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

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

  1. Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage? · Ans: D
  2. The mistake human beings make is to: · Ans: B
  3. The mistake human beings make is to: · Ans: C
  4. In the second stanza the poet thinks of: · Ans: C
  5. Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet? · Ans: D
  6. Thoughts true for all time are- · Ans: B
  7. The whole description is an example of: · Ans: D
  8. What is the 'system' of which Dombey and Son were the centre? · Ans: B
  9. 'Is man no more than this?' means: · Ans: D
  10. Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means? · Ans: A
  11. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
  12. Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in Walt Disney comicbooks to propagate imperialist ideology? · Ans: C
  13. Which of the following is a dead language? · Ans: C
  14. How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode"? · Ans: B
  15. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Writer): · Ans: B
  16. Which of the following are novels by David Lodge? · Ans: B
  17. Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books: · Ans: C
  18. Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook? · Ans: C
  19. Which among the following are examples of the Kunstlerroman? · Ans: C
  20. Which of these departments did the Wood's Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities? · Ans: A
  21. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: D
  22. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without altering the original title? · Ans: B
  23. Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"? · Ans: D
  24. Who is the author of "The Typology of Detective Fiction"? · Ans: B
  25. Arrange the following in their chronological order: · Ans: C
  26. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
  27. What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called? · Ans: A
  28. The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is: · Ans: A
  29. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul"? · Ans: D
  30. Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals," focus on primarily? · Ans: B
  31. Which two of the following are works by I. A. Richards? · Ans: C
  32. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is: · Ans: B
  33. Match List I (Library/Institute) with List II (Location): · Ans: B
  34. Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays? · Ans: D
  35. Which of the following qualify for the label 'cultural intermediary' in the context of a commercial film? · Ans: A
  36. Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky? · Ans: D
  37. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse? · Ans: C
  38. Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors? · Ans: B
  39. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
  40. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre? · Ans: A
  41. Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style? · Ans: C
  42. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes? · Ans: C
  43. Who is the author of The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story? · Ans: A
  44. Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial? · Ans: C
  45. Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?"? · Ans: C
  46. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory: · Ans: B
  47. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: D
  48. Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India? · Ans: A
  49. Who among the following has coined the term, 'ecofeminism'? · Ans: B
  50. Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature. · Ans: D
  51. In "The Life of Cowley" which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the 'metaphysical poets'? · Ans: B
  52. Who is the author of Radiant Textuality? · Ans: A
  53. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
  54. Given below are two statements. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: D
  55. Match List I (Plays) with List II (Playwrights): · Ans: B
  56. Who among the following says that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence"? · Ans: C
  57. Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films? · Ans: B
  58. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication. · Ans: D
  59. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: C
  60. The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in: · Ans: A
  61. Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India? · Ans: C
  62. Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright? · Ans: D
  63. Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play? · Ans: D
  64. Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude? · Ans: D
  65. Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot? · Ans: A
  66. Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are: · Ans: D
  67. Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson? · Ans: B
  68. Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition: · Ans: D
  69. Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with 'Speech Acts'? · Ans: B
  70. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771? · Ans: B
  71. Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets"? · Ans: D
  72. Match List I (Writer) with List II (Book): · Ans: B
  73. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: B
  74. Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies? · Ans: B
  75. Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays? · Ans: D
  76. Who among the following is associated with a 'philosophy of praxis'? · Ans: A
  77. Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong'o object to in 1968? · Ans: A
  78. Match List I (Poem) with List II (Poet): · Ans: B
  79. Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature? · Ans: D
  80. Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication: · Ans: B
  81. Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do? · Ans: A
  82. Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures." is an example of: · Ans: D
  83. Which of the following is true of mass media? · Ans: A
  84. Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? · Ans: C
  85. Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history: · Ans: A
  86. Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler? · Ans: A
  87. Who wrote the short story, "The Voter"? · Ans: B
  88. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis? · Ans: B
  89. Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India? · Ans: D
  90. Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"? · Ans: C
  91. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society? · Ans: A
  92. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position? · Ans: D
  93. With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated? · Ans: C
  94. Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance: · Ans: C
  95. Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with? · Ans: C
  96. In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism? · Ans: C
  97. Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India's Auntie Tongue Syndrome? · Ans: C
  98. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication. · Ans: D
  99. Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel? · Ans: D
  100. Match List I (Book) with List II (Poet): · Ans: B

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