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UGC NET June 2023 English (Shift-II) — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2023 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 explains the difference between Conceptual Research and Empirical Research? · Ans: A
  2. Which among the following was not recognised as a major dialogue of Plato? · Ans: D
  3. Which of the following is the first novel of Beryl Bainbridge? · Ans: B
  4. Who, among the following, has written Lear (a play), an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear? · Ans: A
  5. Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
  6. The following lines are from one of the poems of D.H. Lawrence. Identify the poem. "And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life. And I have something to expiate; a pettiness." · Ans: B
  7. Who among the following was famous as a diarist? · Ans: A
  8. Penguin Books were prosecuted for obscenity and later acquitted for publishing a novel of D.H. Lawrence that makes a frank description of sex and an uncompromising use of four-letter words. Which of the following is the title of… · Ans: C
  9. Which poetry anthologies have NOT been written by Philip Larkin? · Ans: D
  10. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  11. Match List I with List II: · Ans: C
  12. Which of these did Macaulay's 1835 Minute on Indian Education want to create? · Ans: B
  13. Which of these are plays written by Bertolt Brecht? · Ans: C
  14. Name the playwright who has written Gallathea. · Ans: D
  15. Which of the following are true in the context of Jonathan Swift? · Ans: D
  16. Who is the writer of "The Flies", an adaptation of the Electra myth? · Ans: A
  17. Who among the following acknowledged that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose; the difference lies in the different combination of these elements and the difference of purpose? · Ans: B
  18. From which poem are the following lines extracted? "Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in… · Ans: C
  19. Which of the following books were published in the year 1791? · Ans: B
  20. Which two plays of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare's Hamlet? · Ans: D
  21. Who among the following translated Aristotle's Poetics into Latin? · Ans: A
  22. Which poems have NOT been composed by Adrienne Rich? · Ans: D
  23. Which of the following novels are written by Wilkie Collins? · Ans: C
  24. In a novel of Charles Dickens, a high-spirited boy of 19 is left penniless along with his mother and sister Kate on the death of his father. Which of the following is the novel? · Ans: C
  25. Who composed Lucasta: Postume Poems, published posthumously? · Ans: C
  26. Match List I with List II: · Ans: C
  27. Who among the following, as the proprietor of the Rose theatre, repaired it in 1592 and in 1595, and spent substantial sums on renovating and expanding his theatre? · Ans: B
  28. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published: · Ans: B
  29. Arrange the following writers chronologically in accordance with their years of birth: · Ans: A
  30. Who among the following observed in the pamphlet titled 'Plays Confuted in Five Actions' (1582): "I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked… · Ans: C
  31. Given below are two statements. · Ans: C
  32. Who does Achitophel represent in John Dryden's allegorical poem Absalom and Achitophel? · Ans: A
  33. Who composed the poem "Address to a Steam-vessel"? · Ans: B
  34. According to Stuart Hall, which of these is generally accepted to be true of Cultural Studies as it was practiced at the University of Birmingham in the UK? · Ans: B
  35. Which of the following poems are written by the American poet, Robert Lowell? · Ans: B
  36. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their publication: · Ans: C
  37. Who among the following displays an influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays? · Ans: B
  38. Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticised speech in bourgeois society? · Ans: D
  39. Identify the two previous titles of the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" as Walt Whitman continued to revise it until it reached its present form in the "Sea-Drift" section of the 1881 edition of Leaves of… · Ans: A
  40. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  41. Arrange the publication of the following books in chronological order: · Ans: D
  42. Who along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall was one of the founding figures of the school of thought now known as British Cultural Studies? · Ans: A
  43. Who among the following are the writers of secular prose in the 14th century? · Ans: C
  44. Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R). · Ans: C
  45. Arrange the following in accordance with their dates of first publication: · Ans: A
  46. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of T.S. Eliot were first published: · Ans: C
  47. Who was the author of Novum Organum? · Ans: B
  48. Arrange the following chronologically in accordance with their date of birth: · Ans: D
  49. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  50. According to Andrew Milner in Re-Imagining Cultural Studies, of the four important kinds of meanings that Raymond Williams attaches to the word 'culture' in his early work, which three remain in play in Keywords? · Ans: B
  51. Find the chronological order of Thomas Hardy's poetry publications: · Ans: B
  52. Which of these do M.K. Naik and Shyamala Narayan claim about Indian English Drama in Indian English Literature: 1980-2000: A Critical Survey? · Ans: B
  53. "My man, my sons, forming the axis while I, wife and mother insignificant as a fly climbed the glass panes of their eyes." Identify the poem written by Kamala Das from which the above lines have been taken. · Ans: D
  54. Who among the following is the author of the novel titled Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life? · Ans: B
  55. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published: · Ans: C
  56. Given below are two statements. · Ans: A
  57. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  58. What is the standard format for citing a book as per the requirements of the MLA Handbook Eighth Edition? · Ans: C
  59. Which among the following was NOT written by Thomas Carlyle? · Ans: C
  60. Who among the following was NOT one of the original members of Johnson's Literary Club? · Ans: B
  61. Which of the following does Roland Barthes contend in "From Work to Text"? · Ans: C
  62. Match List I (excerpt) with List II (work by Jonathan Swift): · Ans: B
  63. Which among the following are correct (writer and country)? · Ans: C
  64. Who was the writer of A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature? · Ans: C
  65. Which famous English poet, at an early age announcing his admiration for D.H. Lawrence, excitedly wrote to his friend, "I have been reading Sons and Lovers and feel ready to die. If Lawrence had been killed after writing… · Ans: D
  66. Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication: · Ans: A
  67. Name the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century. · Ans: A
  68. Which of the following plays may be considered as a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear? · Ans: D
  69. Of which of the following was Charles Dickens the founding editor? · Ans: C
  70. Which of the following two plays have been written by Arthur Miller? · Ans: A
  71. Which of these plays feature the rehearsal of a play within the body of the main play? · Ans: B
  72. Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock? · Ans: A
  73. Which of the following books is NOT written by Raymond Williams? · Ans: C
  74. Which of these are part of Aeschylus's 'Oresteia Trilogy'? · Ans: A
  75. Who among the following is the author of the collection of stories named Reginald in Russia? · Ans: A
  76. In the context of the 'nature-nurture' debate in linguistics, there is a view that there must be an innate core of abstract knowledge about language form, which pre-specifies a framework for all natural human languages and is currently… · Ans: B
  77. Which of the novelists have been correctly matched with their works? · Ans: B
  78. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  79. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following poems of Louis MacNeice were published: · Ans: A
  80. Find the chronological sequence of John Milton's publications: · Ans: D
  81. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
  82. Given below are two statements. · Ans: A
  83. Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R). · Ans: B
  84. Joseph Addison was associated with which of the following? · Ans: B
  85. Which influential cultural theorist stated the following regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies? "What is important are the significant breaks - where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and… · Ans: B
  86. Which of the following points are correct regarding the Direct Method of teaching English in a classroom scenario? · Ans: A
  87. Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, published in 1579, was dedicated to _______. · Ans: C
  88. In which year was Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful published? · Ans: D
  89. Arrange in chronological order the publication of the following anthologies of poetry by Nissim Ezekiel: · Ans: B
  90. Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle? · Ans: B
  91. The last line, "Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out", has the figurative device termed: · Ans: C
  92. What is the meaning of the word "detestable" in the context of the poem? · Ans: B
  93. Which one of the following statements is true? · Ans: B
  94. What is the meaning of the word "putrescent"? · Ans: A
  95. The title of the poem "Apostrophe to Man" is _______ in the context of the overall content. · Ans: B
  96. Why is everyday life studies regarded as a science of the "small" in the passage? · Ans: D
  97. What is not related to the meaning of "interstice"? · Ans: A
  98. "Everyday life" as a theory deals with · Ans: B
  99. In the context of the passage, Michel de Certeau's theory of "everyday life" offers a site of _______ the dominant. · Ans: B
  100. What is the meaning of the word "quotidian"? · Ans: C

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