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UGC NET June 2024 English (Cancelled) — Solved Previous Year Questions

99 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2024 English (Cancelled) (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 among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as defined by I.A. Richards in Practical Criticism? · Ans: B
2. What is the correct sequence of various periods of English Literature? · Ans: C
3. Which of the following works is not written by Chinua Achebe? · Ans: D
4. Name the British poet who wrote Sohrab and Rustum: · Ans: C
5. What is the correct chronological sequence of famous dramatists in order of their birth? · Ans: A
6. From the following writers, who are known for Magic Realism? · Ans: C
7. Who among the following African writers observed that "O my body, make of me always a man who questions"? · Ans: B
8. Which among the following writers once remarked that "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"? · Ans: C
9. What is the correct chronological order of the works of John Milton? · Ans: A
10. Match List I (Poem) with List II (Poet): · Ans: A
11. Which of the following texts deals with the theme of creolization? · Ans: D
12. Match List I (Term) with List II (Definition): · Ans: C
13. The poetic line "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" appears in: · Ans: B
14. In the 1985 essay "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism", Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject. Which are the texts referred to in the title of the essay? · Ans: C
15. Barbara Smith, in her essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism", raises concerns for: · Ans: A
16. Who among the following was not associated with the Cambridge School of Critics? · Ans: D
17. Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order of their emergence: · Ans: D
18. Who among the following was not a proponent of the Oxford Movement? · Ans: D
19. Match List I (Work) with List II (Writer): · Ans: C
20. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following books of D.H. Lawrence? · Ans: B
21. Who among the following was not associated with the Yale School? · Ans: B
22. Which is the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style? · Ans: C
23. Match List I (Dramatist) with List II (Theatrical form/Technique): · Ans: C
24. Who among the following was not associated with the Cockney School of poetry? · Ans: D
25. Patrick White, the Australian novelist, was a recipient of which of the following prizes? · Ans: B
26. Which of the following popular Indian words have been incorporated in the Oxford Dictionary in the recent past? · Ans: B
27. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following works were published: · Ans: B
28. What is the correct sequence of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh in order of their year of publication? · Ans: B
29. Choose the correct statements with regard to the binary pair langue and parole introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure: · Ans: C
30. Which of the following writers remarked that "You are your best thing"? · Ans: A
31. Arrange the following works in order of their year of publication: · Ans: D
32. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following works in order of their publication? · Ans: C
33. Under whose presidency was PEN (an international association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists) founded by Mrs. Dawson-Scott in 1921? · Ans: A
34. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Dalit women writers in order of their birth? · Ans: B
35. Chronologically arrange the following texts in order of publication: · Ans: B
36. Which work of John Keats is dedicated to Thomas Chatterton? · Ans: B
37. Who among the following was not associated with the Movement Poetry? · Ans: A
38. Match List I (Term) with List II (Definition): · Ans: C
39. What is the chronological sequence of the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya in order of their publication? · Ans: A
40. What is the full form of APA? · Ans: B
41. Identify the author who stated the following lines: "There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move." · Ans: B
42. Match List I (Term/Concept) with List II (Invented/Coined by): · Ans: D
43. Which articles of the Indian Constitution pertain to the provisions relating to the Official Language of the Union? · Ans: C
44. Match List I (Original name) with List II (Penname/Pseudonym): · Ans: A
45. The poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is a tribute to: · Ans: A
46. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Indian writers in order of their birth? · Ans: C
47. Which among the following does not fall in the category of Morality Plays? · Ans: D
48. Match List I (Term/Concept) with List II (Invented/Coined by): · Ans: A
49. Who among the following observed that "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature"? · Ans: B
50. Which of the following definitions of linguistic terms are correct? · Ans: C
51. Match List I (Text) with List II (Translated by): · Ans: B
52. Which among the following is not a work of Samuel Johnson? · Ans: C
53. Who among the following used "untranslatableness" in his famous work? · Ans: C
54. What is the correct sequence of the five stages of action in order of occurrence as described by Dhananjaya in the Dasarupa? · Ans: D
55. Who among the following was not a leading figure of New Criticism? · Ans: C
56. A literature review provides: · Ans: B
57. Which day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day? · Ans: A
58. Which among the following chapters is the distinct feature of the latest edition of the MLA Handbook? · Ans: B
59. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
60. Who among the following refers to Byron's works as a "monstrous combination of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety"? · Ans: B
61. Which of the following works were edited by gay activists, writers or artists? · Ans: B
62. What is the correct chronological sequence of British poets in order of their birth? · Ans: A
63. Match List I (Term) with List II (Definition): · Ans: D
64. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: A
65. The term 'negritude', coined by Aime Cesaire, was appreciated as well as criticized. Select the correct responses that this term received: · Ans: D
66. Which of the following books was edited by gay activists and artists Joseph Beam and E. Hemphill? · Ans: A
67. Which of the following statements are correct about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's "Annihilation of Caste" and the concerns dealt with in it? · Ans: A
68. Match List I (Text) with List II (Character): · Ans: D
69. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Dalit Panthers Movement? · Ans: C
70. What is the correct sequence of the following plays of Girish Karnad in order of their year of publication? · Ans: C
71. Which of the following statements is not true about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea? · Ans: C
72. Which out of the following will allow you to avoid plagiarism? · Ans: C
73. Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth: · Ans: A
74. "The Two Nations" is the subtitle of: · Ans: B
75. Which of the following writers pioneered the Australian Aboriginal Movement? · Ans: B
76. Out of the following, which bibliographical entry follows the style prescribed in the MLA Handbook (9th edition)? · Ans: A
77. P.B. Shelley's Adonais laments the death of: · Ans: A
78. Identify the text from which the following lines have been taken: "Therefore compare we the poet with the historian and with the moral philosopher; and if he go beyond them both, no other skill can match him." · Ans: D
79. Arrange the following literary theories/movements in chronological order of their emergence: · Ans: B
80. Who coined the term "Phallogocentric"? · Ans: B
81. An annotated bibliography provides: · Ans: C
82. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: C
83. The line "He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail" occurs in: · Ans: C
84. Who among the following were associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood? · Ans: A
85. Arrange the following films on disability concerns in the order of their year of release: · Ans: C
86. Which of the following statements are correct about Prosody? · Ans: B
87. What is the correct chronological sequence of the periods of American Literature? · Ans: B
88. Which of the following magazines aimed at depicting the concerns of girls who embraced the tenets of girl culture, the girlhood? · Ans: C
89. Match List I (Concept/Term) with List II (Developed/Coined by): · Ans: B
90. What advice does the speaker give to his/her son in the poem? · Ans: A
91. What kind of life does the line "life for me... no crystal stair" signify? · Ans: B
92. Which rhetorical device has been used by the poet by repeating "And" at the beginning of many lines in the poem? · Ans: C
93. Which one of the following is an 'extended metaphor' in the poem? · Ans: C
94. Which colloquial form of English is used in the poem? · Ans: D
95. What does the author mean by "Man also must know because he must live"? · Ans: A
96. At what stage does knowledge become freedom for man? · Ans: D
97. What does the metaphor "a big merchant" stand for? · Ans: C
98. What gives man the freedom to be useless and irresponsible? · Ans: C
99. What, according to the writer, is the basic difference between animal and man? · Ans: A

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