. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started publication. · Ans: C
41. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
42. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: A
43. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: C
44. What was poor Yorick in Hamlet? · Ans: A
45. Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular meaning? · Ans: C
46. Who among the following Dickens characters appears as a ghost? · Ans: D
47. Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteen-year-old boy, writes a poem called: · Ans: C
48. What function of English is exemplified by the use of English in India as a "link language" along with a first language by stable bilinguals in well-defined social contexts? · Ans: A
49. Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) never happened? · Ans: B
50. What 19th-century philosophical term of Russian origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to describe the disintegration of traditional morality in western society? · Ans: C
51. Which of the following statements is true of the working group set up by the University Grants Commission in 1978 to study the medium of instruction in higher education? · Ans: C
52. In comparative philology and sometimes in modern phonology, what is the term used to refer to the deletion of a vowel within a word? · Ans: D
53. Which of the following statements best describes Terry Eagleton's views on literature? · Ans: A
54. Which of the following are true of 'Performance', as used in linguistic theory? · Ans: D
55. Which among the following are the works of George Gissing? · Ans: A
56. Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan? · Ans: A
57. Which of the following are poems by Nissim Ezekiel that make fun of Indians' use of English? · Ans: A
58. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: C
59. Match List I (First line) with List II (Poet): · Ans: D
60. Match List I (Character) with List II (Novel): · Ans: A
61. Arrange the following language areas of the human brain in the order in which they involve in hearing, understanding and saying a word: · Ans: D
62. Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the following books: · Ans: C
63. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory: · Ans: A
64. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: B
65. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: C
66. Which of the following are features of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'? · Ans: B
67. Who, among the following, is known to have used elements from the Yakshagana tradition in his theatre? · Ans: B
68. Match List I (Writer) with List II (Book): · Ans: A
69. Which of these UK universities saw the first institutional incorporation of Cultural Studies? · Ans: C
70. Which of these poets wrote a poem that served to inspire W B Yeats to write his own poem, "When You Are Old"? · Ans: B
71. Which of these does Meenakshi Mukherjee propose as the possible target readership of early Indian English novel? · Ans: C
72. Match List I (Poet) with List II (Language): · Ans: A
73. Which of these constitute the preoccupations of the protagonist of Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August? · Ans: B
74. What was the name of the journal published from Bowling Green University beginning 1969, which carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films? · Ans: B
75. Which of these best describes Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy? · Ans: C
76. Which of these questions would Cultural Studies be most interested in asking? · Ans: A
77. Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of 'cultural intermediaries'? · Ans: C
78. From whom does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term 'subaltern'? · Ans: D
79. Which of the following does the Subaltern Studies project contend? · Ans: B
80. Which of these did the Wood's Despatch (1854) seek to propagate? · Ans: D
81. Arrange the following periodicals in the chronological order in which they started publication: · Ans: B
82. Who, among these, does Gabriel Garcia Marquez name right in the beginning of his Nobel Prize address? · Ans: D
83. Which of these constitutes the only extant trilogy from ancient Greek tragedy? · Ans: B
84. Match List I (Author) with List II (Form): · Ans: B
85. Which of these does the book How to Read Donald Duck identify as an important element in its analysis of imperialist ideology in the Walt Disney comicbook? · Ans: B
86. Match List I (Playwright) with List II (Play): · Ans: D
87. Which of these plays by Girish Karnad shares its theme with Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads? · Ans: A
88. With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiong'o generally associated? · Ans: B
89. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Author): · Ans: C
90. Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in which of the following periodicals? · Ans: A
91. In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf: · Ans: C
92. In "Politics and the English Language" which two of the following 'tricks' are mentioned by George Orwell as 'bad habits' of English use? · Ans: B
93. Match List I (Essay) with List II (Essayist): · Ans: C
94. Arrange the following characters in their chronological sequence of appearance: · Ans: B
95. Which two of the following concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson? · Ans: D
96. Arrange the following plays in their chronological sequence: · Ans: C
97. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
98. What might the speaker mean when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and declares that "I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee"? · Ans: C
99. Which two of the following stage directions are from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party? · Ans: A
100. Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence: · Ans: A

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