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UGC NET December 2024 English — Solved Previous Year Questions

98 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2024 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. Which of the following texts has been written by Rabindranath Tagore? · Ans: B
2. Arrange the following novels of D. H. Lawrence in chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: C
3. Choose the correct sequence of the following works of Pablo Neruda in chronological order: · Ans: D
4. Arrange the following works in the chronological sequence of their year of publication: · Ans: B
5. In which of the texts do the following lines occur? "Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, / What the weak head with strongest bias rules, / Is pride,… · Ans: A
6. Which among the following novels is not written by Mary Shelley? · Ans: A
7. Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: B
8. Who said "The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it"? · Ans: D
9. The line "Thou still unravished bride of quietness" presents which of the following rhetorical figures? · Ans: B
10. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
11. Identify the statements which are correct: · Ans: A
12. The Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to the: · Ans: D
13. Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: A
14. In which year was Raja Rao's Kanthapura published? · Ans: A
15. Who amongst the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group? · Ans: D
16. Match List I (Term) with List II (Meaning): · Ans: B
17. Identify the correct options from the following statements about Ecocriticism: · Ans: A
18. Arrange the following texts by Mulk Raj Anand in chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: D
19. Who is the author of English in India: Its Present and Future, published in 1964? · Ans: C
20. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: A
21. Which of the following is a Dramatic Monologue? · Ans: C
22. Which of the following statements are true about A. K. Ramanujan? · Ans: B
23. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: D
24. Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too, Sing America" is a response to which of the following poets? · Ans: B
25. Arrange the following works of literature chronologically based on their year of publication: · Ans: D
26. Which of the following options are true about the epistemological dimension of research? · Ans: B
27. Who among the following is credited with ending the system of patronage with his "Letter to Lord Chesterfield"? · Ans: B
28. Arrange the plays of William Shakespeare in the chronological order of their composition: · Ans: A
29. Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve's The Way of the World? · Ans: D
30. The famous short poem "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" appears in which one of the following eighteenth-century novels? · Ans: C
31. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: C
32. Which among the following is the last novel of George Eliot? · Ans: B
33. Which of the following statements are true about Modernism? · Ans: C
34. Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
35. What is 'Practical Criticism'? · Ans: C
36. Which of the following are correct according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition? · Ans: A
37. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: B
38. Which of the following works of R. K. Narayan were published after independence? · Ans: C
39. Identify the poet who has composed the following lines: "Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves / Waited for rain, while the black clouds / Gathered far distant, over Himavant. / The jungle crouched, humped in silence." · Ans: B
40. Identify all the Australian Aboriginal writers out of the following: · Ans: C
41. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: C
42. Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of first appearance: · Ans: C
43. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
44. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: C
45. "O Sir, content you. / I follow him to serve my turn upon him. / We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed." The above lines were spoken by which of the following characters? · Ans: B
46. Which of the following statements are correct about 'Litotes'? · Ans: D
47. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: A
48. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
49. Chronologically arrange the following works according to their year of publication: · Ans: D
50. Identify the one who was not a 'New Critic': · Ans: D
51. Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: C
52. The author of "The Politics of Translation" and translator of Mahasweta Devi's "Stanadayini" is: · Ans: C
53. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: C
54. An ideal research paper should include: · Ans: D
55. Which of the following novelists did not employ the "stream of consciousness" technique? · Ans: D
56. Identify the statements which are true for Psychoanalytic Criticism: · Ans: D
57. The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays appeared in: · Ans: D
58. The Grammar Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses: · Ans: B
59. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: B
60. Arrange the following steps of decision-making in the research process: · Ans: D
61. Who has written The Life Divine? · Ans: C
62. Match List I (Poet) with List II (Poem): · Ans: A
63. Which of the statements given below are true? · Ans: B
64. Identify the correct statements concerning the respective genre: · Ans: C
65. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: A
66. "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need." These lines were composed by: · Ans: C
67. Identify the correct statements about 'Langue' and 'Parole': · Ans: A
68. The incorrect works-cited entries according to the MLA Handbook, 9th edition, are: · Ans: C
69. Which of the following is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
70. When was the 'International Phonetic Alphabet' (IPA) first developed and promulgated? · Ans: C
71. Who is the critic associated with the term 'Blue Humanities'? · Ans: A
72. Who among the following has written the poem "Jejuri"? · Ans: C
73. Which of the following is not an autobiography? · Ans: A
74. Which among the following does not fall in the category of a Revenge Tragedy? · Ans: D
75. Which of the following poems uses 'Terza Rima'? · Ans: B
76. Which of the given statements are correct about Om Prakash Valmiki's Joothan? · Ans: C
77. Who is the best-known figure for articulating the concept of 'Negritude'? · Ans: B
78. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
79. From which poem are the following lines extracted? "Once more the storm is howling, and half hid / Under this cradle-hood and coverlid / My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle / But Gregory's wood and one… · Ans: C
80. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Novelist): · Ans: A
81. Identify the ones which are matched correctly: · Ans: B
82. Who among the following illustrated the works of Thomas Gray and Robert Blair? · Ans: B
83. Arrange the following in the chronological order of their year of publication: · Ans: B
84. What does the deductive method of reasoning refer to? · Ans: A
85. From the statements given below, what is true about the Gothic novel? · Ans: D
86. Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a: · Ans: B
87. Which of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid? · Ans: C
88. Which of the following is not matched correctly? · Ans: D
89. "Mass culture" refers to: · Ans: D
90. Systematic cultural manipulation takes place through: · Ans: B
91. What is the meaning of 'atomised individuals' in the above paragraph? · Ans: D
92. When did popular culture get associated with the U.S.A.? · Ans: C
93. What is the core issue discussed in the above paragraph? · Ans: A
94. What does the poet intend to do in life? · Ans: D
95. What is the mood of the poem? · Ans: B
96. Identify the rhyme scheme in the poem. · Ans: A
97. Identify the metre in the poem. · Ans: C
98. What does the poem say about the nature of the world? · Ans: B

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