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UGC NET December 2023 English — Solved Previous Year Questions

99 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2023 English (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. Who among the following is the earliest available Indian dramatist? · Ans: C
2. Edgar Allan Poe is often called the originator of the short story as an established genre. He defined 'the prose tale' as: · Ans: A
3. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published: · Ans: C
4. Choose the correct option(s) in the New Historicist reading of Dalit writing: · Ans: A
5. How many major forms of drama have been described by Bharata in his manual of dramaturgy? · Ans: D
6. "Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought." What does the theorist signify by the term 'white man' here? · Ans: D
7. Prose romances preceded the emergence of the novel as a popular literary genre. Which texts among the following fall under the category of prose romance? · Ans: B
8. Match List I (Literary Device) with List II (Definition): · Ans: D
9. Which work of Francis Bacon explains the new logic or inductive method of reasoning? · Ans: C
10. According to Greek mythology, who is Psyche in John Keats' "Ode to Psyche"? · Ans: A
11. The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a novel exploring past and future. It has been written by: · Ans: B
12. "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased." These are the opening lines of which novel? · Ans: B
13. Which of the following is true of Edward Said's Orientalism? · Ans: D
14. Match List I (Term) with List II (Definition): · Ans: D
15. 'Panopticism' is a concept that refers to external spying. Who among the following coined this term? · Ans: B
16. "An Introduction" by Kamala Das is: · Ans: C
17. Which among the following statements are true about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights? · Ans: C
18. "All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class... have had good, at least expensive, education." Where has Virginia Woolf explained it? · Ans: C
19. Which among the following poems has not been composed by P.B. Shelley? · Ans: D
20. Match List I (Character) with List II (Novel): · Ans: A
21. Name the author/writer who is not associated with British Cultural Studies. · Ans: A
22. Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R). · Ans: A
23. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of Richard Hoggart were published: · Ans: D
24. Sharankumar Limbale argues that Dalit literature is unique because: · Ans: A
25. "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." It is the opening line of the novel: · Ans: A
26. In Antonio Gramsci's definition of the intellectual, which are the correct options? · Ans: C
27. "Did not Shakespeare hate and despise Iago and Edmund?" Identify the book in which this question has been mentioned. · Ans: D
28. Who among the following declared in 1920 that "there is no longer any intellectual life in England"? · Ans: C
29. Which of the following statements best describe Anna Karenina's situation and worldview? · Ans: C
30. In Absurd Theatre, the characters often use disjointed, repetitive and cliched speech to: · Ans: D
31. Match List I (Work) with List II (Author): · Ans: C
32. Identify the correct option(s) in the theorisation of nation by Homi K. Bhabha. · Ans: C
33. Which of the following is true about Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot? · Ans: D
34. Which of the following statements/concepts are relevant for understanding Postmodernism? · Ans: A
35. Which among the following statements are true? · Ans: D
36. The essay "Discourse in the Novel" discusses that the novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending social voices. Who is the author of this essay? · Ans: B
37. Identify the correct options in Julia Kristeva's definition of 'chora': · Ans: B
38. Choose the correct option in the light of the following statement: "The fact that I am a black working-class man will determine my worldview just as much, and perhaps far more than I consciously learn in the domain… · Ans: A
39. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Writer): · Ans: A
40. Which two cities are referred to in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities? · Ans: C
41. Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature? · Ans: C
42. What among the following is not true about Anna Karenina? · Ans: A
43. Which among the following is not written by a sportsperson? · Ans: D
44. Name the poet who has composed the following poems: The Divine Image, The Holy Thursday, The Little Boy Lost, The Little Boy Found. · Ans: B
45. According to Sigmund Freud, civilisation is to some extent the cumulative product of our psychology. Choose the correct option(s). · Ans: C
46. Which among the following are not mentioned as the aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster? · Ans: D
47. Which of the following is true about Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire? · Ans: B
48. Given below are two statements. · Ans: C
49. The Transcendental Club was a group of American intellectuals for philosophical discussions. Which text among the following is taken as a short treatise on Transcendentalism? · Ans: A
50. What is the correct chronological order of publication of the texts given below? · Ans: C
51. Which of the following assertions is/are not true in the context of the culture industry? · Ans: D
52. What aptly defines minor literature, according to Gilles Deleuze? · Ans: B
53. Chronologically arrange the following works of Sri Aurobindo in accordance with their year of publication: · Ans: A
54. Which among the following statements is not true about NEP-2020? · Ans: C
55. Match List I (Story) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
56. Arrange the following in the chronological order of the dates of publication: · Ans: B
57. Arrange the following in the chronological order of the date of publication: · Ans: C
58. Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R). · Ans: A
59. The use of broader principles of research underscored by philosophical rationales is termed as: · Ans: D
60. Which among the following is not a character from Jane Austen's novel Persuasion? · Ans: C
61. Which among the following are the titles of periodicals? · Ans: C
62. Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was not needed in the plays of the University Wits? · Ans: D
63. What is not true about D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers? · Ans: C
64. Which of the following novels of Thomas Hardy was first published in an abridged form as Hearts Insurgent? · Ans: B
65. A portmanteau is: · Ans: B
66. Which among the following writers remarked that "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour"? · Ans: A
67. Which of the following is true about Arthur Miller's plays? · Ans: C
68. What is the correct order of publication of the novels of Charles Dickens given below? · Ans: B
69. The term 'gynocriticism' refers to: · Ans: D
70. Which of the following assumptions are true in the context of New Criticism? · Ans: D
71. Who among the following described drama in the following words? "A true play is three-dimensional; it is literature that walks and talks before our eyes." · Ans: A
72. Identify the correct order of publication given below: · Ans: D
73. Arrange the following texts chronologically: · Ans: C
74. Who among the following is not associated with Cultural Imperialism? · Ans: D
75. Match List I (Character) with List II (Work): · Ans: C
76. The term 'simulacra' in postmodern discourse is about: · Ans: C
77. Given below are two statements. · Ans: C
78. Which one of these is not a literary journal/magazine? · Ans: D
79. Which among the following writers are popular for partition narratives? · Ans: C
80. Which of the following is not true about Raymond Williams' views on culture? · Ans: C
81. Identify the poet of the following poems: The Skylark, The Badger, The Gypsy Camp, First Love. · Ans: B
82. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Subtitle): · Ans: A
83. Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks primarily deals with: · Ans: C
84. Who of the following was the immediate predecessor of the drama proper? · Ans: A
85. Match List I (Term) with List II (Coined by): · Ans: A
86. Roland Barthes in his "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives" (1966) proposed three levels of narrative structure. Which among the following are the levels proposed by him? · Ans: B
87. Indicate the correct chronological order of publication of the following literary works: · Ans: B
88. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: A
89. Which of the following characteristics of She Stoops to Conquer is not correct? · Ans: B
90. Which of the following statements rightly shows the relationship of upameya with upamana in the poem? · Ans: A
91. What is upamana (object compared to) in the poem? · Ans: D
92. The poem is an example of: · Ans: A
93. What is upameya (object compared) in the poem? · Ans: A
94. What is the addressee in the poem? · Ans: B
95. It is easier to find words for ideas than for forces because: · Ans: B
96. What does the term "logical connectives" mean? · Ans: C
97. What is the possibility in the analysis of a poem, if the forces are included in the ideas? · Ans: A
98. Why does the author say that "the tension must be conveyed and must be sustained"? · Ans: C
99. Which of the following is not correct in relation to a poem? · Ans: B

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